The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-06-01

gray nairs anu pfoluslon OF deep wrin-
kles, Is like Christ, and strength has
gone out of her. That strength or vir-
tue may have gone out through gar
M ent she has made tor the home: that
strength NAV have gone out through the
sack you knit for The barefoot destitute:
that strength may go out through the
mautle hung up III some closet after YOU
are dead. SO crippled child sat every
morning on her father's front step so
that when the kind Christian teacher
passed by to school she Nigh. take hold
OF her q, ess aud slide through her pale
fingers. She said it helped her pain SC
much and made her so happy all the day
| Aye, have we not in all our dwellings
garments OF the departed, Il touch OF
which thrills us through and through
The lie OF those who arc gone thrilling
through the lie Of those who STAY? But.
mark you, the principle evolc from thus
subJcct--no addition OF health to others
unless there be a subslracliOn Of strength
from ourselves. lie felt that strength
had gone out Of him.
Notice also in this subject a Christ
sensitive to human touch. We talk
about God Oh Il vast scale 50 much we
hardly appreciate his aCcessibiluy-GUd
IN magnitude rather than God in minutf;p
God IN the infinite ra,her than God III
INC lnhntesmal. But here inmy tex!
we have God arrested by suilerin{
touch. When In tho sham trial Of
Christ they Struck him on the chccE. we
can realize how that cheek tingled with
pam. When under the securing the rod
struck The shoulders and back as Christ,
we can rellze how he must have Writhcd
unoer the decorations. But here there is
a SICK and nerval"ss finger that lust
touches the long threads of the blue
1rlngc OF his coat, aud he looks around
and says, "Who touched mc?"
We talk about sensitive people, but
Christ was the lmper sona.ion Of all SEN
Siuvcncss. The slightest stroke of the
smallest finger Of human disability
makes all the nerves of his head and
heart and hand and feet vibraLe. II is
nos stol!d Christ, not phlegmatic
Christ, no. preoccupled Christ, not
hard Christ. not au iron cased Christ,
but an cNquisitcly sensitive Christ that
my text unveils. All the things tnat
touch us touch him if by the band of
prayer we make the connecting line be-
tween hlm and ourselves Comulctc,
>
haYe walked through that crowd all day
ana crled about her suffering, and 10 re-
!lCt would have c)mc if she had not
touched hlm. When i'll your prayer YOU
lay your hand on Christ, you touch all
Iho SympathleS Ol an ardent aud GLOW
inG aud responsive nature.
You know thai in tclcgraphv there
arc Two currents Of electricity. s. when
YOU pat out your hand OF PRAYER to
Christ there are two currents-a cur
rent OF sorrow rolling up from heart to
ChrlsI and current Of commiscralion
Rolling from the heart of Christ TO YOU.
Two currents. Oh, why do you 20 I'M
hc'pcL? why DO you 90 wondering
about this and wondering about that?
Why do you not touch hlm?
| Are you sick: | donot think YOU uc
any worse OIL than thus invalid of the
text, Have you had long struggle? |
do not think it has been more than -
years. Is your case hopeless? 50 was
this OF which my text is the diagonis and
prognosis. con-" you say, ''thcrc are
so many things between us and God.n
There was whole mob between this in
valid and Christ. She prcsse;. .hroush
and, gncss Yon can press through.
Is Your trouble a home trouble?
Christ shows himself especially sympa-
thctlc with questions of domesticiLy, RS
when at the wedding in Cana he allcvi-
atcd housekecper's prcdicament, as
when tears rushed forth az the broken |
hoElc of Mary anc Martha aud Lazarus. |
Men are sometimes ashamed to weep,
There arc men who if the tears start
will conceal them. They think il is un-
manly to cry. They do not seem TO un.
dersland il is manliness and evidence Of
A great heart. | am afraid Of 4 man
who does not know how TO cry. The
Christ Of the text was not ashamed TO
cry over human misfortune. Look at
hat deep lake OF tears opened by the
,"o words OF the evangelis, Jesus
wcDE" Behold Christ on the only day
'i his early triumph marching on Jcru-
salem, the glittcriug domcs oblilGratcd
" the blinding vain of tears IN his eyes ;
md on his cheek, for when he bchcld the
Aty he wcpt over it. o man OF the ma =,
~ trials, o woman of the heart break,
Why 90 you not touch him.
'Oh," says some one, "Christ don't
are Tor me. Christ is looking the otGcr y
way. Christ has the vast affairs OF his d
<ngdom TO look after. He has The ar. I
mes ot sin to overthrow, and there arc
so many worse cases Of trouble than il
nine he doesn't care about me, and his v
ace Is turned the other way" SO his q
back was Turned TO this invalid of the +
ext, lie was on his way to effect T
Irc which was famous and popular and v
H!de rcsoundIng. But the context says, v
lie turned him about" If he was q
Acng to the north he turned to the =
oIth: II he was facing to the east. he a
urned to the west. What turned him C
bout: The Bible says he has no pl.ad. t
Nv OF turning. He rides on in his chariot s
hrou!,h the cternilics. lie marches on q
rushing sccptcrs as though they were {
he cracking aldcrs on brooks bank,
nd tossing thrones on either side of p
nm without stepping to look which way E
hey TALL. From everlasting to ever. !
astlng. lie turned HIM about.n lie y
'hom all the allied armies of hell cau- =
lot stop minute or divert an inch, by +
he wan, sick, nerveless finger Of human +
turned clear about. a
On, what comfort there is in this suh q