Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-28
FOR THE HOSPITALS.
Collections Taken Up in All the Local
Churches Yesterday.
THE CHILDHOOD OF JESUS CHRIST
A Most Convincing Proof of the Truth Of
the Bible Records.
VETERANS HOLD A MEMORIAL SERVICE

Yesterday was Hospital Sunday in the
local churches, and the collections taken
were in behalf of those institutions. The
people generally were in a generous mood,
and the receipts so far as reported amounted
to gratifying figure. Christmas an New
Year topics were the ones most discussed in
the pulpiIs.
Rev. E. Il. Donehoo, of the Eighth Pres
byterian Church, West End, took for his
morning subject, ''The Childhood of Jesus. 3"
The text was, 't,Jesus increased in wisdom
and stature and in favor with God and man. "
Luke 2-52 He said: The childhood of
Jesus is theme of which no Christian can
ever weary While the story, as narrated
by the evangelists, is comprised in
very brief compass, with nothing of the
swe-inspiring or miraculous about it, it yet
possesses charm which neiter time nor
circumstances can ever efface. The beauty
and glory of Christianity, as it is also its
exclusive distinction from all other re-
ligions, is the great attention which it be-
slows upon childhood. The mythol-
ogies of the Greek and Roman ig-
more childhood. Their gods never
pass through the experiences of child
as fully grown in form and mental constitu-
tion-never manifesting growth or develop
ment Mohammedanism has nothing to say
Of childhood, while its sacred book possesses
no charm for the youthful mind. Chris
tanitv endears itself to all because of the
importance which it attaches to childhood,
and the lessons it brings to the young.
Jesus Christ never could have been what He
is TO mankind had His coming been deferred
TO the full period of manhood, had He, in
stead of becoming a helpless infant in
Bethlehem's manger. burst upon the world
in the full glory and strength of mature lite.
And this TO me is one of the convincing
evidences of the sacred records, that they
did not picture to the mind the great deliv-
erer of mankind as coming as anighty con-
queror TO put down His enemies and estab-
lish His throne with all the pomp and cir
cumstance to be expected of such charac-
ter His mother was Just such a mother as
became her to whom was committed the
training of Him who was destined to be
the worlds hope and deliverance from sin.
From her first appearance in the Sacred
narrative until she stood at the foot of the
cross a silent witness to the closing scene of
the great drama of mans redemption, she
continued to sustain that beauty of charac-
ter, and that true womanliness which
have invested her brow with a halo of
light outdazzling in its luster all the fan
cies of poet or artist in their noblest imag-
inations as belonging to the mother of
Jesus This also we know: that no spot in
all the Holy Land was better adapted for
the home of the child Jesus than that in
which Joseph and Mary dwelt Nazareth,
the sRose of Galilee,'' was the fairest,
most romanticallv beautiful spot in all
that land, with its greatly sloping hills and
flowery plains, with nature in its most
attractive garb spread out before Him as
His daily teacher