Milford chronicle., 1892-02-19

AN.-~N0f AShAhsSAf say uNLO b0et, dflS3l
an ana without moments delay she arose
I'd her eyes wide open, her cheeks turnin
Is from white lily to red rose, and the parent
as cry, 'She livesi She livesr' and in the mex
I'd room they take up the sound, ''She lives
in She iivesp and the throng in front of tn
1t doorway repeat it, "She livesl She lives!'
ID Will not all those who have lost dauR
Ss ter feel that such Christ as that can sym
of pathize,
"a 81 SAY UNTO THEE, ARISE"
v On another occasion he showed how hs
felt about the loss of a son. Here are the
obsequies. A long procession, widowed
q mother following her only son. / know
y not how long the husband and father had
!. been gone, but upon mis- son, who had now
:, come to be young man, the leadership OF
q that household had fallen. | think he had
, got to be the breadwinner. He was proud
|: OF his mother, and she should never lack
anything rs long rs he lived. And there
Is no grander spectacle on earth than a
young man standing between want and a
widowed mother. But that. young man
had fallen lifeless under accident or disas-
ter, and he was. being carried out.
Only very few hours in that land are
allowed to pass between decease and
burial. 1t is the same day or the next
And there they move on. Christ meets the
procession. His eye picks out the chief
mourner. He puts his hand on the bier as
much as to say to the pallbearers: 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 lands the face is always exposed in
such procession), Christ speaks one SEN
tence, before which Death fell PROSTATE
under the bier, Young man, say unto
thee, arise" He sat up, while the over
Joyed mother wrapped him in her arms,
and well nigh smothered him with her ca.
resses, and the air was rent with congratu-
| lations.
Can any one who has ever lost son
doubt that Christ sympathizes with such |
woe? And how many there are who need !
| that particular comfort 1t was not hol- |
| low sentiment when, after Edmund Burke, |
the greatest orator of his time, had lost his |
son, and the bereaved father, crossing the I
pasture field, met the horse that had be-
longed to that deceased son, that the ora
tor threw his arms around the horses neck
and kissed the dumb brute 1t was not
hollow sentiment when David, the psalm.
ist, cried out at the news of his sons death,
although he had been a desperately bad
boy: "Oh, Absalom, my sonl my soni
Would God had died for thee. Oh, Alb
SALON., my sonl my sonli But for such
and all other bereavement there is divine
coincidence.
Christ on the plain. care not from what
side you approach him you can touch him
and get his help. Is it mental depression
you snffers Remember him who said,
MY God, my God, why hast thou fors;tken
mer Is it struggle for breadg Renem-
Der him who fed the five thousand with
the biscuits larger than your fist. Is it
chronic ailment? Remember the woman
who tor eighteen years WIS bent almost
double, and liftel her face until she could
look into the blue sky. Are you a sailor
and spend your life battling with the tenn
pestss Remember him who flung the tenn
pest Of Genesare:h fiat on the crystal pave .
ment of the quiet sea. 9
That Christ is in sympat ny with all who c
have trouble wit their eyes, and that is be- 1
coming an almost universal trouble :
through much reading in rail cars and the I
overpressure of study in the schools where l
children are expected to be philosophers at
ten, boys and girls ut fourteen with spec
tacles say with all such trouble Christ =
is in sympathy. Witness blind Bartimeus p
Witness the two blind men in the house Z
the two blind men near Jericho. =
w ibhcoS OhC Dlu ne uOt Y.
turn their perpetual midnight into mid. ::
noon, till they ran up and down clapping o.
heir hands and saying, 81 seel seel'' ~ -
That Christ is in sympathy with those T.
who stammer or have silenced ears, notice - -
law promptly he came to that man with M
mpediment of speech and gave him com -
nand Of the tongue so that he could speak -. y,
With ease, and putting his fingers into the =.
ars retuned the tympanum. ~
Is therea lack OF circulation in your arm, T.,
hink of him who cured the defective circu- " ~
atipn and the inactive muscles of patient ~
rho had lost the use of hand and arm by '''
aging, Stretch forth thy handl' and the
eius aud nerves and muscles resumed ,
heir offices, and though in doing so the
,ints may have cracked from long disuse, =, -
nd there may have been strange sensa- ~, ~
on from elbow to finger tip he stretched -, ~
forthl And nothing is the matter with sh sAi
Du, but you may appeal to a sympathic .e
hrist. And if you feel yourself to be uu .'l
neat sinner, hear what he said to that re- 'iia
3lting Magdalen, while with scalding
Ircasm he dashed her hypocritical pur
lers. ~
"GoD BE hERcIFUL TO MR., A SINNER" sis
And see how be made an immortal
,argy fut OF the publlcan's cry, "God
nerciful to me a sinner" prayer so
ort that the most overwhelmed offender in
n utter it, and yet long enough to win ma
lestial dominions 1t was well put by gir
man who had been converted. and who mu
membered that in his dissolute days he cla
lnd it hard to get occupation, because gir
could not present certificate of good tha
aracter. In commencing Christ to the No
ople he said, aBless God. have found wit
t that Jesus will take man without B
obs orft nbrfot ot, ,.vsth /
ffering humanity. Ny text says, "He ism
ME down with them and stood in the ton
sin." No climbing up through attri A
tes you cannot understand. No ascend cen
I of the heights OF beautiful rhetoric OF par
Eyer. No strainng after elevations you sati
mot reach. No hunting for God that an
1 cannot find. But going right straight perl
him and looking into his face and tax q g
his hand and asking for his pardon, his i4pr
nfert, his grace, his heaven Or
)hrist on the level, When during the lltel
ye OF Sebastopol an officer had COM OF [
nded private soldier to stand on the thai
II exposed TO the enemy and receive the sens
munition as 1t was handed up, while he, Is 81
officer. stood In place sheltered from as s.
enemy,s guns. General Gordon leaped Epo
IN the wall to help, and commanded the
Ger to follow him, and then closed with
words, Never order man to de any ~
ng that you are afraid to do yourself" ing
~ be 10 God. the captain of our saliva peci'
, has himself gone through all the ex- gne
ures In which he commands us to be iaoi'
rageous. He has been through it all, Win
,ygles her
ne of the hinge NJ ENGLAND one niobt in ter,
MIC waking Re II r.,.ts Of .ondon and we'll
giving ,cconnt Of bimself was ARRESTED use
nnt in a ynisor,hle nr;son When ra. seast
ed and pettinp back Tn the naI,,ca he pam
srad thirty TONS of coal and iar,s snn vidu
of food for the night prisoners Of Lon Aest'e ~"
Out of his own experiences that night ou
lid this. And our Lord the king afore. oa'
0 endungeoned and sick and hungry ner
persecuted and slain, out of his own AVA ~,
eriepces is ready to help all and pardon me ne
md comfort all and rescue all sefs'