Connecticut western news., 1896-08-20
an advocate with the Father, Jesus


 Christ the righteous.
 O Christian soul, your case begins to look better. I think, perhaps, after all, you may not have to die. The best advocate in the universe has taken your side. No one was ever so qualified to defend you. He knows all the law, all it's demands, all it's penalties He is al- ways ready. No new turn of the case can surprise him, and he will plead for you for nothing as earnestly as though you brought a world of treasure to his feet. Besides that. he has undertaken the case of thousands who were as for lorn as you, and he has never lost a case. Courage, O Christian soull l think that, after all, there may be some chance for you, for the great advocate rises to make his plea. He says: II ad- init all that has been proved against my client. I admit all these sins, aye, more 1; but look at that wounded hand of mine and look at that other wounded hand, and at my right foot and at my left foot By all these wounds plead for his clearance Count all the drops of my tears. Count all the drops of my
  hem, by the sweat of Gethsemane, by the sufferings of the cross, demand that he go free. On this arm he hath leaned; to this heart he hath flown; in my tears he hath washed; on my right eousness he hath depended. Let him go free. l am the ransom. Let him escape the lash; took the scourgings. Let the cup pass from him; 1 drank 1t to the dregs Put on him the crown of life, for I have worn the crown of thorns Over against my throne of shame set his throne of triumphr'
 The Judgment.
 We'll, the counsel on both sides have spoken, and there is only one more thing now remaining, and that is the awarding of the judgment If you have ever been in a courtroom, you know the silence and solemnity when the verdict is about to be rendered or the judgment about to be given. About this soul on trial-shall 1t be saved or shall it be lost? Attention. above, around, beneath All the universe cries, Hear, hearp'
 The Judge rises and gives this de cision, never to be changed, never to be revoked: "There is, therefore, now nc condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus.
 The soul thi on Jesus hath leaned for repose I will not, will not, desert to his foes. That soul, though all hell should endeavor tc shake,
 I'll never; no. never: no. never, forsake. But, my friends, there is coming ( day of trial in which not only the saint, but the sinner, must appear. That day of trial will come very suddenly. The farmer will be at the blow. the mer chant will be in the counting room, tho | woodman will be ringing his ax on the hickories, the weaver will have his foo on the treadle, the manufacturer will be walking amid the buzz of looms anc the clack of flying machinery, the coun rel may be at the bar pleading the law, the minister may be in the pulpit plead | ing the gospel, the drunkard may bt reeling amid his cups and the blasphem CT with the oath caught between hi | teeth.
 Lol The sun hides. Night come. down at midnoon. The stars appear a noon today. The earth shudders anC throbs. There an earthquake opens, ant I a city sinks as a crocodile would crunch | a child. Mountains roll in their socketi and send down their granite cliffs il | avalanche of rock. Rivers pause in theil I chase for the sea, and ocean, uprearing cries to flying Alps and Himalaya Beasts below and moan and snuff uI the darkness Clouds fly like fiocks oi l swift eagles Great thunders beat and boom and burst Stars shoot and fall The Almighty, rising on his throne, de clares that time shall be no longer, ana the archangel's trump repeats it till al the living hear and the continents O dead spring to their feet, crying, 'Tim, shall be no longerr' Oh, on that da, will you be ready?
 have shown you how well the Chris tian will get off in his trial Will yoI
 get off as we'll in your trial? Will Chris
 plead on your side or against you? Oh
 what will you do in the last great assiz
 if your conscience is against you, an,
 the world is against you, and the angel
 of heaven are against you, and the Hol.
 Spirit is against you, and the Lord Go'
 Almighty is against you? Better thi
 day secure an Advocate.