The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-01-02

Deep horror then my vitais froze.
Death struck, ceased the tide to stem;
When suddenly star arose,
It vas the star OF Bethlehem
worlds seemed to honor our Lord and
master. Bright star OF the night, wheel
ON IN thine orbit NO." said the star
81 must come nearer and must bend
and must see what you do with my
Jesus" Another world that night joined
our world in worship That star made
a bow of obeisance. 1 sometimes hear
of people talk of Christ's dominion as
though it were to be merely the few
thousand miles of the worlds circum-
ference; but 1 believe the millions and
the billions and the quadrillions of
worlds are all inhabited-n not by such
creatures as we are still such creatures
as God designed TO make, and that all
these worlds are part of Christ's do
minion-
Isle of Wight IS larger in comparison
with the British Empire than our island
of a world as compared with Christ's
vast domain If not, why that celestial
escort? If not, why that sentinel with
blazing badge above the caravansary?
If not, why that midnight Waterman in
the balcony of Heaven? Astronomy
surrendered that night to Christ. This
planet for Christ. The solar system for
Christ. Worlds ablaze and worlds
burnt out-au worlds for Christ In
tensest microscope can not see the one
side of that domain Furthest reaching
telescope can not find the other side of
that domain But 1 will tell you how
the universe is bounded. It is bounded
on the north and south and east and
west and above and beneath by God,
and that God is Christ, and that Christ
is God and that God is ours.
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the fact that these wise men of the East
came to Christ. They were not fools;
they were not imbeciles. The record
distinctly says that the wise men came
to Christ. We say they were the Tnagi,
or they were the alchemists, or they
were the astrologists, and we say it with
depreciating aceentuation. Why, they
were the most splendid and magnificent
men of the century. They were the
naturalists and the scientists. They
knew all that was known.
So it has always been-the wisest men
come TO Christ, the brainiest men come
to the manager. Who was the greatest
metaphysieian this country ever has
produced? Jonathan Edwards, the
Christian. Who was the greatest as
tronomer of the world? Herschel, the
Christian Who was the greatest poet
ever produced? John Milton, the
SnFiSIaAn- w no was the WlseSL WElJSF
on law? blackstone, the Christian.
In post norton examination the brain
of distinguished men have been exam
ined, and I will find the largest, the
heaviest, the mightiest brain ever pro-
duced in America, and will ask what
that brain ever thought of Christ Here
it is, the brain weighing sixty-three
ounces, the largest brain ever produced
in America. Now let me find what that
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| moment that man said: Lord 1 be-
lieve, help Thou mine unbclief. What
ever else / do, Almighty God, receive
me to Thyself for Christ's sake. This
night shall be in light and joy and
blessedness. So Daniel Webster came
to the Manager. The wise men of the
East followed by the wise men of the
| West.
Know also in this scene that it was a
winter month that God chose for His
Sons nativity. Had it been the month
OF May-tiIat is the season of blossoms.
| Had He been born in the month
of June-that is the month OF
roses. Had He been born in the
month of July-that is the season OF
| great harvests. Had He been born in
the month of September-that is the
season of ripe orchards. Had He been
born in the month of October-that is
the season of upholstered forests But
| He was born in a winter month.
It was in closing December that He
was born to show that this is Christ
for people in sharp blast, for people
under clouded sky, for people with
frosted hopes, for people with thermom-
eter below zero. That is the reason He
is SO often found among the destitute
You can find Him on any night coming
of the moors- You can see Him OF
any night coming through the dark
lanes of the city. You can see Him
putting His hand under the faintins
head in the Pauper's cabin. He remem
bers how the wind whistled around the
caravansary in bethlehem that Decem
| Der night, and He is in sympathy with
all those who in their poverty hear the
| shutters elatter on a cold night
1t was this December Christ thai
Washington and his army worshiped al
| Valley Forge, when, without blankets
they lay down in the December snow
1t was this Christ that the Pilgrim
fathers appealed to when the Mayfioyyei
wharfed at Plymouth Rock, and in the
years that went by, the graves diggec
were more in number than the house.
built. o, tell you, we want a Deeem
Der Christ, not a Christ for fair weather
but Christ for dark days clouded with
sickness, and chilling with disappoint
ment, and suffocating with bereave
ment, and terrific with wide opeI
graves Not spring time Christ
but a winter Christ o, this
suffering and struggling woriC
needs to be hushed, and soothed
and rocked, and lullabied in tn,
arms of sympathetic OmnipOtence. Nc
mother ever with more tenderness put
her foot on the rocker of the cradle of {
sick child than Christ comes down to us
to this invalid world, and He says: MY
peace give unto you; not as the world
giveth, give I unto you.'' Notice also q
fact which no one seems 10 notice, that
| this Christ was born among the sheep,
and the cattle, and the horses, and the
camels, in order that He might be an al
ieviating influence to the whole animal
creation 1t means mercy for over
| driven, underfed, Poorly-sheltered,
| CALLED and maltreated animal creation.
Hath the Christ who compared Him
self 70 a dove no care for the cruelties
of the pigeon shooting? Hath the
Christ who compared Himself to a lamt
no care for the sheep that are tied and
! cOntoFtsa4I and with neck over the shsrr