Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1843-09-15

When Jesus OF Nazareth was working MIR
acles and confounding the Scribes and Phari-
sees with questions they could not answer and
with simple wisdom which they could not
understand, the inquiry ever and anon passed
round, SIS not this the Carpenters son 81
No virtue was distinguished enough to slenc
no mircle wonderful enough to drown, this
expression Of surprise, that one descended
from an humble laborer, should assume to dis
pute with doctors in the temple, or question
the propriety Of institutions that were defend
ed by wealthy rabbis and mitred priests
Every where, keeping pace with the wonders
he wrought. resonnded in half scornful tones
the query-ss Is not this the carpenters
son !"
Had he descended Immediately from kings
and princes, had he come down from the pala-
ces of the rich, TO commence his mission a.
mong men--dorbtess the lords OF Jerusalem
would have followed and adored him. True,
she spake as never man spake." But SIS
not this the carpenters son!''
The prejudice to which we have referred
had existed for centuries before Jesus appear
ed and has come down to US undminished du-
ring the flight Of eighteen centuries Of time.
Every benefactor of his race, every wise and
talented man, destined to be an honor to hu-
manty, on whom the light has first shone a.
mong the cottages of the poor, has been DOOM
ed to struggle against it. One may be talent
ed and full Of promise-one may in its very
morn devote his life to the promotion of the
best interests of mankind, but if he sprang
from among the laboring poor an aristocratic
jealousy ia stirred up in the bosoms of thou
sands, and breaths out scornfully, Is not this
the carpenters son?"
But time passed on. The carpenters son,
followed at first by few poor fisherman ard
driven from place to place, having "not where
TO lay his head,' became the alteration of
kings and bishops. Trophies rose in honor
to his name and ten thousand spacious domes,
swelling mid-air from ten thousand scattered
corners and Businesses of the globe, were con-
secrated to his worship. His worship! Yes:
If pomp and circumstance--if the trumpet
tones of the organ-if costly surplice and gor-
geous chancel-if pulpits raised on high a.
dorned with carving, and shaded with GRIM
son curtains, accord with the worship of one.
whose temple was the open sky, whose
preachings were upon the hill top and by the
seasi6e-of one who came blessing the poor
and the humble-of one of whom eighteen CEN
turtles ago il was asked, IS Is not this the car
penter's SOM"
And even in our own times, the carpen-
ter's son ''-the mechanic fresh f;om the dust
OF his workshop-has oft times, triumphed O.
YER the fashionable and foolish, which is al
ways abroad among the fools Of fashionable
.:r-, I'D which when put down by the perse-
vering energy with which a self made man
grapples for distinctions succeeded by
fawning subserviency as contemplate as it.
self.
We think the day is not far distant, when
our laboring classes will insist upon their
proper position in society. They must pre-
pare themselves to maintain that position.--
They should exert themselves for their own
intellectual improvement and that of their
children. They should see to it, that they
commit none of their interests to the keeping
of men who deem it dlsreputable to labor
who hold the drones 10 be the only respecta-
BILE members OF society-who scornfulIy ask
aspires to improve his condition, . Is not this
the carpenter'S son +"