Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-05-01

centripetal and centrifugal FORCES keep
the world from clashing and from de-
molltion. But Paul says that Christs
arm is the axle on which everything
turns. and that Christ's hand is the
socket in which everything Is set.
Mark the words, "Upholding-uphoid.-
ing all things by the word OF his power. ="
Then be must be God.
Then look az what Christ says OF MIN
self. Now, certainly everyone must I'M
derstand himself better than any one
else can understand him. IL l ask you
where you were born, and you tell me.
II was born in Chester, England, or II
was born in Glasgow, Scotland" or u
was born in Dublin, Ireland" or IL was
bon in New Orleans, the United States,
you being a man Of integrity, should
believe you.
IFIAsKED you
how many pounds you can HIT, ana you
should say you could lift one hundred
pounds. or two hundred pounds, or
three hundred pounds, ! should believe
you. 1t is matter pesonal TO your
self. You know better than any
one else can tell you. If l ask
how much estate you are worth,
and you say $4,000. or 100000, or
$500, 600, believe what you say. You
know better than an anyone else. Now
Christ must know better than anyone
else who He Is aud what He is. He says;
Before Abraham was, | am" Aora-
ham had been dead 202s years. Was
Christ POPS years old? Yes, He says he
is older than that. Before Abraham
was, am." Then Christ says, II am
the Alpha" Alpha is the first letter OF
the Greek alphabet, and Christ in that
utterance declared, az am the A OF the
alphabet of the centuries" Then He
must be a God. Can q man be in a
thousand places at once. where two
or three are gathered In Ny name,
there am in the midst OF them" This
observation-disclosures would cease, lie
goes on and He intimates that He will
be in all the cities or the earth-He
will be in Europe, Asia, Africa, North
and South America, the day before the
world burns up. "Lo, am with you
always, even unto the end Of the world. "
Why, then,
he MUST BE A GOD.
Besides that, be takes divine honors.
He declares himself Lord Of men, an
gels and devils. Is he? II he Is, he IS
u God. II he is not, he is al imposter.
A man comes into your store tomorrow
morning. He says, II am the great ship
builder OF Liverpool; have built hun
dreds Of ships" lie goes on 10 give his
experience. You defer TO him as man
OF large experience and great posses
sIons. But the next day you find out
that he is not the great shipbuilder OF
Liverpool, that be never built ship.
that he never built anything. WHAT'S he
then? An imposter. Christ says be
built this world; he built all things. Did
he build them? If be did he is COD.
II be did not he is an imposter.
A man comes into your place OF 6usi-
ness, with a Jewish countenance and a
German accent, and says, II am Roths-
child, the banker Of London; have the
wealth Of nations In my pocket; l loaned
that large amount 70 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 large estate, that he is no banker
at all; that he owns nothing. What Is
he? An imDoster. Christ says he owns
the cattle on a thousand hills, be owns
this world, he owns the next world, he
owns the universe, he Is the banker of
all nations. Is be? II he is, he is q
God. Is he not? Then he is an i'm
poster.
A man enters the White House at
Washington. He says, ~ am
EMPEROR WILLIAM OF GERMANY;
am travelling incognite; have come
over here for recreation and pleasure;
l own castles In Dresden and Berlin. }"
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 impositor, Christ
says he Is the King over all, the
King immortal, invisible. IL he is,
he is a God. If he is not, he Is an i'm
postor.
Let philosophers and anotomists go to
Westminster Abbey and try 10 wake
up Queen Elizabeth or Henry VIII. No
human power can ever waken the dead.
There Is q dead girl In Capernaum.
What does Christ do? Alasl 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
Is full OF weeping. Christ comes and
he takes hold OF the hand OF the dead
girl, and instantly her eyes open, her
heart starts. The white lily OF death
bushes into the rose Of life and health.
She ruSheS into the arms of her rej0lc-
Ing kindred. Who woke up that death?
Who restored her TO life? A man?
Tell that to the luRatics in Blooming
dale asylum. IL was Christ the God.
But there comes test which more
than anything else will show whether
he was God or man. You remember that
great passage which says: 1--WE must all
appear before the Judgment seat Of
Christ" The earth will be stunned by a
blow that will make it stagger mid
heaven; the stars will circle like dry
leaves in an equinox; the earth will un-
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 CALLER
les 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 frown-
ing, the glazing multitude of
THOSE WHO REJECTED GOD.
Between these two piled-up galleries
a throne, high throne, a throne stand
ing on two FURNISHED pillars-Justice,
Mercy throne so bright you had bet.
ter hide your eye lest it be exringuished
with excess OF vision. But 10 Is an emp
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