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2 II O.' ZO ,S UJSIJiYSHIY. V v ✓ J - - - - ••'.'. . . v - - . v- / r / JwW wy£li< i At Itt ■I *" isl '*”’•*•■ - 1] ' •■ " - ■ Tbo following words, in praise of Dn. Pierce's Favoiitte Prescription as a remedy for those delicate diseases and weak nesses peculiar to women, must boos intorcr.t to every sufferer from such mr.ludies. They are fair samples of the spontaneous expressions with which thousands give utterance to tlsir sense of gratitude for the inestimable boon ol health which has been restored to them by the use of this world-famed medicine. »■■■ ' """-I John K Bbgaii, of Mtnenbtck, Tit., writes: 8"t..„,... . Mrs. Sophia F. Boswem., White CottemejO., alf\n “My Wife had Isa nsutb'ring lor two <«• three I Hi>EW fiWAY writes: “I took eleven bottles of your ‘Fa tZIAVV years with female weakness, and had paid ,i yorite Prescription and one bottle of your - MFR Pellets. I am doing my work, and have been THRnWN AWAY out relief. Sho took Or. Pierces Favorite n. for some time. I have had to employ help for Hinunn anai. Prescription and it did her more good tlnm MIPPWTFP about sixteen years before I commenced tak- ■" all the medicine given to her by the physl- vmi.ii. i Uf{ your medicine. I have had to wear a Ciana during the three years they had been practicing upon her.” ~ . . , supporter most of the time; this I have laid - Mrs. (ikORCR HEUflkli. of Westfield, XK. nal<l ''' nnd fecl 1 overdid.” TIIC IJnrtTtCT writes: “ Iwiw a great Sutterer from leueor- . iy n _„_ , Mrs - Mav Gleason, of Nunica, Ottawa Co. INt UntAltSl rhea, bearing-down pains, ami pain contin- IT WHhifS JHc/i., writes: " Your • Favorite Prescription’ r._—.... n.... ually across my back. Three bottles of your ' has worked wonders in my case. t&RTHLY BOOH, ‘lavorite Prescription restored i>><. to «r- WnHDFRR Again she writes: “Having taken several bot- wmiiuui uuvn. f( . ct health. [ treated with l>r. , for WUHUCIIO. ties of the ‘ Favorite Prescription ’ I have re- nine months, without receiving any benefit. gained _iny health wonderfully, to the astonish. The ‘ favorite Prescription ’ Is the greatest earthly boon to us nient of myself and friends. I cun now be on my feet all day. poor suffering women. ’ attending to the duties of my household. TREATING THE WRONG DISEASE. Many times women call on their family phyfeioiann, Bufferings ns they imagine, one from dyspepsia, another from heart disease, another from liver or kidney dijuwwj, another from nervous exhaustion or prostration, another with pain here or there, and in thin way they all present alike to thems'dves and their easy-going and indifferent, or over-busy doc tor, separate and distinct diseases, for which he prescribes his pills and potions, assuming them to Ihj such, when, in reality, they arc all only symptoms caused by some womb disorder. The physician, ignorant of the cause of suffering, encourages his practice until large bilra arc made. The suffering patient gets no better, but probably worse by reason of the delay, wrong treatment and consequent complications. A proi>er medicine, Wko Dr. 1 ierce s Favorite I reseriptfon, directed to the caww would have entirely removed the disease, thereby dispelling all those distressing symptoms, nnd instituting comfort instead of prolonged misery. O PUVQIPIAMQ I Irunna I. A Marvclou* Cure.-Mrs. G. F. Sprague, r! »rn was a dreadful sufferer from uterine troubles. J uEJLOUS I B weal^cM’’ n till tn llavimr exhausted the i kill <»r three i»hv In S female wcahmss, leucorrhea and falling of the rAILtU. *“/ . X „1 .telv <1 acr.,oc<re „„'i 1,-, I OnfiTfißß I wolnb for sovcn years, so I hart to keep my bed ■ w« k i ernrtrt wftb dill cu tv it re 11, r r~n I UUbIU " B - | for a good part of the time. ] doctored with an alone I began taking Dr Pierre's Fi v. rite mill nt tpy of different physicians, and sjient large Bums using the local treatment reMmmredi dln his* • t omni< n«< n«’ of n,o l°X’ but r( ’ (; rived no lasting benefit. At last my husband StedLl Adviser ’ I roi rnenre!toll nnrovo at one.