Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-05-10

1t IS spoken of as the shortest verse
in the Bible, but to me it is about the
longest and Jesus wept
An! many of MS know the meaning OF
that When we were in great trouble,
some one came in with valuable eonso-
lation 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
1t helped 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 ha9 said to
them: Now, Mary, now, Martha, stop
your worrying. | will take care of you.
| will be to you both father and mother.
Ny arm is strong. Girls, you can de,
pend on me.''
But now Lazarus was sick: yea, Lac.
arus was dead. All broken up, the sis
tiers sit disconsolate, and there is
knock at the door. Come in" says
Martha. Come in, says Mary Christ
entered, and He just broke down. 1t
was too much for Him. He had been
so often and so kindly entertained in
that home before sickness and death
devastated it, that He chol1ed up and
sobbed aloud, and the tears tricltled
down the sad face OF the sympathetic
Christ Jesus wept Why do YOU
not try that mode of helping? You
say: I am a man of few words, or u
am woman Of few words" Why
you dear soul, words are not necessary
Initiate your Lord and go TO those af-
hietei homes and cry with them.
John Murphy. Wen, you did not
know him. Once when was liz
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, a big
souled, glorious Irishman, came in and
looked into my face, put out his broad
strong hand and said not word, but
sat down and cried with as. ] am not
enough of philosopher to say how il
was. or why il was, but somehow from
door to door, and from floor to ceiling,
the room was filed with an all-pervad
ing comfort. Jesus wept.
] 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 was in very poor
health, and SO weak she sat upon
mat while she talked, and felt the
need Of something to lean against,
when She felt a woman's form at her
back, and heard woman's voice say
ing, Lean on me" She leaned little |
but did not want to be too cum bersome. !
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 lean against Him and He says, Lean
hard, If you love me, lean hard" Aye, |
He is close by with His sympathetic 1
help. IIedley Wears, the famous sol 1
der and Christian of the Crimean war
died because when he was wounded /
his regiment was too far from the tent
of supplies. He was not MORALLY
wounded, and il the surgeons could
only have got at the bandages and the
he would have recovered.
So much of human sympathy and hope
fitness comes too late; but Christ is
always close by il we want Him, and
has all the medicine ready, and has
eternal life for all who ask for it,
sympathy?
Ave, He was lovely in His doctrines
or the relief of the suffer-
ing of Others by our own suffering. He
was the only physician that ever pro
posed to cure His patients by taking
their disorders Self-sacrificel And
what did lie not give up for others?
The best climate in the universe, the
air of Heaven. for the wintry weather
Of Palestine; a scepter of unlimited do
minion for prisoner box in an earth
" court room; a flashing tiara for
crown of singing brambles; palace
for a cattle pen: throne for a cross.
What is more lovely?l
Mothers dying for their children down
with scarlet fever; railroad engineers
going down through the open draw
bridge to save the train: firemen
,corehed TO death trying TO help some
lne down the ladder from the fourth
story of the consuming house; all these
out together only faint and insufficient
SMILES by which to illustrate the
yrander, mightier, farther reaching
of the Altogether Love
""
DO you wonder that the story of His
has led hundreds Of thou
,auds to die for Him? In one series Of
over 200. 900 were put "a
leath for Christ's sake. For Him Blan-
lima was tied 10 a post and wild beasts
we're let out upon her, and when life
continued after the attack of tooth
md paw. she was put in net. and
hat net containing her was thrown 10
wild bull. that tossed her with its