The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-08-12
IlIl&S SBNDIT SuA0l
an ELOQUENT DISCOURSE.

,,.,ches on the Wonderful Personal
v.rnetism Of the saviour-The sor-
rs OF Jesus, His Miracles and His
Ipauite sympathy for All Mankind.
,,,r. "His name shall be called wonder
sis-Isaiahix., 6.
.r,s prophet lived in a dark time. For
400 wears the world had been getting
-. Kingdoms had arisen and perished,
e,be captain Of vessel In distress sees
~ coming across the water, SO the
.sanhet. amid the stormy times in which he
l,.i put the telescope Of prophecy to his
~ ana saw, 5Oyears ahead, one Jesus ad.
c,,ng TO the rescue. I want to show that
sssn Isaiah called Christ the Wonderful
4 spoke wisely.
m most houses there Is a picture of
hrst. Sometimes 1t represents Him with
49, effeminate, sometimes with a face
;..po,ic. have seen Vests grand sketch
.s,be rejection Of Christ. / have seen the
s,sot Christ as cut on an emerald, said to
!. M command OF Tiberius Caesar, and vet
am convinced that shall never know
sor Jesus looked until, on that sweet Sab
IN morning, l shall wash the last sleep
tou nv eyes In the cool river Of heaven.
inke up this book Of divine photographs.
mi | look at Lukes sketch, at Marks
Ssch, and Johns sketch and at Paul's
aetch, and say, with Isaiah, "wonder.
DR.
sory OF Christ. You feel that He Is the
suIy one who can help you. You have un-
handed admiration for the commander
vho helped his passengers ashore while he
kImsei perished, but have you no admira-
uOp for Him who rescued our souls, Him
rI falling back into the waters from which
"A had saved us?
Christ was wonderful in the magnetism
4! his person.
After the battle OF Antietam, when a gen
e,sl rode along the lines, although the
scdiers were lying down exhausted, thew
nose with great enthusiasm and huzzaed.
H Napoleon returned from his captivity
ls first step on the wharf shook all the
Kingdoms, and 250,O 900 men Joined his
Standard. 1t took 5000 troops to watch him
10 bis exile. So there have been men of
wonderful magnetism OF person. Rnt hear
ne while tell you Of poor young man
who came up from Nazareth to produce n
thrill such as has never been excited nv
ny other. Napoleon had around him the
memories OF Austerlitz and Jena and Bada.
bs, but here was man who had fought no
battles who wore no epaulets, who bran.
lshed no sword. He Is no titled man of the
EhOOls, for He never went to school, He
bad probably never seen q prince or shaken
hands with nobeman. The only extraor.
dlnary person we know of as being in His
company was His own mot her, and She was
20 poor that in the most delicate and solemn
hour that ever comes to woman s soul she
was obliged to lie down amid camel drivers
grooming the beasts Of burden.
h 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 merchant
prince. He had castle on the beach at
Galiee. 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 ans.
vers, II never graduated" Aha! The idea
oisuch an unheralded young man ATTEMPT.
ingto command the attention of the world,
M well some little fishing village on Long
Island shore attempt to arraign New York,
Yet no sooner does He set His foot I'm the
towns or cities OF Jud@a than everything is
llcommotion. The people 90 out on a pic
nc taxing only food enough for the day.
aare SO fascinated with Christ that. at
!ne rlsR OF starving, they follow Him out
nIo lhe wilderness, nobleman falls down
lN peiore Him and says, "My daughter Is
eead' beggar tries to rub the dimness
nom MS eyes and says, Lord, that my ewes
@sy De opened" A poor, sick, painting
woman y, pressing through the crowd says
| \ must touch the hem OF His garment "
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 ali time
putting Jesus so in love with the little ones
Inat there Is hardly nursery in Christen.
|aom from which He does not take one saw
lns; u must have them. will flll heaven |
slth these. For every cedar that / plant In |
|neaVen Will have fifty white lilies. In the |
|uouf when was n poor man in Judna thev
|Sere not ashamed Of Me, and now that + |
|ua'e come to a throne l do not desnise |
|.aem. Hold 1t not back. oh. weeping
|av.nei; iay 1t on my warm heart! or such |
Il Inc kingdom OF heaven"
nnal Is this coming down the roadp
c',lhanPhai procession. He is seated, not in
,o ouniio', put on an ass, and yet the peo-
t,e .aAe OH their coats and throw them in
'no way; oh, what time Jesus made
s smOns ,he children, among the beggars,
r1"aS 1vnS 're nshermen, among the philoso-
kaers' You may boast OF self control Init
Il !ou hau seen Him you would have nut
kvar arms around His neck and said. .'Tbou
fT altogether lovely"
oesus was wonderful in the opposites and
emiIg ahtagonisms OF His nature. You
aa, ~, tnlhgs logical and consistent. and Won
~ now could Christ be God and man at
s.o same time" John saws Christ was tbe
salCr; "All things were made bv Him
I1,,SIou Ia without Him was not anything made"
sra,snews sWsws says that He was omnipresent
wnelo Two or three are met together in
X i,in, ha'le there am in the midst OF them
tas. declares His own eternity. ~ am Al
bnSa. anu Omega" How can He be a lion
I ae, iaa, MS loot crushing Kingdoms. and vet
Srba, to lcking the hand that slays HimPAt
(onsbiP @ point M 90 the throne and the manger
kova., II Christ was God, why fee into
yfS:rI NM Wny not stand His groundP
In III H. ,nstead OF bearing the cross, not lift
Mn S,a ,,shl hand and crush His assassins?
bn tba a'nu ahd De spat upon? Why sleep
balacss mountain, when He owned the
|or His h. ol eternityf Why catch fish
horninDap pfeaAlast on the beach in the chill
His anT I'VE, Whtn all the pomegranates are
ksttIs I uii aii .he vineyards His and all the
Ehy wall. ~, 1uo all the partrldges His?
knise%1 1'n NJ, Mleu weary and His feet stone
BplenJn.M WIEN lie might have taken the
knd moroS ~ tGe sunset for His equipage
Ehy hec WIN horsesand chariots of fire?
but of n" ulhH from the wayside. when
boured Iu tho v,ystal chalices Of eternity He
|he Ama1on Euphrates, the Mississippi and
)ouDtains y, I'd dipping His hands in the
byer the VOL, ", lSaven and shaking that hand
lrippin, w. Ibi'"' from the tips of His fingers
cny let the Roman repiment n,,t u;,, ~