Telegram-herald., 1890-03-03

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&4- ths Teas - the Dssasar.@. whieh l.
B~rs ksp@Eesd - TaA-Th. ss- T.ssr-
s.sL- - 30 H@~s "a sspssass~r.
BzpoEKs. Aarca At "a Tabernacle
sais EssrainZ tAs RsT 7 De Witt T.l1aAgs.
D D. sasi Be tAou-ft ths asw BsoOxsyn
1abss-n4c.e ~0ali - assllcz.sa "a Sspssaab~r.
ard .nAE ths idea wos.d % earTlsd e1s of
bulh1iES tas ehurch ~ suh~T1ptapn 70 Tie
Cariz-zsa Hsrzln. = Eh1en ne las beooms
ss1sesr, a. The sshscrfptbsns sp - = buslrsi
and nftY zaous4ud - 10 paid 70 n. John
y ood, treasurer a the Ts5era4cis, fulbon
street., near Concorf. Brooklyn. y. 7. Ths
sz15ect q Eis discourzs vas "Reyizion of
Creedz. and NJ took for hS s=xs Joan n. "A;
-i1ooas hina. aDd ieE nina 60 Or. falmazs
sti1-
NJ blble =. a he place u tbs teKt, writ
tsn az oVer sisn lssd p<ncn marks made la<s
1A-1anher es Bethany On ths ruins Of the
ho0se of Mary aad Martha asd Lazarus We
clSlnounts1 tron ouz horSss CA rse way up
fTo1n jordan o. rhs Dead seA Bethany uas
TIE suns1ser evening rsIr>as Of Jesus After
Spending tns dAy Ia the hos ciEy of Jsrusalsm
- NS-lsa oocis Guc there a1susr every even
inZ % the aouse of bis three friends. think
the cccEpa1ts q that house were orphans.
for tle fAt1sz aud m0thss ara nos meussonsd-
But ahs son snd i've faughtsrs must have In
hsrfted property fpr q aust have bssn. iudg-
ing frem ahat | saw 90 ne foundations ant
TIE sizs q ths Fo0nle. an opuleat home. Lar
arus. the brother was SOW ths hcad Of the
house1o.d, and als .ers dspended on hfm
and we're proad of him. for he was very pop
uiar ead every sosly liked him, and these girls
~ers splendid giTls Martha a frst rate
house'1eeper and Mary = sparit0elle, some
MAJ dreamy. bur afectionats and as good
giri n couh b found ia al ralestine. Bu.
enc dsy Lazarus got sick. The sisters
were IA conformation Father gone and
mother gone, they feel very nervous est they
sose their 5rother a.s,. Disease did its quick
work How the girls hung over his pillowi
Not much sleep about that house, no .lsep
A. AL Fron1 the characteristics otherwhers
Developed 1 judge thar Martha prepared the
medicines ana made trapping dishes OF sood
Tor the poor aPpeate of tns sufferer, but Mary
prayed and sobhed Worse and worse gets
lazarus until the doctor announces that ne
can do 40 more. The SHREK that went up
from THAT household Nhen the last breath nad
heco drawn and toe two sisters were being
led by sTmpathlzers into tho adjoining room
al those of as can imagine who nave had our
own hearls broken. But why was not Jesus
there ~ he 50 often had beenl Far away IN
the country districts preaching, healing other
slck how unforCurats that this omripo-
tent Doctor had not been al thas domestic
crisis "a Bethany. 81 len at last Jesus arrived
IL Es1hsny. Lazarus had been buried four
days and dissolution had taken placs. In
that clira5e tae breathless body disintegra.es
more rapidly than in ours. II, Immediately
after decease, that body had been awakened
into hfe, unoeleyeTS might have said be was
only N n cOuiasose state. or in a sort Of
trance, and by some vigorous manipulation
or powerful stimulan: vitality had been TO
rewed So Four days dead At the door
of the sepu,cher u crowd Of people, but the
thras most memorable are Jesus, who was the
family friend, and the two bersft sisters We
went into the traditional tomb in December,
and &c IS dep down and dark, and with torches
We explored it. We found IL au quiet that
afternoon az our visit, but the day spoken OF
IN tie Bioie there was present en- excited muj-
titEde. I wonder what Jesus viii dol he
orders toe door os the grave rcnaoved and
Then rs begins 20 descend the steps, Mary and
Martha close altar aim and tho crowd after
them. Deeper down into the shadows and
decpe<i The hot tears OF Jesus roll
over h;s chceks and plash upon the
back % his hands Were ever so many
soTrows COMPRISED into 30 small space as
fn that group pressing on down after Christ
al the time bernoening that he had not come
before Now Al the whispering and al the
cryLng and al the sounds Of shutting feet
n-e stoPPed. IL Is the silence Of expectancy.
