The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-12

| had five loaves at the start, ! warrant
you had least ten at the close.
The Saviour's mother goes into .
neighbor's house to help get up n we'd
1 ding 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 fermentation, but by a
word, makes $50 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 up
set the ship. Then there comes a squa0
down through the mountain gorge and
Gennesaret with long locks OF white
! foam rises up TO battle il. and the boat
drops into a trough and ships sea,
and the loosened sails crack in the tor
nado, 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
1 the spray from his brow and bushes the
/ crying storm on the knee os his omnip-
otence. Who wrestled down that euro
clydon? Whose feet trampled the
rough Galilee into smooth floor?
/ Let the philosophers and anatomists
60 to Westminster Abbey and try to
wake up Queen Elizabeth or Henry
/ VIII No human power ever Weakened
I the dead. There i dead girl at
/ Capernaum. What does Christ do?
/ Alas, that she should have died 50
/ young and when the world was 80 fair.
/ Only II years of age. Feel her cold
/ brow aud cold hands. Dead, dead!
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 health. She rushcs into the arms
/ OF her rejoicing kindred. Who woke
/ up that death? Who restored her to
life? 4 man? Tell that to the lunatics
/ in Bloomingdale asylum. Il was Christ
/ the Goa.
Bat there comes 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 a blow that will make Il
stag-er miG-heaven; the stars will
/ circle like dry leaves in an equinox; the
earth will unroll the bodies. end the
l sky will unroll the spirits. and soul and
! flesh viii come into incorrIptible con-
/ junction. Day of smoke and FIRE and
! darkness triumph. On one side, piled
up in galleries of light, the one hum
[ dred and forty and four thousand. yea,
I the qaintillions of the saved. On the
other side, piled up in galleries OF
/ darkness the frowninr. the glaring
multitude of those who rejected God.
Between these Two p.!eG-uP galleries
a throne, a high throne. =. yhrouc stand
ing on two FURNISHED pji.ars-,Iustice,
/ Mercy throne 81 bright You had bet
ter hide your eye lest il be eNtinguished
with excess OF vision. but it Is an
empty throne Who win come up and
take It? VIII YOU:
All. no" YOU say. - am but 4
child of dust. 4 would not dare 10
climb that throne" Would Gabriel
climb 1t. lie dare Eot Who will
ascend it? Here comes che. Ills back
is To Us. lie 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. Ii is Christ. the Cod, and all earth,
and all Heaven. ana all hell kneel. cry
ing: 1t is a God. il IS God" We
must all appear before the Judgment
seat of Christ.
Oh. am so glad that it is divine
being who comes 70 pardon all our sins,
to comfort all our sorrows. Sometimes
our griefs are so great they are beyond
any human sympathy, and we want Al
mighty sympathy. Oh, who cried all
last night because of bereavement or
loneliness, want TO tell you it is an
omnipOtent Christ who IS cone.
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 20 take the Office of father and it
helplessness, and he proposes to be
father and mother TO your soul. He
comes in the strength of the one, in the
tenderness of the other. He says with
one breath. AS a father pitieth his
children. so the Lord pitieth them that
fear him" And then with the next
breath he says: AS one whom his
mother comforteth, so viii / comfort
YOU" Do you not feel the hush OF the
divine lullaby. On. put your tired
head down on the heav;ng bosom of
divine compassion while he puts his
arms around you and says: 20 Wild
owed soul, l will be thy God. o
orphaned soul. viii DC 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 be-
reavement. Oh. what 4 tender and
sympathetic God has come for rs. do
not ask yOu to lay hold OF him. Per-
haps you are rot strong enough for
that. do not ask you to pray. Per-
haps you are too bewildered for that.
l only ask you to let go and fall back
into the arms of everlasting love.
Soon yoa and / viii hear the click Of
the latch of the door OF the sepulcher.
Strong men will take Us in their arms
and carry rs down and lay rs in the
dust. and they cannot bring Us back
again. should be scared with infinite
fright If l thought | must stay in the
grave. But Christ viii come with glo-
rious iconOclasn and split a'-3 grind up
the rocks and let us all cone forth
The Christ OF the Inanger Is the Chris:
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