The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-08-25

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ton at his heroism and patriotism; but
If Christ should make conspicuous the
i've wounds COTTON at Calvary-tbat
Waterloo 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
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
''victoryl'
The oldest inbabitant of Heaven
never saw grander day than the one
when Christ took His place on the right
hand of God. Hosannal 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 hap
and some on the tip of the green
branches. Hosanna! Hosanra!
Perhaps Paul said sometimes: 81
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-brol1en men,
says Paul, perhaps God may forget
me. And then l am SO vile a sinner.
How whipped those Christians With
| what vengeance l mounted that caval-
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OH It will take mighty attorney to
plead my cause and get me free" But
| just at that moment there came in
upon Pauls 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 Christ's
| interceSSion.
Ny 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. I 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! uncleani
Christ, our advocate, will not plead our
innocence. Sometimes the attorney in
court tries to prove an alibi. He says:
'"This 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 be?
The plea for our eternal deliverance
will be Christ's own martyrdom. He
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 condemneth? 1t is
Christ that died, yea, rather that is
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 the
faces of these sons and daughters of
the Lord Almighty? l know what you
are thinking of. A Saviour dead, a
Saviour risen, Saviour exalted,
Saviour interceding. 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 successful Christ
pleading above you, and a glorious
Heaven before you, how can you be
respondent about anything?
but" SAYS some man in the audience,
'sall that is very good 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 of Gods mercy and
pardon, and come now.
1t was in the last days of the Reign of
Terror, the year 1898. Hundreds and
thousands had persisted under the
French guillotine. France groaned
with the tryannies of Robespierre and
the Jacobin 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 guillotine. The carts
came up to the prison, the
poor wretches were placed in the
carts and driven on toward the scat
fold; but while they were going
toward the scaffold there was an out
cry in the street, and then the shock
of firearms, and then the cry. Robes
pierre has fallen! Down with the
Jacobinsl Let France be freer' But
the armed soldiers rode in upon these
rescuers, so that the poor wretches in
the carts were taken on to the SCAT
fold, and horribly died But that
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