It was disinterested, superior to all selfishness,
self-denying, active, and prompting Him to do and suffer all that He did.
It was not measured by the merits of the object after which it yearned. He
sympathized with all,
"For each He had a brother's interest in His heart."
And its softening influence fell, like morning dew, upon the heart of
adamant, melting it into contrition and love.
"In every pang that rends the heart,
The Man of sorrows had a part;
He sympathizes in our grief,
And to the sufferer sends relief."
See Him bend over the bed of Jairus's daughter; see Him opening the eyes of
the blind, healing the paralytic, comforting and feeding the poor widow,
and cheering the bereaved and troubled heart. Wherever He went He was "a
brother born for them in adversity." See Him on the cross, when weltering
in blood and struggling with the pangs of a cruel death, He casts His
languid eye upon His aged mother who is there weeping her pungent woes, and
makes provision for her comfort. His sympathy now for all is the same.
"None ever came unblest away;
Then, though all earthly ties be riven,
Smile, for thou hast a Friend in heaven!"
It is this sympathy which makes Him a member of every Christian home. And
when the sympathy of its members is the reproduction of His, they will,
like Mary, sit in loving pupilage at His feet, each becoming the agent of
blessings for all the rest.
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