The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1893-05-05

warrant you the lad lost nothing, fos
there were twelve baskets OF fragments
taken up, and IL the boy had five loaves
at the start, warrant you he had at
least ten at the close.
The Saviour's mother goes into q
neighbours house to help get mp q we'd
ding party. BY calculation she fnds
out that the amount Of wine Is not sufsi-
cient for the guests. She calls in
Christ for help, and Christ, not by tho
slow decay of fermentation, but by q
word. makes 1870 gallons of pure wine.
Marine achievements. He turns q
whole school of fish into the net Of
men who were mourning over theiy
poor luck, until the boat Is 10 full
they have TO halloo to other boats,
and the other boats come up and they
are laden TO the waters edge with tho
game, so that the sailors have to 10
cautious in going from larboard to star
board lest they upset the ship. Then
there comes squall down through the
mountain gorge, Genesaret with long
locks of white foam rises up to battle
1t, and the boat drops into a trough
and ships sea, and the loosened sails
crack in tho tornado and Christ risea
from The back part Of che 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 trampled the rough Galilee into q
smooth floor?
Let philosophers and anatomists 60
to Westminster Abbey and try to wake
Queen Elizabeth or Henry VIII. No
human power ever awakened the dead.
There is dead girl in Capernauin.
What does Christ do? Alas. that she
should have died so young and when
the world was so fair. Only twelve
years of age! Feel her cold brow and
cold hands. Dead. dead The house Ia
full of weeping. Christ comes and lie
takes hold OF the hand Of the dead
girl and instantly her eyes open
| lily of death bushes into tho
roses of health. She ruskes into tho
arms of her rejoicing kindred. Who
woke up that death? Who restored her
TO life? A man? Tell that TO the luna
ties in Bloomingdale asylum. 1t was
Christ, the God.
But there comes test which more
than any thing else will show whether
lie was God or man. You remember
that great passage which says: I've
must all appear before the Judgment
seat of Christ" The earth will be
stunned by blow that will make IL
| stagger mid-heaven; the stars will cir
Gle like dry leaves in an equinox; the
earth will unroll the bodies, and the
sky will unroll the spirits, and the 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 galleries Of
darkness, the frowning, the glaring
multitude of those who rejected God.
Between these two piled-up galleries
a throne, high throne, throne stand
ing on two Furnished pillars-Justicc,
Mercy-a throne so bright you had bet
! ter hide your eye lest ~ be extinguAshed
with excess of vision. But IL Ia an
empty throne. Who will come up and
take it? win you?
"Ah. no" you say. ~ am but child
of dust; would not dare to climb that
throne" Would Gabriel climb IL? lie
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 ma
tions, and we all see who il is. 1t is
Christ, the God, and all earth, and all
Heaven, and all hell kneel, crying: 1T
Is God! II is a Cod" We must all
appear before the judgment seat of
Christ.
Oh, am so glad that II is n Divine
Being who comes to pardon all our sins,
to comfort all our sorrows Sometimes
our griefs are 50 great they are beyond
any human sympathy, and we want
Almighty sympathy. Oh, We who cried
all last night because of bereavement
or loneliness. | want to tell you il is an
omnipotent Christ who Is come.
When the children are in the house
and the mother is dead and 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 helplessness, and Ho
proposes TO be father and mother to
you soul. lie comes in the strength of
the one, in the tenderness of the other.
lie says with one breath: AS a 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 feel the hush Of
the divine lullaby? Oh, put your
tired head down on the heaving bosom
of divine compassion while He puts His
arm around you and says: "Oh, wild.
owed soul, will be thy God. Oh. or
phaned soul, will he 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 be-
reavement. Oh, what a tender and
sympathetic God has come for u.s. do
not ask YOU 10 lay hold Of him. Per-
haps YOU are not strong enough for that
do not ask YOU to pray. Perhaps you
are too bewildered for that only ask
YOU to let go and fall back into the
| arms of everlasting love
Soon you and 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 MS back
again should be scared with infinite
fright II thought | must stay In the
grave But Christ will come with glo'
rious iconoclasm and split and grind up
| the rocks and let MS all come forth.
7 The Christ Of the manger is the Christ
of the throne.
They were talking about the beef
which was very tough, at the boarding
house table. Some one suggested that
il was from an old COW. ut seems
strange" said Mrs, g., but the tender
est beef ever saw was from COW
af..,,, ,r t,yaptv wears old. "Ihat'0