™ in ? ™ ptTsnurted mo to try your medicines, which I was loath to do. months I was perfectly cured, nnd have hail no trouble since. I he/dlh he would gct°mTßorn?™ yojr toany one wrUlnJ• nw. frt a > modest lire advice of my physician. Hogot me six bottlesof the Sowfor replu “ have re! dyed over four un<fre< io tore , av , < "l’rescriptlon/ also six bottles of the ‘Discovery,’ for In reply I have described mv case nnd the tn-i tnwnt iiSd* til 1 ' IG, , Jnr P- f took three bottles of ‘Discovery’ and four of and have Ain mat ly advised likoVXo n Irrent favorite Prescription,’ and 1 have been a sound woman for four many I have received second letters of thanks Btatlng Yearn. I then the balance of the medicine to my sister, who Sa mmmfflmHtoiii!! rt"‘ Favorite I'XTlirtbm ’ htl rent the )Y ns troubled IL the tamo way, and she cured herself in a short S’aO fm - tIT’ I Medici Advisen’ ani ‘had applted the ’2‘S Ve nOt huU t 0 tuke any me<Uclne now almost focal treatment so fully and plainly laid down therein, and were years. touch better already." THE OUTGROWTH OF A VAST EXPERIENCE. The treatment of many tbousandn of cases euros nausea, weakness of stomach, indl- In pregnancy. “ Favorite Prescription* of tnoHC chronic weaknesses and diHtretisinff goat ion, bloating and eructations of gnu. is a “ mother’s cordial,” relieving nausea, ailments noculhir to females, at the Invalids' Am a and strengthening weakness of stomach and other distressing Jlotcd and Surgical Instituto, Buffalo, N. ~ nervine,” Favorite Prescription” is un- symptoms common to that condition. It has afforded a vast experlenco in nloeiy equalled nnd is invaluable in allaying nnd its use is kept up in the latter months of fcdairtlng nnd thor<‘Uglily testing remedies subduing iktvoiia excitability, irritability, gestation, it so prepares the system for de fer the cure of woman s peculiar maladies. exhaustion, prostration? hysteria, spasms Hvcry as to greatly lessen, and many times Dr. I lerre h It&voritc Pi*es<*i*iptloii and other distressing, nervous symptoms almost entirely do away with the sufferings the outgrowth, or result, of this great connnoniy attendant upon functional and of that trying ordeal. and valuable experience. ThoiiKands of organic uipcnso of the womb. It induces “Favorite Prescription,” when taken testimonials, received from patients and refreshing sleep nnd relieves mental anx- in connection with the use of Dr. Pierce’s from physicians who have tested it in the lety and despondency. Golden Medical Discovery, and small laxa- and obstinate cases which #r. Pierced Favorite Prescription tive doses of Dr. Pierce’s Purgative Pellets had baffled their skui, prove it to be the la a legitimate niedlclnc, carefully (Little Liver Pills), cures Liver, Kidney and most wonderful remedy over devised for compounded by an experienced and skillful Bladder diseases. Their combined use also the relief and cure of Buffering women. It physician, and ndnpteu to womanT delicate removes blood taints, and [abolishes can ts not recommended as a cure-all,” but organization. It is purely vegetable in its odrous and scrofulous humors from the as a most perfect Bi>ecitlo for woman's composition and perfectly harmless in its syßtom. peculiar ailments. effect h in nny condition of the system. “Favorite Prescription” is the only Am a powerful. Invigorating tonic, “Favorite> PrcMcription” Im a posU medicine for women sold, bv druggists. It imparts strength to the whole system, tlvo cure lor the most complicated and under a positive guarantee, from'the gnu to the uterus, or womb and its ap- obstinate cases of leucorrhea, or ” Whites,” manufacturers, that it will give satisfao twndngeH, In particular. Por overworked, cxpcßfiivc flowing at monthly periods, pain- tion in every case, or money will be re worn-out, run-down, debilitated teach- ful menstruation, unnatural suppressions, funded. This guarantee has neon printed pre mlllinore, dreMmakers, seamstress* *8, nrolapHtis or falling of the womb, weak on the bottle-wrapper, and faithfully car shop-girls, houfu'keopors, nursing mnth- back, “lenudo weakness,” ante version, re- ried out for many years. Fargo bottles pre, and feeble women generally, Dr.’ trov< i don, bearing-down