The Globe-republican., 1893-05-05

ness with Eve loaves of bread for spec
ulaNon. Perhaps the Lad had paid five
pennies for the five loaves. and expected
to sell them for ten pennies. and 50 he
would double his money. Christ took
those loaves of bread and performed .
miracle by which he fed 1000 furnishing
people. and warrant You the lad lost
| nothing, for there We're twelve baskets
| of fragments taken up. and if the boy
i. had five loaves at the start, l warrant
you had least ten at the close.
| The Saviours mother goes into a
neighbor's house to help get up a we'd
ding party. BY calculati ton 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 a
word. makes 130 gallons of pure wine
Marine achievements. He turns a
whole school of fish into the net OF men
| who We're 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
1
from larboard to starboard lest they up-
set the ship. Then there comes squall
down through the mountain gorge and
| Gennesaret with long locks of white
| foam rises up to battle it. and the boat
drops into a trough and ships sea,
! and the looSened sails crack in the tor
nado, and Christ rises from the back
| part of the boat and comes walking
across the staggering ship until he
comes to the PROV. and there he wipes
| the spray from his brow and bushes the
crying storm on the knee of his omnip-
otence. Who wrestled down that euro
clydon? Whose feet trampled the
rough Galilee into smooth floor?
Let the philosophers and ANTAGONISTS
go to Westminster Abbey and try to
wake up Queen Elizabeth or Henry
VIII No human power ever Weakened
! the dead. There is dead girl at
Capernaum. What does Christ do?
| Alas! that she should have died so
| young and when the world was so fair.
Only Il years of age. Feel her cold
| brow and cold hands. Dead. dead,
| The house is full of weeping. Christ
| comes and ne takes hold of the hand
| of the dead girl. and instantly her eyes
| open. her heart starts. The white lily
| 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 Bloomingdale asylum 1t 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 Christ" The earth will be
stunned by blow that will make it
stagger mid-heaven: the stars will
circle like dry leaves in an equinox: the
earth will unroll the bodies. and the
sky will unroll the spirits. and soul and
flesh will come into incorrUptible con-
junction. Day of smoke and fire and
darkness triumph. On one side. piled
UP in galleries of light, the one hun
bred 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 rejected God.
Between these two piled-up galleries
throne. high throne, a throne stand
ing on two FURNISHED pillars-.Iustice.
Mercy-a throne so bright you had bet
ter hide Your eye lest it be extinguished
with excess of vision. But it is an
empty throne. Who will come up and
take it? viii you?
All! no." you say. II am but a
child of dust. l would not dare to
climb that throne" Would Gabriel
climb it. He dare not Who will
ascend it? Here comes one. His back
is to u.s. He goes up step above step.
the apex. Then he turns around and
faces all nations. and we all see who it
is. 1t is Christ. the God. and all earth.
and all Heaven. and all hell kneel cry
ing: 1T is a God, it is Cod We
must all appear before the judgment
seat of Christ.
Oh, l 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. who cried all
last night because of bereavement or
loneliness. want to tell you it is an
ornnipotent Christ who is come.
When the children are in the house
and the mother is dead. the father has
to be more gentle in the home and he
has TO take the Office OF father 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 the one. in the
tenderness of the other. He says with
one breath. ''As father pitieth his
children. so the Lord pitieth them that
fear him." And then with the next
breath he says: ''As one whom his
mother comforteth, so will 1 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 says: 20 wild
owed soul. l will be thy God. o
orphaned soul, will be thy protector.
Do not cry" Then he touches your