Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-12-06

great occasion and illustrating His own
shepherd qualities. SAYS: ..When no
patteth forth his own sheep he goeth
before them, and the sheep follow him
lef tney know his voice. and the stranger
they VIII not fpfloM; for, they know not
Tue voice OF the stfanger.' y -
;:Ihe sides OF these <f1ffs are terraced
LOT grapes. The boy-IChrist%had often
stooo with great round eyes watching
the trimming of the grapevines. Clip!
goes the knife. and off falls branch.
The child Christ says to the farmer.
W nat 90 you do that foro'' oh SAYS
the FARMER, that is "a dead branch. and
IL IS DONG nothing and is only in the
way, SO l cut it off, Then the farmer
Win ms sharp knife prnnes from a liv-
ing branch this and that tendril and the
other tendril. But saws the child
christ, these tWigs that you cut off now
are not dead. What do you do that fer??'
Oh, says the farmer, I'VE prune off
these that the main branch may have
more OF the sap, and SO be more fruit
ful. No wonder in after years Christ
said in His sermon: Il am the trne
vine and my Father is the husbandman:
every branch in me that beareth not
1rult lie talleth away, and every branch
that beareth fruit He purgeth it that it
may bring forth more fruit Capital
No one who had not been u country boy
would have said that,
But alas that the city should so often
treat the country boys as of old the one
from Nazareth was treated at JeruSa-
lem! Slain not by hammers and spikes,
but by instruments just as cruel. On
every street of every'city the crucifc-
L.
thousand of the slain. OH how we
grind them up. Under what wheels, in
what mills. and for what an awful grist!
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 ii instead OF sacrificing you help
them. Boys as grand as the one who
with his elder brother climbed into d
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 a
beam and the younger clltched the foot
of the older: the older could not climb
up with the younger hanging to his feet,
so the younger said: John. am going
to let go: you can climb up into safety,
but you can't climb up with me holding
fast; [ am going to let go: kiss mother
for me and tell her not to feel badly;
good-by!'' and he let go and was so hard
dashed upon the ground he was not re-
cOgniZable. Plenty of such brave boys
coming up from Nazareth Let Jerusa-
lem be careful how it treats them!
A gentleman long ago entered a school
i'm Germany, and he bowed very low be-
fore the boys, and the teacher said,
''Why do you do that"' ''Oh," said the
visitor, Il do not know what mighty
men may yet be developed among them"
At that instant the eyes of one of the
boys flashed fire. Who vast? Martin
Luther. A lad on his way to school
and invalid child. The passing boy said
to him. ..Why don't you go to SCHOOL,"
'.Oh. | am lame and can't walk to
schoor' ..Get on my back" said the
we'll boy. land | 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?
[ don't know Who was the invalid he
carried? 1t was Bobert Hall, the rapt
pulpit orator of all Christendom. Bet
ter give to the boys who come up from
Nazareth to Jerusalem a crown instead
of a cross.
On this December morning in Pales-
tine on our way out from Nazareth we
saw Just such a carpenter $ shopas Jesus
worked in, supporting his widowed
mother. after he was old enough to do
so. | looked in. and there were hammer,
and saw, and plane, and auger. and Nlse
and measuring rule, and chisel, ana
drill, and adze, and wrench, and bit, and
all the tools of carpentry. Think OF IL!
He who smoothed the surface OF the
earth, showing a plane. He who cleft
the mountains by earthquake. pounding
a chisel. He who opened the mammoth
caves of the earth, turning an anger
He who yields the thunderbolt, striking
with a hammer. He who scooped out
the bed for the ocean, following ladle.
He who flashes the morning on the
earth. and makes the midnight heavens
culver with aurora. constructing WIN
dow. | cannot understand 1t, but pc
lieye it.
slleptic said to an old clergyman;
81 will not believe anything | cannot eN-
Main: ..Indeed.'' said the clergyman.
Won will not believe anything you can
not explain? Please explain to me why
some COWS have horns and others nave
no borns' No. said the skeptic; Il
did not mean exactly that. l mean thab
will not believe anything | have not
seem '.Indeed.'' said the clergyman.
You will not believe anything you nave
not seen? Have you a backbone" Y es,
said the skeptic. ''How do you know!
said the clergyman have you eve,
seen it?'' This mystery OF Godhead ana
humanity interjoined | cannot I'M
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