The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-11-27

his Easter sermon was one of the most
masterful in his great career.
81, too, know that Christ is living,
and the purpose of this message is to
give testimony to the fact. All refer
ences in the Old Testament to the Jew
ish high priest point forward to our
high priest. who is none other than
Jesus Christ our Lord, and is always
spoken of as the Great High Priest
"Our High Priest is greater because
He is both human and divine. All His
earthly life was filled with music There
were bells of JOY when He was
born, and the angels sang; bells Of
warning when He was crucified, deep
and solemn is the tone; bells of
indescribable sweetness in His earth
ly ministry when He SAYS The son Of
man has come to seek and to save
or again God so loved the world; or
.still again Come unto me all We that
labor and are heavy laden, and / win
give you rest.
There are four reasons why / know
that He Is the living Christ and these
four reasons are like the music of ring
ing bells.
81. Salvation. 1t is an old story. as
old as Calvary. \ man came stagger-
ing into one of our meetings intoxi-
Gated, but he found Christ and three
months later he told me not only OF
His saving, but His keeping power =
and when he told me / heard the ring
ing Of the bells anew that he had found
the living Christ.
90. Dehverance in the time of temp
tation
"Temptation is not sin. Yielding is
sin. l have friend who was taken
Ill on the train. He had been drink
ing man for years, and had accepted
Chrlst Someone gave him medicine
containing alcohol, and all through the
night he fought and struggled with his
appetite. He clinched his fists until
his palms spurted blood He covered
his faee& with his hands, and uncon-
sclously tore his face with his finger
nails, all the time saying, oh, God
help mel He won the victory. and
years afterwards he told me his story
and when he said with shining face:
He delivered me, 1 heard the ringing
of the bells, and knew that he had
round the living Christ
''3. Victory in the time of trial.
1.-The school building in an Ohio city
was burning. Three little children
perished with hundreds of others. When
the day of the burial came, thousands
of people filed the cemetery, but one
of my friends went into the home of
the mother whose three children had
perished. She found her with her head
in her arms, leaning over on the table.
When she lifted her face my friend
found that her lips had been pressed
against one verse in the Bible. 1t was
Suffer the little children to come unto
me, and pointing to the verse the
brokenhearted mother said. i should
have died but for this. And when |
heard it | heard the ringing of the
bells, and knew that she had found the
living Christ.
"a. His presence with MS in the time
of death
'In Scotland they led the martyr
to the stake to die, and he said to his
friends, Keep your eyes fastened
upon me. If you see me smile YOU will
know that Christ is with me. They
/ lighted the fagots, and with flames
Icrackling about him he smiled, and his
friends said, He is with him. We know
/ He is with him. But the flames
climbed up until they burned his face
so that he could not smile. The bands
that held him were burned and his arms
were loosened and still standing at the
stake he lifted his burned hands, and
brought them together three times. an6
fell dead, and his friends standing neal
said, He was with him to the end
And when | heard it | said, It is lik,
the ringing Of the bells for he haC
found the living Christ