The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-31


al, 10 tsuEht-como forth from God,
living in, sustained by Him-to Him
mankind returneth. Thus He taught
and we preach Jesus.
May the preacher stop hereH
May he be content to speak
this divine philosophy of life and death;
this highest. noDlest morality that man
ever heard? May this be the sill OF our
message commencing itself, as it must,
to every mans resson' This man
Jesus, whom we are come to preach unto
you, suffered Himself 10 be called the
Christ, the Amounted one. There came
dread trial in the end Of His career,
when malicious hate had delivered Him
into the hands OF coward weakness en-
throned on powers seat. Tell me, asked
the fearful Governor, who Thou art?
/ have power to condemn Thee and
power to lei Thee 60. Deny this chsrge
that Thy nation witness against Thee.
Repudlate this silly clsim, which they
assert that thou hast made, which, Whist
ever be It's real significance is seeming
rebellion against the authority OF the
Empire at Rome. Art thou king then?
And he answered, Thou ssyest that l am.
And the scornful reproaches of his kins-
men after the flesh had been as powerless
as the lash Of the Roman to compel
spo;tasy from the claim he had ever
made. art thou the Christi" SAID the
council of elders and chief priests, tell
US" "Ifl tell you, We will not believe,
and if l also ask you, We will not answer
Me nor let Ne 60 Hereafter shslli the
Son OF Man sit on the right hand OF the
of the power of God" Then said they
all, art thou then the Son Of God
And He confessed and denied not, but
said unto them, "Ye say that l am" We
preach Jesus. Jesus Christ. Jesus, Son
OF God. Philosopher teacher2 Yes, the
explicit reyealer Of the unity Of the God
head, Of tbe immortality OF the soul, of
the resurrection OF the dead, but mark
YOU net a mere teacher, not mere man
whose unassisted reason has mounted 10
the height whittier now he carries US, but
anointed of God and taught of Hlm-that
which He should declare unto men. 81
have not spoken of myself He SAID, but
the Father which sent Me. He gave Me
commandment what l should say snd
what l should speak" Do We ask what
witness lie giveth Of this, His strange
pretension. The preacher is come to tell
you the history OF those things which
are most surely believed among US.
How that one OF the Seraphic host came
to announce his advent to earth and TO
make ready the virgin bosom whereon
he should rest; how that when he stood
in the Jordan stream 10 receive at the
hands of his kirsman the symbolic rite,
the baptism which should teach the
cleansing which mankind did need,
that then the window of heaven was
opened and the dove did come and rest
upon Him, while voice from heaven
proclaimed Him, the well beloved Son
of the Father. He comes TO tell of wind
and storm obeying His word, of disease
and demon fleeing his approach, of death
and the grave, surreudering their victims
at His summons. He comes TO tell you OF
appetite and desire conquered, of hunger's
violence suffered for forty days, OF ambi-
tious longing for instant attainment OF
crushed by His will OF the
pIteous pleading Of human weakness TO
be delivered from the woe,ul life work,
These are the witnesses that
lie was true, even His life and His work,
and this vas his claim to be the Christ of
God. Therefore we preach "Jesus, Jesus
Christ" Nay, more than this, He claim
ed to be the Son Of God. What did He
mean? Remember, how His advessries
reiOiced st the uttersnCe, FOX they said:
'sWhat need have we of further witnesses;
He hath spoken blasphemy" and no soft
ening explanation follows from His lips,
Interpretation they had put
upon his words. Long before that dread
ful day he had proclaimed His equality
with God, in His asserted supremacy over
the Sabbath day. And the Jews took up
stones to stone Him, and no word he
spoke made them understand that their
inference was false. Long before that day
He hsd made the awful announcement IN
the audience of His countrymen, 81 and
NV Father are one" And then the ever
ready stones were grasped to destroy the
blasphcmer, because they said that He
being q man, thereby made Himself God,
and never a word does He speak 10 deny
their Inference Therefore do we preach
Jesus, Philosopher, Teacher, very Christ,
the anonted whom God the Father
sealed, nay Jesus, Son Of God, God of
God, very God OF very God. And Is this
all. May our message find Its limits within
this wondrous circle of truth, that God
Himself in these last days has taken our
nature; that the image Of perfection of
goodness is whether our f0relather was
created, that this has been again offered
to our view; that the portraits Of its
beauty, drawn by heaven taught pencils,
are safely preserved for our instruction
forever. May We be content 10 find our
lessons, week after week, in one or snoth-
or feature of this human manifestation Of
the Deity. Is the preacher sent only TO
exhibit one after another, the elements of
that perfect nature, and urge his fellows
that they strive to sssimilste their natures
unto it. Oh, msn, there were no gospel
then for you and me in that record we
guard so closely.
Perfec! humanity, visible subsection of
every faculty and feeling to the dominion
of reason and conscience; tower Of
strength against which the storms OF
beat in vain; whose summit
the waves Of passion could never once
submerge. Oh, what should this be TO
me save an object of envious admiration;
a light TO make horribly visible the
darkness Of my own weakness and sin.
Imitate2 Conform? How can II ''Csn
the Ethiopian change bis stain or the
leopard his spots2 Then may VIC also
do good who are accustomed to do evil"
The remembrance Of certain failure
attendant upon our every effort in the
past; the CONSCIOUSNESS of the necessary
condemnation written against US by this
Holy Father whom this Christ has re-
vesied unto us; these make q slough of
despair in which we sink, and from which
we vainly strive to rise. Oh, is there no
more than this that we have heard from
the lips of the new teacher; Him whom
we have learned 10 believe when
He claims to be the very God we should
sdore2 Yes, there came an end
to the perfec! life. The coward R0msn
gave sentence in accordance with the
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