The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-06-13


you would a fan, Galilean hurri-
cane7 Or the uninspired story that his
comrades in their play brought flowers
and crowned him as a linga | should
think they would have done SO. Or
the uninspired story that a boy hunt
ing for eggs in a partridge nest was
stung of viper and the poisoned lad
was brought on a couch to the boy
Christ and Christ asked to be
taken with the afflicted child to
where the child was bitten and
at Christ's command the serpent
with its 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 reinvigoration
and eternal life. Or the uninspired |
story that children were playing on |
the housetop and the boy Christ was
there and one of the children was
showed from the roof and fell to the |
ground and died, and the other chill |
dren charged Christ with the misde-
meanor and the boy Christ said
"Charge not me with the crime, but
let us leave it to the dead child to set
tie the controversy, and the boy
Christ said: "Zeinumus Zeinumus
who threw thee down from the house
top2' Then the dead child spake and
said: 'Not thou, but such one did.
Was that more wonderful than Paul's
resuscitation Of Eutychus, who fell
from the window while the apostle
was preaching2 Or the unin-
spired story in the apocryphal New
Testament which says that Christ the
boy was taken to school and Zaccheus,
the teacher, told him the first three
letters of the alphabet, whereupon
Christ the boy asked his teacher such
profound questions concerning the al
phabet that the teacher was confounded
and the boy Christ himself explained
all to the teacher until Zaccheus said
to Joseph the father of the wondrous
boy: "Thou has brought boy to me
| to be taught who is more learned than
any MASTER" then the boy was taken
| to more learned master who, anger
ed at tho boys questions, lifted his
hand to whip him and the hand
withered as will all the hands
lifted against Christi Is that
more wonderful than the scene
positively recorded by Matthew where
/ the D. D.'s and the IL. DIS stood
around Christ at twelve years OF age
in the temple, utterly confounded at
his precociousness2 Or that story
that Christ the boy, questioned by
astronomers, told them the number of
the worlds, their size, their circuits;
and, questioned by physicians, told
them more about anatomy and physl-
ology than they had ever dreamed OF,
the number of veins, arteries, nerves
and bonesY If Christ were divine, was
he not able at ten or twelve years tc
describe the human system as well as
though he had been fifty years stand
ing at an operating table or IN DIS
secting room9
a BOYS CHRIST.
In other words while l do not be
iieve that any of the SO called apocry
phal New Testament is inspired, | be
iieve much of it is true; just as l be
lieve a thousand books, none of which
are divinely inspired. Much of it wa
lust like Christ. Just as certain as The
man Christ was the most of the tim,
getting men out of trouble, ] thlnl
that the boy Christ was the most o
! the time getting boys out of trouble
have declared to you this day boys
, Christ. And the world wants such
one. He did not sit around mopln!
over what was to be- or what was
, From the way in which natural OF
iects enwreathed themselves into hi
: Sermons after he had become man
, | conclude there was not o rock or
: | hill or a cavern or a tree Tor mile
: around that he was not familiar wit
y in childhood. He had cautiously fe
his way down into the caves and ha
n with 1.-the and agile limb gained
Il poise on many high tree top. Ill
v boyhood was passed among gran
e scenery as most all the great nature
Il have passed early life among tn
= mountains. They may live now o
n the flats, but they passed the receptly
n days of ladhood among the hill
# Among the mountains of New HAM
n shire or the mountains of Virginia
Ie the mountains of Kentucky or Il
IS mountains of Switzerland or Italy
10 Austria or Scotland or mountains
K high and rugged as they, many of II
II worlds thrilling biographies begal
d Our Lords boyhood was pass'
to in neighborhood twelve, hu
n. dred feet above the level OF u
n sea and surrounded by mountains III
ps or six hundred feet still higher. b
| fore it could shine on the village whe
Iv this boy slept the sun had to climb f
ID enough up to look over hills that he
es their heads far aloft From yond
ii height his eye at one sweep took in Il
Of mighty scoop of the valleys and wi
o, another sweep took in the Medite
OF ranean sea. aud you hear the grande1
at of the cliffs and the surge OF the gre
or waters in his matchless sermonolog
us One day see that divine boy, the WI
us flurrying his hair over his 81
vo Drowned forehead, standing on a h
re top looking off upon Lake Tiberi'
re on which at one time according
n, profane history are, not four hundr
cd four thousand ships. Authors ha
n taken pains to say that Christ was l
n, affected by these surroundings, a
eu that he from within lived outward a
'le independent of circumstances. so
lr from that being true, he was the M
no sensitive being that ever walked
IN earth, and if pale invalidls W.
en- finger could not touch his robe WI
he out strength going out from him, th
sdf mountains and seas could not h;
an touched his eve without irradiatl
ch his entire nature with their magn
M cence. | warrant that he had noun
zen and explored all the fifteen h
lge around Nazareth, among them Hern
red. with its crystal coronet of perpet
a snow. and Carmel and Tabor and
no boa. and they all had their subj
ISL echo in after time from the Ollv'
IN pulpit
ms PALESTINE WAS LOVELY THEN.
hia And then it was not uncultivs
qua grandeur. These hills carried in Il
ler- arms or on their backs gardens, gro
by orchards, terraces, vineyards, cac
cad sycamores These outbranching
lere ages did not have to wait for the tic
Vhy before their silence was broken,
,hal through them and over them and
boy circles round them and under Il
out, were pelicans, We're thrushes, v
ther sparrows were nightingales, '
and larks, were quails, were blackbi
flew were partridges, were bulbuls.
han der the white flocks of sheep sno
aade down over the pasture lands.
nan, wonder the brook rehearses to the
rtalS bles its adventures down the II
king shelving. Yonder are tho orie
make homes. the housewife with pitche
bred the shoulder entering tho
the and down the lawn in I
hem children reveling among the I
pro- inc flora. And ali this spring and
the and grass and sunshine and sha
DIVER woven into the most exquisite na