Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-25

better than any one else struggle to get
into His arms, and to kiss His cheek and
TO run their fingers through ms hair,
and for ell time putting Jesus so In love
with the little ones that there is hardly
nursery In ChristenEom from which He
does not take one, saying. ~ must have
them. win fili heaven with these; for
every cedar that plant In heaven / will
have fifty white lilies. In the hour when,
was poor man In Judea they were not
ashamed OF me, and now that ! have come
TO a throne do not despise them. Hold
y not back, oh, weeping mother Lay II
IN on my warm heart. Of such is the
Kingdom Of heaven"
Again, remark, there was no organi-
zatlon In His behalf, and that was against
Him. When men propose any great
work they band together; they write let
ters Of agreement; they take oaths OF
iealtyi aud the more and complete the
organization, the more and complete the
success. Here was One who went forth
+, without any organization and alone. IL
men had mind to Join In His company,
all right II they had mind not TO join
In His company, all WELL II they came,
they were greeted with no loud saluta-
ton; II they ntaway, they were sent with
no bitter anathema. Peter departed, and
Christ turned and looked at him. That
was all
All this was against Him. Did any one
ever undertake such an enterprise amidst
such Infinite embarrassments aud by
such modest And yet am here to say
It ended
! IN A COMPLETE TRIUMPH.
Notwithstanding His worldly occupa-
tIon, His poverty, His plain face, His I'M
pretending garb, the fact he was school
less, the fact that he had brief life, the
fact he was not accompanied by any wish
BILE on--notwithstanding all
tba', In an exhilaration which shall be
prolonged In everlasting chorals, az
have finished the work Thou gavest me
to do"
See Him victorious over the forces OF
nature. The sea is crystal sepuchre.
1t swallowed the Central America, the
President and the Spanish Armada as
easily as any fly that ever hoated on 1t.
The inland lakes are fully as terrible In
their wrath. Recent travellers tell us
that Gallee, when aroused In storm, is
overwhelming; and yet that sea cronched
in His presence, and licked His feet. He
knew all the waves and the wind. When
He beckoned, they came. When lie
frowned, they fled. The heel of His foot
iheAS Nv AhNNheablOh Oh bnN
water. Medical science has wrought
great changes in rheumatic limbs and dis
eased blood, but when the muscles are
entirely wlihered no human power can re-
store them, and when limb Is once dead
1t Is dead. But here is paralytic--hls
, hand lifeless. Christ says to him:
"Stretch forth thy hand, !" and he stretches
it forth. In the eye inhrmary, how many
diseases of that delicate organ have beer
curedY But Jesus says to one blind
/ "Be open,' and the light OF heaven rushes
: through gates that have never before
been opened. The frost or an ak may xii
tree, but Jesus smites one dead with d
word. Chemistry can do many wonder
full things, out what chemist, at wed
ding, when the wine gave out, could
change pail of water into cask OF
wine?
What human voice could command O
. school of fish? Yet here is voice that
! marshals the scaly tribes, until, in a
place where they had let down the net
and pulled II up with no fish in 1t, they
let 1t down again, and the disciples lay
; hold and began to pull, when, by reason
of the multitude of fish,
Il THE NET BROKE.
, Nature is His servant, The fiowers--Ht
twisted them into His sermons; the winds
they were His lullaby, when ne slept in
. the boat; the rain-it hung glittering.y
on the thick foliage Of the PARALLELS; the
star OF Bethlehem-it sang a Christmas
carol over His birth; the rocks-they beat
dirge at his death.
Behold His victory over tie grave The
hinges of the family vault become very
rusty because they are never opened ex
cept to take another in. There is a knot
on the outside of the door Of the sepul
chre, but none on the inside. Here
, comes the Conqueror of Death
He enters that realm and says
"Daughter Of Jairus, sit up;" and SHE
sits up To Lazarus "Come FORTH" ant
| he came forth. To the Widows son be
said sect up from that bier,n and hC
t goes home with his mother. Then Jesus
J snatched up the keys Of death, and hung
, them TO His girdle, and cried until all the
, graveyards Of the earth heard Him 80
/ DEATH viii be thy plague O Gravel
will be Thy destructlonl"
! No man could go through all the obsta
cles | have described, you say, withcu
having nature adjoined that was super
/ natural. That armand its muscles
> and nerves, and bones were intertwisteC
! the energies of omnipotence. In the syl
lsbles of that voice was the emphasis o
} the eternal God. That foot that walkeC
I the deck OF the ship in Gennesaret shall
i stamp kingdoms OF darkness into demoll
D tlon. This poverty.struck Christ owned
} Augustus, owned the Sanhedrim, owned
TiberIas, owned all the castle OF
| its beach and all the skiel
9 that looked down into its water
/ owned all the earth and all the heavens
? To Him of the plain coat belonged th'
{ robes of celestial royalty. He who
, walked the road to Emmaus-the light
/ nings were the flre-shod steeds TO Hi
: chariot
Yet there are those who look on and Sc,
D Christ turn water into wine, and they say
: slight OF hand. And they see Christ rais'
D the dead to life, and they say, easily ex
1 planned; not really dead; playing dead
: And they see Christ giving sight to th'
0 blind man, and they say, clairyoyaDt doc
e tor. OH what shall they do on the da!
! when Christ rises up I'm Judgment, anC