The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-12-25

street. o saw nothing important in
her appearance, but she is regnant over
a vast realm of virtue and goodness
a realm vaster than ). Jeroboam ever
looked at. You went down into the
house Of restitution and want and suf-
fering. You say the story of trial
written on the wasted hand of the
mother, on the pale cheeks of the chill
dren, on the empty bread-tray, on the
~ireless hearth, on the broken chair.
You would not have given a dollar for
all the furniture in the house. But by
the grace of God she is a princess. The
overseers of the poor come there and
discuss the case and say, cts a pau
per-" They do not realize that God has
FURNISHED for her a crown, and that
after she has got through the fatiguing
journey from Tirzah to Shiloh and
from Shiloh back to Tirzah, there will
be a throne of royalty on which she
shall rest forever. Glory yelled. AZ
duence hidden. Eternal raptures hushed
up. A queen in mask. A princess in
disguise.
But there was a grander Disgusting.
The favorite of a great house looked
out of the window of his palace and he
saw that the people were carrying
heavy burdens, and that some of them
were hobbling on c%rutches, and he saw
some Of them lying at the gate exhibit
ing their sores, and then he heard their
l%amentation, and he said: Il will just
put on the clothes of those poor people
and I will go down and see what their
sorrows are, and I will sympathize with
them, and I will be one of them, and 1
will help them" Well, the day came
for him to start. The lords of the land
came to see him off. All who could
sing Joined in the parting song, which
shook the hills and woke up the shep-
herds. The first few nights he has been
sleeping with the hostlers and the
c~amel-drivers, for no n knew there
was a king in town. He went among
the doctors Of the law, astounding
them; for without any doctors gown
he knew more law than the doctors.
He fshed with the fishermen. He smote
with his own hammer in the carpenters
shop. He ate raw corn out of the field.
He fried fish IN the banks of the Gen.
nesaret. He was howled at by crazy
people in the tombs. He was splashed
of the surf of the sea. A pilgrim with
out any pillow. A sick man without
and medicament. A mourner with no
sympathetic bosom in which he could
pour his tears. Disguise complete. |
know that occasionally his divine roy
atty 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, as 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 n saw the kings jewels IN MS
sandal. No n 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 hab-
itation. None knew that that hun
gered Christ owned all the olive
groves, and all the harvests which
shook their gold on the hills of Pal
estine. No one knew that he who said
Il thirst" poured the E%uphrates out
of his own chalice. No one knew thai
the ocean lay in the palm of his 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 marched on age
after age, were, as compared with his
lifetime, the sparkle Of a FREELY on a
summer night. No one knew that the
sun in mid-heaven was only the shad-
ow of his throne. No one knew that
his crown of universal dominion was
covered up with a bunch OF thorns
| O~mnin0tenca Sheathed in a human