The Globe-republican., 1894-08-31

He was to be his mothers protector
He would return now some of the kind
nesses he had received in the day O
childhood and boyhood. Ay. he woul,
with his strong hand uphold that form
already enfeebled with age Will h,
do it? No. In one hour all that promis.
OF help and companionship is gone
There is a world of anguish in that on.
short phrase: The only son of hi.
mother, and she widow
Now. my friends. it was upon thi.
scene that Christ broke He came il
without any introduction. He stopped
the procession. He had only two ut
terances to make: the one to the
mourning mother. the 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, l say unto thee
Arise" And he that was dead sat up.
learn two or three things from this
subject. and. first. that Christ was a
man. You see how that sorrow played
upon the chords of his heart 1 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 in Gen
nesaret. In every nerve. and muscle.
and, bone, and fiber of His body;
in every emotion and affection
of His heart; in every action and
decision of His mind. He was a
man. He looked off upon the sea
just as you look of upon the waters.
He went into Martha's house as you go
into cottage. He breathed hard when
He was tired, just as you do when you
are exhausted. He felt after sleeping
out night in the storm just like you
do when you have been exposed to a
tempest. 1t was just as humiliating
for Him to beg bread as it would be for
you to become a pauper. He felt just
as much insulted by being sold for
thirty pieces of silver as you would if
you were sold for the price of dog.
From the crown of the head to the sole
of the foot He was a man. When the
thorns were twisted for His brow, they
hurt Him just as much as they would
hurt your brow if they were twisted
for it. He took not on Him the nature
of angels: He took on Him the seed of
Abraham. ''Ecce homo''-Behold the
man!
But must also draw from this SUBJ
ject that He was God. Suppose that
a man should attempt to break up
funeral 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 a right to come in upon such a
procession? Would He have succeeded
in his interruption? He was more
than man, for when He cried out:
~ say unto thee. Ariser He
that was dead sat upr' What ex-
element there must have been
The body had lain
1t had been mourned over
with agonizing tears, and yet now it
begins to move in the shroud. and to be
iushed with life; and, at the command
If Christ, he rises up and looks into
he faces of the astonished spectators.
Oh, this was the work of God! Ihear
in His voice: l see it in the flash of
lis eye; behold it in the swapping of
he deaths shackles; I see it in the
ace of the rising slumberer; 1 hear it
n the cutlery of all those who were
pectators of the scene. If, when see
ny Lord Jesus Christ mourning with
he bereaved, put my hand on His
boulder, and say: MY brother"
low that 1 hear Him proclaim
deliverances, I look up
nto his face and say with Thomas:
My Lord and my God" Do you not |
hink he was a God? A great many
eople do not believe that. and they
the matter, or they think |
hey compromise it. They say He was
very good man, but He was not
iod. That is impossible. He was
ither God or wretch, and 1 will |
rove it.
Do you think cannot prove by this
ible that He was God? If you do
OF believe this Bible, of course there
no need of my talking to you. There
no common data from which to start.
oppose you do believe it? Then can
that He was divine. 1
An prove He was Creator, John i. 3:
All things were made by Him: and
'ithout Him was not anything made
lat was made" He was eternal. Rev.
xii, Is: Il am Alpha and Omega, the
eginning and the end. the first and
lie last" 1 can prove that He was
nnipotent. Heb. l., 10: THE heavens
e the work of Thine hands" l can
owe He was omniscient. John IL, 25:
He knew what was in man." Oh.
IS, He is a God. He cleft the
a He upheaved the crystal
ne walls along which the Israel
es marched. He planted the mount
ms. He raises up governments and
Ists down thrones, and marches across
atoms. and across worlds. and across
le universe, eternal, omnipotent. I'M
ndered and unabashed. That hand
at was nailed to the cross holds the
ars in a leash of love. That head that
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