Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-09-28
TRIUMPH OF CHRIST
RKY. Dr. TGLMAegS SERMON AT TIE BROOK
LIN TABRRNAgLR
The Story Of The Trials and Trihulaions Of the
SsYior-Esw Re Win Finally Conquer the
World and Redeem Mankind Enn
Sia and Sorrow.
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BRooKLYN, September s7.-This is
Sacrament Sunday at the Brooklyn
Tabernacle. The services, as usual on
these occasions, were very solemn aud
impressive. The morning service
opened with the long metre Doxology.
The grand ofFertory by Grison was ex-
ouisitely rendered by Prof. Henry Eyre
Browne. and the service closed with
the majestic Coronation hymn. DIR.
Talmage's discourse was on 1.-The
March OF Christ Through the Cen
turjes" aud his text Revelations 1912,
con his head were many crowns.
May your ears be alert and your
thoughts concentrated, and all the pow
ers OF your soul aroused, while | speak
10 YOU of ''the march Of Christ through
the centuries" You say, "give US then
q good start, IN rooms of vermillton and
on door OF mosaic and amid corridors Of
porphyry and under canopies dyed in
an the splendors of the setting sun. q"
You can have. no such starting place.
AT the time our Chieftain was born,
there were castles on the beach OF Cal
lice, and palaces at Jerusalem, and i'm
perial bathrooms at jericho, and ODE
lisks at Cairo aud the Pantheon at
Rome, with its cOrinthian pOrtico and
i5s sixteen granite columns; and the
Parthenon az Athens with It's giiStening
coronet OF temples; and there were
mountains of fine architecture In many
parts of the world. But none or them
were to be the starting-place OF the
Chieftain / celebrate.
A cows stall, o winter month, an at
mosphere in which are the moan OF
camels and the baalng Of sheep and the
barking of dogs and the rough banter
OF hOstlerieS. He takes his first jour
ney before he could walk, Armed des-
peradoes with hands OF blood were ready
to snatch him down into butchery. Rev.
William II. Thompson, the veteran and
beloved missionary whom l saw this
last month in Denver, In his eighty-Sixth
wear. has described, in his volume en-
titled The Land and the Book, Beth
lehem as he saw 10. Winter before last
I walked up and down the grey hills OF
Jura limestone on which the village
had been born there, had not dur
ing ages cleared the village into any
special attention. The other fact that
it was the birthplace of our Chieitain
did not keep the place in after years
from special dishOnOr, for Hadrian built
there the grove OF AdOniS and Tor one
hundred and eighty.years the religion
there observed was the most abhOrent
debauchery the world has ever seen.
Our Chieftaln was considered dangerous
from the start. The world had put
suspicious eyes upon him because at the
time of his birth, the aStrolOgers had
seen stellar connections, world out or
its place and shooting down toward a
caravanSgry. Standardization was
slence. As late as the eighteenth
century 1t had its votaries.
At the Court of Catharine de
Bledici 10 was honored. Kepler, one Of
the wisest philosophers that the world
ever saw, declared il was a true science.
As late as the reign of Charles H.,
Lilly, an astrOlOger, was called before
the House of Commons in England TO
give his opinion as 70 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 a while il 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 be-
sides those two worlds may have some
thing TO do with the destiny Of individ-
ualS and nations in this world,
/ DO not wonder that the connections
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 ex-
change worlds. it does not seem strange
70 me that astronomy should have felt
the effect of mis- coming. And instead
OF being unbelieving about the one star
that stopped, l wonder that all the
worlds In the heavens did not that Christ
mas night make some special demon
stration. Why Shoald they leave TO one
world or meteor the bearing Of the
news of the illumination OF Christ?
Where was Mars that night that It did
not indicate the mighty wars that were
70 come between righteousness and in
EQUITY? Where was Jupiter that night
that IL did not celebrate Omnipotence
incarnated? Where were the PleiadeS
that night. that they did not announce
the storms OF persecution that would
asSail our Chieftain2
In watching this mar ch of Christ
the centuries, we must not
walk before him or beside him, for that
would not be reYerential or wOrShipful.
So we walk behind him. We follow
him while not in his teens, up q Jeru-
salem terrace, TO building six hundred
feet long and six hundred feet wide,
and under the lowering Splendor Of
gate-ways, and by pillar crowned
with 9 capital chiSeled into the shape Of
flowers and leaves, and along by walls
Of beyelled Missionary and near a marble
screen until q group Of white-haired
philosophers and theOlogians gather
around him, and the boy bewilderS, and
and Overwhelms these
scholarly eptuagenarians with Ques-
tons they cannot answer, and under
his quick why's and wherefors, and hOws
and whens, they pull their white boards
with embarrassment, and rub their
wrinkled foreheads in confusion, and
putting their STAFF hard down on the
marble floor as they arise TO go, they
must feel like Gliding their boldness
that allows twelve years of age 70 ask
seventy-dye years of age such puzzlers.
Out Of this building we follow him
into the QuaTautania, the mountain OF
temptation, it's side TO this day black
with robbers denS. Look! Up the side
of this mountain, come all the forces Of
perditlOR TO effect our Chieftain's cap
ture. But although weakened by forty
days and forty nights of abstinence, he
hurls all PandemOnium down the rocks,
suggestive Of how he can hurl into help