Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-04-06

beats in sympathy for this, the best
friend the world ever had, himself now
utterly friendlesS, an officer of the court
room comes up and smitcS him in the
mouth, and | see the blood stealing from
gum and lip. Oh, it was a farce of a
trial, lasting only perhaps an hour, and
then the Judge rises for sentence, Stopi
1t is against the law to give sentence un-
less there has been an adjournment Of
the court between condemnation and sen
tence, but what cares the judge for the
law? The man has no friends. Let him
die sa, the judge. And the rufians
outside the rail cry: AHA. aha. that's
what we want! Pass him out here to as!
Away with him, Away with him.
The Divine Sympathizer.
Oh l bless God that amid all the in
justice that may have been inflicted up.
ON us in this world we have divine
sympathizer. The world cannot lie about
You nor abuse you as much as they did
Christ, and Jesus stands to-day in every
court room, in every house, in every store,
and says: Courage BY all my hours
of maltreatmcnt and abuse ] viii protect
those who are tramplcd upon" And
when Christ forgets that O'Clock morn
on the mouth and the bowling of the UNI
washed crowd then he will forget you
and me in the iujuSticcs Of life that may
bc inflicted upon us.
Further | remark: The last great in
Stallment paid for our redemption was
the demise of Christ The world has
seen many dark days. Many summers
ago there was "A very dark day when the
a J
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 ut its height, and
the dead with uncovered faces were TAX
en- in open carts and dumped in the
trenches. 1t was Il dark day when the
earth opened and Lisbon sank, but 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 rcfreshcs.
it was the swinging of great gloom all
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 il is appropriate to throw
black pail upon the coffin as it passes
along, so il was appropriate that every
thing should be Somher that day as the
great hearse Of the earth rolled on, bear
ing the corpse of the King. A mans last
| hours are ordinarily kept sacred. How
ever you may have hated or caricaturcd
Il man, when you hear he is dying silence
| puts its hands on your lips. and You
would have loathing for the man who
could stand by IA deathbed making faces
and soothing. 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 up
| closely, SO that Notwithstanding the dark
ness 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 gar
ments. Women stand there and weep,
| but can do no good. 1t is no place for the
! tender hearted women. 1t wants heart
| that crime has turned into granite The
waves of mans hatred and Of hers
vengeance dash up against the mangled
feet, and the hands of sin and pain and
| torture clutch for his holy heart. Had he
not been thoroughly fastened to the cross
| they would have torn him down and
| trampled him with both feet. How the
| cavalry horses arched their necks and
| champed their bits and reared and snuff
| ed at the blood, Had a Roman officer
| called out for Il light, his voice would not
| have been heard in the tumult, but loud.
er ihan the clash of spears, and the wall
| Ing Of womanhood, and the neighing of
| the chargers, and the believing of the
| crucfers, there comes voice crashing
| through loud, clear. overwhelming, ter
rife. 1t is the grooming of the dying Son
Of God. Look, what a sccnei Look,
world, at what you have done.
Christ on the Cross.
| lift the covering from the maltreated
Christ TO let you count the wounds and
estimate the cost oh, when the nails
went through Christs right hand and
through Christ's left hand that bought
your hands with all their power to work
and lift and write! When the nails went
through Christ's right foot and Christ's
left foot that bought your feet, with all
their power to walk or run or climb.
When the thorn went into ChriSt's ten
pie. 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
To-day we come with the gospel search
ing for your soul. We apply the cross OF
Christ first to see whether there is any
life left in you, while all around the
people stand, looking to see whether the
work will be done. and the angels of
God bend down aud witness, and. OH. If
now we could see only one spark Of love
and hope and faith we would send up a
shout that would be heard On the battle
ments of heaven, and two worlds would
keep jubilee because communication is
open between Christ ana the soul and
your nature that has been sunkcn in sin
has been lifted into the light ana the 10y
Of the gospel.
sympathy. one who walks