The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-06-01

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
ak may kill tree. but Jesus smites
one dead with a word. Chemistry
may do many wonderful things. but
what chemist at wedding when the
wine gave out could change pail OF
water into cask of wine? athuman
voice could command school OF fish!
Yet here is a voice that marshals the
scaly tribes, until in a place where
they had let down the net and pulled
1t up with no fish in it they let 1t 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 fiowers-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 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 anotherin.
There is knob on the outside OF the
door of the sepulcher, but none on the
inside. Here comes the conqueror or
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, Get up from that bier!
and he goes home with his mother.
Then Jesus snatche1 up the keys OF
death and hung them to his girdle
and cried until all the graveyards OF
the earth heard him, 20 Death,
will be thy plague! o Grave, l will be
thy destruction"
The Supernatural Nature.
No man could go through all the OBJ
stacles l have described, you say
without having nature super
natural. In that arm, amid its mus
Giles and nerves and bones, were in
tertwisted the energies of omnipo-
tence. In the syllables of that voice
there was the emphasis of the eternal
God. That foot that walked the deck
of the ship in Gennesaret shall
stamp kingdoms of darkness into de-
molition. This poverty struck Christ
owned Augustus, owned the sanhe-
drin, owned Liberals, owned all the
castles on it's beach and all the skies
that looked down into it's water, own
ed all the earth and all the heavens
To him of the plain coat belonged the
robes of celestial royalty. He who
walked the road to Emmaus the light
nings were the fire shod steeds OF hi!
chariot. Yet there are those VINO looi
on and see Christ turn water int
wine. and they say, 1T was sleight o
hand!" And they see Christ raise tht
dead to life, and they say, Easily ex
planned; not really dead; playin!
dead" And they see Christ giving
sight to the blind man, and they say
"Clairvoyant DOCTOR" Oh what shall
they do on the day when Christ rise
up in judgment and the hills shal
rock and the trumpets shall call, pea
en- peal?
Christ Sympathizer.
NV subject also treasures us OF tn
fact that in all our struggles we nav
a sympathizer. You cannot tell Chris
anything new about hardship. l do no
think that wide ages of eternity VII
take the scars from his punctured SID
and his lacerated temples and his sor
hands. You will never have Dur
den weighing so many pounds as tina
burden Christ carried up the blood
hill. You will never have any suffer
ing worse than he endured, when VIII
tongue hot and cracked and inhame
and swollen, he moaned, Il thirst.
You will never be surrounded D.
worse hostility than that which stoo
around Christ's feet, foaming, revil
ing. livid with rage, bowling down hi
prayers. and snuffing up the smell
blood. o we faint hearted, y
troubled, o we prosecuted one, here
heart that can sympathize with you