The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-06-13

throne as anything 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 filial behavior.
They shall get full measure of reward,
the measure pressed down, shak-
en- together and running over.
They have their example in this
boy Christ taking care of his
mother. He had been taught the car
penter's 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 differ
ent 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. Fortunate was it that the
boy 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 |
vacillating, his ak descending, his |
gimlets boring, and standing amid the |
dust and debris of the shop l 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, adjust
long. At nightfall he goes home
by his mother and sits down too tired
cannot tell Christ ANYTHING now about
blistered hands or aching ankles or
bruised fingers or stiff joints or rising
laid down. While yet boy he knew
it all, he felt it all, he suffered it all.
The boy carpenter The boy wagon
, UldkeF! Liz DOy uOuSO DuilOCi "
Christ, we have seen thee when full
grown in Pilates police court room,
we have seen thee when full grown
, thou vert assassineted on Golgotha,
but, o Christ, let all the weary artl-
sans and mechanics of the earth see
thee while yet undersized and arms
not vet muscularized and with the un-
, developed strength of juvenescence
, trying to take thy fathers place in
5 gaining the livelihood for the family.
CHRIST WITH THE DOCTORS.
But, having seen Christ the boy OF
1 the fields and the boy in the mechanics s
4 shop, I show you a more marvellous
4 scene, Christ the smooth browed lad
e among the long bearded, white haired,
e high foreheaded ecclesiastics of the
! Temple. Hundreds of thousands OF
d strangers had come to Jerusalem to
keep q great religious festival. After
the hospitable homes were crowded
! with visitors, the tents were spread all
S around the city to shelter immense
/ throngs of strangers. 1t was very easy
d among the vast throngs coming and
/ going to lose a child. More than
+ two million people have beer
e known to gather at Jerusalem fol
e that national feast. You mus
K not think of those regions as sparsely
= settled. The ancient historian Jose
$ phus says there were in Galilee two
It hundred cities, the smallest of then
e containing fifteen thousand people
d No wonder that amid the crowd
Is at the time spoken of Jesus the bo.
l. was lost. His parents, knowing tina
D he was mature enough and agil
@ enough to take care of himself, are OF
f their way home without any anxiety
:. supposing that their boy is coming wit
e some of the groups. But after Will
If they suspect he is lost and with fiushe
# cheek and terrorized look they rus
r. this way and that, saying: "Have yo1
l seen anything of my boy9 He is twelv
is years of age, of fair complexion an
Of has blue eyes and auburn hair Hav
7 YOU seen him since we left the cltys
in Back they go in hot haste, in and OF
h. the streets, in and out the privat
10 houses and among the surroundln
to hills. For three days they search an
ar inquire, wondering If he has bee
r. trampled under foot of some OF tt
ed throngs or has ventured on the Cliff
It, or fallen off precipice. Send throug
Sc all the streets and lanes Of the cit
ct and among all the surrounding hil
en- that most dismal sound, "a lost chllt
he A lost childl" And 10, after thr'
nd days they discover him in II
IN great Temple, seated among II
to mightiest religionists of all Il
lid world. The walls of no other bull
III ing ever looked down on such seen
es. A child twelve years old surround'
VS. by septuagenarians, he asking his ow
EN- questions and answering theirs. l.
,ut me introduce you to some of these c
err clesiastics. This is the great Rabb
Simeon This is the venerable Hille
This is the famous Shammail These a
a, the sons of the distinguished Betlra
' = What can this twelve year lad tea'
~ ~ them or what questions can he a
~ ~; worthy their cogitation9 All, the til
IN Al, time in all their lives these relgio
1u lists have found their match al
~ u more than their match. Thou:
an a so young, he knew all abo
> Z that famous Temple under whose re
=. they held that most wonderful discl
:oi sion of all history He knew t
! aai, meaning of every altar, of every S;
"a rifice, Of every golden candlestlC
'hu of every embroidered curtain,
JON @ every crumb of shew bread, of eve
drop of oil in that sacred edliice.
"a knew all about God. He knew
;o,, about man. He knew all about heave
&c for he came from it. He knew all abt
Is this world, for he made it. He KIN
~ a., all worlds, for they were only
non sparkling morning dewdrops on
Ia lawn in front of his heavenly pala
aise a Put these seven Bible words in
"a wreath of emphasis: Both heari
! ~ them and asking them questions.
IN n WHAT QUESTIONS DID HE AsK2
lar l am not so much interested in
,ool questions they asked him as III
fter questions he asked them. lie asl
saac the questions not to get informal
! in from the doctors, for he knew it
line ready, but to humble them by sht
ton ing them the height and depth {
fer. length and breadth of their own ig
the rance. While the radiant boy thrl
son these self conceited philosophers "
,ons the interrogation point, they put
ants forefnger of the right hand to
vet temple as though to start Il
nv thoughts into more vigor, and I
how they would look upward and t
yon they would wrinkle their brows
,ye,- then by absolute silence or in posi-
snch words confess their incapacity to
,ars swer the interrogatory. With !
and one of q hundred questions al
Tho theology, about philosophy, about
the tronomy, about time, about etern
,arth he may have balked them, discons