The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1893-05-06

one else who he is and what he is.
When | ask him how old he is, he says:
Before Abraham was am" Abraham
had been dead 2,02S years. Was Christ
&, 03s years old? Yes, he says he is older
than that. Before Abraham was, |
am" Then Christ says: Il am the
Alpha" Alpha is the first letter of the
Greek alphabet, and Christ in hat ut
terance declared: II am the A of the
alphabet of the centuries" Then he
must be a God. Car a man be in a thou
sand places at once? Christ says he is
in a thousand places at once, "Where
two OF three arc gathered together in
my name, there. am ] in the midst of
them" This observation-disclosures, is
it characteristic of a man or of a Tod
And lest we might think this every
whereativeness would cease, he goes on
and intimates that he will be in all h
cities of the earth-hc will be in Europe,
Asia, Africa, North and South America
the day before the world burns up.
''Lo, / am with you Away, even unto
the end of the world" Why, then, he
must be a God.
Besides that, he takes divine honors.
lie declares himself Lord of men, angels
and devils. Is he? If he is, he is a
God. If he is not he is an impostor. A
man comes into your store tomorrow
morning. He says, Il anu the great
ship-builder of Liverpool; l nave built
hundreds of ships" lie goes on to give
his experience. You defer to him as a
man of large experience and great
possessions. But the next day you find
that he is not the great ~ship-builder of
Liverpool, hat he never built a ship,
that he never built anything. What is
he them? An impostor. Christ says he
built this world; he built all things.
Did he build them? If he did he is a
God. If he did not he is an impostor.
A man comes into your place of bust
ness, with a Jewish c~ountenance and n
German accent, and says: 81 am Roths-
child, the banker of London; | have the
wealth of nations in my pocket; l
loaned hat large amount to Italy and
Austria in their perplexity. But after
awhile you find that he has never loaned
any money to Italy or Austria, that he
never had a large estate, that he is no
banker at all. that he owns nothing.
What is he? An impostor. Christ says
he owns the cattle on u thousand hills,
he owns this world, he owns the next
world, he owns the universe, he is the
banker of ali nations. Is he? If he is,
he is a God. If he is not, then he is an
impostor.
Now you believe the Bible tosbe true.
If you do not you would hardly have
appeared in this church. You would
have gone over and joined the Broad
way fnfidel club, n you would go to
Boston and kiss the foot of the statue
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 a ripe straw
berry. / have shown you what inspired
men said of Christ; l have shown you
what Christ said of himself; now if you
believe the Bible, let us go out and see
his wonderful ACKNOWLEDGMENT
~alimeutary, marine, mortuary.
Surgical achievements: Where is the
medical journal hat gives any account
of such exploits as Christ wrought? He
used no knife. He carried no splints.
lie employed no compress. He made
no patient squirm under cauterization.
He tied no artery. Yet behold him!
With a word he stuck fast Malchus'
amputated ear. He stirred a little dust
and spittle into a salve and with it
caused a man who was born blind, and
without optic nerve, or cornea, or crys-
talline lens, to open his eyes on the sun
light. He beat music on the drum of
the deaf ear. He Strengthened a woman
who through contraction of muscle had
been bent almost double for well nigh
two decades. He made a mar who had
no use of his limbs for thirty-eight years
shoulder his mattress and walk off.
Sir Ashley Cooper, Abernethy, Valen-
tine Mott stood powerless before a
withered arm; but this doctor of ON
nipotent surgery comes in and he sees
the p~aralytic arm useless 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 a God.
Alimentary achievements: He found
a lad who had come out of the wilder
ness with five loaves of bread for a spec.
u~lation. Perhaps the lad had paid five
pennies for the five ~loaves, and expected
to sell them for ten pennies, and so he
would double his money. Christ took
those loaves of bread and performed a
miracle by which he fed 1000 furnishing
people, and l warrant you the lad lost
nothing, for there were twelve baskets
of fragments taken up, and if the boy
had five loaves at the start, l warrant
you had least ten at the close.
The S~aviour's mother goes into q
neighbours house to help get up a wed
ding party. BY calculation she find,
out hat the amount of wine is not
sufficient for the guests. She calls il
Christ for help, and Christ, not by the
slow decay of fermentation, but by &
word, makes 130>gallons Of pure wine.
Marine achievements. He turns 6
whole school of fish into the net of mer
who were mourning over their pool
luck, until the boat is so full they have
to halloo to other boats, and the Other
boats come up and they are laden u
the waters edge with the game, so tina
the sailors AVE to be cautious In going
from larbOard to starboard lest they up
set the ship. Then there comes a squal
down through the mountain gorge anC
Gennesaret with long locks of whit,
foam rises up to battle 1t, and the boa
drops into a trough and ships a sea
and the loosened sails crack in the tor
nado, and Christ rises from the bacl
part of the BOAT and comes walking
across the staggering ship until hi
comes to the PROV, and there he wipes
the spray from his brow and bushes tn,
crying storm on the knee of his omnip
otence. Who wrestled down that euro
clydon? Whose feet trampled tn,
rough Galilee into a smooth floor?
Let the philosophers and anatomist'
go to Westminster Abbey and try tx
wake up Queen Elizabeth or Henry
VIII. No human power ever Weakened
the dead. There is n dead girl a
Capernaum. What does Christ do
Alas! that she should have died 81
young and when the world was so fair
Only IL years of age. Feel her colo
brow and cold hands. Dead, dead
The house is full Of weeping. Chris
comes and he takes hold of the hant
of the dead girl, and instantly her eye
open, her heart starts. The white ill!
of death bushes into the rose of lf'
and health. She rushes into the arm
Of her rejoicing kindred. Who wok'
up that death? Who restored her t.
life? A man? Tell that to the lunatic