The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-22

American dies if 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, a fact proved by the
statement that he lived so short time
on the cross. That is a lingering death
ordinarily, and many sufferer on the
/ cross has writhcd in pain twenty-tour
! hours, fOrty-eight hours. Christ lived
/ only six. Why2 He was exhausted be-
/ fore he mounted the bloody tree. O, it is
a WORKOUT Christ, sympathetic with all
/ people 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. After the woman
! was discharged from custody this Christ
ian Nact distributor saw her coming
/ away, all mkempt and unlOvely. The
! tract distributor went up, threw her arms
/ around her neck and kissed her. The
/ woman said; 80, my God, why do you
/ kiss mel' "Well," replied the other, 81
! think Jesus Christ told me to- 30, no,
/ the woman said, don't YOU kiss me; it
| breaks my heart; nobody has kissed me
| since my mother died. But that sis
| terly kiss brought her to Christ, started
her on the road to heaven. The world
wants sympathy, it is dying for sym
! pathy, large-hearted Christian sympathy.
| There is omnipotence in the touch. ., l
| 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 loath-
some 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 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 put her on plain diet.
| He touched her and she was perfectly
! well. Two blind men come STUN bling
into a room where Christ IS. They are
| entirely sightless. Christ did not lift the
! eyelid to see whether it was cataract or
ophthalmy. He did not put the men into
a dark room for three or four weeks. He
! touched them and they saw everything.
| A man came to Christ. The drum of his
ear 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 a funeral coming
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 a re-
| surrection 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 hand on Christ, it wakens
all human Renaissance. Are we tempted?
He was tempted. Are we sick2 He was
sick Are we prosecuted? He was per-
secuted. Are we bereftl He was bereft.
St. Yoo of Kermartin one mOrningwen
| out and saw 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 &C.
centricity. He replied: "lt isn't an &c
centricity; want to know how the poor
! suffer, | want to know their agOnies that
l may sympathize with them, and there
fore | slept on this cold step last night"
| That is the way Christ knows so much
about our sorrows. He slept on the cold door
step of an inhospitaable world that would
not let him in. He is sympathetic now
with all the suffering and all the tried
| and all the perpleXed. o. why do you
not go and touch himl
You utter your voice in a mountain pass
and there come back the echoes, twenty
echoes, thirty echoes, perhaps weird
| echoes. Every voice of prayer, every
! aScriptiOn of praise, every grOan of dis
tress has divine response and celestial
reverberation, and all the galleries of
| heaven are filled with sympathetic
echoes, and throngs of ministering angels
echo and the hearts of God the Father,
| God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost
echo and re-echo.
| ! 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-touch him with your
| bondage and get manumission. You
| have seen 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 a 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
brotherly, and sanity, and cherubic, and
seraphic, and archangelic and divine sym
pathy. So that if 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! [! I!'
THE CASE OF EX-EDIToR JONES.
Why He Was Pushed OFF the Editorial
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