The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-05-26


with them touch Christ. Touch him
not only ON the hem of his garments, but
touch him ON the shoulder where he car
ries our burden, touch him on the head
where he remembers all our sorrows,
touch him on the heart, the center of all
his sympathies, Oh, yes, Paul was right
when he said, 1--WE havenot a high priest
who cannot be touched"
cHRIsTs suFFERINGs.
The fact is Christ himself is nervous,
All those nights out of doors in malarial
districts, where an Englishman or an
American dies if he goes at certain sea-
sons. Sleeping out Of doors SO many
nights, as Christ did, and 80 hungry, and
his feet wet with the wash of the seq,
and the wilderness tramp, and the per-
secution, 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 I'M
gering death ordinarily, and many q
sufferer ON the cross has writhed in pain
"a hours, 48 hours. Christ lived only
six. Whyp He was exhausted before
he mounted the bloody tree. Oh, it is n
wornout 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 a
policeman taking an intoxicated woman
to the station house. After the omaD
was discharged from custody, this kshris-
tan tract distributor saw her coming
away all unkempt and unlovely. Tie
tract distributor went up, threw her arms
around her neck and kissed her. The
woman said, "Oh, my God, why do You
kiss meg' "Well, replied the other, 81
think Jesus Christ told me to-" "Oh. no,
the woman said, "don't you kiss me. 1t
breaks my heart Nobody has kissed Inc
since my mother died." But that sisterly
| kiss brought her to Christ, started her on
! the road to heaven. The world wants
sympathy. 1t is dying for sympathy
large hearted Christian sympathy. There
is omnipotence in the touch.
Oh, l am 50 glad that when we touch
| Christ Christ touches usl The knuckles
and the limbs, and the joints, all falling
apart with that living death called the
leprosy, 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 raging fever-brain fever, typhoid
fever, or what, do not know. Christ
was the physician. He offered no febri
fuge; he prescribed no drops; he did not
| put her on plain diet. He touched her
and she was perfectly well.
| Two blind men come stumbling into q
room where Christ is. They are entirely
sightless. Christ did not lift the eyelid
to see whether it was cataract or oph.
thalmia. 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,
md he heard; touched his tongue, and
he articulated. There is a funeral com.
ing out of that gate-a widow following
her only boy to the grave. Christ can.
not stand it, and he puts his hand on the
hearse, and the obsequies turn into res
direction day.
HE WILL. BEAR OUR BURDENS.
o my brother, am 30 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 "reminiscences. Are we tempt
ed? He was tempted. Are we sick
He was sick. Are we persecuted2 He
was prosecuted. Are we bereft? He
was bereft.
st. Yoo of Kermartin one morning
went out and saw beggar asleep on his
doorstep. The beggar had been all night
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IN the cold. The next night st. Yoo com
PEELED this bcggar to come up in tht
house and sleep in the saints bed, while
St. 700 passed the night on the Doorstep
in the cold. Somebody asked him why
that eccentricity. He replied: 1T isa
an eccentricity. / want to know how
the poor suffer. want to know theil
agonies that l may sympathize witt
them, and therefore l slept on this colo
step last night That is the way Chris
Knows so mucn about our sorrows. HI
slept on the cold doorstep Of an inhes
pitable world that would not let him in