The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-01-29

oho nurse draw n load heavy enough for
three. Rush in upon that scene where
boys are torturing cat or transfix.
ing butterfly or grasshopper Drive
not on 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 fam.
Ines and in your schools. teach the com.
ing generation more mercy than the
present generation has ever shown,
and in this marvellous Bible picture OF
the nativity, while you point out TO
them the angel. show them also the
camel, and while they hear the celestial
chant, let them also hear the cows
moan.
No more did Christ show interest in
the botanical world when he said ICON
slider the lilies" than lie showed SYM
pathy for the archaeological when He
said "behold the fowls of the air." and
the quadrupedal world when he al
lowed himself to be called in one place
lion and in another place a lamb.
Mean while, may the Christ of Bethle-
hem cattle pen have mercy on the suf-
fering stock yards that are preparing
diseased and fevered meat for our
American households.
Behold, also, in this Bible scene, how,
on 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 a
cloud; in what chariot of illumined
vapor he might have rolled down the
sky, escorted by mounted cavalry, with
lightning for drawn sword.
Elijah had a carriage of fire to take
him up, why not Jesus carriage 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 garden, as
was Adam, in full manhood at the start,
without the Introductory feebleness of
infancy. No, no! Childhood was to be
honored by that advent He must
have child's light limbs, and child's
hand. and n child's beaming
eye, and child's tlaXen hair; and baby
hood was to be honored for all time to
come, and cradle was to mean more
than a grave. Mighty God! May the
of that one child's face be
seen in all infantile faces.
Enough have all those fathers and
on hand if they have a child in
the house. A throne, a crown, a scep.
ter, kingdom, under charge. BE care
full how you strike him across the head,
Earring the brain. What you say TO
him will be centennial and millennial
and hundred years and a thousand
years will not stop the echo and re-
echo. Do not say, ut is my child,
Rather say, 1T is only an immortal"
II is only masterpiece Of Jehovah. 1t
Is only being that shall outlive sun
and moon and star, and ages quadril-
ennial God has infinite resources,
and He can give presents ofgreat value.
but when He wants to give the richest
possible gift to a household, He looks
around all the worlds and all the uni
verse and then gives n child.
The greatest present that God ever
gave our world He gave about 1891
years ago, and He gave it on Christ
mas 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
has honored childhood. He makes
almost every picture failure unless
there be child either playing on the
floor or looking through the window,
or seated on the lap gazing into the
face of the mother.
II was a child in Naaman's kitchen
who told the great Syrian warrior
where he might go and get cured of his
leprosy, which at the seventh plunge IN
the Jordan was left at the bottom OF
the river. II was TO the cradle OF
leaves in which a child was laid, rocked
bv the Nile, that God called the atten-
ton of history 1t was sick child that
evoked Christs curative sympathy, 1t
was a child that Christ set in the midst
of the squabbling disciples to teach the
lesson of humility.
We are informed that wolf and
leopard and lion shall be yet so domes'
ticated that a little child shall lead
them. A child decided Waterloo, show
ing the army of Butcher how it could
take n short cut through the fields,
when. II the old road had been followed
the Prussian general would have come
too late to save the destinies of Europe
II was a child that decided Gettysburg,
he having overheard two confederate
generals in a conversation in which
they decided to march for Gettysburg
instead of Harrisburg; and this re.
norted TO Gov. Curtin, the federal
forces started 10 meet their opponents
at Gettysburg. And to-day the child Is
10 decide all the great battles, make all
the laws, settle all the destinies and
cher In the worlds salvation or de-