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“RIO“ PREACHED BY DR. TALMAGE
SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 1889.
no ”mike cam as I Village Land. and
I‘M m the Lord‘s (intruder The.
“'U I» flame in When "It W“ I
Ian.
llIoulLYN, Juno 'J ,, .\ not nuiwurse of
mint, tilting all the availablo lilm‘l, joined
Ia thumping. ontology at Iimiltlyu Tabor-
uaels thb mains. Thi- moor, the Rev. '1‘.
De Witt 'l‘almaae. D. 1)., I'Xpulludtill the pas—
taceht Julia alum the unwritten works of
cum which the world itself could not have
celluloid. The tutbju‘t of Dr. Talmngo‘ii
mwufi‘hrist, the Village Lad." lie
but for his text Luke ii, 40: "And the child
grow, and erased strong in siplf'll. filled with
wialom; and the grace of find was upon
him." Thcpreacla-rmld:
About Christ aria village lad It‘llflk. There
is for the most part a sileiwe inore~thaii eigh—
tuna estuaries long aluiut t'ltrist tutu-Lon In-
fancy and manbmd. What kind of a boy
was but Was he a genuine boy at all. or did
Mattie upon him from the start all the
thu of martyrdom! We have on this
subject only a little gunning, a few surmhiut,
ham and there an unlaiprrtant “ynirhups.”
Giana-alas what bounded that boy-hind on
both sides we have whole libraries of liflulil
and whole galleries of canvas and sculpture.
Mathilda!“ Christ In Mary‘s arms, or
“Blight: ”sleep in the rough outliouso,
all the tars bow, and \w have I‘aul
Vm‘s “Holy Family," and l‘erugliio‘s
“Nativity," and Angelica da Fis-sole‘s “In,
feat Ghrkt," and Rubens' “Adoration of the
" and Tlutoret‘s “Adoration of the
“Rand Chlrlandjo’s “Adoration of tho
Iagi,”aud Raphael's “Madonna," and l lr-
‘s "Nationals," and Murillo‘s “lla-
douna"and Madonna by all the schools of
Waiting in all lights and shades and with all
styel of attractive feature and impressive
mouldings; but pen and pencil and chisel
have, with few exceptions, pat-Kid by Christ,
the village lad. Yet by three conjoined evi'
dance-I think we can come to as accurate
an idea of what Christ was as a boy as we
can of what Christ was as a man.
First, We have the brief Ilible account.
Then we have the prolonged account of what
Christ was at thirty years of ago. Now you
have only to mtaify that account anuewhat
and you find what he was at ten 3 outs of age.
Temperament» never change. A sanguine
temperament ncvcr becomes a phlegmatic
temperament. A nervous temperament never
becomes a lymphatic tcuilmraincut. Ruligion
Changes one‘s affections and ambitious, but it
is the same old tciupcrann-ut acting in a dif»
ferent direction As Christ had no religious
change, he was as a lad what he was as a
man, only on not so large a scale. When all
tradition and all art and all history represent
him as a blondo with golden hair, I know he
was in boyhood a blondc.
UNISSI'IIIID atoms.
We have, Mellie, an uninspired book that
was for the first three or four centuries after
Christ‘s appearance received by many as in-
npired and which gives prolonged account of
Christ‘s boyhmxl. Some of it may be true,
most of it may be true, none of it may be
true. It may be partly built on facts. or by
the reef the ages mine rczil factsnmy
have been distorted. But because u book ii
not divinely inspire] we are not therefore to
conclude that there are not true things in it.
Prescott's “Conquest of. Mush-o“ was not in-
spired, but we believe it although it may con»
_ _ , -fain mistakes Macaulay"s “lintory of Eng
land" was not inspired, but woliolicve it al—
though it may have been marred with many
errors. The-weaned apicryphal Gospel in
which the boyhood of Christ is d Willi. upon I do
not believe to be divinely inspired, and yn-t it
may presents facts worthy of consideration.
Because it represents the boy Christ as per-
forming miracles me have overthrown that
whole apocryphal book. But what right have
you to say that Christ did not perform
miracles at ten years of ftgclb‘ well as at
thirty? He was inboyliood as tvrtainlydi-
rvine as in manhood. Then while a lad he
must have had the power to work miracles,
whether he did or did not work them. When,
having reached manhood, Christ turned water
into wine that was said to be the beginning
of miracles But that may mean that it was
the "beginning of that series of manhood
vmiraclca. Inaword,lthink that the New
Testament is only a small transcript of
what Jesus did and said. Indeed, the
Bible declares positively that if all
Christ did and said were written the world
would not contain the books. So we are at
' liberty to believe or reject those parts of the
apocryphal lwhich says that when the
boy Christ, with his mother, passed a band
of thieves he told his mother that two of
them, Dnmachus and Titus by name, would
. be the two thieves who afterward would ex-
oncromes beside Him. Was that more
* wonderful than some of Christ's manhood
' f Or the uninspired story that the
bay Christ made a fountain spring from the
roofs of a sycamore tree, so that his mother
washed his coat in the stream—«vex
that more unbelievable than the man—
hood miracle that changed commou water
‘ into a marriage beveragef Or the unin-
spired story that two sick children were re-
‘ cova'ed by bathing in the water where the
.boy Christ had washed. Was that more
wmderful than the manhood miracle by
which the woman twelve years a complete
invalidahonld have beenmade straight by
hatching the fringe of Cftist's coat? 0:- the
Inspired story that when a mother brought a
dead childby name of Bartholomew to
llary,tha er of Christ, she said: “Do
than place thy son in my wn’s bed and cover
‘ . himwitlthis clothes;"and, sodone, thedcad
child hiseyesand calledwithaloud
voles bread. Is that more wonderful
film: the manhood miracles by which Christ
mainland the dead again andagainwith-
outgoingwhu'o they were or even seeing
than! Why should we disbelieve the apocry-
' fill ”Mutant when it says thataboy
““10!”stme hecriedout, or the
ymwm’wwwherboys madeclay
of birds and these claytlgures took
“hit ”Mona undertaking tomake a
birdoutofclayaatomakeammoutof
‘clay.0rthe ‘ storythattbeboy
uninspired
Chiltook the clothacf a dyer's shop and
mmmwfimandafterthedyer’s
m and ejaculation brought forth the
‘datbahtha colorthat the dyerwishedt Is
than the manhood
‘ picnicwhere five
that laws ,
, W“ “hue ”Wan-it
WM‘ harem-o. thumb-
Ipirsdstnry‘ aboymautiagfunusiua
W, wustuauof avfponaudfis
ml lad wan firms!“ on a touch to the
Christ. and Christ ashml to be taken
with the album! child to when the child
was lath-u. and at Christ‘s minimal
the wrpeut, uith its own mouth, drew
forth the poison from tho woaadf Why.
