Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-06-20

cry weather next uay, and that a crimson sky
in the morning meant wet weather before
night. And how beautifully He made use Of
ii in after years as He drove down upon the
pestiferous Pharisee and Sadducee bv CRYING
out when it is evening We say it viii be
fair weather, for the sky is red, and in the
morning II viii be foul weather to-day, for
the sky is red and lowering o. We hypo-
critics, We can discern the face Of the sky but
can ye not discern the signs Of the times.n
By day, as every boy has done He watched the
barnyard fowl at sightof over-swinging hawk
cluck her chickens under wing and in after
years He said 20, Jerusalem, Jerusalem
How often would / have gath
cred thee as hen gathereth her chickens
under her wing" By night He had noticed
His mother by the plain candle light which
as ever and anon it was snuffed and the re-
moved wick put down on the candlestick,
neamed brightly through all the family
sitting room as His mother was mending His
garments that had been torn during the DAYS
wanderlngs among the rocks or bushes. and
years afterward it all came out in the
slmile OF the greatest sermon ever preached:
'Neither do men light candle and put il
under a bushel but in candlestick and it
glveth hight to all who are in the house.
Let your light so shine.n Some time when
His mother in the autumn took ont the clothes
that had been put away for the summer He
noticed how the moth miller flew out and the
coat dropped apart ruined and useless, and so
t0tubf yttAfs III ne cllOlno0. fsl4iV Tor
yourselves treasures in heaven where neither
moth nor rust can corrupt His boyhood
spent among birds and flowers they
all caroled and bloomed again fifteen
years after as He cries out: "Behold the
fowls of the air." Consider the liliesn A
great storm one day during Christ's boyhood
blackened the heavens and angered the
rivers Perhaps standing in the door of the
carpenters shop He watched il gathering
louder and wilder until two cyclones, one
sweeping down from Mount Tabor and the
other from Mount Carmel met in the valley
OF Esdraelon and two houses are caught in the
fury and crash goes the one and triumphant
stands the other, and He noticed that one had
shifting sand for foundation and the other
an eternal rock for basis; and twenty
years after He built the whole scene into
peroration of flood and whirlwind that seized
His audience and lifted them into the heights
OF sublimity with the two great arms of pa
thos and terror, which sublime words
render, asking you as far as possible to for
get that You ever heard them before: who
soever heareth these sayings of Mine, and
doeth them, l will hken him unto a
wise man, which built his house
upon a rock; and the rain descended, and
the floods came, and the winds blew, and
beat upon that house; and it fell not; for 1t
was founded upon rock And every one
that heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth
them not, shall be hkened unto a foolish
man, which built his house upon the sand and
the rain descended and the floods came,
and the winds blew, and beat upon that
house; and it fell; and great was the fall
of it.n
Yes. from the naturalness the simplicity.
the freshness of His parallels and SMILES and
metaphors in manhood discourse know that
He had beep boy of the fields and had bathed
in the streams and heard the nightingale's
call, and broken through the howery hedge
nd rod ont Of tba ,nr-aer IF tho
tress, and drank from the wells and chased
the butterflies, which travellers say have al
ways been one of the fitting beauties Of that
landscape and talked with the strange peo-
Pile from Damascus and Egypt and Sapphoris
and Syria t SnO in s caravans on
the dogs barking at their APP
proach at shutdown. As afterward He wasa
perfect man, In the time of which speak He
was perfect boy, with the spring Of boys
foot, the sparkle of boys eye, the rebound
of boys life and just the opposite OF those
juveniles who sit around morbid and UNI
elastic, old men at ten l warrant He was
able to take His own part and to take the part
of others In that village of Nazareth am
certain there was what is found IN all the
neighborhoods of the earth, that terror OF
children, the bully, who seems born TO strike,
to punch to bruise, 70 overpower the less
muscular and robust. The Christ who after
ward in no limited terms denounced hypo-
critic and Pharisee, / warrant, never let such
juvenile villain impose upon less vigorous
childhood and yet go unscathed' and unde-
Tended. At ten years he was IN sympathy
with the underlings as He was at thirty and
thirty-three. want no further inspired OF
uninspired information to persuade me that
He was a splendid boy, radiant boy, the
grandest hottest, mightest boy Of all the ages.
Hence I commend Him as boys Christ.
What multitudes between ten and fifteen
4 .ftfn he inst
suited by His own personal experience to help
any boy.
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 TO the
Temple, and this lad not only to support HIM
self but support His mother, and what that Is
bows on earth now doing the same thing.
They wear no crown. They have no purple
robe adroop from their shoulders. The plain
chair on which they sit is as much unlike
throne as anything you can imagine. but
God knows what they are doing and through
what sacrifices they go, and through ail
eternity God will keep paying them Tor tnelI
filial behavior. They shall get full measure
of reward the measure pressed down, shaken
toCether and running over. They have tnelf
example in this boy Christ taking care Oh his
mother. He had been taught the car
DeuterS trade DIV his iathcis .hS ccJ
had dome fine palmer work at the shop
while His father had put on the finish
ing touches of the work. The boy also
cleared AWAY the chips and blocks and
shavings He helped hold the different
pieces Of work while the father Joined them
In our day we have all KINDS OF mecnanlcs
and the work is divided up among them:
But to be a carpenter in christ's boyhood
DAYS meant to make plows, yokes, snoyelS
WAGONS tables. chairs, sofas, houses, ana al
most everything that was made: Fortunate
was it that the boy had learned the trade S;Ss
for. when the head OF the fanny Ilss
II is a grand thing to have the chiio
able 70 take care Of himself and help take
care Of others Now that Joseph bis father her
= co,nes down on this boy, / hear from
morning u, to night His hammer pounding, HIS
saw vacatng His axe descs s aba has s and
Debris Of The shop / find the perspiratlon
gathering on His temples and notice sse ia
tigue of his arm, and as ne STOPS an His sids
rest see Him painting. ms ns ~ S-,as fo-tb
x-or, the exhaustion. NO" L.o go -