Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-07-14

was finding then. ms Hanna found, and
as host Of famous men have found,
that happiness and true satisfaction
cannot be obtained from the world.
The world misrcprescnts them, ridcuhs
them and 1ccrics them, and, whether it
gives them its prizes or not, 1t wounds
and fortunes them.
Happiness Is Not In wealth.
Oh. rich man, appeal to your on
pericacc. Have you not realized that
happiness is not in wealth? Have
there not come times in your life when
you have felt that money and honor
and power alike fail to give you salts
faction? You are disappointed with
your life. Turn to Christ. who says to
such as you. "TIc that drinkcth of the
water that I shall give him shall never
thirst again" Come to him. Thou
art not far from the Kingdom of Cod
Almost saved! Yes. know it, Why,
For weeks. perhaps, you have been ly-
ing PROSTATE with danerous sickness
near the dividing line, the crossing Of
which means the recreation and the
capitalization and the redemption of
your life That sick bed means to you
in q spiritual sense what an invaid's
bed meant in physical sense to him
sick Of the palsy who was laid NJ
Christ's feet In the second chapter OF
Mark we read about the wonderful
incident which took place in Caper-
naum. No sooner did the people of
that city hear that Jesus had come
than the multitudcs began to gather
about him. They crowded into the
room where he was. They crowded
the front yard of his residence. On the
outskirts of the crowd we see couple
Of men carrying between them one who
was sick Of the palsy. ooh" they say
to each other, "if we can only bring our
brother to Christ, he will cure him"
think. from reading between the lines
\ of this chapter, that the invalid him
self did not care whether he saw Christ
or not. He was too sick to care His
limbs hung limp and heavy. His eye
lids dropped: the eyes were CLASSY. His
/ skin was tiabby and almost dead. But
, because the invalid was nine-tcnths
, dead that made no difference to the
| two friends. As they could not push
through the crowds who were iostlinr
, about the front door they climbed IN
, to the roof of the house. They then let
down the ropes and pulled the sick man
up. bed and all Then with their axes
, they broke open the roof and lowered
the sick man down through the roof to
. the feet of the Saviour who. seeing
their faith, said unto the sick of the
palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee
And he arose. The loose muscles stiff
a cned. The eyes became alert The
blood again coursed rapidly through
the clogrcd arteries. He walked: yea
, the sick man walked He was healed
l by being placed. "A hopeless. helpless
| invalid. at the feet of Jesus Christ.
; Sickness has been a spiritual bless
: ing TO you. o man, as the palsy was tc
a the invalid Of old. 1t has placed you
r almost within touch of our Saviour
e and King For years and years you
Q did not know what pain meant
0 When you heard people complaining
f about their invaldism YOU had no sym
patty You would petulantly say
"Ninetonths of these so called invalids
are mere hypochondriacS. If men and
+ women would only get up and stop
a their complaining and stop dosing
, themselves with medicines they would
be all right" When minister in
J.. church would preach from the text
r "Thou fool, this nicht thy soul shall
, be required of thee" you would settle
= back in yOur seat and smile, You
would say to yourself: Perhaps. Per
! haps not. My ancestors were all long
lived. | guess 7 will be also" Their
T you would complaccnty pat your ches
q as You expanded your lungs three OF
=, four inches, and you would say: We'll
n my ancestors never had a finer breath
n ing apparatus than have. Perhaps
shall die tonight. Perhaps not"
). But two years ago there came tina
4 sudden attack of illness II came al
q most without any varying at all. 70,
o remember how your cheek became a,
|. white as that of corpse and your lip:
a turned blue and cold. You romemhe
y how that pneumonia stabbed at you
g lungs. or how that typhoid made 20,
. sink so low that for weeks and week,
you lowered between life and death
a You remember how asthma choked you
/, until it seemed as though You Woul,
:. go mad with the agony. Aye, that sick
n ness made ont of you Il changed man
t. When the minister now announces the
q text. Luke, twelfth chapter and TWEEN
tieth verse, Thou fool. this night Thy
: soul shall be required Of thee" you Do