The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-24

childhood and boyhood. Ay, he would
with his strong hand uphold that form
already enfeebled with age. Will he
do it? No. In one hour all that promise
of help and companionship is gone.
There is a world of anguish in that one
short phrase: THE only son of his
mother, aud she a 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 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,
Ariser' 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. l think
we forget this too often. Christ was a
man more certainly than you are, for
He was a 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;
of His heart; in every action and
decision of His mind. He was
man. He looked off upon the sea
just as you look off upon the waters.
He went into Martha's house as you go
into a cottage. He breathed hard when
He was tired, just as you do when you
are exhausted. He felt after sleeping
out a 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 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 a 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 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 sub
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 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:
''I say unto thee, Arise.' He
that was dead sat up.' What ex-
element there must have been
thereabouts! The body had lain
PROSTATE. 1t 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 God. Ihear
it in His voice; | see it in the flash of
His eye: l behold it in the swapping of
the deaths shackles: | see it in the
face of the rising slumberer; l hear it
in the cutlery of all those who were
spectators of the scene. If. when l see
my Lord Jesus Christ mourning with
the bereaved, l put my hand on His
shoulder, and say: MY brother"
now that | hear Him proclaim
deliverances, l look up
into his face and say with Thomas:
My Lord and my God" Do you not
think he was a God? A great many
people do not believe that, and they
the matter, or they think
they compromise it. They say He was
\ very good man, but He was not
God. That is impossible. He was
either a God or a wretch, and 1 will
prove it. If a man processes to be that
which he is not, what is he? He is
lar, an imposter, hypocrite. That is
your unanimous verdict. Now, Christ
Drofessed to be God. He said over
and over again He was a God, took the
attributes of God, and assumed the
works and offices of God. Dare you
now say he was not? He was God or
He was a wretch.
Do you think | cannot prove by this
Bible that He was God? If you do
lot believe this Bible, of course there
S no need of my talking to you. There
S no common data from which to start.
suppose 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
without Him was not anything made
hat was made" He was eternal, Rev.
xii, 10: 81 am Alpha and Omega, the
and the end, the first and
he last" L can prove that He was
Heb. j., 10: The heavens
ire the work of Thine hands" l can
prove He was omniscient, John IL, %:
He knew what was in man." Oh,
res, He is a God. He cleft the |
ga. He upheaved the crystal
inc walls along which the Israel |
ties marched. He planted the mount
inns. He raises up governments and |
asts down thrones. and marches across |
nations, and across worlds. and across |
he universe, eternal, omnipotent, I'M |
linderei and unabaShed. That hand |
hat was nailed to the cross holds the |
tars in leash of love. That head that |
Iropped on the bosom in fainting and
leath shall make the world quake at |
is nod. That voice that groaned in
he last pang shall swear before the
rembling world that time shall be no
onger. Oh. do not insult the common.
ense of the race by telling us that thiS
'erson was only man, in whose pres
nee the paralytic arm was thrust out
veil, and the devils crouched, and the
epers dropped their sc ales, and the
empests folded their wings, and the
.oy's satchel of a few loayes made a