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and Christ gives it. That Is the cord with
which He Is going to draw all Nations t1
Him.
At the story OF punishment mans eyt
flashes, and his teeth set, and his f1s
clinches. and he prepares to do battle ever
though 1t be against the heavens. Yet wha
heart 80 hard but 1t will suocumb to the
pathy is pleasant and helpful. When We
have been In some hour Of weakness, to have
q brawny man stand beside US and promise
to see US through, what courage 1t gives tc
our heart, and what strength 1t gives to oul
arm. Still mightier Is woman's sympathy.
Let him tell the story who. when all his for
tunes were gone and all the world was
against him, came home and found in that
home a wife who could write on the top OF
the empty flour barrel, "The Lord will pro-
vide." or write on the door of the empty
wardrobe: Consider the lilies Of the field;
II God so clothed the grass Of the field, will
He not clothe US and ours2"
Or let that young man tell the story VINO
has gone the whole round Of dissipation.
| The shadow OF tae penitentiary is upon him,
and even his father saws: "Be of! Never
come home again." The young man mas
| still his mothers arm outstretched Tor MIN,
and how she will stand at the wicket OF the
! prison to whisper consolation or get down on
| 1SoSAAo
| pardon, hoping on her wayward boy a1ter
| all others are hopeless. Or let her tell the
story who, under villainous allurement and
| impatient OF parental restraint, has wan
dered Off from 4 home OF which she was the
idol into the murky and thunderous mid
night of abandonment, away from Coo, and
further away until some time she is tossed
On the beach of that early home mere
splinter OF a wreck. Who will pity her now!
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her lap? Who will wash OF the blood from
the gashed forehead Who will tell her OF
that Christ who came to save thelost2 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 whisper. and the whisper be-
comes only faint motion OF the lips, and
the faint motion Of the lips is exchanged for
asilent look, and the cur feet are still, and
the weary eyes arc still. and the frenzied
heart is still, and all Is still? Who will have
compassion on her when no others have
compassion? Mother! Mother!
On, there is something beautiful in SYM
pathy-in manly sympathy, wifely sympathy,
motherly sympathy, yea, and neighboriy
sympathy. Why was 1t that city was
aroused with excitement when little child
was kidnapped from one of the streets? Why
were whole columns Of the newspapers filed
with the story of little child? 1t was be-
cause we are all one in sympathy, and every
parent said: "how if it had been my Lizzie?
How if it had been my Mary2 How if it had
been my Maud2 How il 1t had been my
child? How If there had been one unoccupied
pillow in our trundle bed tonight How II
nv little one-bone Of my bone and flesh OF
my flesh-were tonight carried captive into
some den OF vagabonds, never to come backto
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 de-
clare the news all through the households,
and everybody that knew how to pray said,
.'Thank God2" Because we are all one,
bound by one great golden chain OF sym
pathy. Oh, yes, but have to tell you that
II you will aggregate all neighborly, manly,
wifely, motherly sympathy, 1t will be found
only poor starving thing compared with
the 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 q Saviour we have!
But in larger vision see the Nations In
some kind OF trouble ever since the world
was derailed and hurled down the embank-
ments. The demon OF sin came to the
world, but other demons have gone through
other worlds The demon Of confagration,
the demon Of volcanic disturbance, the de.
mon Of destruction.
La Place says he saw one world in the
Northern Hemisphere sixteen months burn
ing. Tycho Brahe said he saw another world
burning. A French astronomer says that In
800 years 1900 worlds have disappeared. 7
do not see why inndels find 1t so hard to be-
lieve that two worlds stopped in Joshua's
time, when the astronomers tell US that 150U
worlds have stopped. Even the moon is
world in ruins. Stellar. lunar, solar catas-
trophies innumerable. But it seems as II the
most sorrows have been reserved for our
world. By one toss ofthe world at Ticuboro,
Of $4,000 Inhabitants only twenty-six
people escaped. By one shake Of the
sc, 900 perished and 2O0, 900 before the earth
stopped rocking. A mountain fallsi In Switz-
erland, burying the village OF Goldau. A
mountain falls in Italy in the night, when
1000 people are asleep, and they never
arouse. By convulsion OF the earth Japan
broken off from China. BY a convulsion OF
the earth the Caribbean Islands broken of
from America. Three islands near the
mouth OF the Ganges. with 40,O0o inhabi-
tants--a great surge Of the sea breaks over
them, and 214,0OO perish that day. Alas,
alas, for our poor world! 1t has been re-
Gently discovered that whole continent has
America-part Of the inhabitants Of that con-
tinent going to Europe. part coming to
America over the tablelands OF Mexico. 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 tablelands Of the West. It is q
matter Of demonstration that whole CONT
nent has gone down, the Azores on the coast
Of Spain only the highest mountain OF that
sunken continent. Plato described that con-
tinent, its grandeur, the multitude OF its 1n-
kabitants, Its splendor and Its awful de-
struction, and the world thought 1t was a.
romance, but archaologists have found out;
1t was history. ahd the English and the Ger
man and the American fleets have gone forth
with arch8ologists, and the Challenger. and
the Dolphin, and the Gazelle have dropped
anchc1, and in deep sea soundings they have
found the contour OF that sunken continent.
There are people who think Christ will
come in person ana sit on throne. Perhaps
He may I should like to sea the Scared feet
going up the stairs of palace in which all
Mabal, aud ST. Marks, and the Windsor pal
ace are gathered. should like to see the
world pay Christ in love for what 1t did 10
Him in maltreatment. l should like to be
one Of the grooms Of the chargers holding
the. .stirrup rs the King mounts. Oh. what a
glorious time il would be on earth II Christ
would break through the heavens, and right
here where He has suffered and died have
this prophecy fulfilled, "Unto Him shall the
gathering OF the people be-" But failing in
that bargain 10 meet you at the ponderous
gate Of heaven on the day when our Lord
comes back. Garlan Is Of all Nations on His
brow-of the bronzed Nations Of the South
and the pallid Nations Of the North-Eu-
rope, Asia, Africa. North md South America