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

s'uuIou metalS studlod PHYSIOLOGY,
studied everything.
And when see these scientists bow
before the beautiful babe, I see the
prophecy OF the time when all the tele.
scopes and microscopes, and all the
Leyden jars, and all the electric bat
teries, and all the observatories, and
all the universities shall bow to Jesus
II is much that way already. Where Is
the college that does not have morning
prayers, thus bowling at the mangerP
Who have been the greatest physicians?
Omitting the names of the living lest
we should be invldious, have we not
had among them Christian men like
our own Joseph c. Hutchinson and
Rush and Valentine Mott and Aber-
crombie and Abernethy? Who have
been our greatest scientists? Joseph
| Henry, Who lived and died in
the faith OF the Gospels, aud CASH who
standing 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" To-day
the greatest doctors and lawyers of
Brooklyn and New York and of this
land and all other 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 Bethlehem And physiology
sA;, H., .sI
I'VE must, by the help of God, get the
human race up to the perfect nerve,
and perfect 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
Behold, also. in that first Christmas
night, that God honored the fields.
Come in, shepherd boys, To Bethlehem
and see the child. No" they say,
I'VE are not dressed good enough to
come in" "Yes you are-come in"
Sure enough the storms and the night
dew and the brambles have made
rough work with their apparel, but
none have better right to come in.
They were the first TO hear the music OF
that Christmas night. The first an
nouncement of a 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 the
government who, hearing of it after
ward, may have thought that they
ought to have had the first news Of
such great event, some one dismount-
ing from n swift camel at their door
and knocking till at some sentiners
question, "Who comes there?" the great
ones of the palace might have been told
of the celestial arrival. No; the shop
herds heard the two first bars of the
music the first in the major key and
the last 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 vanished,
but we have grazing-our United States
pasture fields and prairie about $4,000
600 Sheppard all their keepers ought
TO follow the shepherds of my text and
all those who toll in fields all vine
dressers, all orchardists, all husband
mon.
Not only that Christmas night, but
all up and down the worlds history,
God has 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, Jetfer-
son from the fields. The presidential
martyrs, Garfield aud Lincoln, from the
fields. Clay from the fields. Martin
Luther from the fields. Before this
world is right the OVERLOOKING popula-
tions of our crowded cities will have to
take to the fields. Instead of ten mer-
chants in rivalry as TO who shall sell
that one apple, we want at least eight
Of them TO go out and raise apples. In
stead of ten merchants desiring to sell
that one bushel of wheat, we want ut
least eight of them gathering wheat
The world wants more hands, more
bronZed cheeks, more muscular arms
To the fields! God honored them when
He woke up the shepherds by the mid
night anthem, and He will, while the
world lasts. continue TO honor the
fields. When the shepherds crook was
that famous night stood against the
wall of the Bethlehem khan IL was a
prophecy of the time when thresher's
fail and farmer plow and woodsman's
AK and ox's yoke and sheaf- binders
rake shall surrender to the God who
made the country, as man made the
town.
Behold, Also that on that Christmas
nigh. God honored motherhood. Two |
angels on their wings might have