The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-02-17

and He lifted her face until she could
look into the blue sky. Are you sailor
and spend your life battling with the
tempests? Remember Him who flung |
the tempest Of Genesareth fat on the
crystal pavement of quiet sea.
That Christ is in sympathy with all |
who have trouble with their eyes; and
that Is becoming an almost universal
trouble through much reading in rail
cars, and the overpressure Of study in
the schools where children are expected
to be philosophers at ten, boys and
girls at fourteen with spectacles. l
say with all such trouble Christ is in
sympathy. Witness blind Bartimeus.
Witness the two blind men in the house.
Witness the two blind men near Jeri.
cho Witness the man born born blind
Did He not turn their perpetual mid
night into midnoon, till they ran up and
down clapping their hands and saying,
~ see! seeF That Christ is in
sympathy with those who stammer,
or have silenced ears, notice how
promptly He came to that man
with impediment of speech and gave
him command of the tongue so that
he could speak with ease, and, putting
his fingers into the ears, retuned the
tympanum. Is there lack of circula-
tion in your arm, think OF Him who
cured the defective circulation and the
inactive muscles of patient who had
lost the use of hand anu arm, by say
ing, "Stretch forth thy handr' and the
veins and nerves and muscles resumed
their offices, and though in doing so the
joints may have cracked from long dis
use, aud there may have been strange
sensation from elbow to finger.tip, he
stretched II forth! And nothing is the
matter with you, but you may appeal
to q sympathetic Christ And If you feel
yourself to be great sinner, hear what
He said to that repentant Magdalen,
while with scalding sarcasm He dashed
hypocritical pursuers.
And see how He III ade an immortal
lit urgy out of the publican's cry, God
be merciful to me sinner prayer so
short that the most overwhelmed Of
fender can utter II, and yet long enough
to win celestial dominions. II was well
put by q man VINO had been converted,
and who remem bered that in his disso-
Lutte days he found it hard 10 get occu.
patton, because he could not present a
certificate for good character. In COM
mending Chret TO the people he said,
'Bless God, have fonnd out that Jesus
will take man without characterV
Christ on q level with suffering human
ity. My text says: He came down
with them and stood on the plain" No
climbing up through attributes you can
not understand. No ascending of the
heights of beautiful rhetoric of prayer.
No straining after elevations you can
not reach No hunting for God that
1 you cannot End. But going right straight
! to Him and looking into His face and
taking His hand and asking for His par
don, His comfort, His grace, His Heaven.
Christ on the level. When during the
siege of Sebastopol an officer had com
manded private soldier to stand on
I the wall exposed to the enemy, and re-
ceive the ammunition as it was handed
up, while he, the officer, stood in place
\ sheltered from the enemy's guns, Cen
eral Gordon leaped upon the wall to
help, AMI commanded the officer to fol-
low him. and then closed with the
words: Never order man to do any
thing that you are afraid TO do your.
SELF Glory be to God, the captain OF
our salvation has Himself gone through
all the exposures in which H. com
mands US to Lc courageous. lie has
been through it all, and now otets His
sympathy IN siDuat struggle. one OF
the kings Of England one night III dis
guise walking the streets OF London,
and not giving account OF himself, was
arrested and put in a miserable prison.
When released, and getting back 10 the
palace. he ordered thirty tons OF coal
and large supply OF food for the night
prisoners OF London. out OF his OWL
experiences that night he did tlts And
our Lord tho ,Sing aforetime endun
guoned, aud sick. and hungry, and per
secuted, and s.,.In, out OF His own ex'
pariences is reaay to help all, and rescue
all.
Oil Join lin in the plain. AS long as
You ia, up in the mountain OF your
pride you will get no help, That is the
rcasui, 80 many never find the salvation
OF tho gospel They sit high up in the
Mount Blanc of their opinionauvcness
and they have their opinion about God
and their opinion about the soul, ant
heir opinion about eternity. Have
you any idea that your opinion
will have any effect upon th'
two tremendous facts, that you ar'
sinner, and that Christ is ready a
your earnest prayer to save you IL
the final day Of accounts how much vii
your opinion be worth? Your opinion
will not be Of much Importance befor'
the blast of the Archangers trumpet
When the life of this planet shall ID
threshed out with The hail Of thunGc
bolts nobody vii ask about YOU
opinions Cor.e down out of the noun
tain OF opinionativeness, and NEE
Christ on the piH:u, where you nuns
meet Him or never meet Han at az, eN
cept as you meet Him on the janPnGh
throne.
! A +, Artist easy to get at! No armet
sentiuel to challenge you No ruthlcs
officer 70 scrutinlze the papers you pre-
sent Immediate response. ln''edht
forgiveness. Immediate sO.ace. lnrougl
what struggle people must 10 10 get
!. pardon from worldly authority! i.
what petition, by what hindrancc
! by what nervous strain Of anS
! iety, by what aGroitness. A coun
| of Italy was condemned TO be pu
TO death at Milan. The countess, hear
ing OF the sentence, hastened to Nienn
TO seek his pardon. The death warran
was already on it's way. he countess
arriving ia Vienna in the night hastene
10 the palace gates The attendant
: forbade her entrance at all, and ei
I pecially at night, but she overcam
them with he's entreaties, and the EN-
press was wakened and the COUNTIES
pleaded before her for the life of he
: husband. and then the emperor wa