The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-06-07

resurrected girl to her father, and re-
constructing homesteads which disease
or death was breaking up AS the
song Home, Sweet Home" was writ
ten by n 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
distressful complaint IL infames, and
swells and tortures any limb or physi-
cal 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
opener 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 was for cooling fevers with
out so much as a spoonful of febrifuge;
and Strengthening crooked backs with
, out any pang of surgery; and standing
whole choirs of music along the silent
galleries of deaf ear; and giving
healthful nervous system to cataleptics!
Sympathy He did not give them
stoical advice, or philosopher 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! many of us know the meaning of
that When we were in great trouble,
some one came in with voluble consula-
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 word sat
down and burst into flood of tears at
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, and
the girls depended on their brother.
Lazarus had said to them, Now Mary,
now Martha, stop your worrying. i
will take care of you. will be to you
both father and mother. My arm is
strong. Girls, you can depend on me?"
But now Lazarus was sick; yea,
Lazarus was dead. All broken up. the
sisters sit disconsolate, and there is
knock at the door. "Come in," says
Martha. Come in" says Mary. Christ
entered, and He just broke down. It
was too much for Him. He had been
so often and so kindly entertained in
in that home before sickness 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
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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.
John Murphy! Well, you did not
know him Once, when l 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 |
us But John Murphy, one of the best |
friends ! ever had, big-souled, glori- |
Gus 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. am not |
enough of a philosopher to say how it |
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, who
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 sAc
felt woman's form at her back, anu
heard a woman's voice saying Lean
on 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
lean against Him, and He says: Lean
hard. if you love me, lean hard" Aye,
He is close by with His sympathetic
help Heeley Wears the famous SOL
der and Christian of the Crimean war,
died because when he was wounded his
regiment was too far off from the tent
of supplies. He was not MORALLY
wounded, and if the surgeons could
only have got at the bandages and the
he would have recovered.
SO much of human sympathy and hope
fulness comes too late; but Christ is al
ways close by il we want Him, and has
all the medicines ready, and has eternal
life for all who ask for it. Sympathy!
Aye, He was lovely in His doctrine.
Salf-sacrifica or the raliaf of the an fer
ing. lie was the only physician that
ever proposed to cure His patients by
taking their disorders Self-sacrifice!