The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-08-05

heaven spent in an outhouscl Ono
nour after laying aside the robes M
heaven dressed in wrapper of coarse
linen one would have supposed that
Snrst would have made n more gradual
oescent' coming from Heaven first In n
nait-way world of great magnitude
''eh TO Cmsars palace, then TO n mcr.
chants castle in Galilee, then to n
private homo in Bethany, then TO n
nshermans hut and last of all To n
stable No! 1t was one leap from the
top To the bottom.
Let us open the door of the cara.
vansary in Bethlehem and drive AWAY
the camels Press on through IN, ,yroun
ol ialers and loungers What, o Mary!
no light? mo light" she says, save
mat which comes through the door"
Nhat, Mary. no food? None" She
says only that which was brought
IN the sack on the journey" Let
the Bethlehem woman who has
come in here with kindly attcn.
tlons put back the covering from
the babe that we may look upon IL.
LOOK Look! Uncover your head.
Let us knecl Let all voices be hushcd.
MOI Mary. Son of God. Child of "A day
Monarch of eternity. In that eve the
glance of a God. Omnipotcnce sheathcd
IN that babes arm. That voice TO be
changed from the feeble plant To the
tone that shall wake the dead.
llosanna. llosanna! Glory be to God
that Jesus came from throne To manager
A. V.ts
throne and that all the gates are open
and that the doors of Heaven, that once
swung this way to let Jesus out, now
swings the other way to let us in. Let
all the bellmen of Heaven Law hold the
the rope and ring out the news: "Behold,
| bring you glad tidings of great ioy.
which shall be To all people, for to-day
is born in the city of David a Saviour,
which is Christ the Lord"
The second installment paid for our
souls clearance was the scene in Quar-
antania, a mountainous region, full of
cavcrns, where there are to this day |
panthers and wild beasts of all sorts, so |
that you must now go there armed with |
knife or gun or pistol. II was there |
that Jesus went to think and to pray, |
and it was there that this monster Of |
hcll-morc sly, more terrific than any
thing that prowled in that country
Satan himsclf-met Christ.
The rose in the cheek of Christ-that |
Publius Lentullus, in his letter to the
Roman senate, ascribed to Jesus-that |
rose had~scattered its petals. Absti-
hence from food had thrown him into
A long abstinence from
food recorded in profanc history is that
of the crew of the ship Juno; for TWEEN
ty-threc days they had nothing To cat
But this sufferer had tasted month
and ten days before he broke fast.
Hunger must have agonizcd every
fiber of the body, and gnawcd on
the stomach with teeth of death.
The thought of morscl of bread or
meat must have thrilled the body with
like fcrocity. Turn out
a pack of men hungry rs Christ was
l-hungcrcd, and If they had strength,
with one yell they would devour you
as a lion kid. 1t was in that pang of
hunger that Jesus was accoStcd, and
satan said: Now change these stones,
which look like bread, into an actual
supply of bread" Had the temptation
,omo TO you and me, under those circum-
stances we would have cried: Bread
( shall be-" and been almost impatient
It the time taken for mastication; but
'hrist with one hand beat back the
hunger, and with the other hand beat
laclI the monarch OF darkness. o, We
cmptcd ones. Christ was tempted.
We are told that Napoleon ordered "a {
oat of mail made; but he was not quite I
ertain that il was impene trablc, SO he
aid TO the manufactures OF the coat of q
nail: Put il on now yourself and let I
IS try It," and with shot after shot with
lis own pistol the Emperor found out $
hat il was just what it pretended Ia be I
IL good coat of mail. Then the man :
eccived n large reward a
! bless God that the same coat of mail I
hat struck back the weapons of temp d
alton from the head of Christ we may <
ow all wear: for Jesus comes and says: v
| have been tempted and know what v
is To be tempted. Take this robe that &
offended m, and wear il for yourselves. 4
shall see YOU through all trials and / q
hall see YOU through all temptation" q
But" says Satan still further to d
rsus "come and will show You some "
hing worth looking at" And after IA "
alf days journey they came 10 Jerusa-
IN, and 10 the top of the temple. Just b
, one might go up in the tower of Ant &C
erp and look off upon Belgium, so Satan II
.,,,,ht Christ IN the ton of the tpmDlc | q
,me people at great height feel dizzy h
ld n strange disposition 10 jump; So Sa- II
m comes to Christ in that very crisis. u
landing there ut the top Of the temple ST
lev looked off. A magnificent reach al