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TEN THOUSAND PERISH.

Death ami Misery in the Flooded Valley of the Coneniaiisrh.

Johnstown. Pa., Swept Away—A Ca-

lam it,y Unparalleled in the History of the Country—Pestilence May Kill lhousanas More.

THE GREATEST DISASTER IN HISTORY. Some doubt has been expressed as to the estimate that 12,000 to 15,000 people have been lost in Johnstown flooded district. Of course there is at present no way of determining with any degree of exactitude how many are dead but the guessing is reasonable and con1 servative and based on close (inuring

In the lirpt place it must be understood that this is the greatest disaster in history, and no one brain can compare its details.

Its possioilities are boundless, its misery infinite, and destruction lost in the unfathomable darkness of death. At least 2,500 bodies have been found, i',000 at the lowest ca culation are in the burneddebris in the river, 3,000 are in unsearched banks around the Cambria Works down along the river and in the lower part of Johnstown. From one to two thousand are scattered in the valley from Woodvilie to the bridge, and a thousand or two below the bridge between JoLnstown and Bolivar. Hundreds were carried down to the broad rivers in the tremendous current, and jiiay never come into the bnnds of the living. Said Adjutant General Hastings, Thursday morning: "In my opinion the loss is greater than we can now show figures lor. That sturdy worker, Win. Jones, of Braddock, thinks that at least ten thousand to twelve thousand were lost. The statement that eighteen thousand had registered at the registration bureaus was incorrect." One of Gen. Hastings's aides said at 10 o'clock that so many persons registered twice on more that the list had to be revised, and that the total was not more that 13,000, and perhaps 12,500. This registration not only comprehends the population of Johnstown and adjoining towns, which was about 33,0i)0, but em •braces places further away in the flooded region, the total population oi which was at lea9t 45.( 00, including villages, straggling hamlets and farms. Chairman Hicks, of the Altoona delegation, who has been all over the district since Sunday morning, says the loss is 12,500 to 14,000, and he bases it on talk with scores of all sorts of people.

The absence of former residents and of a fixed and familiar population is most striking. There Are thousands of strangers and workmen from a distance here but for the three last days the one perpetual question was: Where are the people? Here are about 1,0C0 where are the rest?"

Johnstown has been placed under martial law, and no one is allowed to enter the territory unless it shown he has business there. The soldiers keep guard all around the city.

There is a strong movement on foot in favor of applying the torch to the wrecked buildings in Johnstown, and although the suggestion meets with strong opposition at this time, there is little doubt the ultimate solution •existing difficulties will be* by this method. An army of men has been ior ^rwo days employed in clearing up the wreck in _.e city proper and although hundreds of bodies have been discovered not one-fifth the ground has yet been gone over. In many places the rubbish is piled twenty and thirty feet high, and not infrequently tbese great drifts cover nearly an acre. Narrow passages have been cut through in every direction, but the herculean labor of removing the rubbish has yet hardly begun.

It is now known that nineteen passengers on the "ill fated train" lost their lives.

So far as known, only eighteen bodies were recovered in the Conetnaugh valley Friday. One of these was a poor remnant of humanity that was suddrnlv discovered by a teamster in the center of a road over which wagons had been passing for forty-eight hours. The heavy vehicles had sunk deeply in the sand, and broken nearly every bone in the putrefying body. It was quite impossible to identify the corpse and it was ta'ien to the morgue and orders issued for its burial after a few hours of exposure to the gaze ot those who still eagerly search for missing friends. Only the hardiest can stand to enter the morgue, so overwhelming is the dreadml stench. The undertakers even, atter hurriedly performing their task of washing a body and preparing it for burial, retreat to the yard to await the arrival of the next ghastly find. A strict order is now in force that all bodies shall be interred only when it becomes impossible to longer preserve them from absolute putrefaction. There •e no iron-clad rule. In some instances it is necessary to inter some putrid body within a few hours, while others can safely be preserved several days. Every possible opportunity is afforded for identification. "Are the horrors oi the flood to give way to the terrors of the plague?" is the question that is now agitating the valley of the Conemaugn. Friday opened warm and almost sultry, and the stench that assail one's senses as he wanders through Johnstown is almost overpowering. Sickness, in spite of the precautions anrl herculean labors of the sanitary authorities, is on the increase, and the fears of an epidemic grow with every hour. "It is our impression, said lr. T. L. White, assistant to the State Board of Health, "that there is going to be great sickness here. Five cases of malignant diptheria were located this morning on Bedford street, and as they were in different houses they mean five starting points for the disease. All this talk about the danger about epidemic is not exaggerat*d, as many may suppose, but it is founded upon all experience. There will be plenty of typhoid fever and kindied diseases here within a ek or ten layp,in my opinion. The only thing that has saved us thus far has been the cold -weather and no one knows what the next few days may bring forth. Even among the workmen and attendants there is already diacernible a great tendency to diarrhea and dysentery. The men are living principally upon salt meat and there is a lack of vegetables. I have been here since Sunday and have not tasted fresh meat but once since that time. I am only one of the many. Of course the worst has passed for the physicians, as our arrangements are now perfected, and each corps will be relieved from time to time.

