Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-04-02
Billy Sundays Sermon On "Who
Was Jesus?'

following is one of Rev. "Billy'
Sundays famous sermons the subjec
of which is "Who Was Jesus?"
Some time ago ] was startled b,
having this question flame out upor
me from the headlines of daily new!
paper, "Who Was Jesus?" So tax,
my text from the newspaper.
Well, let us try to find out who II,
was from some of the people who liv
ed when He was here in the flesh, an
who met Him face to face.
The first will question are strong
man and his wife, and so to them
will say: "Who was Jesus?"
Both their faces brighten, and they
both eagerly exclaim, "Why, He came
to our Wedding, though we were only
poor and unknown peasants, and He
turned the water into wine for us. so
that we had as much good cheer as if
we had been rich"
"And did you love Him and keen I'M
acquaintance with Him afterwards Pr
Yes, indeed, sir, and we soon found
that the more we Lowell him the more
we loved each other, and the happier
and more contented we were in our
humble lot. Yes, sir; He has always
been made cordially welcome in our
home, and it has been joy to set the
very best we had before Him. We have
never had trouble that He did not
come to deliver us from it or to bear
it for u.s."
Did you ever want to separate from
each other?"
mo, indeed, sir. We shall always
cling to each other, and try to live to
please Jesus, for he is the best friend
we ever had.
And from countless other homes has
come testimony that Jesus was a
guest at the wedding and friend
ever afterwards, who repeated time
and again the miricle of TURNING the
water into wine for them.
The bitter water of affection, pow
erty and misfortune, He turned into
the wine of blessing, happiness and
Joy, and from thousands of others has
come the bitter cry that Jesus wanted
to turn water into wine for them, but
they frowned upon him and slammed
the door in His face, and then dark
shapes of discomfort and drancor, re-
sentiment and hate stole in and shat
tered their hearthstone.
If Jesus Christ were enthroned in
everybOdy's heart, we wouldn't have
homes wrecked by divorce; our chill
dren wouldn't wander their lonely way
about the earth; men wouldn't 90
Keeling home to their wives drunk.
Next | see father, a lordly man,
and with him there walks noble
youth, of frank, open face.
who was Jesus?" | say to this
father. and his eyes kindle with a
great joy, as he makes quick reply:
why, sir, it was Jesus who gave
me back this boy when all the doctors
SAID that he must die. When they
told me this was in despair, for only
the father of an only son knows how
love my boy.
while | was in the great darkness
of despair friend came to me and
told me of Jesus, and described some
of the great wonders he had seen Him
do. When l learned He was only II
miles away, | called for the fieetest of
the manw high bred horses in my
stable, AMI was soon in the saddle,
galloping with great speed for Cana,
in Galilee, where found Jesus, quiet
ly teaching His disciples, and cried
out to Him from the anguish of my
soul:
"'Sir, Come down ere my child
diel'
with a look of such compassion
and assurance that l had confidence
lie spoke, He said, Go thy way; thy
son liveth' and when l was some dis
lance from home my servants met me
with the glad news that my son was
well. | inquired at what hour the
fever left him and 10, it was at the
,ery. time when Jesus said, THY son
liveth.'
"From that day I became His dis
ciple, and so did all my family and
and this noble son of mine,
that He gave back from the grave, is
devoting to Him his new-found life.
1t was Jesus who turned sorrow into
JOY for me and mine. That is who
Jesus was; the light and comfort of
my home"
The Mercy of Jesus.
who was Jesus?" Let's find out.
Next, l see man we'll along in life
"a man whose hair is gray, but whose
step is quick and strong--a man whose
face is full of happiness, and whose
cheek is ruddy with glow of
health. But l hail him and say:
"Who was Jesus?"
And at the name there is gladness
in his eyes and in joyful tones he
cries out:
"Why, sir, it was Jesus who made
me what / am today. For thirty
eight long years | had lain through
storm and cold and through heat of
summer, and through long wakeful
nights, among a great number of sick
and helpless people on the porch at
the pool of Bethesda, anxiously and
almost desparingly waiting for the
angel to move in the water that /
might get into the fountain and be
healed, but never had any such good
fortune.
"But one day after my hair had be-
come as gray as you see now,