The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-05-24

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have not high priest who cannot be
touched"
The fact is Christ himself is nervous. All
those nights out of dosss in malarial dis
tricts where en- Englishman or an American
dies if he goes at certain seasons, sleeping
out Of doors so many nights as Christ did,
and so hungry, and hfs feet wet with the
wash of the sea, and the wilderness tramp,
and the persecution and the outrage, must
have broken down his nervous system, a
fact proved by the statement that he lived
so short time on the cross. That is lin
gering death ordinarily, and many a suf-
ferer on the cross has writhed in pain "a
hours, 4s hours. Christ lived only six.
Whyi He was exhausted before he mounted
the bloody tree. Oh, it is a wornout Christ,
sympathetic with all people worn out.
A WONDERFUL POWER.
A Christian woman went to the Tract
House in New York and asked for tracts
for distribution. The first day she was out
on her Christian errand she saw policeman
taking an intoxicated woman to the station
house. After the woman was discharged
from custody this Christian tract distribu-
ter saw her coming away, all unkempt and
unlovely. The tract distributor went up,
threw her arms around her neck and kissed
her. The woman said, "Oh, my God, why
do you kiss meY" WELL" replied the
other, II think Jesus Christ told me to-"
"Oh, no." the woman said, don't you kiss
me 1t breaksmy heart. Nobody has kiss
ed me since my mother died" But that
sisterly kiss brought her to Christ-started
her on the road to heaven. The world
wants sympathy. 1t is dying for sympa-
thy-large hearted, Christian sympathy.
There is omnipotence in the touch. Oh l
am so glad that when we touch Christ
Christ touches u.s. The knuckles, and the
limbs, and the joints, all falling apart with
that living death called the leprosy, a man
Is brought to Christ. A hundred doctors
could not cure him. The wisest surgery
would stand appalled, before that loathsome
patient. What did Christ do? He did not
amputate. He did not poultice He did
not scarify. He touched him, and he was
we'll The mother-in-law of the Apostle
Peter was in raging feyer-brain fever,
typhoid fever, or what 4 do not know.
Christ was the physician. He offered no
febrifuge; he prescribed no drops; he did
not put her on plain diet; he toSched her,
and she was perfectly well. Two blind men
come stumbling into a room where Christ
is. They are entirely sightless. Christ did
not lift the eyelid to see whether it was cat
aract or ophthalmy He did not put the
men into a dark room for three or four
weeks. He touched them, and they saw ev-
erything. A man came to Christ. The
drum of his ear had ceased to vibrate and
he had a suffering tongue. Christ touched
the ear, and he heard; touched his tongue,
and he articulated. There is a funeral COM
ing out Of that gate-a widow following
her only boy to the grave. Christ cannot
stand it, and he puts his hand on the hearse,
and the obsequies turn into a resurrection
day.
Oh, 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, it wakens all
human "Reminiscences. Are we temptedS
He was tempted. Are we sick? He was
sick. Are we persecuted3 He was perse-
cuted. Are we bereft? He was bereft
THE SUBLIME CIRCUIT.
st. 700 of Kermartin one morning went
out and saw a beggar asleep on his door
step. The beggar had been all night in
the cold. The next night st. 700 COM
PEELED this beggar to come up In the house
and sleep in the saints bed, while ST. Yoo
passed the night on the doorstep in the
cold. Somebody asked him why that eccen-
tricity. He replied: at isn't an eccentric
ity. / want TO know how the poor suffer.
/ want to know their agonies that l may
sympathize with them, and therefore slept
on this cold step last night" That is the
way Christ knows so much about our sor-
rows. He slept on che cold doorstep of an
inhospitable world that would not let him
in. He is sympathetic now with all the
suffering and all the tried and all the per
picked Oh, why do you not go and touch
him?
You utter your voice in a mountain pass,
and there come back 10 echoes, 90 echoes,
30 echoes perhaps, weird echoes. Every
voice of prayer, every ascription Of praise
every groan of distress, has divine re-
Spouse and celestial reverberation, and
all the galleries of heaven are filled with
sympathetic echoes, and throngs Of minis
tering angels echo, and the temples of the
redeemed echo and the hearts of God tic
Father, God the Son and God the Holy
Ghost echo and re-echo.
/ 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-touch him with your
bondage and get manumission. You have
seen a man take hold of an electric chain.
A man can with one hand take one end Of
the chain, and with the other hand he may
take hold of the other end of the chain.
Then a hundred persons taking hold of that
chain will altogether feel the electric power.
You 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 chain 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
erly and sanity and cherubic and seraphic
and archangelic and divine sympathy So
that if this morning Christ should sweep
his hand over this audience and say, "Who
touched me?" there would be hundreds
and thousands of voices responding: I'll
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The Itig Fair at Night.
A sight moro beautiful than Jackson
park at night cannot be conceived, so