Christ has been doing that through all the
have: namely, Nilltwllln‘ the very thing:
that wood as. under his aaactlfyia; power
to bring as to health and nihivigoratiui and
(W life. Or the uninspired story that
children were playing on thahousstopaad
the boy Chrust was then and one of the can.
dmi was tutorial from them! and fell to the
ground and died and the 1mm children
charged Christ with the tuliidouinaiuir and
the boy Christ said: "Charge not use with
that-rinse. tail lat it: leave it to the dead
child to settle the “hover-av," and the boy
Christ said: “Zeiuuinusl Zeinumus! who
threw thee down from the homwpf" Then
the dead child spakeaad said: “Not thou. but
such a candid." Was that more wonderful
than Paul‘s resawitatinn of Eutychus.
who fell from the window while the
aimle was preaching! Or the unin-
spired story in the apocrypiial New
Testament which says that Christ theboy
was taken to school and Zaccheus, the teach-
er, told him the first three hitters of the
alphabet. when-awn Christ the boy asked
his teacher such profound questions ('0an
tag the alphabet that the amber was enn-
foundod, and the boy Christ. himself explain-
ed all to the teacher, until Zacchnus saldto
Jiuseph, the father of the wondrous boy:
“Thou hast broughta boy to mo to he taught
a ho is more learned than any ouster.” Than
the boy was taken to a more learned master,
who, angered at the boy's questions, lifted
his hand to whip him, and the hand wither.
ed, as will all the hauls lifted agaiwit
Christ. Is that more wonderful than the
scene [x‘ieltively recorded by Matthew where
the I). D.‘s and the LL D): stood around
Christ at twelve years of ago in the temple,
utterly confounded at his pretwhvnsaout Or
that story that Chief the boy, questioned by
astronomers, told them the number of the
worlds, their size, their rhinitis; and queu—
thmwl by physicians told them more about
anatomy and physiology than they ever
drcanmlnf, the number of veins, arteries,
nerves and lmncs. If Christ \voro divine was
he not able at ten or twelve yuan: to describe
the human system aswell as though he had
born fifty years standing at an niwrating
table. or iii a dis-wrong room!
A iiovs' ('llltlST.
In other words, while I do not believe that.
any of tho so called nlnicryphal New Testa-
ment is inspired, I believe much of it is true;
justas I hollow a thousand books nonoof
which are divinely inspired. Much of it was
just like Christ. Just as certain as the man
Christ was the most of the time getting men
out of troublinl think that the boy Christ
was film in at of the time getting lmys out of
troubl ». I have declared to you this day a
be; \' L‘hrivt. And the world wants such a
one. II» did not sit around limping over
what was to be or what WM From the way
in which natural objects unwrenthwl them—
selves into his sermons after he had become
a man I nuicludc there was not a rock
or a hill or u cavern or a free for
milca‘ around that h:- was not familiar
with in childhood. lie had cautiously felt
hi5 way down into the caves and had with
light and agile limb gained a poise on many
a high tree top. His lmylhul was passed
fil'ulllitl grand ireucryaa must all the great
natures have pasml curly life among the
mountains. They may live now on the flats.
but they [mused the receptive. daysof ladhoot‘l
among the hilli. Aiiirmg the mountains of
Kev: Hampshiroor the inouutuinsof Virginia
or the mountainsof Kentucky or the moon
talus of Switzerland or Italy or Austria or
Scotland or mountains as high and rugged as
they. many of the world‘s thrilling biogra-
phim. began. Our Lord‘s twyhood mamas-sod
in a neighborlitxxl twelve hundred fuet
above the level of the sun and sur-
rounded by mountains five or six hun-
dred feet still higher. lit-fore it could
shine on the village where this boy slept the
sun had to climb far enough up tolook over
hills that held their heads far aloft. From
yonder height his eye at oneswoep took in
the mighty 3006p of the valleys and with an-
other sweep took in the Molitcrranean sea,
and you hear the grandeur of the cliffs and
the surge of the great waters in his match-
Iesscnnonnlogy. One day [see that divine
boy, the wind flarryiug his hair over his
sun browned forehead, standing on a hill
top looking off upon Lake Tiberius, on
which at one time according to pro—
fans history are, not four hundred
but four thousand ships. Authors have taken
pains to say that Christ was not affected by
these surroundings. and that be from within
lived outward and independent of circum-
stances. So far from that being true he was
the most sensitive being that ever walked the
earth, and if a pale invalid's weak finger
could not touch his robe without strength
going out from him, these mountains and
seas could not have muck-d; his eye without
irradiating his entire nmwith their mag-
nificence. I warrant that he had mounted
and explored all the fifteen hills around New
areth, among them Hermon with its crystal
coroner of perpetual snow, and Carmel and
Tabor and Gilboa, and theyall had their
sublime echo in after time from the Olivétic
pulpit.
cannula was mun? runs.
