The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-29

vet what heart so hard but it will sue
cumb to the story of compassionl Even
a mans sympathy is pleasant and help
full. When we have been in some hour
of weakness, to have a brawny man
stand beside us and promise to see us
through, what courage it gives to our
heart and what strength it gives to our
arm. Still mightier is a woman's SYM
pathy. Let him tell the story who,
when all the world was against him,
came home aud found in that home a
wife who could write on the top of
the empty Hour barrel: THE Lord
will PROVIDE or write On the door of
the empty wardrobe: Consider the
lilies of the field; if God so clothed
the grass of the field, will He
not clothe us and ours9" Or
let that young man tell the story who
has gone the whole round of dissipa-
ton. The shadow of the penitentiary
is upon him, and even his father says:
"Be off never come home again. The
young man finds still his mothers arm
outstretched for him, and how she
will stand at the wicket of the prison
to whisper consolation, or get down
on her knees before the governor, beg
ging for pardon, hoping on for her
hayward boy after all others are
hopeless. Or let her tell the story
who, under vi~llainous allurement and
impatient of parental restraint, has
wandered off from IL home of which
she was the idol into the murky and
thunderous midnight of abandon
ment, away from God, and fur
Their away, until some time she is
tossed on the beach of that early home
a mere splinter of q wreck. Who will
pity her now? Who will gather these
dishonest 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 whis-
per, and the whisper becomes only a
faint motion of 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?
Motherl Motherl
Obi there is something beautiful in
sympathy-in manly sympathy, wifely
sympathy, motherly sympathy, yea in
neighborly sympathy. Why was it
that a city vas aroused when q little
child was kidnapped from n of the
streets2 Why were whole columns of
the newspapers filed with the story of
the little child9 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 unoGcppied pillow in our trundle-
bed tonight? how il my little one
bone Of my bone and flesh of nay
hesh-were tonight carried captive
into some den of vagabonds,
never to come back to me? how il 1t
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 tho households, and
everybody that knew how tn pray said,
''Thank Godl' Because we are all one,
bound by nj great golden chain of
sympathy. Oil yes, but I have to tell
you hat if you will aggregate all
neighborly, manly, wifely, motherly
sympathy, it will be found only a poor
starving thing compared with the SYM
pathy OF our great Shiloh, who has
held in His lap the sorrow of the ages,
and is ready to nurse On His holy heart
the woes of all who will come to Him.
Obi what a God, what a Saviour we
havel r.
But in larger vision see the nations
in some kinds of BILE 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 Indignation, the demon of
volcanic disturbance, the demon of de-
La Place says he saw one world in
the Northern hemisphere sixteen
months burning. Tycho Brahe said
he saw another world burning. 4
French astronomer says that in 900
years I, 500 worlds have disappeared.
/ do not see why infidels find it SO hard
to believe that two worlds stopped in
Joshua's time, when the astronomers
tell us that l, 500 worlds have stopped.
the moon is a world in ruins.
Stellar, lunar, solar ca~tastrophes in
numerable. But it seems as II the
most sorrows have been reserved for
our world. By one toss Of the world
at Ticuboro. of IL. 900 inha bitants only
20 people escaped BY one shake of
world at Lisbon in five minutes
30, 200 persisted, and 200, 900 before the
earth stopped rocking. 4 mountain
falls in Switzerland. burying the viz {
age of Goldau. A mountain falls in
Italy 10 the night, when 1900 people
are asleep. and they never arose BY
a cnnUr1lSfnn Of the - nth II ma N h.aIraA
OFF from China By c~onvulaion of the
the Caribbean islands broken off
rom America. Three islands near the
OF the Ganges, with $40, 900 in
IA bitants-a great surg of the sea s
breaks over them and PA, 900 perish
hat day. Alas, alas, for our poor
OH there Is trouble marked On the
'ocks, on the sky, on the sea, on the
iora and the fauna, Astronomical trou-
Die, geological trouble, oceanic trou.
Die. political trouble, domestic trouble,
M standing in the presence of all l
~stupendous devastations, ask
+ I am not right in saying that the
treat want of this age and all ages is
Irvine sympathy n omnipotent com-
ort, and they are found not in the
of the Hindoo, OF the Allah of
he Mohammedan, but in the Christ
into whom shall the gathering Of the =,
'eople be. Other worlds may fall. h
mt this Morning Star will
lever be blotted from the f
heavens. The earth may quake, but
his Rock of Ages will never be shaken
rom it's foundations. The same Christ
rho fed the 5000 will feed all the
worlds hunger. The same Christ who
ured Bartimeus will illumine all
Kindness: The same Christ who made I"
he dumb speak will put an every n
a hosanna. The same Christ
Who awoke Lazarus from the sar-
.phagus will yet rally all the pious
in glorious resurrection. "Iknow
hat my Redeemer liveth," and that
to Him shall the gathering of the
eople be-" Ali my friends, when
hrist starts thoroughly and quickly
D lift this miserabl wreck of a sunken
'orld, it will not take Him long t9
it it,