Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-02-15

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wide open her cheeks turning from
white lily TO red rose. and ths parents
cry She lives She iivesr and in
the next rWJm they take up the
sound She lives She lives- and
the thrOng IN front Ut the doorway
repeat it. She lives She liveal
VIII not all thOss who have lOst
daughter feel that such a CHRIST az
that cal sympathizeG
THE COMpAsstnS OF CHRIST
On another ps#sion be- showel
how he felt aiDut the ln,s Of a sDn
Here are the oI'reqliies A long pro
ctsRiOiI. widowed mother following
her only sou know not how long
the husband ard father had been
gone. hut upon this son. who had now
cone to- le a young man. the leader
ship of that household had fallen. ]
think he had got to be the breadwin
ner Tie was proud Of his mother.
and shp SHOULD never lack anything
as lone ~ be iiva1 And there is no
grander spectacle on earth than a
young man standing between want
and widowed mother But that
young man hal fallen lifeless under
accident uT disaster. and be was he
ing carried out
Only few hour, ia that lari are
allowed to pass between decease and
burial II IL the same day or the
uext And there they move On.
Christ meets the procession. His
eye picks our the chief nl0Uinor He
put. his hana on the bier. a. ui.,..i i.s
to say to the pallbearprs sop
There will hp no burial today That
broken heart must be bealed That
mother must IIave her home rebuilt.
And then lOokn' into the face Of the
young man for in those lands the
face is always exposed in such pro
cession). Christ speaks one sentence,
before which Death fell prosti'ate un
der the bior. Young man say
unto thee. ar:fe" He sat up. while
the overjoyt,l mother wrapped him
in her arms and well nigh smOth
cred him with her careS3cs, and
the air vas rent with congratula-
tons Can any one who has ever
lost son doubt that Christ sympa-
thizes with such woe2 And how
many there are who need that par
ticular comfort.
1t was not hollow sentiment when,
after Edmund Burke, the greatest
orator of lis time. had lost his son,
and the bereaved father, crossing the
pasture field. met the horse that had
belonged to that deceased son, that
the orator threw his arms around the
horses neck and kissed the dumb
brute 1t was not hollow sentiment
when David, the psalmist cried out
at the news of his sons death, al
though he had been a desperately
bad boy "Oh, Absalom, my son my
sonl Would God had died for thee.
Oh, Absalom, my son my sonT But
for such and all other bereavement
there is divine coincidence.
Christ on the plain. care notfrom
what side you approach him, you car
touch him and get his help, Is il
mental depression you suffer? Re
member him who said, my God, my
God, why hast thou forsaken meT
Is it struggle for breadl Remember
J him who fed the five thousand witt
two minnows and five biscuits, neither
} of the biscuits larger than your fist
Is it chronic ailmentl Remember the
woman who for eighteen years was
bent almost double, and he lifted hel
} face until she could look into the blue
sky. Are you a sailor and spend YOU
} life battling with the tempestsl Re
member him who flung the tempes
of Genesareth flat ON the crystal pave
ment of quiet sea.
That Christ il i'll sympathy witt
all who have trouble with their eyes
and that is becoming an almost uni
versal trouble through much reading
in rail cars, and the overpressure o
} study in the schools where children
are expected to he philosophers a
, ten, boys and girls at fourteen will
, spectacles say with all such trou
ble Christ is in sympathy. Witness
blind Bartimeus, Witness the TIVE
= blind men in the house. Witness
the two blind men near Jericho
l Witness the man born blind. Did h,
{ not turn their perpetual midnigh
r into midnoou, till they ran up anC
down clapping their hands and say
r ing, II see seer
D That Christ is in sympathy will
l those who stammer, or have sllenceC
ears, notice how promptly he cam
to that man with impediment o
T speech and gave him command o
r the tongue so that he could speal
! with ease, and, putting his finger
I into the ears, retuned the tympanum
( Is there lack of circulation in you
: arm, think of him who cured the de
4 fective circulation and the inactiv
, muscles of patient who had lost tn
use of hand and arm, by saying
. "Stretch forth thy hand ~ and tn
$ veins and nerves and muscles re
. sumed their offices, and though II
, doing so the joints may have cracke'
from long disuse, and there may hav
I been a strange sensation from elbow
g to finger tip, he stretched it forth
And nothing is the matter with you
. but you may appeal 10 sylnpathet
Christ And If you feel yourself I
I be a great sinner, hear what he SAT-
. TO that repening Magdalen, Will
Q with a scalding sarcasm he dashe'
{ her hypocIiical pursuers,
; THE CRY OF THE PUBLICAN,
: And seq how he made an nnmOrta