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MWrim CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1889. (S Wj f Fremont, lilkhorn ft Mo. Valley :rnaj::lj33,o.a.:d. BBI HH fjr Operates nml con trol lt own icrvlcc between ' LINCOLN, NEIL, and OMAHA, CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE, SIOUX CITY MINNEAPOLIS anii ST. PAUL. W" ThrmiRh Tickets and llKKRe Checked to II point in United Butt ami Canada. Vestibule Hleeer, Palatial Dining Cm nml Union DroU. CITY TICKET OKK1CK I 115 South 10th street, - Lincoln Oi:0. N. IXMlKHMAN, Agent, II.Q. Hl'RT, J.K. IIitiuman, Uriieral M'Krr. Omi'I I'M. Ag't OMAHA, NKII. Titt ON SALE TO .AJCjXj PRINCIPAL POINTS EAST, WEST, NORTH and SOUTH -JVT- 1044 O STREET. PAST MAIL ROUTE ! 2 DAILY TRAINS 2 TO Atchison, Leavenworth, St. Joseph, Knnias City, St. Louts and all points South, East and Wert. The direct line to Ft. Scott, Parsons, Wichita, Hutchinson and all principal point In Kaunas. The only rond to the Great Hot Springs of Arkansas. Pullman Sleepers and Free Kkclininu Ciiaik Cars an all train. I. G. HAHNA, R. P. R. MILLAR, City Tkt Agent, Gcn'l Agent. cor. uana um sic 7 ' 5s 'Milwaukee, 'gZMll . k-'oi 5 if a ami opernt es S.100 mile of thoranshly quipped roml In Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota and Dakota. It ti the Hct Direct lloute Ihiiwiii all the Principal Points In the Northwest, Pouthwewi and Fur Went For maps, time tables, rate of imxnigo and freight, etc., apply to uenrest mat Ion agent nl CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE A ST. PAUL It All. way, or to any Railroad Agent anywhere lu the world. K. MILLER, A. V. II. CARPENTER, General M'g'r. cn'l Pas. AT'kt Ant. 1 U M li, GEO. II. IlKAKFOKD, U (Jen' Mgr. At. O. I. A T, Ant. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. MFor Information In reicrvii, t .and ndTown owned by tlto CIiIchkii, Milwau kee A HI. l'uul Hnllwnv t'onimtnv.wrte lo II. C. HAU(iAN,Ijnd CoiiiiuWIoner.MlllwnHkee Wisconsin. LLVLLLLLLLr'LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLtLLLLD nm JESDS AS A BOY. SERMON PREACHED DV DR. TA.LMAQE SUNDAY, JUNE 0, 1889. Ha DrsrrlWs ClirUt m n Village t-ml, nml Holds That tli I-nnl'i Clinrartrr Then Was Ilia Bnmt n WJii tin Wiu A Man. UuooKl.VN, Juno t. A vast conrourso of people, filling nil the nvnllnblo place. Joined in the o-hmiIiir doxolng) nt Brooklyn Tnlwr nacle this morning. The (witnr. the Eo T Do Witt Tnlnmgo, D. I) , expounded tlio pas snge In John nlout the unwritten work of ChrUt which tho world Itself could not linvo contained. The subject of l)r Tnlumgo's sermon wan "ClirUt, tho Village Ud." Ho took for hi text l.tiko II, -10' "Ami tho child grew, mid waxed strong In spirit, filled with wisdom, mid tho grnce of Ood wan upon him.'' Tbo preacher nld About ClirUt as a village lad Itpcnk. Thero U for tho ntott part a sllonco moro tlmn clgh teen ccnturlet long about Christ between in fancy and manhood. What kind of n boy wa hot Wat ho a gcnulno boy nt nil, or did there settle upon hint from tho start all tho Intensities of martyrdom I Wo havo on this subject only a littlo guessing, n few surmlsos, hero and thcro an unlniortaut "iierhaps. Concerning what bounded that boyhood on both sldos wo hnvo wholo libraries of books and wholo galleries of canvas and sculpture. Before tho Infant Christ In Mary's arms, or taking his first sleep In tho rough outhouse, all tho painters bow, and wo hnvo Paul Veronese's "Holy Family," nnd Pcruglno's "Nativity," and Angolico da Flcsolo's "In fant Christ," and Rubens' "Adoration of tho Magi," and Tintorot's "Adoration of tho Magi," nnd Chlrlandjo's "Adoration of tbo Magi," nnd Raphael's "Madonna," and Or cagnn's "Madonna," nnd Murlllo's "Ma donna" nnd Madonnas by nil tho schools of painting lu all lights and shades and with all styes of nttrncttvo featuro nnd Impresslvo surroundings) but pon and pencil and chisel hnvo, with few exceptions, passed by Christ, tho village lad. Yet by three conjoined cvi-dviici-H I think wo can como to ns nccurnto an idea of what Christ was ns a boy ns wo can of what Christ wns ns a man. . , PI rut, no havo tho brief lllblo account. Then wo hnvo tho prolonged account of what Christ was nt thirty years of ago. Now you have only to minify that account somewhat and you find what ho was at ten years of ngo. Temperament novcr change. A sangulno temperament never becomes n phlegmatic U'lujieiiimont, A norvous temperament novur become n lymphatic