Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-31
A BARN BIRTHPLACE.
DR.. TALNAGKS ELOQUENT TABERNACLE
SERMON YESTERDAY.
4 Saviour vas Born in Bethlehem, Of Judsa-gh,
Humble Cradle Of the Son Of hln-A
Magnificent Encouragement for All
Who Suffer and Need.
Special Tsleoram 10 he Register.

to congregational singing at the Tabernacle
to day, Mira. Florence Rica Knox sang two
appropriate solos. The. Rev. T. DeWit
Talmsge, DID,, preached, taking for hi
subject: "Barnlike Birthplaces. His text
was: "Ye shall find the babe wrapped in
swaddling clothes, lying in manger
And suddenly there was with the angel
multitude of the heavenly host. Lake
ii. IL, -.
At midnight from one Of the galleries Of
the tky chant broke. To an ordinary OBJ
server there was no reason for such celes.
tial demonstration. A poor man and wife
travellers, Joseph and Mary, by name
had lodged in an onthouse Of an unim'
portant village. The supreme hour of col.
emnity had passed, and upon the pallid
forehead and cheek of Mary God had eel
the dignity, the grandeur, the tenderness,
the everlasting and divine significance OF
motherhood.
But such scenes had often occurred in
Bethlehem, yet never before had star
been Irfixed, or had baton of light msr
shaled over the hills winged orchestra. II
| there had been such brilliant and mighty
recognition at an event in the House OF
Pharaoh, or ut an event in the House OF
Caesar, or the House Of Hap burg, or the
| House of Stuart, we would not 30 much
have wondered; but barn ssenH too poor
centre for such delicate and archsngelic
circumference. The stage seems too small
for so great an act; the music too grand for
such unapprtcistive auditors, the window
of the stable too rude to be serensdei by
other worries.
No, sir No. madsm. It i my joy this
n. Irnipg to tell you what was born thst
light in the village barn; and as l want to
make my discourse accumula'iye aud eli
materic, l begin, in the first place, by tell
ing you that that plight in the Bethlehem
mGDger was horn Il encouragement for
all the poorly started. He had only two
friends-they His parents. No satin-lnod
cradle, no delicate attentions, but straw,
and the cattle, and the coarse joke and
banter Of the camel. drivers No wonder
the medieval painters represent the oxen as
kneeling before the infant Jesus, for the re-
were no men there at that Tins TO wor.
ship. From the depths of what poverty
He rose unit! to day lie is horo;ed in all
Christendom, and sits on the imperial
throne in heaven.
THE MIGHTIEsT NAME
VIVA. name lie the mightiest to-day in
oil Christendon? Jesus. Who has more
| fciands on earth than any other beiDg g?
Jesus. Before whom do the most thou.
sands knsel in chapel and church and
cathedral at this hour? Jesus. For whom
could one hundred million souls be mar.
shalIed, ready TO fight or die? Jesus
From what depths of poverty TO what
height of renOwn! And 80 let all thos.
who are poorly started remember that
they cannot be more poorly horn, or more
than this Christ. Let
them look up TO His example while they
have time ard eternity to initiate it.
Do you know that tie vast majority of
the worlds deliverers had b,rnlike birth
placer Luther, the emancipation of relig-
ion, BORN among the mines. Shakespeare,
the eDancfpator of literature, born in I'D
humble home at sta tiord-on-Avon Col.
umbus, the discoverer of the Few world, born
in poverty at Genoa. Hogarth, tho dis
coverer of how 10 make art accumulatiVs
and administrative Of virture, born in an
humble home at Westmoreland. Kitto, the
Pidtaux, whose keys unlock ed new apart
ments in the Holy Scriptures which had
never been entered, born in want. Yea,
have to tell You that pine ont Of ten Of the
worlds n essiahs-the messiabs Of science,
the messiabs Of law, the messiahs of medi
cine, the messiahs Of poverty, the messishR
OF grand ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS born in want.
suppose that when HtrSchel, the great
astronomer, was horn in the home of a
poor musician, not only one star, but all
the stars he afterRs,d discovered, pointed
down TO bis mauGer. i suppose when
Haydn, the German composer, was born in
the humble home Of q poor wheelwrigbt,
that all the angels Of music chanted over
the manger. Oh, what enco engagement for
those who are poorly started! Ye who
think yourselves far down, aspire TO 20
high up!
MAGNIFICENT ENCOURAGEMENT.
str your holy ambitions to day, ard
wait to tell you, although the whole
world may be opposed TO you, and inside
and Outside Of your occupations or profes.
lions there may be those who would
hinder your ascent, on yeur side and en-.
listed in your behalf are the sympathetic
heart and the almighty arm of One who
one Christmas night, about eighteen hun
dred and eighty-tight years ago, was
wrapped in s"addling clothes aud laid in
a maDger On, what magnificent encOur-
agement for the poorly started!
III. Again, have 10 tell you that in that
village barn that night was born good will |
to men, whether you ca 1t kiodntss, or
Eorbesrance, or love, or forgiveness, or
seniality, or affection, or love. 1t was no
sport of high heaven 10 send its favorite 20 |
that humiliation. 1t was sacrifice Tor O
rebellious world. After the calamity in |
Paradise, not only did the OK b. |
gin TO gore, and the adder TO
sting. and the elephant TO snife
with his tuak, and the lion TO put 10 bad |
use tooth and paw, but under the very
tree from which the forbidden fruit WA
plucked we're Matched out war and re-
venge and malice and envy and jealousy,
and the whole b. God Of cockatrices.
But sgaiust that scene set the Bsthle-
hem msnger, which ssys; "Bless rather
than cure, endure Father than assault"
and that Christmas night puts cut VIM
dictiveness Il sage: Shsathe your !
sword, d.smount your guns, dismsn.le
YOUR bIt,e:ies, tura the wsr ship Constel. |
lation. that carried shot and shell, into q
prsin ship I, tale food to fani'hiDg Iu-
land, hook your cavalry horses to the pillow, |
use your deadly guupowder in blasting !
rocks and in patriotic celebration, stJp
YOUR law suits, quit writing anonymous
letters, extract the sting from your sar-
casm, let your wit ccruscate bat never
burn, drop all the harsh words out OF your
vocabulary
''GooD WILL TO MEN"
''Ohl" you say, 81 can't extrcise it; l
won't exercise it until they apologize; /
won't forgive them until they ask me 10
forgive them" Yon are no Christian
then-I say you are no Christian, or you
are a very inconsistent Christian. If ycu
forgive net men their treJpsssss, no" can
YOU expect your Heavenly Father to for
give you? Forgive them if they ask your
forgiveness, and forgive them ANYHOW
Shake hands all around. GOOD will to
men,
oh, my Lord Jesus, drop that spirit ioto
our hearts this Christmas hour. tell
YOU what the word wants more than any