Eight thousand men were at work at Jphnbtowc, Friday, cleaning out the

debris, but truth compels the statement that the undertaking has not yet been farly started. Fires are burning up and down the valley of the Conemaugh as for as the eye can reach. The air is thick with smoke, and yet to people familiar with the situation the efforts of this army of toilers is hardly appre ciable. William Flynn, mounted on a weary looking steed, is riding up and down the city directing the foremen in their labois, and his executive ability is telling its own story. Something like system is being established, but the most careful estimates are to the effect that it will take 10,000 men for weeks to ciear out the heaps of ruins piled up for miles between the hills up and down the course of the river.

There is a belief with many people that newspaper reporters live chiefly in a world of fiction. Could every person who reads these lines see the frightful sights that have confronted the mem' bers of the pres* here during the last week they would all unite in declaring that only a small portion of the story had been told Human fancy cannot conceive the horrors of the situation. This report is being written from the second story of a building worth, possibly, $15, which commands a view of the mountainous wreck at the point bridge. The stench that is wafted through the doorless and windowless structure by every passing breeze is sickening. An hour ago the writer completed a tour of the mighty wreck in this vicinitv in company with Arthur Kirk, the millionaire oil man, who is looking after the work of opening up the river channel, chiefly by the use of dynamite. Dozens of human beings and animalswere seen on the surface, charred, b'ackened by the fie and in such astate of decomposition that the strongest man could no more than glance at them. Mr. Kirk, who is a man of "iron nerve and a stranger to fear," declared that he was sick at heart and anxious to quit the awful scene. Eighty-six men from Aitoona. under orders of the sanitary officials, are scattering disinfectants over the area of wreckage that the railroad bridge stopped. Mr. Kirk declares that thousands of bodies will yet be found in this territory alone. The problem of the hour is the disposal of the debris above the Pennsylvania railroad bridge. Unless it is soon got rid of the stench will soon be so overpowering that no human beiwg can withstand it. The pneumonia scourge grows alarming. Dr. Sweet, of Philadelphia, a prominent member of the state board of health staff, came down from the Cambria hospital Thursday night with a startling report. Dr. Sweet said: "Prospect Hill is full of pneumonia, with some diphtheria and measles. The hospital is full to ovei flowing, and to-day I attended forty-two cases on the outside. They were almost severe pneumonia. There is every condition needed for the spread of the disease, and I fear an epidemic." Dr. Carrington also reported several cases of pneumonia. having found them on the hiil near Morrellviile. Dr. Fussell came in with a load of information from the Kernville-Hornerville district. The cellar of a house on Bedford street was found with wet clothing which was full of disease. A butcher shop on Franklin street was found full of putrid meats, which were destroyed. Nine horses and four cows were cremated, making 150 animals in this district. A row of human feet v- as noticed sticking out of the sand on the river bank near Kernville. A band of men soon unearthed the bodies of two men and a girl all in good state of preservation. The men were identified as Messrs. Young and Bantley. The girl was buried among the great army of "Unknown."

Fifty-eight bodies were recovered Sunday. The day was extremely warm, and with the fires burning many of the laborers were overcome by heat. The hot sun beating down on the wreckage above the bridge has developed the fact that many bodies of animals and human beings are yet in the ruins. The stench arising from this pile has been more offensive than any time yet, although at no time has it been as bad as reported. The work of the registration of the survivors of the flood is going steadily on. Up to Sunday evening there were about 21,000 registered and the list still increasing. The number of the lost is placed now at 5,600 by those who held it would reach 10,000 a week ago. A conservative estimate is between 3,500 and 4,000. There have been 1,500 bodies recovered.

