Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-05-05

SAWS lie is tue kluk ONtl .
tai, invisible. II He liz, He Is Gou. ii ne
not, He is an impostor
Strauss saw that alternative, and be tr1e:
70 get out of it by saying that Christ was sin
full in accepting alteration and worship
Renan tries 10 get out OF 1t by saying ina
Christ-not through any fault OF His own
Int through the fault Of others-lost Ill
purity of conscience and he slyly intimntes
that dishonorable women had damaged His
soul. Anything but believe that Christ Is
God. Now you believe the Bible 10 be true.
II you do not, you would hardly have ap-
peared in this church. You would have gone
over and joined the Broadway Inidel club,
or you would 90 to Boston and kiss the foot
of the statue of Thomas Paine. You would
hardly come into this church, where the most
of us are the deluded souls who believe in a
whole Bible and take il all down as easily rs
you swallow ripe strawberry.
have shown you what inspired men said
OF Christ 4 have shown you what Christ said
OF Himself; now, II you believe the Bible, let
us go out and see His wonderful achieve
ments surgical. alimentary, marine, mortu-
ary Surgical achievements 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
M1lchus' amputated ear He stirred a little
dust and Spite into salve and with il
caused man who was born blind and with
out optic nerve or cornea or crystalline lens
to open his ewes on the sunlight. He beat
music on the drum OF the deaf ear. He
Strengthened a woman Who through contrac-
ton OF muscle. had been bent almost double
for well nigh two decades. He made man
who had no use of his limbs for SO years
shoulder his mattress and walk of.
Sir Ashley Cooper, Abenethy. Valentine
Mott. stood powerless before a withered arm.
but this doctor Of omnipotent surgery, comes
III and He sees the paralytic arm useless and
lifeess at the mans side, and Christ says to
him, ''Stretch forth thine hand, and he
stretched it forth whole as the other He
Yves God
Alimentary achievements He found a lad
VINO had come out of the wilderness with five
loaves OF bread for a speculation. Perhaps
the lad had paid five pennies for the five
loayes and expected to sell them for ten pen
MES. and so he would double his money.
Christ took those loayes Of bread and per-
formed a miracle 10y which He fed 1000 fam
islinS people, and l warrant you the lad lost
nothing. for there were twelve baskets or
fragments taken up. and il the boy had five
JOdNeS AT I0e start l warrant YOU 10 uat az
least ten at the close.
The SaYiOur's mother goes into neigh
Dor house to help get up wedding party.
BY calculation she finds out that the amount
o. VINE as not sufficient for the guests. She
calls in Christ for help. and Christ, not by the
slow decay OF fermentation. but by a word.
makes $50 gallons Of pure wine.
Marine achievements He turns a 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 squat down through
the mountain gorge, and Gennesaret, with
long locks OF white foam, rises no 70 battle
il, and the boat drops into a trough and ships
a sea and the lOOsened sails crack in tho
tornado. and Christ rises from the back part
OF the boat and comes walking across the
staggering ship until He comes to the PROV,
ana there He wipes the spray from His brow
and bushes the crying storm on the knee OF
His Omnipotence. Who wrested down that
euroclydon? Whose feet trampled the rough
Gables into a smooth floor?
Let philosophers AMI ANTAGONISTS 50 to
. IL
Queen Elizabeth or Henry VIII No hui
man power ever wakened the dead. There
ls o dead girl in Capernaum. What does
Chris. DO? Alas that she should have died 50
Young and the world so fair Only twelve
wears 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
IA . H.. 1t g.. s.r.I
health She PUSHES into the arms OF her
rejoicing kindred. Who woSeup that death?
who restored her to life? A man? Tell
that to the lunatics in Bloomingdale asylum.
1t was Christ the God;
But there comes a test wnich moro than
ANYTHING else will show whether He was 'on
Aor mau. You remember that great passage
which says. I'VE must all appear before the
Judgment seat Of Christ" The earth will be
Stunned by blow that will make it stagger
I'm midheaven the stars will circle like dry
leaves in an equinox the earth Will unroil
the bodies, and the sky will unroll the spirits
and soul and flesh will come into incorrupti-
,ble conjunction. Day of smoke and fire and
darkness and triumph. On one side. pllea
up in galleries Of light, the one hundred and
forty and four thOusand-yea, the quintii-
;lions-of the saved. On the other side. piled
.up in galleries OF darkness. the frowning, the
gisring multitude Of those who rejected Coo.
Between these two piled up galleries a
throne. a high throne. a throne standing on
two FURNISHED pillars Justice, mercy "A
throne 80 bright you had better hide your
eye lest it be extinguished with excess o.
vision. But it Is an empty throne. Who VIII
come up and take it? Will your
"Ah. no !" YOU say II am but ctId q
dust. would not dare 10 climb that Urcn:
Would Gabriel climb it, He dare not. NG0
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 the Nations,
and we all see who it is. 1t is Christ, the
God, and all earth, and all heaven, and all
hell kneel. CRYING cit is a God 1t is a God
We must all appear before the judgment seat
OF Christ.
oh, am so glad that it is Divine being
who comes to pardon all our sine to COM
fort all our sorrows. Sometimes our griefs
are so great they are beyond any human
sympathy. and we want Almighty sympathy.
Oh. We VINO cried all last night because OF
bereavement or loneliness. / want to tell you
Il is an Omnipotent Christ who Is come.
When the children are in the house ana
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 1t seems 10
me Christ looks out upon your helplessncss,
and He proposes to be father and mother 10
your soul. He comes in the strength OF one
in the tenderness OF the other. He says with
one breath. "As father pitieth his children:
so the Lord pitch them that fear Him, ana
then with the next breath He says. las one
whom his mother comiorteth 80 Will L com
fort 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 nc
puts His arms around you and says ~
widowed soul, will be thy God. or
phansd 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 lonli-
ness and bereavement. Oh what tender
and sympathetic God has como for us do
not ask YOU TO lay hold OF Him. Perhaps You
are not strong enough for that do not ask
you to pray Perhaps you are too bewild.
cred for that. only ask you TO let go and
fall back into the arms Of everlasting love.
Soon you and I 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 tho dust, and they cannot
bring us back again. 1 should DO scared
with infinite fright il 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 us all come forth. The Christ OF the
Manager is the Christ OF the throne.