Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-06

evcr unu l0moo INC 0KOo0Way. 1hnu0i clup,
Or yot would 60 to Boston and kiss the foot
of the status Of Thomas Paine. You would
hardly come Into this church, where the most
of us are tho deluded souls who believe Id
whole Bible and take It all down as easily a.
you swallow ripe strawberry
have shown you what inspired men said
Of Christ have shown you whet Christ said
OF himself; now, II you believe the Bible; let
us go out and see His Wonderful achieve
ments surgical. alimentary, marine, mortu-
airy. Surgical achievements Where is the
medical journal that gives an account OF such
exploits as Christ wrought? He used no
knife. He carried no splints. Hs empicved
no compress. He made no patient squirm
under cauterization. He tied no artery. Yet
behold Him With word He struck fast
Malchus' amputated ear. He stirred little
dust and spittle into salve and with ID
caused o man who was born blind and With
out optic nerve or cornea or crystalline lens
to open his eyes on the sunlight. He beat
music on the drum Of the deaf ear. He
Strengthened a woman who, through contrac-
ton OF muscle, had been bent almost double
for well nigh two decades. He made man
who had no use Of his limbs for IS years
shoulder his mattress and walk Oh.
Sir Ashley Cooper, Abernethy, Valentine
Mott, stood powerless before withered arm.
but this doctor of omnipotent surgery, comes
IN and He sees the paralytic arm useless and
him, "Stretch forth thine hand" and he
stretched It forth whole as the other He
was God
Alimentary achievements He found 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 Ave
loaves and expected to sell them for ten pen
mics, 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 warrant you the lad lost
nothing, for there were twelve baskets of
fragments taken up. and II the boy had five
loaves at the start l warrant you he had at
least ten at the Close
The Saviour's mother goes into a neigh
Dor S house to help get up wedding party
By calculation she finds out that the amount
OF wine is net sufficient for the guests She
calls III Christ for help; and Christ; Hot by the
slow decay Of fermentation, but by word,
makes $50 gallons of pure wine.
Marine achievements He 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, sd
that the sailors have to be cautious I'D going
from lar5oard to starboard lest they upsetthe
ship.
Then there comes a squat down through
long locks OF white foam, rises up to battle
it, and the boat drops into trough and ships
a sea, and the loosened sails crack In the
tornado, and Christ rises from the back part
of the boat and comes walking across tho
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 emnipotence. Who wrestled down that
euroclydon7 Whose feet trampled the rough.
Galilee into smooth floor2
! Let philosophers and ANTAGONISTS 60 to
Westminster Abbey and try to wake up
Queen Elizabeth or Henry VIII. No hui
imam power ever wakened the dead. There
6s q dead girl in Capernaum. What does
Christ do? Alas that she should have died 50
young and the world SO fair Only twelve
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 tho 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 wokeup that deafha
Who restored her to life2 man? Tell
that to the lunatics in BloomingdaIe asylum.
1t was Christ the God.
But there comes test which more than
anything else will show whether He was God
pr man. You remember that great passage
Judgment seat of Christ" The earth will be
stunned by a blow that will make it stagger
In Inidheaven the stars will circle like dry
leaves in an equinox the earth will unron
the bodies, and the sky will unroll the spirits,
and soul and flesh will come into incorruptt-
!ble conjunction. Day of smoke and fire and
darkness and triumph. On one side, piled
up in galleries of light, the one hundred and
forty and four thousand-yea the quintI-
slions-ef the saved. On the other side, piled
up in galleries of darkness, the frowning, the
giaring multitude Of those who rejected God.
:. Between these two piled up galleries a
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 it is an empty throne. Who Will
come up and take it? viii you?
"Ah, no !" you say II am but child CT
dust. l would not dare to climb that tLrcne."
Would Gabriel climb itp He dare not Who
will ascend itp 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 all heaven, and all
hell kneel, crying cit is a God 1t is God ~
We must all appear before the judgment seat
Of Christ
Oh, / am so glad that it is Divine being
who comes to pardon all our sins; to COM
furt all our sorrows. Sometimes bur gfiefs
are sd great they are beyond any human
sympathy and we want Almighty sympathy
oh; We who cried all last night because Of
bereavement or loneliness, want to tell you
1t is an omnipotent 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 mother, 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, Gas father pitieth his children;
50 the Lord pitieth them that fear Him." and
then with the next breath He says, las one
whom his mother comforteth, SO will COM
fort you" Do you hot feel the hush Of the
divine lullaby?
fhg bosom OF divine compassion, while He
puts His arms around you and says: 20
widowed soul I will be thy God. or
phaned soul; 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 lonli-
ness and bereavement. On, what a tender
and sympathetic God has como for us! do
not ask you to lay hold of Him. Perhaps you
are not strong enough for that. de not ask
you to pray. Perhaps you are too bewild
cred for that. l only ask you to let go and
fall back into the arms of everlasting love.
Soon you and will hear the click of the
latch of the door of the sepulcher. Strong
men will take us in their arms and carry us
down and lay us In the dust, and they cannot
bring MS back again. I should DO scared
with infinite fright il thought must stay In
the grave, if even the body were to stay in
the grave. But Christ will come with glorious
iconoclasm and split and grind up the rocks
and let US all come forth. The Christ OF the
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