Connecticut western news., 1900-05-31

All this was against him. Did any one ever undertake such an enterprise amid such infinite endorsements and by such modes? And yet am here to say 1t ended In complete triumph. Notwithstanding his worldly occupa- tion, his poverty, his plain face, his un- pretending garb, the fact that he was schoolless, the fact that he had brief life, the fact that he was not accompa- nied by any visible organiZation-not- withstanding all that, In an exhilara- tion which shall be prolonged in ever lasting chorals, he declared, T have finished the work which thou gavest me to do."
 Beyond Human Power.
 See him victorious over the forces of nature. The sea is a crystal sepulcher. It swallowed the Central America, the President and the Spanish armada as easily as any fly that ever ioated on 1t. The inland lakes are fully as terrible in their wrath. Some of us who have sailed on it know that Lake Galilee, when aroused in storm, Is overwhelm
 ing and yet that sea crouched in his pEeSelCe dlu IChtu HIS 1Stt. LIC hhcW all the waves and the wind. When he beckoned, they came. When he frown- ed, they fled. The heel of his foot made no indentation 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 a limb is once dead it is dead. But here Is a paralytic-his hand lifeless. Christ says to him, Stretch forth thy hand" and he stretches it forth.
 In the eye infrmary how many dis eases of that delicate organ have been cured? But Jesus says to one blind, Be openr' and the light of heaven rushes through gates that have never before been opened. The frost or an ax may kill a tree, but Jesus smites one dead with a word. Chemistry may do many wonderful things, but what chemist at a wedding, when the wine gave out, could change a pail of water into a cask of wine? What human voice could command a 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 1t, 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 SIn In in glitteringly on the thick foliage of the parables; the star of Bethlehem -i sang a Christmas carol over his birth; the rocks-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 a knob on the outside of the door of the sepulcher, but none on the inside. Here comes the conqueror of death. He enters that realm and says,
 Daughter of Jairus, sit upv' and she sits up. To Lazarus, "Come forthw and he came forth. To the widows son he said, "Get up from that bierw and he goes home with his mother. 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: 70 death, I will be thy plague! o grave, will be thy de- structionv'
 Supernatural Nature.
 No man could go through all the ob
 stacles have described, you say. with out having nature supernatural. In that arm, amid its muscles and nerves and bones, were intertwisted the ener- gies of omnipotence. In the syllables of that voice there was the emphasis of the eternal God. That foot that
 walked the deck of the ship in Gennes- aret shall stamp kingdoms of darkness Christ owned Augustus, owned the sanhedrin, owned Tiberias, owned all the castles on its beach and all the skies that looked down into It's water owned all the earth and all the heav- ems. 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 his chariot. Yet there are those who look on and see Christ turn watef into wine, and they say, Tt was sleight of handr' And they see Christ raise the dead to | life, and they say: Easily explained; i; not really dead; playing deadr' And they see Christ giving sight to the blind man, and they say, "Clairvoyant doctorw Oh, what shall they do on the day when Christ rises up in judg- ment and the hills shall rock and the trumpets shall call, peal on peal? In | the time of Theodosius the Great there was great assault made upon the di- vinity of Jesus Christ, and during that l time Theodosius the Great called his own son to sit on the throne with him and be copartner In the government I of the empire, and one day the old bishop came and bowed down before l Theodosius, the emperor, and passed | out of the room, and the emperor was | offended, saying to the old bishop, | "Why didn't you pay the same honor to my son, who shares with me in the | government" Then the old bishop l turned to the young man and said, l "The Lord bless thee, my young man, D but still paid him no such honor as he \ hhu phih tO LhN ClipClois Anu | peror was still offended and displeased when the old bishop turned to Theodo-
 sius the Great and said to him, You are offended with me because I don't | pay the same honor to your son, whom you have made copartner in the gov ernment of this empire, the same hon. or I pay to you, and yet you encourage
 multitudes of people in your realm to
 deny the Son of God equal authority
 equal power, with God the Father" | Live Forever.
 1 My subject also reassures us of the | fact that in all our struggles we have sympathizer. You cannot tell Christ anything new about hardship. I do