The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-08-31

way they mourned over him. He was
to be the companion OF his mother. He
was to be his mothers protector. He
would return now some of the kind
nesses he had rece we'd in the day OF
childhood and boyhood. Ay, he would
with his strong hand uphold that form
already enfeebled with age. VIII he do
1t? No. In one hour all that promise
of help and companionship Is gone
There is world of anguish in that one
short phrase. 1.-The only son of his
mother, and she widow"
Now, my friends, it was upon this
scene that Christ broke. He came in
without any introduction He stopped
the procession. He had only two utter
ances to make; the one to the mourn
ing 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, I say unto thee, arise!'
And he that was dead sat up.
learn two of three things from this
su bject, and, first, that Christ was a
man. You see how that sorrow played
upon all the 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 action and
decision of His mind, He was a
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just as you look off upon the waters.
He went into Martha's house just as
you go into cottage. He breathed hard
when He was tired just as you do when
you are exhausted. He felt tired after
sleeping out night in the storm, just
like you do when you have been ex-
posed to a tempest. 1t was just as hui
initiating for Him to beg bread as it
would be for you to become a pau
per. He felt just as much insulted
by being sold for thirty pieces
of silver as you would be if you
were sold for the price of a 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
angles; He took on Him the seed of
| Abraham. ''Eece homo!"-Behold the
man!
But must also draw from this sub
ject that He was God. Suppose that
a man should attempt to break up a
funeral obsequy; he would be seized
by the law, he would be imprisoned, if
he were not actually slain by the mob
| before the officers could secure him.
! If Christ had been mere mortal,
would He have right to come in upon
such a procession? Would He have
succeeded in His interruption? He
was more than a man, for when He
! cried out: 81 say unto thee,
arisep He that was dead sat
up" What excitement there must
have been thereabouts! The body had
! lain PROSTATE. 1t had been mourned
over with agonizing tears. and yet now
IL begins to move in the shroud. and to
be flushed with life; and, at the COM
mand of Christ, he rises up and looks
into the faces of the astonished specta-
tors. Oh, this was the work of God!
/ hear it in His voice; / see it in the
flash of His eye; behold it in the snap
ping of the deaths shakels; 1 see it in
the face of the rising slumberer: / hear
in the cutlery of all those who were spec
tatorS of the scene. If, when seemy
Lord Jesus Christ mourning with the be-
reaved. ! put my hand on His shoulder.
and say, My brother" now that I
hear Him proclaim supernatural de-
liverances, look up into His face and
say with Thomas: My Lord and my
God" Do you not think He was
God? A great many people do not be-
lieve that, and they compromise the
matter, or they think they compro-
mise it. They sag He was
not God. That is impossible.
He was either a God or wretch, and
will prove it. If a man processes to be
that which he is not, what is he? He
is a liar. and impostor, hypocrite
That is your unanimous verdict. Now.
Christ professed to be God. He said
over and over again He was God, took
the attributes of God, and assumed
the works aud offices of a God Dare
you now say He was not? He was
God, or was He a wretch.
Do you think that can not prove by
this Bible that He was a 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. Suppose you do believe it? |
Then l can demonstrate that He was |
Divine. / can prove He was Creator, |
John i, 8: "All things were made by |
Him; and without Him was not any,
thing made that was made" He was |
eternal, Rev. xxi, IS: Il am Alpha |
and Omega, the beginning and the |
end, the first and the last" l can |
prove that He was omnipotent, Heb. |
i, 10, 1.-THE heavens are the work of |
Thine hands" l can prove He was |
omniscient, John ii, 25: ''He knew what |
was in man." On, yes. he is God. |
He cleft the sea. He upheaved the
crystalline walls along which the Is
realities marched. He planted the
mountains. He raises up govern
ments and cast down thrones, and /
marches across nations and across
worlds and across the universe,
eternal, omnipotent, unhindered,
and unabashed. That hand that was
nailed to the cross holds the stars in a
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