Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-02-19

place, and the family circle preach Cnriss
IN the plain.
As soon as the church says by its attitude,
lot necessarily by its words, my one mis-
ion is TO help for this life AMI help for the
lie to come all the people" and it proves its
,arnestness in the matter, people on foot and
m horseback AMI in wagons and in car
iages will coma to the churches in suca
numbers that they will have to be met at the
ioor by usaers, saying You were here
asst Sunday; you cannot coma to-day.
Gentlemen and ladies' you must take your
urn"
And it will be as in the Johnstown freshet
md disaster, when a government station
vas opened for the supply OF bread, AMI 1t
ooz the officers Of the law TO keep the sui
erers in line because OF the great rush for
God. When this famine struck world real
that the church is a government station
ct up by the government OF the universe TO
provide the bread Of eternal life for all the
PEOPLE, the rush will be unprecedented and
1nimlginable.
Astronomers have been busy measuring
worlds, and they have toll us how great is
he circumference OF this world and how
Ereat is its diameter. yen, they have kept on
Until they have weighed our planet and foun1
Is weight to be six s.xtillion tons. But by
10 science has the weight of this worlds
;rouble been weighed. Now, Christ stand
ne on the level OF our humanity stands in
y.npathy with every trouble. There airs 50
many aching heals, His ache1 uu Ter the
horns There are so many weary feet, His
we're worn with the long journey up AMI
Town the land that received Him not. There
ire 50 many persecute1 souls. Every hour
If His life was under human outrage The
world had no better place to receive Him
han cattle pen, AMI its farewell was slap
N His cheek and a spear in His side. SO in
ensely human was He that there has not
oeen in all our race grief or inirmity or
exhaustion or paug that did not touch Him
)nce and that does not touch Him nov.
The lepers, the paralytics, the imbecile,
he manic. the cOurtesan, the reJe1tant
,rigaud-which one dill he turn off, which
)ue did He not pity, which one did He no.
,elp, The universal trouble OF the world Is
bereavement. One may escape all the other
troubles, but that no soul escapes. Out OF
hat bitter cup every one must take drink.
For instance, in order that all might know
low He sympathzes with those who have
.ost a daughter, Christ comes to the house OF
Jarius. There Is suc1 big crowd around
Che door He and His disciples have to push
their way in. From the throng OF people l
conclude that this girl must have been very
popular. She was one OF those children
whom everybody likes.
After Christ got in the house there was
mch loud weeping that the ordinary tones
Of voice could not be heard do not won
der, The dead daughte:' was twelve years
Of age. Il is about the happiest time In
most lives. Very little children suffer many
iui1stices because they are children, AM
childhood is not desirable part OF human
existence-they get whacxed or set on. But
at twelve wears OF age the Child has coneto
self assertion and is apt to make her rights
known. And then twelve years OF age is
too early for the cares aud anxieties OF life,
So this girl was think, the merriment OF
the household She furnished for them the
mimicry and the harmless mischief, ana
reused the gutfaw that often rang through
that happy home. But noT she is dead, ana
the grief at her departure is as violent as her
presence had been vivacious and inspiriting.
Oh. the bereavement was 50 sharp, 50 over
whelming. How could they give her up!
I suspect that they blamel themselves for
this or for that. Ga, If they had had some
other DOCTOR or taken some other medicine,
or ha1 been more careful of her health, or II
thew had not given her that reproof some
time when she had not really deserved 1t. IL
thew had been more patient with her hilari.
ties an], instead Of hushinZ her play, had
participated in it, You know there are SO
many things that parents always blame
themselves for at such times. Only twelve
years of age SO fair, 50 promising, 50 iu'l
of life few days ago, and now 50 sun! IN,
what it Is to have a daughter dead! The
room is full of folks but yon1er is tue room
where the young sleeper il. The crowd can
not 20 in there. Only six persons enter flve
besides Christ-three friends, and, OF course
the father and mother They have the first
RIGHT TO 90 in The heaviest part OF the
grief was theirs. All eyes in that room are
on the face of this girj.
There lay the beautiful hand, white an
finely shapen, but it was not lifted In greet
ing to any of the group. Christ stepped ioI'
ward and took hold 'Ot that hand ana sald
with a tone and accentuation charged "ltn
tenderness and command, "DamseI' say
unto thee. arisew And without moments
delay she arose, her eyes wide open, her
cheeks turning from white lily TO red rose;
and the parents cry, 'She lives! she Ives
and IN the next room they take up the sound,
"She lives She lives and the throng IN
front of the doorway repeat it,, "She lives,
She lives will not all those who have lost
a daughter feel that such a Christ as that
can sympathiza.
Christ on the plain. care not from what
slQt lOu dplAOASh AAiihf gOt NAh tSN~' 1870
and get His hello. Is it mental depressi on
YOU suffer- Remember Him who said, Ny
God, Ny God. why hast Thou forsaken Mey'
Isit a struggle for bread Remember Him
who fed the five thousan with two minnows
and five biscuit. neither of the biscuits
larger than your fist Is it chronic ailments
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 a sailor and spend your life
battling With the tempests? Remember Hun
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 be-
coming an almost universal trouble through
much reading in rail cars, and the overpres-
sure of the study in the schools where chill
dren are expected 10 be philosophers at ten,
boys and girls at fourteen VITA spectacies.
say with all such trouble Christ is in SYM
pathy. Witness blind Bartimeus. Witness
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 midnoOn, till they
ran up and down clapping their hands and
saying. II seel see"
That Christ is in sympathy with those who
promptly He came to that man with impede
ment of speech and gave him command OF
the tongue so that be could speak with ease,
and, putting His fingers into the ears re.
tuned the tympanuni. Is there lack OF
circulation in your arm, think Of Him who
cured the defective circulation and the mac
tive muscles of patient who had lost the
use OF hand and arm, by saying "Stretci
forth thy handw and the veins and nerves
and muscles resumed their offices, AMI
though in doing so the joints may have
cracked from long disuse. and there may
have been a strange sensation from elbow to
finger tip. he stretched it forth. And moth
ing is the matter with you, but you may ap-
peal to sympathetic Christ. And If you
feel yourself to be great sinner, hear what
He said to that repenting Magdalen, while
with scalding sarcasm He dashed her ny
pocritical pursuers.
And $50 hoV He made an immortal liturgy
out of the Dublicans cry. GOD be merciful
to me a sinner" prayer 50 short that the
most overwhelmed offender can utter it, aud
yet long enough to win celestial dominions.
II was we'll put by man who had been con-
verteJ. and who remembered that in his
lissolute DAYS he found 1t hard to get