Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-11-03

how a man can stand stolidly and pre-
sent ii, for it is such an exililarant gos-
pei. 1t is not % mere whill or caprice.
1t is life or death. 1t is heaven or he'll.
You come before your child. and you
have present in your hand You put
your hands behind your back and say:
(Which hand win you take? III one
hand there is . treasure; IL the other
there is moi. !" The child blindly chooses.
But God our Father does not do that
way with us. Hespreads out both hands
and says: "Now this shall be very plain.
In that hand are pardon and peace and
life and the treasures of heaven. In
that hand arr punishment and sorrow
and woe. Choose, choose for yosIrselvesn
He that bel eveth and is baptized shall
be saved but he that believeth not shall
be damned -
The Ui,searchabIe Riches.
On, my dear friends, l wish I could
coax you to accept this gospel If you
could just take one lcol. in this laver of
looking glasses spoken of in the text,
you would begin now spiritual ablu.
ton. The love of Christi dare not,
toward the close of my sermon, begin to
tell about It, The love OF Christ Do
not talk to me about a mountain; it is
higher than that. Do not talk to me
about a sea; it is deeper than that.
An artist in his dreams saw such a
splendid dream of the TRANSPORTATION of
Christ that he awoke and seized his
pencil and said, Let me paint this and
die. F" Oh, / have seen the glories of
Christ, have beheld something of the
beauty of that great sacrifice on Calva-
~, and I have sometimes felt would
be willing to give anything if might
just sketch before you the wonders Of
that sacrifice. would like to do it
while live, and l would like to do it
when I die. Let me paint this and
die " He comes along weary and worn,
his face wet with tears, his brow Grim
son with blood. and he lies down on
Calvary for you No, mistake. Moth
ing was as comfortable as that A stone
on Calvary would have made soft pill
low for the dying head of Christ. Moth
ing so comfortable as that. He does not
lie down to die; he stands up to die.
his spiked hands outspread as If to en-
brace world Oh, what hard end for
those feet that had travelled all over Ju-
dBa on ministries of mercyi What q
hard end for these hands that had wiped
away tears and bound up broken hearts!
Very hard, 0 dying Lamb Of God, and
yet there fGe those who know it and
who do not love tlee. They say: "What
is all that to me? What if he does weep
and groan and die2 / don t want him y
Lord Jesus Christ, they will not help
thee down from the crossi The soldiers
will come, and they will tear thee down
from the cross and put their arms
around thee :sld lower thee into the
tomb, but they viii not help. They see
nothing to move them. Oh, dying Christ,
turn on them thine eyes of affection
now and see if they will not change
their minSls
l saw one hanging on q tree
In agor and blood
Who ixel his languid eyes on me
As near his cross stood
Oh, never till my st breath
Will forget that lool-i
He seem Ell to charge me with hi death,
Though not :. word he spoke.
And that is all for youl Oh, can you
not love him? Come around this LAYER,
old and young. It is so Furnished you
can see your sins and SO deep .Tou can
wash them all away o mourn II, here
battle your brui sed soul, and, sick one,
here cool your hot temples III this layeri
Peace. Do not cry any more, dear soul
Pardon for all thy sins, comfort for all
thy Affections. The black cloud that
hung laundering over Sinai has floated
above Calvary end burst into the show
CT of Saviour's tears.
l saw in Kensington Garden picture
of Waterloo good while after the bat
tie had passed and the grass had grown
all over the field. There was a dis
mounted cannon, and a lamb had come
up from the pasture and lay sleeping in
the mouth of that cannon So the artist
had represented it--a most suggestive
thing. Then l thought how the war be-
tween God and the soul had ended, end
instead of the announcement, 1.-THE
wages of sin is DEATH" there came the
words, My peace I give unto thee
and amid the batteries of the law that
had once quail ad with the fiery hail of
death l bebek1 the Lamb of God, which
taketh away the sin of the world
vert to Jesus rs was,
Weary and worn and sad.
found in him q resting place,
And he has made me glad