Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-12-18

{ over vast realm of virtue and goOdnes
IA realm vaster than Jeroboam eve
looked at You went down into til
house Of restitution and want and sui
fering. You saw the story of trial writ
L ten on the wasted hand of the mother
g on the pale cheeks of the children, OF
the empty Tread tray, on the freles
hearth, on the broken chair. You would
not have given a dollar for all the fur
nlture in the house. But by the grace O.
> God she is a princess. The overseers OF
9 the poor come there and discuss the case
, and say, "lt's pauper. They do moi
r realize that Cod has Furnished for her a
crown, and that after she has got
4 through the fatiguing journey from Tir-
zah to Shiloh, and from Shiloh back to
: Tirzah, there will be a throne of royalty
! on Which she shall rest forever. Glory
yelled, affluence hidden, eternal rap.
lures hushed up a queen in mask, a
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 queen,
~ t@AAAA VI q pam W A1aL NuO sat ODE
posite your father ut 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 aud adjusting your little quar-
rels, listening TO your evening prayer,
tOiling with the needle or at the spin
ming whee and on cold nights tuekine
you up snug aud warm, aad 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 dying prayer commencing you to
/ that God in whom she had taught you
to trust. Oh, she was the queen-she
was the quean You cannot think u her
now without having tine deepest emo
lions Of your soul stirred, and you feel /
as if you could cry as though you were |
now sitting iL,infancy ON her lap and 4
if you call herback to speak your name
with the tenderness with which she once
spoke, you would be willing now ia
throw yourself on the sod that covers
her grave, crying, Mother, motherr'
All, she was queenl 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 grander Disgusting.
The favorite Of great house looked out
of the window If bis 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 the gate exhibiting their sores,
and then he heard their lamentation and
he said, Il will just put on the clothes
Of those poor people, and will go down
and see what their sorrows are, and
will sympathize with them, and l will
be one Of them, and will help them. "
Well, the day came for him to start
The lords of the land came 10 sec him
off All who could sing joined in tho
parting song, which shook the hills and
woke up the shepherds. The first few
nights he has been sleeping with the
hostlers and the camel drivers, for no .
one knew there was a king III town. He
went among the doctors Of the law, rs.
founding them, for without any doc
tors geWn, he knew more law than the :
doctors. He fished with the fishermen,
he smote with his own hammer in the
shop, he ate raw corn out of
the field, he fried fish on the banks of
Gennesarot. He was howled at by Gnszy
people in the tombs, he was splashed of Z
the surf Of the sea, a pilgrim without !
any pillow, sick man without any 4
a mOurner with no sym y
pathetic bosom in which he could pour Y
MS tears. Disguise completed know '
hat occasionally his divine royalty Y
dashed ont, rs when in the storm on v
falilee, as il She red wine at the wed =
ling banque:, us when he freed the Il
hackled demoniao of Gadara, as when d
le turned hole school Of fish into the Z
let OF the discouraged bcatmen, as when u
10 throbbed lie into the shriveled arm 81
# the paralytic but for the most pc
le was III disguise. No one saw
.ing's jewals in his sandal 10 one
he royal robe in his plain coat; noC
new that that shelierloss Christ Owne
II the mansions in which the hierarch
heaven had their habitation; none
new that that hungered Christ owned -
il the olive groves and all the harvests !"
which shook their gold on the hills of ~
'alestine; no one knew that he who a
aid, II thirstr' poured the Euphrates ~
ut of his own chalice no one knew 81
rat the ocean lay in the palm of his a. !,
and like a dewdrop in the vase of a "
ly; no one knew that the stars and he
ICONS and suns and galaxies and con- W
Iellations that marched on age after ~
&c were, as compared with his life u
me, the sparkle of FREELY on sum-
Ter night; no one knew that the sun in
idheaven was only the shadow of his NC
lrone; no one knew that his crown Of
liVersal dominion was covered up with nj
bunch Of thorns Omnipotence sheath n,
in a human body, Omniscience hid 20
IN i'll a hnman eye, infinite love beat M
g in a human heart, everlasting har- ra
onies suhdued into a human voice, ~,
yalty Ell nasque, grandeurs of heaven he
earthly disguised ",
Masks Torn OF. A.
Ny subject also imprasses me with hi
w people put on masks and how the
,rd tears them eff. 1t was a terrible "a.
0ment in the history of this woman IN,
Tirzah when the prophet accosted her, al
saying: II know who You IN
G. You cannot cheat me. You cannot IN
lpose upon me Why feignest thou ~,
yself TO be an therf" She had a right
ask for the restoration Of her son. She -.
ID no right to practice that falsehood. no
is never right to do wrong Some nv,
mes you may be able to conceal an af-
il. 1t is not necessary 10 tell every ~,
ing. There is natural pressure to the -,
IS which seems to indicate that silence -
is right, but for double deal To-
9, for moral shuffling, for counterfeit ~
d for sham God has nothing but s;n
and exposure. Hewill tear of
Q lie He will rip up the empiricism. ne,
WIZ soas'er we AinD.isoa'.e, lnoie on