The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-01-08

sand years will not destroy the echo and
re-echo Do not say, lit is only child"
Rather say, 1T is only an immortal"
1t is only n masterpiece OF Jehovah. 1t
is only being that shall outlive sun
and moon and star, and ages quadril-
lennial.
God has infinite resources and He can
give presents of great value, but when
He wants to give the richest possible
gift to household He looks around all
the worlds and all the universe and
then gives child. The greatest pres
ent that God ever gave our world He
gave about l, ,S9l years ago, and He gave
it on Christmas night, and it was of
such value that Heaven adjourned for
recess and came down and broke
through the clouds to look at it. Yea,
in all ages God has honored childhood.
He makes almost every picture a fail
ure unless there be a child either play
ing on the floor or looking through the
window, or seated on the lap, gazing
into the face of the mother.
1t was a child in Naaman's kitchen
that told the great Syrian warrior
where he might go and get cured 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 a child was laid,
rocked by the Nile, that God called the
child that evoked Christ's curative
sympathieS 1t was a child that Christ
set in the midst of the squabbling
disciples, to teach the lesson of human
ity. We arc informed that wolf and
leopard and lion shall be yet so domes-
ticated that little child shall lead
them. A child decided Waterloo, show
ing the army of Blucher how they
could take short cut through
the fields, when, if the old road
had been followed, the Russian
general would have come up
too late to save the destinies of Europe.
1t was a child that decided Gettysburg.
he having overheard two confederate
generals In conversation. in which they
decided to march for Gettysburg in
stead of Harrisburg, and this reported
to Gov. Curtin, the federal forces start
ed to meet their opponents at Gettys-
burg. And to-day the child is to de-
eide 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 the child's cheek? Is
there any sky so blue as child's eve?
Is there any music so sweet as child's
T. nj,
child's hair?
Notice also that in the Bible night
scene God honored science. Who are
the three wise men kneeling before the
divine infant? Not Doors, not igno-
ramuses, but Caspar, Belthasar and
Melchior, men who knew all that was
to be known. They were the Isaac
Newtons and Herschels and Faradays
of their time. Their alchemy was the
forerunner of our sublime chemistry.
their astrology the mother of our
magnificent astronomy. They had
studied stars, studied metals, studied
physiology, studied everything. And
when see these scientists bowling be-
fore the beautiful babe, l see the
prophecy of the time when all the tele-
scopes and microscopes and all the
Leyden jars and all the electric bat
teries, and, all the observatories, and
all the universities shall bow to Jesus.
1t is much that way already. Where is
the college that does not have morning
PRAYERS, thus bowling at the manger?
Who have been the greatest physi-
clans? Omitting the names OF the
living, lest we should be invidiouS,
have we not had among them Chris
tian men like our own Joseph C. Hutch
inson and Rush and Valentine Mott and
Abercombie and Abernethy? Who
have been our greatest scientists?
Joseph Henry, who lived and died in
the faith of the gospels. and Agassiz,
who, standing 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. " To-day
the greatest doctors of Brooklyn and
| New York and of this lan1 and of all
lands revere the Christian religion and
are not ashamed to say so before juries
and legislatures and senates. All
botany will yet worship the Rose of
! Sharon. All astronomy will yet recog-
nize the star of Bethlehem.
Behold, also in that first Christmas
night that God honored the fields. Come
in, shepherd boys, to Bethlehem and
see the child. NO" they say, we are
not dressed good enough to come in. "
"Yes, you are; come in" Sure enough,
the storms and the night dew aud the
brambles have made rough work with
their apparel, but none have 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 chose 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 a great event,
some one dismounting from a swift
camel at their door and knocking till,
at some sentinel's question, "Who
comes there?" the great ones of the
palace might have been told of the cel-
| eSIlal arrival NO. llle ShephSIO'S hSdiu
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 hon
ored.
The old shepherds with plaid and
crook have for the most part vanished,
but we have grazing-our United States
pasture fields and prairie about $4,000,
Ol0 Sheppard all their keepers ought
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