Death had conquered, but now the vanquisher
Of death confronted the scene. Amid the
awful hush q the tomb the familiar name
which Chris. had often had upon his hps in
The hosp tzlities OF the village home came
hack 10 his tongue, and with pathos and an
ainightness of which the reSurrecciou OF the
last day shall Do only an echo, he cries:
lazarus. come foTthr' The eyes Of the sl1n,-
hsrsr open. and he rises and comes 70 tho
foot q TOO steps ant With great difficulty be-
gus 20 as=rend. for the cereuseDts Of
the tomb ara yet on hn and his feet
ara fast and bis hands are fast, and
ths inIperiirnenes % all nis movements arc
- great that Jesus commands Take OF
these corenrnts; rsrnovs these hindrsoces;
urfastsn these grave clothes; loose him, and
let him goF- Oh. an so glad that after the
Lord raised Lazarus, 20 went on and com
rnarci>i 10 loosening of the cords that bound
nis TT 50 that 10 could walk. and the break
that hs could stretch ont bis arms IN saluta-
ssou. ard tbs tearing oG of the bandsge from
around MS Jaws 80 thath4 couAd speak. What
would rsSur--cted ii,s have been TO Lazaru,
II he had not been freed from AL thos> Grip
pisuents of hts bodyi am glad that Christ
cuun1andsd hls complsts emancipation. say
ing: "I.o<zs him. and ies him 20"
CHRISTIANS Rrr HALy LrsEaArrD.
Ths pufcrrHrste thing now Is that so many
Christsa1S a-r ouiY naH nb<rated- They have
ben raassgi from RE dea.h and burial Of SIN
suto spirisusl hfc. hu- -lrev yrt have the grav.
cloths on tbsu1. Trev ara Ike Lazarus. hob
hing up The s.si-s - tomb, bound hand
snd f-o- and the c'-,ct Of this sermon Ia n
belp fro tasir BODY an freo shefr sDal, and
shal try % obeT tfn W-ster's command that
ecraes - mo and cof--s ~ every minister ~
r-sixiou. Loose his, and let him 20" First.
r-rrv are h--nd h,~ and foot bv religious
srrs,ts. Il. ~ rnaS s,isinssrTrst r,e as ar
tss-rr,-in< c---~is la~n eight OF zen of
tim. a creed ahou. rsi.xiou. cred about
A. ed rhcnt ii 1fs. crssd ahosIt
s-rr-r-r--~-,s srd 80 - a creed Is soru~-hfnx
thas nan believes. -~aa+hsT it b written ~
unr-rftfr1 rhe P~e e-.vt eriaB church IS nov
r.-i4a.rf ..Sont ~ ----F Scr7~ -ocd u,rn n e
are fcr ke--irr if ee~-r-- II wss frsTufsi from
tre belief 81 Iehn ~--ria. 0-ner good rnen
i- 81 -vars revision f--i With ns,sesr party
I,Sfeqa ~ revision v~sns s1hs-itution. I
-~-s s--~v to ha-. - question disturbed st
al To-, e--..d did not hinder rs TON cfr---
frx she rrrde- SIR tts ccusforscf ~ 6-cspsl
- sI1 r,s-- snd t',s Westminster Confession
has n.,t f-,erfs~.a with ne one suinuts. Bu.
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