Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-12-31

Elijah had carriage of fire to take him
up: why not Jesus IA carriage of fire to fetch
him down. Or over the arched bridge OF
a rainbow the Lord might have descended.
Or Christ might have had his mortality
built up on earth out OF the dust of gar
den, as was Adam. in full manhood at the
start, without the introductory feebleness
of infancy No. mol Childhood was to be
honored by that event. He must have a
child's light limbs, and a child's dimpled
hand and child's beaming eye, and a
shilds faxen hair, and bahyhood was to
be honored for all time to come, and a
tradle was to mean more than a grave.
Mighty Godl May the reflection of that
one child face be seen in all infantile faces.
WELL SPRING OF PLEASURE.
Enough have all those fathers and moth
ers on hand if they have IA child in the
house. A throne, a crown, a scepter,
kingdom under charge BE careful how
you strike him across the head, jarring the
brain. What you say to him will be cen
tennial and millennial, and hundred years
and thousand years will not stop the echo
and re-echo. Do not say, "lt is only a
child. Rather say. ut is only an immor-
tai" 1t is only masterpiece of Jehovah
| 1t is only being that shall outlive sun
ann mum dud Ntfii ddtisAtiith
God has infinite resources, and he can give
presents of great value, but when he wants
to give the richest possible gift TO n house
hold he looks around all the worlds and all
the universe and then gives child. The
greatest present that God ever gave our
world he gave about eighteen hundred and
ninety-one years ago. and he gave it on a
Christmas night, and it was Of such value
that heaven adjourned for "A recess and
came down and broke through the clouds
TO look at il. Yea, in all ages God has
honored childhood liz makes almost every
picture failure unless there be a child
either playing on the floor, or looking
through the window, or seated on the lap.
gazing into the face of the mother
IL WAS child in Mammals kitchen that
told the great Syrian warrior where he
might 90 and get cured OF the leprosy,
which ut his seventh plunge in the Jordan
was left at the bottom of the river. 1t was
to the cradle of leaves. in which "A child
was laid. rocked by the Nile, that God |
called the attention of history II wasiA
sick child that evoked Christ's curative |
sympathies IL was chilli that Christ set |
in the midst Of the squabbling disciples TO |
teach the lesson of humility. We are in
formed that wolf and leopard and lion shall |
be yet so domesticated that little child |
shall lead them A child decided Water
loo, showing the army OF Butcher how they
could take a short cut through the fields,
when if the old road had been followed,
the Prussian general would have come up
too late TO save the destinies of Europe. II
was child that decided Gettysburg, he
having overheard two Confederate gene
rails in a conversation. in which they de-
cided to march for Gettysburg instead OF
Harrisburg, and this reported to Governor
Curtin the Federal forces started 20 meet
their opponents at Gettysburg. And today
the child is to decide all the great battles.
make all the laws. settle all the destinies
and usher in the worlds salvation or de-
struction. Men, women, nations. all earth
and all heaven. behold the child Is there
any velvet so soft as a chld's cheek Is
there any sky so blue AZ child's eyer Is
there any music so sweet as the child's
voices Is there any plume 80 wavy as a
chidis hairg
GODS RECOGNITION or SCIENCE
Notice also that in this Bible night scene
God honored science. Who are the three ,
wise men kneeling before the Divine In {
iant9 Not Doors, not ignoramuses. but {
yaspar, Belthasar and Melchior. men who I
knew all that was to be known. They were ,
the Isaac Newtons and Herschels and Far '
ldays of their time. Their alchemy was
lhe forerunner Of our sublime chemistry, |
their astrology the mother of our magnifi
cent astronomy. They had studied stars, a
studied metals, studied physiology. studied /
And when | see these scien- I
lists bowling before the beautiful babe | i
'oe the prophecy OF the time when all the a
telescopes and microscopes and all the Ley v
len jars and all the electric batteries and \
I'll the observatOries and all the UNIVERSE Il
les shall bow to Jesus. 1t is much that e
way already. Where is the college that n
loes not have morning prayers, thus bow b
ng at the mangerf Who have been the ii
greatest physieiansS ii
Omitting the names of the living lest a
We should be invidious. have we not had Il
mong them Christian men like our own Fl
oseph c. Hutchinson and Rush and Val $,
milne Mott and Abercromhie and Aber- o.
ethyl Who have been our greatest scien- V,
lists? Joseph Henry who lived and died W
q the faith of the Gospels, and Agassiz, q
Tho, standing with his students among the b.
ills, took of his hat and said, young II
entlemen, before wa study these rocks let X
5 pray for wisdom to the God who made al
he rocks" Today the greatest doctors and
lwyers of Brooklyn and New York and of
MS land and Of all lands revere the Chris
an religion. and are not ashamed to say
} before juries and legislatures and sen
ties. All geology will yet bow before the
.ock of Ages. All botany will yet worship
lie Rose Of Sharon All astronomy will M
ct recognize the Star of Bethlehem And u
HISTOLOGY and anatomy will join hands p,
nd say. Eve must, By the help OF God, q
ct the human race up to the perfect nerve ~
nd perfect muscle and perfect brain and &C
srfect form of that perfect child, before y
hom, nigh twenty hundred years ago. ca
lie wise men bent their tired knees in OF
orship. ye
Behold also in that first Christmas night
lat God honored the fields. Come in. NJ
epherd boys, - Bethlehem and see the ~
hid Mo- they say 1--WE are not dressed m
'od enough 20 come in Yes you are: te
me in." Sure enough the storms and the W.
ght dew and the brimbles have made th
ugh work with their apparel, but none Tn