Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-02-06

him. When the apostle HeueF predCI
es you see the fishing nets with which
he had from his earliest days been fa-
miliar. And when Amos delivers his
prophecy you hear in it the beating OF
the herds which he had in boyhood at
tended. And in our Lords sermons
and conversations you see all the
phases of village life and the mountain
Gus life surrounding it. They raised
their own chickens in Nazareth, and il.
after time he cries: 80 Jerusalem
Jerusaleml how often would | have
gathered thee as hen gathereth her
chickens under her wings" lie had
seen his mother open the family ward
robe at the close of summer and the
moth millers flying out, having de
stroyed the garments, and in after
years he says: Lay not up for your
selves treasures on earth where moth
doth corrupt" In childhood he had
seen a mile of flowers white as the
snow, or red as the flame, or blue as the
sea, or green as the tree tops, and no
wonder in his manhood sermon he said,
'Consider the lilies"
While one day on high point where
now stands the tomb of Neby lsmail,
he had seen winging past him 50 near
as almost to furry his hair the par
fridge and the hoopoe and the thrush
and the osprey and the crane and the
raven, and no wonder afterward in his
manhood sermon he said, Behold the
fowls of the air" In Nazareth and on
the road to it there are a great many
caInels. ! see them now in memory
making their slow way up the zigzag
road from the plain of Esdraelon to
Nazareth. Familiar was Christ with
their appearance, also with that small
insect, the gnat. which he had seen his
mother strain out from a cup of water
or pail of milk, and no wonder he
brings afterward the large quadruped
and the small insect into his sermon
and, while seeing the Pharisees careful
about small sins and reckless about
large ones, cries out: Woe unto you,
blind guides, which strain out a gnat
and swallow "a camel"
THE SHEEP KNOW HIS VOICE.
He had in boyhood seen the shep-
herds get their flocl1s mixed up, and to
one not familiar with the habits of
shepherds and their ilocks, hopelessly
mixed up. And sheepstealer ap-
/ pears on the scene and dishonesty de-
mands some of those sheep, when he
owns not one of them. "Well, y say
the two honest shepherds, 1--WE will
soon settle this matter" and one shep
/ herd goes out in one direction and the
other shepherd goes out in the other
direction, and the sheepstealer in an
other direction, and each one calls, and
| the iioc1s of each of the honest shep
herds rush to their owner, while the
sheepstealer calls and calls again, but
| gets not one of the flock No wonder
that Christ years after, preaching on {
great occasion and illustrating his OWL
shepherd qualities, says: "When he
putteth forth his own sheep he goetl
before them, and the sheep follow him
for they know his voice, and the
stranger they will not follow, for they
know not the voice of the stranger"
The sides of these hills are terraceC
for grapes. The boy Christ had Otter
stood with great round eyes watchin.
the trimming of the grapevines. Clip
goes the knife and off falls branch
The child Christ says to the farmer
"What do you do that for?" "Oh,
. e., 4 ! l.
and it is doing nothing and is only il
the way, so 1 cut it Off" Then til,
farmer with his sharp knife prune
from a living branch this and that ten
drill and the other tendril. "But.
says the child Christ, "these twigs tina
you cut off now are not dead VIVA
do you do that for?' ooh" says tn,
farmer, eve prune off these that til,
main branch may have more of tn,
sap, and so be more fruitful" n,
wonder in after years Christ said il
his sermon: Il am the true vine ant
my Father is the husbandman: ever,
branch in me that beareth not fruit h,
taketh away, and every branch tina
beareth fruit he purgeth it that it ma,
bring forth more fruit Capital! n,
one who had not been a country DO,
would have said that.
JESUS KNEW ALL NATURE.
Strcals of nature all through Christ
sermons and Conversations When
pigeon descended upon Chrisr's head a
his baptism in the Jordan it was no
the first pigeon he had seen. And thel
he has such wide sweep of discourse a
you may imagine from one who ha
stood on the hills that overlook Naza
reth. As far as | understand, Chris
visited the Mediterranean sea onl,
once, but amy clear morning he coul(
run up ON hill near Nazareth an,
look off to the west and see the Med
iteTanean, while there in the north i
snowy Mount Lebanon, clad as il
white robe of ascension, and yonder OF
the east and southeast Mount Gilboa
Mount Tabor and Mount Gilead, an,
yonder in the south is the plain of rs
draelon over which we rode yesterda,
ON our way to Nazareth Those mount
aims of his boyhood in his memory, d,
you wonder that Christ, when he want
ed a good pulpit, made it ont of 1
mountain seeing the multitudes hl
went up into the mountain. Ant
when lie wanted especial communion
with God he took James and John ant
Peter into "a mountain apart"