The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-03-02

long journey up anu 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 no better place to receive Him than
a cattle pen, and its farewell was slap
on His cheek and spear in His side.
So intensely human was He that there
has not been in all our race grief or
infirmity or exhaustion or pang that did
not touch Him once and that does not
touch Him now. The lepers. the par
alytics, the i'm beetle, the maniac, the
courtesan, the repentant brigand-
which one did He turn off, which one
did He not pity, which one did He not
help? The Universal trolble of the
world is 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 how He
sympathizes with those who have lost
daughter, Christ comes to the house
of Darius There is such big crowd
around the door, He and his disciples
have to push their way in. From the
throng of people, l conclude that this
girl must have been very popular; she
was one of those children whom every
body likes After Christ got into the
house, there was such loud weeping
that the ordinary tones of voice could
not be heard. ! do not wonder. The
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is about the happiest time in most lives.
Very little children suffer many in
| justices because they are children, and
childhood is not desirable part of
human existence-they get whacked or
set on. But, at 10 years of age the
child has come to self-assertion and is
apt to make her rights known. And
then IL 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 guffaw that often rang
through that happy home. But now she is
dead, and the grief at her departure u
as violent as her presence had been vi
vacious and inspiriting. Oh! the be-
reavement was so sharp, so overwheln-
ing! How could they give her up! !
suspect that they blamed themselves for
this or for that Obi if they had had
some other doctor, or taken some other
medicine, or had been more careful of
her health, or if they had not given her
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really deserved it. O, if they had
more patient with her hilarities and,
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 age
So fair, so promising, so full of life a
| few days ago, and now so still! O,
what it is to have daughter dead!
The room is full of folks, but yonder is
the room where the young sleeper is.
The crowd can not go in there. Only
six persons enter, five besides Christ
three friends, and, of course, the father
and mother They have the first right
to go in. The heaviest part of the grief
was theirs. All eyes in that room are
on the face of this girl. There
lay the beautiful hand, white and
finely shapen, but it was not lifted
in greeting to any of the group. Christ
stepped forward and took hold OF that
hand, and said, with tone and accen-
tuation charged with tenderness and
commands: "Damsel, l say unto thee,
arise!'' And without moments delay,
she arose, her eyes wide open, her
checks turning from white lily to red
rose, and the parents cry, "She lives
She lives!" and in the next room they
take up the sound, "She lives! She
livesr' and the throng in front of the
doorway repeat it, "She lives! She
lives. Will not all those who have
lost daughter feel that such Christ
as that can sympathize?
On another occasion He showed how
he felt about the loss of son. Here are
the obsequies. A. long procession; {
widowed mother following her only
son. know not how long the HUSBAND
and father had gone, but upon this son
who had now come to be a young man
the leadership of that household has
fallen. l think he had got to be tn,
breadwinner He was proud Of hi
mother, ard she should never lack any
thing as long as he lived. And there i
no grander spectacle on earth thai
a young man standing between wan
and a widowed mother. But tina
young man had fallen lifeless undc
accident or disaster, and he was bein
carried out Only very few hour
J in that land are allowed to pass be
: tween decease and burial. 1t is the sam
: day or the next. And there they NOV
on. Christ meets the procession. Hi
eye picks out the chief mourner. H
puts His hand on the bier as much as t
say to the pallbearers: stop! Their
} will be no burial to-day. That broke
5 heart must be healed. That mothe
must have her home re built" And the
l looking into the face of the young ma
. flor in those lands the face is Away
t exposed to such procession) Chris
, speaks one sentence, before whic
4 Death fell pro strate under the biel
D "Young man, say unto thee, arise.
y He sat up while the overjoyed mothe
y wrapped him in her arms, and well mig
t smotaered him with her caresses, an
. the air was rent with congratulations
e Can anyone who has ever lost a so
e doubt that Christ sympathizes wit
D such woe? And how many there al
r who need that particular comfort
E was not hollow sentiment, when. afts