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

ouSes on her Christian errand she saw
policeman taking an intoxicated woman
to the station house. After the woman
was discharged from custody, this Chris
tan tract distributor saw her coming
away all unkempt and unlovely. The
tract distributor went up, tnrew her arms
around her.neck and kissed her. The
woman said, "Oh, my God, why do you
kiss me?r well, replied the other, II
think Jesus Christ told me to. T"Oh, no,
the woman said, "don't you kiss me. It
breaks my heart. Nobody has kissed me
since my motherd al ed. y But thai sisterly
lskiss brought 'herto Christ started heE. on
sfhssr q sheaYen The world 5Wants
large hearted Christian sympathy. There
lis omnipotehce in the touch.
Oh, I am so glad that when we touch
Christ Christ touches usl The knuckles,
| and the limbs, and the joints, all falling
apart with that living death called the
leprosy, man is brought to Christ. A
hundred doctors could not cure him.
The wisest surgery would stand appalled,
| before that loathsolne patient. What
did Christ do? He did not amputate; he
did not poultice; he did not scarify. He
touched him, and he was well. The
mother-in-law Of the Apostle Peter was
In raging fever-brain fever, typhoid
lfeyer, or what, do not know. Christ
ssswas the physician. He offered no febri-
ure: in;sSss..sssSsibed no drops; he did not
,ut her on plain diet. n s touched l heT,
md she was perfectly well.
Two blind men come stumbling into a
Dom where Christ is. They are entirely !
,iahtless. Christ did not lift the eyelid
% see whether it was cataract or oph-
,halmia. He did not put the men into a
lark room for three or four weeks. He
touched them, and they. saw everything
A man came to Christ. The drum Of his
,ar had ceased to vibrate, and he had
suffering tongue. Christ touched the ear,
and he heard; touched his tongue, and
he articulated. There is u funeral COM
ing out Of that gate-a widow following
her only boy to the grave. Christ can
not stand it, and he puts his hst-S on the
hearse, and the obsequies turn intoares
direction day.
he WILL BEAR OUR BURDENS.
o my brother, ] am SO glad when we
touch Christ with our sorrows ne touches
ns. When out Of your grief and vexatlon
YOU put your hand on Christ, it wakens
all human "Reminiscences. Are we tempt
edY He was tempted. Are we slckf
He was sick. Are we prosecuted! He
was prosecuted. Are we bereft1 he
was bereft.
ST. Yoo of Kermartin one morning
went cut and saw beggar asleep on his
doorstep. The beggar had been all night
in the cold. henextnight st. Yoo com
PEELED this beggar to come up In the
house and sleep in the saints bed, while
St. Yoo passed the night on the doorstep
In the cold. Somebody asked him why
that eccentrioity. He replied: "It isn't
an eccentric;;y. want to know how
the Door suffer. I want to know theu
aeonies that may sympathize with
them. and therefore I slept on this cold
step last night" That Is the way Christ
knows so much about our sorrows. Ho
slept on the cold doorstep OF On inEos'
pitable world that would not let him in.
He is sympathetic now with all the sui
ferinp and all the tired and all the per
picked. Oh. why do you not go and
touch him?
You utter your voice in mountain
pass and there come back 10 echoes, ~
echoes, 80 echoes perhaps-welrd echoes.
Every voice Of prayer, every ascrlptlon
of praise, every groan Of distress has d.
vine response and celestial reverberahon,
and all the galleries Of heaven are tllied
with sympathetic echoes and thTongs OF
ministering angels echo, and the temples
of the redeemed echo, and the hearts OF
God the Father, God the Son and Goo
the Holy Ghost echo and re-echo. ;,
preach a Christ SO nearyou can touch
hin,-touch him with your guilt and get
nardon-touch him with your trouble
and get comfort-touch him with your
bondage and get manumission. You
have seen a man take hold Of an 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 zee
the electric power. You have seen ina