St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-01-16

street You ssW nothing important
IN her appearances. but she + regnaut
over . vast realm Of virtue and good.
mesa realm vaster than Jeroboam
ever looked a. You went down into
the house Of destitution and want and
suffering. You saw the story Of trial
written on the wasted hand. of the
mother, on the pale cheeks of the
children, on tho empty bread tray.
on the fareless hearth, on tho broken
chair. You would not have given q
dollar for all the furniture In the
house. But BY the grace Of God she
II . princess. The overseers OF the
poor come there and discuss the case
and say: Its . pauper." They do
her crown, and that after she has
got through the fatiguing journey
from Tirzah to Shiloh and from Shiloh
back to Tirxah there will be throne
Of royalty on which she shall rest for.
ever. Glory yelled Af1luence hidden.
Eternal raptures hushed mp A queen
in mask. A princess 10 disguise.
When you think of . queen you do
not think of Catherine of Russia. or
Maria Theresa of Germany. or Mary
Queen of Scotia When you think of .
queen you think of plain woman
who sat opposite your father ut the
table, or walked with him down the
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the IhanksR living banquet. sometimes
to the grave. bu. always side by side,
soothing your little sorrows and adj
justing your little quarreis, listening
to your evening prayer, toiling with
the needle or At thu spinning wheel. and
on cold nights lacking you up snug
and warm. And then ON that day
when she lay s-dyipg, 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
was the queenl You can not think of
her now without having the deepest
emotions of your soul stirred, and
you feel as If you could cry as though
you were now sitting in infancy in
her lap; and if you could call her back
to speak your name with the tender
ness with which she once spoke, you
would be willing now to throw your
self on the sod that covers her grave,
crying: Mother. motheri" Ali she
was the queen. Your father knew it.
You knew it. She was the queen. but
the queen in disguise. Tbs world did
not recognize it.
But there was q grander Disgusting.
The favorite of 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 crutches, and He saw
some lying 1T the gate exhibiting their
sores. and then He heard their lamen-
tation, and He said: II will just put
on the clothes Of those poor people,
and will 60 down and see what their
are, aud / will sympathize
with them, and will be one of them,
and l will help them" Well, the day
came for Him to start. The lords of
The land came to see Him Of. All who
could sing joined in the parting song,
which shook the hills and woke ND
The shepherds. The first few nights
He has been sleeping with the hos
tiers and the camel drivers, for NO ono
knew there was King in town. He
went among the doctors Of the law,
them, for without any doc
tors gown lie knew more law than the
doctors. He fshed with the fisher
men. He smote with his own hammer
u the carpenters shop. He ate raw
corn out Of the field. He fried fish on
The banks Of the Gennesaret. lie was
aowled ut by crazy people in the
.ombs. He was splashed of the surf
# the sea- A pilgrim without any
pillow. a sick man without any me-
iicament. A mourner with NO sympa.
.hetic bosom in which He could pour
His tears Disguise complete, 1 know
hat occasionally His divine royalty
dashed out, as when in the storm on
ialilee. as in the red wine at the we'd
ling banquet, ~ when He freed the
;hackled demoniac of Gadara, as when
lie turned . whole school of Ash into
he net Of the discouraged boatlnen,
. when He throbbcd life into the
hrivelcd form of the paralytic; but
or the most part He was in disguise.
No one saw the Kings jewels in His
andal. No one saw the royal
ODE in His plain coat No one knew
hat that shelterless Christ owned
III the mansions in which tho hier.
lrchs of Heaven had their habita-
ion. None knew that that hungered
Christ owned all the olive groves, and
Ill the harvests which shook their
,old on the hills of Palestine. No one
Knew that He who said II thirst"
,oured the Euphrates out Of His own
.halice. No one knew that the ocean
~ in the palm of His hand like dew
lrop in the vase of . lily. No one
Knew that the stars, and moons, and
nns, and galaxies, and constella-
ions that marched on age after age,
we're. rs compared with His lifetime.
he sparkle Of . freely on . summer
light. No ono knew that the sun in
was only the shadow Of
lis throne. No ono knew that His
rown of universal dominion was COW
red up with . bunch of thorns. Omni- |
,otence sheathed in . human body.
hidden in . human eye.
infinite love beating in . humsn heart.
Everlasting harmonies subdued into .
luman voice. Royalty en- masque.
Of Heaven in earthly dis
'uise.
My subject also impresses mo with
low people put on masks, and how
he Lord tears them on. 1t was . ter |
;ble moment in the history Of this
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