The New South., 1893-06-17

always run for the doctor do not
want - desplse medicine. II you can
not aieep nights do not despise bro
inlde ~ potassium II you have
nervous parovyHm do not despiss
morphine. n yon want r. strengthen
np yonr system do not desplAe
qninine na tonic, Uee al right and
and proper medicines. But / want Won
70 bring your Insomnia. and bring yoas
irritability, and bring al your weak.
nasecs, aud with them touch Christ
Tuneh Him not only on the hem ~ His
garments but touch Him ou the shoul-
der where Ne carries our burden, touch
Hin on the head where He remembers
AL our sorrows, touch Him on the
heart, the center os all His sympathiss.
OH yes, Paul VIA right when be said;
We haye not high prieat who can
not be touched F"
The factis. Christ iIifBseifis nervous,
Al those nights out of dooFs IN mala-
rial distiets whore an Englishman o.
81 American dies II be goes - certain
eeasons. sleeping ont of doors ~ many
nights - Christ did, and 50 hungry.
aud iiis fent wet with the wash ~ the
sea and the wilderness tramp and tbs
persecution and the outrage must have
brDlten down His nervous system a
fact proved hF The statement that lie
lived 10 short a time on The cross.
That Is a lingering death, ordinarily,
and many sufferer on the cross has
writhcd in pain tweniy-four hours.
forty.eight hourA Christ lived only
sis Hhy2 lie was exhausted before
fIe mounted the bloody tree, Oh, II Ia
n worn.out Christ. Hympnthetie with
all people worn out.
a Christian woman went 10 thn Tract
house. Ia New York, and asked Tor
traets for distribution The hrAt day
she was out on her Christian errand
she SAW policeman taking an intoSi.
Gated woman 70 the station house.
After tile woman WIS discharged from
custody this Christian traet distributor
aaay her coming away all nnltempt
and unlayely. Tho tract distributor
went up threw her arms around her
neck and kissed her, The woman said
10 my God, why do you kiss mc2i'
"wrll,@ replied the other, II think
Jesus Christ told me 20. " oh, no." tho
woman said. don't you kiss me- II
brealsA my heart Nobody has Kissed
me since my mother died but that
aisterly ltiss brought her 10 Christi
started her on tho road 10 Heaven.
The world wants sympathyi Il i dying
for sympathy, large.hcarted Chriatian
sympathy. There IL Omnipotenee IN
the touch OH am so glad that when
we touch Christ Christ touches nA
The lgnurltles and the limbs and the
joints, NIL falling apart with that liy-
Ing death called the lcprosy,
man Il brought 10 Christ A hundred
doctors conld not cure him. The wiscst
surgery would stand appalled, before
that lonthsome patient, What did Christ
DOE lie did no. amputate, He did not
nonlticc. lie did not scarify. He
touched him and he was well. Tho
mother-in-law OF the APOSTLE Peter
WAS Ii raging fever. brain fever, w
phoid fever or what, I do not know.
Christ was the physician lie offered no
fehrifuge. lie prescribed no drops, He
did not put heron plain diet lie touched
her and shc was perfectly well.
Two blind men como stumbling into
q room whore Christ u, They are cue
Ftirely AiRhtlcss. Christ did not lift the
cyelid 10 see whether II was cataract
or uphthaluy. he did not put the
men into dark rot IA for three or four
weeks He touched them aud they saw
everything. A man came 20 Christ
The drum Of his ear had censcd 20 VII
hratc and he had suffered tongue.
Christ touched the ear and he heard,
touched his tongno and hc nrtieulatcd.
There Il funeral coming out Of that
gate, il widow following her only boy
To the grave. Christ can not stand IT.,
and lie puts His hand ON the hearse
and the obscquies turn into resur-
rectiun day.
o. my brother, am glad when we
touch Christ with our sorrows He
touches ns. When out OF your griei
and veNation you put your hand on
Christ Il wcalcns all human rcminis-
cnee. Are we tcmptcdp lie was
tempted Are we sicise He was sick.
Are we prosecuted lie was prosecuted.
Are We htftlNf tit WINS ttNtAAs
ST. Yoo OF Kermartin one morning
went ont and saw bcggar asleep on
his doorstep The heggar had been all
night in the cold, The next night ST.
WOO compelled this heggar to come NJ
In the house and sleep in the saints
bod, while st. Soo passed the night or
the doorstep IN the cold. Somebody
asked him why THAT eccentricity
/ He replied; ut isn't an eccen
tricity, i want 70 know how the poor
suffer; | want 10 know their agonic.
that | may sympathizc with them, and
therefore, sclpt on this cold step last
night" This Is the way Christ lxnow'
\ So much about our sorrows. lie slept
on the cold doorstep Of an inhospitahl,
world that would not Let Him In. II,
| Is sympathctio now with all the suffer
ing aud all the tired and NIL the per
picked. oh, why DO YOU not SO anS
| touch Himg
Sou utter your voice in mountaiI
paSs and there come back ten echoes
| twenty echoes, thirty echoes perhaps
weird echoes, Every voice Of prayer
every ascription ~ praise. every groai
Of distress, has Divine response ans
\ celestial reverhcration, and all the gal
leyies of Heaven are filled with sympa
thetic echoes, aud throngs Of minister
ing angels echo, and the temples 81 th,
redeemed echo, and the hearts Of Cos
the Father, God the Son and God th'
Holy Ghost echo and re-echo.
preach Christ SO near you cal
touch Him touch Him with your gull
and get pardon--touch Him with you
trouble and get comfort touch Hin
with your bondage and got mannmis
sion, You have seen man take hol,
Of an electric chain. a man can viii
one hand take one end of the chain an,