Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-12-18

without the palm, emprekses "Ithous
the Jewel! You saw her yesterday on
the street. You saw nothing important
in her appearance, but she is regnant
over vast realm of virtue and goodness
IA realm vaster than Jeroboam ever
looked at. You went down into the
house of destitution and want and suf-
fering. You saw the story Of trial writ
ten on the wasted hand Of the mother,
on the pale cheeks Of the children, on
the empty bread tray, on the freless
hearth, on the broken chair. You would
not have given a dollar for all the fur
niture in the house. But by the grace Of
God she is princess. The overseers OF
the poor come there and discuss the case
and say, Its a pauper. " They do not
realize that God has FURNISHED for her
crown, and that after she has got
through the fatiguing journey from Tir-
zah to Shiloh, and from Shiloh back to
Tirzah, there will be throne OF royalty
On wi ich she shall rest forever. Glory
veiled, affluence hidden, eternal rap
lures hushed up, a queen III masA'
princess in disguised
When you think Of a queen, you do
not think Of Catherine Of Russia or Ma
ria Theresa Of Austria or Mary, queen
Of Scots. When you think Of a queen,
you think Of a plain woman who sat op-
posite 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 quar-
rels. listening to your evening prayer,
toiling with the needle OF at the spin
ming 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 commencing you 70
that God in whom she had taught you
10 trust. Oh, she was the queen-she
was the queen! You cannot think OF her
now without having the deepest emo
tions Of your soul stirred, and you feel
as if you could cry as though you were
now sitting in infancy on her lap, and
if YOU call her back 10 speak your name
with the tenderness with which she once
smoke. YOU would be willing now to
throw yourself on the sod that covers
her grave, crying, Mother, motherP
All. She was queen Your father knew
it. You knew it. She was the queen,
but the queen in disguise. The world
did not recognize It.
A Grand Disguise.
But there was a grander Disgusting.
The fayorite 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 hob
bling ON crutches, and he saw some ly-
ing at she gate exhibiting their sores,
and then be heard their lamentation and
he said, Il will just put on the clothes
of those poor people, and Twill 20 down
and see what their sorrows are, and l
will sympathize with them, and l Will
be one of item, and 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
narting song, which shook the hills and
woke up the shepherds. The first few
NIGHTS he has been sleeping with the
bostlers and the camel drivers, for nc
one knew there was a king in town. DE
went among the doctors Of the law, as
founding them, for, without any doc
tor gown, he knew more law than the
doctors. He fished with the fishermen,
he smote with his own hammer in the
carpenter's 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, be was splashed Of
tbe surf Of the sea, pilgrim without
any pillow, a sick man without any
medicament, mourner with no SYM
nathetic bosom in which he could pour
his tears. Disguise complete! kno"
that occasionally his divine royalty
flashed out. as when in the storm on
| Galilee. as ia the red wine at the wed
ding bauquet. as when he freed the
shackled deuoniac of Gadara, as wher
he turned a whole school Of fish into tht
net of the discouraged boatmen, as wher
he tbrobbed life into the shriveled arm
of the p9ralytic; but for the most par
he was in disguise No one saw the
kings Jewels in his sandal; 10 one sa"
the royal robe in his plain coat; no ont
knew that that shelterless Christ owned
all the mansions in which the hierarchi
of heaven had their habitailon; non'
knew that that huugered Christ owned
all the olive groves and all the harvest
which shook their gold on the hills O
Palestine; no one knew that he wn'
said. II thirstw poured the Euphrate
ont of his own chalice; no one knew
that the ocean lay i'll the palm OF hi
hand like dewdrop in the vase OF
lily; no one knew that the stars ant
moons and suns and galaxies and con
stellations that marched on age aite
ace were. as compared with his life
time. the sparkle of a freely on a sum
mer night; no one knew that the sun II
midbeaven was only the shadow OF hi
throne; no one knew that his crown o
universal dominion was covered up VIII
a bunch Of thorns. Omnipotence sheath
ed in "a human body, omniscience MD
den in a human eye, infinite love beat
ing in a human heart, everlasting har
monies subdued into a human voice
royalty en- masque, grandeurs OF heaVel
in earthly disguised
Masks Torn on.
Ny subject also impresses me VII
how people put on masks and how tn
Lord tears them of. 1t was terriol
moment in the history Of this woma
Of Tirzah when the prophet accosted hei
practically saying: Il know who 20
are. You cannot cheat me. You eann'
impose upon me- Why feignest tho
tbvself to be anotherf" She had rigt
TO ask for the restoration Of her son. 81
had no right to practice that falsehoo'
1t is never right to do wrong. Som
times you may be able to conceal an q
fair It is not necessary TO tell ever
thing. There is a natural pressure to q