The Red Cloud chief., 1890-12-05

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other direction, and the sheep stealer
In another direction. and each one Gala
ana the flock Of each Of the honest
shepherds rush to their owner, while
the sheep stealer calls. and calls again,
but gets not ono Of the flock No won
der that Christ years after. preaching
on . great occasion and illustrating his
own shepherd qualities. says: ''When
He putteth forth His own sheep He
goeth before them, and the sheep fol-
low Him for they know His voice, and
the stranger they will not follow for
they know not the voice OF the strang-
eE." The sides OF these hills are ter
raced for grapca The boy Christ had
often stood with great round eyes
watching the trimming Of the grape
vines Clip goes tho knife. and on falls
. branch Tho child Christ says to the
farmer: ''Whst do you do that for?"
o." says the farmer. that IL . dead
branch and It 10 doing nothing and is
only in the way. so I cut it on" Then
the farmer with his sharp knife prunes
from . living branch this and that ten
drill and the other tendril. but"
says the child Christ ''these twigs that
you cut OF now are not dead. what do
you do that for?!' 20" says the farmer.
1--WE Drune of these that the main
branch may have more of the sap and
80 be more fruitful" No wonder in
after years Christ said in His sermon:
II am the true vine and my Father is
the husbandman; every branch in me
that beareth not fruit lie taketh away.
and every branch that beareth fruit He
purgeth it that it may bring forth more
fruit"
Streaks OF nature all through Christ's
sermons and con versations! When .
pigeon descended upon Christ's head at
His baptism in the jordan 1t was not
the first pigeon He had And then
He has such wide sweep OF discourse As
you may imagine from n who has
stood on the hills that overlook Naza-
reth. As far as I understand. Christ
visited the Mediterranean sea only once.
but any clear morning He could run up
on a hill near Nazareth and look of to
the west and see the Mediterranean,
while there in the north Is snowy Mount
Lebanon, clad as in white robe Of ascen-
sion, and yonder on the cast and south
east Mount Gilboa, Mount Tabor and
Mount Gilcad. and yonder in the south
is the plain OF Esdraelon, over which
we rode yesterday on our way to Naza-
reth. Those mountains Of His boy
hood in His memory. doyou wonder that
Christ when He wanted a good pulpit
made it out OF a mountaineering the
multitudes He went up into the mount
am" And when He wanted special
communication with God, He toOk James
and John and Peter into n mountain
apart"
o. this country boy Of Nazareth come
forth to atone for the sins of the world,
and to correct the foilies Of the world
and to stamp out the cruelties of the
world and to illumine the darkness Of
the world and to trans6gure the hcmis-
phercs! So it has been the mission Of
the country boys in all ages to tra-s-
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 overtaxcd di-
gestive organs and crowding environ
ments Of city life. would have halted
the world. but the valleys and mount
ninc IF Na1apofh d vo ~icnn fHoeh crD-
ply Of health and moral IMMIGRATION to
Jerusalem, and the country saves the
town. From the hills Of New Hamp-
shire and the bills 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 como into
our national charities. 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 biacksmith's
forge come most of our city giants
But alas that 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 c~ruciixiOn goes on.
Every year shows its 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
men 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.
Agentleman 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?" %" said the
visitor Il do not know what mighty
man may yet he developed among them"
At that instant the eyes of one OF the
boys flashed fire. Who was ii? Martin
Luther. A lad on his way to school
passed = doorstep ON which sat a lame
and invalid child. The passing boy said
to him: why don't you so to SCHOOL,"
o.. l am lame and I can't walk 4
school!" Get on my back" said the
we'll boy, land I will carry you (
school" And SO he did that day and for
many days until the invalid was fairly
started on tho road to an education.
Who was the vel: boy that did that
kindness? Idon't know. Who Was the
invalid he carried? 1t was Robert Hall,
the rapt pulpit orator OF all Christen-
DOM BETTER give to tho boys who come
up from Nazareth to Jerusalem . crown
instead Of a cross
On this December morning in Pales-
tine on our way ont from Nazareth ~
saw just such = carpenters shop a.
Jesus worked in, supporting his Wild
owed mother. after hc was old enough
to do So looked in and there we're
hammer and saw and plane and auger
and wise and measuring rule and chisel
and drill and ad1c 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 q chisel He who opened the
caves Of tho earth f~urnin0