LESSON OrriiE NATIVITY
Dr. Taltnagc fays On That Christmas
Night God Honored
' Motherhood. ,
A Tribute 'to Science Most Famous Mhl
In H itory.
"Wasiit.notow, V. C. The discourse , of
Dr. Tnlmnge in full of tho nativity and ftp-
rropriatc for tho holidnyn; text, Luke li.'
ft. And they came with hnste and found
iMitry and Joseph and tho babe lying in a
maiiRcr."
1 The black window shutters of a Bcccm
tier night were thrown open, and some of
the best lingers of a world where they all
sing a too 'I tlieo and, putting back the
drapery of a fioiid. thunted a peace an
them until all the echoes of hill and val
ley applauded and encored the halleluiah
chorus. Come, let ua go into that Christ
mas scene, as though we had never before
.worshiped at the manger. Here is a Ma
donna worth looking at. I wonder not
that the mot. frequent name in all lands
and in all Christian eountries is Mary.
And there are Marys in pnlaces and
Marys in cabins, and, though (Jerman and
French and Jtnlinn and Spanish and Eng
lish pronounce it differently, they are all
namesakes of the one whom we find on 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 the incidents of that most famous
nightin the world's history. Kaphael.in three
different masterpieces, celebrated them.
iTintoretto and (Jhirlandajo surpassed
themselves in tho adoration of the Magi.
Corrcggio needed to do no more than his
Madonna to become immortal. The "Ma
donna of the Lily," by Leonardo da Vinci,
jwill kindle the admiration of all ages. Hut
all the galleries of Dresden are forgotten
when I think of the small room of that
gallery containing the "Sistine Madonna."
lYet all of them were copies of tit. Mat
thew's Madonna and Luke's Madonna, the
inspired Madonna of the old book which
we had put into our hands when we were
infants, and that we hope to have under
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
Bethlehem barn without going past the
camelj, the mules, the doga, the oxen. The
brutes of that stable heard the first cry of
tho infant Lord. Home of the old painters
represent the oxen nnd camels kneeling
that night before the new-born babe. 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, nppropriato
that lie should, during the first few days
nnd nighta of His life on earth, be sur
rounded 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?
Not a kennel in all the centuries, not a
bird's nest, not a worn-out horse on tow
path, not a herd freezing in the, poorly
built cow-pen, not a freight car in sum
mer timo bringing the beeves to market
without water through a thousand miles
of agony, not a surgeon's witnessing the
struggles of fox or rabbit or pigeon or dog
in the horrors of vivisection hut has an in
terest in the fact that Christ was born in
a stable surrounded by brutes.
Standing then, as I imagine now I do,
in that Bethlehem night, with an infant
Christ on the ono side and the speechless
creatures of God on the other, I cry:
Look out how you strike the rowel into
that horse's side; take off that curbed hit
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
those birds caught too far north in tho
winter's inclemeney; arrest that man who
is making that one horse draw a load
heavy enough for three; rush in upon that
Bcene where boys are torturing a cat or
transfixing butterfly and grasshopper;
drive not off that old robin, for her nest
is a mother's cradle and under her wing
there may be three or four musicians of
the sky in training. In your families and
in your schools teach the coming genera
tion more mercy than the present genera
tion has ever shown, and in this marvelous
Bible picture of the nativity, while you
point out to them the nngel, show them
also the camel, and while they hear tho
celestial chant let thein also hear the
cow's moan.
Behold also in this Bible scene how on
that Christmas night tiod honored child
hood. Childhood was to be honored by
that advent. He must, have a child's light
limbs and a child's dimpled hand and a
child's hcnroii'.g eye nnd a child's flaxen
hair, and babyhood was to be honored for
all time to come, and a evadle was to jncun
more than a grave. Mighty God! M:iy
the reflection of that one child's face be.
seen in all infantile faces!
