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Compassion — Where it Can be Found Best. 
“I have compassion on the multitude.”—St. Mark, viii, 2. 
I F you seek for comfort and compassion , go to Jesus who had enough 
trial to make him sympathetic with all trial. 
The shortest verse in the Bible tells the story—“ Jesus wept!” The 
scar on either hand, the scar on either foot, the scar in that sacred side, 
will ever keep all Heaven in contemplation. 
Oh, that Divine Weeper is just the one to silence all earthly trouble, 
to wipe out all traces of earthly grief. Gentle! Why, His step is softer 
than the step of the dew. His voice will not be in the tone of a tyrant 
bidding you cease your crying. It will sound like the voice of a father, 
who will take you on his left arm, his face gleaming into yours, while with 
the soft tips of the fingers of the right hand, he shall wipe away all tears 
from your eyes. 
.“I am an herb-doctor/’ once said a great preacher to his audience. 
“I put into the caldron the root out of dry ground without form or come¬ 
liness. Then I put in the rose of Sharon and the lily of the valley. Then 
I put into the caldron some of the leaves from the tree of life and the 
branch that was thrown into the wilderness Marah. Then I pour in the 
tears of Bethany and Golgatha; then I stir them up. Then I kindle 
under the caldron a fire made out of the wood of the Gross, and one drop 
of that potion will cure the worst- sickness that ever afflicted a human soul. 
Mary and Martha shall receive their Lazarus from the tomb. The damsel 
shall rise. And on the darkness shall break the morning, and God will 
wipe all tears from their eyes.” 
Plod on thy way, then; gaze on high, 
When courage fails thee, Man, or woe betides; 
Though sad, and long, thou mayst here toil and roam, 
At last, in joy , thou’lt reach thy destined Home! 
— Weninger. 