Several cases of vandalism and robbery were reported a number of cars containing supplies were broken into and the contents carried oft. What the thieves could not steal they trampled and ruined. The Masonic relief car was also entered and robbed. Twelve men were arrested for stealing, but they were released upon returning the goods. The military guards over in Cambria City were kept busy arresting thieves. Thev were placed in the guard-house, and afterward drummed oat of town. When they reachf the outskirts of the town they were warned that if they were caught again they would be summarily dealt with.

Many people are imposing upon the relief committee, and in several instances men have succeeded in getting enough supplies to last them several months. One man was found who had nine eacksof flour in his cellar, besides a large stock of provisions and clothing which he had secured from the committee by misrepresentation.

Two large hospitals have but little to do now, but the large corps of phvsicians are Kept busy. At the Cambria Hospital sixteen pereons, injured by the flood, were cared for, and but two died. Since the flood over five hundred persons have received the attention of the physicians at this institution, directly or indirectly caused by the flood. At the Bedford Hospital 362 injured persons were cared for, and when they could be removed were taken to Pittsburg hospit als. Over six hundred persons were furnished medicine and attention by the pby&icians in charge of the hospitals. The tent hospitals have been practically* abandoned, as none of them have had a case for several days. The health of the valley is good, notwithstanding reports of threatened epidemic. There is now little fear of an epidemic.

The hurried burial of the dead in Prospect Hill cemetery is causing the residents of that beauti'ul suburb of Johnstown a great deal of annoyance, and it may cause much sickness. The bodies were placed in cheap coffins and as none were secure, the odor from the decomposing bpdies arises to the surface and attracts a number of dogs, which Make night hideous by howling and pawing

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over the graves. The coffins were put oniy three feet under ground, as there was not time to dig the graves deeper. It was found necessary to place guards in the little cemetery containing 200 graves to drive the dogs away.

Advices from Johnstown, Tuesday, indicate that affairs are getting into more satisfactory shape. Stationary engines are being employed with great success in moving the heavy pieces of timber and debris. The large force of men are also constantly employed, and something like order is coming out of the chaos. Several more bodies were recovered. All the commissary stations are kept busy. No one is furnished supplies without an order, and every department is under strictest discipline.

There were thirty-five bodies recovered Monday, eleven' erf them at the stone bridge. Those taken ont of the water were in a much better condition than those found among the debris. The latter were not only horribly bloated and distorted in features, but decomposition had set in, and the stench arising therefrom was so unbearable that the men at the various morgues found it a disagreeable duty to wash them. The bodies now are almost beyond recognition. Many are as black as negroes, and where they were bruised tbe face is sunken into a jellied mass.

Mr. James D. Scott said Monday afternoon: "The work will be continued as it has until Wednesday morning when everything will be handed over to the State, The chiefs of all departments are now making out reports, which will be given to the commissioners appointed by the State. The work of relief will likely be continued by the State on the same plan as heretofore. We are obtaining some sort of system and have filially brought some kind of order out of the chaos. The work of relief will have to continue until the people can take hold for themselves. When the Cambria iron works and other mills resume, the people will be able to earn money. The great aim just at present is to "give the survivors worK. The State is to open a commissary department where goods will be sold until the merchants will be able to again get on their feet. Until that time has come the people will have to betaken care of. _____________

WASHINGTON NOTES. Two devoutly-inclined Englishmen were among President Harrison callers Saturday. They merely wanted to pay their respects to the Chief Executive of the United States, and they were granted a minute's time. One was Mr. Reginald T. Woulfe, of London, and the other was Mr. William Mack, Challey House, Limpley Stoke, near Bath, England. That was what their guards indicated, and upon the back of each card was written, "Grace, mercy and peace be multiplied unto the nation through our Lord .lesus Christ." President Harrison received the visiting Englishmen pleasantly, and they passed out apparently gratified. Another de vout visitor was Rev. Dr. La Fetra, of this city. He called in the interest of Dr. J. C. Ward, who is going as a missionary to India. He bore a letter to the President from Bishop I). P. Taylor, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he asked for a letter from Mr. Harrison

introducing Dr. Ward to "Hi* Royal Highnepf) Assuf-Jah-Mazuffhr-Ui-Mulk-

Nizam-Ud-Dowlah-Meer-Mabok Ah-Klan-Bihadur-Futch-Jung,G. C. S. J." The initials stand tor the rept of the Indian dignitary's title. The President wrote the required letter, although he doesn't enjoy the honor of the acquaintance of His Royal Highness Assuf, etc.

