The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-05-05

until the boat Is SO full they have to hal |
loo to other boats, and the other boats
come up. and they are laden to the wa
ter's 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 squall down
through the mountain gorge, and Gen
nesaret, with long locks of white foam;
rises up to battle it, and the boat drops
into trough and ships sea, and the
loosened sails crack in the tornado, and
Christ rises from the back part of the
boat and comes walking across the stag
gering 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 tram
pied the rough Galilee into a smooth
floor?
LIFE OUT OF DEATH.
Let philosophers and ANTAGONISTS go to
Westminster abbey and try to wake up
Queen Elizabeth or Henry VIII. No
human power ever Weakened the dead
There is a dead girl in Capernaum. What
does Christ do? Alas, that she should
have died so young and when the world
was so fair! Only 10 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 heI
eyes open, her heart starts The white
lily Of death bushes into the rose of HE
and health. She PUSHES into the arms of
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 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
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 unro!
the spirits, and soul and flesh will COM
into incorruptible conjunction. Day
smoke and fire and darkness and tri-
umph. On one side, piledup in gallerlos
of light, the one hundred and forty and
four thousand-yea, the quintillions-ot
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, throne stanu-
ing ON two FURNISHED pillars-justice
mercy-a throne so bright you had bet
ter hide your eye lest it be extinguisho.
with excess of vision. But it is an emp.
ty throne. Who will come up and take
it? Will you?
"Ah, nor 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? Her
comes one. His back is to US. He goes
up step above step, height above height
until he reaches the apex. Then he turn
around and faces all the nations, and ",
all see who it is. 1t is Christ, the GOO
and all earth, and all heaven, and all hei
kneel, crying: 1T is God! It's God
We must all appear before the judg
ment seat of Christ
ONLY THE DIVINE CAN RELIEVE SORROW
Oh, l am so glad that it is divi.
being who comes to pardon all our sir
20 comfort all our sorrows. SometiiGe
our griefs are SO great they are beyoe
any human sympathy, and we want Z,
mighty sympathy. Oh, We who cried y.
last night because of bereavement
loneliness, want to tell you it is an on
pipotent Christ who is come.
When the children are in the hous
and the mother is dead, the father b.
to be more gentle in the home, and /.
has to take the office of father and mo.i,
er, and it seems to me Christ looks OF
upon your helplessness, and he propose
to be father and mother to your sort
He comes in the strength of one, in til
tenderness of the other. He says wit
one breath. GAS a father pitieth Ii.
children, so the Lord pitieth them thai
fear him." and then with the next breath
he says, GAS one whom his mother COM
forteth, so will comfort YOU" Do you
not 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: 30 widowed soul, will be thy
God. 0 orphaned soul, will be thy
protector. Do not cry" Then he touches
your eyelids with his fingers and sweeps
bis fingers down your cheek and wipes
away all the tears of loneliness and be-
reavement. Oh, what tender and SYM
pathetic God has come for us! do not
ask you to lay hold of him. Perhaps
you are not strong enough for that. l
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 cannot bring us back
again. should be scared with infinite
fright if / thought 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 lis all come forth.
| The Christ of the Manager is the Christ
| of the throne.