tcmcrnmcnL llollgion change ouo's nflcctlons and ambitious, but it Is tho Nimo old tempernmunt acting lu a dlf torcut direction. As Christ hud no religious change, ho was ns n lad what ho was as a man. only on not w largo n scale. When nil tradition and all art nnd all history reprcwent him as n blondo with golden hair, I know ho was lu boyhood n blondo. UM.NBI'IIIKD BT0ME3. Wo have, bc&ldo, an uninspired book that was for tho first threo or four centuries after Christ's nnnearaneo received by many as in spired nnd which gives prolonged nccount of Christ's boyhood. Solno of It may bo truo, most of It may bo truo, nono of It may bo true. It may bo partly built on facta, or by tho passage of tho ages somo real facta may havo been distorted. Out becauso n book is not divinely Inspired wo aro not therefore to concludo that thero are not truo things In it. Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico'' was not in spired, but we boliovo It although it may con tain mistake. Macaulay's "History of Eng land" was not inspired, but wo belle volt al though it may havo boon marred with many errors. The so called apocryphal Gospel Ln which tho boyhood of Christ Isdwcltupon Ido not believe to bo divinely inspired, nnd yet it may presents facta worthy of consideration. Oecauso it represents tho boy Christ as per forming miracles somo havo overthrown that wholo apocryphal book. Out what right havo you to say that (jurist did not jwrfonn miracles at ton year of ago as well as at thirty I Uo was In boyhood as certainly dl vino as ln manhood. Then whlla a lad ho must havo had tho power to work miracles, whether ho did or did not work them. When, having reached manhood, Christ turned water Into wlno that was said to bo tho beginning of miracles, But that may mean that it was tho beginning of that scries of manhood miracles, ln n word, I think that tho Now Testament Is only a small transcript of what Jesus did and raid. Indeed, tho Bible declares positively that If all ChrUt did and sold wero written tho world would not contain tho books. 80 wo nro at liberty to bcllovo or reject thoso ports of tho apocryphal Gospel which says that when tho boy Christ, with his mother, passed a band of thieves ho told bis mother that two of them, Dumachus and Titus by name, would bo the two thioves who afterward would ex pire on crosses bcsldo Him. Was that more wonderful than somo of Christ's manhood prophesies! Or tbo uninspired story that tho boy ChrUt mado a fountain spring from tho roots of a sycamore tree, so that his mother washed hU coat In tho stream was that more unbelievable than the man hood miracle that changed common water Into a marriage bovcragol Or the unin spired story that two sick children wero re covered by bathing ln tho water where the boy Christ had washed. Was that mora wonderful than tho manhood miracle by which tho woman twclvo years n comploto invalid should havo tcen made straight by touching tho fringe of Christ's coat I Or tho Inspired story that when a mother brought a dead child by tho namo of Bartholomew to Mary, tho mother of ChrUt, sho saidt "Do thou place thy son in my son's bod and cover him with his clothes;" and, so done, the dead child opened his eyes and called with n loud volco for bread. Is that more wonderful than tho maubood miracles by which ChrUt reanimated tho dead again and again with out going where tboy wero or even seeing thcml Why should wo dlsbellove the ujocry phal Now Testament when it says that a boy struck the boy Jesus till ho cried out, or the story that Christ with other boys mado clay figures of birds and tbeso clay figures took IUo and flew away I Is that moro unbeliev able than the Bible account that Adam was made out of clay and walked forth a man I and afterwards soared an Immortal I Not . half so much of an undertaking to mako a I bird out of clay as to moko a man out of . clay. Or tho uninspired story that tho boy j ChrUt took tho cloths of a dyer's shop and throw them Into tho Are, and after tho dyer's protect and ejaculation brought forth the ' cloths In the color that the dyer wished! Is that more unbelievable than the manhood j miracle In tho wilderness plcalo where five j bUcults the slio of your fist were turned Into k enough bread to feed five thousand and the fragment filled twolve bas kets! Or tbo uninspired story that Joseph tho father as a carpenter, having orders to mako a throuo for the king at Jesuralem, and tolling two years on