Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-02-15

moments delay she arose, her eyes
wide open, her cheeks turning from
white lily to red rose and the parents
cry She lives. She lives!' and In
the next room they take up the
sound, She lives! She livesr and
the throng in front of the doorway
repeat it. She lives She lives!
Will not all those who have lost a
daughter feel that such a Christ as
that can sympathize?
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
her only SON. l know not how long
the husband and father had been
gone, but upon this son, who had now
come to be a young man, the leader
ship of that household had fallen. /
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
young man standing between want
and a widowed mother But that
young man had fallen lifeless under
ing carried out.
Only 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 a pro
cession), Christ speaks one sentence,
before which Death fell PROSTATE I'M
der the bier, Young man, say
unto thee, arise" He sat up, while
the overjoyed mother wrapped him
in her arms and well nigh smoth-
cred him with her caresses, and
the air was rent with congratula-
tons. Can any one who has ever
lost a son doubt that Christ sympa-
thizes with such woe? And how
many there are who need that par
ticular comfort
It was not hollow sentiment when,
after Edmund Burke, the greatest
orator of his time, had lost his son,
and the bereaved father, crossing the
pasture field, 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 It was not hollow sentiment
when David, the psalmist, cried out
at the news of his sons death, al
though he had been a desperately
bad boy: ooh, Absalom, my son my
sonl Would God I had died for thee.
Oh, Absalom, my son! my son. 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 suffer? Re
member him who said, my God, my
God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
Is it a struggle for breads Remember
him who fed the five thousand with
two minnows and five biscuits, neither
of the biscuits larger than your fist,
Is it chronic ailment? 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 sailor and spend your
life battling with the tempeSts? Re
member him who flung the tempest
of Genesareth fiat on the crystal pave
ment of a quiet sea.
That Christ is in sympathy with
all who have trouble with their eyes,
and that is becoming an almost uni
versal 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. I say with all such trou
BILE Christ is in sympathy. Witness
blind Bartimeus. Witness the two
blind men in the house. Witness
the two blind men 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
ing, Il see! seer
That Christ is in sympathy. with
those who Stammer, on 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 his fingers
into the ears, returned the tympanum.
Is there lack of circulation in your
arm, think of him who cured the de