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with haste, and
f and the Babe
ii., 16.
rs of a December
H ami some of the
Where they all sing
fafnthem, Jfaack the until drapery all the of
^Ethorus. WB' applauded and en
Come, let us
Hshiped scene as though wo
at the manger.
H worth looking at. I
®d ■ the in frequent name
all Christian
And there are
§»n Wg and and French Marys and in cabins, Italian
ly English pronounce it dif
> all namesakes of the one
a bed of straw, with her
the soft cheek of Christ in
Wm ^Khe tried Nativity. All to the present great
on canvas
Her child and the incidents of
Hnous Kll night of the world’s his
of them were copies of St.
Rladonna and Luke’s Madonna,
lai I t Madonna into of hands the Old when Book, which
our we were
ts. 1 that we hope to have under our
’'s when we die.
nold, in the first place, that on the first
of Chr'st’s life God honored the brute
- -ion. You cannot get into that Bethie
/mules, / barn without the dogs, going the past the The camels, brutes
oxen.
/that stable heard the first cry of the in
Ant Lord. Borne of the old painters repre
went the oxen and camels kneeling that night
before the newborn babe. And well might
they kneel 1 Have you ever thought that
Christ came among other things to alleviate
the sufferings of the brute creation? Was
it not appropriate that He should, during the
first few nays and nights of His life on earth,
be surrounded by the dumb beasts?
Not a kennel in all the centuries, not a
bird's nest, not a wornout horse on a tow
patb, nor a herd freezing in in the poorly built
cow bringing pen, the hot beeves a freight market car summer time
to without water
through surgeon’s a thousand miles of agony, not a
fox and rabbit room witnessing the struggles of
of or pigeon or dog in the hor¬
rors vivisection but has an interest in the
fact thatj Christ was born in a stable sur
rounded/ right by brutes. Tfiey surely have as
much in this world as we have. In
the first chapter of Genesis you may see
that they were placed on the earth before
man was, the fish and fowl created the fifth
day, rixtiHHHMui ami the quadrupeds the morning of the
man not until the atternoon
A^H^BHu^he creatures whale, the of their eagle, kind the lion,
were
HHftthe human family. Tney
^HBt wja~ right of possession. They
lor tile places they oceu
M mv of defense all over the
H.,1 ■ rid watchdogs. And horse who and
Ho owes to the
importation? with Aud which robin
ie cantatas
“lard and forest, more
: ew grains they have
^•■stenance.
s t imagine now I do in
‘ with infant Christ
an
)e lory speechless look out creatures how
/at you
horse’s side. Take
(Jjj from that bleeding
saddle from that raw
tea un that bird that is
vet not to Throw put water
, Inary. out
s caught too far
t
in once also that in this Bible night scene
God honored science. Who are the three
wise men kneeling before the Divine In
fant? Not boors, not Melchior, ignoramuses, but
Caspar. Beltbasar and men wno
knew all that was to and be known. Herachels They and were Far
the Isaac Newtons
radays of their time. Their alchemy was
the forerunner of our sublime chemistry,
their astrology the mother of our magnifi¬
cent astronomy. They had studied stars,
studied metals, studied when physiology, I studied scien¬
everything. And see these
tists bowing before the beautiful babe I
see the prophecy of the time when all the
telescopes and microscopes and all the Ley¬
den jars and all the electric batteries and all
the observatories and all the universities
shall bow to Jesus. It is much that way al¬
ready. Where is the college that does not
have morning Who prayers, that bowing at the
manger? have been the greatest phy¬
sicians?
Omitting invidious, the names of the living lest we
should be have we not had among
them Christian men like our own Joseph C.
Hutchinson and Rush and Valentine Mott
and Abererombie and Abernethy? Who
have Henry, been who our lived greatest and died scientists? in the faith Joseph of the
Gospels, and Agassiz, who, standing with
his stulents among the hills, took off
his hat and said, “Young gentlemen,
before we study these rocks let us pray
for wisdom to the God who made the
rocks.” To-day the greatest doctors and
lawyers of Brooklyn and New i ork and of
this land and of ali other lands revere the
Christian religion, and are not ashamed to
say so before juries and legislatures bow before and sen¬
ates. All geology will yet the
Rock of Ages. All astronomy will yet
worship the Rose of Sharon. All astronomy
will yet recogniza the Star of Bethlehem.
Behold also in that first Christmas night
that God honored the fields. Come in, child. shep¬
herd boys, to Bethlehem and see the
“No,” they say, “we are not dressed good
enough to come in.” “Yes you are; come
in.” Sure enough, the storms and the night
dew and the brambles have made rough
work with their apparel, but none have a
better right to come in. They were the night. first
to hear the music of that Christmas
The first announcement of a Saviour’s birth
was made to those men in the fields.
The old shepherds with plaid and crook
have for the most part vanished, but we
have grazing—our United States pasture,
fields and prairies, about forty-five million
sheep—and all their keepers ought to follow
the shepherds of my text, and all those who
toil in fields, all vine dressers, all orchard
ists, all husbandmen. Not only that
Christmas night, but all up and down the
world’s history God had been honoriug
the fields. Nearly all the messiahs of re¬
form and literature and eloquence and law
and benevolence have come from the fields.
