Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-05-31

idcnt and the Spanish armada rs easily
as any fly that ever Heated on it. The in
land lakes are fully as terrible in their
wrath. Some of us who have sailed on 1T
know that Lake Gnlilcc, when aroused in
a storm, is overwhelming, and yet that
sea crouchcd in his presence and licked
his feet. lie knew all the waves and tho
wind. When he bcckoncd, they came.
When he frowucd, they fed. The heel Of
his foot made no indcntation on the solid
flied water. Medical science mas wrought
great changes in rheumatic limbs and dis
cascd blood, but when the muscles are en-
trcly withcrcd no human power can re-
store them, and when limb is once dead
it is dead But here is a paralytic-hs
hand lifelcss. Christ says TO him, stretch
forth thy hand and he stretches it forth.
In the eye infrmary how many dis
cases Of that delicate organ have been
cured? But Jesus says TO one blind, BE
OPEN" and the light of heaven rushcs
through gates that have never before
been opened The frost or an AK may Kill
tree. but Jesus smites one dead with n
word. Chemistry may do many wonder
ful things. but what chemist at a we'd
ding when the wine gave out could change
n pail of water into n cask of wine? What
FISH? Yet here is voice that marshals
the scaly tribes, until in a place where
they had let down the net and pulled it up
with no fish in it they let it down again.
and tho disciples lay hold and began to
pull. when by reason Of the multitude Of
fish the net broke. Nature is his servant.
The howers-he twisted them into his
sermons, the winds-they were his lula
by when he slept in the boat; the rain-it
hung glittcringly on the thick foliage Of
the parallels; the star of Rethlehcm-it
sang Christmas carol over his birth;
the rocks-they beat dirgc at his death.
Behold his victory over the grave, The
hinges of the family vault become very
rusty because they are never opened OK
cept TO take another in. There is n knob
on the outside of the door of the sepul-
cher but none on the inside. Here comes
the conqucror Of death. lie enters that
realm and says, daughter of Jairls, sit
up" and she sits up. To Lazarus, Come
FORTH and he came forth. TO the wild
ow's son he said, Get mp from that
bier" and he goes home with his moth
err Then Jesus snatched up the keys Of
death and hung them to his girdle ana
cried until all the graveyards of the earth
heard him. 30 Death ! will be thy
,l.,,.or a Crovo I viii lao tb, dos+ruc.
WV,
Tbc supcrp,turoI Nature.
NO man could 90 through all the oh
sta"es ! have described, you say, with
nut having nature supernatural. In
that arm. amid its muscles and nerves
and bones were intcrtwisted the encr.
rios Of omuiuotcnco. In tho syllablcs of
that voice there was the omuhasis of the
otrrnol Cod. That foot thnt walked In,
deck Of the shin in Gpuuesaret shall
stnu,p kingdoms of darkness into dcmoli
ton. This povcrtv struck Christ owned
August1,s owned tho sanhrdrin. owned
Vihcrios owned all the castles on il,
beach and all 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
lchtnings We're the fire shod steeds OF
his chariot. 1et there are those who
look on and see Chmst turn water into
wine. and they say, 1T was sleISht OF
hand, And they see CHRIST raise the
dead 10 life, and they say; Easily OK
planned; not really dead; playing dead.
And they see Christ giving sight to the
blind man. aud they say, 'ClalrVoyan
doctor. On, what shall they do on the
day when Christ rises mp IN Judsincn
and the hills shall rock and the trumpct
shall call, peal on peal? In the time o
Ihcodosius the Great there was groa
assault made upon the divinity of Josu