The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-03-19

| u CRUST IN n CeliHE anu utfo tOai NotseheON
loved ones with you than live in paiatial sur
roundings and they away. Suppose the
! world offers you its honors to console you
What Is the Presidency to Abraham Lincoln
when little Willie lies dead in the White
House? Perhaps the world comes and says
Thine will cure 1t ALL" Alb, there are grieis
that have ragged on for thirty years and are
raging yet. And yet hundreds have oeen
comforted, thousands have been conferred!
millions have been conforted, and Christ mad
done the work. Oh, what yoh want Is sym
Z pathyl The worlds heart of sympathy beats
very irregdlarly. Plenty Of sympathy when
we do not want 1t. and often when we are In
appalling need ofit, no sympathy. There are
multitudes OF people dying for sympathy
sympathy III their work, sympathy In their
fatigues, sympathy in their cereavements,
sympathy in their financial losses. sympathy
in their physical ailments. sympathy in their
spiritual anxieties, sympathy iii the time OF
declining years-wide, deep. high, everiast-
ing, almighty sympathy. We must have 1t,
and Christ gives 1t. That Is the cord with
which He is going to draw all Nations to
Him.
At the story OF punishment mans eye
flashes, and his teeth set; and his fist
| clinehes. and he prepares to do battle even
though 1t be against the heavens Yet what
heart so hard but it will succumb to the
\ story OF compassion! Even mans SYM
pathy is pleasant and helpful. When we
| have been in some hour of weakness, 10 have
| brawny man stand beside US and promise
to see US through, what courage it gives to
| our heart, and what strength 1t gives to our
arm. Still mightier is wonan's sympathy.
Let him tell the story who. when all his for
tunes were gone and all the world was
against him, came home and found in that
| home a wife who could write on the top OF
| the empty -four BARREL 1.-THE Lord will pro-
vide" or write on the door Of the empty
wardrobe; CONSIDER the lilies OF the field.
If God 90 clothed the grass of the field will
He not clothe US and eurs2
Or LET that young man tell the story who
has gone the whole round OF dissipation.
The shadow of tlc penitentiary is upon him;
and even his father says: ''Be off Never
come home agaihi" The young man finds
still his mothers arm outstretchei for him;
and how she will stand at the wicket OF the
prison 10 whisper consolation or get down on
her knees before the governor begging for
pardon, hoping on her maynard boy after
all others are hopeless. Or let her tell the
story who, under villainous allurement and
impatient of parental restraint, has wan
dered off from home of which she was the
idol into the murky and thunderous mid
night of abandonment, away from God, and
further away until some time she ia tossed
On the beach of that early home mere
SplultI Vi u NTtch. W nU VIII pity ucI uoWl
Who will gather those dishonored locks into
her lap? Who will wash off the blood from
the gashed forehead Who will tell her OF
that Christ who came to save the lost? Who
will put that weary head upon the clean
white pillow and watch by day and watch
by night until the hoarse voice of the sufferer
becomes the whisper. and the whisper be-
comes only faint motion of thu lips, and
the faint motion of the lips Is exchanged for
a ai1aDt lOnk and the faat 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
mpassion9 Mother! Motherl
Oh, there is something beautiful in SYM
pathy-in manly sympathy, wifely sympathy,
motherly sympathy, yea, and neighboriy
sympathy. Why was 1t that city was
aroused with excitement when a little child
was Kidnapped from one of the streets? Why
we're whole columns of the newspapers filled
with the story of little child? 1t was be-
cause we are all one in sympathy, and every
parent said: "How il 1t had been my Lizzie?
How if it had been my Mary2 How if it had
been my Maud? How If it had been my
child? How If there had been one unoccupied
pillow in our trundle bed tonight? How If
my little one--bone of my bone and flesh OF
my fiesh-were tonight carried captive into
t}1rNs .qf.g yasaPQpds. pever TO enr'ur eJfat
Dennv will be returned to COM ~
meS now II 1t mad been my sorrow |
looking out of the window watching and |
waiting-that sorrow worse than deathf |
Then when they found her, why did we de-
clare the news all through the households,
and everybody that knew how to pray said.
Thank God?" Because we are al! one,
bound by one great golden chain OF SYM !
pathy. Oh, yes, but 1 have to tell you that |
il you will aggregate all neighborlY, manly,
wifely, motherly sympathy, it will be found
only poor starving thing compared with
the sympathy of our great Shiloh, VINO has
held in His lap the sorrows OF the ages ana
who is ready to nurse on His holy heart the
woes of all who will come to Him. On, wnat
God. What a Saviour we have!
But in larger vision see the Nations in
some kind of trouble ever since the world
was deraied and hurled down the embank-
ments. The demon OF sin came to the
world, but other demons have gone through
other worlds. The demon OF confagration,
the demon of volcanic disturbance, the de.
mon of destruction.
La Place saws ne saw one world in the
| Northern Hemisphere sixteen months burn
| ing. Tycho Brahe said he saw another world
| burning. French astronomer says that in
300 years 1900 worlds have disappeared. l
| do not see why infldels find it so hard to be-
lieve that two worlds stopped In Joshua's
| time, when the astronomers tell US that 1901
worlds have stopped. Even the moon is a
world in ruins. Stellar. lunar, solar catas-
trophies innumerabe. But it seems as II the
most sorrows have been reserved for our
world By one toss ofthe world at Ticuboro,
of $4,000 inhabitants only twenty-six
people escaped. By one shake Of the
world at Lisbon in five minutes
so, 900 persisted. and 100000 before the earth
stopped rocking. A mountain falls in Swift
erland, burying the village of Goldau. A
mountain falls in Italy in the night, when
1000 people are asleep, and they never
arouse. Bya CONFUSION OF the earth Japan
broken off from China. By CONFUSION OF
the earth the Caribbean Islands broken off
from America. Three islands near the
mouth of the Ganges, with $40 900 inhabi-
tants-a great surge Of the sea breaks over
them, and 214,0OO perish that day. Alas,
alas, for our poor world! 1t has been re-
Gently discovered that n whole continent has
sunk, a continent that connected Europe and
America-part of the inhabitants of that con-
tinent 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
I mounds and their cities in Mexico. in Color
ado and the tablelands Of the West. 1t is a
| matter of demonstration that whole CONT
nent has gone down, the Azores off the coast
of Spain only the highest mountain of that
sunken continent. Plato described that con-
, tinent, its grandeur, the multitude Of its In
! habitants, its spendor and its awful de-