The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-10-07

South Mountain, you stand in adrira
ton at his heroism and patriotism; but
If Christ should make conspicuous the
five wounds COTTON at Caivary-that
Waterloo of all the agcs-He would
display only small part of His
wounds. Wounded all over, let Him
sit at the right hand of God. He 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 splen-
dor, they will look at Him and shout
Victory
The oldest inbabitant of Heaven
never saw grander day than the one
when Christ took His place on the right
hand of God. Hosanna! With lips of
clay may not appropriately utter it,
but let the martyrs under the altar
throw the cry to the 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. Hosanna! Hosanna!
Perhaps Paul said sometimes: III
wonder 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 heart-broken men"
says Paul, perhaps God may forget
me. And then l am so vile sinner.
How whipped those Christians! With
what vengeance / mounted that caval-
nv horse and dashed up to Damascus!
Oh! 1t will take a mighty attorney to
plead my cause and get me free" But
just at that moment there came in
upon Paul's soul something mightier
than the surges that dashed his ship
into Melita, swifter than the horse he
rode to Damascus. 1t was the swift
and overwhelming thought of Christs
intercession.
MY friends, we must have an adj
vocate. A poor lawyer is worse than
no lawyer at all. We must have one
who is able successfully to present our
cause before God. Where His e? Who
is He? There is only one Advocate in
all the universe that can plead our
cause in the last judgment, that can
plead our cause before God in the great
tribunal.
Sometimes in earthly courts attor-
neys have specialties, and one man
succeeds better in patent cases, an
other in insurance cases, another in
criminal cases, another in land cases,
another in will cases, and his success
generally depends upon his sticking
to that speciality. have to tell you
that Christ can do many things; but it
seems to me that His speciality is to
take the bad case of the sinner and
plead it before God until he gets etern-
al acquittal. Oh. we must have Him
for our advocate.
But what plea can he make? Some
times an attorney in court will plead
the innocence of the prisoner. That
would be inappropriate for us; we are
all guilty. guilty! Unclean! unclean'
Christ, our advocate. will not plead our
innocence. Sometimes the attorney in
court tries to prove an alibi. He says:
'sThis prisoner was not at the scene;
he was at some other place at the
time Such plea will not do in
our case. The Lord found us in all
our sins, and in the very place OF our
iniquity. 1t is impossible to prove an
abb. Sometimes an attorney will
plead the insanity of the prisoner, and
say he is irresponsible on that account.
That plea will never do in our case.
We sinned against light, against knowl'
edge. against the dictates of our own
consciences; we knew what we were
doing. What then shall the plea beP-
The plea for our eternal deliverance
will be Christ's own martyrdom. lie
| will say: Look at all these wounds
| BY all these sufferings | demand the
| rescue of this man from sin and death
and hell. Constable, knock off the
shackles-let the prisoner go free.
"Who is He that condcmneth? 1t is
Christ that died, yea, rather that il
risen again, who is even at the right
hand of God, who also maketh inter
cession for u.s.
But why all this gladness on ths
faces of these sons and daughters OF
the Lord Almighty? / know what yor
are thinking of. A Saviour dead, {
Saviour risen, Saviour exalted, {
Saviour interceding. s'What," say you
sis all that for me?' All! All! Never
let me hear you complaining about
anything again. With your pardonet
sin behind you, and a successful Chris
pleading above you, and glorious
Heaven before you, how can you b'
respondent about anything?
But says some man in the audience
sall that is very good and very true fol
/ those who are inside the Kingdom; bu
how bout those of us who are outside?
Then l say: Come into the Kingdom
| come out of the prison house into thu
glorious sunlight of Gods mercy ant
pardon, and come now.
It was in the last days of the Reign o
Terror, the year 1898. Hundreds ant
thousands had persisted under tn
French guillotine. France groane'
with the tryannies of Robespierre ant
the Jacobin club. The last group o
sufferers had had their locks shorn b.
Monchotte, the prison barber. so tina
the neck might be bare to the keel
knife of the guillotine. The cart
came up to the prison, tn
poor wretches were placed in tn
carts and driven on toward the scat
fold: but while they were goiDi
toward the scaffold there was an out