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

ouence the Vyebsteis and the Clays and
the Henry w. Gradys. From the PLAIN
homes of Massachusetts, and Maryland
come Tito our national charities the
! GEORGE Peabodys and the William Cor
J corans From the cabins OF the lonely
country regions come into our natloh''l
destinies the Andrew Jacksons ana tie
Abraham I.incolnS From plowooy
furrow and village counter and black
smiths forge come most OF our Guy
giants. Nearly all the Messiahs in all
departments dwelt in Nazareth before
they came to Jerusalem. | send TINS
day thanks from these cities, mostly
made prosperous by country boys, to
the farm houses and the prairies ana
the mountain cabins and the obscure
homestepds of north and south and
east and west, to the fathers and moth
ers in plain homespun, if they be still
alive. or the hillocls under which they
sleep the long sleep. Thanks from Je-
rusale1n to Nazareth.
MODERN CRUCIFIXION.
But alas that the city should so often
treat the country boys as of old the
one from Nazareth was treated at Jeru-
salem! Slain not by hammers and
spikes, but by instruments just as cruel.
On every street Of every city the cruel
fixion goes on. Every year shows its
ten thousand of the slain. Oh, how
we grind them up! Under what wheels,
in what mills and for what an awful
grist Let the city take better care Of
these boys and young men arriving
from the country. They are worth
saving. They are now only the pre-
face of what they will be if instead of
sacrificing you help them. Boys as
grand as the one who with his elder
brother climbed into a church tower,
and not knowing their danger went
outside on some timbers, when one Of
those timbers broke and the boys fell
and the older boy caught on beam
and the younger cutched the foot of
the older; the older could not climb up
with the younger hanging to his feet,
so the younger said: "John, | am go
ing to let go; you can climb out into
safety, but you can't climb up with me
holding fast; | am going to let go; kiss
mother for me and tell her not to feel
badly; good-byn' and he let go, and
was so hard dashed upon the ground
he was not recognizable Plenty of
such brave boys coming up from Naza-
reth Let Jerusalem be careful how it
treats them
A gentleman long ago entered a
school in Germany, and he bowed very
low before the boys, and the tt acher
said, why do you do thatl" ooh,
said the visitor, II do not know what
mighty man may yet be developed
among them" At that instant the eye,
of one of the boys flashed fire. Who
was it? Martin Luther. A lad on his
way to school passed a doorstep or
which sat a lame and invalid child
, The passing boy said to him, "Why
don't you go to schoolI' "Oh, l an
lame and | can't walk to schoclr
', sect on my back" said the well boy
''and will carry you to school" Ant
so he did that day and for many days
until the invalid was fairly started OF
the road to IN education. Who was til,
well boy that did that kindness?
don't know. Who was the invalid ht
carred1 1t was Robert Hall, the rap
pulpit orator of all Clristendom Bet
/, ter give to the boys who come up from
Nazareth to Jerusalem a crown instead
of cross.
AN OLD TINE CARPENTER SHOP.
On this December morning in Pales
tine on our way out from Nazareth W.
/, saw just such a carpenters shop a
+ Jesus worked in, supporting his wild
+ owed mother, after he was old enough
, to do so. | looked in, and there wer
, hammer, and saw, and plane, anC
q auger, and wise, and measuring rule
and chisel, and drill, and adze, anc
, wrench, and bit, and all the tools o
! carpentry. Think of it! He whC
/, smoothed the surface of the earth
q showing a plane. He who cleft tn,
+ mountains by earthquake, pounding
y chisel. lie who opened the mammoth
, caves of the earth, turning an auger
He who Yields the thuIderbolt, strik
ing with hammer lie who SCOPE,
out the bed for the ocean, following
, ladle He who flashes the morning OF
the earth, and makes the midnigh
: heavens quiyer with aurora, construct
: ing a window. | cannot understand it
= but | believe it,
. a skcptic said to an old clergyman
: 81 will not believe anything | canno
explain" "lndeedi' said the clergy
I man. You will not believe anythin.
y you cannot explain? Please to explain
/ to me why some COWS have hons and
/ Others have no horns" No" said
/ the skeptie; Il did not mean exactly
5 that. | mean that | will not believe
\ anything have not seen" 'Indeed!'
a said the clergyman. you will not be-
lieve anything you have not seen.
I Have you a backbonep Yes said
= the sleptic. How do you knowp
Y said the clergyman, Have you ever
: seen itf' This mystery of Godhead
o and humanity interioined | cannot I'M
: derstand and l cannot explain, but
l believe it, l am glad there are Sc
/ many things we cannot understand, fol-
, that leaves something for heaven. II
we knew everything here heaven would
be great Incidence.
| What foolish people those who arc
in perpetual fret because they cannot