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was sick child that evoked Christ's cur
alive sympsthies. 1t was child that
Christ set in the midst of the squabbling
disciples to teach the lesson Of humility,
A child decided Waterloo, showing the
army of Butcher how they could take
short cut through the fields when if the
old road had been followed the Prussian
general would have come up too late 10
save the destinies Of Europe. 1t was
child that decided Gettysburg, he having
overheard two Confederate generals in
conversation in which they decided TO
march for Gettysburg instead of Harris
burg, snd this reported to Gov. Curtin,
the Federal forces started TO meet their
opponents at Gettysburg. And to-day
the child is TO decide all the great bat
ties, make all the laws, settle all the DIES
TIMES and usher in the worlds salvation
or destruction. Men, women. nations. all
earth and all heaven, behold the child!
Gods Honored Science.
Notice also that in this Bible night
scene God honored science. Who are the
three wise men kneeling before the Di
vine Infant? Not Doors, not ignoramusses
but Caspar, Balthasar and Melchor. men
NAV hhNN an tHdA WAS "a NR AHbM H.
They were the Isaac NewtOns and Her
schels and Faradays of their time Their
alchemy was the forerunner of our sub
lime chemistry, their astrology the moth
or OF our magnificent astronomy. And
when ! see these scientists bowling before
the beautiful babe | see the prophecy of
the time when all the telescopes and mi
croscopcs and all the Leyden jars and all
the electric batteries and all the ohserva-
tories and all the universities shall bow TO
Jesus. Il Is much that way already
Where is the college that does not have
morning prayers, thus bowinc at the
mangerE Who have been the greatest
physiciansf Omitting the names Of the
living lest we should be invidiouS have
We not had among them Christian men
like James Y. Simpson and Rush and
Valentine Mott and Abcrcrombe and
Ahernethy? Whao have been our great
est scientists? Joseph Henry, who lived
and died in the faith of the gospels and
Agassiz, who, standing with his students
among the hills. took off his hat and said,
Young gentlemen, before we study these
rocks let as pray for wisdom to the God
who made the rocks" All geology will
yet bow before the Rock of Ages All
botany will yUt worship the Rose of Sha-
ron. All astronomy will yet recognize The
Star of Bethlehem.
Behold also in that first Christmas
night that God nonored the fields. Come
in, shepherd boys, TO Bethlehem and see
the child. No." they say; I'VE are not
dressed good enough to come in" "Yes,
you are. Come in" Sure enough. the
storms and the night dew and the BRAN
bles have made rough work with their
apparel, but none has better right 70
come IN. They were the first to hear the
music of that Christmas night. The first
announcement of a Savior's birth was
made to those men in the fields. There
were wiseacres that night in Bethlehem
and Jerusalem snoring in deep sleep, and
there were salaried officers OF government
Who, hearing Of it afterward. may have
thought that they ought 10 have had the
first news of such a great event, some one
dismounting from swift camel AT their
door and knocking till at some sentineFs
question, who comes thereT' the great
ones of the palace might have been told
of the celestial arrival. No; the shep-
herds heard the first two bars Of the mu-
sic. the first in the major key and the
last in the subdued minor, GLORY TO God
in the highest and on earth peace, good
will TO men, All, yes, the fields were
hOnored.
Following the Shepherds.
The old shepherds, with plaid and
crook, have Tor the most part vanished,
but we have grazing on our United States
pasture fields and prairie about $1,000
600 sheep, and all their keepers ought to
follow the shepherds OF my text and All
those who toll in fIelds vine dresscrs.
all Orchardists, all hushandmen. Not 6nly
that Christmas night, but all ND and
down the worlds history. God has been
hon0ring the fields. Nearly all the mes
slabs Of reform and literature and clio
quence and law and benevocnce have
come from the fields. Washington from
the fields, Jefferson from the fields. The
presidential martyrs. Garfield and Lin
coin and Mckinley, from the fields. Hen
Ty Clay from the FIELDS. Daniel Webster
from the fields. Martin Luther from the
fields. Before this world is right the
overlooking populations Of our crowded
cities will have to take to the fields. In
'NN"N ~ Afh hiNi haiLS ~ lIhhiEN as 10
who shall sell that one apple we want at
least eight Of them 10 go out and raise
apples. Instead of ten merchants dcsir-
ing TO sell that one bnshcl Of wheat we
want AZ least eight Of them to go out aud
raise wheat. The world wants now more
hafd hands, more bronzed checks. more
muscular arms. 10 the fields, God hon
orcd them when he woke MP The shen-
herds lay the midnight anthem. and he
VIII while the world lasts continue 20
honor he fields When the Shepherds
crook was that famous night stood
against the wall Of the Bethlehem khan.
it was a prophecy Of the time when
ihrasher's fail and farmers pow and
woodlands AK and ox's yoke and sbeaf
binders rake shall surrender 10 tho God
who made the country as man made The
town.
Behold also that on that Christmas
night God honored motherhood. Two an
gels on their wings might have brought
an infant Savior TO Bethlehem without
Mary's being there at all. When the vii
ayers on the morning OF Dec. ~ awoke,
~ divine arrangement and in some unex-