The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-03-12
MADAME MOUNTFORD
MADE fine ADDRESS
ON CHILDHOOD
OF JESUS

The Cumberland Presbyterian
church was filled with eager listen
ers last night when Madam Mount
ford stepped on the platform to de-
liTer her lecture on the Childhood
oil Jesus. And for more than an
four the audience, in respectful si
lehee. drank in the wonderful mes
sage that she gave.
Little Miss Beatrice Pickard.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. A. f.
flckard. of our city, was her able
assistant. wearing the costumes and
representing Jewish boy of IL or
IL years. These garments were
similar to those worn by our Lord
when boy Of ~, He conversed with
the doctors of the law in the temple.
Madam Mountford gave a vivid de-
So tription of a scene in Bethlehem
during the season of the tax-gather.
ing, Tor to such "A tax-gathering
Mary. the mother of Jesus had gone
wren the Holy Child was born in
bethlehem, on the property of his
Royal mother, which property had
been handed down from her ances-
TO" King David.
She told of the alteration of the
shepherds who came to see the young
child, each bringing a young lamb as
a gift to Him, the King of the Shep-
herds; the joy of the donkey boys
and others of the khan who each
came to worship and make a gift to
the Babe Jesus. who, because He was
norn in the stable portion of the inn.
was claimed by the public and
adored as the child of all And then.
she told of the men of wondrous wis
dom who came from all parts If the
world, but of the three who came
from Persia she made particular
mention, enc of wnom brought the
crown of the kings of Persia, as the
Christ was a direct descendant of
Queen Esther and King Ahasuerus of
the Medes and Persians, thus repre-
scnting the royalty of the werld in
worship before the Son of God. The
second was Magian priest, repre-
senting the priesthood OF the world
in alteration before the Mighty
Counsellor. And the third was the
representative of the science OF the
wefld, bCwing before the Living
Word who was before the foundation
of the world. nhus, at the birth Of
the Lord. the governments. the re-
ligions and the sciences of the world
mot t. ether in alteration of the
Holy Son of God, who was the last
CT the kings of David's line and who
relies in the hearts Of men today.
and whose kingdom shall never
cease. Her description of the presen-
taticn of the infant Jesus in the
temple was made very real when she
portrayed the offering of the child
by the Virgin Mary, priestess of the
temple. as the Lamb of God that was
to take away the sin of the world.
and the reply Of Simeon who re-
ioiced that he had been permitted
to see the day of the promised Mes
s,ah.
As the closing scene Madam
Ionntford and Miss Pickard gave a
description Of the schools of the law,
as taught by the doctors in the tenn
pie. II was in this school that the
Child Jesus wss found by his mother
when she and Joseph returned to
Jerusalem in search of Him. And
there it was that Mary took Him
under her protection when lie
used the anger of the doctors by
His claim of kinship with Cod. the
Father. when lie said: "wist ye not
that / must be about my Fathers
business?"
To quote Madam MOuntford.
And the legends tell us that when