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DR.. TALMAeE breaches AN ELo-
ouENT SERMON FROM rs. XIV 7.

N@SGft OEHWON FHJW 70 NNiNs l.
The Wonderful Features Of the Rising OF
Our Lord from Mount Olivet--It Teaches
Thu nothing Is Impossible to the Al
mighty.
BROOKLYN, May 1l.-After reading ap-
propriate passages Of Scripture and the
usual prayers and musical exercises, Dr.
Talmage preached the following sermon in
the Academy Of Music this morning from
the words, Lift up your heads, 0 We gates
and be ye lifted up, We everlasting doors;
and the King of Glory shall come inn FPS.
xiv, y.
In olden times when great conuueror
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 it since this con
queror hes got home. on from the hinges
with the gatesp David who was the poet
OF poets, foreteils in his own way the tri-
umplhl entrance Of Christ into heaven
after his victory over sin and death and
he'll. u was us if the celestial inhabitants
had said; Here He comesl Make way Tor
himl 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 ye gates; and be ye lifted up,
ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory
shall come in"
Among the mountains Of Palestine no
one is more uplifting than Mount Olivet
1t was the peToratiOn of our Lords minis
try. On the roof of a house in Jerusalem
] asked, (Which Is OliyetY" and the first
glance transixed me. But how shall |
describe my emotions, when, near the close
OF Il journey, in which we had for two
nights encamped amid the shattered ma
sorry Of old Jericho, and tasted Of the
acrid 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 stir
rups and on horse, lathered with the long
and difficult way, ascending Mount Olivct.
Oh, that solemn and suggestive ridgel 1t
is limestone hill, a mile in length, and
300 feet high, and 2, 700 feet above the level
Of the sea. Over it King David fed with
broken heart. Over it Pompey led his de-
yastating hosts. Here the famous Tenth
Legion built their batteries in besiegement.
The Garden of Gethsemane weeps ut the
foot Of it. Along the base of this hill
flashed the lanterns and torches of those
who came to arrest Jesus. From the trees
on this Hill the boughs were torn off and
thrown into the path of Christ's triumphal
procession Up and down that road Jesus
had walked twice day from Bethany to
Jerusalem, and from Jerusalem TO Beth
any There, again and again, he had
taught his disciples. Half way up this
mount he uttered his lumentation, 80
Jerusalem, JerusalcmW From it's height
Jesus took flight hOmeward when he had
finished his earthly mission. There is
nothing more for him to do. A sacrifice
was needed to make peace between the rec
remit earth and the outraged heaven, and
he had offered it. Death needed to be con
quercd, and he had put his resurrection
foot upon it, The thirty-three years of
voluntary exile had ended The grandcst,
tcnderest mightiest good-by ever heard
was now to be uttered.
ON MOUNT oLIvET.
On Mount Olivet Jesus stands in group
of Galilee fishermen. They had been to-
gether in many scenes of sadness and per
secution and had been the more endeared
by that brotherhood of suffering They
had expected him TO stay until the day of
coronation when he would take the earthly
throne and wave II scepter mightier, and
rule dominion wider than any Pharaoh,
than any David, than any Caesar. But now
NIL these antiCpatiOns collapse. Christ has
given his last advice He has offered his
last sympathy. lie has spoken his last
word. His hands arc spread apart as one
is apt to do when he pronounccs Il bcnedic-
ton, when suddenly the strongest and most
stupendous law OF all worlds is shattered.
1t Is the law which, since the worlds were
created holds them together, 1t is the law
which holds everything to the earth or,
temporarily hurled from earth, returns
il; tho law which keeps tho planets
whirluS around our sun, and our solar
system whirling around other systems, and
all the systems whirling around the throne
Of God--the law of grayitaton. That law
is suspended, or relaxed, or broken, to let
the body Of Jesus 20. That law had laid
hold of him thirty three years before, when
be descended. 1t had relaxed its grip of
him but once, and that when it declined to
SILK him from the top Of the waves on
Lake Galilec, on which he walked, to the
bottom of the lake. That law OF gravita-
tion must now give way To him who made
the law. j. may hold the other stars, but
II cnnuot Iong,r hold thp NIorrinos Star Of
,bc Rcdemntion II INV hold The noon.
Sss. sum Lpt II cannot hold tho SIM ~
T%S The lnrer. Of tbat law
,.s 't,,;,t 10 omen m a.. 40 the most illns
w :, a., ~, ,,,rll lima avon, soon, md
,',0,r n had worst ngj,rcated Thes ROM,
w, i.,,' ,f rnt,,rr which philos1phars ever
,,,,',t,5 or ,,ers,r,d must nj last rive way
I, ,snl Lrsat bnfNac1 tho rock Of Oliyct
and ,tc LcsI of Cbri,f's foot. Watch II.