Representative Burrows is one of the first speakership candidates to announce his intention oi making an active canvass immediately fo" the speakership, but the others have been on a still hunt for some time, and it is not at all probable that any one of them has allowed any particular amount of grass to grow under his feet. There is very indication that the contest for the Speaker's chair in the Fifty-first Congress will be so fierce that Gen. Nathaniel Banks, on his return to the halls of legislation with this Congress, will be reminded of the days when he made the fight for the speakership with the aid of Horace Greeley, and at first against what Bgemed to be overwhelming odds. There is every indication that the contest will be long drawn out. and no one can say to day whether Burrows, McKinley. Reed, Henderson, or Cannon will win. In fact, the claims of the supporters of each of these gentlemen lead to the belief that each will go into the race with very strong backing.

America has expressed no dissatisfaction with the result of the Samoa conference, the delay in attaching final signature to protocol arising from Secretary Blaine's desire to most carefully consider everything involved before taking an irrevocable step.

John Vigneaux. who was appointed United States Marshal for Western Louisiana, is a jmocrat, and was recommended to the President by the Louisiana Republicans for protecting negroes from violence at the November election.

The Secretary of the Interior has accepted tbe resignation of John H. Oberly. Commissioner of Indiana Affairs, to take effect July 1.

Col. J. C. Kelton, of Pennsylvania, has been appointed Adjutant General to succeed Drum.

Tbe President han abolished Sunday inspections and drills in the army.

LO, THE POOR INDIAN.

Tlieltig White Chiefs'Are II m.

Not Bluffing

ROSEBUD AGENCY, Dak., June 7.—Geneneral Crook was informed yesterday by the Indians that they could not make up their minds as to the best action for them to take before Monday. A week of vexatious delay is likely to ensue, as the Indians and half-breeds seem to be working at cross purposes. At the halfbreed council the vote stood 6 to 2 in favor of assenting. The Indian council was terribly divided. A row between the old and young men was precipitated. The young men wanted to take the lead in making the terms of treaty with the Commissioners.

They are not in favor of signing. The majority of the old fellows object to granting such authority to tbe younger men. The old fellows were also divided as to the best course to pursue, but the majority seem to prefer to sell the land at tbe Government's terms. Ex-Gover-nor Foster of Ohio, chairman of the commission, was formally adopted as a member of the Sioux tribes yesterday, and was presented with a gorgeous war bonnet.

CHRIST THE LORD-

FACTS WORTHY OP CONSIDERATION BY THE YOUTH.

How Christ Grew In Wisdom and Waxed Strong in Spirit—Great Responsibility of Parents.

Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Subject: "Christ the Village Lord." Text: Luke ii., 40. He said:

About Christ as a village lad I speak. There is for the most part a silence more than eighteen centuries long about Christ between infancy and manhood. What kind of a boy was he? Was he a genuine boy at all, or did there settle down upon him from the start all the intensities of martyrdom? We have on this subject only a little guessing, a few surmises, and here and there an unimportant "perhaps." Concerning what bounded that boyhood on both sides we have whole libraries of books and whole galleries of canvas and sculpture. Yet by three conjoined evidences 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 Bible account. Then we have the prolonged account of what Christ was at 30 years of age. Now, you have only to minify that account somewhat and you find what he was at 10 years of age. Temperaments never change. A sanguine temperament never becomes a phlegmatic "temperament. A nervous temperament never becomes a lymphatic temperament, Religion changes one's affections and ambitions, but it is the same old temperament acting in a different 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 history represents him as a blonde with golden hair, I know he was in boyhood a blonde.

