Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-04-25


J ow hard it is to get their children r
: 10 TO man on woman of forbidding ap
pearance. But no sooner did Christ an
per Ill the domestic group than Their
was an infantile excitement. and th,
Youngsters began to struggle to get on
, OF their mothers arms. They could no
Icd the children back. "Stand bacl
With tJose children!" scolded some ri
thn diacipies. Perhaps the little one.
llly have been playing in the dirt, and
>eir faces may not have been clean. OF
t1ey 1&y not have been well clad. or the
disciples may have thought Christ's re.
liglon was a religion chiefly for big
tolks. But Christ made the infantile ex.
cltelnent still livelier by his saying that
he liked children better than grown peo-
pie declaring, Except We become as q
little child ye cannot enter into the
kingdom of God
Alas for those people who do not like
children! They had better stay out of
heaven, for the place is full of them
That l think, is one reason why the
vast majority of the human race die in
infancy. Christ is so fond of children
that he takes them to himself before the
world has time to despoil and harden
them, and so they are now at the win
/ dows of the palace and on the doorsteps
and playing on the green. Sometimes
Matthew or Mark or Luke tells story
OF Christ, and only onA tells it, but
Matthew, Mark and Luke all Join in
that picture of Christ girdled by chill
dren, and l know by what occurred at
! that time that Christ had face full Of
geniality.
| Habits of Chri t.
Not only was Christ altogether lovely
in his countenance, but lovely in his
habits. know, without being told, that
the Lord who made the rivers and lakes
and oceans was cleanly in his appear
ance He disliked the disease of leprosy
not only because it was distressing, but
because it was not clean, and his curative
words were: II will Be thou clean. -
He declared himself in favor of thor
ough washing and opposed to superb
cial washing when he denounced the
hypocrites for making clean only "the
outside of the platter, and he applauds
his disciples by saying, "Now are ye
clean, and giving directions to those
who tasted, among other things, he says,
"Wash thy face" and to a blind man
whom he was doctoring, go, wash in
the pool of Siloam,'' and he himself
actually washed the disciples feet,
suppose not only to demonstrate his
own humility, but probably their feet
needed to be washed.
The fact is the Lord was great
friend of water know that from the
fact that most Of the world is water.
But when / find Christ in such constant
commendation of water L know he was
personally neat, although he mingled
much among very rough populations and
took such long journeys on dusty high
ways. He wore his hair long, according
to the custom of his land and time, but
neither trouble nor old age had thinned
or injured his locks, which were never
worn shaggy or unkempt. Yea, all his
habits of personal appearance were
lovely
Sobriety was also an established habit
of his life. In addition to the water, he
drank the juice Of the grape. When at
a wedding party this beverage gave out,
he made gallons on gallons of grape
juice, but it was as unlike what the
world makes in our time as health is !
different from disease and as calm !
pulses are different from the paroxysms |
of delirium tremens. There was no
in that beverage or logwood |
or nux vomica. The tipplers and the |
sots who now quote the winemaking in |
Cana of Galilee as an excuse for the |
fiery and damning beverages of the nine |
teenth century forget that the wine at |
the New Testament wedding had two |
haracteristics-the one that the Lord |
made it and the other that it was made |
out of water. Buy all you can of that
kind and drink it at least three times
day and send barrel of it round to my
cellar.
You cannot make me believe that the
blessed Christ who went up and down
healing the sick would create for man
that style of drink which is the cause
of disease more than all other causes
or that he who calmed the
maniacs into their right mind would
create that style Of drink which does
more than anything else to fill insane
asylums, or that he who was so helpful
to the poor would make a style of drink
that crowds the earth with pauperism,
or that he who came to save the nations
from sin would create a liquor that is
the source of most of the crime that
POW stuffs the penitentiaries. A lovely
sobriety was written all over his face,
from the hair line of the forehead to the
bottom of the bearded chin.
Christ the Physician.
Domesticity was also his habit.
Though too poor TO have home of his
own, he went out 10 spend the night at
Bethany, two or three miles walk from
Jerusalem, and over a rough and hilly
road that made it equal TO six or seven
miles, every morning and night
going to and fro ! would rather walk
rom here 10 Central park, or walk from
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