Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-05-12
that to the Iunatics In BIooningda;e asylum
II was Christ me God

that to the lunatics In Bloomingdate asylum.
II was Christ the God
But there comes q test which more than
anything else will show whether He was God
or man. You remember that great passage
which says. We must all appear before the
judgment seat of Christ" The earth viii be
stunned By blow that will make il stagger
in Inidneayen /; the Stars VIII circle like dry
Leaves in an equinox the ear1n viii unrol
tie bodies. and the sky will unroll the spirits
and soul and fesh will come into incorrupti-
bic conjunction. Day Of smoke and fire and
darkness and triumph On one side, piled
up IN galleries Of light. the one hundred and
forty and four thousand-yea, the qulntll-
ions-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 standing on
two FURNISHED piIars-justice, mercy-a
throne SO bright you had better hide your
eye lest it be extinguished with excess OF
vision But it is an empty throne. Who viii
come up and take it? VIII you?
All. no :" you say u am but a child Of
dust. would not dare to climb that throne. >
Would Gabriel climb il? He dare not. NEO
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
We raust all appear before the Judgment seat
OF Christ
Oh, am so glad that it is a Divine being
who comes to pardon all our sins, 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 who cried all last night because OF
bereavement or loneliness I want to tell you
it is an onnipotent Christ who IS come.
When the children are in the house and
doc na fOft hos TO
gentle in the home, and he hes to take the
Office of father and mother, 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. ''As father piteth his children.
so the Lord pitch them that fear Him" and
then with the next breath He says, Gas one
whom his mother comforteth SO will com
fort you" Do you not feel the hush OF the
divins lullaby?
Oh. put your tired head down on the heav-
ing bosom OF divine compassion, while He
puts His arms around you and says: so
widowed soul, I will be thy God. o Or
phaned soul, I VIII 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 lonl-
ness and bereavement. Oh, what a tender
and sympathetic God has come for Us ! do
not ask you to lay nod of Him. Perhaps you
are not strong enough for that I do not ask
you to pray. Perhaps you are too bewild-
cred for that. 1 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 the dust, and thew cannot
bring us back again I should be scared
with infinite fright if thought [ must stayin
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 as all come forth. The Christ Of the
manager is the Christ OF the throne.