' -. V* :. &***' -r THREE CROSSES. Dr. Ta'rriage Discourses on tba | Redemption cf the Race. A TOPIC 5UCEG3TED BY i I The Famous Paintings ct Mun ch Typas cf Humirify Represented by the Two Malefactors. The famous paintings in the picture galleries of Munich seem to have suggested the topic of ihis discourse, which Dr. Talmage sends from the quaint Bavarian town, but the' theme which inspired the painters awakens in the great preacher thoughts of the redemp tioa of the human race, which was the supreme design of that scene of suffering and death. The text is Luke xsiii, 33, "There they crucified him and tbe malefactors, one on the right har-d and the other on the lefc." Ju3t outside of Jerusalem is a swell of ground, toward which a crowd aie asoecding. for it is the day of execution. What a mighty assemblage! Some for ouriosity to hear what the malefactors will say and to see bow they will act. The three persons to be executed are already there Some or the spectators are vile of lip and bloated of cheek. Some look up with revenge, hardW able to keep their hands off the sufferers Some tear their own hair in a frenzy of grief. Some stand in silent horror. Some break out into uncontrollable weeping. Some clap their hands ia delight that the offenders are to be punished at last. The soldiers, with *? ? * ' -! drawn swords, drive Dacs tne moo wmcu Dresses on so hard. There is fear that the proceedings may be interrupted. Let the legion, now stationed at Jerusalem, on horseback dash along the line and force back the surging multitude. "Back wiiSi you!" is theory. "Have you never before seen a man die?" Three crosses in a row?an upright piece, and two transverse pieces one on the top, on which the hands are nailed, and one at the middle, on which the victim sat. Three trees just planted, vet beaming fruit? the one at the right bearing poison and the one at the left bitter aloes, the one in the middle apples of love. Norway pine and tropical orange and Lebanon cedar would not make so strecge a grove as this orchard of Calvary. Stand and give a look at the three crosses. Just look at the cross on the right. . Its victim dies scoffing. More awful than his physical anguish is his scorn and hatred of him on the middle cross. This wretched man turns half around on the spikes to hiss at the One in the middle. If the scoffei could get one hand loose and he were wittun reacn, he would smite the middle sufferer in the face. He hates him with a perfect hatred. I think he wishes he were down on the ground that he might spear him. He envies the mechanics who with their nails have nailed him fast. Amid the settling darkness and louder than the crash of the rocks hear nim jeer out these words: "Ah, sou poor wretch! I knew you were an impostor! You pretended to be a God, and yet you let these legions master you!" It was in some such hate that Voltaire I in his death hour, because lie thought he saw Christ in his bedroom, got up on his elbow and cried out, "Crush that wretch!" What had the middle cross done to arouse up this right hand cross? Nothing. Oh, the enmity of the natural heart against Christ! The world likes a sentimental Christ or a phi] an>. tropic Christ, but a Christ who comes to snatch men awsy from their sios ? away with him! On his right hand cross today I see typified the unbelief of the world. Men sav: "Back with him from the heart! I will not let him take my sins. If he will die, let him t? ? T'Ko-a I UiC XU1 UliUDVU, UVU -IVI Ul^? a.v has always been a war between this right hand cross and the middle cress, and wherever there is an unbelieving heart there the light goes on. Oh, i: when that dying malefactor perish'.d tb? faithlessness of man had perished, then that tree which yields poison would have budded and blossomed with life for all the world! Look up into that disturbed countenance of the sufferer a^d see what a ghastly thing it is to reject Christ. Be ? 1** . 1 . /? 