News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-18

They felt the eolid earth under them
but Christ said: 81 uphold the pillars
of earth" They looked at the moon.
! Christ said: 81 will turn it into blood. ~
They looked at the stars. He said: 81
will shake them down like untimeIy
figs" Do you wonder that the world
was startled and overwhelmed2 But oh,
what stir He makes If you have
mind to call it magnetism of person., call
it that; but what a stir He makes. He
comes into a village ane. then He steps
out into the fields and all the people 90
after Him, and though they had taken
only enough food to last day, they are
SO fascinated by Christ hey follow right
clear out into the Wi )1erness and in
danger of starvation. 4 man falls fiat
on the ground before Christ and says:
''My daughter is dead, my daughter
is dead" A blind mar tries to rub the
dimness out of his eyes, and he
says: Lord, that M eyes may be
opened" The light of day pours
through gates that bas.~~yer before been
opened. d.-And here coaTies sick and
painting woman. She says: "lf l could
Just touch the hem of, His garment"
that is all. And the little children who
always liked their mothers before strug
pled to get out of the mothers arms.
They wanted to go to Christ's arms and
thew wanted to kiss His cheek, and
they wanted to run their fingers through
His hair, and they put Him 80 in love
with children that there is hardly
home on earth from which Christ has
not taken one. "Oh,T He says, 81
must have them. am going to make
heaven of these. To one cedar that !
plant in heaven I plant fifty white
fiIies. The children loved Me on earth,
and now have come to throne ought
not | to love them3 Oh, weeping
mother, hold not back that child. Lay
it on nv loving and sympathetic bosom.
OF such is the Kingdom of Heaven"
Once more l remark, lack of organiza-
ton was against Him. If men are 60
ing to carry out any great project they
band together and their success is gen
orally in proportion to the completeness
of the organization. Who can tell how
much can be accomplished by large
number of men banded together for a
right object. Christ had no such asso-
citation, no one to back Him up. If
people came into His company, all
right; if they went away. all well.
When they came no loud salutation,
when they went away no falling of
anathemas. Peter left Him and what
did Christ do2 The bible says He
looked at him. That is all. Oh, my
friends, did anyone ever start through
such obstacles and run through such
obstacles to achieve such successf
Notwithstanding His worldly occupation
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
the reversal of public maxims was
against Him, and the lack of organiza-
ton was against Him, yet you hear His
voice this morning ringing through the
ages in everlasting cadences: II have
finished the work Thou gavest Me to
do.n l do not know any better illus.
tration of the vicarious suffering and
work of Christ than | could find in the
Brotherhood this day here represented
and here welcomed with all our hearts.
Vicarious suffering. We sometimes talk
as though it were an eh=trace woEd, and
we strive to illustrate it this way and
that way. But it has been illustrated
in the lives of that profession and occu-
patton perhaps as in no other. There is
not railroad in the United States that |
has not been the scene of heroic endur- |
ance on the part OF railroad engineers
"a scene worthy of poets canto and
painters pencil and sculptor's chlsel and
appropriation.