The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-10-02
THE MARCH OF CHRIST.

HE MARCH OF CHRIST.
oeRvlces OF SACRAMENT SUNDAY
At Or. TALMAcE's TABERNACLE.
xhs Lowly Surroundings Of the Advent
and the Signs in the Hssvsns-Dstaiis
% Christie separate Walks from Beth
lshem 70 Calvary.
m BROOKLYN, Sept. 81. This Is Sacra
nent Sunday at the Brooklyn Taber
nacle. The services a. usual on these
occasions were very solemn and impress
dive. The morning service opened with
the Long Meter Doxology. The grand
ofertory by Grison was exquisitely
rendered by Professor Henry Eyre
Z Browne, and the service closed with
the majestic Coronation" hymn. Dr..
TAlmages discourse was on 1.-The March
Of Christ Through the Centuries" and
his text Revelation xix, IL, ION his
head were many crownA"
May your ears be alert and your
thoughts concentered land all the powers
Of your soul aroused. while speak to
you OF ''the march Of Christ through
the centuries" You say, give US then
. good start, in rooms Of vermilion and
on door Of mosaic and amid corridors
Of porphyry and under canopies dyed in
I'll the splendors of the setting sun. :"
You can have no such starting place.
At the time our Chieftain was born,
there were castles on the beach Of Gall.
lee, and palaces at Jerusalem. and i'm
perial bathrooms at Jericho, and ODE.
hsks at Cairo, and the Pantheon at
Rome, with its corinthian portico and
IT, sixteen granite columns; and the
Parthenon at Athens, with its glistening
coronet Of temples; and there were
mountains of fine architecture in many
parts of the world. But none Of them
were to be the startling place Of the
Chieftain I celebrate
A cows stall, 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 hostleries. He takes 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
/ saw this last month in Denver, in his
eighty-sixth year, has described in his
volume entitled, 1.-THE Land and the
Book, 4" Bethlehem as he saw it. Win
ter before last 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 ele-.
waited the village into any special at
tention. The other fact that it was
the birthplace Of our Chieftain did not
keep the place in after years from spe.
cial dishonor. for Hadrian built there
the Grove Of Adonis and for one hum
bred and eighty years the religion there
observed. was the most abhorrent de-
bauchery the world has ever seen. Our
Chieftain was considered dangerous
rom the staSt The world had put
suspicious eyes upon him because aa'
the time OF his birth. TIT astrologefs
had seen stellar commotiona, . world 4
out Of its place and shooting down to-
ward caravansary. Star divination
was science. As late a. the Eight
eenth century 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 astrologer. 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 cir
cles, l do not know but that after
awhile it 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.
THE SYMPATHETIC STARS.
l do not wonder that the commo
lions in the heavens excited the wise
men on the night our Chieftain was
born. As he came from another world
and after thirty-three years was again
to exchange worlds, it does not seem
strange to me that astronomy should
have felt the effect of his coming And
instead of being unbelieving about the
one star that stopped, I wonder that
all the worlds in the heavens did not
that Christmas night make some special
demonstration. Why should they leave
to one world or meteor the bearing OF
the news of the humanization of Christ
Where was Mars that night that it did
not indicate the mighty wars that were