The Forrest City times., 1890-05-17
OPEN WIDE THE GATES.
Talmage Appeals for a Welcome to the
 King of Glory.
Tho Celebrated Brooklyn Preacher Talks Eloquently About One of tho Most Beauti- ful of the Impsrishable Songs of the Divine Poet, David.

gation in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, taking his text from Davids song; Lift up your heads, Q ye gates; and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in Psa 2i;L
 In olden times when great conqueror returned from victorious war the people In wild transport would take hold of the gates Of the city and lift them from their hinges as much as to say "This city needs no more gates to defend 1t since the conqueror has got home. Of from tho hinges with the gatesr' David, who was tho poet of poets foretells in his own way the triumphal entrance Of Christ into heaven, after His victory over sin ant death and hell. It was as if the celestial inhabitants had said: "Kere He comes Make way for Himl Push back the bolts of diamondl Take hold of the doors of pearl and hoist them from their nges of gold Lift up your heads o ye gates; and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors; and tho King of Glory shall come in.
 Among the mountains of Palestine no one is more uplifting than Mount Olivet. It was tho peroration of our Lords minis try. On the roof of a house in Jerusalem 1 asked, "Which is Olivetf and the first glance transfixed me. But how shall de- scribe my emotions, when, near tae close of
 
 encamped amid the shattered masonry of old Jericho, and tasted of tho acrid waters of the Dead Sea, that ystal sarcophagus of tho buried cities Of the plain, aud waded down into the deep and swift Jordan to baptize man, and visit d the ruins of the house of Mary and Martha ant Lazarus, we found ourselves in strrups and on horse, lathered with the long and difficult wa ascending Mount OIivet, Oh, that solemn and suggestive ridge 1t isa limo tone hill mile in length, and three hundrel feet high, and twenty seven hundred feet above the Ieve. of the sen Over 1t King David 1el with broken heart Over it Pompcy lsd his devastating hosts. Here the fam)ls Toath Les, ,oa built their batteries in besirrciu ni. fNc Gar den of Gethsemane weeps at tla foot oi it. Along the base of this h ll gash2l the lan- terms and torches of those wao cam, 10 ar- rest Jesus. From the trees on ths il the boughs were torn of md trowa into t,u path of Christ's triunpaal process a Jp and down that road Jesus ha wa Red tw.co day from Bethany to 9Crusalem, a Il oaa Jerusalem to Bethany Ihere, gain aa8 again, He had taught tlis dls@Nes. IilU way up this mount Ho uttered lis lamentation, 70 Jerusalem. Scrusa- lemr' From it's heights Jesus took AlAht HOiIthdlA "AAsl IlG haQ lttA- ished His earthly mission. There Is nothing moro for Him to do. 4 sacrifice was needed to make peace between the recreant earth and the outraged heaven. and He had offered it. Death needed to be conquered, and He had put his resarrec- ton foot upon il. he thirty y-three years of volt lntary exile hal ended The grand est, tenderest mightiest Goodbye ever heard was nov to be uttered.
 On Mount Olivet Jesus stands in eroup of Galilee fishermen. They had beea to- gether in many scenes of sadness and had been the more cndeared hy that brother hood of suffering They had expected him to stay until the day of coronation when He would take the earthly throne and wave a scepter mightier, and rule domn- ion wider than any Pharoah, than ans David, than any Caesar. But now all these anticipations collapse. Christ has given His last advice. lie has offered lis last sympathy. He has spoken His last word. lis hands are spread apart IS ono is apt to do when he pronounccs a oonediction, when suddenly the strongest aud most stapen- dous law of all worlds is shattered IL is the law which, since the worlds were ereat- cd, holds them together IL is tue law which holds every ythlns to tho earth or, temporarily hurled from earth, returns it; the law which keeps the planets whirling arouud our sun and our solar system whirlins around other systems, and all the systems whirliug around the throne of Goi--ths law of gravitation. That lawis suspended, or re faxed, or broken, to let the boiy of Jesus go That law had laid hold of him thirty three years before when he descended It had relaxed its grip of Him but once and that when it declined to sink Him from the top Of the waves on Calico, on which he walked, to tho bottom of the lake. That law of gravitat on must now give way to Him who made the law IL may hold the the other stars, but il cannot longer hold the Morning Star Of Redemption It may hold the monday sun, but 1t cannot hold the Sun of Righteousness The fin gers of that law arc about to open to let go tho most illustrious Beng the world had ever seen. and whom 1t had worst maltreated. Tho strongest law of nature which philosophers ever weighed or measured mus, at last give way. II will break between the rock of Olivet and the heel of Christs foot. Watch 1t, all ye disciples Watch it, all the earth Watch it, ali the heavens Christ about to leave this planet How His friends will not consent to haye Him go. His enemies catching lin wo i'd only attempt by another Calvary. 10 put Him into some other tomb 1 Will tell you how. The chain Of the most tremendous natural law is unlinkcd. The sacred foot of our Lord and the limestone rock part and part forever.
 Leaning back, and with pallid check and uplifted eyes, tho disciples see their Lord rising from the solid earth Then. rushing forward they would grasp his feet 10 hold Him fast but they are out Of reach, ani il is too late to detain Him Higher than the tops of the tig-trees from which they had pluekod tho fruit Higher than tho olive trees that shaded the mount Higher, un. til He is within sight Of the Bethlehem where He was born, and the Jordou whero He was babtiaca. and the ColgothA where He was slain. Higher, until on staies of fieecy cloud He steps Higher, until, into sky bluer than tho laSa that could not sink Him, He disappears into sea of glory whose billow.nc SD R.endors hide Him. Tho fishermen watch and watch, wonder. ing II tho law oi n4tarc Gii not raassert ttself and He sha iR few moments 5oiae back agaiu, and tncy Ehall ssc ifsn, &s- sceuding; first Ills scar rd fees tcnians- ia sight then tue airatt side. then thu scarred brow, and taeg nay saNa aruin His scared hand. hGt the mem nts |, ss by. and the hours. aoa 70 res Vi q raure. Gone ont of sight of earth, ogt eunls trltail sight of heaven. And rlstwg Stlls, nst welcom by one angelic tholr lhe those who ono Christmas ni sht escorted l4sm down, but all heaven turns out ,e greet Him home, and tho temples hBve especial anthem, and the palaces especial banqnat, and the street fespecial thraags; and eli along the line 10 the foot of tho thronc, for years vacated but now again te be taken, there are arches llEted, aud banners waved, and trumpsts sounded. and aoxoia- gies chanscd, and cor2uets cast own.
 ''The angels tLrongd His char oa wheels.
 And bore Him to Ills throne;
 Then swept their golden harps and sang
 The glorious " TX IS donefn
 It was the greatest day In hcaven As He goes up the steps of the throaa that thirty three years before lie ahticatcd for our advantage, there risas From all the hosts Of heaven Il shout, saintly, ohernble. scraphie, arch ngelic, sHs'issajsal lBseas' 70 garden or olives. thou dear honorea spot. Tue fame of thy lory shall ns,' CT uc for,o1 <