The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-11

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reigns." Christ said "Blossed are they
that mourn" Public theory said: BLESSED
is the Roman eagle, the flap Of whose wings
startles all nations, aud whose cruel
beak inili"ts cruelty upon oil who op-
pose. Christ said; Blessed are the
merriful" Public theory said: "An eye
for an eye, tooth for a tooth; if man
he breaks your tooth, you break his tolth;
sarcasm for sarcasm, persecution for perse-
cut on: nay man in his own coin, wound
for wound Christ said; "Pray for them
who desptefully use and tor nent you Was
there s"v' hing 80 re golrtio arvi Was there
nyebine that struck tho III, onos Of tho world
80 violently ta"kl They belt the SOLD earth
pillars Of the earth" They looked at the
mocn. Christ said: 81 will turn IL into
blood" They looked at the stars He said:
~ will shake them down like untimey figsn
Do you wonder that the world was startled
and overwhelmed Were not all these
things against himl After this bat
tie of Antietam, when the soldiers were
of them Id me he did not think he could
have lifted his hand to save his life, it was
told that favorite general was coming
along the line, and he said they all got up
and they gave three rousng cheers
'huzza, huzza, huzza." Although a few
moments tefore they felt they cou d hardly
lift q haad to save their life So
great was the ma gnetism of some
men. Napoleon after his first cap
tivity put his foot on the earth and it
shook all kingdoms an 21l,00J men gath
cred to his standard. BIT Christ had a more
wonderful magnetism than tat Napoleon
had all around him the memories Of Marengo
and Austerlit and Jena. Here comes man
with no parade, no brandiShed sword, no
y,aculioritv pf nd
tivelv no reputation. l do not now think
OF any re narkable person connected wi h HIS
name except his mother, and she SO poor that
in the mot sole IN hour that ever comes t.
a woma IS soul she must lie down anon : the
camel drivers groo ming their beasts of bur-
den. All! Notwithstanding all this, what do
You sens A man NEE s Him on the street
some ay and says: m #, fat ler was in gov
nment, and my grandfather and great
grandfather. Who was "our father?'
Christ says: "My earthly father was Jo-
seph, the carpenter Another man meets
Christ and he unrolls his scroll and says:
"Here is dinloma fron the best school in
Athens Where did you g aluate" Christ
savS: 81 never graduated" 1t was as though
81 me little fishing villa Q on Long Island
shonld arraign New York. Oh, what stir
He makes. If you have am nd to call it
ma netism of person call it that, but what a
st r he makes. He comes into villa re and til en-
He steps out into the fields, and all the people
z after Hi hand though they had taken only
eno1"h food to last a ,iay they are so fas-
cinated with Christ they follow right ear
Jut into the wilderness, and in danger OF
starvation. A man tails flat on the ground
befo g Chri't. and says: "My daughter is
dead, my da ghter is dead" A blind man
tries to rub the dinness out of his eyes. and
he says: "L I'd, that my eyes might be
opened" TIE light of day pours through
gates that has ne er before been o ened.
And ere com sick an fanting woman.
She ay5; IF | ould Just touch the hem OF
his Garment that is ALL" And the little
children VINO always liked their mothers be-
fore st ugglei to get out OF their mothers
arms TheY wanted to go to Christs arms
and they wanted to kiss his cheek,
and they wanted to run their fingers
through his hair, and they put Hi n so in love
with children that there is hardly homo on
earth from which Christ has not taken one.
"Oh,n he says, must have them. am 60
ing to ma le Hea en- of these. To one cedar
that plant in Heaven, plant fifty white
lilies The children loved me on earth, and
now | have come to throne, ought not
to love them! Oh wee 2ing mother, hod not
back that child. Law it on nv loving and
sympathetic bo ;om. OF such is the Kingdom
of Heaven"
Ol,ce more l remark lack of Reorganization
was against Him. If men are going to carry
out any greal pro ect they ban1 together,
and their success is generally in proportion
to the completeness of the organization.
