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DIt.TALM AGE’S SERMON
The Eminent Divine’s Sunday!
Discourse.
fSubject: Hite Vidor's slum!—The .Toy
or Overcoming Uittlcultlea—The Satls-
fuctlon Kxpro.eed by Christ on the
Outcome of 111. Kurt Illy I.ubor*.
[Copyright lwo.l
Dr. WismxoTON, D. O.-In this dlsooarso
Tnlmuge shows in an unusual way the
antagonisms that Christ ovurcame and
finds a bulsam for all wouudod hearts;
text, John xvil., A. “I have finished tho
work which Thou gavest Mo to do."
There is a profound satisfaction In the
■completion of anything wo have under¬
taken. We lift tho oapstone with oxulta-
tion, while, on tho other hand, there is
nothing more disappointing than, after
th#t haying tolled in u oertuln direction, to Hud
our lima Is wasted and our Invest¬
ment profitless. Christ came to throw up
a highway on which tho whole world
might, If It chose, mount into heaven. Ho
did It. Tho foul mouthed crew wiio ut-
tempted to tread on Him could not ex¬
tinguish tho sublime satisfaction which
Ha expressed when He snld: “I have
linished the work which Thou gavest Me
do.”
Alexander tho Great was wounded, and
the doctors oould not medicate Ills wounds,
and he seemed to be dying, and In his
dream tbeslck inau saw a plant with u
peouliar flower, and he dreamed that that
plant was put upon his wound and that
Immediately it was cured. And Alexander,
waking from ktsdreum, told this to the
physician, and the physician wandered out
until he found just tho kind of plant which
tile slok man had described, brought It to
him, and the wound was healed. Well, the
human race had been hurt with tho ghast¬
liest of all wounds—that of sin. It was
the bu.sluess of Christ to bring a balm for
that wound—the balm of divine restora¬
tion. In carrying this business to a suc¬
cessful issue the difficulties were stupend¬
ous.
In many of our plans we have our friend*
to plan, help us; some to draw a stetah of the
others to help us In the execution.
But Christ fought every inch of. His way
agulnst bitter hostility and amid circum¬
stances all calculated to depress and de¬
feat.
In the first place,His worldly occupation
was against Him. I find that Ho earned His
livelihood by the carpenter’s trade, an oc¬
cupation always to be highly regarded and
respected. But you know as well as I do
that in order to succeed In any employ¬
ment one must give his entire time to It,
and I have to- declare that the fatigues of
carpentry were unfavorable to the execu¬
tion of a mission which required ull men¬
tal and physical faculties. Through high,
hard, dry, husky, insensate Judaism to
hew a way for a now and glorious dlspen-
satdon was a stupendous undertaking that
was enough to demand nil tho concen¬
trated energies even of Christ. Wo have a
great many romantic stories about what
men with physical toil ba7e accomplished
in Intellectual departments, but you know
that after a man has been tolling all day
with adz and saw and hammer, plane and
as, about n ^ be can do is to rest. A weary
body is an unfavorable adjunct ton toiling
mind. You, whosellfein purely mechani¬
cal, if you were called to the upbuilding of
a kingdom, or the proclamation of a new
code ot morals, or the starting of a revolu¬
tion which should upturn all nations,
could gel some Idea ot the jneohorenoe of
Christ’s occupation with Hls heaveuly
mission.
In His father’s shop no more intercourse
was necessary than Is ordinarily necessary
ju bargaining with meu that buve work to
do, yet Christ, with hands hard from use
of toois of trade, was culled forth to be¬
come a public speaker, to preach In the
face of mobs, while some wept, and some
shook their fists, and some gnashed upon
Him with their teeth, and many wanted
Him out of the way. To address orderly
and respectful assemblages is not so easy
as It may seem, but it requires more
energy and more force and ui*ro concen¬
tration to address an’ exasperated mob.
