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

idC0 VI thO ohyt uue S1h y iLOs uiSSSih
the signs of the times" By day, as
every boy has done, he watched the
barnyard fowl at sight of over
swinging hawk cluck her chick
ems under wing and in after
years he said; 20, Jerusalem, Jerusa-
leml How often would l have gath
cred thee as hen gathereth her chick
ems under her wingp By night he
had noticed his mother by the plain
candle light which, as ever and anon
it was snuffed and the removed wick
put down On the candiestick, beamed
brightly through all the family sitting
room as his mother was mending his
garments that had been torn during
the days wanderings among the rocks
or bushes, and years afterwards ii all
came out in the simile of the greatest
sermon ever preached: Neither do
men light candle and put it under a
bushel but in a candlestick and it Civ
eth light to all who are in the house.
Let your light SO shine" Some time
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 he
enjoined: 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: Behold
the fowls of the air. Consider the
lilies" A great storm one day dur
ing Christ's boyhood blackened the
heavens and angered the rivers. Per-
haps standing in the door of the car
penter's shop he watched it gathering
louder and wilder until two cyclones,
one sweeping down from Mount Tabor
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 a
peroration of flood and whirlwind that
seized his audience and lifted them
into the heights of subiimity with the
| two great arms of pathos and terror,
which sublime words render, asking
you as far as possible to forget thai
| YOU ever heard them before: Whose
ever heareth these sayings of mine
and doeth them, / will liken him unto
wise man, which built his house
upon a rock: and the rain descended
and the floods came, and the wind:
blew, and beat upon that house; an6
| fo1I -. 60. f1,,r1n1 ,
rock. And every one that hearetl
these sayings of mine, and doeth then
not, shall be likened unto foolisl
man, which built his house upon tn,
sand: and the rain descended, and tn
floods came, and the winds blew, ant
beat upon that house; and it fell; ant
great was the fall of ii"
HE STUDIED NATURE.
Yes, from the naturalness, the sim
plicity, the freshness of his parable
and SMILES and metaphors in man
hood discourse / know that he ha'
been a boy of the fields and had bath
ed in the streams and heard the night
ingale's call, and broken through TIA
) flowery hedge and looked out of th
, embrasures of the fortress, and dram
| IrOIil Il6 Wcl1S ttIlNl C1lSloCu blIC DobuSl
flies, which travellers say have alway
been one of the fitting beauties of tha
landscape and talked with the strang
people from Damascus and Egypt an
Sapphoris and Syria, who in caravan
: or on foot passed through his neigl
. borhood, the dogs barking at their al
proach at sundown. AS afterward h
: was a perfect man, in the. time
which I speak he was a perfect boy
with the spring of boys foot, tn
sparkle Of boys eye, the rebound {
. o BOYS life and just the opposite {
! those juveniles who sit around mo
l bid and unelastic, old men at ten.
a warrant he was able to take h
s own part and to take the part
others. In that village OF Nazareth
S am certain there was what is found
g all the neighborhoods of the cart
n that terror of children, the bully, WI
e seems born to strike, to punch,
). bruise. to overpower the less muscul;
J and robust. The Christ who afte
n ward in no limited terms denounc'
g hvpocrite and Pharisee, / warran
" never let such juvenile villain impo
Is upon less vigorous childhood and y
Ie 90 unscathed and undefended. At t.
l. years he was in sympathy with t
a underlings as he was at thirty al
4 thirty-three. |. want no further
le spired or uninspired information
'e persuade me that he was splend
G. boy, a radiant boy, the grandest, no
re est. mightiest boy of all the ag'
lr Hence I commend him as a bo.
Id Christ. What multitudes between
er and fifteen years have found him O
le as the one just suited by his own p
N sonal experience to help any boy.
r RESPECT THE BOYS.
lr Let the world look out how it tres
at on boy, for that very moment
Y. treads on Christ. You strike boy, y
Id strike Christ; you insult boy, you
IN suit Christ; you cheat a boy, y
Ill cheat Christ. 1t is an awful and
Is, finite mistake to come as far as m;
to hood without Christ when here
ed boy Christ That was one reason
We suppose, that Jonathan Edwards, afi
Iot wards the greatest American logic
nd and preacher of his time, becam'
nd Christian at seven years OF age;
ar Robert Hall, who afterwards she
ost Christendom with his sacred eioquen
he became Christian at twelve years
ak age; and Isaac Watts, who dlvl
tn with Charles Wesley the domln
csc of holy song, became a Oh
i've tan at nine years OF
ng and if in any large religious ass
if blage it were asked that all the =
ted and women who learned to love Oh
ills before they were fifteen years OF
ION would please lift their right ha
ual there would be enough hands Iftet
ill wave coronation. What is true
me religious sense is true in a secl
,tic sense. Themistocles amazed his sci
fellows with talents which in a
wears made the world stare. l.
ted Newton, the boy, by driving peg
leir the side of q house to mark the dec
res. of the sun, evidenced dlsposi
MS, towards the experiments which al
oil wards showed the nations how
ods worlds swing. Robert Stephen
for the bov. with his kite on the comm
in experimented with electric curr
lem and prophesied work which should
zero make him immortal: Get OUT OF
ere wayi" said a rough man TO a
rds, "get out of my wayl what are
ON good for, anyhow3" The boy ans
wed ed: .eThey make men out OF
And things as we are" Hear 1t, fati
peb- mothersl hear it, philanthropists
cky patriots; hear it, all the youngl
ntal temporal and eternal destiny of
r on most of the inhabitants of this
oor, is decided before fourteen years OF
ront Behold the Nazareth Christ, the
lam lage Christ, the country Christ,
'ong boy Christ. :.
dow But having shown you the di
ture lad in the fields, must show you