Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-05-27
il after. He has the armies Of ain TO over

he turned to the south IL He was facing TO
the east, He turned to the west. What
turned Him about2 The Bible says He has no
shadow OF turning He rides on His chariot
through the eternities. He marches on,
crushing sceptefs as though they were the
cracking alders on brooks bank, and toss
ing thrones on either side of Him without
looking which way the fail. From everlast.
He, whom all the allied armies of hell can
not stop minute or divert an inch, by the
wan, sick, Geryeiess finger OF human suffer
Tag turned clear about.
On what comfort there is in this subject
for people who are called nervous OF course
it is q .nisapplied word in that case, but use
it in the ordinary .parlance. After IL years
ofsuffering, oh. what nervous depression she
must have had 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
bettefed, but rather grew worse" She was
as nervous as nervous could be. She knew
ell about insomnia, and about the awful APP
prehens;on of something going to happen,
and irritability about little things that in
health would not have perturbed her. war
rant you it was not straight stroke she gave
to the garment OF Christ, but a trembling
forearm, and an uncertain motion of the
hand, and quivering finger with which she
She did not touch the garment just where
she expected to touch il.
When see this nervous woman coming to
the Lord Jesus Christ, say she Is making
lie way for all nervous people. Nervous
people do not get much sympathy. II a man
freaks his arm; everybody is sorry, and they
talk about 1t all up and down tho street. If a
woman has an eye put out by accident, they
say "That's q dreadful thing" Everybody
Is asking about her convalescence. But when
person is suffering under the ailnent o:
which am now speaking they say ''Oh,
that's nothing. She's little nervous, that's
all, putting slight upon the most agontz-
Ing OF suffering.
Now, have new prescription to give you.
do net ask you to discard human medica-
ment. | 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. Hyou have nervous paroxysm,
do not despise morphine. II you wants to
strengthen up your system, do not desp,se
qu.nine 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
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 syrapathies. Oh, yes, Paul
was right when he said, "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 Ii
he goes az certain seasons. 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 His nervous system a fact proved by
the statement that He lived so short time
on the cross. That is a lingering death or
Iiiharily, aid many a sufferer on the cross
! has writhed in pain "a hours, 4Shours Christ
lived only six Why? He was exhausted be-
| fore He mounted the bloody tree. Oh, it is
q WORKOUT Christ sympathetic with all peo-
pie 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 intoxicated woman to the station
house. Alter the woman was discharged
from custody, this Christian tract distributor
saw her coming away all unSempt and I'M
lovely. The tract distributor went up, threw
her arms around her neck and kissed her.
The woman said, "Oh, my God, why do you
kiss mop" ''Well,n replied the other, ~
the woman said, "don't you kiss me. 1t
breaks my heart Nobody has kissed me
since my mother died" But that sisterly
kiss brought hef to Christ, started her on the
road to heaven. The world wants sympathy
1t is dying for sympathy, large-hearted
Christian sympathy. There is omnipotonce
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 leprosy, a man is
brought to Christ A hundred doctors could
not cure him. The wisest surgery would
stand appalled, before that loathsoEe pa
tent. What did Christ do? He did not am
putate He did not poultice; He did not scar
ify. He touched him, and he was well The
methef-in-law OF the Apostle Peter was in
raging feyer-Srain fever, typhoid fever, OF
what, do not know. Christ was the physi-
clan. He offered no febrifuge He prescribed
no drops He did not put her on plain diet.
He touched her, and she was perfectly well,
Two blind men come stumbling into a room
where Christ is. They are entirely sightless.
Christ did not lift the eyelid to see whether il
was cataract Or ophthalmia. He did not put
the men into dark room for three or four
weeks. He touched them ard they saw every.
thing. man came to Christ. The drum OF
his ear had ceased to vibfate and he had a
suffering tongue. Christ touched the ear,
and he heard touched his tongue, and he
articulated. There is funeral coming out
of that gate widow following her only boy
to the grave. Christ cannot stand it, and He
puts His hand on the hearse; and the obse-
quies turn into 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
band on Christ it awakens all human remi-
niscence. Are we tempted? He was tempted.
Are we sick? He was sick. Are we perse-
cuted? He was prosecuted. Are we bereit?
He was bcreft.
st. 700 Of kefmartin one morning went
out and saw beggar asleep on his doorstep.
| The beggar had been all night in the cold.
| The next night st. Yoo compelled this beggar
to come up in the house and sleep in the
saints bed, while ST. 700 passed the night on
the doorstep in the cold. Somebody asked
him why that eccentricity. He replied: ''It
( isn't an eeeentrieity. / want to know how
! the poor suffer. want to know their agonies
/ that may sympathize with them, and there
fore l slept on this cold step last night. This
| Is the way Christ knows so much about our
| sorrows. He slept ON the cold doorstep of an
inhospitable world that would not let Him in.
He is sympathetic now with all the suffering
and all the tired and all the perplexed. Oh,
! why do you not go and touch Him?
You utter your voice in mountain pass.
and there come back 10 echoes, 20 echoes, 80
/ echoes perhaps-weird echoes. Every voice
OF prayer, every ascription of praise, every
! groan of distress has divine response and
celestial reverberation. and all the galleries
OF heaven are filed with sympathetic echoes
/ and throngs of ministering angels echo. and
/ the temples of the redeemed echo and the
hearts OF God the Father, God the Son and
| God the Holy Ghost echo and re-eeho.
Iprcach Christ so near you can touch
Him-toueh Him with your guilt and get
| pardon-tNueh Him with your trouble and
| get comic, touch Him with your bondage
and get manumission. You have seen man
take hold of 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 100 persons
taking hold Of that chain will altogether feel
the electric power. You have seen that ex-
| pertinent.
Well. Christ with one wounded hand
takes hold of one cad G. the electric chain
of love, and with the other wounded hand
takes hold of the other end of the electric
chain of love, and all earthly and angelic
beings may lay hold of that chain, and
| around and around in sublime and everlast-
! ing circuit runs the thrill of terrestrial and
! celestial and brotherly and sanity and
! cherubic and seraphie AMI archangelic and
| divine sympathy. So that il this morning
/ Christ should sweep His hand over this
! audience and say. ''Who touched Me2" there
| would be hundreds and thousands OF voices
| responding 81, ]. IT.
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