The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-10

in a religions sense is true in a secular
sense. Themistocles amazed his school fel-
lows with talents which, in after years.
I.adesthe world stare. Isaac Newton. the
boy, by driving pegs IN the side OF house
to mark the decline Of the sun, evidenced a
disposition toward the experiments which
aft rward showed the nations how the
worlds swing. Robert Stephenson, the
boy, with his Kite on the commons, expert
/ msnted with electric currents and prophe-
sled work which should vet make
him immortal Get out Of my
way r'n2said a rough man to a boy,
get out Of my way! What are you good
/ for, anyhoww The boy answered: They
make men out of such things as We are"
/ Hear it. fathers, mo5hersl Hear 1t, phi
! lanthropists and patrlotsl Hear it. all the
| young The temporal and eternal destiny
/ of the most of the inhabitants of this earth
| is decided before fourteen years Of age.
Behold the Nazareth Christ, the village
| Christ, the country Christ, the boy Christ.
But having Shown you the divine lad in
the fields, must show you him in the me-
| chanic's shop. Joseph, his father, died
very early, Immediately after the famous
| trip to the temple, and this lad had not only
| TO support himself, but support his mother,
| and what that is some Of you know There
| is a royal race of boys on earth now doing
| the same timing. They wear no crown.
| They have no purple robe adroop from
| their shoulders. The plain chair on
which they sit is as much unlike a
| throne as anything you can imagine. But
God know what they are doing and through
what sacrifices they CO. and through all
eternity God will keep paying them for
! their filial behavior. They shall get full
measure of reward, the measure pressed
| down, shaken together and running over.
/ They have their example in this boy Christ
| taking care of his mother. He had been
| taught the carpenters trade by his father
| The boy had done the 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 mechanics,
and the work is divided up among them.
But to be carpenter in Christ's boyhood
days meant to make plows, yokes. shovels,
wagons, tables, chairs, Sofas houses, and
| almost everything that was made Fortu-
nate was it that the. boyss--had learned the
trade, for, when the head of the family
dies it is grand thing to have the child
able to take care of himself, and help
take care of others Now that Joseph,
his father, is dead, and the response
bility of family support comes down
on this boy, hear from morning to night
his hammer pounding, his saw vacillaUing
standing amid the dust and debris of the
| shop find the perspiration gathering on
his temples and notice the fatigue of his
arm, and as he stops moment to rest see
him painting, his hand on his side, from the
| exhaustion. Now he goes forth in the
morning loaded with implements of work
heavier than any modern kit of tools. Under
the tropical sun he swelters. Lifting,
pulling, adjusting, cleaving. splitting
all day long. At nightfall he goes
home to the plain supper provided
| by his mother and sits down too tired to
| talk. Work. work work! You cannot
tell Christ anything now about blistered
hands or aching ankles or bruised fingers or
| stiff joints or rising In the morning as tired
as when yon lay down. While yet a boy
he knew it all, he felt it all, he suffered it
| all. The boy carpenterl The boy wagon
makerl The boy house bullderl o Christ,
we have seen thee when full grown in Pi-
| late's police courtroom, we have seen thee
when full grown thou vert assassinated on
| Golgotha. but, o Christ let all the weary
| artisans and mechanics of the earth see
| thee while yet understood and arms not yet
muscularized and with the undeveloped
strength of juvenescence trying to take thy
fathers place in gaining the livelihood for
the family.
But. having seen Christ the boy of the
fields and the boy in the mechanics shop, 1
J
the smooth browed lad among the long
bearded, white haired high foreheaded &C.
| clesiastic of the temple. Hundreds of
| thousands of strangers had come to Jerusa-
lem to keep great religious festival. After
| the hospitable homes were crowded with
visitors. the tents were spread all around
the city to shelter immense throngs
| of strangers. 1t was very easy
among the vast throngs coming and
| going to lose a child. Mora than
two million peple have been known to
gather at Jerusalem for that national feast.
You must not think of those regions as
| sparsely settled. The ancient historian
Josephus says there were in Galilee two hun
dred cities the smallest of them containing
| fifteen thousand people. No wonder that
amid the crowds at the time spoken of
Jesus the boy was lost. His parents, know
| ing that he was mature enough and agile
enough to take care of hImself are
| on their way home without any anxiety,
supposing that their boy is coming with
some of the groups But after a while
they suspect he is lost and with flushed
cheek and terrorized look they rush this
way and that. saying: Have you seen
anything of my boy! He is twelve years OF
age, of fair complexion, and has blue eyes
and auburn hair. Have you seen him since
we left the city?n Back they go in hot
haste, in and out the streets, in and out the
private houses ana among the Surrou ndlng
hills. For three days they search and
inquire, wondering if he has been
trampled under foot of some of the
throngs or has ventured on the cliffs or fall
len off a precipice. Send through all the
streets and lanes of the city and among all
the surrounding hills that most dismal
sound "A lost child A lost childn And
10, after three days they discover him in the
| great temple. seated among the mightiesr
| religionists of all the world. The walls of
no other building ever looked down on such
a scene. A child II years old surrounded
by septuagenarians, he asking his own
questions aud answering theirs Let
me introduce you to some of these
ecclesiastics. This is the great Rabbin
| Simeonl This is the venerable Hilleli This
is the famous Shammai These are the
sons of the distinguished Betirah What
can this 12-veer lad teach them or what
questions can ne ask worthy their cogita-
tionl All, the first time in all their lives
these religionists have found their match
and more than their match. Though SC
young, he knew all about that ia
nous temple under whose roof they
held that most wonderful discus.
sion of all history. He knew the
meaning of every altar of every sacrifice
of every golden candlestick, of every EN-.
broldered curtain, of every crumb of shew
bread, OF every drop of oil in that sacred
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