Hensati<u<- ”on- (ICO doses) SI.OO, ’or six bottles for Fierce h bavorlte Proscription is the great- io congestion, inflammation and ulckration $5.00. cat earthly boon, being unequalled ns an of the womb, iuilaiumrJion, pain and ten- ten cents in stamps for Dr. appetizing cordial and restorative tonic. It dcrnccs !n ovaries, accompanied with “in- Piercc’s large, illustrated Treatise (160 promotes digestion aud assimilation of food, temnl heat.” pogos) on Diseases of Women. Addrem, U'OHFD’S DISVFNSAI&Y MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, No. GG3 ITlaiil Street, BUFFALO, N. Y. THE W W. IJTTLE liver pills. PE LL E © OF IMITATIONS I ® tU ways ask for Dr. Pierce’s Pellets, or Little Q Q Q ■kS Sugar-coßted Granules or Pills. ’fXSCTr<ET.’3S3^>’mfe , SS3HHEMESHBraa«nSHBHSBa«H«NBME«HaBf BUING ENTIKF.I.Y VEtIETAISI.I', ffr. Plcrce’H Pellets operate without disturbance to the system, diet, or occupation. Put up in klu.n vials, hermetically sealed. Always fresh and reliable. As a LAXATIVE) ALTERATIVE, or PURGATIVE, these little Pellet, give the most perfect satisfaction. ESS" 13 ® iniir" n Wiithmßamich. Esq.,ofAfinrtcn.KeTnieuCotmlu; w 88*df ULsII■U HS E * LslLi RnillJ Nebraska, writes: “1 was troubled with boils for .vjßi S®B MS E i-S RFS BN JJuilo thirty years. Four years ago I was so afflicted witb 1 VIUsI ■ a«n sa Wnßwe R | Ik. lIIIRFn them that I could not walk. I bought two bottle* t’ aMK«».iaiM..aiiii.ii!i.ii! .i....!. uuulu. () f u r pk-rcc's Pleasant Purgative Pellets, anrt took ■ ■'sCx Bilious Ilenditcho. IMzz.lnoHs, Con. —™ one ‘ Pellet’ after each meal, till all were gone. Hy I KvtX stlpution, Ind iuc.t ion, Ililious that time I hart no bolls, and have hud none since. I nave also ■ It t- / '/V. Attacks, nnd nil deningoments of the been troubled with Hick headache. When I feel it coming on, BA* kJj&) stomach nnd bowels, nro promptly relierod I tuke one or two ‘relicts,’ and am relieved of the headache.’ 5 |w ft and permanently cured by the use of Dr. immm « Aft w»'' Pierce's Picamint Purgative Pellets. In ox- f T Mrs - c - Brown, of TFnpakotieta, Ohio, BnnwkwMMMw- pinnation of the remedial power of these I IMF HFST Isays: “Your ‘Pleasant Purgative Pellets ’ are Pellets over so gnat n variety of diseases R „ I without question the best cathartic over it may truthfully be said that their netlftn upon the .system is E CUTHSMTIP | 6oM- They are also a most efficient remedy unlversnl, not a gland or tiusua escaping their sanative inllueuce. 8 UJlimnilU. I for torpor of the liver. We have used them Bold by druggiMa, for 25 eeiits a vinl. Manufaetun dnt the Chein- fcn.ii m r—,l for rears in our family, and keep them la toil I jiboratory of Worlds Dispknuauy Mkihcal Association, the house all the time.” Buffalo, N. Y. H WO// I I " FOR A CASE OF CATARRH WHICH THEY CAN NOT CURE. «YMPTOMSOFr»ATARRH. I CnflU HaTIDDU Chronic nasal catarrh. My family physl. Dull, heavy headache, obstruction of the nnsal nasssmM. din- rHUm UulAnnH. cian gayo me up ns incurable, and said I cimnrea fulling from tno bend into the throat, sometimes pnw ■ must die. My case was such a bad one, fiis. . watery, nnd acrid, at others, thick, tenacious, j Uiat ever) diiv, towards sunset, my vokv would beivme «> homve purulent, bloiMy and putrid: the eyes arc* weak, watery, and ' J could tareh-epeak abovea wbiswr. In the morning my cough. Intlnnieil; there is ringing tn the ears, deafness, hacking or Ing and clearing ol my throat would almost strannle me. Uy the coughing to clear the throat, expectoration of offensive matter. l,w “ of l >r-pages latarrh Remedy, in three months, 1 wasa weU tog thcr with seatis from ulcers; the voico is changed and has man, and the cure has been permanent. a nasal twang; the breath is offensive; smell and taste are ini- tuom.s i Uesotwn ix... c. . palled , there is a sensation of dixiinaaa wish mental depiossion, OnucTluTlW c, Yi. ‘‘S' - f inf h ha. king rough and general debility. llowniT. only a few if I UUnSTANTLY I'* !£*'., R t sll ' l *’ 8,1 /r th«' above-named symptoms are likely to bo present in anv one ' Uiiuviun tun L i P !v!J,>.i’ a »> a mUv At Ous . riiousan ls of caara annually, without inanlfrethig half of HAWKING AND I} 1 ?,??).