Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-14

10 be buried in Wonder they dld not
treat Christ as we'll when he was a live
as they do now that be is dead. Give the
military salute TO the soldiers who stand
guarding the dead. But bark to the
crash an earthquake The soldiers
fall back as though they were dead, and
the stone at the door OF Christ's tomb
spins down the hill, flung by the arm
of an angel Come forth, o Jesus! from
the darkness into sunlight. Come forth,
aud breath the perfume Of Joseph's
garden.
Christ comes forth radiant, and as he
steps out of the excavation OF the rock,
look down into the excavation, and in
the distance l see others coming hand
finland, and
TROOP AFTER TROOP,
and find 1t is long procession Of the
precious dead. Among them are our
own loved OneS-father, mother, broth
er, sister, companions, children, coming
up out Of the excavation OF the rock
until the last one has stepped out into
the light, and / am bewlldered, and l
cannot understood the scene until see
Christ wave his hand over the advanc-
ing procession from the rock, and hear
him cry, II am the resurrection and the
life; who beleveth In me, though he were
dead, yet shall be live" And then 1
notice that the long dirge Of the worlds
woe suddenly stops ana the archangelic
shout of "COme forth"
OH my friends, II Christ had not
broken out of the grave you and would
never come out Of it. Ii would have
been another case Of Charlotte Corday
attempting to STAY o tyrant, herself
slain. IL would have been another case
of John Brown attempting TO free the
slaves, himself hung. 1t would have
been Death ana Christ In a Rrapple, and
Death the victor. The black flag would
have tloared on all the graves and mau-
sOleums OF the dead, and hell would
have conquered the forces of Heaven,
and captured the ramparts OF God, and
Satan would have come 10 coronation In
the palaces OF Heaven, and 1t would
have been devils on the throne and sons
of God 10 the dungeon.
No! no. no! When that stone was
rolled from the door Of Christs grave it
was hurled with such force that 1t
crashed in all the grave doors OF Chris
tendon, and now the tomb Is only a
bower where Gods children take sizes
u, an afternoon nap, TO wake up in
mighty IMMIGRATION. "ChriSt is risen"
Hang that lamp among all the tombs OF
my dead. Hang it over my own resting
place. Christ'S suffering is ended; his
work is done. The darkest Friday
afternoon OF the worlds history be-
comes the brightest Sunday morning
Of its resurrection Joy.
THE GOOD FRIDAY
of bitter memories becomes the Easter
OF glorious transformation and resur-
rectiOn.
Sc mourning saints, dry every tear
For your departed Lord
Behold the place; He is not there;
The tomb Is all uubarred.
The Ea SIS OF death were closed In Yaln5
The Lord IS risen, he lives again.
give you the third cause Of Paurs
exhilaration. We honor the right hand
more than we do the left, II in acct
dent or battle we must lose one hand =,
let it be the left. The left hand SSng
nearer the heart, we may not 40 much
of the violent work Of Bde with that
hand without physical. danger; but he
who has the right arm in full play has
the mightiest offall earthly weapons.
In all ages G.ud in all languages the
right hand is the symbol Of strength
and power and honor. Hiram sat at
PJne fight hand Of Solomon. Then we
have the term, ale is rlght-hand
man." Lafayette was Wash.ngton's
right-hand man; Marshal Ney was Ma
/ Doleon'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 a right 10 sit there.
The Hero OF the universe! Count his
wounds; two IN the feet, two in the
| hands, one in she side-fve wounds. o
YOU have counted wrong. These are
not half the wounds. Look at the sew
cred wounds In the temples; each thorn
an eIcruCiation.
II hero comes back from battle, and
he takes of his hat,or rolls up his sleeve
/ and shows you the scar Of q wound got
ten at Balls Bluff, or at South Mount
ain, you stand in admiration at his
heroism and patriotism; but if Christ
should make conspicuous the five
wounds cotton on Calvary-that Water
loo OF all the ages he would display
only a small part of his wounds.
Wounded al. over, let him sit at the
right hand OF God. He has a right to
sit there. BY the request of
GOD, THE FATHER,
and the unanimous suffrage Of all Hea-
ven, let him sit there. In the grand re-
view, when the redeemed pass by in CO.
hortS OF splendOr, they will look at
him and shout "VicjOrym
Perhaps Paul said sometimes: II
wonder God does not forget me down
here IN Antioch, aud in the prison, and
i'm the shipwreek. There are so many
sailors, so many wsyfarers, so many
; prisoners, so many heart6r0ken men,
says Paul, perhaps God may forget
me. And then | am so vile a sinner.
How / whipped those sinners! with
what vengeance L mounted that cavalry
horse and dashed up to Damascus! Oh!
ia will take mighty attorney 10 plead
my cause and get me free" But just
at that moment there came in upon
Paups soul something mightier than
the surges that dashed his ship into the
Melita, swiiter than the horse he rode
20 Damascus II was the swift and
overwhelming thought OF
CHRIST'S INTERCESSION.
Ny friends, we must have an advo-
cate. 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 is he? Who is ne?
There is only one advocate in all the
universe that can plead our cause in
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