The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-16

longed to that deceased son, that the orator
threw his arms around the horses neck and
kissed tho dumb brute. 1t was not hollow
sentiment, when David, the psalrnist, cried
out at the news of his sons death, although
he had been desperately bad boy: ooh.
Absalom. my son! my son! Would God
had died for thee. Oh, Absalom, my son! my
son'' But for such and all other bereave-
ment there is divine coincidence.
Christ on the plain 1 care not from what
side you approach Him,you can touch Him and
get His help. Is it mental depression you
suffer? Remember Him who said: "My God,
my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Is it
n struggle for bread? Remember Him who
fed the five thousand with two minnows and
five biscuits, neither OF the biscuits larger than
your fist. Is it chronic ailmcnt? Remember
the woman who for eighteen years was bent
almost double, 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 flat on the crystal pavement OF a
quiet sea.
That Christ is in sympathy with all who
have trouble with their eyes, and that is be-
coming an almost universal trouble through
much reading in rail Gears, ard theover-pressure
OF study In the schools where children are ex-
pected to be philosophers at ten. boys and girls
at fourteen with SpectaCes. l say with all
such trouble Christ is in sympathy. Witness
blind Bartimeus. Witness tho two blind men
in the house Witness the two bind men near
Jericho. Witness tho man born blind. Did
Ho not turn their perpetual midnight into
midnoon, till they ran up and down clapping
their hands and saying, 81 see! see! That
Christ is in sympathy with those who SIAM
mer, or have sienced ears, notice how
promptly He came to that man with impede
ment of speech and gave him command
of the tongue so that he could speak
with ease, and putting His fingers into
the cars returned the tympanum. Is
there lack OF circulation I ion d in your a
circulation and the inactive muscles of a
patient who had lost the use of hand and arm,
by saying, "Stretch forth thy hand!' and tho
veins and nerves and muscles resumed their
offices, and though III doing so the joints may
have cracked from long disuse. and there may
have been q strange sensation from elbow to
inger-tip, he stretched it forth! And nothing
is the matter with you, but you may appeal to
a sympathetic Christ. And if you feol your
self to be great sinner, hear what He said to
that repenting Magda!en, while with sca!d-
ing sarcasm He dashed her hypocritical pur-
suers
And see how He made am immortal liturgy
out of the publican's cry, "God be merciful to
me sinner" prayer so short that the most
overwhelmed offender can utter it, and yet
long enough to win celestial dominions. 1t
was well put by man who had been con-
verified, and who remembered that in his dlsso-
Lutte days ne found it hard to get occupation,
because he could not present certificate Tor
good character In commencing Christ to the
people he said, "Bless God, have found out
that Jesus will take a man without charac-
teri" Christ on a level with suffering HUI
mainly. My text says: "He came down with
them and stood in the plain" No climbing
up through attributes you cannot understand.
No ascending of the heights of beautiful rheto-
rio of prayer No straning after elevations
ocl M huntiOo n God that
you cannot fpd. But going right straight to
Him and looking into His face and taking His
hand and asking for His pardon, Ills comfort,
His grace, His heaven.
Christ on tho level. When during the siege
of Sebastopol an officer lad commanded pr-
vate soldier to stand on the wall exposed 10
the enemy, and receive the ammunition as it
was handed up, while he the officer, stood i'll
a place sheltered from the enemy'S guns, Cen
eral 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 anything that you are afraid to do
yourself" Glory be to God, the Captain OF
our salvation has Himself gone through all the
exposures in which He commands us to be
courageous. He has been through it all. and
ROW offers His sympathy in similar struggle.
One of the kings of England one night in dis
guisc walking the streets of London, and not
giving account of himself, was arrested and
put in miserable prison. When released and
getting back to the palace he ordered thirty
tons of COAL and 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 aforetme endungeoned, and
sick. and hungry. and prosecuted and slain,
out OF His own experiences IS ready to help
all and pardon all, and comfort all, and rescue
all.
OH join Him in the plain. AS long as you
stay up III the mountain of your pride you will
get no help. That is the reason SO many never
find the salvation of the gospel. They sit
high up in the Mont Blanc OF their opiniona-
tiveness, and they have their opinion about
GOD, and their opinion about the soul, and
their opinion about eternity. Have you any
idea that your opinion will have any effect
upon the two tremendous facts, that you are
sinner, and that Christ is ready at your earn
est prayer to save you? In the final day of
accounts how much will your opin--
ion be worth? Your opinion will
not be OF much Importance before
the blast of the archange's trumpet. When
the life of this planet shall be threshed out
with the fail of thunderbots nobody will ask
about your opinions. Come down out OF the
on the plain, where you must meet Him or
never meet Him at all, except as you meet Him
on the judgment throne.
A Christ easy to get at! No armed sentinel
to challenge You. No ruthless officer to scru-
tinZe the papers you present. Immediate re-
Spouse. Inln6uldl6 IOTHlN0uCS IuiUleUlate
solace. Through what struggle people must
go to get pardon from worldly authority! BY
what petition, by what hindrance, by what
nervous strain of anxiety, by what adroit-
ness. A count of Italy was condemned
to be put to death at Milan. The countess
hearing of the sentence fastened to Vienna to
seek his pardon. The death warrant was al
ready on its way. The countess, arriving in
Vienna in the night, fastened to the palace
gates The attendants forbade her entrance at
all, and especially at night, but she overcame
them with her entreaties, and the empress was
Weakened and the countess pleaded before her
for the life of her husband, and then the en-
peror was Weakened to hear the same plea.
Communication of sentence was granted.
but how could she overtake tie officer
who had started with the death warran t,
and would she be too late to save the life of
her husband? BY four relays of horses. and
stopping not a moment for food she reached
the city of Milan as her husband was on the
way to the scaffod. Just in time to save him,
Food Cor the Starving.
MINNEAroLIs, Mimi, February 13.-Mayor
Stuart, of Philadelphia, chairman of the Russian
Famine Relief Association yesterday placed an
order with WaShburn, Crosby & Co., of this city,
for 5000 pounds of flower, and a train of thirty
cars required to carry it left at O'Clock this
pany turned out the -four in six hours. The train
was handsomely decorated and placarded and
marked crush" 1t will 60 from Chicago on fast
time via the Pennsylvania road, arriving in
Philadelphia February 18th. where it will be
loaded on the American line steamer, Indiana,