The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-05-03


than any one else. Now, Christ must know
better than any one else who he is and what
he is. When ask him how old he is, he
says, Before Abraham was, am" Abra-
ham had been dead LOS years. Was Christ
2,02S years old? Yes, he says he Is older
than that. Before Abraham was, l am"
Then Christ says, Il am the Alpha" Alpha
- the first letter Of the Greek alphabet, and
Christ in that utterance declared, Il am the
A of the alphabet of the centuries" Then
he must be God.
Can a man be In thousand places at
onceP Christ says he is in a thousand
places at once. where two or three are
gathered together in my name, there am l
In the midst of them" This everywhere
ativeness, is it characteristic of man or OF
God? 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, I am
with you Away, even unto the end Of the
world" Why, then, he must be a God.
Besides that he takes divine honors. He
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: II
am the great shipbuilder of Liverpool. I
have built hundreds of ships" He goes on
to give his experience. You defer to him
as a 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 he never built ship; that he
newer built anything. What is he then9 An
impostor. Christ says he built this world;
he built all things. Did he build them2
If he did, he is a God. If he did not, he is
an impostor.
EARTHLY IIPOSTORS.
A man comes into your place of business,
with Jewish countenance and a German
accent, and says: II am Rothschild, the
banker of London. l 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 he? 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 he? If he is, he
is a God. Is he noty Then he is an i'm
poster.
A man enters the White House at Wash
ington. He says: Il am Emperor William
of Germany. 1 am travelling incognito. /
have come over here for recreation and
pleasure. 1 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 he? An
impostOr. Christ says he is the king over
all, the king immortal, invisible. If he is,
he is 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
true. II you do not, you would hardly
have appeared in this church. You would
have gone over ard Joined the Broadway
Infdel club or you would 20 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
strawberry
have shown you what inspired men said
of Christ. i have shown you what Christ
said of himself. Now, if you believe the
Bible, let US go out and see his wonderful
achievements surgical, alimentary, ma
rine, mortuary. Surgical achievements
Where Is the medical journal that gives any
account of such exploits as Christ wrought2
He used no knife. He carried no splints.
he employed no compress. He made no pa
tent squirm under conformation. 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 a woman
who through contraction of muscle had
been bent almost double for we'll nigh two
decades. He made a man who had no use
of his limbs for IS years shoulder his mat
tress and walk off.
Sir Ashley Cooper, Abernethy, Valentine
Mott stood powerless before a 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
hand" and he stretched it forth whole as
the other. He was God
THE MIRACLE or THE LOAvEs.
Alimentary achievements! He found a
lad who had come out of the wilderness
with five loaves Of bread for a speculation.
Perhaps the lad had paid 8 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 a miracle by which he fed 1000
furnishing people, and / warrant you the
lad lost nothing, for there were 12 baskets
of fragments taken up, and if the boy had
five loaves at the start 1 warrant you he
bad at least 10 at the close.
The Saviour's mother goes into a neigh
boris house to help get up a wedding party
By calculation she finds ont 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 $50 gallons of pure wine
Marine achievements He turns a 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
boats, and the other boats come up, and
they are laden to the waters edge with the
game, so that the sailors have to be cautious
in going from larboard to ~-arboard lest
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
it. and the boat drops into trough and
ships a sea, and the loosened sails crack in
the tornado, and Christ rises from the back
part of the boat and comes walking across