The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-12-29

Philosophers say that it is gTayitatiOn,
| the centripetal and centrifugal forces,
which keep the worlds from clashing
and demolition; but Paul says that
| Christ's arm is the axle on which every
thing turns, and that His hand is the
socket in which everything Is set; up
| holding all things by the word of His
| power" He must be God.
But 90 on the next place, and see
what Christ said of Himself. Every per-
son ought to know more about himself
| than anybody else does. If L ask you
where you were born and you say, II
| was born in Chester, England, or Dublin,
| or New Orleans" l would believe you.
| Why? Because you ought to knOw-it is
a matter that pertains to yourself. II l
/ ask you whether you can lift three hun
| dred or four hundred pounds. and you
| said yes, would believe you; you ought
| to know. If | ask you how much money
| you have, a hundred dollars OF one hun
! dred thousand dollars, and you tell me,
! / believe you, because you, being an
| honest man, will tell me the truth. Now
! l ask you if Christ ought not to know
whether or not He is GOdp l ask His
| age. He says in so many works: Before
| Abraham was, [ am. Abraham had been
dead 2,028 years. Was Christ two thOus-
| and twenty-eight years Oldp He says so.
| In Revelations He says: II am Alpha"
1 "
| alphabet, it was as much as to say: 81
am the of the great alphabet Of all the
| centuries" Ought not He to knOwP
| Could Christ be in a thousand places
at the same timep He said 80. H8 in
| Inmates that we can be in Madras, in
| Stockholm, in Pekin, in San Francisco,
| in COnstantinOple at the same time.
| where two or three are gathered to-
| gather in My name there am | in the
| mid OF nf nf ~
! wherativeness, is of a human or a di-
| vine attribute? Lest we should think
| that this power of every-WheratiVeness
i should give out, Christ intimates that
He is going to keep on, and that ON the
day before the world is burned up He
| will be in all the prayer meetings in
| Europe, Africa and North and South
America, for He declares in so many
| words: "LO, | am with you always, even
unto the end of the wOTldP' He is a
Godl He is God.
He IakeS divine hOnOTs. He calls Him
self the Lord of men, the Lord of angels
the Lord of devils. Is he nOtP If He 8
| not, then He is the grandest fraud that
was ever enacted. To morrow morning
n man comes into your store in New
| York and says: 81 am the great ship
great many fine ships" You treat him
| with great deal of consideration; but
you fiud out after awhile that he is not
| the great Liverpool ship-buildeT, and
| that ne never built any thing. What is
| that man? An impOstOr. Now Christ
| said that He built the earth, built all
| things. Did He build the EARTH or did
| He not? If He did, He was God; ii He
did not, He was an impOstOr. A man
| with a Jewish cOuntenance and German
accent comes into your store, He says:
"I am ROthchild, the banker, of London.
[ hold the wealth of nations in my vest
pocket. | loaned that money to Italy
and Australia" You treat him with a
great deal Of consideration for while,
| but suppose you find out that he Is not
a banker, that he does not own q single
dollar in all the world? What is that
man? An impOstOr. Now, Christ comes
and He says He owns this world, He
owns the next, He owns ali the glOTies
of land and sea, He processes to be vast
in His possessions. Is He in the possess
sion of all these things? Does He own
them all? If he does not what is He?
An impO5tOr. A man with venerable
aspect and gray beard comes into the
| White House at Washington. He says
to the President: Il am King William,
of Germany. have come over incOgni-
to for the purpose of recreation and
amusement. l gained the victory at Sc
dan. l have castles in Berlin and Dres-
dem" Suppose after while the Presi-
dent finds that he has no castles and that
he is not the King; what is he thenP
An impOstOr. Now the Lord Jesus
Christ processes to be King, eternal,
immortal, invisible, the only wise God.
If He was not what was Hep 1t appeals
to your common sense. He was either
God or he was villain. Strauss saw
that alternative, and he says that Christ
was sinful in taking homage that did
not belong to Him. Renan saw that
alternative, and says that Christ not
through His own fault, but through the
faults of others lost some of the purity
of His conscience, and slyly inttmated
that di5hOnOrable woman may have
damaged His soul. Any thing but adj
nit that Christ is God. | have shown
you that Christ was God from what IN
spired men have said to Him and from
" nat He said of Himself; now want to
show you that He was God from His
wonderful achievements.
1 suppose you all believe the Bible.
If you do not, what do you do in the
Brooklyn Tabernacle? Why do you not
go over to-day and join The tnhdel club
in New York; Why do you not go aud
kiss the foot of the statue of fOm Paine
in BostOnP Why do you not take your
hat and not stealing the hynm-bOOk, go
out and find associates among men who
only foundation for good government
and for common honestly We in this
church are among the deluded souls
and the marTOw-heads who believe the
whole Bible and take it down in one
swallow as easily as you take down a
ripe strawberry. Suppose that you ad-
init the Bible to be true, let us go out
and see the SaYior's achievements-sur-
gical, alimentary, marine, mOrtuary.
Surgical achievements? Did you ever
, in all the scientific journals of the
, world see such wonderful operations as
He perfOrmedP He used no knife. He
carried no splints. He employed 10
, compress. He never made a patient
J squiTm under cauterizatiOn. He never
tied an artery. Aud yet behold Him
With one word He stuck fast Malchus
amputated ear. He stirred dust and
, spittle into a salve, with which he made
J the man who was born blind, without
optic nerve, cOrnea or crystalline lens
! open his eyes on the glorious sunlight
He beat music on the drum of the dead
ear He Strengthened a woman who
through contraction of muscles, had