Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-02-20

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arose. her eyes wide open, her cheeks
turning from white lily to red rose.
and the parents cry, 'She lives! She
liyesw VIII not all those who have
lost daughter feel that such Christ
rs u at can sympathize:
On another occasion he showed how
he felt about the loss of q son. Here
are the obsequies. A long procession,
a widowed mother following her only
son. know not how long the husband
and father had been gone, but upon
this son, who had now come to be a
young man, the leadership Of that
household had fallen.
But that young man had fallen life
less under accident or disaster, and he
was being carried out. Only q very
few hours in that land are allowed to
pass between decease and burial It
is the same day or the next And
there they move on. Christ meets the
procession. His eye picks out the chief
mourncr He puts His hand on the
bier, as much rs to say to the pail
bearers: "Stop! There will be no
burial to-day. That broken heart
must be healed. That mother must
have her home rebuilt" And then
looking into the face of the young
man flor in those lands the face is al
ways exposed in such procession),
Christ speaks one sentence, before
which death fell PROSTATE under the
bier: young man. l say unto thee,
arise" He sat up. while the overjoyed
mother wrapped him in her arms and
well nigh smothered him with her ca
resses, and the air was rent with con-
ever lost n son doubt that Christ SYM
pathizes with such woe? And how
many there are who need that particu-
lar comfort
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 over pressure of study in
the schools where children nre ex-
pected to be philosophers at ten, boys
.and girls at fourteen with spectacles.
say with all such troubles Christ is in
sympathy. Witness blind Bartimcus.
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. ~ see! I
see!" That Christ is in sympathy
with those that stammer, or have
silenced ears, notice how promptly
he cane to that man with impeachment
of.speech and gave him command of
the tongue so that he could speak with
ease. AMI nothing is the matter with
you, but you may appeal to sympa-
thetic Christ. And If you feel yourself
to be n great sinner. hear what He
said to that repenting Magdalcn. while
with scalding sarcasm he abashed
her hypocritical pursuers.
And see how he made an immortal
liturgy out of the pubiican's cry: God
be merciful to me sinner" n prayer
so short that the most overwhelmed of
fender can utter it, and yet long enough
to win celestial dominions.
Christ on a level with suffering
humanity. MY text saws: "He came
down with them and stood in the
plain" No climbing up through attri-
butes you cannot understand. No as
cending of the heights OF beautiful
rhetoric Of PRAYER. No straining after
elevations you cannot reach. Nohunt-
ing for God you cannot find. Bnt GO
ing right strait 10 Him and looking into
His face and taking His hand and ask
ing for His pardon, His comfort His
grace, His Heaven.
Christ on the level. When during
the siege of Sebastopol an officer had
commanded a private soldier to stand
on the wall exposed to the enemy and
receive the ammunition as it was
handed up. while he, the officer. stood
in place sheltered from the enemy's
guns, Gen. Gordon leaped upon the
wall to help and commanded the officer
TO follow him, and then closed with
the words, "Never order a man to do
anything that you are afraid to do
yourself" Glory be to God, the Cap
tain of our salvation has himself gone
through all the exposures in which he
commands MS to be courageous He
has been through 1t all and now offers
his sympathy in similar struggle.
o! join Him in the plain. AS long rs
you stay up in the mountain OF your
Ipride you will get no help. That is the
reason so MANY never find the saliva
ton of the Gospel. Thew sit up in the
Mont Blanc of their opinionativenes
and they have their own opinion about
God, and their opinion about the SOUL
and their opinion bout eternitv. Have
you any idea that your opinion will
have any effect upon the two tremen-
dous facts, that you are a sinner and
Christ is ready at your earnest prayer
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