Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-02-20

eye picks out the cfigf mourner. lie
puts his hand on the bier, as much as
to say to the pallbearels: Stop
There will be no burial today. That
broken heart must be healed. That
mother must have her home rebuilt. >
And then looking into the face of the
young man for in those lantls the
face is always exposed in such pro
cessionj, Christ speaks one sentence.
before which Death fell PROSTATE I'm
der the bier, Young man, ! say
unto thee, arise. lie sat up. while
the ovcrjoyed mother wrapped him
in her arms and well nigh smoth
cred him with her caljy;sses. and
the air was rent with q lgr.t,lla-
tons. Can any one whoS.ias ever
/. lost q son doubt that. ChriFt sympa-
thizes with such wee7 And how
many there are who need that par.
ticular comfort IS.
Z. 1t was not hollow sen iment yllensi
after 5elatlllnsl I3tlE
Isorator Of his time, had lost hisson.
and the bereaved father, crossing the
pasture field, met the horse thatshad
belonged to that deceased son. that
decorator threw his arms around the
horses neck and kissed the dumb
brute. 1t was not hollow sentiment
when David, the psal,nist, cried out
at the news of his sons death, al
though he had been a desperately
bad boy: oh, Absalom, my son my
sonl Would God l had died for thee.
Oh, Absalom, my son. my sonl" But
! for such and all other bereavement
there is divine coincidence.
Christ on the plain. l care not from
what side you approach him, you can
touch him and get his help. Is it
mental depression ycu suferS Re
member him who said. My God, my
Cod, why hast thou forsaiSen meT
Is it struggle foi. breads Remember
him who fed the five thousand with
two minnows and GTe biscuits, neither
of the biscuits larger than your fist.
Isit chronic ailncnt2 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 tempestsl Re
member him who flung the tempest
of Genesareth flat on the crystal pave
ment of Il quiet sen.
That Christ is in sympathy with
all who havo trouble with their eyes,
and that is becoming an almost uni
vers;ll trouble through much reading
in l1lil cars. and the overpressure of
study in the schools where children
arc expected to he philosophers at
ten, boys and girls at fourteen with
spectacles. say with all such trou-
bic Christ is in sympathy. Witness
blind Dartnners. Witness the two
blind men in the house. Witness
the two blind mon 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 say
inc, Il see! | seer
That Christ is in sympathy with
those who stammer. or have silenced
ears, notice how. promptly he came
TO that man with impeachment OF
speech and gave him command of
the tongue so that he could speak
with ease, and, putting bis fingers
into the ears, returned the tylnpanunl.
Is there lack of circulation i'll your
arm, think of him who cured the'de-
fective circulation and the inactive
muscles of a patient who Lad lost the
use of hand and arm, Ly saying.
Stretch forth thy handl" and the
veins and nerves and muscles re
sulned their offices, and though i'll
doing SO the joints may have cracked
from long 'lisllse, and there may have
been strange sensation from elbow
to finger tip, he stretched it forth !
And nothing is the matter with you,
but you may appeal to a sympathetic
Christ. AID if you feel yourself to
be great sinner, hear what he said
to that repenting Magtlalen, while
with scaltling sarcasm he dashed
her hypocritcal pursuers.
n,rr, (,,,1, /,,r MIN I,r.r,I rC,N
And see how he nude an immortal
liturgy out of the puhlican's cry.
God be nlerciful to me sinner"
prayer SO short that the most over.
whellned offender can utter it, and
yet long enough to win celestial do
minions. 1t was we'll put by a man
who had been converted, and who re
nembered that in bis dissolute days
he found it hard to get occupation,
because he could not present GER
tiiicate for good character.
In commencing Christ to the peo-
pie be said, BLESS God, | have found
out that Jesus will take man with
out character" Christ on Level
with suffering humanity. My text
says, HE came down with them and
stood i'll the plain No climbing up
through attributes you cannot under
stand. No ascending of the heights
of beautiful rhetoric of prayer. No
straining after elevations you cannot
reach. No hunting for God that
you cannot find. But going right
straight to him and looking into his
face 24d taking his hand and asking
for@ pardon, his comfort, his grace,
his heaven.
Christ on the level. When during
the siege of Sebastopol AN officer had
commanded private soldier to stand
nm the wall exposed to the enemy