The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-11-28

anu one SnepherQ gees IN one OiEecblOn
and the other shepherd goes out in the
other direction. and the sheep stealer
in another direction. and each one calls.
and the hock-Of each of the honest
shepherds rush 70 their owner, while
the sheep stealer calls, and calls again,
but gets not one of the flock No won
der that Christ, years after. preaching
on great occasion and illustrating his
own shepherd qualities. says: when
He pntteth forth His own sheep He
goeth before them, and the sheep fol-
low Him for they know His voice, and
the stranger they will not follow for
they know not the voice OF the strang-
err The sides of these hills are ter
raced for grapes The boy Christ had
often stood with great round eyes
watching the trimming OF the grape
vines Clip goes the knife, and OF falls
a branch. The child Christ says to the
farmer: What do you do that for?"
90" says the farmer. that is a dead
branch and it is doing nothing and Is
only in the way, SO cut it of Then
the farmer with his sharp knife prunes
from living branch this and that ten
drill and the other tendril- But"
says the child Christ, "these twigs that
you cut of now are not dead, what do
you do that for?' 30, Z" says the farmer,
1--WE prune of these that the main
branch may have moro of the sap and
SO be more fruitful" No wonder in
after years Christ said in His sermon:
81 am the true vine and my Father is
the husbandman; every branch in me
that bearet tn not fruit lie taketh away.
and every branch that beareth fruit lie
purgeth it that it may bring forth more
fruit"
Streaks OF nature all through Christ's
sermons and converse tionsi~ When a
pigeon descended upon Christ's head at
Niah ar in n lord lon Ear1z mt
the first pigeon He had seen. And then
He has such wide sweep of discourse as
you may imagine from one who has
stood on the hills that overlook Naza-
reth. AS far as 1 understand, Christ
visited the Med iterranean sea only once.
but any clear morning He could run up
on hill near Nazareth and look of to
the west and SEQ tho Mediterranean,
while there in the north is snowy Mount
Lebanon, clad as in white robe of ascen-
| sion, and yonder on the east and south
east Mount GiIboa, Mount Tabor and
Mount Gilead, and yonder in the south
| is the plain of Esdraelon, over which
we rode yesterday on our way to Naza-
reth. Those mountains of His boy.
hood mills memory, do you wonder that
Christ when He wanted a good pulpit
made 1t out of a mountain-"seei the
multitudes He wentup into the mount
/ ain" And when He wanted special
communication with God, He took James
| and John and Peter into "a mountain
apart"
| o. this country boy of Nazareth come
forth to atone for the sins of the world,
and to correct the folIies of the world
and to stamp out the cruelties of the
world and to illumine the darkness of
| the world and to transhgure the hemis-
| pheFes! So it has been the mission of
the country boys in all ages to trans
nd frg nd ,,
come into our merchandise and our
court rooms and our healing art and our
studios and our theology They lived
| in Nazareth before they entered Jeru-
salem And but for that annual influx
/ our cities would have enervated and
sickened and slain tho race. Late hours
and hurtful apparel and overtaxed di-
gestive organs and crowding environ
ments of city life, would have halted
the world, but the valleys and mount
aims of Nazareth have given fresh sup
| ply of health and moral inauguration to
Jerusalem, and the country saves the
| town. From the hills of New Hamp-
shire and the hills of Virginia and
\ the hills of Georgia como into
our National eloquence the Web
/ sters and the Clays and the Henry w.
Gradys. From the plain homes of
Massach usett and Maryland come int
our national charities, tho George Pea
bodys and the William Corcorans- From
the cabins of the lonely country regions,
come into our National destinies the
Andrew Jacksons and the Abraham
Lineolns From the pillow boys furrow
| and village counter and blacksIni tn s
forge come most of our city giants
But alas that the city should so often
treat tho country as of old tho one from
Nazereth was treated at Jerusaleml
Slain, not by hammers and spikes, but
! street of eycry city crueiixion goes on.
| Every year shows its ten thousand of
the slain. o, how we grind them up!
| Under what wheels, in what mills and
| for what an awful gristl Let the city
| take better care of these boys and young
men arriving from the country. They
are worth saving. They are now only the
preface OF what they will be If. instead
/ of sacrificing, you help them.
A gentleman long ago entered q school
\ in Germany and he bowed very low be-
fore the boys and the teachor said:
''Why do you do that?'. 20" said the
visitor, II do not know what nigh ty
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 q doorstep on which sat a lame
and invalid child The passing boy said
l to him: why don't you go TO school?i'
20. am lame and can't walk to
schoolI' Get on my back" said the
we'll boy, land 1 will carry you to
school" And so he did that day and for
many days until the invalid was fairly
started on tho road to an education
Who was the well boy that did that
/ kindness? 1 don't know. Who was tho
invalid he carried? 1t was Robert Hall,
| the rapt pulpi orator of all Christen-
DOM better give to tho boys who come
up from Nazareth to Jerusalem 4 crown
Instead of 4 cross
On this December morning in Pales-
tine on our way out from Nazareth we
saw just such a carpenters shop as
Jesus worked in, supporting his wild
owed mother. after he was old enough
to do SO. looked in and there were
hammer and saw and plane and anger
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 = plano He who
cleft the mountains by earthquake,
| DOuI;dinO n chiSel EIa who the