Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-11-24

don't you go to schOOlE 'Oh, L am
lame and | can't walk to SCHOOL,"
"Get on my back, said the well boy,
land I viii 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 Robert Hall, the rapt
pulpit orator of all Christendom. Bet
ter give to the boys who come up from
Nazareth to Jerusalem crown instead
of cross
AN OLD TIME CARPENTER SHOP.
On this December morning in Pales
tine on our way out from Nazareth we
saw just such 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 a plane. He who cleft the
mountains by earthquake, pounding
chisel. He who opened the mammoth
caves of the earth, turning an auger.
He who yields the thunderbolt, strlk-
ing with hammer. He who scooped
out the bed for the ocean, following a
ladle. He who flashes the morning on
the earth, and makes the midnight
heavens culver with aurora, construct
ing a window. [ cannot understand it,
but believe it.
A skeptic said to an old clergyman,
e'I will not believe anything cannot
explain" ''Indeed!' said the clergy
man. ''You will not believe anything
you cannot explain? Please to explain
to me why some COWS have horns and
others have no horns" No" said
the skeptic; II did not mean exactly
that | mean that [ will not believe
anything have not seen. Indeed i
said the clergyman. You will not be-
lieve anything you have not seen?
Have you a backboneW Yes, said
the skeptic How do you know|
said the clergyman. Have you ever
seen it?,' This mystery of Godhead
and humanity interjoined | cannot I'M
derstand and | cannot explain, but
[ believe it, 1 am glad there are so
many things we cannot understand, for
that leaves something for heaven. If
we knew everything here heaven would
be great Incidence.
What foolish people those who are
in perpetual fret because they cannot
understand all that God says and does.
A child in the first juvenile primer
might as well burst into tears because it
cannot understand comic sections. In
this world we are only in the A b Q
class, and we cannot now understand the
libraries of eternity, which put to utmost
test faculties archa1gelic. L would be
ashamed of heaven if we do not know
more there, with all our faculties in
tensified million fold and at the cen
ter of the universe, than we do here
with our dim faculties and chnglng TO
the outside rim of the universe.
WHERE THE WEDDING WAS HELD.
In about two hours we pass through
Cana, the village of Palestine, where
the mother of Christ and our Lord at
| tended the wedding of a poor relative
and having come over from Nazareth
| for that purpose The mother of Christ
for women are first to notice such
| things-found that the provisions had
| fallen short and she told Christ, and he,
| to relieve the embarrassment of the
| house keeper, who had invited more
| guests than the pantry warranted, be-
| came the butler of the occasion, and
out of a cluster of a few sympathetic
| words squeezed beverage of hun
dred and twenty-six gallons of wine in
which was not one drop of intoxicant,
| or it would have left that party rs
| maudlin and drunk as the great cen
| tennial banquet III New York two
wears ago left senators and governors
| and generals and merchant princes.
| The difference between the wine at the
wedding in Cana and the wine at the
banquet 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. 60
to be the very ones that held the
water that Christ turned into the pur
pie bloom of an especial vintage.
measured them and found them eight
cen inches from edge to edge and nine
teen inches deep, and declined to &C
cept their identity. But we realized
the immensely of supply of a hundred
and twenty-six gallons of wine. Wha
was that FORE Probably one gallon
would have been enough, for it wa
only an additional installment of wha
had already been provided, and it i
probable that the housekeeper coult
not have guessed more than one gallon
out of the way But a hundred ant
twenty-six gallons What will they d.
with the surplus2 All, it was just Xix
our Lord Those young people wer
about to start in housekeeping, anC
their means were limited, and that bi,
supply, whether kept in their pantry o
sold, will be a mighty help.
You see there was no strychnine o
logwood or nux vomica in that bevel
age, and as the Lord made it it woul
keep. He makes mountains and sea
that keep thousands of years and Gel
tainly he could make a beverage tina
would keep four or five years Anon
the arts and inventions of the futur
| hope there may be some one tina
can press the juices from the crap
and so mingle them without one dro
of damning alcohol that it will kee
for years And the more of it 20
take the clearer will be the brai
and the healthier the stomach An
here is a remarkable fact that in IN
recent journey travelled throug
Italy and Greece and Egypt and Pale
tine and Syria and Turkey, and no
many intoxicated people do you thin
I saw in all these five great realms
Not one We must in our Christian
lied lands have got hold of some kin
of beverage that Christ did not make.
Oh, am SO glad that Jesus We
present at that wedding, and last D.
cember, standing at Cana that wet
ding came back! Night had fallen 0
the village and its surroundings. Tt
bridegroom had put on his head
bright turban and a garland of flower
: and his garments had been made fir