Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-24
nE KNEW LOU ~ sIIEEP.

He had IN b0yhood seen the shephe rds
get their focls mixed up. and to one not
familiar with the habits Of shepherds and
their hocks, bopela9sly mixed up An d q
shcepstealer appears on the scene and 'dis-
honestly demands some of those she ep,
when ne owns not one Of them. Wei IN
say the two honest shepherds, 1--WE will
soon settle this matter" and one Shepherd
goes out IN one direction and the other
shepherd goes ont IN the other direction,
and the sheepstealer ia another direction,
and each one calls and the ilocks OF esch
Of the honest shepherds rush to tn cir
owner, while the sheepstealer calls and
cnlis again. but gets not one of the flock.
No wonder that Christ, years after, prea CHI
inz on q great occasion ;;fiidd illustrating
his own shepherd qualities, says; WHEN
he putteth forth Ills own sheep he goeth
) before them, and the sheep follow him, for
they know his voice, and the stranger they
will not follow. for they know not theyoice
Of the stranger" The sides of these hills
are terraced for grapes. The boy Christ
had often stood with great round eyes
watching the trimming OF the grapeyines.
Clpl goes the knife and of falls a branch.
The child Christ says to the farmer 'What
do you do that forg" ooh, says the farm
er, "that Is q dead branch and IL Is doing
nothing and is only in the way, 50 cut it
OFF, Then the farmer with his sharp knife
prunes from a living branch tliis and that
tendril and the other tendril. "But," says
the child Christ, "these twigs that you cut
Off now are not dead; what do you do that
forYp ooh" says the farmer, 1--WE prune
OF these that the main branch may have
more of the sap and 20 be more fruitful"
No wonder in after years Christ said in his
sermon: II am the true vine and my father
is the husbandman; every branch in me
that beareth not fruit he taketh away, and
every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth
IL, that it may bring forth more fruit"
Capital No one who had not been country
boy would have said That.
Streaks OF nature all through Christs
sermons and conversational When pigeon
descended upon Christ's head ut his bap-
tism in the Jordan it was not the first
pigeon he had seen. And then he has such
= wide sweep Of discourse as you may imag-
inc from one who has stood on the hills
TINT overlook Nazareth. AS far as ! under
stand, Christ visited the Mediterranean
sea only once, but any clear morning he
could run up on hill near Nazareth and
look of to the west and see the Mediter-
ranean, while there In tho north is snowy
Mount Lebanon, clad ms in white robe OF MS
censiOn, and yonder on the east and south
east Mount Gilboa, Mount Tabor and
Mount Gilead, and yonder in the south Is
the plain of Esdrnelon over which we rode
Yesterday on our way to Nazareth. Those
mountains of his boyhood in his memory,
do YOU wonder that Christ when he wanted
good pulpit made it ont of mountaia-
"seeing the multlHides be went up into
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pecial communion with God he took James
and John ana Peter into "a mountain
apart"
HE WAS A COUNTRY BOY.
Oh. This country boy Of Nazareth, come
forth to atone for the sins of the world,
and TO correct the follie3 Ct the world, and
70 stamp out the cruciti,s Of the world,
and to illumine the darkness Of the world,
and to transGgure the hemisphercsl So it
has been the mission of the country boys
fin all ages to transform and inspire and
rescue They come into our merchandise
and our court rooms and orr healing art
and orr studios and our theology They
lived in Nazareth before They entered Jeru-
\ salem. And but for that annual influx
ourcities would have enervated and sick
rncd and slain the race. Late hours and
hurtful apparel md oyortaXed digestive
organs and crowding environments of city
life would have halted the world; bat the
!, valleys and mountains Of Nazareth have
Given fresh supply of health 0nd moral in
MIGRATION 10 Jerusalem, and the country
gnves the town, From the hills of New
Hampshire and the hills of Virginia and
The hills of Georgia come into our national
eloqucnce the Webstcrs and the Clays and
the Henry w Gradys From the plain
homes of Massachusetts and Maryland
come into our national charities the George
Bpcabodys and the William Corcorans.
From the cabins pf the lonely country re-
gions come into our national deStinies the
Andrew Jacksous and the Abraham Lin
coins From plow boy's furrow and VII
lagc counter and blauksmIth's forge come
most Of our city giants. Nearly all the
Mcssiahs in all departments dwelt in Naz-
areth before they came to Jerusalem.
send this day thanks from these cities,
mostly made prosperous by country boys,
ia the farmhouse and the praries and the
mountain cabins, anS the obscure home
steads Of north and south aud cast and
west, to the fathers md mothers in plain
bomespun If they be still alive or the hill
locks under which they sleep the long
/ elccp Thanks from Jerusalem TO Ni]a-
4 wth.
y But aIasl that the city should so often
4 trcat the country boys as of old the one
from Nazareth was treated at Jerusaleml
Slain not by hammers and spikes, but by
Instruments Just as cruel. Ga every street
Of every city the erucidNioa goes on. Ev-
crv Year shows It's ten thousand Of the
plaiu Oh, how we grind them up! Under
what wheels In what mills and Tor what
AN awful grsti Let the city take better
care of these boys and young men arriving
from the country. They arc worth saving.
They are now only the preface oi what
fhcy will be II, instead of sacrificing, you
help them. Boys as grand as The one who
with his elder brother climbed into a
church tower, end not knowing their
danger went outside on some timhers,
whom one OF those tiObCrs brooks and the
bows fell. and the older boy caught on "a
beam and the youuges olutched tho foot OF
She older. The older could not climb up
with the younger hanging 90 his feet SO
The younger saids 'aoln, J am going &c
Let 10; YOU can climb out into safety, but
you can't climb up with mo holding last;
am going to let 60, kiss mother FOR me
and tpU her not 60 feel badly; Cood-byl'
And Inc Get 20 and was so hard dashed upon
tlp ground he was NOT recognizable Plenty
IN such brave boys coming up from Na@a
Whl Let Jerusalem be careful how 1t
STn..ts .heml 4 gentleman long ago en-
tered 4 school IN Germany ana he bowed
very ls,y bsFo,e the boys, and the teacher
said. why DO y0u 40 thatf 'oh' ra'H
tbey,sitor. az de not know whG, mighty
man may vet bo developed 'aons them
AT thnt instant the eyes OF ou2 ot he boys
flashed Gre Who was if MaTIn In hdF