Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-01-06
HALLELUJAHS.
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DIR. Tnimagc preached. last Sunday.
sermon appropriate TO the Christmas
| season. HIS text was Luke a.. 10: And
they came In haste. and found Maryland
Joscph and the BAbe lying In -
mangcr"
The black window shutters Of q De-
cembcr night were thrown open. and
somc of the best singers OF the world
where they all sing stood thcre. and.
putting back the drapery of cloud.
chanted . peace anthem. until all the
echos of hill and valley applauded and
encored tho hallelujah choruA Come.
let us GO into that Christmas scene ns
though we had never before worship~d
1T the mangcr. Here Is n Madonna worth
looking at
| wonder not that the most frequent
name in all lands and nil Christian Gen.
turies In Mary. And there are Marys
In palaces and Marys In cabins and
though German and French and italian
and Spanish and English pronounce IL
differently. they are all namesaiScs OF
the one whom we hud on n bed OF
straw, with her pale face against tho
soft cheek of Christ In the
night of nativity. All the great
painters have tried. ON canvass. to
present Mary and her child and the In :
cidents of the most famous night Of the
worlds history. Raphael. In three diff.
fercnt masterpieces. celebrated Thorn.
Tintorctto and Ghirlandajo surpassed
themselves In the alteration of tho
Magi Correggio needed To do nothing
more than his Madonna TO become i'm.
mortal The Madonna of the Lily. by
Leonardo dn vinci, will kindie tho adj
miration of all agea
But all tho galleries of Dresden are
forgotten when think OF tho small
room of that gallery containing the
Sistine Madonna Yet all of them
were copies of ST Matthews Madonna,
and Lukels Madonna, tho inspired Ma
donna OF the Old Book, which we had
put into our hands when We were In
fants, and that we hope to- have under
our heads when wo die. Behold. In the
first place. that on the first night of
Christs life God honorcd the brute
creation. You can not get into that
bethlehem barn without going past the
camels, the mules. tho dogs the oxen
The brutcs of that stable heard the frs,
cry OF the infant Lord. Some OF the
old painters represent the oxen and
camels knseling that night before the
newborn babe.
And well might they kneeil Have
you ever thought that Christ came,
among other things To alleviate the
sufferings OF the brute crcationp Was
~ not appropriate that he should. dur.
ing the hrst few days and nights OF his
life ON earth, be surrounded by the
dumb beasts, whose moan and plaint
and believing have for ages been n
prayer To God for the arresting OF their
.ortures rand the Fighting OF their
wrongs? IL did not merely happen so"
that tho unintellgcnt creatures OF God
should have been that night In close
ncighborhood
Not "a kennel in all the centuries not
birds nest, not IA worn out horse on
tow path, not herd freezing in the
poorly built cow pen, not freight car
In summer time bringing the becvcs 20
market without water through a thou.
sand miles OF agony. not surgeon
room witnessing the struggles OF fox on
rabbit, or pigeon. or dog. in the horrors
OF vivisection. but has an interest In the
fact that Christ was born in n stable.
surrounded by brutcs He remember
that night, and the prayer he heard In
their pitifui moan, he will answer I'M
the punishment OF those who maltrcat
the dumb brutea They surely have as
much right I'm this world "a we have
In the first chapter OF Genesis you
may see that they were placed on the
earth before man was. the fish and
fowl created the fifth day. and the
quadrupeds the morning OF the sixth
day. and man not until the afternoon
OF that day. The whale. the eagle. the
lion. and all the lesser creatures OF their
Kind. were predecessors of the human
family. They have ,hc world 10y righl
OF possession.
They have also paid rent for ths
places they occupied What nm arm,
OF defense all over the land are IN,
faithful watch-dogS And who can tel
what the world owes 20 the borse. ans
camel, and OK. for transportation? An,
robin and lark have. by the cantata
with which they have filed orchard an,
forest. more than paid for the few
grains they have picked up for thei
susten nance.
When you abuse any crcature OF Go,
yon strike It's Creator. and you insuI
the Christ who. though lie IN ght hay,
been welcomed into life by princes. an,
taken his first infantile s,umber ami,
Iyria1 plush and canopied cOurhcs an
ripping waters from royal aaucduct
dripping into basins Of ivory s5d pearl
chose 20 be born on the level with
cows horn, or a camers hoof or n dog
nostril, that lie might be tic allevia
tion Of animal spffe ring as we'll as tn
rcdecner Of man.
Standing then, ss I imagine now do
ia that Bethlehem night with an infan
Christ on the one side aud the speech
less creatures Of God on the other
cry. look ont, how you strike the rove
into that horses side. Take OF tina
curbed bit from that bleeding mouth
Remove that saddle from that raw back
Shoot not for fun that bird that s. 20
small for food. Forget not 90 put va
ter into the cage for the canary Thros
ont some crumb b. 90 those birds caugh
too Ear north in the winters inciencncv
Arrest that man who "a making TIA
one horse draw a load heavy enough e.
three. Rush In upon that scene ehsr
| boys are tOrturiug n eat or transit :