The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-01-04


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Text the Words Of the Angels Regard
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BROOKLYN, Dec. 8O.-In addition to con-
gregational singing at the Tabernacle today.
Mrs, Florence Rice-Knox sang two appro-
pirate solos. The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage,
d. D., preached. taking for his subject:
@Barnlike Birthplaces.n His text was: ssYe
shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling
clothes. living In a manager. And suddenly
there was with the angel a multitude of the
heavenly host. D--Luke IL. 70. ID
At midnight from one of the galleries of
the sky {. cEant-broke. To an ordinary oi,-
server there was no reason for such celestial
demonstration. A poor man and wife
travellers, joseph and Mary by name-had
lodged in an clubhouse of an unirnportant vii
lage 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 everlasting and
divine Significance of motherhood.
But such scenes had often occurred In
Bethlehem. vet never before had a star been
unfixed. or had a baton of light marshaled
over the hills winged orchestra. If there
had been such brilliant and mighty recogni-
ton at an advent in the house of Pharaoh,
or at an advent in the house Of Caesar, or the
house Of Hapsburg, or the house of Stuart,
we would not SO much have wondered; but
barn seems too poor a center for such deli
cate and archangelic circumference. The
stage seems too small for so great an act, the
music too grand for such unappreciative
auditors, the window of the stable too rude
to be serenaded by other worlds.
No, sir. No, madam. It is my joy this
morning to tell you what was born that
night in the village barn; and, las want to
make my discourse accumulatiye and climac-
teric, begin, In the first place, by telling
You that, that night, In the Bethlehem
Manager, was born o. encouragement for all
the poorly started He had only two friends
they his parents. No satin lined 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 there were no men there at
that time to worship. From the depths of
what poverty he rose, until today he is
honored in all Christendom, and sits on the
imperial throne in heaven.
THE MIGHTIEsT NAME.
What name is mightiest TODAY in Christian
doma Jesus. Who has more friends on
earth than any other beinp9 Jesus. Before
whom do the most thousands kneel in chanel
and church and cathedral this hours .Tesns
For whom could one hundred million sonIs
be marshaled, ready to fight or dieY Jesus.
From what depths Of poverty to what height
Of renownl And SO let all those who are poorly
started remember that they cannot be more
poorly born, or more disadyantageouslv
than this Christ. Let them look mn to his
example while they have time and eternity
to initiate it.
Do you know that the vast majority of the
worlds deliverers had barnlike birt6nlaces
Luther, the emancipator of RELIGION. horn
among the mines. Shakespeare. the enanc;-
pator of literature. born in a bnmbla home
at Stratford-on-Ayon Columbus the dc.
coverer of a world. bor,. in poverty AFT Canoe
Hogarth, the iiscoyerer of how 10 male art
.accumulative and administratiye of virtue
born in a humble home at Westnoraland
Kitto and Prideaux. whose KEYS unlocked mar,
apartments in the HOLY Scriptures which had
never been entered, born in want. Yea.
have to tell you that nine out of ten of the
worlds deliverers, nine out of ten of the
worlds messiahs-the messiahs of science
the messiahs of law, the messiahs of medi.
cine, the messiahs of poverty. the messiabs
of grand ACKNOWLEDGEMENT born in want
I suppose that when Herscbel. the great
astronomer, was born in the home of n moor
musician, not only one star. but all the stars
he afterward discovered. pointed down to his
Manager. suppose when HAYDN. the Ger
man composer, was born in the humble home
of a poor wheelwright that all the anpals Of
music chanted over the manger. Oh, what
announcement for those who are noorlv
started. Ye who think yourselves far down.
aspire to 90 high mi
stir your holy ambitions today and
want to tell Won. although the whole world
NAV be opposed to Won. and inside and ont
side of your occupations or professions there
your side and enlisted In your behalf are the
sympathetic heart and the almighty arm of
One who. one Christmas night about eiobteen
hundred and eiobtv-eieht wears apo was
wrapped in swaddIinp Clothes and Iaid in .
manger. Oh. what magnificent encourape-
ment for the poorly startedf
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Ireland. hook your cavalry horses to the
pillow, use your deadly gunpowder in blasting
rocks and in patriotic celebration, stop your
lawsuits, quit writing anonymous letters, ex-
tract the sting from your sarcasm, let your
wit coruscate but never burn, drop ali the
harsh words out of your vocabulary-'Go
win to men,"
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exercise IL until tney apologize; won't Tor
give snem until tney ASK me 70 forgive
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consis.ent onrisNan Il you forgive noS men
tIeir erespasses, now can you expeco your
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