Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-10-02
JESUSCAIRISTIN HISTORY
DR.. TALMAGE REVIEWS THE
SAvIOR'S LIFE.
his Thirty-Three Years on Earth
and Nineteen Hundred Years in
Heaven-SeIence &c, Art, etc.


BROOKLYN. Sept. 81. - This is Sacra-
ment Sunday at the Brooklyn Taber-
nacle. The services as usual on these
occasions were very solemn and i'm
pressive. The morning service opened
with the Long Metre Doxology. The
Grand Offertoire by Grison was eXquis-
itely rendered by Prof. henry Eyre
Browne, and the service closed with
the majestic Coronation Hymn. DIR.
Talmage's discourse was on Tho
March of Christ through the Centur-
ies," and his text Revelation 1912,
''On His head were many Crowns"
May your ears lie alert and your
thoughts concentered, and all the
powers of your soul arous ed, while |
speak 10 you of 1.-THE march of Christ
through the centuries" You say,
"give as then a good start, in rooms of
Yermillion and on tloor OF mosaic and
amid corridors of porphyry and under
canopies died in all the splendors of
the setJing SUM-" You can have no such
starting place. At the time our Chief
tain was born, there were castles on the
beach of Galilee, and places at Jerusa-
lem aud imperial bathrooms at Jeri-
cho, and obelislSs at afro and the Pam
theon at Rome, with It's corinthian
portico and its sixteen granite col
umns and the Pantheon at Athens
with it's glistening coronet of temples:
and there were mounta. ms OF line acchi>
lecture in many parts of the world.
But none of them were TO be the start
ing place of the Chleftain | celebrate.
A cows stall, win en- month, an at
mosphere III which are the moan of
camels ana the baaing of sheep and
the barking of dogs and the rough
banter of most c lies. He takes his Fl st
journey before he could walk. Armed
desperadoes with hands of blood were
reauy TO snatch him down into butch
cry. Rev. William ii Thompson,
the veteran and beloved missionary
whom | saw this last month in Dem
yer, in his eighty-sixth year, has de-
scribcd, in his volume entitled "The
Land and tho 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
81 ecial 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 debauchery the world has
ever seen. Cur Chieftaiu 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, a world out of its
place and shooting down toward a car
avansary. Star dlvination was a sci
ence. AS late as the eighteenth GEN.
tury it 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 true science. As in o as the
reign of Char es IL. 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
"a history moves in circles, do not
know but that after while 1t may e
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 naCions 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, como oil the
forces of perdltion TO effect our Chief
taln's capture. But although weak
ened Ly forty days and forty nights of
abstinence, he hur.s all Pandemonium
down the rocks, suggestive of how he
can hurl into helplessn SIS 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
latin before him, the lake of Cali ee
to the right of him; the Mediterranean
Sea to the left of him, and he breaches
sermon that will yet transform the
world with it's applied sentiment. Now
we follow our Chieftain on Lake Cali
lee.
We continue to follow our chieftain,
and hete is blind man by the wav-
side. IL is not from cataract of the
eye or from ophthalmia, the eye-ex-
tinguisher of the East; bat he was
born blind. "Be openedl' he cries,
and first there is asmarting of the eye
lids, and then a twilight, and then
mid noon, and then a shout, 81 sce /
sec" Tell it to all the blind, and they, at
least, can appreciate it. And here
is the widow dead son, and here is
the expired damsel, and here is Lag
arusl "Live'' our Chieftaln 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 fleet as
roe on the mountains The music O..
the grove and household wakens the
deaf ear, and lunatic and maniac re-
turn into bright intelligence, and the
leper's breath becomes as sweet as the
breath of n child, and the flesh as rose
ate. Tell it TO all the sick. through all
the homes. through all u" hospitals
Toll IL at twelve o'clock Mt nioht. fall