The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-02-19

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 sen.
tence, before which Death fell PROSTATE
under the bier, Young man, say unto
thee, arise" He sat up, while the over
joyed mother wrapped him In her arms,
and well nigh smothered him with her ca
resses, and the air was rent with congratu-
lations
Can any one who has ever lost son
doubt that Christ sympathizes with such
woe2 And how many there are who need
that particular comfort, 1t was not hol,
low sentiment when, after Edmund Burke,
the greatest orator of his time, had lost his
son, and the bereaved father, crossing the
pasture field, met the horse that had be-
longed to that deceased son, that the ora
tor threw his arms around the horses neck
and kissed the dumb brute. 1t was not
hollow sentiment when David, the psalm.
list, cried out at the news of his som death,
although he had been desperately bad
boy; "Oh, Absalom. my sonl my sonl
Would God had died for thee Oh, Alb,
salon, my son! my som" But for such
and all other bereavement there is divine
coincidence.
Christ on the plain care not from what
side you approach him you can touch him
and get his help Is it melltul depression
you suffer- Remember him who said,
"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
me?" Is it a struggle for breads Reinem-
Der him who fed the five thousand with
two minnows and five biscuits, neither Of
the biscuits larger than your fist. Is il
chronic ailment? Remember the woman
who for eighteen years WIS bent almost
double, and liftel her face until she could
look into the blue sky. Are you d sailor
and spend your life battling with the tenn
pestsS Remember him who flung the tenn
pest of Genesareth fat ON the crystal pave
ment Of the 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 cars and the
overpressure of study in the schools where
children are expected to be philosophers at
ten, boys and girls at fourteen with spec
tacles~ say with all such trouble Christ
is insympathy Witness blind Rartimeus
Witness the two blind nieh ID the house,
Witness the two blind men near Jericho
Witness the man born blind. Did he not
turn their perpetual midnight into mid
noon, till they ran up and down clapping
their hands and saying, Il seel | see"
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 com
mand of the tongue so 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 circu-
lation and the inactive muscles of patient
who had lost the use of hand and arm by
saying, Stretch forth thy handP' and the
veins and nerves and muscles resumed
their offices, and though in doing so the
joints may have cracked from long disuse
and there may have been strange sensa
tion from elbow to finger tip, he stretched
it forthl And nothing is the matter with
you, but you may appeal to sympathic
Christ. And if you feel yourself to be a
great sinner, hear what he said to that re-
penting Magdalen, while with scalding
sarcasm he dashed her hypocritical pur
suers.
GOD BE MERCIFUL TO ME, A SINNER"
And see how he made an immortal
liturgy out of the publican's cry, God
be merciful to me sinner" a 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 converted, and who
remembered that in his dissolute days he
found it hard to get occupation, because
he could not present certificate of good
character. In commencing Christ to the
people he said, BLESS God, have found
out that Jesus will take a man without
character! Christ OH level with
suffering humanity. My text says He
came down with them and stood in the
plain" No climbing up through attri.
butes you cannot understand. No ascend
ing Of the heights Of beautiful rhetoric of
prayer No straining after elevations you
cannot reach. No hunting for a God that
you cannot find. But going right straight
to him and looking into his face and tax
ing 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
manded a private soldier to stand on the
wall exposed to the enemy and receive the
MS it was handed up, while he,
the officer, stood in place sheltered from
the enemy's guns, General 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 to do yourself"
Glory be to God, the captain of our saliva
ton has himself gone through all the ex
posures in which he commands us to be
courageous. He has been through it all,
and now offers his sympathy in similar
struggled
One of the kings of England one night in
disguise walking the streets of London and
not giving account of himself was arrested
and put in a miserable prison. When re-
leased and getting back to the palace he
ordered thirty tons of coal and large sup
ply of food for the night prisoners of Lon
don. Out of his own experiences that night
he did this And our Lord the king afore.
time enduppeoned 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
JOIN HIM IN THE PLAIN
Oh. ioin him in the plain. AS long as
YOU STAY IN in the mountain of YOUR pride
Won will yet no helm That is the reason
81 many never find the salvation of the
Gospel They sit high up in the Mont