The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-05-30

the hammer was lifted for His feet,
and when the reed was raised 70
strike deeper down the spikes OF
thorn, Christ watched the whole pro-
cedure. When His hands were
fastened to the cross they were
wide open, still with benedic-
ton. Mind you, His head was
not fastened; He could look to the
right and He could look to the left,
and He could look up and he could
look down. He saw when the spikes
had been driven home, and the hard,
round. iron heads were In the palms OF
His hands; He saw them as plainly rs
you ever saw anything in the palms OF
your hands. No ether, no chloroform,
no merciful anesthetic to dull or stupi-
fy, but, wide awake, He saw the OBJ
scuration of the heavens, the unbal-
aucing of the rocks, the countenances
ouivering with rage and the cachin-
nation diabolic. Oh! it was the hos
tile rs well as the barren island OF the
world.
Ipo further, and tell you that this
exile was far from home. 1t is 05,000.-
600 miles from here so the sun, and all
astronomers agree in saying that our
solar system is only one OF the smaller
wheels of the great machinery OF the
universe turning around some one
great center, the center so far distant
it is beyond all imagination and calcu-
lation, and if, rs some think, that
great center in the distance is heaven,
Christ came far from home when
He came here. Have you ever
thought of the inconsistencies OF Christ?
Some of you know what home
sickness is when you have been only
few weeks absent from the domestic
circle. Christ was SO years away from
home. Some of you feel inconsistencies
when you nre 100 or 1000 miles away
from the domestic circle. Christ was
more million miles away from home
than you could count If all your life
you did nothing but count. You know
what it is to be homesick even amid
| pleasant surroundings, but Christ
silent In huts, and He was athirst. and
He was ahungered, and He was on the
| wav from being born in another mans
barn to being buried in another mans
grave.
have read how the Swiss, when
they are far away from their country,
at the sound of their national air get
so homesiclx that they fall into melan-
cholv and sometimes they die under
!, the inconsistencies But, oh! the home
sickness of Christ. Poverty homesick
for celestial riches. Persecution home
sick for hosanna. WEAKNESS home.
!, sick for rest. Homesick for angelic
and archangelic companionship. Home
sick to get out of the night and tho
! storm and the worlds exeeration
Inconsistencies will make week seen
J as long as a month, and it seems TO M
that the three decades Of Christ's resi-
!, dence on earth must have seemed Il
Him almost interminable. You Otter
tried to measure the ether pangs o
Christ, but You have never tried t
. measure the magnitude and ponder
I, osity of Saviour's inconsistencies.
take q step further and tell 20
- that Christ was an exile which Z.
= knew would end in assassination. Ho
: man Hunt, the master painter, has
!. picture in which he represents Jesu
:, Christ in the Nazarere carpenter shol
- Around Him are the saws, the han
n mers, the axes, the drills OF carpentry
!. The picture represents Christ as risin
ID from the carpenters working benc
- and YEARLY stretching out His arm
:. as one will after being in contracts
a or uncomfortable posture. AMI TT
:. lirht of that picture is so arrange
:. that the arms of Christ wearil
- stretched forth, together with His bod
80 throw on the wall the shadow of Il
Is cross. Oh! my friends, that shado'
was on everything in Christ's lifetim
no Shad ow of a cross on the Bethlche
Is swaddling clothes. Shadow OF GRO
AS on the road over which the three tug
y tives fed into Egypt. Shadow of
~ cross on Lake Galilee as Christ walk'
- It's mosaic floor of opal and emera
q and crystal. Shadow of a cross on Il
.r brook Kedron, and on the temple. al
~ on the side of Olivet. Shadow OF
-. cross on sunrise and sunset. Consta
ist tine. marching with his army. saw 5u
ad once cross in the sky, but Christ sa
IN the cross all the time.
mo- On rough journey we cheer OF
Il selves with the fact that it will end
let warm hospitality; but Christ knt
en- that His rough path would end al
III defoliaged tree without one leaf q
he with only two branches, bearing FRI
ne of such bitterness as no human Il
En- had ever tasted. Oh! what an exile
to starting in an infancy without a
al cradle, and ending in assassinatie
nm Thirst without any water. Day wi
1T out any sunlight. The doom OF d
nd perado for more than angelic exc
;st lence. For what that repatriation
md that exileP Worldly good sometin
,ch comes from worldly evil. The &C
The dental glance of a sharp blade from
razor-grinders's wheel put out the
He of Gambetta and excited sympath
mr.. which gained him an education
,us. started him on a career that made
= A. name more majestic among Frenchn
nst than any other name in the last
the wears. Hawthorne, turned out OF
: At Office of collector at Salem, went he
row in despair. His wife touched him
'arv the shoulder and said: "Now Is
ion time to write your book"
a.. his famous Scarlet Letter
Ar. the brilliant consequence. Wo
,ow ly good sometimes comes 4
ted worldly evil. Then be not
the believing when / tell you that I