} i W ?J! p ?t D ’ the above symptoms, n suit m consumption, and end tn the Ohitwiia f iV os' <i Or * I SHTTHta. » By ito mild, seoihing. and healmg pinperthw. n r . Catarrh 1 am f'Ui'ADiPii Di a, MirikV hvvi* it to Im' the only sure retried’ for catarrh dow manufao if n;t<aEs n <XI .llllill i*U.TlFl*i tun d. and one has only to give it n fair trial to experience CURBS TM WORST cab» of ! aMoumUng results mid a permanent cure." Catarrh, “C?ld in the Head,” Coryza, and Catarrhal Hsadacha. THREE BOTTLES I . fii|QC OITAffDU I Br. Sage'B i'atarrh Remedy’udverils. d. and SOLD It Y DIH GGISTS EYEB YIFHEEE. £tVeffec?<3 fiuce, GO’ currre. I cuw * BUu “ uvw c * btvVtt vW uud 6QuaJ THE VEEKLY CCNS’IIILTICK, ATLANTA, GA., TLESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1887. “GIVE IS A_CIIRIST.” The Cry of Assyrian, Persian and Egyptian Civilizations FOR FOUR THOUSAND YEARS Brooklyn, December 25.—Services today at the Brooklyn tabernacle were jubilant Professors Browne and All, with organ and cornet, were unusually powerful, and Mrs. Florence Rice-Knox sang three solos. The thousands of people who packed the church and all the approaches, seemed to join in the great chorus: "He shall reign from pole to pole With illimitable sway; He shall reign, when, like a scroll, Yonder heavens have passed away.” Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D.D., took as the subject of his sermon, “The Barn and Its Sur roundings.’’ His text was taken from Luke ii. 15: “The shepherds said one to another, let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass.” Dr. Tal mage said: One thousand years of the world's existence rolled painfully and wearily along, and no Christ. Two thousand years, and no Christ. Three thousand years, and no Christ. Four thousand years, and no Christ. “Give us a Christ,” had cried Assyrian and Persian and Chaldean and Egyptian civilizations, but the lips of the earth and the lips of the sky made no answer. The world had already been affluent of genius. Among poets had appeared Homer and Thespis and Aristophanes and Sophocles and Euripides and Alexis AEschy lus. yet no Christ to be the most poetic figure of the centuries. Among historians had ap peiu'ed Herodotus and Xenophon and Thu cydides, but no Christ from whom all history was to date backward and forward—B. C. and A.D. Among conquerors Camillus and Man lius and Regulus and Xantippus and Hannibal and Scipio and Pompey and Ca-sar, yet no Christ who was to be conqueror of earth and heaven. But the slow century and the slow year and the slow month and the slow hour at last arrived. The world had had matins or con certs in the morning, and vespers or concerts in the evening, but now it is to have a concert at midnight. The black window shutters of a December night were thrown open, and some of the best singers of a world where they all sing stood there, and putting back the drapery of cloud chanted a peace anthem, until all the echoes of hill ahd valley applauded and en cored flic hallelujah chorus. At last the world has a Christ and just .he Christ it needs. Come, let us go into that Christmas scene, as though we had never be fore worshipped at the manger. Here is a Madonna worth looking at. I wondernot that the most frequent name in all lands and in all Christian centuries is Mary. And there are Marys in palaces and Marys in cabins, and though German and French and Italian and English pronounce it differently, thev are all namesakes of the one whom we find in a bed of straw with her pale face against the soft cheek of Christ in the night of the nativity. All the great painters have tried on canvas to present Mary and her child and tlie incidents of that most famous night of the world’s history. Raphael in three different masterpieces.celebrated them. Tin toret and Guirland.jo surpassed themselves in the Adoration of the Magi. Corregio needed to do nothing more than his Madonna to be come immortal. The Madonna of the Lily, by Leonardo da Vinci, will kindle the admira tion of all ages. Murillo never wen greater triumph by iris pencil than in his presentation