Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-10

use of it in after years as he drove down upol
the pestiferous Pharisee and Sadducee by cry
ing out: when it is evening ye say it viii b
fair weather, for the sky is red and in tn
morning it will be foul weather to-day, for tn
SKY IS red and lowering. o ye hypocrites. y
dlscern the signs of the times" BY day. a
every boy has done, he watched the barnyart
1oWl at sight of overswinging hawk cluck be
ehlckens en- under wing and In after years he said
20. Jerusalem, jerusalem! How often woulC
| l have gathered thee as hen gathered
her chickens under her wingI" By nigh
he had noticed his mother by the plair
candle light which, as evel and anor
it was snuffed and the removed wick put dowr
on the candlestick. beamed brightly through
all the family sitting room as his mother wa!
| mending his garments that had been torn dur
ing the days wanderings among the rocks o.
bushes, and years afterward it all came out in
the simile of the greatest sermon ever preached
Neither do men light candle and put it un
| der bushel, but in candlestick, and it giveth
light to all who are in the house Let youl
| light so shine" Sometime when his mother in
the autumn took out 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 20 years after
| he enjoined Lay up for yourselves treasures
in heaven, where neither moth nor rust can
| corrupt" His boyhood spent among birds and
| flowers they all caroled and bloomed again IL
years after as he cries out: Behold the fowls
of the air" Consider the lilies"
A GREAT STORM
one day during Christs boyhood blackened the
heavens and angered the rivers. Perhaps
standing in the door of the carpenters shop he
watched it 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 a foundation
and the other an eternal rock for basis; and 20
years after ne built the whole scene INTO Pc
roration of flood and whirlwind that seized his
audience and lifted them into the heights of
sublimity with the two great arms of pathos
and terror. which ublime words render, ask
ing you as far as possible to forget that you
ever heard them before: "Whosoever heareth
these sayings of mine, and doeth them, will
liken him unto a wise man, which built his
house upon rock: and the rain descended,
and the floods came and the winds blew, and
beat upon that house; and it fell not; for it was
founded upon . rock. And every one that
heareth these sayings OF mine, and doeth them
not, shall be likened unto foolish man, which
built his house upon the sand; and the rain de-
scended, and the foods came, and the winds
blew and beat upon that house; and it fell; and
great was the fall of il"
Yes, from the naturalness, the simplicity, the
freshness OF his parallels and SMILES and meta
phors in manhood discourse know that he had
been boy of the fields and had bathed in the
streams and heard the nightingale's call and
broken through the fowery hedge and looked
out of the embrasures of the fortress and
drank from the wells and chased the butterflies,
which travellers say have always been one of
the fitting beauties of that landscape and
talked with the strange people from Damascus
and Egypt and Sapphoris and Syria, who in
caravans or on foot passed through his neigh.
borhood the dogs barking at their approach at
sundown. As afterward he was a perfect man,
in the time of which l speak he was pefect
cro or1y
of boys eye, the rebound of bows life and
Just the opposite of those juveniles who sit
around morbid and unelastic, old men at 10.
warrant he was able to take his own part and
TO TAKE THE PART OF OTHERS.
In that village of Nazareth 1 am certain
there was what is found in all the neighbor-
hoods of the earth, that terror of children the
bully, who seems born to STRIKE to punch, to
bruise, to overpower the less muscular and
robust. The Christ who afterward in no
limited terms denounced hypocrite and Phari-
see, L warrant, never let such juvenile villain
impose upon less vigorous childhood and yet
go unscathed and undefended. At 10 years he
was in sympathy with the underlings as he
was at 30 and 3S. want no further inspired or
uninspired information to persuade me that
He was a splendid boy, a radiant boy, the
hottest mightiest boy of all the |
ages. Hence l commend him as a boys |
Christ. What multitudes between 10 and Is |
suited by his own personal experience TO help |
any boy.
Let the world look out how it treads on a bow. /
for that very moment it treads on Christ. You |
strike boy, you strike Christ; you insult a |
boy you insult Christ; you cheat boy, you |
cheat Christ. 1t is an awful and infinite mis- |
take to come as far as manhood without a
Christ when here is a boy Christ That was
one reason, 1 suppose that Jonathan Edwards, |
atterward the greatest American logician and /
preacher of his time, became a Christian at
e. I -
ward shook Christendom with his sacred elo-
luence, became Christian at II years of age;
md Isaac Watts, who divided with Charles
" Wesley the dominion of holy song, became a
at years of age; and if in any large
eligious assemblage it were asked that all the
men and women who learned to love Christ be-
ore they were IS years of age would please lift
heir right hand there would be enough hands
lifted to wave coronation. What is true in
-eligious sense is true in a secular sense |
Chemistocles amazed his school fellows with
alents which in after years made the world
tare. Isaac Newton, the boy, by driving pegs
n the side of house to mark the decline of
he sun, evidenced disposition towards the
experiments which afterward showed the
lations
HOW THE WORLDS SWING.
Robert Stephenson, the boy, with his kite on
he commons, experimental with electric cur
ents and prophesied work which should vet
make him immortal "Get out of my wayr'
aid arough man to a boy, "get out of my way!
That are you good for anyhow" The boy
nswered: They make men out of such things
s we are" Hear it, fathers, mothersI hear It, |
and patriots; hear it, all the |
oungI The temporal and eternal destiny of |
he most of the Inhabitants of this earth is de- |
ided before IA years of age. Behold the Naz-
reth Christ, the village Christ the country
But having shown you the divine lad in the
elds, must show you him in the mechanics
hop. Joseph, his father, died very early I'M {
lediately after the famous trip to the temple,
nd this lad not only had to support himself
ut support his mother, and what that is some
# you know. There is royal race of bows on {
arth now doing the same thing. They wear
. Co crown WIT Ihey y have no purple robe adroop
hich they sit is as much unlike a
lrone as anything yon can imagine But God
nows what they are doing and through what
ill keep paying them for their filial behavior. !
hey shall get full measure of reward the y
leasure pressed down, shaken together and
mining over. They have their example in
lis BOY Christ taking care of his mother. He y
ad been taught the carpenters trade by his \
lther. The boy had done the palmer work at 4
le shop while the father had put on the fn-
hing touches of the work. The boy also q
cared away the chips and blocks and shavinrs. a
e helped hold the different pieces of work ?
lille the father Joined them. In our day we s
ave all kinds of mechanics, and the work is U
vided up among them. But to be carpenter z
Christ's boyhood days meant to make plows. a
'kes, shovels. wagons, tables, chairs, sofas, {
buses and almost
EVERYTHING THAT WAS MADE, n
Fortunate was it that the boy had learned
e trade, for, when the head of the family
es it is grand thing to have the child able to
Ike care of himself and help take care of
hers. Now that Joseph, his father is dead
ID the responsibility of family support comes
wn on this boy, 1 hear from morning to