Enough have all those fathers and moth
ers on hand if they have a child in tho
house. A throne, a crown, a scepter, a
kingdom, under charge. Be careful how
you strike him across the head, jarring
the bruin. What you say to him wHl bo'
centennial and a thousand years will not
stop tho echo and re echo. Do not say,
"It is only a child." Buther say, "It is
only an immortal." It is only a master
piece of ,Tehov.ih. It is only a being that
shall outlive sun and moon and stnr and
ages quadriennial. God has infinite re
sources, and He can give presents of great
value, but when He wants to give the rich
est possible gift to a household He looks
around all the worlds and all the universe
and then gives a child. Yea, in all ages
God 1ms honored childhood. He makes
almost every picture a failure unless there
be a child either playing on the floor or
looking through the window or seated on
the lap gazing into the face of the mother. ;
It was a child in Naamun'a 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
wus left at the bottom of the river. It
was to the cradle of leave in which a child
was lain, rocked by the Nile, that God
called the attejttion of history. ' It wai a
sick child that evoked Christ's curative
aympaihies. It was a child that Christ set
iu the midst of thn squabbling disciples to
teach the lesson of humility. A child de
cided Waterloo, showing the army of I)lu
cher how it could take a short cut, through
the fields when, if tho old road ad been
followed, the Prussian general would have
come up too lato to save the destinies of
Europe. It was a child that decided Get
tysburg, he having overheard two Confed
erate generals iu a conversation in which
they decided to march for Gettysburg in
stead of Harrisburg, and, this reported to
Governor Curtin, the Federal forces
started to meet their opponents at Gettys
burg. And to day tho child is to decide
all the great battles, make all the laws,
nettle all the destinies and usher in the
world's salvation or destruction. Men,
women, nations, all earth and all heaven,
behold the child!
Notice also that in this Bible night
scene God honored science. Who are the
three wise men kneeling before the Divine
jiiiuihi n", uuui n, iiii, i4lt'1lI,"unt:o
Caspar, liathasar and Melchior men
knew all that was to be known. hey
the Isaac Newton and HcrschelHVnd
adays of their time. Their alchemy
Intanlr rwot boors, not ignoramuses, but
Caspar, Ilathasar and Melchiorx men who
Lhey were
nd Far-
imv was
the forerunner of our sublime chemistry,
their astrology the mother of our magnifi
cent astronomy, and when I see these
scientists bowiug before the beautiful
trnbe I see the prophecy of the time when
all the telescopes and microscopes, and all
the Leyden jars, and all the electric bat
(teties, and all the observatories, and all
the universities shall bow to Jesus. It is
much that way already. Where is the col
lege i.nu u )-s not have morning prayers,
thus towing at the manger? Who liavs
been the gruffest physicians? Omitting
tile mimes of the living lest wo should bit
invidious,, have we not had among toetn
Christian men like Jauios Y. Bimpson and
"iisii nnd vuientma jviott ana Abererom
hie and Abernethv? Who have been our
fi
'eatest scientists? Joseph Henrv. who
ivrtl and died in the faith of the cornel.
nd Agassiz, who, standing with his stu
otiits among the 1 la, took off hi hat and
Hid; "Voung ge'ill.inen, beforo wa ktudy
rocks let uk pray for wisdom to the
""4 who trade the rpc'." , All geoloiry
' yet bow before t" I i of A . All
!-oi;u,y will yf.t worn t a oae of fih
IT""- All amunoiu . I j t if uza tin
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flight that God h.-moted the fields. Come
in, shepherd boys, to Bethlehem and see
tho child. "No!" thev say; "we are not
dressed good enough to coma in." "Yes,
you are; come in.'' Kure enough, the
storms and the night dew slid the bram
bles have marie rough work with their ap
parel, but none has a hcttcr right to come
in. Thty wr.ve the firt to hear the music
of that Chninins nitflit. The firtit an
nouncement of a Savio'ic's birLh was made
to those men in the t'leW. There were
wiseacres that. nisM i-i Bethlehem and
Jerusalem snoring in deen sleen. 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 dismount
ing from a swift cainel at their door and
knocking till rt some sentinel's question,
."Who comes there?" the great ones of the
palace might havi been told of the celes
tial arrival. No; the shepherds heard tho
first two bars of the nitiiie, the first in the
major key and the last in the subdued mi
nor. "Glory to God in the highest and on
earth peace, good will to men!" Ah, yes,
the fields were honored!
