The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-12-31

k~CA LDA I'd IAA 1ssktE lAa<A tAkN S%A@sG "a
that canary Throw out some crumbs
TO those birds caught too far north In
the winters incleznency Arrest tina, I
man who il making that one horss
draw load heavy enough for three.
Rush in upon that scene where boys
are torturing cat or transflxfng
butterfly and grasshopper.
Drive not OF that old robin. for her
nest is a mothers cradle. and under
her wing there may be three or four
musicians of the sky in training. In
your families and in your schools
teach the coming generation more
mercy than the present generation
has ever shown, and in this marvel /
Gus Bible picture OF the Nativity, |
while you point out 10 them tho /
angel, show them also the camel, and |
while they hear the celestial chant |
let them also hear the cows moan.
No moro did Christ show interest |
| in the botanical world, when he said,
Consider the lilies, than he showed
sympathy for the ornithological,
when he said, Behold the fowls of
the air." and the quadrupedal world,
when he allowed himself TO be called
in one place lion and in another
place lamb. Meanwhile, may the
Christ of the Bethlehem cattle pen
have mercy on the suffering stock
yards that arc preparing diseased
and fevered meat for our American
| households.
GOD HoNoREp CHILDHOOD.
Behold, also, III this Bible scene,
how en- that Christmas night God
honored childhood Christ might
have made his first visit to our world
in a cloud, as he will descend on his
next visit in cloud. In what Il
chariot of illumined vapor he might
have rolled down the sky. escorted by
, mounted cavalry, with lightning ftr
drawn sword Elijah had carria 90
of fire to take him up; why not Jesus
a carriage of fire to fetch him downl
I Or, over the arched bridge of a rain
bow the Lord might have descended.
Or Christ might have had his NOR
tality built up on earth out OF the
dust of a garden, as was Adam, IN
fnl manhood at the start, without
!. the Introductory feebleness of in.
Z fancy.
No, MOI Childhood was to be hon
} ored by that advent. He must have
: child's light limbs, and a child'i
: dimpled hand, and child's beamine
II : eve. and a childs fiaxen hair; ant
q babyhood was to be honored for al
lo time to come, and cradle was Z
!, mean more than grave. Night.
- God! May the reflection OF that on
d child's face DO seen in all iilfantil
faces.
&c Enough have all those fathers am
20 mothers ON hand if they have chile
in the house. A throne, a crown,
scepter, a kingdom, under charge
~ Be careful how you strike him acros
~ the head, jarring the brain. Wha
II YOU say to him will be centennia
IA and millennial, and a hundred year
he and thousand years viii not sto
NC the echo and re-echo. Do not say
81 'eIt is only child" Rather say, Il
LIE is only an immortal" 1t IS only
nu masterpiece of Jehovah. 1t is onl
re a being that shall outlive sun an
~. moon and star and ages quadrennia
h' God has infinite resources, and b
'es can give presents of great value; bt
i~ when he w.zts to give the riches
ia' possible gift to household he lool
tys around all the worlds and all the ur
oe verse and then gives a child.
''e The greatest present that God ev'
'se gave our world he gavo about IS
= .Ie wears ago, and he gave it ON Chris
'iie mas night, and it was of such valI
lu' that heaven. adjourned for rece
cei and came down and broke throuf
I'VE the clouds to look at it. Yea, IN
ou' ages God has honored childhood /
'es, makes almost every picture failu
rse unless there be a child either playil
IN on the floor, or looking through t
5H' window, or seated on the lap gazii
tiie into the face of the mother.
teF A CHILD TOLD HIN THE WAY.
ny 1t was child in Naaman's kitch
the that told the great Syrian warri
con where he might go and get cured
on, the leprosy, which at his seven
nat plunge in the Jordan was left at I
nd bottom of the river. 1t was to [
ha' cradle of leaves, in which a child v
u laid, rocked by the Nile, that G
II called the attention of history.
nai- was a sick child that evoked Chris
reiy curative synpathies. 1t was ch
DIS that Christ SET in the midst of
sauabbling disciples, to teach the
you son Of humility We are inform
the that wolf and leopard and lion 81
anu be yet so domesticated that III
tne child shall lead them.
Xth A child decided Waterloo, show
ioon the army of Blucher how they co
lgie, take short cut through the fie
ures when, If the old road had been
OF lowed, the Prussian general wo
the hape come up too late TO save the
[hey tinies of Europe 1t was a child I
aces decided Gettysburg, he having o
= of hoard two Confederate generals
the conversation, in which they deci
can to march for Gettysburg instea
lorse Harrisburg, and this, reported
honf Governor Curtin, the Federal TO
caL- started to meet their opponent
4 or Gettysburg.
q Tor And today the child is to decid
up the great battles, make all the L
settle all the destinies and ushe
re or the worlds salvation or destruci
you Men. women, nations, all earth
b ne all heaven, behold the childl Isl
LIE any velvet SO soft IS childs ca
nfan- Is there any sky SO blue as ci
and eyei Is there any music SO swe
raters the child's voice7 Is there any p
into 80 wavy as a child's hair.
to be GOD HoNoRED SCIENCE.
horn. Notice also that in this Bible ]
ostril, scene God honored science. VIII
on of the three wise men kneeling b
le re- the Divine Infantf Not Doors
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