The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-10-02
MARCH OF CHRIST.
DR.. Talmage Reviews the HarthIy
Career Of the Saviour.
Tis WOndFous BiFth-TssnPtatioEs and
Great Deeds OF the Son OF EIan-Ehs
Betrayal. CrueisxIon and Victory
Over Death.


Centuries" Rev. 4. Dewitt TalmaRe
took his text from Revelations xix -:
''On his head were many crowns" DR..
Talmage said:
May your ears be alert and your
thoughts concentrated, and all the pow
srs of your soul aroused. while / speak
TO you of THE March Of Christ Through
then, a good start In Eooms of vermi1-
lion and on floor of mosaic and amid
corridors of porPhyry and under can
opies dyed in all the sP1endora OF the
setting sun" You can have no such
starting place At the time our Chief
tain was born there were castles on
the beach of Galilee and palaces at Je-
rusalem, 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 parthenon at Athens with its
glisteniug 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 1 celebrate.
A cows stall. a winter month. an at
mosphere 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 desper-
L4OE5 WITH AlhAI8 OF DAOOG were EEattY
TO snatch him down into butchery.
Rev. William II. Thompson, the
veteran and beloved missionary whom
I 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 it Winter
before last 1 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 dishonoF, for
Hndrian built there the grove of
Adonis and for one hundred and eighty
years the religion there observed was
the most abhorrent debauchery the
world has ever seen
Our Chieftaiu was considered danger
Gus from the start The world had put
suspicious eyes upon him because at
the time of his birth, the astrOlogers
had seen stellar connections, a world
out of it's place and shooting down to-
ward "a caravausary. Star diviuation
was science. AS late as the eighteenth
century it had its votaries- At the
court of Catharine de Medici it was
honoFed. Kepfer. 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
Fleiades, meant storms at sea And as
history moves in circles, I do not know
but that after n while it may be found
that as the moon lifts the tides of the
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, l. 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 Christi
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 worshi Dful.
So we walk behind him We follow
him while not yet in his teens, up a
Jerusalem terrace, to a building 500
feet long and GOO feet wide, and under
the lowering sPlendor of gatsways,
and by pillar crowned with capital
chiseied into the shape of flowers and
leaves, and along by walls of beveled
masonry and near marble screen un-
til u group of white-haired philosophers
and theologians gather around him and
then the boy be wilders and confOundS,
and overwhelms these scholarly septu-
agenarians with questions they cannot
answer, and under his quick why's and
Whsreforcs, and hows and whens, they
pull their white boards with en- barrass-
ment, and rub their wrinlxled foreheads
In confusion, and putting their stats
hard down on the marble floor as they
arise to go, they must feel like Gliding
the holiness that allows twelve years
of age TO ask seventy-hve years of age
such puzzters-
Out OF this building we follow Him
into the Quarantania, the mountain of
temptation, its side to this day black
with robbers dens. Loolct Up the
side of this mountain. come all the
forces of Perdition to effect our Chief
tain's capture, But although weak
ened by forty days and forty nights of
down the rocks, suggestive of how He
can hurI into helplessuess all our
temptations And now we climb right
after Him, up the tough sides OF the
mount of BeRtitGdes," and on the
highest pulpit of rocks, the valley OF
Hatin before Him, the lake of Galilee
TO the right OF Him. the Mediterranean
sea to the left of Him and He breaches
4 sermon that yet wilt transform the
world with its applied sentiment
Now we follow our Chieftain on
Lake Galiiee. We must keep TO
the beach, for our feet are not
shod with the supernatural, aud we
remember what poor work Peter made
OF it when he tried to walk the water.
Christ our leader is on the top of the
tossing waves. and It is about hatf-Past
three in the morning. and it is the dark
est time just before tiaybrealz. But
BY the flashes of lightning we see Him
putting His feet on the crest of the
wave, stepping from crest to crest
walking the white surf, solid as though
e vyere frozen snow. The sailors thinlS
q ghost is striding the tempest. but He
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