Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-28
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tenuial and millennial, and hundred years
and thousand years will not stop the echo
| and re-echo Do not say, at il only n
child. Rather say, lit is only an immor.
tai. 1t is only masterpiece of Jehovah
| 1t il only being that shall outlive sun
and moon and star and ages quadrllennial.
God has infinite resources, and he can give
presents Of great value, but when he wants
to give the richest possible gift to house,
hold he looks around all the worlds and all
the universe and then gives a 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 Il
Christmas night, and it was of such value
that heaven adjourned for 4 recess and
came down and broke through the clouds
TO look at it. Yea, In all ages God has
honored childhood. He makes almost every
picture a failure unless there be child
Other playing on the floor, or looking
through the window, or seated on the lap.
gazing into the face of the mother.
1t was II child in Naaman's kitchen that
told the great Syrian warrior where he
might 20 and get cured of The leprosy,
which at his seventh plunge in the Jordan
was left at the bottom of the river. 1t was
was laid, rocked by the Nile, that God
called the attention of history 1t was n
sick child that evoked Christ's curative
sympathies. 1t was child 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
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could take 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 1t
was a child that decided Gettysburg, he
having overheard two Confederate gene
rails in IL conversation, in which they de,
cided to march for Gettysburg instead of
Harrisburg and this reported to Governor
Curtin, the Federal forces started to 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
structon. Men, women, nations, all earth
and all heaven, behold the child Is there
any velvet 50 soft as childs cheek? Is
there any sky SO blue AZ II child's eyer Is
there amy music so sweet as the chld's
voice? Is there any plume so wavy rs a
child's hair2
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
FAINT? Not Doors, not ignoramuses, but
Cuspar, Bclthasar and Melchior, men who
knew all that was to be known. They were
the Isaac Newtons and Herschels and Far
udays Of their time. Their alchemy was
the forcrunner of our sublime chemistry
their astrology the mother of our magnif
cent astronomy. They had studied stars
studied metals, studied physiology, studied
everything. And when | see these scien
lists bowling before the beautiful babe
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
ties shall bow to Jesus. 1t is much that
way already Where is the college that
does not have morning prayers, thus bow
ing at the manager? Who have been the
greatest physicians?
Omitting the names of the living lest
we should be inyidous, have we not had
among them Christian men like our own
Joseph c. Hutchinson and Rush and Val
entine Mott and Abercrombie and Aber
ucthy? Who have been our greatest scien.
tists2 Joseph Henry, who lived and died
in the faith of the Gospels, and Agassiz, |
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 of
this land and Of all lands revere the Chris |
tian religion, and are not ashamed to say
50 before jurics 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 viii
yet recognize the Star of Bethlehem. And |
and anatomy will join hands |
and say, I'VE must, by the help of God, |
get the human race up to the perfect nerve
and perfect muscle 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 honored the fields Come in, |
shepherd boys, to Bethlehem and see the !
child. "No,' they say, "we are not dressed |
good enough to come iu." Eyes you are; |
come in" Sure enough, the storms and the
night dew and the bramblea have made .
rough work with their apparel, but none
have better right to come in. They were
the FIRST to hear the music of that Christ |
luas night The first announcement of
Saviour's birth was made to those men in T
the fields They were wseacres chat night .
in Bethlehem and Jerusalem snoring in
deop sleep. and there were salaried officers
of Governments who, hearing of it after
ward may have thought shat they oupht
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