The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-10-30
JESUS CHRIST.
His Leadership Around Lake Galilee
Was a
March In which True Christians Proudly
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. by Rev. Dr.
r. Dewitt Taimage, u. ID.

Centuries" and his text Revelation
XIX, 10: ION 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 YER
million and on floor of mosaic and
amid corridors of porphyry and under
canopies dyed in all the splcndors of
the setting sun" You can have no
such starting place. At the time our
Chicftain was born, there were castles
on the beach of Galilee and palaces
at Jerusalem, and imperial bathrooms
at Jericho, and obelislSs at Cairo, and
the Pantheon at Rome, with its Corinth
ian portico and its sixteen granite
columns; and the Parthcnon at Athens,
with its glistening coronet of temples;
and there were mountains of fine arcli-
lecture in many parts of the worll
But none Of them were TO be the starr
ing place of the Chicftain celebrate.
A cows stall, winter month, an at
mosphorc in which are the moan of
camels and the baahing of sheep and
the barking of dogs and the rough ban
ter of obstetrics. lie takes his first
Journey before he could walk. Armed
dcsperadoes 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
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volume entitled "Thc Land and the
Book Bethlehem as he saw it. Win
ter before last walked up and down the
gray hills of Jura lime stone 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 il was the birth
place Of our Chicftain, did not keep the
place in after years from special dis
honor, for here lIadrian built the grove
of Adonis and for $50 years the religion
there observed was the most abhorrent
the world has ever seen. Our Chieftain
was considered dangerous from the
start The world had put suspicious
eyes upon him because ut the time of
his birth the uStrologcrs had seen stel- |
lar connexions, q world out of its |
place and shooting down toward cara
vansary. Star-divination was science. |
As late as the eighteenth century it had |
its votaries. At the court of Catharine |
dc Med els it was honorcd. Kepler, |
one of the wiscst philosophers that the |
world ever saw, declared IL was n true |
science. As late as the reign Of Charles |
H., Lilly an astrOloger, was called be-
fore the house of commons in England /
to give his opinion rs to future events
For ages the bright appearance of Mars
meant war; Of Jupiter, meant power; of
the PlciadGs, meant storms Mt sea And
as history moves in circles | do not
know bu. that after while 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 be-
sides those two worlds may have some
thing to do with the destiny OF individ-
uals 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-thrcc years was again 20 cX-
change worlds, it does not seem strange
10 me that astronomy should have felt
the effect Of his coming. And instead
of being unbclieving 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 humanization of Christ?
Where was Mars that night that it did
not indicate the mighty wars that were
80 come between Righteousness and in
iquity? Where was Jupiter that night
that it did not celebrate omnipotencc
incarnatcd? Where were the Plcaides
that night that they did not announce
the storms of persecution that would
nssail our Chieftain?
In watching this mSrch OF Christ
through the centuries we must not
walk before Him or beside Him, for
that would not he revcrential or wor-
shipful, Sowc walk behind Him. We
follow Him while not yet in His teens,
mp a Jerusalem terrace, TO n building
900 feet long and 600 feet wide, and UNI
der the lowering splendor Of gate-ways,
and by a pillar crowned with capital
ehiseled into tho shape of flowers and
leaves, and along 10y walls of beveled
masonry and near marble screen
until group of white-haired philos-
ophers and theologians gather around
Him, and then the boy bewildcrs, and
confounds and overwhelms these
scholarly septuagenarians with ques-
sN..al .