The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-04-04

give. you britain, III give you all the
world" What a temptation it must
But bless God that in the triumph
over temptation Christ gives us the as
surance that we also shall triumph. Hav.
ing Himself been tempted, He is able to
succor all those who are tempted.
In violent storm at sea the mate told
a boy-for the rigging had become entan.
gled in. the mast-to go up and right it.
A gentleman standing on the deck said:
Don't send that boy up. He will be
dashed to death" The mate said, 0I
know what l am about" The boy raised
his hat in recognition of the order and
then rose hand over hand and went to
work. And as he swung in the storm the
passengers wrung their hands and ex.
pected to see him fall The work done.
he came down in safety. and n Christian
man said to him. "Why did you go down
in the forecastle before you went up?V
"Ahl" said the boy, II went down to
pray. My mother always taught me, be-
fore undertook anything great to pray"
What is that you have in your vest?"
"Oh, that is the New Testament" he
said. 81 thought ! would carry it with
me il really did go overheard" How
well the boy was protected!
L care not how great the height or how
vast the. depth, with Christ within us
and Christ beneath us and Christ above
us and Christ all around u.s. nothing can
befal. us in the way of harm Christ Him
self having been in the tempest will de.
liver al those who put their trust in Him,
Blessed be His glorious name forever!
Further, | remark, the last great install
mise Of Christ. The world has seen many
dark days. Many summers ago there
was very dark day when the sun was
eclipsed. The fowl at noonday went TO
their perch, and we felt gloom as we
looked at the. astronomical wonder. 1t
was dark day in London when the
plague was at its height and the dead
with uncovered faces were taken in open
cars and dumped in the trenches. 1t was
q dark dav when the earth opened and
Lisbon sank, hut the darkest day since
the creation of the world was when the
carnage of Calvary was enacted.
1t was about noon when the curtain be.
gan to be drawn. 1t was not the coming
on of night that soothes and refreshes:
it was, the swinging of great gloom ali
around. the heavens. God hung it. As
when there is a dead one in the house YOU
bow the shutters, or turn the lattice. so
God in the afternoon shut the windows
OF the world. As it is appropriate to
throw black pail upon the coffin as it
passes along. so it was appropriate that
everything should be sombre that day
as the great hearse of the earth rolled
on bearing the corpse of the King. A
mans last hours are ordinarily kept
sacred. However you may have hated or
carlcatured man, when you hear he is
dying silence puts its hand on your lips,
and you would have oathinG for the
man who could stand by deathbed max
ing faces and scoffing. But Christ in His
last hour cannot be left alone. What!
Pursuing Him yet after so long a pursuit?
You have been drinking His tears. Do
you want to drink His blood? They come
n AhaN A IL I II
darkness they can glut their revenge
with the contortions of His countenance.
They examine His feet; they want to feel
for themselves whether those feet are
really spiked: they put out their hands
and touch the spikes and bring them
back wet with blood and wipe them on
their garments.
do no good. 1t is no place for the ten
der-hearted women. 1t wants a heart
that crime has turned into granite. The
waves OF mans hatred and of helPs ven
geance dash up against the mangled feet,
and the hands Of sin and pain and torture
clutch clutch for His holy heart Had, He not
they would have torn Him down and tram
pied Him with both feet. How the cav
airy horses arched their necks and
champed their bits and reared and
snuffed at the blood! Had Roman
officer called out for a light his voice
would not have been heard in the tumult,
the waillng OF womanhood, and the neigh
ing OF the chargers, and the believing of
the crucifers there comes a voice crash
ing through-loud, clear, overwhelming,
terrihc. 1t is the groaning of the dying
Son of God! Look! What scene! Look,
world: at what you have done!
L lift the covering from the maltreated
Christ to let you count the wounds and
estimate the. cost. Oh, when the nails
went through Christ's right hand and
through Christ's left hand, that bought
both your hands with all their power to
work and lift and write. When the nails
vent went through Christ's right foot and
with, all their power to walk or run or
climb, When the thorn went into
Christ's temple, that bought your brain.
with all its power to think and plan.
when the spear cleft Christ's side, that
bought your heart, with all its power
to love and repent and pray.
When the Atlantic cable was lost in
1860, do you remember that the Great
bany went out to find it? Thirty times
they sank the grapnel two and half
miles, deep in. water. After awhile they
found the, cable and brought it to the
surface. No sooner had it been brought
to the, surface. than they lifted a shout
of exultation, but the cable slipped back
again into the water and was lost. Then
Ior two weeks more they swept the sea
WITH the graphing hooks, and at last thew
iound the cable, and they brought it up
n silence: They fastened it this time.
linen with great excitement they took
me end of the cable to the electricians
Dom to see if there were really any life
n 1t, and, when they saw a spark and
Inew that message could be sent, then
very hat was lifted and the rockets flew.
md the guns sounded until all the ves-
els on the expedition knew, and the CON
inents were lashed together Well. nv |
riends. Sabbath after Sabbath gospel |
messengers have come searching down for |
our souls. We have swept the sea with |
he graphing hook of Christ's gospel. |
AGAIN and again we have thought that you |
we're at the surface, and we began to |
eJoice over your redemption, but at the |
noment of our gladness you sank back |
gain into. the world and back again into |
in. To-day we come with the gospel
earching Tor your soul. We apply the |
ross OF Christ first to see whether there
J any life left in you, while all around the
eople stand, looking to see whether the
'ork Will be done, and the angels of God
end down and witness, and, oh, il now
70 could see only one spark of love and
ope and faith we would send up shout
nat would be heard on the battlements
4 heaven, and two worlds would keep
ibiee because communication is open be-
ween Christ and the soul and your ma
ire that has been sunken in sin has
cen lifted into the light and the Joy Of
le gospel.
A rreaoher's Predica ment.
A few weeks ago a noted minister
emf IN one of the local raiIroad eta |