Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-10-08
THE ESAVIOUR Is WITH Us
DR.. TALMAGE breaches ON THE
CONTINUED MISSION OF CHRIST.

and Mission of Today.
BROOKLYN, Sept. 27-This is Sacrament
Sunday at tAe Brooklyn Tabernacle. The
services as usual on these occasions were
very solemn and impressive The morn
ing service opened with the long me
ter doxology The grand offertory by
Grison was eXquisitely rendered by Profes.
sor 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, IL, "On His
head were many crowns"
May your ears be alert and your thoughts
concentrated and 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 floors of mo-
sale and amid corridors of porphyry and
under canopies dyed in all 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 Galilee and palaces at Jerusalem and
imperial bathrooms at Jericho and ODE
lisks at Cairo and the Pantheon at Rome
with its Corinthian portico and its sixteen
granite columns, and the Parthenon at
Athens, with its glistening coronet of TEN
pies, and there were mountains of fine
architecture in many parts of the world;
but none of them was to be the starting
place of the Chieftain celebrate.
A cows stall, winter month, an atmos
phere in which are the moan of camels.
and the baaing of sheep, and the barking
of dogs, and the rough banter of hostelries.
He takes his first journey before he could
walk. Armed desperadoes, with hands of
blood, were ready to snatch him down into
butchery. 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 vol
ume entitled, "Hhe Land and the Book, "
Bethlehem as he saw it.
Winter 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 elevated the village into any special
attention. The other fact that it was the
birthplace of our Chieftain did not keep
the place in after years from special dis,
honor, for Hadrian built there the Grove
/
years the religion there observed was the
/ most abhorrent debauchery 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 astrologers had seen
| stellar commotions-a world out of its
place and shooting down toward a cara
vansary Star divination was science
| As late as the Eighteenth century it had
its votaries AG 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 circles, 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 WITNESS OF HEAVENS HOST.
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 exchange worlds it does
not seem strange to me that astronomy
should have felt the effect of his coming
And instead of being unbeIeving about the
one star that stopped wonder that all the
worlds in the heavens did not that Christ
mas night make some special demOustra
ton. Why should they leave to one world
or meteor the bearing of the news of the
humanization of Christi Where was Mars
that night that it did not Indicate the
mighty wars that were to come between
righteousness and iniquity2 Where was
Jupiter that night that it did not cele,
brate omnipotence 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
reverential or worshipfuL So we walk be
hind him We follow him while not yet
Il
building six hundred feet long and six
hundred feet wide, and under the lowering
splendor of gateways, and by a pillar
crowned with capital chiseled into the
shape of flowers and leaves, and along by
walls of beveled masonry and near mar
BILE screen, until group of white haired
philosophers and theologians gather arounG
him, and then the boy bewilders and con
founds and overwhelms these scholarly
septuagenarians with questions they can
not 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 con
fusion, and, putting their staffs hard dowr
on the marble floor as they arise to go
they must feel like chiding the boldness
that allows twelve years of age to ask
seventy-five years of age such puzzlers.
Out of this building we follow him into the
Quarantania, the mountain of temptation
its side to this day black with robbers
dens. Look Up the side of this mountain
come all the forces of perdition to effect
our Chieftain's capture But although
weakened by forty days and forty nights
of abstinence, he hurls all Pandemoniun
down the rocks, suggestive of how he car
hurl into helplessness all our temptations
And now we climb right after him up tn,
tough sides of the Mount of Beatitudes,
and on the highest pulpit of rocks, tn,
Valley of Hatin before him, the Lake o
Galilee to the right of him; the Mediterra
mean sea to the left Of him, and he preache
sermon that yet will transform the worlC
with its applied sentiment Now we fol
low our Chieftain on; Lake Galilee w
must keen to the beach. for our fact ara nn