The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-01-01

any veIvet 30 soft as ch1lds cheek
Is there amy sky SO blue as child's
eyer Is there any music so weet as
the child's voice. Is there an7 plume
30 wavy as child's hair.
GOD HoNoRED sCIENCR
| Notice also that in this Bihe night
scene God honored science. Who are
the three wise men kneeline before
the Divine Infant2 Not Doors not
ignoramuses, but Caspar, Belthasar
and Melchior, men who knewall that
was to be known. They were the
Isaac Newtons and Herschels and
Faradays of their time. Their alche-
my was the forerunner of our sublime
chemistry, their astrology the mother
of our magnificent astronomy They
had studied stars, studied metals
studied physiology, studied every
thing.
And when | see these scientists
bowling before the beautiful babe 7
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 1t is much that wav
already. Where is the college that
does not have morning prayers. thus
bowling at the manger2 Who have
been the greatest physicians? Omit
ting 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 and Abercrom-
bic and Abernethy2 Who have been
our greatest SCIENTISTS Joseph Hen
ry, 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 ofxn lands re-
we're the Christian rehg1. and are
not ashamed to say so before iuries
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, "We 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 their
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. NO." they
say, 1--WE arc not dressed good enough
to come in" Yes, you are; come
in" Sure enough, the storms and
the night dew and the bramblesAaye
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 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; SOL 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 lace
might have been told of the tial
arrival No; the shepherds ard
the first two bars of the mu the
first in the major key and the It 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-
1ential 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
,verfowing populations of our crowd
ID cities will have to take to the
fields. Instead of ten merchants in
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