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after the laying on of hands of the presby
terry is empty still. But it shocked all ex
isting prejudices in those Olden times for
man with scholastic pretentiOns and III
graduation from learned institution; t
set himself up for teacher. 1t was al
against him.
So also the brevity of his life was agains
him. HeIhad not come to what we cal
mid-life. But very few men do anythln!
before thirty-three years of age, and We
that was the point at which Christ's llt'
terminated. The first fifteen years yol
take in nursery and school. Then it viii
take yOu at least six years to get into your
occupation or profession. That will bring
you to twenty-One years. Then it vii
take you ten years, at least, to get estab
lished in your life work, & correcting the
mistakes you have made. If any man a
twenty-three years of aye, gets fully es
tablished in his life work, he is the eXcep
ton. Yet that is the point which Christ's
! life terminated
Men in military life have done their
most wonderful deeds
BEFORE THIRTY-THREE YEARS OF AGE.
There may be exceptions to it, but the
most wonderful exploits in military Prov
eSs have occurred before thirty-three years
of age. But as legislatOr-nO man be-
comes eminent rs legislator until he
has had long years of experience, And
yet the gray-bearded scribes were expected
to bow down in silence before his young
legislator, who arranged sanhedrims and
| accused governments.
Aristotle was old; Lycurgus was old;
Seneca was old. The great legislators OF
the world have been old. Christ was
young. All this against him. If a child,
twelve years of age, should get up in your
presence to discuss great questions OF
metaphysics, or ethics, or government
you would not be more contemptuous than
these gray-bearded scribes in the presence
of this young Christ.
CHRIST AND POPULAR OPINION.
Popular opinion declared in those days:
Blessed is the merchant who has castle
down on the banks Of Lake Tiberias. "
This young man said: Blessed are the
poor" Popular opinion said in those
days: BLESSED are those who live amid
statuary, and fountains, and gardens, and
congratulations, and all kinds of feStivity."
This young man responded BLESSED are
they that mourn" Public opinion in
those days said: BLESSED is the Roman
eagle, the flap of whose wings startles na-
tions, and the plunge of whose iron beak
inficts cruelty upon its enemies" This
young man responded: BLESSED are the
merciful." Popular opinion said: "An
eye for an eye, tooth" In other words,
if man knocks your eye out, knock his
out. lfa man breaks your tooth, break
his. Retort for retOrt; sarcasm for sar-
caSm; irony for irony; persecution for
prosecutions; wound for wound. Christ
said: Pray for them that despitefully
use you"
They looked at his eye, it was like any
other mans eye, except perhaps more
sparkling, They felt his hand, made of
bone and muscle, and nerve and flesh, Just
like any other hand. Yet what bold
treatment of subjects, what supernatural
demands, what strange dOctrinesl They
felt the solid earth under them, and yet
Christ said 81 bear up the pillars Of this
world" They looked at the moon, He
said: IL will turn it into blood" They
looked at the stars, He said: Il will
shake them down like untimely figs" Did
ever one so young say things so bold? 1t
was all against Him.
After the battle of Antietam, when a
general rode along the lines, although the
soldiers were lying down exhausted, they
rose with great enthusiasm and huzZaed.
AS Napoleon returned from his captivity,
his first step on the wharf shook all the
kingdoms, and two hundred and fifty
thousand men flocEcd to his standard 1t
took three thousand troops to watch him in
his exile. So there have been men of won
derful magnetism of person. But hear me
while tell you of
\ POOR YOUNG MAN
who came up from Nazareth To produce
thrill which has never been excited by any
other. Napoleon had around him the
memories of MarengO, and Austerlitz, and
Jena; but here was man who had fought
no battles, who wore no epauletts, who
brandished no sword. He had, probably,
never seen prince. or shaken hands with
a nObleman. The only extraordinary per-
son we know of as being in his company
was his mother, and she was so poor, that
in the most delicate and solemn hour that
ever comes to woman'S soul, she was
obliged 80 lie down i'll q stable, camel
drivers grooming the beasts of burden
/ imagine Christ one day standing in the
streets of Jerusalem. A man descended
from hi h lineage is standing beside Him
nnl A1NT,- fath ,,,ar,ha,,t
prince, he had 4 castle on the beach in
Galilee. Who was your father" Christ
answers: Joseph, the carpenter" 4
man from Athens is standing there un-
rolling his parchment of graduation, and
says to Christ: "Where did you 90 to
schOOl?' Christ answers: 81 never grad
uated.' Aha! the idea of such an unher-
aided young man attempting to command
the attention of the world! As we'll some
little fishing village on Long Island shore
attempt to arraign New York. Yet no
sooner does He set His foot in theltOwns or
cities OF Judea than everything is in COM
motion. The people go out to the picnic,
taking only food enough for day, yet
are so fascinated with Christ, that, at the
risk of starving they follow him out into
the wilderness. A nObleman falls down
fat before him, and says: my daughter
is dead" A beggar tries to rub the dim
ness from his eyes, and says: Lord, that
my eyes my be opened" A poor, sick,
painting woman presses through the crowd
and says, 81 must touch the hem of His
garment" Children who love their
mother better than any one else struggle
to get into his arms, and to kiss his
cheek, and TO run their fingers through
his hair, and at the same time putting
Jesus so in love with the little ones that
there is hardly a nursery in ChristendOm
from which he does not take one, saying
Il must have one; will fill heaven with
these; for every cedar that / plant in
heaven will have fifty white lilies. In
the hours when was poor man in Judee
they were not ashamed of me, and now
that | have come to throne l do not de-
spiSe them. Hold il not back, oh, weep
ing mother! lay it on my warm heart.
'Of such is the kingdom of heaven"
Again / remark, there was
NO ORGANIZATION IN HIS BEHALF,
and that was against Him. When men