Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-05-04

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land. :" or Il was born IN New Orisans, the
United States. you being a man Of irtegri.
", should believe you II Tasked yo1 v
many pounds you could lift and you should
say you could lift 100 pounds or 900 pounds
or 800 pounds. l should believe you. Il Is .
matte: personal 70 yourself You know
better than any one else can tell you.
II ] ask how much estate you are worth
and yen say $4,000 or 500. 900 or $500, 900. |
believe what you say. You know better
than any one elsa Now, Christ must know
better than any one else who he Is and what
he Is. When l ask him how old be is, he
says. Before Abraham was. am" Abra.
ham had been dead 2,02S years. Was Christ
2,o2s years oldi Yes, he says he Is older
than that. Before Abraham was, am. y
Then Christ says, II am the Alpha" Alpha
Is the first letter Of the Greek alphabet, and
Christ In that utterance declared, II am the
OF the alphabet of the centuries.n Then
he must be God.
Can man be In thousand places at
oncei Christ says he is In thousand
places at once. Where two or three art
gathered together In my name, there am
In the midst of them" This everywhere.
ativeness, is 1t characteristic Of a man or OF
q Godi And lest we might think this ev.
erywhereativeness would cease he goes on
and he intimates that he will be In all the
cities Of the earth-he will be in Europe,
Asia, Africa, North and South America the
day before the world burns up. 10, am
with you alway, even unto the end Of the
world" Why, then, he must be God.
Besides that he takes divine honors. He
declares himself Lord of men, angels and
devils. Is her II he is, he is God. If he
is not, he is an impostor A man comes into
your store tomorrow morning. He says: ~
am the great shipbuilder Of Liverpool. !
have built hundreds of ships" He goes on
to give his experience You defer to him
as man Of large experience and great pos.
sessions. But the next day you find out
that he is not the great shipbuilder of Liv.
erpool; that be never built ship; that he
never built anything What is he them An
impostor. Christ says he built this world;
he built all things. Did be build themi
II he did, be is God. If he did not, he is
an impostor.
EARTHLY IAfPosToGs.
A man comes into your place of business,
with Jewish countenance and German
accent, and says: II am Rothschild, the
banker Of London. ! have the wealth Of
nations in my pocket. / loaned that large
amount to Italy and Austria in their per
plexity." But after awhile you find that
he has never loaned any money to Italy or
Austria; that he never had large estate;
that he is no banker at all; that he owns
nothing What is hep An impostor
Christ says he owns the cattle on a thou
sand hills; he owns this world; he owns the
next world; he owns the universe he is the
banker of all nations. Is her If he is, he
is God. Is he nots Then he. is an i'm
poster
A man enters the White House at Wash
ington. He says: II am Emperor William
of Germany. lam travelling incognito.
have come over here for recreation and
pleasure. own castles IN Dresden and Ber.
lin." But the president finds out the next
day that he is not Emperor William; that
he owns no castles at Berlin or Dresden
that he has no authority. What is her An
impostor, Christ says he is the king over
all, the king immortal, invisible. If he is,
he is a God. If he is not, he is an impostor.
FOOLISH THEORIES OF UNBELIEF.
Strauss saw that alternative, and he tries
to get out of it by saying that Christ was
sinful in accepting alteration and worship.
Renan tries to get out Of it by saying that
Christ-not through any fault of his own,
but through the fault of others-lost his
purity of conscience, and he slyly intimates
that dishonorable women had damaged his
soul. Anything but believe that Christ is
God. Now, you believe the Bible to be
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have appeared in this church. You would
have gone over and Joined the Broadway
Infidel club, or you would got to Boston and
kiss the foot of thestatue of Thomas Paine.
You would hardly come into this church,
where the most of us are the deluded souls
who believe in a whole Bible and take it
all down as easily as you swallow ripe
strawberry.
have shown you what inspired men said
of Christ. have shown you what Christ
said of himself. Now, if you believe the
Bible, let us go out and see his wonderful
surgical, alimentary, ma
rine, mortuary. Surgical achievements
Where is the medical journal that gives any
account Of such exploits as Christ wroughtf
He used no knife He carried no splints
He employed no compress. Hemade no pa
tient squirm under cauterization. He tied
no artery. Yet behold himl With a word
he stuck fast Malchus' amputated ear. He
stirred little dust and spittle into a salve
and with it caused a man who was born
blind and without optic nerve or cornea
or crystalline lens to open his eyes on the
sunlight. He beat music on the drum of
the deaf ear. He Strengthened woman
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been bent almost double for well nigh two
decades. He made man who had no use
of his limbs for 3S years shoulder his mat
tress and walk off.
Sir Ashley Cooper, Abernethy, Valentine
Mott stood powerless before withered
arm; but this doctor of omnipotent surgery
comes in and he sees the paralytic arm use.
less and lifeless at the mans side, and
Christ says to him, Stretch forth thine
hand, and he stretched it forth whole as
the other. He was God.
THE MIRACLE OF THE LoAvEs.
Alimentary achievements! He found a |
lad who had come out of the wilderness
with five loaves of bread for speculation.
Perhaps the lad had paid pennies for the
five loaves and expected to sell them for 10
pennies, and so he would double his money.
Christ took those loaves of bread and per
formed q miracle by which he fed 1000 |
famishing people, and warrant you the
lad lost nothing, for there were 70 baskets
of fragments taken up, and if the boy had
five loaves at the start l warrant you he |
had at least 10 at the close
The Saviour's mother goes into neigh |
boris house to help get up wedding party. |
By calculation she finds out that the amount |
of wine is not sufficient for the guests. She |
calls in Christ for help, and Christ, not by
the slow decay of fermentation, but by a |
word, makes 1870 gallons of pure wine.
Marine achievements He turns whole |
school of fish into the net of men who were |
mourning over their poor luck until the !
boat is so full they have to halloo to other |
haats and tho nthn,. hnats norno M, a,,d |