Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-07-22

1 tent. out ne - not strong enough to
resist that cry, For Christ's sake II
little child should kneel behind Gods
throne and should say, 'For Christ's
sake" the great jehovah would turn
around on His throne to- look at her
and listen. No prayer ever gets to
Heaven but for Christ's sake. No soul
is ever comforted but for Christ's sake
The world will never be redeemed but
| for Christs sake. Our name, however
| illustrious it may be among men, be-
/ fore God stands only for Inconsistency
and sin; but there is name,
potent name, blessed name,
glorious name, an everlasting
name, that we may put upon our lips
as sacrament and upon our forehead
as a crown, and that is the name Of
Jesus. our divine Jonathan, who strip
ped himself of His robe and put on our
rags, and gave MS His sword and took
our broken reed, so that now, whether
| we are well or sick, whether we are
living or dying, IL we speak that name
1t moves Heaven to the center and God
says: Let the poor soul come in. Carry
him up into the throne room of the
palace. Though he may have been in
exile, though sin may have crippled
| him on this side, and sorrow may have
crippled him on the other side, and he
is lame in both his feet, bring him up
into the palace, for / want to show
him everlasting kindness for iona.
than's sake"
Again: Mephibosheth in my text
stands for the disabled human soul
lifted TO the kings table. 1t was more
difficult in those times even than it is
now for common men to get into a
royal dining room. The subjects might
have come around the rail of the palace
and might have seen the lights kindled,
and might have seen the clash of tho
knives and the rattle of the golden COB
lets, but not get in. Stout men with
stout feet could not get in once in all
their lives to one banquet, yet poor
Mephibosheth goes in, lives there and
Is every day at the table. oh, what a
| getting up in the world it was for poor
Mephibosheth! Well, though you and
l may be wofully famed with sin, for
our divine Jonathans sake, hope wo
| will all get in to dine with the King.
Before dining we must be introduced.
III you are invited to a company of per-
sons where there are distinguished
people present, you are introduced:
This is the senator" "This is tho
| governor" This is the president"
Before we sit down at the Kings table
in Heaven think we will want to tie
introduced. Oh, what a time that will
be, when you and /, by the grace of
God, get into Heaven, and are intro
duced to the mighty spirits there, aud
some one will say: This is Joshua. {"
This is Paul" This is Moses" This
is John Knox" This is John Mil
ton" This is Martin Luther" This
is George Whitefeld." oh, shall we
have any strength left after such
round of celestial introduction? Yea!
We shall be potentates ourselves. Then
we shall sit down at the Kings table
with the sons and daughters of God,
/ and one will whisper to us and saw:
Behold what manner of love the
| Father hath bestowed upon us that we
should be called the sons of Golw and
some one at the table will say, How
long will it last? All other banauets at
which sat ended. How long will thia
last?" and Paul will answer, Forever"
and Joshua will say "FCrever!" and
John Knox will say Forever" and
George Whitefield will say forever
And the wine at that banquet will be
old wine; it will be very old wine: it
viii be the oldest wine of Heaven; il
will be the wine that was trodden out
from the red clusters on the day when
Jesus trod the winepress alone. Wine
| already more than eighteen centuries
old. And no one will deride us as to
what we were in this world. No ono
will bring up our imperfections here,
onr sins here. All our earthly imper-
fections completely covered up and
hidden. Mephibosheth's feet under
the table. Kingly fare. Kingly YES.
ture. Kingly companionship. We
shall reign forever and ever think
that banquet will mean more to those
who had it hard in this world than
to those who had it easy. That ban
quet in David's palace meant more to
Mephibosheth than to any one else. be.
cause he had been poor and crippled.
and despiscd, and rejected And that
man who in this world is blind will
better appreciate the light of Heaven
than we who in this world had GOOD
cycsight. And that man who in this
world was deaf will better appreciate
the music of Heaven than we who in
this world had good hearing. And
those will have higher appreciation
Of the easy locomotion Of that land
who in this world were Mephibo.
sheths.
. my soul, what a magnificent gos.
. pei, 1t takes man so low down and
raises him so high. What n gospel
! Come now, who wants TO be banuueted
and empalaced? As when Wilberforce
was trying 60 get the emancipation bill
through the British parliament, and all
! the British Isles were anxious to- hear of
the passage Of that emancipation bill.
! when vessel was coming irto port and
I the captain of the vessel knew that the
l people were so anxious 20 get The
\ tidings, he stepped out on the PROV Of
\ the ship and shouted TO the people.
long before he got up to the dock.
| Free" and they cried IL. and they
shouted IL, and they sang all through
\ the land. Gree, Free" So to-day I
I would like TO sound the news Of your
present and your eternal emancipation
until the angels Of God towering i'm
/ the air, and watchmcn on the bat.
! Elements, and belimcn i'm tho town
I cry IT, shout t., sing IT, ring it.
! Free. freew ] come out now as the
messenger Of the palace toinvitc Mcphi.
bOshcth TO come IN / am hcrc f,.-J,...