Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-12-05

slain thu race. Late hours and hurtful ap-
parel and overtaxed digestive organs and
crowding environments of city lie would
have hated the world; but the valleys
and mountains of Nazareth have given
fresh supply of health and moral invigora-
ton to Jerusalem and the country saves
the town From the hills Of New Hamp-
shire and the hills Of Virginia and the
hills OF Georgia come in our national
eloauence the Websters and the Clays and the
Henry ". Gradys From the plain' homes
of Massachusetts and Maryland come into
our national charities the George Peabodys
and the William Corcorans. From the
cabins OF the lonely country regions come
into our national destlnles the Andrew
Jacksons and the Abraham Lincolns. From
pillow boys turrow and village counter
and black smiths forge come most or
our city giants. Nearly all the 5les-
siahs il all departments dwelt In NaZ-
areth before they came TO Jerusalem. send
this day thanks from these cities, most
" made prosperous by country boys to the
farmhouse and the prairies and the noun
tain cabins and the obscure homesteads or
north and south and east and west, TO the
fathers and mothers in plain homespun If they
bs still alive or the hillocks under which they
sleep the long sleep. Thanks from Jerusa-
lem TO Nazareth.
But alas! that the city should so often
treat the country boys as OF old the one from
Nazareth was treated at Jerusalem! Slain
not hammers anu spikes, DuO ny IusL1 u"
ments just cruel. On every street Of every
city the cr1cifxion goes on. Every year
shows its ten thousand of the slain. Oh, 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 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 with
his elder brother climbed into a church
tower and not knowing their danger went
outside on some timbers. when one of those
timbers broke and the boys fell, and the
older boy caught on beam and the younger
cIutched the foot of the older The older
could not climb up with the younger hanging
to his feet, SO the younger said John, am
going to let go; you can climb out into safety
but you can't climb up with me holding fast;
l am going to let go, kiss mother for me,
and tell her not to feel badly; good-by"
And he let 90 and was SO hard dashed upon
the ground ne was not recOg niZable. Plenty
of such brave boys coming up from Naza.
reth! Let Jerusalem be careful how il
treats them! A gentleman long ago en-
tered a school in Germany and he Dowed
very low before the boys, and the teacher
said, ''Why do you do that?' "Oh" said
the visitor, 81 do not know what mighty
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 door,
step on which sat lame and invalid child.
The passing boy said to him: 'Why don't
cane walk to school," ''Get on my bac!z,"
said the well boy, land will carry you to
school," And SO he did that Gay and for
many days until the invalid was fairly
started on the road to education. Who
was the we'll boy that did that kindn esS? I
don't know. Who was the invalid he car.
ried? It was Robert Hall, the rapt pupil
orator OF all Christendom. Better give to
the boys who comeup from Nazareth to Je-
rusalem crown instead of a cross.
On this December morning in Palestine
on our way out from Nazareth we saw just
such carpenters shop Jesus worked in,
supporting His widowed 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 adza and wrench and
bit and all the tools of carpentry. Think
of it! He who smoothed the surface of the
earth showing plane; He who cleft the
mountains by earthquake pounding a
chisel; He who opened the mammoth caves
of the earth turning an auger, He who
Yields the thunderbolt striking with a
hammer: He who scooped out the bed for
the ocean following Iadle; He who flashes
the morning on the earth and makes the
midnight heavens culver with aurora con-
it, hut believe it, A skeptic said to an old
clergyman: Il will not believe anything I
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
skeptic, Il did not mean exactly that. [
mean that will not believe anything I have
not seem" ''Indeod," said the clergyman"
you will not believe anything you have not
seen. Have you q backbone" Yes" said
the slSeptic. How do you know" said the
Clergyman. "Have you ever seen it?'' This
mystery of Godhood and humanity inter-
Joined [ cannot understand and | cannot e1-
plain, but believe it. [ am glad there are
50 many things we cannot understand, for
that leaves something for heaven.
In about two hours we pass through Cana,
the village of Palestine where the mother Of
Christ and our Lord attended the wedding of
poor relative, having come over from
Nazareth for that purpose The mother OF
Chrlst-fOr women are first to notice such
things-found that the provisions had fallen
snort and she told Christ and He to relieve
the embarrassment o. the nOuSek 3eper. who
had invited more guests than the pantry
warranted becamethe butler of the occasion,
and out of a cluster of a few sympathetic
words squeezed beverage OF few hundre
and twenty-siX gallons of wine in which
was not one drop OF intoxicant, or it would
have left that party maudliu and drunk
as the great centennial banquet in New
York, two years ago, left senator's, and
governors, and generals and merchant
princes, the difference between the wine at
the wedding in Cana and the wine at the ban
quet 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 said to be the verv
ones that held the plain water that Christ
turned into the purple bloom of an especial
vintage. / measured them and found them