Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-19

ssAo esXeAlely Wltnefeu no human power can
restore them, and when limb is once dead
II IS dead: But here is q parelytic-his
hand is lifeless. Christ saws 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, =
ana the light of heaven rushes through
gates that have never before been opened.
Inc frost or an OK may kill tree. but
Jesus smites one dead with 81 word. Chem
lstry can do many wonderful things, but
what chemist Mt a wedding. when the wiue
gave out, could change pail OF water into
cask of wine?
what human voice could command q
school of fish? Yet here is q voice that
marshals the scaly tribes. until. in q place
where they had letdown the net and pulled
1t up with no fish in it, they let ii down
again, and the disciples lay hold and begin
to pull, when by reason of the multitude of
fish, the net broke.
Nature is His servant. The fowers-He
twisted them into his sermons; the winds
they were Ills lullaby when he slept in the
boat; the rain-it hung glitteringly on the
thlck foliage of the parallels; the star of
Bethlehem--it sang q Christmas carol over
His birth; the rocls--they beat dirge at
His death.
| Behold His victory over the gravel. The
hinges of the family vault become very
rusty, because they are never opened en-
cept to take another in. There is n 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. sic mp"
and She sits up. To Lazarus: "Come
| "A l,oo I
son He said: Get 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
ali the graveyards Of the earth heard him.
20 death! l will be thy plague! gravel
will be thy destruction"
No man could 90 through all the obsta-
cles l have described. you say, without
having nature adjoined that was super
natural. That arm--amid its muscles, and
nerves, and bones We're intertwisted The
energies of onnipotence. In the sylables
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 poverty-struck Christ owned Angus
tus, owned the Sanhedrim, owned Tibe-
rias. owned all the castles on it's beach and
all the skies that looked down into its wa
tiers; owned all the earth and MI the
heavens To Him Of the plain coat be-
| longed the robes Of celestial royalty. He
who walked the road to Emmaus-the
| beginnings were tho fire -shod steeds to His
chariot.
| Yet there are 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; playin 6
dead. And they see Christ giving sight to
the blind man, and they say: Clairvoyant
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 Theodosius the Great
there was n great assault made upon the
divinity of Jesus Christ, and during that
son to sit on the throne with him, and be q
and one day the old Bishop came and
bowed down before Theodosius the EN-
peror, and passed out of the room, and the
Emperor was offended, saying to the
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 as 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: "Nou are offended with NE
because don't pay the same honor to you,
son, whom you have made copartner in the
government of this Empire. the same
honor pay to you. and yety you encourage
r.
the Son of God equal authority, equa
power with God the Father"
My subject also treasures us of the fact
that in all our struggles We have 9 synlpa.
thizer. You cannot tell Christ anything
new about hardship. l do not think thai
wide ages Of eternity will take the scars
from His punctured side, and His LAGER
ated temples, and His sore hands. Yor
will never have - burden weighing SO many
pounds as that burden Christ carried W
the bloody hill. You will never have any
suffering worse than He endured when
with tongue hot, and cracked, and intiamed
and swollen, He moaned: II thirst" Yor
will never be surrounded by worse hostility
than that which stood around Christs feet
foaming, reviling, livid with rage, bowling
smell of blood. Obi We faint hearted, oh
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a heart that can sympathize with You!
Again, and lastly, learn from all thai
has been said this morning, that Christ was
awfully in earnest. If it had not been {
momentous mission he would have turned
back from it disgusted and discouraged
He saw you in a captivity from which He
was resolved to extricate you. though i
cost Him all sweat, all, tears, all blood. HI
| came y great way to save YOU. He came
from Bethlehem here, through the place Of
skulls. through the charnel house, through
Punishment. There was not among al
the ranks Of celestials one being who
would do SO much for you. I 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 oil the ages of eternity to cele-
brate Christ's triumph, 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 Lane
there were three crosses excavated, ano
the question was which of the three
crosses was Christ's cross. They took Q
dead body, tradition says, and put it upor
one of the crosses, and there was no life
and they took the dead body and put, il