Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-30

1 any velvet 70 soft ~ a child's cheek
Is there any sky 20 blue as q childi
eyef ls there any music NO sweet NJ
the cliId's vuicef Il there any plume
50 wavy as a child's hair.
GOD HoNORED SCIENCE.
Notice also that In this Bible night
scene God honored science. Who are
the three wise men lneeling before
the Divine Infantg Not Doors. not
ignoramuses. but Caspar. Belthasar
and Melchior. men who knew all that
was to be known. They were the
Isaac Newtons and HerscheIs and
Faradays of their time Their alche-
my was the forerunner of our sublime
chemistry. their astrology the mother
of our rmagnificenta astronomy. They
had studied stars, studied metals.
studied physiology studied every
thing.
And when / see these scientists
bowling before the beautiful babe, l
see the prophecy of the time when
all the telescopes and microscopes,
and all the Leyden jars, and all the
electric batteries. and all the observa-
tories. and all the universities shall
bow to Jesus. It is much that way
already. Where is the college that
does not have morning prayers, thus
bowling at the managers Who have
been the greatest physiciansS Omit
ting the names Of the living, lest we
should be invidious, have we not had
among them Christian men like our
own Joseph G. Hutchinson and Rush
and Valentine Mott and Abercrom-
bic and Abernethy? Who have been
our greatest scientists1 Joseph Hen.
~. 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
gentlemen, before we study these
rocks let us pray for wisdom to the
God who made the rocks"
Today the greatest doctors and
lawyers of Brooklyn and New York
and of this land and Of all lands re-
we're the Christian religion, and are
not ashamed to say SO before juries
and legislatures and senates. All
geology will yet bow before the Rock
of Ages. All botany will yet worship
the Rose of Sharon. All astronomy
will yet recognize the Star of Beth
lehem. And physiology and anatomy
will join hands and say. I'VE must.
by the help of God, get the human
race up to the perfect nerve and per-
feet muscle and perfect brain and
perfect form of that perfect child
before whom, nigh twenty hundred
years ago, the wise men bent then
tired knees in worship.
GOD HONoRED THE FIELDS.
Behold also in that first Christmas
night that God honored the fields.
Come in, shepherd boys, to Bethle-
hem and see the child mo, they
say, I'VE are not dressed good enough
to come in." 'Yes, 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 a Saviour's
birth was made to those men in the
fields.
There were wiseacres that night in
Bethlehem 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 the first
news of such great event; some one
dismounting from a swift camel at
their door and knocking till, at some
sentinel's question, "Who comes
thereG" the great ones of the palace
might have been told of the celestial
arrival. No; the shepherds heard
the first two bars of the music, the
first in the major key and the last in
the subdued minor "Glory to God in
the highest, and on earth peace, good
will to men," All. yes; the fields
were honored.
The old shepherds with plaid and
crook have for the most part van
ished, but we have grazing-our
United States pasture fields and
prairie about forty-five million sheep
--and all their keepers ought to fol-
low the shepherds of my text, and all
those who toll in fields, all vine dress
ers, all orchardists. all husbandmen.
Not only that Christmas night, but
all up and down the worlds history
God had been honoring the fields
Nearly all the messiahs of reform
and literature and eloquence and law
and benevolence have come from the
fields. Washington from the fields.
Jefferson from the fields. The presi-
dental martyrs, Garfield and Lin
coin, from the fields. Henry Clay
from the fields. Daniel Webster from
the fields. Martin Luther from the
fields. Before this world is right the
overhowing populations of our crowd
ed cities will have to take to the
fields. Instead Of ten merchants in
rivalry as to who shall sell that one
apple, we want at least eight of them
to 60 out and raise apples. Instead
of ten merchants desiring to sell that
one bushel Of wheat, we want at least
eight of them TO 60 out and raise
wheat.
The world wants now more hard
hands, more bronzed cheeks, more
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