Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-11-12

he breaks your Elulut you uFeak us toobls
sarcasm for sarcasm, persecution for perse-
cution; pay a man in his own coin, wound
for wound Christ said; pray for them
who despitefullyu and torment you.n Was
there anything so revolutionary Was there
ANYTHING that struck the thrones Of the world
20 violently bacll They belt the solid earth
under them; but Christ said: ~ uphold the
pillars Of the earth" They looked at the
mocn. Christ said; 81 will turn it into
bloOd" They looked at the stars. He said:
81 will shake them down like untimely figsn
Do you wonder that the world was startled
and overwhelmed' Were not all these
things against himl After the bat
tie OF Antietam, when the soldiers Were
lying down, thor lughlY exhausted, and one
OF them told mo he did not think he could
have lifted his hand to save his life, it was
told that a favorite general was coming
along the line, and he said they all got up
and they gave three rousing cheers
"huzza, huzza, huzza.n Although a few
moments before they felt they could hardly
lift a hand to save their life So
great was the magnetism of some
men. Napoleon after his first cap
tivity put his foot on the earth and it
shook oil kingdoms, AMI 2jO,00J men gath
cred to his standard. But Christ had q more
wonderful magnetism than that Napoleon
had all around him the memories of Marengo
and Austeriitz and jena. Here comes man
with no parade, no brandished sword, no
popularity of apparel, and compare.
lively no reputation l do not now tbinI,
OF any remarkable person connected with His
name exceDt his mother, and she so Door that
in the most solemn hour that ever comes to
a womau's soul she must lie down among the
camel drivers grooming their beasts of bur-
den. All! Notwithstanding all this, what do
you saal A man meets Him on the street
some day and says MY father was in gov
nment, and my grandfather and great
grandfather. Who was your father'
Christ says: my earthly father was Jo-
seph, the carpenter Another man meets
Christ and he unrolls his scroll and says:
"Here is a diploma from the best school in
Athens Where did you graduateN Christ
says: Il never graduated" 1t was as though
scme little fishing village on Long Island
shonld arraign New York. Oh, what stir
He makeSl If You have amjnd to call it
ma gnetism of person call it that, but what a
str he makes. He comes into o village and then
He steps out into the fields, and all the people
60 after Him, and though they had taken only
enough food to last q day, they are SO fas-
cinated with Christ they follow right clear
Jut into the wilderness, and in danger OF
starvation. A man falls flaton the ground
before Christ, and says: "My daughter is
dead, my daughter is dead.n A blind man
tries to rub the dimness out of his eyes, and
he says: Lord, that my eyes might be
opened The light of day pours through
gates that has never before been opened
And here comes a sick and fainting woman
She says: IF could just touch the hem Of
his garmerx-tbat is all" And the little
children who always liked their mothers be-
fore struggled to get out Of their mothers
arms. They wanted to go to Christ's arms
and they wanted to kiss his cheek,
aud they wanted to run their fingers
through his hair, and they put Him so inlove
with children that there is hardly home on
earth from which Christ has not taken one.
"Oh, he says. Il must have them. am 60
ing to make Heaven of these. To one cedar
that | plant in Heaven, l plant fifty white
lilies. The children loved me on earth, and
now have come to throne ought not
70 love themi Oh, weeping mother, hold not
back that child. Law it on my loving and
sympathetic bosom. OF such is the Kingdom
Of Heaven"
Once more remark, lack OF organization
was against Him. If men are going to carry
out any grea5 project they band together,
and their success is generally in proportion
to the completeness Of the organization.
Who can tell how much can be accom-
plished by o large number of men banded
together for a right object. Christ had
no such association, no one to back
him up II people came into His
company, all right if they went away, all
A4S'A
When they went away, no following of
anathema, Peter left Him, and what did
Christ do! The Bible says He looked at him.
That is ALL Oh, my friends did anyone ever
start through such obstacles, aud run through
such obstacles to achieve such success? Not
withstanding, his worldly occupation
was against Him and His trade
and His diet were against Him, and
His poverty was against Him, and His lack
of schooling was against Him, and the
brevity of His life was against Him, and the
reversal of public maxims was against Him,
and lack of organization was against Him.
yet you hear His voice this morning ringing
II have finished the work which thou gayest
ire to do" Ga yes, Christ is a
conqueror. See how He conquered all the
forces Ofnature. The Atlantic Oceau-what
@ terrible shing it is in its wrath. How the
ocean will take down the Spanish Arma Ia
or the President, or the Central America as
easily as it could swallow a fly. But have
Asia Minor that storm on those
inland lakes is worse And yet
Christ came and He looked at one of tho SO
grea1 inland seas in cyclone and the sea
Crouched before Him and licked His feet.
He knew all the winds and the waves. He
beckoned and they came. He frowned
and they fed; The heel Of His foot
d
water as He walked it, In the back
part of the Loaf sound asleep. "Oh,n yor
say, poor man. poor Christ, so tired, sound
asleep in the ba k part of the boat" But He
rouses up He comes to the Prov of the
boat He looks out He has two words, one
for the winds and the other for the sea, and
be says; Peace, be still, y and the wave:
crouch like whipped spaniels at his feet
Ecce HOmei Ecce Deus! Behold the man
/ Behold the GodI
/ Medical science has done much for the al
! deviation of rheumatic ailments and TO cure
diseased blood; but when the muscles are al
withered up no human power can ever re
store them. When the hand and the arm arr
dead they are dead. But here is paralytit
in the presence Of Christ. Arm perfectly
useless, helpless Christ sees it, He coulC
not see anything of that kind without pity
ing it, lie says to this man with thu
paralytic arm, "stretch forth thy hand.
He stretched it forth whole as the other
! E'cce DeuSl Behold the Godi And there i
the fish of the sea. No human voice eve
commanded o school of fish, but Christ
voice marshals the finny tribe, and they
come in g place where q little while
before people were fishing and haul
ing in nothing; now the people agail
pull the net, and they pull until the ne
breaks. There is the grave The hinges o
the family vault get very rusty because the
door is 50 seldom opened. 1t is only whel
some of us go in to stay there for the las
sleep A knob on the outside Of the door o
the family vault, but no knob within. TIT
knob on the outside we open to pass in, bu
no knob on the inside They who pass il
stay there until the resurrection. Christ cam
through all that realm aud He said: "Daugh
ter of Jairus, rise up" She rose up. HI
said: lazarus, come FORTH" AMI he cam
forth. And He said to the widows sou
'Get off that bier and go home with th,
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his mother. Then Christ picked up the key
of death and fastened them to His girdle, am
uttered a voice which still resounds through
all the graveyardj OF the earth: On, death