The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-28


that advent He must have child's light
imhs and a child's dimpled hand, and
childis bsaminR eye, and a chtld's haxen
hair: end babyhood was TO be honored Tor
ali time to come, and cradle was 60 mean
more than a grave. Mighty God! May the
-saectjon OF that one childs face be seen in
ali infantile faces.
o. Eoongh have all those fathers and
mothers on hand If they have child 10 the
mouse. A throne, crown. scepter,
kingdom, under charge. be careful now
Won strike him across the head, jarring the
brain. What you say TO him will be CEN
tennial and milennial, and hundred years
and A thousand years will not stop the echo
and re-echo. Do not say at is only a
rhild.n Rather say, 1t is only an immortal
II is only q masterpiece OF Jehovah. IL Is
only a being that shall outlive sun and moon
and star, and ages quardtllenniaL God has
fnfiuite resources, and ne can give presents OF
great value but when he wants TO give tine
richest possible gilt to q household, he looks
around all the worlds and all the universe
and then gives child. The greatest pres
ent that God ever gave the world he gave
about eighteen hundred and ninety
one years ago and he gave 1t on
Christmas night, and it was OF such value
that heaven adjourned for a recess and
came down and broke through the
clouds 70 look at ii. Yea, in all
ages God has honored childhood.
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.
It was a 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
10 the cradle Of leaves, in which n child was
laid, rocked by the Nile, that God called
the attention of history. It was a sick child
that evoked Christ's curative sympathies.
1t was a child that Christ set in the midst of
the squabbling disciples. to teach the lesson
of humility. We are Informed that wolf and
leopard and lion shall be yet 30 domesti-
Gated that a little child shall lead them. A
child decided Waterloo, showing the
army of Butcher how they could take
O snort out through the fields, when,
IL the old road had been followed, the
Prussian general would have come up too
late to save the destinies of Europe. It was
. child that decided Gettysburg, he having
overheard two confederate generals IN q
conversation, in which they decided to
march for Gettysburg instead of Harris
burg: and this reported TO Gov. Curtin, the
federal forces started to meet their OPP
ponents at Gettysburg. And to-day the
child is to decide all the great battles, make
all the laws, settle all the destinies, and
usher in the worlds salvation or destruction.
Men, women nations, all earth and all
heaven, behold the child Is there any vel
vet SO soft as a child's cheeks Is there any
sky SO blue as child's eyel Is there any
musicso sweet as the childs voicei Is there
any plume so wavy as a ohild's hairs
Notice also that in this Bible night scene
God honored science. Who are the three
wise men kneeling before the divine infantl
Belthasar and Melchior, men who knew all
that was to be known. They were the
Isaac Newtons and Herschels and FaradaYs
of their time. Their alchemy was the fore
runner of our sublime chemistry, their
astrology the mother Of our magnificent
astronomy. They had studied stars.
studied metals, studied physiology, studied
everything. And when l see these
scientists bowling before the beautiful
babe, | soc the prophecy of the time
when all the telescopes and microscopes,
and all the Leyden jars, and all the cleo
trio batteries. and all the observetories,
and ali the universities shall bow to Jesus.
1t Ii much that way already. Where is the
college that does not have morning prayers
thus bowling at the manger0 Who have
been the greatest physicians! Omitting the
names Of the living lest we should be in
vidious. have we not had among them
Christian men like our own Joseph c.
Hutchinson and Rush and Valentine Mott
and Abererombie and Abernethyg Who
have been our greatest scientisSsl Joseph
Henry, who lived and died in the faith Of
the gospels, and Agassiz, who stand
ing with his students among the hills,
took off his hat and said, Young
rocks, let US pray for wisdom to the God
who made the rocks.n To-day the greatest
doctors aud lawyers of Brooklyn and New
York and of this land and Of all lands,
revere the Christian religion, and are not
ashamed TO say so before juries and legis-
latures and senates. All geology will yet
bow before the Rock Of Ages. All botan y
will yet worship the Rose of Sharon. All
astronomy will yet recognize the Star of
Bethlehem. And physiology and anatomy
will Join hands and say, 1--WE must, by the
help of God, get the human race up TO the
perfect nerve, and perfect muscle and per-
feet 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 field. Come IN, shep-
herd boys, TO Bethlehem and see the child
mo" they say 1--WE are not dressed good
enough to come in. Eyes, you are. come
in." Sure enough, the storms and the night
dew and the brambles have made rough
work with their apparel, but none have a
better right TO come in. They were the
first to hear the music of that Christmas
night. The first announcement of Saviors
VII was LDd1o W IuO6o Lu6n IN bQ6 uelUB.
There were wiseacres that night III Bethle.
hem and Jerusalem snoring in deep sleep,
and there were salaried officers of
government. who, hearing Of it afterward,
may have thought that they ought to have
had first news Of such great event, some
one dismounting from q swift camel at
their door and knocking till, at some senti-
nel's question, WHO comes there?" the
great ones of the palace might have been
told of the celestial arrival. No; the shep.
herds heard the first two bars of the music,
the first in the major key and the last IL
the subdued minor: GLORY to God in the
highest, and on earth peace, good will to
men," Ah, yes; the fields were honored
The old shepherds with plaid and crool
have for the most part vanished, but we
have grazing-our United States pasture
fields and prairie about fortv-five million
Sheppard all their keepers ought to follow
the shepherds of my text. and all those who
toll In fields, all vine-dressers, all orchard
lists, all husbandmen. Not only tina
Christmas night. but all up and down tht
worlds history God had been honoring tn
fields. Nearly all the messiahs of reform ant
literature and eloquence and law and benev
olence have come from the fields
Washington from the fields. jefferson
from the fields. The presidential martyrs
Garfield and Lincoln, from the fields
Henry Clay from the fields Daniel Web