Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-10-03
The MARCH or CHRIST.
SERVICES OF SACRAMENT SUNDAY
AT DR.. TALMAGE's TAeERNAcLs.

AT DR.. TALMAGE'S TAeERNACLE
Tho Lowiy Surroundings of the Ad~a
aud the Signs In the Heavens--Dri:t.
of Chrlst's separate Wallss from Eu.
ieIle,n tn Calvary.
BROOKLYN, Sept. 27.--This is Sacr;
inent Sunday AT the Brooklyn, Tale
nacle The services us usual on the.
occasions were very solemn an! inlprr>
sive The morning service opened with
the Long Meter noxology- The gralnl
olfertory by tirisom w;s exluislrely
rendered 10y Professor Henry Eyr.
Browne. AMI tile service closed with
tie majestic Coronation liyinn. In
Tallilagp's discourse wtsou THE March
oil Christ Through tile Centuries. and
his text Revelation xix. ~ ION his
HeaA were iu;rily cry,xsils.
~ My ;yoni ears III. alert and yorlr
thnuglitscolrentere .:lnd;,ll the powers
;dlsy6lir sou @hileI sl,t.,lk; to
st,tiSe
tsiefcentliriips You say llvesllS tlleIi.
"a good start. III r5olns Of verlnili6ii aid
ION floor of mosaic. and amid corridors
81 porpllyry ana ll:lltr rnnopies dyed il
all the. splelnlors oi the setting SUI.
You can lave no stlrll Starting place.
AT tile time. our Cllirlt;tin YVES born.
there. were castles or lie b,.lcl, ol Cali
lee. aud palaces ut Jerusalem. and lin
neri,ll bathrooms ut Jericho. and ole
liSks III Cairo. and tile pnirleuI III
Rome. with it's corintlliali lulrico aud
It's sixteen granite columns: anil tile
Parthenonat Athens, with its clustering
coronet of temples; and there were
mountains OF fine architecture in many
parts OF the world But none OF them
were 10 be the startling place ol tile
Chieftain | celebrate
A COWS stall. II winter month. I'm ut
lnospliere in which are the moan of
cancls and tlie l,,aing of sheep. md
the barking OF dogs, and the rough
bantcrof Ilt,stIeries lie takes his first
Journey before lie could walk Armed
despcradops with lands Of blood were
ready to snatch him down into butch
cry Rev William H. Thompson. the
veteran and beloved missionary whom
s;tw fills last mouth in Denver. in his
eighty sixth year. has described In his
volume entitled. Tile Land and tile
Book. Bethlehem as he s;,w it. Win
ter before last ! walked mp and down
the gray hills OF .Jllrl limestone on
Which the village now rests.
The fact that King David had been
born there had not during ages Gle
waited the village into any special Mt
tention. The other fact that it was
the birthplace of our Chieftain did not .
keep tile place in after years from spe
cial disllouor, for Hadran built there !
tile Grove of Adonis and for one hun
dred and eighty years the religion there
observed WAS tile most abllOrrent de
hatchery the world has ever seen. Our /.
Chieftain was considered dangerous .
from tile start. The world had put
suspicious eyes upon him because at
the time Of his BIRTH. tile astrologers !
-L,ld seen stellar corulnotionS. IL world /
out OF It's place anu 1rru0Iins- -ie-rrr-
ward IL caravnsary. Star divilation
was Il science As LITE us the Eight /
eenth century it had its votarcs. AT !
the court OF Catllarine de Medici it was
honored Kcpler, one OF the wisest !, |,
philosophers that the world evor saw,
declared it WAS q true sceiice. j
AS late us 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
Giles, | do not know but that after
awhile it may be found that as the
moon lifts the tides of tile 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.
THK SYMPATHETIC STARS.
IL IL.