The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-28

| did In time, bearing mans siclInerSCS.
| carrying mans sorrows, healing man g
| griefs.
Christ's sympathy All-Inclusive.
The sympathy OF Christ Includes mans
ignorance OF his future years, his mis-
! takes In choosing his occupation, and his
wanderlngs from the path OF rectltudos
Indeed, but for his sympathy, l know not
how any child could find its way to man
hood. y reflective mind Is appalled, by
the magnitude of the task laid upon
child. This little one must 1nd It's own
way across the continent of the years
This babe. within its first three yeore
must master new language. 1t is born
without understanding Of Itself. Father
and mother know even legs about what
the boy was made for. When you buy
sewing machine Tor the house, or reap
cr for the field, 4 book of Illustrations
accompanies the machine. Pictures cX-
plain each wheel and eScapcmcnt, and
the inventor toresoes each possible com
pllcation for the mechanism. Under such
conditions, and with such handbook,
the control of the machine is an easy
task. Ever for adults a visit TO foreign
country IS so difficult and involves pcrils
so many and great, that guide books are
written, and Bacdcckcr personally con-
ducts each one of us. But what II the
child. when born, was accompanied by
an angelic Suide2 What H. standing be-
side the cradle the parents beheld
strange messenger With q handbook Of
instructions. saying, This Is the chid's
strongest faculty. here lies the line OF
least resistance Tho child is overstrons
In his passions-wealIcn them He Is
weak In his will-strenGthcn il, The dan
ger points will be OF fifteen and eighteen
and fifty." Then what II this messenger
gives the parent. In behalf OF the child,
the chart, showing every curve of the
long life pathway, with danger signals
put up where the path came nigh to the
preclpice? Why, living would be easy
under such circumstances. But men are
not so born Every babe is an enigma.
even To It's parents. babe is a treasure
box. You receive 1t ''on sight, unseen.
His teachers do not know what forms OF
greatness arc locked up In him, No one
understands so little the faculties you
carry as yourself This Is the problem
develop ones birth gifts to get through
life. having made the most of ones self
and others. What II our Pilgrim Fathers
had brought a child of nvc years OF nge
to Plymouth and set the child down In
the woods and called away again leaving
II TO make Its own way through tho for
est over the hills. across tho rivers. TO
surmount the Western mountains OF
snow, to stagger through the alkali
plains, to reach the far-off Western sea,
and there set sail for the shores immor-
tai, hidden behind the horizon. But that
is what God has done for man, and for
mans good. Our sympathy ls n drop,
and his an endless oceanl Warmth in US
GloWs like a candle, and love In him Ike
aches for the troubled. and we tire; he
never slumbers nor sleeps In his tireless
solicitudei oh what a Journey life is,
What q continent do the wears make up
What a Jungle Is the body! What pas
sons like Wild beasts leap out of It.
What arid places come through ingrau-
tudei What deserts are these, whore the
loyclcSS soul llveei What mountain penks
must be surmounted by the youth who
loves righteousness and would achieve IT.
What would one not give TO know the
events that day and an hour may bring
forth! No man would be equal to this
long life journey of seventy years but
Tor the sympathy and solicitude of God.
he understands our Ignorance. He sym
Dathlzes with our weakness, our mistakes |
# judgment, our %anderingS from the |
path. Like as father. he pitieS his |
children Like a guide with no words of |
larshnesS, he lifts them out OF the slough |
md brings them back TO the path A
thousand times he wards off unknown |
and unsupported danger. This is the sum |
IF the divine government OF men. He |
.Ollows mans career along the pathway |
II life. with a great teachers sympathy |
or a people, with more than fathers |
for his son. with a heroic lead |
RS sympathy for his oppressed followers, |
whom he would faln redeem and save
1od's Sympathy Includes Mans Sins.
The sympathy OF God fortunately in
ludes our snfulness and our mulJltudin-
'us transgrcssio ions-all this, too, notwith- |
tandng the minuteness OF his knowledge |
II man 1t is said that the darkness and
ne light are both alike to God. He |
earcheth out every hidden thing To |
i'm all secrets are open and exposed Is |
here secret room In memory whose
cor is always barred? OFT Cod and con
cience linger there. For the book that
9 not read by your brother man has
very page exposed to his all-seeing eye.
of us that lends us hope In
ICurs OF sickness we want a physician
Tho VIII tell us the worst. In moments I
4 remor9e for tTansgression We want the
q Ia
o fee TO God. Some time ago skiIlful
hysician detected threatening symptoms
n himself. His medical skill made him
he more careful. AT last. thoroughly
Harmed. he went to q physician. who
;as no wiser than himself The thought
I his home, OF his large practice, OF his
ront all tho facts Perhaps he hid this
ymptom from himself and overlooked
hat symptom, conccalns both from his
But one day the man said:
iorst The best counselor is the one who |
peaks the truth, even TO brutality" So
e sought out the worlds greatest expert,
man widely known for his bluntness !
nd gruffncss as well He told this great
hysician every secret thing, emphasized
very minute incident that could magnify
5@S he danger and at last the physician said.
There Is no reason why you should not
all OF these weaknesses, over
ONE this organic trouble. and secure per-
Get health again" In that hour, what a
oad rolled from the sick mans mind
'redt fears, like clouds dissolved and
assed away. He passed from despair
0 hope. from doubt and apprehension to
appinesS and health. And the basis Of
ur happiness is Gods exhaustive knowl-
dge Of our sinfulness. He knows our
'eakness altogether. Others may be dis
ppointcd and lose all hope--God. never
our mother. your father, yea the wife
I your bosom. may forswear all hope
tut If there be a single spark OF good
nat remains, God Will nurture the smok-
lg haH into the full flame of victory |
cd is love, and his love suffers He lis
broad. seeking for his SHINING children.
Ie beholds his people as sheep that havo
o shepherd. out I'm the darkness and
nc storm, out in the fire hail and blast
yer the mountain and through the des,
IT, through thorn and thicket through |
1g and fire, he seeks he pursues and his
urpose Is redemption; his heart, love;
IS healing, mercy, sympathy. succor
A Eetchino Echo