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

wonderful evements-surgica1, ali
mentary, marine, mortuary. 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 en-
ployed no compress. He made no pa
tent squirm under cauterization. He
tied no artery. Yet behold him! With
a word he stuck fast Malchus
amputated ear He stirred a lit
tie dust and spittle into a salve
and with it caused man who was born
blind and without optic nerve or cor
nea or crystalline lens to open his eyes
on the sunlight. He beat music on the
drum Of the deaf ear. He Strengthened
a woman who, through contraction Of
muscle. had been bent almost double for
well nigh two decades. He made q man
who had 10 use Of his limbs for So years
shoulder his mattress and walk off.
He GIVES POWER TO THE ARM.
Sir Ashley Cooper, Abernethy, Valen-
tine Mott, stood powerless before a with
cred arm, but this doctor of omnipotent
surgery, comes in and he sees the para
lytic arm useless and lifeless at the
mans side, and Christ says to him,
'sStretch forth thine hand" and he
stretched it forth whole as the other.
He was God.
Alimentary achievements! He found
lad who had come out of the wilder
ness with five lOaves Of bread for spec
ulation. Perhaps the lad had paid
pennies for the five loaves and expected
to sell them for 10 pennies, and so he
Ii l11ic4 fool
those 1oaves of bread and performed
miracle by which he fed 1000 furnishing
people, and I warrant you the lad lost
nothing, for there were II baskets OF
fragments taken up, and if the boy had
five 1Oaves at the start I warrant you he
had at least 10 at the close.
The Saviour's mother goes into aneigh-
boris house to help get up wedding
party. By calculation she finds out that
the amount of wine is not sufficient for
the guests. She calls in Christ for help,
and Christ, not by the slow decay Of
fermentation, but by word, makes 1870
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 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 Gen
nesaret, with long locks of white foam;
rises up to battle it, and the boat drops
into a trough and ships a 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 onthe
knee of his OmnipOtence. Who wrestled
down that euroclydon? Whose feet tram
pied the rough Galilee into q smooth
floor?
LIFE OUT Of DEATH.
Let philosophers and ANTAGONISTS go to
Westminster abbey and try to wssee up
Queen Elizabeth or Henry VIII. No
human power ever Weakened the dead.
There is q dead girl in Capernaum. What
does Christ do? Alas, that she should
have died so young and when the world
was so fart Only 13 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
eyes open, her heart starts. The white
lilv of death bushes into the rose Of life
and health. She Iushes 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. It 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
Christi The earth will be stunned by a
blow that viii 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 unroll
/ the spirits, and soul and flesh viii come
/ into incorruptible conjunction. Day OF
/ smoke and fire and darkness and tri-
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
/ jected God.
Between these two piled up galleries
a throne, a high throne, q 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
it? VIII you?
''Ah, nor you say, II am but child
Of dust Z would not dare to climb that
throne" Would Gabriel climb 1t? He
dare not. Who will ascend it? Here