Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-05-22

allied armies Of hell cannot stop a min
ute or divert an inch, by the wan, SICK,
nerveless finger Of human suffering turn
ed clear about.
Oh. what comfort there is in this sub
iect for people who are called nerv-
o11s! Of course it is a misapphed Word
in that case, but I use it in the ord1-
narv variance. After 10 years of suffer
ING. oh. what nervous depression she
must have had! You all know that
GOOD deal of medicine taken If it does
not cure leaves the system exhausted.
and in the Bible in so many words she
chad suffered many things of many
physicians and was nothing bettered'
br1t rather grew worse. She was as
nervous as nervous could be. She knew
all about insomnia and about the awful
annrehension of something going to
happen. and irritability about little
things that in health would not have
nerturbed her. I warrant you it was
not a straight stroke she gave to the
garment of Christ, but trembling tore
| arm. and an uncertain motion OF the
hand. and a quivering finger with which
she missed the mark toward which she
aimed. She did not touch the garment
inst where she expected to touch 1T.
When see this nervous woman COM
ING to the Lord Jesus Christ, [ say she is
making the way for all nervous people.
Nervous people do not get much sympa-
thy. If a man breaks his arm, every
bodv is sorry, and they talk about it all
M and down the street. g woman
has an eye put out by accident, they say,
..Tbat's a dreadful thing" EveryDody
is asking about her convalescence. But
when a person is suffering under the all
ment of which [ am now speaking they
saw: "Oh, that's nothing. She's little
nervous. that's ALL putting a slight upon
the most agonizing of suffering.
Now. have a new prescription to give
YOU. do not ask you to discard human
medicament. I beliAs e in it. When the
SLIGHTEST thing occurs in the way OF SICK
ness in my household, we always run for
the doctor. [ do not want to desp1se
medicine. IF you cannot sleep nights, DO
not despise bromide of potassium. LII
YOU have nervous paroXysm, do not de-
snise morphine If you want to strength
en- ND YOUR system, do not despise qul-
. nine as a tonic. Use all right and prop
or medicines. But l want you to bring
YOUR insomnia, and bring your irr1taD1l1-
tv. and bring all your weaknesses, and
, with them touch Christ. Touch him
not only on the hem of his garments, but
to77cb him on the shoulder where he car
ries our burden, touch him on the head
+ where he remembers all our sorrows,
touch him on the heart, the center OF all
q his sympathies. Oh yes, Paul was right
Y when he said, 1--WE havenot high priest
! who cannot be touched.
: c,G4RISTS SIJFFERINGS.
= The fact is Christ himself is nervous.
. All those nights out of doors in malarlal
districts. where an Englishman or an
+ American dies if he goes at certain sea-
+ sons. Sleeping out of doors so many
f. nights, as Christ did, and SO hungry, and
\ his feet wet with the wash of the sea
, and the wilderness tramp, and the per
= secution. and the outrage ,mlst have
" broken down his nervous system; a fac
= proved by the statement that he lived 81
~ short a time on the cross. That is a lin
~ pering death ordinarily, and many
II sufferer on the cross has writhed in pall
= q hours. As hours Christ lived onl.
six. Why? He was exhausted befor
20 he mounted the bloody tree. Oh, 1t is
NJ wornout Christ, sympathetic with a.
st people worn out.
:, 4 Christian woman went to the TraC
e. House in New Y orlz and asked for tract
20. for distribution. The first day she wa
70 ont on her Christian errand she saw
40 nolicenan taking an intoxicated woma
&c to the station house. After the woma
NJ was discharged from custody, this Chri
tan tract distributor saw her comm
no AWAY all unkempt and unlovely. tt
- tract distributor went up, threw her arm
around her neck and kissed her. I'll
10 woman said, sob, my God, why do yC
,as kiss me?" ''Well, replied the other,
&c think Jesus Christ told me to-" ooh, II
~ the woman said, ''don't you kiss me.
- breaks my heart. Nobody has kissed n
-. since nv mother died" But that sister
"a kiss brought her to Christ, started her
oss the road to heaven. The world wan
sympathy It is dying for sympath
80 large hearted Christian sympathy. The
4 1:o is omnipotence in the touch.
ny Oh. I am so glad that when we tou
l0A Christ Christ touches us! The knucklt
q and the limbs, and the joints, all fallil
80 apart with that living death called t
~ leprosy, a man is brought to Christ,
GU hundred doctors could not cure hi
a. The wisest surgery would stand appall
c"- before that loathsome patient. WI
=! did Christ do? He did not amputate;
- did not poultice; he did not scarify.
- touched him, and he was we'll L
vas io0ii0l - ~ - - Ir,1,l
~ 49,, fever, or what, I do not know. Chr
gel was 0itp ps -, -. ~, Aid
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