The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-10-29
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the f1re~sIUu sueecs TO His chariot.
Yet there are those who look on and ses
God turn water into wine. and they say: |
Sleight of hand. And they see Christ raise
the dead to life, and they say: Easily ex-
planned; not really dead; playing dead. !
And they see Christ giving sight to the
blind man, and they say: Clairvoyant
doctor o, what shall they do on the day
when Christ rises up in Judgment, and hills
shall rock, and the trumpets shall call, peal
on peal!
In the time Of Theodosius the Great there
was a great assault made upon the divinity
of Jesus Christ, and during that time Theo-
dosus the Great called his own son to sit
on the throne with him, and be a co-partner
in the government of the empire; and one
day the old Bishop came and bowed down
before TheOdosius the Emperor, and passed
out of the room, and the Emperor was Of
Tended, saying to the old Bishop: "Why
did you not pay the same honor to my son
who shares with me in the governmental
Then the old Bishop turned to the young
man and said: ''The Lord bless thee, my
young man, but still paid him no such
honor as he had paid to the Emperor. And
the Emperor was still offended and dis
pleased, when the Bishop turned to Theo-
dosius the Great and said to him: You
are offended with me because don't pay
the same honor to your son, whom you have
made co-partner in the government of this
empire, the same honor L pay to you, and yet
YOU encourage multitudes OF people in your
realm to deny the Son of God equal au-
thority, equal power with God the Father"
NY subject also treasures US OF the TACT
that in all our struggles we have SYM
pathizer. You can not tell Christ any
thing new about hardship. l do not think
that wide ages of eternity will take the
scars from His punctured side, and His
laeerated temples, and His sore hands. You
will never have a burden weighing so many
pounds as that burden Christ carried up
the bloody hill. You will never have any
suffering worse than He endured when,
with tongue hot, and cracked and inhamed,
and swollen, He moaned: Il thirst" You
will never be surrounded with worse hos
tility than that which stood around Christ's
feet, foaming, reviling, livid with rage,
bowling down His prayers, and snufdng up
the smell Of blood. Oh, We faint hearted!
oh, We troubled oh, We prosecuted one here
is a heart that can SympathlZe with you.
Again, and lastly, 1 learn from all that
has been said this morning that Christ was
awfully in earnest. If it had not been a
momentous mission He would have turned
back from it disguised and discouraged.
He saw you in a captivity from which He
was resolved to extricate you though it
cost Him all sweat, all tears, all blood. He
came a great way to save you. He came
from Bethlehem here, through the place Of
skulls, through the charnel house, through
Punishment. There was not among all the
7 ranks of celestials one being who would do
as much for you. l lay His crushed heart at
your feet to-day.
/ Let it not be told in Heaven that you de-
/ Jberately put your foot on it. While it
/ Will take all the ages of eternity to cele-
brate Christ's triumph, / am here to make
the startling announcement that because of
the rejection of this mission on the part of
some of you, all that magnificent work of
garden, and cross, and grave is, so far as
you are concerned, a failure. Helena, the
Empress, went to the Holy Land to find The
cross of Christ. Getting to the Holy Land
there were three crosses excavated, and
the question was which of the three crosses
was Christ's cross. They took a dead body,
tradition says, and put it upon one of the
crosses, and there was no life; and they
took the dead body and put it upon another
cross, and there was no life. But tradition
says that when the dead body was put up
against the third cross it sprang into life.
The dead man lived again. Oh, that the
hfe-giviug power of the Son of God might
start your dead soul into eternal life, be-
ginning this day. Awake thou that sleep
est, and rise from the dead, and Christ shall
give thee life"