The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-26

shoulders. The plain char on Whlch they
sit is as much unlike throne as any thing
YOU can imagine. But God knows what
they are doing and through what sacrifices
they go, and through all eternity God Will
keep paying them for their flial 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 finishing 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 ha> all kinds Of mechanics,
and the work is divided up among them.
But to be carpenter in Christs boyhood
days meant to make plows yohes, shoveis,
wagons, tables, chairs, sofas, houses and
almost every thing that was made. For
tunate was it that the boy had learned tho
trade. for whom the head of the family dies
it is a grand thing to have the child able to
take care of himself and help take care OF
Others Now that Joseph. the father. IS
dead, and the responsibility of the family
support comes down on this boy, l hear
from morning to night his hammer pound
ing, his saw vacillating, his axe descending,
his gimlets boring. and standing amid the
dust and debris of the shop find the pers
piration gathering on his teiAplcs 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 lm-
plenents Of work hcav:e" than any modern
kit of tools Under the tropical sun he
swelters. Lifting. pulling, adjusting, clcav-
ing, splitting all day long. At nlghttall he
goes home to the plain supper provided
by his mother and sits down too tired 10 talk.
Work! work work! You can nottell Christ
ANYTHING now about blistered hands or ach-
ing ankles or bruised fingers on stiff joints
or rising in the morning as tired as when
YOU laid down. While yet q boy he knew
it all, he felt it all. he suffered il all. The
boy carpen ter! The boy wagon maker. The
boy house builder! o Christ, we have seen
Thee when full grown in Pilates police
court room, we have seen Thee when iul!
grown thou vert assassinatcd on GolCotlla:
but O Christ, let all the weary artisans and
mechanics Of the eart4 see Thee while Yet
understood and arms not yet muscu!ar;Zcd.
and with the undeveloped strength of
juyenescence trying to take Thy fathers
place in gaining the livelihood for the
family.
But, having seen Christ, the boy Of &c
fields and the boy of the mechanics shop.
show YOU a more marvellous scene, Christ,
the smooth browed lad among the long
bearded, white haired, high fore-headed &C.
clesiastics of the Temple. Hundreds Of
thousands OF strangers had come to Jcrusa-
lem to keep great religious festival. After
the hospital homes We're crowded with Wis
itors, the tents We're spread all around the
city to shelter immense throngs OF strangers.
It was very easy among the vast thronSS
coming and going to lose child. More
than two million people have been known 10
gather at Jerusalem for that national feast.
You must not think of those regions as
sparsely settled. The ancient historian Jo-
sephus SAYS that there We're in Gal!lee two
hundred 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, knowing that he was mature
enough and agile enough to take care OF
himself, are on their way home without any
anxiety, supposiug that their boy IS coming
with some of the groups. But after awhile
they suspect he is lost and with flushed
cheek and terTorized look they rush, his
wiysissaud that, saying: "nave you seen
tn 1i,>s-2- Ia twelve wears of az