The old shepherds with plaid and crook
have for the niont part vanished, but we
have grazing on our United States puttire
fields and prairie about 42,01X1,1)0!) sheep,
nnd all their keepers ought to follow the
shepherds of my text, and nil those who
toil in fields, all vine dressers, all orchard
ists, all husbandmen. Not only that Christ
mas night, but all up and down the world's
ihistory God has been honoring the fields.
Nearly all the messinhs of reform and lit
erature and eloquence and lew and bencv
jolence have corne from the fields. Wash
ington from the fields. Jefferson from the
fields. The Fresidcntinl martyrs, Garfield
and Lincoln and MrKinlt-y, from the
fields. Daniel Webster from the fields.
Martin Luther from the fields. Before
this world is right the overflowing popu
lations of our crowded cities will have to
tnke to tho fields. Instead of ten mer
chants 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 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!
God honored them when He woke up thn
shepherds by the midnight anthem, nnd
He will, while the world lasts, continue to
honor the fields. When the shepherd's
crook was thnt famous night stood against
the wall of the Bethlehem khan, it was a
prophecy of the time when thrasher's tlail
and farmer's plow and woodman's axe
and ox's yoke nnd sheaf binder's rake shall
surrender to the God who made the coun
try, as man made the town.
Behold, also, that on that Christina
night God honored motherhood. Two an
gels on their wings niiuht have brought an
infant Saviour to Bethlehem without
Mary's being there at all. When the vil
ltigcrs on the morning of December 20
awoke, by divine arrangement and in somo
unexplained wav the child Jesus might
have been found in some comfortable cra
dle of the vilUge. But no. no! Mother
hood for all time was to be consecrated,
nnd one of the tenderest relations was to
bo the maternal relation and one of tho
sweetest words, "mother." In nil ages
God has honored good motherhood. John
Wesley had a good mother; St. Bernard
had a good" mother; Doddridge, a good
mother; Walter Scott, a good mofher;
Benjamin West, a good mother. In a
great audience, most of whom were Chris
tians. I asked thnt all those who had been
blessed of Christum mothers arise, and
nlmost the entire assembly stood up. Do
you not see how important it is that all
motherhood be consecrated? Why did Ti
tian, the Italion artist, when he sketched
the Madonna make it an Italian face?
Why did Bubens. the German artist, in
his ' Madonna make it n (lennan face?
Why did Joshua Reynolds, the English
artist, in li is Madonna make it an English
face? Why' did Murillo, the Spanish art
ist, in his Madonna make it a Spanish
face? I never heard, but I think they
took their own mothers as the typo of
Mary, tho mother of Christ. When you
hear some one in sermon or oration speak
in the abstract of a good, faithful, honest
mother, your eyes fill iro with tears while
you say to yourself, "That was my moth
er." The first word a child utters is apt to
be "mother," and the old man in his dy
ing dream calls: "Mother! Mother!" It
matters not whether she was brought up
in the surroundings of a city nnd in nihil"
ent home, end wus dressed appropriately
with reference to the demands of modern
life or whether she wore the old-time cap
and grat, round spectacles nnd nnron of
her, own make and knit your socks with
her own needles seated by the broad fire
place, with great backlog ablaze, on a win
ter nii'ht. It matters not how many wrin
kles crossed and retrosied her face or how
much her shoulders stooped with the bur
dens of a long life. If you naintcd a Ma
donna, hers would lis the face. What a
gentle hand she had when we were nick,
and what a voice to soothe pain, and was
there any one who could so fill up a room
with peace and purity nnd lifcht! And
what a sad day that was when we camo
home and she could greet us not. for her
tips were forever still! Come back, moth
er, in these Christmas times nnd take
your old place, and, us ten or twenty or
titty years ago, come nnd open the old
liililo as you used to; rend and kneel in tho
?aine place where you used to pray and
look upon us, r.s of old, when you wished
us a merry Christmas or a happy Now
Year! But, no! That would not be fair
to call you hack. Y'ou had troubles enough
while you were here. Tarry by the throne,
mother, till we join you there, your pray
ers all answered, and in the eternal home
stead of our God we shall attain keen
Christmas jubilee together. But speak
from your thrones, all you glorified moth
ers, and eay to all these, your sons and
daughters, words of love, word of warn
ing, words of cheer. . They need your voice,
for they have traveled far and with many
a heartbreak since you left them, and you
do well to call from tho height of heaven
to the vallevs of earth. Hr.il. enthroned
ancestry! We are coming! Keep a place
right beside you at the banquet!
