The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-12-24
OUR CHURCHES.
What was Said I'm Them by the
Clergymen Yesterday.
FOURTH STREET NJ. X. CHRUCH.

At the Fourth street NJ. h. Church,
yeterday morning, Rev. DR., A. Z. George,
the pastor, preached to q full house from
the words: "Behold the man." The
theme announced was, "The Humanity OF
Jesus" This was denied by the heretlcs
in the days of the Apostles. Livery
spirit that ::confesseth not" John wrote
in his first epistle, "that Jesus Christi
come in the flesh is not OF God" The
Messiah in humanity was the faith OF
the apostolic church, and the denial of
this was the Jewish and Pagan infidelity
of that time.
Jesus, born of woman, is allied TO our
nature on its gentlest and yet strongest
side. Born of royal house, yet IN hum
Bile circumstances, he belongs to the race
Of Judaic stock, he is sought out by wise
men from the East, for the infant King
Is to have an Empire as wide rs human
itv. and to be tho source OF our best cul-
ture and noblest development.
The infancy, childhood and youth OF
Jesus are pictured to us in the scriptures
in the most natural and conceivable
WAY, and without the slightest tine.
ture of the legendary or the
mythical. 1t is the printers, not the In
spiIed writers, who inclrcle with halo
the brow of the infant Christ. The
child grew, increased in stature, wsxed
strong IN spirit, WIS filled with wisdom,
and developed in strength and harmony,
dis body and soul.
Here is proper humanity. Body plus
soul equal humanity. Jesus hsd hu-
man body and a human soul. The body
hungers, thirsts, wearies, sleeps. The
soul loves, marvels, is sngered, is filled
with sympathy and is agonlzed with
fear and apprehension. Jesus lacks
nothing which belongs TO q man. lie
i, subject to his parents in MAJ
aretb, tolls at the carpenters bench, and
lives the lie Of the simple Gslilean peo-
pie. When afterwards, in the full tide
OF his teaching and miracle working, ne
came back to them and taught IN tnelr
synagogue, they were stumbled at him;
for although he spoke with heavenly
wisdom and wrought mighty works,
They could not help inqulring, SIS not
tlls the carperter, the son OF Mary, the
brother Of James, and are not his sisters
here with u.s." They saw and knew the
carpenter, but they did not discern the
prophet, the Messiah, the son OF God.
Behold Jesus in His friendships! How
tender how sublime, how human they
arel He had HIS chosen disciples, and
one who WAS permanently beloved
The family ut Bethany was cherished
~ ufas rE III "a.
thy with the afflicted. The touching
narrative in the 1lth chapter OF
John brings Jesus very near to
our hearts. He wept with
those who wept; He groaned and was
troubled IN spirit, for this beresved ismI-
" in Bethany was specimen OF all the
distressed and afflicted households OF
esrth he showed the sympathy OF
man, a friend, brother. When he wept
over doomed Jerusalem, it was not be-
csuse of the curse which hung over the
CITY, but because of the miserles which
must be endured by men everywhere on
account OF sin-becsuse men do moi
know, do not consider the things which
mako for their peace.
the Cross. He weeps, He prsys, He
thirsts, He calls on God, He remembers
HIS mother and places her IN in the care
of His most loved disciple, and He com
mi,s Ills spirit in the death agony into
the hands Of the Eternal Father.
After His resurrection, He speaks
IN His we'll known voice, contodnds
the doubts OF Thomas, gives Peter a
solemn charge which reminds him OF his
promise AID denial, shows to his half
terrified and wondering disciples his
h .nds and his feet. lie led them out
Ong familiar paths, suggestive of his
former teachings as FAR as to Bethany,
and while she lifted up his hands and
blessed Them he was parted from them.
There is lesson in these facts which
ought not 20 be lost. The kingly even
is the educator of the race. The charm
of Jesus was his 10y elite. Every poor
distressed man saw in him at once a
f-iond and brother. 1t is only through
his humanity that Jesus becomes an
etfectual High Priest over the house
o God. This shows the ImportaL &c O!
tie doctrine. 1t is as necessary that the
NJ ediator be human AS that he be divine
IL is Ms y man that Jesus has gloritied HUI
mainly. lifting 1t TO the throne OF eternity.
If there be any term which more than
another describes the human, selt.sur-
rendered, sscrifclsl Jesus, it Is that OF
"The Lamb OF God" In the vision of
the Revelator, we see how our Savior
wears that name in the heavenly world.
As crown Of everlasting 10y. "a lamb
stood on Mount Son." the very mil OF
God. The undecided, redeemed from the
earth, "iollow the Lamb whithCrsOever
he goeth.' "And they sing the song of
Moses, the servant of God, and the
song OF the Lamb" The celebration
of the triumph of redemption Is de-
s,ribed as "the marriage supper of the
Lamb" "The Lord God Almighty and
the Lamb" are the light, the temple and
the throne of that celestial world. The
glorifed "have washed their robes and
made them white in the blood of the
Lamb" The Lamb is in the midst of
the throne, vet lie feeds His people and
leads them unto living fountains of Wa
ter TIE 'pure river of the water OF
life, clear rs crystal tine unWastlng
supply of the immortal millions is seen
proceeding GU. Of the throne of God and |
of the Lamb" The ransomed, purified,
transformed humanity is brought into
the plane of the spiritual and the eternal
bv the Lamb of God-the Jesus
who was slain on the cross.
The old Eden is restorcn by the second
Adam. God again walks with men.
Angels are MS companions. And Jesus.
the son OF Mary, stands at the head of
the triumphant host.
Those who have died the children
who have persisted out o, our arms, our
brothers, fathers, companions, frieuds,
the tenderest objects of our earthly love
have gone to Jesus, and when he comes
he will bring them again. They rest
safely in the bosom OF his love, "in that
dsy"-the great coronation day, the day
of the eternal crownlng-we and they
and all who dove his appearing" will
receive our crowns, crowns Of righteous
ne,s. lite and immortality.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
The Rev. ID. A. Cunningham, ID. d.,