1 A\ - A noia m tnai awxui iace, la taai pmiui leok, in that unblessed dea'.h hour, the stings of the sinner's departure. What a plnng8 into darkness! Standing high upon the cross on the top of the hill, so that all the world may look at him, he says, "Here 1 go out of a miserable life into a wretched eternity!" Oae! Two! Three! Listen to the crash of the fail, all ye ages! So Hobbes, dying after he had 70 year in which to prepare for eternity, said, "Were I master of all the world, I would give it ail to live ODe day longer." SirFrancis Newport, hovering over the brink, cried out: "Wretch that I am, whither shall I Hy from this breast? What will become ef me Oh, that I were to lie upon I the fire that never is quenched a thousand years to pu:v.Aase the favor of God and to be reconciled to him again! Oh, eternity! Oh, eternity! Who can discover the abyss of eternity? Who can paraphrase these words, "Forever and forever?'" That right hand cross?thousands have perished on it in worse agonies. For what is physical pain compared to remorse at the last that life has been W&St-ea ana omy a usetrng luumcut stands between the soul and its everlasting overthrow? 0 God, let me die anywhere rather ttnn at the foot of that right hand cross! Let not one drop of that blood fali upon my cheek. Rend not my ear fcith that cry. I see it now as never before?the loathsomeness and horror of my unbelief. That dying malefactor was not so much to blame as I. Christianity was not established, and peraaps not until that day had that man beard tte Ubnst. 15ut after Christ has stood almost 19 centuries, working the wonders of his grace, you reject him. That right hand cross, with its long ! beam, overshadows all the earth. It is planted in the heart of the race. When will the time come when the spirit of God shall, with its ax, hew down that right hand cross until it shall fall at tne loot ot mat middle cross, and unDelief, the railing malefactor of the world, ahall perish from all our hearts? Away from me thou spirit of unbelief! I hate thee! With this sword of God 1 thrust thee ba^k and tbrust thee through. Down to hell; down, most accursed monster of the earth, and talk to those thou hast already damned! Talk no longer to these sons of God, j these heirs of heaven. "If thou be the Son of God/' Was there any "if" about it? Tell mc, thou star, that in robe of light did run to point out his birthplace. Tell me, thou sea, that didst put thy haod over thy lip when he bade thee be still. Teli ! M- yc dssd $bv gsfc up ti? ttiP s?3? I Tell 2:5, ihvtt stsc in tridhesvbn. ^fco forbid cidfct psli dctfn o7or thy ?a~s Ihy reil of darkness. Tell ce, ye Itp ers ?Lo were cleansed, ye dead who were raised, is he the Son of God'/ Aye, aye, responds tte universe. The fbwers breathe it; the btars ch:'me ii; the redeemed celebrate i'; the aogels rise on their throats to announce it. Asa yet on that miserable malefactor's "it" how many shall be wrecked for /all eternity ! That little' if" his ca >ugb venom in its sting to cause the death of the soul. No "if" about it. I know J it. Eoce D us! I feel it thoroughly ?through every muscle of trie body, aad through every faculty of my miiid, and through every energy uf my soui. Liviog. I will preach it; dyiag, I will pillow my head up man when he is in trouble. I have heard that he can cure the wounded. I have heard that he can pardon the sinner. Sarelyiu all his wanderings up and aosrn toe eartn ne never saw one more in need of his forgivenebs. Blessed Oce, I turn to thee. Wilt thou turn for ine moment away from thy own pangs to pity me? Lord, it is not to have my haods relieved or my feet taken from the torture?I can stand ail this?but, oh, my sins, my sins, my sins! They pierce me through aad through. They tell me I must die forever. They will push me cut into the darkneo.- unless thou wilt Kelp me. I confess it all. Hear the cry of the dying thief, 'Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.' I ask no great things I seek for no throne in heaven, no chariot to take me to the skies, bu: just think of me when this day's horrors have passed. Think of me a little?of me, the one now hanging at thy side, when the shout of heavenlv welcome takes thse back into thy glory. Thou will not forget me, wilt thou? 'Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.' Only just remember me." Likewise must we repent You say, "I have stole nothing." I reply, ''We have all boea guilty of the mightiest felony of ike universe, for we have robbed God?robbed hita of our time, robbed him of our talent,' robbed him of our services." Suppose you send a man out as an agcDt of your firm, and every month ycu pay him his salary, and as the end of ten years yo'i find out that he has been serving another firm, but taking your salary, would you not at once condemn him as dishonest? (rod .