The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-09-30
THROUGH CENTURIES.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage Traces the
Progress Of the Saviour
From the Manger In bethlehem to Mount
Oiivet-The Name Of Jesus More
Honored To-day Than Ever
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IN sacrament sunday at tne Brook
yn lapernacie Dr. la.mage's a.scourse
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bne SeDour.es. ms seAs was iro,n iaev-
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many crowns
nay your ears ps aiere anu your
thougn.s commentaries, anu al .ne pow
ers q your soul aroused wnle I speak
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tnp sSeensuries ee,nsu.ries lou say, eiy. as 'uon
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were css.ies on .ne 1each =, oaiuee
anu paiaces ~ yerusaieln' anu imperial
pm rooms AZ 1ericno, ana ooeiisks a.
vairo, ana tne ran.neon as some WIN
l.s cor'nenian por.lco ana avs siAoeen
erani'e columns; ana .ne fartnenon q!
Atnens, WIN i.s gnstening coronet o.
sempies ana tne,e were mountains o.
nne arcnl.ecture IN many Par.s oi one
woriq' but none oi .nem were 10 DC
Ine starting place oi 'he ohiei'ain col
epIaVe'
a cows stan, winter month"; an az
inospnere IN wnicn are tne inoan oi
cameis ana tne oaaing Oh sheeP anu tne
va,king .. soogs anu tne rougn pan1er
'Vi nos'ieries ne taxes ms mrs. Journey
Deiore ne could Walk Armed oesper-
rooes wltn nands Oh oiooo were ready 70
sna.cn him down into putcnery' hev,
miiiam u. thompson, tne veteran ana
beloved missionary wnom 4 saw TINS
,ast month IN Denver' IN nls COIN year,
mas oescrioeo' IN ms voiume entitieo
Inc hano ana tne BOOK, be1hienem
as ne 80" IL "inper oeiore ias' !
walked up ana down tne gray mus Oh
1ura limestone on wnich tne village
now rests. Inc iact tnat hing Davia
nad oeen born there had not during
ages elevated the siilage INTO any spe-
ciai httennon Inc otner iact tnat ~
was tne birthplace OF our Cheitain did
not keep the place In after years from
speciai disnonor. ior hadrian Quilt
tnere tne grove OF Adonis ana Tor one
hundrea ana eighty years the reigion
tnere observed was tne most aohorrent
depaucnery the world mas ever SEEN
Our Chieftain was considered dangerous
irom tne start Inc world had put sus-
picious eyes upon him, because at tine
time OF his oirtn tne astoiogers had seen
s.eiiar commotions, woriu ouc OF its
place ana snooung down toward cara
vansary. otar-aivination was a science.
AS late as tne eignteentn century IL mad
lts votariea AT tne court OF Vatnarine
de Medici ~ was nonorea hepier' one
OF tne wisest philosophers tnat the
worid ever saw, declared II was a true
science; AS late as the reign OF Charles
IL, Lady, an astroioger, was called oe-
lore the mousse Oh commons IN England 70
Rlve ms opinion rs 70 iuture events
FOR ages the prignt appearance OF mars
meant war OF supiter' meant power; Oh
the ficiades' meant storms AZ sea ana
ss history moves IN circles, 1 40 not
know put tnat ai'era wnie ~ may DC
iound tnat as tne moon nits the tides OF
the sea ana tne sun anects tne grown
OF piasting OF crops otner worlds De-
SIDES those TWO worlds may nave some
tning 10 90 win tDe oestny OF indiv'd-
uais ana nations 10 tnis world
l DO not wonder that the commotons
IN tne heavens excltea tne wise men ON
the night our Chieftain was born AS
ne came rom another world ana after
tnirty-tnree years was again 10 ex-
change worlds II dees not seem strange
70 me that astronomy should nave feit
the enect Oh his coming Ana instead
OF being unpeiieving about the one
star that stopped, 1 wonder that all she
worlds IN the heavens did not that
christmas night make some special
demonstration. Why should they leave
70 one world or meteor the bearing
OF the news OF the humanization OF
Christ? Where was Mars that night
that 1t did not indicate the mighty wars
that were TO come between righteous
ness and iniqnityf Where was Jupiter
that night that 1t did not celebrate om-
Impotence incarnated9 Where were the
Pleiades that night that they did not
announce the storms OF persecution
that would assail our Chieftain2
In watching this march OF Christ
through the centuries, we must not walk
before Him or beside Him, for that
would not be rcverential or worshipful.
30 we walk behind Him. We follow
Him while not yet In His teens up q
Jerusalem terrace, 10 a building six hun
drsd feet long and six hundred feet
wide, and under the lowering splendoI
OF gate-ways, and BY pillar crowned