The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-05-02
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUT,


or three hundred pounds, l should
you. 1t is a matter personal to y
You know better than any one e
tell you. Ii / ask how much cStaA
are worth, and you say $lO,Oo0, orr
900, or 100000, l believe what yoN
You know better than any one else.
Christ must know better than any on4
who He is and what He is. When
Him how old lie is He says: before
ham was, | am Abraham had, w
dead 2,O2S years. Was Christ 2,02S yea
old? Yes, He says lie is Older than c mar
says: Il am the Alpha" Alpha is the
first letter of the Greek alphabet, and
Christ in that uttcrance declared, am
the of the alphabet of the centuries
Then He must be God. Can Il man ne
in thousand places at once? Christ says
he is i'll Il thousand places at once: W mere
two or three are gathered together III lily.
name, there am | in the midst OF them.
This whercativeness, is 1t character
istic Of Il man or of God! And lest we
might think this wheratlveness Woum
cease, lie goes on and He mtimates tnai
He will be in all the cities of the earth-He
will be i'll Europe, Asia, Africa, North ana
South America the day before the world
burns up 10, L am with you. Away
even unto the end of the world Why,
then, He must be a 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 not, He is an impostor.
A nan comes into your store tomoifo"
morning He says, 81 I'm the great snip
builder Of Liyerpool; | have built hun
dreds of ships" He goes on to give his
experience. You defer to him as man
of large experience and great posscsSlons
But the next day you find out that he IS
not the great shipbulder of ] liverpool.
that he never built chip. tina: he never
built anything. What is he then? An I'M
poster. Christ says lie built ms world;
He built all things Did He build item?
If He did He is a God. If lie did not lie
is an impOstor
A man comes into your place Of bust
ness, with a Jewish countenance ard
child, the banker of London; ! have the
wealth of nations in my pocket; l loaned
that large amount to Italy and Austria
in their perplexity" But after a while
you find that he has never loaned any men,
ey to Italy or Austria, that he never had
a large estate, that he is 1 no banker at an,
that he owns nothing. What is he! an
impostor. Christ says He owns the cattle
on a thousand hills He owns this world,
He owns the next world, He owns the MI
ver1a. He is the banker of all nations.
Is He? If He is, He is a God. Is He
not? Then He is an impostOr.
A man enters the white house at Wash
ington. He says, II am Emperor William.
of Germany; | am travelling lncognlto; !
have come over here for recreation and
pleasure; I own castles in Dresden and
Berlin" But the president finds out the
next day that he is not Emperor William,
that he owns no castles at Berlin or Dres-
den, that he is no authority. What is he?
An inpostor. Christ says He is the king
over ALL the king immortal, invisible. If
He is, He is God. If He is not, He is
an impostor.
Strauss saw that alternative, and he
tries to get out Of it by saying that Christ
was sinful III accepting alteration and Wor-
ship. Renan tries to get out OF 1t by say
ing that Christ-not through any fault of
his Own-lost his purity of conscience, and
he Slyly intimates that dishonorable women
had damaged his soul. Anything but be-
lieve that Christ is God. Now you believe
the Bible to be true. If you do not you
would hardly have appeared i'll this church.
You would have gone over and joined the
Broadway Inldel Club, or you would 20
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 1t all down as easily as you
swallow ripe strawberry. l have shown
you what inspired men said of Christ, l
have shown you what Christ said of him
self: now if you believe the Bible, let us
go out and sec his wonderful achievements
surgical, ahmentary, marine, mortudry
Surgical achievements: Where is the med
zeal journal that gives any account of such
exploits as Christ wrought? He used no
knife. He carried no spllnts. He employ
ed no compress. He made no patient squirm
under cauterization. He tied no artery.
Yet behold him. With a word he stuck
fast MalchuSs amputated ear. lie stirred
a little dust and spittle into a salye and
with it caused a man who was born blind,
and without optic nerve, or cornea, or
crystalline lens, to open his eyes on the
sunlight He beat music on the drum of
the deaf ear. He Strengthened woman
who through contraction of muscle had
been bent almose double for well-nigh two
decades. He made man who had no use
of his limbs for thirtyeght years
shoulder his mattress and walk off.
Sir Ashley Cooper, Abernathy, Valentine
Mott stood powerless before a withered
arm; but this doctor of omnlpotent surgery
comes in and he sees the paralytic arm
useless and lifeless at the mans side. aud
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 wilderness
with five loaves of bread for Il specula-
ton. Perhaps the lad mad paid five pennies
for the five loaves, and expected To sell
them for ten pennies, and 50 be would dou-
bic his money. Christ took those loaVes
of bread and performed miracle by which
he fed seven thousand furnishing people,
and | warrant you the lad lost nothing, fol-
there were twelve baskets of fragments
taken up, and if the boy had five loaves
at the start, l warrant you he had at least
ten at the close,
The Savior's mother goes into neighbours
house to help get up wedding party. BY
Calcula 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 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 50 full they have to halloo 10
other boats, and the other boats come up
and they are laden to the waters edge with
the game, 50 that the sailors have to be
cautious in going from larboard to star
board lest they upset the ship. Then there
comes a Squall down through the mountain
gorge, and GcnneSaret with long locks of
white foam rises up to battle it, and the
boat drops INTO a 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 stagger-
ing 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 omniDotence. Who wrestled down
that euroclydon? Whose feet trampled the
rough Gallilee into a smooth floor?
Let philosophers and anatomtsts %. to
Westminster Abbey and try to wakepup