The Penn's Grove record., 1894-04-27

NANt ANiV oOtS WhC
the winemaking in Jana OF Galilee as an ex.
euse Tor the fiery and damning beverages OF
the nineteenth century forget that the VINE
at the New Testament wedding hqd TWO
eharacteristies-the one that the Lord maae
1t and the other that it was made out OF
water. Buy all you can of that KIND ana
drink 1t at least three times n day and send q
barrel OF 1t round to my cellar.
You cannot make me believe that tnt
Dressed Christ who went up and down neat
ing the SICK would create for man that style
OF drink which Is the cause OF disease more
than all other causes combined, or thai he
wlo claimed the maniacs into their right
mind would create that style of drink which
does more than anything else to I'LL insane
asylums. or that He who was so helpful TO
the poor would make a style of drink that
crowds tine earth with pauperism, or that ne
who came TO save the nations from sin would
create a liquor that is the source OF most OF
the crime that now stuffs the penitentlarles.
A lovely sobrietv was written all over HIS
face, from the hair line of the forehead to the
bottom of the bearded chin.
Domesttcity was also His habit. Though
too poor to have a home of His own, He
went out to spend the night at Bethany, two
or three miles walk from Jerusalem, and
over a rough and billy Dad that made 1t
equal to six or seven ordinary miles, every
morning and night going to and fro. would
rather walk from here to Central Park, or
walk from Edinburgh to Arthur's Seat, or in
Lon lon clear around Hyde Park, than TO
walk that road that Christ walked twice n
day from Jerusalem to Bethany. But He
liked the quietude Of home life, and He was
lovely in His domesticity.
How He enjoyed handing over the resur'
rected girl to her father, and demonstrating
homestea1s which disease or death was
breaking up! As the song, "Home, Sweet
Home" was written by q man who at that
time had no home, so L think the homeless
ness of Christ added to His appreciation Of
domesticity.
Furthermore, He was lovely in His sym
pathies. Now, dropsy is q most distressfnl
complaint. 1t infiameS and swells and tor
lures any limb or physical organ it touches.
AS soon as a case OF that kind is submitted
to Christ, He, without any use of diapaor-
etics, commands its cure. And what an aya
doctor He was for opening the long closet
gates OF sight to the blue OF the sky, AMI the
yellow of the flower and the emerald Of tho
grass! What o Christ He WIS for cooling
fevers without so much as q spoonful OF
febrifuge, and Strengthening crooked backs
without any pang OF surgery, and staining
whole choirs Of music along the silent gal
lerles Of n deaf ear, and giving healthful ner-
vous system to eataleptics! Sympathy He
did not give them stoical advice or philoso-
pIize about the science OF grief. H9 slt
down AMI cried for them.
! 1t Is spoken of rs the shortest verso in the
Bible, but to mt it is about the longest AMI
: grandest, Jesus wept." All, many OF US
know the meaning oil that When we were
in great trouble, some one came in with VOL
uble consolation and quoted the Scripture iD
a sort OF h~eartless way and did not help us
at all. But after awhile some one else Cant
in, and without saying a word sat down and
burst into a Hood OF tears at the sight OF
our woe, and somehow 1t helped US right
n,r,., lgT,,,,- MONT ~ Won II xrac N
deeply attached household, that of Mary ana
Martha and Lazarus. The father and mother
were dead. and the girls depended on their
brother. Lazarus had said to them snow,
Mary, now Martha, stop your worrying. L
will take care Of you. l will be to you both
father and mother. My arm Is strong. Girls,
You can depend on met
was dead. All broken up, the sisters sit
disconsolate, AMI there is a knock at the
door. "Come in" says Martha. "Come
In" says Mary. Christ entered, and He just
broke down. 1t was too much tor Him. He
had been so often and so kindly entertained
In that homo before sickness and death dey-
Rstated it that He choked up and sobbed
aloud, and the tears trickled Town the sad
face of the sympathetic Christ. "Jesu5
wept." Why do You not try that mode OF
helping. You say, 81 am o man OF few
words" or 81 am a woman of few words
Why, your dear soul. words are not nacas-
sary. Initiate your Lord AMI go to those al
aicted homes and cry with them.
