Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-08-22

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bowl One day his hand trembled so
much he dropped it, and it broke, and
the son, seated at the elegant table in
midfioor, said TO his wife, Now wen
get father wooden bowl, and that he
can't break. " so wooden bowl was
obtained, and every day old grandfather
ate out of that, sitting in the corner.
One day, while the elegant young man
and his wife were seated at their table,
with chased silver and all the luxuries,
and their little son sat upon the floor,
they saw the lad whiting, and they
said, MY son, what are you doing
there with that knife?' "Oh, "said he,
lin making trough for my father
and mother to eat out of when they get
uld!'
But this young man of the text was
not of that character. He did not belong
to that school. l can tell it from the
way they mourned over him. He was to
10 the companion of his mother He
| vas to be his mothers protector He
would return now some of the kind
nesses he had received in the DAYS of
childhood and boyhood. Aye, he would
with his strong hand uphold that form
already enfeahl"d with age. VIII he do
il? No. In one hour that promise OF
nclp and conpanionship is goue, There
Is a world CT anguish in that one short
phrase, The culy son of his mother
RID she a widow.
Nov, my friends, it was upon this
Gene that Christ broke He camo i'll
without any Introduction. He stopped
he procession. He had only two utter
,nces to make--tbe one to the moCrn-
ing mother, the other to the dead. He
ried ont to the mourning one, weep
got" and then, touching the biz on
which the son lay, he cried out, "Y n!ng
man, | say unto thee arisep' ARG he
that was dead sat up.
learn two or three things froIl his
'ul ject, and first that Christ vs. u
man. You see how that sorrow pl. ycd
upon all the chords of his heart. Ithink
we forget this too often. Christ Was
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, i'll every Gc-
ton and decision of his mind he was q
man.
He looked off upon the sea just as you
look off upon the waters. He went into
Martha's house just as you go into a
cottage. He breathed hard when he was
tired, just as you do when you arc ex-
hausted. He felt after sleeping out a
night in the storm just like you do
when you have been exposed to q tenn
pest 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 30 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 q
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 Oh Inn
the seed of Abraham. "Ecce homo!'-
behold the mani
But 1 must also draw from this sub
ject that he was 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 mere mortal, would |
he have a right to come in upon such a
procession? Would he have succeeded III |
his interruption? He was more than
man, for when he cried out, II say unto
thee, arisep' he that was dead sat up
What excitement there must have been
The body had lain pros
trate. 1t had been mourned over with
agonizing tears, and yet now it begins
to i1lcva 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 a God!
If his eye; l behold it in the swapping
If deaths shac⩽ see it in the face
If the rising slumberer; hear it in the
)utcry Of all those who were spectators
If the scene. If, when sec my Lord
Jesus Christ mourning with the be-
'eaved, 1 put my hands ON his shoulders
md say, my brother, now that l hear
him proclaim supernatural deliverauces
look up into his face and say with
Thomas, "My Lord and my God. +" Do
'ou not think he was a God? A great
many people do not believe that, and
hey compromise the matter, or they
hink they compromise it. They say he
vas very good man, but he was not
iod. That is impossible. He was either
God or a wretch, and / will prove it.
f a man processes to be that which he
5 not, what is he? He is liar, an i'm
,ostor, a hypocrite. That is your unan-
nous verdict. Now, Christ professed
o be a God He said over and over
gain he was a God, took the attributes
# a God and assumed the works and
f1ices Of o God Dare you now say he
vas not? He was a God, or he was
wretch. Choose ye,
Do you think / cannot prove by this
Bible that he was God? If you do not
,elieye this Bible. of oOurse there is no ]