The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1893-05-05

sAVh anu Wvrnnup. KEENAN, tries To get
out of 1t by saying that Christ
through amy fault of his own, but
through the fault OF others --lost His
purity of conscience, and he slyly inti-
mates that dishonorable women had
damaged His soul. Any thing but be-
lieve that Christ is God.
Now you believe the Bible Co be true.
II you do not you would hardly have
appeared in this church. You would
have gone over and joined the Broad.
way lntidel club, or you would TO 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 q whole Bible and take IL all down
as You swallow ripe strawberry.
have shown you what inspired men
said of Christ, have shown You what
Christ said of Himself; now II you be-
lieye the Bible, let us 60 out and see
His wonderful achievements surgical.
alimentary, marine mortunry. Surgical
achievements. Where Is the medical
journal that gives my 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 authorization.
ne tied no artery. Yet behold Him.
With word Iic stuck fust MnIchus'
umputatcd ear. lie stirred n little dist
and spittlc into Knlve, and with ~
caused u man who was born blind,
and without optic nerve, or cornea,
or crystalline lens, To open his eyes
en- the sunlight He beat music ON
the drum Of the deaf ear. He straight
ened q woman who through contraction
of the muscle had been bent almost
double for well nigh two decades. He
made man who had no use OF his
limb for thirty-eight years shoulder his
mattress and walk off.
Sir Ashley Cooper, Alternately, valen.
tine Mott stood powerless before
withered arm; hut this doctorof omnip-
otent surgery comes in and He sees the
paralitic arm useless and lifeless at the
mans side, and Christ says to him:
Stretch forth thine handr and he
stretched 1t forth whole as the other.
He was God.
Alimentary achievements. He found
a lad who had come out of the wilder
ness with five loaves of bread for a
speculation. Perhaps the lad had paid
five pennies for the FIVE loayes, and he
expected TO sell them for ten pennies,
and so he would double his money.
Christ took those loayes OF bread and
performed miracle by which he fed
seven thousand furnishing people. And
i warrant you the lad lost nothing, for
there were twelve baskets OF fragments
taken up, and II the boy had Ave loaycs
at the start, / warrant you he had at
least ten at the close.
The Saviour's mother goes into a
neighbours house to help get up a wed!
ding party. by calculation she finds
out that the amount of wine is not sufti.
Gent for the guests. She calls In
Christ for help, and Christ, not by the
slow decay Of fermentation, but by q
word, makes 1870 gallons Of pure wine.
Marine achievements. He turns n
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 mp and they
are laden to the waters edge with the
game, so that the sailors have to be
cautious in going from iarboard 10 star.
board lest they upset the ship. Then
there comes a squat down through the
mountain gorge, Genesaret with long
locks of white foam rises up TO battle
II, and the boat drops into trough
and ships q sea, and the loosened sails
crack in the tornado and Christ rises
from the back part of the boat and
comes walking across the staggering
ship until he comes 20 the PROV, and
there He wipes the spray from his
brow and bushes the crying storm on
the knee OF His omnipotence. who
wrestled down that euroclydon? Whose
feet trampled the rough Galilee into |
smooth floor?
Let philosophers and anatomists 90
to Westminster Abbey and try 70 wake |
Queen Elizabeth or Henry VIII. No
human power ever awakened the dead.
There Is dead girl In Capernaum.
What does Christ do? Alasi that she
should have died so young and when
the world was so fair. Only twelve
years OF agel Feel her cold brow and |
cold hands, Dead. deadl The house 4 |
full Of weeping. Christ comes and He
takes hold of the hand of the dead |
girl and instantly her eyes open
and her heart starts. The white
lily Of death bushes into the
roses Of health. She PUSHES into the
arms of her rejoicing kindred. Who
woke up that death2 Who restored her
to life2 A man2 Tell that TO the luna /