It, found that after It wo dono It was two spans too short, and tho boy took hold o'uo sldo of tho throne and his father the other side of it, and pulled It to the right tal Is that any more wonderful than that after g, owing toman hood tie folded up, as oaxlly as you would a fan, a Galilean hurricane! Or the uiiinvplred story that his comrades In their play brought flowers and crown,! him ns a king! I should think they would have dono so. Or tho unin spired story that a boy, hunting for eggs In a pnrtrhlgo nest, was fitting of n vlxr, nnd tho iKilMuiol lad wnt brought on a couch to tho boy ChrUt, mid ChrUt asked to bo taken with tho ninirtod child to where tho child wns bitten, nnd nt ChrUt's command the MTpent, with It own mouth, drow forth tiie xilon from the wound! Why, ChrUt has tecn doing that through all tho ages, namely, coin-Killing tho very things that wound us, under his sanctifying power to bring us to health nnd rclnvlgorntlon nnd tern J llr. Or the tinltixplicd story that I'hlldieu "pro playing on tho hoiiwtop nnd the boy ChrUt n theio nnd 0110 of tho chil dren wns shoved from the roof mid fell to tho ground nnd died nnd tho other children charged ChrUt with tho mlxdctneanor and the loy ChrUt saldi "Chnrgo not mo with I ho crime, but let us leavo It to tho dead child to tettlo tho eontroTcroy," nnd tho boy ChrUt saldi "Kcliiiunusl Zclnmnusl who threw thee down from tho housetopl" Then tho dead child s-wikoaml saldi "Not thou, but such n nno did." Was that moro wonderful than Paul's resuscitation of Eutychus, who fell from tho window whllo tho npontlo wns preaching! Or tho unin spired story In tho apocryphal Now Testament which says that Christ tho boy was taken to kcIiooI and Zacchous, tho teach er, told him tho 11 mt threo letters of tho alphabet, whercuK)ii ClirUt the boy asked his teacher such profound questions concern ing tho alphabet that the teacher was con founded, nnd tho boy Christ himself explain ed nil to tho teacher, until Kacchous said to Joseph, tho father of tho wondrous boy: "Thou hastbroughtn boy to mo to bo taught who Is moro learned than any master." Then tho boy was taken to a moro learned master, who, angered nt the boy's questions, lifted his hnnd to whip him, nml tho hnud wither ed, as will all tho hands lifted against Christ. Is that moro wonderful than tho sccno positively recorded by Mntthow where tho D. D.'a and tho LL D.'s stood arouud ChrUt nt twelvo years of ntro in tho templo. utterly confounded nt his prococloimicKsf Or that story that ClirUt tho boy, questioned by astronomers, told them tho numlier of tho worlds, their slzo, their circuit) nod ques tioned by physicians told them more about anatomy and physiology than they over dreamed of, the number of vein, arteries, nerves nnd bones. If Christ were dtviuo was ho not nblo at ten or twolvo years to describo tho humnn system as well as though ho had been flfty years standing nt an operating tnblo or In 11 dissecting room! A HOYS' CHRIST. In other words, whllo I do not bcllovo that any of the so called apocryphnl Now Testa ment Is Inspired, I bcllovo much of It U truo, Jiut us I boliovo n thousand books nono of which nro divinely Inspired. Much of it wns Jut llko Christ. Just n certain ns tho man ChrUt was tho most of tho tlmo getting men out of trouble, I think that tho boy Christ was tho most of tho tlmo getting boys out of trouble, I havo declared to you this day a boys' Christ. And tho world wants such n ono. Ho did not sit around moping over what was to lw or what was. From tho way In which natural objects unwrcathod them- solves Into his sermons after ho had becotno n man I concludo there was not n rock or a hill or a cavern or n tree for miles around that ho was not familiar with in childhood. Ho had cautiously felt his way down into tho caves nnd boil with light and ngllo limb gained a polso on many a high tree top. Ills boyhood wns passed around grand scenery ns most nil tho great natures havo aMxl early life among tho mountains. They may llvo now on tho flats, but they passed tho receptive days of ladhood among tho hllK Among tho mountains of Now Hnmpshlroor tho mountainsof Virginia or tho mountains of Kentucky or tho moun tains of Switzerland or Italy or Austria or Scotland or mountains as high nnd rugged as thoy, many of tho world's thrilling biogra phies began. Our Lord's boyhood wns passed in n neighborhood twclvo hundred feet nbovo tho level of tho sea and mr rounded by mountains flvo