Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-24

the country boy as of old the one from Nazareth
was treated at Jerusalem. Slain not by ham,
mers and spikes, but by instruments just as
cruel. On every street of every city the cruci-
nxion goes on. Every year shows its 10000 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
timbers, when one of those timbers broke and
the boys fell, and the older boy caught on a
beam and the younger clutched 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, hut you can't climb up
with me holding fast; am going to let go: kiss
mother for me and tell her not to feel badly;
good-by!" and he let go and was so hard
dashed upon the ground he was not recognlza-
BILE. Plenty of such brave boys coming up
from Nazareth! Let Jerusalem be careful how
it treats them.
A gentleman long ago entered a school in
Germany and he bowed verv low before the
boys, and the teacher said: "Why do you do
that?" oh" said the visitor. Il do not know
what mighty man may yet be developed among
them" AT that instant the ewes of one of the
boys flashed fire. Who was it? Martin Luther.
A lad on his way to school passed doorstep on
ing boy said to him: why don't you go to
school?" 'Oh, am lame and / can't walk to
school" Set on my back, said the well boy,
land will carry you to school," And so he
did that day and for many days, until the IN
valid was fairly started on the road to an edu-
cation. Who was the well boy that did that
kindness? don't know Who was the invalid
he carried? 1t was Robert Hall, the rapt pull
pit orator of all Christendom. Better give to
the boys who come up from Nazareth to Jeru-
salem crown instead of cross.
DIFFERENT KINDS OF WINE.
In about two hours we pass through Cana,
the village of Palestine, where the mother of
Christ and our Lord attended the wedding of
a poor relative and having come over from
Nazareth for that purpose. The mother of
Christ-for women are first to notice such
things-tound 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,
became the butler of the occasion, and out
of a cluster of a few sympathetic words
squeezed beverage OF l26 gallons OF wine
in which was not one drop of lntoxlcant,
for it would have left that party as maudlin and
drunk as the great centennial banquet in New
York two years ago left Senators and Cover
nors and Generals and merchant princes. the
difference between the wine of the wedding in
Cana and the wine at the banquet in New Y ork
being that the Lord made one and the devil
made the other. We got off our horses and ex-
amined some of these water jars at Cana, said
to be the very ones that held the plain water
that Christ turned into the purple bloom of an
especial vintage. l measured them and found
them Is inches from edge to edge and l9 inches
deep, and declined to accept their identity.
But we realized the immensity of supply of
126 gallons Ot wine. What was that for
Probably one gallon would have been enough,
for it was only an additional installnent of
what had already been provided, and it is
probable that the housekeeper could not have
guessed more than one gallon out of the way.
Rnf fr-fllO hat Will rhav ho wit fhn
surplus All, 1t was just like our Lord Those
young people were about to start in housekeep-
ing and their means were limited, and that big
supply, whether kept in the pantry or sold.
will be mighty help. You see there was no
strychnine, OF logwood, or nuX vomica, in that
beverage, and as the Lord made it, it would
keep. He makes mountains and seas that keep
thousands of years, and certainly He could
make beverage that would keep four or five
years. Among the arts and inventions of the
future hope there may be some one that can
press the juices from the grape and so mingle
them and without one drop of damning alco-
holism that it will keep for years. And the
more of it you take the clearer will be the brain
and the healthier the stomach. And there is a
remarkable fact in my recent journey-1
travelled through Italy, and Greece. and Egypt,
and Palestine, and Syria, and Turkey, and how
many intoxicated people do you think saw iE
all those five great realms? Not one. We must
in our Christianizet lands have got hold of
some kind of beverage that Christ did not make.
THE HIGHEST PULPIT.
There are rocks around me on this Mount of
Beatitudes enough to build the highest pulpit
the world ever saw. Aye, 1t is the highest
pulpit. 1t overlooks all time and all eternity.
The valley of Hattin between here and Lake
Galilee is an amphitheater, as though the
natural contour of the earth had invited all
nations to come and sit down, and hear Christ
preach a sermon, in which there were more
startling novelties than were ever announced
in all the sermons that were ever preached. To
those who heard Him on this very spot, His
word must have seemed the contradiction of
everything that they had heard or
read experienced. The worlds
theory had been: Blessed are the arrogant;
blessed are the supercilious; blessed are the
fearless; blessed are they that have everything
their own way; blessed are the war eagles;
blessed are the prosecutors: blessed are the
popular; blessed are the Herods and the
Caesars, and the Ahabs. mo! no! nor' says
Christ, with a voice that rings over these rocks,
and through yonder valley of Hattin and down
to the opaline lake on one side, and the
sapphire Mediterranean on the other. and
across Europe III one way and across Asia in
the other way, and around the earth both ways,
till the globe shall yet be girdled with the nine
beatitudes; blessed are the poor. blessed are
the mournful, blessed are the meek, blessed are
the hungry, blessed are the merciful, blessed
are the pure blessed are the peacemakers,
blessed are the prosecuted, blessed are the
falsely reviled.
Do you see how the Holy Land and the Holy
Book fit each other? God with His left hand
built Palestine, and with His right wrote the
Scriptures. the two hands of the same Being.
And in proportion as Palestine is brought I'M.
der close inspection, the Bible will be found
more glorious and more true. Mightiest book
OF the past! MIghtiest book of the future!
AZ E,T11 H.