The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-10-08

tiOnipx Of the Doctor. Ia the Temple--
and Mission .pf To-day.
BROOKLYN, Sept. 27.-Thls is Sacra-
ment Sunday at the Brooklyn Taberna-
Gle. The services as usual on these oc-
caBlOne were very solemn and impress
slve. The morning service opened with
the long metre doxology. The grand
oftertoire by Grison was exquisitely rem
dered by Professor Henry Eyre Brown.
and the service closed with the majestic
coronation ny mn. DR.. Talmage's dis
course was on 1.-THE march of Christ
through the ceaturit s." and his text
revelation xix; ~, On his head were
many CROWNS"
May your ears be alert and your
thoughts concentrated, aud all tho pow
ers OF your soul aroused, while | speak
to you of the ''march of Christ through
the centuries" You say, "give us then
good start, Ill rooms of vermlliOn and
on floor OF mosaic and amid corridors of
porphyry and under canopies dyed in all
the splcndors Of the setting SUM-" You
can have no such starting place. AT the
time our Chic.ian was born, there were
SHoUASo VII WV I'N1Sll vi NdlICC, ana
palaces at Jerusalem, and imperial bath
rooms at Jericho, and obelisks at Cairo
and the Panthenon at Rome, with it's
corinthian portico and sixteen granite
columns; and the Parhenon at Athens
with It's glistening coronet Of temples.
and there were mountains of fine archi.
lecture in many parts of he world. But
none OF them were to be the starting
place OF the Clieitian celebrate.
A cows stall, a winter month, an at
mosphere in which are the moan of
camels and the baaing of shuep and the
barking OF dogs and the rough banter of
hostlerics. He takes his first iourney
before he could walk. Armed desper-
ADDE'S with hMlds of blood were ready to
snatch him down into butchery. Rev.
William ii. Thompson, the veteran and
beloved missionary whsm l saw last
month in Denver, IN his Seth year, has
described. in Ills volume entitled 1.-THE
Land and the Book" Bethlehem as he
saw 1t. Winter before last l walked up
and down the gray hills OF Jura lime
stone on which the village now rests.
The TACT that King David had been born
there, had not during ages elevated the
village into any special attention. The
other TACT that it was the birthplace of
our Chle!tain did not keep the place in
after years from sl,eCial dishonOr, for
Hadrlan built there the grove of ADO iis
and Tor $50 years The religion there Ou-
served was the most abhOrl ent debauch-
cry the world has ever seen. Our Chief.
tain was considered dangerous from the
start. The worlG had put suspicious
eyes upon him because at the time OF
his birth, the astrologers had seen stel-
lar commOtiOns, world out of its place
and shooting down toward u caravan
sary. StardivlnatOn was science,
As late as the eighteenth century it had
lts vOtarles. At the Court OF Catharne
de Medici 1t was honOred. kepler, one
OF the wisest philosophers that the world
ever saw, declared it vas true science.
As late as the reign Of Charles III, Lilly.
an astrologer was called before the house
OF commons III England to give his Opin-
ION 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, l do not know but that
after while it may be found that as the
moon lifts the tide of the sea and the
sun affects the growth or blasting of
crOpe, other worlds besides those two
worlds may have something 10 do with
the destiny Of individuals and nations
in this world.
do not wonder that the commotions
in tho heavens excited the wise men on
the night our Chiettaln was born. AS
he came trOm another world and after
thirty three years was again to exchange
worlds, 1t does not seem strange TO me
that astronomy should have felt the cf-
feet Of His coming. And instead OF be-
ing unDelievn9 about the one star that
stopped, l wonder that all the worlds in
the heavens did not that Christmas
night, make some special dcmOnslra-
tion. Why should they leave to one
world or meteor the bearing of the news
OF the humanization of Christ! Where
was Mars that night that It did not indi-
cate the mighty wars that were to come
between righteousness and iniumt, ?
Where was Jupiter that night that it did
not celebrate Omnipotence incarnated!
Where w.re the Plclades that night.
that they did not announce the storms
OF persecution that would assail our
Chieftain?
In watching tlis march of Christ
through the centuries we must not walk
before him or beside him, for that would
not be reverential or worshipiul. So we
walk Behind him. We follow HIM while
= lot yet in his teens, up Jerusalem ter
race, to building 500 feet long and 600
teet wide, and under the lowering splen.
dor of gateway and by pillar crown d
with capital chiseled into the shape OF
flowers and leaves, and along by walls
Of bevelled masonry and near Il marble
screen until group of whitc.halred
philosophers and theolo1ians gather
around HIM, and then the BOY bcwidcrs,
and confpunGs, and overwhelms these
scholarly lyseptuagenarians with questions
they cannot answer, and under his quick
why's and whytors aud hows and wilens,
they pull their white boards with en-.
barrassment, and rub their wrihkled for
heads in confusion, and putting their
staff hard down on the marble floor as
they arise to 60, they must feel like
chiding .he boldness that allows twelve
wears of age to ask seVeuLy-fiVe wears