Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-05-04

Tne white my of tieafl blushes into l1s
rose Of life and health. She rushes into the
arms Of her rejoicing kindred. Who woke
up that deathi Who restored her 70 life!
A mani Tell that to the lunaticsin Bloom.
ingdale asylum. Il was Christ the God.
But there comes a test which more than
anything else will show whether he was
God or man. You remember that great
passage which says, I'VE must all appear
before the judgment seat Of Christ" The
earth will be stunned by blow that will
make 1t stagger In midheaven. the stars
will circle like dry leaves in an equinox. the
earth will unroll the bodies, and the sky
will unroll the spirits, and soul and flesh
will come into incorruptible 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 tillions-of the
saved. On the other side, piled up in gal
leries OF darkness, the frowning, the glar-
ing multitude Of those who rejected God.
BEFORE THE ETERNAL THRONE.
Between these two piled up galleries a
throne, high throne, a throne standing on
two burnish,d pillars-justice, mercy-a
throne so. bright you had better hide your
aye lest 1t be extinguished with excess Of
vision. But It is an empty throne. Who
will come up and take itf VIII your
"Ah, mop you say. II am but child Of
dust. I would not dare to climb that
throne" Would Gabriel climb iti He
dare not. Who will ascend itP 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 nations. and we all see who it
is. Il is Christ the God, and all earth, and
all heaven. and all hell kneel, crying: "It
is Godl It Is Godr' We must all ap-
pear before the Judgment seat of Christ.
Oh, l am so glad that it is divine being
who comes to pardon all our sins, to COM
fort all our sorrows. Sometimes our griefs
are so great they are beyond any human
sympathy, and we want Almighty sympa-
thy. Oh, ye who cried all last night be-
cause of bereavement or loneliness, want
to tell you it is an omnipotent Christ who
is come.
When the children are in the house and
the mother is dead. the father has to be
more gentle in the home, and he has TO take
the office of father and mother, and 1t seems
to me Christ looks out upon your helpless
ness, and he proposes to be father and moth.
er to your soul He comes in the strength
of the one, in the tenderness of the other,
He says with one breath, "As q father
pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth
them that fear him." and thon with the
next breath he says, "As one whom his
mother comforteth, SO will I comfort you. -
Do you not feel the hush of the divine lul
laby?
Oh, put your tired head down on thu
heaving bosom of divine compassion while
he puts his arms around you and says: 70
widowed soul, will be thy God. o or
phaned soul, I will be thy protector. Do
not cry" Then he touches your eyelids
with his fingers and sweeps his fingers
down your cheek and wipes away all the
tears of loneliness and bereavement Oh,
what tender and sympathetic God has
come for usl do not ask you to lay Eold
of him. Perhaps you are not strong enough
for that do not ask you to pray. Per
haps you are too bewildered for that.
only ask you to let go and fall back into
the arms of everlasting love.
Soon you and will hear the click of the
latch of the door of the sepulcher. Strong
men will take us in their arms and carry us
down and lay us in the dust, and they can
not bring us back again. should be scared
with infinite fright if thought Unjust stay
in the grave, if even the body were to stay
in the grave. But Christ will come with
glorious iconoclasm and split and grind up
the rocks and let US all come forth. The
Christ of the manger is the Christ of the