The Alaska citizen., 1916-03-20
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THE EDUCATION OF JESUS.

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 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, end in favor with God and man" Luke 2:52.
 The ancient historian failed to record the early happenings of the child. but began his writing at some point in the life of the man when he had set out to inaugurate q grand achievement, else had ac- complished the task of his life This accounts for the faCi of the silent years In the life of Jesus. The view poirt of the modern his torian is quite different He traccs the htdings of power back to the cradle and even before the child is born The explanation of th, early wealth and teachings of Wash ington is the ariStO, racy Of his ai ter life Lincolns great influence takes rise from the humble SUI" roundings of q log cabin. We know that education can do much, but it cannot do everything. Knowledge can change the size but not the sort of soil Once rose alwaya a rose: once a thorn always a thorn Everything great in the lof- ty ak was great in the seed. Things that begin little will remain little and things that are completed great were great in the beginning.
 It is difficult to find the great den for 50 many years the doings of his growing life. we wonder from whence will come the facts that shall show his education. Yet he possessed them. Rosseau said ".lf the death Of Socrates be that of a sage. the lifa and death of Jesus are those Of God Napoleon said. Jesus was more than man N1.NsuGpr. Caesar. Charlemagne and myself founded great empires, but upon what? Upon force Jesus alone founded His empire upon love and to this day millions would die for Him." The weight of the air is If pounds to the square inch, and it is so evenly divided that neither the violet nor the mountain is crushed. The weight of Jesus pow CT was not to crush, but wings tc inspire and lift
 l. The mother of Jesus madc Him deeply religious. Science has a proyerb tha. every great man has . distineuished mother This is born' out on abundant proof. Moder jurisprudence takes it's rise in the laws of Moses, but Moses career began with a mother who saw st much of good in her son that shc defied the mandate of tie king an, kept him alive. The task of choos ing his successor was SD profoundly felt by Paul that he finds it's so lution in the mother and grand mother of Timothy. Goethe is giye1 10 the world as his mother writer large" Lord Byron was shiI driven with the winds, but yet he left to the world many of the gooo thoughts of his mother. If you would discover the secret of Jesus religion read Mary's hymn, He son was over;aken by death at but little past 30; His mother was less than 50; during the rest of hel days she comforted herself with the rich passages in the Old Testa ment Have you a revored father a religious mother who spent much time with the Bible? Then use that knowledge to know how Mary $ life influenced the life of her child That she was unique and gifted nc scholar can doubt. Character l. growth; as ir building the templ6 no sound of the hammer is heard The great forces are wrought by gravity and sunshine, but out o1 them come the fruits and grains tc feed the world. Under the jnflu ence of His mother Jesus increased in wisdom and in favor with God and man.
 IT. The rabbi and the synagogue had much to do for the education of Jesus. The land was under the rule of a foreign power, which fac' drove the people to patriotism. They looked forward to the time wher they would be free again Roman soldiers were Quartered in NaZa reth. The city was divided 1T wards, each with a synagogue. Here the children were taught on the Sabbath and during the week, ant their religion was the foundation of all their knowledge, Every bo! was expected to commit to memor, Moses story of the Creation, tho story of Joseph's coat and BenJa minis cup, the story of David ant Saul and Samson, the laws of Moses the great Psalms, the sublime pas sages of Isaiah. But education | not knowledge alone, it is knowledg saturated in great desire. We see in the eleventh chapter of the He brews-that chapter of marvelou records of the deeds of faith of me- who dared and won, and we woul say women, too. To our eterna