Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-08-18


the forces OF heaven and captured the ram
parts OF God, and satan would have come to
coronation in the palaces Of heaven. and u
would have been devils on the throne anu
sons OF God in the dungeon.
No! no. no When that stone was rolled
from the door OF Christ's grave, II was hurled
with such q force that Il crashed In all the
grave doors Of Christendom, and now the
| tomb is only q bower where Gods children
take a siesia. an afternoon nap, 90 wake up
| in mighty inyigOration. "Cnrist j. risen.
Hang that lamp among all the tombs OF my
| dead. Hang II over my own resting place.
| Chrsts suffering is ended His WORK is
done. The darkest Friday afternoon OF tho
worlds history becomes the brightest SUNDAY
morning Of its resurrection JOY. The Cool
Friday OF bitter memories becomes tho
Easter Of glorious Transformation and resur-
/ rection.
Ye mourning saints. dry every tear
| For your dep1r,c Lord.
Behold TIE place. lie Is not here.
The tomb is III unbarrcd.
I The ga,es OF death were closed IN vain.
The Lori IS ristn-de lives asaii
give you the third cause OF Paurs exhil-
! aration We honor the right hand moro than
we do the left II in accident or battle We
must lose one hand. let it be the left. The
left hand being nearer the heart. We may not
90 much ofthe violent work Of life with that
hand without physical danger, but he who
has the right arm in full play has the might
est OF all earthly weapons. In all ages and
in all languages the right hand is the symbol
OF strength and power and honor. Hiram
sat at the right hand Of Solomon. Then We
! have the term. rs he right hand man.
| Lafayette was Washington's right hand man.
Marshal Ney was Napoleon right hand 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
ieet two in the hands. one in the side-iive
wounds. Oh. you have counted wrong.
These are not half the wounds. Look at the
seyerer wounds in the temples. Each thorn
an eXcruciation.
liza hero comes back from battle. and he
lakes of his hat or rolls up his sleeve and
shows you the scar Of a wound gotten ut
Balls Bluff or at South Mountain, you stand
in admiration at his heroism and patriotism,
but If Christ should make conspicuous the
FIVE wounds gotten on Calvary that Water
loo 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. He has
4 right TO sit there. By the request OF God
the Father and the unanimous suffrage o. all
heaven let Him sit there. In the grand re-
view when the redeemed pass by in cohorts
OF splendor they will look at Him and shout
"Yictory
The Oldest inhabitant Of heaven never saw
grander day than the one when Christ TOOK
His place on the right hand OF God. HOsan'
IA With lips OF clay ] may not appropriate
Is utter it. but let the martyrs under the altar
throw the cry 10 the elders before the throne
and they can toss il to the choir on the sea OF
glass until all heaven shall lit it-sOme on
point OF scepter and some on string OF harp,
and some On the tip OF the green branches.
Hoslnna hosanna
A fourth cause OF Paufs cxhiliration
After clergyman had preached sermon in
regard 10 the giories Of heaven and tho
splendors Of the scene an aged woman salo,
III all that is t. 20 on in heaven. don Z
know what will become Of my poor head.
Oh nv friends. there will be so many things
going on in heaven have sometimes Won
dered il the Lord would not forget you and
en-.
Perhaps Paul said sometimes 81 wonder
God does not forget me down here in An
ioch. and in the prison. and in the snip
wreck There are 50 many sailors, So many
wayiarers. so many prisoners. 50 many heart
broken men, says Paul. perhaps God may
forget me. And then ] am so vile sinner.
How whipped those Christians With what
vengeance / mounted that cavalry horse ana
dashed up to Damascus Oh. It Will taSe
mighty attorney to plead my cause and get
me free But Just at that moment ther'
came in upon Pauls soul something mghler
than the surges that dashed his ship into
Meliia. swiitcr than the horse he role 70
Damascus Il was the swift and oyerwnelm-
ing thought ot Christ's intercesslon.
Ny fren j.. we must have al advocate.
poO- lawyer Is worse than no lawyer az al.
We must have one VINO is able successfully
90 present our cause before Goj. Wn-r' Is
HeY Wro IS Hey There is only ono a.
yoeate IN all tho uniyers, that can plead our
cluss in tho last judgment. that can pleal
Cut caus, be'o-e Col in tle great tribunal.
Sometimes in earthly courts attorneys
have specialtics. AMI one man succeeds bet.
ter in patent cases, another IN insurance
cases. another ia criminal cases. another in
land cases. another in will cases, and his
success generally depends upon his sticking
10 that speciality. / have 10 tell you that
Christ can do many things. bat it seems to
me that His specially Is TO take the bad case
OF the sinner an pleal it before Col until
He gets eternal aequittal On. We must have
II n .Or OJr advocate
But what plea can lie make? Sometimes
an attorney in court viii plead the innocence
ofthe prisoner. That would be Inappropriate
for rs We are all guilty guilty, Unclean
unrlean Christ our advocate. will not
plead our inuO 'anre. Sometimes the atior-
ney in court tries to prove an abb. He says
This pr soner was not at the scene HewJs
in some other place nj the time S1ch
plea will not dom our cas-. The LOrd iO1nd
~ in all our sins and in the very place ofOur
iniquity. II is impossible 10 prove an alioL
Sometimes an attorney will plead the insanity
Of the prisoner and say he IS irresponsible on
that account. That plea val never DO in our
ease. We 5.nned against light, against
knowledge. against the dictates Of our own
consoiences. We knew what we were doing.
What. then. shall the plea be;
The plea for our eternal deliverdnee viii
be Christs own martyrdon. He will say
"Look at all these wounds b. al thcs,
sufferings demand the res .ue II this man
from sin and death and hell. Constable,
knock of the shacklcs-let the prisoner g
free WHO is be that condemneth u j.
Christ that died, yea rather that is risen
again who is even at the right hand Of Cos.
VINO also maseth inter 'ession for rs.
But why all this gadness on ;he faces oil
these sons AMI daughters II the Lord Al
mighty? | know what y0I arr thinking o..
A Saviour dead a Saviour risen saviour
exalted Saviour interceding. What.
say YOU, is all that for me? All, all
anything again. With your pardoned SIN
behind you. and a successful Christ pleading
above you. and a glorious heaven before you,
how can you be Respondent about any
thing?
But" SAYS some man in the audience, ''du
that is very cool and very true for those
who are inside the kingdom but how about
those OF US who are outsider Then | say,
Come into the kingdom, come out OF the
prison house into the glorious sunlight "
Coils mercy and pardon. and come now.
II was in the last day OF the reign OF terror
the year 1893. Hundreds and thousands
had persisted under the French gulllotine.
France groaned with the tyrlnnies OF Robes
pierre and the JacObinc Club. The last group
Of sufferers had had their locks shorn by
Monchotte. the PRISON barber 50 that the meek
might be- bare TO the keen knife OF the guiio-
tine
The carts came up to the prison. tho poor
wretches were placed in the carts and driven
of toward the scafTold, but while they were
going toward the sslifold there was an out
cry in the street. AMI then the shock OF fire
arms. and then the cry "Robespierre has
failed Down with tho Jacobins Let Franco
be Free But the armed soldiers rode In
upon these rescuers. so that thepoor wretches
in the CARTS were taken On 10 the scaifOld and