The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-02-25

thee, arise" He sat up, while the Jer.
joyed mother wrapped him in her arms.
and we'll night smorhered him with her
caresses, and the air was rent with con-
gratalations.
Can any one who has over lost q son
DOUBT that Christ sympathizes with
SUCH woe? And how many there are
VINO need that particular comfort. 1t
was not hollow sentiment when, after
Edmund Burke, the greatest orator of
his time, had lost his son. and the be-
TeaVed father, crossing the pasture
lield, met the horse that had belonged
TO that deceased son, that the orator
threw his arms around the horses neck
and kissed the dumb brute. 1t was not
hollow sentiment when David, the
psalmlst, cried out at the news of his
sons death, although he had been
desperately bad boy: "Oh, Absalom,
my son! my son! Would to God had
died for thee. Oh, Absalom, my son!
my son" But for such and all other
bereavement there is divine condOl-
ence.
Christ on the PLAIN. | care not from
what side you approach him you can
touch him and get his help. Is it men
tai depression you suffer? Remember
him who said. "My God. my God, why
has thou forsaken me?" Is it u Strug-
gle for bread? Remember him who fed
the five thousand with two minnows
and five biscuits, neither of the biscuits
larger than your fist. Is it chronic all
ment? Remember the woman who for
eighteen years was bent almost double,
and lifted her face until she could look
into the blue sky. Are you n sailor and
spend your life battling with the tenn
pests? Remember him who flung the
tempest of Genesareth flat on the crys-
tai pavement of the 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. 1 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 Jericho. Wit.
ness the man born blind. Did he not
turn their perpetual midnight into
midnoon till they ran up and down
clapping their hands and saying, IL
see. see!" That Christ is in sympathy
with those who stammer or have sill
enced 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 his fingers into the
ears retuned the tympanum.
Is there lack of circulation in your
arm, think OF him who cured the defec.
tive circulation and the inactive muse.
les of Il patient who had lost the use
OF hand and arm by saying, "Stretch
forth thy hand" and the veins and
though in doing so the joints may have
cracked from long disuse. and there
may have been strange sensation
from Glib oW to finger tip, he stretched
1t forth! And nothing is the matter
with you, but you may appeal to a SYM
pathic Christ. And if you feel yourself
to be a great sinner, hear what he said
to that repenting Magdalen, while with
Scalding sarcasm he dashed her hypo-
critical pursuers.
And see how he made an immortal
liturgy out of the publican's cry, God
DE mercltul to me a sinner" Il prayer
SO short that the most overwhelmed
offender can utter it, and yet long
enough to win celestial dominiOns. 1t
was we'll put by man who had been
in his dissolute days he found it hard
to get occupation, because he could not
present a certificate of good character.
In commencing Christ to the people he
said, "Bless God, have found out that
Jesus will take man without charac-
teri Christ on level with suffering
humanity. My text says, "IIe came
down with them and stood in theplain."
NO climbing up through attributes you
cannot understand. No ascending of
the heights Of beautiful rhetoric of
prayer. No stralniEg after elevations
you cannot reach. No hunting for a
God that you cannot find. But going
right straight to him and looking into
his face and taking his hand and ask
ing for his 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
on the wall exposed to the enemy ard
receive the ammunition as it was hand
cd up, while he, the officer, stood in a
place sheltered from the enemy's guns,
General Gordon leaped upon the wall
to help, and commanded the officer to
follow him, and then closed with the
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 he commands
us to be courageous. lie has been
through 1t all, and now offers his SYM
pathy in similar struggles.
One of the kings Of England one
night In disguise walked the streets of
London and not giving account of him
self, was arrested and put in miser-
able prison. When released and getting
back to the palace, he ordered thirty
tons OF coal and large supply of food
1Or the night prisoners Of London. Out
or MS own experiences that night he
did this. And our Lord the king afore-
uine endungeoned and sick and hun
cry and prosecuted and slain, out of
his own experiences is ready to help all
and pardon and comfort ali and rescue
all. O0>'0
On, join him in the plain. AS long
as you stay up in the mountain Of your
pride you will get no help. That is the
reason so many never find the sal
vation of the Gospel. They sit high
up in the Mont Blanc of their opinion.
ativeness, and they have their opinion
about God, and their opinion about the
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