Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-06-07

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@ hts-a current of sorrow rollin, NJ, w. w
sGut siart h''art TO Christ and a current Of 60.
-, IN loiIlhS from the heart of Christ 20
boin,5 "o currents. Oh, way do You 90 mn
tbil snd , "hy 30 you go Wondering about
lot touch Him2 VIZ! 10 you
, are you sick? do not think Won are an,
w., 80, "a thah this invalid of the text H.vs
Sou had long struggle? lido NOT tbinI a,
bonaTasu, more than ~ years. Is your case
uoPS!essE SO was this OF which INV -, =.
tne .!i diagnosis and prosnoss. "Ob " Won 80
'h7Ie r are SO many things between me .ni
80 Ihere was whole mo5 betyVe.D tbis
T.', anu ana ana Cnrist She pressed through. and
guess you can press through ~
Is your trouble a home troubIa2 Ct-.u.
shows Himself especially svTnnatba,to L.t,.u
ions OF 6omesticty, rs when at the wal
ainE In Cana He alleviated a bousakasnars.
e>o"8u-nt. as vhsn tssrs ruahsd forth AZ
1ue Ir oroAeh dome OF Mary and Martha an
,-.la r-aItr rus; r., Men are sometimes ashamed to
weep. There are men who IL the tears s+art
viii conceal them. They think II ia nnr.ni,,
10 cry. 1hey do not seem to understand IN ia
ulahnhesS and evidence Of great heart I
am AFRAID OF q man who does not know how
70 cry. 1he Christ of the text WAS not
., -. ITO 70 cry over human misfortune. Look
Al 'iiaI deep lake OF tears opened by the two
words OF the evangelist Jesus went ~ RE-
ho!u Cnrlst on the only day of His earIv
t'uinph marching on Jerusalem, the glitter
,hS domes obliterated by the blinding rain of
tears IN His eyes and on His cheeks. for when
He beheid the city He wept over il O man
Oh the many trials, o woman of the heart
oreaA, why do you not touch Him?
"Oh, says some one, 'Christ doesn't care
, ICF me. Chflst Is looking the other WAY
I hrist mas the vast affairs OF His kingdom TO
| LOOK alter. He has the armies OF sin to over
throw, and there are so many worse cases of
! trouble than mine He doesn't care about me
and HIS face is turned the other way" SO
HIS back was turned to this invalid of the
text. He was on His way to effect a cure
whlch was famous and popular and wide re-
sounding. But the context says, HE turned
Him about" If He was facing to the north.
He turned to the south if He was facing to
the east, He turned TO the west What
turned Him about? The Bible saws He has no
shadow Of turning; He rides on His chariot
through the eternities. He marches on
crushing scepters as though they were the
cracking Gldars on a brooks bank, and toss
in- thrones either side OF Him without
/ looking which way the fail. From everast-
ing to everlasting. "He turned Him about"
He, whom all the allied armies of hell can
not stop minute or divert an inch, by the
wan, sick, neryelesS finger OF human suffer
ing turned clear about.
| Oh, what comfort there is in tlis subject
I for people who are called nervous OF course
| It IS misapplied word in that case, but l use
: It in the ordinary pariance. After II years
/ Of suffering, oh, what nervou. depression she
must have had You all know that a good
| deal OF medicine taken if it does not cure
leaves the system exhausted, and in the Bible
| in so many words she had suffered many
! thin-s of many physicians and was nothing
bette-ed, but rather grew worse. She was
/ As nervous Is nervous could be. She knew
/ all about insomnia, and about the awful ap-
] prehensiOn OF something going to happen,
/ and irritability about little things that in
! health would not have perturbed her. l war
| rant you it was not a straight stroke she gave
| TO the garment OF Christ, but trembling
| forearm, and an uncertain motion OF tine
! hand, and quiver,ng finger with which she
missed the mark toward which she aimed.
| She did not touch the garment Just where
] she expected to touch it.
