Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-10-02
JESUS C4lRISTIN HISTORY
DIR. TALMACE REVIEWS THE
SAvIOR'S LIFE.
His Thirty Three Years on Earth
and Nineteen Hundred Years In
Hesyen-science, ART, etc.

BROOKLYN. Sept. 81. - This is Sacra-
ment Sunday at the Brooklyn Tabcr-
mace. The services as usual on these
occasions were very solemn and i'm
pressive. The morning service opened
with the Long Metre DoXology. The
Grand Otfertoire by Grison was exquis-
itely rendered by Prof. Henry Tyre
browne, and the service closed with
the majestic Coronation Hymn. DR..
Talmage's discourse was on THE
March of Christ through the CentUr-
les" and his text Revelation 1912,
''On His head were many Crowns"
May your ears lie alert and your
thoughts concentered, and all the
powers of your soul aroui ed, while
speak 10 you of 1.-THE march of Christ
through the centuries You say,
give us then goJd start in rooms of
yermillion and on 10 II of mosaic and
! amid corridors of porphyry and under
/ canopies died in ali the splendors OF
! the setting sun" You can have no such
starting place. At the time our Chief
tain was born, there were castles on the
beach of Galilee, and pla es at Jerusa-
lem ami imperial bathrooms at Jcri-
! cho, and ob .lisks at afro and the Pan
| thcon at Rome, with is corinthian
portico and its sixteen granite col
/ umns and the Earth on ut Athens
with its glistening coronct OF temples:
and there were mountains OF fine archi>
! lecture in many parts OF the world.
! But one OF them were to be the start
! inc place Of the Chleftain | ce citrate.
A cows stall, win er month, an at
mosphere in which are the moan OF
! camels am the baaIng of sheep and
the barking OF dogs and the rough
! banter of most les. He takes his Fl st
! Journey befo he ,oul walk. Armed
/ desperadCcs with hands of blood were
rea y to snatch him down into butch
| cry. Rev. William IL Thompson,
| the veteran and beloved missiC nary
/ whom | saw tnis last month in Den
yer. in his eighty-siXth year, has de-
scribel, in his volume entitled Tho
! Land and the Book Bethlehem as he
/ saw it. Winter before last | wa Ike
up and down the gray hills of Jura
Line stone on which the v.llgge now
rests. I he fact that King David had
been born there had not during
ages elevated the village into any
S. ecial attention. The other fact that
! il was the birthplace of our Chieftain
did not keep the place in after years
! from special dishonor, for Hadrian
built there the grove of Adonis and for
one hundre and eighty years the re-
/ ligion there observed was the most
abhorrent de bauchcry the word has
ever seen. Cur Chieftain was consid-
cred dangerous from the start.
The world had put suspicious
eyes upon him, because at the time OF
his birth, the astrJlogers had seen
stellar connections, world out of its
place and shooting down toward a car
avian ary. Star divination was a sci.
ence. As late as the eighteenth cen.
fury it had its yotaries. At the court
of Datharine de Mcdici ii was honored.
! kepler, one OF the wi est philosophers
that the world ever saw, de Jared it
wa, a true science. As Ia as tine
reign of Char es ii. Lilly, an astrolo.
ger was called before the HCu &c
OF Commons IN England to give his
opinion as to future events. For ages
the Ir .ght app aran c of Mars mea II
war, OF Jupi er. meant power; of the
Ileiades, meant storms at sea. An /
"a history moves in circ Is. do not
know but that after while 1t may C
found that, "a tn. moon lifts In. tide ),
of the sea and the sun affects the
g.owth or blasting of crops 9th II
worlds be sideS those two worlds may
have something To do with the destiny
of individuals and naCions in this
! world.
We follow him into the Quar-.
antania, the mountain of tempta-
ton. its side TO this day back
with robbers dens. Look! Up the
side of this mountain, come oil the
forces of perdition TO effect our Chief
talns capture. But although weak
ened w [orty days and forty nights OF
abs ,ineute, he hur all Pan lemonium
down the rocks, suggestive of how he
can hurt into helplessn SIS all our temp
tations And now we climb ii Int
after i'm, up the tough sides of the
Mount of Beatitudes," and on the
highest pulpit of 70 ks, the Valley of
latin be o,e him, the lake OF Cali ee
TO the right of him the Mediterranean
sea to the left of him, and he prea hes
asermon that will yet ansiorm the
world with its applied sentiment. Now
we follow our Chleftain on Lake Cali.
lee.
We continue to follow our chieftain.
and he e is a blind man by the wav-
SHE. IL is not from cataract of the
eye or from ophthalmia, the eye cX-
tInguisher of tue last; but lie was
born blind. "Be opened he cries,
and first there is "a narting of the eye
lids, and then twilight, and tnen "a
mid noon, and then "a shout, 81 sce
see " Tell it 20 all the blind, and they, at
least, can appreciate it. And here
is the widow dead son, and here is
the expired damsel, and here is Laz-
arus Live our Chicftaln cries, and
they live. Tell it through all the be-
reft households; tell it among the
graves. And here around him gather
the deaf and the dumb and the sick,
and at his word Tia " turn on their
couches, and blush from awful pallor
of helpless illness to rubicund heal, h.
and the swollen foot of the dropsi-
cal sufferer becomes fleet as a
rec on the mountains. The music o.
the grove and household wakens the
deaf ear, and lunatic and maniac re-
turn into bright intelligence, and the
leper's breath becomes as sweet as the
breath of q child, and the flesh as rose
ate. Tell il to all the sick through all
the homes, through all IT, hospitals