Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-10-01
THESAVIOUK is WITH Us
DR.. TALMAcE breaches ON THE
CONTINUED MISSION OF CHRIST.

The Scene in the Carafausary-lhe pues-
. tioning Of the Doctors in the Temple.
0 The Temptation. Betrayal. crucifixion
and Mission Of Today
BROOKLYN, Sept. 27.-This is Sacrament
Sunday at the 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 PROBES
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. 70. "On His
head were many crowns
May your ears be alert aud 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 tenn
Piles, 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 be could
walk Armed desperadoes, with hands Of
blood, were ready 10 snatch him down into
butchery. Rev. William IL. Thompson, the
veteran and beloved missionary, whom
saw this last month in Denver, in his
| eightysixth year, has described in his vol
ume entitled 1.-THE Land and the Book"
| Bethlehem as he saw IL.
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
of Adonis, and for one hundred and eighty
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 1t had
its votaries At the court OF Catharine de
Medici it was honored
Kepler, one of the wisest philosophers
that the world ever saw. declared it was
a 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, il 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 Christ
mas night make some special demonstra-
ton Why should they leave to one world
or meteor the bearing OF the news of the
of Christi Where was Mars
that night that it did not indicate the
mighty wars that were to come between
righteousness and iniquityt Where was
Jupiter that night that it did not cele-
brate omnipotence incarnatedi Where
were the Pleiades that night that they did
not announce the storms of persecution
that would assai our chieftain.
In watching this march of Christ through ,
,he centuries, we must not walk before |
him or beside him, for that would not be
.everential or worshipfuL SO we walk be-
hind him. We follow him while not yet I
n his teens, up a Jerusalem terrace, to a
building six hundred feet long and six ,
hundred feet wide, and under the lowering I
plendor of gateways, and by pillar /
crowned with capital chiseled into the
hape of flowers and leaves, and along By /
walls of beveled masonry and near mar
de screen. until group Of white haired I
and theologians gatheraround {
lin, and then the boy bewilders and con I
ounds and overwhelms these scholarly !
eptuagenarians with questions they can 4
lot answer. and under his quick why's and i
yhyfors and hows aud whens they pull =
heir white boards with embarrassment q
md rub their wrinkled foreheads in con.
usion, and. putting their stats hard down n
N the marble floor as they arise to GO. r
hey must feel like chiding the boldness '
hat allows twelve years Of age to ask \
twenty-five years Of age such puzzlers. \
Out of this building follow him into the Il
the mountain Of temptation. 4
IS side to this day black with robbers /.
lens. Lookl Up the side Of this mountain /,
ONE all the forces Of perdition to effect i
ur Chieftain's capture. But although !
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