The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-05-30

owned al the car;n anc ali ihe heay-
ems. TO him Of the plain coat belonged
the robes CT celestial royalty. He who
walked the road to Emmaus the light
n!ngs 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, 1T was sleight Of hand"
And they see CHRIST raise the dead to
life, and they say: Easily explained;
not really dead; playing dead" And
they see Christ giving sight to the
blind man. and they say. "Clairvoyant
doctor" Oh. what STALL they do on
the day when Christ rises up In judg-
nent and the hills shall rock and the
trumpets shall call, pal on peal? In
the time of Theodosius the Great there
was a great assault made upon the di-
vinity of Jesus Christ, and during that
time Theodosius the Great called his
own son to sit on the throne with him
and be copartner 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, 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
turned to the young man and said,
THE Lord bless thee my young man."
L,,t ef;11 III honor O
had paid to the emperor. And the en-
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 don't
pay the same honor to your son. whom
you have made copartner in the gov
eminent Of this empire, the same hon.
or 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.
My subject also treasures US Of the
fact that In all our struggles we have
n sympathiZer. You cannot tell Christ
anything new about hardship. / do
net 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
burden weighing so many pounds as
that burden Christ carried up the
bloody hill. You will never have any
suffering worse than lie endured when,
with tongue hot and cracked and In
famed and swollen, he moaned, Il
thirst" You will never be surrounded
by worse hostility than that which
stood around Christ's feet, foaming. re-
Wiling livid with rage, bowling down
his prayers and snufing up the smell
of blood. o ye faint hearted, o ye
troubled. o We prosecuted one. here Is
heart that can sympathiZe with you!
Again. and lastly. | learn from all
that has been said today that Christ
was awfully in earnest. If it had not
been a momentous mission, he would
have turned back from it disgusted and
discoura ged.. He saw you In captivi-
ty from which he was resolved to eX-
tricate you. though 1t cost him all
sweat, all tears. all blood. He came a
great way to save you. He came from
Bethlehem here. through the place Of
skulls, through the charnel house,
through banshment. There was not
among all the ranks Of celestials ono
being who would do as much for you.
l lay his crushed heart at your feet to-
day. Let it not be told in heaven that
you deliberately put your foot On 1t.
While it will take all the ages Of eter-
nifty to celebrate ChristS triumph,
am here to make the startling an
nouncement that because Of the rejec-
ton of this mission on the part Of some
of you all that magnificent work Of
garden and cross and grave IS, SO far
as YOU are concerned, failure. Hell
ena, the empress, went to the Holy
Land to find The cross Of Christ. Get
ting to the Holy Land. there were three
crosses excavated. and the question
was which Of the crosses was Christs
cross. They toe: dead body. tradi-
ton says. and PCT it upon one Of the
crosses, and there was no life, and they
took the dead body and put 1t upon an
other cross. and there was no life; but.
tradition says. when the dead body was
put up against the third cross it sprang
into life. The dead man lived again.
Oh, that the life giving power CT the
Son of God might dart your dead soul
into an eternal life, beginning this day!
awake, thou that sleepest, and rise
from the dead. and Christ shall give
thee lfew Live now! And live for
ever!
IConyripht 1900 by Louis Klopsch.1