The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1889-12-25
A Marriage Feast.
REV. DIR. TALMAGE PREACHES
NEAR CANA, IN GALILEE.
Christ's First Manhood Miracle 90
"Tbe Unconscious water Saw
Its GOD, and Biushed''-Reiig-
i"n aud Happiness GO,
. Hand In Hand His
Power 90 save.

| STANDING not fur OH from the demolished
town of what was once called Cana of Cali
lee, bethink myself of our Lords first man
| hood miracle which has been the astonsh-
ment of the ages. My visit last week to that
place makes vivid in my mind that beautiful
occurrence in Christ's ministry My text
brings us to wedding in that village. 1t Is
a wedding In common life, two plain people
having pledged each other, hand and heart
aud their friends having come In for congrat-
ulation The Joy Is not the less because there
Is no pretension. In each other they find all
the future they want. The daisy In the cup
on the table may mean us much as a score OF
artistic garlands fresh from the dollhouse.
When daughter goes of from home with
nothing but a plain fathers blessing and a
plain mothers love, she is missed as much as
though she were princess 1t seems hard,
after the parents have sheltered her for
eighteen years, that in few short months
her affections should have been carried OIL
by another; but mother remembers how it
was in her own case when she was young,
and so she braces up until the wedding has
passed, and the banqueters are gone, and she
has good cry all alone.
"Well, we are today at the wedding in
Cana, of Galilee. Jesus and his mother have
been invited. 1t is evident that there are
more people there than were expected. Either
some people have come who were not invited
or more invitations have been sent out than
1t was supposed would be accepted. or
course, there is not enough supply Of wine.
You know that there Is nothing more embar-
RAISING to housekeeper than scant supply.
Jesus secs the embarrassment, and he comes
up Immediately to relieve it. He sees stand
ing six water pots He orders the servants
TO fll them with water, then waves his hand
over the water, and Immediately it is wine
real wine Taste of it, and see for yourselves:
no logwood in 1t, no strychnine in It. but first
rate wine. will not now be diverted to the
question so often discussed in my own coun.
try, whether it is right to drink wine. lam
describing the scene as it was. When God
makes wine, he makes the very best wine
and one hundred and thirty gallons of IL
standing around in these water pots; wine so
good that the ruler of the feast tastes it and
says: "Why, this is really better than any
thing we have had! Thou hast kept the good
wine until now.n Beautiful miraclel A prize
was offered TO the person who should write
the best essay about the miracle in Cana.
Long manuscripts were presented in the com.
petition, but poet won the prize by lust
this one line descriptive of the miracle:
The unconscious water saw its God, and blushed
WHAT THE MIRACLE TEACHES
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nlace that Christ has svmnatby viii ho,,a'
taeners Yon micbt have tbongbt that Ies,s
world Love sa;d. az conrot Iva Io,bara, ,,,ith
this household deficiency of wine 1t is not
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said, ..no Won thinL Cod viii lat ma stare
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conr Enougb thaologv FOR oldar naonia,
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