Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-05-22

what. do not know. Christ was the
Physician. He offered DO febrifuge, be
prescribed no drops, he did not put her
on plain diet. He touched her and she
was perfectly well. Two blind men
come stumbling in to the room where
Christ is. They are entirely sightless.
Christ did not lift the eyelids TO see
whether it was contracted or opny-
thalmy. He did not put the men into
dark room for three or four weeks.
He toucned them and they saw every
thing. A man came to Christ. Inc
drum of his ear had ceased to Vlorate
and he had suffering tongue. Christ
touched the ear and he heard, touched
his lounge and he articulated. THERE'S
funeral coming out Of that gate,
widow following her only boy to the
grave. Christ cannot stand 1t, and he
pnts his hand on the hearse and the
obsequies turn into resurrection Day
o my brother, ] am so glad when
we touch Christ with our sorrows he
touches US. When out of your grief
and vexation you put your hand on
Christ, il wakens all human reminls-
cenee. Are we tempted? He was
tempted. Are we sick? He was SICK.
Are We persecuted2 He was perse-
cuted. Are we bereft? He was bereft.
ST. YOo, of Kermartin, one morning
went out and saw beggar asleep on
his doorstep. The heggsr had been all
night in the cold. The next night, st.
Yoo compelled the beggar to come up !
In the house and sleep 10 the saints
bed, while st. 700 passed the night on
the doorstep in the cold. Somebody
asked him why that eccentricity. lie
replied, ut isn't an eccentricity; l want
TO know how the poor suffer, / want 10
know their agonies that l may sympa-
thize with them, and therefore | slept
on this cold step last night" That IS
the way Christ knows so much about
our sorrows. He slept on the cold
doorstep of an inhospitable world that
would not let him ia. He is tympa-
thetic now with all the suffering and
all the tried and all the perplexed. On,
why do you not
GO AND TOUCH HIMf
You utter your voice in a mountain
pass and there comes back ten echoes,
twenty echoes, thirty echoes perhaps,
weird echoes. Every voice OF prayer,
every aScription of praise, every groan
of distress has divine response ana &C.
lestial revereration, and all the CALLER
les of heaven are filed with sympathet-
ic echoes, and throngs OF mlnlsterlng
angels echo, and the temples Oh the re-
deemed echo, and the hearts OF God the
Father, God the Son End God the holy
Ghost echo ana re-echo.
l preach a Christ so near you can
touch him-touch him with your guilt
and get pardon-touch him with your
trouble and get comfort-toueh him
with your bondage and get mapumiS'
sion. You have seen a man take hold
of an electric chain. A man can with
one hand take one end OF the chaip and
with the other hand he may take hold
of the other end of the chain, Then
hundred persons taking hold of that
chain will altogether feel the electric
uower. You have seen that expert
ment. We'll, Christ with one wound
ed hand takes hold OF one END OF
the electric chain OF love, and with the
other wounded hand takes hold OF the
other end of the electric chain OF love,
and all. earthly and angelic beings may
lay hold Of that chain, and around and
around In sublime and everlasting cir
cult runs the thrill Of terrestrial and
celestial and brotherly and sanity and
cherubic and seraphie and archangelic
and divine sympathy. SO that II this
morning Christ should sweep his hand
over this audience and say, "Who touch
ed me?" There would be hundreds and
thousands OF voices responding: II! l!
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