The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-06-07

countenance as certainly as the shin
ing of the sun produces flowers Chill
dren are afraid of scowling or
hard-visaged man. They cry out II
he proposes to take them II he try 70
caress them he evokes slap rather
than kiss All mothers know how
hard IL is to get their children to go 10
a man or woman of forbidding appear
ances But no sooner did Christ appear
in the domestic group than there was
an infantile 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 childrenv'
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 may not have
been we'll clad, or the disciples
may have thought Christ's religion
was religion chiefly for big
folks. But Christ made infan-
tile excitement still livelier by His
saying that He liked children better
than govern people, declaring: Except
ye become as little child we can not
enter into the kingdom of God" Alas!
for those people who do not like chill
dren. They had better stay out of
Heaven, for that 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 Him before the
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them, and so they are now at the win
dows of the Palace, and on the door
steps, and playing on the green. Some
times Matthew, or Mark, or Luke tells
a story of Christ; and only one tells it,
but Matthew, Mark and Luke all join
in that picture of Christ girdled by
children, and / know by what occurred
at that time that Christ had face full
of geniality.
Not only was Christ altogether lovely
in His countenance, but lovely in his
habits. l know, without being told,
that the Lord who made the rivers, and
lakes, and oceans, was clearly in His
He disliked the disease of
leprosy, not because it was distressing,
but because it was not clean, and His
curative words were: 81 will; be thou
clean" He declared Himself in favor
of thorough washing, and opposed to
washing, when He de-
nounced the hypocrites for making
clean only "the outside of the platter"
and He applauds His disciples by say
ing: Now are we clean" and giving
directions to those who tasted, among
other things He says: "Wash thy face"
and to blind man whom He was doc
toring: 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
great friend of water. l know that
from the fact that most of the world is
water. But when find Christ
in such constant CONNIE ndation of
water, ! know He was personally neat,
He mingled much among very
rough populations and took such long
journeys on dusty highways. He wore
His hair long, according to the custom
If His land and time, but neither
nor old age had thinned or in
ured His lock, which were never worn
shaggy or unkempt. Yea, all His hab-
is 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 wedding party this beverage
rave out He made gallons on gallons
If grape juice, but it was as unlike
What the world makes in our time as
health is different from disease, and as
,alm pulses are different from the par
,Xysms of delirium tremens There
vas no strychnine in that beverage, no
ogwood, or nux vomica The tipplers
md the sots who now quote the wine
making in Cana of Galilee as an excuse
or the fiery and damning beverages of
he nineteenth century forget that the
vine at the New Testament wedding
lad two characteristics, the one
hat the Lord made it and the
'ther that it was made out of water
Buy all you can of that kind and
rink IL at least three times day, and
end barrel of it around to my cellar.
fou can not make me believe that the
blessed Christ, who went up and down
lealing the sick, would create for man
hat style of drink which is the cause
# disease more than all other causes
or that he who Gained the
naniacs into their right mind, would
reate that style of drink which does
more than anything else to fill insane
Isylums; or that He who was so help
ul to the poor, would make style of
rink that crowds the earth with pau
,erism; or that lie who came to save
he nations from sin, would create a
liquor that is the source of most of the |
rhine that now stuffs the penitentia-
les A lovely sobriety was written all |