The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-11-26

and South and East and West, to the
fathers and mothers in plain homeepun
II they be still alive, or the hillocks un.
der which they sleep the long sleep.
Thanks from Jerusalem 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 by hammers and spikes, but
by instruments just as cruel. On every
street Of every city the cruciflxion goes
on. Every year shows Its ten thousand
OF tho 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
men arriving from the country. They
are worth saving. They are now only
the preface Of what they will DO II In
stead OF sacrificing you help them. Boys
as grand as the one who, with his elder
brother, climbed into church tower
and, not knowing their danger, went
outside on some timbers, when one Of
those timbers broke and tho boys fell and
the older boy caught on 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
20; 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 tell her not to feel badly;
good-bye" and he was so hard dashed
upon tho ground that he was not recog-
nizablc Plenty Of such brave boys
coming up from NAZARETH Let Jeru-
salem be careful how 1t treats them A
gentleman long ago entered school in
Germany, and he bowed very low before
the boys, and the teacher said: "Why
do you do that?" "0," said the visitor,
II do not know what mighty
man may yet be developed among
them" At that instant the eyes
of one of the boys flashed Are. Who
was it? Martin Luther. A lad on his
way to school passed a doorstep on
which sat lame and invalid child.
The passing boy said to him: "Why
don't you 60 to SCHOOL," 20, am lame
and can't walk to school," "Get on
my back" said tho well boy, ''and
will carry you to school" And SO he
did that 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? l
don't know. Who was the invalid he
carried? 1t was Robert Hall, the rapt
pulpit orator OF all Christendom. Better
give to the boys who come up from
Nazareth to Jerusalem crown instead
OF cross.
On this December morning in Pales.
tine on our way out Of Nazareth we saw
just such carpenters shop as Jesus
worked in, supporting his widowed
mother, after he was old enough to do
So looked in, and there we're ham
mer, and saw, and plane, and auger, and
vice, and measuring-rule, and chisel,
and drill, and adze, and wrench, and
bit, and all the tools OF carpentry.
Think Of 1t! He who smoothed the sur
face Of the earth, showing a plane.
He who cleft the mountains by earth.
quake, pounding chisel. He who
opened the mammoth caves OF the
earth, turning an auger. He who wields
the thunderbolt, striking with ham
mer. He who scooped out the bed for
the ocean, following q ladle. He who
flashes the morning on the earth and
makes the midnight heavens quiver
with aurora, constructing window.
can not understand IL, but believe It.
A sceptic said to an old clergyman, ~
will not believe anything can not OK
plain" "Indeed" said the clergyman.
You will not believe anything you can
not explain. Please 10 explain to me
why some cows have horns" "Nop said
the sceptic, did not mean exactly that.
! mean that will not believe anything
/ have not Scent Indeed" said the
clergyman, "You will not believe any
things you have not seen. Have yon
backbone" "Yes" said the skeptic.
"How do you know?" said the clergy.
man. Have you ever seen it," This
mystery OF Godhead and humanity in.
terjoined can not understand, and
can not explain, but believe it Lam
glad there are so many things we can
not understand, for that leaves some.
thing for heaven. II we knew every
thing here heaven would be great in.
dolence. What foolish people, those
who are in perpetual fret because
they can not understand all that God
says and does A child in the first
juvenile primer might as we'll burst
into tears because II can not understand
comic sections. In this world we are
only in the A-B-C class, and we can not
now understand the libraries OF eternity
which put TO utmost test faculties arch
angelic. would be ashamed Of Heaven
II we do not know more there, with all
our faculties intensified a million fold
and at the center OF tho universe, than
we do here with our dim faculties and
clinging TO the outside rim OF the uni.
verse.
In about two hours we pass through
Cana the village Of Palestine, whero
the mother Of Christ and our Lord at
tended the wedding OF . poor relative
and having come over from Nazareth
for that purpose. The mother OF Christ
for women arc arst 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, be-
came the butler Of the occasion, and out
Of cluster and few sympathetic
words squeezed beverage Of hundred
and twenty-six gallons Of wine, in
which was not one drop Of intoxicant or
1t would have left that party as maudlin
and drunk nA tha prnat cantanninl han.