The Penn's Grove record., 1901-12-27
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night that God honored the fields. Cont

night that God honored the fields. Cont
in, shepherd boys, to Bethlehem and ser
>the child. mol" they say I'VE are nol
dressed good enough. to come in" "Ies
you are; come in" Sure enough, th'
storms and the night dew and the bram
bles have made rough work with their ap
parel. but none has a better right to CONT
in. They were the first to hear the mus1t
of that Christmas night. The first an
nouncement of a Saviours 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, maj have thought
that they ought TO have had the first news
of such a great event, some one dlsmount.
ing from a swift camel at their door ana
knocking till at some sentinels question,
"Who comes there?" the great ones of the
palace might have been told Of the eeles.
tial arrival. No; the shepherds heard the
first two bars of the music, the first in the
major KEY and the last in the subdued mi
nor, "Glory to God in the highest and on
earth peace, good will to menl" All, yes,
the fields were honoredi
The old shepherds with plaid and crook
have for the most part vanished, but we
have grazing on our United States pasture
fields and prairie about 10000 0 sheep,
and all their keepers ought TO follow the
shepherds of my text, and all those who
toll in fields, all vine dressers, all orchard"
lists. all husbandmen. Not only that Christ
mas night, but all up and dow the world's
history God has been honoring the fields.
Nearly all the messiahs Of reform and lit
erature and eloquence and law and benev-
olence nave come from the fields, Wash
ington from the fields. Jefferson from the
fields. The Presidential martyrs, Garfield
and Lincoln and Mckinley, from the
fields. Daniel Webster from the fields.
Martin Luther from the fields. Before
this world is right the overlooking popu'
lations of our crowded cities will have to
take to the fields. Instead of ten mer-
chants in rivalry as to who shall sell that
one apple we want at least eight OF them
to go out and raise apples. Instead OF ten
merchants desiring to sell that one bushei
of wheat, we want at least eight OF them
to 90 out and raise wheat. The world
wants now more hard hands, more bronzed
cheeks, more muscular arms, 10 the helds!
God honored them when He woke up the
shepherds by the midnight anthem, and
honor the fields. When the shepherds
crook was that famous night stood against
the, -+4ll of the Bethlehem khan, it was q
prJ Nleey Of the time when thrasher's tlali
AZ farmers plow and woodman's axe
AID ox's yoke and sheaf binders rake shall
surrender to the God who made the coun-
try, as man made the town,
Behold, also, that on that, CHRISTMAS
hight Cod honored motherhood; Two an
ibls on their wings might have brought an
nfant-saviour to Bethlehem without
Mapss being there at all. When the vi,
Iagers on the morning Of December %
awoke. by divine arrangement and IN some
unexplained way the child Jesus might
have been found in some comfortable era
die of the village. But no, no! Mother
hood for all time was to be consecrated,
and one of the tenderest re9tions was to
be the maternal relation af1 one OF the
sweetest words, mother" In all ages
God has honored good motherhood, John
Wesley had a good mother; st. Bernard
had a good mother; Doddridge, a good
mother; Walter Scott, a good mother;
BENJAMIN West, a good mother. In q
great audience, most of whom were Chris
tians, | asked that all those who had been
blessed of Christian mothers ARISE, ana
almost the entire assembly stood up. DO
Won not see how important it is that AZ
motherhood be conseerated? Why dld II;
tan, the Italian artist, when he sketche5
the Madonna make it an ltahan laeet
Whv did Rubens, the German artist, "
His Madonna make it a German faeee
Why did Joshua Reynolds, the Engllish
artist, in his Madonna make 1t an EinglSh
fp~~7 Why did