The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-27

the wharf shook all the kingdoms, and two
hundred and fifty thousand men aocked TO
his standard. Il took three thousand troops
70 watch him In his exile So there have been
men Of wonderful magnetism Of person Bat
hear me when / tell you of a poor young man
who came up from Nazareth to produce
thrill which has never been excited by any
other Napoleon had around him the mem
cries Of Marengo, and Austerlitz, and Jena;
but here was 4 man who had fought no bat
/ ties, who wore no epaulettes, who brandished
no sword. He had, probably, never seen a
prince. or shaken hands with a nobleman.
1 imagine Christ one day standing in the
streets Of Jerusalem. A man descended from
high lineage is standing beside Him and saws:
"AIy father was a merchant prince, be had a
castle on the beach in Galiice Who was
your fatherg7 Christ answers: HJoseph. the
carpenter A man from Athens is stand
ing there unroiling his parchment Of gradua-
ton and says to Christ: "Where did you go
70 scbOolE7 Christ answers; 81 never gradl-
at.d.D Aha the idea Of such an unheralded
| young man attempting 20 command the at
! tention Of the world As wei some little fish
! ing village on Long Island shore attempt to
/ arFaign New York. Yet no sooner does He
set His foot in the towns or cities OF Judea
than everything is in commotion. The
people go out on picnic, taking
only food enough for day, yet are 50
/ fascinated with Christ that, at the
risk Of starving, they follow Him out into
| the wilderness. A nobleman falls down fiat
before him and says: my daughter is dead
| A beggar tries TO rub the dimness from his
| eyes, and says; Lord, that my eyes may be
| opened" A poor, sick, painting woman
! presses through the crowd and says: Il must
touch the hem of His garment" Children
! who love their mother better than any one
else struggle to get into His arms, and to kiss
! His check and to run their fingers through
! His hair, and for all time putting Jesus 50 in
| love with the little ones that there is hardly
| a nursery in Christendom from which He
| does not take one, saying: Il must have them.
| VIII fill heaven with these; for every cedar
| that plant in heaven / win have fifty white
| lilies. In the hour when / was a poor man
| in Judea they were not ashamed of me, and
/ now that have come to a throne / do not
despise them. Hold it not back o weeping
mother! Lay It on my warm heart. OF
! such is the kingdom of heaven"
Again, remark, there was no organiza-
ton in His behalf, and that was against Him
| When men propose any great work they band
together, they write letters of agreement, they
take oaths of fealty; and the more and COM
| plete the organization the more and complete
! the success Here was one who went forth
without any organization and alone. II men
had a mind to join in His company all right;
| if they had u mind not to join in His COM
| pany all we'll If they came they were
| greeted with no loud salutation; If they
went away they were sent with no bitter
anathema. Peter departed and Christ turned
and looked at him That was ALL
All this was against Him. Did any one
/ .ful
such infinite embarrassments and by such
| modest And yet / am here to say it ended in
| complete triumph Notwithstanding His
worldly occupation, His poverty, His plain
face, his unpretending garb, the fact that He
| was schoolless, the fact that He had a brief
| life, the fact that He was not accompanied
! by any visible OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES withstand
| ing all that, in an exhilaration which shall be
! prolonged in everlasting chorals: II have fin
| ished the work Thou gavest me to do"
| See Him victorious over the forces Of ma
! ture. The sea is a crystal sepulchre 1t swal-
| lowed the Central America, the President,
! the Spanish armada as easily as any fly that
| ever fioated on &C. The inland lakes are fully
as terrible in their wrath. Recent travellers
| tell us that Galilee, when aroused in q 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
beclloued, they came, When he frowned,
! they fed. The heel of His foot made no in
dentation on the solidifcal water. Medical
science has wrought great changes in rheu-
matte limbs and diseased blood, but VIII the
muscles are entirely withered, no human
power can restore them, and when a limb is
once dead it is dead. But here is a paralytic
his hand hfeless Christ says to him:
"Stretch forth thy hand, and he stretches it
forth.
In the eye irfirmary, how many diseases of
that delicate organ have been curedl 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 an ak may kill tree, but Jesus smites
one dead with word. Chemistry can do
many wonderful things, but what chemist at
a wedding, when the wine gave out, could
change pail of water into O cask of winel
What human voice could command a 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 it down again, and the dis
| ciples lay hold and begin to pull, when, by
reaso' of the multitude of fish, the net broke.
Nature is His servant. The howers-He
twisted them into His sermons; the winds
they We're His lullaby when He slept in the
boat; the rain-it hung glitteringly on the
thick foliage of the parallels; the star of
Bethlehenl-it sang a Christmas carol over
His birth; the rocks-they beat a dirge at His
| death.
Behold His victory over the gravel The
hinges of the family vault become very rusty,
because they are never opened except to take
| another in. There is a 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 Lag
\ arus: "Come forth, I" and he came forth. To
| the widows son He said: "Get up from that
hier;;n 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: 90
DEATH viii be thy plagued o gravel viii
be thy destructionp
No man could go through all the obstacles
have described. you say, without having a
nature adjoined that was supernatural That
| armand its muscles, and nerves, and bones
were intertwisted the energies of omnipo-
tence. In the syllables of that voice there was
the emphasis of the eternal God That foot
that walked the deck of the ship in Gennesa-
ret shall stamp kingdoms of darkness into
demolition. This poverty struck Christ owned
Augustus owned the Sonhedrim, owned Tibe-
rias, 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 We're the ffre-shod
steeds 10 His chariot
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 ex-
planned; not really dead; playing dead And
they see Christ giving sight to the blind man,
and they say: Clairvoyant doctor. Obi
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 peali
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 a copartner in
the government of the empire; and one day
the cid bishop came and bowed down before
TneodoSius the emperor, 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 governmentF 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:
aYou are offended with me because / don't
pay the same honor TO your son, whom You
have made copartner in the government of
| this empire, the same honor pay 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. =
II My subject also treasures as OF the fact
that in all our struggles we have sympa,
thizer. You cannot tell Christ anything new