West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-06-20

| sitting room as His mother was mending His
l garments that had been torn during the days
| wanderings among the rocks or bushes, and
| years afterward IL all came out in the
| simile of the greatest sermon ever preached:
| Neither do men light a candle and put Il
| under a bushel but In candlestick and IL
| giveth light TO all who are In tho house.
| Lot your light so shine" Some time when
| His mother I'm the autumn took out the clothes
| that had been put away for tho summer Ho
noticed how the moth miller flew out and tho
4 coat dropped apart ruined and useless, and 50
twenty years after He en1Oncd. Lay up for
!, yourselves treasures I'm heaven where neither
| moth nor rust can corrupt His boyhood
scent among birds and flowers they
| all caroled and bloomed again fifteen
years after MS Ho cries out: "Behold the
fowls of the air. 'Consider the lilies.n A
great storm one day during Christs boyhood
blackened the heavens aud angered the
rivers. Perhaps standing in the door of tho
carpenters shop Ho watched it gathering
louder anu wilder until two cyclones, one
sweeping down from Mount Tabor and the
other from Mount Carmel, met in the Wiley
Of Esdraelon and two houses are caught I'm the
fury and crash goes the one and triumphant
stands the Other, and He noticed that one had
shifting Sand for foundation and the other
an eternal rock for basis; and twenty
years after He built the whole scene into n
peroration of flood and whirlwind that seized
His audience and lifted them into the heights
OF sub1mity with tho two great arms of pa.
thos aud terror, which sublime words I
render, asking You ms far as possible TO for
get that you ever heard them before: "Who-
soever heareth these sayings OF Mine. and
doeth them, L viii liken him unto a
wise man, which built his house
upon a rock; and the rain descended and
tho Hoods came, and the winds blew, and
beat upon that house; and IL fell not; for II
was founded upon rock. And every one
That heareth these sayings of Mine aud doetl
them not shall be likened unto "A foolish
aassIsl s..tlN IL
the rain descended, and the floods came,
and the winds blow, and beat upon that
house; and 1t fell; and great was the fall
of itn
Yes, from the naturalness the simplicity.
the freshness of His parallels and SMILES and
metaphors in manhood discourse know that
lie had been "A boy of the fields and had bathed
In the streams and heard the nightingale's
can. aud broken through the howery hedge
and looked out OF the embrasiireS of the FOR
tress, and drank from the wells and chased
tho butterflies, which travellers say have al
ways been one of the fitting beauties Of that
landscape, and talIsd with the strange peo-
pie from Damascus and Egypt and Sapphors
foot passed through His neigbbcrhood,
tho dogs barking at their mp
proach at shutdown. As afterwar6 He waSa
perfect man, in the time of which speak lie
was perfect boy with the spring of n boys
| foot the sparkle of boys eye, the rebound
| OF boys life and just the opposite of those
| Juveniles who sit around morbid and I'M
elastic, old men Mt ten. i warrant He was
able 20 take His own part and TO take the part
of Others. In that village of Nazareth i am
certain there was what is found in all the
neighborhoods of the earth that terror of
| children, the bully, who seems born to strike,
| % punch, To bruiSe, to oVerpower tho less
muscular and robust The Christ who after
ward in no limited terms denounced hypo-
critic and Pharisee, / warrant, never let such
| Juvenile villain impose upon less vigorous
childhood and yet go unscathed and unde-
Tended. At ten years He was in sympathy
| with the underlings as He was at thirty and
thlrty-three. | want no further inspired or
uninSpired information 10 persuade me TIA
de was splendid box. radiant hoy. the
| grandeSL hottest highest boy of nll the ages
| Honce / commend Him as a BOYS Christ
| What multitudes between ten and fifteen
| years have found Him out as the one lust
suited by His own personal experience to help
any boy.
| lelds must show you Him in the mechanics
| shop. Joseph, His father died very early
immediately after the famous trip to the
temple, and this lad not only TO support Him.
SELF nut support his mother and what that is
some of You know. There is a royal race OF
boys ON earth now doing the same thing
| Ihey wear no crown. They have no purple
| robe adroop from their shoulders The plain
chalr on which they sit is as much unlike
throne as anything you can imagine But
0od knows what they are doing and through
| what sacrifices they go, and through all
eternity God will keep paying them for their
nlial oehaVlor. 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 car
penters trade by His father. The boy
had done the palmer work at the shoD
while His father had put ON the finish
ing touches of the work The boy also
cleared away the chips and blocks and
snavlngs. He helped hold the different
pieces or 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 i'm Christ's boyhood
days meant TO make plows, yokes, shovels
wagons, tables chairs sofas houses and al.
most everything that was made Fortunate
was II that the boy had learned the trade
Tor, when the head of the family dies
It Is grand thing TO have the child
aoie 70 take care of himself aud help take
care OF others. Now that Joseph, His father,
Is dead and the responsibility of family sup
port comes down on this boy / hear from
morning TO night His hammer pounding. His
saw Vac1ilating. His axe descending His oin1-
IeIs boring; and standing amid the dust ana
debris OF the shop / find the perspiration
gathering on His temples and notice the IA
ugue OF His arm, aud as He stops a moment 10
rest see Him painting His hand on His side
from the exhaustion. Now He goes forth
III the morning loaded with imDleu1enfs
OF work heavier than any modern kit of
tools. Under the tropical sun He swelters
LIFTING, pulling, adjusting, clesving, splitting
All day long At nightfall He goes home
| 70 the plain supper provided by His mother
ana sits down too tired TO talk Work.
work work. You cannot tell Christ any
thing now about bli5tered hands or aching
ankles or bruised fingers or stiff Joints or
rising In the morning as tired as when YOU
iaid down. While yet n boy He knew
~ All, He felt IL all, He suffered il ali
me boy carpenteri The boy wagon
maker Tho boy house bulderi o Christ
We nave seen Thee when full grown in Pilates
police court room, we have seen Thee when full
grown Thou vert assassiuatcd ON CfOlVotha
but - Christ, Jet all tho weary artisans and
nechanicsOf the earth SEQ Thee while vet nm
dersi1ed and arms not yet muscularized and
Win the uudevelOped strength of iuvcucs-
cence trying 10 take Thy fathers place i'm
gaining the livelihood for the family.
But having seen Christ the hoy Of fho
neids and the boy in the mechanics shop 4
snow you more marvellous scene Christ
! the smooth-browcd lad among tho lonq-
bearded, white-haired, high forhended eccle-
siastic5 Of The Temple. Hundreds az thou
.ands ~ strangers had como so Jerusalem To
| Keep O. great religious festival After the
hospital homes were crowded with vfeifors
t2c tents were spread all around the city to
shelter Immense throngs of strangers. 10 ygas
very easy among the vast thrOng c0fniny
/ ind going 10 lose child Moro than
/ Two milton people have been known to Gather
| tt Jerusalem for that national feast You
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