The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1917-07-05
THE DEVILS HARDEST FIGHT
FOR A ROY

Let us think together four pane
pictures Of one human life. In oul
first panel we will think the picture
of a baby boy, a founding, an out
cast child Of slavery, just lifted by
kings daughter from water
tight basket found among the reeds
Of a rivers brink. She is handing
the child TO a slave nurse, not know
ing that she is the baby's mother
Take this child and nurse IL for
me-" In the second panel let us
paint that same Moses, now grown
10 full manhood. standing on rocky
peak of Mount Sinai, amid thunder
and tightening and tempest, receiv-
ing Gods Law for the world in rays
Of light poured into his brain. Our
third panel is Raphaels picture OF the
TRANSPORTATION, showing Moses and
Elijah, just come from the court OF
Heaven as delegates to the earthly
coronation OF Christ. In our fourth
panel let us picture the Heavenly
choir singing 1.-THE song Of Moses
and Of the Lamb" in which Moses
is recognized greatest Of human
characters.
Under these panels let us write
in burning gold: what II Means to
Save a Child"
And now let us look again at our
third panel, to learn How to Save q
"Teen-age' Boy. In this painting
by Raphael, most people have fixed
their eyes on the TRANSPORTATION OF
Christ as a theological display OF
His divinity, and have thought the
picture below il of the demoniac
boy, healed the next morning as
Jesus came down from the Mount,
a mere bit Of artists license or a
curious marginal note. But a careful
look will show that the Transfigura-
ton Of Christ is not the foreground
of the picture. II is rather the
power behind the scene. The fore
ground, occupying two-thirds Of the
picture, is the demoniac boy, trans
figured into agony and hideousness
and misery by the devil, with whom
he is struggling for deliverance, in
vain.
The nine lesser apostles, to whom
the father had brought his boy for
healing while their Master was in
the Mount Of TRANSPORTATION, have
proved too weak in faith to over
match the demons. However, An
drew is pointing up-that is what
a teacher would call "the point OF
contact" in the picture-Andrew is
saying: 20 boy, you cannot save
with all your struggles
without the help of Jesus Christ.
And you, the parents, cannot alone
save your boy. Nor can you, the
kindly neighbors. Nor can we
save him. But the Savior King
yonder, and the men of Vision who
have prayed with Him in the Holy
Mount, they shall come and save
your boy"
Jesus comes, and the excited
crowd and defeated apostles and
haggling scribes stand back awe
struck at the glory, of his face and
form. But the father comes for
ward saying, with tears in his tones:
Master, | brought my devil-pos-
'essed boy to your apostles, and they
could not deliver him. If thou
'anst do anything, have compassion
md save my boy Jesus answers.
If thou canst-all things are posi-
DE to him that believeth." The
ather responds: II believe; help
hou my weak faith" Jesus says,
Bring the boy to me-"
When the boy is brought TO
,hrist, the devil makes one last des-
,erate fight TO hold him-throws
lin into a fit after fit-the DEVILS
hardest fight for a boy. But Jesus
avs in the voice that commands all
Thou evil spirit come out
4 him and enter no more into him.
Is Jesus took him by the hand
hen came, no doubt, another trans
guratiOn OF the boy, probably not
o sudden but gradual. "Beholding
s with open face the glory of the
ord we are changed into the same
mage, from character to character
Girls Not All Angels
Let il not be assumed from this
tory that all boys are devils, and
II girls angels. AT least one Bible
was a girl or woman
larry Magdalene. We are told she
vas not a Magdalene at all, but she
must have needed close watching
1hen the "seven devils" were in
er. Many girls now seem TO be
assessed OF seven devils; the devil
( immodest dress, the devil Of sug-
estive songs, the devil OF salacious
Magazines, the devil Of vampire pic
lres, the devil Of lewd shows, the