Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-05-27

: who has nothing to show for it bu
premature gray hairs and profusion Q
deep wrinkles is like Christ, and strengt
has gone out of her.
Q That strength or virtue may have gon
: out through garment she has made TO
the homeStha strength may have gon
out through the sock you knit for th
barefoot destitute, that strength may e,
out through the mantle hung up in SOM
closet after you are dead So crippled
,, child sat every morning on her father
front step so that when the kind Christian
teacher passed by to school she might
take hold of her dress and let the dress
slide through her pale fingers. She said
it helped her pain 80 much and made he,
SO happy all the day. Aye, have we not
in all our dwellings garments Of the de.
parted, touch of which thrills ua
through and through, the life Of those
who are gone thrilling through the life
of those who stay? But mark you, the
principle / evolve from this subject.
No addition Of health to others unless
there be subtraction Of strength from
ourselves. he felt that strength had gone
out Of him.
cHRIST's sENsiTIvgNEss.
! Notice also in this subject Christ
sensitive to human touch. We talk about
God on vast scale so much we hardly
appreciate his accessibility-God in mag
nitude rather than God in minutia, God
in the infinite rather than God in the in
finitesimal-but here in my text we have
God arrested by suffering touch.
When in the sham trial OF Christ they
struck him on the cheek we can realize
how that cheek tingled with pain. When
under the scourging the rod struck the
shoulders and back of Christ, we can re-
alize how he must have writhed under
the decorations. But here there is a sick
and nerveless finger that just touches the
long threads of the blue fringe of his
coat, and he looks around and says,
"Who touched meY
We talk about sensitive people, but |
Christ was the impersonation of ell sem
sitiveness. The slightest stroke of the
smallest finger of human disability |
makes all the nerves of his head and
heart and hand and feet yibrate. II is
not stolid Christ, not phlegmatic
Christ, not preoccupied Christ, not
hard Christ, not an iron cased Christ,
but an exquisitely sensitive Christ that
my text unveils. ALI the things that
touch Us touch him, If by. the hand Of
prayer we make the connecting line be.
tween him and ourselves complettfeahI al,
Marx You this Invalid sa Suffering, and
.e..rei Il f would have come If she had no
toll touched him. When in your prayer yol
d lay your hand on Christ you touch a
h the sympathios of an ardent and glow
II ing and responsive nature.
,r You know that in telegraphy there ar
1t two currents of electricity. So when 20
1T put out your hand of prayer to Chris
there are two currents-a current OF sol
M row rolling up from your heart to Chris
M .and:a current of administration rollin
M from the 5heartof Christ TO you. IT Y
0hsswh ysfos you unhelpese
T and wondering ABOUT ay 'do y6
50 not touch him?
IN Are you sick2 1 do not think you 81
Of any worse off than this invalid Of th
" text. Have you had long struggle?
ne do not think it has been more than /
or years. Is your case hopeless? So wa
he this of which my text is the diagnose
I'd and prognosis. "Oh," you say, ether
he are so many things between me an
r.. Cod There was whole mob betwee
40 this invalid and Christ. She presse
9, through, and guess you cen pres
'nT0e e.. t-o., 81 trouble' Chris
shows himself especially sssss an.
with questions Of domesticity1 Us W 1.sssss
at the wedding in Cana he alleyiated
housekeeper's predicament, as when tears
rushed forth at the broken home Of Mary
and Martha. and Lazarus. Men are
sometimes ashamed to weep. There are
men who if the tears start will conceal
them. They think it is unmanly to cry
They do not seem to understand it is
manliness and evidence of q great heart
| + am afraid of man who does not know
how to cry. The Christ OF the text was
not ashamed to cry over human misfor-
tune. Look at that deep lake OF tears
opened by the two words OF the evangei-
ist: "Jesus weptp Behold Christ on the
only day of his early triumph marching
on Jerusalem, the glittering domes oo-
! liberated by the binding rain OF tears In
| his ewes and on his cheeks, for when ne
beheld the city he wept over it. o man
of the many trials, o woman of the heart
break. why do you not touch himf
ALWAYS HELPFUL.
.Oh.n saws some one, "Christ doesn't
care for me. Christ is looking the other
, way Christ has the vast affairs OF his
kingdom to look after. He has the
: armies of sin to overthrow, and there are
t 40 many worse cases Of trouble than
| mine he doesn't care about ME, and his
. face is turned the other way" So his
hack was turned to this invalid OF the
. text He was on his way to effect a cure
] which was famous and popular and wide
D resembling. But the context says, HE
l turned him about" If he was facing to
t the north, he turned to the south; If he
1 was facing to the east. he turned to the
q west. What turned him about The
Bible says he hes no shadow of turning;
: he rides on in his chariot through the
t eternities. He marches on, crushing
] scepters as though they were the crac.
b king alders on a brooks bank, and toss,
y ing thrones on either side of him without
: stopping to look which way they fall
! From everlasting to everlasting. "be
: :. t1rned him about" he, whom all thu
;. allied armies of hell cannot stop min
:. :. ute or divert an inch, by the wan, SICK
- nerveless finger of human suffering turn
/. ed clear about
Oh, what comfort there is in this SUB
' who ora PQflnH nerV