Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1893-06-10

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If she had not touched Him. When in your
prayer you lay your hand on Christ you touch |
all thu aympathles Of an ardent and glowing ,
and responsive nature.
You know that IL te.eSraphy there are two |
currents Of electricity. So when you put out
hand Of prayer to Christ there are two
cUrrents-a current OF sorrow rolling ID from
your heart to Christ and a current OF CON- |
u.serat.on rolling from the heart Of Christ to
YOU. Two currents. Oh. way do you go IN
haspeit Why do you 90 wondering about
this and wondering about that? Why do you
not touch Him?
Are you sick? / do not think you are any
w0r.e of than this invalid Of the text. Have
fpa had a long struggle? l do not think it
Is b~en more than II years. Is your case
fopaiess7 So was this Of which my text is
the diagnosis and p%rognosis. ooh" you say,
there are 50 many things between me and
Cod" There was q whole mob between this
Invalid and Christ. She pressed through, and
| guess you can press through.
Is your trouble a home trouble? Christ
shows Himself especially sympathetic with
questions Of donesticity, as when at the we'd
ding in Cana He alleyiated a housekeeper's
predicancnt. as when tears rushed forth at
the broken dome Of Mary and Martha and
Lazarus. Men are sometimes ashamed to
W.ep. There are men who If the tears start
WI. conceal them. They think it is unmanly
- CRY. They do not seem to understand 1t is
U~auiiness and evidence Of a great heart. /
AVA afraid OF a man who does not know how
to cry. The Christ Of the text was not
ashamed to cry over misfortune. Look
Il that deep lake Of tears opened by the two
Hor,is Of the evangelist Jesus wept" Be-
hold Christ on the only day of His early
: ri,1n4.,i1 rparphipo on Ior,fGalam tho GLITTER
ing donses obliterated by the binding rain of
tears in His eyes and On His cheeks, for when
He beheld the city He wept over 1t. o man
n the many trials, 0 woman of the heart
break, why do you not touch Him?
"Oh, says some one, "Christ doesn't care
for ne. Christ is looking the other way.
Christ has the vast affairs of His kingdom to-
look after. He has the armies Of sin to over
throw. and there are so many worse cases OF
trouble than mine He doesn't care about me,
alti His face is turned the other way" SO
His back was turned to this invalid of the
text. He was on His way to effect a cure
which was famous and popular and wide re-
sounding. But the context says, "He turned
Him about If He was facing to the north,
He turned to the south II He was facing to
the east, He turned to the west. What
turned Him about? The Bible says He has no
shadow Of turning He rides on His chariot
through the eternities. He marches on,
crushing scePters as though they were the
cracking alders on a brooks bank, and toss
ing thrones on either side Of Him without
looking which way the fail. From e~verlast-
ngt to everlasting. HI turned Him about.
He, whom all the allied armies OF hell can
not stop a minute or divert an inch, by the
wan, sick, nerveless finger of human suffer
ing turned clear about.
Oh. what comfort there is in this subject
for people who are called nervous OF course
it is a misapplied word In that case, but I use
it in the ordinary parlance. After IL years
ofsuffering. oh, what nervous depression she
} must have had. You all know that a good
deal of medicine taken II 1t 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
bettered. but rather grew worse She was
as nervous as nervous could be. She knew
all about insomnia, and about the awful ap-
prehension of something going to happen,
and irritability about little things that In
health would not have perturbed her. l war
rant you it was not O straight stroke she gave
to the garment of Christ, but a trembling
forearm, and an uncertain motion Of the
hand, and a quivering finger with which she
missed the mark toward which she aimed.
She did not touch the garment just where
she expected to touch it.
When | see this nervous woman coming to
the Lord Jesus Christ, I say she is making
the way. for all nervous people. Nervous
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breaks bis arm, everybody is sorry, and they
talk about it all up and down the street. II q
woman has an eye put out by accident, they
say That's a dreadful thing" Everybody
is asking about her convalescence. But when
q person is suffering under the ailment OF
which | am now speaking they say ooh,
that's nothing. She's a little nervous, that's
ALL" putting a slight upon the most agoniz-
ing Of suffering.
Now, I have a new prescription to give you.
[ do not ask you to discard human medica-
ment. l 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 esn-
not sleep nights, do not despise bromide OF
potassium. If you have nervous paroxysm,
DO not despise morphine. If you wants to
strengthen up your system, do not despise
luinine as a tonic. Use all Fight and PROPER
medicines. But / want you to bring your
Insomnia, and bring your irritabilty, and
BRING all your weaknesses, and with them
:ouch Christ. Touch Him not only on the
1em Of His garments, but touch Him on the
shoulder. where Hecarries our burden, touch
Him on the head where He remembers all
our sorrows, touch Him on the heart, the
,enter OF all His sympathies. Oh, yes, Pau
vas right when he said, I'VE have not q high
priest who cannot be touched"
The fact is Christ himself Is nervous. All
hose nights out Of doors In malarial districts,
Ehere an EngllShman or an American dies II
AZ goes at certain seasons. Sleeping out OF
ioors SO many nights, as Christ did, and 60
hungry, and His feet wet with the wash O,
he sea. and the wilderness tramp, and the
persecution. end the outrage must have
broken His nervous system a fact proved by
. he statement that He lived 80 short a time
N the cross. That is a lingering death or
! linarlly, and many a sufferer on the cross
: las wri.hed in pain "a hours, 40 hours Chris,
5 lived only six Why? He was exhausted be-
ore He mounted the bloody tree. Oh, it IL
$ s'wornout Christ, sympathetic with all peo-
,e worn out.
| A Christian woman went to the Tract
house II New York and asked for tracts for
| distribution. The first day she was out on
ner Christian errand she saw = nolicena
:, .aSfhg an intoxicated woman to the static
= nous'. After the woman was diseharpa
nom custody, this Christian tract distrih,,te
= "a" ner coming away ali unkenp, and mr.
= lovely. he tract distributor wen, IN thra,
= ner arms around her nerk and kissed he,
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: SIS NJ. We'll, replied the other, :.
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ne woman said. don't you kiss me-.
nreaAs MY heart. NOBODY has kissed -
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