The free press., 1893-05-18

once "Where two or three are Satnereu to
gether in My name, there am In the mos.
OF them" This everywhereativenes' Is II
characteristic Of man or OF {, Godi Ana
lest we might think this everywhereativenesS
would cease He goes on and he 1ntimates
that He will be in all the cities OF the EARN
He will be in Europe, Asia, Africa, North ana
South America the day petorethe world purAS
up "Lo, am with you always eTgh Ven un'o
tfe erd - ira v-crl1." Why, t1en, He must
be God. H.
Besides that He takes divine honors. He
declares hlmselr LORD or men, anyels ana
devils. Is He? II He is, He is God. 1.-The
is not, He is an iInpostor. man comes INTO
your store tomorrow morning. he says
II am the great shipbuilder of Liverpool. L
have built hundreds of ships. He goes ON
to give his experience. You defer to him as
a man OF large experience and great pos
sessions. But the next day you ma out that
he is not the great shipbuilder OF Liverpool
that he never built ship that he never oulit
ANYTHING. What is he then? An impostor
Christ saws He built this world. He built all
things. Did He build them? II He did, he
is a God. If He did not. He is an iInpostor
man comes into your place OF business
with Jewish countenance and German
accent and SAYS 81 am Rntha"h'"
BANKER. of London. l have the wealth OF
Nations in nv pocket. l loaned that large
amount to Italy and Austria in their perplex-
ity.o But after while you find that he nao
never loaned any money TO Italy or austria
that he never had large estate that ne Is
no banker at all that He owns nothlng.
What is he? An impostor. CHRIST says ne
owns the cattle on thousand nliis i5 tld W. us
this world He owns the next worla ne
owns the universe He is the banker OF all
Nations. Is He? II He is, He is God. Is
He not2 Then He is an impostor
man enters the White House at Washing
ton. He says II am Emperor William, OF
Germany. am travelling incognlto nave
come over here for recreation and pleasure.
I own castles In Dresden and Berlin. !" But
the president finds out the next day that ne
is not Emperor william that he owns no cas-
ties at Berlin and Dresden; that ne mas no
authority. What is he? An impostor. Chrlst
saws He is the king over ail-the KING lmmor
tai. invisible. If He is, He is God. Ii lie Is
not, He is an impostor.
Strauss saw that alternative and ne tries
to get out of it by saying that Christ was SIN
full in accepting alteration ana worship.
Renan tries to get out Of 1t by saying tiiat
Christ-not through any fault OF MS own.
but through the fault OF Others-lose MS
purity OF conscience, and he slyly mtlinaIes
that dishonorable women had damaged HIS
soul. ANYTHING but believe that Christ is
God. Now you believe the Bible to be true.
If you do not, you would hardly have ap-
peared in this church. You would have gone
over and joined the Broadway lntdeI club,
or you would so to Boston and KISS the 1901
of the statue OF Thomas Paine. You would
hardly come into this church, where the most
of us are the deluded souls who believe In a
whole Bible and take it all down as easily as
you swallow ripe strawberry.
| have shown you what inspired men sa1d
of Christ have shown you what Christ sah
of Himself now, if you believe the blpie, icy
us 90 out and see His wonderful achieve
ments- surgical, alimentary, marine, mortu-
g,,rufnal aahievpmpptS! Where Is the
medical journal that gives an account OF such
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 a word He struck fast
Malchus amputated ear. He stirred little
dust and spittle into salve and with it
caused 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 39 years
shoulder his mattress and walk off.
Sir Ashley Cooper, Abernethy, Valentine
Mott, stood poWerlesS before q withered arm,
but this doctor OF omnipotent 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 as the other. He
was God.
Alimentary achievements He found a 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 five
loaves and expected to sell them for ten pen
MES and so he would double his money.
Christ took those loaves of bread and per-
formed miracle by which He fed 1000 fam
ishing people, and l warrant you the lad lost
nothing. for there were twelve baskets of
fragments taken up, and If the boy had live
loaves at the start / warrant you he had at
least ten at the close.
The Saviour's mother goes into neigh,
Dor house to help get up a wedding 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 word.
makes l30 gallons of pure wine.
Marine achievements He turns whole
school of fish into the net of men who were
mourning over their poor luck until the boat
il 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 Che sailors have to be cautious in going
from larboard TO starboard lest they upset the
ship.
Then there comes a squall down through
tHo LlCuhtaih SOi5Sf oAif N~AN'AASet "ish
long locks of white foam, rises up to battle
it, and the boat drops into a 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 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 omnipotence. Who wrestled down that
euroclydon? Whose feet trampled the rough
Galilee into q smooth floor?
Let philosophers and anatomists go to
Westminster Abbey and try to wake up
Queen Elizabeth or Henry VIII. No hu-
man power ever wakened the dead. There
is dead girl in Capernaum. What does
Christ do? Alas that she should have died so
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 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 man7 Tell
that to the lunatics in BloomiDgdale asylum.
1t was Christ the God.
But there comes a test which more than
als wii chou rvh hath har ~ 4