The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-08-11

self ecltpsed: down through ciouds,
through atmospheres, through appall-
ing space. down to where there was no
lower depth. From being waited on at
the banquet Of the skies to the broiling
Of fish for his own breakfast on the
banks of the lake. From emblasoued
chariots Of eternity to the saddle OF q
mules back. From the homage cheru-
bic. archangelic. to the paying Of 8: IL
cents Of tax to Ceaser. From the death
less country to a tomb built to hide
human dissolution. The uplifted wave
Of Galilee was high. but he had to
come down before with his feet he
| could touch 1t, and the whirlwind that
arose above the blllow was higher yet,
but he had to come down before with
his lips he could kiss 1t into quiet.
Bethlehem STOPPING down. Nazareth
a STOPPING down. Death between two
burglars STOPPING down. Yes, 1t
that went before, and self abnegations
that came after when. on that memo
rable day in Herod's temple. he stopped
was in consonance with humiliations
down and wrote on the ground.
Whether the words he was writing
were in Greek or Latin or Hebrew, /
cannot say, for he knew all those Ian
guages, but he Is still STOPPING down
and with his finger writing on the
ground. In the winter In letters Of
crystals, in the spring in letters OF fiOw-
ers. in summer In golden letters OF har-
vest, In autumn in letters Of fire on fall
len leaves. How 1t would sweeten up
| and enrich and emblazon this world
could We see Christ's caligraphy all
over it! This world was not flung out
into space thousands Of years ago and
then left to look out for itself 1t is
| still under the divine care.
II you could see his hand in all the
passing seasons. how 1t would illumine
the world! All verdure and foliage
| would be allegoric, and again We would
hear him say, as of old, Consider the
| lilies OF the field, how they grow" and
we would not hear In the whistle of q
quail or the cawng of raven or the
roundelay of brown thrasher withOu.
| saying, Behold the fowls of the air.
They gather not in barns, yet your
| heavenly father feedeth them," and a
| Dominic hen of the barn yard could
not cluck for her brood but we would
hear Christ saying, as of old. How Of
ten would have gathered thy children
| together, even as a hen gathereth her
| chickens under her wings" and
through the redolent hedges we would
hear Christ saying. II am the rose Of
Sharon" We could not dip the sea-
soning from the salt cellar without
thinking of the divine suggestion "Ye
are the salt of the earth, but II the salt
hath lost its SAVIOR 1t Is fit for nothing
but to be cast out and trodden under
foot of men,"
Let us wake from our stupidity and
take the whole world as a parable
Then. If, with gun and pack of hounds
we start off before dawn and see the
morning coming down off the hills to
meet us we would cry out with the
evangelist The dayspring from or
high hath visited u.s. or, caught in d
snow storm while struggling home, eye
brows and beard and apparel all GOV.
cred with the whrling flakes, We
would cry ou with David Wash mt
and I shall be whittier than snow" Ir
picture gallery o. Europe there is OF
the cehing an exquisite fresco, but .ht
people having TO look straight up, u
wearieL and dizZied them and bent the'
necks almost beyond endurance, so q
floor, and now visitors need only Il
look easily down into this mirror, ant
they see the fresco at their feet. An(
so, much of the high heaven Of God''
mirror, and things that are above ar,
copied by things around US
What right have we to throw ava!
one of Gods Bibles--aye. the first Bi
bic he ever gave the race? We tall
about the Old Testameas and the New
Testament, but the oldest testamen
contains the lessons of the natura
world. Some people like the New Tes
lament 30 well, they discard the Oh,
Testament. Shall We like the New Tes
lament and the Old Testament 50 wei
that which was written before Nose
: as to depreciate the Oldest namely
was put afloat on the boat of leave
which was calked with asphaltum--o
, reject the Genesis that was written cen
turies before Adam lost a rib and gain
ed a wife? No, no! When Deit
stoops down and writes on the groun
! let us read It.
would have no less appreciation Il
: the Bible on paper that comes out u
the paper mill. but would urge ap
probation of the Bible In the grass, tn
Bible in the sand hill, the Bible In tn
] geranum, the Bible In the asphodel, tn
! Bible In the dust. Some one asked
! ancient king whether he had seen tn
g eclipse OF the sun. NO." said he. u
] have 80 much 10 study on earth l hav
no time to look at heaven" And
our faculties were all awake In tn
J. study Of God we would not have tim
' TO go much farther than the first gras