Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-06-06
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Again, remark, there was no organiza.
tion ir His behalf, and that was against
| Him. When mon propose any great work.
they band together, they write letters of
agreement, they take oaths of .ealty, and
toe more complete the organization the
more and complete the success. Here was
one who went forth without any crganiza-
tion and alone. If men had mind to join
in His company, all right; IL they hnd u
mind not to join in His company, all well.
II they came. they were greeted with no
loud salutation; IL they went away, they
were sent with no bitter anathema. Peter
departed, and Christ turned and looked Mt
him; that was all.
All this was against Him. DID any ono
ever undertake. such an enterprise amid
such infinite embarrassments aud by such
modes? And yet am here to say it ended
In complete triumph. Notwithstanding
| His worldly occupation, His poverty, His
plain face. His unpretending gnrb, the
fact that He was schooIess, the fact that
He had a brief life, the fact that He was
not accompanied by any visible organiza-
tion-notwithstandin all that, in nn ex-
hilaration which quail be prolonged In
everlasting chorals, He declared, ct have
finished the work which Thou gavest Me
to do"
In the eye infrmary now many diseases
OF that delicate organ have been cured?
But Jesus says to one blind, "Be openl'
aud the light of heaven rushes through
| tndt nave never before Doen opened,
The frost OF an Ak may kill tree, but
Jesus smites one dead with word.
/ Chemistry may do many wonderful
things, but what chemist at wedding,
when the wine gave out, could change
pail of water into n cask of wine? What
human voice could command a school CT
fish? Yet here is voice that marshals
the scally tribes until, IL place where
they had let down tho net and pulled II
up with no fish in it, they let 1t down
again, and the disciples lay hold aud be-
gan to pull, when, by reason of the multi
tude of fish, the net broke. Nature Is HIS
| servant. The fiower5-He twisted them iu-
| to His sermons; the winds-they were Els
lullaby when He slept In the boat: the rain
1t hung glittering on the thick foliage OF the
parallels; the star of Bethlehem-it sang
| Christmas carol over His cirth; the rocks
they beat a dirge at His death. Behold
His victory over the gravel Tho hinges of
the family vault become very lusty be-
| cause they are never opened except to take
another in. There is knob on the out
side OF the door of the sepulcher, but none
on the inside. Here comes the Conquoror
Of Death. He enters that realm and says,
| Daughter of Jairus, sit upl' and she sits
up. To Lazarus, "Come forthl" and he
| came forth. To the widows son He said,
Get up from that bierl'' 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: 80
death, will be thy plagued grave. 1 will
be thy destructionl'
No man could go through all the OBJ
stacles have described, you say, without
having a nature supernatural. In that
arm, amid its muscles and nerves and
bones, were intertwisted the energies 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 Gennesaret shall stamp
kingdoms Of darkness into demolition.
This poveSty struck Christ owned Angus
tus, owned the sanhedrin, owned Tiberias,
/ owned all the castles on its beach and ali
the skies that looked down into its water
owned 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
aings were the fire shod steeds of His
chariot. Yet there are those who look
On and see Christ turn water into vine.
md they say, "It was sleight of handp'
And they see Christ raise the dead to life,
! md they say: Easily explained; not
! -eally dead; playing deadl'' And they see
Christ giving sight to the blind man, and
, hey say, "Ciairvoyant doctor!' Oh, what
shall they do on the day when Christ rises
/ up in judgment and the hills shall rock
and the trumpets shall call, peal on penli
In the time o. Theodosius the Great there
vas a great assault made upon the divin-
l ty of Jesus Christ, and during that time
[ rheodosius the Great called his own son to
I ,t on the throne with him and be a copart-
I ner in the government of the empire and
one day the old bishop came and bowed
| town before 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
% my son, who shares with me In the gov
.rnment2' Then the old bishop turned to
:he young man and said, 1.-The Lord bless
hee, my young man." but still paid him no
such honor as he had paid to the Emperor.
And the Emperor was still offended and
| iispleased when the old bishop turned to
( rheodosius the Great and said to him,
| You are offended with me because don't
| oay the same honor to your son, whom you
lave made copartner in the government of
| his empire, the same honor pay to you,
md yet you encourage multitudes OF peo-
rle in your realm tc deny the Son of God
,qual authority, equal power, with God the
| Father
My subject also reassures US OF the fact
hat in all our struggles we have sympa-
| :hizer. You cannot tell Christ anything
| lew about hardship. l do not think that
vide ages of eternity will take the scars
| rom His punctured side and His lacerated
.empes and His sore hands. You will never
nave burden weighing so many pounds
| As that burden Christ carried up the bloody
| 1ill. You will never have any suffering
worse than He endured when, with tongue
not and cracked and inflamed and swollen
He moaned, "I thirst" You will never be
1
which stood around Cbrist's feet, foaming
reviing, livid with rage, bowling down His
prayers and snuffing up the smell of blood
D ye faint hearted, o ye troubled, o We
oersecuted One, here is heart that can
| sympathize with you'll
| Again, and lastly, learn from all that
| cas- been said to-day that Christ was aw-
'ully in earnest. II it had not been n mo-
nentous mission. He would have turned
oack from 1t disgusted and discouraged.
| He saw you in a captivity from which He
vas resolved to extrcate you, though It
! cost Him all sweat, all tears, all blood. He
| came great way to save you. He came
| rom Bethlehem here, through the place
of skulls, through the charnel house,
through Punishment. There was not
among all the ranks of celestials one
| oeing who would do rs much for you.
| [ lay His cru she'd heart at your feet to-
lay. Let it not be told in heaven that YOU
deliberately put your foot Cn it. While it
will take all the ages OF eternity to cele-
| Orate Christ's trium oh. l am here to make
he startling announcement that because
of the rejection of this mission on the part
Of some of you all that magnificent work
)f garden and cross and grave is, so far
rs you are concerned, II failure. Helena,
he Empress, went to the Holy
Land to find the cross of Christ. Get.
ing to the Holy Land, there were three
crosses excavated, and the question
was which OF the crosses was Christ's
cross. Thov took n dead BODY, tradition
says, and put it upon one of the crosses,
| and there was no life, and they took the
lead body and put it upon another cross,
! and there was no life; but, tradition says,
when the dead body was put up against
:he third cross it sprang into life. The
lead man lived again. Oh. that the life
giving power of the Son OF God might dart
your dead soul into an eternal life, begin
ming this dayl "Awnke, thou sleepest,
| and rise from the dead, and Christ shall
give thee life!" Live nowl And live for.
averl
The greatest coward and the greatest
slave in the world is the hatterer
The truly-refined man is he who has
been pursed from the dross of self.
| He who makes up his mind that h.