The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-02-25

as we are, De SICK as we may De, AND
suffer as We do.
The rains that pass over the Nuu-
anu Pail do no good to the land near
| Diamond Head. It is only as the re-
freshing rain comes down and touches
the land that the land becomes fresh
and brings forth its fruit. So with the
/ life of Christ.
There is no side of Christ's life that
appears to me with more power, that
stands out so conspicuously as a
strong evidence of his genuine hui
manity than his sense of loneliness.
Have you ever thought of Christ as
lonely man? Have you ever stop
ped to consider the number of times
he has been spoken of in the New
Testament as lonely? Have you ever
considered the places where he was
and felt very lonely? Have you ever
felt lonely? Have you ever stood
alone somewhere and felt as though
this world had no place where you
could find some one who would look
to you with friendly eyes?
Let us look at Christ's life. Let Us
see if He ever felt lonely, if He ever
felt as though all the world had left
Him and He had none to comfort Him.
Yes, He was lonely man. Do you re-
member the time when the multitude
followed Him because He fed them, and
as He preached to them He began to
tell them of salvation and that He
himself was the real bread of life to
believers? Do you remember how those
following Him said it was a severe
saying and felt 1t necessitated some
sacrifice, so, turning about, they began
to leave, one by one, then more and
more, until only His disciples were left,
and He turned to them in a most heart.
rending way and asked, will we also
go away?"
Surely He was human. A human
body never held a more lonely soul
than His that day as He looked on the
fleeing multitude. Here was supreme
loneliness. High above all His fellows,
high above all in hopes and aspira-
tions, and now only few, His favored
twelve, and one of them untrue, were
left. But Christ was lonely in other
ways. Have you ever walked the
streets of a large city on a cold and
frosty night and seen little children.
very poorly clad, running about to find
some shelter to hide themselves from
the piercing wind and chilly snow?
sorrow to your heart and make you
long to see a better day dawn when
none so sad will meet you as You pass.
1t. surely is cause for intense sorrow
to see such poverty and distress Blu.
did you ever think Christ, too, was a
homeless wanderer, seeking here and
there for place to sleep? He preach
ed too stern doctrines for the rich to
y h f0,,t
the poor like Himself, but there was
none to give Him shelter. Only once
does His careworn soul cry out, but
then in the loneliness of despair, His
heart almost crushed with its weight
of woe, He from the depths of His soul,
His deepest anguish, 1.-THE foxes have
holes. the birds of the air have nests; |
but the Son of Man hath not where to
lay His head" Surely this is human |
sorrow; this is human cry of loneli- |
ness-none to welcome Him when He |
comes home, none to cheer Him on His |
way.
But Christ, the man Of sorrows and /
acquainted with grief was more than |
this. Christ saw through His sorrow
and sadness mighty Power. Tha,
Power was His God and to that Power
ne u6CluGu 10 1dSlcH mere COulu 1t
go, so lonely on this earth? No one to
cheer Him, no one to ask Him to come
and sup with him. He, human as He
was, must go to God, and we, like Him,
human as we are, must go to God. But
we are even better off than He, fol
when He died He said, Il go to prepare
/ place for you that where / am there
We NAV be Also And He leaves to us
In this world a parting invitation,
Come unto Me all We that labor and
are heavy laden and I will give You
rest He has seen life as We see it.
Now this is the kind of Christ that
[ would bring before you today. A
Man, tempted in all points like as we
ire; Man who walked the pine-clad
hills of Palestine and sorrowed oft
alone See Him sitting alone after a
lays hard work and thinking, as John
sums up the result of His lifework in
4 sentence, "He came unto His own
Ind His own received Him not
This is the Christ am thinking Of
/ real Man, a Man who knew all the &
great disappointments of life and yet
/ Man who finally, against tremendous
dds, conquered and now reigns. I
snow of a no more pathetic and moro