The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-05-17


and spittle into salve, and with il
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 straight
ened woman who through contraction
of the muscle had been bent almost
double for well nigh two decades. H&
made man who had no usc of his
limb for thirty-eight years i;louider his
mattress and walk off.
Sir Ashley Cooper, Alternately, Valen-
tine Mott stood powerless before a
withered arm; but this doctor of omnip-
otent surgery comes in and He sees the
paralitic arm useless and lifeless at the
mans side, and .Christ says to himI
''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 wilder
ness with five loaves of bread for a
speculation. Perhaps the lad had paid
five pennies for the five loaves, and he
expected 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 furnishing people. And
| warrant you the lad lost nothing, fof
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 q
neighbours house to help get up we'd
ding party. By calculation she finds
out that the amount of wine is not sufd-
cient for the guests. She calls in
Christ for help, and Christ, not by tho
slow decay of fermentation, but by
word, makes 1870 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 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 tho
game, so that the sailors have to DO
cautious in going from larboard to star
board lest they upset the ship. Then
there comes a squall down through the
mountain gorge, Genesaret with long
locks of white foam rises up to battle
it, and the boat drops into a trough
and ships 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 a
smooth floor?
Let philosophers and ANTAGONISTS go
to Westminster Abbey and try to wake
Queen Elizabeth or Henry VIII. No
human power ever awakened the dead
There is a dead girl in Capernaum.
What does Christ do? Alas! 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, dead The house is
full of weeping. Christ Gomez and He
takes hold of the hand of the dead
girl and instantly her eyes open
and her heart starts. The white
lily of death bushes into the
roses of 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 luna
tics in Bloomingdale asylum. 1t was
Christ, the God.
But there comes test which more
than any thing else will show whether
He was God or man. You remember
that great passage which says: "We
must all appear before the judgmen,
seat of Christ" The earth will Se
stunned by blow that will make il
stagger mid-heaven; the stars will cir
Gle like dry leaves in an equinox; the
earth will unroll the bodies, and the
sky will unroll the spirits, and the SOU
and flesh will come into incorruptibie
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 quintillions of the saved. Or
the other side, piled up in galleries o.
darkness, the frowning, the glaring
multitude of those who rejected God.
Between these two piled-up galleries
throne, a high throne, throne stand
ing on two FURNISHED pillars-Justice
Mercy-a throne so bright you had bet
ter hide your eye lest it be extinguishet
with excess of vision. But it is ar
empty throne. Who will come up ant
take it? VIII you?
'Ah, no." you say. 81 am but a chile
of dust; | would not dare to climb that
throne" Would Gabriel climb it? He
dare not. Who will ascend it? Her,
comes one. His back is to us. He goe.
up step above step. height abov,
height, until He reaches the apex
Then He turns around and faces all ne.
tons, and we all see who it is. 1t il
Christ, the God and all earth, and al
Heaven, and all hell kneel, crying: 81
is God 1t is God!' We must al
appear before the Judgment seat o
Christ.
Oh, am so glad that it is Divine
Being who comes topardon all our sins
to comfort all our sorrows. Sometime
our griefs are SO great they are beyond
any human sympathy, and we wan
Almighty sympathy. Oh, We who criec
all last night because of bereavement
or loneliness, want to tell you it is al
omnipotent Christ who is come.