The villagers of Nazareth heard the pound¬
ing of His hammer, but all the wide
reaches of eternity were to hear the stroke
of His spiritual up-building. of
So also Hls hnhits dress and diet were
against Him. The mighty men of Christ’s
time did not appear in apparel without
trinkets and ndornmenta. None of the
C»sar9 would have appeared la citizen’s
apparel. Yet he* was a man, here was a
professed king, who always wore the same
coat. Indeed It was far from-shabby, for
after He had worn it a long while the
gamblers thought it worth raffling about,
but-stlll it was far from being an imperial
robe. It was a coat that any ordinary
man might buve worn on an ordinary oc¬
casion.
Neither was there any pretension in His
diet. No cupbearer with golden chalice
brought Him wine to drink. On the sea¬
shore He ate fish, first having broiled It
Himself. No one fetched Him water to
drink; but, bending over the well in
Samaria, He begged and a drink. He sat at
only one banquet, that not at all
sumptuous, for to relieve the awkward¬
ness of the host one of the guests had to
prepare wine for the company.
Other kings ride fu a Chari#!; He walked.
Other kings, as they advance, have heralds
ahead and applauding made subjects behind;
Christ’s retinae was up of sun¬
burned fishermen, Other kings sleep
under embroidered canopy; this one Ofi a
shelterless hill, riding but once, as far as I
now remember, on a colt, and that bor¬
rowed.
His poverty was against Him. It re¬
quires money to build great enterprises.
Men of means are afraid of a penniless
projector lest a loan be demanded. It re¬
quires money to print books, to build in¬
stitutions, to pay instructors. No wonder
the wise men of Christ’s time laughed at
this pennilgfcs Christ. “Why,” they said,
“who is to pay for this now religion? Who
is to charter the ships to carry the mis¬
sionaries? Who is to pity the salaries of
the teachers? Shall wealthy, established
religion be discomfited by a penniless
-Christ?”
The consequence was that most of the
people that followed Christ had nothing to
lose. Affluent Joseph of Arimathea buried
Christ, but ho risked no soolal position In
doing that. It is always safe to bury a
dead man.
Zaeclieus risked no wealth or social posi-
lion in following Christ, but took a position
in a tree to look down ns He pussed.
Nieodemus, wealthy Nleodemus, risked
nothing of social position inj following
Christ, for lie skulked by night to Had Him.
All tills was against Christ. So the fact
that He was not regulnrly graduated was
against Him. If a man coroe with diplo¬
mas of colleges and’schools und theological
seminaries and ho has been through for¬
eign travel, the world is disposed to listen.
But here was a man who had graduated at
no college, had not in any academy by or¬
dinary means learned the alphabet of the
language He spoke, and yet He proposed to
talk, to iustruot in subjects which had con¬
founded tho mightiest Intellects. John
suid, “The Jews marveled, letters, saying, How
hath this man having liover
learned?” We, In our day, have found out
that a man without a diploma may know
ns.much as a man with one and that a col¬
lege cannot transform a sluggard into a
philosopher or a theological seminary teach
a fool to preach. An empty head, after the
laying on of hands ot the presbytery,
is empty still. But it shocked all eocistiug
prejudices in those olden times for a man
with no scholastic pretensions und no
graduation from a learned Institution to
set Himself up for a teacher. It was against
III in.
So there have been men of wonderful
magnetism of person. But hear me while
I tell you of u.poor young Mau who came up
from Nazareth to produce u thrill which has
never been excited by any other. Napoleon
had around him the memories.of Marengo
and Austerlltz and Jena, but here was a
Mi n who had fought no bottles, who wore
no epriulnts, who brand lulled no sword. Ha
liail probable never mum tiprlnoe or shaken
hands with a nobleman.
The only extraordinary person wo know
of as being In His oowpnny was Ills own
mother, and she was so poor that, in the
most delicate and solemn hour that cornea
to a woman's soul, she was obliged to He
down among drivers grooming the beasts
0 / burden.
