The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-06-07

face is turned the other way" SO His
back was turned to this invalid of the
text. He was on His way to effect a
cure which was famous and popular
and Understanding But the context
says, He turned Him about" If lie
was facing to the north He turned to
the south; if He was facing to 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 eternities. lie
marches on crushing scepters as thoLgh
they were she cracking alders on
brooks bank. and tossing thrones On
either side OF Him without stopping
to look which way they fall. From
everlasting 10 everlasting. ale turned
Him about" He whom all the allied
armies of hell eau not stop minute
or divert an inch, by the wan. sick
nerveiess finger of human suffering
turned clear about.
Oh, what a comfort there is in thia
subject for people who are called ner-
vous. OF course, it is misapplied word
in that case, but | used it in the
ordinary parlance After twelve years
of suffering, oh, what nervous depres.
sion she must have had. You all know
that a good deal of medicine taken if it
! does not cure leaves the system ex-
hausted, 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 as nervous as nervous could be,
She knew all about insomnia and about
the awful apprehension of something
going to happen, and irritability about
little things that in health would not
have perturbed her. ! warrant you il
was not straight stroke she gave to
the garment of Christ, but 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 garnet just where she expected to
touch it.
When | see this nervous woman COM
ing to the Lord Jesus Christ, say she
is making the way for all nervous peo-
pie, Nervous people do not get much
sympathy. If man breaks his arm
everybody is sorry, and they talk about
it all up and down the street. If a
woman has an eye put out by accident,
they say: "That's dreadful thing"
Everybody is asking about her conva-
lescence. But when person is suffer
ing 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 ag-
onizing of suffering.
Now, l have new prescription to
give you. do not ask you to discard
human medicament. | believe in it.
When the slightest thing occurs in the
way of sickness in my household, we
always run for a doctor. | do not
want to despise medicine. If you can
not sleep nights do not despise bro
mide of potassium. If you have
nervous paroXysm do not despisc
morphine. If you want to strengthen
up your system do not despise
quinine as tonic. Use all right and
proper medicines. But want you to
bring your insomnia, and bring your
irritability, and bring all your weak.
nesses, 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 re
members all our sorrows, touch Hin
on the heart, the center of all our sym
pathies. Oh yes, Paul was right wher
he said, ''we have not high prizes
who can not be touched
The fact is, Christ Himself is nervous
All those nights out of doors in malaria
districts where an Englishman or al
American dies if he goes at certain
seasons. Sleeping out of doors so many
nights, as Christ did, and so hungry
and His feet wet with the wash of tn,
sea, and the wilderness tramp and tn,
persecution and the outrage must hav,
broken down His nervous ystem; q fac
proved by the statement that he livet
so short a time on the cross. That is
lingering death ordinarily, and many
sufferer on the cross has writhed il
pain twenty-four hours, forty-eigh
hours. Christ lived only six. Why
He was exhaused before He mounte,
the bloody tree. Oh, it is worn-ou
. Christ, sympathetic with all peopl
worn out.
( A Christian woman went to the trac
house in New York and asked for tract
for distribution. The first day she wa
out on her Christian errand she saw
policeman taking an intoxicated won
an to the station house. After tn
! woman was discharged from custod
{ this Christian tract distributor saw he
coming away, all unkempt and un
, lovely. The tract distributor wen
> up, threw her arms around her nee
q and kissed her The woman sale
, "Oh, my God, why do you kis
, me?" WELL" replied the other, -
, think Jesus Christ told me to-" "Of
q no." the woman said, don't you llis
D me; it breaks my heart; nobody ha
kissed me since mother died" But tina
. sisterly kiss brought her to Chris
: started her on the road to Heaven. TIL
$ world wants sympathy; it is dying fc
= sympathy: large-hearted Christian syn
9 patty. There is Omnirotence in tn
n touch. Oh, am SO glad that when W
touch Christ, Christ touches u
, The l<nucEles and the hml
+ and the joints all falling apal
/. with that living death called tn
. leprosy, man is brought to Chris
= A hundred doctors could not cure hin