Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-03-06

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md Christ gives If. That is the cord with
which He is going to draw all Nations to
4im,
At the story of punishment mans eye
dashas, and his teeth set, and his nst
,inches, AMI he prepares to do battle even
though 1t be against the heavens. Yet what
,eart Sd hard but It will succumb to the
tory 81 compassion! Even mans SYM
pathy Is pleasant and helpful. When we
lave been In some hour of weakness, 10 nave
brawny man stand beside us and promise
% see us through, what courage 1t gives TO
our heart, an what strength 1t gives to our
lrm. Still mightier is a woInans sympathy.
Lst him tell the story who. when all his for
unes were gone aaa all the world WIS
against him, came home AMI fount In that
lone wife WHO could write on the top OF
he empty -four barrel, "The Lord will pros
ride" or wrlte on the door Of the empty
wardrobe: hCo1sider the lilies Of the field:
f God 90 clothed the grass Of the field, will
! Hsno. cldthe Us aud ours?'
Or let that young man tell the story who
lbs gone tho whole round OF dissipation.
The sha low of the penitentiary is upon him;
md even his father says: aba OIL Never
! come home again!'' The young man fluds
! It'll his mothers arm outstretche1 for him,
! IND how she will stand at the wicket OF the
prison TO whisper consolation or get down on
! Ter knees before the governor begging for
pardon, hoping on her waywdrl boy after
lll others are hopeless. o; let her tell tho
Itory who, un Ter vlllainou5 allurement ana
inpatient OF parental restraint, has wan
iered off from home OF which she was the
dol into the murky alt thunderous mid
night of abandonment, away from God, and
further away until some time she ie tossed
IN the beach OF that early home mere
,plinter OF wreck. Who will pity her now?
Who will gather those dishonorei 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 thelost? Who
will put that weary head upon the clean
white pillow AMI watch by day aud watch
by night until the hoarse voice OF the SUFFERER
becomes the whisper, and the whisper be-
zones only d faint motion OF the lips, and
the faint motion of the lips is exchanged for
lsilent look, and the cut feet are still. and
The weary eyes are still, and the frenzied
heart is still, AMI all is still? Who will have
compassion on he- when no others have
compassion? Mother! Mother!
Oh, there is something beautiful in SYM
osthy--in manly sympathy, wifely sympathy,
notherly sympathy, yea, and neighoor'y
sympathy, Why was it that a city was
aroused With excitement when a little child
gas kidnapped from one OF the streets? Why
we're whole columns OF the newspapers fllle1
with the story of little child2 1t was be-
,ause we are all one in sympathy, and every
parent said: Chow if it had been my Lizzie?
dow if it had been my Mary? How Ii 1t hal
been my Mau12 How If it had been my
| :hild? How If there ha been one unoccupied
pillow in our trundle bed tonight How IL
ny little one-bone Of my bone and fdsh OF
ny fiesh-were tonight carried captive into
tome den Of eagabonds, never to come bacxto
ne? How If it had been my sorrow
ooking out of the window watching and
Yaiting-that sorrow worse than deathH"
Then when they found her, why did we de-
clare the news all through the households,
mi everybody that knew how to pray said,
"Thank God2" Because we are all one,
)ound by one great golden chain OF SYM
)athy. Oh, yes, but ! have to tell you that
fyou will aggregate all heighborlY, manly,
| Yifely, motherly sympathy, it will be found
only poor starving thing compared with
he sympathy of our great Shiloh, who has
| held in His lap the sorrows 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 have!
| But in larger vision see the Nations in
yome kinl OF trouble ever since the world
vas deraied and hurled down the embank-
nents. Tle demon OF sin came to the
world, but other demons have gone through
other worlds. The demon Of conf1agration,
The demon of volcanic disturbance, the de-
non of destruction.
| La Place says he SAW one world In the
Northern Hemisphere sixteen months burn
| ne. Tycho Brahe said he saw another world
| 5urning. A French astronomer says that in
| 800 years 1900 worlds have disappeared.
10 not see why inadels find it so hard to be-
| lieve that two worlds stopped In Joshuas
| lime, when the astronomers tell US that l6OO
worlds have stopped. Even the moon Is
world in ruins. Stellar. lunar, solar cataS-
| trophies innumerable. Bat 1t seems as II tho
most sorrows have been reserved for our
world. By One toss ofthe world at 1icuboro,
Of 1900 inhabitants only twenty-six
people escaped. By one shake OF the
worl1 at Lisbon in five minutes
$4,000 persisted, and 200, 900 before the earth
stopped rocking. A mountain falls in Switz-
erland, burying the village OF Goldau.
mountain falls in Eta'y 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
tbe earth the Caribbean Islanls broken off
from America. Three islands near the
mouth of the Ganges, with 3l0,O inhabi1
tants-a great surge Of the sea breaks over
them. and 1900 perish that day. Alas,
alas. for our poor world! 1t has been re-
gently discovered that a whole continent has
sunk. Il continent that connected Europe and
Amer ,ca-part of the inhabitants Of that con-
tinent going to Europe, part coming 10
America over the tablelands Of Mexco' up
through the valleys Of the Mississippi, and
we are finding now the remains OF their
mounds and their cities in Mexico. IN color
ado and the table!ands of the West. 1t Is
Of. a. fhpf a whole QNEtI~
,ent has gone down, the Azores oil the coast b
If Spain only the highest mountain OF that
unken continent. Plato described that con-
inent. its grandeur the multitude OF its in
,abitants. It's splenior and its awful de-
,truction, and the world thought 1t was
romance. but psychologists have found out
# was history. aid the English and the Ger
man and the American fleets have gone forth
with archaologists, and the Challenger, and
the Dolphin, aud the G lzslle have dropped
anchor, aud In deep sea soundings they nave
found the contour Of that sunken continent.
Oh. there is trouble marked on the rocks,
on the sky, ON tn, sea, on the flora and the
launa Astronomical trouble, geological
trouble, oceanic trouble. political trouble
domestic trouble, and standing in the pres.
ence of all those stupen1ous deyastattons
ask if | am not right in saying that the great
want OF this age an1 all ages is divine SYM
patty aud omnipotent comfort, and they are
found not in the Brahma of the Hindoo OF
the Allah of the Mohammedad, but in tha
Christ unto whom shall the gathering OF the
peop.e be. Other worlds may fall, but this
morning star will never be blotted from ths
heavens. The earth may quake, but this ro'S
IL ayes will never be shaken from its fouu'
dations. The same Christ who fed tns
5000 will feed all rne worlds hunger. Iht
same Christ who curel Bartimeu' VIII iIlu'
'o;ne oil hlindness The same Christ whit