The McCook tribune., 1897-08-13

help him now! CcMe. men OF .Jerus-
alem-lye whose dead he brought 10
life; ye whose sick he healed: who will
help him? Who Will seize the weapons
OF the soldiers? None to help! Having
carried such a cross for us, shall we re-
fuse to take our cross for him?
Shall Jesus bear the cross alone,
And all the world go free?
No; there's cross for everyone,
And there's cross for me.
You know the process OF migrating
You bore hole In tree. and put in
the branch OF another tree. This tree
OF the cross was hard and rough. but
into the holes where the nails went
there have been grated branches OF the
Tree OF Life that now bear fruit for
all nations. The original tree was Bit
ter, but the branches ingrafted were
sweet, and now all the nations pluck
! the fruit and live for ever.
Again: Christ was wonderful In his
victories.
First-over the forces OF nature. The
sea Is a crystal sepulchre 1t swallowed
the Central America. the President,
ana the Spanish Armada as easily as
any fly that ever fioated on It. The in
land lakes are fully as terrible in their
wrath. Galllee, when aroused in
storm Is overwhelming, and yet that
sea crouched In his presence and licked
MS feet. He knew all the waves and
winds. When he beckoned they came.
When he frowned, they fed. The Eel
OF his foot made no indentation on the
solidified water. Medical science has
wrought great changes in rheumatic
limbs and diseased blood, but when the
muscles are entirely withered no hu-l
man power can restore them, and when,
a limb is once dead, it is dead. But
here Is paralytic-his hand lifeless.
Christ says to him, Stretch fork by
hand! and he stretches it forth.
In the Eye Infirmary. how many dis
eases of that delicate organ have been
cured! But Jesus says to one born
blind, BE openi" and the light of
heaven rushes through gates that have
never before been opened. The frost
or an axe may kill tree. but Jesus
smites one dead with a word.
Chemistry can do many wonderful
things, but what chemist, ct wedding.
when the refreshments gave out, could
change pail of water into a cask Of
wine?
What human voice could command
a school of fish? Yet here is voice
that marshals the scaly tribes until
IN the place where they had let down
the net and pulled it up with no fish
in it, they let it down again. and the
disciples lay hold and begin to pull.
when, by reason of the multitude OF
fish, the net brake.
Nature is his servant The flowers
he twisted them into his sermons: the
winds-they were his lullaby when he
slept in the boat; the rain-it hung
glittering on the thick foliage of the
parallels; the star of Bethlehem-it
sang a Christmas carol over his birth.
the rocks-they beat a dirge at his
death
Behold his victory over the gravel
The hinges of the family vault become
very rusty because they are never
opened except to take another in. There
is a knob on the outside of the sepuI-
chre, but none on the inside. Here
comes the Conqueror of Death. He emf
ers that realm and says, Daughter or
Jairus, sit up" and she sat up. Tn
Lazarus, Come FORTH" and he came
,orth. To the widows son he said, Get
Ip from that bier" and he goes home
With his mother. Then Jesus snatched
Up the keys of death, and hung them
% his girdle, and cried until all the
of the earth heard him.
o Death. l will be thy plague, 0
irave, l will be thy destruction~
II is a beautiful moment when two
'ersons who have pledged each
ther, heart and hand, stand in church.
nd have the banns of marriage pro-
laimed. Father and mother, brothers
nd sisters stand around the altar. The
Minister Of Jesus gives the counsel; the
ing is set, earth and heaven witness
:; the organ sounds, and amid many
congratulations they start out on the
ath of life together Oh that this
light be your marriage day, Stand up,
immortal soul. The Beloved comes to
et his betrothed. Jesus stretches forth
is hand and says, Il will love thee
ith an everlasting love-" and you
espond, MY Beloved is mine, and
n his l put your hand in his, hence
'rth be one. No trouble shall part you
no time cool your love. Side by side
1 earth-side by side in heaven. Now
{ the blossoms of heavenly gardens
! the house with their redolence, and
l the organs of God peal forth the
edding march of eternity Hark,
The voice of my beloved, Behold, he
,meth leaping upon the mountains,
tipping upon the hills"
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