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thing in all the universe that will move
God to an act Of royal benefaction IL
Is to say, For Christ's sake" God IL
opnipotent, but He Is not strong
enough to resist that cry, For Christ's
sake" If little child should kneel
behind Gods throne and should say,
'For Christ's sake" the great Je-
hovah 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 10
ever comforted but for Christ's sake.
The world will never be redeemed but
for Christ's sake. Our name, however,
illustrious 1t may be among men, be-
fore God stands only for inconsistency
and sin; but there Is name, a potent
name, a blessed name, a glorious name,
an everlasting name, that we may put
upon our lips as a sacrament and upon
our forehead as crown, and that Ia
the name of Jesus, our divine Jona-
than, who stripped Himself of His
robe and put on our rags, and gave US
His sword and took our broken reed.
Again, Mephibosheth In my text
stands for the disabled human soul
lifted to the Kings table. It was more
difficult In those times even than IL Ii
now for common men to get into
royal dining room. The subjects might
have come around the rail of the pal
ace and might have seen the lights
kindled, and might have heard the clash
of the knives and the rattle of the gold
en- goblets, but not get in. Stout men
with stout feet could not get In all
their lives to one banquet. yet poor
Mephibosheth goes in, lives there, and
Is every day at the table. Oh, what
getting up in the world it was for poor
Mcphibosheth! Well, though you and
l may be woefully famed with sin, for
our divine Jonathan's sake, hope we
will all get In to dine with the King.
Before dining we must be intro
duced If you are invited to COM
pany Of persons where there are dis
tinguished people present, you are i'm
troduced: This is the senator" This
Is the governor" This Is the presi-
Kings table In Heaven think we will
want to be introduced. Oh, what .
time that will be. when you and I. by
grace OF God, get into Heaven,
and are introduced to the mighty
spirits there, and some one will say:
This is Joshua, This is Paul This
Is Noses" "This is John Knox" This
is John Milton" This Is Martin Luz
Their" This is George White1eld."
Oh, shall we have any strength left
after such a round of celestial intro
duction? 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 across the table to
us and say: Behold what man
ner Of love the Father hath be-
slowed upon us that we should be
called the sons Of Godl' and someone
at the table will say: .How long will
1t lastp All other banquets at which I
sat ended. How long will this last?"
and Paul will answer "Foreverl" and
Joshua will say "Forever!" and John
Knox will say "Foreverw and George
Whitefield will say "Forever!"
And the wine at that banquet will DO
old wine; 1t will be very old wine; 1t
will be the oldest wine of Heaven; 1t
will be the wine that was trodden out
from the red clusters on the day when
Jesus trod the wine press 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. our sins here. All our earth
ly imperfections completely covered up
and hidden. Mephibosbeth's feet un-
der tho table. Kingly fare Kingly
vesture. Kingly companionship. We
shall reign forever and ever. think
that banquet will mean more to those
who had 1t hard in this world than to
those who had 1t easy. That ban
quet In David's palace meant more
to Mephibosheth than to anyone
else, because he had been poor
and crippled, and despised, aud re-
jected. And that man who in this
world Is blind will better appreciate
the light of Heaven than we who in
this world had good eyesight And
that man who In this world was deaf
will better apprecisteothe music of
Heaven than we who In this world had
good hearing. And those will have q
higher appreciation Of the easy locomo-
ton OF That land who in this world
were Mephiboshetha
0my soul, what q pagniAcent Cos
pell 1t takes q man SO low down and
raises him so high. What a Gospel
Come now, who wants to be banqueted
and empalaeed? As when Wilberforce
was trying to get the emancipation
bill" through the British parliament,
and all the British isles were
anxious TO hear OF the passage of the
emancipation bill, when a vessel was
coming into port and the captain of
the vessel knew that the people were
so anxious to get the tidings, he step
ped out on tho prov of the ship and
shouted to the people, long before he
got up to the dock: - reel" and they
cried it, and they shouted it. and they
sang 1t all through the land, Freei
freel" So to-day woulk like to sound
the news of your present and your
eternal emancipation until the angels
! of God lowering In the air, and watch
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