| Show LABORS AT NAZARETH CHRISTS CHRIST'S PREPARATION Early Life Served as School for Savior Asserts Rev Rey 1 J J. J H HI H. HIPA PA Mitchell I IThe I IThe The Silent Years at Nazareth was the topic of or the time sermon delivered at Rt the thc Iliff Methodist yesterday est rda b by TIc Rev 1 J. J J H. H Mitchell who recently took th the tho pulpit at that church Mr Ir Mitchell said in part Like Ilka mall maul many oth other r great Ireat men the de Ilc tails of or the time early life of Christ are aro not known W Wr have the thc beautiful narra narra- thc tive of ot His Ills birth wo we see sec His Ills parents in flight into Egypt then He lie passes out of oC sight until Ills twelfth year eal when He tic appears appealS at lot Jerusalem Then for tor cl eighteen years ears there thero is lt an nn unbroken silence We Ve would lUte like to know something some some- thing thinS of or tho thoo o o hidden years at al Nazar azar- azar eth A t tort fow years is all an wo Ye have Soon after arter III Ills baptism He Ito returned to Na Naz- and according to Mark lark vi 3 was wa Identified b by all His Ills neighbors neighbor as the thc carpenter Of or this fact tact wo we ma may be sure sure the the Son of or Go God was as a a. carpenter Hero Here wo woJ J set get t a glimpse of pf r ills His humanism Ho Ile knew what hat It was nas to rise with the sun and toll n with His hands For or eighteen years not a few months month of or labor Jabor but more moto m ro than half Ills His life was sp spent nt in tho the commonplace drudgery of ot I toll toil He lIe was tho living IvinS' exponent of ot Gods God's inexorable law 11 by b the sweat of ot th thy brow thou shall earn thy bread lIe Ho is become the brother of ot the manof man manof manot of ot toll toil the sympathetic friend of or that class of or workman whoso whose lot IB is hard and too oft forgot in these days of or to- to or class distinction All An toll and tools are arc sacred since Christ used them thorn Ier livery man Is In holy hoh orders whether ho wields the pick or pen the masons mason's trowel or the artists artist's chisel 1 lOA At t Christs Christ's baptism the Fa Father said I J am well pleased d This means that for these eighteen years cars Ho Ito had so I wrought at nt the carpenters carpenter's bench so as asto to the approval of Ills Illy J Father ather Ho lie did no shoddy or scant work There was no bad workmanship to conceal Hero here Ills His Influence IH is puro pure and strong strona Superficial work worIc is the time mark of ot deficient dent character Spirituality Is no ItO Joo good If It not nOl teen seen In everyday toll Religion and the tho dally daily task are not divorced When Christ laid down Ills His tools toola for a anew anew new and larger sphere re God scaled sealed those years with His lils approval 1 Of Ot Of another fact we ma may also be sure this carpenter was Gods God's Son Thou art Rrt m my beloved Son Mark i This declaration has astonished tho the world Can this indeed tI be bo Gods God's Son Ron the emancipator eman eman- of the time world Whore Where has lie He been beon In what school has He Ile 11 e been trained His Ills had h been n the fhi life of or an humble carpenter r ic It is cant that God willed that ills His Son I should spend so much of or His life lite in the I carpenters carpenter's shop If It We ae e arc aro called to I some lome work If tr our lIt life is being drawn to o some somo definite task It is ours to hear God Jod and obey Christ Chrict submitted gladh glad- glad ly h y These were not eighteen years of tOl restlessness lie Ise did not smart under the restraints of ot His HIB lIC life lie He had com come to do tIo time the will of ot the Father God GotI used wisdom in keeping His Ills Son sot these man many years at at the carpen carpen- t tars tar's rB bench Tho The divine divino process Is slow Man Han is ever in haste God is never Ho no kept ept Moses Mo c fort forty years cars in the thc desert before he lie came unto his own Christ lived ml mightily hlll durin during those hidden years Wh When h n alone the time fight tight Is always alwa's hardest harlest With Ith the crowd at our back it t Is I eat easy to forge ahead Solitude and har hardship bring out the best that Is s in Inus inus us Christ came out holy in character prepared to 10 meet the arch enem enemy the cross and its death Can Cnn an any good thing come out of Nazareth Yes Yell even the Son of ot God We e ought to be slow to pass PUH Jud judgment ment menton on the man IDan who lives U ne next t door What may mai seem to omen men n to be Je only failure is often orten Gods God's success Humble toll honest honest honest hon hon- est effort and patient endurance make mako for the higher things of oC manhood anI and womanhood Ho He that II IB is faithful in the few feu things of life lite is made mado the ruler over tho the many |
