The Penn's Grove record., 1893-08-18
We mourning saints, dry every tear
For yuur departed Lord.
Eehoil toe place. He is not here.
The tomb Is all unbarre1.
The gates of death We're closed in vain.
Tine lord Is rlssn-Me lives again.

i give you the third cause of Paul's exhil.
arition. We honor the right hand more than
We do the left. If in accident or battle we
must lose one hand, let it be the left. The
left hand being nearer the heart, we may not
do much ofthe violent work of life with that
hand without physical danger, but he who
has the right arm in full play has the mighti-
est of all earthly weapons. In all ages and
in all languages the right and Is the symbol
OF strength and power and honor. Hiram
sat at the right hand of Solomon. Then we
have the term, as he a right hand man,"
Lafayette was Washington's right hand man.
Marshal Ney was Napoleon's right han man.
And now you have the meaning ofPaul when
he speaks OF Christ who is at the right hand
of God.
That means He is the first guest OF heaven.
He has a right to sit there. The hero of the
universe' Count His wounds two in the
feet, two in the hands, one in the side-five
wounds. Oh, you have counted wrong.
These are not half the wounds. Look at the
severer wounds in the temples. Each thorn
an eXcruciation.
II a hero comes back from battle. and he
takes off his hat or rolls up his sleeve and
shows you the scar of n wound gotten at
Balls Bluff or at South Mountain, you stand
in admiration at his heroism and patriotism,
but If Christ should make conspicuous the
Ave wounds gotten on Calvary-that Water
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small part Of His wounds. Wounded all over,
let Him sit at the right lar OF God. He has
a right to sit there. By the request of God
the Father and the unanimous suffrage ofal
heaven let Him sit there. In tho grand re-
view when the redeemed pass by in cohorts
of splendor they will look at Him and shout
'Victory:"
The oldest inhabitant OF heaven never saw
a grander day than the one when Christ took
His place on the right hand of God. HoSan-
ma With lips of clay 1 may not appropriate
ly utter it, but let the martyrs unde the altar
throw the cry 10 the elders before the throne
and they can toss 1t 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!
A fourth cause of Pauls exhiliration
After a clergyman had preached a sermon in
regard to the glories of heaven and the
splendors Of the scene an aged woman said,
"If all that is TO go on in heaven, / don
know what will become of my poor head"
oh, my friends, there will be so mani things
going on in heaven I have sometimes Won
dered If the Lord would not forget you and
EN-!
Perhaps Paul said sometimes ~ wonder
God does not forget me down here in An
tioch, and in the prison, and In the ship
wreck. There are so many sailors, so many
wa . ~ 4hh u 'OAANA ~ AheA N~e@
broker men" says Paul, ''perhaps God may
forget me. And then | am so vile a sinner.
How I whipped those Christians With what
vengeance 1 mounted that cavalry horse and
dashed up to Damascus! Oh, it will take q
mighty attorney to plead my cause and get
me free." But just at that moment there
came in upon PauIs 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 overwhelm-
Ing thought OF Christ's intercession-
My friends, we must have an advocate. A
poor lawyer is worse than no lawyer at nil.
We must a one who is able successfully
to present our cause before God. Where is
Hep Who is He2 There is only one nd.
Vocate in all the universe that can plead our
cause in the last Judgment, that can plead
our cause before Goo in the great tribunal,
Sometimes in earthly courts attorneys
have specialties, AMI one man succeeds bet.
ter in patent cases, another 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 specially. l have to tell YOU that
Christ San do many things, but it seems &c
me that His speciality is to tax the bad case
of the sinner and plead 1t before Goi until
He gets eternal aequittal. oh, We must have
Him for our advocate.
But what plea can He make? Sometimes
IN attorney in court will plead the innocence
ofthe prisoner. That would be inappropriate
for us. We arc all guilty guilty! Unclean
unolean Christ. our advocate, will not
plead onr innocence. Sometimes the attor-
ney in court tries TO prove an alibi. lie says
"This prisoner was not AT the scene. Hewas
In som other place at the time" S1ch n
pien will not dom our case. The Lor found
US in all our sins and in the very place OF our
iniquity. 1t is impossible to prove an alibi.
Sometimes an attorney will plead the insanity
OF the prisoner and say he is irresponsible Oh
that account That plea will 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 be2
The plea for our eternal deliverance will
BIO Christs W martyrdom. He will say i:
"Look Mt all these wounds. By all these
sufferings l 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 hat eondemneth 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 u.s."
But why all this gladness on the faces of
these sons and daughters OF the Lord AL
mighty know what you are thinking of.
A Saviour dead a Saviour risen a Sayiolr
exalted a Saviour intercedinc. "What."
say you, sis all that for me?' All, all
Never let me hear you Complaining about
anything again. With your pardoned sin
behind you, and a successful Christ pleading
above you, AMI a glorious heaven before you,
how can you DO Respondent about any
thing?
''But," says som man in the audience, .'aIl
that Is very good and very true for those