Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-01-02

He said, behold the fowls Of the air.
and the quadrupedal when He allowed
Himself 10 DO called in one place q lion
and in another place lamb.
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 q cloud, as he
will descend on his next visit In cloud.
In what chariot of illuminated vapor
he might have rolled down the sky, es-
corted by mounted cavalry, with light
ming for drawn sword. Elijah had q
carriage of fire to take him up; why
not Jesus carriage of fire to fetch him
down? Or. over the arched bridge Of a
rainbow the Lord might have descended.
Or Christ might have had his mortality
built up on earth out of the dust of n
garden, as was Adam, in full manhood
at the start, without the Introductory
feebleness OF infancy. No, no! Child
hood was to be honored by that advent.
He must have child's light limbs. and
a child's dimpled hand, and a child's
beaming eye and child's faxen hair;
and babyhood was to be honored for
all time to come, and q cradle was to
mean more than grave. Mighty God!
May the reflection of that one child's
face be seen in all infantile faces.
Enough have al those fathers and
mothers on hand if they have child
in the house. A throne, a crown, n
scepter, a kingdom under charge. BE
careful how you strike him across the
head, Earring the brain. What you say
to him will be centennial and millen-
NAL, and hundred years and thou
sand years will not destroy the echo and
re-echo Do not say, ''it is only child. ="
Rather say, sit is only an immortal"
1t is only 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 1851 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 honorcd childhood.
He makes almost every picture a fail
ure unless there be child either play
ing on the floor or looking through the
window, or seated on the lap, gazing
into the face of the mother.
It was 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 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 child that Christ
set in the midst of the squabbling
disciples, to teach the lesson of human
ity. We are 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 Butcher 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.
It was child that decided Gettysburg
he having overheard two confederate
generals in conversation. in which they
decided to march for Gettysburg in
stend 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 q child's
voice? Is there any plume so wavy as
a child's hair?
Notice also that in the Bible night
scene God honore1 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, see the
prophecy of the time when all the tele-
scopes and microscopes and all the
Leyden jars and all the electric bat