When / see TINS nervous woman coming to
! the Lord Jesus Christ say she is making
| people do not get much sympathy. If "A man
breaks his arm, everybody is sorry, and they
! talk about it ali up and down the street. II a
: woman has an eye put out by accident, they
! say That's a dreadful thing" Everybody
! is asking about her convalescence. But when
, a person is suffering under the ailment OF
| which 1 am now speaking they say "Oh,
! that's nothing. She's little nervous, that's
! ALL" putting slight upon the most aSoniz-
| ing OF suffering.
! Now, have a new prescription to give you.
[ do not ask you to discard human medica-
ment. / believe in If. When the slightest
| thing occurs in the way of sickness in my
! household. we always run for the doctor. L
! do not want to despiss medicine. If you can
| not sleep nights. do not despise bromide Of
| potassium. If you have nervous paroxysm,
| do not despise morphine. II you wants to
] strengthen up your system, do not despse
/ 1uinine as tonic. Use all right and proper
medicines. But l want you TO bring your
| insomnia and bring your irritablllty, 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 ali His sympathies. Oh, yes, Paul
was right when he said, 'We have not higp
| priest who cannot be touched
| The fact is Christ Himself is nervous All
chose nights out Of doors in malarial districts,
/ where an Englishman or an American dies IL
he goes at certain seasons. Sleeping out oil
! doors so many nights as Christ did, ana so
/ hungry and His feet wet with the wash OF
the sea, and the wilderness tramp, and The
persecutjon and the outrage must have
| broken His nprvous system fact proved by
the statement that He lived 80 short time
on the cross. That IS n lingering death or
dinariIy, and many a sufferer on the cross
has writhed in pain "a hours, - hours Christ
lived only six Why2 He was exhausted be-
fore He mounted the bloody tree. Oh, 1t Is
. wornout Christ, sympathetic with all peo-
pie worn out
! Christian woman went to the Tract
House in New York ami asked for tracts for
| distribution The first day she was out on
her Christian errand she saw a policeman
! taking an intoxicated woman to the station
| house After the woman was discharged
! from custody, this Christian tract distributor
! saw her coming away all unSempt and IN
| lovely The tract distributor went up, threw
| her arms around her neck and kissed nor
| The woman said. ''Oh, my God, why do you
| kiss me?" "Well." replied the other, =
! think Jesus Christ told me 70. ION, no,
| the woman said, don't you KISS me. IL
| breaks MY heart. Nobody has Kissed me
! since nv mother died" But that sisteriy
| kiss brought her to Christ, started her on the
! road to heaven. The world wants sympathy;
| If il diving FOR sympathy, large-hearted
| Christian sympathy There is omnipotence
! or lam 30 Glad that when we touch Christ
! Christ touches US The knuckles, ani tne
| limbs, and the joints, all falunS apart VIII -
! tbat living Death called the leprosy, man Is
I bronght TO Christ. A hundred doctors couid
| not cure him The wisest surgery "ouiu
! stand appalled, before that ioatnsone pa
tient WHAT did Christ do? He did not am
.r,.ate He aid not poultice He did not scar
| ifv He touched him, and lie was weh- nc
| ,nn+bar-in-lgW of the Apostle Peter was III u
! raging tayer-braiD fever, typholu Le'ot, VI
| What I do not know. Christ was the PnS
clan. He offered no febrifuge; lie i:S.
| no J-ons He did not put ner on pam ulTl
T, AZ .lI,,J,ad her and she was perfectly well.
Two bIinI men come stumbling INTO q toot''
rvbars Christ is. They are entirely slShties5.
christ did not lift the eyeld to see whether !,
was cataract or ophthalmia. He dil nor ',. Pu.
wa W. -,an r, into dark room for three or iou'
woeks. He touched them. and they saw every,
thing. man came to Christ "a ne ba "a had !
s.,,+taring tongue. Christ touched the ear.
,nd ' be heard touched his tongue, and M, n,
ortianIated. eli There is funeral coming our our
Of that gate-a widow following her onny my by gs
70 .hG M E.I hond on the hearse, and the obse-
pP,,ies t,Irn into ress erection day.
4T-'T INV brother, am so glad when we WHen ITHsn
christ with our sorrows He touches US. "nun a,,,
~ 90 yo,,r Grief and vexation you put YOU