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the dead young man and ri'alized him
ard said 10 the Widowed! mother:
"Iiere he is. alive and well!" and she
cried: MY boy, my boy!' and he re-
sponded: "Aiolher, mother" Aud the
sea. tossing too roughly, some OF His
friends, by a word easier than 4
nurses word TO a p~ctulant child, lie
made 1t keep still. The very judge who
for other reasons allowed lliu, to be
put TO death, declared: II find no
fault in Him." Was there ever a life
80 thoroughly ransacked ana hyper
criticised that turned out to be so per.
feet q life? Now. can you imagine
what would have been the calamity TO
earth and Heaven, what n bereavement
10 NIL history, what swindiing not only
OF the human race, but of the cherubim
and seraphim and srchangcl, II because
of Internal incursion upon the bed Of
that Bethlehem Babe this life OF Divine
and glorious manhood had never been
lived? The Christie parables would
never have been uttered, the sermon on
the mount, all adrip with benedictions,
never preached, the golden rule, in pie.
turc frame of everlasting love, would
never have been hung up for the uni
verse to gaze upon and admire.
Can YOU imagine what a specification
| Of the worlds literature would be the
re moysl of all Christ ever did and said?
I, would tear down the most important
shelves Of yonder congressional library,
ard OF the vatican library, and of Brit
ish museum, ind Berlin aud Bonn ard
| Vieuna and Madrid and st. Petersburg
! libraries, and st. panl's life would haye
| been a. impossibility, and his epistles
would never have been written. and s:
John, from the basaltic caverns Of
| Patmos, would never have heard the
seven trumpets or seen the heavenly
wall with IL layeN OF l'iumined crystar
!!xatlon. Oh, wise men OF the east. /
am SO glad you did not report to the m
perial s%coundrel at Jerusalem wher'
the babe was. for the hounds would have
soon torn to pieces the Lamb, and | am
SO glad that not only did you bring the
frankincense and the myrrb TO the
room in that c%aravansary, hui that yon
brought the gold which paid his irnve.-
lug EXPENSES aud these Of joseph and
Mary in that long and daugerou. fight
to Cairo, In Egypt, and paid the r lodg-
irg and board there and paid their way
t-.-.-, vp,,, 80 - -
barn Of the S%aviour's nativity tn
flowers, for they aromatized the dread
full atmosphere OF the stables. but thu
geld was lust Then the most lmpcrtan;
offering. So now the Lord accepts
your ave for they are The pe,fum,
OF Heaven. but lie asks also for The yo.a
which will nav the EXPENSES OF taking
Chris, to ali nations.
c.u,
row escape which you aud [ and the
world had in The diversion Of the per.
~spcutors from the place Of nativity, ie,
me say that had that lIerodic raid upon
the s~waddling clothes been successful,
the world would never have known the
value of a righteous peace. Much has
been made OF the fact that the world
YVES at peace when Christ came, Yes |
But what kind of a PEACE was 1t? 1t
was a peace worse than war. II was tn,
peace of a graveyard. The Romat
eagles had plucked out the worlds eye
s!vht and plunged their bcaks through
the heart Of dead nations. Ii was
peace like that spoken of by adyirg In.
dian chiefta'n when a Christian homs
missionary said to him: "You bay.
been a warrior and I suppose have been
in many feuds, but you must be al
with all your enemies in order TO die
Alright" The dying chieftain replied;
That's easy enough. l am al peace
with al, my enemies, for | have Killed
ali Of them"
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