Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-01-07

gave u world he gave about 1887
years ago, and he gave it on a
CHRISTMAS
night, and it was of such value that
heaven adjourned for n recess and
broke through the clouds to look at it.
Yes. in all ages God has honored child
hood. He makes almost every picture
a failure unless there be a child either
playing on the floor, or looking through
the window, or seated on the lap gaz-
ing into the face of it's mother. Ii was
a child in Naaman's kitchen that told
the great Syrian warrior where he
might 90 and get cured OF the leprosy,
which at his seventh plunge in the Jor-
dan was left in the bottom Of the river.
1t vas to the cradle Of leaves in which
a child was laid, rocked by the Nile,
that God called the attention OF his
tory. 1t was a sick child that evoked
Christ's curative sympathies. 1t was a
child that Christ set in the midst of the
squabbling disciples to teach the lesson
of humility. We are informed that
wolf and leopard and lion shall be yet
20 domesticated that a little child shall
lead them. A child decided Waterloo,
showing the army of Butcher how they
could take a short cut through the
fields when, If the old road bad been
followed, the Prussian general would
have come up too late to save the des-
TIMES Of Europe. 1t was "A child that
decided Gettysburg, he having over
heard two Confederate generals in a
conversation in which they decided to
march for Gettysburg instead Of Har-
risburg. and this, reported to Governor
Curtin, the federal forces started to
meet their opponents at Gettysburg.
And
THE CHILD OF. TO-DAY
is to decide all the great battles, make
all the laws, settle all the d~estinies and
usher in the worlds salvation or de-
struction. Men, women, nations, all
earth and all heaven, behold the child!
Is there any velvet SO soft as a child's
cheekP is there any sky so blue as a
child's eyeP Is there any music so
sweet as the child's voicep Is there
any plume SO wavy as n child's hairp
Notice also that in this Bible night
scene God IGNORED science. Who are
the three wise men kneeling before the
divine infant? Not Doors, not ignora-
muses., but Caspar Belthasar and Mel
chior, men who knew al that was to
be known. They were the Isaac New.
tons and Herschels and Faradays of
their time. Their alchemy was the
their astrology the mother Of u mag
niicent astronomy. They had studied
stars, studied metals, studied physiol-
ogy, studied everything. And when l
see these scientists bowling before the
beautiful babe l see the prophecy of
the time when all the telescopes and
microscopes, and all the Leyden jars,
and all the electric batteries, and all
the ~observatories. and all the univer.
sites
SHALL BOW TO JESUS.
1t is much that way already. Where
is the college that does not have morn
ing prayers, thus bowling at the man
gerP Who have been the greatest ply
siciansP OmittiDg the names of the
living, lest we should be invidious, have
we o had among them Christians like
our own Joseph G. Hutchinson, and
Ruth, and Valentine Mott, and Aber-
crombie, and A~bernethyp Who have
been our greatest scientistsp Joseph
Henry. who lived and died in the faith
of the gospel, and Agassiz who, stand
ing with his students among the hills,
took off his hat and said: Young
gentlemen, before we study these rocks
let us pray for wisdom to the God who
made the rocks" To-day the greatest
doctors and lawyers of Brooklyn and
New York, and of ali this land, and of
all lands, revere the Christian religion,
and are not ashamed to say SO before
iuries and legislatures and senates. All
geology will yet bow before the Rock
of Ages. All botany will yet worship
the
ROSE OF SHARON.
All astronomy will yet recognize the
Star Of Bethlehem. And physiology
and anatomy will join hands and say:
We must by the help of God get the
human race up to the perfect nerve,
and perfect muscle, and perfect brain,
and perfect form of that perfect child
before whom nigh twenty hundred
years ago Caspar, the Belthasar, and
Melchior bent their tired knees in wor-
ship.
Behold also in that first Christmas
night that God honored the fields.
Come in, shepherd boys, to Bethlehem
and see the child. mo" they say;
eve are not dressed good enough to
come in" Yes, you are, come in"
Sure enough, the storms, and the night
dew. and the brambles have made
rough work with their apparel, but
none have a better right to come in.
They were the first to hear the music
of that Christmas night. The first n
nouncement OF a
SAvIOURs BIRTH
was made to those men in the fields.
There were wlseacres that night in