Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-08-14

or battle we must lose one hand, let 1t
be the left. The left hand being nearer
the heart, we may not do much Of the
violent work Of life with that hand with
out physical danger, but he who has the
right arm in full play has the mightiest
Of all earthly weapons. In all ages and
in all languages the right hand is the
symbol Of strength and power and hon.
or. Hiram sat at the right hand Of Solo
mon. Then we have the term, He is
right hand man" Lafayette was Wash
ington's right hand man. Marshal Ney
was Napoleon's right hand man. And
now you have the meaning Of Paul when
he speaks of Christ who is at the right
hand Of God.
That means he is the first guest of
heaven. He has right to sit there.
The hero Of the universei Count his
wounds; two in the feet, two in the
hands, one in the side-fve wounds. Oh,
you have counted wrong. These are not
half the wounds. Look at the severer
wounds in the temples. Each thorn an
excruciation.
CHR1gT's WOUNDS
If hero comes back from battle, and
he takes OF his hat or rolls up his sleeve
and shows you the scar of a wound got
ten at Balls Bluff or at South Noun
tain, you stand in admiration at his hero
ism and patriotism, but II Christ should
make conspicuous the fivewounds gotten
on Calvary--that Waterloo Of all the
ages-he would display only small part
of his wounds. Wounded all over, let
him sit at the right hand of God. HI
has right to sit there. By the request
of God the Father and the unanimous
suffrage of all, heaven let him sit there.
In the grand review when the redeemed
pass by in cohorts Of splendor they will
look at him and shout "VictoryW
The oldest inhabitant of heaven never
saw a grander day than the one when
Christ took his place on the right hand
of God. Hosanns! With lips Of clay !
may not appropriately utter it, but let
the martyrs under the altar throw the
cry to tho elders before the throne, and
they can toss it to the choir on the sea
of glass until all heaven shall lift it
some on point of scepter, and. some on
string Of harp, and some on the tip of the
green branches. Hosannal hosannal
A fourth cause of Pauls exhilaration:
After clergyman had preached SER
mon in regard to the glories OF heaven
and the spleudors of the scene an aged
woman said, "If all that is to go on in
heaven, don't know what will become
of my poor head" Oh, my friends, there
will be 80 many things going on in heav'
en- i have sometimes wondered ii the
Lord would not forget you and mel p
Perhaps Paul said sometimesD" Il won
der God does not forget me down here
in Antioch, and in the prison, and in the
shipwreck. There are so many sailors,
so many wayfarers, so many prisoners,
so many heartbroken men, says Paul
perhaps God may forgetime. And then
Lam so vile q sinner. How whipped
those Christiansl With what vengeance
/ I mounted that cavalry horseand dashed
up to Damascus! Oh, it will take
mighty attorney to plead my cause and
get me free" But just at that moment
there came in upon PauPs soul some
thing mightier than the surges thai
dashed his ship into Melita, swifter thar
d the horse he rode to Damascus. ltwa'
the swift and overwhelming thought oi
Christ's intercession.
Ny friends,iwe must have an advocate
A poor lawyer is worse than no lawyer
at all. We must have one who 10 able
successfully to present our cause before
God. Where Is he2 Who is hei There
is only one advocate In all the universe
that can plead our cause in the last judg
ment, that can plead our cause before
God in the great tribunal.
CHRIST AS AN ADVOCATE.
Sometimes in earthly courts attorneys
have specialties, and one man succeedi
better in patent cases, another Ia inaur'
d ancs cases, another in criminal cases
g another in land cases, another In wall
cases, and his success generally dependi
upon his sticking to that specially.
4 have to tell you that Christ cando manJ
things, but it seems to me that his spe'
cialty is to take the bad case OF the sin
ner and plead it before God until hegeti
eternal acquittal.- Oh, we must have
him for our advocate.
But what plea can he maker Some
times an attorney in court will plead thu
innocence of the prisoner. That would
be inappropriate Cor us. We are al
guiltyl guilty. Uneleanl unclean
Christ, our advocate, will not plead oul
innocence. Sometimes the attorney IN
court tries to prove sn abb He says
This prisoner was not at the scene III
was In some other place at the tiPe.'
Such a plea will not do In our case. TIT
Lord found us in all our sins and In thu
very place OF our iniquity. 1t Is impos
sibie to prove an alibi. Sometimes Al
attorney viii plead the insanity Of th'
prisoner and say he is irresponsible Of
, that account. That plea viii never d.
In our case. We sinnsd against light
against knowledge, against the dictate
Of our own conscience. We knew wha
, we were doing. What, then shall thl
plea boz
/ The plea for our eternal deltyeranc'
4 win be Christ's own martyrdom- ~
! win say: Look at all these wounds 81
ali these sufferings demand tho reacu'
Of this man FROM sin and death and hell
q Constable, knock Of the shackles-ie