Milford chronicle., 1893-05-26

mouse. Alter the woman was discharged
from custody this Christian tract distribu-
ter saw her coming away, all unkempt and
unlovely. The tract distributor went up,
threw her arms around her neck and kissed
her The woman said, "0h, my God, why
do you kiss meyN We'll" replied the
other, Il think Jesus Christ told me to-
"Oh, no, - the woman said, don't you kiss
me. 1t breaks my heart. Nobody has kiss.
ed me since my mother died" But thai
sisterly kiss brought her to Chrst-started
her on the road to heaven. The world
wants sympathy II is dying for sympa'
thy-large hearted, Christian sympathy.
There is omnipotence in the touch. Oh,
am so glad that when we touch Christ
Christ touches us. The knuckles, and the
limbs, and the joints, MI 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 loathsome
patient What did Christ do2 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 a raging fever-brain fever,
typhoid fever, or what / do not know.
Christ was the physician. He offered no
febrifuge; he prescribed no drops; he did
not nut her on plain diet; he touched her,
and She was perfectly we'll. Two blind men
come stumbling into a room where Christ
is. They are entirely sightless. Christ did
not lift the eyelid to see whether it was cat
aract or ophthalmy He did not put the
men into a dark room for. three or four
weeks He touched them, and they saw ey-
erything. A man came to Christ The
drum of his car had ceased to vibrate, and
he had a suffering tongue, Christ touched
the ear, and he heard; touched his tongue,
and he articulated. There is funeral com
ing out of that gate-a widow following
her only boy to the grave. Christ cannot
stand it, and he puts his hand on the hearse,
and the obsequies turn into resurrection
day.
Oh, my brother, am so glad when We
touch Christ with our sorrows he touches
us When out of your grief and yexationl
you put your hand on Christ, it wakens all
human reniniscence Are we temptedl
He was tempted Are we sick? He was
sick Are we persccuted2 He was perse
cuted. Are we bereftY He was bereft.
THE SUBLIME CIRCUIT.
st. Yoo Of Kermartin one morning went
out and saw a beggar asleep on his door
step. The beggar had been all night in
the cold. The next night 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 eccen
tricity He replied: 1T isn't an eccentric
itv. / want TO know how the poor suffer.
l want to know their agonies that may
sympatbize with them, and therefore l slept
on this cold step last night That Is the
way Christ knowsNsO much about our sor-
rows. He slept on tbs cold doorstep OF an
inhospitable world that would fi0v .st aiIn
in. He is sympathetic now with all the
suffering and all the tried and all the PEI
picked. Oh, why do you not go and touch
him2
You utter your voice in a mountain pass,
and there come back 10 echoes, 90 echoes
so echoes perhaps, weird echoes. Every
voice of prayer, every ascription of praise
every groan of distress, has divine re-
sponse and celestial reverberation, and
all the galleries of heaven are filed with
sympathetic echoes, and throngs of minis
tering angels echo, and the temples Of thu
redeemed echo, and the hearts Of God Ito
Father, God the Son and God the Holy
Ghost echo and re-echo.
I preach a Christ so near You can touch
him-touch him with your guilt and get
pardon-touch him with your trouble
and get comfort-tOuoh 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 ot
the chain, and with the other hand he may
take hold of the other end of the chain.
Then hundred persons taking hold Of that
chain will altogether feel the electric power.
You have seen that experiment. Well,
Christ with one wounded hand takes hold
Of one end of 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 everlasting circuit runs the
thrill of terrestrial and celestial and broth
erly and sanity and cherubic and seraphio
and arehangelic and divine sympathy. So
that if this morning Christ should sweep
his hand over this audience and say, WHO
touched mef" there would be hundreds
and thousands Of voices responding; III
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