of the Holy Family. But all the galleries of Dresden are forgotten when I think of the small room of that gallery containing the Sis tine Madonna. Yet all of them were copies of St. Matthew’s Madonna, and Luke’s Ma donna, the inspired Madonna of the old book, which we bad put into our hands when we were infants and that we hope to have un der our heads when we die. Behold, in the first place, that on the first night of Christ’s life God honored the brute creation. You cannot get into that, Bethle hem barn without going past the camels, the mules, the dogs, the oxen. The brutes of that stable heard the first cry of the infant Lord. Some of the old painters represent the oxen and camels kneeling that night before the new born babo. And well might they kneel. Have you ever thought that Christ came among other things to alleviate the sufferings of the brute creation? Was it not appro priate that He should during the first few days and nights of His life on earth bo surrounded by the dumb beasts whose moan and plaint and bellowing have for ages been a prayer to God for the arresting of their tortures and the righting of their wrongs? It did not merely “happen so” that the unin telligent creatures of God should have been that night iu close neighborhood. Not a ken nel in all the centuries, not a bird's nest, not a wornout horse on towpath, not a herd freez ing in the poorly-built cowpen, not a freight car in summer time bringing the beeves to market without water through a thousand miles of agony, not a surgeon's room witness ing the struggles of a rabbit or pigeon or dog in She horrors of vivisection but has an inter est in the fact that Christ was born in a stable surrounded by brutes. He remembers that night, and the prayer ho heard in their pitiful moan He will answer in the punishment of these who maltreated the dumb brutes. They surely have as much right in this world as we have. In the first chapter of Genesis yon may see that they were placed on the earth before man was, the fish and fowl created the fifth day, and the quadruped the morning of the sixth day, and man not until the afternoon of that day. The whale, the eagle, the lion, and ail the lesser creatures of their kind were prede cessors of the human family. They have the world by right of possession. They have also paid rent for the places they occupied. What an army of defense all over the land are the faithful watch dogs. And who'ean tell what the world owes to horse, and camel, and ox for transportation? And Robin and Lark have by the with cantatas which they have tilled orchard and forest, more than paid for the few grains they have picked up for their susten ance. When you abuse any creature of God you strike its creator, and yoii insult the Christ who, though be might have been welcomed into life by princes, and taken his first infan tile slumber amid Tyrian plush and canopied couches, anil rippling waters from royal aque ducts dripping into basins of ivory and pearl, chose to be born on the level with a cow’s horn or a camel’s hoof, era dog's nostril, that he might be the alleviation of brutal suffering as well as the redeemer of man. Standing, then, as I imagine now I do, in that Bethlehem night with an infant Christ on the one side and the speechless creatures of God on the other, I cry: Look out how yon strike the rowel into that horse’s side. Take off that curbed bit from that bleeding mouth. Remove that saddle from that raw back. Shoot not for fun that bird that is too small for food. Forget not to put water into the cage of that canary. Throw out some crumbs to these birds caught too far north in the win ter's Inclemency. Arrest that man who is making that one horse draw a load heavy enough for three. Rush iu upon that scene where boys are tor turing a cat, or transfixing butterfly and grasshopper. Drive not off that old robin, for her nest is a mother's cradle ami under her wing there may be three or four prima donnas of the sky in training. And in your families and in your schools teach the coming generation more mercy than the present generation has ever shown, and in this marv< lons Bible picture of the nativity, while you point out to them the angel, show them also the camel, ami while they hear the celes tial chant let them also hear the row's moan. No more did Christ show interest iu the botan ical world when ho said: “Consider the lilies.’’ than he showed sympathy for the ornithologi cal when he said: "Behold tbo fowls of the air,” and the quadrupedal world when he al lowed himself to be called in one place a lion and in another place n lamb. Meanwhile, may the Christ of the Bethlehem cattle ven have mercy on the suffering stock yards that are preparing diseased and fevered meat for onr American households. Behold, also, in this Bible scene how cn that Christmas night God honored childhood. Christ might have made bis first visit to onr world in a cloud, as He will descend on his next y isit in a cloud. In what a chariot of illuminated vapor he might have relied down tho sky escorted by mounted cavalry with lightning of drawn sword. Elijah had a carriage of lire to take him up why n t Jesus a carriage of fire to letch him down? Or, over arched bridge of a rainbow tbo Lord urigh have descended. Or Christ might have had his mortality built uc cn earth out of the dust of a garden, as was Adam, in full manhood at the start without the :ntr> ductory feebleness of infancy. No, not Childhood was to be honored bv that ad-, ent. He must have a chi'd's light limbs, and a child’s dimpled hand, and a child’s beaming eye, and a child’s flaxen hair, and babyhood was to be honored for all time to come, and a cradle was to mean more than a grave. Mighty God! May the reflection of that one child’s face be seen in all infantile fa ces. Enough have all those fathers and moth ers on hand if they have a child in the house. A throne, a crown, a sceptre, a kingdom under charge. Be careful how you strike him across the head, jarring the brain. What you say to him will be centennial and millenial, and a hundred years and a thousand years will not stop the echo and re-echo. Do not say, “It is only a child.” Rather say, “It is only an im mortal.” It is only a masterpiece of Jehovah. It is only a being that shall outlive sun and moon and star, and ages quadrillcimial. God has infinite resources and he can give presents of great value, but when he wants to give the richest possible gift to a household he looks around all tho worlds and all the universe and then gives a child. The greatest present that God ever gave our world be gave about 1»87 years ago, and he gave it on a Christmas night, and it was of such value that heaven adjourn ed for a recess and came down and broke through the clouds to look at it. Yea, in all ages God has honored childhood. He makes almost every picture a failure unless there be a child either playing on the Hoot', or looking through tlie window, or seated on the lap gazing into the face of its mother. It was a child in Naaman’s kitchen that told the great Syrian warrior where he might go and get cured of the leprosy, which at his seventh plunge in the Jordan, was left at the bottom of the river. It was to tho cradle of leaves in which a child was laid rocked by the Nllethat God called the attention of history. It was a sick child that evoked Christ’s curative sym pathies. It was a child that Christ set-in the midst of of tho Squabbling disciples to teach the lesson of humility. We are informed that wolf and leopard and lion shall bo yet so domesticated that a little child shall lead them. A child decided AVaterloo, showing tlie army of Blucher how they could take a short cut through the fields when, if the old road had been followed, the ITussian general would have come up too late to save the destinies of Europe. It was a child that decided Gettysburg, he having overheard two Confederate genarals in a conversation in which they decided to march for Gettysburg instead of Harrisburg, and this, reported to Governor Curtin, the federal forces started to meet their opponents at Gettysburg. And the child of today is to decide all the great battles, make all the laws, settle all the destinies and usher in the world’s salvation or destruction. Men. women, nations, all earth and all heaven, behold the