The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-11-04

OF beJnlenem-lJ sang christmas caro-
over his birth; the rOcks--they beat dirga
at His death.
Behold His victory over the gravel The
hinges OF the family vault become very
rusty, because they are never opened ex'
cept to take another in. There is a knob
ON the outside of the door Of the sepulcher,
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,'
and he came forth. To the widows son He
said; sect up from that BIER" and he goes
home with his mother Then Jesus 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, will be
thy plague, o. grave, l will be thy de-
structiOn.n
No man could go through all the obstacles
have described, you say, without having
nature adjoined that was supernatural
That arm-amid its muscles, and nerves,
and bones, were intertwisted the energies
of omnipotence. In the syllables Of that
voice there was the emphasis of the eternal
God. That foot that walked the deck of
the ship in Gennesearet shall stamp king
doms of darkness into demolition. This
pONGFJJ-SuTuCh OuTlSJ OWHeu AuSuSOuS,
owned the Sanhedrim, owned Tiberias,
owned all the castles on its beach and all
the skies that looked down into its waters ;
owned all the earth and all the heavens.
To Him of the plain coat belonged the
robes Of celestial royalty. He who walked
the road to Emmaus-the lightnings were
the fire-shOd steeds to His chariot
Yet there are those who look on and see
TN,1 tyNn rrfi,,
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 peail
In the time of Theodosius the Great there
was great assault made upon the divinity
of Jesus Christ, and during that time Theo-
dosius the Great called his own son to sit
on the throne with him, and be 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 governments"
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
offended with me because l 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 fact
that in all our struggles we have sym
pathizer. You can not tell Christ any
thing new about hardship. do not think
that wide ages Of eternity will take the
scars from His punctured side, and His
lacerated temples, and His sore hands. You
will never have 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: II 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 snufing up
the smell of blood. Oh, ye faint hearted
oh, ye troubled oh, represented one there
is heart that can sympathize with you.
Again, and lastly, 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 disgusted and discouraged.
He saw you in captivity from which He
was resolved to eXtricate you though it
cost Him all sweat, all tears, all blood. He
came great way to save you. He came
from Bethlehem here, through the place of
skulls, through the charIAal house, through
banishment. There was not among all the
ranks of celestials one being who would do
as much for you. lay His crushed heart at
your feet to-day.
Let it not be told in Heaven that you de-
liberately put your foot ON it. While il
will take all the ages of eternity to cele-
brate Christ's triumph l 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, 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 dead body,
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
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 hfe.n
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