Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-06-18

one that can fully Sympathize. Go and
tell Jesus. Sometimes when we have
trouble we go to our friends, and we
explain it, and they try to sympathize
but they do not understand it. They
cannot understand it But Christ sees
all over it and all through it. He not
only counts the tears and records the
groans, but before the tears started
before the games began, Christ saw
the inmost hiding place of your sorrow
and he takes it, and he weighs it, and
be measures it, and he pities it with an
all absorbing pity. Bone of our bone
Flesh of our flesh. Heart of our heart
Sorrow of our sorrow. AS long as he
remembers Lazarus grave he will
stand by you in the cemetery. AS long
as he remembers his own heartbreak
he will stand by you in the laceration
of your affections. When he forgets
the footsOre way, the sleepless nights,
the weary body, the exhausted mind,
the awful cross, the solemn grave, then
he will forget you, but not until then.
Mighty to Save.
Often when we were in trouble we
sent for our friends, but they were far
away. They could not get to us. We
wrote to them, Come right away" or
telegraphed, "Take the next train"
They came at last, yet were q great
while in coming or perhaps were too
late. But Christ is always near-before
you, behind you, within you. No moth
er ever threw her arms around her
child with such warmth and ecstasy of
Of tot l. oh, @%xr 1,.l
you. Close at hand, nearer than the
staff upon which you lean, nearer than
the cup you put to your lip, nearer than
the handkerchief with which you wipe
away your tears, preach him an ever
present, all sympathizing, compassion
ate Jesus. How can you stay away
one moment from him with your
griefs? Go now. Go and tell Jesus.
1t is often that our friends have no
power to relieve us. They would very
much like to do it, but they cannot dis
entangle our finances, they cannot cure
our sickness and raise our dead, but
glory be to God that he to whom the
disciples went has all power in heaven
and on earth, and at our call he will
balk our calamities and at just the
right time, in the presence of an ap-
earth and a resounding heav-
en-, will raise our dead. He is mightier
than Hercd. He is swifter than the
storm. He is grander than the sea. He
Is VaSter than eternity. And every
sword of Gods omnipotence will leap
from its scabbard and all the resources
Of infinity be exhausted rather than
h0t oh no
when he cries to him for rescue. Sup
pose your child was in trouble. How
much would you endure to get him
out? You would go through any hard
ship. You would say: 81 don't care
what it will cost. 1 must get him out
Of that trouble" Do you think God is
not so good a father as you? Seeing
you are in trouble and having all pow
or, will he not stretch out his arm and
deliver you? He will. He is mighty
to save. He can level the mountain
md divide the sea and can eXtinguish
the fire and save the soul. Not dim of
eye, not weak of arm, not feeble of re-
sources, but with all eternity and the
at his feet. Go and tell Jesus.
Will you? Ye whose cheeks are wet
with the night dew of the grave, We
who cannot look up, We whose hearts
lre dried with the breath of sirocco, in
the name of the religion of Jesus
Christ, which lifts every burden and
wipes away every tear and delivers ev-
cry captive and lightens every dark
ness, l implore you now go and tell
Jesus.
Trust In the Lord.
A little child went with her father, n
sea captain, to sea, and when the first
storm came the little child was very
much frightened and in the night rush
ID out of the cabin and said, "Where is
.ather, where is fatherW Then they
old her, "Father is on deck guiding the