Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-05-17
REV. DR.. TALMiCR.
The Brooklyn Diyine's
Sunday Sermon.
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For 5000 years the world had been waitino
Tor q d".H erHr waiting while empires roae
and fell. tuIouergrs came and made tht
world worse I-, ad Of making It better
still the centuries watched and waited Thsx
looked lur tIlM ON thrones looked for Him in
palaces. .o2E@i Tor Him in imperial robes
looked for Him 80 the head Of armies A,
last they found Him in a barn The cattIs
stood nearer To- itim than the angels for the
former were IN the al dining stall, while tbe
latter We're ia The clouds. 4 parentage ot
PeGsgutry NO room Tor Him in the inn he.
cause u, was 10 one to pay the hotel ex-
peuse le; the pointing star and tine angelic
Cautata showed that heaven made up i'm nm.
probation of kfs worth what the vnrid
lacked. Christ came. who Is over all, God
blessed forever. Amen
But who is this Christ who came? As n
the difference between different denominr-
tons OF evangelical Christians l have no con-
cerE. II l could 10y the turning over Of NV
hand decide whether all the world shall a.
last be Baptist or Methodist or CONGREGATIONAL
or Episeopa.Iau or Pres yytcrian, l would moi
turn my hand. But there are doctrines which
are vital to the suA If Christ be not God
We are llJ.aryrs. To this ChristoIopicai
question devote myself this morning and
pray God that We may think right and do
Alright III r--ard to question in which mis-
take Is infinite.
suppose that the majority of those here
to-day assembled believe the Bible. II re-
quLres as much faith TO be an inhdel as TO bs
CHRISTIAN. II is latin in different dirsc-
ton The Christian has faith in the teach
inst OF Matthew, Luke, john, Paul. Isaiah.
Moses. The luitel has faith i'll the free
thinkers. We have faith in one class of men
They have faith in another class of men B,,t
as the majority OF those. perhaps all of those
mere assembled, tTs willing 10 take the Bible
loF a standard IN morals and in faith. l makIs
his book my starting point
Isuppose you are aware that the two gen.
Gals who have Uarshaled the great armies
against the deity OF Jesus Christ are StransS
Rnl heneu. The number Of their slain will
not be counted until the trumpet OF the arch
angel sounds the roll call OF the resurrection
Those men and their syu.t....-'....s -, -
II they could destroy the fortress OF miracles
they could destroy Christianity. and they
were right. Surrender the miracles and voiI,
surrender Christianity. The great Ger
man eIeSete says that all the miracles
were myths. The great French exegete saws
that all the miracles were legends. They
propose to take eyeTyth ing supernatural from
LAe ne OF turlst and everything supernatural
Rom the Bible. They prefer the miracles OF
human nonsense TO the glorious miracles Of
Iesus Christ.
Ihey say there was no miraculous birth in
brthlehem, hut that il Is all fanciful story.
have
Dtth bcru OF huua Silvia and the god Mars
They say no star pointed to the manger; il
was only the NASH Of passing lantern. They
say there was no miraculous making Of bread.
Iut tlut II is corruption OF the story that
LIlsha gave 20 Iglvss Of tread to hundred
men. They say the water was never turned
INTO VINE, nut that It is a corruption of the
story that the Egyptian plague turned the
wuter into blood They say 1t is no wonder
that Christ sweat great drops Of blood he
hAd been put 10 the night air and was taken
suddenly ILL., They say that there were no
tongues of fire on the heads of the disciples
at the Peut~'ost that there was only Il great
thunder storm, and the air was full OF cleo
ulrity, which snapped and hew all around
about the heads o the dis.iples
They say that Mary and Martha and Christ
ielt 1t important to yet up an excitement for
the forwarding OF their religion. and so they
dramattzed funeral and Lazarus played the
corpse, and Mary and Martha played the
Seepers, and Christ was tine trayedian. I
put It in my own words. but this IS the exact
meaning OF their statements. They say the
Bible is a spurious book written 10y super
Eitious or lying men, backed up by men who
died for that which they dtd not believe
Now, l take back the limited statement
which made a few moments ago, when 1
said 1t requires as much faith 70 be an in
hdel a. to be a Christian. 1t requires
thousandiold more faith to lie an infliei than
70 be Christian. for if Christianity demand
that the whale swallowed Jonah, thHn
skepttcism demands that Jonah swallowed
the whnlel con prove to you that Christ
Vs.s God, not only by SUPERNATURAL appear
Gnces on that Christmas night, but by what
inspired men said OF Him, by what He says of
Himself and 10y His wonderful achievements.
