Democratic messenger., 1893-05-27

every morning on her fathers front step 81
that when the kind Christian teacher
passed by to school she might take hold of
her dress and let the dress slide through
her pale fingers She said it helped her
! pain so much and made her so happy all the
day. Aye, have we not in all our dwellings
| garments of the departed, n touch of which
thrills ms through and through, the life OF
those who are gone thrilling through the
life Of those who stay But. mark you, thu
| principle / evolve fros this subject-n0
! edition Of health Ia others unless thore he
a subtraction Of strength from ourselves.
/ He felt that strength had gone ont Of him.
THE TWO CURRENTS.
Notice also in this subject Christ sensi.
! tive to human touch We talk about God
/ on vast scale so much we hardly appr,A
ciate his accessibility in magnitude
rather than God in minutir. God in the in
I finite rather than God in the infinitcsimal
/ But here in my text we have n God arrest
ed by suffering touch. When in the sham
| trial of Christ they struck him on the
cheek, we can realize how that cheek tin
/ gleh with pain. When under the securing
/ the rod struck the shoulders and back oi
/ Christ, we can realize how he must have
writhed under the laccrations. But her,
f thtft - " Slth HtTNtItSS iiuktE iIlsAs
just touches the long threads Of the blue
fringe OF his coat. and he looks around and
says. "Who touched me:'
We talk about sensitive people, but
Christ was the impersonation of all sensi
tiveness. The slightest stroke of the small
est finger of human disability makes all
the nerves of his head and heart and hand
and feet vibrate. II is not stolid Christ
not n phlegmatic Christ, hot preoccupied
/ Christ not n hard Christ not an iron cased
Christ but an exquisitely sensitive Christ
that my text unveils All the things that
touch us touch him if by the land oi
prayer we make the connecting line be
tween him and ourselves complete Mark
YOU. this invalid of the text might have
walked through that crowd all day and
cried about her suffering. and no relief
would have come If she had not touched
him. When in your prayer you lay yom
hand on Christ, you touch all the sympa.
thies of an ardent and glowin'; and respon
sive nature.
You know that in telegraphy there are
two currents of electricity. So when you
put ont your hand of prayer tn Christ there
are two currents-a current of sorrow roll
ing up from your heart To Christ and cur.
rent of commiseraiion rolling from the
heart of Christ to you. Two currents. oh,
why do you go unhelped, Why do you 60
wondering about this and wondering about
that, Why do you not touch him:
Are you sick, lido not think you are any
worse of than this invalid of the text.
Have you had n long struggle, l do not
think it has been more than IL years. IL
your case hopeless? So was this Of which
my text is the diagnosis and procnoSiS.
t(lh - har. mr. Gu hith.r-
between me and God" There was n whole
mob between this invalid and Christ. She
pressed through. and guess you can press
through.
Is your trouble a home trouble, Christ
shows himself especially sympathetic with
questions of domcstici,y as when Mt tho
wedding in Cana he alleviated housekecp-
er's predicament, as when tears rushed
forth at the broken home of Mary and Mar
tina and Lazarus Men are sometimes
ashamed to weep There are men who il
the tears start will conceal them. They
think il is unmanly tn cry. They do not
seem to understand it is manliness and evil
dence Of great heart. am afraid of n
man who does not know how to cry. The
Christ Of the text was not ashamed To cry
over human misfortune. Look at thas
deep lake Of tears opened by the two words
Of the evangelist, Jesus wept.' Behold
Christ on the only day of his early triumph
marching on Jerusalem. the gl;ttering.
domes obliterated by the binding rain oi
tears in his eyes and on his cheek. for when
he beheld the city he wept over it. q man
Of the many trials, q woman of the heart.
break, why do you not touch him?
oh" says some one, Christ don't ca
for me. Christ is looking the other way.
Christ has the vast affairs of his kingdom
To look after. lie has the armies Of sin t.
overthrow, and there are SO many worse
cases of trouble than mine he doesn't care
about me. and his face is turned the other
way" So his back WAS turned to this in.
valid of the text. lie was on his way To
effect cure which was famous and popu-
lar and wide resounding. But the context
says, lie turned him about" II he was
facing TO the north, he turned to the south:
il he was facing 10 the east, he turned to
the west. What turned him about: The
Bible says he has no shadow Of turning.
lie rides on in his chariot through the eter-
mites. He marches on crushing scepters as
though they were the cracking alders ON n
brook 5 bank. and tossing thrones on either
side Of him without stopping to look which
way they fall. From everlasting to ever
lasting He turned him about" He whom
all the allied armies of hell cannot stop n
minute or divert an inch, by the wan, sick.
nerveless finger of human suffering turned
clear about.
| MEDICINE FOR NERVOUS PEOPLE.
Oh. what comfort there is in this subject
for people who are called nervous. OF
course it is n misapplied word in that case.
but use it In the ordinary parlance. After
II years of suffering, OH what nervous de
preston she must have had. You all know
that good deal of medicine taken, il il does
not cure. leaves the system exhausted. and
in the Bible in mary words she had
suffered many things of many physicians
and was nothing betteretl. but rather grew
worse" She was nervous n nervous
could be She knew all about insomnia.
and about the awful apprehension Of some
thing going to happen. and irritability
about little things that in health would
not have perturbed her. | warrant you it
was not straight stroke she gave to the
garment Of Christ. but a trembling fore
arm. and AN uncertain motion Of the hand.
and quivering finger with which she
missed the mark coward which she aimed
She did not touch the garment just where
she expected to touch il.
When see this nervous woman coming
tn the Lord Jesus Christ. ! say she j. max
ing the way for all nervous people. Nervous
people do not get much sympathy. II a
man breaks hisa arm, everybody is sorry. and
they talk about it all mp and down the
street II n woman has an eye put ont by
accident. they say, That's a dreadful
thing" Everybody i, asking about her con
valcscence But whrn u person is suffering
under the ailment of which am now speak
ing they say. "Oh. that's nothing; she's n
little nervous; that's all. putting slight
upon the most agonizing of suffering.
Now. ] have new prescription tn give
you do not ask YOU to discard human
meticament. ! believe in il When the
slightest thing occurs in the way Of sick
ness in my household. we always run foi
the doctor. do not want to despisc medi
cine. II you cannot sleep nights. do not
despise bromide of potassium. II YOU have
nervous paroxysm. do not despise morphine
II you want to strengthen up yonr system,
do not despise quininc as tonic. Use all