Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-10-26

higher than our ways, and his
thoughts than our thoughts! TO him
all things are possible. 1t is possible
therefore, for him to take the weak
est means, and by them produce the
most tremendous results. He calls
those things that are not, and they
are; he speaks, and it is done; he
commands and it stands fast. When,
therefore, even the village carpenter,
the son of Mary, says, "The Spirit Of
the Lord God is upon me, because
he hath anointed me to preach the
gospel to the poor; he hath sent me
to heal the broken hearted, to pro-
claim deliverance to the captives,
and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty them that are bruiS-
ed, to preach the acceptable year of
the Lord;"--their reason ought to
stand watching for such works in
him as only God can do. And when
reason sees the lame made to walk,
the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the
dumb to speak, and the dead to live,
then reason ought to say to faith,
This is thy rest indeed, o, faith!
enter in-enter in boldly, and let thy
soul delight itself in fulness. For it
is reasonable to believe that if the
village carpenter does the works
which none but God can do, then he
is truly Gods anointed one. But no,
human reason shuts its eyes to all
the evidences from the Divine side
CT the fact that Jesus was Gods
anointed, and persists in judging OF
all his ability to be and do, by the
fact of his humble human place as
the sun of Mary-the unlearned car
penter. So human reason refusing
to look at him from any but the hui
man side becomes darkened, and their
foolish hearts were hardened, and
they became vain in their own con.
ceits, and rejecting Gods son, they
were left in their sins, and Their
souls were lost. Take care friend
lest in the pride of your heart you
commit the same fatal mistake, and
fall into the same fatal condemna
ton. ..
"But Jesus said unto them, A
prophet is not without honor save in
his own country, and among hi:
own kin, and in his own house."
TO the brethren of Joseph it seemed
altogether unreasonable and unjust
that he, the youngest and weakest o.
all should yet become the greatest Of
all, and that they, his elder brethren
should do obedience to him. There
fore Just because he was their broth
er, and they felt in their hearts thai
they were in every respect his equals
if not his superiors, his dreams of fu
ture glory told to them awaken'
only envy and hatred; and cause:
them to purpose murder in theil
hearts, and at last to sell him as {
slave to the passing merchant. Wher
Moses saw his brethren striving to
; gether, and sought to make peace be
tween them, surprising that the!
would understand that the Lore
would deliver them by him, it wa
his brother who said to him, "Wht
hath made thee a prince and a judg
over us. Wilt thou kill me, as thor
didst the Egyptian" The Egyptian
taskmaster might be endured, he wa
a stranger. But to be rebuked b,
this stuck-up Hebrew, who becaus
he had been reared in Pharoh's court
while his brothers had been toilinj
in the brick-kilns, thought him
self some great one-this could no
be endured. Such were the feeling
, in the hearts of those in Nazareth tC
ward Christ. They had known hin
nearly all his life. Many of then
from their higher social position ha
been long accustomed to look dow
upon him as he went through tn
: village plying his trade as commo
carpenter. His claims therefore t
. being something above them all, eve
the realization in himself of Israeli
, grandest hopes, were insulting t
t them. This presuming, se,f-assertin
, carpenter must be put down an
taught to keep his proper place. HU
: man pride is very little and YER
: mean, grant you it is very strong
: and often masters us to our own IN
doing.
And he could there do no might
e works, save that he laid his hand
l. upon few sick folks and heale
them. And he marvellcd ut thei
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