Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-04-26

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heir mothers arms. They could not hold
he children back ''Stand back with
hose childreni'' scolded some Of the dis
siples. Perhaps the little ones may have
Deen playing In the dirt, and their faces may
not have been clean, or they may not have
been we'll clad, or the disciples may have
thought Christ's religion was q religion
chiefly for big folks But Christ made the
excitement still livelier by his
saying that he liked children better than
grown people, declaring, Except ye be-
come as a little child ye cannot enter into
the kingdom Of God "
Alas for those people who do not like
rhildrenl They had better stay out Of
heaven, for the plnce Is full Of them. That,
think, is one reason why tho vast major
ity Of the human race die In infancy.
Christ Is 50 fond Of children that he takes
them to himself before tho world has time
to despoil and harden them, and so they
are now at the windows Of the palace and
on the doorsteps and playing On tho green.
Sometimes Mstthew or Mark or Luke tells
q story Of Christ, and only one tells it,
but Matthew, Mark and Luke all join in
that picture of Christ gfrdled by children,
and know by what occurred at that time
that Christ had face fall of geniality.
Pure In Body and Mind.
Not only was Christ altogether lovely In
his countenance, but lovely In his habits.
1 know, without being told, that the Lord
who made tho rivers and lakes and oceans
was cleanly in his appearance. He disliked
the disease Of leprosy not only because 1t
was distressing, but because 1t was not
clean, and his curative words were: II
will. Be thou clean" He declared himself
in favor of thorough washing and opposed
to superficial 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, tWash
thy face" and to blind man whom he
was doctoring, $50, wash in the pool of
Sloan, I" and he himself actually washed
the disciples feet, suppose not only to
demonstrate his own humility, but proba-
bly, their feet needed to be washed. The
fact is the Lord was great friend of
water. l know that from the fact that
most Of the world Is water. But when 1
ton of water know he was personally
neat, although he mingled much among
very rough populations and took such long
journeys on dusty highways. 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 un-
kempt. Yea, all his habits of personal ap-
pearance were lovely.
Sobriety was also an established habit
\ of his life. In addition to the water he
drank tho juice Of the grape. When at a
wedding party this beverage gave out, he
made gallons on gallons of grape juice, but
1t 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 strychnine 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 nineteenth century forget that the
wine at the New Testament wedding had
two characteristics, the one that the Lord
made 1t and the other that it was made
out of water. Buy all you can of that kind
and drink it at least three times q day
and send barrel of it around 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 combined, 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 style
| of drink that crowds the earth with pau
perism, 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
now stuffs the penitentiaries A lovely So
briefly was written all over his face, from
the hair line of the forehead to the bottom
| Of the bearded chin.
| Christ Loved Home.
| Domesticity was also his habit. Though
too poor to have home of his own, he
went out to spend the night at Bethany,
two or three miles walk from Jerusalem,
and over rough and hilly road that made
it equal to six or seven ordinary miles, ev-
cry morning and night going to and fro
I would rather walk from here to Central
park, or walk from Edinburgh to Arthur's
| Seat, or In London clear around Hyde
park, than to walk that road that Christ
walked twice day from Jerusalem tc
Bethany But he liked the quietude Of
home life, and he was lovely in his domes
ITCHY.
How he enjoyed handing over the res
urrected boy to his mother and the resur
rected girl to her father and reconstruetine
homesteads which disease or death wa!
breaking upl As the song Home, Sweei
Home was written by q man who a
that time had no home, SO think tht
homelessness of Christ added to his up
probation of domesticity.
Furthermore, he was lovely in his sym
pathies Now, dropsy is most distressfu
complaint. 1t infames and swells and to-
lures any limb or physical organ it touches
AS soon as case Of that kind is submitted
to Christ he, without any use of diapho
retics, commands it's cure. And what al
eye doctor he was for opening the lont
closed gates of sight to the blue of the sky
and the yellow of the flower, and the EN-
erald of the grassl What Christ he wa
for cooling fevers without SO much as
spoonful Of febrifuge, and Strengthening
crooked backs without any pang of SUI
gerry, and standing whole choirs of musi
along the silent galleries Of deaf ear, ant
giving healthful nervous system to cata
leptics! Sympathy He did not give then
stoical advice or philosophize about tn
science of grief He sat down and eric,
with them.
1t is spoken Of as tho shortest verse il
the Bible, but tome it is about the longes
and grandest, Jesus wept. All, man.
of us know tho meaning of that! When w
were in great trouble, some one came il
with voluble consolation and quoted tn
Scripture in o sort Of heartless way AM
did not help us at all. But after awhil
some one else came in, and without sayint
word sat down and burst into flood o
tears at the sight of our woe, and some
how 1t helped us right away. "Jesu
wept" You see, it was deeply ATTACHES
household, that of Mary and Martha ant
Lazarus. The father and mother wer