The Penn's Grove record., 1896-02-28

lppAling mesa OF II, no sympathy. Iutte ara
hultitujes of people dying for sympathy
ympathy in their work, sympathy In their
atigues, sympathy in their tereavements,
ympathy in their financial losses, sympathy
n their physical ailments. sympathy in theif
piritual anxieties, sympathy in the time OF
declining years-wide, deep, high, everlast-
ng. almighty sympathy. We must have II,
Ind Chris gives it. That is the cord with
vhich He is going to draw all Nations to
. Him.
7 At the story Of punishment n mans ey,
flashes, and his teeth set, and his fist
iiinches. aud he prepares to do battle even
hongh it be against the heavens. Yet what
heart so hard but it will succumb to the
tory OF conpassioni Even a mans SYM
Dathy Is pleasant and helpful. When WI
have been in some hour Of weakness, to have
! brawny man stand beside us and promise
b see us through, what courage 1t gives to
,ur heart, AMI what strength it gives to our
lrm. Still mightier is a woman's sympathy.
Lst him tell the story who. when all his for
unes were gone and all the world was
iya, nst him, came home and found in that
i1me a wife who could write on the top OF
he empty -four barrel, "rhe Lord will pro-
fde." or write on the door OF the empty
wardrobe: "Consider the lilies OF the field.
+ God 90 clothed the grass of the field, will
ge not clothe US and ours?'
Or let that young man tell the story who
las gone the whole round OF dissipation.
rhe shadow OF tie penitentiary Is upon him,
ind even his father says: "Bs off Never
lone home again." The young man finds
nil his mothers arm outstretched for him,
ind how she will stand at the wicket OF the
Prison 10 whisper consolation or get down on
her knees before the governor begging for
,lrdon, hoping on her wayward boy after
Ill others are hopeless. Or let her tell the
tory who. under villalnous allurement and
inpatient OF parental restraint, has wan'
Tered of from q home of which she was the
dol into the murky AMI thunderous mid
hight of abandonment, away from God, and
urther away until some time she is tossed
IN the beach OF that early home a mere
plinter of q wreck. Who will pity her nowl
Who will gather those dishonored locks into
Der lap? Who will wash off the blood from
he gashed foreheadl Who will tell her oil
hat Christ who came TO save the lostp 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-
ZONES only a faint motion of the lips, and
he faint motion of the lips is exchanged fol
lsilent look, and the sur feet are still, and
he weary eyes are still, and the frenzied
ieart Is still, and all is still? Who will have
compassion On her when no others have
lompassfon? Motheri Motheri
Oh. there Is something beautiful In sym
,athy-in manly sympathy, wifely sympathy,
notherly sympathy, yea, and neighborly
lynn patty, Why was 1t that a city was
Irouse,t with excitement when a little child
was kidnapped from one of the streets? Why
were whole columns Of the newspapers Allied
with the story Of a little child2 1t was be-
,ause we are all one In sympathy, and every
parent said: "How IL it had been my Lizziep
How il it had been my Maryf How II it had
been my Maud? How II it had been my
ihiid? How If there had been one unoccupied
pillow in our trundle bed tonight Howl
ny little one-bons of my bon and flesh OF
ny fesh-were tonight carried captive into
ONE den OF va%gabonds, never to come backto
ne9 How IL 1t had been my sorrow
ooking o1t of the window watching and
gsiting-that sorrow worse than death2"
Then when they found her, why did we de-
Hare the news all through the households,
md everybody that knew how to pray said,
sThank Godi" Because we are all one,
BOUND by one great golden chain OF SYM
,athy. Oh, yes, but l have to tell you that
I you will aggregate all neighborly, manly,
gifeIy, motherly sympathy, 1t will be found
,niy u poor starving thing compared with
he sympathy OF u great Shiloh, who has
ield 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 a Saviour We have!
But in larger vision see the Nations In
ONE kind OF trouble ever since the world
vas derailed and hurled down the embank-
nents. The demon of sin came to the
world, but other demons have gone through
jther worlds. The demon OF c~onfiagratiOn,
he demon OF volcanic disturbance, the de-
non of destruction.
