The Russellville Democrat., 1890-12-04


 tha hIfls sha& ovexIook Nazareth. A far ss I uaaarssand, Christ xisited ths Medi terra nsan sea only once, bat any clear morning He eCnId rnn up on pill neaw Nazareth snd Fcok of to the west and see the Mediterranean. while there in the north is snowy Mount Lebanon. clad as in white robe of as censfan. and yoader on the east and southeast Mount Gilboa, Mount Tabor and Mount GIlead, and wonder in the south IS the Plain of Esdraeion, 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 3 good pgfpit made it out of s mountain see ing multitudes He went up into the mountain" And when He wanted es- peciaI communion with God, He took James and John and Peter info "a mountain apart
 On, tsts Country Boy of Nazareth, come forth to atone for she sins of the world, and to correct the follies Of the world, and to stamp out the cruelties Of the world, sHd tc illure the darkness of the world, and to transfgure the hemispheresl So 1t has been the mis- sion Of the country boys in all ages to transForr1 and inspire and rescue. T hey come into our merchandise and our court rooms and our heal ing art and our studios and our theology They lived in Nazareth be- fore they entered Jerusalem. And but for that annual influx our cities would have ennerEased and slckened and slain the race Late hours and hurtful au- parsl and overtaxea digestive organs and crowding environments of city life would have halted the world. but the valleys and noun tains of Nazareth have given fresh supply of health and moral invigoration to Jerusalem. and the country saves thstown. From the hills of New Harnps hire, and the hills of Virginia. and the hills Of Georgia, come into our National eloquence the Websters, and the Clays, and the. Henry ". Graiys From the plain homes of Massachusetts and Maryland come into our National charities the George Pea bodys and tue William Cereorans From the ca bins of the lonely country regions come into our National destintes the Andrew Jacksons and Abraham Lin- coins From ploH boys furrow and village counter and blachsnntf1's forge come most Of our city giants. Nearly all the messiahs in all departments dwelt in Nazareth before they came to J Jerusalem. I sena this day thanks from these great cities. mostly made by country boys. to the farm house and the prairies and the mount ain cabins, and the obscUre homesteads of North and South and East and West, to the fathers and mothers in plain homesrln, if siley be still alive, or she hillocks under which they sleep the long sleep. Thanks from Jerusalem to 
 Bat. alas that the city should so often treat 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. On every street of every city the cruel axion goes on- Every year shows its ten thousand of tae slain Oh. bow we grind them upi 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. Boys as grand as the one who Eith his elder brother climbed into 2 ch greh tower and, not knowing their danger, went outside on some tiu1bers' 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 other; the older could not climb up with the younger hanging to his feet 50 the younger said: John, I am going 10 let go; you can climb out into safety, but you can't climb up with me holding fast; am going to let go; kiss mother for me and tel her not to feel badly; good byei'' and lie let go and was so hard dashed upon the ground he was not recognizable. Plenty of such brave boys coming up from Naz- arethl Let Jerusalem be careful how it treats them. A gentleman long ago en- tered Q school in Germany. and he bowed very low before the boys, and the teacher said: Why do you do fhat?7 ''Oh," said the visitor, T do not know what mighty man may yet be deEeloped among them At that instant the eyes of one of the boys flashed fire. Who was itg Martin Lafher. A lad on his way to school passed a and invalid child The passing boy said to him: Why don't you go to sehool?'' 'A0h, I am lame and can't walk to schOolg' Get on my back" said the well boy, 'and will carry you to school And 50 he did that day, and for many days until the invalid was fairly started or the road to an educa- tion, Who was the well boy that did that kindness? I don't know. Who was the invalid he carried? IL was Robert Hall, the rapt pulpit orator of all Christendom. Better give to the boys who come up from Nazareth to Jerusalem a crown instead of cross.
 On this December morning in Pales- tine on our way out from Nazareth we saw just such carpenter's shop as Jesus worked in. supporting His wid- owed mother. after lie was old enough to do so. l looked in. and there were hammer and saw. and plane. and anger, and wise, and measuring-rule. and ehis- el, and drill. and adze, and wrench, and bit and all the tools of carpentry. Think of itl He who srnoOthed the sur lace of the earth, showing plane. He who cleft tue mountains by earth quake pounding chiseI He who opened the mammoth caves of the earth, turning an auger. He who wields the thunderbolS striking with a hammer. He who scooped oGt the bed for the ocean, hallowing ladle. He who flashes the morning on the earth, and makes tho midnight heavens quiyer with aurora, constructing window
 In about two hours we pass through Cana, the village Of Palestine, where tho mother of Christ and the Lord at tended the wedding of a poor relative. having come over from Nazareth for that purpose. The mother Of Christ