The Globe-republican., 1892-01-14

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will descend on His next visit in q cloud
In what chariot of illumiued vapor He
might have rolled down the sky, escorted
by mounted cavalry. with lightning for
drawn sword. Elijah had q carriage Of
fire to take him up: why not Jesus car
rage OF fire To fetch Him down? Or
over the arched bridge Of rainbow the
Lord might have descended. Or Christ
might have had His mortality built up
on earth out Of the dust Of a garden, rs
was Adam, in full manhood at the start.
without the Introductory feebleness Of
infancy. No, no, Childhood was TO DC
honored by that event. He must have
q chiId's light limbs. and q child's dimpled
hand. and child's bearing ere, and q
child's faxen hair. and babyhood was to
be honored for all time TO come, and a
cradle was to mean more than q grave.
Mighty God. May the reflection Of that
one child's face be seen in all infautile
faces.
Enough have all those fathers and
mothers on hand il they have q child in
the house. A throne, q crown, scepter,
a kingdom under charge. Be careful
how you strike him across the head,
jarring the brain What YOU say to him
will be centennial and miilennial, and q
hundred years and a thousand years will
not stop the echo and re-ecLo. Do not
say, 1t is only a child" Rather say,
1T is only an immortal" II is only a
masterpiece of Jehovah. II is only be-
ing that shall outlive sun and moon and
star and ages qGadrillennial. God has
infinite resources, and He can give pres
ents OF great value, but when He wants
to give the richest possible gift to a
household He looks around all the worlds
and all the universe aud then gives a
child The greatest present that God
ever gave our world He gave about eight
cen hundred and ninety-one years ago,
and BE gave il on Christmas night, and
it was Of such value that Heaven adj
iourned for a recess and came down and
broke through the clouds to look at it.
Yea, in all ages God has honored child
hood. He makes almost every picture q
failure unless there te child either
PLAYING Oh the floor or looking through
the window. or seated on the lap, gazing
into the face Of the mother.
1t was child in Naaman's kitchen
that told the great Syrian warrior where
he might go and getcured Of the leprosy,
which at his seventh plunge in the
Jordan was left at the bottom Of the
river. 1t was TO the cradle Of leaves, in
which child was laid, rocked by the
Nile, that God called the attention Of
history. 1t was sick child that evoked
Christ's curative Sympathies. 1t was a
child that Christ set in the midst Of the
squabbliny disciples to teach the lesson
OF humility. We are informed that wolf
and leopard and lion shall be vet SO do
mesticated that a little child shall lead
them. A child decided Waterloo, show
ing the army of Butcher how they could
take short cut through the fields, when,
If the old road had been followed, the
Prussian general would have come I'D
too late 10 save the destinies Of Europe.
1t was child that decided Gettysburg,
ne having overheard two Confederate
generals in a conversation, in which they
decided 70 march tor Gettysburg, instead
Of Harrisburg, and this reported to Gov.
Curtin, tie Federal forces started to
meet their opponents at gettysburg.
And to-day the child is to decide all the
great battles, make all the laws, settle
all the destinies and usher in the worlds
salvation or destruction. Men, women,
nations, all earth and all Heaven, behold
the child, Is there any velvet so soft as
4 chi!d's cheek? II there any sky so
blue Is child's eye? Is there any music
so sweet as the child's voice? Is there
any plume so way as child hair?
Notice also that in this Bible night
scene God hOnored science. Who are
the three wise men kneeliag before the
Divine Infant? Not Doors, not ignor-
amuses, but Caspar, BelthaSar and Mel
chior, men who knew all that was to te
known. They were the Isaac Newtons
ard HerscheIs and Faradays of their
time. Their alchemy was the forerunner
OF our sublime chemistry, their astrology
the mother OF our N magnificent astronomy.
They had studied stars, studied metals,
studied physiology, studied everything
And when l see these scientists bowling
before the beautiful babe, l see the
prophecy o. the time when all the tele-
scopes and microscopes and all the Ley
den jars and all the electric batteries
and all the obServatories and all she
shall tow to Jesus It is
much that way already. Where is the
college that does not have morning
prayers, thus bowling at the manager?
Who have been the greatest physicians?
Omitting the names of the living lest
We should be invidious, have We not had
among them Christian men like our own
Joseph c. Hutchinson and Rush and
Valentine Mott aud Abercrombie and
Abernethy? Who have been our great
est scientists? Joseph Henry. who lived
and died in the faith Of the Gospels, and
AgaSSiz. who, standing with his students
among the hills, took of his hat and
said. Young gentlemen, before We study
these rocks let Us pray for wisdom to
the God who made the rocks" To-day
the greatest doctors and lawyers of !
Brooklyn aud New York and of this land |
and of all the lands revere the Christian |
religion, and are not ashamed to say so \
before luries and legislatures and sem |
steS. All geology will yet bow before |
he Rock OF Ages. All botany will yet |
worship the Rose of Sharon. All as
will yet recognize the Star Of |
And physiology and snat.
,my will join hands and say. I'VE must,
BY the help of trod. get the human race |
Up to the perfect nerve and perfect mus
lie and perfect brain and perfect form Of /
hat Darfece child before ~hom oinh i