Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-05-27

it all up and down the street. If q
woman has an eye put out by accident,
they say: "That's u 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 n little nervous, that's
ALL" putting slight upon the most
agonizing of suffering.
Now, have new prescription to
offer you'll do not ask You to discard
human medicament. belive in it.
Use all right and proper medicines.
But want You to bring your insomnia,
and bring your irritability. and bring
all your weaknesses, 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 remembers all our sorrows,
touch Him on the heart, the center OF
all His sympathics. Oh, yes, Paul was
right when he said: 1--WE have not a
high priest who cannot be touched"
The fact IL. Christ himself is nervous
All those nights out of doors in malarial
districts where an Englishman or an
American dies if he goes ut certain
seasons. Sleeping out of doors so many
nights us Christ did, and SO hungry,
and His feet wet with the wash
of the sea, and the wilderness
tramp and the persecution and the out
rage must have broken down His nerv-
Gus system-n fact proved by the state
mcnt that he lived so short time on
the cross. That is lingering death,
ordinarily, and many sufferer on the
cross has writhed in pain twenty-four
hours, forty-eight hours. Christ lived
only six. Why? He was exhausted be.
fore He mounted the bloody tree. Oh,
it is Il WORKOUT Christ esympathetic
with all people worn out.
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 intoXi.
Gated woman to the station house. AT.
ter the woman was discharged from
custody, this Christian tract distributor
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: 20,
my God why do you kiss me?" well"
replied the other, Il think Jesus
Christ told me to-" sob, no." the
woman said. don't you kiss me: il
breaks my heart. Nobody has
kissed me since my mother died"
But that sisterly kiss brought her tc
Christ: started her on the road tc
Heaven. The world wants sympathy.
it is dying for sympathy. large-hearted
Christian sympathy. There is omnip'
otencc in the touch. Oh, am so glad
that when we touch Christ, Christ
touches us. The knuckles and the
limbs and the joints, all falling apart
with that living death called the lep.
rosy. u man is brought to Christ. a
hundred doctors could not cure him.
The wisest surgery would stand APP
palled before that loathsome patient.
What did Christ do? He did not am.
putate, He did not poultice, He did no
scarify, He touched him and he was
well. The mother-in-law of the Apostle
Peter was in raging fever, brain
fever, typhoid fever, or what, do not
know. Christ was the physician. He
offered no febrifuge, he prescribed no
drops, He did not put her on plain
diet. He touched her and she was per-
fectly well. Two blind men come
stumbling into room where Christ is
They are entirely sightless. Christ did
not lift the eyelid to see whether it
was cataract or ophthalmy. He touched
them and they saw everything. A man
came to Christ. The drum of his ear
had ceased to vibratc and he had slut
tering tongue. Christ touched the ear
and he heard, touched his tongue and
he articulated. There is a funeral COM
ing out of that gate, q widow following
her only boy to the grave. Christ can
not stand it, and he puts his hand on
the hearse and the obsequies turn into
n resurrection day.
o, 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 reminis-
cence. Are we tempted? He was
tempted. Are we sick? He was sick.
Are we prosecuted? He was perse-
cuted. Are we bereft? He was bereft.
preach 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 manumis-
sion. 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 q
hundred persons taking hold of that
chain will a1topether feel the electric