Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-11-20
Id, Seneca was old, all the great legislators

Of the world were old Christ was young.
1t was against Him. People said ut cannot
| be this young man knows more about these
things than those who have been studying
them for twenty, thirty, forty and even to sew
enty or eighty years of age. 1t was all against
HIM. These were obsta les He had to over
| come. Aye, the fact that He reversed the
worlds maxinls was against Him. Public
theory said: BLESSED is the merchant who
owns castle down on tho banks of the lake
Galilee." Christ said: blessed are the
DOOR" Public theory said: blessed is the
man who has all kinds of festivity, and amid
statuary, and amid all luxuries lives and
reiens.1 Christ said 'Blessed are they
that mourn" Public theory said: blessed
Is the Roman eagle, the flap of whose wings
startles all nations, and whose, cruel
beak inflicts cruelty upon all who OPP
merciful" Public theory said: "An eye
for an eye, tooth for a tooth: If man
knocks your eve out, you knock his out; If
be breaks your tooth, you break his tooth;
sarcasm for sarcasm. persecution Tor perse-
cution pay a man in his own COIN wound
for wound Christ said: 'Pray for them
who despitefully use and tormentyou Was
shere anything so revolutionary Was there
anything that struck the thrones Of the world
70 vinIsntly bach. They belt the SOLD earth
| 7nder them; but Christ said: II uphold the
pillars of the earth" They looked at the
moon. Christ said: Il will turn it into
blood" They looked at the stars He said:
II will shake them down like untmely FIGS"
Do you wonder that the world was startled
and overwhelmed Were not all these
things against him, After the bat
lie Of Antietam. when the soldiers wera
lying down, thor 1ughly exhausted, ano one
Of them told me he did not think he could
have lifted his hand to save his ]ife 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." Although few
moments before they felt they cou d hardly
lift 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 all kingdoms AMI $4,000 men gath
cred to bis standard. But Christ had more
wonderful magnetism than that Napoleon
had all around him the memories of Marengo
and AusterlitZ and Jena. Here comes a man
with no parade, no hrandished sword no
popularity OF apparel, and compara-
lively no reputation / do not now think
Of any remarkable person connected wi b His
name except his mother, and she so poor that
in the most solemn hour that ever comes to
woman's soul she must lie down among the
camel drivers grooming their beasts of bur-
den. All Notwithstanding all this, what do
you see! A man meets Him on the street
some day and says: my father was in gov
eminent, 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 diploma from the best school in
Athens Where did you graduaten Christ
saws: Il never graduated" 1t was as though
some little fishing villa 70 on Long Island
shonld arraign New York. Oh, what stir
He makes! If you have am nd to call it
nagnetism of person call it that, but what
st r he makes. He comes into a villa 20 and then
He steps out into the fields. and all the people
go after Hin, and though they had taken only
enough food to last day, they nre so fas-
cinated with Christ they follow right clear
out into the wilderness, and in danger of
starvation. A man falls fiat on the ground
before Christ, and says: "My daughter is
dsad, my daughter is dead" A blind man
tries to rub the dimDeSs out of his eyes. and
be says; Lord, that my eyes might be
opened" The light Of day pours through
gates that has never before been opened.
And here CONES sick AMI fainting woman.
She says: IF could Just touch the hem of
his garment-that is all" And the little
children who always liked their mothers be-
fore ST. uggled to get out of their mothers
and they wanted to kiss his cheek,
and they wanted to run their fingers
through his hair, and they put Him so in love
with children that there is hardly home on
earth from which Christ has not taken one
"Csa, he says, Il must have them. l am 60
ing to make Heaven of these. To one cedar
that plant in Heaven, / plant fifty white
lilies. The children loved me on earth, and
now l have come to throne, ought not ]
to love themi Oh, weeping mother, hold not
hack that child. Lay 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 great project they band together,
ana their success is generally in proportion
to the completeness of the organization.
Who can tell how much can be accom-.
plished by a large number of men banded
together for right object. Christ had
no such association. no one to back
hin up If people came into His
company. all right If they went away. all
y,ell When they came. no loud salutation.
When they went away. no following oil
anathema, Peter left Hin, and what did
Christ do. The Bible says He looked at him
That is all. Oh, my trends did anyone ever
start through such obstacles and run through
such obsta les to achieve such success. Not
withstanding his worldly occupation
was against Him and His trade
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 ofpublic ma xims was against Hum,
anu lack Oh organization was against Him,
yet you hear His voice this morning ringing
through the ages in everlasting cadences'
81 have finished the work which thou gavest
me to dor On yes, Christ is
Oonqueror. See how He conquered all the
forces ofnature. The Atlantic Ocean-what
terrible shing it is in its wrath How the
ocean will take down the Spanish Armada,
or the President, or the Central America as
easily as it could swallow fly. But have
been told by thoSe who have visited
Asia NJ nor that a storm on those
inland lakes is worse. And vel |
Christ came and He looked at one Of tho e
grea5 inland seas in cyclone and the sea
crouched before Him and licked His feet.
He knew all the winds aud the waves. He
beckoned and they came. He frowned
and they fed The heel Of His foot
made no indentation on the solidided |
watcr as He walked it. In the bal |
part of the boat sound asleep. "Oh,n yor
say, poor man, poor Christ, so tired sound |
asleep in the ha k part OF the boat" But III |
rouses up He comes to the prov of thu |
boat He looks out. he has two words, ont
fot the winds and the other for the sea. anc
he says: ''Peace, be still. and the wave
crouch like whipped spaniels at his feet |
Ecce Home! Ecce Delsi Behold the man !
Behold the Goi
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