La Place Says he saw one world in the
gorth-rn Hemisphere sixteen months burn
ng. Tycho Brahe said he saw another world
- A r-.-aE 49, 4, $40 EAaA IL
100 years 1900 worlds have disappeared. I
10 not see why infldels find it so hard to be-
IHeve that two worlds stopped in Joshua's
ime, when the astronomers tell us that 1900
worlds have stopped. Even the noon is a
world in ruins. Stellar. lunar, solar catas-
trophies tDnumerable But it seems as II the
most sorrows have been reserved for our
IT $4,000 Inhabitants only twenty-si1
people escaped. BY one shake of the
World at Lisbon in five minutes
5000 persisted, and zoo, 900 before the earth
topped rocking. A mountain falls In Swift.
brland, burying the village OF Goldau. A
mountain falls in Italy In the night, when
1000 people are asleep, n they never
arouse. Bya ~convulsion OF the earth Japan
broken of from China By a CONFUSION OF
the earth the Caribbean Islands broken of
lrom America. Three islands near tina
mouth Of the Ganges, with S40,0 900 inhabi-
Iants-a great surge Of the sea breaks over
hem, and 214, 900 perish that day. Alas,
alas, for our poor world! 1t has been re-
lently discovered that Il whole continent has
Junk, q continent that connected Europe and
kmerica-part Of the inhabitants OF that con-
inent going to Europe, part coming to
America over the tablelands of Mexico. up
through the valleys OF the Mississippi, aud
We are finding now the remains OF their
mounds and their cities In Mexico. In Color
ado and the tablelands OF the West. 1t is q
natter OF demonstration that a whole conti-
aent has gone down, the Azores of the coast
pf Spain only the highest mountain OF hat
mnken continent. Plato described that con-
anent, its grandeur, the multitude of its in
aabitants, Its splendor and its awful de-
jtruction, and the world thought 1t was a
Romance, but arch@ologists have found out
/ was history, aad the English and the Ger
man and the American fleets have gone forth
With psychologists, and the Challenger. and
the Dolphin, and the GaZelle have dropped
anchor, and in deep sea soundings they have
bund the contour Of that sunken continent.
oh, there is trouble marked on the rocks,
IN the sky, On tia sea, on the fora and the
launal Astronomical trouble, geological
irouble, oceanic trouble. political trouble,
domestic trouble, and standing in the pres
lnce of all those stupendous devastatiops
Hk Ill an not right in saying that the great
" AAa " NAA1 - eAA& 1s - " 49,
patty and ~omnipotent comfort, and they are
sound not In the Brahma OF the Hindoo OF
The Allah OF the Mohammedad, but in thu
phrisf unto whom shall the gathering Of tbs
people be. Other worlds may fall, but this
morning star will never be plotted from the
heavens. The earth may quake, but this rock
" ages will never be shaken from its foun'
1ations. The same Christ who fed the
1000 will feed ali the worlds hunger. The
iame Christ who cured Bartimeus will tllu.
mine all blindness. The same Christ whe
made the dumb speak will put on every
tongue a hosoanna. The same Christ whe
Awoke Lazarus from the s~arcoDhagus viii
yet rally all the pious dead in glorious res
direction. "I know that my RedeemsI
tysth. /" and ITO Him shall the gathering OF
he people be-" All, my friends, when Cnr1sl
tarts thoroughly and quickly to IN shis
miserable wreck OF a sunken world II Will
lot take Him long 10 lift 1t.
1 have thought hat this particular age II
Shich we live may be- given upto discoveries
Ind inventions by which through quick n
instantaneous communication all cities and
m communities and all lands will be
5roughttogether, and then In another period
perhaps these inventions which have been
ised for worldly purposes will be brought
nut for gospel invitation, and some
| rreat prophet of the Lord will come
ind snatch the mysterious, sublime
! Ind miraculous telephone from tne