Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-05-04
czp1sr,s OWN TESTIMONY.

say you COu1U LII 1VV pooAos ~ ~Vs
pounds or 800 pounds, I should believe
you. 1t is matter personal to yourself.
You know better than any one else can
tell you.
If ask how much estate you are
worth, and you say $4,000 or $1C0,0O(
or $500, 900, 1 believe what you say. You
know better than any one else. Now,
Christ must know better than any one
else who he is and what he is. When
ask him how old ne is, he says, Before
Abraham was, 1 am" Abraham had
been dead 2,O2s years. Was Chris:
2,O2s years old? Yes. he says he is Older
than that. Before Abraham was,
am" Then Christ says, 81 am the Al.
pha.' Alpha is the first letter of the
Greek alphabet, and Christ in that ut.
terance declared, 81 am the \ of the al
phabet of the centuries" Then he must
be God
Can man be in thousand places at
once? Christ says he is in thousand
places at once. Where two or three
are gathered together in my name, there
am in the midst of them" This every.
whereativeness, is it characteristic of q
man or of God? And lest we nigh,
think this everywhereativeness would
cease, he goes on, and he intimates that
he will be in all the cities of the earth
he will be in Europe, Asia, Africa, North
and South America the day before the
world burns up. "Lo, ! am with you
alway, 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.
If he is rot, ne is an impostor. A man
comes into your store tomorrow morn.
ing. He says: Il am the great shipbuildeI
of Liverpool. l have built hundreds OF
ships" egoes on to give Ills experience.
You defer to him as nan of large ex'
perience and great possessions. But the
next day you find out that he is not the
great shipbuileer of Liverpool; that he
never built ship; that he never built
anything. Whar IS he then: An impostor.
Christ saws he built this world. He built
all things. Did he build them: II he did,
he is God. If he did not, he is an i'm
postor.
A GOD OR AN lMPoSToR.
A man comes into your place of busi-
ness with Jewish countenance and a
German accent and says: Il am Roths.
child, the banker Of London. / have the
wealth of nations in my pocket. ] loaned
that large amount to Italy and Austria
in their perplexity" But after awhile
you find that he has never loaned any
money to Italy OF Austria; that he never
had a large estate; that he is no banker
at all; that he owns nothing. What is
he? An imposter. Christ says he owns
the cattle on a thousand hills: he owrs
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 u God
Is he not: Then he is an i1npostor.
A man enters the White House al
Washington. He says: Il am Emperor
William Of Germany. / am travelling
incognito. l have come over here foI
recreation and pleasure. own castles
in Dresden and Berlin But the presi-
dent finds out the next day that heis no,
Emperor William; that he owns no cas-
ties at Berlin and Dresden; that he has
no authority What is he! An impos
tor. Christ says he is the kice over all
the king immortal, invisible. If he is
he is God. If he is not, he is an i'm
postor.
Strauss saw that alternative, and ne
tries to get out Oft by saying that Chris,
was sinful 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 slyly intimates that dishonorable
women had damaged his soul. Anything
but believe that Christ is God. Now you
believe the Bible to be true. If You dc
not, you would hardly have appeared in
this church. You would have gone over
and joined the Broadway Infdel club,
or you would 60 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 all down as easily as you swallow
a ripe strawberry.
have shown you what inspired men
said Of Christ; 1 have shown you what
Christ said of himself; notS, if you DE.
heye the Bible, let us go out and see his
wonderful achievements-surgcal, ali
mentary, marine. mortuary. 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 en-
ployed no compress. He made no pa
tient squirm under cauterization. He
tied no artery. Yet behold him! With
a word he stuck fast Malchus
amputated ear He stirred lit,
tie dust and spittle into a salve
and with it caused man who was born
blind and without optic nerve or cor.
nea 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 contraction OF
muscle, had been bent almost double fol
well nigh two decades. He made ma,
who had no use of his limbs for 3S years
shoulder his mattress and walk of.
HE GIVES POWER TO THE ARM.
Sir Ashley Cooper. Abernethy, Valen
tine Mott, stood powerless before with
cred arm, but this doctor of omnipotent
surgery, comes in and he sees the para
lytic arm useless and lifeless at the
mans side, and Christ says to him
"Stretch forth thine hand,' and he
stretched it forth whole as the other
he was God.
Alimentary achievements! He found
lad who had come out of the wilder
ness with five loayes of bread for spec
ulation. Perhaps the lad had paid
pennies for the five loaves and expected
to sell them for 10 pennies, and so hs
would double his money. Christ tool
those loaves of bread and performed
miracle by which he fed 1000 famishine
people, and / warrant you the lad lost
nothing, for there were II baskets o.
fragments taken up, and if the boy hae
FIVE loaves at the start warrant you he
had at least 10 ct the close.
The Saviour's mother goes into neigh
bors house to help get up wedding
party. By calculation she finds out thai
the amount Of wine Is not sufficient fo1