The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-21

for all nations. The orlglnai tree was
bitter, but the branches Migrated
were sweet and now all the nations
pluck the fruit and live forever.
Again: Christ was wonderful in His
victories.
First-Over the forces of nature. The
sea is crystal sepulchere. IL swal-
lowed the Central America. the Presi-
dent, and the Spanish Armada as easily
as any fiy that ever hoated on it. The
inland lakes are fully as terrible In
their wrath. Galilee, when aroused In
a storm. is overwhelming; and yet 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 fled.
The heel of His foot made no indenta-
ton on the solidified water. Medical
science has wrought great changes IN
rheumatic limbs and diseased blood,
but when the muscles are entirely
withered no human power can restore
them, and when limb is once dead, 1t
is dead. But here is paralytic-hls
hand lifeless. Christ says to him:
sStretch forth thy hand"' and he
stretches it forth.
In the eye infirmary how many dis
eases of that delicote organ have been
cured. But Jesus says TO one born
blind, BE openw and the light OF
Heaven rushed through gates that have
never before been opened. The frost
or an ak may kill tree, but Jesus
smites one dead with a word.
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things, but what chemist, at wed ding,
when the refresh ments gave out, could
change pail of water into cask OF
wine?
What human voice could command a
school of fish? Yet here is 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 1T,
they let it down again, and the dis
ciples lay hold and begin topull, when,
by reason of the multitude of fish, the
net broke.
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 a Christmas carol over His birth;
the rocls-they beat a 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
sepulcher, but none on the inside. Here
comes the Conqueror of Death. He
enters that realm and says: ''Daugh-
| ter 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 on His girdle, and cried I'M
til all the graveyards on earth heard
Him: 20 Death! l will be thy plague
o Gravel will be thy destruction"
But Christ's victories have only just
begun. The world is His, and He mus
have it. What is the matter in thi!
country? Why all these fnancia
troubles? There never will be perma
nent prosperity in this land until Chris
rules it. This land was discovered fo
Christ, and until our cities shall be civ
ilized and north, south, cas-
and west shall acknowledge Christ ~
King or Redeemer, we can not hav'
permanent prosperity. What is tn,
matter with Spain? with France? wit
all of the nations? All the congresse
of the nations can not bring quiet
When governments not only theoretic
ally, but practically, acknowledge thu
Saviour of the world, there will be peac
everywhere. In that day the sea will
have more ships than now, but ther
will not be one "man-of-war." I'll
foundries of the world will jar wit
.. mightier industries, but there wi
be no molding of bullets. Printin
presses will fly their cylinders wit
; greater speed, but there shall go fort
, no iniquitous trash. In laws, in col
stitutions, on exchange, in scientit
J laboratory, on earth rs in HEAVIER
Christ shall be called Wonderful. l.,
that work of the worlds regeneratiC
begin in your hearts, oh nearer!
= Jesus so kind, Jesus so good, a jest
, | loNlhR nv" SeA y W. hAShP 49, ~
Him?
:, 1t is beautiful moment when tv
"a persons who have pledged each othe
heart and hand, stand in church, al
:. have the banns of marriage pr
= claimed. Father and mother, brothe
= and sisters, stand around the alta
The minister of Jesus gives the cou
10 sell; the ring is set; earth al
70 Heaven witness it; the org;
= sounds, and amid many congrat
y. lations they start out on t
&c path of life together. Oh, that Il
10 might be your marriage day! Stand I
m immortal soul. Thy Beloved comes
or get His betrothed. Jesus stretch
n forth His hand and says: II W
,a love thee with an everlasting Low
IN and you respond: "My Beloved
: mine, and l am His" put your ha
Ia in His; henceforth be one. No trC
- BILE shall part you-no time cool yo
oh love. Side by side on earth-side
he side in Heaven! Now let the blosso
a of Heavenly garden fill the house W
zoo their redolence, and all the organs