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will be If, instead of sacrificing, you help
them. Boys as grand as the one who with
his elder brother climbed into a church
tower, and not knowing their danger went
outside on some timbers, when one of those
timbers broke and the boys fell, and the
older boy caught on beam and the younger
clutched the foot of the older. The older
could not climb up with the younger hanging
to his feet, so the younger said: "John, I am
going to let 20; you can climb out into safety,
but you can't climb up with me holding fast;
I am going to let go, kiss mother for me:
and tell her not to feel badly; goo1-by"
And he let 60 and was so hard dashed upon
the ground he was not recognizable. Plenty
of such brave boys coming up from Naza-
reth Let Jerusalem be careful how it
treats them! A gentleman long ago en-
tered school in Germany and he bowed
very low before the boys, and the teacher
said, "Why do you do that" "Oh," said
the visitor, II do not know what mighty
man may yet be developed among them"
At that instant the eyes Of one of the boys
flashed fire. Who was it? Martin Luther.
A lad on his way to school passed door
step on which sat lame and invalid child.
The passing boy said to him: "Why don't
can't walk to schools 'sGet on my back"
said the we'll boy, land I will carry you to
school," And so he did that day and for
many days until the invalid was fairly
started on the road to an education. Who
was the well boy that did that kindness? I
don't know. Who was the invalid he car
ried? 1t was Robert Hall, the rapt pupil
orator of all Christendom. Better give to
the boys who come up from Nazareth to Je-
rusalem crown instead ofa cross.
On this December morning in Palestine
on our way out from Nazareth we saw just
such a carpenters shop as Jesus worked in,
supporting His widowed mother after He
was old enough to do SO. I looked in, and
there were hammer and saw and plane and
auger and wise and measuring rule and
chisel and drill and ,adze and wrench and
bit and all the tools of carpentry. Think
of it! He who smoothed the surface Of the
earth showing a plane; He who cleft the
mountains by earthquake pounding q
chisel; He who opened the mammoth caves
Of the earth turning an auger; He who
wields the thunderbolt striking with
hammer: He who scooped out the bed for
tile ocean following ladle; he who flashes
the morning on the earth and makes the
midnight heavens quiver with aurora con-
structing a window. cannot understand
it. but l believe it. A skeptic said to an old
clergyman: II will not bslieve anything I
cannot explain" Indeed" said the clergy
man, "you will not bslievs anything
you cannot explain. Please to explain
to me why some COWS have horns and
others have no horns. "No," said the
mean that will not believe anything have
not seem" 'Indeed," said the clergyman"
''you will not believe anything you have not
seen. Have you backbone?" "Yes," said
the skeptic. How do you know" said tne
clergyman. "Have you ever seen itF' This
mystery Of Goihood and humanity inter-
joined cannot understand and cannot e1-
plain, but believe it. I am glad there are
so many things we cannot understand, for
that leaves something for heaven.
In about two hours we pass through Cana,
the village Of Palestine, where the mother OF
Christ and our Lord attended the wedding Of
poor relative, having come over from
Nazareth for that purpose. The mother Of
things-found that the provisions had fallen
short and she told Christ. and He to relieve
Jne embarrassment or the housskeeper, who
had invited moro guests than the pantry
warranted became the butler Of the occasion,
and out of cluster of few sympathetic
words squeezed beverage of few hundred
and twenty-six gallons Of wine in which
was not one drop of intoxicant, or it would
have left that party as maudlin and drunk
as the great centennial banquet in New
York, two years ago, left senator's, and
governors, and generals, and merchant
princes, the difference between the wine at
the wedding in Cana and the wine at the BAN
quet in New York being, that the Lord made
the one and the devil made the other. We
got off our horses and examined some Of
these water jars at Cana said to be the very
ones that held the plain water that Christ
turned into the purple bloom Of an especial
vintage. I measured them and found them
eighteen inches from edge to edge and nine
teen inches deep. and declined to accept their
identity. But we realized the immensity o,
a supply of hundred and twenty-six gal
Ions of wine.
Among the arts and inventions OF ths fu-
ture hope there may be some one that can
press the juices from the grape and so mingle
them and without one drop Of damning alco-
holisn thet'it will keep for years. And the
more Of it you take the clearer will be the
here is remarkable fact in my recent jour-
ney-I Travelled through Italy and Greece
and Egypt and Palestine and Syria and Tur-
KEY, and how many intoxicated PEOPLE 60
YOU think I saw in all those five great realms?
Not one. We must in our Christanized lands
have got hold of some kind OF beverage that
Christ did not make.
Oh, I am glad that Jesus was present at
that wedding, and last December, standing
at Cana, that wedding came back! Night
had fallen on the village and its surround
ings. The bridegroom had put on his head
bright turban and garland Of flowers, and
his garments had been made fragrant with
frankiucenss and camphor. all odor which
the oriental especially likes. Accompanied
Dy groomsnen, and preceded by band OF
xr;f1, qt,ra nd lrttno
horns, and by torches in full blaze,
he starts for the brides home.
This river of fire is met by another river Of
fire, the torches Of the bride and brides
maids, fambeau answering fam5eau. The
bride is in white robe and her veil not only
covers her facs but envelopes her boiy.
Her trousseau is as elaborate as the resources
of her fathers house permit. Her attendants
are decked with all the ornaments they own
or can borrow; but their own personal charms
make tame the jewels, for those oriental wo-
men eclipse in attractiveneSs all others except
those of our own land. The damson rose is
in their cheek, and the diamond in the
luster OF their eyes, and the black
their step is the gracefulness of the morning.
At the first sight Of the torches Of the
bridegroom and his attendants coming
over the hill the cry rings Through the
home of the bride: "They are in sight Get
ready! Behold the bridegroom cometh! Go
We out to meet him" As the two process
sions approach each other the timbrels
strike and the songs conmingle and then
the two professions become one and march
toward ths bridegroom's house. and meet a
third procession which is made UP of the
friends of both bride and bridegroom.
Then all enter the house and thu dance
begins and the door is shut. And all this
Christ uses to illustrate the joy with which
the ransomed of earth shall meet Him when
He comes garlandei with clouds and robed
in the morning and trumpeted by the thun-
ders of tha last day. Look! Tners He
comes down OFF the hills Of heaven. the