The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-04-25

side of the platter" and he applauds
his disciples by saying. Now are ye
clean,' and giving directions 10 those
who tasted, among other things, he says,
wash thy face" and to a blind man
whom he was doctoring. Go, wash in
the pool of Sloan" and He himself act
ually washed the disciples feet, 1 sup
pose not only to demonstrate his own
humility. but probably their feet needed
TO be washed. The fact is the Lord was
a great friend OF water. 1 know that
from the fact that most of the world is
water. But when l find Christ in such
constant commentator of water / know
He was personally neat, although He
mingled much among very rough popu-
lations and took such long journeys on
dusty highways. He wore His hair long,
according TO the custom Of his land and
time. but neither trouble nor old age had
thinned injured His locks, which
were never worn shaggy or unkempt.
Yea, all his habits of personal appear
ance We're lovely.
Sobriety was also an established habit
Of His life. In addition to the water He
drank the juice of the grape. When at a
wedding party this beverage gave out,
He made gallons on gallons of grape
juice. but it was unlike what the world
makes in our time as health is different
from disease and as calm pulses are
different from the parOXysms Of delirium
tremens. There was no Strychnine in
The tipplers and the sots who now
quote the winemal<ing in Cana of Galflee
as an excuse for the fiery and damning
beverages of the nineteenth century for
get that the wine at the New Testament
wedding had two characteristics, the one
that the Lord made il and the other that
1t was made out Of water. Buy all you
can Of that kind and drink il at least
three times a day and send a barrel of
it around to my cellar. You cannot
~ let
who went UP and down healing the sick
would create for man that style Of drink
which is the cause Of disease more than
all other causes combined, or that He
who claimed the maniacs into their right
mind would create that style Of drink
which does more than anything else 10
fill insane asylums, or that He who was
so helpful TO the poor would make
style of drink that crowds the earth with
pauperism, or that He who came TO save
the nations from sin would create
! liquor that is the source of most of the
crime that now stuffs the penitentiaries.
\ lovely sObriety was written all over
his face, from the hair line Of the fore
head TO the bottom Of the bearded chin.
Christ Loved Home.
Domesticity 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 hilly
road that made it equal to six or seven
ordinary'miles every morning and night
going 10 and fro. L would rather walk
from here to Central park or walk from
Edinburgh to Arthurs Seat or i'm Lon
don clear around Hyde park, than to
walk that road that Christ walked twice
a day from Jerusalem 20 Bethany. But
He liked the quietude of home life, and
He was lovely in His dOmesticity.
How He enjoyed handing over the res
| directed boy 10 his mother and the res
directed girl TO her father and recon-
structing homesteads 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
/ think the hOneleSSneSS Of Christ added
| to his appreciation Of dOmesticity.
Furthermore, He was lovely in His
| sympathies. Now, drOpsy is a most dis
| tressful complaint. II infames and
| swells and fortunes any limb or physical
organ il touches. As soon as a case of
| that kind is submitted TO Christ He,
without any use of diaphOretics, COM
mands it's 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 emeral Id
Of the grass. What a Christ He was
| for cooling feVers without so much as
| a spoonful of febrifuge, and straighten-
| ing 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 sVs-
| TEN TO cataleptcs. Sympathy. He did
not give them stoical advice or philos-
| Ophize about the science of grief. He
| sat down and cried with them.
1t is spoken of as the shortest verse
| in the bible. but to me it is about the
| longest and grandeSt, Jesus Wept" All
1 nf ms bea mir Of
| When we We're in great trouble. some
| one came IN with VOluble 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 flood Of tears at the sight
| of our woe, and somehow it helped us
/ right away. Jesus wept." You see, it
was deeply attached household. that of
| Mary and Martha and Lazarus. The
| father and mother We're dead and the
| girls depended on their brother. Lazarus
| had said 10 them: Now, Mary now.
| Martha, stop your worrying 1 Will take
/ care Of you. l will be To you both father
and mother My arm is strong. Girls,
| YOU can depend on me"
But now Lazarus was sick-vea
/ Lazarus was dead. All broken up. the
sisters sit discOnsOlate, and there is
1 knock at the door. Come in" saws
/ Martha. Come in" says Mary Christ
/ entered ana he Just broke down. 10
| was too much for Him. He had been
| so often and so kindly entertained in
| that home of sickness and death de-
| vastated il that He checked 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 helping? You say IT am
| a man of few words" or II am a woman
| Of few words" Why, you dear soul
| words are not necessary Initiate your
| Lord and go TO those afflicted homes and
! cry with them.
| True Sympathy.
John Murphy! Wen. you did not
know him. Once when / was in great
bereavement he came to my house Kind
ministers of the gospel had come. and
talked beautifully, and prayed with us.
and did all they could to console. But
| John Murphy, one Of the best friends
| ever had, big-souled, glorious Irish
| man, 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. / am not enough OF a philosopher
| to say how it was or why Ii was. but
| somehow from door to door and from
| ceiling to room was filled with an all
| pervading comfort Jesus Wept"
| 1 think that is what makes Christ
| such a 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 sat upon mat while
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