Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-05-12

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| ter than any one else can tell you.
| If ask how much estate you are worth,
| and you say $4,000 or 800. 900 or 500, 900,
I believe what you say. You know better
| know better than any one else who He Is and
| what He is. When I ask Hin how old He Is
| He says, Before Abraham was. l an
| Abraham had been dead POPS years was
| Christ POPS years old? Yes. he says He Is
| older than that. Before Abraham was.
! am" Then Christ says, 4 an the Alpha
| Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet,
! and Christ in that utterance declared, I am
! the of the alphabet Of the centuries. Then
| He must be God
Can man be in thousand places at once?
| Christ says He is IN a thousand places at
once. "Where two or three are gathered to-
gether in My name, there AM in the midst
of them" This everywhereativeness, is It
characteristic of man or Of a GOdE And
lest we might think this everywhereativeness
would cease, He goes OF, and He intimateS
that He will be III all the cities OF the earth
He viii be in Europe, Asia. Africa, North and
South America the day before the world burns
up. 10, I am with you always, even unto
the end of the world" Why, then, he must
be God.
Besides that he takes divine honors. He
declares Himself Lord of men, angels and
devils Is He? If He is, He is God. IfHe
is not, He is an impostor. man comes into
your store tomorrow morning. He says
II am the great shipbuilder of Liverpool I
have built hundreds Of ships. He goes on
to give his experience. You defer to him as
a man of large experience and great pos
sessions. But the next day you find out that
he is not the great shipbuilder Of Liverpool;
that he never built snip that ne never built
anything. What Is he then? An impOstOr.
Christ says He built this world. He built all
things Did He build them? If He did. He
is God. If He did not. He is an impOstOr.
A man comes into your place OF business
with Jewish cOuntenance and German
accent and says: II am Rothschild, the
banker of London. I have the wealth of
amount to Italy and Austria in their perpIex-
ity." But after while you find that he has
never loaned any money TO Italy or Austria,
that he never had a large estate that he is
no banker at all that He owns nothing.
What is he? An impOstOr. Christ says He
owns the cattle on 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 God. Is
He not? Then He is an impostor..
A man enters the White House at Washing
ton He says: Il am Emperor William, of
Germany. 1 am travelling incognito. have
come over here for recreation and pleasure.
1 own castles in Dresden and Berlin" But
the president finds out the next day that he
is not Emperor William that he owns no cas-
ties at Berlin and Dresden that he has nc
authority. What is he? An impostor. Christ
says He is the king over all-the king immor.
not, He is an impOstOr.
Strauss saw that alternative, and he tries
to get out OF it by saying chat Christ was sin
full in accepting alteration and worship.
Renan tries to get out of it by saying that
Christ-nOt through any fault Of His own,
but through the fault of others-lost His
purity OF conscience and he slyIy intimates
that dlshOnOrable women had damaged His
soul. Anything but believe that Christ is
God. Now you believe the Bible to be true.
If you do not, you would hardly have ap-
peared in this church. You would have gone
over and joined the Broadway Infidel club,
or you would go 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
whole Bible and take it oil down as easily as
you swallow a ripe strawberry.
have shown you what inspired men said
OF Christ L have shown you what Christ said
OF Himself; now, if you believe the Bible, let
us go out and see His wonderful achieve
mentS-surS1cal, allmentary, marine, mOrtu-
airy. 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 word He struck fast
Malchus' amputated ear. He stirred a little
dust and spittle into a salve and with it
caused man who was born blind and with
out optic nerve or cOrnea 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 cOntrac-
ton of muscle, had been bent almost double
for we'll nigh two decades. He made man
who had no use Of his limbs for SO years
shoulder his mattress and walk off.
Sir Ashley Cooper. Abernethy, Valentine
Mott, stood powerless before a withered arm.
but this doctor of onnipotent surgery, comes
in and He sees the paralytic arm useless and
lifeless ct the mans side and Christ says to
him, ''Stretch forth thine hand" and he
stretched it forth whole as the other. He
was q God.
Alimentary achievements He found a lad
who had come out of the wilderness with five
lOaves of bread for a speculation Perhaps
the lad had paid five pennies for the five
lOaves and expected to sell them for ten pen
MES, and so he would double his money.
Christ took those loaves OF bread and per-
formed miracle by which He fed 1000 fam
ishing people, and I warrant you the lad lost
nothing, for there were twelve baskets of
fragments taken up, and If the boy had five
loayes at the start [ warrant you he had at
least ten at the close.
The Saviours mother goes into q neigh
bOrs house to help get up 8 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 blythe
slow decay of fermentation. but by word,
makes 100 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 tire waters edge with the game so
that the sailors have to be cautious in going
from larboard to starboard lest they upsetthe