Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-28
THESAVI0UR is WITH US
DR.. TALMAGE breaches ON THE
CONTINUED MISSION or CHRIST.

tioninE Of the Doctors in the Temple.
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, l2. 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, "Gve 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 gistening coronet of tenn
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 ChieGtain celebrate
A cows stall, winter month, an atmos
pherc 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 bis first journey before he could
walk. Armed desperadoes, with hands of
blood, were ready to snatch him down into
butchery Rev. William II. Thompson, the
veteran and beloved missionary, whom l
saw this last month in Denver, in his
eighty-sixth year, has described, in his vol.
ume entitled, 1.-THE 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 Cheftain did not keep
the place In after years from special dis
honor, for Hadrian built there the Grove
OF Adonis, and for one hundred and eighty
years the religion bhere 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 connections world ont of it's
place and shooting down toward cara
vansary. Star divination was "A science
As late as the Eighteenth century it had
its votaries. At the court of Catharine de
Medici 1t was honored
Kepler, one of the wiSest philosophers
that the world ever saw, declared it was
a true science. AN 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 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
humanization of CHRISTI Where was Mars
that night that 1t did not indicate the
mighty wars that were to come between
righteousness and iniquityP Where was
Jupiter that night that 1t did not cele-
brate omnipoteuce incarnated2 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
In his teens, up II Jerusalem terrace, to a
building six hundred feet long and six
hundred feet wide, aud under the lowering
splendor Of gateways and by pillar
crowned with capital chiseled into the
shape of flowers and leaves, and along by
walls of bsveled masonry and near mar
bio screen, until group of white haired
philosophers and theologians gatheraround
him. and then the boy bewilders and con.
POUNDS and overwhelms these scholarly
septusgenarians 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 stats hard down
on the marble floor as they arise to 20,
they must feel like Gliding the boldness
that allows twelve years of age to ask
seventy-hve 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 Pandemonium
down the rocks, suggestive of how he can
hurl into helplessness all our temptations.
And now we climb right after him up the
tough sides of the Mount of Beatitudes,"
and on the highest pulpit of rocks, the
Valley Of Hatin before him, the Lake of
Galilee TO the right Of him; the Mediterra-
mean sea to the left of him, and he breaches
n sermon that yet will transform the world
with its applied sentiment. Now we fol
low our Chieftain on Lake Galilee. We
must keep to the beach, for our feet are not
ahod with the supernatural, and we re-