Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-02-26


She lives" Will not all those who have lost
a daughter feel that such Christ as that
can sympathiza?
Christ on the plain. I care not from what
side you approach Him, you can touch Him
and get His help. Is it mental depressi on
YOU suffer? Remember Him who said, NV
God. Nv God, way hast Thou forsaken Mss'
Is it struggle for bread: Remember Him
who fed the five thousand with two minuows
and five biscuits: neither of the biscuits
larger than your fist Is it chronic allment?
Remember the woman who Tor 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 ME
battling with the tempests? Remember HIM
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 thu schools where chill
dren are expected to be philosophers at ten,
boys and girls at fourteen with spectacleS.
say with all such trouble Christ is in sym
patty. 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 see! l seer'
That Christ is in sympathy with those who
stammer, or have silenced ears, notice how
promptly He came to that man with lmpedl-
ment Of speech and gave him command OF
the tongue so that he could speak with ease,
and, putting His fingers into the ears, re-
tuned the Gympanuu.. Is there lack or
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, stretch
forth thy hand!" 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 n 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 wnat
He said to that repentlng Magdalen, while
with scalding sarcasm He dashed her by
pOcritical purSuerS.
And see how He made an immortal liturgy
out of the publican's cry, God be merciful
to ne a sinner" a prayer SO short that the
most overwhelmed offender can utter it, and
yet long enough to win celestial domtniOns.
It was we'll put by a man who had been con-
verted, and who remembered that in his
dissolute days he found it hard to get
occupation, because he could not present
certificate for good character.
IN commencing Christ to the people he
said, ''Bless God, l have found out that
Jesus will take a man without character"
Christ on level with suffering humanity.
NV text says, HE came down with them
and stood in the plain" No climbing up
through attributes you cannot understand
No ascending OF the heights or beautiful
rhetoric of prayer. No straining after ele-
vations you cannot reach. No hunting for
a God that you cannot find. But going right
straight to Him and looking into His face
and taking His hand and asking for His par
don, His comfort, His grace, His heaven.
Christ on the level. When during the
siege of Sebastopol an officer had COM
manded private soldier to stand on the
wall exposed to the enemy and receive the
as it was handed up. while he,
the officer, stood IN place sheltered from
the enemy's guns, General Gordon leaDed
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 il which, Ee commands us to be
He has been through it all, and
now offers his sympathy in similar struggle.
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
supply of food for the night prisoners of
London. Out of his own experiences that
night he did this. And our Lord the King
aforetime endungeoned and sick and hun
cry and prosecuted and slain, out Of His own
experiences is ready to help all, and pardon
all, and comfort all, and rescue all.
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 reasor4 SO
many of them never find the Gospel. They
sit high up on the Mont Blanc of their
cpinionatjveness,a and they have their opinion
about God, and their opinion about the
soul and their opinion about eternity. Have
Won any idea that YOUR opinion will have
any effect upon the 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 win
you 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 noun
tain of opinionativeness and meet Christ on
the plain, where you must meet Him, or
never meet Him at all, except as yon meet
Him On the Judgment throne.
A Christ easy to get at! No armed sentlnei
to challenge you. No ruthless officer to
scrutinize the papers you present. lmmedl-
ate response. Immediate forgiveness. 1mme-
date solace. Through what struggle people
must go to get a pardon from worldly
auth GRITTY! By what petition, by what him
drance by what nervous strain OF anxiety.
by what adroitnesS. a count or Italy was
condemned to be put to death at Milan. The
hearing of the sentence, fastened
to Vienna to seek his pardon. Inc death
was already on its way.
The countess arriving in Vienna In the
night, hastened to the palace gates. The at
tendants forbade her entrance at all and es-
pecialIy at night, but she oVercame them
with her entreaties, and the empress was
Weakened and the countess pleaded bsfore
her for the life Of her husband, and then the
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