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

officers of the law 70 keep the suffer
ers in line. because of the great rush for
food When this famine-struck world
realizes that the Church IL n Govern
ment of the universe TO provide the
bread Of eternal life for all the people,
the rush will be unprecedented and UNI
imaginable.
Astronomers have been busy measur-
ing worlds, and they have told us how
great is the circumference of this world
and how great its diameter, yea, they
have kept on until they have weighed
our planet and found its weight to be
six sextillion tons But by no science
has the weight of this worlds trouble
been weighed Now, Christ standing
on the level of our humanity stands in
sympathy with every trouble There
are so many aching hearts: His ached
under the thorns. There are so many
aching feet: His were worn with the
long journey up and 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 a 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 in
trinity or exhaustion or pang that did
not touch Him once and that does not
touch him now. The lepers, the par.
alytics, the imbecila, the maniac, the
courtesan, the repentant brigand, which
one did He turn off, which one did lie
not pity, which one did He not help?
The universal trouble 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 syma-
pathizcs with those who have lost a
daughter, Christ comes to the house of
Jairus. 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 in the
house, there was such loud weeping
that the ordinary tones of voice could
not be heard. do not wonder. The
dead daughter was twelve years of age.
1t is about the happiest time in most
lives. Very little children suffer many
injustices because they are children,
and childhood is not a desirable part
OF human cxistence-they get whacked
or set on. But, at twelve years of age
the 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, l think, the merri-
ment of the household. She furnished
for them the mimicry, and the harm.
mischief, and aroused the guffaw that
often rang through that happy home.
But, now she is dead, and the grief at
her departure is as violent as her pres
cnce had been vivacious and inspirit-
ing Oh! the bereavement was SO sharp,
so overwhelming! How could they
give her up? | suspect that they blamed
themselves for this or for that Oh! 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 that reproof some
time when she had not really deserved
it. Oh, if they had been more patient
with her hilarities and, instead of hush
ing 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!
Oh, what is it to have n daughter dead!
The room is full of folks, but yondcr
is tho room where the young sleeper
is The crowd can not go in there.
Only six persons enter, five besides
Christ-thrce 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 one in the group.
Christ stepped forward and took hold
of that hand, and said, with a tone and
accentuation charged with tenderness
and commands: "Damscl, / say unto
thee, arise!" And, without moments
delay, she arose, her eyes wide open,
her cheeks tuEning from white lily to
red rose, and the parents cry, she
lives! She lives!" and the throng in
front of the doorway repeat it: she
lives! She lives" Will not all those
who have lost n daughter feel that such
a 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 hus-