The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-03-02

and He lifted her face until she could
look into the blue sky Are you a sailor
and spend your life battling with the
tempests? Remember Him who flung
the tempest of Genesareth fat on the
crystal pavement of a quiet sea-
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 overpressure of study in
the schools where children are expected
to be philosophers at ten, boys and
girls at fourteen with spectacles. l
say with all such trouble Christ is in
sympathy. Witness blind Bartimeus.
Witness the two blind men in the house
Witness the two blind men near Jeri
cho. Witness the man born born blind
Did He not turn their perpetual mid
night into midnoon, till they ran up and
down clapping their hands and saying,
81 see! | See!' That Christ is in
sympathy with those who stammer,
or have silenced ears, notice how
promptly He came to that man
with impediment of speech and gave
him command of the tongue so that
he could speak with ease, and. putting
his fingers into the ears, returned the
tympanum. Is there lack of circula-
ton in your arm, think of Him who
cured the defective circulation and the
inactive muscles of patient who had
lost the use of hand and arm, by say
ing, "Stretch forth thy handr' and the
veins and nerves and muscles resumed
their offices, and though in doing so the
Joints may have cracked from long dis
use, and there may have been strange
sensation from elbow to tingertip, he
stretched it forth! And nothing is the
matter with you, but you may appeal
to sympathetic Christ. And if you feel
yourself to be great sinner, hear what
He said to that repentant Magdalen,
while with scalding sarcasm He dashed
hypocritical pursuers.
And see how He IN ade an immortal
lit urgy out of the publican's cry, God
be merciful to me sinner" a prayer so
short that the most overwhelmed Of
fender can utter it, and yet long enough
to win celestial dominionS. 1t was well
put by man who had been converted,
and who remem bered that in his DISCO
Lutte days he found it hard to get occu.
patton, because he could not present
certificate for good character. In CON-
mending Christ to the people he said,
"Bless God, have found out that Jesus
will take a man without character"
Christ on a level with suffering human
ity. My text says: He came down
with them and stood on the plain" No
climbing up through attributes you cam
not understand. No ascending of the
heights of beautiful rhetoric of prayer.
No straining after elevations you can
not reach. No hunting for God that
you cannot find. But going right straight
to Him and looking into His lace and
taking His hand and asking for His par
don, His comfort, His grace. His Heaven.
Christ on the level When during the
siege of Sebastopol an officer had COM
manded a private soldier to stand on
the wall exposed to the enemy, and re-
ceive the ammunition as it was handed
up, while he, the officer, stood in place
sheltered from the enemy's guns, Gen
eral Gordon leaped upon the wall to
lJ1slp, and commanded the officer to fol-
low HILL, anu luCn ClOoNo WAOh piO
words: Never order man to do any
thing that you are afraid to do your
self" Glory be to God, the captain OF
our salvation has Himself gone through
all the exposures in which lie com
mands us to be courageous lie has
been through it all, and now offers His
sympathy IN similar struggle. One OF
the kings of England one night in dis
guise walking the streets OF London,
and not giving account of himself, was
arrested and put in a miserable prison.
When released, and getting back to the
palace, he ordered thirty tons of coal
and a large supply of food for the night
prisoners of London. Out of his own
! experiences that night he did tlss. And
our Lord the king aforetime endun
| geoned, and sick, and hungry, and per-
secuted, and slain, out of His own ex'
periences is reaay 10 help all, and rescue
all.
Obi join him in the plain. AS long as
you stay up in the mountain OF YOU
pride you will get no help. That is the
reason so many never find the salvation
of the gospel. They sit high up in the
Mount Blanc of their opinionativeness
and they have their opinion about God
and their opinion about the soul, ano
their opinion about eternity. Have
you any idea that your opinion
will have any effect upon the
two tremendous facts, that you are
sinner, and that Christ is ready a
your earnest prayer to save YOU II
the final day of accounts how much vii
your opinion be worth? Your opinion
will not be of much Importance before
the blast of the Archangers trumpet
When the life of this planet shall b,
threshed out with the fail of thunde
bolts nobody will ask about you
opinions. Come down out of the noun
tain of opinionativeness, and NEE
Christ on the plain, where you mus
meet Him or never meet Him at all, eX
cept as you meet Him on the judgmen
throne.
A Christ easy to get at! No arme'
sentinel to challenge you. No rut HES
officer to scrutinize the papers you pre-
sent. Immediate response. lmmediat
forgiveness. Immediate solace. Throug
what struggle people must go to get
pardon from worldly authority! b
what petition, by what hindrauce
by what nervous strain of ana
iety, by what adroitness. A coun
of Italy was condemned to be pu
to death at Milan. The countess, heal
ing of the sentence, FASTENED to Vienn
to seek his pardon. The death warran
was already on its way, The countess
, arriving in Vienna in the night hastene
! to the palace gates. The attendant
: forbade her entrance at all, and e'
pecially at night but she overcam
them with her entreaties, and the en-
press was wakened and the counties
pleaded before her for the life of he
husband, and then the emperor wa