Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-01
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| zone OUT throusi n garment sne mas
|; made for the home. that strength may
! h9ye gone out tiroash the soca that
Won knit for the barefoot destitute.
that strength may go out through the
mantle hung up in some closet affer you
are dead. SO a crippled child sat every
morning on her father's front step
! 50 that when the kind Christian teacher
nassnd by 10 school she might take
hold of her dress AMI let the dress SIDE
through her pale fingers She said III
helped her pain so much ana made her
SO happy all the day. AYE, nave we
not in all our dwelling garments OF
the departed. a touch OF fic thrins
us through and through. the Ire OF
those who are gone thrilling tlfough
the life OF those who stay2 But marx
Won. the principle | evolve from this
subject. No addition OF health 10 others
unless there he a subtraction OF
strength from ourselves. He felt taat
strength had gone ont of him.
Notice also in this subject n Christ
sensitive TO human touch. We ak
about God on a vast scale so much we
hardly appreciate his accessibility, GOO
in magnitude rather than God In min
utiae. God In the infinite rather than
God in the ~ininitesimal: but here In
nv text we have a God arrested by a
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
scourg;ng the rod struck the shoulders
and back Of Christ. we can realize how
he must hare writhed under the iacera-
lions. But here there is a sick and
nerveIpss finger that Just touches h
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 i~mpelSonation Of all
constituencies. The slightest stroke of
the smallest finger Of human disability
makes all the nerves of his head and
heart and hand and feet vibrate. 1t
Is not a st0lid Christ, not a p~hiegmatic
Christ. not a hard Christ. not an from
cased Christ, but an c~quisiteiy sensl-
tive Christ that my TEXT unveils. All
the things that touch us touch him, If
By the hand Of prayer we make the
connecting line between him and our
selves complete. Mark you, this in
valid of the text might have walked
through that crowd all day and cried
about her suffering and no relief would
have come if she had not touched him.
When in your prayer you lay your
hand on Christ you touch all the SYM
pathies Of an ardent and glowing and
responsive nature.
You know that in telegraphy there
are two currents Of electricity. So
when vou put out your hand of prayer
to Christ there are two curTents-a cur-
rent OF sorrow rolling up from your
heart TO Christ. and a current of com
miseration rolling from the heart of
Christ 10 you. Two currents. Oh, why
do you 20 unhelped? Why do you 90
wondering about this and wondering
about that? Why do You not touch
him?
Are yoI sick? / do not think you are
any worse of than this invalid of the
text. Have you had a long struggle?
1 do not think ii has been more than
twelve years. Is your case hopeless?
So was this of which my text is the
diagnosis and pFognoSs. Oh" you
say, there are 50 many things between
me AMI God" There was a whole mob
between this invalid and Christ. She
pressed through, and / guess you can
press through.
Is your trouble 4 home trouble?
Christ shows himself especially SYM
pathetic with questions of domesticltv.
as when at the wedding in Cana he NJ
leviated a ho~useGeeper's ~predicamcnr.
as when tears rushed forth at the broE-
en- home OF Mary and Martha and
Lazarus. Men are sometimes ashamed
To Weep. There are men who if the
tears start VIII conceal them. They
think IT Is unmaniy TO cry. They do
not seem to understand it is manliness
and evidence Of a great heart. I am
afraid of a man who does not know
how 10 CRY. The Christ of the text was
not ashamed TO cry over human mis-
fortune. Look at that deep lake Of
tears opened by the two words of the
evangelist: Jesus wept.' Behold
Christ on the only day of his early tri-
umpn marching on Jerusalem. the gilt
terIng domes ~obliterated by the blind
ing rain of tears in his eyes and ON his
cheek; for when he beheld the city he
wept over it. o man of the many
trials, . woman Of the h%eartbreak. why
do You not touch him:
Oh- says some one. Christ don't
care for me. Christ is looking the other
way. Christ has the vast affairs of his
kingdom TO look after. He has the
armies OF sin to overthrow. and there
are so many worse cases Of trouble
oian mine he doesn't care about mo.
his a C is turned the other way
80 MS back was turned TO this invalid
OF n text He sas on his way to Of
feet a cure which was lannon's and
popular and Understanding. But the
context says. He turned him bout"
III he was facing TO the north he turned
TO the south. If he was facing 10 the
east he turned TO the west. VIVA
turned him aboutY The Bible says he
no shadowof turning. He rides on
IN his chariot through the eternities.
de marches on crushing scepters as
though they were the cracking alders
On a brooks bank. and tossing thrones
on either side of him without stopping
to iook which way they fail. IRON
everlasting to everlasting. He turned
him about" He whom all the allied
armies OF he'll cannot stop a minute or
divert an inch. by the wan. sick. nerve.
less finger Of human suffering turned
clear about.
On. what comfort there is In this snh-
lect for people who are called nervous
Of course IL is a misapplied wor5 in