The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-05-12

| Strengthened woman who through
contraction of muscle had been bent
almost double for weil-nigh two de-
cades He made a man 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 poweriess before a
withered arm; but this Doctor of ON
nipotent surgery comes in and He sees
the paralytic arm useless and -fifeless
at the mans side, and Christ says TO
: him: Stretch forth thine hand, and
he stretched it forth whole as the 9th.
er." He was God.
Alimentary achievements. He found
lad who had come out of the wilder
ness with five loaves of bread for a
speculation. Perhaps the lad paid five
pennies for the five 1oaves, and ex-
pected to sell them for ten pennies, and
so he would double his money. Christ
took those loaves of bread and per-
formed a miracle by which He fed
seven thousand famishing people, and
/ warrant you the lad lost nothing, for
there were twelve baskets of frag.
ments taken up, and if the boy had
five loaves at the start, l warrant you
he had at least ten at the close.
The Saviour's mother goes into a
neighbor's house to help her get up
wedding party. By calculation she
finds out 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
word, makes one hundred and thirty
gallons of pure wine.
Marine achievements. He turns
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 starboard lest
they upset the ship. Then there comes
a squa1 down through the mountain
gorge, and Gennesaret with long
locks of white foam rises up to bat
tie 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 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
smooth floor?
Let the philosophers and anatomists
| go to Westm inster abbey and try to
| wake up Queen Elizabeth or Henry
| VIII. No human power ever wakened
the dead. There is dead girl in Ca
pernaum. 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 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 death. She rushes into arms of her
rejoicing kindred. Who woke up that
death? Who restored her to life? A
man? Tell that to the lunatics in
Bloomingdale asylum. 1t was Christ
the God.
Between these two piled-up galleries
throne, a high throne, a throne
standing on two FURNISHED pillars
| justice, Mercy-a throne so bright
you had better hide your eye lest it be
extinguished with excess of vision.
But it is an empty throne. Who will
come up and take it? VIII you?
"Ah! no." 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 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 it is. 1t is
| Christ, the God, and all earth, and all
Heaven, and all hell kneel, crying: 1T
is God! 1t is God" We must all ap-
pear before tle judgment sent to Christ.
| Oh, am so glad that it is Divine
being who comes to pardon all our sins,
| to comfort all our sorrOVs. Sometimes
are 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 1T is an
Omnipotent Christ who is come.
When the children are in 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
mother, 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
| the one, in the tenderness of the other.
| He saws with one breath: GAS ia
ther pitieth his children, so the Lord
pitieth them that fear Him." and
! then with the next breath he says: GAS
one whom his mother comforteth, so
will comfort you Do you not feel
the hush of the Divine lullaby? Oh,
put your tired head down on the heav-
| ing bosom of Divine compassion while
He puts His arms around you and says:
80 widowed soul, l 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
away all the tears of loneliness and
/ bereavement. Oh, what a tender and
sympathetic God has come for u.s. do
not ask you to lay hold of Him. Per-
haps you are not strong enough for
/ that do not ask you to pray. Per-
haps 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 sepulchre.
! Strong men will take us in their arms
and carry US down and lay us in the