The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-05-23

God, why do you Ess me:' We'll re,
Piled the other, II think Jesus Christ told
ME to-" "Oh, no" the woman said, don't
you kiss me; it breaks my heart. Nobody
that sisterly kiss brought her to Christ; start
ed her on the road to heaven. The world
wants sympathy, is dying for SYM
pathy. larse-hearted Christian SYN
touch. Oh, | am so glad that when you
touch Christ, Christ touches us. The
knucklcs and the limbs and the joints all
falling apart with that living death called
leprosy, Il man is brought to Christ. n
hundred doctors could not cure him. The
wisest surgery would stand appalled, before
that loathsome patient. What did Christ
do? He did not amputatc, he did not ponl-
and he was well. The nother-n-law of the
Apostle Peter was in Il raging fever; brain
fever, typhoid fever, or what do not know.
Christ was the physician He offered no
not put her on plain diet. He touched her
and she was perfectly well. Two blind men
come stumbling into Il room where Christ
is. They are entirely sightless. Christ did
cataract or ophthalmy. He did not put
| the men into II dark room for three or
| four weeks. He touched them and they
| saw everything. A man came to Christ.
| The drum of his ear had ceased to vlbrate
and he had IA suffering tongue. Christ
| touched the ear and he heard; touched his
tongue and he urtcuated. There is
| funeral coming out OF that gate, Il widow
| following her only boy to the grave. Christ
cannot stand it and he puts his hand on
the hcarsc and the obsequies turn into Il
| resurrection day.
O, my brother, L am so glad when we
| touch Christ with our sorrows he touches
| us. When out of your grief and vcXatlon
you put your hand on Christ, it wskens all
| human "reminiscences Are we .empted! He
was tempted. Are we sick? He WAS sick.
| Are we prosecuted? He was prosecuted
| Are we bcreft? He was bereft.
st. 700, of Kermartin, one morning went
| out All saw a beggar asleep on his door
| step. The beggar had been all night in the
cold. The next night st. 700 compelled
this hcggar to come up i'll the house and
sleep in the saints bed, while st. lo0
passed the night on the doorstep i'll the cold.
Somebody asked him why that eccentric
ity. He replied, 1T isn't an eccentricity;
/ want to know how the poor suffer L
want to know their agonies that | may
sympathetic with them, and, therefore, !
slept on this cold step last night: ina.
is the way Christ knows so much about our
sorrows He slept ON the cold doorstep g
an inhospitabe world that would not les
him in He is sympathetic now with a,i,
| the suffering and all the tried and all IT,
perpIexcd. Oh, why do you not 80 al
touch him? al
You utter your voice in a mountain pa.
and there comes back ten echoes, tWenu ut
Every voice of prayer, every ascrlptlon G,
praise. every groan of distress has dlylEa
response and celestial reverberation, and az,
the galleries Of heaven are filled with symss
pathetic echoes, and throngs of ministerin;'
angels echo, and the temples OF the re-
deemed echo, and the hearts of GOD inc
Father, God the Son, and God the Holy
Ghost echo and re-echo. =
| | preach a Christ near you can touci7
him-touch him with your guilt ana gea
pardon-touch him with your trouble ano
get comfort-touch him with your bondage
and get manumisson. You have seen a
man take hold of an electric cham. rs
man can with one hand take one end OF thd
chain and with the other hand he may take
hold of the other end of the chain. liner
q hundred persons taking hold of that chain
will altogether feel the electric power OF
have seen that experiment. Well Christ
with one wounded 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 cham OF love
and all earthly and angelic beings may lay
hold of that chain, and around and around
in sublime and everlasting circuit runs the
thrill of terrestrial and celestial and broth
erlv and sanity and chcrubic and seraph!f
and archangclic and divine sympathy -
that if this morning Christ should ssW,aFY
his hand over this audience and say, G.rnbe
touched me-" there would be hHg= SnssissipJ
thci)Ou'L fail to take adV1ll sce