The Red Cloud chief., 1889-06-14

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In . recent sermon ct Brooklyn Dr.. Tai.
IMAGES subject wa 'Chrisk tho Village
lad" He took for his text Luke IL 20:
~cAad the child grew. and Waxed strong
In spirit filed with wisdom; and the
Gracs Of God WAS upon Hin" The preach.
- said:
About Christ - . village lad 1 speak.
There 10 for the most part . silence more
than eighteen centuries long about Christ
6etween infancy and manhood. What
kind Of . boy va Hel Was He . genuine
boy 1t all. or did there settle upon Him
from the start all the intensities Of mar.
tyrdom? We have on this subject only Q
little guessing. . few surmises, and here
aad there an unimportant '1psrhaps."
Concerning what bounded that boyhood
On both sides we have whole libraries Of
books and wbols galleries Of canvas and
0ary's arms " taking His frst sleep In
the rough clubhouse. ali the painters bow.
and We have Paul Veronese's '.Holy Fam.
tly." and Perugino's Nativity" and An.
kelico da Fiesole's Infant Christ" and
Rabens' "Adoration of the Magi," and
Tintoret's Alteration Of the Aagi," and
-C~hirlandojo's Alteration Of the Magi."
and Raphael's Madonna, " and Orcagna's
sNadonna," and Nuriilo's "Madonna."
and Madonnas by all tbs schools Of paint.
ing in all lights and shades and with all
styles Of attractive feature and impressive
surroundings, but pen and pencil and
chisel ave with few exceptions passed
BY Christ the viliags lad. Yet by three
~coujoined evidences l think No can come
to as accurate an idea Of what Christ was
Is q boy as We can of what Christ was As
a mau
First We have the brief Bible account.
Then We rave tho prolonged account Of
what Christ was at thirty years of age.
Now you have only to minify that account
somewhat and you find what He was
at ten years Of aga Temperaments never
change. A sanguine temperament never
becomes . phlegmatic temperament A
nervous temperament never becomes .
Emphatic temperament Religion changes
ones affections and ambitions, but il 10
the same old temperament acting In . diff.
ferent direction. A Christ had no relig-
ious change. He was o. . lad what He was
~ = man, only on not 90 largo . scale.
Whom all tradition and all art and all his
tory represent Him a. Q blonde with gol.
don hair I know He was In boyhood .
blonde.
We have. beside. an uuinspired book
that was for tho first three or four con.
turtles after Christ's appearance received
BY many As inspired and which gives pro.
Hanged account Of Christ's boyhood. Some
Of it may be true, most Of it may b true.
mono of it may b. true. It may Be- partly
tniit on facts. or by the passage Of tho
ages, some real facts may have been dis
torted. But because . bOok 10 not divine
~ inspired we are not therefore to CON.
clude that there are not true things In il.
Prescoti's Conquest of Mexico" wal
nat inspired, but We believe it.
although it may contain mistakes.
Macaulay's '.History OF England" was
not inspired, but we belisve il, although it
may have been marred with many errors.
The so.called ~apocryphai gospel in which
<Se boyhood of Christ 10 dwelt upon I do
not believe to be divineIy inspired, and
yet it may present facts worthy Of consid.
Grafton. Because it represents tbs boy
sAsuo6 OOAAA0 low
that whole apocryphal book.
But what righ% have you to say that Christ
did not perform miracles At ton years of
age as we'll as at thirty? He was in boy
as certainly d vine. a. In manhood
While ! do not believe that any of the
apocryphal New Testamsnt 10
Inspired, l believe much Of it 10 true; just
as l believe q thousand books, none Of
which are divinely inspired. Much Of it
just like Christ Just a. certain a.
the man Christ vas the most Of the time
getting the mon out Of trouble. I think
that the boy Christ was the most Of the
time getting boys out of trouble. have
declared to you this day . boys Christ.
And the world wants such Q one. He did
not sit around moping over what was to
be OF what was From the way in which
natural objects enwreathed themselves
into His sermon after He had become Q
man, / conclude there wa not . rock or q
hill or . cavern or q tree for miles around
that He was not familiar with In child
hood. He had cautiously felt his way
down into the caves aud had with 1.-the
and agile limb gained q poise on many q
high tree top. His boyhood was passed
among grand scenery. as most all the great
natures rave passed carly life among the
mountains. They may live now on the
hats, but they passed the receptive days
of ladhood among tho hills. among the
mountains Of New Hampshire or the
mountains Of Virginia Or the
mountains Of Kentucky or tho
mountains Of Switzerland or Italy or
Austria or Scotland. On mountains a. high
and rugged as they, many Of the worlds
thrilling biographies began. Our Lords
boyhood was passed In q neighborhood
twelve hundred feet above tho level of the
sea and surrounded BY mountains I've or
six hundred feet still higher. Before it
could shine on the village whore this boy
slept the sun had 70 climb far enough up
to look over the hills that held their heads
far aloft Authors have taken pains to
say that Christ was not affected BY these
sarroundings, and that He from within
lived outward and indspendeatoe circum.
stances So far from that being true. He
the most sensitive being that ever
walked the earth, and Il . pale iuvalid's
weak finger could not touch His robe
without strength going cut from Him
these mountains and seas coald nos have
eo1ched His eye without irradiatinR HE