Democratic messenger., 1893-08-19

coronation in the palaces of heaven. and il
would have been devils on the throne and
sons of God in the dungeon.
Nol no! mol When that stone was rolled
from the door OF Christ's grave, ii was hurled
with such a force that II crashed in all the
grave doors OF Christendom, and now the
tomb is only bower where Gods children
take siesia, an afternoon nap. ho wake up
in mighty invigoration. "Christ is risen. "
Hang that lamp among all the tombs of my
dead. Hang II over my own resting place.
Chrlst's suffering IL ensled; His work Is
done. The darkest Friday afternoon of tho
worlds history becomes the brightest Sunday
morning OF It's resurrection joy. The Good
Friday OF bitter memories becomes the
Easter of glorious transformation and resar-
rection.
Ne mourning saints dry every tear
For your depsr.e1 Lord.
Behold the place. lie is not here.
The tomb is III unbarrea.
The sa.es Of deatk were close in vain.
The Lord Is r4ssn-de lives again
give you the third cause OF PauiS exhil-
aration. We honor the right hand more than
we do the left. If in accident or battle we
must lose one hand, let ii be the left. The
left hand being nearer the heart. we may not
do much of the 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 aud power and honor Hiram
sat az the right hand OF solomon. Then we
have the term. us he right hand man"
Lafayette was Washington's right hand man.
Marshal Ney wa. Napoleon right hand man.
And ROW you have the meaning ofPaul when
he speaks al Christ who is NJ the right hand
Of God.
That means He j. the first guest OF heaven.
lie has u right TO III there. The hero o! the
universe! Count His wounds; two in the
feet Two IN ths hands ono in the side-fiye
wounds. OH. YOU have counted wrong.
These are not halt the wounds. Look at the
seyerar wounds ia the temples. Each thorn
an excraeiation.
If "a hero comes back from battle, and he
takes OF 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 ut his heroism and patriotism,
but IL Christ should make conspicuous the
five wounds gotten on Calvary--ihat 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
a right TO sit there. BY the request OF God
the Father and the unanimous suffrage oil ali
heaven let Him sit there. LII the grand re-
view when the redeemed pass by in cohorts
OF splendcr they will look at Him and shout
'victory."
The oldest inhabiiant of heaven never saw
Q grander day than the one when Christ took
His place on the right hand ofGod. Hosan-
na With lips OF clay may not appropriate
ly utter IL. 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 lift it-somc on
point Of scepter, and some on string oil harp,
and some ON the tip OF the green branches.
Hosannai hosanna!
fourth cause OF Paui's exhiliration
After clergyman had preached sermon In
| regard 20 the glories OF heaven and the
splendors of the scene an aged woman said,
| .sff all that is 10 20 on in heaven, don
know wha, will become Of my poor heat.
| Oh my friends. there will be so many things
going on in heaven have sometimes Won
dered II the Lord would not forget :ou and
| EN-,
| Perhaps Paul said sometimes "I wonder
| God does not forget me down here in An
tioch, and in the prison. and In tho ship
| wreck. There are so many sailors, so man,
wayfarers, so many prisoners. so many heart
broken men" says Paul, 'perhaps God MAJ
| forget me- And then am so vile sinner
How whipped those Christians. With VIVA
vengeance / mounted that cavalry horse ans
dashed up 20 Damascus! oh, IL will take |
mighty attorney TO plead my cause and sc
| me free But Just M that moment Their
came in upon Pauls soul something mightie
than the surges that dashed his ship int
Melita, swifter than the horse he rode Is
Damascus. 1t was the swift and oyerwhelfn
ing thought of Christi intercesson.
My friends, we must have an advocate.
| poor lawyer is worse than no lawyer at all
| We must have ono who Is able successfully
to present our cause before Col. Where is
| He? Who ,s HEP There Is only ono ad.
voeate N all tho universe that can plead our
cause in the last judgment, that can plead
| our cause before Goi in the great tribunal.
Sometimes in earthly courts attorney:
have speciaittes, and one man succeeds bet
ter in patent cases, another in insurance
cases, another in criminal cases, another in
| land eases. another in will cases, and his
success generally depends upon his sticking
10 that speciality. | have To tell You that
Christ can do many things, but II seems 10
/ me that His specially IL 20 take the bad ease
OF th. sinner ami plead II before God until
He gets eternal acquittal. OBJ, we must hayS
| HIM for our advocate.
But what plea can He make? Sometimes
an attorney in conrt will plead the innocence
| ofthe prisoner. That would be inappropriate
for us. We are all guilty guilty Unclean
| un.lean Christ, our advocate, will not
plead our innocence. Sometimes the attor-
ney in court tries TO prove an alibi. He says
This prisoner was not at the scene. Hewas
IN some other place at tho time. SIch a
| plea will not doin our case. The Lord found
us in all our sins and in the very place of ouI
| iniquity. IL is impossible 10 prove an alibi.
Sometimes an attorney will plead the insanity
OF the prisoner and say he IL irresponsible on
that account. That plea wall never do in our
| case. We sinned against light, against
knowledge. against tho dictates OF our own
consciences. We knew what we were doing.
! What, then. shall the plea be?
The plea for our eternal deliveranee will
be Christs own martyrdom. He will say
"Look at all these wounds. BY all these
sufrerings demand the rescue OF this man
from sin and death and hell. Constable.
| knock of the shacklc--let the prisoner 90
free" Who is he that condemneth II is
| Christ that died, Yea, rather tnat is risen
again. who Is even at tho right hand Of God,
whn also iuakeih int-rcession Tor us.
But why all this gladness on the faces oi
these sons aud daughters of tho Lord Al
mighty know what you are thinking Of.
A saviour dead "A Saviour risen Saviour
| exalted saviour interceding. 'What.
SAY you. "i. all that for meY' All. all
Never et IN. hear you complaining about
ANYTHING again. With your pardoned sin
behind yOu. and successful Christ pleading
above YOU, ani glorious heaven before you,
how can you be despondent about any
| thing
"But," says some man in tue audience. ',ill
that is very good and very true for those
VINO are inside the kingdom. but how about
those OF us who are outsider" Then | say.
Come into the kingdom, come our of IN.
PRISON house into tho glorious sunlight Of
| Gods mercy and pardon, and come now.
II was in the last day of the reign of terror
| tho year 1898. Hundreds and thousands
had perished under the French guilotine.
France groaned with the iyrannies OF Robes
| pierre and the Jacobine 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 guilio-
| tine.
The carts came up to tho prison. the poor
wretches were placed in tho carts and driven
1 of toward the scaffold, but while they were
| going toward the scaffold there was an out
cry in the street, and then the shock of fire
arms. and then the cry: "Robespierre has
failed Down with tho Jacobins Let France
| be freei' But the armed soldiers rode la
upon these rescuers, so that the poor wretches
| in the carts were taken on to the scaffold and
| horribly died.
! But that very night these monsters OF per.
/ secution were seized, and Robespierre
pershed under the very guilotine that he
| had reared for others, NIL France clappin7
their hands with JOY as his head rolled into
| the executioner basket. Then the axes o.
| the excited populace were heard pounding
against the gates of the prison. and the poo
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