Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-15
Discourse Of Rev. DR.. Talmage in
the City of Brooklyn.
The Triumphal Entrance Of Christ
Into Heaven After His Victory
Over Sin, Death and He'll
Lift Up Your Heads, Oh Ye Gates; and Be Ye
Lifted Up, Ye Everlasting Doors; and
the King of Glory shall Come In.
Special to the Gazette.


ture, and the usual prayers and musicsl
exercises, DR.. Talmage preached the fol-
lowing sermon, in the Academy of Music,
this morning, from the words: "Lift up
your heads, o ye gates; and be ye lifted
up, ye everlasting doors; and the King Of
glory shall come in. ~ Psalms, xiv. 4.
In oluen times when great oonqueror
returned from'Yctorious war, the people
IN wild transport would take hold of the
gates of the city and lift them from their
hinges las mach as to say: "This city
needs no more gates to defend it since
this conqneror has got home. Of from
the Hinges with the gates!' David who
q. was the poet of poets, foretells in his own
way the triumphRI entrance of Christ
into heaven, after His victory over sin
and: death and hell. 1t was as if the
celestial inhabitants had said: "HBre
he comes! Make way for Him! Push
back the bolts of diamond! Take hold
of the doors of pearl and hoist them from
their hinges of gold! Lift up your heads,
o We gates; and be ye lifted up, sye ever
lasting doors; and the King of Glory
shall come in. - -
Among the mountains OF Palestine no
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1t was the peroration of our Lords
ministry. On the roof of house in
Jerusalem I asked, (Which is Olivet?''
and the first glance transhxed me. But
how shall describe my emotions, when,
near the close of q journey, for which
we had for two nights encamped amid
the shattered masonry of old Jericho,
and tasted of the acid waters of the Dead
sea, that crystal sarcophagus of the
buried cities of the plain, and waded
down into the deep and swift Jordan to
baptize man, and visited the ruins of
the house of Mary and Martha and
Lazarus, we found ourselves in stirrups
and on horse, lathered with the long and
difficult way, ascending Mount Olivet.
Oh, that solemn and suggestive ridge!
II is a limestone hill, a mile in length,
and 800 feet high, and POO feet above
the level of the sea. Over it King David
fed with broken heart. Over IL Pom
pey led his devastating hosts. Here the
famous Tenth legion built their batteries
in besiegement. The garden of Geth-
semane weeps at the foot of it.. Along
the base of this hill flashed the torches
Of those who came to arrest Jesus. From
the trees on this hill the bonghs were
torn off and thrown into the patch of
CHRISTIE TRIUMPHAL PROCESSION.
Up and down the road Jesus had
walked twice a day from Bethany to
Jerusalem, and from Jerusalem to
Bethany. There, again and again, He
had taught his disciples. Half way up
this mount He uttered His lamentation.
"Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem" From
the heights Jesus took fight homeward
when He had finished His earthly mis-
sion. There is nothing more for him TO
do. A sacrifice was needed to make
peace between the recreant earth and
the outraged heaven, and he offered it.
Death needed to be conquered, and He
had put His resurrection foot upon it.
The thirty three years of voluntary exile
had ended. The grandest, tenderest,
migbtiest good-b bye ever heard was now
TO be uttered.
On Mount Olivet Jesus stands in a
group of Gahlee fishermen. They had
been together in many scenes of sadness
and persecution and had been the more
endeared by that brotherhood of suffer-
ing. They had expected Him to say
until the day of coronation when He
would take the earth throne and wave a
scepter mightier, and rule a dominion
wider, than any Pharaoh, than any
David, than any Caesar. But now all
these anticIpations collapse. Christ has
given His last advice. He has offered
His last sympathy. He has spoken His
last wond. His hands are spread apart
Us one is apt TO do when he pronounoes a
benedictlon, when suddenly the strongest
and most stupendous law of all worlds is
shattered. tits the law which, since
the worlds were created, holds
them together. IT is the law
which holds every thing to the earth. or,
TEMPORARILY hurled from earth, returns
it; the law which keeps the planets
whirling around our sun, and our solar
system whirling around other systems,
and all!the systems whirling around the
throne of God-tbe law of grayitation.
e. That law is suspended. or relaxed, or
broken, to let the body 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 Lake Cali
lee, on which he walked, to the bottom
OF the lake. That law of gravitation
must now give way TO Him who made
the law. It may hold the other
stars, but it cannot longer
hold the Morning Star of the Re-
demption. 1t may hold the MONDAY
sun, but it cannot hold the Sun of Right
eousness, The fingers of the law are
about TO open to let go the most Illus
trious Being the world had ever seen, !
and whom it had worse maltreated. The |
strongest law of nature, which philos- |
ophers ever weighed or measured must |
at last give way. Il will break between |
the rock of Olivet and the heel of |
Christ's foot. Watch it, all ye disci-
pies. Watch it, all the earth.
WATCH IT, ALL THE HEAVENS.
Christ about to leave this planet.
How? His friends will not consent to
have Him go. His enemies catching |
Him would only attempt by another Call |
vary 10 put Him into some other tomb.
/ will tell you how. The chain of the |
most tremendous natural law is I'M
linked. The sacred foot OF our Lord
and the limestone rock part, and part
forever.
Leaning back, and with pallid cheek
and uplifted eyes, the disciples see their
Lord rising from the solid easth Then,
rushing forward, they would grasp His
feetto hold Him fast, but they are out of
reach, ard II is too late to detain Him. /
Higher than the tons of the fizy- trees from