We have, besides an uninspired book that was for the first three or four centuries after Christ's appearance received by many as inspired, and which gives a prolonged account of Christ's boyhood. Some of it may be true, most oi it may be true, none of it may be true. It may be partly built on facts, or by the passage of the ages, some real facts may have been distorted. But because a book is not divinely inspired we are not therefore to conclude that there are not true things in it. But what right have you to say that Christ did not perform miracles at 10 years of age as well as at 30? He was in boyhood as certainly as divine 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 seriesof manhood miracles. In a word, I think 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 Gospel which say that when

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of thieves he told his mother that two of them, Dumacbus and Titus by name, would be the two thieves who afterwards would expire on crosses beside him. Was that more wonderful than some of Christ's manhood prophecies? Or the uninspired story that the boy Christ made a fountain spring from the roots of a sycamore tree so that his mother washed his coat in the stream— was that more unbelievable than the manhood miracle that changed common water into a marriage beverage? Or the uninspired story that two sick children were recovered by bathing in the water where Christ had washed? Was that more wonderful than the manhood miracle by which the woman twelve years a complete invalid should have been made straight by touching the fringe of Christ's coat?

In other words, while I do not believe that any of the so-called apocryphal New Testament is inspired, I believe much of it is true just as I believe a thousand books, none of 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 trouble, I think that the boy Christ was the most of the time getting boys out of trouble. I have declared to you this day a boys' @hrist. And the world wants such .i one. He did not sit around moping over what was to be, or what was. Prom the way in which natural objects enwreathed themselves into his sertnons after he had become a man I conclude that there was not a rock or a bill or a cavern or a tree for miles around that he was not familiar with in ohilhood. He had cautiously felt his way down into the caves, and had with lithe ami agile Jimb gained a poise on many a high tree top. His boyhood was passed among grand scenery, as most all the great natures have'passed early life among the mountains.

Our Lord's boyhood was passed in a neighborhood 1,200 feet above the level of the sea a-nd surrounded by mountains 500 or 600 feet still higher. Before it coult* shine on the village where this boy slept the sun had to climb far enough up to look over hills that held their heads far aloft. From yonder height his eye at one sweep took in the mighty scoop of the valleys and with another sweep took in the Mediteranean Sea, and you hear the grandeur of the cliffs and the surge of the great waters in his matchless sermonology. One day I see that divine boy, the wind flurrying his hair over his sun-browned forehead, standing on a hill top looking off Lake Tiberias, on which at one time, according to profane history, are, not four hundred but four thousand ship9. Authors have taken pains to say that Christ was not affected by these surroundings, and that he from within lived outward and independent of circumstances. So far from that being true he was the most sensitive being that ever walked the 6arth, and if a pale invalid's weak finger could not touch his robe without strength going out from him, these mountains ana seas could not have touched his eye without irradiating his entire nature'with their magnificence. I warrant that he had mounted and explored all the fifteen hills around Nazareth.

Through studying the sky between the hills Ohrist had noticed the weather signs, and that a crimson sky at night meant dry weather next day, and that crimson aky in the morning meant

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wet weather before night. Atd how beautifully He made use of it ait-ir years as He drove down upon the pestiferous Pharisee and Sadnucee by crying out: "When it is evening ye say it will be fair weather, for the sky is red, and in themorniBg it will be foul weather to-day, for the sky is red and lowering. Oye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky, but can ye not discern the signs of the times?" By day, as every boy has done, He watched the barn yard fowl at sight of overswinging hawk cluck her chickens under wing, and in after years He said: "O, Jerusalem! Jerusalem! How often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wing!" By night He has noticed his mother by the plain candle light which, as ever and anon it was snuffed and the removed wick put dewn on the candlestick, beamed brightly through all the family sitting room as his mother was mending his garments that had been torn during the day's wanderings among the rocks or bushes, and years afterward it all came out in the simile of the greatest sermon ever preached: "Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but in a candlestick, and it giveth light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine." Some time when his mother in the autumn took out the olothes that had been put away for the summer he noticed how the moth miller flew out and the coat dropped apart ruined and useless, and so twenty years after he enjoined: "Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust can corrupt." His boyhood spent among birds and flowers they ail caroled and bloomed again fifteen years after as he cries out: "Behold the fowls of the air." "Consider the lfiies." A great storm one day during Christ's boyhood blackened the heavens and angered the rivers. Perhaps standing in the door of the carpenter's shop he watched it gathering louder wilder until two cyclones, one sweeping down from Mt. Carmel, met in the Vailey of Esdraelon,and two houses are caught in the fury, and crash goes the one and triumphant stands the other.and noticed that one had shifting sand for a foundation and the other an eternal rock for basis and twenty yeare after he built the whole scene into a peroration of flood and whirlwind that seized his audience and lifted them into the heights of sublimity with the two great arms of pathos and terror.

