The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-04-23

I man That style OF drink WHICH IS INC CAUSE
| of disease more than all other causes com
J, bined that He who Gained the maniacs
into their right mind, would create that
| style of drink which does more than any
| thing else to fill insane asylums; or that lie
who was SO helpful to the poor, would make
! style of drink that crowds the earth
| with pauperlSm; 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 stulfs the penltentiaries.
| A lovely sobriety was written all over his
face: from the hairllno OF the forehead to
! the bottom OF the bearded chm.
! Dmesticity was also His habit. Though
too poor to have a home of His own, he
two or three miles walk from Jerusalem,
and over rough and hilly road that made
morning and night gong 10 and tro.
| would rather walk from here to Central
! park, or walk from Edinburgh to Arthur's
| Seat, or in London clear around Hyde park,
| than to walk that road that Christ walked
twice Gay from Jeru:''siem 20 Hetn@ny'
] But He liked the quietude of home life,
and He was lovely in His dOmeStiCity.
How He enjoyed handing over the resur-
recteI boy to his mother, and the
rected girl to her father, and reconstruct
/ ing homesteads which disease or death was
breaking up As the song, Home, Sweet
! Home was written by man who at that
! time had no home, 50 tnulK the uo4Aei~aa-
ness Of Christ added to His appreciation of
! furthermore, He was lovely in His sypa-
! thleS' Now, dropsy IS a most distressing
complaint 1t inhames, and swells, and tor
! lures any ilinb or physical organ it touches;
! AS soon as a case of that kind is submitted
| to Christ He without any use of Giapho-
! relics, 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 a Christ He was for
CoollnS fpVerS without 50 much Il spoon
! ful of febrituGe; ana straighteninS, crooked
packs without any panS of surgery and
standing whole chOirs OF music along the
silent galleries of a deaf ear; ana giving
nealthIul nervous system to catalepticS!
sympathy! lie did not give them stoical
advice, OF phiosophize about the science of
GrIef He sat Gown and cred with them.
II is spoken OF as the shortest verse in the
and 1iGe n%f 10 me it is about the onseaf
US know the meaning OF that When we
were IN great trouble, some one came in
WIN Voluhie conso.aton ana quoted script
lfe IN sort oil 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 q l!ood of tears
| helped US right away. Jesus wepl." You
see, 1t was deeOly-attached household,
t!ldt OF Mary ana Martina and Lazarus.
| Inc father and mother were dead and the
gris depended on tneir brother. Lazarus
stop your worrying. / Will take care OF
YOU will be to you both father and
depend mel"
but now Lazarus was sick; yea, Lazarus
was dead. All broken up, the sisters SIT
| glscohSolate ana there Is knock at the
door Come in. says Martha. Come in"
says Mary Christ entered and lie just broke
Gown. 1t was too much for linn. He had
been so often and 50 kindly entertained
IN that home before SICKNESS and death
devastated 1t, that he choked up anu soDpcd
aloud, and the tears trIckled down
5 tne SAD es face ,v6 OF The sympainetf
try that mode Of heiping? on say, II
man OF rev words or Il am d woman
are not necessary. initiate your Lord, and
so to those anlcted homes and cry with
John Murphy! Well you did not know
hun once Wnen l was in great bereavc-
ment he came to my house. klnd minis
ters OF the gospel had come and talked
pGautIully, a.u prayed with me ana did
al they could to console me. But Jonn Muir
ply, one OF the best friends | eVer had,
Il pIS-SouieQ, glorious freshman, came i'll
and rocked into my face, put OUT his broad
strong haud and sad not q word, but sat
GOWN ana cried with US am not enough
OF a philosopher to say how il was, or
why ii was but somehow from door to
door, and from floor To ceiling, the room .
was fllled WITH an alI-perVadlng comfort.
l think mat is what makes Christ such
a popular Christ. There are so many VINO
want sympathy. Mss t1ske. the famous
one day taking to the heather, and she
was IN very poor health ana so weak she
sat upon mat While she talked. and felt
the need Of something to lean against,
when aat felt a woman : form at hel b. K
and ! ~ 4 'Lo"4ai voice SAY ms, len
want to be too cumbersome, when the Wo-
mans voice said, Lean hard, if you love
me, lean hard And that makes Christ
SO lovely. he wants All the sex ana uOu1
bIed and weary TO lean against Ham, ana
hard Aye, lie is close by win ms - mp%A
tneJIc hep. HcIiey Wears, the famous sol
uler ana hTIStlaa of the Cruucan war, died
because when he was wounded ms regiment
was 100 far oil from the tent OF supplies.
lie was not mortaliy wounded and II the
surgeon could only nave gotten at the pan
daSeS ana the medicines ne would nave re
covered SO 4nuch OF human sy mpathy and
hopefulnesS comes too iate, but christ -
always close by If we want Hnn ana has
lite for ali who ask for IT, sympathy!
q
Sdcriuce the rvueI OF the suffering OF
others by His own suffering. lie WAS the
only ply siclan that ever proposed to cure
His patents by taxing thelr disorders.
Self sacuuce! Aud what dId lie not siye
up for others? the best climate III the uni
verse, the air OF heaven, Tor me Wnty
weather of Palestine; Il scept OF unliinil-
earthly courtroom; a haSmnS tlata ior
crown OF Singing branDleS; ii palace IQr
GaLue p[i nat IS liii more lovely" Mothers
dying for their children down with scarlet
fever; railroad eng neeIS gong down through
the open diaWDrluge To save me tis'lll'
nromen Scorcned to death trying TO heip
some one down the ladder from the fourth
story of the consuming house; all these
nut together only liant and insufficient
smiles Dy which TO Illustrate the srauder.
rnit. nfier fartner-reacnng sel1-saCrluce Of
the "AItogetncr Lovely"
30 you wonder that the story Of HIS
self-sacrllce mas lfd nuidreuS % ous.tI'lI9
tons over two hundred thousand We're put
to death for Christs sake. FOR HIM ban
were let out upon her, and when life con-
tinued after the attack OF tooth and paw,
she was put in a net ana that net contain
ing her was thrown TO wild bull. that
tossed her with its horns Till life was
extinct All Tor Christ, Huguenots dying
for Christ, AipigcnseS dying for Christ;
The Naudois dying for Christ! SmlthIIeld
fires endured for Christ. 'rne bones OF mar
tvrs if distributed would make a path OF
mOlderng life all around the eartn. The
loneliness Of the Savior's sacrifice has in
spiled all heroisn, and all the martyrdon
Of subsequent centuries. Christ has had
more men and women die for him than all
the other inhabitants OF all the ages have
IF Furthermore, He was lovely in his ser
mons He knew when to begin, when to
stop and just what TO say. The longest
sermon He ever preached, SO far as the
Bible reports Him, namely, the sermon on
the mount was about sixteen minutes IN
delivery, at the ordinary rate OF speech.
His longest prayer reported commonly
called THE Lords Prayer was about halI
a minute Time them by your watch, ana
YOU will find my estimate accurate by
which ! do not mean to say that sermons
ought to be only sixteen minutes long.
Christ had such infinite power OF compress
sion that He could put enough into his sin
+pen-minute sermon and His halt-lnlnute
PRAYER TO keep all the following ages busy
In thought and action. No one but
Christ could afford to pray or preach as
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