Dodge City times., 1888-01-05

and in another place lamb Meanwhile,
may the Christ OF the Bethlehem cattle
pen have mercy on the suffering stock
yards that are preparing diseased and
fsvered meat for our American house
holds.
Behold also in this Bible soene how on
that Christmas night God honered child
hood. Christ might have made his first
visit to our world in q cloud, as he will
descend on his next visit in a cloud. In
what a chariot Of illumined vapor be
might have rolled down the sky, escorted
by mounted cavalry, with lightning of
drawn sword. Elijah had a arriage of
dre to take him up, why not Jesus a car.
riage Of fire to fetch him down? Or over
the arcbed bridge Of a rainbow the Lord
might have descended. Or Christ might
have had his mortality built up on earth
out of the dust Of garden, as was Adam,
in full manhood at the start, without the
Introductory feebleness of infancy. No,
no! Childhood was to be honored by that
advent. He must have a child's light
limbs, and a chill DIS dimpled hand. and a
child's beaminy eve, and a chiid's flaxen
hair, and bahyhood was TO be honored for
all time to c"me, and cradle was to
mean more than grave. Mighty God!
May the reflection of that one chlds face
be sean in all infantie faces. Enough have
those fathers and mothers on hand if
they have a child in the house. A throne,
crown, scepter, a kingdom under
charge. Be careful how you strike him
across the head, jarring the brain. What
you say to him will be centennial and
millennial, and hundred years and a
thousand years will not stop the echo and
reecho. Do not say, 1T is only child"
Rather say, TT is only an immortal" 1t
is only a masterpiece of Jehovah. 1t is
only being that shall outlive the sun and
moon and stars and ages quadrillennial.
God has infinite resources, and he can
give presents of great value, but when he
wants to give the richest possible gift to
a household he looks around all the worlds
and all the universe and then gives q
child. The greatest present that God ever
gave our world he gave about 1887 years
ago, and he gave it on Christmas night,
and it was of such value that Heaven ad-
journed for a recess and came down and
broke through the clouds to look at
it. Yea. 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 gazing
into the face of it's mother. 1t was q child
In Naaman's kitchen that told the great
Syrian warrior where he might go and
get cured of the leprosy, ich. at the
seventh plunge in the Jordan, was left at
the bottom of the river. 1t was to the
cradle of leaves in which a child was laid
rocked by the Nile that God called the at
tention of history. 1t was a sick child
that evoked Christ's curative sympathies.
1t was O sick 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 SO domesticated that
a little child shall lead them.
A child decided Waterloo. show
ing the army of BIucher how they could
take short cut through the fields when,
if the old road had been followe d, the
Prussian General would have come up too
late to save the destines Of Europe. 1t
having overheard two Confederate Gem
erals in a conversation in which they de-
cided to march for Gettysburg instead of
Harri sburg, and this, reported to Gov
ernor 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, set
lie all the destinies and usher in the
worlds salvation or destruction. Men,
women, nations, all earth and all Heaven,
behold the child! Is there any velvet
10 soft as a child's cheek? Is there any
ky so blue as a child's eve? Is there any
music so sweet as the child's voice? Is
here any plume so wavy as a child's hair?
Notice al so that in this Bible night scene
God hon ored science. Who are the three
wise men kneeling before the divine in
amt? Not Doors, not ignoramuses, but
Caspar. Belthasar and Mslchior, mon who
Knew all that was to be known. They
we're the Isaac Newtons, and Herschels,
md Faradays of their time. Their al
:hemy was the forerunner of our subj ime
their astrology the mother OF
our magnificent astronomy. They had
studied stars, studied metals. studied
physiology, studied every thing. And
when see these scientists bowling before
he beautiful babe. 1 see the prophecy of
he time when all the telescopes and mi
,roscopes, and all the Leyden jars, and
Ill the electric batteries, a1d all the OBJ
and all the universities shall
bow to Jesus. It is much that way al
'eady. Where is the college that does not
lave morning prayers, thus bowling at the
nanger? Who have been the greatest ply
'icians? Omitting the names of the liv-
ng, lest we should be invidious, have we
rot had among them Christian men like
,ur own Joseph G. Hutchinson, and Rush,
md Valentine Mott, and Abercrombie,
md Abernethy? Who have been our
greatest scientists? Joseph Henry, who
ived and died in the faith Of the Gospel,
md Agassiz, who, standing with his
Students among the hills, took of his hat
md said, "Young gentlemen, before we
study these rocks, let us pray for wisdom
10 the God who made the rocks" To-day
he greatest doctors and lawyers of Brook
yn and New York, and of all this land,
Ind of all lands, revere the Christian re-
igion, and are not ashamed to say so be-
ore juries and Legislatures and Senates.
All geology will yet bow before
he Rock of Ages. All botany will
ret worship the Rose of Sharon. All
astronomy will yet recognize the Star
# Bethlehem. And physiology and auat-
my will join hands and say: We must,
~ the help Of God, get the human race
lp to the perfect nerve, and perfect mus
lie, and perfect brain, and perfect form of
hat perfect child before whom nigh two
housand years ago Caspar, and Bel
hasar, and Melchoir bent their tired knees
n worship.
Behold, also. in that first Christmas
hight that God honored the fields. Come
n. shepherd boys, to Bethlehem, and see
he child. "No," they say, 1--WE are not
lressed good enough to come in" Eyes,
'ou are; come in." Sure enough, the
torms, and the night dew, and the bram-
les, have made rough work with their ap-
'arcl, but nons have better right to