The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-11-29

o, this country boy of Nazareth come
forth to atone for the sins of the world,
and to correct the follies of the world
and to stamp out the cruelties of the
world and to illumlne the darkness of
the world and to transfigure the hemis-
pheres! So it has been the mission of
the country boys in all ages to rams
form and inspire and rescue. They
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 hat annual influx
our cities would have enervated and
sickened and slain the 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 IMMIGRATION to
Jerusalem, and the country saves the
town. From the hills of Now Hamp-
shire and the hills of Virginia and
the hills Of Georgia come into
our National eloquence the Web
sters and the Clays and the Henry w.
Gradys. From the plain homes OF
Massachusetts and Maryland ONE into
our national char, ties. the 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
Lincolns. From the plow boys furrow
and village counter and black smiths
f1,n.n aoDNa ,An 81 lH,, attn .-ia-t
But alas thai the city should so often
treat the country as OF old the one from
Nazareth was treated at Jerusalem!
Slain, not by hammers and spikes, but
by instruments just as cruel. On every
street of every city crucitixion goes on.
Every ear shows it's ten thousand Of
the slain. o, 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
mon 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.
A~gentleman long ago entered a school
in Germany and he bowed very low be-
fore the boys and the teacher said:
why do you do that?" 90" said the
visitor ~ do not know what might
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 a doorstep OF which sat a lame
and invalid child. The passing boy said
to him: ''Why don't you go to school?'
40 - o a a z -
SCHOOL," Get on my back" said the
we'll boy, ''and l will carry you to
school," And so he did thai day and for
many days until the invalid was fairly
started on the road to an education.
Who was the we'll boy that did that
kindness? don't know. Who was the
invalid he carried? 1t was Robert Hall,
the rapt pulpit orator OF all Christen-
dom. Better give t. tho 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 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 auger
and wise and measuring rule and chisel
and drill and adze and wrench and bit
and all the tools Of carpentry, Think
of It'll 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 auger. lie who wields the thunder
bolt, striking with u hammer. lie who
scooped out the bed OF the ocean, hoI-
lowing n ludle. He who flashes the
morning on the earth. and makes the
midnight heavens qpiYer with aurora,
constructing q window. can not pn'
derstand 1t, but ! believe it. A skeptic
said to an old Clergyman: ~ will not
believe any thing | can not explain
''Indeed!" said the clergyman. you
will not believe any thing hat you can
not explain. Please TO explain to me
why some cows have horns, and other
COWS have no horns" mol" said the
skeptic, Il did not mean exactly that,
/ mean that / will not believe any thing
that l have not seenl' 'Indeed!" said
the clergyman, You will not believe
any thing you hsve not seen. Hayf
you q backbone?" YES" said the
skeptic. How do you know" said the
clergyman. Have you ever seen it?'
This mystery of God-head and human
ity in~terjoined 1 can not understand,
and ] can not explain, but believe it
I am glad there are so many things we
can not understand, for that leaves
something for Heaven. If we knew
every thing here, Heaven would be q
great Incidence.
In about two hours we pass through
Cana, the village OF Palestine whore
the mother of Christ and our Lord at.
tended the wedding OF o poor relative,
having come over from Nazareth
for that purpose. The mother OF Christ
for 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
housekeeper, who had invited more
guests than the pantry warranted, be-
came the butler of the occasion, and
out Of o cluster OF q few sympathetic
words squeezed a beverage OF 1875 gal
AOhb - "AAAo az NhAOh - ~ SHN
drop Of intoxicant or 1t would have left
that party as maudlin and drunk as the
great centennial banquet in New York
two years ago left Senators and Gov
errors, and Generals, and merchant
princes. The difference between the
wine at the wedding in Cana, and tbs
wine at the banquet at New York being
that the Lord made the n and the
devil made the other.
And here is a remarkable fact in my
recent journey-I travelled through
Italy, and Greece, and Egypt, and Pal
estine. and Syria, and Turkey, and how
many intoxicated people do you think
saw in all those five great realms? No
one. We must in our Christianized land
have got hold of some kind OF beverage
that Christ did not make. o, ] am GLAD
that Jesus was present at that wedding
ind last December standing at Cana
that wedding came back. Night hat
fallen on the village and its surround
ings. The bridegroom had put on hi,
head q bright turban and a garland o.
flowers, and his garments had beer
made fragrant with frankincense anC
camphor, and preceded by q band o
musicians with flutes and drums, anc
horns, and BY. torches in full blaze, hi
startaUf ID t6E 1ttde's home. The bride
e and her veil o only
;2l<5> 61 Envelopes her body
lis elaborate as the
-bsotfc6As OF her fathers house permit
At first sight Of the torches of thu
bridegroom and his attendants coming
over the hill the cry rings through thu
home of the bride: They are in sight
Get ready! Behold the bridegroom
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