National Republican., 1886-10-25
Woodward g. Lothrop,
No. 1913 II Street Northwest.

lehem-it sang Christmas carol over His
birth; the rocks-lhey 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 a knob on the outside OF
the door of the sepulchre but none on the in
side. Hero comes the Conqueror OF Death. He
enters that realm and says: Daughter OF
Jailns, sit nPi% and she sits up; TO lazarus
and he goes home with his mother Then
Jesus snatchCd up the KEYS of death and hung
them to His girdle, and cried until all the
grayeyards of the earth heard him; 80 death!
will be thy plague; o grave! l will be thy dc.
structionn
No man could 90 through all the obstacles
have described, YOU say, without having u ma
ture adlolned that, was supernatural, That
arm-amid its muscles, and nerves, and bones
were intertwistrd the cnergcs of omnipotence.
In the syllables of that voice there was the
emphasis of the eternal God. That foot that
walked the deck Of the ship in GennelNret
shall stamp kingdoms of darkness into demoli'
tion. This poverty-Struck Christ owned Au-
gustus, owned the Sanhedrim, owned TiberiaS,
owned all the castles on It's beach, aud all the
skies that looked down into It's waters, owned
all the earth and all the heavens. 70 Him OF
the plain coat belonged the robes of celestial
royalty. He who walked the road to Emmaus-
the llrhtnings were the fire -shod steeds TO His
chariot.
Yet there are those who look on and sec
slcight OF hand And they see Christ raise the
dead TO life, and they say Easily explained
not really dead playing dead: Aud they sec
Christ giving sight to the blind man, and they
say Ciairvoyant doctor. oh what shall they
do ON the day when Christ rises up In iu1g-
ment, and the hills shall rock and the trum-
pets shall call, peal on peal?
In the time of Theodosius the Great there
was great assault made upon the Divinity OF
Jesus Christ, and during that time TneodosnS,
the Great called his, own son to sit on the
flEnnn tpf i'm nd hn n M n.F ~ "a
government of the empire and one day the
old bishop came and bowed down beior. Iheo-
dosius, the, emperor, and passed out OF the
the old bishop: "Why didn't you pay the same
government" Then the old bishop turned TO
the young man aud said: "The Lord bless thee,
my young man" but sim 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 You are offended
with me because l don't pay the same honor
to your son, whom you have made copartncr
in the government OF this empire, the same
multitudes of people In your realm to deay Ihe
God the Father"
My subject also reassures us of the fact that
In oil our struggles We have Il symDathiler.
You cannot tell Christ anything new about
hardship. DO not think that wide ages OF
eternity will take the scars from IIispunctured
hands. You will never have burden weigh
ing so many pounds Us that burden Christ car.
rted up the bloody hill. You will never have
any suffering worse than lie endured, when,
with tongue not and cracked and inilamed and
swollen He mOHned, 81 thirst" You will
never be surrounded with worse hostility than
that which stood around Christ's feet foam
ing, Tcviling, liIid with rage, bowling down
His prayers, and suutiing up the smell OF blood,
Oh, ye faint hearted oh, ye troubled oh yo
perseCuscd one! here Is a heart that can sym
Again. and lastly, l learn from all that has
been said this morning, that CArlst was
awiully I'm earnest. lfit had not been mo-
mentons mission, he would have turned back
nom 1t disguised and discouraged, lie saw
you In a captivity from which he was resolved
TO extrlcato you, though 1t cost him all sweat,
all tears, all blood. He came n great way TO
save you. lie came from bethlehem here,
through the place of skulls, through the
charnel house, through banishment. There
was not, among all the ranks of celesIials,. one
being who would do as much for you. lay
his crushed heart at your feet to-day.
Let II not be told in heaven that you delb-
eTately put your foot ON II. While II Will take
all the ages Of eternity to celebrate Christs
triumph am here to make the startling AM
nounCement that, because of the rejection OF
this mission ON the part ofsome of you, ali that
magnificent work of garden and cross and
grave is, so far as you are concerned, n failure.
Helena, the empress, went TO the Holy Land
10 find the cross of Christ, Getting to the Holy
Land there wero three cross crosses s. eNeayated, and
Chrlsps cross. They took dead body, trn.
ditiOn says, and put II upon one of the crosses,
and there was no life; aud they took the dead
body aud put II upon another cross, aud there
was no life. But tradition says when the dead
body was put up against tho third cross II
spTang iuto life The dead man, lived again.
Oh that the life giving power of the Son OF
God might dart your dead slul inlO an eternal
life beginning this day Awake thou that
sleepcst and rise from the dead, ana Chris.
shan give thee liieW
FLESH wounds (Gnts aud hrlisos) eau he
tiCn Oh,