And then it was not uncultivated grandeur.
These hills carriiyd in their arm: or on their
backs gardens, groves, orchards, terraces,
vineyards, » sycamores These out-
branching foliagesdidnot havetowait for
the floods before their silence was broken. for
through them and over themand in circles
round them and underthem were pelicam,
were thrushcs, were sparrows, mulghtiav
gala, were lurks, were quails, were black-
birds, were ' were bulbuls. Yon-
der the white flocks of sheep mowed down
over the mature lands. And yonder the
brook rchearses to the pebbles its adventures
down the rocky shelving. Yonder are the
Oriental homes; the housewife with pitche-
on the shoulder «stating the door, and
down the lawn in front children mel-
lag among the flaming flora. And all
this
and ‘wwovenlntothemostexqukita
naturethatoverbreathedorweptorstmgor
raised. Wmdylngtheakybetween
thehillsChristhaduotieedtbeweathersigm
aadthatacrimaon skyat night meant dry
wreath:- nextday,andttntacrlmamskyln
themominxmeaat wetweather before
And how beautiftu he madeuseof itln
alts-yearsoshedrovedownuponthopuuf-
cons Pharisesand Saddam bycrylnx out:
“When it h evening ya sayitwill befair
wuthu’fortlioskyisrad,aadln the mot-a-
audsangaudgra-andsanahim doing
meom'm"%
minimum-Wand
“wants it all came out In tho
siiuile sf the greatest aarauip ever :
"Noiitm do men light a eaiullo and put it
motor a bushel but in a candlestick and it
git-nth light to all who are in the imam. but
your light Ill) tibiae." l-lmue time when his
mother, in the autumn, tmk out the clothes!
that had been put away for tho hilllllllt'l‘,
lio nomad how the iiuuli flillli'l‘ flew
out and tho mutt «hopped apart ruined
and mashed. and an twenty yuan after he
enjoined: "Lay up for yourselvutmisures
in heaven wlwwueither moth utir not can
corrupt." file lsiyhmul Hpt'lll among birds
and flowers they all caudal and bloomed
again fiftuiu yin-rs aftoa' as he cries out: “lic-
hold the fowl» of the air." "thunder the
lilies." A great alarm one day during
Christ's boyhood Hackeiusl the trauma and
angered the rivers. Perhaps standing in the
door of the (minute: shop he watchal it
gntherhig louder and Wilder until tuo cy»
clones, one nwwplnu down front Mount 'l‘a-
bor and the other from Mount Carmel, met
in the valley of Eulraclmt. and two house»
are caught in the fury and t'l’tin’llglit'a‘llm
one and triumphant stands the other, and he
uotiml that one had shifting mad
for u fotuidatlon and the other an
eternal rock for trail»: and twenty yuan!
after he built the \\ hole went) info a pct-orn-
lieu of flood and whirlwind that wired his
audience and lifted them into the heights of
subliuilty with the two grunt arms of pathos
and tcrmr, which sublime words I tender,
asking you as far as module to forget that
you ever heard than before: "Whenever
heareth thus sayings of mine and doeth
them. I will liken him unto a wise man which
built his house upon a rock; and the rain dev
St‘t‘lltlt‘I and the floods came, and the wind:
blow and beat upon that house, and it fell
not, for it was founded upon a rut-it. And
every one that lumen these sayings of mine
and docth flu-m not, ulmll be llhllhld unto a
foolish man which built his house upon the
stand; and the rain descended and the tlmds
came, and the winds blow and beat upon
that hour». and it fell, and great was the fall
of it.“
lllf RTL'DIIZD savour.
Yes; from tho Iiaturnlnoas, the simplicity.
the fl‘tfilllli'ss of his parables and almileu and
metaphors m iiinnlmod dimiurse I know that
he lltlil been a boy of the lll‘Iflli and had bathed
in tln'streumx and heard the iiigbtingalc‘u
callund broken through the flowery badge
and loolml out of the ombraslil‘t‘ti of the forv
rows and drank from the Wells and chatted the
huttcrllics which travelona say have always
litu'li one of the flitting beauties of that land.
scape, and talkul with the strange imple from
Damascus and Egypt and Sapphorls and
Syria who in caravans or on "I‘ll lutml
through his iieighborbm-l, the dogs barking
at their approach at sundown. As afterward
he was a perfect man, in the time of which I
film}: he was a perfect boy with the spring of
a boy's foot, the sparkle of a boy‘s eye, the h:-
bouud of a boy's life and just the opposite nf
thorn juveniles who sit around morbid and un—
elastic, old men at too. I warrant he was
able to take his own part and to taketlio
part of others. In that village of Kazan-lb
I am certain Illf'f‘t.‘ “in; “hot is found in all
the neighborhoola of the earth, that terror
of children, the bully, who Si‘t’lllri born to
strike, to punch, to bruisu to overrun-or the
less muscular nail robust. The Christ who
afterward in no limited term» (ll-nounced hfir
ocritc and I’harist-c, l warrant. never lct
such juvenile villain inipnse upon lest vigor-
ous chihlhwd and ye; go unmathel and un-
defended. At tcnycars ho was in sympathy
with the undrriuuy, in he was at tliirl y apd
thirty-films. I want no further inspired or
uninspired information to persuade the that
ho was a splendid boy, a radiant boy, the
grandestJmliefi, mightiest boy of all the
ages. Hence I commend him its a boy‘s
Christ. What multitude; lmtwccn ton and
fifteen years have found him out as the one
just suited by his own personal experience to
help any boy. ‘
nssmrcr rut: nova.
