The Red Cloud chief., 1894-04-27

rather than a kiss. All mothers know
how hard u IL to get their children Il
go to a man Or woman of %forbidding ap.
p%earance. But no sooner did Christ ap.
pear i'll 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 children!' scolded ome Of
the disciples. Perhaps the little ones
may have been playing in the dirt, and
their faces may not have been clean. OF
they may not have been well clad, or the
disciples may have thought Christ's re.
ligion was n religion chiefly for big
folks. But Christ made the infantilo OK.
citement still livclier by his saying that
he liked children better than grown peo-
pie, declaring, Except ye become as u
little child yc cannot enter into the
kingdom of God"
Alas for those people who do not like
childrenl They had better stay ont of
heaven, for tho place is full of them.
That, I 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 tho
world has time to despoil and harden
them, and 10 they are now ut the win.
dows Of the palace and on the doorsteps
and playing OF the green. Sometimes
Matthew OF Mark or Luke tells o story
Of Christ, and only one tells IL, but
Matthew, Mark and Luke all Join in
that picture Of Christ girdled by chill.
dren, and I know by what occurred at
that time that Christ had q face full Of
geniality.
Habits Of Christ.
Not only was Christ altogether lovely
In his countenance, but lovely i'm his
habits. I know, without being told, that
the Lord who made the rivers and lakes
and oceans was clearly 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 III favor of thor.
ough washing and opposed to superb.
cial washing when he denounced tho
hypocrites for making clean only "the
outside Of tho platter, " and no applauds
his disciples by saying, "Now arc 20
clean" and giving directions to those
who tasted, among other things, hc
"Wash thy face" and to q blind man
whom he was doctoring, go, wash in
the pool Of Siloam," and he himself
actually washed the disciples feet, I
suppose not only to demonstrate his
own humility, but probably their feet
needed to be washed.
Tho fact is, tho Lord was q great
friend Of water. I know that from tho
fact that most of the world is water.
But when I find Christ in such constant
commentator Of water I 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, oil his
habits Of personal appearance were
lovely.
Sobricty was also an established habit
of his life. In addition to the water, he
drank tho juice Of tho grape. When Mt
o wedding party this beverage gave ont,
no made gallons on gallons Of grape
juice, but it was as unlike what the
world makes in our timo n health is
different from disease and rs calm
pulses are different from the paroxysms
Of delirium tremens. There was no
strychnine III that beverage or logwood
or nux vomica. The tipplers and the
sots who now quote the winemaking in
Cana of Galilee as M excuse for the
fiery and damning beverages Of the nine
teenth century forget that the wine at
| the New Testament wedding had two
characteristics-the one that the Lord
made it and tho other that it was made
out Of water. Buy all you can Of that
kind and drink ii ut least three times q
| day and send q barrel Of it round to my
cellar.
You cannot make mo believe that the
blessed Christ who went up and down
healing the sick would create for man
that style Of drink which il the cause
| Of disease more than all other causes
combined, OF that no who Gained the
maniacs into their right mind would
create that style Of drink which does
more than anything else to fill insane
asylums, or that no who was so helpful
to the poor would makes style Of drink
that crowds the earth with pauperism,
or hat he who came to save the nations
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tho 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 tho bearded chin.
Christ the Physician.
Domcsticity 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
HILL.