Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-09-28
TIE MARCH OF CHRIST.
SERVICES OF SACRAMENT SUNDAY
At Or. TALMAcE's TABERNACLE.

81 Christ's Separate walks from beth-
Iehen to Calvary.
BRooKLYN. Sept. q This is Sacra
nsent Sunday at the Brooklyn Tsber
nacle. The services as usual Oh these
occasions were very solemn aud imprcs
ave The morning service opened with
the Long Meter Doxology The grand
offerfory by Grison was exq,isitely
rendered 10y Professor Henry Eyre
Browne. and the service closed with
the majestic Coronation hymn Dr
Talmage's discourse was ON THE March
OF Christ Through the CenturieS and
his text Revelation XIX. l2 ''On hi
head were many cr0wiis
May your ear be- alert JAnd your
thoughts sconcentere1. and all tile power
of your soul aroused while | speak to
you Of the march of Christ through
the centuries You say give Us then
a good start. in rooms Of vermiliun and
on floor Of mosaic and amid corridor,
OF parphyry aud under canopies dyed III
all the splendors OF the setting san
You can have no such starting place
AT the time on Chieltain was born
there were castles on the beach ol Gall
lee. and palaces AT Jerusalem. and i'm
peTial bathrooms nj Jericho. and ODE
lisks at Cairo. and the Pantheon al
Rome. with its corinthian portico and
its sixteen granite columns. and the
PartlIenon at Athens with its gliStening
coronet OF temples. and there were
mountains of fine architecture In many
parts oi the world But none OF them
were to be the startling place OF the
Chieftain | celebrate
A cows stall. a winter month. an at
mosphere In which are the moan OF
canels, and the b'uing OF sheep. and
the barking OF dogs and the rough
banter of hostleries lie 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 II Thompson, the
veteran and beloved missionary whom
| saw this last month in Denver, in his
eighty sixth year. has described in his
volume entitled. The Land and the
Book" Bethlehem as he saw il. 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 hun
dred and eighty years the religion there
observed was the most abhorrent de
bauchery the world has ever seen. Our
Chieftain was considered dangerous
from the start The world had put
suspicious eyes upon him because at
the time OF his birth, the astrologes
had seen stellar commqtions a world
out OF its place and shooting down to
ward caravansary Star digination
was a science As hate as the Eight
zenith century II had It's votares at
the court OF Catharine de Mv,ici il was
honored Kepler, one OF HE wisesi
philosophers that the world ever saw.
declared il was true science
AS hate 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
cies | do not know but that after
awhile II may he found that ~ the
moon lifts tile tides of the sea and the
sun affects the growth OF blasting of
crops. other worlds besides those two
worlds may have something TO do with
the destiny of individuals and nations
In this world
TUX SYMPATHETIC STAIRS
do not wonder that the eonuno
tions In the heavens excited the wise
men on the night ON Chieft,in was
born AS he came from another world
aud after thirty three years was again
20 exchange worlds. il does not seem
strange 10 me that astronomy should
have ielt the effect of his coming And
instead OF being unbeiieying 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
10 one world or meteor the bearing OF
the news OF the hunanixation of Christ
Where was Mars that night that il did
not indicate the mighty wars that were
TO come between righteousness and
iniquityf Where was Jupiter that
night that Il did not celebrate omnipo-
tenee lncarnaiedi Where were the
Pieiades that night that they did not
announce tile storms Of persecution
thar would assslil our Cllieftaint
Ia watching this march Oi Christ
through the centuries We must not
~aIk before him oF beside him. for that
would not be everential OF worship
fol So we wAlk behind him We tol.
low him while not yet Ia his teens up
Jerusalem rerFaoe. 10 building six
hundred leeg hong aud slK hundred feet
wide. and under the hovering splendor
II eatewayS. aud by a pillar crowned
with capital cliseled into the SHAPE Oi
nowsfs snd leav~s aud ain'is By sails
~ bevelsd masoury aGsd nss.I uAF
ble scrsen until gronp oi white
haired philosophers aud theOlossians
gather around Ddn and thru tlie