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


ties. We have too many concord
ances and dictionaries and encyclo
iw.dias and syEteais Of theology on
our head to get down on the plain.
Our vocabulary b. tOO trusted We
are tex, much under the domination
If customs regnant for many centu
ries Come ON. young men Of the
ministry Take this pulpit, take ell
the pulpiis. and in the street. and the
market place. and the family circle
preach Christ ON the plain
Al so0n ~ the rhurs.i says by it,
attitude. not necessarily by it, words.
MY one MISSION IL to help for this
life aud help for the life to come all
the people. and it proves it' earnest
ness in the matter. people ON foot and
Oh horseback and in wagons and in
carriages will come TO the churches in
such numbers that they will bave TO
bp met at the door by ushers, saying
You were here la5t Sunday yOu can
not come in today Gentlemen and
ladies, you must take your turn.
And ii will be az in the JohnstOwn
freshet and disaster. when govern
ment station was opened for the sup
ply of bread. and it took the officers
of the law to keep the sufferers in
line because of the great rush for
food. When this famine struck
world realizes that the church IL a
government station set up by the
government of the universe To pro
vide the bread of eternal life for all
the people the rush will be unpip
cedented and unimaginable.
WHAT SCIENTISTS HAVE NOT BONE
Astronomers have been busy meas
uring worlds. and they have told Ills
how great il the circumference OF
this world and how great liz IT, diam
eter, yea, they have kept on until
they have weighed our planet and
found its weight to be six se%t.l.on
tons. But by no science has the
weight of this worlds trouble been
weighed. Now, Christ standing Oh
the level of our humanity stands in
sympathy with every trouble There
are 30 many aching heads; his oched
under the thorns. There are sc
many weary feet; his were worn
with the long journey up and down
the land that received him not
There are so many prosecuted souls
Every hour of his life was under
human outrage. The world had nc
better place to receive him than c
cattle pen, and its farewell was slaI
on his cheek and spear in his side
SO intensely human was he thai
there has not been in all our race
grief or infrmity or exhaustion ol
pang that did not touch him once
and that does not touch him now.
The lepers, the paralytics, the i'm
beetle, the maniac. the courtesan, the
repentant brigand which one did h'
turn off, which one did he not pity
which one did he not help2 The uni
versal trouble of the world is be
reavement. One may escape all thu
other troubles. but that no soul es
capes. Out of that bitter cup ever.
one must take drink. For instance
in order that all might know how h'
sympathizes with those who hav,
lost q daughter. Christ comes TO tn
house Of Jarius. There is such bil
crowd around the door he and hi
disciples have TO push their way in
From the throng of people | conclud
that this girl must have been veT.
popular She was one of those chill
dren whom everybody likes
After Christ got in the house ther
was such loud weeping that the OF
binary tones of voice could not b
heard do not wonder The dea'
daughter was twelve years of age. lti
about the happiest time in most lives
Very little children suffer many III
justices because they are children
a and childhood il not n deSirabl
part of human existence they &c
whacked or set on. But at lively
: years OF age the child has come :
} self assertion and is apt to make he
! rights known. And then. twelv
. years of age is too early for the care
, and anxietes of life. So this girl was
think, the merriment of the HOUSE
hold She furnished for them tn
, mimicry and the harmless mischiei
d and reused the guffaw that ofte
a rang through that happy home. Br
, now she il dead, and the grief at he
. departure is as violent IA her pre-
4 ence had been vivacious and inspiri
q ing. oh, the bereavement was +
!, sharp, 30 overwhelming How coul
q they give her upl
suspect that they blamed then
|. selves for this or for that. oh,
a they had had some other doctor, {
taken some other medicine, or ha
been more careful of her health, or
q they had not given her that reproC
% sometime when she had not roall
/, deserved il. Oh, If they had bee
y more patient with her hilarities anC
a instead of hushing her play, had pa
4 ticipated in i'll You know there al
a so many things that parents alway
n blame themselves for at such times
a Only twelve years of agel So fai'
|, 30 promising. so full of life fe'
days ago, and now SO still Oh, wha
h il Ia to have daughter dead Tn
n room il full of folks, but yonder
!. the room where the young sleeper i
a The crowd cannot go in there, Onl
4 six persons enter, Ave besides Chris
d -three friends, and, of course, tn
a father and mother, They have III
|, first right to so in. The heavie:
| part of the grief was theirs, All eyt
y In that room are ON the face of tn