Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-08-23

unanimous suffrage of all Heaven, ass
him sit there. In the grand review,
when the redeemed pass by In cohorts
Of splendor. they win look at him and
shout Victory
The oldest inhabitant of Heaven
never saw grander day than the one
when Christ took His place on tie night
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
throne 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 big branches
Hosanna. Hosannal
a fourth cause of Pauls exhilaration,
After clergyman had preached ser
mon in regard TO the glories of HEAVIER
and the splendors of the scene an aged
woman said: If all that is TO go on
in Heaven don't know what viii e
come OF my poor head" OH my friends
there will be so many things going on
in Heaven have sometimes wondered
il the Lord would not forget you and
me.
Perhaps Paul said sometimes: Il won
in Antioch. and in the prison, and in
the shipwreck. There are so many
sailors. 50 many wayfarers, so many
prisoners. so many heartbroi5en men,"
says Paul, Perhaps God may forget
me; and then j am 50 vile sinner.
How l whipped those Christiansl
With what vengeance i mounted that
cavalry horse and dashed up 10 Dam
ascus Oh. il viii take a mighty at
/ torney 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 intcrcession.
My friends, we must have an advo-
/ cate. poor lawyer is worse than no
/ lawyer at all We must have one who
I Is able successfully to present our cause
4 before God. Where is he? Who is he?
/ There is only one advocate in all the
universe that can plead our cause in
/ the last Judgment, that can plead
I our cause before God in the great tri,
bunal.
Sometimes in earthly courts attor~
l ueys have specialties. and one man sue
/ cccds better 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 spe-
cialty. / have TO tell You that Christ
can do many things, but it seems to me
that His specially is to take the bad
cases of the sinner and plead IL before
God until he gets eternal acquittal
Oil we must have Him for our advo-
cate.
But what plea can we make? Some
times an attorney in court will plead
the innocence of the prisoner That
would be appropriate for US; we ara
all guilty. guilty. Uncleanl uncleanf
Christ, our advocate, will not plead our
innocence. Sometimes the attorney ia
court tries TO prove an alibi
He says: This prisoner was not az
the scene; he was in some other place
at the time" Such plea viii not do
in our case. Tho Lord found us all in
our sins, and in the very place of our
iniquity. 1t is impossible 10 prove an
alibi 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
/
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 martydom. He will
say: Look at all these wounds. By
all these snfferings 1 demand the res
cue of this man from sin. and death.
and hell Constr lie, knock off the
! shackles-let the prisoner 20 free"
WHO is he that condemueth? Ii Is
Christ that died, yea, rather that is
risen again. who is even at the right
hand of God, who also malketh inter
I cession for us.
/ But why all this gladness on the faces
I of these sons and daughters of the
| Lord Almighty? l know what YOU are
thinking Of. A Saviour dead, Saviour
risen, saviour exalted, saviour in
terceding. "Wat " say you, SIS all that
for me?' AN All Never let me hear
/ you complaining about any thing again.
/ With your pardoned sin bahiod YOU.
and u successful Christ pleading Dove
/ you, and q glorious Heaven bef1rs Tou.
how can you be respondent aboyt any
thing?
| But. says some man in the audiepce.
''all that is very good and very true for
those who are inside the kingdom, but
how about those OF us who are nut
side?' Then / say, come into the
kingdoms come out Of the prison hsuse
into the glorious sunlight OF ODDS
mercy and pardon, End come now
/
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