or six hun dred feet still higher. Deforo it could shtno on tho village where this boy slept tho sun had to climb far enough up to look over hills that held their heads far aloft. From yonder height his eyo at 0110 sweep took in tho mighty scoop of the vnlleys and with no- other sweep took In tho Mediterranean sea, and you bear tho grandeur of tho cliffs and tho snrgo of tho great waters In his match less sermonology. Ono day I sco that divlno boy, tho wind flurrying his hair over his sun browned forehead, staudlng on a hill top looking off upon Lako Tiberias, on Which at one tlmo according to pro- fano history are, not four hundred but four thousand ships. Authors havo taken pains to Bay that ChrUt was not affected by theso surroundings, nnd that ho from within lived outward nnd Independent of circum stances. 80 far from that being truo ho was tho most tcnsltlvo being that over walked tbo earth, and If a palo Invalid's weak finger could not touch his robe without strength going out from him, thoso mountains and seas could not havo touched his eyo without irradiating his entire nature with their mag nificence, I warrant tbut ho had mounted and explored all tho fifteen hills around Naz areth, among them Hermon with Its crystal coronet of perpetual snow, and Carmel aud Tabor and Oilboa, and they all had their subllmo echo in after time from tho Olivette pulpit. rAUCVTMB WAS LOVELY THEN. And then It was not uncultivated granaeur, Tucmj hills carried in their nrms or on their backs gardens, grove, orchards, terraces, vlueynnls, cactus, sycamores. Theso out branching foliages did not hnvo to wait for tho floods before their slleuco was broken, for through them nnd over them nnd In circles round them and under them were pelicans, were thrushes, wero sparrows, wero nightin gales, were larks, were quails, wero block birds, were partridges, were bulbuls. Yon der tho white flocks of sheep snowed down over tho pasture lauds. And yonder tho brook rehcarM" to tho pebbles its adventures down the rocky shelving. Yonder nro tho Oriental homes, the hotuevlfo with pitcher on the shoulder entering tho door, and down tho lawn In front children revel ing among tho flaming flora. And all this spring and wing nnd grass and sunsbino and shadow woven into tho most exquUlto nature that ever breathed or wept or suug or sulTered. Through studying tho sky between tho hills ChrUt hal notice.! the weather signs and that a crimson sky at night meant dry wc-iither next day, and that a crinibou sky lu tho morning meant wet weather before night. And how beautifully be mado use of it In after years as he drove dowu upon tho pestif irous Pharisees and Sadducecs by crying out! "When it is evening ye say it will bo fair heather for tho sky is red, and in tbo morn ing It vlll bo foul weather today for tho sky Is red nud lowering! O yo hypocrites, yo can dikcero tho faco of tho sky but can yj not dis cern tho signs of the time." By day,asevery boy bos dono, ho watched tho barnyard fowl atwghtofovcrswlnglng hawk clucR uercnidt ens under wing, and ln after years he sold: 'O Jerusalem, Jerusalem I How often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under herwlngl" fly night ho had noticed hU mother by the plain candle light which, as ever nnd -anon It was muffed and tl.M rumnvwl ur(-lf (ink (lnwn nu the c-aiullo- I "'" stick, lieamcd brightly through nil the family sitting room as bis mother was mending hU garment that had been torn during tho day's wanderings among tho rocks or bushes, nnd years afterwards It all camo out in the slmtloof the greatest sermon ever preached 1 "Neither do men light n cnndlo and put It under n bushel but In n candlestick and It glvoth light to all who aro In tho house. Let your light so shine," Somo tlmo when his mother, In tho autumn, took out the clothes thnt had leea put awny for tho summer, lie noticed how tho moth miller flow out mid tho coat dropcd apart ruined nnd useless, nud so twenty years after ho enjoined 1 "Lay up for yourselves treasures In heaven where neither moth nor rust can corrupt." Ills boyhood siont nmong birds nnd flowers thoy nil enroled and bloomed ngnln fifteen years nftcr as ho cries out) "Bo hold tho fowls of tho air." "Consider tho lilies." A great storm one dny during Christ's boyhood blackened the heavens and angered thn 1 Ivors. !'crhai standing In tho door of tho carpenter shop ho watched It gathering louder nnd wilder until two cy clones, one sweeping down from