"Slow footed years! More swiftly run
Into the gold of that setting sun.
Homesick we are for thee,
Calm land beyond the sea."
ICoryriitlit, Ml. L. Klopsch.l
l it Companions.
The scientist, more anxious to vindicate
his theory than to discover the secrets of
nature, is a lit companion to the believer
who is more concerned in defending hi
creed than in learning the will of God.
Kev. L. Waller Muson, Unitarian, l'itts-bn'.-3-
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Gntzot lived through the moat event
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was born in 17S7 amid the muttorlngs
nf the revolution. Gulzot'e parent'
were married by a prescribed Protest
ant pastor, and his birth wa neve
legally registered. His father, whi
was an advocate used fcls talent fa
public speaking In the Interests d thi
persecuted Protestants, and became a
marked man. After living for several
Necks In danger of his life, he was at
last arrested, unwillingly enough, by
a gendarme who knew and respected
Wxn. ' "Shall I let you escape?" said
the man. "Are you married?" replied
M. Gulzot. , "Yes, I have two chil'
iron." "And no have I," replied thl
pr'eoner, "but you would cave to paj
for me; let us go on." They went on,
md M. Gulzot died im the scaffold a
few days later.. At this time Fran
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the elder of the two children, was ill
and a halt years old, und always pro
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hla lather In prison, or what was
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'"This," said the artist, "is a battle
scene time, say, the year aooo A. I).
The defending force is on the extreme
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"I can't sec tlicm," observed his
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"Certainly not; they are strongly en
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She was richly but inconspicuously
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particular attention as she stood on the
corner the other day had not her face,
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"what upon earth is the matter?"
The facial contortions ceased and
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"With me? Nothing."
"But you looked as if you were suf
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"I was only trying," she said, "to
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. The man or woman who possesses a
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Mot tint of Great Men.
Schumann's mother was gifted with
musical ability.
Chopin's mother, like himself, was
very delicate.
Ciounod's mother was fond of paint
ing and music.
Spohr's mother was an excellent
judge of music but no musician.
Milton's letters often alluded to his
mother in the most affectionate terms.
Wordsworth's mother had a charac
ter as peculiar as that of her gifted son.
Raleigh said that he owed all to his
politeness of deportment to his mother.
(iocllic pays several tributes in his
writings to the character of his mother.
Ilaydn dictated one of his most im
portant instrumental compositions to his
mother.
Sydney Smith's mother was a clever
conversationalist, and very quick at re
partee. Giddon's mother was passionately
fond of reading, and encouraged her
son to follow her example.
Charles Darwin's mother had a decid
ed taste for all branches of natural history.
IfnW lift End peri.
"Papa," said the little one who is al
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there wise women as well as wise men?"
"I believe there are, my son," was the
reply.
"Well, docs a wise man know more
than a wise woman?"
"He may," answered the father : "In
fact, I guess he generally does, but if he's
wise and wants peace he's mighty care
ful not to let her know it."' Then, as his
wife was about to speak he hastily add
ed: "I am not a wise man, my boy; I
have just demonstrated that by my
words'
This left her so puzzled that he man
aged to escape.
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A married man's love doesn't grow cold
o long as his breakfasts are kept warm.
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00
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ia hereby
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DAY
The Beet Suar Industry.
