Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-04-29


nances quivering with rage and the
canchination diabolic. Obi Il was the
hostile as well as tho barren island of =
world.
Igo further. and tell You that this
exile was far from home 1t is e5. ooo.-
600 miles from here I'd 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 great
center, the center so far distant Il is
beyond all imagination and calcutta
ton, and If, as some think, that great
center in the distance is Heaven,
Christ came far from home when lie
came here. Have You ever thought
OF the Inconsistencies of Christi Some
of you know what homesicl<ness is
when you have been only fsw
weeks absent from the domestic circle.
Christ was So years away from home.
Some of YOU feel homsickness when
you arc n hundred or n thousand miles
away from the domestic circle. Christ
was more million miles away from
home than you could count II all YOUR
life you did nothing but count You
know what IL is To be homesicl< even
amid pleasant surroundings, but Christ
slept in huts. aud He was athirst. and
He was a-hungcrcd. and lie was on the
way 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 native
country, at the sound of their national
air, get SO homesiclS that they fall into
melancholy and sometimes they die un-
der the Inconsistencies But OH the
Inconsistencies of Christ. Poverty home
sick for celestial riches Persecution
homesicl<neSs for hosanna. Weariness
homesick for rest. Homesick for an
gelic and archangclic COMPREHENSIVE.
HomeSiclS TO get out of the night and
the storm and the worlds eNecration.
Homesiclsness will make week seem
rs long as month, aud IL seems to me
that the three decades of Christs resi-
dcnce on earth must have seemed TO
linn almost iutcrminablc. You have
often tried To measure the other pancs
of Christ, but you have never tried 10
measure the magnitude and ponderos-
ity OF a Savjour's homesiclcuess.
l take step further and will tell YOU
I
knew would end in assassination. Hol-
man Hunt, the master painter, has a
picture in which he represents Jesus
Christ in the Nazarene carpenter shop.
Around Him are the saws, the ham
mers, the axes. the drills of carpentry.
The picture represents Christ as rising
from the carpenters working bench
and YEARLY stretching out His arms as
one will after being in contracted or
uncomfortable posture, and the light of
that picture is So arranged that the
arms OF Christ, wearily stretched forth.
together with his body. throw on
the wall the shadow or The cross.
Oh! my fricudS. that shadow was on
everything in Christs lifetime Shadow
of n cross on the Bethlehem swaddling
clothes. Shadow of a cross ON the road
over which the three fugitives fed into
Egypt. Shadow Of n cross on Lake Gal
lice as Christ walked its mosaic floor of
opal and emerald and crystal Shadow
OF a cross on tho road TO Emmaus
Shadow Of 4 cross on the brook Ked-
ron. and on the temple, and on the side
of Olivet. Shadow of cross on sun
rise and sunset Constantine. march
ing with his army, saw just once n
cross in the sky, but Christ saw the
cross all the time.
On rough journey we cheer our
/ selves with the fact that it will end in
warm hospitality; but Christ knew
that His rough path would end ut de-
foliaged tree without one leaf and with
only two branches, bearing fruit of
such bitterness as no human lips had
ever tasted. Oh! what an cXile-sta-t-
ing in an infancy without any cradle
and ending in assassination. Thirst
without any water. Day without any
sunlight The doom OF desparado for
more than angelic excellence. For
what that expatriation and that exile?
Worldly good sometimes comes from
worldly evil. The accidental glance of
sharp blade from razor-grinder's
wheel put out the eye Of Gambetta and
excited sympathics which gained him
an education and started him on Il
career that made his name more ma
jestic among Frenchmen than any
other name in the last 20 wears.
Hawthorne, turned out of the Office OF
collector at Salem went home in despair
His wife touched him on the shoulder
and said: Now is the time 20 write
your book" and his famous Scarlet
Letter was the brilliant consequence.
Worldly good sometimes comes from
worldly evil. Then be not unbclieving
when ] tell you that from the greatest
crime of all eternity and of the whole
universe, the murder of the Son OF
God, there shall come results which
shall eclipse all the grandeurs Of
eternity past and eternity TO come.
Christ, an exile from Heaven opening
the way for the deportation toward
Heaven and TO Heaven all those who
will accept the proffer. Atonemcnt. a
ship large enough 20 take all the pas
scngcrs that will come aboard 50.
For this royal exile I bespeak the
love and service of ali the cxilcs here
present, and, in one sense or the other.
that includes all Of us. The gates Of
this continent have been so widely
opened that there are here many volun-
tary eXiles from other lands. Some OF
you are Scotchmen. see it in your
high cheek bones, and in the color that
iilumines your face when / mention
the land of your nativity. Bonnie
Scotland! Dear old kirk. Some of
your ancestors sleeping ira Grey
friars churchvard or -. a., H..