The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-05-03


exploits as Christ wrought? He used
no knife. He carried no splints. He
employed no compress. He made no
patient squirm under cauterization,
He tied no artery. Yet behold Him!
With word He stuck fast Malchus'
amputated ear. He stirred little dust
and spittle into salve and with 1t
caused man who was born blind, and
without 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 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 a
withered arm; but this doctor Of omnip-
otent surgery comes in and He sees
the paralytic arm useless and hfeless
at the mans side, and Christ says to
him: "Stretch forth thine hand, and
he stretched 1t forth whole as the
other" He was God.
Alimentary achievements. He found
q lad who had come out of the wilder
ness with five loaves Of bread for
speculation. Perhaps the lad had paid
five pennies for the five loaves, and ex-
pected to sell them for ten pennies,
and so he would double his money.
Christ took those loaves of bread and
performed a miracle by which he fed
seven thousand famishing 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 he had at
least ten at the close.
The Saviour's mother goes into a
neighbours house to help get up we'd
ding party. By calculation she finds
out that the amount Of wine is not suf-
ficient for the guests. She calls in
Christ for help, and Christ, not by the
slow decay of fermentation, but by a
word, makes one hundred and thirty
gallons Of pure wine.
Marine achievements. He turns q
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 hello 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 upset the ship. Then there comes
a squall down through the mountain
gorge, and Gennesaret with long locks
Of white foam rises up to battle II, and
the boat drops into trough and ships
O sea, and the loosened sails crack in
the tornado, and Christ rises from the
back part OF the boat and comes walk
ing 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 omnipo-
tence Who wrestled down that euro
clydon? Whose feet trampled the
rough Galilee into smooth floor?
Let philosophers and anatomists go
TO Westminster Abbey and try to wake
up Queen Elizabeth or Henry VIII. No
human power ever wakened the dead.
There is a dead girl in Capernaum.
What does Christ do? Alasl that she
should have died so young, and when
the world was so fair. Only twelve
years of age. Feel her cold brow and
cold hands. Dead, deadl 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 life2 A man9 Tell
that to the lunatics in Bloomingdale
asylum. 1t was Christ the God.
But there comes test which more
than any thing else viii show whether
he was God or man. You remember
that great passage which says: eve
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 conjunc-
tion. Day of smoke and fire and dark
ness and triumph. On one side, piled
up in galleries Of light, the one hum
dred and forty and four thousand, yea,
the quintillions, of the saved. On the
other side, piled up in galleries Of dark
ness, the frowning, the glaring multi
tude of those who rejected God
Between these two piled-up galleries
a throne, high throne, throne stand
ing on two Furnished pillars-Justice,
Mercy-a throne so bright you had bet
ter hide your eye lest 1t be extinguished
with excess Of vision. But II is an
empty throne. Who will come up and
take itp viii you?
"Ahl no." you say, 81 am but child
Of dust; would not dare to climb that
throne" Would Gabriel climb it2 He
dare not. Who will ascend IL? 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 ma
tions, and we all see who 1t is. 1t is
Christ the God, and all earth, and all
Heaven, and all hell leneeling, crying,
at is Godl It is GodW We must all
appear before the judgment seat Of
Christ.
o, am so glad that II is a Divine
Being who comes TO pardon all our sins,
10 comfort all our sorrows. Sometimes
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