Telegram-herald., 1891-12-28


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ezs on k2na Il they have child Ia ths
hoase. y tkaoze. = erossn. a seeqter.
Kingdom aaasF charge BE careful how
you strike tlm across the hssa. jGEfiag the
brsia. Whas yoa say 20 nina viii bs cen
teanial and nssenniAi. and hsz1red years
ard thousand years viii Rot stop theeeho
al ressEc. 10 not say. IT IL only a
sksid- Rather say. IN Is oaiy an manor
tai" L 10 cay q masterpieces u Jehovah.
Is : cnlY 3 being that shall outliTe san
zEd moon AL star ard ages seusdrtlleu.isl.
God has inansas resources. aud he can gave
presents e great value, bEt when he wants
20 give the f.cbess possible gift 10 house.
hoid he looks 2rouna AL the worlds and al
tie uniserse and then gives child The
greatest preseet that God ever gave our
weFid be gave about eighteen hundred and
nia ETY. oEs years age. aud be gave il On a
ChlS~trn.4s lsat, and Is wls Of such va!Es
that k>@yea Gaiourned Tor recess aid
CAME down and broke through the clouds
10 look At IT, lSa, Ia al. ages God has
honored childhood He makes almost every
picture f4il2re unless there be child
either playing on the foor. or looking
slrousc the window. or seated on the lap,
gazing into the face Of the mother.
IL Was child Ia Naaman's kitchen that
told the great Syrian warrior where he
might 10 and get cured OF the leprosy,
which at his seventh plunge in the Jordan
Was left At the bottom OF the river. IL Was
To the cradle Of leaves, In which a child
was laid, rocked by the Nile, that God
called the attention OF history. IL Wa q
sick child that evoked Christ's curative
sympathies- II was a child that Christ set
IN the midst Of the sGuabbling disciples 10
teach the lesson Of humility. We are in
formed that wolf and leopard aud lion shall
be yet so doInesticated that Q little child
shall lead them. A child decided Water
loo, showing the army Of Blucher how they
could take short cut through the fields,
when, IL the old road had been followed,
the Pruss.An general would have come up
too late to save the destinies OF Europe 1t
was q child that decided Gettysburg, he
having overheard two Confederate gene
rails in = conversation, in which they de-
cidsd to march for Gettysburg instead CT
Harrisburg. and this reported to Governor
Curtin, the Federal forces started to meet
their opponents At Getty ysburg And today
the child Is 70 decide all the great battles.
make all the laws settle all the destinies
and usher IN the worlds salvation or de-
structi0a- Men. women. nations, all earth
and all heaven. behold the child Is there
any velvet 20 soft as u child's cheek, Is
there any szy 50 blue as n child's eyer Is
there any music 80 sweet as the child's
voice' Is there any plume 50 wavy as q
child's hairs
GODS RECOGNITION OF SCIENCE.
Notice also that in this Bible night scene
God honored science Who are the three
wise men kneeling before the Divine In
fantf Not Doors. not iGnoramuses, but
Caspar, Belthasar and Melchior. men who
knew all that was TO bc known They were
the Isaac Newtous and Herschels and Far
adays Of their time. Their alchemy was
the forerupner Of our sublime chemistry,
their astrology the mother of our megnif-
cent astronomy. They had studied stars,
studied metals, studied physiology. studied
everything. And when l see these scier,-
fists bowling before the beautiful babe l
see the prophecy Of the time when all the
telescopes and microscopes and all the Ley
den jars and all the electric batteries and
all the observatories and all the universe
tics shall bow to Jesus It Is much that
way already. Where is the college that
does not have morning prayers, thus bow
ing at the mangers Who have been tho
greatest physicians'
Omitting the names Of the living lest
we should be invidious, have we not had
among them Christian men like our own
Joseph c. Hutchinson and Rush and Val
entine Mott and Abercrombie and Aber-
nethyt Who have been our greatest scien-
tistss Joseph Henry, who lived and died
In the faith Of the Gospels, and Agassix,
who. standing with his students among the
hills, took of his hat and said, Young
gentlemen, before we study these rocks let
Us pray for wisdom to the God who made
the rocks" Today the greatest doctors and
lawyers Of Brooklyn and New York and 0f
this land and Of all lands revere the Chris
tian religion, and are not ashamed to say
20 before jaries and legislatures and SEN
atcs. All geology will yet bow before the
Rock Of Ages. All botany will yet worship
the Rose Of Sharon All astronomy will
yet recognize the Star Of Bethlehem, And
physiology and anatomy will join bands
and say, I'VE must, by the help Of God,
get the human race up to the perfect nerve
and perfect rnascle and perfect brain and
perfect form of that perfect child, before
whom, nigh twenty hundred years ago.
the wise men bent their tired knees in
worship.
Behold also In that first Christmas night
that God honared the fields. Come In,
shepherd DO y, 20 Bethlehem and see the
child No" they say. I'VE are not dressed
good enc4lgh to come in" YES you are,
come in" SGre enough. the storms and the
night dew and the braInbles have made
rough work with their apparel but none
have a better right to come in. They were
the Grst TO hear the music Of that Christ
mas night The first announcement OK a
Saviours birth was made to those men in
the fields They were wiseacres that night
In Bethlehem and Jerusalem snoring in
deep sleep, and there were saiaried officers
of government. who, hearing OF 1t after
ward may have thought that they ought
to have had tine first news Of such n great
event. some one dismounting from q swift
camel at their door and knocking till, at
some ssn:iaei's question. who comes
there," the great ones OF the palace might
have been tod OF the celestial arrival No;
the shepherds beard the irst two bars OF
the music. the first in the major key and
the last Ia the subdued minor "Glory To
God "a the highest. and on earth peace,
good win to men" All. ycs: the fields were
honored
nxssExoERs FROM THE FIELDS
The old shepherds with plaid and crook
have for the aost part vanished, but we
have graxinx-our United states pasture.
fields aod prairie. about forty i've million
sheep-and all their keepers ought 10 fol
low the skepSerds of my text and all those
who toll Ia iieids, all vine drcsserr, all
erxAarsiists. all hasbandmen. Not only
that ChTistnas~ night, but all up and down