Yes, from the naturalness, the simplicity, the freshness of his parables and similes and metaphors in manhood' discourse, I know that he had been a boy of the fields, and had bathed in the streams and heard the nightingale's call, and broken through the flowery hedge and looked out of the embrasures of the fortress, and drank from the wells and chased the butterflies, which travelers say have always been one of the flitting beauties of that landscape, and talked with the strange people from Damascus and Egypt and Sapphoris and Syria, who in caravans or on foot passed through his neighborhood, the dogs barking at their approach at Sundown. As afterward he was a perfect man, in the time of which 1 speak he was a perfect boy, with the spring of a boys foot, the sparkle of a boy's eye, the rebound of a boy's life, and just the opposite of those juveniles who sit around morbid and unelastic, old men at ten. I warrant he was able to take his own part and to take the part of others.

At ten years he was in sympathy with the underlings as he was at 30 or 33. I want no further inspired or uninspired information to persaude me that he was a splendid boy, a radiant boy, tbe grandest, holiest, mightiest boy of all ages. Hence, I commend him as a boy's Christ. What multitudes between 10 and 15 years have found him out as the one just suited by his own personal experience to help any boy.

Let the world look out how it treads on a boy, for that very moment it treads on Christ. You strike a boy, you strike Christ you insult a boy, you insult Christ you cheat a bov, you cheat Christ. It is an awful and infinite mistake to come as far as manhood without a Christ when here is a boy Christ. That was one reason, I suppose, that Jonathan Edwards, afterward the greatest American logician and preacher of his time, oecams a Christian at 7 years ofeage and Robert Hall, who aiterwards shoot Christendom with his sacred eloquence, became a Christian at 12 years of age and Isaac Watts, who divided with Charles Wesley the dominion of sacred song, became a Christian at 9 years of age and if in any large religious assembly it were asked that all the men and women who learned to love Christ before they were 15 years of age would please lift their right hand, there would be enough hands lifted to wave a coronation. The temporal and eternal destiny of the most of tbe inhabitants of this earth is decided before 14 years oi age. Behold the Nazareth Christ, the village Christ, the country Christ, the boy Christ.

But having shown you the divine lad in the fields, I must show you him in the mechanic's shop.

Joseph, his father, died very early, immediately after the famous trip to the Temple, and this lad not only had to support himself, but support his mother, and what that is some of you know. There is a royal race of boys on earth now doing the same thing. They wear no crown. They have no purple robe adroop from their shoulders. The plain chair on which they sit is as much unlike a throne as anything you can imagine. But God knows what they. are doing and through what sacrifices they go, and through all eternity God will keep paying them for their filial behavior. They shall get full measnre of reward, the measure pressed down, shaken together and running over. They have their example in this boy Christ taking care of his mother. He had been taught the carpenter's trade by his father. The boy had done the plainer work at the shop while his father had put on the finishing touches of the work. The boy also cleared away the chips and blocks and shavings. He helped to hold the different pieces of work while the father joined them. To be a carpenter [in Christ's boyhood days meant to make plows, yokes, shovels, wagons, tables, onairs, sofas, houses and almost, every thing 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 care of himself. and help take care of others. Now that Joseph, his father, is dead, and the responsihilityjpf family support comes down On this boy, I hear from morning to night his hammer pounding, his saw vacillating, his ax descending, his gimlets boring/ and standing amid the dost and debris of the shop 1 find the pet*

