The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-09-14

the middle cross. We stood at the one
and found it yielded poison; we stood
al the other and found il yielded bitter
aloes. Come now to the middle cross
and shake down apples of love. I'm
cover your head. You never saw so
tender a scene as this. You may have
seen father or mother or companion or
child die, but never so affecting a scene
as this. The railing thief looked from
one way and saw the left side of Christ's
face. But to-day, in the full blaze of
Gospel light, you see Christ's full face.
1t was a suffering cross. If the weapons
OF torture had gone only through the
fatty portions of the body. the torture
would not have been so great. but they
went through the hands and feet and
temples, the most sensitive portions.
IL was not only the spear that went
into His side, but the sins OF all the
race-a thousand spears-plunge after
plunge, deeper and deeper, until the
silence and composure that before char
acterized Him gave way to groan.
through which rumbled the sorrows of
time and the woes of eternity. Human
hate had done its worst, and hell had
buried its sharpest iavelin. and devils
had vented their hottest rage when.
with every nerve of His body i'm torture
and every fiber of His heart in excru-
tiation, He cried out; my God. nv
God why hast thou forsaken me?" II
was a vicarious cross. The right hand
cross suffered for itself but the middle
cross for you. When king was dying.
young man cried: Pour my b.ood
INTO ms veins, that he die not The
veins OF the young man were tanned
and the blood transferred. so that the
king lived. but the young man died.
Christ saw the race perishing. He
cried: Pour my blood into their veins.
that they die not" My hand j. free
now because Christ's was cru, ned; NV
brow Is painless now because Clrist's
was torn; my soul escapes because
Christ's was bound; | gain Heaven be.
cause Christ for me endured the hor-
rors of hell.
To this middle cross look. that your
souls may live. | showed YOU the ripbt
hand cross in order that YOU night see
what an awful thing it is to De unbe.
hering. showed you the left hand
cross that YOU might see what II isto
repent. Now show YOU the middle
cross that YOU may see what Christ has
done to save your soul.
Oh, that | may engrave on YOUR
souls intellectually the three crosses
SO that if in your waking moments
you will not heed, then in YOUR
dreams at night YOU may see on the
hill back of Jerusalem the three spec
tacles-the right hand cross showing
unbelief dying without Christ: the
left hand showing what il is TO be
pardoned, while the central cross
pours over your soul the sunburst of
Heaven, as it says: by all these
wounds plead for thy heart. have
loved thee with an everlasting love.
Rivers cannot quench it, Floods can
not drown it," And while YOU look
the right hand cross will fade out
of sight, and then the left will be
gone, and nothing will remain but
the middle cross, and even that in
your dream will begin to change I'M
III II becomes throne. and the worn
rae" OF calvary Will become radiant
win gIadneSs' and instead of the mad
mob al the foot of the cross will he
"orShlPtul multitude, kneeling And
you an" VIII ne among th,n.
I,u'' h"' we VIII not wait for such
"','''' IN inns our most aroused
'u""u we throw down at the foot
TUE "''"'I' cross SIN sorrow life,
U ", every 'nINE' We are slaves;
N"r'S' gives "tI'erance to the cap
I've we are '"'rS'N; christ is the
river OF sa''alIoh 10 Stake our thirst
we are nunghy' Jesus says; 81 am
'"' nI'"u OF me- we are condemned
~ "''' N"r'S' says; save that man
ii"'" going ,o"h 10 the PIT; ] am the
'"'S""', we are tossed on the sea
" ''ouuIe; Jesus comes over 1t, say
"P' ~ Is l. ne not AFRAID, We
are III unrkheSS' Jesus says: II am