Christ came, vino IS over all. All. does
not that prove too mUch2 Not over the
C@sars, not over Frederick, not over Alex
ander the Great. not over the HenryS. not
over the Louses? Yes. Pile all the thrones
OF all the ages together. and my text over
spans them as easily rs a rainbow Oyerspan5
a mountain, "ChrIst came, who is over all y
Then He must be God.
The Bible says that all things were made by
Him. Does not that prove too much? Could
It be that He made the Mediterranean. that
He made the Black sea, that He made the
Atlantic the Pacific. that He made Mount
Lebanon, that He made the Alps, the Sierra
keyadas, that He made the Hemisperes, that
He made the universe? Yes. The Bible says
30, and lest we be too stupid to understand
John winds up with magnificent reiteratiOn
and says, without Him was not anything
made that was made" Then He was a God,
The Bible says at the name of Jesus every
enee shall bow. All heaven must come down
on its knees. Martyrs on their knees, apos-
ties on their knees, cOnfessOrs on their knees,
the archangel on his knees. Before whom? A
man? No, He is God. The Bible says every
tongue shall confess-Bornesian, Malayan,
Mexican, Italian, Spanish, Persian, English.
livery tongue shall confess. To whom? God.
The Bible says Christ the same yesterday. to-
day and forever. Is that characteristic of
humanity Do we not change? Does net
the BODY entirely ,hnuge In seven years2
Does not the mind change? Does not the
heart changer Christ the same yesterday,
Today and forever. He must be a God.
Philosophers say that the law of gravita
ton decides everything and that the centrip-
etaI and centrifugal forces keep the world
rom clashing and from demolition. But
Paul says that Christ's arm is the axle on
which everything turns, and that Christ's
hand is the socket il which everything is set.
Aark the words, "Upholding-uph all
Things by the word OF His power Then He
must be a God.
Then look at what Christ says of Himself
Now, certainly, every one must understand
himself better than any one else can under
stand him. If l ask you where you were
porn and you tell me, ~ was born in Chcs-
ter, England or Il was born in Glasgow,
scotland or Il was born in Dublin. Ire
Isndr or Il was born in New Orleans, the
united States, - you being a man of integrity,
should believe you. If l asked you how
many pounds you could lift and you should
say you could lift 100 pounds or 200 pounds
Or SUI pounds, should believe YOU 1t ia a
matter personal to yourself. You know 10
yer tLhn any one else can tell YOU.
II L ask how much estate you are worth
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believe what you say. You know better
suah any one else. Now. Christ must
Know better than any one else who He is and
mnaI he Is. When ! ask Him how Old He is,
&c says, Before Abraham was, l am"
Aurahan had been dead POPS years Was
SnIlst -J2S years Old? Yes, He says He is
OLdeT than that Before Abraham was, L
SIL 80 Then Christ says, Il am .he Alpha"
AIPha is the first letter. Of the Greek alphabet,
tHa hrlst " IN that utterance declared, Il am
de must be a God.
c1,,3l. I'm man be in a thousand places nt onceT
NItlst says lie is Ii a thousand places az
0nGe. oa.t Where two or three are gathered to-
3. e'i.sr M IN Ny name, there am l in the midst
u them This eycrv-y!. -reatiyaness. is It
- - atleristtc OF man or of God? And
49,. W might think this everywhereativeness
tb.t n cease, He goes on, and He intimates
H. nj ti9 VIII be IN all the cities Of the earth
Sor,hn M De IN Europe, Asia, Africa, North and
eouth America the dav before the world burns