Mount Tn bor nnd tho other from Mount Carmel, met In tho valley of Esdraelou, and two houses aro caught in tho fury nud crash goes tho ono nnd triumphant stands tho other, nnd ho noticed thnt ono had shifting snud for a foundation and tho other an eternal rock for basis; nud twenty years after ho built tho wholo sccno Into n perora tion of flood and whirlwind thnt tcizod his audience nnd lifted them Into tho heights of sublimity with the two great nrms of pathos and terror, which subllmo words I tender, asking you ns far ns possiblo to forgot thnt you over henrd them before: "Whosoever heareth theno sayings of uilno nnd doeth them, I will liken him unto n who man which built his houso upon a rock; nml tho rolu de scended nnd tho floods camo, nnd tho winds blow nnd lient upon that houso, nnd It fell not, for It wns founded upon a rock. Aud every ono that heareth thoso sayings of initio nnd doeth them not, shall bo likened unto a foolish man which built his houso upon tho sand; nud tho rnln doHCeudcd and tho floods camo, nnd tho winds blow nnd bent upon that houso, and It fell, nnd great was tho fall of It" HU HTUDtKl) NATUtlE. Yes; from tho nntumliicsH, tho simplicity, tho frcshuesH of hU parnlili-s nud simile nnd metaphors lu manhood dicnuoo I Know that ho had beenn boy of tho fields nud had bathed In thostrentns nud heard tho nightingale's call nnd broken through tho flowery hedgo nnd looked out of thu ombr.iMircs of tho fort re nnd drnuk from tho wells nnd chased tho butterflies which travelers hay havo always been ono of tho flitting beauties of that land sca)c, nnd talked with thestrnugo coplo from Damascus nud Egypt nud S.ipphoris nud Syria who In caravans or on foot pn-od through hU neighborhood, the dogs barking at their approach nt sundown. As nftcrwnrd ho was n perfect man, lu tho tlmo of which I sjicnk ho wns 11 jierfect boy with tho tprlug of n lioy's foot, tho sparkle of a boy's eye, the re bound of n boy's llfo nnd Just the opposite of thoso Juveniles w ho sit nround morbid nnd uu clastic, old men nt ten. I warrant ho wns nblo to take his own part nnd to tnko tho rirt of others. In that village of Nazareth nm certain thcro was what Is found In all tuo neighborhoods of tho earth, that terror of children, tho bully, who teems born to strike, to punch, to bruta, to ovorpowor tho less muscular nnd robust. Tho Christ who nftcrwnrd lu no limited terms denounced hyp ocrite nud Pharisee, 1 warrant, novcr let such Juveuilo villain Imposo upon less vigor ous childhood nud yet go unscathed and un defended. At ten years ho was lu sympathy with tho underlings, ns he was nt thirty nnd thirty-three, I want no further inspired or uninspired Information to persundo mo that ho was a splendid boy, a radiant boy, tho grandest, holiest, mightiest boy of all tho ages. Hence I commend him as n boy's Christ. What multitude between ten nnd fifteen years hnvo fouud him out as tho ono Just suited by his own personal exporienco to help any boy. RCSrCCT THE BOYS. Let tho world look out how It treads on a boy, for that very moment it treads on Christ. You striko a boy, you striko ChrUt; you iusulta boy, you Insult Christ; you cheat a boy, you cheat ChrUt, It is an awful aud influito mistake to como as far as manhood without a ChrUt when hero is a boy Christ. That was ono reason, I suppose, that Jona than Edwards, afterwards tho greutest Amer ican logician aud preacher of hU tlmo, lio camo u Chris tun at soven years of ngo; and Robert Hall, who afterwards shook ChrUtou- dom with his sacred eloquence, bocatno a ChrUtlan at twclvo years of ago; and Isaac Watts, who divided with Charles Wesley tho dominiou of holy song, becaino a Christian at nine years of nge, aud if In any largo religious assemblugu It were asked that all the men and women who learned to love ChrUt before thoy were fifteen years of ago would please lift their right hand, thcro would bo enough hands lifted to wave n coronation. What is truo in a religious sense is truo in n secular sense. Themlstocles amazed his school fellows with talent which in after years mado tho world stare. Isaac Now ton, tho boy, by driving pegs in tho side of a houso to mark tho declmo of tho sun- evidenced a disposition towards tho experi ments which afterwards showed the nations how tho worlds swing. Robert Stephenson, the boy, with his kite on tho commons ex Iterimcuted with electric current and proph esied work which should yot mako him im mortal. "Got out of my