The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-31

hi' tuls was ugHlhst Him, Did any one
over undertake such an enterprise amid
such infinite embarrassments and by such
nodesp And yet | am here to say It ended
in Il complete triumph. withdrawing
His worldly occupation. His poverty, His
pain face, His unpretendinc garb. the
met that He was schoolless, the fact that
He had n brief life the fact that He was
not accompanied by any visible organiza.
ton Notwithstanding all that in an ex.
hilaration which shall be prolonged in
everlasting chornls He declared, II have
finished the work which Thou gavest Me
to do"
In the eye innrmary how many diseases
OF that delicate organ have been cured2
But Jesus Gays to one Llind "Be openli
and the light OF heavon rushes through
gates that have never before been opened
The frost OF IN ax may kiln a tree. but
Jesus smltes one dead with word
Chemistry may do many wonderful
things, but what chemist at n wedding,
when the wine gave out, could change
pau OF water into eask OF wine? What
human voice could command "a school OF
nshl Yet here is q voice that marshals
the scally tribos until, in n place where
they had let down the net and pulled Il
up with no fish in II, they lot It down
again, and the disciples lay hold and be.
gan to pull, when, by reason OF the multi
tude OF fish the net broke. Nature is His
servant. The howers-He twisted them in
to His sermons; the wlnds-they were His
lullaby when He slept In the boat; the rain
IL hung glittering ON the thick foliage OF the
parallels; the star OF Bethlehem-it sang
Christmas carol over His Firth: the rocks
they beat dirgo at His death Behold
HIS victory over the grave! The hinges OF
the family vault become very rusty be-
cause they are never opened except to take
another in. There is knob on the out
side OF the door OF tho sepulcher 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 forthi" and he
came forth. To the widows son He said,
Get up from that berl" and he goes
home with his mother. Then Jesus
snatched up the keys OF death and hung
them to His glrdle and cried until all the
graveyards OF the earth heard Him: 20
death, will be thy plagued o grave, will
be thy destruction"
No man could go through all the oh
stncles have described, you say, without
having nature supernatural. In that
arm, amid its muscles and nerves and
bones, were intertwisted the energies OF
omnipotence. In the sylables 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 demolition.
This poverty struck Christ owned Angus
tus. owned the sanhedrin, owned Tlberias
owned all the castles ON its beach and ali
the skies that looked down into its water
owned all the earth ana all the heavens
70 Him OF the plain coat belonged the
robes OF celestial royalty. He who
walked the road to Emmaus tho light
ninRs were the fire shod steeda OF His
chariot Yet there are those who look
on and see Christ turn water into wine,
and they say, "it was sleight OF hnndp'
And they see Christ raise the dead to life.
and they say: Easily explained; not
really dead; playing deadl' And they see
Christ giving sight to the blind man, and
they say, "Clairvoyant dOctorl" Oh, what
shall they do on the day when Christ rises
up in judgment and the bills shall rock
and the trumpets shall call, peal on peali
In the time o. Theodosius the Great there
was great assault made upon the diyin-
| ity OF Jesus Christ, and during that time
Theodosius the Great called his own son to
sit on the throne with him and be a copart.
ner In the government OF the empire, and
| one day the old bishop came and bowed
down before Theodosius, the emperor, and
| passed out OF the room, and the emperor
| was offended, snying to the old bishop,
why didn't you pay the same honor
| to my son, who shares with me in the gov
ernment?" Then the old bishop turned to
| the young man and said, Tho Lord bless
| thee, my young man." but still paid him no
| such honor rs he had paid TO the Emperor.
| And the Emperor was still offended and
| displeased when the old bishop turned to
! rheodosius the Great and said to him
| You are offended with me because don't
| pay the same honor to your son, whom you
have made copartner In the government OF
| this empire, the same honor l pay to you,
| and yet you encourage multitudes OF peo-
| pie in your realm to deny the Son OF God
equal authority, equal power, with God the
| Father"
Ny subject also reassures us OF the fact
that In all our struggles we have sympa-
| thizer. You cannot tell Christ anything
new about hardship. l 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 80 many pounds
! ns that burden Christ carried up the bloody
| hill. You will never have any suffering
| worse than He endured when, with tongue
bot and cracked and intiamed and swollen,
| He moaned, II thirst" You will never be
| surrounded by worse hostility than that
| which stood around Cbrist's feet, fouming,
I reviling, livid with rage, bowling down His
| prayers and snufhng up the smell OF blood.
o ye faint hearted. o ye troubled, o ye
prosecuted One, here is u heart that can
| sympathize with you'll
Again, and lastly, 1 learn from all that
has been said to-day that Christ was aw-
fully in earnest. II II had not been mo-
mentous mission He would have turned
| back from 1t diRgusted and discouraged.
he saw you III u captivity from Wnlcn he
was resolved 10 extricate you, though II
| cost Him all sweat, all tears, all blood. he
came great way to save you. He came
| from Bethlehem here, through the place
OF skulls, through the eharnel house,
through punishment. There was not
among all the ranks OF celestials one
being who would do rs much for you.
| lay His rushed heart at your feet to-
day. Let 1t not be told In heaven that you
deliberately put your foot en- It. While IL
will take all the ages OF eternity to esle-
brute Christ's trium 2b, / am here to make
the startling announcement that because,
/ OF the rejection of this mission ON tho part
of some Of you all that magnificent work
| OF garden and cross and grave is, so far
| as you nro concerned, a failure. Helena,
the Empress, went to the Holy
Land to ind the cross OF Christ. Get
ting to the Holy Land, there were three
| crosses excavated, and the question
was which OF the crosses was Christ's
cross. Thoy took dead body, tradition
says, and put it upon one OF the CROSSES,
/ and there was no life, and they took the
/ dead body and put 1t upon another cross,
and there was NO life; but, tradition says,
| when the dead body was put up against
| the third cross IL Bprang into life. The
1 dead man lived again. Oh, that the life
/ giving power OF tho Son OF God might dart
/ your dead soul Into an eternal life, begin
| ming this dayi Awake, thou sleepest,
i and rise from the dend, and Christ shall
give thee liie!" Live nowi And live for
everl
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