Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-06-16
JESUS As A BOY.
SERMON PREACHED BY Dr., TAlMAGE
SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 1859.

Man.
BROOKLYN, Jane "a vast con-
course Of people alling all tue avail
able places Joined in the opening
doxology at Brooklyn Tabernacle this
morning, The pastor, the Rev. i. De
Witt Talmage, d. H., ~sNpoundcd the
passage in John about the unwrltten
works of Christ which the world IL
self could not have contained. The
subject Of Dr. Talmagcs ormu was
Christ the Village Lad" lie took
for his text Luxe ii, 40; And the
child grew, and walked strong IN
spirit, .tllpd with wisdom; ml the
grace of God was upon HIM" The
preacher said;
About Christ rs q village lad !
speak. There is for The uo,t plrt a
silence more than eighteen centuries
long about Christ between infancy
and manhood. What Kind OF 4 boy
was hei Vas he "A genuine boy at all,
ar did there settle upon him from the
start all the iptensitics of m~artyrdom!
We have on this subject only "A little
guessing. q few surmlses, and here
and there an uuimportant perhaps
Concerning what bounded .slat boy
hood on both sides We have whole
libraries Of books and whole galleries
Il canvas and sculpture. Before the
Wfant Christ in Mary's arms, Or TAX
lRg his first sleep IN the rough out
house, all the painters bow, and we
-. Dbl w. ss1lLlV- L1..F4e1VvH
and Pcrugiuos Nativity and Angel
leo da FIeso.e's Infant Christ and
l,ubeus' Alteration Of the Magi' and
Tintorets Alteration uf the Magi'
aud lhlr!gndpiO's Alteration Of the
MagT and kaphael's Madonna and
Orcagnls Madonna nd Murillu's
Madonna, aud MadoI uas by all the
schools Of painting in all lights and
shades and with all styles Of attrac-
I've feature and impr s.ire surround.
iags, but pen and pencil and clisel
lave with few excel lions passed by
Christ tic village El. Yet by three
Cnnjoinel evidence. | think We can
COME to as accurate "A idea Of what
Christ was as a boy Is We can OF what
Christ was rs q MN.
THE IRIEF g.BLE ACCOUNT,
First, we have the brief Bible &C.
count. Then we have the prolonged
account Of wha, Christ was ut thirty
years Of age. Now you have only 70
minify that account somewhat and
you find what he was az ten years Of
age. Tempcramcnts never change.
4 san-uine temperament never be-
comes Il pAlegmatic temperament. y
nervous temperament Ucvgr becomes
Il lymphatic temperament. Re
ligion changes ones affections and am
bItions. but it is the slme old tc!npcra
ment acting in a different direction.
As Christ had no religious change, he
was as a lad what he was rs q man,
only on not SO large a scale. When
all tradition and all art and all history
represent him as Il blonde with golden
hair | l:low be was in boyhood a
blonde.
UNINSURED STORIES.
We have. beside, an uuinspired book
that was for the first three or four cen
luries after Christ's appearance receiv-
ed by many az inspired and which gives
prolonged account of Christis boy
hood. Some OF il may be true, most
Of il may be true, none Of il may be
true. II may be partly built on facts,
or by the passage Of the ages. some
real facts may have been distorted.
But because a book Is not Givincly in.
spired we are not therefore 10 conclude
that there are not true things in il,
P~lescotts Conquest Of Mexico was
not inSpired, but we believe i although
il may contain mistakes. Wacaulat's
History Of Epglaga' Was not inspir-
ed, but We believe il although il may
have been marred with many errors,
The so called apocryphal Gospel in
which the bOyhuud Of Christ j. dwelt
upon | do not believe to be d!yincly
inspired, and yet il may prescut facts
worthy of consideration. Because it
represents the boy Christ as perform.
ing miracles some have overthrow
that whole a~pocryphal book. But
what right have you 10 say that
Christ did not perform miracles at tep
years of age as well as al thirty be
Ns in boyhood as certainly divine as
IA manhood. Then while Il lad he
must have had the power 10 work
miracles, whether lac did or did not
work them. When, having reached
manhood, Christ turned water into
wine that was said TO be the begin.
ing Of miracles. But that may mean
that it was the beginning of that series
of manhood miracles. In a word, !
think that the New Testament is only
a small transcript Of what Jesus did
aud said. Indeed, the Bible declares
positively that If all Christ did and
said were written the world would not
contain the books. So we are at lib.
erty TO believe or reject those parts Of
the apocryphal Gospel which say that
when the boy Christ with his mother
passed a band of thieves he told his
mother that two Of them, Dumachus
and Titus By name, would be the two
thieves who afterwards would expire
on crosses beside him. Was that more
wonderful than some Of Christ's man.
hood prophesiesl Or the uninsplred
story that the boy Christ made a foun.
tain spring from the roots OF a syca,
more tree so that his mother washed
his coat in the stream-was that more
unbelievable than the manhood mir.
acle that changed common water into
a marriage beveragel Or the unin.
spired story that two sick children
were recovered by bathing in the
water where Christ had washedl