The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-03-04


that weary head upon the clean White
pillow and watch by day and watch by
night until The hoars9 voice Of the SUI
fe-cr becomes the whisper, and tie
whisper becomes Only faint motion Ct
the lips, and the faint motion of the
lips is exchanged for a silent lock, and
the cnt feet arc still, and the weary
eyes are still, and the frerZied heart is
still, and al IS still? Who will have
compassion Oh her when TO others have
compassion? Mother! Mother!
A Glorious Saviour.
Oh, there is something beautiful in
sympathy-in manly sympathy, wifely
sympathy, lnotherly sympathy, yea, and
Coighboriy sympathy! Why was it that
city was aroused with excitement
when g little Child was kidnapped from
one Of the streets: Why were whole col
umns Of the newspapers filed with the
story of little child? 1t was because
we are al o2e in sympathy, and every
parent said: How If it had been my
Lizzie? How if it had been my Mary?
How if il had been ny Maud? How If
it had been ny child? How if there had
been one unoccupied pillow in oCr trun-
Ole bed tonight? How if my little one
bone CT ny bore and flesh Of my flesh
were tonight carried captive into some
den Of vagabcnds, never to como back to
me? How if it had been my sorrow
looking out Of the window watching
and waitiGg-that sorrow verse than
DEATH" Then when they found her,
Why did we declare the news all through
the households, and everybody that
knew how to pray said, "Thank God:"
Because VIC are al one, bound by one
great golden chain Of sympathy. Oh,
yes, but 1 have to tell you that if you
will aggregate al neighborly, manly,
wifely, motherly sympathy, it will be
found only poor starving thing COM
pared with the sympathy CT our great
Shiloh, who has held in his lap the scr
rows cf the ages AID who is ready to
nurse on his holy heart the woes Of all
God! What 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 embarkmelts. The demon of sin
came to this world, but other demons
have gone through other worlds. The
demon CT confagratiol, the demon Of
volcanic disturbance, the demon Of de-
struction.
La Place says he saw one world in
the northern hemisphere 1G months
burning. Tycho Braho said ho saw an
ether world burning. A French astrono-
mer says that in 300 years 1900 worlds
have disappeared. I do not see why in
fdels find it 50 hard to believe that two
worlds stopped in JoShpa's time, when
the astronomers tell Us that 1900
worlds have stopped. Even the moon is
world in ruins. Stellar, lamar, solar
eatastrophes iEnumerab!e. But it seems
as if the most sorrows have been roSerV-
ed for our world. BY one toss CT the
world at Ticuboro, of II, coo inhabitants
only 26 people escaped. BY one shake
Of tho world at Lisbon in five minutes
10000 persisted, and 300, coo before the
earth stopped rocking Amountain falls
in Switzerland, burying the village Of
Goldau. A mountain falls in Italy IN
the night, when 1000 people are asleep,
and they never arouse. BY a convalsion
of the earth Japan broken Off from Chi
NJ. By convulsion OF the earth the
Caribbean Islands broken oil from Amer
lea. Three islands near the moath Of
the Gargas, with $40, COO inhab;tants-
great suEgo Ct the sea breaks over
them, aid 214,000 perish that day.
Alas, alas, for our poor world It las
been recently discovered that q whole
Continent has sunk, 4 continent that
connected Europe and Amer:ca-parv Of
the inha bitants CT that continent going
to Europe, part coming to America over
the tablelands CT Mexico, up through
tho valleys Of tie Mississippi, aud VIC
are finding HOW the remains of their
mounds and their cities in Mexico, in
Colorado and the tabiclaEds cf tic west.
Il is matter Ct demonstration that
whole continent has gone down, the
Azores Off the coast Of SEain oniy the
highest mountain CT that sunken conti-
nent. Plato described that continent,
It's grandeur, the multitude Of lis inhab-
itants, its spie2dor aud It's awful de-
struc.ion, and the world thought it was
q romance, but acch@ologists havo found
cut il was history, AID the English AID
the German and the American fleets
have gone forth with arc!!aao!Ogists, and
the Challenger, and the Dolphin, and
the Gazelle have dropped anchor, and
in deep sea scundiugs they have found
the contour Of that sun!;en continent.
The Rock Of Ages.
Oh, there is trouble marked en- the
rocks. On the sky, Ca the sea, Oh the
fora and the fauna! Astronomical trou-
bic, geological trouble, oceanic trouble,
political trorbla, domestic trouble, and
star!jngin lie presence Of all those stu
Dendous devastationa l ask if am not
right IL saying that the great want OF
this age and all ages is divine sympathy
and omnipotent comfort, and they aro
found not in the Brahma CT the HlHdoo
or the Allah Of the MohaIumcdan, bat
in the Christ unto whom shall the gath
erirg CT tho people be. Other worlds
laay fall, but this morning star viii
never 10 biottcd from the heavens. The
earth may quake, but this rock CT ages
will never be shaken from its founda-
tons The same Christ who fed the
5000 vii! feed all the worlds hanger.
The samo Christ who cured Bartimeus
will iliu1nine all blindness The samo
Christ who made the dumb speak Will
There is more Catarrh il this sec
ton OF Ii; country than all other
diseases pat together, and until the
last few years was supposed to be IN
carat,e. For a great many years
doctors pr1rounced it loca! disease,
and 1resc;i ed laca! remedies, and