Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-06-02

Ter suffering, and no relief would have come
she had not touched Him. When in your
prayer you lay your hand on Christ you touch
III the sympathies OF an ardent and glowing
md responsive nature.
You know that in telegraphy there are two
currents OF electricity. SO when you put out
FOUR hand Of prayer to Christ there are two
iurrents--a current OF sorrow rolling no from
four heart to Christ and current Of com
niseration rolling from the heart OF Christ to
Fou. Two currents. Oh, way do you go un-
ielped2 Why do you 20 wondering about
his and wondering about thst2 Why do you
aot touch Him2
Are you sick2 do not think you are any
worse of than this invalid Of the text Have
Tou had long struggle? ! do not think ii
aas been more than II years. Is your case
lopeless2 So was this OF which my text is
he diagnosis and prognosis. ooh" you say,
there are 80 many things between me and
Sod" There was q whole mob between this
invalid and Christ. She pressed through. and
guess you can press through.
Is your trouble o home trouble2 Christ
lhows Himself especially sympathetic with
questions Of domesticity, as when at the we'd
ling In Cana He alleviated housekeeper's
oredicament, as when tears rushed forth at
he broken dome OF Mary and Martha and
lazarus. Men are sometimes ashamed to
weep. There are men who II the tears start
will conceal them. They think II is unmanly
o cry. They do not seem to understand II is
nanliness and evidence OF a great heart. |
I'm afraid OF n man who does not know how
% cry. The Christ OF the text WAS not
lshamed to cry over human misfortune. Look
Il that deep lake OF tears opened by the two
words Of the evangelist Jesus wept !" Be
,old Christ on the only day OF His early
Dph MARCHING IN Ipr1laaIarn the ulittpF-
ng domes obliterated by the binding rain OF
ears In His eyes and on His cheeks, for when
de beheld the city He wept over II. o man
II the many trials, o woman OF the heart
,resk, why do you not touch Him?
"Oh, says some one, "Christ doesn't care
or me. Christ Is looking the other way
Christ has the vast affairs OF His kingdom to
ook after. He has the armies OF sin to over
throw, and there are 80 many worse cases Of
rouble than mine He doesn't care about me,
md His face ia turned the other way SO
His back was turned to this invalid OF the
ext. He was on His way TO effect cure
which was famous and popular and wide re-
lounding. But the context says, "He turned
Him about" II He was facing to the north.
de turned to the south II He was facing to
he east, He turned to the west. What
urned Him about2 The Bible says He has no
shadow OF turning He rides on His chariot
through the eternities. He marches on,
rushing scepters as though they were the
,rsckling alders on a brooks bank, and toss
ng thrones on either side OF Him without
looking which way the fail. From everlast-
ng to everlasting. "He turned Him about. "
de, whom all the allied armies OF hell can
aot stop minute or divert an inch, by the
wan, sick, nerveless finger OF human suffer
ng turned clear about.
Oh, what comfort there Is In this subject
Tor people who are called nervous OF course
L is misapplied word In that case, but use
4 in the ordinary parlance. After u years
Of ofsuffering, oh, what nervous depression she
must have had You all know that a good
Zeal OF medicine taken IL It does not cure
leaves the system exhausted, and in the Bible
IN so many words she had suffered many
things OF many physicians and was nothing
bettered, but rather grew worse" She was
Is nervous as nervous could be. She knew
Ill about insomnia, and about the awful ap-
prehension OF something going to happen,
and irritability about little things that In
health would not have perturbed her. l war
rant you It was not straight stroke she gave
TO the garment OF Christ, but q trembling
forearm, and an uncertain motion Of the
hand, and Quivering finger with which she
missed the mark toward which she aimed
She did not touch the garment just where
she expected to touch 1t.
When l see this nervous woman coming to
the Lord Jesus Christ, say she is making
the way for all nervous people. Nervous
people do not get much sympathy. II man
breaks his arm, everybody is sorry. and they
talk about It all up and down the street. II n
woman has an eve put out by accident, they
say: ''That's a dreadful thing" Everybody
Is asking about her convalescence. But when
person Is suffering under the ailment OF
which am now speaking they say "Oh,
that's nothing. She's little nervous, that s
ALL" putting slight upon the most agoniz-
ing OF suffering.
Now, have a new prescription to give you
do not ask you to discard human medica-
nent believe in 1t. When the slightest
shing occurs In the way OF sickness in my
household, we always run for the doctor. I
do not want to despise medicine. II you can
not sleep nights, do not despise bromide OF
potassium. Ifyou have nervous paroxysm,
do not dsspise morphine. II you wants to
strengthen up your system, do not desp.se
quinine as tonic. Use all right and proper
medicines. But l want you to bring your
Insomnia, and bring your irritability, and
bring all your weaknesses, and with them
touch Christ. Touch Him not only on the
hem OF His garments, but touch Him on the
shoulder, where He carries our burden, touch
Him on the head where He remembers all
our sorrows, touch Him on the heart, the
center OF all His sympathies. Oh, yes, Paul
was right when he said, ave have not high
priest who cannot be touched"
The fact is Christ Himself is nervous All
those nights out OF doors in malsrial districts
where an Englishman or an American dies II
be goes at certain seasons. Sleeping out oil
doors so many nights, as Christ did, and &c
hungry, and His feet wet with the wash oi
the sea, and the wilderness tramp, and the
persecution, and the outrage must have
broken His nervous system fact proved by
the statement that He lived so short time
on the cross. That Is lingering death or
dinarily, and many q sufferer on the cross
has wrthed in pain "a hours, 4Shours. Christ
lived only six. Why2 He was exhausted be-
fore He mounted the bloody tree. Oh, 1t Is
o wornout Christ, sympathetic with all peo.
pie worn out
Christian woman went to the Tract
House in New York and asked for tracts for
distribution. The first day she was out on
1er Christian errand she saw policeman
aking an intoxicated woman to the station
aouse. After the woman was discharged
rom custody, this Christian tract distributor
Jaw her coming away all unkempt and un-
ovely. The tract distributor went up, threw
her arms around her neck and kissed her
Inc woman Salu, 'On, my GOn, why 40 you
kiss me?" "Well," replied the other, "a
think Jesus Christ told me to-" "Oh, no,
the woman said, "dont you kiss me. II
breaks my heart. Nobody has kissed mt
since my mother died" But that slsterly
kiss brought her to Christ, started her on the
road to heaven. Tho world wants sympathy
1t Is dying for sympathy, large-hearteC
Christian sympathy. There is omnipotenct
In thetouch.
Oh, am so glad that when We touch Chris
Christ touches US! The knuckles, and the
limbs, and the joints, all falling apart will
that living death called the leprosy, man Il
brought to Christ. A hundred doctors coul'
not cure him. The wisest surgery woulC
stand appalled, before that loathsome pa
tent What did Christ do2 He did not am
putste He did not poultice He did not soar
lily. He touched him, and he was well. Th
mother-in-law OF the Apostle Peter was In
raging fever-brain fever, typhoid fever, o
what, do not know. Christ was the physi
cian. He offered no fehrifugo Heprescrlbe'
no drops He did not put her on plain diet
he touched her, and she was perfectly well
Two blind men come stumbling into room
where Christ L. They are entirely sightless