News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-05-04

believe YOU If | asked you how many
pounds you could lift and you should
say you could lift 100 pounds or 200
pounds or 800 pounds, l should believe
YOU 1t is a matter personal to yourself.
You know better than any one else can
tell you.
If 1 ask how much estate w are
| worth, and you say $4,000 or : HiC 600
| t.[ 100, coo, believe what you sayaN on
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 he is, he says, Before
] Abraham was, | am" Abraham had
| been dead 2,028 years. Was Christ
2,028 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 A of the al
| phabet of the centuries. Then he must
be God
Can man be in a 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
man or of a God? And lest we might
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, 1 am with you
Away, 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 a God.
If he is not, he is an impostor. A man
comes into your store tomorrow morn
ing. He says: Il am the great shipbuilder
of Liverpool. | have built hundreds of
ships" He goes on to give his experience.
| You defer to him as man of large ex-
| perience and great possessions. But the
next day you find out that he is not the
| great shipbuilder of Liverpool; that he
never built a ship; that he never built
anything. What is he then? An impostor.
Christ SAYS he built this world. He built
all things Did he build them? If he did,
he is a God. If he did not, he is an i'm
poster.
A GOD OR AN I8IPOSTOR.
A man comes into your place of bust
ness with Jewish countenance and
German accent and says: Il am Roths-
child, the banker of London. 1 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 or Austria; that he never |
had 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 thousand hills; he owns
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 God.
Is he not? Then he is an impostor
A man enters the White House at
Washington. He says: Il am Emperor
William of Germany. | am travelling
incognito. / have come over here for
recreation and pleasure. l own castles
in Dresden and Berlin" But the presi-
dent finds out the next day that he is not
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 king over all
the king immortal, invisible. If he is,
he is "a God. If he is not, he is an i'm
poster.
Strauss saw that alternative and he
tries to get out of it by saying that Christ
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 do |
not, you would hardly have appeared in
this church. You would have gone over |
and joined the Broadway Infidel club, |
or you would go 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; l have shown you what
Christ said Of himself; now, if you be-
Geve the Bible, let us go out and see hiT
wonderful ievements-surgical, 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
tent squirm under cauterization. lie |
tied no artery. Yet behold him! With |
n no c+7 1oI, |
amputated ear. He stirred a lit |
tie dust and spittle into 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 for
well nigh two decades. He made man
who had no use of his limbs for 38 years
shoulder his mattress and walk off.
HE GIVES POWER TO THE ARM.
Sir Ashley Cooper, Abernethy, Valen-
tine Mott, stood powerless before with
FRED 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 loaves 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 he
would double his money. Christ took
those loaves of bread and performed
miracle by which he fed 1000 furnishing
people, and l warrant you the lad lost |
nothing, for there were ~ baskets of
fragments taken up, and if the boy had
five loaves at the start warrant you he
had at least 10 at the close.
The Saviour's mother goes into aneigh-
boris house to help 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
but by a word, makes 1870
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 hal
loo to other boats, and the other boats
come up, and they are laden to the wa
ter's edge with the game, so that the ,
sailors have to be cautious in going from 4