Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-06-07
Reaaina fpr the Sabbath.
CONDUCTED By
REV. ROBERT LATHAM.

CONDUCTED By
REV. ROBERT LATHAM.
CHRIsT...As SEEN Blythe ETeNGELIsTs.
BY REV. J. W. LoGUE.
The life of Christ, after the few sketches
ing pages, had been allowed to pass under
veil of obscurity so deep as to hide it al
most entirely from human view. But this
obscurity was not to last always. 1t was a
part of that humiliation through which he
was to pass in accomplishing that work that
had been given him to do. But now, this
part being passed, this veil that had covered
so many years is suddenly lifted, and his
life begins again to pass in panoramic view
before the eyes of men. But how does it
now appear with what seemed to be the
promise of it's earlier years? Is there any
falling off, in the marks of the supernatural,
as then exhibited:
The opening act in this new era is his bap-
tism. Here, again, the supernatural and eX-
traordinary begin to assert themselves as at
the beginning. Great numbers had tlocked
to Johns baptism from every part OF the
land. But this one was distinguished from
them ALL To say nothing of the hesitancy
with which John approached its admins
tration: 81 have need to be baptized OF thee,
and contest thou tome," there Wasa marked
honor put upon it, by its extraordinary ac-
COMMITMENTS. For "JesuS when he was
baptized went up straightWay out of the
water, and, 10, the heavens were opened
unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God de-
scending like dove and lighting upon him.
And, 10, a voice from heaven, saying this is
my beloved son in whom am well pleased -
There have been many baptisms in the
World-both before and since. Many, too,
to which the heavens have given very
high attestation. But never since the world
began has there been a baptism to which
the heavens have given such high, open,
unmistakable attestationas they have given
to this one And now, that the veil has
been lifted miracle after miracle follow each
other in quick succession-all attesting in
strongest terms the supernatural character
of their author sight to the blind, hearing
to the deaf, completeness ofmembers to the
manned, and life to the dead. These mira
cles, too, he performed as none other had
ever done-in his own name and by his own
authority: "Arise, take up thy bed and
walk" 81 will, be thou Clean" lazarus,
come forth" These were the self-reliant
terms in which he always spoke, in every
instance.
But the supernatural character Of Christ is
especially manifest in the clear, open, une-
uuivocal intercourse he maintained with
Heaven during all the days of his personal
ministry on earth. We have it in his bap-
tism, when "a voice from heaven said this
pleased" We have it on the Mount of
TRANSPORTATION, when a voice from that ex-
cellent glory said, "this is my beloved son
in whom l am we'll pleased, hear We him."
We have it again, when dark cloud, indi-
cative of his approaching end, having fitted
over his mind, he cried out, "Father, glori-
fy thy name," and voice from heaven re-
sponded, 81 have glorifed it, and will g!ori-
fy it again." Could anything be palmer
than that his intercourse with Heaven was
full, free, and uninterrupted, whenever oc-
the "opened heavens" into his Fathers face
and held converse with him, as a loving and
obedient son, 50 his Father looked down
upon him with unutterable satisfaction as
"his servant, whom he had chosen, his elect
in whom his soul delighted" -. -
But if the evidence of his supernatural
character and intercourse was conspicuous
all through his public life it become doubly
so as this life drew near its close. Amid his
great agony in the garden, or Immediately
preparatory to it, "there appeared an angel
unto him from heaven strengthening him."
But on the cross, not only did the Heavens
show their sympathy by casting over the
scene veil of thick darkness, but Nature
by the general commotion that prevailed
gave evidence that she, too, was in sympa-
thy with the great sufferer. "The earth
quaked, the rocks rent, and the graves were
opened" Death has been at work in our
world from Adam until uow, but was there
ever such a scene occurred in connection
with any other death as this one: Was
there ever any approach to it in the accom-
panying marks of the extraordinary and
supernatural?
But equally marked were the scenes which,
as described by the Evangelist, followed in
quick succession this memorable death.
The resurrection of the body on the third
day, as attested by the most undeniable ev-
idence; his appearance to his disciples for
forty days, during which he spoke to them
of ''the things pertaining to the kingdom of
God" His ascension to heaven, while they
beheld, until a cloud received him from
their sight.
If all this does not prove Christ to have
been an extraordinary, supernatural char
acter-one such as never before walked the
earth, breathed the air, or looked out upon
the light of day-it would be hard to say
what would prove it. Yes, we have in the
life of Christ, from first to last Illuminated
as it is through and through with the con-
centrated sunlight Of heaven, Il character
which for outward marks Of greatness and
grandeur no natural born son of Adam ever
had or ever could have had. Then as we
look over his character-sinless from be-
ginning to end-we receive an answer that
ought to satisfy the most incredulous That
this is he who should come, and in vain do
we look for another. That Jesus Of Maze
reth is the promised Messiah, and that hav-
ing done his work on earth, He has gone
up into heaven to appear in the presence of
God for us, from whence he will come the
second time to receive us unto himself, that
where he is there we may be also.
WHAT THE BIBLE DOES NOT SAY.-The
Bible is book with single purpose; and
that purpose is to reveal the sinfulness of
the human family, and method of saliva
tion from that sinfulness And, of course, a
book that has only one end in view must
necessarily be silent with reference to a
thousand other subjects. Two years ago, a
man was galloping On horseback, as ifhe had
seen a spectre, down at the bank of a New
England river in the dead of night His
mission was to inform the sleeping dWellers
in number of manufacturing towns farther
down the stream that the great dam farther
up the river was about to burst it's barriers.
The horseman, as he. sped along, trampled
myriads of flowers under foot, but he had
nothing to say of botany. He rushed by
hundreds of projecting rocks, rich in stories