Who cap tell how much can be accom-
plished by large number of men banded
together for a right object. Christ had
no su,h association. no one to back
him up. If people came into His
company all right if they went away, all
we'll. When they came, no loud salutation.
When they went away. no following OF
anathema, Peter left Him, and what did
Christ do! The Bible says He looked at him.
That is all. Oh, my, If ends, did anyone ever
start through such obstacles and run through
such obsta les to achieve such success! Not
was against Him and His trade
and His diet were against Him, and
His poverty was against Him, and His lack
of schooling was AGAINST Him, and the
brevity of His life was against Him, and tho
reversal of public maSims was against Him,
and lack of organization was .gainst Him.
/ yet you hear His voice tn morning ringing
through the ages in everlasting cadences
81 have finished the work which thou gavest
me to do" Ol yes, Christ is a
conqueror See how He con luered all the
forces ofnature. The Atlantic Ocean-what
terrible shing it is in its wrath How the
ocean will take down the Spani ii Arma la,
or the President, or the Central America as
cas- ly as it couli swallow a Ey. But have
been told by tho,e who have visited
Asia NJ nor that storm on those
inland la les is worse And yet
Christ came and He looked at one of tho G
grea inland seas in cyclone I'd the sea
crou he'd before Hin an Ii Ned His feet.
He knew all the winds and the waves. He
beckoned and they came. He frowned
and they fled. The heel Of Hi, foot
made no indentati N on the solidi led
water as He wal sei it In the ba k
part of the cat sound asleep. "Oh,' yon
say, poor man poor Christ 50 tired sound
rouSes up. He comes to the Prov Of the
boat He looi| ont. He has two words, one
for the winds and the u:her for the sea, and
tie says: pea; e, be sJill aui tbs wave
crouch like wnippe S. .Iaie,s at his feet
Ec5 ho ne! Ecce Deus! Eehold the man
Behold the Coil
Medica science has done much for the al
lev at on of rneu, All al nentS and cur,
diseased blood but when the muscles are al
wi1he ed up no hun an power can ever re
store them. When the haud and the arm al
dead they are dead but here is para ytl
in the presence of Christ Arm perfectl
eess, helpless. Christ sees 1t. He cou'
no, see any .hing of that kini, without pity
ing it. de says to this man with tn
paralytic arm, ''stletch forth thy hand
He street he'd it forth who.e as the other
Ecce Deus! Behold the Godi And there i
the fish of the sea. No human voice eve
commanded school of fish, but Christ
voice marshals the finny tribe, and the
come in a place where a little whil
before people were fishing and haa
ing in nothing: now the people 5ai
pull the net, and they puli until the ne
breaks. There is the gra 'e The hinges
the ianly va lit get very rusty be,auis IN
door is so sci lom opene1 1t is only whe
some of us go in to stay there tor the las
sleep A knob on the outside OF the door o
the family vault, bat no knob within: In
knob on the out ,ids we open to pass in, ou
no knob on the inside. They wlo pass Il
stay there until the resurre ,tion. Cnri 1t cam
through all that real n and He said: "Daugh
ter of Jairus, rise up" She rose up. II
said lazarus, come FORTH" an he can
forth. And He said to the widows sou
"Get off tElt bier and go home with IN
mouner- Ins son arose ana went noTns WIZ
his mother. Then Christ pi ;ked up the key
of d cath and fastened them to His girdle. an
uttered a voice whi h still resoundS throlg
all the graveya-ds OF the earth: "a, dsitn !,
will be thv plague! Oh, grave, | VIII 0
thy destruction!"
do not know any bettsr illustrat!on {
the vicarious su fering and work OF Chrii
than could find in the brotherhood Tn
day here presented anl here welcomed VIII
|, all our hearts. vi arious suffering. ="
sonetimes talk as though it were an aostra'