The Penn's Grove record., 1893-05-05

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he is not the great s%hipbuilder of Liverpool;
that he never built a snip that he never built
! ANYTHING. What is he then2 An impostor.
| Christ saws He built this world. He built all
things. Did He build them? II He did, He
is a God. II He did not, He Is an impostor.
A man comes into your place OF business
with Jewish countenance n q German
accent and saysi ~ am Rothschild, the
banker, of London. l have the wealth Of
Nations in my pocket. I loaned that large
amount to Italy and Austria in their perplex-
ity." But after a while you find that he has
never loaned any money to Italy or Austria ;
that he never had q large estate that he is
no banker at all that He owns nothing.
What is he2 An impostor. Christ says He
WINS the cattle on a thousand hills He WINS
this world He OWL the next world He
owns the universe He is the banker of all
Nations. Is He2 II He is, He is a God. Is
He not? Then He is an impostor.
/ Aman enters the White House at Washing
ton. He says ~ am Emperor William, Of
Germany. 1 am travelling incognito. l have
come over here for recreation and pleasure.
l own castles in Dresden n Berlin" But
the presidpnt finds ont the nayt day tLat be
Is not Emperor William /, that he owns no cas-
tiles at Berlin and Dresden that he has no
authority. What is he2 An impostor. Christ
saws He ia the king over all-tho king immor-
tai, invisible. If He is, He Is o God. II He Ia
not, He is an impostor.
Strauss saw that alternative, and he tries
to get out of it by saying that Christ was sin
full In accepting alteration and worship.
Renan tries to get out of it by saying that
Christ-not through any fault of His owR,
but through the fault OF others-lost His
purity Of conscience, INT he slyly intimate,
that dishonorable women had damaged His
SOU. Anything but believe that Christ IL
God. Now you believe the Bible to be true.
II you do not, you woulL hardly have an,
peared in this church. You would have coma
over and Joined the Broadway In1del club,
or you would go to Boston n kiss the foot
OF the statue of Thomas Paine. You would
hardly come into this church, where the most
oil US are the deluded souls who believe in a
whole Bible and take 1t all down es easily as
you swallow u ripe 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 achieve
ments-surgical, ali,nentary, marine, mortu-
airy. Surgical achievementsi Where is the
medical journal that gives an account of such
exploits as Christ wrought? He used no
knife. He carried no splints. He employed
no compress. He made no patient squirm
under cauterization. He tied no artery. Yet
behold Him! With a word He struck fast
Malchus' amputated. ear. He stirred a little
dust and spittle into n salve and with it
caused 8 man who was born blind and with
out optic nerve or cornea or crystalline lens
60 open his eyes or the sunlight. He beat
music on the drum of the deaf ear. He
Strengthened a woman who, through eontrac-
ton OF muscle, had been bent almost double
for well nigh two decades. He made a man
who had no use OF his limbs for SO years
shoulder his mattress and walk of.
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 useless and
h1eless at the mans side, and Christ says to
him, ''Stretch forth thine hand" and he
stretched it forth whole as the other. He
vas a God.
Alimentary achievements He found a lad
who had come out of the wilderness with five
loaves OF bread for 0. speculation. Perhaps
the lad had paid five pennies for the five
loaves and expected to Sell them for ten pen
MES, and so he would double his money.
Christ took those loaves of bread n per-
formed q miracle by which He fed 1000 fam
ishinS people, and I warrant you the lad lost
nothing, for there were twelve baskets OF
fragments taken up, and If the boy had five
ioaves at the start l warrant you he had at
least ten at the close.
The Saviour's mother goes into a neigh,
bors house to help get up a wedding party.
By calculation she finds out that the amount
So ANN y U tlO SuN1los ANlo
calls In Christ for help, and Christ, not blythe
slow decay of fermentation, but by a word,
makes 100 gallons OF pure wine.
Marine achievementsl He turns q who's
school Of fish into the net OF men who were
mourning over their poor luck, until the boat
rs 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 upsetthe
ship.
Then there comes a squall down through.
the mountain gorge, and Gennealret, with
long locks OF white foam. rises up to battle
1t, and the Goat drops into a trough and ships
q 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 omnipotenee. Who wrestled down that
euroclydon2 Whose feet trampled the rough
'ialilee into a smooth floor?
Let philosophers and anatomists go t.
Westminster Abbey and try to wake up
queen Elizabeth or Henry VIII. No hui
man power ever wakened the dead. There
Is dead girl in Capernaum. What does
Christ do? Alas that she should have died SO
young and the world so fairl Only twelve
years OF age. Feel her cold brow and cold
DNhNf Cau Ii uOuJc Is luit v 4
weeping. Christ comes, and He takes hold
OF the hand Of the dead girl, and instantly
her eyes open, her heart starts. The white
NY OF death bushes into the rose of life and
health. She rushes into the arms of her
rejoicing kindred. Who wokeup that death?
VINO restored her to life? Aman? Tel
that to the ~lunatics in Bloomingdale asylum.
It was Christ the God.
But there comes a test which more thai
HnVLnlng else will ahntv uhafhar He UNA GAt
or man You remember that great passage
winch says, I'VE must all appear before the
Judgmen seat Of Christ" The earth will be
stunned by a blow that will make it stagger
In midheayen the stsra will circle like dry
leaves IN an equinox suo ea.sn will unroll
the bodies, and the sky will unrollthe spirits,
n SOU and flesh will come into i~ncorrupti-
PIE conjunction. Day of smoke and fire and
DARKNESS and triumph. On one side, piled
up m galleries of light, the c,e hundred and
iorty and four thousand-yea, the qutntil-
nons-of the saved. On the other side, piled
up In galleries of darkness, the frowning, the
siaflng multitude of those who rejected God.
between these two piled up galleries a
throne, a high throne, a throne standing on
W FURNISHED p~illars-iustice, mercy-a
throne so bright you had better hide your
ey9 Iest II be e~xtinguished with excess OF
VISION. But it Is an empty throne. Who viii
come up and take IT'D VIII you?
All, no r you say 1T am bur q child Of
dust, would not dare to climb that throne"
would Gabriel climb ~ He dare not. Who
VIII ascend it2 Here comes one. His back Ia
70 US. He goes up step above step, height
ABOVE height until He reaches the apex. Then
He turns o 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
nell kneel, crying 1T is a God 1t is a God y
we must all appear before the Judgment seat
Oh, am so glad that IT is a Divine beint
who eomes to pardon all our Ans, to COM
Iort all our sorrows Sometimes u Rriefs
are so great they are beyond any human
sympathy, and we want Almighty sympathy.
On, We who cried all last night because OF
bereavement or loneliness, l want to tell you
IL Is an omnipotent Christ who Is come.
When the children are in the house ano
tne mother Is dead, the father has to be more
gentle IN the home, and he has TO take the
once OF father and mother. and 1t seems to
me Cnrlst looks out upon your helpiessness.
anu ne 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, GA a father pitt. .b his children,
SO the Lord pitieth them that :. Him, and
men with the next breath He says, one
wnom MS mother eomforteth, SO will 1 COM
LOTT yOu." Do Won moi faal fha hush OF the