The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-06-01

am here to say it ended in a com
plete triumph. Notwithstanding His
worldly occupation, His poverty, His
plain face, His unpretentious garb-
the fact that He was schoolless, the
fact that He was not accompanied by
any visible organization-notw
standing all that, in an exhilaration
which shall be prolonged in everlast-
ing chorals He declared: 81 have fin
ished the work which Thou gavest Ne
to do"
OF nature. The sea is crystal sep
ulcher. 1t swallowed the Central
America, the president and the Span
ish armada as easily as any fly that
ever fioated on it. 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 a storm, is overwhelming. and yet
that sea crouched in His presence and
licked His feet. He knew all the
waves and the wind. When He beck
oned, they came. When he frowned,
they fed. The heel of His foot made
no indentation on the solidified wa
ter. Medical science has wrought
great changes in rheumatic limbs and
diseased blood, but when the mus
cles are entirely withered no human
power can restore them, and when a
limb is once dead it is dead But
here is paralytic-his hand lifeless.
Christ says to him: stretch forth
thy hand" and ne stretches it forth.
In the eye infirmary how many dis
eases of that delicate organ have been
cured? But Jesus says to one blind,
BE open!" and the light of heaven
rushes through gates that have never
before been opened. The frost or an
ak may kill tree, but Jesus smites one
dead with a word. Chemistry may do
many wonderful things, but what
chemist at wedding when the wine
gave out could change 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
hey had let down the net and pulled
t up with no fish in it they let it 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
,litteringly on the thick foliage of the
parallels; the star of Bethlehem-it
sang a Christmas carol over his birth;
he rocks-they beat a dirge at his
leath. Behold his victory over the
grave!
My subject also treasures us of the
act 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
lis punctured side and His lacerated
emples and His sore hands. You will
lever have a burden weighing so
many pounds as that burden Christ
.arried up the bloody hill. You will
lever have any suffering worse than
lie endured, when with tongue hot
md cracked and inflamed and swollen
ne moaned: 81 thirst" You will never
De surrounded by worse hostility than
hat which stood around Christ's feet,
.oaming, reviling. lvid with rage. howl
ng down His prayers, and snuffing up
The smell of blood. Dye faint hearted,
} We troubled, o We prosecuted one,
lere is a heart that can sympathize
With you!
Again. and lastly, learn from all
hat has been said to-day that Christ
vas awfully in earnest. If it had not
been a momentous mission He would
He saw you in a cap
ivity from which He was resolved to
xtricate 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
vas not among all the ranks of celes-
ials one being who would do as much
for you. 1 lay His crushed heart at
,our feet to-day. Let it not be told
N Heaven that you deliberately put
,our foot on it. While it will take
Ill the ages of eternity to celebrate
Jhrist's triumph, 1 am here to make
he startling announcement that be-
ause of the rejection of this mission
IN the part of some of you all that
work of garden and cross
md grave is, so far as you are con-
.erned. failure. Helena, the empress,
vent to the Holy Land to find the cross