Let the world look out how it trends on a
boy, for that very moment it truuls on
Christ. You strike a boy, you strike Christ;
you insult in boy, you insult Christ; you cheat
a boy, you cheat Christ. It is an awful and
infinite mistake to come as fur as manhood
without is Christ when here is a boy Christ.
That was one reason, I suppose, that Jona-
than Edwards, afterwards the greatest Amer
ican logic-inn and preacher of his time, be»
canwa Christan at seven SW of age; and
Robert Hall, who afterwards shook Christen-
dom with his sacred eloquence, became a
Christian at twelve years of age; and Isaac
Watts, who divided with Charles Wesley the
dominion of holy song, became a Christian at
nine years of age, and if in any large religions
assemblage it were asked that all the
men and women who learned to love
Christ before they were fifteen years
of age would please lift their right hand,
there would be enough hands lifted to wave
acorouation. What is true in a religious
sense is true in a secular sense. Themistoclcs
amazed his school fellows with talents which
in after years made the world mare. Isaac
Newton, the boy, by driving page in the side
of a housetomark thcdecline of the sun-
evidencedadispoaitlon towards the experi-
ments which afterwards shoved the nations
how the worlds swing. Robert Stephenson,
the boy, with hlskite on the commons ex-
perimented with electric entrain: and proph-
esied work which should yet makehim’ im-
mortal. "Get out of my way!” said a rough
man too boy, “get out of my way! What
are you good for anyhow!” The boy an-
swered: "They make men out of such things
aswo are." Hear it, fathers, mothers! hear
it, philanthropists and patriots! hear It, all
the youngg The temporal and eternal destiny
of themost-of tholnhabitants of this earth
isdecided before fourteen year! of age. Be
hold the Nahreth Giriat, the village Christ,
the country Christ, the b0 !
Buthavingshownyou vineladinthe
fields,lmustshowyouhimintbemechanic‘s
shop. Joseph, his father, died very early,
immediate] after the famous trip to the
Temple, this lad had not only to support
himselfhut support his moflier, and what
that is some of you know.
Tharelsaroyslnceof hoyspnearth now
thesalne thing. They wear nocrowa.
. length and breadth of their own ignorant-p.
m ' or... " on...»
may on. in town
mun-was. at?“ a.
‘ , Iltl
take our» of cation flow that '73
father, is dad, and the W ty of
family support W down at: this lam!
hear from "turning to night his hammer
pmindiug, his new vacillatlng, hilt ax do.
amtuiiux, his gimlvt‘a boring. and staiidln
amid thoduxt and debris of thoidmp l “in
the wiupirntlou gathering on his lliltlllll'n and
anti“) the fatigue of him arm. and on he Iflnpu
a moment to mu 1 non him muting, his band
on hiu Halo, from tho exhaustion, Now he
got-s forth in tho morning hauled with bank»
meats of work heavier than any iuodrru kit
of tools. Under the tropical sun he swollen
biting, pulling, adjoining, viewing, uplit~
ting, all day long At nightfall he will
home to the plain flower proil‘lml by his‘
mother and hits down too tired to talk.
Work! uoi‘kl Wut'lll You uuinof toll
Christ anything now nbom hliateml
hands or aching nulthsior brain-d fingers or
out! joints, or rising in the morning as tired
llsi when you laid down. W bile yet a boy he
know it all, he felt it all, liosufl’erml it all.
“to boy t'lll'll'tllt‘l‘l The boy \vagmimakt-rl
Thehm' house builder! 0 Christ. we haven‘t-n
thee when full grown in l’ihite‘s police mart
room; wohave rat-cu thw. Mien full grown,
thou wort aiNieelantel on linlguthn; but. 0
Christ, let all the ovary aromas and mo
chanics of the t'ilf‘lh we then, while yet on-
denim! and arm» not yet iuuwulnriml, and
with tho undpvelopod Mri-iigth of jumps-:-
ceiwo, tryiu to take thy fulhvr'n placi- in
gaining the lvolihmul for the family.
vimuvr wmt flu: Illi’l‘lltn
But, having awn Christ the boy of the
fluids and the boy in the mechanic’s shop, I
show youa more inarvelotui scone, Christ the
mouth brown-l lad among the long lauded,
white haired, high forchemh‘d ovchsiastios
of the Temple. Ilundrulu of tlioiiittthis of
stranger-shad cotneto Jerueah-m to keep a
great relighius fostival. After the bmpltable
homes were crowded with vi-itorvi the tents
were spimid all around the city to shelter
immense throngs of etnuigeru. It was very
easy aiming the vast throngs coming and
going to hire a child. More than two million
people have been known to gather at Jerma-
Iem for that'uatioiiul feast. You must not
think of those rrglons as spanfly settled.
The ancient historian Jon-phus says there
were in Unlilm two hundred cities. flu-smallest
of thcmcontaiulng fifteen thousand people.
No woinlcr that amid the crow-lit at the time
syn-ken of .Imusiho boy was lost. llis [flirt-uni,
knowing that he was inaturo enough and.
agile enough intake care of hum-elf, are on
their way home without any anxiety, sup-
plain; that their buy is coming with some of
them-um: But afterawhilo they sonnet
he in loot. and with flushed check and atcr-
rorized io -!: thw rush this way and that,
saying: “If... c you won nuythiugof my boy!