wnyl" said a rough man to a boy, "get out of my woyl What nro you good for nnyhow" Tho boy un swere.il "They make men out of such things a wo are." Hear It, fathom, mothersl hear it, philanthropists nud patriots! hear it, all tho young) Tho temporal and eternal destiny of tho most of tho Inhabitant of this earth U decided before fourteen years of ace. Bo hold tho Nazareth ChrUt, tho village ChrUt, tho country Christ, tho boy ChrUtl But bavins shown you tho div-ino lad in tho Qelds, I must show you him in tho mechanic's shop. Joseph, his father, died very early, immediately after tho famous trip to tho Templo, and thU lad had not only to support himself but support hU mother, aud what that U somo of you know. There Is n royal race of boys on earth now doing tho samo thing. They wear no crown. Tboy havo no purple robe a-droop from their shoulders. Tho plain chair on which they sit U as much unlike a throne as anything you can imagine. Hut God knows what they are doing and tluough what sacrifice they go, and through all eternity God will Loop puy lug them for their filial behavior. They shall get full measure of reward, tho measure presstd down, shaken together and running over. They have their example in thU boy ChrUt taking core of hU mother. Ho had been taught the carpen ter's trade by hU father. Tho boy had done the plainer work at tho shop, while bis father had put on tuo llnlsliing touches or tbo work. The boy also cleared away tho chips and blocks aud shavings. Ho helped hold the different pieces of work while tho father joined them. Iu our day wo have nil kinds of mechanics, aud the work Is divided up ameng them. But to bo a carpenter in ChrUt's lioyhood days meant to make plows, yoke, shovels, wagons, tables, chairs, sofas, liouwn, aud almost everything that was made. Fortunate was It that the boy had learned the trade, for when the head of the family dies It Is a grand thing to have the child able to take enre of himself nnd help take care of others. Now that Joseph, 111 father, Is dead, nnd tho responsibility of fnnil! support come down on this boy, 1 hear frtm morning to night his hammer poundlu,c, his saw vnclllatlng, his nx de scending, his gimlets boring, and standing amid tho dust nnd debris of the shop 1 find tho ikts plrntlon gathering on his temples nud notlco the fatlguo of his arm, nnd as ho stos a moment to rest 1 see him panting, his hand on his tldo, from tho exhaustion. Now ho goes forth In tho morning loaded with Imple ments of work heavier than any modern kit of tools. Under tho tropical sun he swelters. Lifting, pulling, adjusting, cleaving, split ting, nil dny long. At nightfall be goes homo to tho plain supper provided by his mother nnd sits down too tired to talk. Work I work I work I You cannot tell ChrUt anything now alxnit blistered hands or aching nnkles or bruised lingers or stifT Joints, or rising in tho morning as tired ns when you laid dowu. While yet a boy ho know it nil, ho felt it nil, ho suffered it alL Tho boy carpenterl The boy wagon makerl Tho boy houso builder! O Christ, wo havo seen thee when full grown In Pilnto's police court room; wo hnvo seen thee, when full grown, thou wcrt assassinated on Golgotha; but, O ChrUt, let all tho weary artisans and me chanics of tho earth see thco, whllo yot un dersized nnd arms not yot tnuscularlzod, and with tho undeveloped strength of Juvcnes cence, trying to tako thy father' plnco ln gaining tho livelihood for tho family. CltntST WITH THE DOCTORS. But, having seen Christ tfto boy of tho fields nnd the boy in tho mechanic's shop, I show you n moro marvelous scene, ChrUt tho smooth browed lad nmong tho long bearded, white haired, high forehoaded ecclesiastics of tho Temple, Hundreds of thousands of strangers had como to Jerusalem to keep n grent religious festivnL After tho hospl tnblo homes wero crowded with visitors tbo tents were spread nil nround tho city to shelter Immense throngs of strangers. It wiA very easy among tho vnst throngs coming nnd going to loso n child. Moro thnn two million xoplo have Ixxmi known to gather at Jerusa lem for that national feast. You must not think of thoso regions as sparrcly settled. Tho ancient historian Joseplms says thcro wero In Galilee two hundred cities, tho smallest of them containing fifteen thousand eopIo. No wonder that amid tho crowds nt tho tlmo spoken of Jesus tho boy wns loL HU parents, knowing that ho wns mature enough nnd ngllo enough to tnko enroof himself, nrc