The Progress., 1894-04-28

Stand back with those Chlldrcn.
scolded some of the disciples Per-
haps the little ones may have been
playing in the dirt, and their faces
may not have been clean, or they may
not have been well clad, or the Giscl-
pies may have thought Christ religion
was a religion chiefly for big folks
Eut Christ made the infantilc excite
mcn5 still livelier by his saying that
he liked children better than grown
people, declaring, Except We become
as }ittlc child We can not enter into
the ..;irCdum 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, 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 dcspOil and harden them,
and so they are now at the windows
Of the palace, and on The doorsteps,
and playing on the green. Sometimes
Matthew, or Mark, or Luke tells a
story of Christ, and only one tells it,
but Matthew, Mark and Luke all join
in hat picture Of Christ grdled by
children and know by what occurred
a that time that Christ had a face full
Cf gcnial.ty.
Not Only was Christ altogether love.
IL in his countenance, but lovely in his
habits. | know, without being told,
that thu Lord VINO made the rivers
and likes, and oceans, was clearly in
his apI earancc. He disliked the disease
Of lep"CSy, not only because it was
distre sing, but because it was not
clean, and his curative words were, Il
will; re thou clean" He declared him.
self in favor of thorough washing, and
oppose to superficial washing, when
he denounced the hypocrites for max.
ing clean only the outside of the plat,
ter" and he applauds his disciples by
saying, Now are We 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
Sloan 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 a great friend of water
know that from the fact that most OF
the world is water. But when | find
Christ in such constant commentator
Of water, | know he was personally
neat, although he mingled much among
very rough populations, and took such
long journeys on dusty highways. lie
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 bever
age gave out, he made gallons on gal
Ions of grape juice. but it was as TN
like 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 tip
piers and the sots who now quote the
wine-making in Cana of Galilee as ar
excuse for the fiery and damning bev
erages Of the nineteenth century for
get that the wine at the New Tesla
ment weddin had two characteristics
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, anC
send a barrel of it around to my eel
lar. You can not make me believe
that the blessed Christ who went ur
and down healing the sick, would create
for man that style of drink which i.
the cause Of disease more than al
other causes combined or that he who
Gained the maniacs into their right
mind, would create that style of drinb
which does more than anything else tc
fill insane asylums; or that he who
was so helpful to the poor, would
make a style of drink that crowds thu
earth with pauperism; or that he who
came to save the nations from sin
would create a liquor that is thu
source of most of the crime that nov
stutfs the penitentiaries A Lowell.
sobriety was written all over his face
from the hair-line of the forehead t.
the bottom of the bearded chin.
Domestinitv was also his habit
! Though to + to have a home of hi
own, he v. ut to spend the night a
Bethany, / or three miles wall
/ from Jerus.. I'm, and over a rough an,
/ hilly road that made it equal to six O
seven ordinary miles, every mornin,
and night going to and fro. l woul
rather walk from here to Central park
or walk from Edinburgh to Arthur
Seat, Or in London clear around Hyd
Park, than to walk that road tina
Christ walked twice a day from Jeru