A most Important article giving
Messrs. Oxnard's nnd Cutting's views
on the beet rnw Indus :? In this
country appeared on the editm'inl pair
of the New i'ork livening r.mt of De
cember 12 last, and as every hoime
hold In the land Is Interested tn su?nr
tho article will ho of universal in. ;reat.
THE BEF.T SUGAR IXDUS'i'IlY.
The Evening Tost Md the hetirtiest
welcome to every American Industry
that enn KtamJ on Its own boitoia ami
make Its way without leaning on the
poor rates. Among these self-supporting
industries we are glad to know, Is
the production of beet sugar. At nil
events. It was such two years ago. Wc
publish elsewhere a letter written In
1N!K, and signed by .Mr. Oxnard snd
Mr. Cutting, the chiefs of this indus
try on the eastern side of the Hocky
Mountains, showing that this was Un
happy condition of the trade at that
time. If parties mnsquerauing as beet
ftigar producers are bosleplug the
President and Congress at this mo
ment, and pretending that they will ho
ruined If Cuban sugar Is admitted for
six months at half the present rates of
duty their false pretences ought t be
exposed.
The letter of Stessrs. Oxnard and
Cutting was probably written for the
purpose of inducing the farmers of the
Mississippi Valley to go more larjely
Into the cultivation of beets for tho
sugar factories. This was a laudable
motive for telling the truth and show
ing the large profits which awaited
both the beet grower and the manufac
turer If the industry were porsevcr
ingly and intelligently prosecuted. To
this end it was pointed out that farm
ers could, clear ?03 per acre by culti
vating beets, and might even make
$100. But in order to assure the culti
vator that he would not be exposed to
reverses by possible changes in the
tariff, they proceeded to show that the
Industry stood In no need of protection.
The beet sugar Industry, these gen
tlemen sny, "stands on as firm a basis
as any business In the country." They
point out the fact a very important
one that their product comes out as a.
finished nrtlcle, refined and granulated..
It is not. like cauo sugar grown in the
West India Islands, a black and offen
sive paste, which must be carried lr
wagons to the seaboard and thence by
ships o the United States, where, af
ter another handling, it Is put through
n costly reflnery, and then suipprd by
rail to the consumer, who may possi
bly he In Nebraska, alongside n beet
sufwr factory, which turns nt U10 ve
lined and granulated article at one fell
swoop. Indeed, the advantages of tfcft
producer of beet sugar for supplying;
the domestic consumption are very
great. We hnve no doubt that Messrs.
Oxnard and Cutting arc withiu boiffids
when they sny that "sugar can be pro
duced here cheaper than it can ho In
Europe." The reasons for this are
that ,
"The sugar Industry is, afrrr all.
merely an agricultural one. YTe cna
undersell Europe in nil other cropsv
nnd sugar is no exception." ,
It follows as naturally as the making
of flour from wheat. If we an pro
duce wheat cheaper than Eur, then
naturally we can produce flour cheap
er, as we do.
But the writers of the letter do ot.
depend upon a-priorl reasoning to proTe
that they cau make sugar at a proBt
without tnriff protection. They pelnt
to the fact that under the lfeS.ile.T
tnriff of 1SU0, when sugar was fre or
duty, the price of the article was four
cents per pound. Yet a net prodt rt fj
par ton was made by the beet sugar
factories under those conditions- sot
counting tiny bounty on the home pro
duction of sugar. They boast that
they made this proat while worktrs
under absolute free trade, and they
have a right to be proud of tJyfe result
of their skill aud industry. Many
beet sugar factories had beca started
In bygone years, back in ihe si:rea
a;id seventies of the nineteenth cen
tury, and had failed, because the pro
jectors did not uuderstaud the bnsi
ness. Since then great progress ba
been made, both here and abroad, iu
the cultivation aud manipulation of the
beet. What was impossible fhlrlly
years ago is uow entirely feasible. Tb
Industry is already on a solid l
during basis. There are fucrov
the United States, these
toll us In their letter, capj
.'.)0,()00 tons of beets
profit of $3 per tor
make a profit of J
come to he ear
trade.
It m,
left