Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-10-22
JESUS CHRISTIN HISTORY
Or. TALMACE REVIEWS THE
SAVIORsS LIFE.
ri. rhirty.Three Years on Karin
and Nineteen Hundred Years In
Heaven Science. Art, etc.

BROOKLYN. Sept 81. - This is Sacra-
mept Sunday at the Brooklyn Iaber-
nacle. The services as usual on these
occasions were very solemn ana itn,
pressive. The morning service opened
with the Long Metre DoXology. Inc
,irand Offertoire by Grison was eXquls-
,,clv rendered by Prof. Henry Eyre
Hrownc. and the service closed with
the majestic Coronation Hymn. DIR.
Talmare's discourse was on "Ihe
March of Christ through the Centur-
les" and his text Revelation 1917,
ION His head were many Crowns"
Nav your ears tie alert and your
thoughts concentered and all the
mowers of vour soul arous ed, while |
speak 10 YOU of 1.-The march OF Christ
through the centuries" You say,
give us then good start.in rooms OF
yermillion and on floor of mosaic and
amid corridors of porphyry and under
canopies died in all the splendors 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 t;alilee, and places at Jerusa-
lem. and imperial bathrooms at Jeri-
cho, and obclisks at Cairo and the Pam
theon at Rome, with its corinthian
portico and its sixteen granite col
umns; and the Pantheon at Athens
with it's glistening coronet of temples;
and there were mountains of fine archi-
lecture in many parts OF the world.
But none of them were to be the start
ing place of the Chleftain l celebrate.
A cows stall. 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 most cries He takes his fest
Journey before he could walk. Armed
desperadoes with hands of blood were
reaay to snatch him down into butch
cry. Rev. William II Thompson,
the reteran and beloved missionary
whom l saw this last month in Den
yer. in his eighty-sixth year. has de-
scribed, in his volume entitled The
Land and the Book Bethlehem as he
saw it. Winter 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
it was the birthplace of our Chieftain
did not keep the place in after years
from special dishonor, for Hadrian
built there the grove of Adonis and for
one hundred and eighty years the re-
ligion there observed was the most
abhorrent de bauchery the world has
ever seen. Our Chieftain was consid-
cred 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 out Of its
place and shooting down toward a car
avansary. Star dlvination was sci
ence. AS late as the eighteenth cen.
fury it had it's votaries. At the court
OF Catharine de Mcdici it was honored.
Kcpler, one of the wisest philosophers
that the world ever saw, declared it
was a true science AS la.e as the
reign of Charles II. Lilly, an astrolo-
ger 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 a while 1t may tie
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 NAV
have something to do with the destiny
OF individuals and nations in this
world.
We follow him into the Quar-
antania, the mountain of tempta-
ton, its side to this day black
with robbers dens. Look! Up the
side of this mountain, come ali the
forces of perdltion to effect our Chief
tain's capture. But although weak
ened by forty days and forty nights of
abstinence, he hur.s all Pandemonium
down the rocks, suggestive of how he
can hurl into helplcssness all our temp
tations. 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 Gaiilee
to the rlght of him; the Mediterranean
Sea to the left of him, and he breaches
sermon that will yet transform the
world with its applied sentiment. Now
we follow our Chieftain on Lake Cali.
lee.
We continue to follow our chicftain.
and here is blind man by the wav
size. IL is not from cataract of the
eye or from ophthalmia, the cyc-ex.
tinguisher of the East; but he was
born blind. "Be openedl' he cries.
and first there is smarting of the eve.
lids, and then a twilight, and then a
mid noon, and then a shout, Il see! !
see Tell it to all the blind and thew. at
least, can appreciate it. And he,S
is the widow s dead son. and hero is
the expired damsel. and here is Laz-
aras! Live" our Chieftain cries. and
they live. Tell it through all the be-
reft households; tell it among the
graves. And here around him gather
the deaf and the dumb and the sick.
and at his word they turn on their
couches, and blush from awful pallor
of helpless illness to rubicund health
and the swollen foot of the dropsi.
cal sufferer becomes feet "a
roe on the mountains. The music q,
the grove and household wakens the
deaf ear, and lunatic and maniac re-
turn into bright intelligence, and the
lepers breath becomes as sweet as the
breath of child, and the flesh as rose.
ate. Tell it to all the sick. through all
the homes, through all the HOSPITALS.
Tell it at twelve o'clock at night; tell
it At two o'clock in the morning: tell IL
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