Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-06-16

New Testament when II saws that a boy
struck the boy Jesus tia he cried ont,
or the story that Christ with other
boys made clay figure, Of birds, and
these clay figures took life and flew
away! Is that more unbelievable than
the Bible account that Nalm waSmade
out of clay and wa,trl forth a man,
and Afterwards soaltl an immortal !
Not half 80 much If an undertaking
10 make a bird OUT Of clay rs To make
n man ont of clay. or tie u%ninsplrcd
story that the hav Christ took the
cloths of a Divers shop and threw them
into the Tire. and after the dycr's pro
test and rilra,G,inH brought forth the
cloths in the color that the dyer
wished. !, tlat more unbelievable
t}Uu the manhood miracle ia the viii
doruc~, picnic, where five biscuits Tie
size Of kpir i>t were turned into
enough bread lu feed live thousand
mdtlanaEmrutS lied twelve baskets!
Or the ]wuin,plrcd story that Joseph
the father rs 4 carpenter, having ur-
dcrs To make n throne for the king ut
Jerusalem, aud toiling two years un
il, found that after it was done il vas
two spans too short, and the boy took
hold one side of the throne and his
father the other side ri il and pulled
it u the right size! Is that any more
wonderful llau that after growing 10
manhood lie folded up, Is easily rs
you would a fan, a Galllean hurri-
Gamer Or the uninSpTed story that his
comrades in their play brought flowers
and crowned linn as a king: | should
think they would have done 50. Or
the uuluspired story that a boy hunt
ing for eggs in a partridge nest was
stung of a viper aud the poisoned lad
was brought on a couch To the boy
Christ and Christ asked 10 be
taken with the afflicted child to
where the child was bitten and
at Christ'S command the serpent
with It's own mouth drew forth
the poison from the wound2
Why, Christ has been doing that
through all the ages, namely, com
pelling the very things that wound
Us, under his Sanctifying power, TO
bring Us TO health and refrigeration
and eternal life. Or the u%ninSpired
story that children were playing on
the housctop and the boy Christ was
there and one of the children was
showed from the roof and fell TO the
ground and died, aud tue other chill.
dren charged Christ with the misde-
mcanOr and the boy Christ laid:
Charge not me with the crime. but
let us leave it 10 the dead child 10 SET
tie the controversy and the boy
Christ said: "ZcinumuS! Zeimumus.
who threw thee down from the house
topI' Then The dead child spaSc and
said: Not thou, but such n u did.
Was that more wonderful than PaulS
rcsuscitation of Eutychus. who fell
from the window while the apostle
was preaching. Or the uuln-
spired story in the apocryphal New
Testament which says that Christ the
boy was taken to school and ZlcchcuS,
the teacher. told him the first three
letters of the alphabet, %whereupon
Christ the boy asked his teacher such
profound questions concerning the al
phabct thatthe teacher was COMPOUNDED
and the boy Christ himself explained
all 10 the teacher until Zaccheus said
to Joseph the father of the wondrouS
boy: Thou has brought n boy 10 me
To he taught who is more learned than
any MASTER then the boy was taken
10 a more learned master who. anger
ed ut the boys questions, lifted his
hand TO whip him and the hand
withered as will all the hands
lifted against Christ! Is that
more wonderful than the scene
positively recorded by Matthew where
the D. Dis aud the IL. DIS stood
around Christ at twelve years of age
iq the temple, utterly COMPOUNDED at
his precociousneSsi Or that story
that Christ the boy, questioned BY
astronomers, told them !hepumber Of
the worlds. their size, their circuits;
and, questioned by physicians, told
them more about anatomy and physi-
ology than they had ever dreamed of,
the number of veins, arteries. nerves
and bones3 If Christ were divine, WINS
he not able at ten or twelve years 10
describe the human system as well as
though hc had been fifty years stand
ing at an operating table or in IA dis
secting rOomt
BOYS CHRIST.
In other words, while | do not be-
lieye that any Uf the % called apocry-
phal New Testament is inspired, ] be-
licyc much Of 1t is true; just "a | be-
lieyc a thousand books, none of which
arc diyincly inspired. Much of il was
just like Christ. just rs certain rs the
man Christ was the most Of the time
getting men out Of trouble, | think
that the boy Christ was the most of
the time getting boys out of trouble.
! have declared 10 you this day a boys
Christ. And the world wants such a
one. He did not sit around moping
over what was to be, or what was.
From the way in which natural oh.
| iects enwreathed themselves into lis
sermons after he had become n man !
| conclude there was not a rock or 0
hill or a cavern or "A tree for mile.
around that he was not familiar Will
in childhood. He had cautiously fell
his way down into the caves and had
with 1.-THE and agile limb gained {
poise on many a high tree top, Hi
boyhood was passed among grant
scenery as most all the great natures
have passed early life among thu
mountains. They may live now OF
the flats, but they passed the receptive
days Of ladhood among the hills
Anono tha mountains Of Noyv Harm