The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-09

and BILE lives OF Christ havl
been published, put He composed Hi
autobiography in a most compressel
way. He said, 81 have trodden tn
wine press alone"
Poor in the estimation of nearly al
the prosperous classes. They callet
Him Sabbath-breaker, wine-bibber
traitor, blasphemer, and ransacked tn
dictionary of o%pprobrium from cove
to cover to express their detestation.
can think now of only two well to d,
men who sed His cause-Nicode
mus and Joseph of Arimathea. Hi
friends for the most part were people
who, in hat climate where opthalmi'
or Inflammation of the eyeball sweeps
ever and anon as a purge had be
come blind, sick people who wer,
anxious to get we'll, and troubled PEG
pie in whose family there was some
one dead or dying. If He had a purse a
all it was empty, or we would hav,
heard what the soldiers did with the
contents. Poor? The pigeon in the
dove cote, the rabbit in it's burrow, the
silkworm in its cocoon, the bee in it,
hive is better provided for, better off
better sheltered. Aye, the brute crea
ton has a home on earth, which Christ
had not. A poet saws:
II on windy days the raven
Glmbol like u dIncing skin,
Not the less he loves has haven
On the bosom of the cliff.
II almost with eagle pinion
Ger the Alps the channels roam,
Yet he has some small dominion
Which no doubt he calls his home.
But the Crowned Prince of all heav-
emily dominions has less than the
raven, less than the chamois, for He
was homeless. Aye, in the history of
the universe there is no other instanc e
of such coming down. Who can count
the miles from the top of the throne
to the bottom of the GRO SIS? Cleopatra
giving a banquet to Anthony, took a
pearl worth 500, 900 and dissolved it
in vinegar and swallowed it. But when
our Prince, according to the evangel-
list, in his last hours, took the vim
egar, in it had been dissolved all the
pearls of His heavenly royalty. Down
until there was no other harassment to
suffer, poor until there was no other
pauperism to torture. Billions of dol
lars spent in wars to destroy men, who
will furnish the statistics of the value
of that precious blood that was
shed to save us? "Ye know the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that,
though He IA rich, yet for your sakes
He became poor"
Only those who study this text in
two places can fully realize its power,
the holy and of Asia Minor and the
holy land of Heaven. 1 wish that
some day you might go to the holy
land and take a drink out of Jacobs
well, and take a sail on Galilee, and
read the sermon on the mount while
standing on Olivet, and see the wilder
ness where Christ was tempted, and be
some afternoon On calvary at about
three o'clock-the hour at which closed
the cruciixion-and sit under the syca-
mores and by the side of brooks, and
think and dream and pray about the
poverty of Him who came our souls to
save. But you may be denied that, and
80 heFe, in another continent and in ans
hemisphere, and in SCENES as diff
as possible, we recount, as we'll
we may, how poor was our heavenly
But in the other holy land
above we may all study the riches that
He left behind when He started for
expedition.
Yes, grace, frae GRACE, sovereign
grace, omnipotent gracei Among the
of words in the language
there is no more queenly word. One
hundred and twenty.nine times does
the Bible eulogize grace. It Is q door
SWUNG wide open to let into the par,
Ion of God all the millions who choose
10 enter it.
Philip Doddridge put it into all
when he wrote:
Grace. it's a charming sound.
Harmonious to the ear:
Heaven with the echo shall resound,
And all the earth shall hear.
One of john Bunyan's great books is
Grace Abounding.n ut is
III of grace that ] am saved" has been
IN the lips of hundreds of dying Chris
.ians. The boy Sammy was right when
being examined for admission into
membership he was asked.
Whose work vas your salvation?"
he answered, Part mine and part
Then the examiner asked,
What part did you do, Sammy?' and
he answer was, u opposed God all 1
'ould, and he did the restr' oh, the
height of it, the depth of it, the breadth
II it, the grace of God! Mr.. Fletcher
having written a pamphlet that pleased
king, the king offered to compeny
ate him, and Fletcher answered.;
There is only one thing ! want, and
hat Is more grace"
Yes, my blood-bought hearers, grace
o live by and grace to die by. Grace
hat saved the publican, hat saved
lydia, that saved the dying thief, that
the jailer, that saved me. But
he riches of that grace will not be
ully understood until Heaven breaks
n upon the soul. An old ~Scotchman,
rho had been u soldier in one of the
european wars, was sick and dying in
of ouF American hospitals. His
desire was to see Scotland aud his
Id home, and once again walk The
Gather of the Highlands, and hear
he bagpipes of the Scotch regi-
lents. The night hat the old Scotch
oldier died, u young man, somewhat
ecli!ess but kind-hearted, got u COM
any of musicians to come and play t
nder the dc soldiers window, and
mong the Instruments there was a
The instant that the must 6
ians began the dying old nan in de- $
rum said: whats that? What's l
lat2 Why, it's the regiments coming i
ONE. That's the tune, yes, that's the I
Thank God, l have got home
more!' 'Bonnie Scotland and /
onnie DOOM were the last words he =
TERED as he passed up to the high j,
4nds of the better country. And there /
70 here hundreds homesick for Heaven, '
because you have SO many be- :,
some because you have so 7
any temptations, some because you II
SO many ailments - homesick, "
49, l@-,n,sIr g.. Nla NAaIoY - L
eaven, aud the music that you want
c now Is the song of free grace,
I'D the music that you want to hear 81
hen yon die is free grace, and for. 3
ver before the throne of God you ii
SiDn ~ tha GGrraoa Of nnr Lord ID