-.i-i-.v:. ij SKUl US iiiiu lino wuiiu lu :cnc mu. He has given us wages all tbe time. Yet bow many of us have been serving another master! When a man is convicted of treason, he is brought out; a regimem surrounds him, and the command is givan: ''Attention, company! Take aim! Fire!'' And the man falis with a hundred bullets throughis heart. There comes a time in a man's history when the Lord ealls up the troop of his iniquities, and at God's command they pour into him a concentrated volley of tArtnra UV1VUAV* I have bhovn you f ^ right handcros3 and the left hand cross; now come to the middle cross. We stood at the one and found it yielded poison; we stood at the other and found it yielded bitter aloes. Come now to the middle cross and shake down apples of love. Uncover yoar 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 afieoting a scene as this. The railing thiel iooKea irom one way and saw only the right side of Christ's face; the penitent thief lookedfrom the other way and saw the left side of Christ's face. Bat today, in the full blaze of gospel light, you see Christ's full face. It was a suffering crcs3. If the weapons of torture had gone only through the fatty portions of the body, the torture would not have been sc great, but they went through the hands and feet and temples, the most sensitive portions. It was not ? iL.x i. j_ oniy cue Epear mat wem mtu ms oiuc, but the sins of all the race?a thousand spears?plunge after plunge, deeper and deeper, until the silence and composure that before characterised him gave way io a 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 javelin, and devils had vented their hottest rase when, with every nerve of his body i in torture and every fiber of his heart in excruciation, he cried out, "My God, my God, why hast thcu forsaken me?'' It was a vicarious cross. The right hand cross suffered for itself, the left hand cross for itself, but the middle cross for you. When a king was dying, a young man cried, '"Pour mv blood into his veins, that he di?i not." The veins of the young man were tapped and vi aa/3 oa tkof f ha tirifr LU.C U1UUU Udll^iClX^U) DV kuuv VJLLV aiuj lived, but the youtgman died. Christ saw the race perishing. He cried, "Four my blood into their veins, that they die not." My hand is free now because Christ's was crashed; my brow xU uvv. v.i/iiijv J TT?C tcfn; si? soul etiipos hiog him uf eou^e their r*\ ks were broken, a?:d ihr<-unn thai gip io the ranks ihe S-viss dashed to victory. Christ saw &ii tno p -W'Ts 01 clarknci-s assailing men He o:i^d out, "Make way for tLe rtdeaiption of the tforlu!' All the weapons of inferaal wrath otruuk hiai. but thss look, that >our souls may live. 1 tho-veu ycu the right hand cross in order that jou might see what an awful thing it is to be unbelieving. I showed you the left hand cross that you might fee what it is to iepent. Now I show you the middle cross that you m*y see what Christ has done to save your soul. Poets have sua? its praise, ecaipioro have attempted to commemorate it in amble, martyrs have eiutg to it in the Are. aud Christians dying quietly in their bids have leaned their heads ag?iu*t it This hour may all our souls embrace it with an ecstasy of affection. Lay hold of that cross! Everything else vrili fail you. Without a strong grip on that you perish. Pat your haou oa that and you are safe, though a world ssvir g from beneath \ our feet. Oh, that I might engrave on your souls inefdeeably 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 spectacles?the right ha^d orosi showing unbelief, dying without Christ; the left hand showing what it is to be pardoned, while the central cross pours upon your soul the sunburnt of heaven as it says: "By all these wounds I plead for thy heart. I ha*ve loved thee with an everlasting love. Rivers cannot quench it. Fioods cannot 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 oegin to ohange until it becomes a throne, and the worn face of Calvary will