Connecticut western news., 1894-04-26

that time that Christ had face full of geniality
 Habits of Christ.
 Not only was Christ altogether lovely in his countenance, but lovely in his habits. I know, without being told, that the Lord who made the rivers and lakes and oceans was cleanly i'll his appear ance. He disliked the disease of leprosy not only because it was distressing, but because it was not clean, and his curative words were: II will. Be thou clean. He declared himself in favor of thor ough washing and opposed to superfi- cial washing when he denounced the for making clean only ''the outside of the platter, and he applauds his disciples by saying, 'Now are ye clean,' and giving directions to those who lasted, among other things, he says, "Wash thy face, and to blind man whom he was doctoring, tGo, wash in the pool of siloam,' and he himself actually washed the disciples feet, I suppose rot only to demonstrate his own humility, but probably their feet needed to be washed.
 The fact is, the Lord was great friend of water I know that from the fact that most of the world is water. But when I find Christ in such constant commendation of water I know he was personally neat, although he mingled much among very rough populations and took such long journeys on dusty high ways. He wore his hair long, according to the custom of his land and time, but neither trouble nor old age had thinned or injured his locks, which were never worn shaggy or unkempt. Yea, all his habits of personal appearance were lovely.
 Sobriety was also an established habit of his life. In addition to the water, he drank the juice of the grape. When at wedding party this beverage gave out, he made gallons on gallons of grape juice, but it was as unlike what the world makes iii our time as health is different from disease and as calm pulses are different from the paroxysms of delirium tremens. There was no strychnine ill that beverage or logwood or nux vomica. The tipplers and the SObS Wuo uON tIuoSO tllO III Cana of Galilee as an excuse for the fiery and damning beverages of the nine teenth century forget that the wine at the New Testament wedding had two characteristics-the ono that the Lord made it and the other that it was made out of water Buy all you can of that kind and drink it at least three times a day and send barrel of it round to my cellar.
 You cannot make me believe that the blessed Christ 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 calmed 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 style of drink that crowds the earth with pauperism, or that he 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 penitentiaries A lovely sobriety was written all over his face, from the hair line of the forehead to the bottom of the bearded chin.
 Christ the Physician.
 Domesticity was also his habit. Though too poor to have home of his own, he went out to spend the night at Bethany, two or three miles walk from Jerusalem, and over rough and hilly road that made it equal to six or seven ordinary miles, every morning and night going to and fro. I 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 res urrected boy to his mother, and the res urrected girl to her father, and recon structing homesteads which disease or death was breaking upl As the song Home, Sweet Home'' was written by man who at that time had no home, so I think the homelessness of Christ added to his appreciation of domesticity.
 Furthermore, he was lovely in his sympathies. Now, dropsy is most dis tressful complaint. It infames and swells and tortures any limb or physical organ it touches. As soon as a case of that kind is submitted to Christ he, without any use of diaphoretics, com mands its cure. And what an eye doc tor 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 levers without so much as spoonful of febrifuge, and straight. ening crooked backs without any pane of surgery, and standing whole choirs of music along the silent galleries of 8 deaf ear, and giving healthful nervous system to catalepticsl Sympathy! He did not give them stoical advice or phi losophize about the science of grief. He sat down and 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. ' An, many of us know the meaning o1 tAido9 W AlcNl WC WClC III S1CdU tlouDlC, some one came in with voluble consola tion and quoted the Scripture in sort of heartless way and did not help us al all. But after awhile some one else came in, and without saying word sat down and burst into flood of tears at the sight of our woe, and somehow it help ed us right away. Jesus wept." You see, it was deeply attached household, that of Mary and Martha and Lazarus. The father and mother were dead, an6 the girls depended on their brother. Lazarus had said to them: Now, Mary, now, Martha, stop your worrying. vii, take care of you. I will be to you botI father and mother. My arm is strong Girls, you can depend on mel
 Comfort of Tears.
 But now Lazarus was sick-yea, Lag arus was dead. All broken up, the sis ters sit disconsolate, and there is a knocl at the door. Come in" says Martha Come in, says Mary. Christ entered and he just broke down. Itwas too mucl for him Ha had haor, so oftoy, and cf