Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-05-22

his cheeks; for when be beheld the city
he wept over It. o man or the many
trials, o woman OF the heartbFeak, why
do you not touch him9
"Oh," says some one,
"oHRIsr DON'T CARE FOR Me.
Christ is looking the other waV. Christ
has the vast affairs of his kingdom TO
look after. he has the armies Of sin 10
overthrow, 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 turn
ed 20 this invalid of the text. He was
on his way 20 effect cure which was
famous aad popular and wide-resound-
ing. But the context says, she turned
him about" IL he was facing 10 the
north be turned TO the south; II he was
facing 70 the east he turned 20 the west.
What turned him about? The Bible
says he has no shadow of turning. he
rides on his chariot through the eterni-
ties. tie marches on crushing sceptres
as though they were the cracking al
dsrs on a brooE's bank, and tossing
thrones on either side OF him without
stopping 10 look which way they fall.
From everlasting to everlasting. "He
turned him about" he, whom all the
allied armies Of hell cannot stop min
ute or divert an inch, by the wan, sick,
nerVeleSs finger OF human suffering,
turned clear about.
ooh, what comfort there is in this sub
iect for people who are called nervous.
OF course il is q misapplied word in
that case, but I use IL in the ordinary
parance After twelve years OF suffer
ing, oh, what nervous depression she
must have had. You all know that a
good deal Of medicine taken II it does
not cure leaves the system exhausted,
and in the Bible in so many words she
"haS suffered many things or many
physicians, and was nothing oettered,
but rather grew worse" She was as
nervous as nervous could be. She knew
an 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. l warrant you it was
not a straight stroke she gave to the
garment OF Christ, but trembling fore
arm and az uncertain motion OF the
hand, aud a quiyering finger with which
she mi Sed she mark toward which she
aimed. She did not touch the garment
inst where she expected to touch IL.
WHEN SIZE THIS NERVOUS WOMAN
coming to the Lord Jesus Christ, / say
she is making the way for all nervous
people Nervous people do not get
much sympathy. If man breaks his
arm everybody is sorry, and they talk
about it all up and down the street. II
woman has an eye put out by accident,
they say: That's a dreadful thing"
Everybody is asking about her coDYa-
lescence. But when person is suffer
ing under the ailment of which / am
now speaking, they say: "Oh, that is
nothing, she's a little nervous, that's
all" putting a slight upon the most
agOnZing Of suffering.
Now, / have new prescription 10
give you. do not ask You to discard
human medicapenI. / believe in it.
When the slightest thing occurs 10 the
way of sickness in my household, we
always run for the doctor. ] do not
wanVto despise medicine, II you can
not sleep nights do not despise bromide
Of potassium. IL you have nervous
paroxysm do not deSpiSe morphine. II
you want TO strengthen up your syste IN
do not despiSe Quinine as tonic. 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
shoulders where he carries our burdens,
touch him on the head whore he re-
members all our sorrows, touch him on
the heart, the centre Of all his sympa-
thies. Oh. yes, Paul was right when
be said, 1--WE have not high priest
who cannot be touched"
The fact is Christ himself is nervous.
All those nights out OF doors in malarial
districts where an Englishman or an
American dies il he goes at certain sea-
sons. Sleeping out OF doors so many
nights, as Christ did, and so hungry,
and his feet wet with the wash OF the
sea, and the wilderness tramp and the
persecution and the outrage must have
broken down his nervous system; fact
proved by the statement that he lived
so short a time on the cross.
THAT Is A LINGERING DEATH
ordinarily, and many a SUFFERER on the
cross has wrlthed In pain twenty-four
hours, iorty-eight hours. Christ lived
only six Why? He was exhausted be-
fore be mOulted the bloody tree. Oh, it
is a WORKOUT Christ, sympathetic with
all people worn out.
A Christian woman went to the Tract
House ia New York, and 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 unkept and unlOYely.
The tract distributor went up, threw
her arms around her neck, aud kissed
her The woman said, 20, my God,
why do you kiss me?" "Well, " replied
the other, al think Jesus Christ told
me to-" "0h, no." the wo man said,
"dOR't you kiss me; it breaks my heart;
nobody has kissed me since my mother
died. But that sisteFly kiss brought
her 20 Christ, started her on the road
10 Heaven. The world wants sympa-
thy; it is dying for sympathy, large
hearted Christian sympathy. There is
omnipoteEee in the touch. Oh, am so
glad that when we touch Christ, Christ
touches Us. The knuckles aud the limbs
and the joints all falling apart with that
living death called leprosy, a man is
brought to Christ. A hundred doctors
could not cure him. The wiseSt surgery
would stand appalled, before that Loaf b.
some patient. What did Christ do? He
did not amputate. he did not poultie lee,
be did not sacrify. He touched him
and be was well.