Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-06-16

which [ speak he was a perfect boy,
with the spring of "A boys foot, the
sparkle of q bays eye, the rebound of
a boys life aud Just the opposite OF
those iuycuilrs who sit around NOR,
bid and uncl,stir, old men at ten. |
warrant he was able TO take his
own part ard to take the part Of
Others. In that village Of Nazareth
am certain there WAS what Is found IN
all the GrighborhonaS of the earth,
that terror ui children, the bully, who
seems born 30 strike, 10 punch, 10
bruisc, to OycrTowcr the less muscular
and robust. The Christ who after.
ward I'm 40 limited terms denounced
hvpocri,a aud Phariscc. | warrant,
never let such Juvenile villain impose
upon les. vigorous childhood aud yet
I go nscutllci and undctcndcd, NJ ten
wears hr was in sympathy with the
uudcrIiu~s rs he WAS at thirty and
/ tlity-,lrrn. | want 10 lugill"r M
. Sgirrl 0r Wiuspiycl information Ia
y per.ualn me that he WAS q splendid
hov, u radiant lny, Tie @raudc,t, Holt
est. miEll''r~t boy Ot all the agc>
Hence / commend him rs 4 boys
7 Christ. What ulIitudcs between ten
and u.ityu Years have found him ont
as the u..r Just suited by his own per-
sonal experience 10 help any boy.
RESPECT THE BOYS.
Let the world look out how it trclds
on a boy, for that very moment il
trpads on Christ. You strike a boy, you
] strike Christ; you insult a boy, you iii
suit Chri-t; you cheat IL boy, you
/ cheat Christ. 1t is an awful and in
/ finite mistake 10 colue rs far Us man
hood without a Christ when here is a
boy Christ. That was one reason, i
suppose, that Jonathan Edwards, after
wards the greatest American logician
7 and preacher Of his time, became a
Christian nj seven years Of age; and
Robert Hall, who afterwards shook
Christcndom with hisSacred cloquence,
( became "A Christian at twelve years of
age; and Isaac Watts, who divided
with Charles Wesley the dominion
of holy song, became a Chris
tan at nine years Of age;
and if in any large religious Assem-.
blage it were asked that all the men
and women who learned To love Christ
before they were fifteen years Of age
would please lift their right hand,
there would be enough hands lifted 10
wave q coronation, Wh4t is true ia a
religious sense * true in q secular
sense. ThcmjstocieS amazed LIS scl"ol
fellows with talent, which in ai,cr
Years made the world stare. Isaac
Newton, the boy. by driving rcg, in
the side OF a house To mark the decline
Or The sun, evidenced a disposition
towards the experiments which alt"r-
wards showed the nations Ay| the
worlds swing. Rpi"rt Stephenson,
tllc boy. with hi, kite un tie commons
cXpcTillcntrl with electric currents
and p]ruphcslul work wEirh -nuu.. yet
llakn liim immortal. 20. out 81 my
way said a rough mun Ia "A boy,
get out Of my way, what are you
good for, anyhow Tho boy guswrr.
Il: They make men "ut uf sch
Aings as We are" Hear it. fathers.
mothers! hear it, philautlropists and
patriots: hear il. all tie youu-. Tie
temporal and eternal destiny ii The
most of the iuhabi ants o. Ills It'll
is decided before fourteen wears of age.
Behold the NAZARETH Christ. a." vii
lage Christ, the country Christ, the
boy Christ.
But having shown you the divine
lad in the fields. | must show You him
in the mechanics shop. Joseph, hiS
father, died very early, immediately
after the famous trip 10 the Temple,
aud this lad not only 10 support him.
self but support his mother, and what
that is some of you know. There is q
royal race of boys on earth now doing
the same thing. They no crown,
They have 10 purple robe0droop from
their shoulders. The plain chair OF
which they sit is as much unlike q
throne as anything you can imagine,
But God knows what they are doing
and through What sacrifices they 90,
and through all eternity God will keeI
paying them for their tilial behavior.
They shall get full measured reward,
the measure pressed down, slak.
Ell together aud running over.
They have their example in this
boy Christ taking care of hi,
mother. He had been taught the car
penter's trade by his father. The boy
had done the palmer work at the shoI
while his father had put on the finish
ing touches of the work. The boy alsC
cleared away the chips and blocks and
shavings. He helped hold the differ
ent pieces Of work while the father
joined them. In our day we have al
kinds of mechanics and the work il
divided up among them. But TO he &
carpenter in Christ's boyhood days
meant TO make plows, yokes, shoyels
wagons, tables. chairs, sofas, houses
and almost everything that wa.
made. Fortunate was il that I'll,
boy had learned the trade, for, wheI
the head of the family dies, it il
a grand thing 10 have the chile
able TO take care Of himself and hell
take care of Others. Now that Joseph.
his father, is dead and the response
bility of family support m down
on this boy, | hear from morning Il
night his hammer pounding, his saw
~vacillating, his AK descending, hi
gimlets boring, and standing amid tn
dust and debris Of the shop | find tn
perspiration gathering OH his temple
and notice the fatigue of his arm, an,
as he stops q moment 10 rest | see hin
painting, his hand on his side, from
the exhaustion. Now he goes forth il
tho ,nnan,,r l,oIaI ,y,tb ,,nnlannnt