The Forrest City times., 1891-10-02
JESUS CHRISTIN HISTORY
DR. TALMACE REVIEWS THE
 SAvIOR,S LIFE.
His Thirty.Threc Years on Earth and Nineteen Hundred Years In
 Heavcn-Sclencc, Art, etc.

Clent Sunday at the Brooklyn Taber- nacle. The services as usual on these occasions were very solemn and im- pressive. The morning ser~ice opened with the Long Metre i'cNology. The Grand Offertoirc by Grison was exquis- itely rendered by Prof. Henry Eyre Browne, and the service closed with the majestic Coronation Hymn. Dr. Talmages discourse was on ''The March of Christ through the Centpr- ies," and his text Revelation l9:la, 'On His head were many Crowns."
 May your ears te alert and your thoughts concentered, and all the powers of your soul arous ed, while l speak to you of .'thc march of Christ through the centuries You say, give us then good start,in rooms of yermillion and on floor of mosaic and amid corridors of porphyry and under canopies died in all 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 places at Jerusa- lem, and imperial bathrooms at Jeri- cho, and obelisks at Cairo and the Pan- theon at Rome, with its corinthian portico and its sixteen granite col umns and the Pantheon at Athens with its glistening coronet of temples; and there were mountains of fine archi- lecture in many parts of the world. But none of them were to be the start ing place of the Chleftain l celebrate.
 A cows stall, a winter month, an at mosphere in which are the moan of camels and the baaing of sheep and the barking of dogs and the rough banter of nostleries. He tak~3 his first journey before he could walk. Armed desperadoes with hands of blood were ready to snatch him.down into butch- cry. Rev. William H. Thompson, the veteran and beloved missionary whom l saw this last month in Den yer, in his eightysixth year, has de- scrihed, in his volume entitled ''The Land and the Book Bethlehem as he saw it. Winter before last l walked up and down the gray hills of Jura limestone on which the village now rests. The fact that King David had been born there had not during ages elevated the village into any special attention. The other fact that it 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 hundred and eighty years the re- ligion there observed was the most abhorrent debauchery the world has ever seen. Our Chieftain was consid- cred dangerous from the start. The world had put suspicious eyes upon him, because at the time of his birth, the astrologers had seen stellar commotions, a world out of its al -1< yl avansary. Star divination was n sci. ence. As late as the eighteenth cen tury it had its votaries. At the court of Catharine de Medici it was honored. Kepler, one of the wisest philosophers that the world ever saw, declared it was true science. As late as the reign of Charles II. Lilly, an astrolo- ger was called before the House of Commons In England to give his opinion as to future events. For ages the bright appearance of Mars meant war; of Jupiter. meant power; of the Pleiades, meant storms at sea. And as history moves in circles, do not know but that after q while 1t may be found that, as the moon lifts the tides of the sea and the sun affects the growth or blasting of crops, other worlds besides those two worlds may have something to do with the destiny of individuals and nations in this world.
 We follow him into the Quar- antania, the mountain of tempta- tion, it's side to this day black with robbers dens. Look, Up the side of this mountain, como all the forces of perdition to effect our Chief t.. .l.t. |. ened by forty days and forty nights of abstinence, he hur.s all Pandemonium down the rocks, suggestive of how he tations. And now we climb right after him, up the tough sides of the Mount of Beatitudes." and on the highest pulpit of rocks, the Valley of Hatin before him, the lake of Galilee to the right of him; the Mediterranean Sea to the left of him, and he breaches sermon that will yet transform the world with it's applied sentiment, Now we follow our Chieftain on Lake Cali lee.
 We continue to follow our chieftain, and here is a blind man by the way side. It is not from cataract of the eye or from ophthalmia, the eye-ex- tingusher of the East; but he was born blind. "Re orcnedl' he cries, and first there is a asmarting of the eye lids. and then twilight, and then Il mid noon, and then shout, ''I see. see" Tell it to all the blind, and they, ut least, can appreciate it. And here is the widow dead son. and here is the expired damsel, and here is Lag arusl Live our Chicftain 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 they turn on their couehes, and blush from awful pallor of helpless illness to rubicund health and the swollen foot of the dropsi- cal sufferer becomes fleet as roe on the mountains The music c the grove aud 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 a child, and the flesh as rose ate. Tell it to all the sick, through all the homes. through all the hospitals. Tell it at twelve o'clock at night; tell it at two o'clock in the morning: tell it at half-past three, and in the last watch of the night, that Jesus walks the tempest.
 Now we follow our Chieftain until, for the paitry sum of fifteen dollars Judas sells him to his pursuers. Tell it to all the betrayed! If for ten thou sand dollars or for five hundred dollars or for one hundred dollars your inter. psts were sold Out epnSidcr for hnw