He- i-s twelve y. .r ~ . ' ago. of law complexion,
and him bluoi-ym mid auburn hair. Ilave
you seen him since we left the cityf“ Back
they go in hot fume in and out the streets, in
and out the private houses, and among the
surrounding bills. ‘or three days they rim-ch
and inquire, murdering if he has been train-
pled under foot of mimof thothrtzingii, or
has \‘ruturml on the cliffs and fallcuofl' a
precipice. Send through all the streets and
lauw of the city, and among all the surround-
ing bill“ that most dismal «mud: “A lost
child! :\ loot child?" And in! after three
days they dismwr him in the great Temple,
scaled apmng tho inigliIi-st rcligionists of
all the world. 'l‘hnwallsof no other building
over looked down (launch a fif‘flllr‘. A child
twelve years old surround-n! by mptuagma-
ruins. masking his Min questions and an-
emiriiig their!» Let mo infrtnliu'o you to
mumof lllt’eul‘fi'lifilltflilt'r.‘ This is the great
Rabbinh'uumu! This I: thovenc-rablo Illi-
lvl! This is the [anions Shammai! Three
are the eons of th” distinguished Bctirah.
What can this twelve year lad teach them or
what lllllhlltlns can he Ink Worthy their rogi
tatinu.‘ Ah, Ihellrst tint» in all their ll\'l‘.t
thew rehgi-unists have found their match and
mori- than their match. Though so young.
he knew all about that famous Temple
lIIlIlt,‘l' whose roof they held that moan
municrful discnsdnm of all history. ll-
kni-w the meaning of every altar. of every
hill‘rlllmr, of every golden candlestick, of
every embroidered curtain, of every crump-
of show bread, of every drop of oil in that
smrodcdilhe. Ila kiiciv all about God. He
knew all almiit man. He knew all about
heaven, for he came. from it. lie knew all
about this world, for he mailc it. He knew
all WiiI’ltk. for they were only the sparkling
morning lie-“'drt‘tpli on the lawn in front' of
his heavenly Wilt". l’iit thcsc nevi-n Bible
words in a “Tomb of emphasis: "Both h-ear-
lug thrill and asking them questiims."
\viur qumwxs um III: sun?
1 am nut‘wmuchintcratul iathc qua.-
tl-ins they asked him as in lilPtllltfsflOII-v ho
askml them. Ile asked that nations not to
get information from the doctors, for lie
knew it already, but to humblo them by
showing them the height and (lEplll and
While the radiant boy thunlts these self con—
ceited pliiimophcvs with the interrwgntion
point. they put the forefinger of the right
hand to the temple as though to start their
thoughts into more vigor, and then they
look upward and then they would ‘wrinkle
their brows, and then by absolute silent-ear
in positive words confers their incapacity
to answer the interrmuvry. With any
one of a hundred questions about tho
ology, about philosophy, about astrono-
my, about time. about eternity, lrz may
have haiku! them, disconcenol them,
flung them flat. Behold the boy Christ ask-
ing questions, and listen when your child
asks questions. He has the. right mask them.
The more he asks the better. Alas for the
stupidity of the child without inquisitlveiioss:
It is Christlike to ask questions. Amer
them if you can. Do not my: “I mn'tb.
bothered now." It is your place to mun-rod
with questions. If you are not ablation:-
swer, surrender and confess your incapacity,
as l havenodoubt did Babbitt Simeon and
BillelandShammai andthesons of Betirah
when that splendid boy, sitting orstandhg
there with a garment reachiuv from neck
to ankle, and girdled at the waist, put
them to their wit’seml Ii ism dig-
gracetony: “I don‘t know." 'l'helearnad
We who environed Christ that day
In tho'l‘eniplo did not knoworthey
would not have asked him any qnatioau
Theorily beinl‘in the anivene who never
needs tony ”I do not know”ls thelord
Almighty. The factthat Iheydidnot know
mt KepplerandCuvlai-and Columbus and
Humboldt and Wand lions and Sir
William Hamilton andall thetftberof tlia
world’s mightiest natinu Into their lifekmg
explorations. Telewopo andmleroscopeaud
and eiactrichattery and all the
scientific apparatasof all thence- manly
questiousaied at tliodoarof myltary. Be.
bold thh Nantes» lad aklngqueatioas. giv-
ing everlastmg’ dignity to earnest infamy
ptioa.
around the boy Christ I am hopes-ado
mtafmwiththstactthatw’hattheology
”want is more :1 childlii phclty.
wam-ldandflisdiwehhsve t npiar
hmmangmm
manuals» ' sultan b-
was when?
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.v,‘:~.,:‘ ‘fln:
ma Mum ovum menu new. MN m .m. “ .
minim-marathon" «a
M _ fifth-mandibula—
drawing Wichita-immature
fair warning that if any inhibitor em
begins a strum on such a subject hi
my {men I will put my head down
on the pew in front and go into the
(limpet aluuiher I can reach. Wicked waste
of tum. this trying to scale the amiable
and fatlwiu tho uufathmmbhi while the na-
lions want the bread of life and who lfllll
how they can got rid of their hills and their
airmwn Why idionld you and I [ninth-s
outer-lives about .tho tltrl‘tIt-auf flu]! Mind
your own luminmu and find Will take care of
life. In themtuluctof the univem [think
he will slum-how iiusnagu to get along willr
out int. 1! you want to love and serve God
and he gourd and tuneful and get to Iwaveu, l
warrant that nothing which (111ml eight.
hundred qulntillioti of years ago will hinder
you a minute. It is not the decree: of Hod
that do us any harm; it hour own {lfl'mm
sin and fully. You need 11"th any ftu‘lher
hack in history than about eighteen ban~
thud and fiftyviiis years. You see this
is the yaar law. Christ died alsiut thirty—
yours of age. You subtract 3:: from the year
18W and that makes it only will} years.
