Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-03-06

t4N0tAAllA-s NFAF~-NAuHs faNtl.s A+--s !.
in:. almighty sympathy. We must have u,
and Christ gives In, That Is the cord With
which He Is going TO draw all Nations 10
Him.
Al the story Of punishment 3 mans eve
hashes. and his teeth set, and his INST
cllnches. and he prepares tu do battle even
though II he against the heavens. Yet what
heart 50 hard but u will succumb 10 the
story % compassion. Even mans sym
pathy il pleasant aui helptuL When We
have been In spme hour Of weakness. 20 have
brawny man stand beside us and promise
TO see us through, what courage u gives 90
our heart, and what strength IL gives To- our
trm. Still mightier j. a woman sympathy.
Let him tell the story who, when all hts ior-
tunes were gone and all the world was
against him, came home aud found In that
home wife who could write on the top OF
the empty -four barrel. "The Lord will pro-
vide" or write on tine door Of the empty
wardrobe: "C3nslier the lilies Of the field.
Ii God 20 clothed the grass OF the feld, will
He not cl9.hs Us all ours:'
Or let that Young man tell the story who
has gone the whole round 81 dissipation.
The shadow ttIe ppnitentiary Is upon him,
and even hi. father SAWS: BE on! Never
come home again" The Young man finds
stil his mothers arm uut-treichei Tor him,
and how she will stani At the wicket OF the
prison 10 whisper consolation or get down on
her knees before the governor begging Tor
pardon, hoping on her waywdrt boy AFTER
all others are hopeless Or let her tell the
story who, un Ter vilatr0us allurcment aud
impatient OF parental restraint, has wan
dered of from a home Of which she was the
idol into the murky AMI thunderous mid
night Of abandonment, away from God, and
further away until some time she Is tossed
on the beach 81 that early home mere
splinter OF a wreck. Who will pity her now?
Who will gather those dishOu1ret locks into
her lap Who will wash OIL the blood from
the gashel forehead Who will tell her OF
that Christ who came TO save thelpsit VINO
will put that weary head upon the clean
white pillow AMI watch hv day aud watch
by night until the hOarss voice Ot the sufferer
becomes the whisper. and the whisper be-
comes only "A faint motion oil the lips, and
the faint motion Of tho lips Is exchanged Tor
a silent look. and the cut feet are still, and
the weary ewes ar still. aud the trenzied
heart i still, ami all l. still. Who will have
compassion On her wneu no others have
compassion? Mother, Mother,
Oh, there is something beautitu! in sym
p7thy--in manly sympathy, wiiely sympathy,
mothrriy sympathy, Yea, and uelgh0orly
sympathy. Why was Il that city was
aroused with excitement when - little child
was kidnapped from one " the streets? Why
were whole columns Of the newspapers filled
with the story OF little child? Ii was be-
cause we are all one IN sympathy, and every
parent said: How il 1t had been my Lizzie?
How il il had been my Nary How II It mad
been my Maud? How II 1t hat been my
rhtldP How il there had been one unoccupied
pillow in our trunlle bed to-uighi2 How II
my little one-bone Of my bone and flesh OF
my heSE-were tonight carried captive into
a "a a "a
ne? How IL it had been my sorrow
looking out Of the window watching and
waiting-thRt sorrow worse than DEATH
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 GodG Because we are all one,
bound by one great golden chain OF SYM
pathy On, YES, hut have TO tell you that
II you viii aggregate all neighborlv, manly,
wifrlv, motherlv sympathy, II will be found
oaly a poor starving thing compared with
the sympathy If our great Shiloh, who has
held in His lap the sorrows of the ages and
who l. readyto nurse on His holy heart tho
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
WA, deraied and hurled down the embank-
ments The demon OF sin came to the
worlt. but other demons have gone through
other worlds. The demon ~ cOntiRgratiOn,
the demon Of volcanic disturbance, the de-
mon 81 destruction.
La Place says he saw one world in the
Northern Hemisphere sixteen months burn
ing. Tvchp Braha said he SAW another world
burning. 4 French astronomer says that in
800 wears 1900 world, have disappeared.
do not see why iuddels find II 50 hard 10 be-
lieye that two worlds stopped in Joshua's
time. when the astronomers tell Us that 1900
worlds have stopped. Even the moon is a
world in ruins. stellar. lunar, solar catas-
trophies innumerahle But it seems as II the
most sorrows have been reserved for our
world. BY one toss ofthe world at Ticuboru,
Of l200D inhabitants only twenty six
people escaped BY one shake Of the
world al Lisbon in five minutes
so. 600 persisted. and 200. 600 before the earth
stopped rocking. A mountain falls in swift.
erlaud burying the village OF GoldRu. 4
I mountain fails IN Italy in the night, when
5000 people are asleep, and they never
arouse Bya eonvulsion Of the earth Japan
/ broken Off from China. BY CONFUSION Of
the "arththe Caribbean Islands broken of
/ from America. Three islands near the
mouth OF the Gauges, with $40. 900 inhabi'
tants-g great surge Of the sea breaks over
/ them and PA 600 parish that day. Alas,
+ alas for our poor world, II has been re-
Gently discovered that a whole continent hR,
sunk. Il continent that connected Europe and
F America part Of the inhabitants OF that con
tineut going T. Europe. part coming to
Z America over the tab.elands ot Mexico. W
I through the valleys OF the Mississippi, anC
we are finding now the remains Of theil
/ mounds and their cities in Mexico, in Color
I ado and the tablclauds OF the West. Ii is >
matter Of demonstration that whole cont
npnt has gone down. the Azores of the cOas
OF Spain only the highest mountain of tina
suuEen continent. Plato described that con
tineut, its grandeur, the multitude OF its in
EHbitants. its splendur and its awful de
strucuon, and the world thought it was
romance but psychologists have found on
it was history. add the English and the Ger
man and the American fleets have gone fort
with arrheologists, and the Challenger. an
the Dolphin, and the GAZglle have droppe
anchor, and in deep sea sOundings they nav
found the contour OF that sunken continent
Oh, there is trouble marked on the rock:
on the sky, ON thu sea on the flora and th
fauna! Astronomical trouble, geoloGica
trouble, oceanic trouble. political trouble
domestic trouble. and standing in the pre-
ence of all those stupendOus devastutions
ask il | am not right in saying that the RreI
want Of this age aud all ages is divine syn
pathy and omnipotent comfort, and they al
found not in the Brahma of the Hindoo {
the Allah of the Mohammeiad, but in Il
Christ unto whom shall the gathering OF Il
people be. Other worlds may fail. but tn
morning star will never be blotted from Il
heavens. The earth may quake, but this roc
Of ages will never be shaken from its fou
dations. The same Christ who fed Il
5000 will feed all the worlds hunger. TT
same Christ who cured Bartimeus will I'LL
, mine all blindness. The same Christ wi
: made the dumb speak will put on eve
tongue IL hosoanna. The same Christ vi
awoke Lazarus from the sarcophagus W
, yet rally all the pious dead in glorious re
, U" s'1ou., - know that my Redeem
l liveth, "and "to Him shall the gathering
! the people be-" All, my friends, when Chri
: starts thoroughly and quickly TO lift tn
, miserable wreck OF sunken world 1t W
+ not take Him long TO lift it.
: I have thought that this particular age
which wa live NAV be given up TO discover