The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-10-28

Emmaus-tne ngntnsngs were rne nre-snoo
steeds to His chariot.
Yet there are those who look on and sec
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-
plained not really dead; playing dead And
they see Christ giving sight to the blind man.
and they say: Clairvoyant doctor. OH
what shall they do on the day when Christ
rises up in Judgment, and the hills shall rock,
and the trumpcts 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 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
i the old bishop came and bowed down before
! Tneodosius the emperor, and passed out of the
room, and the emperor was offended saving
to the old bishop: why didn't you pay the
Same honor to my Ssn, who shares with me
! in the governments" Then the old bishoD
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:
"You are offended with me because l 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 I'm
your realm to deny the Son of God equal
authority, equal power with God the Father
My subject also treasures us of the fact
that in all our struggles we have a sympa-
thizer. You cannot tell Christ anything new
about hardship. 1 do not think that wide
ages of eternity viii take the scars from his
ciI nc fol
and his sore hands. You will never have a
burden weighing SO 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 inhamed, and swollen, He
moaned: II thirst You will never be sur
rounded by worse hostility than that which
stood around Christ's feet, foaning, reviling,
livid with rage, bowling down His PRAYERS
and shutting up the smell of blood Oh! We
faint hearted, oh! ye troubled, ;ohl We perse-
cuted one, here is heart than can sympathize
with you'll
Again, and lastly, learn from all that has
been said this morning, that Christ was
awfully in EARNEST. IL it had not been a mo
mentous mission he would have turned back
from it disguised and discouraged He saw
you in a captivity from which he was re-
solved to extricate you, though it cost him
u
great way to save you. He came from Beth
lehem here, through the place of skulls
through the charnel house, through Danish
ment. There was not among all the ranks of
celestials one being who would do as much
for you. 1 lay his crushed heart at your feet |
to-day.
Let it not be told in heaven that YOU de
iberately put your foot on it. While it will |
take all the ages of eternity to celebrate !
Christ's triumph, 1 am here to make the start
ling announcements that because of the re
lection of this mission on the part of some of |
you, all that magnificent work of garden, |
and cross, and grave is, SO far as you are |
concerned, a failure. Helena, the en-
press, went to the Holy Land to find |
the cross of Christ. Getting to the |
Holy Land there were three crosses exca-
waited, and the question was which of the
three crosses was Christ's cross They took a
dead body, tradition says, and put it upon
one of the crosses, and there was no life: and
they took the dead body and put it upon an
other cross, and there was no life. But ira
dition says when the dead body was put up
against the third cross it sprang into life
The dead man lived again. Oh, that the life
giving power of the Son of God might start
your dead soul into an eternal life, beginning
this dayl awake thou that sleepest, and
rise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee
life"