Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-10-03
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
He Reviews the Career OF
Christ While on Earth.
The savlor's Birthplrce-The Holy Man
on the Mount OF Temptations
Judas Klss-The Final
80 Victory.

IuTOuBu Iuo SSututiOoi ""~
Revelations xix 70: ION His Head
We're Many Crowns" He said:
May your ears be alert and your
thoughts concentrated, and all the
powers OF your soul aroused, while l
speak to you OF 1.-THE 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 dyed in all the splendors oil
the setting SUM-" You can have no
such starting place. At the hour our
Chieftain was born there were castles
on the beach Of Galilee and palaces at
Jerusalem. and imperial bath rooms at
Jericho. and obelisks at Cairo and the
pantheon at Rome, with its corinthian
portico and its sixteen granite columns;
and the par.henon 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 starting place OF
the Chieftain celebrate.
A cows stall, Il winter month, an at
mosphere in which are the moan oil
camels and the baaing OF sheep and the
barking OF dogs and the rough banter
of hostleries. He takes His first jour-
new before he could walk. Armed des-
peradoes with hands OF blood were
ready to snatch him down into butch
cry.
Rev. William II. Thompson, the vet
eran and beloved missionary whom
saw this last month in Denver, in his
seth year has described in his volum e
entitled ''Tne Land and the Book. "
Bethlehem as he saw it. Winter be-
fore 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 DUR
ing ages elevated the village into any
special attention. The other fact that
ii was the birth place Of our chieftain
did not Eeeip the place in after years
from special dishonor, for Hadrian
built there the grove OF Adonis and for
$50 years the religion there observed
was the most abhorrent debauchery the
world has ever seen.
Our Chjeftain was considered dan
eerous from the start. The world had
put suspicious eyes upon him because
at the time Of his birth, the astrologers
had seen stellar connections, q world
out OF its place and shooting down to-
ward cai'Rvansary. Star divinatiOn
was science. As late as the eigh-
teenth century it had its votaries. At
the cour OF Catherine de Medici it was
honor9d. Kepler. one OF the wisest
philosophers that the world ever saw,
declared it was trIe science. AS late
as the reign OF Charles IL. Lilly, an as
trologer, was called before the house OF
Commons in England to give his opin-
ion as to future events. For ages the
bright appearance Of Mars meant war;
OF Jupiter, meant power; OF the Pleiades
meant stormes at sea. And as history
moves in circles, do not know but that
after a while IT may be found that as the
moon lifts the tides of the sea and the
sun effects 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.
/ 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
to me that astronomy should have felt
the effect OF his coming. And instead
of being unbelieving about the one star
that stopped, 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 1t did
not indicate the mighty wars that were
TO come between Righteousness and
iniuuity? Where was Jupiter that
night that it did not celebrate omnipo-
tence incarnated? Where were the
Pleiades that night, that they did not
announce the storms OF persecution that
would assail our Chieftain?
IN watching this march OF Christ
through the centuries, we must not
walk before him or beside him, for that
would not be revereptial or worshipful.
So we walk behind him. We follow
him while not yet in his teens, up q
Jerusalem terrace. to q building 600
feet long and 800 feet wide, and under
the lowering splendor OF gate ways.
and by q pillar crowned with capital
chiseied into the shape Of flowers and
leaves, and along by avail OF beYelved
masonry and near marble screen un-
tina group Of white haired philosophers
and theologians gather around him and
then the boy bewilders and confounds,
and overwhelms these scholarly septu-
aQenarians with questions they cannot
answer, and under his quick why's and
whyfors and hows and whens, they pull
their white boards with embarrassment
and rub their wrinkled foreheads in
a. a