Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-09-27

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BOARD any craft till you tell me What !,
= made OF, and where it was made an
men, then, l ask you who this I,
ou want me to trust in. you tell ms
ne Is a very attractive person CO..,
temporary writers describe his Who'll.
ri as being resplendent.
mere was no need'for Christ to tell the
cnlaren to come to Him. .'Suffer little
chiiuren TO come unto Me-" was NOT
spoken TO the children; it was spoken
10 the disciples. The children CANA
readily enough without any invitation
no sooner did Jesus appear. than the
iie'ie ones jumped from their mothers
arms, an avalanche of beauty and love.
INTO Ills lap. Christ did not ask John
10 put his head down on His bosom.
'ohh could not help but put his head
there. l suppose look at Christ was
just to love Him. How attractive His
manner! Why, when they saw Christ
coming along the street, they ran into
ther houses and they wrapped up their
lnvaiids as quick as they could. and
brought them out that He might look
at them. o, there was something so
/ pleasant, so inviting, so cheering in
everything He did, in His very look
i When these sick ones were brought ont
ulo ne say; DO not bring before me
THESE sores; do not trouble me with
THESE leprosies?" No, no; there was a
KIND look. there was a gentle word.
there was healing touch. They could
not keep away from Him.
In addition to this softness of char
aeter, there was a fiery momentum.
now the kings of the earth turned pale
Here is plain man with few sailors
at his back, coming off the sea of Cali
lee gong up to the palace of the
Caesars, making that palace quake to
the foundations, and uttering a word
OF mercy and kindness which throbs
through the earth, and through all the
heavens, and through all ages o! He
was loving Christ But it was not
efteminacy or insipidity of character;
it was accompanied with majesty, inf
mite and omnipotent Lest the world
Christ mounts the cross.
You say. If Christ has to die, why
not let Him take some deadly potion
and lie on the couch in some bright
and beautiful home? If He must die let
Him expire amid all kindly attentions"
No the world must hear the hammers
on the heads of the spikes. The world
must listen to the death-rattle of the
sufferer. The world must feel His
warm blood dropping on each, while it
looks up into the face of His anguish.
And so the cross must be lifted, and
hole is dug on the top of Calvary.
1t must be dug three feet deep. and
then the cross is laid on the ground,
and the sufferer is stretched upon it,
and the nails are pounded through |
nerve and muscle and bone, through /
the right hand, through the left hand;
and then they shake His right hand to 1
see if it is fast. and they heave up the |
wood. half dozen shoulders under the /
weight, and they put the end of the I
cross to the mouth of the hole, and /
they plunge it in, all the weight of His
body coming down for the first time on
the spikes; and while some hold the
cross upright, others throw in the dirt
and trample it down, and trample it
hard.
o, plant that tree well and thor
0ughly, for it is to bear fruit such as
no other tree ever bore. Why did
Christ endure it? lie could have taken
hose rocks and with them crushed His
He could have reached up
md grasped the sword of the omnipo-
ent God, and with one clean cut have
umbled them into perdition. But no;
lie was to die He must die. His life
or your life. In a European city a
-oung man died on the scaffold for the
rhine of murder. Some time after the
mother of this young man was dying,
md the priest came in and she made
confession to the priest that she was
he murderer, and not her son; in a
moment of anger she had struck her
husband a blow that slew him. The
on came suddenly into the room, and
vas washing away the wounds and try
no to resuscitate his father, when
ONE one looked through the window
no saw MN hhu ouppcScN hihi W 70
he criminal That young man died
Or his own mother. You say: 1T was
,onderful that he never exposed her"
Tut | tell you of a grander thing.
hrist. the son of God, died not for His
lother. not for His father, but for His ,
worn enemies Oh. such a Christ as ,
hat; so loving, so patient, so self-sacri- |
ing; can you not trust Him?
| think there are many under the in
uence of the spirit of God who are
aying: II will trust Him IL you will q
nly tell me how" and the great ques- :
on asked by many is, How? how" q
nd while | answer your question | |
,olx up and utter the prayer which I
owland Hill so often uttered in the r
lidst of his sermons: Master, help"
ow are you to trust in Christ. @
Just as you trust anyone. You trust /
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