Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-05-06

caused a man who was born Dllnu' anu
without optic nerve. or cornea, or crys-
talline lens. to open his eyes on the sun.
light. lie beat music on the drum OK
the deaf ear. He Strengthened 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 thirty-eight years
shoulder his mattress and walk off.
Sir Ashley Cooper, Abernethy, Valen-
tine Mott stood powerless before u
withered arm: but this doctor OF ON
nipotent 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 us the other"
lie was God.
Alimentary achievements: lie found
a lad who had come out of the wilder
ness with five loaves of bread for spec
ulation. Perhaps the lad had paid five
pennies for the five loaves, and expected
to sell them for ten 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 warrant you the lad lost
nothing, for there were twelve baskets
of fragments taken up, and If the boy
had five loaves at the start, warrant
YOU had least ten at the close.
The Saviour's mother goes into n
neighbours house to help get up we'd
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 100 gallons of pure wine.
Marine achievements. lie 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 squall
down through the mountain gorge and
Gennesaret with long locks of white
foam rises up to battle 1t, and the boat
drops into 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
the spray from his brow and bushes the
crying storm on the knee of his omnip-
offence. Who wrestled down that euro
clydon? Whose feet trampled the
rough Galilee into smooth floor?
Let the philosophers and anatom;sts
go to Westminster Abbey and try to
wake up Queen Elizabeth or Henry
VIII. No human power ever Weakened
the dead. There is dead girl at
Capernaum What does Christ do?
Alas that she should have died so
Young and when the world was so fair.
Only II years of age. Feel her cold
brow and 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 PUSHES into the arms
of her rejoicing kindred. Who woke
up that death? Who restored her to
life? A man? Tell that to the lunatics
in Bloomingdale asylum. 1t was Christ
the God.
But there comes test which. more
than anything else, will show whether
he was God or man. You remember
that great passage which says: ''We
must all appear before the Judgment
seat of Christ The earth will be
stunned by blow that will make it
stagger mid-heaven; 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 con-
junction. Day of smoke and fire and
darkness triumph. On one side, piled
up in galleries of light, the one hun
dred and forty and four thousand, yea,
the quintillions of the saved. On the
other side, piled up in galleries OF
darkness, the frowning, the glaring
multitude of those who rejected God.
Between these two piled-up galleries
a throne, n high throne, a throne stand
ing on two FURNISHED pillars-Justice,
Mercy-a throne so bright you had bet
ter hide your eye lest it be extinguished
with excess of vision. But it Is an
empty throne. Who will come up and
take it? win you?
"Ah! no." you say. 81 am but a
child of dust. would not dare to
climb that throne" Would Gabriel
climb it. He dare not. Who will
ascend it? 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 il
is. 1t is Christ, the God, and all earth,
and all Heaven, and all hell kneel, cry
ing: ut is a God! it is God!" We
must all appear before the judgment
R.sr- s.