Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-05-17

1hat ne never built ship that he mayer I'll,
ShytnihS- What is he then? An imnostnr
,hi Snrlst says He built this world. He built ali
;s Din he build them? II He did. Hs
Hou- IL he did not, He Is an imnos,or
A man comes into your place of bps;nos.
win jewish countenance and a Germ,n
H'een1 and says 81 am Rothschild ths
Sssanker, OF London have the wealth n,
NatIons s Ia my pocket. 1 loaned that larga
q mount 10 Italy and Austria in their nernIaY~
ny. But after a while you find that he has
never loaned any money to Italy or Austria ,
~ s-.'At ne neVer mad large estate, that he ts
90 banker at all that He owns nothing
Mnst Is her An tmpostor. Christ says n.
~ ySns tns caftie ON . thousand hills Hs own.
'nn world Hs owrs ths nnxt vnrlA , m.
owns owns the universe; He is the banker OF all
~ Nations. Is He? II He is, He is God. Is
ne notE Then he is an impostor.
A man enters the White House at Wasbino
!S TON he says: 81 am Emperor William. Of
Hermany. L am travelling incognito. have
come over here for recreation and nlaasura
own castles in Dresden and Berlin" But
! ne president finds out the royt day let he
Is not Emperor William that he owns no cas-
ties at Berlin and Dresden that he has no
authority. What is he? An impostor. Christ
says He Is the king over all-the king iminor-
tai, invisible. If He is, He Is a God. If He u
not. He is an impostor
strauss saw that alternative, and he tries
TO get out OF IT by saying that Christ was sim
iu In accepting alteration and worship.
Kenan tries to get out of it by saying that
Chrl5t-not through any fault OF His own,
o"s 'hr"uRh tina fault OF others-lost His
purity OF conscience. and he slyly intimate.
that dlshonorable women had damaged His
soul. Anything but believe that Christ q.
8ou- NOW you believe the Bible to be true
II you 40 not. you would hardly have an,
l leareu Ia inns church. You would have eon,
over ana joined the Broadway InfideI club.
OF you would go to Boston and kiss the foot
Ta,t,I5 Ia tiie statue OF Thomas Paine. You would
nsr'Iy come INTO this church, where the most
OF US are the deluded souls who believe in a
"n"'H BlhIe and take ii all down as easily "a
you swallow .ip- strawberry,
nave SHOWN you what inspired men said
o. 1hflst have shown you what Christ said
Vi VI hIiiseii now, II you believe the Bible, let
u7 10 out and see His wonderful achieve
ments-surSical, alinentary, marine, mortu-
ary. Surgical achievements Where ts the
heilca journal tslat gives an account OF such
EXPLOITS as Christ wrought? He used no
Ahlie. he carried no splints. He employed
no compress. He made no patient suuirm
under cauterization. He tied no artery Vet
behold Him With a word He struck fast
Malchus' amputated ear. He stirred little
dust and splttle into sllve and with il
caused . man who WAS born blind and with
out optic nerve or cOrnea or crystalline lens
20 open his eyes on the sunlight. He beat
music on the drum of the deaf ear. He
straShtened woman who, through contrac-
ton Of muscle, had been bent almost double
Tor well nigh two decades. He made a man
VINO lad no use OF his limbs for SO years
shoulder his mattress and walk OF.
Sir Ashley Cooper, Abernethy, Valentine
Mott. stood powerless before a withered arm.
but this doctor of Omnipotent surgery, comeS
IN and he sees the paralytic 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
vas a Goi.
Alinentary achievements He found n LAD
who had come out of the wilderness with five
loaves OF bread for a speculation. Perhaps
the lad had paid five pennies for the five
loaves ana expected 70 sell them for ten pen
MES, and so he would double his money
Christ took those loaves of bread and per-
formed a miracle by which He fed 1000 fam
ishinG people, and L warrant you the lad lost
nothing, for there were twelve baskets of
fragments taken up, and if the boy had Eve
iOaves at the start 1 warrant you he had at
least ten at the close.
The Saviours mother goes into a neigh
Dor 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 fermentation, but by word,
makes l2O gallons of pure wine.
Marine achievements He turns a Who'll.
school of fish into the net of men who wero
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 De cautious in going
from larboard to starbOard lest they upset the
ship.
Then there comes q squall down through
the mountain gorge, and GennesIret, with
long locks sf white foam rises up to battle
it, and the Goat drops into a trough and ships
a sea. and the loosened sails crack in the
and Christ rises from the back part
Of the boat and comes walking across the
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 omnipotence. Who wrestled down that
eurOclydonl Whose feet trampled the rough
'ialilee into a smooth floor?
Let philosophers and anatomists go t.
Westminster Abbey and try to wake up
Queen Elizabeth or Henry VIII. No hu-
man power ever wakened the dead There
is dead girl in Capernaum. What does
Christ do? Alas that she should have died SO
young and the world so fair Only twelve
years of age. Feel her cold brow and cold
hands. Dead, deadI 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 rushes into the arms of her
rejoicing kindred. Who woke sup that death?
Who restored her to life2 A man? Tell
that to the lunatics in BloomingdaIe asylum
Il was Christ the God.
But there comes test which more thai
else will show whether He was God
or man You remember that great passage
which says. 1--WE must ell 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 ike dry
leaves in an equinox; will unrou
the bodies, and the sky will unroll the spirits,
and soul and flesh will come into incorrupti-
bic conjunction Day of smoke and fire and
darkness and triumph On one side, piled
up IA galleries of light, the cce hundred and
forty and four thousand-yea, the quiRtiI-
lions-of the saved On the other side, piled
up in galleries of darkness, the trownlnS, the
gIaring multitude of those who rejected God
Between these two piled up galleries q
throne, a high throne, throne standing on
two FURNISHED pillars-justice, mercy-a
throne 50 bright you had better hide your
eye lest it be extinguished with excess OF
vision But il is an empty throne VINO WILL
come up and take it2 Will your
An, no r you say 81 am but child OF
dust. l would not dare to climb that throne
Would Gabriel climb II? He dare not VINO
will ascend it2 Here comes one HIS back B
to us. He goes up step above step, nelsnt
above height until He reaches tue apex iHeh
He turns around and faces all the Nations.
and we all see who it is. 1t is Christ, the
God, and all earth, and all heaven, and az
hell kneeI, CRYING 1t is a God 1t Is a God y
We must all appear before the judgment seat
Of Christ.
Oh, am so glad that it is Divine beint
who comes to pardon all our Ans, TO COM
fort aIJ our sorrows Sometimes our griefs
are so great they are beyond any human
sympathy. and we want Almighty sympathy:
Oh We who cried all last night because OF
or loneliness, want to tell you
h is an omnipotent Christ who is come.
When the children are in the house ano
he mother is dead, the father has to be more
,entIe in the home, and he has TO taSe tno
1fflce of father and mother, and 1t seems 10
ne Christ looks out upon your helpiesshess,
md He proposes to be father and mother 70
your soul. He comes in the strength OF one,
n tbe tenderness of the other. He says Win
,ne breath. ..As father Pitieth his ehildren3 rem
20 the Lord pitieth them that fear HIM: anu
hen with the next breath He says, las one
whom his mother comforteth, SO will 1 com.
ort you" Do you not feel the hush OF tne
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