Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-06-16

Ntd, anu Npu hthi NlN Et"AuNAi
II the ellis and the surge of the great
in his matchlcss sermonology.
One day see that divine boy, the Wind
tlurrving his hair over his sun
drowned forehead, standing on a hill
top looking of upon Lake Tlbcrias,
on which at one time according To
pr0ianc history are, not four hundred
four thousand ships. Authors have
taken pains To say that Christ was not
affected by these surroundings, and
that he from within lived outward and
independent Of circumstances, So far
from HAT being true, he was the most
sensitive being HAT ever walked the
earth. and il 4 pale inyalid's weak
finger cnuld not loaclI his robe with
out strength going out from linn, these
mountains and seas could not have
Touched his eye without irrul!ating
his pntiro nature with their magUili-
cp1Irr. waE.ul that he had mounted
and explored al ilm Fifteen hills
around NaHlw'l, among ,hrla Hermun
with lis crISta! curunct Of perpetual
snow, and Carmel aul Tabor and Gil-
hua. and lll1F all had thcir sublime
echo in after time from the Oiivetic
pulpit.
PALrsrIyE WAS LOVELY TliES.
And then il wa, not uncu!tivated
grandeur. These hills carried in their
arms orum tho,rb back, gardens, groves,
orchards, terraces. vineyards, cactus,
sycmmorcs. These o~utbmnching foil
ages did not have 10 wait for the floods
before their silence was broken. for
through them aud over them and in
circles round them and under them
were pelicans, were thrusheS, were
sparrows, were nightingalcs, were
larkS, were quails, were blackbirds,
were partridgcs, We're bulbuls. Yon-
der the Willie ilocks of sheep showed
down over the pasture lands. And
yondcr the brook rehearses to the peb-
blcs its adventures down the rocky
shelving. Wonder are the oriental
homes, the housewife with pitcher ON
the shoulder entering the door,
and down the lawn in front
children rcveling among the fam
ing flora. Andall this springaud song
and grass and sunshine and shadow
woven into the most exquisite nature
that ever breathcd or w6pt or sung or
suffered. Through studying the sky
between the hills Christ had noticed
the weather signs, and that y crimson
sky at night meant dry weather next
day, and that n crimson sky in the
morning meant wet weather before
night. And how beautifully he made
use Of it in after Years rs he drove
down upon the pcstilcrous PbariSee
and Sadducce by crying ont: Wien
it is evening we say il will be fair
weather. for the sky j. red, and in the
morning it will be foul weather to-
day, for the sky is red and lowering.
. We hypOcriteS, We Eau discern the
face of the sky, but can We not discern
the sigus OF the times BY day, "a,
every boy has done, he watched the
barnyard fowl 1t sight of over
swinging hawk cluck her chick.
Gus under wing and in after
years he said; 20, Jerusalem, Jerusl-
leml How often would | have gath
cred thee as II hen gathcreth herchick-
ems under her wing By night lie
had noticed his mother by tire plain
candle light which. as eve aud anon
it was snutlcd and the removed wick
put down on the c~andlc,tick, beamed
brightly through all the family sitting
room as his mother was mcnding ms
garments that had been torn during
the days wanGcringS among the rocks
or bushes. and years afterwards il all
came out in the simile of the greatest
sermon ever preached; Neither do
men light a candle aud put it under a
bpshel but III . cgndlestick and il Civ
eth light to all who are in the house.
Let your light 50 shine Some time
when his mother in the autumn took
out the clothes that had been put away
for the summer lie noticed how the
moth miller flew out and the
coat dropped apart ruined and
useless. aud 50 twenty years after he
enjoined: lay up for yourselves
treasures in heacen where neIthermotl
nor rust can corrupt" His boyhood
spent Qmong birds and flowers they all
caroled and 9loomed again fifteen
years after as he cries out: Behold
the fowls Of the air." Consider the
lilies \ great storm one day dur
ing Cllrist'S boyhood blackenCd the
heavens and angered the rivers. Per
haps standing in the door of the car
penters 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 lie noticed
that one lad shifting sand for Q
foundation and the other an eternal
rock for basis; and twenty year,
after he built the whole scene into {
~peroration of flood and whirlwind that
seized his audience and lifted then
into the heights Of sublimity with Ia,
two great arms of pathos and terror
which sublime words | render, asking
you as far as possible 10 forget tina
you ever heard them before: Whose
ever heareth these sayings Of mine
and doeth them, | will liken him unto
a wise man, which budt his hous,
upon a rock: and the rain descended
and the floods came, and the wind,
blew, and beat upon that house; ant
il fell not; for it was founded upon {
rock. And every m that hearetl
these sayings Of mine, and doeth then
not, shall he likened unto a foolisl
man, which built his house upon th,
Shnl. aud ihn Inin hnscnnhnd and ia,