Connecticut western news., 1892-02-18


 of the law to keep the sufferers in line because of the. great rush for food. When this famine struck world realizes that the church is a government station set up by the government of the universe to pro- vide the bread of eternal life for all the people, the rush will be unpre- cedented anu unimaginable.
 WHAT SCIENTISTS HAVE NOT DONE.
 Astronomers have been busy meas uring worlds, and they have told us how great is the circumference of this world and how great is its diam eter, yea, they have kept on until they have weighed our planet and found its weight to be six sextillon 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 arc so many aching heads; his ached under tho thorns. There are so many weary feet; his were worn with the long journey up and down the land that received him not There are so many persecuted souls. Every hour of his life was under human outrage. The world had no better place to receive him than 0 cattle pen, and it's farewell was a slap on his cheek and a spear in his side. So intensely human was he that there has not been in all our race a grief or infrmity or exhaustion or pang that did not touch him once and that does not touch him now.
 The lepers. the paralytics. 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 help1 The uni versal trouble of the world is be- reavement One may escape all the other troubles, but that no soul es. capes. 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 Jarius There is such big crowd around the door he and his disciples have to push their way in. From the throng of people conclude that this girl must have been very popular. She was one of those chil- dren whom every body likes.
 After Christ got in the house there was such loud weeping that the or dinary tones of voice could not be heard. lo not wonder. The dead daughter was twelve years fage. Itis 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 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, think, the merriment of the house hold. She furnished for them the miInicry and the harmless mischief, and reused the guiraw that often rang through that happy home. But now she is dead, and the grief at her departure Is as violent as her pres ence had been vivacious and inspirit- ing Oh, the bereavement was so sharp, so overwhelming How could they give her upl
 suspect that they blamed them selves 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 sometime when she had not really deserved it. Oh, if they had been more patient with hci' illlarities and instead of flushing her pily, had par ticipated in itl You know there are so many things that parents always blame themselves for at such times Only twelve years of age! So fair SD promising, so full of life few days ago, and now so still! Oh, what it is to have a daughter dead! The room is full of folks, but yonder iS the room where the young sleeper is The crowd cannot go i'll 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 tho grief was theirs. All eye, in that room are on the face of this girl.
 There lay the beautiful hand, whitt and finely shapcn. but 1t was not lifted ill greeting to any of the group. Christ stepped forward and took hold of that hand and said, with tont and accentuation charged with ten. derneSs and command, "Damsel, say unto thee, ariseT And without ! moments delay she arose, her eyes wide open, her cheeks turning from white lily to red rose, and tho parents cry: She lives She lives!" and in the next room they take up the sound, She hvesl She lives" and the throng in front of tho doorway repeat 1t, "She lives She lives" Will not all those who have lost a daughter feel that such Christ as that can sy;npathize2
 THE COMPASSION OF CHRIST.
 On another occasion he showed how he felt about the loss of son. Here are the obsequies: A long pro cession. a widowed mother following ter only son. 1 know not how long the husband and father had been gone, but upon this son, who had now come to b- young man, the leader ship of that household had fallen. l think he had got to be the breadwin- ner He was proud of his mother, and she should never lack anything as long as he lived. And there is no grander spectacle on earth than a