Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-06-14

discern the face of the SKY but can ye not dis
Germ the signs Of the times" By day, as every
boy has done, ne watched the barnyard FOWL
at sight Of overswihging hawk cluck her chick'
ems under wing, and N after years he SAID:
40 Jerusalem, Jerusalem How often would !
have gathered thee as hen gathereth heI
chickens under her wingl" BY night he had
noticed his mother by tho plain candle light
which, as ever and anon it was snuiied ana
the removed wick put down OH the candle
stick. beamed s,ightly through all the family |
sittin., room rs his mother WAS mending ms
garments that had been torn during the Jay |
yan,iariugs among the rocks or bushes and /
veois n afterwards it all came out IN the /
smile of the greatest sermon ever preached;
'sNeither do men light candle and put II
under a bushel but in a candlestlck and II
civeth light to all who are in the house. Let
your light so shine Some time when ms
mother in the autumn took out the clothes
that had been put away for the summer
he noticed how the moth miller flew
out and the coat dropped apart ruined
and useless, and so twenty years after ne
enioined: Lay up for yourselves treasures
in heaven where neither moth nor rust can
corrupt" His boyhood spent among BIRDS
and flowers they all caroled and bloomed
again fifteen years after as he cries out; BE
hold the fowls of the air. Consider the
lilies great storm one day during
Christ's bovhood blackened the heavens ami
apgered the rivers. Perhaps standing in the
door of the carpenter shop he watched 1t
gathering louder and wilder until two cy'
clones. one sweeping down from Mount la
bor 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 he
noticed that one had shifting sand
for a foundation and the other an
eternal rock for basis; and twenty years
after he built the whole scene into perora-
ton of food and whirlwind that seized his
audience and lifted them into the heights OF
sublimity with the two great arms Of pathos
and terror, which sublime words l render,
asking you as far as possible to forget that
Won ever heard them before; whatsoever
I : -,'ss-.s,,.ss.s,,s, savings Of mine and doeth
them. will lilSen hina. '5' a.
built his house upon a rock ahas'-e mis-
scended and the floods came, and the VT
blew and beat upon that house aud it fell
/ not, for it was founded upon a rock. And
/ every one that heareth these sayings Of mine
and doeth them not, shall be liSened unto a
+ foolish man which built his house upon the
/ sand; and the rain descended and the floods
I came, and the winds blew and beat upon
/ that house. and it fell, and great was the fall
/ of it.
BE STUDIED NATURE.
Yes: from the naturalness, the simplicity,
the freshness of his parallels and SMILES and
metaphors in manhood discourse | know that
he had been boyof the fields and had bathed
in the streams and heard the nightingales
call and broken through the towery hedge
and looked out Of the embrasures Of the fort
ress and drank from the wells and chased the
butterflies which travellers say have always
been one of the fitting beauties Of that land
scape, and talked with the strange people from
Damascus and Egypt and Sapphoris and
Syria who i'm caravans or on foot passed
through his neighborhood, the dogs barking
at their approach at sundown. As afterward
he was a perfect man, in the time Of which
speak he was a perfect boy with the spring OF
boys foot, the sparkle Of boys eye, the re-
: bound of boys life and just the opposite OF
those juveniles who sit around morbid and ur
elastic, old men at ten. l warrant he was
} able to take his own part and to take the
part of Others IN that village Of Nazareth
/, am certain there was what is found IN al
the neighborheods of the EARTH that terror
of children, the bully, who seems born t
strike. to punch. to bruise. to ove"power the
less muscular and robust. The Christ who
afterward in no limited terms denounced hyp
ocrite and Pharisee, l warrant, never lei
S such juvenile villain impose upon less vigor
l Gus childhood and yet 80 unscathed and'un
/ defended At ten years he was in sympathy
with the underlings, as he was at thirty ans
thirty-three. l want no further inspired o.
! uninspired information to persuade me tina
| he was a splendid boy, radiant boy, tn
r grandest hottest, mightiest boy Of all tn
: ages. Hence l commend him as boy
r Christ. What multitudes between ten ani
e fifteen years have found him out as the on
< Just suited by his own personal experience t
r help any boy.
+ RESPECT THE BOYS.
I Let the world look out how it treads on
boy. for that very moment it treads O
}, Christ. You strike boy, you strike Christ
u YOU insult boy, you insult Christ; you chea
i a bow. YOU cheat Christ 1t is an awful an
: infinite mistake to come as far as manhOo
;, without Christ when here is boy Christ
That was one reason, l suppose, that iona
y than Edwards, afterwards the greatest Amer
a lean logician and preacher Of his time, b'
came Christian at seven years Of age; an
y Robert Hall who afterwards shook ChristeI
: dom with his sacred elOquence became
4 Christian at twelve years Of age; and lsaa
u Watts, who divided with Charles Wesley I'll
! dominion of holy song, became Christian O
nine years of age, and if In any large religion
:, assemblage it were asked that all IL
III men and women who learned to loy
Il Christ before they were fifteen veal
y of age would please lift their right han'
y there would be enough hands lifted to WAY
~ a coronation. What is true in a religion
seuse is true in a secular sense Themistocb
., amazed his school fellows with talents whiC
! in after years made the world stare. Isa'
4 Newton the boy, by driving pegs in the sic
le of a house to mark the decline of the SUI
~ evidenced a disposition towards the expef
- ments which afterwards showed the natiol
- how the worlds swing. Robert Stephensol
=, the boy, with his kite on the commons e
perimented with electric currents and prop
- esied work which should yet make him IN
&, mortal Get out Of my way" said rong
" man to a boy, .get out Of my way! Win
~ are you good for anyhow The boy a
- swered "They make men out Of such thin
~. as we are" Hear it, fathers, mothersl he'
II, it. philanthropists and patriots hear it, 0
VI VI the young! The temporal and eternal destir
~, of the most of the inhabitants of this ear
-, is decided before fourteen years Of age. b
%, hold the Nazareth Christ, the village Chris
~ the country Christ, the boy Christ!
VI But having shown you the divine lad in t
81 fields must show you him in the mechanic
ir shop. Joseph, his father, died very earl
+. Immediately after the famous trip to d
Temple, and this lad had not only to suppo
himself but support his mother, and VIII
IL that is some of you know.
cir There is "a royal race Of boys on earth nc
= doing the same thing. They wear no crow
ut They have no purple robe a-droop from the
'or shoulders The plain chair on which they
or is as much unlike throne as any tnnle y
les can imagine. But God knows what tney
ms, doing and through what sacrilc e., lney
IN and through an eteInlly dOu WIN heeP u