The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-02-27


II u cure it all" All. there are griefs
ne ragged on for thirty years and are
4" {. And yet hundreds have been
u. thousands have been comforted,
IN u, have been comforted, and Christ had
20 work. Oh. what Won want is SYM
?" The world heart OF sympathy beats
.e 'egularly. Plenty Of sympathy when
lot want II. and often when we are In
~ ng need oft. no sympathy There are
h ides OF people dying for sympathy
y ny In their work, sympathy In their
~ -, sympathy in their cereavements.
y thy In their financial losses, sympathy
~ ir physical ailments. sympathy in their
4 lal anxietles. sympathy ih the time OF
= ling years--wide deep. high. everlast-
lmighty sympathy. We must have Il,
hrist gives H.. That Is the cord with
He Is going TO draw all Nations to
the story OF punishment mans eve
's. and his teeth set, and hts fst
nes. and he prepares to do battle even
gh IL be against the heavens. Yet what
80 hard but Il will succumb TO tho
OF conpassionl Even mans SYM
~ is pleasant aud helpful. When we
been in some hour of weakness, TO have
dwny man stand beside us and promise
70 us through, what courage it gives TO
heart, and what strength IL gives TO our
Still mtghtier is n wOman's sympathy.
him tell the story who. when all his for
IS wore gone and all che world was
inst him, came home and found in that
ne wife who could write on the top OF
empty -four barrel "Tho Lord will pro-
ie," or write on the door Of the empty
lrdrobei "Consiier the lilies OF the field.
God 80 clothed tho grass of the field, will
not clothi Us and ours?'
Or let that young man tell the story who
- gone the whole round oi dissipation
ne shadow OF tie penitentiary Is upon him.
nj even his iathnr SAYS: "Ba OF! Never
Dme home AGAIN. The young man nnds
al his mothers arm outstretche1 for him,
nd how She will stand at the wicket OF the
'risonto whisper consolation or get down on
Ter knees before the governor begging for
'nrdon, hoping on her waywnrl boy after
ul others are hopeless. o. let her tell the
tory who. uu Ter villainous nlurement aud
inpatient OF parental restraint. has wan
Tered OF from a home Of which She was the
idol into the murkv AMI thun1erous mid
night oi ahanionm'nt, away from God. aud
further away until some time sha is tossed
ON tn" beach Of that early homo mere
splinter ot wreck. who will pity her now
Who will gather those dishonorel locks into
her lHp' Who VIII wash of the blood from
the gashci forche1il Who will tell her OF
that Christ who came to save the losty Who
will put tnat weary head upon the clean
white pillow aul wu.ch hy day and watch
by night until the h)ar,, voice OF the sufferer
becomes tho whisper. and the whisper be.
comes only faint motion Of the lips, aud
IN" iUnt motion Oi the lips Is exchanged for
asilent took, and the cut feet are still. aud
the weary cyes ara still, and the frenziel
heart ls still, aul all is still! Who will have
compassion on her when no others have
compas. .iou! Mother! Mother,
Oh, there is something beautiful in svm-
pathy-in manly sympathy, wifely sympathy.
m'ther!y sympathy, yea, and neighbor.y
sympathy. Why was II that u city was
aroused with excitement when little child
was kidnapped from one of the streets? Why
were whole columns Of the newspapers filled
with the story of little child? II was be-
cause we are all one in sympathy and every
parent sn'd "Hpw IL IL had been my Lizzie?
How IL II had been my Mary2 How II Il had
been my Maud? How II II hal been my
child? How IL there had been one unoccupied
pillow in our trundle bed tonight? How II
my little one-bone OF my bone and nesh OF
ny hesh-were tonight carried captive into
some den otvaga '.. some bnck 10
mev How III Oee NV enrsOw
looking out Of the window wa, ching nnd
waiting-that sorrow worse tl,an do. NJ"
Then when they found her WHY did we de-
clare the news all through .ue households,
aud everybody that knew how to pray said,
"rhank GodY' Becnnse we are ali ono
bound by ono great golden chain OF sym.
pathy. On, yes, but | have TO tell you that
II you VIII nggrey gate all neichborly, manly,
wllely. mothesty sympathy. II will be found
only poor starving thing compared with
the synpntny Of our great Shiloh, who mas
held IN His lap the sorrows OF the ages ana
who Is ready 10 nurse on His holy heart the
woes OF all who will como 10 Him. Oh, wha,
q God. What Saviour we have!
But in larger vision see the Nations in
some kind OF trouble ever since the world
was derItlod and hurled down the ombank-
ments. Tho demon OF sin camo 70 the
wDrl'. but other demons have gone through
other worlds. The demon Of connlgratior.
the lsA2n - volcanic disturbance, ths de
mon 'ui d".tru.upn.
La Place says he saw one worll in H.
Northern Hemisphere sixteen months burn.
ing. Tycnp Bvthr said he saw another world
burning. French astronomer says that in
800 years 1900 worlds have disappeared. /
do no, sos why iuil .cls find 1t 50 hard To be-
lieye thUt Two worlds stoppot in Joshua's
time, when the eG-trlnOmers tell rs Chat 1900
worlds have stopped. Even this moon Is It
world IN ruins. stellar. lunar, solar catas-
tropics iHnumerabc But IL seems rs 1t the
most sorrows have been reserved for our
world. by ono toss oftho world ne Ticuporo.
Of l2,DOJ Inhabitants only twcnty-siN
people c.'apad. By cuo shake OF the
world at Lisbon in five minutes
G)OOO persisted. and 200, 900 before the earth
stopped rocking. A mountain falls in Swift
erlani, buryng tho village OF Goldau. 4
mountain falls In Italy in the night, when
1000 people ara asleep, and they never
arouse, Bya cpnyulsiOu OF the earth Japan
broken OIL from China. By convulsion OF
the earth the Caribbean Islands broken of
from America. Three islands near the
mouth OF the Gang's, with 10000 inhabi-
tlnts--a great surge of the sea breuks over
them, and 2lI,000 parish that day. Alas,
alas. Tor orr poor world! IL has been re-
Gently discovered that whole continent has
sunk n continent that connected Europe and
Amer 't part OF the inhabitants OF that con-
tnent going = Europe, part coming TO
America over tho tablelnnds ~ Mexico. mp
through the valleys OF the Mississippi, aud
we are finding now tho remains OF their
mounds and their cities In Mexico. In Color
ado aud the tablelands of the West. 1t *
matter of demonstration that whole conti-
nrnt has gone down, the Azores OFF the coast
OF Spain only the highest mountain OF that
sunken continent. Plalo described that con
tinent, its grandeur, the multitude OF its in-
habitants, is splendor aud its awful de-
structiou, and tho world thought IL was II
romance, but archeologists have found out