Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-05-29
OPEN WIDE THE GATES.
Talmage Appeals for Welcoms to the
King Of Glory. ~
The Celebrated Brooklyn Preacher Talks
Eloquently About 0ns Of tn, Most Beauti-
full Of the Imperishable Songs Of thu
Divine Poet David.

Witt Talmage preached to q large congrc-
alton in the Brooklyn Academy OF Music,
taking his text from David's song: Lift
up your heads, . We gates: and DO 70
lifted up, ye everlasting doors; und the
King OF glory shall come in' Psa 24:I
In olden times when a 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 "a to say This city
needs no NOR, gates to defend 1t since the
conqueror has got hone. OFF from tho
hinges with the gates"' DA'id, who was
the poo. of poets foretells in his own way
the ,riumphal entrance OF Christ into
heaven, .after His victory over sin AMI
death and hell 1t was as If the celestial
inhabitants had said: "Herc He comes!
Make way for Him! Push back the bolts
OF dlamondl Take hold of the doors OF
| pearl and hoist them from their nges OF
gold Lift up your he Ids, o ye gates; and
| be We lifted up We 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 peroration Of oar Lords minis
try. On the roof OF a house in Jerusalem l
asked, (which is Olivet!" and the first
| glance transfxed me. But how shall l de-
| scribe my emotions, when near the close OF
q journey, in which we had for two nights
| encampel amid the shattered masonry OF
| cd Jericho, and tasted OF the acrid waters
! OF the Dead Sea, that crystal sarcophagus
| of tho buried cities OF the plain and wAded
down into the deep and swift jordan to
| baptlze u man, and visit d.the ruins OF the
house Of Mary and Martha an Lazarus.
we found ourselves in stirrups and on horse,
lathered with the long and difficult Wa :,
ascending Mount Olivet. oh, that solemn
| ri1 10 tn h
] mile in length, and three hundred feet
high, and twenty seven hundred feet
| above the level of tho sea. Over it
King David fled with a broken heart
Over it Pompey led his devastating
hosts. Here the famous Tenth Legion built
their batteries in besiegement The Gar
! den OF Gethsemane weeps at the foot OF it.
Along the base of this hll flashed the lam
terms and torches OF those who came to ar
rest Jesus. From the trees on this till the
boughs were torn Off and thrown into the
path Of Christ's trumphal procession. Up
and down that road Jesus had walked twice
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, 20 Jerusalem, Jcrusa-
lemv' From. its heights Jesus took
fight homeward when He had I'm
ished His earthly mission. 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 had offered it. Death needed to be
conquered. and He had put his resurrec.
ton foot upon it. \ he thirty three years
OF voluntary exile hal ended. The grand
est tenderest, mightiest Goodbye ever
heard was now to be uttered.
On Mount Olivet Jesus stands in groul
Of Galilce fishermen. They had been 10
gether in many scenes OF sadness and hat
been the more endeared by that brother
hood of suffering. They had expected hin
to stay until the day OF coronation whel
| He would take the earthly throne ant
wave scepter mightier, and rule domin
ion wider, than any Pharaoh, than an,
, David, than any Caesar. But now all thes
t anticipations collapse. Christ has givel
His last advice. he has offered His las
sympathy. He has spoken His last word
his hands are spread apart as one Is apt +
do when he pronounces benediction, whe
| suddenly the strongest and most stupen
dous law OF all worlds is shattered. 1t
the law which, since the worlds were Great
; ed, holds them together. 1t is the la,
which holds everything to the cart
or, temporarily hurled from earth
returns it; the law which keep
the planets whirling around our sun, an
our solar system whirliny around othe
l systems, and all the systems whrlin.
q around the tarone Of Gol-tho law Q
, gravitation. That LAWS suspended, or re
Taxed, or Lroken, to let the body Of Jesu
CO. That law had laid hold of him thirty
three years before, when he descended.
( had relaxed its grip Of Him but once, an
- that when it declined to sink Him from tn
top Of the waves on Galilee, on which h
,aI 20 ~ hnttn Nhn l,1y n,
I law Of gravitat on must now give way I
: Him who made the law. 1t may hold tn
-, the other stars, but it cannot longer hol
the Morning Star Of Redemption. II ma
hold the monday sun, but 1t cannot hol
the Sun Of Righteousness. The fiji
gers Of that law are about to ope
to let go the NEST illustrious BEN
: the word had ever seen, an
whom it had worst maltreated. III
v strongest law of nature which philosopher
ever weighed or measured must at las
give way. 1t will break between the roc
of Olivet and the heel of Chrst's foo
Watch it, all We disciples! Watch it, a
s the earth! Watch it. all the heaven.
Z Christ about to leave this planet. How
His friends will not consent to have Hi
= go. His enemies catching Him wo I'D onl
: attempt by another Calvary. to put Hi
= into some other tomb. l Will tell you hoy
>, The chain OF the most tremendous mature
= law is unlinked. The sacred foot of OIL
o Lord and the limestone rock part and pal
r forever
Leaning back, and with pallid cheek an
up!ifted eyes, the disciples see their l. OF
rising from the solid earth Then, rushin
= forward they would grasp his feet 10 ho
n Him fast. but they are out Of reach, and
is too late to detain Him. Higher than IL
!. tops of the tig-rees from watch they Ia
u pluckcd the fruit. Higher than the div,
Fl trees that shaded the mount. Higher, I'll
til He is within sight of the Bethlehc
where He Was born, AMI the Jordon whe,
He was babtized, and the Golgotha wher
- He was slain. higher, until on stairs
is fieecy cloud He steps. Higher, until, int
|. a sky bluer than the lake that could NJ
y, sink Him, He disappears into sea
% glory whose billowing SD endors hide Hin
n The fishermen watch and watch, wonde
O. ba LAT 1f mill