News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-11-27

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was it? Martin Luther A lad on his
way to school passed a doorstep on
which sat Il lame and invalid child.
The passing boy said to him, ''Why
don't you go to school?" "Oh, | am
lame and | can't walk to schoclw
Get 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 invalid was fairly started on
the road to an education. Who was the
well boy that did that kindness? |
don't know Who was the invalid lie
carried? 1t was Robert Hall, the rapt
pulpit orator of all Christendo1l Bet
ter give to the boys who come np from
Nazareth to Jerusalem n crown instead
of a cross.
AN OLD TIME CARPENTER SHOP.
On this December morning in Pales
tine on our way out from Nazareth we
saw just such carpenters shop as
Jesus worked in, supporting his wild
owed mother, after he was old enough
to do So | looked in, and there were
hammer, and saw, and plane, and
. uuSeI. anu NlSO, SitINl lliSSHouAI4i- IttiC.
and chisel, and drill, and adze, and
wrench, and bit, and all the tools of
carpentry. Think of it, He who
smoothed the surface of the earth,
showing a plane. Fe who cleft the
mountains by earthquake, pounding a
chisel. He who opened the mammoth
caves of the earth, turning an auger.
IT IL I,o .IDn1 4r;I
ing with g hammer. He who scooped
out the la ~ .e e following a
ladle. Hl9ed feeliT as.as+ -iornLns on z.
the cart desire to 1 &c al dnig sy ~
heavens sea*hipg. and was accofn ban
ing n wlnUsea and vomiting. The ter
but I,557gelfre of his body rose to ~ T
AzsSsrsde. After If 0I,, s9Aergyman,
I t1 viii net believe anything cannot
explain" ''In9eedl' said the clergy
] man. you Will not believe anything
you cannot explain7 Please to explain
to me why some COWS have horns and
others have no horns" No" said
the skeptic; II did not mean exactly
that. | mean that l will not believe
anything l have not seen" Indeed"
said the clergyman. You will not be-
lieve anything you have not seen9
Have you a backbone?" Yes" said
| the skeptic How do you know"
said the clergyman. Have you ever
seen it?' This mystery of Godhead
and humanity interioined l cannot I'M
derstand and l cannot explain, but
| | believe it. l am glad there are so
many things we cannot understand, for
that leaves something for heaven. If
we knew everything here heaven would
be great Incidence.
What foolish people those who are
| in perpetual fret because they cannot
| understand all that God says and does.
| A child in the first juvenile primer
might as well burst into tears because it
cannot understand comic sections. In
this world we are only in the a B G
class, and we cannot now understand the
libraries of eternity, which put to utmost
test faculties archangelic. | would be
ashamed of heaven if we do not know
more there, with all our faculties in
tensifed a million fold and at the cen
ter of the universe, than we do here
with our dim faculties and clinging to
the outside rim of the universe.
WHERE THE WEDDING WAS HELD.
In about two hours we pass through
Cana, the village of Palestine, where
the mother of Christ and our Lord at
tended the wedding of u poor relative
and having come over from Nazareth
for that purpose. The mother of Christ
for women are first to notice such
things-found that the provisions had
fallen short and she told Christ, and he,
to relieve the embarrassment of the
house keeper, who had invited more
guests than the pantry warranted, be-
came the butler of the occasion, and
out of cluster of few sympathetic
words squeezed beverage of hun
bred and twenty-six gallons of wine in
which was not one drop of intoxicant,
or it would have left that party as
maudlin and drunk as the great cen
tennial banquet i'll 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
banquet 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 very ones that held the PIN
water that Christ turned into the pur-
pie bloom of an especial vintage. /
measured them and found them eight
cen inches from edge to edge and nine
teen inches deep, and declined to ac-
cept their identity. But we realized
the immensely of supply of hundred
and twenty-six gallons of wine. What
was that for2 Probably one gallon
would have been enough, for it was
only an additional installment 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. But q hundred and
twenty-six gallons! What will they do
with the surplus? All, it was just like
our Lord! Those young people were
about to start in housekeeping, and
their means were limited, and that big
supply, whether kept in their pantry or
sold, will be mighty help.
You see there was no strychnine or
| logwood or nux vomica in that bever-
! age, and as the Lord made it it would
| keep. He makes mountains and seas
! that keep thousands of years and GER
| tainly he could make a beverage that
would keep fol or five years. Among
the arts and inventions of the future
AorIA t&el1efSt higsso R 3. one that
and and p so AZ r5sag g!I benz;
| of damrIoueuuoA s.H1Iee, IL vii, ,S =.
/ for yea- ---s0s------- re of it YOU
| talya III. -sm!Lo or' qstn Pc ,,tbe ,,rair
| II tr.i9i III l
and the nc, ,'2J re ~uolnach. And
| here is q remarkable fact that in my
recent journey travelled through
Italy and Greece and Egypt and Pales.
tine and Syria and Turkey, and how
many intoxicated people do you think
l saw in all these five great realms?
Not one. We must in our Christian
lied lands have got hold of some kind
of beverage that Christ did not make.
Oh, 1 am so glad that Jesus was
present at that wedding, and last De
cember, standing at Cana that wed
ding came back! Night had fallen on
the village and its surroundings. The
bridegroom had put on his head
bright turban and u garland Of flowers.