The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-14

have specialnes. aud one man succeeds
better iu patent cases. another iu iusur-
auce eases, another iu criminal Casrs.
another IN land cases, another IN viii
cases, ana his success generally depends
upon his sticking % that specially. 7
have 70 tell YOU that Christ can do many
things; but 10 seems 90 me that His spec
lalty is % take the bad cases Of the sin
uer and plead 10 before God until He gets
eternal acquittaL Oh we must have Him
FOR our advocate
But what plea can he make2 Some
times an attorney ia court viii plead the
innocence Of the prisoner. That would
Doe inappropriate for us we are all guilty
guilty Cucleau! uuclcan, Christ. our
advocate. viii not plead our innocence.
Sometimes the attorney in court tries 70
prove an alibi He says This prisoner
was not at the scene; he was in some
other place al the time Such a plea
VIII not do in our case. The Lord found
us in all our sins and in the very place of
our lniquity II is impossible to prove an
ann. Sometimes an attorney will plead
the insanity of the prisoner, and say he is
irresponsible on that account. That plea
viii never do in our case. We sinned
against light, against knowledge, against
the dictates Of our own consciences; we
knew what we were doing. What then
shall the plea be-
The plea for our eternal deliyerance
viii be Christ's own martyrdOm. He will
say: Look at all these wounds. BY all
these sufferinRs I demand the rescue of
this man from sin and death and hell
Constable, knock of the shackles-let the
prisoner 90 free. " WHO is he that con
demneth2 1t is Christ that died, yea,
rather that is risen again, who is even at
the right hand of God, who also maketh
intercession for us"
But why all this gladness on the face
Of these sons and daughters of the Lord
Almightyl / know what you are think
ing of. "A Saviour dead, "a Saviour risen, a
Saviour exalted, a Saviour interceding.
"What," say you, lis all that for me2"
All all Never let me hear you complain
ing about anything again. With your
pardoned sin behind you, and a success
fuI Christ pleading above you, and glo-
rlOus heaven before you, how can you be
Respondent about anything
But" says some man in the audience,
all that is very good and very true for
those who are inside the kingdom; but
how about those of us who are Outsidel"
Then l say, come into the kingdom, come
out Of the prison house into the glorious
sunlight OF Gods mercy and pardon, and
come now.
It was in the last days of the reign of
terror the year 1913. Hundreds and
thousands had persisted under the French
guillotine. France groaned with the
tyranuies of RObespierre and the Jaco-
bin Club The last group of sufferers
had had their locks shOrn by Monchotte,
the prison barber, so that the neck might
be bare to the keen knife of the guillO-
tine. The carts came up to the prison,
the poor wretches were placed in the
carts and driven off toward the scaffold
but while they We're going toward the
scahOld there was an cutlery in the street,
and then tho shock of firearms, ana then
the cry, "RObespierre has fallen Down
with the Jacobins Let France be free!"
But the armed soldiers rode in upon
these rescuers, so that the poor wretches
in the carts were taken on to the scaffOld,
and horribly died. But that very night
these monsters of persecution We're seized,
and Robespierre persisted under the very
guillOtine that he had reared for others,
all France clapped their hands with joy
as his head rolled into the executioner's
basket Then the axes Of the excited
pOpulace were heard pounding against
the gates of the prison, and the poor
prisoners walked out free My friends,
sin is the worst of all Robespierres it is
the tyrant of tyrauts; il has built q prison
house for our soul; 1t plots our death it
has shorn US for the sacrifice, but,
blessed be God, this morning we hear the
axes Of Gods gracious deliverance pound
ing against the door of our prison. De
iverance has come. Light breaks through
all the wards of the prison. Revolution
Where sin abounded, grace does much
more abound that whereas sin reigned
unto death, even so grace may reign unto
eternal life through Jesus Christ our
Lord Glorious truth A Saviour dead,
saviour risen, Saviour exalted,
Saviour intercedingl