child! Is there any velvet so soft as a child’s check? Is there any sky so blue as a child’s eye ? Is there any music so sweet as the child’s voice? Is there any plume so wavy as a child’s hair? Notice also that in this Bible night scene God honored science. Who are the three wise men kneeling before the divine infant ? Not boors, not ignoramuses, but Caspar, Belthasar and Melchior, men who knew all that was to be known. They were the Isaac Nowtons and Herschels and Faradays of their time. Their alchemy was tho forerunner of our sublime chemistry, their astrology the mother of our magnificent astronomy. They had studied stars, studied metals, studied physiology, studied everything. And when I see these scientists bowing before the beautiful babe I see the prophecy of the time when all the telescopes and microscopes, and all the Leyden .jars, and all the electric batteries, and all the observatories, and all the universities snail bow to Jesus. It is much that way already. AVhere is the college that does not have morning prayers, thus bowing at the manger? AVho have been the greatest phy sicians? Omitting tho names of the living, lest we should be invidious, have we not had among them Christian meh like our own‘Jo seph C. Huclrinson, and Rush, and Valentine Molt, and Abercrombie, and Abernathy? Who have been our greatest scientists? Joseph Henry, who lived mid died in the faith of the gospel, and Agassiz, who, standing with his students among the hills, took off Iris hat and said; “Young gentlemen, before we study these rocks let us pray for wisdom to the God who made the rocks.” Today the greatest doctors and lawyers of Brooklyn and New York, and of all this land, and of all lands, revere the Christian religion, and are not ashamed to say so before juries and legislatures and senates. All geol ogy will yet bow before tlie Rock of Ages. All botany will yet worship tho Rose of Sharon. All astronomy will yet recognize the Star of Bethlehem ; and physiology and anatomy will join hands and say: AVe must by the help of God get the human race up to the perfect nerve and perfect muscle, and perfect brain, and perfect form of that perfect child, before whom nigh twenty hundred years ago Caspar, and Belthasar, mid Melchior bent their tired knees in worship. Behold, also, in that| first Christmas night that God honored the fields. Come in, shep erd boys, to Bethlehem and see tho child. “No,” they say “we are not dressed good enough to come in.” “Yes, you are, come in.” Sure enough, the storms ami the night dew ami the brambles have made rough work with their apparel, but none have a better right to come in. They were the first to hear the music of that Christmas night. Tho first announcement of a Saviour’s birth was made to those men in the fields. There were wise acres that night in Bethlehem and Jerusalem snoring in deep sleep, and there were salaried officers of government who, hearing of it, afterward may have thought that they ought to have had the first news of such a great event, some one dismounting from a swift camel at their dfior and knocking till at some sentinel’s question, "Who comes there?” the great ones of the palace might have been told of the celestial arrival. No; the shep herds heard the first two bars of the music, the first in tho major key and the last in the sub dued minor: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men.” Ah, yes. the fields were honored. The old shep herds with plaid ami crook have for the most nart vanished, but we have grazing our United States pasture fields and prairie about fortv-five million sheep, ami all their keepers; ought to follow the shepherds of mv text, and all those who toil in the fields, all winc-dressers. all orchardists, all husband men. Not only that Christmas night, but all up ami down the world's history God has been honoring the fields. Nearly all the Mes siahs of reform, and literature, ami eloquence, ami law. and benevolence, have come from the fields. -Washington from the fields. Jef ferson from the fields. The presidential mar tyrs. Garfield ami Lincoln, from tho fields. Henry Clay from the fields. Daniel AVcbster from