Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-09-28


we ask. These reporters here, when
they want to fiud out all about a per-
son, they ask both his friends and his
enemies. Let us inquire of those who
knew Christ about him. Caiphas, the
Chief Priest, standing at the head of
the Jewish nation suppose | could
summon him here, and should a~k
him a few questions. Tell Us. Eai-
phas, you heard ChrISt's defense when
brought before the Sanhedrin. What
testimony can you bring about him ?"
Caiphas answers, II asked him plain
ly, Art ThOI the Son of Goa p and he
said, L am, and you shall see Me at
at the right hand of Cod When |
heard that, | told the Sanhedrim he
was guilty of death" Christ guilty of
death because he said he was the God
man! But there is Plate, who caused
Christ s arrest "Pilate, you had Him
before you, and heard Him now. tell
us what you think" He answers,
Il find no fault in HIM" A good
many men condemn Filate, but there
are. Worse men in North field. Then
there's Pilates wife-we'll let women
speak in our meeting Tonight what
does she say? Have thou nuthing to
do with that just man : for | have
suffered many things in a dream he
cause of him."
I'll call Judas, said the preacher.
Let him come in, Judas. YOU Knew
Christ you were his disciple, and
were hOnOred by being the treasurer
of the band you heard Him deliver
the sermQn Oh the. Mount give Us
your testimony You can hear the
80 pieces of silver ring OH the table as
he thr IWs them down and cries, ~
have betrayed innocent blood" God
made everybody. even strangers and
enemies, testify for Christ.
There Is that prince of preachers
from the wilderness who burst ON the
nation like the flash of meteOr-J0hn
the Baptist. He was not clad i'm silks
ami slfins lOcust- and wild honey
w-re his food, but he could preach and
could draw great crowds out Of the city
after him, whiclris u thing not easy to
do. See HIM, that hairy man. stand
ing there by the Jordan, as a carpenter
COMES down to the hank and asks to
be baptized. John stands back. 81
have need to he baptized of thee" is
his exclamation; and the next day
John says, And saw aud bare record
that this vas the Son of God" John
had no doubt of it Said John TOO, al
must decrease and he Must increase"
But Christ has left word that no man
was ever greater than John the Bap-
fist. There's another John, John the
Disciple, who, often laid his head on
Christ's bOsOm. Take the Book of
john it has been called Gods love-
A y L ~, Z Il,
without having his heart broken.
Mr. Moody then called Peter and
Thomas as witnesses and questioned
them, and then said: Then there's
that Saul, who held their clothes while
the men stoned Stephen. Sagl resOl-
we'd TO stamp this new doctrine out
A good many meA beside Saul have
tried to- stamp out Christ. An imfidel
said that twelve poor fishermen built
up ChrjstendOm, and We should see
that one Frenchman could pull il
down. Iufidels have not yet pulled it
down. and there is more written and
said now about Christ Gnd defending
him than ever before since the world
began. So Saul was going to stop all
this and started for DAMASCUS, but
the Lord speaks TO him and says
why persscutest thou me?" And
now Saul thinks, "why was he perse-
cutting Christi" why ?' And then
look at him rs like gIaht he springs
into the course and starts for the prize.
He was willing TO be shIpWreLhed,
willing 10 be beat.-he would 90 preach
in pace a few months, and not get
81 900 or $4,000. but They would take
him out to the edge of the town and
give tim 80 stripes and seud him off.
Mr.. Moody then said: What do the
angels say? It is glad tidings they
bring that He is a Saviour. 1t is =
wonder to me that God don't tai;e the
york of procIaIming Christ out of
mems hands and give it to angels.
can imagine how it was when God
said to the angels. "Yes, go and tell
the shepards :" and one got there first
and then heaven was empty of angels.
| say it with all reverence, but if you
will allow me we'll call in Jehovah
himself 1t has been SAID that the God
of the Old Testament was the Christ
of the New, aud God hever spoke till
he broke the silence of $1,000 years,
just to say as Jesus came from the JoT-
dan, This is my beloved Son. in
whom I well pleased" / wish | could
tell you what / think Of Christi what
a friend in adyersity, in prosperity. in
sickness in death, and before the bar
of God, | think he is, Oh! L wish
you would think well of him. and feel
the touch of his magic hand.
The speaker closed with an appeal
to his hearers to accept Christ, in
which, with a voice broken by emo
tion I've utifrpd ont his words Of aruII.
memt' illustration, and passionate
pleading with thrilling effect upon the
minds of an audience already wrought
up by the cumulative force of his pre-
viOus discourse.