ink that Abraham Lincoln, or any man that ever lived on earth, had
as much compassion as Christ? No! He will be touched when no one else
will; He will have mercy when no one else will; He will have pity
when no one else will. If you will go right to Him, confessing your
sin and your need, He will save you.

A few years ago a man left England and went to America. He was an
Englishman; but he was naturalized, and so became an American
citizen. After a few years he felt restless and dissatisfied, and
went to Cuba; and after he had been in Cuba a little while civil war
broke out there; it was in 1867; and this man was arrested by the
Spanish government as a spy. He was tried by court-martial, found
guilty and ordered to be shot. The whole trial was conducted in the
Spanish language, and the poor man did not know what was going on.
When they told him the verdict, that he was found guilty and had been
condemned to be shot, he sent to the American Consul and the English
Consul, and laid the whole case before them, proving his innocence
and claiming protection. They examined the case, and found that this
man whom the Spanish officers had condemned to be shot was perfectly
innocent; they went to the Spanish General and said, "Look here, this
man whom you have condemned to death is an innocent man; he is not
guilty." But the Spanish General said, "He has been tried by our law;
he has been found guilty; he must die." There was no electric cable;
and these men could not consult with their governments.

The morning came on which the man was to be executed. He was brought
out sitting on his coffin in a cart, and drawn to the place where he
was to be executed. A grave was dug. They took the coffin out of the
cart, placed the young man upon it, took the black cap, and were just
pulling it down over his face. The Spanish soldiers awaited the order
to fire. But just then the American and English Consuls rode up. The
English Consul sprang out of the carriage and took the union jack,
the British flag, and wrapped it around the man, and the American
Consul wrapped around him the star-spangled banner, and then turning
to the Spanish officers they said: "Fire upon those flags if you
dare." They did not dare to fire upon the flags. There were two great
governments behind those flags. That was the secret of it.

"He brought me to the banqueting house, and His banner over me was
love. . . . His left hand is under my head, and His right hand do