The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-12-26
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that.
They can go through more perils and
fall from more heights and stumble into
| more holes and cough with more influen-
zas and endure more earaches and suffer
with more runrounds and burn with more
fevers and get through not permanently
damaged. How many children 20 through
all the accidents OF childhood without
an eye dimmed or limb fractured or
finger broken? Every healthy boy Is
miracle Of divine protection. Be thank
full, all parents, that it is SO and trust
your darlings under what the book of
Ruth calls the ''wings Of the Almighty"
Nearly all cradles pass under six old
fashioned ailments. 1t always has been
90. They may be called by different
names, but we all had them, and we got
through, and yours, | hope, will get
through. Young mothers, be not af-
frighted. Through the clouds Of invalid
ism lowering over your cradles catch
little Of this sunshine of consolation.
The Starting Place.
Another CLEAN Of light scattering some
Of the gloom of that Christie pillow in
Bethlehem was the fact that it was the
stnrting place Of the most wonderful Of
all careers. Looking at Christ's life from
mere worldly standpoints, it was amaz-
ing beyond all capacity of pen or tongue
or canvas to express. Without taking
years curriculum in any college, or even
a day at any school, yet saying things
that the mightiest intellects Of SUISSE
quent days have quoted and tried to ex-
stnr ,N,Iy1 has fov
the most part been the result of much
elaboration. Edmund Burke rcwrote the
conclusion Of his speech against Warren
Hastings 16 times Lord Brougham re-
wrote his speech in behalf Of Queen Car
oline 20 times, but the sermon on tho
mount seemed extemporaneous. Christ
! was eloquent without ever having studied
one of the laws of oratory. He was the
greatest orator that ever lived. 1t was
not an eloQucnce Domostbenic or Cice.
ronic or like that of Jean Baptiste Mas.
sillon or like that which William Writ,
himself great orator, was overcome
with in log cabin meeting houses of Vir-
GINA when the blind preacher cried out
in his sermon. Socrates died like phi
losopher, but Jesus Christ died like
God"
Christ's oratory was unlike anything
that went before or came after. Even
the criticism of the world said. Never
man spake like this man." Dramatic?
Why, he took up a child out of the au-
dience and set him on table and by the
embarrassed look Of the child taught
humility. He sent the prosecutors of
poor, sinful woman, blushing and con-
founded. out of the room by one sentence
of sarcasm. Notice his power of en-
phasis and enunciation when he revealed
himself after his resurrection by the
peculiar way he pronounced the one word
Mary" His power of look shown by
the way Peter, the great apostle. wilted
under it. The book says. "The Lord
turned and looked upon Peter" 1t was
nm omnipotent facial expression. He
looked upon Peter. Power of distinct
utterance, so that every one could hear.
"He opened his mouth. saying" No
mumbling and indistinct utterance. He
opened his mouth. His voice. which had
been developed by open air speaking, was
resonant and sonorous voice. or he
would not have taken the top of the
rocks of the Mount of Beatitudes for a
pulpit, for that pulpit is so high, as | de-
clare from observation. that no speaker
that l have ever known could have from
that point made any audience hear one
word Of sermon.
His power OF hyperbole: A camel try
ing to crowd its hump through the eye of
a sewing woman's needle and all that
learned talk about gate called the "nee-
dies eye," only belittling the hyperbole.
Power of sarcasm: The hypocrite styled
by him 'the whole who need not ply
sician." His power of peroration: The
crashing of the timbers Of the poorly
built house Oh the beach of the Mediter-
ranean. Power to take advantage of Cir |
cumstances: When an auditor asked him |
whether they ought to pay taxes to Cn- |
sar, Christ practically said, If any gem |
tleman in this audience has in his pocket |
Roman penny, wish lie would just |
hand it up to me-" And some one hand |
ed him penny such as you can now find |
in some of the museums, the diverse of |
it bearing the face of Tiberius, the EN-
pcror, and the reverse the words "Ponti- |
fex Maxmus," the other title of the EN-
peror, and then came the overwhelming |
answer of Christ, Render to Cesar the |
things that are Casar's and to God the |
things that are Gods" Magnetic and |
epigrammatic this insured peasant! Use
less attempts he declares as "pearls cast |
before swine;" unimportant results he de-
scribes MS the attempt to gather figs of |
thistles." Allegories! Why, the para
bles are all alIegories, and how he flung
them out upon his audiences, whole arm
fuls of amethysts and emeralds and da-
monds and rubics!
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