The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-01

| ing chorals He declared: 81 have fin
ished the work which Thou gavest Me
to do"
See Him victorious over the forces
of nature. The sea is crystal sep
ulcher. 1t swallowed the Central
America, the president and the Span
ish armada as easily as any fly that
ever hoated on it. rhe inland lakes
are fully as terrible in their wrath.
Some of us who have sailed on it
know that Lake Galilee, when aroused
in a storm is overwhelming, and yet
that sea crouched in His presence and
| licked His feet. lie knew all the
waves and the wind. When He beck
oned, they came When lac frowned.
| they fed The heel of His foot made
no indentation on the solidifed wa
ter. Medical science has wrought
| great changes in rheumatic limbs and
| diseased blood, but when the mus
cles are entirely withered no human
| power can restore them, and when
! limb is once dead it is dead. But
here is a paralytic--his hand lifeless.
Christ says to him: stretch forth
In the eye infrmary how many dis
eases Of that delicate organ have been
| cured? But Jesus says to one blind,
| "Be open!" and the light of heaven
rushes through gates that have never
| before been opened. The frost or an
aN may kill n tree. but Jesus smitcs one
| dead with a word. ,Chemistry may do
! many wonderful things, but what
chemist at wedding when the wine
gave out could change a 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 a place where
| they had let down the net and pulled
il up with no fish in il they let il down
again, and the disciples lay hold and
began to pull, when by reason of the
multitude of fish the net broke. Ma
ture is his servant. The howers-he
twisted them into his sermons; the
winds-they were his lullaby when he
slept in the boat; the rain-it hung
glitteringly on the thick foliage of the
parallels; the star of Bethlehem-it
sang a Christmas carol over his birth;
the rocks-they beat II 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 door of the sepulchcr, but none on
the inside. Here comes the conqueror
Of death. He enters that realm and
says: Daughter of Jairus. sit up!"
and she sits up. To Lazarus, Come
forth" and he came forth. To the
widows son He said: "Getup from that
BIER" and he goes home with his moth
er. Then Jesus snatched up the keys
of death and hung them to his girdle
and cried until all the graveyards of
the earth heard Him: 80 Death, |
will be thy plague! Grave, will be
thy destruction"
My subject also treasures us of the
fact that in all our struggles we have
II sympathizer. You cannot tell
Christ anything new about hardship.
! do not think that wide ages of
eternity will take the scars from
His punctured side and His lacerated
temples and His sore hands. You will
never have burden weighing so
many pounds as that burden Christ
carried up the bloody hill. You will
never have any suffering worse than
He endured, when with tongue hot
and cracked and inhamed and swollen
he moaned: 81 thirst" You will never
be surrounded by worse hostility than
that N.liph 90 =, s.,
foamng, reviling, livid WITH rage, howl
ing down His prayers, and snutiing up
the smell of blood. Oye faint hearted,
o We troubled, o We prosecuted one,
here is heart that can sympathize
with you!
Again, and lastly, | learn from all
that has been said to-day that Christ
was awfully in earnest. If il had not
been momentous mission He would
have turned back from il Disguised and
discouraged. lie saw you in cap
tivity from which He was resolved 10
eXtricate you, though il cost Him ali
sweat, all tears, all blood. lie came
a great way to save you. He came
from Bethlehem here, through the
place of skulls, through the charnel
house, through Punishment. There
was not among all the ranks of celes-
tials one being who would do as much
for you. ! lay His crushed heart at
your feet to-day. Let it not be told
in Heaven that you deliberately put
your foot on it, While IT will take
all the ages of eternity to celebrate
Christ's triumph, l am here to make
the startling announcement that be-
cause of the rejection of this mission
on the part of some of you all that
magnificent work of garden and cross
and grave is, so far as you are con-
cerned, a failure. Helena, the empress,
went to the Holy Land to find the cross
of Christ Getting to the Holy Land
there were three crosses eXcavated,
and the question was, which of the
crosses was Christ's cross. They took
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