Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-05-22

turned l,in about" PIE, whom sll Che
allied Armies q hell cannot stop min.
nte or divert On inch, by the wan. sick,
nerveiess flnger Of human suffering turn.
ed cleaf about
Oh. what comfort there IL 10 this sub
ject for people who are called nerv.
ousi OF course ~ IL q inissppiied word
IN that case. but use u IN the ofdi.
nary psriance. After fe years Of suffer.
ing. on. Whist nervous depression she
must have badi You al know that a
rood deal ~ medicine taken u u does
NOT cure 1eaves the system exhausted.
and IN Che Bible IN SO many words she
"had suffered many things Of many
pbysicjans and was nothing bettered,
but rather grew worse" She was AZ
nervous a. nervous could be. She knew
Ali about insomnia, and about the awful
apprehension Of something going 10
happen, and irritability about little
things that In health would not have
perturbed her. I warrant you 10 was
not straight stroke she gave to the
garment of Christ, but a trembling fore
arm. and an uncertain motion Of the
hand. and quivcring finger with which
she missed the mark toward which she
aimed. She did not touch the garment
lust where she expected to touch IL.
When see this nervous woman COM
ing 10 the Lord Jesus Christ, say she IL
making the way for oil nervous people.
Nervous people do not get much sympa-
tby. II q man breaks his arm, every
body "a sorry, and they talk about II all
IN and down tho street. II woman
has an eye put out by accident, they cay,
"Thst's . dreadful thing" Everybody
10 asking about her convalescence. But
when Q person IA suffering under the all
ment Of which ! am now speaking they
say: "Oh, that's nothing. She's little
nervous, that's all, putting slight upon
the most agohixing Of suffering.
Now, have new prescription to give
You. do not ssk you TO discard human
medicament. I believe init. When tho
slightest thing occurs In the way of sick
ness In my household, we always run for
the doctor. l do not want to despise
medicine. II you cannot sleep nights, do
not despise bromide of potassium. II
you have nervous paroxysm, do not de-
spise morphine. II You want TO strength
en- up your system, do not despise quiz
nine as q tonic. Use all right and prop
or medicines But want you to bring
your insomnia, and bring your irritabili-
ty, and bring all your weaknesses, and
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 high priest
| who cannot be touched"
CHRIsT's sUFFERINGs.
The fact Is Christ himself is nervous.
All those nights out Of doors In rnalarial
districts, where an Englishman or an
American dies If he goes at certain sea-
sons. Sleeping out of doors 30 many
nights, a. Christ did, and 80 hungry, and
his feet wet with the wash Of the sea,
and the wilderness tramp, and the per-
secution, and the outrage must have
broken down his nervous system; fact
proved by the statement that he lived &C
short time on the cross. That Is q lin
gering death ordinarily, and many Q
sufferer on the cross has writhed In pair
"a hours, 40 hours. Christ lived only
ix. Why7 He was exhausted before
he mounted tho bloody tree. Oh, 1t Is .
wornout Christ, sympathetic with al
people worn out.
A Christian woman went to the Tract
House In New York and asked for tractl
for distribution. The first day she wa
out ON her Christian erraud she saw I
policeman taking an intoxicated woman
to the station house. After the woman
was discharged from custody, this Chris
tian tract distributor saw her comini
away all unkempt and unlovely. Tn
tract distributor went up, threw her arm
around her neck and kissed her. Tn
woman said, "Oh, my God, why do yo'
, kiss meY' "Well, replied the other, :"
, think Jesus Christ told me to-" "Oh. nc
, the woman said, "don't You kiss me. /
breaks my heart. Nobody has kissed m
since my mother died." But that sisterl.
kiss brought her to Christ, started her o.
, the road to heaven. The world want
sympathy. 1t Is dying for sympathy
large hearted Christian sympathy. Their
! Ia omnipotence in the touch.
Oh, am 80 glad that when we touc
Christ Christ touches usl The knuckles
and the limbs, and the joints, all fallin
apart with that living death called th
,, leprosy, q man is brought TO Christ. !
! hundred doctors could not cure hin
The wisest surgery would stand appalle
before that loathsome patient. Wha
'. did Christ do? He did not amputate; b
did not poultice; he did not scarify. H
touched him, and he was well. TIL
mother-in-law Of the Apostle Peter wa
in raging fever-brain fever. typhoi
fever, or what. do not know. Chrii
was the physician. He offered no febr
fuge; he prescribed NO drops; he did nc
put her ON plain diet. He touched hel
and she was perfectly well.
Two blind men come stumbling into
|. room where Christ is. They are entirel
! sightless. Christ did not lift the eyeli
to see whether 1t was cataract or opl
thalmia. He did not put the men into