The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-05-02

p~earance. But no sooner did Christ ap-
pear in the domestic group than there
was an lnfantile excitement. and the
youngsters began to struggle TO get out
of their mothers arms. They could not
hold the children back. Stand back
with those childrenl' scolded some OF
the disciples. Perhaps the little ones
may have been playing in the dirt, and
their faces may not have been clean, or
they ma not have been we'll clad, or the
disciples may have thought Chrlst's re-
iigion was a religion chiefly for big
folks. But Christ made the infant1le ex-
element still livelier by his saying that
he liked children better than grownp eo-
pie. declaring, Except ye become as a
little child We 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, I think, is one reason why the
vast majority of the human race die in
infancy. Christ is 80 fond Of children
that he takes them to himself before the
world has time to despoil and harden
them, and 80 they are low at the Win
dows of the palace and on the doorsteps
and playing ON tAesgeensometimes
Matthew or Mark or Luke tells a story
of Christ, and only n tells it, but
Matthew, Marx and Luke all join IN
that picture. Of Christ girdled bychil-
dren, and know BY what occurred at
that time that Christ had aface full OF
geniality
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 and1akes
and oceans was clean1yin disappear
ance. He disliked the disease Of leprosy
not only because it was distressing, but
because it was not clean, andhis curative
words were: 81 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 e'the
outside Of the platter, and he applauds
his disciples by saying, .sNow are ye
clean,'' and giving directions to those
who tasted, among other things, b says,
Wash thy face, and to a blind man
whom he was doctoring, eco, wash in
the pool of Si1cam," 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 wa a great
friend of water. I know that from the
fact that most OF the world is water.
But when I find Christ in such constant
COMMUNICATION Of water I know he was
personally neat, although he mingled
much among very rough populations and
tooksuch long journeys ON dusty high
wayg He wore his hair long, according
to the custom Of his land and time, but
neither trouble nor old age had thinned
OF injured his locks, which were never
worn shaggy or unkempt. Yea, all his
habits Of personal appearance were
lovely.
Sobrietywas 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
strychnine in that beverage or logwood
or nux vomica The tipplers and the
sots who now quote the winema6ng in
Cana Of Galilees 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
Observation-Disclosures one that the Lord
made it and the other that it was made
ont Of water. Buy all you can Of that
kind and drink it at least three times a
day and send a barrel Of it round tony
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 Gained the
maniacs into their right mind would
create that style off drink WhicKdoes
more than anythingelse 70 ill insane
asylums, or that he who was sohelpful
to the poor would make a style Of drink
that crowds the earth with pauperism,
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
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 a home of his
own, he went out to spend the night at
Bethany. two or three miles walk from