The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-05-24

armies Of hell cannot stop minute or
divert an inch, by the wan, sick, nerve-
less finger of human suffering turned
clear about.
o, what comfort there is In this sub
ject for people who are called nervous.
OF course it is a misapplied word In
that case, but use it in the ordinary
parlance. After twelve years Of suffer
ing, oh, what nervous depression she
must have add. You all know that
good deal of medicine taken II it does
not cure leaves the system exhausted,
and in the Bible in SO many words, she
chad 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 it was
not straight stroke she gave to the
garment Of Christ, but trembling
forearm, and an uncertain motion OF
the hand, and a quivering finger with
which she missed the mark toward
which she aimed. She did not touch
the garment just where she expected
| to touch ii.
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. II man breaks his arm
everybody is sorry, and they talk about
it all up and down the street. If wo-
man 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: 20, that's
nothing, she's little nervous, that's
ALL" putting slight upon the most
agonizinS Of suffering.
Now, have q new prescription to
give you. / do not ask you to discard
human medicament. l believe in it.
When the slightest thing occurs in the
way of sickness in my household, we
always run for the doctor. do not
want to despise medicine. II you can
not sleep nights do not despise bromide
Of potassium. II you have nervous
paroxysm do not despise morphine. II
you want to strengthen up your system
do not despise quinine as tonic. Use
all right and proper medicines. But J
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
sympathies. yes, Paul was right
, when he said, ave have not high
: priest who cannot 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 II he goes at certain
: seasons. Sleeping out Of doors so man.
nights, as Christ did, and so hungry
and His feet wet with the wash of tn
. sea, and the wilderness tramp and tn
4 persecution and the outrage must hav
broken down His nervous system; fac
: proved by the statement that He live,
: so short time on the cross. That is
!, lingering death ordinarily, and many
= sufferer on the cross has writhed i
" pain twenty-four hours, forty-eigh
hours. Christ lived only six. Why
. He was exhausted before He mounte
o the bloody tree. o, it is worn-ou
II Christ, sympathetic with all peopl
worn out. '.
u A Christian woman went TO the TraC
:, House in New York and asked fc
- tracts for distribution. The first da
" she was out on her Christian erran
= = she saw policeman taking an intox
~ Gated woman to the station hous'
After the woman was discharged froi
% custody, this Christian tract distribute
10 saw her coming away, all unkempt an
unlovely. The tract distributor weI
"a up, threw her arms around her nee
'o and kissed her. The woman said: ~
o. my God, why do you kiss me?" ''Well,
|
ID told me to-" 30, no." the woman sal
N don't you kiss me; II breaks m
~ heart; nobody has kissed me since m
% mother died" But that sisterly XII
brought her TO Christ, started her {
81 the road TO heaven. The world wan
ac sympathy, large-hearted Christian syr
'n pathy. There is omnipotence in u
a touch. o, am so glad that when v
"a touch Christ, Christ touches us. III
nc knuckles, and the limbs, and the join
On all fall apart with that living dea'
re called the leprosy. A man is brougl
NJ TO Christ. A hundred doctors cou
~ not cure him. The wisest surgel
na would stand appalled, before that Loaf
NJ some patient. What did Christ d
es He did not amputate, he did not pot
OF tice, he did not scarify. He touch'
er him and he was well. The mother-i
eP law of the ApostlePeter was in ra
uS ing fever; brain fever, typho
'e- fever, or what, / do not kno'
ny Christ was the Physician. j
ne offered no febrifuge, He prescrib
ne no drops, He did not put her on pla
M diet. He touched her and she was ps
NO fectlV we'll. Two blind men cor
mo ne stumbling into q room where Christ
rS They are entirely sightless. Christ d
:. not lift the eyeiid to see whether
IL was cataract or ophthalmy. He
,er not put the men into dark room
us three or four weeks. He touched the
ne and they saw everything. A man car
re a. Christ The drum OF his ear h