The Globe-republican., 1892-03-03
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CALCULATIONS.
Can any one who has ever lest . son
doubt that Christ sympathizes with such
woe? And how many there are who need
that particular comfort 1t was not hol-
low sentiment when, after E6mund
Burke, the greatest orator Of his 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. although be
had been desperately bad boy: .Oh,
Absal0m, my son! my son! Would Got
son! my son!'' But for such and all
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 men
tai depression you suffer? Remember
Him who said. my God, my God. why
hast thou fOrsaken Me?" Is it a strug-
gle for bread? Remember Him who fed
the 5000 with two minnOws and FIVE
biscuits, neither Of the biscuits larger
than your fist. Is it chronic ailment?
Remember the woman who for eighteen
years was bent almost double, and lifted
her face until she could look into the
blue sky. Are you q sailor and spend
your life battling with the tempests?
Remember Him who flung the tempest
OF GeneSSareth fat on the crystal pave
ment Of the quiet sea.
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 dominion. 1t
was we'll put by man who had been con-
verified, and who remembered that in his
dissolute days he found it hard to got oc-
cupatiOn, because he could not present
certificate of good character. In COM
mending Christ to the people he said,
''Bless God, have found out that Jesus
will take man without character!'
Christ on level with suffering human
itY. My text says, HE came down with
them and stood in the plain" No climb
ing up through attributes you cannot
understand. No ascending the heights
of beautiful rhetoric Of prayer. No
Straining after elevations 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
manded 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 place
sheltered from the enemys guns, Gen.
Gordon leaped upon the wall to help,
and commanded the officer to follow
him, and then closed with the words,
"Never order a 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 expos
ures in which He commands us to be
courageous. He has been through it
all, and now offers His sympathy in
similar struggles.
Oh, 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 Gospel. They sit high up in the
Mont Blanc OF their opiniOnativeness.
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 two tremendous facts, that
you are a sinner, and that Christ is ready
at your earnest prayer to save you?
In the final day of accounts how much
will your opinion be worth? Your
opinion will not be of much Importance
before the blast of the archangels
trumpet. When the life Of this planet
shall be thrashed out with the fail of
thunderbolts nobody will ask about your
opinions Come down out of the
mountain of opiniOnativeness and meet
Christ 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 scrutinize the papers you pre-
sent. Immediate response. Immediate
forgiveness. Immediate sOlace. Through
what struggle people must 60 to get
pardon from worldly authority! BY
what petition. by what hindrance, by
what nervous strain of anxiety, by what
adroitness. A Count of Italy was con-
demned to death at Milan. The Count
ess hearing of the sentence, FASTENED to
Vienna to seek his pardon. The death
warrant was already on it's way. The
Countess. arriving at Vienna in the
night, fastened 70 the palace gates. The
attendants forbade her entrance at all.
and especially at night but she over
came them with her entreaties, and the
Empress was awakened, and the Count
ess pleaded before her tor the life of her
husband, and the Emperor was
awakened to hear the same plea.
Communication of sentence was granted,
but how could she Overtake the officer
who had started with the death warrant,
and would she be too late to save the
life of her husband? by four relays of
horses and stopping not q moment for
food she reached the city OF Milan as
her husband was on the way to the scat
fold. Just in time 70 save him and not
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