Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-23

gave rise to 1t. and treating It in abso-
iutc Isolation / desire 10 elaborate this
general propositi on which we iuny easily
draw from IT.: tn the King of Grace
death IS the law of life
|. Let US notice this Jaw in Its applica-
tioa 10 Christ himself. The comparison
IN the text IL Il most striki' illustration
of the sudlcst feature of the Messal's
work The corn Of wheat, If left out OF
the earth. must abide alone True u
may preserve its vitality for long period
Of time. hoNtiug lula2lug Possibilities
wrapped up in its rude husk, but So long
as It's germs remain undeve,oped. II
must lie In Lonely isolation I'LL the tooth
Of tiue shall destroy It's power of vegeta-
ton, Our lord. If he had SO chosca,
could have abode with tie Father In
the glory which he hud with him before
the world was, and h. would hoNe been
happy in the contemplation Of his own
pericciions and in .ic homage aud alora-
tion of angels. If his soul had drawn
back at the ,hamc AMI horrors and suf-
ferings which the terrible task Of re-
drmpuon involved there Is u sense In
which he would have remained alone
throughout all eternity. But solitary
happiness was not whit the loving heart
OF Jesus crlvel Therefore that he
might not be alone that beautiful pant
of the Lords Planting in the paradise OF
God consented 10 suhut' b temporary
degradation, undergoing the fate of the
corn of wheat that falls fun the sewers
hand into the earth He fell from the
glory of heaven into a stable where rat
lie fed Accepting MI the conditions
which the scheme nf redemption involved.
he was exposed 10 poverty md grief
and shame til h. fell into the grave.
Look at the Son Of Mary hanging upon
| the tree. insultcd by frenzied mob
Surging around Calvary's hill in insane
| wrath. Six long hours filed with III
I describable anguish, passed away; and
| then rs the slauting rays Of the western
| sun rested upon the mountains Of Jeru.
salem, the thOrn-CrOwned head dropped
! upon the motiOn,ess breast and the CORY
tragedy was clllcl, The body fell from
the cross INTO JOseph's tomb and in that
soil IL hay for three days. In that rock
ribbed prison a mysterious process went
on too deep for human, conrepiign
We know not by what kind Of evolution
the cora pf wheat derives life from its
own death; and we know not how the
corpse Of Irsus was converted from
nntura, into spiritual body, But now
the meaning of the sign of the prophet
Tomas was 10 he made plain On the
third day after the burial the mighty
prophet Of Nazareth sprang ont of The
grave and stood among the living. But
how all he com.H Where was the fruit
mentioned In the text Even to the
angel that descended like lightning ami
few hours shut him nj from the world.
he might have scemel alone But not
50 In the counsel of God. In the reality
of things. in very truth he had taken to
himself a people in everlasting commun-
ion As he sumhered IN 'losephs tomb,
ont of his sleeping body was formed The
bride his church, He descended as unity
min the crave. hut he came up many.
sike the corn Of wheat. multiplying itself;
for nll his elect. hound to him anu incor-
pnrated with him. came up at the same
iIt,c Jp ros. up. thp head with q
n,siic,i INDY Every snint on earth aud
eyery saint in heaven came forth at that
vcrr n,,,,ant ascending to the eternal
nnri,ose az dol A. a plant Is folded
I'M In thn soel and as the seed Is in the
plant. ~ the eact Of God are u. Christ
Not nna lives bnr in ,hc risen life OF a
l.,J tSayiar AL 1fa was In Jesus
Cl,rist onJ ali lifr snrang out of that one
1nng, iB,1f it1tli A the key 10 the
mTsier-- ~ rrlrnpiior. That fall into
ira rrai,nd and diving prolngatel Christ's
worry self ms tfe ono corn OF wheat null
tinNes itself IN hundred fol; and rhc
g ne, od oF his peos,e Thot L
M r,-,i i,istorv III every conversion
NM mai IA M. secret Of missionary sue
cess. There Is wonderful passage in
the sevehty.se'ond Psalm which has, M
douht n literal reference TO the fertility
of tbe soil rnlcr the millennium: but f
helof,ts also "a almost m those proph-
ecl.s do TO the spiritunl growth of the
,osnal II reods. "rhere shall he n
. honifnl ~ corn IN the earth upon the
ton Of the mountains; the fruit thereof
shafl shake like Lebanon: and they Of the
city shall flourish like the grass OF the
i carth." When the Lord Jesus hung upoI
the tree bleeding AMI gaspng 10 'n NJ
mad throng of scoffers covering the I,-
clivity Of that skull-shapcl hill, certainly
the dying OF that Innocent victim mus
a have appeared an insignificant haniIn
. OF corn on the top OF me m3 ,ulia,.li,.
:. To the malicious gaze OF nnDeiles w,
: what mere hnniih y eoFn ~ ~,
missionaries sep'lefsl here nnN l., MA