The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-07-17


, lows pace. nave tried 10 neip mos,
!, In need and tighten the burdens Of
those less fortunate than myself. yei
am here held up to the gaze Of the
world as d murderer Of women and
children. tell You, 1t huHs.' And
Mr.. President, looking up into that
manly face | saw tile tears coursing
down his cheeks as he turned and ST.
lcntly walked away"
You think worldly success can bring
true happiness? If it could, why did
1t not bring happiness to James q.
Blaine, the Henry Clay" of the latter
part Of the past century? Murat Hal
stead relates how lie went TO see Mr..
Blaine in the Fifth Avenue hotel, New
York The death pallor was on his
cheek In few weeks his broken
heart was to cease TO beat. Mr. Blaine
sat looking into the blazing fire. Murat
IIalstead could not say word. His
heart was too full. After the two
friends sat thus for Il short time, Mr..
Blaine heaved deep sigh as he said,
"Oh, Halstcad, | could have stood it
all II had not lost my two boys" He
was finding then, us Hanna found, and
as host Of famous men have found,
that happiness and true satisfaction
cannot be obtained from the world.
The world mlsrepresents them, ridicules
them and decries them, and. whether 1t
gives them its prizes or not IL wounds
and tortures them.
Happiness In Not In Wealth.
Oh, rich mani appeal TO your ex-
perience 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 ms you, HE that drlnketh of the
water that shall give him shall never
thirst again." Come to him. Thou
| art not far from the kingdom Of God.
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 Il spiritual sense what nm inyalid's
bed meant in physical sense TO him
sick of the palsy who was laid at
Christ's feet. In the second chapter OF
Mark we read about the wcnderful
incident which took place in Caper-
naum No sooner did the people of
that city hear that Jesus had come
than the multitudes 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. "Oh," they say
TO each other. "if we can only bring our
brother to Christ. he will cure him"
l 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 flabby and almost dead. But
dead that made no difference to the |
two friends. As they could not push !
through the crowds who were iostllng I
about the front door they climbed up /
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 ana lowered
the sick man down through the roof TO
the feet of the Saviour. who, seeing
their fnith, said unto the sick of the
palsy, "Son, thy sins be forgiven thee"
And he arose. The loose muscles stiff
encd. The eyes became alert The
blood again courscd rapidly through
the clogged arteries lie walked: yea,
the sick man walked. lie was healed
by being placed. hopeless. helpless
invalid, at the feet of Jesus Christ.
Sickness has been Il spiritual bless
ing TO You. O man, as the palsy was 10
the invalid of old. 1t has placed you
almost within touch of our Saviour
and King. For years and years You
did not know what Il pain meant
When you heard people complaining
about their invalidism you had no sym
pathy. You would pctulantIy say:
''Nine-tenths Of these 50 called invalids
are mere hypochondrincs If men and
women would only get MP and stop
their complaining and stop dosing
themselves with medicines they would
be all right" When minister in
church would preach from the text
Thou fool, this night thy soul shall
be- required of thee" you would settle
back In your seat ana smile. You
would say 70 yourself: Perhaps Per
haps not. Ny ancestors were all long
lived guess | will be also" Then
ron would complaceutly pat your chest
IS you expanded your lungs three or
'our inches, and you would say: We'll,
my ancestors never had a finer breath
ne apparatus than have. Perhaps |
shall die tonight. Perhaps not"
But two years ago there came that
sudden attack of illness II came al
most without any warning at all You
how your check became rs
White as that of corpse and your Inns .