Again, 1 remnrk, tliero was no organiza¬
tion In Ills behalf, and that was against
Him. When men propose any groat work,
they band together, they write letters of
agreement, they take oaths of fealty,"'und
the more complete the organization the
more and complete the success. Here was
one who wont forth without any organiza¬
tion and alone. If men had a mind to join
111 HU company, all right; If they hud a
mind not to join In Ills company, all well.
If they came, thuy were greeted with no
loud salutation; It they went away, Pbtor they
were sent with no hitter anathema.
departed, and Christ turned und looked at
him; tlmt was all.
All this was against nim. Did any ouo
over undertake such an enterprise amid
such infinite embarrassments and by ended such
modos? And yet I am here to say it
in a oomplote occupation. triumph. Notwithstanding
His worldly HU poverty, His
plain face, HU unpretending garb, the
fact that He was school loss, the fact that
He hud u brief life, the fact tlmt He was
not accompanied by any visible organiza¬
tion— notwithstanding all that, In iui ex¬
hilaration which shall declared, be prolonged "I kn
everlasting chorals. He have
finished the work which Thou gayest Me
to do.”
In the eye inflrmnry how many diseases
of that delicate organ have been cured?
But Jesus says to one blind, “Bo through openl”
and the light of heaven rushes
gat03 that have never before been opened. but
The frost of an ax may kill a tree,
Jesus smites one dead with a word.
Chemistry may do many wonderful
things, but what chemist at a wedding,
when the wine gave out, could change a
pall of water Into a cask of wine? What
human - voice oould command a school of
fish? Yet hore is a voico that marshals
the soaUy tribes uuifli, in a and place pulled where It
they had let down the not
up with no flail lg it, they let it down
again, and the,disciples lay hold and be¬
gan to puil, when, by reason-ot the multi¬
tude of Ileh, the net broke. Nature is His
servant. The flowers—He twisted them In¬
to Hla sermons; the winds—they were Ills
lullaby when He slept in the boht; the rain
It hung glltterin&ontbe tbl?k foliage of the
parables; the star of Bethlehem—it sang
u Christmas carol overllls birth; the rocks
—they beat a dirge at His death. Behold
His victory over the grave! The hinges be¬ oi
the family vault become very rusty
cause they are never opened except to take
another In. There is a knob on the out¬
side of the door of the sepulcher, but none
on the inside. Hereoomes the Conqueror
of Death. He enters that realm and says,
“Daughter of Jalrus, sit up!” and she sits
up. To Lazarus, “Come forthl” and he
came forth. To the widow’s son He said,
“Get up from that blur!” and he goes
home with his mother, Then Jesus
snatched up the keys of death and hung
them to His girdle and cried until alt the
graveyards of the earth heard Him: “0
death, I will be thy plaguel O grave, I will
be thy destruction!”
No man could go through all the ob-
sfacles I have described, you say, without
having a nature supernatural. In that and
arm, amid its muscles and nerves
bones, were intertwisted tho energies of
omnipotence. In the syllables of that
voice there was tho emphasis fhat walked of the the
eternal God. That foot
deck ot the ship In Gennesnret shall stamp
kingdoms of darkness into demolition.
This poverty struck Christ owned Augus¬
tus, owned the sanhedrin, owned Tiberias,
owned all the castles on its beach and all
tho skies that looked down into its water—
owned all the earth and all tho heavens.
To Him of the plain coat beloagod the
robes of celestial royalty. He who
waijted the road to Eaima’us the light¬
nings were the fire shod steeds of Hls
chariot. Yet tlmre are those who look
on and see Christ turn water into wine,
and they say, “It was sleight of hand!”
And they see Christ raise tho dead to life,
and they say: “Easily dead!” explained; And they not
really dead; playing the blind and soa
Christ giving sight to man,
they sny, “Clairvoyant doctor!” Oh, what
shall they do un the day when Christ rise3
up In judgment and the bills shall rock
and the trumpets shall call, peal on peal?
