The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-03-25

man flor In those lands the face II al.
ways exposed In such q procession).
Christ speaks one sentence, before
which death fell prostrate under the
bier. Young man, say unto thee,
arise" He sat up, while the overjoyed
mother wrapped him In her arms, and
wellnigh smothered him with her ca
resses, and the air was rent with con.
CALCULATIONS. Can anyone who has
ever lost son doubt that Christ sym.
pathizes with such woe? And how
many there are who need that particu-
lar comfort. II was not hollow senti-
ment, when, after Edmund Burke, the
greatest orator of his time, had lost his
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.
IL was not hollow sentiment when
David, the psalmist, cried out Mt the
news of his sons death, although he
had been desperately bad boy: "Oh,
Absalom, my son! my son! Would God
l had died for thee. Oh, Absalom, my
sonl my SOM, But for such and all
other bereavement there is Divine con.
dolencc.
Christ on the plain. care not from
what side you approach Him, you can
touch Him and get His help. Is 1t
mental depression you suffer? Remem-
Der Him who said; MY God, my God,
why hast Thou forsaken me?" Is II a
struggle 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 all
ment? Remember the woman who for
eighteen years was bent almost double,
and lie lifted her face until she could
look into the blue sky. Are you u
sailor and spend your life battling with
the tempests? Remember Him who
flung the tempt of Genesareth fiat on
the crystal pavement of a quiet sea.
That Christ is in sympathy with all
who have trouble with their eyes, and
that is becoming an almost universal
trouble through much reading in rail
cars, and the overpressurc OF study in
the schools where children are expect
ed TO be philosophers at ten, boys and
girls at fourteen with spcctacles l
say with all such trouble Christ 10
in sympathy. Witness blind Barti.
meus 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 per-
petual midnight into midnoon, till they
ran up and down clapping their hands
and savinU. ~ Seal | Sepi" That Christ
is in sympathy with those who SIAM
mer, or have silenced ears, notice how
promptly he came to that man with
impeachment of speech and gave him
command on the tongue so that he
could speak with ease, and, putting
his fingers into the ears, returned
the tympanum. Is there n lack of cir
culation in your arm, think Of him who
cured the defective circulation and
the inactive muscles of n patient who
had lost the use of hand and arm, by
saying: Stretch forth thy hand" and
the veins and nerves and muscles re-
sumed their offices, and though in doing
so the joints may have cracked from
long disuse, and there may have been
strange sensation from elbow to finger
tip, he stretched il forth! And nothing
is the matter with you, but you may
appeal to n sympathetic Christ And il
you feel yourself to he great sinner,
hear what he said to that repent
ing Magdalen, while with a scalding
sarcasm he dashed her hypocritical pur-
suers.