Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-05-01

was not anything mate tn&5 was maze.
| Then he was a God.
The Eible says at the ne r. Jesus
every knee shall bow. ho must
come down on its knc 5 on
their knees, apostles on con
fessors on their knees, e.
his knees. Before whom
he is q God. The Bible
! shall confess-Bornesia
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! Every tongue shall confess. I nom?
God. The Bible says Christ same
yesterday, today and forc7eI Is that
characteristic of humanity? Do we not
change? Does not the body entirely
change in seven years? Does not the
mind change? Does not the heart change?
! Christ the same yesterday, today and for
/ ever. He must be God
Philosophers say that the law Of gravi-
tation decides everything and that the
/ centripetal and centrifugal forces keep
+ the world from clashing and from demo-
/ Etic-2 But Paul says that Christ's arm
! is the axle cn which everything turns
/ and that Cll1-.t s hand is the socket in
which everything isset. Mark the words,
"Upholding-r, pholding all things by the
word OF his power Then he must be a
! God.
CH3IST'S OWN TESTIMONY.
! Then look at what Christ says Of him
self. Now, certainly every one must I'M
derstand himself better than any one
I else can understand him. If l ask you
where you were born and you tell me,
/ Il was born in Chester, England,' or Il
was born in Glasgow, Scotland" or Il
was born in Dublin, Ireland" or II was
born in New Orleans, the United States"
you being a man OF integrity, I should
/ believe you. If [ asked you how many
pounds you could lift and you should
say you could lift 100 pounds or 200
pounds or goo pounds, [ should believe
you It is matter personal to yourself.
You know better than any one else can
tell you.
IF ask how much estate yqa ere
worth, and you say $4,000 Or $fC0, eco
OF $500, 600, believe what you say. You
know better than any one else. Now,
Christ must know better than any one
else who he is and what he is. When I
ask him how old he is, he says, Before
Abraham was, ! am Abraham had
been dead 2,028 years. Was Christ
2.O28 years old? Yes, he says he is older
than that Before Abraham was, I
am" Then Christ says, 81 am the Al
pha." Alpha is the first letter Of the
Greek alphabet, and Christ in that ut
terance declared, Il am the A Of the al
Dhabet Of the centuries" Then he must
be 4 God.
Can man he in thousand places at
once? Christ says he is in q thousand
places at once. Where two or three
are gathered together in my name, there
am in the midst Of them" This every
whereativeness, is it characteristic of
man or Of q God? And lest we might
think this observation-disclosures would
cease, he goes on, and he intimates that
he viii be in all the cities of the earth
he will be in Europe, Asia, Africa, North
and South America the day before the
world burns up. ''Lo, I am with you
Away, .even unto the end of the world"
Why, then, he must be q God.
Besides that, he takes divine honors
He declares himself Lord of men, angels
and devils. Is he? If he is, he is a God.
IF he is not, he is an impostor. A man
comes into your store tomorrow morn
ing. He says: I am the great shipbuilder
Of Liverpool, have built hundreds Of
ships" He Goc3 on 70 give his experience
You defer to linn : q man of large ex-
perieccc and GREAT possessions. But the
next day you Ind out that he is not the
great shiDbrLllGo- 4 Liverpool; that he
never built q ship: that I>o never built
anything. What is he then? An impostor
Christ says lie built this world. He built
all things. Did Lc build them? If he did,
he is God. If he did not, he is an i'm
postor.
4 GOD Or An I3IPOSTOR.
A man comes into your place OF bust
ness with Jewish countenance and a
German accent and says: Il am Roths-
child, the banker Of London. have the
wealth Of nations in my pocket. [ loaned
that large amount to Italy and Austria
in their perplezity." But after awhile
you find that he has never loaned any
money to Italy or Austria; that he never
had @ large estate; that ne is no banker
st all; that he owns nothing. What is
he? An i1nDOster. Christ says he owns
the cattle on q thousand hills; he owns
this world; he owns the next world; he
owns the universe; he is the banker of
all nations Is he? IF he is, he is q God.
Is he not? Then he is an inpOstor.
A man enters the White House at
Washington. He says: 4 am Emperor
William Of Germany. I am travelling
inc0gnito. 1 have come over here for
recreation and pleasure. own castles
in Dresden and Berlin" But the presi-
dent finds ont the next day that he is not
Emperor Will am; that he owns no cas-
ties at Berlin and Dresden; that he has
no authority. What is he? An impos-
tor Christ says he is the king over al
the king immortal, invisible. Ii he is,
he is u God. If he is not, he IS an i'm
poster.
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