Wasnington from the fields. Jefferson from
the fields. The presidential martyrs, Gar¬
field and Lincoln, from the fields Henry
Clay from the fields. Daniel Webster from
the fields. Martin Luther from the fields.
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 wa want at
least eight of them to go out and raise
aDDles. instead of ten merchants desiring _ to
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 I God honored them when
He woke up the shepherds by the midnight
anthem, and He will, while the world lasts,
continue to honor the fields.
Behold, also, that on that Christmas night
God honored motherhood. Two angeismg
their Saviour wings to Bethlehem might have withou^Mj^^H brought aiyH
thereat morning all. of D-cembei^H When the^fl
vine lamed an-angement^^B
l nve been Ioll^laipgp3HB
of the Urfr*' \ ll-a-g
all . „ . ,
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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTEIAt.
The heaviest guos made for the navy
are twelve-inch, forty-tive-ton breech¬
loaders.
For such a small country, Belgium has
made great progress in the adoption
of electric lights.
Illuminated walking sticks are among
the latest applications of electricy. A
small incandescent lamp is concealed ia
the head.
Rigel, the magnificent star of the first
magnitude in the constellation of Orion,
has recently been discovered by astrono¬
mers to be one of the most distant stars
in the celestial vault.
A new invention is an elastic rubber
cushion for the soles of the shoes,
the special object being to give
relief to those who are compelled to
stand all day on wooden or marble floors.
The new Italian rifle is a repeater and
will penetrate planks five inches thick
at a distance of 4000 feet. A smokeless
powder is used with it, thus allowing
the soldier to carry greater weight of
cartridges.
Miss Annie I. Oppenheim has been
awarded the diploma of the British
Phrenological Association, honoris causa,
in recognition of her studies of the anat¬
omy of the brain and her interest in
phrenology.
A Russiau electrician has invented
a process of etching on metal by means
of electricity, thereby dispensing with
use of acids for this purpose. The image
is first transfered to the plate by photo¬
graphic methods.
The method of determining specific
heats by the use of Joule’s law has ouly
been successful in liquids which were
good conductors. A new method has
been adopted for such measurement by
means of a glass spiral filled with mer¬
cury.
An automatic cut-out that replaces a
new fuse when one is burnt out is being
introduced by a firm of electricians. A
rotating drum with the sever-wire3 ou
its surface is so arranged as to turn
around and insert a new fuse when a
burn-out occurs.
A maritime laboratory of biology and
zoology will be opened next year at Ber¬
gen, Norway. Situated in a region
where the marine fauna is particularly
rich and interesting, it is destined to
rendered great service to science. It
has been decided to allow the free use ol
the establishment to foreign savants.
A new life-belt has been patente 1 ii
in Germany. It is in the ordinary form,
but is made from reindeer hair
with canvas, and is much liajM
the belt of cork. Its
poa
How the Indian Walks.
The Indian hunter has a distinctive
gait. His toes, other straight before him
or pointing inward, cover the center of
gravity. His hips sway slightly to the
stepping side, and his rear foot is not
exactly lifted, but rather p eled off the
ground just high enough to clear the
surface, and settled in its new place be¬
fore the weight comes on it. He does
not swing his shoulders nor walk with a
spring, nor plant his foot with a shock,
»s the white man does. If the Indian
were turned to stone while in the act of
stepping, the statue would probably
staud balanced on one foot.
This gait gives the limbs great control
over his movements. He is always poised.
If a stick cracks under him it is because
of his weight, and not by reason of the
impact. He goes silently and with great
economy of force.
The muscles have less strain on them
and do not tire so soon. Sometimes it
seems as if they Dever tired. He treads
Ihrough woods and swamps and down
timber with no noise except the rustling
of the grass and leaves disturbed by his
passage. him
His steady balance enables to put
his moving foot down as gently as you
would lay an egg on the table. You
could not hear the thud of a footfall if
you listened a week. The gait is not
elastic nor springy nor handsome, and it
even makes the man seem bowleggcd.
Put the same person in leather boots on
a floor and you would truly say that he
stumped hunt along, does but in moccasiDS be glides.— on a
he not wa'k,
Exchange.
The Difficulty of Telling the Truth.
People are bad hands at expressing an
opinion, unless it is a very strong who one,
one way or the other—that is, those
arc unpracticed aud who do not make a
conscience of correct speech. But on
the other hand it must be admitted that
the careful tiuth teller is sure to be mis¬
understood. He believes with certain
modifications and qualifications; that
is to say, answers his interrogator, he
does not believe at all. Those who
practice the art of telling the truth
must not expect to have their sin¬
cerity appreciated by the common run of
men. unvarnished Indeed, truth one who would always told^hfi
body. that/
Some have the idea
eating if you will not aniH
a simple yes or
f ays the in .motr •
pretty cousi Q^^^BHi
a
Dainty Hu m
Ham sandwiches® fl
before the queen tog®^B
Pound or chop
hard boiled eggs caycnn^®®H
co< ked ham. a oust of Ihrougfl®
ounces of butter. Hub if all
sieve or fine colander and spread old. on v
thin slices of rusk bread a day After
spreading roll the slice up. pinching the
ends a little to make them hold in shape,
and pile lightly on a folded napkin. A
few drops of carmine in mixture
rolling give an appetizing “pinkiness” to
the ham.—New York Times.
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