The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1921-04-28
X IN III HOME

"And He went down with them and
came to Nazareth and was subject to
them" The home at Nazareth was
the home of God; 1t sheltered God UNI
der its roof. And the three most emil
nent characteristics of God are His
sanctity, His activity and His love, and
the home from which any or all these
attributes are wanting cannot be a
home modelled after the home Of
Christ. 1t is not an exaggeration to
say that those homes wherein the
members of the family rise in the
morning or lie down at night without
anf word or only a very hurried word
of praise or thanksgiving to the Great
God who watched Owe them while
they slept and shielded them while
they worked or played, literally close
the door-lock, bar and bolt 1t, lest
God should ever enter Those who will
not ask it humbly in the sublime pray
err of Jesus are unworthy of receiving
from Him their daily bread. There are
others, too, who easily and regularly
remain away from church; in vain
Christ opens His hear to receive
them; they are deaf to every pleading
to every warning until such time az
God, weary of being forever turned
away, sends them other visitors whom
they cannot refuse, poverty, sickness,
disease, despair, death, and then they
blaspheme the God they have forgot
ten. And it is into these Goddess
homes where prayers are scant and
where religion is not to be found, n a
sins, the ugly sins, find entrance and
abound. In hat home of Our Divine
Lord there were none of those miseries
SO coomon to many homes calling
themselves Christian among us. Dis
cord, anger, bitteress, those fell sins OF
demons, never disturbed its peace.
The nameless sin cast its blight
ing shadow over its threshold. lntem-
perance never cursed it. And yet the
home of Nazareth was poor, and power
ty in our lands is so hideous, so ter
rible that one would almost dread 70
lift the veil hat shrouds the plain,
poor dwelling place Of Christ. But we
need not fear, for it's Queen, is no
squalid being, accustomed to vain pre-
tence or to idle gossip, not a woman to
look without a pang on unwashed dish
es or unswept fioors-she was forever
at work; morning and evening her feet
had worn a pathway to the fountain
which still bears her name; tradition
has told us how she spun and wove
and stitched and mended the garments
of her Divine Son, and it was hel
queen-like hands that washed and
scrubbed, cooked and busted, while
Jesus and Joseph spent their day in
the workshop.
Christ Was A Worker
At no period of the worlds histor,
as in our own times, has the word o
the Apostle come true: eff a maj
labor not, neither shall he eat" Neve1
was work of such imperative neces
sity, yet at the same time v wa
there such a shifting of the response
bility. "Ye shall be as Gods Was par
of the original temptation, and though
the race is condemned to toll as par
of the original punishment. gods W
would remain, born to rule and reign
but none to work. He, however, tina
! among us was so human and God with
al laid down a different law for Him
self. He was known as the carpenter
, son before He indicated to Himsel
the proud title of King OF the jews
This may seem a matter OF small cor