Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-05-06

mans side, and Christ says to MIN,
'Stretch forth thine hand" and he
stretched it forth whole as the other.
He was q God.
Alimentary achievements! He found
a lad who had come out Of the wilder
ness with five loaves Of bread for spec
ulation. Perhaps the lad had paid .
pennies for the five loaves and expected
to sell them for 10 pennies, and so he
would double his money. Christ took
those loaycs of bread and performed a
miracle by which he fed 1000 furnishing
people. and I warrant you the lad lost
nothing, for there were - baskets Of
fragments taken up, and if the boy had
five loarcs at the start l warrant you re
had at least 10 at the close.
The Saviour's mother goes into a neigh
boris house to help get mp wedding
party. By calculation she finds ont 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 lSo
gallons of pure wine.
Murine achievements lie turns a
whole school Of fish into tile net cs men
who were mourning over their poor luck,
until the boat is so full they have to hal
loo to other boats, and the other boats
come up, and they are laden to TIE wa.
ter's edge with the game, so that tho
sailors have to be cautious in going from
larboard to starboard lest they upset tie
ship.
Then there comes squall dom
through tine mountain gorge, and Gen
ncsaret, with long locks of white foam;
rises up to battle it, and the boat drops
into trough and ships Il seq, and the
loosened sails crack in the tornado, and
Christ rises from the back part of the
boat and cones walking across the stag
gering 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 omripotence. Who wrestled
down that euroclydon? Whose feet tram
pied the rough Galilee into q smooth
floor?
LIFE OUT OF DEATH.
Let philosophers and anatomists 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 in 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 rushes 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 Bloom
ingdale 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, 1--WE must all
appear before the Judgment seat of
Christ" The earthwill be stunned bya
blow that will make it staggers IN = mid,
heaven; the stars VIII circle like. dry
leaves in an equinox; the earth will I'M
roll 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 tri-
umph. On one side, piledup i'll galleries
of light, the one hundred and forty and
four thousand-yea, the quintilliops-of
the saved. On the other side, piled up
in galleries of darkness, the frowning,
the glaring multitude of those who re-
jected God.
Between these two piled up galleries
a throne, 81 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 emp
ty throne. Who will come up and take
it? VIII you?
"Ah, moi" you say, II 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 the nations, and we
all see who it is. 1t is Christ, the God,
and all earth, and ali heaven, and all hell
kneel, crying: at is a Godl tits God"
We must all appear before the judg-
ment seat of Christ.
ONLY THE DIVINE CAN RELIEVE SORROW.
Oh, am so glad that it is a divine
being who comes to 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, we who cried all
last night because of bereavement or
loneliness, want to tell you it is an on
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 moth
er, and it seems to me Christ looks out
upon your helplessness, and he proposes
to be father and mother to your soul.
He comes in the strength of one, in the
tenderness of the other He says with
one breath, "As father pitieth his
children, so the Lord pitieth them that
fear him." and then with the next breath
he says, GAS one whom his mother COM
forteth, so will I comfort YOU" Do you
not feel the hush of the divine lullaby?
Oh, put your tired head down on the
heaving bosom of divine compassion,
while he puts his arms around you and
says: 80 widowed soul, I will be thy
God. O orphaned 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 be-
Oh, what tender and SYM
pathetic God has come for us! I do not
ask you to lay hold of him. Perhaps
1o,7 ora not strong enouOh for that,