News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-05-04
her rejoicing kindred. Who woke up

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 a test which more
than anything else will show whether he
was God or man. You remember that
appear before the Judgment seat of
Christ" The earth will be stunned by
blow that will make it stagger in mid
heaven; the stars will circle like dry
leaves in an equinox; the earth will I'M
roll 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 tri-
umph. 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 re-
jected God.
Between these two piled up galleries
throne, high throne, a throne stand
ing on two FURNISHED pillars-justice,
mercy-a throne so bright you had bet
ter hide your eye lest it be extinguished
with excess of vision. But it is an emp
ty throne. Who will come up and take
it? Will you?
"Ah, NOT you say, 81 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 u.s. He goes
up step above step, height above height,
until he reaches the apex. Then he turns
bround and faces all the nations, and we
all see who it is. 1t is Christ, the God,
and all earth, and all heaven, and all hell
kneel, crying: cit is God! 1t is Godr'
We must all appear before the judg-
l1ent seat of Christ.
ONLY THE DIVINE CAN RELIEVE SORROW.
Oh, am so glad that it is divine
being who comes to pardon all our sins,
to comfort all our sorrows. Sometimes
our griefs are so great they are beyond
any human sympathy, and we want AL
mighty sympathy Oh, We who cried all
last night because of bereavement or
loneliness, want to tell you it is an ON
epotent Christ who is come.
When the children are III 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 moth
er, and it seems to me Christ looks out
upon your helplessness, and he proposes
to be father and mother to your soul.
He comes in the strength of one, in the
tenderness of the other. He 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, LAS one whom his mother COM
forteth, so will 1 comfort you" Do you
hot feel the hush of the divine lullaby?
Oh, put your tired head down on the |
heaving bosom of divine compassion, |
while he puts his arms around you and |
says: so widowed soul, will be thy |
God. o orphaned 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
Eway all the tears of loneliness and be-
Oh, what a tender and SYM
ask you to lay hold of him. Perhaps
you are not strong enough for that.
10 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 1 will hear the click of
the latch Of the door of the sepulcher.
5trong men will take us in their arms
md carry US down and lay us in the
dust, and they cannot bring us back
rgain. I should be scared with infinite
fright if 1 thought 1 must stay in the
grave, if 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 manager is the Christ
of the throne.