The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-12-07

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ance NV SON, God will provide Him.
self a lamb. :"
Thank you, mother, for that short
sermon. could preach back 10 you
| a minute or two and say. never 90 you
| fear. / wish had half as good nope
Of Heaven as you have. Do not Iear'
mother; whatever happens, no harm
will ever happen to you. was going
up long fight OF stairs; anu , sa
an aged woman, very decrepit anu WIN
a cane, creeping on up sne nsuo W.
very little progress, and leie g.J
exubcrant; and said to her: WY
mother, that IL no way to go up
stairs" and threw my arms arouno
her and / carried her up and put her
down on the landing at the top OF
the stairs. She said Ihanh
YOU, thank you; l am very
, thankful o, mother, when you ges
through this life's work and YOU
! want to go upstairs and rest IN tne
rood place that God has provided 1or
! Won. Won will not have to climb up
!, Won will not have to crawl up pam
: fully. The two arms that were
( stretched on the cross will be hung
around vou. and you will be hoisted
|. with a glorious lift beyond all weari-
( ness and all struggle. May the Goa
Y of Abraham and Isaac be with you
y rrt;l Ton see the lamb on the hill
tops.
e Now. that aged minister has made
n suggestion. and this aged woman mas
e made a suggestion; will make sug-
l. gestion. Isaac going up the hill makes
e me think of the great sacrifice. Isaac,
" tbe only son of Abraham Jesus, the
It only Son of God. On those TWO
" "onlys" / build fearful emphasis.
g o Isaac! Jesus! But this last
< sacrifice was a more TREMENDOUS
N one. When the knife was hiteo
III over Calvary. there was no voice
Is that cried "Stopr' and no hand
d. arrested it. Sharp, keen and ire
h, mendous, it cut down through nerve
d. and artery until the blood sprayed the
lie faces of the executioners. and the mlo-
he dav sun dropped veil OF cloud over
ng ;ts face because it could not endure
n the snectacle. o Isaac, Of Mount Mo-
10. riah, Jesus, of Mount Calvary
ne Refer could God have thrown away
III into annihilatlon o thousand worlds
fe, than to have sacrificed His only
NO Son It was not one OF ten sons
ne Il was His only Son. If He had
he not given Him up. you and would
he have nerished, ''God 50 loved the
his world that He gave His only"
up stop there, not because / have forgot
ng ten the quotation, but because wan
ses To think. "God so loved the worlt
nd that He gave His only begotten Bon
NO that whatsoever be}ieveth in hin
tn should not perish, but have everlast
the ing life" Great God! break my hear
1t at the thought of that sacrifice. lsaa
but the only. typical of Jesus the Only.
the You see Isaac going up the hill an
AXE CARRYING the wood. o Abraham, WI
I'm! not take the load off the boy? II n
do. is going TO die so soon, Why not max
his last hours easy? Abraham kne'
the that in carrying that wood up Noun
rec Moriah, Isaac was to be symbol
gle. Christ carrying his own cro'
Oh, nm Calvary. / do not know no.
the heavy that cross was-whether
ned was made of oak, or acacia,
and Lebanon cedar. / suppose
lam NAV have weighed one. or two,
ems three hundred pounds. That was II
j on lightest part Of the burden. An u
the sins and sorrows OF the world we
the wound around that cross The heft
IS to one, the heft of two worlds, earth NJ
s of hell were on His shoulders.
the Isaac, carrying the wood OF sa
hold rifice mn Mount Morinh. 0 jest
the CARRYING the wood OF sacrifi
up Mount Calvary, the agoni
ont of earth and hell wrapped around tn
r of cross. Ishall never see the heavy To-
get on Isaac's back that shall not thu
you of the crushing load on Christ's bac
son rcr whom that load? For you.
head you. For me. For me- Would tn
Idn't all the tears that we haze ever we
idn't over our sorrows had been saved On
J not this morning, and that we might M
l, or pour them out on the lacerated ba
with and feet and heart of tie Sen eft Gt
ton, You say: IF this young man Y
ION twenty or thirty years OF age did
% uo he resist? Why was it not Isaac biz
ouio ing Abraham instead OF Abrah
your binding Isaac? The muscle in lsaa
your arm was stronger than the muscle
nave Abtahams withered arm. No you
you man twenty-five years of age wo'
per submit to have his father fasten h
oon to pile of wood with intention
Is BURNING Isaac was willing sa'
noe fee, and so type of Christ who W
po ingly came to save the world. If all
oo armies of Heaven had resolved to TO
RNe Christ out from the gate, they co
ho' not have done It, Christ was eq
o'an- with God II all the battalions
capi glory had armed themselves I
US resolved to put Christ forth and M
ageu Him come out and save this wo
hei they could not have succeeded II
aoor' With one stroke He would have
y ehe pied over angelic and archang
..I dominion.
- But there was one thing that
49, omnipotent Christ could not sta
:" 81 Our sorrows mastered Him. He &C
80 not bear to see the world die with
,r,,sn1 an offer of pardon and help, an
80 all Heaven had armed itself to
a.nS Him back, if the gates OF life had
49, 80; bolted and double barred, Christ VIZ
YIN, nm have flung the everlasting doors I
OF their hinges, and would have spr
,.h;' forth, scattering the hindering h
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