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SO he would double his money. Christ
took those loaves of bread and per-
formed miracle by which He fed
seven thousand famishing people, and
l warrant you the lad lost nothing, for
there were twelve baskets of frag-
ments taken up, and if the boy had
| five loaves at the start, L warrant you
he had at least ten at the close.
The Saviour's mother goes into q
neighbor's house to help her get up a
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 fermenta ton, but by
a word, makes one hundred and thirty
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
the waters 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 squan down through the mountain
gorge. and Gennesaret with long
locks of white foam rises up to bat
tie it, and the boat drops into 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 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 omnipotence. Who wrestled
down that euroclydon? Whose feet
trampled the rough Galilee into
smooth floor?
Let the philosophers and anatomists
go to Westminster abbey and try to
wake up Queen Eliza beth or Henry
VIII. No human power ever wakened
the dead. There is dead girl in Ca
pernaum. What does Christ do? Alas!
that she should have died so young
and when the world was so fair.
Only twelve years of age. Feel her
cold brow and cold hands. Dead, deadl
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 lily
of death bushes into the rose of life
and death. She rushes into 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 a test which, more
than anything else, will show whether
He was God or man. You remem Der
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 az equinox;
the earth will unroll the bodies,
and the sky will unroll the spirits,
and soul and flesh will come into incor-
ruptible 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 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
a throne, a high throne, throne
standing on two FURNISHED pillars
justice, Mercy-a throne so bright
you had better hide your ey { lest it be
extinguished with excess of vision.
But it is an empty throne. Who will
come up and take it? VIII you?
"Ah! no." you say, 81 am but 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 us. He goes
up step above step, height above
height, until He reaches the apex.
Then He turns around and faces all ma
tions, and we all see who it is. It is
Christ, the God, and all earth, and all
Heaven, and all hell kneel, crying: ''It
is God! 1t is Godr' We must all ap-
pear before the Judgment sent to Christ.
| Oh, l am so glad that it is Divine
being who comes to pardon all our sins
to comfort all our sorrows. Sometimes
are griefs are SO great they are beyond
, any human sympathy, and we want Al.
mighty sympathy. Oh, We who cried
: all last night because of bereavement
, or loneliness, want to tell you it is an
, Omnipotcnt Christ who is come.
= When the children are in the house
t and the mother is dead, the father has
1 to be more gentle in the home, and he
S has to take the office of father and
: mother, and it seems to me Christ
1 looks out upon your helplessness, and
i He proposes to be father and mother to
j your soul. He comes in the strength of
c the one, in the tenderness of the other.
!, He says with one breath: CAS- IA
.her pitieth his children, so the Lord
S pitieth them that fear Him." and
: then with the next breath he SAYS: CAS-
t one whom his mother comforteth, 50
: will comfort you" Do you not feel
: the hush of the Divine lullaby? Oh,
: put your tired head down on the heav.
+. ing bosom of Divine compassion while
e He puts His arms around you and says
e so widowed soul, will be thy God. @