The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-04-26

| His life. In addition TO the water. He drank
tue ju ice OF the grape. When Mt wedding
party this beverage gave out. He made gal
| Ions on gallons OF grape juice, but il was as
unlike what the world makes in our time Ms
health Is different from disease and ns calm
| pulses are different from the paroxysms OF
delirum trempns. There was no strychnine
In that beverage or logwooi or nux vonica.
The tipplers and the sots who now q uote
the winemaklng in Cana OF Galilee rs an ex-
cuse Tor the tiery and damning beverages OF
the nineteenth century forget that the wine
nt the New Testament wedding had two
characteristics--theo ono thnt the Lord made
II and the other that IL was made ont OF
water. Buy all YOU can OF that kind aud
drink II at least three times n day and send a
barrel OF IL round 20 my cellar.
You cannot make me believe that che
blessed Christ who went up and down heal
ins the sick would create Tor man that style
os drink which IL the cause OF disease more
tban all other causes comblDel, or that He
wac calmed the maniacs into their right
mind would create that style OF drink which
does more than anything else TO fll insane
1sylums. or that He who was so helpful to
tine poor would make style Of drink that
crowds the earth with paupcrism, or that He
who came TO save the nations from sin would
create liquor that is tho source OF most OF
the crime that now stufrs the penitcntiaries.
lovely sobriety WAS written all over Hts
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 Hjs own He
went out 10 spend the night at Bsthany two
or three miles walk from Jerusalem, and
over n rough and hilly road that made IL
equal to six or seven ordinary miles, every
morning and night going to and fro would
rather walk from hers TO Central Park, or
walk from Edinburgh to Arthur's Seat or in
London clear around Hyde Park, than 10
walk that ROAD that Christ walked twice
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 reconstru ructing
homesteads which disease or death was
breaking up! IA the song, Home. Sweet
Home" was written by man who at that
time had no home, so think the homeless
ness OF Christ added to His appreciation of
domesticity.
Furthermore, He was lovely in His SYM
pathies. Now, dropsy Is a most distresstul
complaint. IL inf tmes and swe.ls and tor
lures any limb or physical organ 1t touches.
As soon as case OF that kint is submitted
to Christ, He, without any use OF diaphor-
etlcs, commands its cure AMI what an eye
doctor He was for opening the long closed
gates OF sight to the blue OF the sky. and the
yellow of the flower and the emerald OF the
grass! What a Christ He WIS for cooling
fevers without so much as spoonful OF
febrifuge, and Strengthening crooked backs
without any pang OF surgery, and standing
whole chotrs OF music along the silent gal
leries OF deaf ear, and giving healthful nor
vous system TO catalepticsi Sympathy, He
did not give them s;oical advice or philoso-
phize about the science OF gris!. He sat
down and cried for them.
II Is spoken of rs the shortest verse in the
Bible, but TO me 1t IL about tho longest and
xvn,Nt A L.
know the meaning OF that When we were
in great trouble, some one came in with vol
uble consolation and quoted the Scripture in
a sort OF heartless way and did not help us
at all. But after awhile some one else came
in, and without saying a word sat down and
burst into a iiooi OF tears at the sight OF
our woe. and somehow II helpei us right
away. Jesus wept" You see. il was a
deeply attached household, that OF Mary and
Martha and Lazarus. The father and mother
were dead. and the girls depended on their
brother. Lazarus had said TO them 'Now,
MARY now, Martha, stop your worrying. /
viii take care OF you. will De 70 you both
'srher AL mother. My'ar.n II, stron; Girls,
ysI can depend on m3.'
But now Lazarus WAS slcs yea, Llzlru,
was dead. All broken up, the sisters sit
disconsoiate, and there Is knock at the
door. Come in says Martha. Come
in. says Mary. Christ entered, and He Jus.
DrOkb uOWu. IL WAS 100 mugl Tor Htm. He
had been 50 often and so kinily entertained
in that home before sickness and death day-
astated IL that He choaei M and soobed
aloud, and the tears tricklei down the sad
face OF the sympathetic Christ. Jesus
wep.." Why do YOU no. try that mo 10 Of
helping You say, II an a man OF few
words or II am woman OF few woris.
Why your dear soul. words are not nsc.s-
siry Initiate your Lord aud 20 70 those AZ
alcted homes and cry with them.
John Murphy! Well. you did not kno,y
him. Once when was In great bereays.
ment. he came to my house. Kind minister's
of the gospel had come and talkeI beauti-
fully and prayed with us and did ali thsy
could TO console. But John Murphy. onr OF
tho best friends | ever had. f, big souie.
glorious Irishman came in AMI looIei into
my face, put out his broad, strong hand ami
said not a word. but sat down and cried with
US. am not enough OF a phi,o,opher tosty
how il was or why il was. bu. somsboy fron
door 10 door AMI from floor 10 ceiling ths
room was filed with an all psry,diny con,-
fort. Jesus wept."
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