The McCook tribune., 1897-08-13

| dtIUSS TIE WdtCi, os
, the prophet, amid the stormy times IL
which he lived, put the telescope o.
prophecy to his eye, and saw, sever
hundred and fifty years ahead, ont
Jesus advancing to the rescue. l wan
10 show that when Isaiah called Christ
the Wonderful, he spoke wisely.
In most houses there is picture o1
Christ. Sometimes it represents him
with face effeminate; sometimes with a
race despotic. / have seen Vests
grand sketch of the rejection of Christ
have seen the face of Christ as cut
on an emerald. said to be by command
or Tiberius Caesar: and yet I am con-
vinced 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. I take up this book of divine
photographs, and l look at Luke's
sketch, at Marks sketch. at Johns
sketch, and at Paurs sketch, and l say,
with Isaiah, Wonderful!
l think that you are all interested in
the story of Christ You feel that he
is the only one who can help you. You
have unbounded admiration for the
commander who helped his passengers
ashore while he himself perished, but
have you no admiration for him who
rescued our souls, himself falling back
into the waters from which he had
saved us?
Christ was wonderful in the mag
netism of his person.
After the battle of Antietam, when
4 general rode along the lines. although
the soldiers were lying down exhausted.
! they rose with great enthusiasm and
huzzaed AS Napoleon returned from
his captivity, his first step on the wharf
shook all the kingdoms, and two hun
| dred and fifty thousand men joined his
| standard. 1t took three thousand
! troops to watch him in his exile. So
| there have been men of wonderful mag
netism of person. But hear me while
I 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 Je-
Ia, and Badajos; but here was a man
who had fought no battles; who wore
no epaulettes; who brandished no
sword. He is no titled man of the
schools, for he never went to school.
He had probably never seen a prince,
Or shaken hands with a nobleman. The
only extraordinary person we know of
as being in his company was his own
mother, and she was so 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 de- |
scended from high lineage is standing |
beside him, and says, ''My father was
a merchant prince; he had a castle on |
the beach at Galilee. Who was your
father?" Christ answers, Joseph, the
carpenter" A man from Athens is
standing there unrolling his parchment
Of graduation, and says to Christ,
Where did you go to school?" Christ
answers, 81 never graduated" Ahai
the idea of such an unheralded young
man attempting to command the at
tention of the world! AS well some
little fishing village on Long Island
shore attempt to arraign New York.
Yet no sooner does he set his foot in
the towns or cities of Judea than every
thing is in commotion. The people
go out on picnic, taking only food
enough for the day, yet are SO fascinat-
I'd with Christ that, at the risk of stary-
ing, they follow him out into the will
ierness A nobleman falls down fiat
before him, and says, my daughter is
lead" A beggar tries to rub the dim
hess from his eyes and says, Lord, that
ny eyes may be opened" A poor, sick
painting woman pressing through the ;
,rowd, says, Il must touch the hem of
lis garment. Children, who love s
heir mother better than any one else.
truggle to get into his arms, and to {
,iss his cheek, and to run their fingers
through his hair, and for all time put
ing Jesus so in love with the little ones {
hat there is hardly nursery in Chris i
endom from which he does not take S
ne, saying, 81 must have them; I will {
III heaven with these; for every cedar t
hat plant in heaven l will have fifty
yhite lilies. In the hour when I was :
poor man in Judea they were not g
shamed of me. and now that l have +
ONE to throne 1 do not despise h
hem. Hold it not back, oh. weeping r
lother; lay it on my warm heart. Of +
uch is the kingdom Of heaven" n
What is this coming down the road9 $
triumphal procession. He is seated. d
OF in a chariot. but on an ass; and b
ct the people take off their coats and "
lrow them in the way. Oh. what n
me Jesus made among the children. c
mong the beggars, among the fisher T
len, among the philosophers, You d.
ay boast Of self-control, but il you te
ad seen him you would have put your T
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