Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-02-29

after all others are hopeless. Or let her
tell the story who, under villainous al
lurcment and impatient Of parental re-
straint, has wandered of from "a home of
which she was the idol into the murky
and thundcrous midnight OF abandon
mcnt. away from God, and further away,
until some time she Is tossed ON the beach
of that early home II mere splinter of
wreck Who will pity her now: Who will
gather these dishonorcd locks into her
lap Who will wash oil the blood from the
gaShod forehead: Who will tel! 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 AMI watch
10y night until the hoarsc voice Of the suf-
fcrcr becomes the whisper, aud the whis-
per Incomes only II faint motion of the
lips, and the faint motion of the lips is
exchanged Tor silent look, and the cut
feet are still, a.d the weary eyes are still,
and the !renzicd heart j. still, and all l.
still? Who will have compassion on her
whom no others have compassion: Mother
Mother
A Variety of Demons.
Oh, thcrc is something beautiful in sym
pathy-in manly sympathy. wifcly sym
pathy. mnti,crly sympathy; yea, and
ncighhurly : lqaihy Why was it that n
city WIS aroused with excitement when u
/ little child w, kidnapped from ono of the
streets: Why were whole columns of the
/ newspapers filled with the sturs of IA little
child: l. was because we are all one in
sympathy, and every parent said: How
+ ii ii had been my Lizzie: How If it had
+ been my Mary: How ii it had been my
Maud: IIuw II it had been my child: How
if there had been one unuccupied pillow
in our trundlc bed tonight How if my lit
tie cne-bone of my bone and flesh of my
fCsi-wurc tonight carried captive into
some den 81 vagahonds never 10 come
/ back 10 mc: How IL it had been my sor-
row looking out uf the window. watching
and waiting-that sorrow worse than
/ DEATH Then, when they found her, why
I did we declare the news all through the
households and everybody that knew how
t. pray say, Thank Cod 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
ncighburly, manly, wifely, mntherly SYM
! pathy, il will bc found only II poor starry
/ ing thing compared with the sympathy of
our great shiloh, who has held in his lap
the sOrrOws OF the ages, and who is ready
90 nurse ON his holy heart the woes of all
! what "a saviour we have,
But in larger vision sea the nations in
/ some kind ~ trouble ever since the world
1 was deraiicG and hurled down the cmbank-
mcnts. Tho demon of sin came to this
world, but other demons have gone
/ through other worlds The demon of con-
! 1agrntion, tho demon of volcanic disturb
/ ance. the demon of destruction
In ha in hA
northern hemisphere l6 months burning.
/ Tycho Brahc said he saw another world
/ burning y French astronomer says that
/ In 30 years !, 500 worlds have disappear
cd. | do not see why infldcls find it so
/ hard To believe that two worlds stopped in
/ Joshua time, when the astronomers tell
/ Us that /, 300 worlds have stopped. Even
the moon is II world in ruins. stellar, lu-
mar, solar catastrophcs innumcrablc. But
/ IL seems as If the most SORROWS have been
reserved for our world. By one toss Of the
world AT Ticuburu, of L.. OOu inhabitants
only 20 people escaped. BY one shake Of
the world al Lisbon in five minutes 60, 900
persisted and 200, 600 before the earth
stopped rocking. \ mountain falls in
Switzerland, hurying the village Of Col
dHu. y mountain falls in Italy in tho
night, when 1000 people are asleep, and
they never arouse. by IL CONFUSION of the
earth Japan broken Off from China. BY u
CONFUSION of the earth the Caribbean is
lands broken off from America. Three is
lands near the mouth Of the GangeS, with
$40, 900 inhabiiantS--a great surge of tho
sea breaks over Them and 81 900 perish
that day. Alas, alas, for our poor world.
1t has been recently discovered that a
whole continent has sunk, continent
that connected Europe and America, part
of the inhabitants of that continent going
To Europe, part coming To America over
the tablelands OF Mexico, mp through tho
valleys of the Mississippi and We are find
ing now the remains of their mounds and
their cities in Mexico, in Colorado and
the tablelands Of the west. 1t Is matter
of demonstration that a whole continent
has gone down, the Azores oil tho coast Of
Spain only the highest mountain of that
sunken continent. Plato described that
continent, its grandeur, the multitude Of
its inhabitants, its splcndor and its awful
destruction, and the world thought it was
"a romance. but arch;rologiSts have found
out it was history, and the English and
the German and the American fleets have
gone forth with archeolugists, and the
Challenger and tho Dolphin and the Ga-
zelle have dropped anchor, and in deep sea
soundings they have found tho contour Of
that sunkcn continent.
All to Christ.
Oh, there i; trouble marked on the
rock., on the sky, ON the sea, on the flora
and the fauna--astronomical trouble,
geological trouble, oceanic trouble, p0liti-
cal trouble. domestic trouhle-and stand
ing in the presence OF all those stupendous
dcvaStatiuns, | ask II | am not right in
saying that the great want of this age
and all ages is divine sympathy and ON
nipoicnt comfort. and they are found not
in the Br;,lima OF the HindOo or the Allah
of the Mohammedan. but in the Christ
unto whom shall the gathering Of the poo-
Pile be- Other worlds may fall, but this
morning star will never BIZ blotted from
the heavens. Tho earth may quake but
this rock of ages will never be shaken
from its foundations. The same Christ
who fed the 3 900 will feed all the world s
hunger. This same Christ who cured Bar
timeus will illumnc all blindness. The
same Christ who made the dumb speak
will put on every tongue - hosanna. The
same Christ who awokc Lazarus from the
sarcophagus will yet rally all the pious dead
IN glorious resurrection. Il know that my
Redccmcr livcth, " and that Ito him shall
the gathering 81 the people he. An, my
friends, when Christ starts thoroughly and
quickly 10 lift this miserable wreck of Il
sunken world, ii will not take him long
to lift IT.
have thought that this particular age
in which we live may he given up To dis
covcrics and inventions by which through
quick aud instantaneous communication
all cities and all communities and all
lands will bo brought together, and then
in another period perhaps these invention.
which have been used for worldly purposes
will be brought out for gospel invitation,
and some great prophet Of the Lord will
como and snatch the mysterious, sub
limo and miraculous telephone from
the hand Of commerce, and, all lands
and Kingdoms connected by IA wondrous
wire, this prophet of the Lord may.
through telephone communication, in an
instant announce To all nations pardon
and sympathy and life through Jesus
Christ, and then, putting the wondrou.
tube To the ear of the Lord prophet, the
response shall como back II believe in
tod, the Father Almighty, Maker OF
heaven and earth. and in Jesus Christ, his
only bcgoftrn son.
Won and may not live "a see the day