That is a: far back as you and to go. How
thing mcurred on that day under an eclipaad
sunthat nouns all forever fmif without
wholehcart and life “barium the tmnenv
dons proffer. Do not let the Presbyterian
«lunch or the Metlaxlist church orthe Lu—
theran church or the Baptist church or any
of the other evangelical churches spend any
thus in trying to fix up oldcreeds, all of
them imperfect, as evarythingtnaa duals
imperfect. Imovsauowcrudforallthpevair
gdlcalchurchasofChrktandmumulythresar-
ticles in the creed and no need of any more
If i had all the consecrated people of all do
nomhiathms of the earth on ope (mat plain.
aadlhada volmloud enough to put it to
vote, that cured of three articles would he
adopted with a unanimous vote and it than-
dering eye that would make the earth quake
and the heavens ring with banana. This is
the creed I ”Hill” for all Christcialom:
A rxivmat. can».
Article First—“Unit so loved theworld that
he gave his wily begotten son that whoso-
ever believeth in him should not perish but
have everlasting life."
Article nomad—“This is a faithful saying
and worthy of all acceptation that Christ
Jesus came into Ilia world to save sinners,
even the chief."
Article Third—“Worthy is the Lamb that
wasan to receive bit-slug and richosand
honor and glory and power, world without
end. Amen."
But you go to tinkering up your old creed:
and patching and splicing and intorlining
and annexing and subtraction and sibling
and explaining, and you will lose time and
make yourself a target for «nth and hell to
shalt at. Let ma have creeds not fashioned
out of human ingrmuithe but out of scripture
phrasenlogy, and all the guns of bombard-
ment blazing from all the sort holcs of hill-
delity and in‘rditiou will not in a thousand
years knock off from the church of God a
splinter as big tum cambrio needle. What is
mint needed now is that we gather all our
thmlogies amuud the boy in the Temple, the
clnluiratioiisaround the sinipllcities and the
profimditi-zs around the clarifies. the octo-
gi'llflriflll of scholastic ream-h around
the unurinided check of twelve year
jut emu-once. “Except you become as a lit-
tle child you can in no who enter the king-
dom," and except you become as a little child
you cannot understand the Christian reli-
gion. The best thing that Robbin Sinigon
and Hillel and Shaniiuai and the sons of lic-
tiruh ever did was in the Temple to bend
over the lad who, first made ruddy of check
by tho breath of the Judoau bills and on his
way to tho nuchziuic‘s shop where he was
soon to be the support of his bereavml oth‘
er, stopped long enough to grapple wl the
venerable dialecticians of the Orient, "both
hearing them and asking them questions.”
Suntan-farting to Christ, have exclaimed
Econ Dcusl Behold the God. Others have
exclaimed Euro homo! Behold the man.
But today in t‘tfllClllhilln of my subject I cry,
Rcce fllluitb‘t'l‘ltsi Behold the boy.
‘ Saul "nail-chat.
lludarhcsm caused by utorbhl conditions.
more commonly elsewhere than in the brain.
Permanent relief is to be obtained in such
cases not by applications to the head, or by
thouseof drugsthat blunttheacaseof palm
but by removal of the muse.
Says Dr. Roe, of Rochester, N. Y., to
whom-we are hulebted in th preparation of
this article: "There is no a cotton that has
so many different types, nor one which is
maul by so great a variety‘of bodily con-
ditiotez." :‘t‘L’OI’dlng to Dr. Day, of England,
there is none which more severely taxes the
experience of the physician.
It is only recently that a knowledge of the
abundant nervous median of the nose
with the other parts of the system, and the
nannies; of its chambers to the brain, led the
medical profession to suspect the nasal origin
of funny headachm.
This origin is generally in some abnor-
mal pressure on the nerve filaments in the
na-l chambers, in consequence of a mum
tion of their walls, or a morbid growth of
bone, or a deflection or bend of the nasal
partition.
When it results from an engorgeincat of
of the passages, 11 simple puncture will gener-
ally relievo the headache. A pram-e from
almoqnal bony growth canes a more con-
stant pain. Dr. Roeadduces many cases of
headaches from this stance which have nad-
ily yielded to treatment. We haverootn for
only three. and these we give only in anger
outline.
Hr. A. lie—.50 years old, hadhadliesd-
achc, increasing in severity, for fourteen
ynrs. The pain had become» paw t,
and his mind wssao alfactsd, M be foam]
softening of the brain. Examination dwwed
from an abnormal boay ridga An
operation immediately uttered the W
and rattled him to full health.
Ir.E.It—huiforayearandahalfsuf—
fund somewhat simisrly, and was forced to
give upwork. In his can, also,therewu
pro-urn caused by a bony ridge and marked
hypertrophy of the turbinated bones. Ills
wholacmdition wasmuch reduced. An m
opua'tionqaite relieved thepaia and rapidly
his condition. He has had all
since. .
Halli—hadhadfreqmtandssnre
head'scbesforfonrye‘arsandha‘yfeverqvcy
mater. Shehad ringing in heredrialso,
andbeeameunablotomaherayesforeador
aw. Themunwashypertrophyofthotur-
bhistsdbones. Anopu-ationremoradaflhar
trouble and restored her general bailth,
which had become aa'ioasly affected. For
mint flyeyears shah-s had noretm'nof-
the headache or of the hay {even—Ypath's
Canpanion.
Itkatrialtothehauwifatoseaberfruit
pheamefraiaths ovaawlthhu’ cardulfy
maredpuflpsstamadahsavybythaiuiu
dtliefrnit tho mm ltis
nidfliatlftheerusthswadiedwithabsaka
a“ beforopt‘itfia; intha fruit thiswiflba
pram tad.
mum to I
BIKING POWDER
PURE?
