The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-15

she hvesl she livesr and, in the mex
room, they take up the sound. "Shs lives
she lives !" and the throng in front Of tn,
doorway repeat IL, she lives. she lives y
VIII not all those who have lost daughtsi
feel that such Christ can sympathizsi
On another occasion, be showed how be
felt about the loss Of a son. Here are the
obsequies: A long procession; a widowed
mother following her only son. know not
bow long the husband and father had bee I
gone, but upon this son, who had now CONS
10 be young man, the leadership Of that
household bad fallen. 1 think be had got to
be the bread-Winner. He was proud OF bis
mother, and she should never lack anything
as long as he lived. And there is no graDdeT
spectacle on earth than a young man
standing between want and widowed
mother. But that young man had fallen
hfeless under accident or disaster, and he
was being carried out. Only very few hours
in that land are allowed 10 pass between
decease and burial. Il 10 the same day or
the next. And there they move on. Christ
meets the procession. His eye picks cut
the chief mourner. he puts his hand on the
bier as much as 70 say TO the pall-bsarers &,
stop! There will be no burial to-day
That broken heart must be healed. That
mother must have her home rebuilt And
then looking into the face Of the young
man for in those lands the face is always
exposed in such procession, Christ speaks
one sentence before which death fell pros
trate under the bier: Young mau, | say
unto thee, arise" He sat up, while the
overjoyed mother wrapped him in her
arms, and well-nigh smothered him with
Ter csresses, and the air was rent with con
CANCELLATIONS. Can any one who has ever
lost son doubt that Christ sympathizes
with such woe And how many there are
who need that particular comfort. 1t was
not hollow sentiment, when, after Edmund
Burke, the greatest orator OF his time. had
lost his son. and the bereaved father, cross
ing the pasture field, met the horse that had
belonged to that deceased son, that the or
ator threw his arms around the horses
neck aud kissed the dumb brute. IL was
not hollow sentiment, when David, the
psalmist, cried out at the news of his sons
death, although he had been a desperately
bad boy: 20. AbsalOm, my SON my son
w ould God l had died FOR thee o, Absa-
lom, my sonl my sonf' But for such and
ali other bereavement there is divine con-
dolence.
Christ on the plain. care not from what
side you approach him, you can touch him
and get his help, Is it mental depression
you sufferl Remember him who said:
MY God, my God. why hath thou forsaken
mer Is it a struggle for breads Remem-
Der him who fed the five thousand with two
minnows and five biscuits, neither Of the bis
cults larger than your fist Is 1t chronic all
meurl Remember the woman who for eigh-
teen years was bent almost double, and be
lifted her face until she could look into the
hlue sky. Are you a sailor and spend your
life battling with the tempestsl 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
10, boys and girls at IA with spectacles
say with ali such trouble Christ is in
sympathy. witness blind bartimsus. Wit
ness the two blind men In the house
Witness the two blind men near Jericho.
Witness the man born blind. Did he not
turn their perpetual midnight into mionoon,
till they ran up and down clapping their
hands and saying. Il seel l see!n That
Christ is Ia sympathy with those who
stammer, or have silenced ears, notice
how promptly he came to that man with
impairment Of speech and gave him com
mand of the tongue 50 that he could speak
with ease. and, putting his fingers into the
ears, returned the tympanum. Is there a
lack OF circulation In your arm, think of
him who cured the defective circulation
and the inactive muscles Of a patient who
had lost the use of hand and arm By saw
ing: "Streteh forth thy handln and the
veins and nerves and muscles resumed their
offices, and though in doing SO the JOINTS
may have cracsed from long disuse. and
there may have been a strange sensation
from elbow to finger-tip, he stretched it
forth And nothing is the matter with
You, but you may appeal to a sympathetio
Christ. And il you feel yourself to be a
great sinner. hear what he said to that re-
pentlng MRgdalen, while with a scalding
be dashed her hypocritical pur-
sueTs.
And see how he made an immortal Iitur-
Ky out of the publioan's cry, God be mer-
cltul to me a sinner" a prayer so short that
the most overwhelmed offender can utter il,
and yet long enough to win celestial domin-
ions. 1t was well put by a man who had
been converted. and who remembered thnt
in his dissoute days he found 1t hard to get
occupation, because he could not present q
Certificate Of good character. In COM
Christ to the people he said
- Bless God, have found out that Jeous
VIII take a man without characterl -
Christ on level with suffering humanity.
My text says: " He came down with them
and stood in the Ulain." No climbing IN
throug attributes you cannot understand
No ascending Of the nights OF beautiful
rhetoric Of prayer. No straininR after ele-
vations you cannot reach. No hunting for
God that you cannot find But going
right straight to him and looking into his
face and taking his hand and asking for his
pardon, his comfort, his grace, his heaven.
Christ on the level. When during the
siege of Sebastopol an officer had com
ma1ded a private soldier to stand on the
wall exposed to the enemy, and receive the
ammunition as 1t was handed up, while he,
the officer, stood in a place sheltered from
the eneDys guns, Gea. Gordon leaped
upon the wall TO help and commanded the
officer to follow him, and then closed with
the words, Never order man TO do any,
thing that you are afraid 60 do yourself, +"
Glory be to God. the captain of our saliva
tion has himself gone thI rough all the ex-
posurel in which he commands us
to be courageous He has been
through it all, and now offers
his sympathy In similar strug-
gle. Que Of the kings of England one
night in disguise, walking the streets Of
London and not giving account Of himself,
was arrested and put Ia miserable prison
When released and getting back to the
palace, be ordered thirty tons of coal and a
large supply of food for the night prisoners
OF London. Out Of his own experiences
that night he did this. And our Lord the
king aforetime undungeoned, and sick, and
hungry, and prosecuted, and slain, out of
his own experiences is ready to help all. and
pardon all, and comfort ali, aud rescue all.
o. join him in the plain. As long as
you stay up In the mountain of your pride
you will get no help. That is the reason so
many never find the salvation of the Cos
pei. They sit high up in the Mont Blanc