Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-05-22


five service in church. or Sabbath school, |
ar citv evangeliz 1t; On has imitatedChrist,
and the strength hes gone out of him.
A mother who roJs herself OF s.eep III
ho1,aIf of = sic: q, lie Il VIE v.-no bears
I'D cheerfully ulld . domestic misfortune
that she may cncocr-,.5e her HUSBAND III
the combat against disaster, 6 woman
who by hard swing and earnest prayer
and good counsel wisely GlTe7l and
MANY wears devoted to rearing her Hn1ly
for God and usefulness and =, even ana
who has nothing to show 4@)r IL puG
premature gray hairs and a profuslon OF
deep wrinkles IS like Christ. and strength
has gone out Of her.
That strength or virtue may nave gone
cut through a garment she has maze TOT
the home. that strength may have gone
out through the sock you knit Tor the
barefoot destitute, that strength may go
out through the mantle hung up in some
closet after you are dead. 80 a cr1ppleu
child sat every morning on her IaIners
front step SO that when the kind Christian
teacher passed by to school she mlSh6
take hold of her dress and let the dress
slide through her pale fingers. She SAID
Il be1ned her pain so much and made her
so happy all the day. Aye, have we not
in all our dwellings garments OF the de-
narted. a touch of which thrills us
through and through, the life of those
who are gone thrilling through the life
of those who stay? But mark you, Cne
principle I evolve from this subject
No addition of health to others unless
there be subtraction of strength from
Ii Il, hr1H (rC71
out of him.
CHRISTS SENSITIVENESS.
Notice also in this subject ChflsC
sensitive to human touch. we talk apou6
| God on vast scale so much we hardly
appreciate his sibility-God IN mag
nitude rather than God in minutlee, God
| in the infinite rather than God IN the IN
| fnitesimal-but here in my text we have
a 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 wrlthed under
the decorations. But here there is 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 me?"
We talk about sensitive people, but
Christ was the impersonatioh of all SEN
sitiveness. The slightest stroke Of the
smallest finger of human disability
makes all the nerves of his head anc
heart and hand and feet vibrate. 1t is
not @ stolid Christ, not phlegmatl(
Christ. not a preOccupled Christ, not {
hard Christ, not an iron cased Christ
but an exquisitely sensitive Christ tina
nv text unveils. All the things tina
touch us touch him, if by the hand o
nraver we make the connecting line be
tween him and ourselves complete
Mark Won. this invalid of the text nigh
have walked through that crowd all da
and cried about her suffering, and n
relief would have come if she had no
touched him. When in your prayer yo
Law YOUR hand on Christ you touch a
the synpathies of an ardent and glow
ing and responsive nature.
You know that in telegraphy there al
two currents of electricity. So when 20
/, put out your hand of prayer to Chrl:
there are two cUrrents-a current OF so
row rolling up from your heart to Chris
and q current of cOmmiseratiOn rollln
from the heart of Christ to you. Tv
currents. Oh. why do you go unhelpe'
! WHY do You go wondering about tn
! and wondering about that? Why do yc
! not touch him?
!, Are YOU sick? I do not think you a
: any worse off than this invalid Of Il
text. Have you had q long struggle?
years. Is your case hopeless? SO w
, this Of which my text is the diagno'
h and progrosis "Oh," you say, 1.-THE
, are so many things between me al
% God" There was a whole mob betwe
&c this invalid and Christ. She press
+ tn @ ugh, and I guess you can pre-
d through.
% Is YOUR trouble home trouble? Chr
II shows himself especially sympathe
a with questions Of domesticity, as VIII
at the wedding in Cana he al1eviated
N housekeeper's predicament, as when tef
n rushed forth at the broken home of Ma
a. and Martha and Lazarus. Men {
" sometimes ashamed to weep. There
in men who if the tears start will conc
o. them. They think it is unmanly to c.
or They do not seem to understand 1T
ds manli1iess and evidence of a great hea
T am afraid Of a man who does not KIN
In how to cry. The Christ of the text v
or not ashamed to cry over human mist
as tune. Look at that deep lake of tie
If opened by the two words Of the evanG
Of ist: sJesus weptr' Behold Christ on
h. only dav Of his early triumph march
r. on Jerusalem, the glittering domes
h liberated by the binding rain of tears
n his ewes and on his cheeks, for when
beheid the city he wept over it. o n
or of the many trials, Owoman OF the het
elf break, why do you not touch him?
Of ALWAYS HELPFUL.
ed oh" says some one, ''Chr1st does
eare for me. Christ is looking the OF