The Newtown bee., 1895-01-04

 Christ; then large corporations will be ! great distributing agencies of good, and not soulless anacondas wrapping their l merciless folds around their helpless vic- tims; then strikes will be unknown, and l brother in low station shall look up to l his brother in high station in humble confidence and trust; then every dollar, when spent on ones self or not, will be ! a dollar fully consecrated to Jesus, and l will do it's part in bringing on the glori- ous dawn of the great emancipation-day from suffering and from wrong.
 The wise men brought frankincense to Jesus. This was resinous gum, fow- ing from tree gashed for the purpose it was used in the services of the great Temple, and. as the censers were swung l in the hands of the priests, it's aromatic odor filled the place. It signifies wor- ship, prayer.
 The Child of the Bethlehem manager is 1 g king. He came not so to earth. He came as child, though He was the "Aneient of days" though
 BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS HE WAS, though He was ssfrom everlasting though He had been eternally with the Father sharing His glory and filling up the full measure of the Godhead. He was old, but age did not tell on Him He came to earth with all the sweetness and loveliness and innocence and purity of a little child. He was rich, so rich that this earth was His, for He made it all the countless spheres that roll through the flaming spaces were His, for He made them; and all the gold and sil- yer and brass hid in the veined mount aims were His, for He stored them there and yet He came to this earth sur- rounded with poverty that was real, SO His life, He never knew what it was to lie in His own bed, He never knew what it was to have place He could call His home-He was poorer than the foxes that burrowed in the ground. He was king, and yet no slave performed more menial service thaD He; He took tow el and washed His disciples feet; He mixed clay with spittle that He might anoint blinded eyes. He was and is the Child-King of the ages; Christmas gives us the picture of an adoring world look ing into child's cradle.
 He is king. No earthly king has in the height of power dreamed of territory so vast, or loyalty so deep, or dominion so long as that which the manger-Child holds in His hands. The empire of Alexander which comprised all the world then known, compared with the empire of King Immanuel, is like 8 far away island.in little-traversed sea com pared to the lands on which the sun daily shines. The empire of the Caesars, which in it's palmiest days stretched from the friths of the Clyde to the leaping cataracts of the Nile, and from the At lantic on the west to the river Euphrates on the east, compared to the empire of the King of Kings, is like single star amid the heaven-encircling galaxy of light. Greater than dominion of a Hohenzollern or Romanoff or Guelph is the dominion of the Child of Bethlehem.
 And where does this kingdom lies Is it along the banks of the Mississippi, the Danube, the Nile or the Hoangho? An, no; it's boundaries are not marked by sea or shore. "The Kingdom of God is within ycu." THE THRONE OF THIS KINGDOM | is a human heart, it's sceptre is love, it's watchword is Salvation" its muster roll the hosts of the ransomed, it's battls- field the broad world of action, it's bugle- blast hymn of praise, it's rewards eter- nal life. It's King lives and rules in a world unseen, 8 world of thought and love.
 How real is this world How real is your thought! Thought are things They give us joy; they give us sorrow. Thoughts are the parents of sin. We first think thought of sin, the thought breeds a desire, then we will to do the thing we thought and desired How real is thought! how real is love! Love takes the thought and gives it power for good or for evil. The good we do, the good we say, is the good we thought and loved; the evil we do, the evil we say, is the evil we thought and loved. This unseen world ia the real world :; houses, banks, farms, toys, suseful things" books, pictures, ,-they speedily pass away. How soon the Christmas tree fadeth! how quickly it's tinseled beauty dies! But the real world of thought and love lives on. My friend, that is your world; this world in which you seem to live is but the superficial rim, the husk, the shell. Does Jesus rule to. day in this real world of your heart? Oh, what 8 Christmas present for you to give to the King, your heart and your life! How the eyes will then shine with His love how the head grow strong in helpful service! How the words become soft and tender under His magic spell
 "Ah, dearest Jesus, holy childl
 Make Thee a bed, soft. undefiled,
 Within my heart, that 1t may be
 A quiet chamber kept for Thee"
 The wise mengbrought myrrh to Jesus. This was gum produced from thorn bush; it was used as an ingredient in the holy oil, but also as an anodyne, as soother of pain. Let us associate it with sympathy. Jesus wants that from us. He wants our possessions, our praiseful worship, but He also wants our sympa- thy and our love. o, you say. to have stood at the curb of Syehar's well and to 1 have passed some cold water for those dry lips. 0 to have been privileged to be at Simon's house and anoint that weary head with the costly perfumet 0 to have comforted the ssman of sor- r0xUa j, 0 q did tho