The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-01

he could put on wheels the thunder.
bolt of power which roars by day and
by night in every furnace of the loco
motive engines of America That Is
what helped Hugh Miller. toiling amid
the quarries of Cromarty, until every
rock became to him volume
of the worlds biography, and
he found the footsteps of the Creator
in the old red sandstone. Oh, the world
wants Christ for the Office, Christ
for the kitchen, Christ for the shop,
Christ for the banking house, Christ
for the garden, while spading and
planting and irrigating the territory.
Oh, of course we want 60 see Christ at
last in royal robe and bediamonded,
celestial equestrian mounting the white
horse, but from this Easter OF 1897 to
our last Easter on earth we most need
to see Christ as Mary Magdalene saw
Him at the day break, "supposlng Him
to be gardener"
Another thing which the church and
the world have not noticed in regard to
the resurrection of Christ is that He
made His first post-mortem appearance
TO one who had been the seven-deviled
Mary Magdalene. One would have
supposed He would have made His first
posthumous appearance to woman
who had always been illustrious for
goodness. There are sanity women
who have always been sanity, sanity
in girlhood, sanity in infancy, always
sanity. In nearly all our families
there have been sanity aunts. In my
family circle it was sanity Aunt
Phoebe; in yours, sanity Aunt Martha,
or sanity Aunt Ruth. One always
sanity. But not SO was the one spoken
of in the text.
While you are not to confound her
with the repentant courtesan who had
made her long locks do the work of
towel at Christ's footwashing, you are
not to forget that she was exercised OF
seven devils. What captive OF
demonology she must have been.
What chorus OF all dia-
bolism. Seven devils-two for the
eyes, and two for the hands, and two
for the feet, and one for the tongue.
Seven devils. Yet all these are eXtir-
pated, and now she is as good as once
she was bad, and Christ honors her
with the first posthumous appearance.
What does that mean?
Why, it means for worst sinner great
est grace; it means those lowest down
shall come perhaps, highest up. 1t
means that the clock that strikes ID at
midnight may strike IL at
midnoon; il means that the grace OF
God is seven times stronger than sin.
Mary Magdalene the seven-deviled be-
came Mary Magdalene the seven
angeled. 1t means that when the Lord
meets us at last He will not throw up
to us what we have been. All He said
to her was: Mary" Many people hav-
ing met her under such circumstances
would have said: Let me see, how
many devils did you have? one, two,
three, four, five, six, seven. What
terrible piece you were when first
met YOU" The most of the Christian
women in our day would have
nothing to do with Mary Magdalene
even after her conversion, lest some
how they be compromised. The only
thing have to say against women is
that they have not enough mercy for
Mary Magdalene. Christ put all pathos,
and all "reminiscences, and all anticipa-
ton, and all pardon, and all comfort
and all Heaven into one word of four
letters: Mary Mark you, Christ did
not appear to some Bible Elizabeth, or
Bible Hannah or Bible Esther, or Bible
Deborah, or Bible Vashti, but TO Mary
not to Mary against whom nothing
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Jesus, not to Mary the mother OF
James, not to Mary the sister of Laza-
rus, but to a seven-deviled Mary.
There is man seven-deviled-devi
of avarice, devil of pride, devil of hate
devil of Incidence, devil of falsehood
devil of strong drink, devil OF impurity
God can take them all away, seven OF
seventy. / rode over the new cantilevel
bridge that spans Niagara--a bridge 9o(
feet long, $50 feet of chasm from bluff
to bluff. l passed over it without
anxiety. Why? Because % locomo
tives and % cars laden with gravel haC
tested the bridge, thousands of peopl,
standing on the Canadian side, thou
sands standing on the American side
to applaud the achievement. AnC
however long the train of our immor
tai interests may be we are to remem
Der that Gods bridge of mercy span
ming the chasm of sin has been full,
tested by the awful tonnage of all tn
pardoned sin of all the ages, churcl
militant standing on one bank, churcl
triumphant standing on the othe
bank. Oh, it was to the seven-devile
: Mary that Christ made His first post
norton appearance.
5 There is another thing that tn
, world and the church have not oh
| served in regard to this resurrection
t and that is. it was the mornin
: twilight.
: II the chronometer had been inver
ted and Mary had as good a watch a
1 some of the Marys of our time hav
4 she would have found it was about 5:s
e o'clock a. m. Matthew says it was i
D the dawn; Mark says it was at the sur
Y rising; Luke says it was very early |
: the morning; John says it was Will
t it was yet dark. In other words
d it was twilight. That was tn
e o'clock at which Mary MAJ
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