Do its Manufacturers Publish all
the Ingredients Used?
is IT FREE FROM AMMMIM
AI is well kumvu. ammonia is unhealth-
ful in food. and dries up the bread
material.
I’mteetimi to consumers of food cota-
pounds lies in their ability to choose
those made from healthful substances.
Unloa- manufacturers publish just what
their baking powder is made of. do not
use their goods. but boy instead
CLEVELAND'S 8UPEBIOR
BAKING POWDER.
Thin powder is male only of strictly pure
cream of tartar. and strictly are
icsrboaafe of vials. with a little I
flour topreaerve it. This is stteatedl v the
official aaalynes of Government and ""e
chemists. and thysiciaas. and chain. of
Boards of flea tli thmugliout the not .r.
_,., Cuvstsim Humans, Alas", h
o. a. DEED.
The W 'l'es Ever Gilead.
PERFECTLY PURE.
A St. ,.r fiiLIJt‘ltrt'n Iffii'ijttv'd; 'I'lll’ if.
t . «all tam us up after. {any tart! was
I- II t':0 Ilmmor memo Ira. pitiful from
t: i 4 Hunt” vm-‘mt filmm' 1..
:iAl
; «v ..u true fin'n xi; Mu; i. nu-r rah.
’ - ‘ 'ilWIW“ H rug" burn- ii-wlly l' J
'> .i 'r I 9 int: omit. It w martini»!-
i t' I ~- liu‘i‘. the ii-er'T'id 9
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D. llllolIlIEllIEIT,
CHAS. Ii. I‘EBBIS,
South Norwalli, Conn.
a Talk With
Col. l-‘crris. Moses “lover, David Plait,
8. K. Stanley. Mrs Henry Seymour
and lllbrn.
Below will he foam :1 nmpu- of the multitude of
letters of (‘Mullf‘flgfifllt‘ftl Franklin iio'siza & Mm. of
fill Broadway. tow York, 11.1in moire. The aub—
joinul mum uitcd ltfllnwnull -rc (run your friends
and ac inborn. lllfllntt and scale-tam you know and
camera or their boom and stnightforwardacu. and
who would scam to h 2 a party to as deception.
Wha has barn done for others» can be one for you.
aadi it fully Iu louccr mm when the mash!
reciivcry Us at your \uy door.
(70!. c. at. FzItBIS say-z ' In It?!) I vs»
taken pics with Dyrpa'pcli and Jaundice of the in rat
description, "dating my weight about sixty pounds.
lmffwrrd about our. year and a half. Kunming
an done that mullc Ii skill rocld some“. Finally
amuarn nf dorma- tic-clam! my run: "inmllhic; '
others gave I'D" the lwnifiis of uinbtn 'Ihen I was
finally persuaded to take Ilnwes‘ Blood Purifier.
Aft" taking two or [hr boll: cs I was euircly
carcdand have been a we' rain for over pix years. '
M33. IIESBY SEYMOUR. said to have had
a new removed by In. Cumin . of New York
city. War my low- termed like; todiesuyds :
not able to walk alone; we would not but The
Discovery cared for seven yratl ago sad has been a
we): woman rmrc.
ii. If STANLEY. nmrlytighfy years old. and
we! enacting severely Itum a ban] cough. TM
dtl‘lflf. raid he find an "a m on his lung." and
could not live flaring Iicsrd of the wonderful
cum dorm by ”rho lift!!! Blood Punter " I not
for if at ora- sad bolt xi faithfully. My cough tl-liv
Ipimrul and sin “figifl’fltifim health.
Testimony of allcmarkablc (are
in Norwalk, Conn.
Min Celts Starr, (now Mrs. Charles
Bennett). Grant St" Norwalk, (ban.
IIsd Kidney imbte, Dy rprpsfa, impaired circa
lation of eight can I ng; was so barons that
the could och er steep not eat. Paid out over
eight handful dollar! to doctors. and was not benc-
fiiml one unit'- worth: heath refuel as much by
the poison medicines as by the dim In which
thq Wtfcllhl‘ll. She as I: "I did not expect to
toe butsahorttiinc. r, “m ,Ifl§ tent to lie
by a friend. I is medicine and have not had
a doctor since. Iwaa not able to walk without help
—am new style and do walk all almt town a"
that-u (is . I am a new person. and I would
bebukw I was for thousands of dollars.
confide: it the beat medicine ever (lend to the
public. Dr. t‘om tuck, of Row York, told me he
would not hare believed I cent! have ma cared if
he had not sum! clolu' by Franklin IImvcs’ led»
cal Ditcmr- ty." Cami teary-airs ago.
Riff SALE UN“ ZRSALLY.
not
in
r!
TRY OUR.
Bel. Canny Creamery Butler.
IT “.8581!!! XVIII" TIME
DANIEL L’IIOM Bl EDIEU.
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lav. Wllseu Point. Ltflo. limwaik. Arfiawslk
110 a. In. Mixed 220 a. In. l‘x'd 210 Hired
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uni use.
[5an for rum
7.85;:ij
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CARRIAGE Blitlfllii‘l.
(kw? , &UO.
Minufacfured by C. I. lEONABD,
38 Water [tn-t. In" ly
lif‘65§‘I‘”’! ‘
Cllllllfill Sale
pianos",
Frames,
Fancy Goods.
m- an... fl...
STATIONERY.
Baby Carriages,
(£30
bargains.
business.