Iu the time o* Theodosius tho Great there
was a great assault made upon the divin¬
ity of Jesus Christ, and during that time
Theodosius the Great called hls own son to
sit on the throne with him and be a copart¬
ner in the government of the empire, and
one day the old bishop came and bowed
down before Theodosius, tho emperor, and
passed out of the room, and the emperor
was offended, saying to the old bishop,
“Why didn’t (you pay tho same honor
to my son, who shares witli me in tho gov¬
ernment?” Thou the old bishop turnod to
the young man and snld, “The Lord bless
thee, my young man,” but still paid him no
such honor as he had paid totho Emperor.
And tho Emperor was still offended and
displeased when the old bishop turned to
Theodosius the Great and said to him,
“You are offended with me beouuse I don’t
pay the same honor.to your son, whom you
have made eopartuer in the government of
this empire, the same honor I pay to you,
and yet you encourage multitudes ot peo¬
ple in your realm tc deny the Son of God
equal authority, equal power, with God the
Father.”
My subject niso reassures us of the fact
that In all our straggles wo have a sympa¬
thizer. You cannot tell Ohri»t anything
new about hardshl % I do not think that
wide ages of etern will take the scars
from His punctured side and Hls lacerated
temples and His sore hands. You will never
have a burden weighing so many pounds
as that burden Cnrlst carried up the bloody
hill. You will never have any suffering
worse than He endured when, with tongue
hot and cracked and inflamed and swollen,
He moaned, “I thirst.” You will never be
surrounded by worse hostility than that
which stood around Christ’s feet, foaming,
reviling, livid with rage, howling down His
prayers and snuffing up tho smell of blood.
O ye faint hearted, 0 ye troubled, O ye
persecuted One, here is a heart that can
sympathize with yowl
Again, and lastly, I learn from nil that
has been said to-day that Christ was aw¬
fully in earnest. It it had not been a mo¬
mentous mission, He would have turned
back from it disgusted and discouraged. Ho
He jaw you tu a captivity from which
was resolved to extricate you, though it
cost Him all sweat, ail tears, ali blood, no
came a great way to save you. He came
from Bethlehem here, through charnel the house, place
of skulls, through the
through banishment. There was not
amoDg all the ranks of celestials one
being who would do as much for you.
I lay Hls crushed heart at your feet to¬
day. Let it not be told in heaven that you
deliberately put your foot on it. While it
will take all the ages of eternity to cele¬
brate Christ’s triumph, I am hero to make
the startling announcement that because
of the rejeotion 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, a failtsse. the Helena, Holy
tho Empress, went to
Land to find the cross of Christ. Get¬
ting to the Holy Land, there were three
crosses exoavuted, and the question Christ’s
was which of the crosses was
oross. Tbov took a dead body, tradition
says, anil put it upon one of the crosses,
and there was no life, and they took the
dead body and put it upon another cross,
and there was no life; but, tradition says,
when tho dead body was put up against The
tho third cross it sprang into life,
dead man lived again. Oh, that the life
giving power of the Son of God might dart
your dead soul into an eternal-life, begin¬
ning, this day! "Awake, dead, thou sleepest, Bhall
and rise from the and Christ
give thee lifel” Live nowl Aud live for-
over!
He Speaks Advleedly-
"Itlght ahead of us,” resumed the
traveller tvlio was narrating his experi¬
ences," yawned the monntaln pass—”
“Do you know,” artlessly Interrupted
one of the younger women In the com¬
pany, “that seems very queer to me?
How can a mountain yawn?”
"Did you never see Cumberland Gap,
miss?" he asked.
And there were no more interrup¬
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If Men Were In Supreme Control.
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"Do you believe that those who can,
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Mias fecreecher, with a coy glance at
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“No, I believe
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The Point of View,
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