Connecticut western news., 1894-08-23

Now, my friends, it was upon this scene that Christ broke. He camo in without any introduction, He stopped the procession. He had only two utter ances to mako--tho ono to the mourn ing mother, tho other to the dead. He cried out to the mourning one, Weep not, and then. touching the bier on which the son lay. he cried out, Young man, say unto thee ariser' And he that was dead sat up.
 loarn two or three things from this subject and first that Christ was a man. You see how that sorrow played upon Gll tho chords of his heart. think we forget this too often. Christ was a man more certainly than you are, for he was perfect man No sailor ever slept in ships hammock more soundly than Christ slept in that boat on Gennesaret In every nerve. and muscle and bone and fiber of his body, in every emotion and affection of his heart, in every ac- ton and decision of his mind he was Q man. He locked off upon the sea just as you look off upon the waters. He went into Martha's house just as you go into Q
 
 tired, just as you do when you are ex- hausted. Hc felt after sleeping out night in the storm just like you do when you have been exposed to tem- pest. It was just as humiliating for him to beg bread as it would be for you to become pauper. He felt just as much insulted by being sold for 80 pieces of silver as you would if you were sold for I the price of dog From the crown of the head to the sole of the foot he was man. When the thorns were twisted for his brow, they hurt him just as much as they hurt your brow if they were twisted for it. He took not on him the nature of angels. He took on hlm the seed of Abraham. "Ecce homop'- behold the man! But must also draw from this sub ject that hewas God Suppose that man should attempt to break up a fu- neral obsequy. He would be seized by the law, he would be imprisoned, if he were not actually slain by the mob be- fore the officers could secure him. If Christ had been a mere mortal, would | he have right to come in upon such a procession? Would he have succeeded in | his interruption? He was-mor than a man, for when he cried out, sI say unto | thee, arisep' he that was dead sat up. What excitement there must have been thereaboutl The body had lain pros l trate. It had been mourned over with | agonizing tears, and yet now it begins to move in the shroud and to be flushed with life, and at the command of Christ | he rises up and looks into the faces of the astonished spectators.
 Oh, this was the work of Godl l hear it in his voice; see it ill the flash ! of his eye; I behold it in the snapping ! of deaths shackles; 1 see it in the face | of the rising slumberer; hear it in the | outcry of all those who were spectators | of the scene. If, when see my Lord | Jesus Christ mourning with the be- reaved, put my hands on his shoulders, and say, My brother, now that hear | him proclaim supernatural deliverances, | I look up into his face and say with Thomas, My Lord and my God. Do you not think he was Q God? A great many people do not believe that, and they compromise the matter, or they | think they compromise it. They say he l was very good man, but he was not a | God That is impossible He was either a God or wretch, and I twill prove it. | If man professes to be that which he is not whatis he? He is liar, an inn postor, $ hypoorite. That is your unan- imous verdict Now, Christ professed to be a God. He said over and over again he was God, took the attributes of God and assumed the works and | offices of asGod. Dare you now say he wretch. Choose ye. .N Do you think l cannot prove by this | Bible that he was God? If you do not believe this Bible, of course there is no | need of my talking to you. There is no common data from which to start. Sup pose you do believe it. Then I can demonstrate that he was divine. can | prove he was Creator, John i, 3, "All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was
 made" He was eternal, Revelation
 xii, 13, "I am Alpha aud Omega, the
 beginning and the end, the first and the
 last. . I can prove that he was omnipo-
 rent, Hebrews i, 10, "The heavens are
 the work of thine hands" can prove
 he was omnisoient, John ii, 25, "He
 knew what was in man." Oh, yes, he
 is God. He cleft the sea- Heupheaved | the crystalline walls along which the l Israelites marched. He planted the
 mountains. He raises up governments
 and casts down thrones and marches across nations and across worlds and
 across the universe. eternal, omnipo-
 tent, unhindered and unabashed. That
 hand that was nailed to the cross holds
 the stars in leash of love. That head
 that dropped on the bosom in fainting
 and death shall make the world quake
 at its nod. That voice that groaned in
 the last pang shall swear before the
 trembling world that time shall be no
 longer. Oh. do not insult the common
 sense of the race by telling us that this
 person was only man in whose pres
 ence the paralytic arm was thrust out
 we'll, and the devils crouched, and the
 lepers dropped their scales, and the
 tempests folded their wings. and the
 boys satchel of few loaves made a
 banquet for 5000, and the sad process
 sion of my text broke up in congratula.
 tion and hosanna!
 Again, learn from this subject that
 Christ was a sympathizer. Mark you.
 this was city funeral In the country,
 when the bell tolls, they know all about
 it for five miles around, and they know
 what was the matter with the man,
 how old he was and what were his last
 experiences. They know with what
 temporal prospects he has left his fam.
 fly. There is no haste, there is no inde
 cency in the obsequies. There is moth
 ing done as a mere matter of business
 Even the children come out as the pro
 cession passes and look sympathetic, ant
 the tree shadows seem to deepen, ant
 the brooks weep in sympathy as the pro
 cession goes by. But, mark you, thii
 that | nm speaking of was a city fin