News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-02-27

| 0iher surveyor take that chain and go to
the east, and another surveyor take that
chain and go TO the west, and then make
a report Of the square miles of that vast
kingdom of Gods mercy. Aye, you will
have to wait to all eternity for the re-
| port of that measurement. 1t cannot be
measured Paul tried to climb the
height of it, and he went height over
height, altitude above altitude, noun
tain above mountain, then sank down
IN Encouragement and gave it up, for
he saw Sierra Nevadas beyond and Mat
terhorns beyond, and waving his hands
back to US in the plains he says, "Past
| finding out; unsearchable, that in all
things he might have the prominence F"
You notice that nearly all the sinners
mentioned as pardoned in the Bible
were great sinners-David a great sim
ner, Paul a great sinner, Rahab a great
sinner, Magdalene a great sinner, the
| prodigal SOIL great sinner. The world
easily understood how Christ could par
don a half and half sinner, but what
the world wants to be persuaded of is
that Christ will forgive the worst sim
ner, the hardest sinner, the oldest sim
ner, the most inexcusable sinner. To
the sin pardoning Shiloh let all the
gathering Of the people be.
But, remark again, the people will
gather around Christ as a sympathizer
Oh, we all want sympathy hear peo-
pie talk as though they were independ-
ent of it. None of US could live without
sympathy. When parts of our family
are away, how lonely the house seems
until they all get home! But, alas, for
those who never come home. Sometimes
it seems as if it must be impossible.
What, will their feet never again come
over the threshold? Will they never
again sit with US at the table? Will
they never again kneel with Us at fami
ly prayer? Shall we never again look
into their sunny faces? Shall we never
again on earth take counsel with them
| for our work? Alas me, who can stand
under these griefs? Oh, Christ, thou
canst do more for bereft soul than any
one eIsel 1t is he who stands beside us
to tell of the resurrection. 1t is he that
came to bid peace. 1t is he that comes
to us aud breathes into US the spirit of
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
bereft, ye anguish bitten como into this
refuge! The roll of those who came for
relief to Christ is larger and larger.
Unto this Shiloh of omnipotent sympa-
thy the gathering Of the people shall be.
Oh, that Christ would stand by 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 help
at such a time. Suppose the world
comes and offers you money. You would
rather live on crust in a cellar and
have your departed loved ones with you
than live in palatial surroundings and
they away. Suppose the world offers
You its holorss = sole. you What is
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are griefs Ws81Wve ragged Oh 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 it
no sympathy There are multitudes of
people dying for sympathy-sympathy
in their work, sympathy i'll 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 man 3
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 compassion
Even mans sympathy is pleasant and
| helpful. When we have been i'll some
hour of weakness, to have q 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
aud found in that home wife who
could write on the top Of the empty
flour barrel, 1.-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 no not clotho 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 again |" Tht
young man finds still his mothers arm
outstretched for him, and how she viii
stand at the wicket of the prison t.
whisper consolation or get down on he
knees before the governor begging foi
pardon, hoping on for her hayward boz
after all others are hopeless Or let he
tell the story who, under villainous al
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