Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-28

DIR. TALMAGE RELATES HIS EXPE-
RlENCE AT cHRlST's BIRTHPLACE.

Immortal Masterpieres of Art which
Portray the Scenes ct the nativity
Mission of Children Ia the Scriptures
The Shepherds and other Heroes.
BnooKLYN, Dee. q. Rev. Or Talmagc
preached this morning n sermon appro-
pirate to the Christmas season Taking mp
the subject Of the Nativity, he drew from it
lessons which, though perfectly legitimate,
are commonly overlooked. His text was
Luke ii, Is, "And they came with haste,
and found Mary and Joseph, and the Babe
lying in a Manager
The black window shutters of a Deem
Der night were thrown open, and some Of
the best singers OF world where they all
sing stood there, and putting buck the
drapery Of cloud chHnted Il peace anthem,
until all the echoes vi hill and valley ap.
plauded and encored the Hallclujuh chorus.
Come, let us go into that Christmas scene as
though we had never before worShiped ut
the manger Here h a Madonna worth
looking NJ. | wonder not That the most
frequent name IN Ill lands and in all
Christian centuries Is Mary And there
are Marys in palaces and Marys in cabins
and though German and French and Italian
and Spanish and English pronounce it diff
erently, they are all namcSlkes of the one
whom we find on bed of straw, with her
pale face against the soft cheek of Christ
in the night of the Nativity All the great
painters have tried on canvas to present
Mary and her child and the incidents Of
that most famous night of the worlAs his.
tory. Raphael in three different master
pieces, celebrated them. Tintoretto and
Ghirlandaio surpassed themselves IN the
alteration of the MAgi CorrrggiO needed
to do nothing more than his Madonna to
become immortal. The Madonna Of the
Lily, by Leonardo da Nnci, viii kudle
the admiration Of all ages, But all the
galleries of Dresden are forgotten when
think Of the small room Of that gallery con.
tanning Sistne Madonna. Yet all Of them
were copies Of St Matthew's Madonna and
Luke's Madonna, the inspired Madonna OF
the Old Book, which we had put into our
hands when we were infants, and that W.
hope to have under our heads when we die.
AMID THE BEASTS or THE STALL.
Behold in the first place, that ON the
first night of Christ's life God hunuryd the
brute creation You cannot get into that
Bethlehem barn without going past the
cameIs, the muias, the dogs, the oxen. The
brutes of that stable heard the first cry Of
the infant Lord Some OF the Old painters
represent the oxen and camcls kneclng
that night before the newborn babe. And
well might they kncrl! Have you ever
thought that Christ came among other
things to alleviate the sulIeriugs of the
brute creation Was it not appropriate
that he should, during the first few days
and nights Of his life ON earth be sur
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and plant and believing have for ages
been prayer to God for the arrcsting OF
their tortures and the rinhtug OF their
Wrongly 1t did not merely happen so'
that the uninteligcnt creatures of God
should have been that night in close neigh
bOrhood
Not kennel in all the centuries not
birds nest, not WORKOUT horse on tow
path, not herd freezing in the poorly
built COW pen, not II freight ear in summer
time bringing the beeyps to market with.
out water through thousand miles Of
agony, not surgeons room Witnessing the
struggles OF fox or rabbit or pigeon or
deg in the horrors Of viyisection but has
an interest in the fact that Christ was born
in stable, surrounded by hrutes He re
members that night, and the prayer he
heard in their pitiiul moan lac win answer
in the punishment Of those who uuItrcUt
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