E. G. WHITNEY.
13 North Main St.
9242'“ _§9l1!ll Natl'I'llIi.
alto
annual islachamo of a prsriiral i
can secure beat mulls.
’ltumlry minus.
outrun cuss~a practical mum:
partial lam SK II. If [5001.
P. 8.-ltlm n! Barium
Business Collette.
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Merrill Phonograpic Academv.
AID—-
51 Atlantic 22.. Stamford, Ct. la Social
Day sad tuning. o
Quanta All") and Typcwming
t. aim the ml instruction of the
School, Ilarrftxd, Conn.
book keeping.
Young men
hoausblc and lucrative popitfms.
sad vicmiry.
matron all on. or fiddl't‘rs,
Hits. 3. A. 38!"!!th I’m .
5t AILIMIC rt , W «ml.
The Correct Styles
3111:. Hats,
Cops in all colors, Crush
llafs, arm, at
KNAPP’S,
91 Washington St.
Particular attention paid to
Fixing, Cleaning and Ironing
Sllls Ilals. tit
m3 TO NEW YORK IN LESS THAN
TWO HOURS AND A HALF.
The New and l'alaffsl steamer,
Capt. Prod I. Byxbce,
Will mum Making Daffy Trips to New York
Comfort, Safely and Iipocd.
Popular Prices.
so. Nerwalk to New fork. shale
Trlpfioccsls; Excursion, to costs.
Onaadsfta
Monday. June 10th,
WW will leave Wilson was: on arrival“
”ch" tnfa Icavirvto. simlk at 75‘ a.
It. Itctsrsingluvef‘ew “Mammal;
foot W's blip, at 8.15 v.3 . and foot 31st mat.
Vast Rim. amp. 1a.. min; with trains at
Wham Pom’ t.
Always Take the lawful: Lise.
[or “1137 “but!“ WHO .“M , .
run nw noun) unusual“. co.
£11)le HARRIET. V. P. t G. I. ,
as South St. Few York.
0 z onus. Agni ,Wimfméan. spa
The Old and Reliable.
3 Mill men LINE.
larval flu Yuri
~11“ PIOPELLEII—
City of Norwalk a Eagle,
win an was
maize. a mi.“
nm‘ wmmnonmuwm! I
m “Greatly-ads“
lataa.
Up- to the «Ila-III
.u vain-3% draught
Artists Materia1s,
Call Early and secure best
Sale absolute. Going out of
y .
flat") all!) 1'! [WRITING 1):;
. a
Sapient-Tuesday and
mat
Ya'iiColtesc givu mean- two sficmooas each
u
It'wtdhepleautto have??? an 0: write for
Gazelle Bulldlns, Nam-III, Ct.
Department, [Import
Commercial Training School.
, mucut
. e prin—
cipal and hunt»: manager of (Indry’: Stuntman!
‘OIBIERIIIA‘L [Mama-m, for that "any of
gammy», utthmic. cut,
in chsrxcofhof,a. .Wanleof new Mark m1.
and women carefully prepared to fill
Remington Typewitc: Headquarter! for Stanford
Bust, a. Houses myplicd with competent solst-
au's on than notice [for circulars and full tum.
HAT’S”! " HATS!
In all gnu-Int of Still and Soft flats. Spring Style‘
Boys flats, ' Polo Capt, Tennis
Bane charmer..-
H... w... - .. . M,
,W .m....~ ,
'l‘b
Host
nonunion! w,» la Iran!
50 lbs. fit ‘00 Batch.
Dec «a s math luau: toils-Ila an may
1'. 1'. teams»,
Vanadium
fit If
A. s. dialer-tuna.
JEWELER.
Diamond», Watches, Jewelry.
rise Watch Running a sperm.
34 Washington tu” - loath lot-wall.
CANDIES
mailhladt mt“ -
BAKER”
courtroom“. liar")! ‘I'OYthauda fall unit-
in III of “mill candy. r'
HrsJohnnolland
' MW“? m
I11 it
aims Liéi
._._op.._.
[mined Cigars.
MRI! BBAC‘INSI’IBLD,
LA APRICAXA.
~ ~ ~- , . , u.» _-. (trams
ZVENING M ruin
. . , . mandala '
Cm atom] Sch 00] run: in; «Stuntman,
"‘t'i'l’i‘iléuu
oflfil‘hm dqma‘i‘dfifil.‘ ”fill mo mi.
lf'h‘ihfi': mwu'fdnf"f”“”fl JBPPBMI.
“MI . ml "mm In addition to the above I carry a
stock of twentyrflne different brands of
Domestic Cigars and believe I can suit
the most [MIISIIDIIS taste. Persons that
are in the habit of buying by the box are
invited to nail and gut prices, which will
be found reasonable. *
E. It. EAIE,
The linguist,
Cor. Main and Wall Streets.
New and Second-Hand '
WAcoum
New and Second-Hand
CARTS,
A Lot of
Cheap f Horses,
A Good Depot Wagon,
One G rocer’s Wagon,
(inc Butcher’s Wrigon.
FERTIIJZERS,
Grass Seed.
Seed Oats,
Barn-Yard Maniacs.
RAYMflNflBBflS
BEE HIVE
General Intelligence Office
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ch biaathcrpfaoc,will itwill
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(tr-unac- wiilhechanuadtbesa- of 5 cu. If
yuawanttoba .aumwmarnqainfor any
thingyoaan mhetc.aswewilfadsuticattba
”everyday. Wehaveadniagmhrhdicr
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A I’ll“ .beB cogs.“
Builders. Hardware,
PAINTS,
Oils .Vflnishes.
Berry Bros. Hard (Iii Finish.
erc Steel Door Mats,
www.muu-a
w. c. oumvaua,
[mom-ma.
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