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

made out OF clay anu NauAeu iortu u man
and afterwards scared an immortali Not
half so much of an undertaking to make
bird out of clay as TO make man out OF
olay Or the uninspired stc-y that the boy
Christ took the cloths of a dyer's shop and
threw them into the fire, and after the dyer's
protest and ejaculation brought forth the
cloths in tho color that the dyer wishedl Is
that more unbelievable than the manhood
miracle in the wilderness picnic where five
biscuits the size of your fist were turned into /
enough bread to feed five thousand
and the fragments filed twelve bas-
ketsl Or the uuinspired story that Joseph
the father as a carpenter, having orders to
make a throne Tor the king at Jesuralem,
and toiling two years on it, found that after
Il was done it was two spans too short, and
the boy took hold one side of the throne
and his father the other side Of it, and
pulled it to the right sizel Is that any more
wonderful than that after growing to man
hood he folded up, as easily as you would
fan. a Galilean hurricanel Or the uninspired
story that his comrades in their play brought
flowers and crowned him as king! should
think they would have done so. Or the uhil-
spired story that a boy, hunting for eggs IN
partridge nest. was stung Of viper, and the
poisoned lad was brought on couch to the
bov Christ, and Christ asked to be taken
with the afflicted child to where the child
was bitten, and at Christ's command
the serpent, with its own mouth, ore"
forth the poison from the woundf why
Christ has been doing that through all the
ages; namely, compelling the very things
that wound us, under his sanctifylng power
to bring us to health and reinvlgoration ana
eternal life Or the uninspired story that
children were playing on the housetop ana
the boy Christ was there and one OF the ehli-
dren was showed from the roof and fell TO the
ground and died and the other children
charged Chrisg with the misdemeanor and
the 6s,,. Christ sid; charge not me win
the crime, but let us leave it 49, -
child to settle the controversy and the boy
Christ said: aZeinumusl Zeinumusl who
threw thee down from the hOusetopp Then
the dead child spale and said: Not thou, but
such a one did" Was that more wonderful
than Paul's resuscitation Of Eutychus,
who fell from the window while the
apostle was preaching9 Or the unin-
spired story in the apocryphal New
Testament which says that Christ the boy
was taken to school and Zaccheus, the teach
CT, told him the first three letters of the
alphabet, whereupon Christ the boy asked
his teacher such profound questions concern
ing the alphabet that the teacher was con-
founded, and the boy Christ himself explain
ed all to the teacher, until Zaccheus SAID TO
Joseph. the father of the wondrous boy;
Thou hast broughta boy to me to be taught
who is more learned than any master" Then
the boy was taken to a more learned master,
who. angered at the boys questions, lifted
IL l. aud With
ed as will all the hands lifted against
Christ. Is that more wonderful than the
scene positively recorded by Matthew where
the D. D. s and the LII DIS stood around
Christ at twelve years of age in the temple,
utterly COMPOUNDED at his precociousnesst Or
that story that Christ the boy, questioned by
astronomers, told them the number Of the
worlds their size, their circuits; and ques-
toned by physicians told them more about
anatomy and physiology than they ever
i dreamed of, the number of veins, arteries
nerves and bones. If Christ were divine was
he not able at ten or twelve years to describe
/ the human system as well as though he had
been fifty years standing ut an operating
/ table or in a dssecting rooml
A BOYS CHRIST
In other words while | do not believe that
any of the so called apocryphal New Testa'
ment is inspired, believe much of it is true
lust as l believe a thousand books none OF
which are divinely inspired. Much Of it was
lust like Christ. j. It as certain as the mar
I Christ was the most of the time getting men
out Of trouble think that the boy Chris
was the most of the time getting boys out Of
trouble have declared to you this day g
boys Christ. And the world wants such q
one He did not sit around moping ovel
what was to be or what was, From the way
in which natural objects unwreathed them
selves into his sermons after he had become
a man l conclude there was not rocl
or a hill or cavern or tree 10
miles around that he was not familia
with in childhood He had cautiously fel
his way down into the caves and had wit
light and agile limb gained poise on man.
a high tree top. His boyhood was passe
around grand scenery as most all the grea
natures have passed early life among tn
mountains. They may live now on the Hat
but they passed the receptive days of ladhoo
among the hills Among the mountains
New Hampshire or the mountains of NHgini
or the mountains of Kentucky or the mouI
tains of Switzerland or Italy or Austria O
Scotland or mountains as high and rugged {
they. many Of the worlds thrilling biogri
pixies began. Our Lords beyhood was passe
in a neighborhoOd twelve hundred fe'
above the level Of the sea and su
rounded by mountains five or SIX hun
dred feet still higher. Before It cou
shine on the village where this boy slept Il
sun had to climb far enough up to look ov'
hills that held their heads far aloft Fro
yonder height his eye at one sweep took
the mighty scoop Of the valleys and with Al
l. H., kt,n lodi rfa
and YOU hear the grandeur Of the cliffs al
the surge of the great waters in his mate
: less sermonology. One day l see that divil
boy, the wind furrying his hair over h
sun Drowned forehead, standing on h
top looking off upon Lake Tiberias, {
: which at one time according to pr
= fame history are, not four hundr'
I. but four thousand ships. Authors have talH
pains to say that Christ was.nOt affected /
these surroundings, and that he from with
lived outward and independent of circur
. stances. So far from that being true he W
- the most sensitive being that ever walked q
= earth. and if pale invalid's weak fling
Q could not touch his robe without streng
going out from him, these mountains n
seas could not have touched his eye witho
. irradiating his entire nature with their ina
. nificence. l warrant that he had mount
N and explored all the fifteen hills around Ma
= areth, among them Hermon with its cryst
= coronet Of perpetual snow, and Carmel al
- Tabor and Gilboa, and they all had the
" sublime echo in after time from the Olivet
n pulpit.
"a PALESTINE WAS LOVELY THEN.
d And then it was not uncultivated grardel
~ These hills carried in their arms or ON tn
\ backs gardens, groves, orchards terrace
IS vineyards, cactus, sycamores. These OF
~ branching foliages did not have to wait |
~ the floods before their silence was broken, 1
~ through them and over them and in Giro
= round them and under them were pelica
were thrushes, were sparrows, were night
gales, were larks, were quails, were blaC
g birds, were partridges, were bulbuls. HC
u der the white 1ocks Of sheep showed do'
- over the pasture lands. And yonder
~ brook rehearses to the pebbles its adventul
w. Asans ava