The age-herald., 1901-12-29

Do not say, it Is only a child" Rather say, 'It is only an immortal" It is only a masterpiece of Jehovah. It is only a being that shall outlive sun and moon and star and ages quadriennial. God has infinite resources, and he can give pres ents of great value, but when he wants to give the richest people gift to household he looks around all the worlds and all the universe and then gives child. Yea, in all ages God has hon ored childhood. He makes almost every picture a failure unless there be child either playing on the floor or looking through the window or seated on the lap gazing into the face of the mother
 It was a child in Naaman's kitchen that told the great Syrian warrior where he might go and get cured of the leprosy which at his seventh plunge in the Jor dan was left at the bottom of the river. It was to the cradle of leaves in which a child was lain, rocked by the Nile, that God called the attention of history. It was a sick child that evoked Christ's s | curative sympathes. It was a child that | Christ set in the midst of the squab- bling disciples to teach the lesson of humility. A child decided Waterloo, show ing the army of Butcher how it could take a short cut through the fields when If the old road had been followed, the Prussian general would have come up too late to save the destnies of Europe. It was a child that decided Gettysburg, he having overheard two Confederate gen. erals in a conversation in which they decided to march for Gettsyburg instead of Harrisburg, and. this reported to Gov ernor Curtin. the Federal forces start ed to meet their opponents at Gettsyburg And today the child Is to decide all the great battles. make all the laws, settle all the destinies and usher in the world 8 salvation or destruction Men, women nations, all earth and all heaven, be- l hold the childl
 A Tribute to 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 boors, not ignoramuses but Caspar. Balthasar and Melchior. men who knew all that was to be known 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 mother of our magnificent astronomy. and when I see these sientists lowing before the beautiful babe I see the proph- ecy of the time when all the telescopes anu microscopes, ana all. the Leyden Jars and all the electric batteries, and all the observatories, and all tbe universi- ties shall bow to Jesus. It is much that way already. Where is the, college that does not have morning prayers, thus lowing at the manager? Who have been the greatest physicians? Quitting the names of the living lest we should be invidous, have we not had among them Christian men like James Y. Simpson ID
 crombie and Abernethy? Who have been our greatest 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, be- fore we study these rocks let us pray for wisdom to the God who made the rocks" All geology will yet bow before the Rock of Ages. All botany will yet worship the Rose of Sharon. All astron-
 omy will yet recognize the Star of Bethlehem.