The Monitor-register., 1896-02-28

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| NJ Al1kN bring your habits
NE Slt4ty. regular. We use
s no other cathar-
| tic." Hoods
pills are rapidly increasing In favor. 25c.
they never again kneeI with MS at fam;.
ly prayera Shall we never again look
into their sunny faces? Shall we never
again on earth take COUNSEL with the,,,
for our work? Alas me. who can stan5
under these griefs? Oh, Christ tbon
canst do more for bereft souI than anv
one elsei 1t is he who stands beside ns
to tell OF the resurrection. II is he that
came to bid peace. It is he that comas
to us and breathes into us the snir;t -
submission until we can look up from
the wreck and ruin of our brightest ex-
pectations and say, Father, not my will.
but thine, be done" Oh, ye who are
pere1t, ye anguish bitten come into this
refugel The roll Of those who came for
rellef to Christ is larger and larger.
Unto this Shiloh Of omnipotent svmna-
thy the gathering Of the people shall he.
Oh, that Christ would stand bv all these
empty cradles and all these desolated
homesteads and all these broken hearts
and persuade us it is WE'LL
Christ's Sympathy.
The world cannot offer you any helm
at such a time. Suppose the world
comes and offers you money. You would
rather live on a crust in a cellar and
have your departed loved ones with Won
than live in palatial surroundings and
they away. Suppose the world offers
you its honors to console you What ia
the presidency to Abraham Lincoln
when little Willie lies dead in the White
House? Perhaps the world comes and
says, "Time will cure 1t ALL" All, there
are griefs that have ragged on for 80
years and are raging yet And yet hun.
dreds have been comforted, thousands
have been comforted, millions have
been comforted, and Christ had done
the work Oh, what you want is sym
pathy The worlds heart of sympathy
beats very irregularly. Plenty of sym.
pathy when we do not want it, and Of
ten when we are in appalling need Of il
people dying for sympathy-sympathy
in their work, sympathy in their ia
tigues, sympathy in their bereavements.
sympathy in their financial losses, sym.
pathy in their physical ailments, SYM
pathy in their spiritual anxieties, sym.
pathy in the time of declining years
wide, deep, high, everlasting, almighty
sympathy. We must have it, and Christ
gives it. That is the cord with which
he is going to draw all nations to him.
At the story of punishment a mans
eye flashes, and his teeth set, and his
fist clinches, and he prepares to do bat
tie even though it be against the heav.
ems. Yet what heart so hard but it will
succumb to the story Of oompassioni
Even a mans sympathy is pleasant and
helpful When we have been in some
hour Of weakness, to have 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 his fortunes were gone and all
the world was against him, came home
and found in that home wife who
could write on the top Of the empty
flour barrel, 'The Lord will provide"
or write on the door of the empty ward
| robe: "Consider the lilies of the field.
If God SO clothed the grass of the field,
will he not clothe us and ours?"
Or let that young man tell the story
who has gone the whole round of dissi-
| patton. The shadow Of the penitentiary
is upon him, and even his father says.
"Be off | Never come home againP 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 begging Tor
pardon, hoping OH for her wayward boy
after all others are hopeless. Or let her
tell the story who, under villalnous al
lurement and impatient of parental re-
straint, has wandered off from home
of which she was the idol into the
murky and thunderous midnight OF
abandonment, away from God, and fur
ther away until some time she is tossed
on the beach of that early home mere
splinter of wreck. Who will pity her
I now? Who will gather these dishonored
locks into her lap? Who will wash on
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 suf-
ferer becomes the whisper, and the
whisper becomes only faint motion OF
the lips, and the faint motion OF the
lips is exchanged for silent look, ana
the out 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
compassionp Motheri Mother
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 col
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
LizzieP How if it had been my Mary?
How if it had been my Maud9 How II
! it had been my child? How If there had
been one unoccupied pillow in our trun-
die bed tonight? How il 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 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
| God What Saviour we havel
But in larger vision see the nations
in some kind of trouble ever since the
world was derailed and hurled down
| the embankments. The demon of sin
came to this world, but other demons
have gone through other worlds. The
| demon of confagration, the demon OF
volcanic disturbance, the demon OF de-