The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-06-12

and women who learned TO love Christ
before they were fifteen years OF age
would please lift their right hand,
there would be enough hands lifted
TO wave q coronation. What is true In q
religious sense is true in secular sense.
Themistocles amazed his school fellows
with talents which in after years made the
world stare. Isaac Newton, the boy by
driving pegs in the side Of house to mark
the decline Of the sun, evidenced disposi-
tion towards the experiments which after
wards showed the nations how the worlds
swing. Robert Stephenson, the boy, with
his kite on the commons experimental with
electric currents and prophesied work
which should yet make him immortal. "Get
out of my wayl'' said rough man to boy,
'get out of my way what are you good for,
anyhowln The boy answered. ''They
make men out Of such things as we are"
Hear It, fathers, mothers hear 1t philan-
thropists and patriots hear IL, all the
young The temporal and eternal destiny
Of the most Of the inhabitants Of this earth
is decided before fourteen years Of age. Be-
hold tho Nazareth Christ, the village Christ,
the country Christ, the boy Christ.
But having shown you the divine lad In
the fields, must show you him in the me-
chanic's shop. Joseph, his father, diedvery
early, Immediately after the famous trip TO
the temple and this lad had not only TO sup
port himself, but support his mother, and
what that is some Of you know. There is
royal race Of boys on earth now doing the
same thing They wear no crown. They
have no purple robe adroop from their
shoulders The plain chair on which 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 20, and through all eternity God will
keep paying them for their filial 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 have all kinds Of mechanics,
and the work Is divided up among them
But TO bo a carpenter In Christs boyhood
days meant TO make plows, yokes, shovels,
wagons, tables, chairs, sofas, houses and
almost every thing that was made. For
tunate was IL that the boy had learned the
trade, for when the head Of the family dies
Il Is grand thing TO have the child able 10
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, / 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 temples and notice
the fatigue OF his arm, and as he stops {
moment TO rest zee him painting, his hant
on his side, from the exhaustion. Now h
goes forth In the morning loaded with i'm
piements OF work heavier than any moderI
kit Of tools. Under the tropical sun h
swelters. Lifting, pulling, adjusting, cleav
ing, splitting all day long. At Bightfall h
goes home TO tho plain supper provides
by his mother and sits down too tired 10 talk
Work. work. work. You can not tell Chris
any thing now about blistered hands or ach
ing ankles or bruised fingers or stiff joint
| or rising In fhe morning as tired as whei
, you laid down. While yet boy he kne,
} II all, he feltit all, he suffered II all. Tn
, boy carpenteri The boy wagon makeri IN
, bey house-builderl o Christ, we have see
, Thee when full grown In Pilates polio
: court room, we have seen Thee when fu
/ grown thou vert assassinated on Golgotha
but o Christ, let all tho weary artisans an
J mechanics Of the earth see Thee while "
| underaEed and arms not yet muscularizet
| and with the undUveloped strength {
, juvenJscence trying TO take Thy father
, place in gaining the livelihood for u
, family.
But, having seen Christ, the boy Of u
fields and the boy ti the mechanics shop,
show you more marvellous scene, Chris
the smooth. .browed lad amoog the lonI
bearded, white-hahed, high fure- headed c
cltsiastics OF tho Temple. Hundreds
thousands Of strangers had oTme TO Jerus
lem TO keep great religious festival. Aft,
the hospital hOmss were crowded with vi
itors the tents were spread all around u
city TO shelter immense throhgs of stranger
1t was very easy among tho vast thronI
coming aid going TO lose a child. MOI
than two million people have becm known
gather at Jerusalem for that national feas
You must not think OF those regions
sparsely settled. The ancient historian j
sephus says that there were in Galilee tw
! hundred cities, the smallest Of the
containing fifteen thousand people. n
wonder that amid the crowds at the tin
spoken Of Jesus the boy was lost II
parents, krowing that he was matui
enough anc agile enough 10 take care
himself, an on thelrway HON without an
anxiety, sgpposing that their boy Is comm
with sUmepf the roups But after awhi
they suspect he Is lost and with fushc
| cheek andB terrorized look they rush tn
way and that, saying: 'sHave you seen an
thing Of my boyi He is twelve years OF az
or fair complexion, and mas blue eyes an
auburn hatr. Have you seen him since "
left the cityl" Back they go in hot hast
irl and out the streets, IN and out the pr
vate houses and among tho surroundin
hills. For three days they search and II
q, lire, wondering II he has been trapple
under foot Of some Of thc throngs or ha
vtmturedon the cliffs or fallen of prec
pl,,o. Send through all the stree Is and lane
Of the city and among all the surround
ing hills that most dismal sound, "A los
chiSdi A7lsst childir And 10, after thrc
days thsy discover him In the great temple
seatnd among the miehtsest roligionists o
oil tho world. The walls of no other build
ing ever locked down on such scene.
child twelve years old surrounded by sep
tuagenarianx, he asking his own question
and answering theirs. Let me introduc
you 10 some OF these ecolesiastics. This 4
the great Rabbin Simeoni This Is the ven
cradle Hiileri This Is thefamous Shammal
These are the sons OF the distinguished
Betirah. What can this twelve year Lad