The Dickinson press., 1891-10-10
IT Is TRIUMPHANT.
&rists March Through the Long
Centuries Of the History Of the
World.
A Graphic and Vivid Description Of
the Life of the Savior of
Men.

Mcus
BROOKLYN. Special.-Thisis Sacra-
ment Sunday at the Brooklyn taber-
nacle. DR.. Talmage's discourse was on
"The March OF Christ Through the
Centuries" and his text, Revelation
xix: 10, con his head were many
CROWNS"
May your ears be alert and your
thoughts concentrated, and all the
powers OF your soul aroused, while l
speak to you OF "rhe march OF Christ
through the centuries." You say,
"give us then Il good start, in o
of vermillion and on floor OF mosaic
and amid corridors OF porphyry and
under canopies dyed in all the SPLEEN
doris OF the setting SUM-" You car
have no such starting place. At the
time our Chieftain was born, there
we're castles ON the beach OF Gaiilee,
and palaces ut Jerusalem. and imper-
ial bath rooms at Jericho. and obe-
lisks at Cairo and the Pantheon at
Rome, with it's co%rinthian portico and
its 16 granite columns: and the Par
thenon at Athens with its gllstening
coronet OF temples; and there We're
mountains OF fine architccturei many
parts OF the world. Butnone OF them
were to be the starting-place OF the
Chleftain ! celebrate.
A COWS stall, IL winter month, and
an atmosphere in which are themoans
OF camels and the baaing OF sheep and
the barking OF dogs and the rough
banter OF hostelries. He takes his
first journey before he could walk.
Armed desperadoes with hands OF
blood We're ready to smirch him down
into butchery. Winter before last l
walked up and down the gray hills Of
Jura limestone on which the village
now rests. Our Chieitain was consid-
cred dangerous from the start. The
world had put suspicious eyes upon
him because at the time OF his birth,
astrologers had seer stellar commo-
tions, q world out OF place and shoot
ing down towards a caravansary.
Star divination az q clenc AS
late as the 18th century it had it's vo-
taries. At the Court OF Catherine de
Medici it was honored. Kepler, one
OF the wisest philosophers the world
ever saw, declaredi it was q true ST .ence.
AS late as the reign OF Charles H.,
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.
do not wonder that the commo-
tions 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 effects OF his coming.
And instead OF being unbelieving
about the one star that stopped, /
'onder that all the worlds in the
heavens did not that Christmasnight,
make some special demonstration.
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
worshiptul. So we walk behind him.
We follow him while not yet in his
teens, up q Jerusalem terrace, to a
building six hundred feet long and six
hundred feet wide, and under the
lowering splendor OF gateways, and
by a pillar crowned with capital
chiseled into the shape of flowers and
leaves, and along by walls OF bevelled
masonry and near q marble screen
until a group Of white-haired philoso.
pliers and theologians gather around
him, and then the boy bewilders, and
oonfounds, and overwhelms these
scholarly septuagenarians with ques'
tions they cannot answer, and under
his quick why's and whyfors, and hows
and whens, they pull their white
boards with embarrassment, and rut
their wrinkled foreheads in confusion
and putting their staff hard down or
the marble floor as they arise to 60
they must feel like chiding the bold.
ness that allows ~ years OF age tc
ask 75years OF age such puzzles.
Out of this building we follow him
into the Q%uarantania, the mountain
of temptation, its side to this day
black with robbers dens. Look! VI
this side OF this mountain, come al
the forces OF perdition to effect oul
Chieftain's capture. But although
weakened by 40 days and 40 nights
OF abstience, he hurls all Pandemon
ium down the rocks, suggestive ofhov
he "a hurl into helplessness all GU:
temptations. And now we climb RICH.
after him, up the tough sides of tn
Mount OF Beatltudes," and on tn
highest pulpit OF rocks, the Valley Q
Hatln before him, the lake OF Galile
to the right OF him. the Mediterranean
Sea to the left OF him, and h%epreache
a sermon that will transform tn
world with its applied sentiment
Now we follow our Chleftain on LAX
Galilee. We must keep to the beac
for our feet are not shod with tn
, supernatural, and we remember VIVA
!, poor work Peter made of it when h
; tried to. walk the water. Christ GU
leader is on the top c! the tossin
. waves, and 1T IS about 81 III tn
| morning, and it is the darkest tim
just before day-break. But by TIL
flashes OF lightning WI see him putin
! his feet Oh the crest OF the wave, stel
ping from crest to crest, walking tt
white surf, solid as though it wei
! frozen snow. The sailors think
ghost is striding the tempest, bu
he
e CHEERS HEN INTO PLAcIDIrY,
;, showing himself to be a great Chri.
Tor sailors.
: we continue to follow ourChlettall
t and here is a blind man by the wa,
Q side. 1t Is not from cataract of tt
t eye or from ophthalmia, the eye g
tingulsher OF the East; but he WI
born blind. "Be opened" he erie
and first there was a smartlng OF tt
eye-lids, and then a twilight, and the
n a mId-noon, and then a shout
see! | see!" Tell it to all the bin
d and they at least, can appreciate