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spiration gathering on his temples and notice the fatigue of his arm, and as he stops a moment to rest I see him panting, his hand on his side from exhaustion. Now he goes forth in the morniug loaded with implements of work heavier than any modern kit of toolB. Under, the tropical sun he Swelters. Lifting, pulling, adjusting, cleaving, splitting all day long. At nightfall h* goes home to the plain supper provided by his mother and sits down too tired to talk. Work! work! work! You cau not tell Christ anything now about blistered bands or aching ankles or bruised fingers or stiff joints or rising in thtt morning as tired as when you laid down. While yet a boy He knew it all. He felt it all. He suffered it all. The boy carpenter! The boy wagon-makei! The boy house builder! Oh, Christ, we have seen Thee when full grown in Police Court Room, we have eeem-msm Tbee when full grown thou were assassinated on Golgotha, but, Oh Christ, let all the wearv artisans and mechanics of the earth see Thee while yet undersized and arms not yet muscularized and with the undeveloped strength of iuvenescence trying to take Thy father's place in gaining the liveiihopd for the family.

But, having seen Christ the boy of the fields and the boy of the mechanic's shop, I show you a more marvelous scene—Christ, the smooth-browed lad among the long-bearded, white-haired, high-foreheaded ecclesiastics of the Temple. Hundreds of thousands of strangers had come to Jerusalem tossssfc keep a great religious festival. After the hospitable homes were crowded •with visitors the tents were spread all around the city to shelter immense throngs of strangers. It was very ea&y among the vast throngs coming and going to lose a child. More than 2,000,000 people have been known to gather at Jerusalem for that national feast. No wonder that amid the crowds at the time spoken of Jesus the boy was lost. His parents, knowing that he was mature enough to take care of himself, aressss on their way home without any anxiety supposing that their boy is coming with some of the groups. But after awhile they suspect he is lost, and, with flushed cheek and terrorized look, they rush this way and that And lo, after three days they discovered him in the great Temple, seated among the mightiest religionist? of all the world. The walls of no other building ever looked down on such a scene. A child 12 years old surrounded by septuagenarians, he asking his own questions and answering theirs. What can this 12-year lad teach them or what questions can he ask worthy of their cogitation? Ah, the first time in all their lives these religionists have iound their match and more than their match. Though so young he knew all about that famous Temple under whose roof they held that most wonderful discussion of all history. He knew the meaning of every altar, of every sacrifice, of every golden candlestick, of every embroidered curtain, of every crumb of sbew bread, of every drop of oil in that sacred/ edifice. He knew all about God. He knew all about man. He knew all about heaven, for He came from it. He knew all about this world, for He made it. He knew all worlds, for they were only the sparkling morning dewdrops on the lawn in Iront of His heavenly palace.

But while 1 see the old theologians standing around the boy Christ, I am impressed as never before with tbe fact that what theologians most want is more of childish simplicity. The world and the church have built up immense systems of theology. Half of them try'to tell what God thought, what God planned, what Sod did five hundred million years before the small star on which we live was created. 1 have had many a sound sleep under sermons about the decrees of God and the eternal generation of the Son.and discourses showing who Melchisidek wasn't, and 1 give fair warning that if any minister ever begins a sermon on such a Bubject in my presence I will put my head down on the pew in front and go into the,/ deepest slumber I can reach. Wicked waste of time, this trying to scale the unscalable and fathom the unfathomable, while the nations want the bread of life and to be told how they can get rid of their sins and their sorrows. Why should you and I perplex ourselves about the decrees of God. Mind your own business and God will take care of His. In the conduct of the universe I think He will somehow manage to get-:-along without us. If you want to love and serve God, and be good and useful and get to heaven, I warrant you that nothing which occurred eighteen hundred quintillion of years ago will hinder '.. you a minute. It is not the decrees of God that do us any harm. It is our own re so in an go any farther back in history than about 1,856 years. You see, this is the year 1889. Christ died at about 33 years of age. You subtract 33 from 1889 and that makes it only 1,856 years. That iB as far back as you neea to go. Semething occurred on that day under an eclipsed sun that sets us all forever free, if with our whole heart and life we accept the tremendous profler. Do not let the Presbyterian Church or the Methodist Church or the Lutheran Church or the Baptist Church or any of the other evangelical churches spend any time in trying to fix up old creeds, all of them imperfect as every thing man does is imperfect.

Some, referring to Christ, have exclaimed: Ecco Deus! Behold the God. Others have exclaimed: Ecco homo! Behold the Man! But to-day in conclusion of my subiect, I cry: Ecco adolescens! Behold the Boy!

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