Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-02-29

the lips. and the faint motion Of the
lips is exchanged for a silent look, and
the cut feet are still, and the weary
eyes are still, and the frenzied heart is
still, and all is still? Who will have
compassion on her when no others have
compassion? Mother! Motherl
A Glorious Saviour.
Oh, there is something beautiful in
sympathy--in manly sympathy, wifely
sympathy, motherly sympathy, yea, and
neighborly sympathy Why was it that
city was aroused with excitement
when little child was kidnapped from
one of the streets? Why were whole coll
umns of the newspapers filed with the
story of little child? 1t was because
we are all one in sympathy, and every
parent said: "How if it had been my
Lizzie? How if it had been my Mary?
How if it had been my Maud? How if
it had been my child? How if there had
been one unoccupied pillow in our trun-
die bed tonight? How if my little one
bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh
were tonight carried captive into some
den of vagabonds, never to come back to
me? How if it had been my sorrow
looking out of the window watching
and waiting-that sorrow worse than
death?" Then when they found her,
why did we declare the news all through
the households, and everybody that
knew how to pray said, ''Thank Godf"
Because we are all one, bound by one
great golden chain Of sympathy. Oh,
yes, but l have to tell you that if you
will aggregate all neighborly, manly,
wifely, motherly sympathy, it will be
found only poor starving thing COM
pared with the sympathy of our great
Shiloh, who has held in his lap the sor-
rows of the ages and who is ready to
nurse on his holy heart the woes of all
who will come to him. Oh, what a
God What Saviour we have!
But in larger vision see the nations
in some kind of trouble ever since the
world was derailed and hurled down
the entertainments. The demon of sin
came to this world, but other demons
have gone through other worlds. The
demon of confiagration, the demon Of
volcanic disturbance, the demon of de-
struction.
La Place says he saw one world in
the northern hemisphere 16 months
burning. Tycho Brahe said he saw an
other world burning. A French astrono-
mer says that in 500 years 500 worlds
have disappeared. do not see why in
fidels find it so hard to believe that two
worlds stopped in Joshua's time, when
the astronomers tell us that 1900
worlds have stopped. Even the moon is
world in ruins. Stellar, lunar, solar
catastrophes innumerable. But it seems
as if the most sorrows have been reserv-
ed for our world. By one toss of the
world at Ticuboro, of II, 900 inhabitants
only 26 people escaped. By one shake
of the world at Lisbon in five minutes
earth stopped rocking A mountain falls
in Switzerland, burying the village of
Goldau. A mountain falls in Italy in
the night, when 1900 people are asleep,
and they never arouse. By a convulsion
of the earth Japan broken off from Chi
ma. By convulsion of the earth the
Caribbean islands broken off from Amer
lea. Three islands near the mouth of
the Ganges, with $40, 900 inhabitants
great surge of the sea breaks over
them, and 214, 900 perish that day.
Alas, alas, for our poor world 1t has
been recently discovered that a whole
continent has sunk, continent that
connected Europe and America-part of
the inhabitants of that continent going
to Europe, part coming to America over
the tablelands of Mexico, up. through
the valleys of the Mississippi, and we
are finding now the remains of their
mounds and their cities in Mexico, in
Colorado and the tablelands of the west.
1t is matter of demonstration that
whole continent has gone down, the
Azores off the coast of Spain only the
highest mountain of that sunken CONT
nent. Plato described that continent,
its grandeur, the multitude of its inbab-
itants, its splendor and it's awful de-
struction, and the world thought it was
a romance, but archeologists have found
out 1t was history, and the English and
the German and the American fleets
have gone forth with archaologists, and
the Challenger, and the Dolphin, and
the Gazelle have dropped anchor, and
in deep sea soundings they have found
the contour of that sunken continent.
The Rock of Ages.
Oh, there is trouble marked ON the
rocks. on the sky, ON the sea, on the
fora and the fauna Astronomical trou-
bic, geological trouble, oceanic trouble.
political trouble, domestic trouble, and
standing in the presence of all those stu
pendous devastations | ask if I am not
right in saying that the great want of
this age and all ages is divine sympathy
and omnipotent comfort, and they are
found not in the Brahma of the Hindoo
or the Allah of the Mohammedan, but
in the Christ unto whom shall the gath
ering of the people be- Other worlds
may fall, but this morning star will
never be blotted from the heavens. The
earth may quake, but this rock of ages
will never be shaken from its founda-
lions. The same Christ who fed the
B, 900 will feed all the worlds hunger.
The same Christ who cured Bartimeus
will illumine all blindness. The same
Christ who made the dumb speak will
put ON every tongue a hosanna. The
same Christ who awoke Lazarus from
the sarcophagus will yet rally all the
pious dead in glorious resurrection. Il
know that my Redeemer liveth, y and
that ito him shall the gathering Of the
people be. All, my friends, when
Christ starts thoroughly and quickly TO
lift this miserable.wreck of q sunken
world it will not take him long to lift it.
have thought that this particular
age in which we live may be given up
to discoveries and inventions by which
through quick and instantaneous COM
munication all cities and all communi-
ties and all lands will be brought to-
gether. and then in another period per-
haps these inventions which have been
used for worldly purposes will be
brought ont for gospel invitation. and
some great prophet of the Lord win
come and snatch The mysterious, sub
lime and miraculous telephone from the