Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-08-17

battered against the cross. Then they
lift it up. Look. look, look! Who will
help him now? Come, men of Jerus-
aiem-ye whose dead he brought to
life; We whose sick he healed; who will
help him? Who will seize the weapons
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 a 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 migrated were
sweet, ard 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 crystal sepulchre. 1t swallowed
the Central America, the President,
and the Spanish Armada as easily as
any fly that ever fioated on it. The in
land lakes are fully as terrible in their
wrath. Galilee when aroused in a
OF iS hCly ,i.,n n,
sea crouched in his presence and licked
his feet. He knew all the waves and
winds. When he beckoned they came
When he frowned, they fed. The heel
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 hui
man power can restore them, and when
limb is once dead, it is dead. But
here is paralytic-his hand lifeless
Christ says to him, Stretch forth thy
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 open" 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, at a 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 a 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 Christmas carol over his birth:
the rocks-they beat dirge at his
death.
Behold his victory over the grave,
The hinges of the family vault become
very rusty because they are never
opened except to take another in. There
is knob on the outside of the sepul-
chre, but none on the inside. Here
comes the Conqueror of Death. He emf
ers that realm and says. Daughter of
Jairus, sit up" and she sat up. To
lazarus, Come forth" and he came
forth. To the widows son he said. Get
up from that bier" and he goes home
with his mother. Then Jesus snatched
up the keys of death, and hung them
to his girdle, and cried until all the
grave-yards of the earth heard him.
20 DEATH / will be thy plague! 0
Grave! l will be thy Instruction.
1t is a beautiful moment when two
persons who have pledged each
other, heart and hand, stand in church,
and have the banns of marriage pro-
and sisters stand around the altar. The
minister of Jesus gives the counsel; the
ring is set, earth and heaven witness
it; the organ sounds, and amid many
congratulations they start out on the
Path of life together. Oh that this
might be your marriage day! Stand up,
immortal soul. The Beloved comes to
get his betrothed. Jesus stretches forth
his hand and says, Il will love thee
with an everlasting love-" and you
respond, my Beloved is mine, and l
am his" put your hand in his, hence
forth be one. No trouble shall part you
no time cool your love. Side by side
on earth-side by side in heaven! Now
let the blossoms of heavenly gardens
fill the house with their redOlence, and
all the organs of God peal forth the
wedding march of eternity. Hark!
THE voice of my beloved! Behold. he
cometh leaping upon the mountains.
skipping upon the hills"
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