The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-14


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Eternal raptures hushed up. A queen in
mask. A princess in disguise.
When you think Of a queen you do not
think of Catharine of Russia, or Maria
Theresa of Germany, or Mary Queen of
Scots. When you think of a queen you
think of plain woman who sat opposite
your father at the table or walked with
him down the path of life arm-in-arm-
sometimes to the Thanksgiving banquet,
sometimes to the grave, but always side
by side soothing your little sorrows and
adjusting your little quarrels, listening to
Your evening prayer, toiling with the
needle or at the spinning-wheel and on
cold nights tucking you up snug and
warm. And then on that dark day when
she lay a-dying, putting those thin hands
that had toiled for you so long, putting
them together in a dying prayer COM
mending you to that God in whom she
had taught you to trust. Oh she was the
queen-she was the queen! You cannot
think of her now without having the deep
est emotions of your soul stirred, and you
teel as II you could cry as though you were
now sitting in infancy on her lap. and if
you call her back to speak your name
Win lhe tenderness with which she once
spoke, you would be willing now to throw
yourself on the sod that covers her grave.
crying: Mother, mother! All she was
the queen. Your father knew it. You
knew II. She was the queen. but the
queen in disguise. The world did not rec
ognize it.
5ut there was a grander Disgusting. The
IaVorlte OF great house looked out of the
window of his palace and he saw that the
people were carrying heavy burdens ara
that some of them were hobbling on
crutches, and he saw some lying az the
gate exhibiting their sores, and then he
heard their lamentation,and he said; Il viii
just put on the clothes Of those poor peo-
pie. and l will go down and see what their
sorrows are and ! will sympathize with
them and l will be one of them and I
will help them" Well, the day came for
him to start The lords of the land came
to see him off. All VINO could sing join
ed in the parting song, which shook the
hills and woke up the shepherds The
1rst few nights he has been sleeping with
the hostlers and the camel-drivers. for no
one knew there was a king in town He
went among the doctors of the law. as
founding them; for without any Doctors
gown, he knew more law than the doctors
He fished with the fishermen. He smote
with is own hammer In the carpenters
shop. He ate raw corn out of the field
He fried fish on the banks of Gennesaret
He was howled at by crazy people in the
tombs. He was spiashed of the surf of
the sea. A pilgrim without any pillow
A sick man without any medicament. A
mourner with no sympathetic bosom in
which he could pour his tears. Disguise
complete, l know that occasionally his d.
vine royalty flashed out, as when in the
storm on Galilee, as in the red wine at the
wedding banquet, as when he freed the,
shackled demoniac of Gadara, when he
turned a whole school OF fish into the net
of the discouraged boatmen, as when he
throbbed life into the shriveled arm of the
paralytic; but for the most part he was in
disguise. No one saw the Kings jewels
in his sandal. No one saw the royal robe
in his plain coat. No one
knew that that shelterless Christ
owned all the mansions IN which
the hierarchs of heaven had their habita-
ton. None knew that that hungered Christ
owned all the olive groves, and all the
harvests which shook their gold on the
hills of Palestine. No one knew that he
who said IL thirst poured the Euphrates
out of his own chalice. No one knew that
the ocean lay in the palm of bis hand like
a dewdrop in the vase of a lily. No one
knew that the stars and moons, and suns,
and galaxies, and consultations that
marches on age after age, were, as COM
pared with his lifetime, the sparkle of
FREELY on a summer night. No one knew
that the sun in mid-heaven was only the
shadow OF his throne No one knew that
his crown of universal dominion was COW
cred IN with a bunch of thorns. Omnpo-
tence sheathed in a human body. Omnis-
cience hidden in human eye. Infinite love
beating in a human heart. Everlasting har-
monies subdued into human voice. Roy
atty en- masque. Grandeurs of heaven in
earthly disguise.
NV subject also impresses me with how
people put on masks and how the Lord
tears them off It was a terrible moment
in the history of this woman of TirZah
when the prophet accosted her, practically
saying: II know who you are; you can
not cheat me; you cannot impose upon me;
why feignest thou myself to be anotherT'
She had a right to ask for the reStora-
ton of her son; she had no right TO prac-
tice that falsehood. 1t is never right to
do wrong. Sometimes you may be able
to conceal an affair; it is not necessary to
tell everything. There is a natural pres
sure to the lips which seems to Indicate
that silence sometimes is right; but, for
double dealing, for moral shutting, for
counterfeit, and for sham, God has nothing
but anathema and exposure. He will tear
off the lie He will rip up the empiri-
cism. He will scatter the ambuscade.
There are people who are Just ready to
be duped. They seem to be waiting to be
deceived. They believe In ghosts; they
saw one themselves once. They heard
something strange in an uninhabited
house Going along the road one night,
something approached them in white and
crossed the road. They would think it
very disastrous to count the number of
carriages at a funeral. They heard in a
neighbours house something that portend-
ed death in the family. They say it is a
sure sign of evil il a bat fly into the
room on a summer night. or they see the
moon over the left shoulder. They would
not for the world undertake any enter
! prise on Friday, forgetful OF the fact that
/ if they look over the calendar of the
/ world they will see that Friday has been
the most fortunate day in all the history
| Of the world.
As near as l can tell, looking over the
! calendar Of the worlds history more
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