The Monitor-register., 1896-02-28

Snrist II arising From the Abuse OF the
World-His Name the Most Popular on
Earth-scoffers Have Become Worship
ers-Infidels Return to God.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-This sermon
sounds the note of triumph, note that
all will be glad to hear in these times,
when SO many are uttering and writing
jeremiads of encouragement. DR.. Tai
mage took as his text Genesis xix, 10,
tUnto him shall the gathering of the
people be-.
Through a supernatural lens, or what
/ might call prophescope, dying Jacob
looks down through the corridors OF the
centuries until he sees Christ the center
of all popular attraction and the greatest
being in all the world, so everywhere
acknowledged. It was not always go.
The world tried hard to put him down
and to put him out In the year 1900,
while excavating for antiquities 6S
miles northeast Of Rome, a copper plate
tablet was found containing the death
warrant of the Lord Jesus Christ, read
ing in this wise: u.
HIn the year II of the empire OF IL
berius Caesar, and on the goth OF Marcn,
T Pontius PLATE, governor of the Pra-
tore. condemn Jesus of Nazareth to die
between two thieves, Quintius Cor
nelius to lead him forth to the place Of
execution. %
The death warrant was signed by
several names. First, by Daniel, rabbi
Pharisee; secondly, by Johannes, rabbi !;
thirdly, by Raphael; fourthly, by Capet,
a priyate citizen. This capital punish
ment was executed according to law.
The name of the thief crucified on the
RIGHT hand side of Christ was Dismas.
The name of the thief crucified on the
left hand side of Christ was Gestus.
Pontius plate describing the tragedy
saws the whole world lighted candles
from noon until night. Thirty-three
wears of maltreatment. They ascribe his
birth to bastardy and his death to ex-
crueiation. A wall of the city, built
ahout those times and recently exposed
by archaologists, shows caricature Of
Jesus Christ, evidencing the contempt
in which he was held by many in his
day. that caricature on the wall repre-
senting a cross and donkey nailed to
It and under it the inscription, ''This is
the Christ whom the people worship. T"
But rejoice that that day is gone by.
Our Christ is coming out from under
the worlds abuse The most popular
name on earth today is the name of
Christ. Where he had one friend Christ
has thousand friends. The scoffers
have become the worshipers. OF the 30
most celebrated infdels in Great Britain
in our day 16 have come back to Christ,
trying to undo the blatant mischief of
their lives-16 out Of the 30. Every
man who writes letter or signs doc
ument, Willingly or unwittingly, honors
Jesus Christ. We date everything as B.
@. or A. D.-B. c., before Christ; A.
D., Ammo Domini, in the year of our
Lord. All the ages of history on the
pivot of the upright beam of the cross
of the Son of God, B. c., A. D. I dc
not care what you call him-whethel
Conqueror or King or Morning Star OF
Sun of Righteousness or Balm of Gilead
or Lebanon Cedar or Brother or Friend
or take the name used in the verse from
which I take my text and call him
Shiloh, which means his Son, or the
Tranquilator, or the Peacemaker, Shi-
loh. only want to tell you that "unto
him shall the gathering Of the people
be-
Gathering Around Christ.
In the first place, the people are gath.
cred around Christ for pardon. No sen.
sible man or healthfully ambitious man
is satisfied with his past life. A foo
may think he is all right. A sensible
man knows he is not. I do not care
who the thoughtful man is the review
of his lifetime behavior before God an6
man gives to him no especial satisfac
tion. 'Oh,' he says, "there have beer
so many things have done ought moi
to have done; there have been SO many
things have said ought never to have
said; there have been SO many things
have written ought never to have
written; there have been SO many
things have thought ought never tc
have thought I must somehow gel
things readjusted. I must somehow
have the past reconstructed. There are
days and months and years which cry
out against me in horrible vociferation. u
All, my brother, Christ adjusts the past
by obliterating it. He does not erase
the record of our misdoing with dasI
OF ink from register s pen, but lifting
his right hand, crushed, red at the
palm, he puts it against his bleeding
brow and then against his pierced side
and with the crimson accumulation Of
all those wounds he rubs out the accusa
tory chapter. He blots out our iniqui
ties. Oh, never be anxious about the
future; better be anxious about the
past I put it not at the end of my ser
mon; put it at the front-mercy ant
pardon through Shiloh, the sin pardon
ing Christ "Unto him shall the gath
ering of the people be. " "Oh," says
some man, 81 have for 40 years been az
bad as could be, and is there any mer
cy for me?" Mercy for you. ooh, say,
some one here, 81 had a grand ancestry
the holiest of fathers and the tenderes
of mothers, and for my perfdy there il
no excused Do you think there is any
mercy for me?'' Mercy for you. "But, ,
says another man, 81 fear have com
mitted what they call the unpardonablt
sin, and the Bible says if man com
NIT that sin he is neither to be forgiven
in this world nor the world to come
Do you think there is any mercy fol
me?" The fact that you have any solici
tude about the matter at all proves posi-
lively that you have not committed tbe
objectionable sin. Mercy for you? Oh,
the grace of God which bringeth saliva.
tioni
Gods Mercy Immeasurab1e.
The grace of Godl Let us take the
surveyors chain and try te measure
God s mercy through Jesus Christ. Let
one surveyor take that chain and go to
the north, and another surveyor take
that chain and go to the south, and an
other surveyor take that chain and go to
the east, and another surveyor take that
chain and go to the west, and then make
a report of the square miles Of that vast
kingdom of Gods mercy. Aye, you will
have to wait to all eternity for the re-
port of that measurement. 1t cannot be
measured. Paul tried to climb the
height of it, and he went height over
height, altitude above altitude, noun
tain above mountain, then sank down
in encouragement and gave it up, for
he saw Sierra Nevadas beyond and Mat
terhorns beyond, and waving his hands
back to us in the plains he says, "Past
finding out; unsearchable, that in all
things he might have the pre-eminence. T"
You notice that nearly all the sinners
mentioned as pardoned in the Bible
were great sinners-David great sin
ner, Paul great sinner, Rahab great
sinner, Magdalene great sinner, the
prodigal son great sinner. The world