on their way homo without nuy anxiety, sup posing that their boy Is coming with somo of the groups But nftcr a whllo tboy suspect he is lost, nud with flushed cheelt and n ter rorized look thoy rush this way uu:l that, Miyingi "Hnvo you seennux thlugof my Iwyl He Is twclvo years of ngo, of fnlr complexion, nnd ha bluo eyes and auburn hair, Havo you soon hhn since wo left tho city I" Back thoy go ln hot haste lu nnd out tho streets, in nnd out tho private houses, and nmong tho surrounding hills. For threo day they search and Inquire, wondering It ho ha been tram pled under foot of somo of tho throngs, or ha ventured on the cliffs nnd fallen off n precipice. Send through all tho street aud lanes of the city, nnd nmong nil thosirrround Ing hills thnt most dismul sound: "A lost child I A lost child!" And lot nftcr three days they discover htm in tho grent Temple, seated nmong tho mightiest religionist of all tho world Tho walls of no other building over looked down on such a scene. A child twclvo years old surrounded bv septuagena rians, ho asking his own questions mid nn swcrlng theirs. I.et mo Introduco you to somo of tbeso ecclesiastics: This is tho great Rabbin Simoon 1 This is tho veucrablo nil loll This Is tho famous Shammall Theso are tho sons of tho distinguished Betirah. What can this twclvo year lad teach thorn or what questions can ho ask worthy their cogi tation! Ah, tho first tlmo in all their lives the) religionists havo found their match and more thnn their match. Though so young, ho knew nil about that famous Temple under whoso roof thoy held thnt most wonderful discussion of nil history. He knew tho meaning of every altar, of overy sacrifice, of overy golden candlestick, of overy embroidered curtain, of every crump of show bread, of every drop of oil In that sacred edifice. Ho know all about God. Ho know nil about man. Uo know nil about heaven, for ho came from it. Uo know nil about this world, for ho mado it. Ho know all worlds, for they were only tho sparkling morning (low-drops on tbo lawn In front of hU heavenly palace. Put those seven Bible words in a wreath of cmpbasU: "Both hear ing them and asking them questions." WHAT QUESTIONS DID HE ASK! I am not so much interested in tho ques tions they asked him as iu tho questions ho asked them. He asked tho question's not to get information from tho doctors, for ho know it already, but to bumble them by showing them the height and depth nud length and breadth of their own ignorance. While tho radiant boy thurst theso self con ceited philosophers with tbo interrogation point, thoy put tho forefinger of tho right hnnd to tho templo as though to start their thought Into moro vigor, and then they look upward and then they would wrinklo their brows, nnd then by absolute silenco or in posltivo words confess their incapacity to answer tho interrogatory. With any ono of a hundred questions about tho ology, about philosophy, about astrono my, about tlmo, about eternity, he may havo balked them, disconcerted them, Hung them lint. Behold tho !oy ChrUt nbk lug questions, and listen when your child asks questions. He has tho right to ask them. Tho moro ho asks tho better. Ala for tho stupidity of tho child without InquUitivencssI It Is Chrlstllko to ask questions. Answer thorn if you can. Do not say: "I can't bo bothered uow." It Is your placo to bothered with questions. If you nro not nblo to an swer, surrender nnd confess your incapacity, as I havo no doubt did Rnbbln Simeon and Hltlel and Shammnl and tho tons of Betirah when that splendid boy, sitting or standing there with a garment reaching from neck to ankle, and girdled at tho waist, put them to their wit's end. It is no dis grace to say: "I don't know," Tho learned doctors who environed Christ that day in tho Temple did not know or they would uot have asked him nuy questions, Tho only being In tho uulvcrso who never needs to say "1 do uot kuuwi' Is the Lord Almighty, The fact that they did not know sent Kepplcr nud Cuvler and Columbus nnd Humboldt nud Herschel nud Morse and Sir William Hamilton and all tho other of tho world's mightiest nature into their lifelong explorations. Telescopo and mlcrocoo and stethoco)o and electric battery aud all the scientific apuiratus of all the age aro only questions asked at tho door of mystery. Bo bold this Nazareno lad asking questions, giv ing everlasting dignity to earnest Interro gation. CUILUISH SItirLICITY WANTED. But whllo I see the old