The National tribune., 1897-08-12
TE NATIONAL TRIBUNE WASHINGTON THURSDAY AUGUST r. 1897

| on the side Of OliSet so years and never got
| an audience. The philosophers sneered Of
his ministrations and said This will never
dol"
HOLD d THE MASSES.
The lawyers caficatured, but the common
people heard him gladly. Suppose you that
there were any sleepy people in his audi
ences? Suppose yon that any woman who
| ever mixed bread was ignorant of what he
| meant when be compared the kingdom of
| heaven with leayensor yeast? Suppose you
that the sunburiled fishermen. with the
fsh-scales upon their hands, were istless
when he spoke of the kingdom of heaven
as net?
The work Of religious teacher is to save
men; and though every law Of grammar
should be snapped in the undertaking, and
there be nothing but awkwardness and blum
dering in the mode, all hail to the man who
saves soul. Christ, in his preaching, was
plain, earnest, and wonderfully sympathetic.
Again: Jesus was wonderful in his sor-
rows The sun smote him, and the cold
chilled him, the rain pelted him, thirst
parched him, and hunger exhausted him.
! Shall compare his sorrow to the sea? No I;
for that is sometimes hushed into calm.
Shall compare it with the night? No; for
that sometimes CLEANS with Orion, OF kindies
with Aurora If one thorn should be thrust
through your temple you would faint. But
here is a whole crown made from the Rhdm-
nus or Spiaa Ch,isti-small, sharp, singing
| thorns.
The mob makes cross. They put down
the long beam, and on it they fasten shorter
beam. Got him at last Those hands, that
have been doing kindnesses and wiping
away tears--hear the hammer driving the
spikes through them. Those feet, that have
been going about on minlstratlons OF
mercy-battered against the cross. Then
they lift it up. Look look look Who
will help him now? Come, men of Jerusa-
lem-ye whose dead he brought to life; ye
whose sick he healed. Who will help him
Who viii seize the weapons of the soldiers
None to help Having carried such cross
for us, shall we refuse to take our cross for
him
You know the process Of migrating. You
bore hole into a 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
bitter, but the branches migrated were sweet,
and now all the nations pluck the fruit and
live for ever.
NATURE HIS SERVANT.
Again Christ was wonderful in his vic
tories.
First--over the forces of nature. The sea
is crystal sepulchre. 1t swallowed the
Central America, the President, and the
Spanish Armada rs easily as any fly that
ever foated on it. The inland lakes are fully
as terrible in their wrath. Galilee, when
aroused in storm is overwhelming; and
vet that 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 indentaton on the solidi-
fed water. Medical science has wrought
great changes in rheumatic limbs and dis
eased blood but when the muscles are en-
tirely wi,hered no human power can restore
them, and when a inb is once dead, 1T IS
dead. But here is = paralytic-his hand
lifeess Christ saysgto him, Stretch forth
thy hand and lie stretches it forth.
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 knob on the
|
inside. Here comes the CoEqueror of Death.
, He enters that realm and says, Daughter
4 of Jarus, sit land she sat up. To
II Lazarus, Come ioith,p;. aud he came forth.
To the widows son he said, Get MP from
that, bier" and lie goes home with his
mother Then Jesus snaiched up the keys
of death, and hung them TO his girdle, and
cried until all the graveyards of the earth
heard him 10, Death | will be Thy
plague! 0, Grave! l will be thy destruc-
tioni -
But Christs victories have only just
begun. This world is his, and he must have
it. What is the matter in this country
Why all these financial troubles? There
never will be permanent prosperity in This
land until Christ rules it. This land was
discovered for Christ, and until our cite;
shall be evangelical, and north, south, east
and west shall acknowledge Christ as King
and Redeemer, we cannot have permanent
prosperity. What is the matter with Spain
with France? with all of the Nations? All
the Congresses of the Nations cannot bring
quiet When Governments, not only theo
retically, but practically acknowledge the
Savior of the world, there will be peace
everywhere.
In that day the sea will have more ship!
than now, Out there VIII UOt Dc OHo utH-ol
, war. The foundries of the world will ja1
with mightier industries. but there will b.
, 10 molding of bullets Printing presses
; will fly their cylinders with greater speed
but there shall " forth no iniquitou
trash.
3 In laws, in constitutions, on exchange, il
scientific laboratory. on earth as in heaven
Christ shall be called Wonderful. Let tina
work of the worlds regeneration begin il
your heart, oh hearer A Jesus so kind.
Jesus so good, Jesus SO loying-how cal
you help but love him?
. 1t is beautiful moment when two per
CONS who have pledged each other, hear
and hand, stand in church, and have tn
!; bands of marriage proclaimed. Father an'
| mother, brothers and sisters stand aroun'
the altar The minister of Jesus gives TIL
!, counsel; the ring is set; earth and HEAVIER
witness it; the organ sounds, and annie
= many congratulations they start out on III
:, path of life together.
: Oh that this might be your marriage day
Stand up, immortal soul. Thy BELOVED
= comes to get his betrothed. Jesus sire che
= forth his hand aud says: i will love the
!, with an everlasting love-" and you RESPOND
!. SHY Beloved is mine, and | am his"
J put your hand ini his; henceforth lie one
g No trouble shall part ycu-no time coo
t your love. Side By side on earth-side b