Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-06

Heaven, passed his boyhood aud youth
The public mind was unhoIy, sensual and
breeding wars and tumults, The deeper
spirituality had been forgotten by priest
and rabbi. This is the tendency of dis
pensations by priesthood. Galilee lays in
the North of Palestine or Holy Land and
/ the name means a. circle" King Solomon
gave TO King Hiram 20 cities in Galiiee, in
return for services and material in building
the temple, to which Hiram in extreme
anger gave the name "disgusting." Thus it
seems to have been the destiny of Galilee to
| be despised, which contempt was fostered
| by the Jews, for the district filed up with a
mixed population of Phoenician, Arabs and
| Greek elements as we'll as the humber class
| of Jews.
There is nothing in the sacred narrarions
that would crafty morbid curiosity. The
Gospels of John and Mark pass over the
space from the birth Of Christ to the begin
ming of His ministry. in unbroken silence.
| Luke says that 1.-THE child grew and waXed
strong in spirit, tiled with wisdom, and
the grace of God was upon Him." And
Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and
in favor with God and man." Thus he grew
| and developed as other children, only in
stainless beauty. Only this glimpse is Civ
en- of that interesting period in our Lords
childhood life until the scene in the temple
when he is Il years old.
IEACHING-1 Moses spent 40 years iso-
lated in the wilderness. David was long
among his fathers sheepfoIds. Elijah
among the tents of the Bedamin, Amos in
the the sycamore groves of Tekoa. So Jes-
Us spent so years in hallowed obscurity, pre-
pairing for his mighty work on earth. There
is eoquence in the very silences OF the Cos
pels this point. 'He shall grow up be-
fore him as a tender plant, aud as root out
a dry ground" This sacred silence Is only
impaired by auv of the mere human fancies
that are found in the apocryphy. We as
sumo that the boy Jesus was dressed in the
simple cloth tunic, that His voice was heard
in ringing laughter as He engaged in the
noisy games Of the children OF Galilee. That
He was accustomed to an uneventful Datri-
archal life. Medieval Roman art has elabo-
rated pictures of the Virgin Mary ana her
child seated on stately thrones, under cano-
pies of blue and gold. But far different the
reality. When Joseph and Mary turned
aside into the parts Of Galilee, they went in
to safe secIusion and instead OF living in the
full light Of wealth and noteriety, their lives
in Nazareth were spent in secrecy, poverty
and honorable toll. In spite of the super
cilious contempt poured upon Ncodemus
''Search and look. for out of GaiIee ariseth |
no prophet" [Jno. VII, Al, 81. But it |
needs no searching" for Us to know, that, |
not to speak of Anna, the prophecies ,Barak, |
was the home Of the eminent prophets iona
Elijah, Hosea and Nahum. And the little
village of Nazareth, in a healthy and seclud-
ed spot, close on the confines of the great |
nations, in the very center of the mixed |
Of the earth, was eminently fit |
ted to be the home of our Sayior's childhood, |
" here HI ''grew in wisdom and stature"
,. Jesus did not come into the world en-
dOwed with divine wisdom, but with the voice |
Of Divine approval at His Baptism was COM
pleted the orderly Development of his mind |
and the Divinity He had left when He "be- |
came flesh" to dwell among u.s." was as
sumed again, up to this time He exemplitied |
the very Bindings of His power"
3. As He was dutiful, obedient child, |
may We as His followers be more obedient
to him and teach our children to initiate the |
Divine life. 4. MONTGOMERY.
Pastor Presbyterian Church.
Eminent physicians everywhere recon- |
mend Ayers Cherry Pectoral as the most |
re bla remedy that Gan he for coldS coughs