Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-01-07
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and moon and star and ages quadrillennial
God has infinite resources, and he can give
presents Of great value, but when be want,
TO give the richest possible gift 70 house
hold he looks around all the worlds and all
the universe and then gives child The
greatest present that God ever gave our
world he gave about eighteen hundred and
ninety one years ago. and he gave il on a
Christmas night, and it was of such value
that heaven adjourned for a recess and
came down and broke through the clouds
to look at it. Yea, in all ages God has
honored childhood He makes almost every
picture failure unless there be ctild
either playing on the floor, or looking
through the window, or seated on the lap.
gazing into the face of the mother.
IL was child in Naaman's kitchen that
told the great Syrian warrior where be
might go and get cured of the leprosy,
which at his seventh plunge in the Jordan
was left at the bottom Of the river. II 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
sympathies. It was child that Christ set
In the midst Of the squabbling disciples to
teach the lesson of humility. We are in.
formed that wolf and leopard and lion shall
be yet so domesticated that little child
shall lead them A child decided Water.
loo, showing the army of Blucher how they
could take short cut through the fields,
when, if the old road had been followed,
the Prussian general would have come up
too late to save the destinies of Europe. It
was child that decided Gettysburg, he
having overheard two Confederate gene
rails in a conversation, in which they de
cided to march for Gettysburg instead Of
Harrisburg, and this reported to Governor
Curtin, the Federal forces started to meet
their opponents at Gettysburg And today
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 all heaven, behold the child Is there
any velvet so soft as a child's cheeks Is
there any sky so blue as a child's eyer Is
there any music so sweet as the child's
voicei Is there any plume 80 wavy as a
child's hair5
GODS RECOGNITION OF SCIENCE.
Notice also that in this Bible night scene
God honored science. Who are the three
wise men kneeling before the Divine In
fantp Not Doors, not ignoramuses, but
Caspar, Belthasar and Melchior, men who
knew all that was to be known. They were
the Isaac Newtons and Herschels and Far
adays of their time. Their alchemy was
the forerunner Of our sublime chemistry,
their astrology the mother of our magnifi-
cent astronomy They had studied stars,
studied metals, studied physiology, studied
everything. And when | see these scien-
fists bowling before the beautiful babe /
see the prophecy of the time when all the
telescopes and microscopes and all the Ley
den jars and all the electric batteries and
all the observatories and all tie universi-
ties shall bow 20 Jesus. 1t is much that
way already. Where is the college that
does not have morning prayers, thus bow
ing at the mangerP Who have been the
greatest physiciansi
Omitting 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 Val
entine Mott and Ahercrombie and Aber
nethyi Who have been our greatest scien-
tists' 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, 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 of all lands revere the Chris
tian religion, and are not ashamed to say
80 before juries and legislatures and sen
ates All geology will yet bow before the
Rock of Ages ALI botany will yet worship
the Rose of Sharon. All astronomy will
yet recognize the Star of Bethlehem And
physiology and anatomy will join hands
and say, 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 zee the
child No" they say, 1--WE are not dressed
good enough to come in" Eyes 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 Christ
mas night. The first announcement of a
Saviour's birth was made to those men in
the fields They were wiseacres that night
in Bethlehem and Jerusalem snoring in
deep sleep, and there were salaried officers
of 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 dismounting from swift
camel at their door and knocking till, at
some sentinel's question, Who comes
theref" the great ones Of the palace might
have been told of the celestial arrival. No;
the shepherds heard the first two 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
MESSENGERS FROM THE FIELDS
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 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 dressers, 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 re-
form and literature and eIoquence and law
and benevolence have come from the fields
Washington from the fields. Jefferson
from the fields, The presidential martyrs
Garfield and Lincoln, from the fields
Henry Clay from the fields Daniel Web
ster from the fields. Martin Luther from
the fialds Rofnra this world 10 rityh4 thu