The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-21

under HIS foot crushing kingdoms,
and yet lamb licking the hand that
slays Him? At what point do
the throne and the manger touch!
IL Christ was God. why flee into
Egypt? Why not stand His ground!
Why. instead of bearing the cross not
lift up His right hand and crush His
assassins? Why stand and be spat
upon? Why sleep on the mountain
when He owned the palaces OF eternity!
WHY catch fish for His breakfast on
the beach IN the chill morning, when
all the pomeyranates are His, and all
the VINEYARDS His, and all the cattle
His, and all the cartridges His? why
walk when weary, and His feet stone
bruised, when He might have
taken the splendors of the sunset for
His eauipage and moved with horses
and chariots of fire? Why beg a drink
from the wayside, when out of the crys-
tai chalices of eternity He poured the
Euphrates, the Mississippi, and the
Amazon, and dipping His hand in the
fountains of Heaven, and shaking that
hand over the world. from the tips OF
His fingers dripping the great lakes
and the oceans? Why let the Roman
regiment put Him to death, when lie
might have ridden down the sky fol-
lowed by all the cavalry of Heaven,
mounted on white horses of eternal
victory?
You can not understand. Who can?
You try to confound me. l am con-
founded before you speak. Paul SAID
Z. l., Ia. IIat q n
up from argument to argument, ana
! from antithesis to antithesis, and. from
glory to glory, and then sank down In
exhaustion as he saw far above him
other heights of divinity unscaled, and
exclaimed, ''that in all things he might
have the pre-eminence."
Again: Christ was wonderful in His
teaching. The people had been used
to formalities and technicalities; Christ
upset all their notions as to how
preaching ought to be done. There
was popularity about His preaching:
The people knew what He meant. HIS
| illustrations were taken from the hen
calling her chickens together; from
salt, from candles, from fishing tackle,
! from a hard creditor collaring debt
or. How few pupils of this day would
have allowed Him entrance? He would
| have been called undignitied and
| familiar in His style OF
preaching. And yet the people went
te hearaiIim. Those old Jewish rabbis
might have preached on the side OF
Olivet 80 years and never got an audi
ence. The philosophers sneered at HIS
ministrations and said: This will
never dow The lawyers caricatured,
but the common people heard Him
gladly. Suppose you that there were
any sleepy people in His audiences?
| Suppose you that any woman who
ever mixed bread was ignorant of
what He meant when He compared
the kingdom of Heaven with leaven
or yeast? Suppose you that the
sunburned fishermen, with the fish
scales upon their hands, were listles
when He spoke of the Kingdom o
Heaven as net? We spend three
years in a college studying ancien
mythology, and three years in the the
illogical seminary learning how t.
make sermon, and then we go out t.
save the world; and if we can not do
according to Claude's ''Sermonizing,
or "Blair's Rhetoric" or Kane's Crit
icism," we will let the world go to per
dition. If we save nothing else, W
will save Claude and Blair. We see
wreck in sight. We must go out an
save the crew and passengers. w
wait until we get on our fine cap an
coat and find our shining oars, an
then we push out methodically an
scientifically. while some plain shore:
man, in rough fishing smack, and wit
broken oarlocks, goes out and gets tn
crew and passengers, and brings theI
ashore in safety. We throw down GU
, delicate oars and say: what ride
!, ulous thing to save men in that way
You ought TO have done 1t scientificall
and beautifully" "Ah" says tn
, shoresman, IF those sufferers ha
! waited until you got out your fine boa
, they would have gone to the bottom
, The work of religious teacher is
!. save men, though every law OF graz
A mar should be snapped in the unde
: taking, and there be nothing but aw
q wardness and plumbers in the mod
A all hall 10 the man VINO Saves ID Soul.
n Christ, in His preaching, was plai
). earnest, and wonderfully sympatheti
a We can not dragoon men into Heavc
, We can not drive them in with t
!. butt-end of catechism. We was
h our time in trying to catch flies wi
20 acids instead of the sweet honeycor
A. of the Gospel We try to make era
a., apples do the work of pomegranates
a Again: Jesus was wonderful in /
20 sorrows. The sun smote Him, and
pa cold chilled Him, the rain pe!ted Hi
~ thirst parched Him, and hunger
Ia hausted Him. Shall compare
in sorrow TO the sea? No; for that
~ sometimes hushed into calm. Sh
m. / compare it with the night? NO;
70 that sometimes CLEANS with ORR
II, or kindles with Aurora. II c
ON thorn should be thrust throu
re your temple you would fail
But here is whole crown mt
ga from the Rhamnus or Spina Chris
no small, sharp, singing thorns. The n
az makes cross. They put down
long beam. and on it they taste
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