Sharp County record., 1891-10-15
THE MARCH OF CHRIST.
Dr.. TalmaQs Follows Jesus E'rod
6eEhIahsm Down the Ages.
Constant March 1f Victory f1r he
Armies uf Our rhieftain. Bat still
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LaNNA H.H AA--.a t.a. N' .Na aA-A- ---
BROOKLYN ta6eruaCic on the subject OF
THE March II Christ Through -ua .
Centuries. His text was:
On his Hrud were many c-owHa-aeveIa-
Hons iX-,.-
Nav rOur ears ne alert AMI your .
thoughts be c1ucenteIcL and all the .
powers Of rDur soul aroused. while I .
sneak TO vou Of '.-he march 0t Arlst
through the ceuuriesF T0u say, give /
Us then 4 good STAR; iu rooms OF vrr- .
million and IN Hour 0i mosaic ana
amid corridors Of porphvrv aud under
eaHopies lived in all the sDieHdOrs OF
the setting sun. Iou can have no
SUCH starting place AT the Tine our
Chieftaln WAS born. there were castles
on the beach Of Gnilee. and palaces az
JerrIsaien- ana imuer!G. bath r10rns at
jericho, and 0Beiisis at Cairo aud the
Pantheon s5 Rome, with its c1rlntHiau
pOrtTcO aud rs sixteen granite columns:
and the parrheu0u aI Athens with its
gIIsteuIuV corOuer of temp les:aud there
were mountains of fine architecture in
MANY parts OF tile world. But none of
them were 90 be the s-arrInT-pace 0t
the Chieftaiu 1 celebrate.
A cows stall a winter month. an aI-
mosDhere in which are the moaus of
camels and the baving Of sheen and
the barking of dogs aud the rough ban
ter Of hostleTies. He takes lis first
Journey before He could walk. Armed
jesperad0es with hands Of blood were
-eady 20 snatch Him down into butch /
erv. Rev William II. Thompson the /
veteran and beloved missionary, whom
7 saw this last month IN Denver. IN his /
eightv-sixth year, has described, in his /
volume entitled. The Land and the (
Book bethlehem as he saw it,. Win
ter before last 7 walked up and down
the gray hills 1f Jura limestone on /
which the village now rests. The fact
that King David had been horn there /
had not during ages elevated the vii /
lare into any special attention. The
other fact tnat il wss the birthplace Of I
our ChicftaIu did not keep the place in /
after wears from special dIshOnOr. for /
Hadrian built there the grove of AdonIs /
and for one hundred and eighty years !
the religion there observed was the
most abhOrrent debaucherv the
world has ever seen. Our /
Chicftain was considered dan
gernus from the start. The world /
has put suspicious eyes upon Him
because at the time of His birth the
astrOiOgers had seen stellar c0mmn-
tious, world out OF it's place and shoot
ing down toward a caravansary. star
diviuaJiOu was q science. AS ate rs
the eighteenth century it had its vO-
tarics At the court Of Catherine dc
Medici it was hOnored Kepier, one OF
the wisest philosophers that the world
eyer saw, declhr-,s It was q true aeierce.
AS late as the reign Of Charles IT,, Lilly, ,
an astrOiOger. was called before the
house OF commons in England to give J
his opinion as 10 future events. For
ages the bright appearance Of Mars
meant war; Of Jupiter, meant power
g hn plriades. meant storms at sea
And as history Iloyrl in circles, do /
not know but that after awhile it may
be found that as the moon lifts the
tides of the seas and the sun affects
the growth or blasting Of crops, other
worlds besides these Two worlds may
have something 90 do with the destiny
OF individuals and nations in this world
do not wonder that the c0mmotious
in the heavens excited the wise men on
the night our Chietlain was born. AsI
lie came from another world and after
thirtv-thrcc years was again tO change
worlds, 10 does not seem strange 10
me that aStorOnmv should have felt
the effect Of His coming. And instead
OF being unbelieviug about the one star
that stopped ] wonder that all the
worlds in the heavens did not that
Christmas night make some special
demonstration. Why should they leave
20 one world or meteor the bearing Of
the news Of the humanization Of Christi
Where was Mars that night that it did /
not Indicate The mighty war8 hat
were To come between Righteousness /
and iniGutv2 Whcrr was Jupiter that /
night 60 did not celebrate 0muipdtcncc /.
Incurnatod2 Where wcre the plcades
that night that they did not announce /
the storms OF persecution that would |
assail our thieftam2
1t Watching this march 0f Christ /
through The centuries, we must not I.
walk before Him or beside Him, Tor
that would not be rcvcrrntinl orr wor. /
shipfuL SO we walk behind Him. We /
follow Him. while not vet in Ills teens .
MP Jerusalem terrace, 10 20 building /
SIX hundr'd feet long and six hundred .
feet wide, and under the lowering .
splendor OF gatewuvs, and hva pillar /
crowned with capital chiselcd into the /
shape Of lowers and IoaveS, and along /
by walls of hevelcd masonry and near I
q marble screen, until grnupof white. .
haired philosophers and fhc1.oranS .
gather around Him, and then the boy hc. .
wilders and contouuds and 0verwheImS .
these scholarly scntulgcnarIans with .
questions they can not answer. and un.
der Ills quick why's md whvfors. and .
hows and wheus they pull their white .
boards with embarrassment and rub
their wriul,lcd lorehcadS No confusion.
hpd Duttlup Fhptr stuN hard Io,Vg .U /