Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1889-01-06
CHRISTMAS JUBILEE.
Or. TALMAeE's SERMON, PREACHED
SUNDAY, DEC. 80.

"BarnIike Birtbplaces" the subject-Ths
Text, the Words Of tho Angels Regard
Ing the Finding Of the Infant Son Of
God.
BROOKLYN, Dec. 30.-In addition TO
congregational singing at the Taber
nacle today, Mrs. Florence Rice Knox
sang two appropriate solos The Rev.
I. DE Witt Talmage, d. D., preached,
taking for his subject .'Barnlike Birth.
places" His text was: "Ye shall find
The babe wrapped in swaddling clothes,
lying in a manger. And suddenly
there was with the angel a multitude
OF the heavenly host" - Luke ii.
~. l3.
At midnight from one Of the gal.
leries Of the sky a chant broke. To
an ordinary observer there was no
reason for such a celestial demonstra-
ton. A poor man and wife-travel-
ers, Joseph and Mary by name-had
lodged in an clubhouse OF an unimpor-
tant 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 everlasting and
divine significance of motherhood.
But such scenes had often occurred
in Bethlehem, yet never before had a
star been unfixed. or had baton Of
light marshaled over the hills winged
orchestra II there had been such
brilliant and mighty recognition 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 delicate and arch.
angelic circumference. The stage
seems too small for so great an act
the music too grand for such unap
preciative auditors, the window Of The
stable too rude TO be serenaded by
other worlds.
No, sir No, madam. II is my JOY
this morning TO tell you what wa
born that night in the village barn
and as ] want TO make my discours,
accumulative and climacteric. ] begin
in the first place, by telling you tina
that night in the Bethlehem mangel
was born Q.) encouragement for al
the poorly started. He had only tw,
friends-they his parents. No satiI
lined cradle, no delicate attentions, bu
straw, and the cattle, and the coars'
joke and banter of the camel drivers
No wonder the medieval painters rep
resent the oxen as kneeling before tn,
infant Jesus. for there We're no mel
there at that time 10 worship. From
the depths Of what poverty he ros'
until today he is honored in all Chris
tendon and sits on the imperial thron,
in heaven.
THE MIGHTIEsT NAME.
What name is mightiest today ir
Christendomi Jesus. Who has more
friends on earth than any other being
Jesus. Before whom do the mos
thousands kneel in chapel and church
and cathedral this hourl Jesus. Fol
whom could one hundred million soul
be marshaled, ready TO fight or die
Jesus. From what depths Of poyert.
to what height Of renownl And SO le
all those who are poorly started re
member that they cannot be NOR
poorly born, or more disadvantage
ously, than this Christ. Let them loo
up to his example while they hav
time and eternity to initiate il.
Do you know that the vast majorit
Of the worlds deliverers had barnlik
birthplaces2 Luther, the emancipato
of religion. born among the mine:
Shakespeare, the emancipator Of itel
ature, born in an humble home q
Stratford-on-Avon. Columbus, th
discoverer of world, born in povert
at Genoa. Hogarth, the discoverer {
how 10 make art accumulative and az
ministrative Of virtue, born in
humble home at Westmoreland. Kit
and Prideaux, whose keys unlocke
new apartments in the Holy Scril
lures which had never been enteret
born in want Yea, have to tell 20
that nine out Of ten of the worlds d
! liverers, nine out OF ten of the world
messiahs-the messiahs Of science, u
messiahs Of law, the messiahs Of med
cine, the messiahs Of poverty, the me
siahs of grand benevolence-were Dor
in want.
Isuppose that when Herschel, Il
, great astronomer, was born in q
home Of a poor musician, not only OF
star, but all the stars he afterward di
covered, pointed down 10 his mango
suppose when Haydn, tho Germa
composer, was born in the humb
home OF a poor wheelwright that a
the angels OF music chantcd over u
manger. Oh, what encouragemel
for those who are poorly started y
who think yourselves far down, aspi
,, 10 go high upl
I stir your holy ambitions toda
and want 10 tell you, although q
whole world may be opposed 10 20
and inside and outside Of your occ
pations or professions there may
Those who would hinder your accer
on your side and enlisted In your /
half are the sympathetic heart and Il
almighty arm Of One who one ChriI
mas night about eighteen hundred al
\ eighty-eight years ago, was wrapped
swaddling clothes and laid in ma
ger. Oh, what magnificent encourag
ment for the poorly started.
GOOD WILL TO MEN.
II. Again havc 10 tell you that
. that village barn that night was boz
good will 10 men, whether you call
a kindness, or forbeasance. or forgiv
: ness or gcniality 2: affection, or low