Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-08-18
RIV. DIR. TALMAGB.
The Eminent Divine's SUNDAY
Discourse.

Discourse.
<1c breaches on tho Wonderful Personal
Magnetism of tho SaviOur-The SOr
rows of Jesus, His Miracles and III
Infinite sympathy fur All Mankind.
TEXT: ''Hls name shall be called wonder
ful. Isaiah TX, 6.
Tho prophet lived in n dark time. Fo,
somn 5000 years the world had been pettino
worse. Kingdoms had arisen and perished
AS the captain OF a vessel in distress sees
reilef coming across tho water so the
prophet, amid the stormy times in which he
lived, put the telescope of prophecy to his
eye and saw $50 years ahead, one Jesus ad-
vancinS to the rescue. I want to show that
when Isaiah called Christ the Wonderful
he spoke wisely
Christ. Sometimes It represents Him with
lace cfeminate, sometimes with n face
desPottc l have seen Vests grand sketch
OF the rejection OF Christ. have seen the
iace OF Christ az cut on an emerald. said to
be by command Of Tiberius CRsar. and vet
l am convinced that I shall never know
how Jesus looked until, on that sweet Sab
bath morning l shall wash the last sleep
from my eyes in the cool river Of heaven
take up this book OF divine photographs,
and look Mt Luke's sketch, Mt Mark =
sketch, and Johns sketch and Mt Paul's
sketch, and | say, with Isaiah, Wonder
| fuli''
think that you are all Interested in tho
story OF Christ. Yon feel that He is tht
| only one who can help you. You have uni
bounded admiration for the commander
VINO helped his passengers ashore while h9
himself perished, but have you no admira,
| t1on for Him who rescued our souls. Himl
| He had saved us2
| Christ was wonderful in the magnetism.
OF His person.
After the battle of Antietam, when n gen.
| eral rode along the lines, although tho
soiui'rs were lying down exhausted, they
rose with great enthusiasm and huzzaad
As Napoleon returned from his captiyity
his iirst step on the wharf shook all the
Kingdoms. and 25000O men Joined his
standard. 1t took 5000 troops to watch him
| In his exile. So there have been men of
wonderful magnetism Of person. But hea1
| me while tell you of poor young man
| who came up from Nazareth to produce a
thrill such as has never been excited by
| any other. Napoleon had around him the
memories of Austerlitz and Jena and Bada{
| JOS, Dut here was man who had fought no
battles, who wore no eparlets, who bran
dlshed no sword He is no titled man Of the
schools, for He never went to school, He
nad probably never seen a prince or shaken,
hands with noblemRn. The only extraor-l
company was His own mother, and she was
30 poor that in the most delicate and solemn
hour that ever comes to a woman s soul she
was obliged to lie down amid camel drivers
grooming the beasts Of burden.
Imagine Christ one day standing in the
streets of Jerusalem. A man descended
from high lineage is standing beside Him
and says: my father was a merchant
prince. He had a castle on the beach at
Gaiilee. Who was your father2" Christ
answers, Joseph. the carpenter" man
from Athens is standing there unrolling HIS
parchment Of graduation and SAYS to Christ
where did you go to school2' Christ ans
| wers, II never graduated" Ahal The idea
OF such an unheraldet young man attempt
ing 10 command the attention Of the worldl
As well some little fishing village on Long
4 lste2d sheee aftenHtfo saun1Ga usw FSE
Il Yet no sooner does He set His foot In the
towns or cities Of Judma than everything is
In commotion. The people 20 out on pic
MO, taking only food enough for the day.
yet are 30 fascinated with Christ that, at
the risk of starving, they follow Him out
into the Wilderness, A nObleman falls down
fiat before Him and says, my daughter is
dead" A begGar tries to rub the dimness
from his eyes and says, Lord, that my eyes
may be opened" A poor, sick, painting
woman pressing through the crowd says
II must touch the hem of His garment d
Children, who love their mother better,
than any one else, struggle to get into HIS
arms, and to kiss His cheek, and to run their
fingers through His hair, and for all time
putting Jesus so in love with the little onesI
that there is hardly a nursery in Christen-
dom from which He does not take one, saw
ing: Il must have them. I will fill heaven
with these. For every cedar that plant in
heaven will have fifty white lilies In the
hour when i was poor man In Judma they
were not ashamed of Me. and now that
| have come to n throne / do not despise
them. Hold it not back, oh, weeping
| mother; lay it on my warm hearth OF such
| IL the Kingdom of heaven"
What is this coming down the rond2 A
triumphal procession. He is seated, not in
q charlot, but on an ass, and yet the peo
pie take off their coats and throw them in
the way. Oh, what q time Jesus made
among tho children, among the beggars,
among the fishermen among the philoso-
pliers! You may boast Of self control, but
II you had seen Him you would have put
your arms around His neck and said, Thou
art altogether lovely"
Jesus was wonderful in the opposites anu
seeming antagonisms OF His nature. You
want things logical and consistent, and you
cay, How could Christ be God and man at
the same timer" John Gays Christ was the
Creator. "All things were made by Him,
and without Him was not anything made. -
Matthews says that He was omnipresent
"Where two or three are met together In
Ny name there am in the midst OF them.
Christ declares His own eternity, IL am Al
pha and Omega" How can He be lion
under His foot crushing kingdoms, and ye
a lamb licking the hand that slays Him? A,
what poirt do the throne and the mangel
touohl If Christ was God, why flee into
Egypt? Why not stand His ground
Why, instead of bearing the cross, not lif
up His right hand and crush His assassins
Why stand and be spat upon2 Why sleeI
on the mountain, when He owned tn
palaces of eternity? Why catch fsi
for His breakfast on the beach in the chill
morning, when all the pomegranntes or
His and all the vineyards His and all th'
cattle His and all the psrtridges His
Why walk when weary and His feet ston'
bruised, when He might have taken tn,
splendors of the sunset for His eauipag,
and moved with horses and chariots of fire
Why beg drink from tho wayside, wheI
out of the crystal chalices of eternity ii,
poured the Euphrates, the Mississippi an,
the Amazon, and dipping His hands In tn
fountains of heaven and shaking that ham
over the world, from the tips of His finger
| dripping the great lakes and tho ocean
Why let the Roman regiment put Him T.
death, when He might have ridden dow
the sky followed by all the cavalry c
heaven, mounted on white horses OF eterna
, victory?
You canno: understand. Who can
You try to confound me. l am confounde
before you speak. Paul said 1t Was ur
\ searchable. He went climbing up froI
argument to argument and from Rntithesi
to an.ithesis aud from glory to glory an
|
far above him other heights Of divinity VI
a scaled and exclaimed "that in all thine
r He might have the pre-eminence."
3 Again, Christ was wonderful in H
teachings. The people had bee
used to formalities and technicalitie
Christ upset all their notions as to no
5 preaching ought to be done. There WI
h this popularity about His preaching-tf
people knew what He meant. His illustrl
: tions were taken from the hen calling h.
chickens together. from salt, from candle
from fishing tackle, from hard credit
coilarinG n debtor. How few pulpits
this day would have allowed Him @
i trance? He would have been called u
i .igniiied and familiar in His style
a preaching. And yet the people went
IS i hear Him. Those old Jewish rnbbis mig
e have preached on the side Of Olivet NJ
IT years and never got an audience. I
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