theologians standing around the boy Christ 1 am impressed us nevyr before with tho fact that what theology most wants U moro of childish simplicity. Tho world and tho church have built up Im mense systemuif theology. Half of them try to tell what liod thought, what God planned, what God did llvo hundred million years be fore tho small star on which we live was cre ated. 1 have bod many a sound sleep under sermons about the decree of God and the eternal generation of the Bon, and discourse bowing who Melchlsedek wasn't, and I girt fair warning that If any minister over begin a sermon on such a subject In my preeenco I will put my head down on tho pew in front and go Into the deepest slumlier I can reach. Wicked waste of time, this trying to scalo tho unscalable and fathom tho unfathomable whllo tho na tions want tho bread of life and to bo told how thoy can got rid of their sins and their sorrow. Why should you nnd I perplex ourselves nbout the decrees of God! Mind your own business and God will tako care of his. In tho conduct of tho unlvcrso I think bo will somehow manage to got along with out us. If you wanttolovo nnd serve God nnd bo good nnd useful nnd got to heaven, I warrant that nothing which occurred eight hundred qulntllllon of years ngo will hinder you n minute. It U not tho decrees of God that do u any harm; it Is our own decrees of. sin nnd folly. You need not go nny further back in history than nbout eighteen hun drod and fifty-six years. You see thia Is tho year I6S9. Christ tiled nbout thirty year of age. You subtract 83 from tho year 1880 and that makes it only 1,8M years. That Is as far back a you need to go. Some thing occurred on that day under an eclipsed sun that sot us all forever free if with our whole heart and llfo we accept tho tremc dous proffer. Do not let tho Presbyterian church or tho Methodist church or tho Lu theran church or tho Baptist church or any of the other ovnngelical churches spend any time In trying to fix up old creeds, all of them Imperfect, ns overythlug man does l Imperfect. I movo n now creed for nil tho evan gelical churches of Christendom, only threo ar ticles In tho creed nnd no need of any mora If I had all tho consecrated peoplo of all de nominations of tho earth on 0110 groat plain, nnd I had a volco loud enough to put It to vote, thnt creed of threo nrtlcles would bo adopted with a unanimous vote nnd a thun dering nyo thnt would make the enrth quako and the heavens ring with hosniina. This la tho creed I proposo for nil Christendom: A UNIVERSAL CURED. Artlclo First "God so loved tho world that ho gave his only begotten sou that whoso ever bcllevetb in him should not perish but havo everlasting life." Article Second "Tills Is a faithful saying: and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into tho world to savo sinners, even tho chief." Artlclo Third "Worthy is tho Lamb that was slain to receive blessing nnd riches nnd honor nnd glory nnd power, world without end. Amen." But you go to tinkering up your old creeds nnd patching nnd splicing and Interlining nnd annexing nnd substrncting nud adding nud explaining, nud you will lose tlmo nnd mako yourself a target for earth and hell to shoot nt. Let us hnvo creeds uot fashioned out of human ingenuities but out of scripture phraseology, and all tho guns of bombnrd ment blazing from all tho port holes of Infl dolity nnd perdition will not in n thousand yenrs knock off from tbo church of God a splinter as big aa a cambric noedlo. What Is most needed now is thnt wo gather all our theologies nround tho boy ln tho Temple, tho elaborations nround tho simplicities and tho profundities nround the clarities, tho octo genarian of scholastic research around tho unwriuklcd check of twclvo year Juvenescence, "Except you becomo as a lit tle child you can iu no wiso enter the king dom," nnd except you becomo a a littlo child you cannot understand tho Christian reli gion. Tho best thing that Rnbbln Simoon and Hillel and Shammal nnd tho sons of Be tirah ever did was In the Templo to bend over tho lad who, first made ruddy of cheek by the breath of tho Judean hills and on hi way to tho mechanic' shop where ho was soon to bo tli support of his bereaved moth er, stopped l.mg enough to grapple with tho vencrablo dialecticians of tho Orient, "both hearing thcin nnd asking them questions." Somo, referring to Christ, havo exclaimed Ecco Deusl Behold tbo God. 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