Democratic messenger., 1893-05-06
game. so that the sailors have to be cautious
in going from larboarl to starboard lest
they upset the ship

they upset the ship
Then there comes "A squall down through
the mountain gorge, and Gennesaret, with
long locks of white foam, rises up to battle
1t, and the boat drops into trough and
ships sea, and the loosened sails crack in
the tornado. and Christ rises from the back
part OF the boat and comes walking across
the staggering ship until he comes to the
prov, and there he wipes the spray from
his brow and bushes the crying storm on
the knee of his omnipotence. Who wrestled
down that euroclydon; Whose feet tram
pied the rough Galilee into a smooth fioors
HE CAN RAISE THE DEAD.
Let philosophers and anatomists go to
West minister abbey and try 10 wake up
Queen Elizabeth or Henry VIII. No hu-
man power ever wakened the dead. There
is dead girl in Capernaum. What does
Christ do. Alas, that she should have died
so young and when the world was SO fairi
Only IL years of age Feel her cold brow
and cold hands. Dead. dead The house
is full Of weeping Christ comes, and he
takes hold of the hand OF the dead girl. and
instantly her eyes open, her heart starts.
The white lily of death bushes into the
rose of life and health. She rushes into the
arms Of her rejoicing kindred. Who woke
up that death, Who restored her to life?
a man, Tell that to the lunatics in Bloom
ingdale asylum. 1t was Christ the God.
But there comes test which more than
anything else will show whether he was
God or man. You remember that great
passage which says. We must all appear
before the Judgment seat of Christ" The
earth will be stunned by blow that will
make il stagger in midheaven. the stars
will ri irela liz II ny 1anya in fha
earth will unroll the bodies. and the sky
will unroll the spirits. and soul and flesh
will come into incorruptible conjunction.
Day OF smoke and fire and darkness and
triumph. On one side. piled up in galleries
of light. the one hundred and forty and
four thousand-yea. the quintillions-of the
saved. On the other side, piled up in gal
leries of darkness, the frowning, the glar-
ing multitude of those who rejected God.
BEFORE THE ETERNAL THRONE.
Between these two piled up galleries n
throne, a high throne, a throne standing ON
two FURNISHED pillars-justice. mercy-a
throne so bright you had better hide your
eye lest it be extinguished with excess of
vision. But it is an empty throne. Who
will come up and take it. Will you.
''Ah, no. you say. II am but child of
dust. / would not dare to climb that
throne" Would Gabriel climb it, He
dare not. Who will ascend it, Here comes
one His back is TO us. He goes up step
above step, height above height, until he
reaches the apex. Then he turns around
and faces all nations. and we all see who il
is II is Christ the God. and all earth. and
all heaven. and all hell kneel, crying: 1T
is God! 1t is God.'' We must all APP
pear before the judgment seat of Christ.
Oh, am So glad that il is divine being
who comes to pardon all our sins, to com
fort all our sorrows. Sometimes our griefs
are so great they are beyond any human
sympathy, and we want Almighty sympa-
thy oh, We ho cried all last night be-
cause OF bereavement or loneliness. want
to tell you it is an omnipotent Christ who
is come
When the children are in the house and
the mother is dead. the father has TO be
more gentle in the home, and he has to take
the office of father and mother, and It seems
To me Christ looks out upon your helpless
ness. and he proposes to be father and moth
er to your soul He comes in the strength
of the one, in the tenderness of the other.
lie says with one breath, ''As n father
pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth
them that fear him." and then with the
next breath he says, "As one whom his
mother comforteth. so will comfort you"
DO you not feel the hush of the divine lul-
laby.
Oh. put yoIr tired head down on the
heaving bosom of divine compassion while
he puts his arms around you and says: 20
widowed soul. will be thy God o or
phaned soul, will be thy protector Do
not cry" Then he touches your eyelids
with his fingers and sweeps his fingers
down your cheek and wipes away all the
tears of loneliness and bereavement. oh,
what a tender and sympathetic God has
come for us! donot ask you TO lay lold
of him. Perhaps you arenot strong enough
for that. / do not ask you to pray. Per
haps you are too bewildered for that.
only ask you to let 60 and fall back into
the arms of everlasting love.
Soon you aud will hear the click Of the
latch of the door of the sepulcher Strong
men will take us in their arms and carry us
down and lay us in the dust. and they can
not bring us back again. should be scared
with infinite fright if / thoughk must stay
in the grave, il even the body were TO stay
in the grave. But Christ will come with
glorious iconoclasm and split and grind up
the rocks and let us all come forth. The
Christ of the manger is the Christ of the
throne.