Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-02-20

/ provide the bread of eternal life for all the
( people, the rush will ba unprecedented and
unimaginable.
! Astronomers have been busy measuring
/ worlds, and they have toll us how great IS
\ the circumference of this world and how
4 great is its diameter. yen, they have kept on
until they have weighed our planet AMI found
its weight to be six sextlllion tons But by
no science has the weight OF this worlds
! trouble been weighed. Now, Christ stand
/ ing on the level of our humanity stands in
/ sympathy with every trouble. There ars 50
many aching heals, His ache1 un Ter the
thorns. There are SO many weary feet. His
were worn with the long journey 10 ami
down the land that received Him not There
4 are 50 many persecutei souls. Every hour
/ of His life was under human outrage The
world had no better placs to receive Him
/ than cattle pen, and its farewell was slap
on His cheek and spear in His side. So in
( tensely human was He that there has not
been IN all our race grief or iuirmity or
! exhaustion or paag that did not touch Him
once and that doss not touch Him now.
/ The lepers the paralytics, the imoeciie,
the manic, the courtesan the re2e1ta1t
/ brigaud--which one did He turn off which
one did He not pity, which one did He NOT
1 help? The universal trouble of the world i;
/ bereavement. One may escape all the other
| troubles but that no soul escapes Out of
/ that bitter cup every one must take a drink
For instance, IN order that all might know
I how He sympathizss with those who have
( lost daughter, Christ comes to the house of
4 Jarius There is such big crowd around
| the door He and His disciples have to push
\ their way in. From the throng of people
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
such a loud weeping that the ordinary tones
of Ia / Il IN Tnt
( der The dead daughte.' was twelve years
( of age. 1t is about the happiest time in
most lives. Very little children suffer many
irjustices because they are children, AMI
childhood is not desirable part of human
existence-they gee whacxed or set on. But
at twelve years of age tia child has come to
self assertion and is apt to make her rights
known. And then, twelve years of age is
too early for the cares and anxieties of life
So this girl was, | think, the merriment of
the household, She furnished for them the
mimicry and the harmless mischief, and
reused the gutfaw that often rang through
that happy home, But now she is dead, en1
the grief at her departure is as violent as her
presence had been vlyacious and inspiriting.
Oh, the bereavement was 50 sharp, so over
whelmingl How could they give her up!
suspect that they blamel themselves for
this or for tlat Ga, it they had had SONG
other doctor, or taken some other medicine
they had not given her that reproof soma
time when she had not really deserve it. Ii
they had been more patient with her hllari-
ties AMI, instead of hushing 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 agel So fair, 50 promising, 50 full
of life a few days ago, and now 50 still On,
what it is to have a dau ghter dead The
room is full of folks bu5 vonier is the room
where the young sleeper is. The crowd can
not go in there. Only six persons enter, five
besides Christ-.hree friends and, of course,
the father and mother. They have the first
right to go ill., The heaviest part of the
grief was theirs. Al eyes in that room are
on the face of this gir
There lay the beauII I'll hand, white and
finely shapen, hut it was not liftei in greet
log to any of the group. Christ stepped for
ward and took hold of that hand and said,
with tone and accentuation charged with
tenderness and command, "Damsel, | say
unto thee. arise.' And without moments
delay She arose, her eyes wide open, her
cheeks turning from white lily to red rose;
and the parents cry: 'tShe lives! She livesp'
and in the next room they take up the SOUND,
''She lives She livesm and the throng in
front of the doorway repeat it, ''She livesl
She livesm Will not all those who have lost
a daughter feel that such Christ as that
can sympathize2
Christ on the plain. / 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 My
God My God, why hast Thou forsaken Meg
Isit 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 ailment?
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 Him
who flung the tempest of Genesareta fiat on
the crystal pavement of quiet sea.
That Christ is in sympathy vito all who
have trouble with their eyes, and that is be-
coming an almost universal trouble through
much reading in rail cars, and tue overpres-
sure of the study in the schools where chill
dren are expected to be philosophers at ten,
boys and girls at fourteen with specbacles.
| 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 ciapping their hands and
saving. ~ seel | see"
That Christ is in sympathy with those who
stammer, or have silenced ears, notice how
promptly He came to that man with impede
ment of spesea and gave him command of
the tongue so that he could speak with ease,
and, putting His fingers into the ears, re-
tuned the tympanum Is there lacS 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, Stretch
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 a sympathetic Christ, And il YOU
feel yourself to be great sinner hear what
He said to that repenting Magdalen while
with scalding sarcasm He dashed her n.y.
pocritical pursuerS.
And seq how He made an immortal liturgy
out of the publican's cry, God be merciful
to me a sinner" prayer so short that the
most overwhelmed offender can utter it, and
yet long enough to win celestial dominions
/ 1t was well put by a man who had been con-
vertei, and who remembered that in his
dissolute DAYS he found it hard to ges
! occupation because he could not present
/ certificate for good character.
In commencing Christ to the peopls he
said, BLESS Col, I have found out that
! Jesus will take man without a charactern'
Christ on level with suffering humanity.
Ny text says, "de came down with them
and stood in the plain" No climbing up
through attributes you cannot understand
! No ascending of the heights of 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 SebastoDol an officer had con-
mandei private soldier to stand on the
wall exposed to the enemy and receive the
ammunition as it was handed up while he,
the officer. stoo in a place sheltered from
! the euemy's guns, General Gordon leaoel
upon the wall to help aud 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
tion has Himself gone through all the ex-
/ posures in which He commands us to be
/ courageous. 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
aforetlme en1uugeone1 and SICK and hun
CRY and persecute and slain, out OF His own
experiences is rea y to help all, and pardon
ALL and comfort ali, and rescae all.
I Oh, join Him in the plain. As long as
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