Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-05-10

! "N nave Deen clean, or they may no
nave been well clad, or the disciples
may have thought Christ religion was
religion chiefly for big folks But
christ made the infantile excitement
sun livelier by His saying that He
liked children better than grown peo-
pie, declaring: Except We become as
little child We cannot enter into the
Kingdom of God Alas! for those peo-
pie who do not like children. They
mad 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 despoil and harden them. and
so they are now at the windows of the
palace, and on the doorstep. and play
ing on the green. Sometimes Matthew,
or Mark, or Luke tells story Of Christ
and only one tells it, but Matthew,
Mark and Luke all join in that picture
of Christ girdled by children, and l
know by what occurred at that time
that Christ had a face 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, and
lakes, and oceans, was clearly in His
appearance He dislilzed the disease
OF leprosy. not only because it was dis
tressing, but because il was not clean.
and His curative words We're: Il will;
be thou clean" He declared himself
in favor Of thorough washing, and op.
posed to superficial washing when he
denounced 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 lie says: wash thy face"
and to blind man whom lie was doe
toring: Go, wash in the pool of 81.
loan. And He Himself actually
washed the disciples feet, | suppose
not only to demonstrate His own hu.
mility, 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 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 o.
injured His locks, which were never
worn shaggy or unkempt. Yea, all His
habits of personal appearance were
lovely.
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 lie 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
of delirfum tremens There |
was no strychnine in that beverage. !
no logwood, or nux vomica. The tip
piers and the sots who now quote the
in Cana of Galilee as an
excuse for the fiery and damning bev
erages of the nineteenth century for
get that the wine at the New Testi-
ment wedding 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
L at least three times day, and send
barrel of it around TO my cellar. You
.annot make me believe that the blessed
Christ, who went up and down, healing
he sick, would create for man that
style of drink which is the cause of
disease more than all other causes
,om bined; 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
lsylums; or that lie who was SO help
ul to the poor, would make a style Of
rink that crowds the earth with pau
,erism: or that He who came to save
he nations from sin, would create a
iauor that is the source of most of the
rhine that now stuffs the peniten-
entiaries. A lovely sobriety was writ
en- all over his face. from the hair-line
f the forehead to the bottom of the
BEARDED chin.
Domesticitv was also His habit
Though too poor to have a home of
lis own, He went out to spend the
light at Bethany, two or three miles
Walk from Jerusalem. and over a rough
nd billy road that made it equal to
tx or seven ordinary miles, every
corning and night going to and fro
would rather walk from here to Cen
raj park. or walk from Edinburg to
.rthur's Seat or in London clear
round Hyde park, than to walk that
Dad that Christ walked twice a day
rom Jerusalem TO Bethany. But He
.ked the quietude of home life, and
lie was lovely in His domesticity.
How lie enjoyed handing over the
esurrected boy to his mother, and the
ssurrected girl to her father and re-
onstructing homesteads which dis
ase or death was breaking up. As the