The Grit-advocate., 1900-06-01

voice could command school of fish?
Yet here is voice that marshalS the
scaly tribes, until in 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 fowers-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 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 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 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, I 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
cles 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-
nolition. This poverty struck Christ
owned Augustus, owned the sanhe-
drin, owned Tiberias, owned all the
castles on its beach and all the skies
that looked down into its 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 his
chariot. Yet there are those who look
on and see Christ turn water into
wine, and they say, ut was sleight Of
hand!" And they see Christ raise the
dead to life, and they say, Easily ex-
planned; not really dead; playing
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 rises
up in judgment and the hills shall
rock and the trumpets shall call, peal
on peal?
Christ a sympathizer.
My subject also treasures us of che
fact that in all our struggles we have
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 a bur-
den weighing so many pounds as that
burden Christ carried up the bloody
hill You will never have any suffer-
ing worse than he endured, when with
tongue hot and cracked and infamed
and swollen, he moaned, Il thirst"
You will never be surrounded nv
worse hostility than that which stood
around Christ's feet. foaming. revIl-
ing, livid with rage. bowling down his
prayers. and snuting up the smell of
blood, U We faint he9rtad