The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-11-10

aroused in . storm In overwhelming, and
vet that sea crouchcd in His presence, and
licked His feet He knew all the waves
and the wind. When He beckoned, they
came. When He frowned, they fed. The
heel Of His foot made no indentation on the
solidihed 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 once dead
it is dead But here il paralytic-his
hand is lifeless. Christ says to him:
"Stretch forth thy hand" and he stretches
it forth. D. .H
In the eye inArmary, how many diseases
of that delicate organ have been cureds
But Jesus says to one blind: "Be open,"
and the light Of Heaven PUSHES through
gates that have never before been opened.
The frost of an axe may kill tree, but
Jesus smites one dead with word. Chem
istry can do many wonderful things, but
what chemist at a wedding, when the wine
gave out, could change pail Of water into
q cask of winei ...H ..a.t
What human voice could command
school Of fish. Yet here % voice that
marshals the scaly tribes, until, IN place
where they had let down the net and raised
| it up with no fish in it, they let it 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-Ho
twisted them into His sermons; the winds
they were His lullaby when He slept in
the boat; the rant 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 gravel Tho
hinges Of the family vault become very
rusty, because they are never opened ex-
cept to take another in. There is 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: slaughter of Jalrus sit up" and
she sits up. To Lazarus: "Come FORTH"
and he came forth. To the widows 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 all the graveyards
Of the earth heard him: 30 death, will be
thy plague. o, grave, will be thy de-
| struotiOn"
No man could 90 through all the obstacles
|
nature adjOined that was supernatural.
That armand its muscles, and nerves,
and bones, were intertwis'ad the energies
of OmnipOtence In the sylables Of that
voice there was the emphasis Of the eternal
God. That foot that walked the deck Of
the ship in Gennesearet shall stamp king
doms Of darkness into demolition. This
poverty-struc Christ owned Augustus,
owned the Sanhedrim, owned Tiberias,
owned all the castles on its beach and all
the skies that looked down into its wateTs;
owned oil the earth and all the heavens.
To Him OF the plain coat belonged tho
robes Of celestial royalty. He who walked
the road to Emmaus-the lightnings wore
the fire-shod steeds to His chariot.
Yet there are those who look on and 500
God 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 o, what shall they do on the day
when Christ rises up in judgment, and hills
shall rock, and the trumpets shall call, peal
on peall
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 si4
on the throne with him, and be co-partne1
in tho government Of the empire; and one
day the old Bishop came and bowed down
before Theodosius the Emperor, and passed
out Of the room, and the Emperor was o.
Tended, saying TO the old Bishop: "Why
did you not pay the same honor to my 500
who shares with me In the governmental
Then the old Bishop turned to the young
man and said: 'yThe Lord bless thee, No
young man." but still paid him no such
honor o. he had paid TO the Emperor. And
. the Emperor was still offended and die
pleased, when the Bishop turned to Thee
dosius the Great and said to him: "Yoa
are offended with me because l don't pay
, the same honor to your son, whom you have
, made cO-partner in the government Of this
) empire, the same honor l pay to you, aud yet
you encourage multitudes Of people in your
realm to deny the Son Of God equal au-
thority, equal power with God the Father"
!, Ny subject also treasures US Of the fact
, that in all our struggles we have sym
pathizer. You can not tell Christ any
thing new about hardship. do not think
that wide ages Of eternity will take the
! scars from His punctured side, and His
, lacersted temples, and His sore hands. You
will never have burden weighing 80 many
pounds as that burden Christ carried up
, the bloody hill. You will never have any
) suffering worse than He endured when,
] with tongue hot, and cracked and infiamed,
7 and swollen He moaned: 81 thirst" You
: will never be surrounded with worse hos
/: tility than that which stood around Christ's
feet, foaming, reviling, livid with rage,
r bowling down His prayers, and shutting up
D the smell Of blood. Oh, ye faint hearted
, oh, ye troubled oh, ye prosecuted one there
r is heart that can sympashiSc with you.
Q Again, and lastly, learn from all that
a has been said this morning that Christ was
0 awfully In earnest. II it had not been .
l momentous mission He would have turned
r back from 1t disguised and discouraged.
= He saw you in captivity from which He
. was resolved to extricate you though il
4 cost Him all sweat, oil tears, all blood. He
. came Q great way to save you He came
!, from Bethlehem here, through the place Of
n skulls, through the charnel house. through
" bsnishment There was not among all the
r ranks Of celestials one being who would do
t Is much for you. lay His crushed heart at
K your feet to-day.
4 Let it not be told in Heaven that you de-
d liberately put your foot on II. While II
e will take all the ages Of eternity TO cello
. brate Christ's triumph, am here to make
y the startling announcement that because OF
n the rejection Of this mission on the part Of
q some Of you, all that magnificent work Of
|. garden, and cross, and grave is, 30 far as
o you are concerned, failure. Helena, the
y Empress, went to the Holy Land to find the
IT cross of Christ. Getting to the Holy Land
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