The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-12-26
diamonds. And 30 all around .bou.

ride In no chariot. they elicit no huzz
they make no pretense, but by u
: grace of God they are princess
and they are queens. Somotim,
In their poverty, sometimes
their self-denial. sometimes
their hard struggles of Chri
tian service-God knows they al
queens; the world does not recogniz
them. Royalty in disguise. King
without the crown. conquerors witt
out the palm, empresses without tn
jewel. You saw her yesterday on tn
street. You saw nothing importan
In her appearance. but she is regnan
over n vast realm of virtue aud good
ness--a realm vaster than Jeroboau
ever looked at You went down int
the house of restitution and want an,
suffering. You saw the story Of tria
written on the wasted hand of tn,
mother, on the palo cheeks of tn,
children, on tho empty bread tray
on the hreless hearth, on the broker
chair. You would not have given q
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: ITS pauper." They dc
not realize that God has FURNISHED for
her crown, and that after she has
got through the iatiguing journey
from Tirzah to Shiloh and from Shiloh
back to Tirzah there will be a throne
of royalty on which she shall rest for.
ever. Glory yelled. Affiuence hidden.
Eternal raptures hushed up. A queen
in mask. A princess in disguise.
When you think of queen you do
not think of Catherine of Russia, or
Maria Theresa of Germany, or Mary
Queen of Scots. When you think of a
queen you think of a 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 Thanksg living banquet, sometimes
to the grave, but always side by side,
soothing your little sorrows and ad-
justing 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 day
when she lay a-dying, putting
those thin hands that had toiled for
you so long, putting them together in
\ dying prayer commenting you to |
that God in Whom she had taught you
TO trust. Oh, she was the queen-she |
vas the queen! You can not think of |
her now without having the deepest
emotions OF your soul stirred, and |
you feel as IL you could cry as though |
you were now sitting in infancy in
her lap; and If you could call her back
o speak your name with the tender
ness with which she once spoke, YOU
would be willing now to throw your
elf on the sod that covers her grave,
rying: Mother, motherr Ali she
vas the queen. Your father knew il.
You knew it. She was the queen, but
he queen in disguise. The world did
lot recognize 1t.
But there was a grander Disgusting.
The favorite of a great house looked
nut of the window of His palace and
e saw that the people were carrying
eavy burdens, and that some of them
'ere hobbling on crutches, and He saw
ONE lying at the gate exhibiting their
ores, and then He heard their lnmen-
alton, and lie said: II will just put
n the clothes of those poor people.
nd L will go down and see what their
orrows are, and will sympathize
nth them, and l wilIxe ono of them.
nd Twill he p them. " Well, the day
anne for Him TO start. The lords of
ne land came to see Him off. All who
ouid sing joined in the parting song,
'hich shook the hills and woke up
no shepherds. The first few nights
e has been sleeping with the hos.
lers and the camel drivers, for no one
new there was King in town. He
ent among the doctors of the law,
stounding them, for without any doc
'r's gown He knew more law than the
octors. He tshed with the fisher
leu. lie smDte with his own hammer
the carpenters shop. He alto raw
'rn out of the field. He fried fsh on
lie banks OF the Gennesaret. He was
owled at by crazy people in the
'mbs. he was splashed Of Che surl
the sea. A pilgrim without any
lllow. A sick man without any me-
A modrner with no sympa-
ietic bosom In which He could pour
is tears. Disguise complete, 1 know
nat occasionally His divine royalty
ashed out, as when in the storm on
alice, as in the red wine at the we'd
ing banquet, as when lie freed the
tackled demoniac of Gadara, as when
c turned whole school of fish into
lie net of the discouraged boatinen,
when He throbbed life into the
,rivelcd form OF the paralytic; but
II the most part He was in disguise.
o one saw the Kings jewels in His
lndai. No one saw the roya.
'be in His plain coat. No one knew
lat that shelterless Christ owned
i the mansions in which the HER
rchs Of Heaven had their habitu-
on. Mono knew that that hungered
hrist owned all the olive groves, and
II the barvests which shook their
old on the hills of Palestine. No one
new that He who said II thirst"
oured the Euphrates out of His own
ialice. No one knew that the ocean
" in the palm of His hand like dew
rop In the vase Of lily. No one
new that tho stars, and moons, and