Milford chronicle., 1896-02-28

OF ChTIzt-Iae Reed OF bynpathy--k'ui
nilmcnt OF a Great Promise-A Might.
Gathering.
WASHINGTON, Feb. s8.-This sermon
sounds tho note Of triumph, note thai
all will be glad to hear in these times
when so many arc utterlng and writing
jereniads of encouragement. DR.. Tal
mage took as his text Genesis xix, 10
Unto him shall tho gathering Of thl
people be.
Through supernatural lens, or whai
might call prophescope, dying Jacol
looks down through the corridors of tn,
centuries until he sees Christ the center o.
all popular attraction and the greatest be
ing in all the world so everywhere 40
Iknowledged. 1t was not always so. The
world tried hard to put him down and tc
put him out. In the year 1900, while ex
cagating for antiquities 53 miles northeast
/ OF Rome, copper plate tablet was found
containing the death warrant of the Lord
Jesus Christ, reading In this wise:
I'm the year II of the empire Of Tiberi-
us Caesar, and on the 25th of March, I,
1 Pontius PLATE, governor Of the Prsetore,
condemn Jesus of Nazareth to die between
1 two thieves, Quintius Cornelius to lead him
/ forth to tho place Of execution"
soofTers as Worahipcrs.
Tho death warrant was signed by sever
! al names. First, by Daniel, rabbi, Phari-
! sec; secondly, by Johannes, rabbi; third
/ ", by Raphael; fourthiy, by Capet, pri-
vate citizen. This capital punishment was
executed according to law The namo of
the thief oruoiiled on the right hand side
of Christ was Dismas; the name Of the
7 q If It'll %
Christ was Gestus. POntius PLATE, do
soribing tho tragedy, says the whole world
lighted candles from noon until night
Thirty-threo years of maltroatment. They
ascribe his birth to bastardy and his death
to excrucinticn. A wall OF the city, built
about those times anG recently exposed by
arohaologists, shows n caricature Of Jesus
Christ, evidcncing the contempt in which
he was held by many in his day-that
oaricature on the wall representing a cross
and donkey nailed TO it, and under it
the inscription, "This is the Christ whom
tho people worship" But I 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
namo Of Christ. Where he had one friend
Christ has thousand friends. The scott
ers have become the worshipers. OF the
20 most celebrated infldels in Great Brit
ain in our day IS have como back to Christ,
trying to undo the blatant mischief Of
their liycs-16 ont Of the 90. Every man
who writes a letter or signs a document,
Willingly or unwittingly, honors Jesus
Christ. We date everything rs d. G. or
A. DID,. c., before Christ; A. D., Ammo
Domini, in tho year of cur 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. do not care what you call him
whether ConquorOr, or King, or Morning
Star, or Sun OF Righteousness, or Balm Of
Giload, or Lebanon Cedar or Brother OF
Friend, or take tine name used in the verse
from which 1 take my toxt, and call him
Shiloh, which means his Son, or tho Tran
quilator, or tho Peacemakcr Shiloh. on
ly want to tell you that ''unto him shall
the gathering of the people be.
In the FIRST place, the people are gath
cred around Christ for pardon. No sensi-
BILE man or healthfully ambitious man is
satisfied with his past life, A fool may
think lie is all right. A sensible man
knows he is not. Go not care who tho
thoughtful man is, the review of his life
time behavior before God and man gives
to him no especial satisfaction. "Oh, " he
says, ''thore have been so many things
have done / ought not to have done, there
have been SO many things ] have said J
ought never to have said, there have been
so many things have written l ought
never to have written, thoVe have been so
many things 1 have thought 1 ought new
or to have thought. 1 must somehow get |
things readjusted, must somehow have
the past reconstructed; there are days and |
months and years which cry out against |
me in horrible Yooiferation." All, my /
BROTHER Christ adjusts the past by Oblit /
Grating it, He does not erase the record Of /
our misdoing with dash Of ink from a /
registers 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 accusatory chapter. he
blots out our iniquities. Oh, never be anx-
ipus about the future; better be anxious
about the past. put it not at the end Of
my sermon; put it at the front-meroy
and pardon through Shiloh, the sin par
doning Christ. "Unto him shall the gath
ering of the people be. A" "Ohp' says some
man, ~ have for 40 years been as bad as
1 could be-, and is there any mercy for
me?' Mercy for you. "Ohr' says some
ono here, Il had grand ancestry, the
holest Of fathers and tho tenderest Of
and for my perfldy there is no
excuse. Do you think there Is any mercy
for me?" Mercy for you. " But, " says an
other man, 4 fear have committed what
they call the objectionable sin, and the
Bible says if q man commit that sin, he is
neither to be forgiven in this world nor
lhe world to come. Do you think there is
any mercy for mer' Tho fact that you
have any solicitude about the matter at
Ill proves positively that you have not
the objectionable sin. Mercy
or you? Oh, the grace Of God which bring
eth salvation
Eor tho Worst sinnets.
Tho grace Of Godl Let us take the sur
reyor's chain and try to measure Gods
mercy through Jesus Christ. Let one sur
ieyor take that chain and go TO the north,
ind another surveyor take that chain and
20 to tho south, and another surveyor take
hat chain and 60 to the east and another