Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-03-04

lathy! The worlds heart of sympathy beats
rsry irregularly. Plenty of sympathy when
Ee do not want II. and often when we are In
appalling need OF it, no sympathy. There are
hultitudes Of people dying for sympathy
ympathy in their work, sympathy in their
ympathy in their financial losses, sympathy
n their physical ailments. sympathy in their
pfrifual anxieties, sympathy in the time OF
lecining years-wide. deep, high, everiast-
ng, almighty sympathy. We must have it,
md Chris gives il. That is the cord with
vhich He is going to draw all Nations to
Tim.
At the story OF punishment q mans eye
flashes. and his teeth set, and his fist
ilinches. AMI he prepares to do battle even
hough it be against the heavens. Yet what
heart so hard but it will succumb to the
tory OF compassion! Even a mans sym.
,athy is pleasant and helpful. When wa
lave been in some hour Of weakness, 20 have
brawny man stand beside us and promise
10 see us through, what courage it gives to
,ur heart, and what strength it gives to our
lrm. Still mightier is woman's sympathy.
Let him tell the story who. when all his for
unes were gone and all the world was
lya nst him, came home and found in that
lome wife who could write on the top of
he empty flour barrel. "rhe Lord will pro-
ride" or write on the door Of the empty
wardrobe: "Consider the lilies Of the field.
Z God 40 clothed the grass of the field, will
IL not clothe us aud ours?''
Or let that young man tell the story who
las gone the whole round OF dissipation.
The shadow of tLe penitentiary is upon him.
Ind even his father says: ''Bs Off Never
tome home again. The young man finds
till his mothers arm outstretched for him,
Ind how she will stand at the wicket OF the
prison to whisper consolation or get down on
her knees before the governor begging fof
l4rdOn. hoping on her wayward boy after
Ill Others are hopeless. Or let her tell the
tory who. under viliainou5 allurement and
inpatient of parental restraint, has wan
Tered of from a home of which she was the
dol into the murky and thunderous mid
right of abandonment, away from God, and
urther away until some time she is tossed
bn the beach of that early home a mere
plinter Of q wreck. Who will pity her nowf
Who will gather those dishonored locks into
ler lap? Who will wash off the blood from
he gashed forehead Who will tell her OF
hat Christ who came to save the lost? Who
will put that weary head upon the clean
white pillow and watch by day and watch
~ night until the hoarse voice of the sufferer
becomes the whisper. and the whisper be.
ZONES only faint motion of the lips, and
ne faint motion of the lips is exchanged for
isilent look, and the cut feet are still, and
he weary eyes are still, and the frenziei
ieart is still, and all is stilll Who will have
compassion on her when no others have
compassion? Mother! Mother!
oh. there is something beautiful in sym
,athy-in manly sympathy, wifely sympathy,
Iympathy: Why was it that a city was
aroused with excitement when a little child
was kidnapped from one of the streets? Why
we're whole columns of the newspapers filled
With the story OF little child? 1t was be-
iause we are all one in sympathy, and every
parent said: "How IL it had been my Lizzie?
How if it had been my Mary? How if it had
,een nv Maud? How If it had been my
,hild? How If there had been one unoccupied
pillow in our trundle bed tonight? How il
ny little one-bone OF my bone and flesh oil
ny flesh-were tonight carried captive into
% ne den of vagabonds, never to come back TO
ne? How If it had been my sorrow
ooking out of the window watching and
vaitins-that sorrow worse than death?
Then wnen they found her, why did We de-
llare the news all through thu honsshoi'a-,
sud everybody tuat knew how to pray said,
Thank God?" Because We are all one,
,oun1 by one great golden chain OF sym.
,athy. Oh, yes, but have to tell you that
I you will aggregate all neighborly, manly
vifely, motherly sympathy, it will be found
,niy a poor starving thing compared with
he sympathy of our great Shiloh, who has
ield in His lap the sorrowS Of the ages and
rho is ready to nurse on His holy heart the
Soes 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 emtank-
nents. The demon of sin came to the
vorlt. but other demons have gone through
,ther worlds. The demon of confiagration,
he demon of volcanic disturbance, the de-
non Of destruction.
La Place says he saw one world in the
10 r. Hap spba iyfa hS h,,r
ng. Tycho Brahe said he saw another world
burning. A French astronomer says that in
100 years 1900 worlds have disappeared.
10 not see why infiielS find it so hard to be-
ieve that two worlds stopped in Joshua s
lime, when the astronomers tell us that 1900
worlds have stopped, Even the moon is a
world in ruins. Stellar. lunar, solar catas-
.rophes innumerable. But it seems as il the
most sorrow5 have been reserved for our
world. BY one toss ofthe world at Ticuboro,
If $4,000 Inhabitants only twenty-six
,eople escaped. By one shake of the
World at Lisbon in five minutes
10000 persisted. and 2O0, 900 before the earth
Drland, burying the village Of Goldau. A
mountain falls in Italy in the night, when
1000 people are asleep, and they never
arouse. By q CONFUSION OF the earth Japan
broken on from China By a CONFUSION OF
the earth the Caribbean Islands broken of
from America. Three islands near the
mouth of the Ganges, with $40. 900 inhabi-
them, and 214, 900 perish that day. Alas,
alas, for our poor world! 1t has been re-
,ently discovered that a whole continent has
unk, a continent that connected Europe and
America-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, and
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 a
natter Of demonstration that a whole conti-
aent has gone down, the Azores Off the coast
sf Spain only the highest mountain OF that
,unken continent. Plato described that con-
tnent, Its grandeur. the multitude Of its in
aabitants, its splendor and its awful de-
truction, and the world thought 1t was a
romance, but archRologists have found out
/ was history, aud the English and the Ger
man and the American fleets have gone forth
With archeologists, and the Challenger. and
he Dolphin, and the Gazelle have dropped
lnchor, and In deep sea soundings they have
Ound the contour of that sunken continent.
Oh, there is trouble marked on the rocks,
IN the sky, on tn sea, on the fora and the
auna! Astronomical trouble, geological
rouble, oceanic trouble. political trouble,
domestic trouble. and standing in the pres
pnce of all those stupendous devastations
van. of this age and all ages is divine SYM
,athy and omnipotent comfort, and they are
ound not in the Brahma Of the Hindoo oil
he Allah Of the Mohammedad, but in the
Dhrist unto whom shall the gathering Of the
people be. Other worlds may fall. but thi:
morning star will never be blotted from the
heavens. The earth may quake, but this rock
II ages will never be shaken from its foun.
aations. The same Christ who fed the
1000 will feed all the worlds hunger. The
,ame Christ who cured Bartimeus will illu.
mine all blindness. The same Christ wht
made the dumb speak will put on every
tongue a hosoanna. The same Christ wht
Awoke Lazarus from the sarcophagus viii
yet rally all the pious dead in glorious res
direction. "I know that my RedeemeI
lveth," and "to Him shall the gathering
he pee pie be-" All, my friends. when Chri.
tarts thoroughly and quickly to lift hi
miserable wreck of a sunken world 1t wi
lot take Him long to lift it.
have thought that this particular age
| xhich we live NAV be given upto discoverie
| Ind inventions by which through quick an
! instantaneous communication all cities an
| III communities and all lands will b
i Arou ryrt fo,etbar and then in another periO