Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-31
The Barn-Like Birthplaces Of Most
4 the Worlds Deliverers.
n Messiahs Of Science, Law, Medi-
line, Poverty, Grand Beneyolence,
We're Born in Want.
t Birth in a Manager is No Bar to the At
tainment of the Highest Ambition-Dr.
Talmage's Sermon.
Special TO the Gazette.


Tabernacle to-day Mrs. Florence Rice
Knox sang two appropriate solos. The
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, D.. D.,
preached, taking for his subject:
'Barn-like Birthplaces - His text was:
eye shall find the babe wrapped in
swaddling clothes lying in a manager. And
suddenly there was with the angel a null
titude of the heavenly host. Luke ii
12-13.
At midnight from one of the galleries
of the sky chant broke. To an ordi-
nary observer there was no reason for
such a celestial demonstration. A poor
man and wife-travelers, Joseph and
Mary by name-had lodged in an out
house of an unimportant village. The
supreme hour of solemnity had passed
and upon the pallid forehead and cheek
of Mary God had set the dignity, the
grandeur, the tenderness, the everlast-
ing and divine significance of mother
hood
But such scenes had often occurred in
Bethlehem, yet never before had q star
been unfiXed. or hala baton of light mar
shaded over the hills winged orchestra
If there had been sueh brilliant and
mighty recognition at an advent in the
house of Pharoah, or at an advent in the
house of Caesar, or the house OF Haps-
burg, or the house OF Stuart, we would
not so much have wondered; but a barn
seems too poor 81 center for such delicate
and archangelic circumference. The
stage seems too small for so great an act,
the music too grand for such unapprecia-
tive auditors, the window of the stable
too rude to be serenaded by other worlds.
No, sir. No, madam. Il is my joy
this morning TO tell you what was born
that night III the village barn; and as |
want to make my discourse accumulative
and climacteric, L begin, i'll the first
place, by telling you that that night i'll
the Bethlehem mmger was born (l) en-
enlargement for all the poorly started.
He had only two friends-they HIS
parents. No satin-lined cradle, no deli
cate attentions, but straw, and the cat
tie, andthe coarse joke and Banter of
the camel drivers. No wofder the
medavaI painters represent the oxen as
kneeling before the infant j esus, for there
were no men there at that time to wOr-
ship. From the depths of what poverty
He rose until to-day He is honored i'll all
Christendom, and sits on the imperial
throne in heaven.
What name is mightiest to-day in
ChristendOm? Jesus. Who has more
friends on earth than any other being?
Jesus. Before whom do the most thou
sands kneel
IN CHAPEL AND CHURCH
and cathedral this hour? Jesus. For
whom could 100 900 200 souls be mar
From what depths of poverty to what
height of renown! And SO let all those
who are poorly started remember that
they cannot be more poorly born, or
more disadvantageously than this Christ.
Let them look up to His example while
they have time and eternity to initiate it.
Do you know that the vast majority of
the worlds deliverers had barn-lilSe
bfrthplaces? Luther, the emancipation of
religion, born among the mines. Shakes
peare, the emancipation of literature,
born in an humble home at Stratsford-
on-AvOn. Columbus, the discOverer of
n world, born in poverty at Genoa.
tine discoverer of how to make
art accumulative and administra-
tive of virtue, born in an humble
home at WestmOreland. Kitto and
whose keys unlocked new
apartments in the Holy Scriptures which
had never been entered, born IN want
Yea, l have to tell you that nine oUt~'of
ten of the world s deliverers, nine out of
ten of the worlds messiahs-the mes
siahs of science, the messiahs of law, the
of medicine, the messiahs of pow
eTty, the messiahs of grand benerolence
were born in want.
l suppose that when Herschel, the
great astronomer, was born in the home
Of poor musician, not only one star,
but all the stars he afterward discovered,
pointed down to his manger. l suppose
when Haydn, the German composer, was
born in the humble home of poor
that
ALL THE ANGELS OF MUSIC
,hanted over the manSer. Oh, what en-
,ouragement for those who are poorly
started! Ye who think yourselves far
Town, aspire to go high up! ~
/ stir your holy ambitions to-day, and !
want TO tell you, although the whole
world may be opposed to you, and inside
and outside of your occupations or pro- !
LESSONS there may be those who would |
hinder your ascent, on your side and en-
listed i'll your behalf are the sympathetic |
leart and the almighty arm of One who>
,ne Christmas night about 1888 years ago
vas wrapped in swaddling clothes and |
aid in manger. Oh, what magnificent |
for the poorly started!
2. Again, have to tell you that in |
hat village barn that night was born
rood will to men, whether you call it |
or forbearance, or forgive |
less, or genialIty, or affection, or love. |
/ was no sport of high heaven to send Its |
avnrites TO that humiliation. 1t was |
'acrifice for a rebelIiOus world. After |
he calamity i'll Paradise not only did the !
* begin to gore and the adder to |
ting, and the elephant TO smite |
With his tusk, and the lion TO put to bad |
lse tooth and paw, but under the very |
rec from which the forbidden fruit was
)lucked were Matched out war and re-
-enge and malice and envy and jealousy, 4
md the whole brood of cockatrices.
But against that scene l set the Bethle-
lem mauger, which says: "BleSs rather
han curse, endure rather than assault
md that Christmas night puts out vim
IictIveneSs. 1t says: ''Sheath your
word, dismount yClr guns. dismantle
our batteries, turn the war-ship ConStel-
alton, that carried shot and she'll, into a
rain ship to take food TO furnishing Ire
and, hook your cavalry horses TO the
low, use your deadly gunpowder in !
Blasting rocks and in patriotic celebra-
ion SION vOur loUsIIitS unit