Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-25

? 1ne sea Is crystal Sepulcnre. 1t Swal-
lowed the Central America, the President,
and the Spanish Armada as easily as any
fly that ever hoated on it. The inland
lakes are fully as terrible in their wrath.
, Recent travellers tell us that Galilee, when
, aroused in storm, is overwhelming; and
yet that sea crouched in his presence, and
licked His feet. He knew all the waves
and the wind. When He beckoned they
came. When He frowned they fled. The
heel of His foot made no indentation on the
sOidifiCal water. Medical science has
wrought great changes in rheumatic limbs
and diseased blood, but when the muscles
are entirely withered no human power can
restore them, and when limb is dead it
is dead. But here is a paralytic-his hand
lIeless. Christ says to him, Stretch
forth thy hand, and he stretches it forth.
In the eye infirmary, how many diseases
of that delicate organ have been cured?
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 IN axe may kill a tree, but
Jesus smites one dead with word. Chem
istry can do many wonderful things, but
what chemist, at wedding, when the wine
gave out, could change pail of water into
a clsk wine.
What human voice could command
school Of fish? Yet here is voice that
marshals the scaly tribes, until, in place
where they had let down the net and
pulled it up with no fish in it, they let il
down again, and the disciples lay hold and
begin to pull, when, by reason of the null
titude of fish, the net broke.
Nature is His servant. The iowers-He
! twisted them into his sermons; the winds
they were his lullaby, when he slept in
the boat; the rain-it hung glitteringly on
the thick foliage of the parallels; the star
OF Bethlehem-it sang Christmas carol
over His birth; the rOcks-they beat
dirge at His death.
Behold His
VICTORY OVER THE GRAVE!
The hinges of the family vault become
very rusty because they are never
opened except to take another in. There
is knob on the outside of the door of the
! Sepulchre, 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:
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! the widows son he said: Get up from |
that BIER" and he goes home with his
mother. TEen Jesus snatched up the keys |
Of death, and hung them in his girdle, and |
cried until all the graveyads of the earth
heard him: 30 Death! / will be thy
plague; o Grave! l will be thy destruct- |
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No man could go through all the OBJ
Stacles | have described, You say, without
having nature adjOined that was super |
natural That armand the muscles, |
and nerves, and bones were intertwisted |
the energies OfOmnipOtencc. In the sylla- |
bles of that voice there was the emphasis of
the eternal God. That foot that walked the |
deck OF the ship in Gennesaret shall stamp
kingdoms Of darkness into demolition. |
This pOvery-stTuck Christ owned Augustus
owned the Shanhedrim, owned Tiberias
owned all the castles on its |
beach, and all the skies that |
looked down into its water;
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-th the lightnings were |
the tire shod steeds to His chariot.
SKEPTICS.
Yet there are those who look on and see |
Christ turn water into wine. and they say, |
sleight of hand And they see Christ |
raise the dead to life, and they say: Easily |
explained; not really dead playing dead
And they see Christ giving sight TO the
blind man, and they say: Chirvoyant
doctor. Oh, what shall they do on the .
day when Christ rises up in Judgment, and
the hills shall rock, and the trumpets shall !
call, peal on peal?
In the time of ThcOdosius the Great,
there was great assault made upon the
Divinity of Jesus Christ, and during that
time TheOdOsiuS the Great called his own
son to sit on the throne with him, and be
a cO-partner in the government of the en-
pire; and one day the old bishop came and
bowed down before TheOdOsius the emper-
or, and passed out OF the room, and the
emperor was offended, saying to the old
bishop: "Why didn't yOu pay the same
honor to my son, who shares with me in
the government? 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 rs he had
paid to the emperor And the emperor
was still offended and displeased, when
the old bishop turned TO TheOdOSius 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-partuer in the government of this en-
pire, the same honor | paw to you, and
yet you encourage multitudes of people in
your realm to deny the Son of God equal
authority, equal power, with God the
Father"
My subject also treasures us OF the fact
that in all our struggles we have sympa
thizer You cannot tell Christ anything
new about hardship. do not think that
wide ages of eternity will take the scars
from His punctured sides, and His lacera-
ted temples, and His sore hands You
will never have 4 burden weighing so
many pounds rs that burden Christ car
ried up the bloody hill. YOu will never
have any suffering worse than He endured
when, with tongue hot and cracked, and
inaamed and swollen, He moaned: IL
thirst" You will never be surrounded
by worse hostility than t5at which stood
around Christ's feet foaming, reviling
liyid with rage bowling down His prayers
and shutting up the smell of blood. Oh
We faint hearted; oh We troubled; oh We
prosecuted one, here is a 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 4 momentous mission
He would have turned back from it dis
gusted 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
great way to save you. He came from
Bethlehem here through the place of
skulls, through the charnel house, through
hanishment There was not, among all
the 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-
liberately put your foot on it. While twill
take all the ages of eternity to celebrate
Christ's triumph. am here to make the
startling announcement that because Of