tho ’ fields. Martin Luther from the fields. And before this world is right, the overflowing populations of our crowded cities, will have to take to the fields. Instead of ten merchants in rivalry as to who shall sell that one apple, we want at least eight of them to go out and raise apples. Instead of ten merchants desiring io sell that one bushel of wheat, we want at least eight of them to go out and raise wheat. The world wants now more hard hands, more bronzed cheeks, more muscular arms. To the fields! God honored them when he woke up the sheperd bv the midnight anthem, and he will, while the world lasts, continue to honor the fields. When tho sbeperd’s crook was that famous night stood against the wall of the Bethlehem kahn, it was a prophecy of the time when thresher's flail, and farmer's plow, ami wood man’s axe. and ox’s yoke, and sheaf binder s rake shall surrender to the God who made the country as man made the town. Behold, also, that on that Christmas night God honored motherhood. Two angel.- on heir wings might have brought an infant Sav or to Bethlehem without Mary's being there nt nil. AVfii-n the villagers, on the morning of December 25th, awoke, i-y divine arrangement and in some unexplained way, tho child Jesus might have been found in some comfortable cradle of the village. But no,no! Motherhood for all time was to l>e consecrated, and one of the tenderest relations was to be tlie maternal relStion, and one of the sweetest words "moth er.” Iu all ages God has honored good moth erhood. John Wesley had a good motner: St. Bernard had a good mother; Samuel Budgett a good mother: Doddridge a good mother; AV alter Scott a good mother; Benjamin AVesta good mother. In a great audience, most of whom were Chtistians. lashed that all these who had been blessed of Christian mothers arise, and almost the entire assem bly stood up. Don’t you see how important it is that all motherhood be consecrated'.’ AVhv did Titian, the Italian artist, when he sketch ed the Madonna make it an Italian luce? Why did Rubens, the German artist, in his Madonna make it a German face? Why did Joshua I’.eyncbls. the English artist, in bis Mador.ua n:ako it an English face? AA'hy did Murillo, the Spr-irisli artist, in his Madonna make it it .Spanish in -e? I never heard, but I think they took their own mothers as the type c! Mary, tin: nnulier of Christ. AVhen you hear some one in sermon or oration speak in the abstract of a good, faithful, honest medier your eyes fillup with tears while you say to yourself, that was my mother. Tho first word a child utters is apt to be “mother,” and the old man in his dying dream calls, “mother! mother!” It matters not whether sho was brought up in the sur roundings of a city, and iu ati’.nent home, ami was dressed appropriately with reference to tho demands of modern life, or whether she wore the old-time cap, and great round spec tacles, and apron of her own make, and knit your socks with her own needles seated by the broad fireplace, with great backlog ablaze on a winter night. It matters not how many wrinkles crossed and. recrossed her face, or bow much her shoulders stooped with the burdens of long life, if you. painted a Madonna, hers would be the face. What a gentle hand she had when we were sick, and what a voice to soothe pain, and was there any one who could so fill up a room with peace, and purity and light? And what a sad. day that was when we came home and she could greet us not, for her lips were forever still. Como back, mother, this Christinas day, and take your old place, and as ten, or twenty, or fifty years ago, come and open the old Bible as you used to, read and kneel iu the same place where you used to pray, and look upon us as of old when you wished us a merry Christmas or a happy New Year. But, no! "That would not be fair lo call you back. You had troubles enough, and aches enough, and bereavements enough while you were here. Tarry by the throne, '"mother, till we join you tiiere, your prayers all an swered, and in the eternal homestead Jof our God we shall again keep Christmas jubilee together. 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