John Mdrply! Wes', you did not know
him. Ouce, wlen [ was in great bereave-
ment, he came to my house. KIM ministers
Of the gospel had come and talked beauti-
fully and prayed with us and did all they
could to console. But John Murphy, n OF
Inc best friends | ever had, a big ~souiel,
glorious Irishman, came in and looked into
M faoa Tnnt ont hIs broad afFnnu hand and
said not a word, but sat down and cried with
us, l am not enough OF a philosopher to say
how it was or why 1t was, but somehow from
door to door and from floor to ceiling tho
room was filed with an all pervading corr
Fort. "Jesus wept."
1 think that is what makes Christ u II
popular Christ. There are SO many who
want sympathy. Miss Fiske, the famous
HISTORIAN missionary, was in the chapel one
day talking to the heather, and she was in
very poor health and so weak she sat upon a
mat while she talked and felt the need of
something to lean against, when she felt q
woman's form at her back and heard a
woman's voice saying, "Lean on mo-" She
leaned q little, but did not want to be too
cumbersome, when the woman's voice said,
uLean hard If you love me, lean hard"
And that makes Christ so lovely. He
wants all the sick and troubled and weary to
lean against Him, and He says, Lean hard
IL YOU love Me, lean hard" Aye, He Is
close by with His sympathetic help. Hold
ley Wears, the famous soldier and Christian
OF the Crinean war. died because when he
was wounded his regiment was too far of
from the tent of supplies. He WAS not NOR
tally wounded, and if the surgeons could
only have got at the bandages and the medt-
cines he would have recovered. So much
Of human sympathy and hopeIulnsss comes
too late. But Christ is always close by il
we want Him, and has all the medicines
ready, and has eternal life for all who ask
for 1t. Sympathy <sF
Ave, He was lovely in His doctrines. Self
sacrifice or the relief of the suffering OF
others by our own suffering. He wasth only
physician that ever proposed to cure His pa
tients by taking their disorders. Self sacrl-
feel And what did He not give up for
others! h best climate IN the universe,
the air OF heaven, for the wlntry weather OF
Palestine, a seepter of unlimited dominion
for a prisoners box in an earthly courtroom,
a flashing tiara for a crown of singing
brambles, q palace for a cattle psn, q throne
for a cross. Self sacrifice! What is more
lovely? Mothers dying for their children
down with scarlet fever, railroad engineers
going down through the open draw5ridge to
save the train, fremen scorched to death
irving to help some one down the ladder
rom the fourth story OF tho consuming
house, All these put together only faint aud
insufficient SMILES by which to illustrate tho
n mlghtier, farther reaching solf sac.
TltIce Of the "~altogcther lovely"
Do you wonder that the story of His self
sacrifice has led hundreds of thousands to
die for Him? In one series Of prosecutions
over 200, 900 were put TO death for Chrlst's
sake. For Him Blandina was tied to a post
and wild beasts were let out upon her, and
whom life continued after the attack oftooth
and paw she was put in a net, and that Iot
containing her was thrown to a wild luil
that tossed her with It's horns tiil life vas cx-
tinct, All for Christ Hugucn0ts dying Zoe
Christ Albigenses dying for Cnrist. The
Yaudois diving for Christ /. Snithhold fires
endured Tor Christ The Zones OF martyrs,
il distributed, would make a path OF mo'Ier-
ing life all around the earth. The loneliness
of the savlour's sacrifice has inspired all the
heroisms and all the martyrdoms OF suk-.
ouent centuries. Christ has had more nj 3
and women die for Him than all the other ID
habitants of all the ages have had die for
them.
Furthermore, He was lovely in His SER
mons. He knew when to begin, when to
stop and Just what to say. The longest SER
mon He ever preached, 50 far as the Bible
reports Him-namely,' the sermon on the