The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-10-23
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there was no voice that cried Stop
and no hand arrested it. Sharp, keen
and tremendous, it cut DOVE q through
nerve and artery until the blood
sprayed the faces of the executioners
and the midday sun dropped veil of
cloud over its face because it could
not endure the spectacle. 0 Isaac OF
Mount Moriah. O Jesus of Mount
Calvary Better could God have
thrown away into annihilation a
thousand worlds than to have sacri-
feed his on only Son. 1t was not one
of ten sons-it was his only Son. If
he had not given up him, you and [
would have perished. God so loved
the world that he g e his only
stop there, not becaus. I have forgot
ten the quotation, but because [ want
to think. God so loved the world
that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlast,
ing life" Great God, break my heart
at the thought of that sacrifice. Isaac
the only, typical of Jesus the only.
You see Isaac going up the hill and
carrying the wood. 0 Abraham, why
not take the load off the boy? If he is
going to die SO soon. why not make
his last hours easy? Abraham knew
that in carrying that wood up Mount
Moriah Isaac was to be a symbol OF
Christ carrying his own cross up Cal
vary. I do not know how heavy that
cross was-whether it was made of
oak or acacia or Lebanon cedar. l
suppose it may have weighed 100 or
300 or 800 pounds. That was the
lightest part of the burden. All the
sins and sorrows of the world were
wound around that cross Theh of
one, the heft of two, worlds-earth
and hell were on his shoulders. 0
Isaac, carrying the wood of sacrifice
up Mount Moriah. 0 Jesus, carrying
the wood of sacrifice up Mount Calva
ry, the agonies of earth and hell wrap,
ped around that cross. l shall never
see the heavy load on Isaac's back
that I shall not think of the crushing
load on Christ's back. For whom that
load2 For you. For you. For me.
For me. Would that all the tears that
we have ever wept over our sorrows
had been saved until this morning,
and that We might now pour them
out on the lacerated back and feet and
heart of the Son of God.
You say: "If this young man was.
| 20 or 80 years of age. why did not he
resist? Why was it not Isaac binding
Abraham instead of Abraham binding
Isaac2 The muscle in Isaac's arm was
stronger than the muscle in Abraham's
| withered arm. No young man 25 years
of age would submit to have his father
fasten him to a pile of wood with in
tention of burning him. Isaac was
willing sacrifice, and so type of
Christ who willingly came to save the
world. If all the armies of heaven
had resolved to force Christ out from.
the gate, they could not have done it.
Christ was equal with God. If all the
battallions of glory had armed them.
selves and resolved to put Christ forth
and make him come out and save this
world. they could not have succeeded
in it. With one stroke he would have:
topped over angelic and archangelic
dominion.
But there was one thing that the
omnipotent Christ could not stand.
Our sorrows mastered him. He could
not bear to see the world die without.
an offer of pardon and help, and if all
heaven had armed itself to keep him
back, if the gates of life had been bolt
ed and double barred, Christ would
have flung the everlasting doors from
their hinges and would have sprung
forth, scattering the hindering hosts.
of heaven like chatf before the whirl-
wind, as he cried: 10, I come to suf
fer. Lo, I come to die" Christ-a
willing sacrifice. Willing to take
Bethlehem humiliation and sanhedrin
outrage and whipping post maltreat-
ment and Golgotha butchery. Will
inc to be bound. Willing to suffer.
Willing to die. Willing to save.
How does this affect you? Do not
your very best impulses bound QUITO
ward this painstruck Christ? Get
down at his feet, O We people. Put
your lips against the wound of his
right foot and help kiss away the
pang. Wipe the foam from his dying
lip. Get under the cross until you
feel the baptism of his rushing tears.
Take him into your heart, with warm
est love and undying enthusiasm. By
your resistances you have abused him
long enough. Christ is willing 10 save.
you. Are you willing to be saved2 1t
seems to me as if this moment were:
throbbing with the invitations of an
all compassionate God.
nave been told that the cathedral
of St. Mark stands in a quarter in the
center Of the city of Venice. and that
when the clock strikes II at noon all
the birds from the city and the regions
round about the city fly to the square
and settle down. 1t came in this wise.
A large hearted woman passing one
MONDAY across the square saw some
birds shivering in the cold. and she
scattered some crumbs OF bread among
them. The next day at the same hour
she scattered more crumbs of bread
among them, and so on from year to
year until the day Of her death. In
her will she bequeathed certain
amount of money to keep up the same
practice, and now. at the first stroke
Of the bell at noon, the birds begin to
come there, and when the clock has
struck u the square is covered with
them. How beautifully suggestive.
Christ comes out to feed thy soul to-
day. The more hungry you feel your
selves to be the better it is 1t is noon,
and the gospel clock strikes II. Come
IN hocks.. Come as doves to the win
dow. All the air is filled with the IL
quid chime: Come. Come, Come
Cylindrical Cotton Bales.
The saving of one dollor bale for
compressingis certainly one good fea-
trre: the saving to the producer on
accountof liberal 'sampling" is anoth-