Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-05-04


fermentation, but by a word, makes 13O
gallons of pure wine.
Marine achievements Ee turns a
whole school of fish into the net of men
who were mourning over their poor lack,
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 a squall down
through the mountain gorge, and Cen
nesaret, with long locks of white foam;
rises up to battle it, and the boat drops
into 8 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 hls
brow and bushes the crying storm on the
knee of his omnipotence. Who wrestled
down that euroclydon? Whose feet tram
pled the rough Galilee into smooth
floor?
LIFE OUT OF DEATH.
Let philosophers and anatomists 90 to
Westminster abbey and try to wake up
Queen Elizabeth OF Henry VIII. No
human power ever wakened the dead.
There is dead girl in Capernaum. What
does Christ do? Alas, that she should
have died so young and when the word
was so fair! Only u 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
ewes open, her heart starts. The white
lly of death bushes into The rose of life
and health. She rushes 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 a 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 q
blow that will make it stagger in MD
heaven; the stars will circle like dry
leaves in an equinox; the earth Will un-
roll the bodies, and the sky will unrol
the spirits. and soul and flesh will come
into incorruptible conjunction. Day Of
smoke and fire and darkness and tn
umph. On one side, piled up in galleries
of light, the one hundred and forty and
four thousand-yea, the quintillions-of
the saved. On the other side, piled up
in galleries Of darkness, the frowning,
the glaring multitude of those who re-
iected God.
Between these two piled up galleries
throne, high throne, throne stand
ing on two FURNISHED pillars-justice,
mercy-a throne so bright you had bet
ter hide your eye lest it be extinguished
with excess of vision. But it is an emp
ty throne. Who will come up and take
II: Will you:
"Ah, nom you say, 81 am but child
of dust. I would not dare to climb that
throne" Would Gabriel climb it? BE
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 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: 1T is God! It's GodT
We must all appear before the judg-
ment seat of Christ.
ONLY THE DIVINE CAN RELIEVE SORROW.
Oh. I am so glad that it is divine
being who comes to pardon all our sins,
to comfort all our sorrows. Sometimes
our griefs are so great they are beyond
any human sympathy, and we want AL
mighty sympathy. Oh. ye who cried all
last night because of bereavement or
loneliness, want to tell youit is an ON
nipotent Christ who is come.
When the children are in the house
and the mother is dead, the father mas
to be more gentle in the home, and he
has to take the office of father and moth
er. 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 one, in the
tenderness of the other. He says with
one breath, LAS a father pitieth his
children, so the Lord pitieth them that
fear him." and then with the next breath
he SAYS, LAS 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
saws: 20 widowed soul, 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 be-
reavement. Oh, what tender and sym
pathetic God has come for us. I 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 aud 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 as 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 US all come forth
The Christ Of the manger is the Christ
Of the throne.
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