, 1888-01-05

grew little by little as u meditatve secluded,
but energetic youth, aud finally Us u work.
ing man, u man of the people. or school.
ing he had none. Books and philos ply he
did not know. Literature was not within
his reach. His only culture was that Of the
spirit, where he learned he first great les
son of life, the lesson that man does not
need to depend for Thought upon outward
agencies, upon the teachings of his fathers
house, nor upon church, school or syna-
gogue, but that the pure ideas oi reason
evolve freely from within, and illuminate
the mind.
From very early age this young soul
began to ask those deep questions iicl,
are deepest of all. But he got no help from
teacher or from scribe, so lie turned To the
great cal IN presence and beauty of creation,
and stood with God alone. He was given
the universe as his school room, all lie
contributed to his lessons; the aspect VI ma.
ture--the high mountain and the solitary
desert, bright spring and sad autumn, day
and night with their thousand sensations,
the rising and the setting sun, the waving
corn and the lilies of the beld In the hue
of every violet he saw a dream of heaven,
Oar grand ideas and high Thoughts come
we know not how or why. They come az
voice Of God. for He speaks to us in all the
symbols uf nature. To the open soul, the
school OF nature and the culture vi the
spirit is enough he stands on his own feet,
aud he is bis own university.
"The contents Of box of tools.
Were more Than books of all the schools.
The great artistic education,
Begins In labors, born Uf inspiration,
AL! that men wrought, in stately Greece
and Rome,
May come to the small child who dwells at
home,
This child planned better than the widows
son,
Who reared the palace of King Solomon.
More things are waiting than ever came.
God gives, when there are hands to claim,
And hearts that seek but His renuwn,
To lead the inspirations down.
Taen simplest Hearts that serve the Holy
One,
Shall build as those who reared the Par
He taught the Elders whom he saw,
Of wisdom no. in Moses law
They said Where iouni the child his
lorc3'
Than priest or seer he knoweth more.
Not from, the sea, not from the strand;
Not from the TEN Piles hoary band
The wild flower ON the mountain wall,
To Hun, as to it's King did call
The wild swan lying tar Ger head,
The cricket chrping in the leaves,
The lambs upon the hillside led;
The sparrow nesting In the caves.
A sweeter light, a softer shade.
He touched the chords ot nature so
That heavenly song hegan to How;
And every leaf, on every tree,
OWNED to draw the melody"
Born child OF Israel, son of David, a unit
In tile hard n.ass ot the narruwcst of all
human people, His syupathies enlarged
and His h 'rizon wldened by the concentra-
tion vi His nature To hig hest ends, until He
llss .f ttis.. .nlII nd
becaiue the child of humanity
SON OF man, or tue universal man
the heir oi tile race, the Tyre of the human
species, the subllmsti III oi humanity. the
realization oi God idea of what uaii WAS
meant 10 be. No longer mere Hebrew.
lie was Tie couutrynan Of the world.
His was lie worldwide. as IL the blood
VI the Whole human race was in his veins,
winch indeed spiritually IL Is. In His
heart all heaven was held III solution. lie
loved man until private attachments, fam
iIy ties, the bonds OF people and nation ex
pan,ied into philanthropy which EN-
braced al--eyen to the evil and the ene-
hiies. To Tina His life by losing IL, 10 co.'s
quer the world by loving it, To be best by
renVuhcihg comfort anc happiness, this
WAS his truth. He touched the stops on
the keyboard Of His own heart until the
world Itself became the organ pipe, and
the whole vast breath of humanity the
wiud tha. blew through it. He WAS divine
because in Him was the manifestation vi
the divine
awakeiied 10 the realities OF life, when the
world IL still to him pleasure and . play
ground. there hodted over Jesus the ideal
oi what men should become. 1hs burden
OF the work which he caiue into tho world
to do, began To press upon Him when, ht
twelve years old, He was found alter u
three days absence, in the temple taking
with the Rabbits and Sages OF Judea. That
conversation with Pedants and Journalists
called into activity the mind which VAS to
iertiilze the spiritual life ol the rACe 10 tIie
eud ofume.
"Chiid with the spirits diadem,
What seeke,t thou III Jerusalem?
| seek my Fathers house; it grieves
My heart, to see it cursed by thieves.
1t WAS house Of love and prayer;
Now II is cursed by crime and care.
Where is thy Fathers house, thou child?
80 holy once. nut now detiled;
Within the Rulers brain it stands
lis III the bowed mechanics bands;
'ris In the bruised aud oleedins breast;
Iis ia the heart by grief opprtst;
Ills in the loathsotiie iacG aud feet
or you poor wanton of the street;
And must Journey here; till when
My Father iiils His house again"
lie had no fellowship with the passionate
patriotism of His countrymen. lfedi not
hate the Roman, aud could not have shed
drop of Roman blood in anger, though
the ia Itillment of all the law had turned
upon IL. His delight was in teaching
breathing forth upon the common heart, in
beatitnde and parable the gentle itispira-
tions OF his being in discoursing with Sa-
r.aritan hereties at the worship that could
not be localized at Jerusalem or elsewhere,
but rises to the Infinite from every spot,
where there j. q heart to offer it in spirit
and IN truth in sitting familiarly at table
with scoriied and outcast persons; blessing
little children, aud expoundins the the,lo-
gy of the lilies OF the field aud the fowls Of