become radiant with gladness, ind instead of the mad mob at the foot of the cross will ba a worshipful multitude kneeling. And you and I will be among them. Bat, no; we will not wait tor suca a dream, la this our most aroused mood we throw down at the foot of that middle cross sia, sorrow, life, death?everything. We are slaves; Christ gives deliverance to the captive. We are thirsty; Christ is the nver of salvation to slake oar thirst. We are fcuogry; Jesus says, '*1 am the bread cf life." We are coademued to die; Chiist says, "Save that man from fcoin? down to the pit; [ am the ransom " We are tossed on the sea of trouhle; Jesus comes over it, saying, '"It is [, be not afraid " We are in darkness; Jesus says, "I am the A r\ '1 TwAwr.inr* Cfen ' ' W Cx orA Q 1 rt U UllglXb AUU lUUlUiUJ O < ? 'T V tJiWOk, Jesu3 i3 the "balm of Gilead." We are dead; bear the bhrouds reed and the ftrave hillocks heave as he cries, "I am the re=urrecfion acd the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." We want justification; ''Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." We wait ;o exercise faith; ''Believe ia the Lord Jesus Christ, acd thou shalt be saved." I want to get from under condemnation; "There is now, therefore, no condemnation to them who are are in Christ Jesus." The cross; he carried it. The flames of hell; he suffered them. The shame; he ir TIia (iwisn- ttftn ifc. Heights of heaven sing it, and worlds of light to worlds of light all round the heavens cry: ' Glory! Glory!'' Let us go forth and gather the trophies for Jesus. From Golconda ruioea we gather the diinionds, from Ceylon shores wo gather the pearls, form all lands and kingdoms we gather precious stones, and we bring the glittering burdens and put them down at the feet of Jesus and say: "xV;l these are ihine. Thou art worthy." We go forth again for siore trophic?, and into one stiesf we gather all the scepters of the Caesars, and the Alexanders, and the czars, and the sultans, and of ail royalties and dominions, and then we bring the sheaf of ssepters and put it down at the feet of Jesus and say: "Thou art King of kir.gs. All these thou bast J eosqaored." And then we go forth I again to gather more trophies, and we j bid the redeemed of ages, the sons 3Dd J daughter* of the Lord Almighty, to come. And the hosts of heaven bring ' crown and palm and scspter and here by these bleeding feet and this riven side and by this wounded heart cry, I "Blessing and honor and glory and I power utito the Lamb for ever and j ever." Bodies on the Prarie. Appended is a list of the dead at Hitchcock, Texas, so far as is known. Some of these are Galveston people who were floated to Hitchcock by the waters of the bayou: Harvey Johnson and wife, killed under house. Wm. Robinson. Mrs. Pietz and throe children. The family of C. W. Young, wife, two sons aad two daughters. Mary Montelona. ?Palmero. wffe and seven chil dren. T. W. O'Connor. Members of two families of Alvin, who were visiting the Young family. Seven unidentified found on prarie, supposed to be from Galveston. Scores of the dead from Galveston are yet unburied, as the bodies are too badly decomposed to baul and there is too much water on the prarie to adiait of diggiog grave3. The Dispensary Sustained TViotais no use trying to diseuise the fact that the people of this State have voted fairly and squarely to sustain the dispensary law. The new Legislature is more strongly in favor of the dispens*ry than any since the law was enacted. While the over^ehlming sentiment in favor or the la* as shown ia the campaign for Governor as well as legislator?, does not change our opinion of the law, we believe the emphatic expression of the people this time is intended as far as possible to take the liquor question out of politics.? Spartanburg Herald. n J- * 1 nau.iiii ouunus maim. The Hamiliton CJlub of Chicago Wednesday night tendered a dinner in honor of Senator William E Mason, who shared the honors with Senator Hanna. Senator Hanna ta'ikfd frankly of the danger of over cocfiituce on the part of Keupblicans and declared that everything Republicans and patriotic Democrats fought for four years ago was at stake in the present campaign. 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