The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-01-08
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visit in cloud. In what a chariot OF
illumined vapor He might have rolled
down the sky, escorted by mounted
cavalry, with lightning for drawn
sword. Elijah had carriage of fire to
take him up; why not Jesus carriage
of fire to fetch Him down. Or, over the
arched bridge of a rain bow the Lord
might have descended. Or Christ might
have had His mortality built up on earth
ont of the dust of the garden, as was
Adam. in full manhood at the Start,
without the Introductory feebleness of
| infancy. No, Mol Childhood was to
be honored by that advent. He must
have child's light limbs, and child's
dimpled hand. and child's beaming
eye, and childs flaxen hair; and baby
hood was to be honored for all time to
come, and cradle was to mean more
reflection of that one chil6's face be
seen in all infantile faces.
Enough have all those fathers and
mothers on hand if they have a cnild in
the house. A throne, 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
a hundred years and O thousand years
will not stop the echo and the re-echo.
DO not say: 1T Ia only child" Rather
say: ct is only an immortal" 1t is
only a masterpiece of Jehovah. 1t is
only being that shall outlive sun and
moon and star, and ages quadrillen-
NAL. God has infinite resources,
and He can give presents of great
richest possible gift to household, He
looks around all the world and all the
universe and then gives a child. The
greatest present that God ever gave
our world. He gave about eighteen
hundred and ninety-one years ago,
and He gave it on Christmas
night, and it was of such value that
Heaven adjourned tor a recess and
broke through the clouds to look at it.
Yea, in all ages God has honored child
hood. 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, gaz-
| ing into the face of the mother.
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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
attention of history. 1t was a sick
child that evoked Christ's curative sym
pathies. 1t was 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 domesticated that q
| little child shall lead them. A child
decided Waterloo, showing the army of
Butcher how they could take a short
cut through the fields. when, if the
old road had been followed, the Prus-
sian general would lhave come up too
late to save the destinies of Europe. 1t
was child that decided Gettysburg, he
having overheard two confederate gen.
erals in conversation, In which they
decided to march for Gettysburg in
stead of Harrisburg, and this, reported
to Gov. Curtin, the 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 de-
struction. Men, women, nations, all
earth and Heaven, behold the child Is
there any velvet so soft as a child's
cheek? Is there any sky so blue as
child's eye? Is there any music so
sweet as the child's voice? Is there any
plume so wavy as child's hair?
Notice also that in this Bible night
scene God honored science. Who are
the three wise men lneeling before the
Divine infant? Eot Doors, not ignoram-
uses, but Caspar, Balthasar and Mel
choir, 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 forerun-
ner 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 before the
beautiful babe I 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 observatories, and all the uni
versities shall bow to Jesus. 1t 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 ply
Omitting the names of the living lest
we should be invidious, have we not
had among them Christian men like
our own Jos. G. Hutchinson and Rush
and Valentine Mott and Abercrombie
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, be-
fore 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 and
New York and of this land and of all
lands, revere the Christian religion,
and are not ashamed to say SO before
juries 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 Bethle
hem. And physiology and anatomy
will join hands and say: 1--WE must by
the help of God, get the human race up
to the perfect nerve, and perfect mus
Gle, and perfect brain, and perfect form
of that perfect child, before whom,