The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-04-02
II We Want TO Do Good.

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!. He was subject unto them.-Lukc H..
After the birth OF Christ silence falls
upon His life. His boyhood has no
record. His youth not vestige of
history. Once In all these years we
see Him In the Temple, and then
Mary's voice calls Him home. He
goes back to Nazareth, and the story
OF His life to His thirtieth year Is
written where? Nowhere on earth
save in the heart of His mother.
Why this silence? Jesus was pre-
pairing for His great work in the OBJ
scurity OF poor, mean cottage, find
toward two Of His own creatures full
scope for the exercise of every vir-
tue. He did this to lay deep the foun-
dations Of school where men might
learn to sanctify themselves as He
has done-the school Of the Christian
home.
Christ chose to spend thirty years
out of His limited thirty-three in du-
ties and simple labors OF apparently
commonplace and trivial order. He
elected to live in this manner in or
der to prove emphatically the prime
means Of attaining the most lofty spir-
ituality. Simple means are these, and
well within the reach Of all mankind; !;
nor can any man complain OF want Of
opportunity in the attainment of per-
lection. since it Is his birthright. com
ing to him at the cradle and at his
mothers knee
II is hess, at the root OF things, that
man must begin his true work in the
requirement of solid virtue; here in
the practice OF homely acts of pa
tience and courtesy, Of charity and
good example.
1t is the business of every man to
do good. Lofty projects for the bet
terment of the human race are all
very we'll It is the natural tendency
Of the young heart and Of the lover Of
Justice to strive to right the wrongs
of the downtrodden and by shout and
stroke to redress all grievances.
These are the outpourings of uncor-
rupt human nature, and should be
preserved at all coats But the more
difticult attainments. such as self-con-
troll and self-puridcation, must take the
lead. else the audacious reformer
brings down upon his head a merited
contempt. Lip service without fair
practice accompanying it bears no
fruit.
When man is as well-nigh per
feet as a man can be, then, and only
then, is he fit to take up the battle
axe and cleavc successfully with 1t.
He that has filed his immediate In
ner circle Of life with the light OF his
graciousness and has made the hearts
under his rooftree to sing with glad
ness may justly and confidently turn
to the great universal family and en-
ter upon the world combat equipped
in an armor that has been tempered
and forged at his own domestic fires.
No man ever came into this world
with so full knowledge and keen a
of the needs of suffer.
ing humanity as did Christ, the all
wise; no one has loved with as tender
a love or had greater power to con-
quer the enemy. unframed and unpre-
pared, than He, since He needed no
Yet how did He act?
Did He rush out unprepared. or did
He choose to make of Himself liv-
ing example? The Scripture explains
It in three words; He was subject
to them" Subject to Joseph, the car
penter. and to young and almost
childlike mother; subject to the CON
ditions Of a lowly life and to such
everyday duties as fall to the lot Of
all men; content to do all things, both
great and small. but to do them per-
Richard Hamilton.