The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-04-27

nineteenth century, forget that the
wine at the New Testament we'd
ding had two characteristics,
the one that the Lord made
it, and the other that it was mad out of
water. Buy all you can of that kind
and drink il at least three times day,
and send a barrel of it around to my
cellar. You cannot make me believe
that the blessed Christ who went up
and down healing the sick, would ere
ate for man that style of drink which
is the cause of disease more than all
other causes combined; or that He who
Gained the maniacs into their right
mind. would create that style of drink
which does more than anything else to
fill insane asylums; or that He who was
so helpful to the poor, would make a
style of drink that crowds the earth
with pauperism: or that He who came
to save the nations from sin, would ere
ate liquor that is a source of most of
the crime that now stuffs the peniten-
tiaries- A lovely sobriety was written
all over His face, from the hair-line of
the forehead 20 the bottom of the
bearded chin.
Domesticity was also His habit
Though too poor to have a home of His
own He went out to spend the night at
Bethany, > or miles walk from Jeru-
salem, and over a rough and billy road
that made it equal to er 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
don clear around Hyde park, than to
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
resurrected boy to his mother and the
resurrected girl 10 her father and re-
constructing homesteads which disease
or death was breaking up. As the
song, Home, Sweet Home" was writ
ten by man who at that time had no
home, so l think the homelessness of
Christ added to His appreciation of do
mesticity.
Furthermore, He was lovely in His
sympathies Now, dropsy is most dis
tressing complaint. 1t inflames, I'D
swells, and fortunes any limp or phys
ical organ it touches. As soon as a case
of that is submitted to Christ He. with
out any use of diaphoretics, commands
its cure And 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 Christ He was
for cooling fevers without so much as
a spoonful of febrifuge; and straight
ening crooked backs without any pang
of surgery; and standing whole choirs of
music along the silent galleries of a
deaf ear; and giving healthful nervous
system to cataleptics, Sympathy! He
did not give them stoical advice. or
about the science of grief
He sat down aud cried with them.
It is spoken of as the shortest verse
in the Bible, but to me it is about the
longest and grandest-''Jesus wept"
All. many of US know the meaning of
that When we were in great trouble.
some one came in with voluble consola-
ton and quoted the Scripture in 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 flood of tears
At the sight of our woe, and somehow
It helped US right away. Jesus wept"
Y on see. it was deeply attached house
hold, that of Mary, and Martha. and
Lazarus The father and mother were
lead. and the girls depended on their
brother.
But now Lazarus was sick: yea, Lag
arus was dead All broken up, the sis
.ers disconsolate. and there is knock
1t the door. Christ entered, and He
lust broke down 1t was too much for
Him He had been so often and so
kindly entertained in that home before
and death devastated it, that
He choked up and sobbed aloud, and
the tears trickled down the sad face of
the sympathetic Christ Jesus wept"
Why do you not try that mode of help
ing? You say. Il am a man of few
or Il am a woman of few
Why, you dear soul. words
are not necessary. Initiate your Lord,
and 60 to those afflicted homes and cry
with them
John Murphy. Well, you did not
know him Once, when l was in great
he came to my house.
Kind ministers of the gospel had come
md talked beautifully, and prayed
with US, and did all they could to con-
sole But John Murphy, one of the
best friends ever had, big-souled.
glorious Irishman. came in and looked
INTO my face. put out his broad, strong
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 it was, but somehow from
door to door, and from floor 20 ceiling.
the room was filed with an all-pervad-
ng comfort Jesus wept"
1 think that is what makes Christ
such a popular Christ There are so
many vi no want sympathy. Miss Fiske,
the famous HISTORIAN missionary, was
n the chapel one day talking to the
neathen, and she was in very poor
health. and SO weak she sat upon a
nat while she talked. and felt the need
Of something to lean against, when she
felt woman's form at her back and
heard a woman's voice saving: Lean
0n me-" She leaned little. but did
not want to be too cumbersome, when
the woman's voice said: Lean hard. If
you love me, lean hard" And that
makes Christ so lovely. He wants all
The sick. and troubled. and weary to
can against him. and He says: Lean
hard. if you love me. lean hard" Christ
S always close by if we want Him, and
has all the medicines ready and has
eternal life for all
Aye. He was lovely in His doctrines.
or the relief of the suffer