The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-10-06


The Tempta,ion, n+trayaI. Crucifx xton
and Mission ui r'O-,lar.
BRooKLYN. Sept. 2T.--Ths is Sacra-
ment SundaY at the brooklyn Taberna-
Gle. The services AZ usual ON these oc-
casions were very solemn and impress
sive. The morning service opened with
the long metre doxology. The grand
otlertoirc by Grison was exquistely rem
dercd by Professor Henry Eyrs Brown.
and the service closed with the majestic
coronation hymn. DR.. Talmaee's dis
course was on THE march of Christ
through TIC centuri, 81 and his text
many crOwns.n
May your eers he alert and your
thoughts conCcni rated, and all the pow
ers OF your soul aroused, while | speak
to you OF The "narGh of Christ through
the centuries" You say, "give us then
good start, in rooms Of vermilliOn and
on floor OF u osaic and amid corridors OF
pOrphl ~ ANA under CauOpics dyed in all
the splcndoT5O Ol he setting SUM-" You
can have n" sucti sjriing place. At the
Tune Our Chlel.hn was born, there were
castles on The beach OF Gal!lce, and
PalaC ca ut jerusalem, and Imperial bath
rooms at Jo!icho, and obclisks Mt Cairo
and the l'anLhchon at Rome, with its
corinthian ponco and sixteen granite
columns; aud the Parthcnon at Athens
with It's yiiatcning coronct of temples,
and tEcrc were ,nOuntans OF fine archi-
lecture In n,au, parts of ,hc world. But
none OF them were to be the starting
place OF the Chicttian l celebrate.
COWS tull, 4 winter month, all at
mosplcrc III which are the moan of
camCls aud The baaing of sheep and the
barking OF dogs and the rough banter of
hostltlics. lie takes his first Journey
before hc could walk. Armed desper-
aGocs with hands of blood were ready to
snatch him down into butchery. Rev.
William III. Thompson, the veteran and
beloved missionary whom l saw last
month III Denver, IN his Seth year, has
described, i'll his volume entitled 1.-The
Land and the Book" Bethlehem as he
saw II. Winter before last | walked up
aud down the Sray 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 fact that it was the birthplace of
oar ChIc!tnin did not keep the place in
alter Years from slecinl dshonor, for
Hadrian built there the grove of AdOnis
and Tor $50 years the religion there oh.
served was the most abhorrent debauch-
cry tic world his ever seen. Our Chief.
tain was considered dangerous from the
start. The world had put suspicious
eyes upon Lin because at the time of
his birth, the 0strologers had seen stel-
lar commotions, n world out of its place
and shooting down toward caravan
sary. StarUlvination was science.
As late as The eighteenth century it had
its votaries. a; the Court OF Catharine
lie Medci Ii was honOred. Kepler, one
ol the wlscst philosophers that the world
ever saw, declared it was true science.
AS late as tie reign of Charles III, Lilly,
an astrologcr 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 NJ sea. And as history
moves in circles, l do not know bit that
alter Il while itmay be found that as the
moon lifts the tide Of the sea and the
sun affects the growth or blasting of
crops, oihci worlds besides those two
worlds may have something to do with
the destiny of individuals and nations
III this world.
| do not wonder that the connections
in The heavens excited the wise men on
the night our Cheitaln was born. AS
lie came from another world aud after
thirty three Years was again to exchange
worlds, 1t GDcs not seem strange TO me
that astronomy should have felt the cf-
lcct OF Ills coming. And instead of be-
liig WnbcllCNng about the one star that
stopped, | wond,r that all the worlds in
The heavens dlt not that Christmas
h!Shi, make some special demonslra-
tloii. Why sipulO lhry leave TO one
world or NJ teCr The learing OF the news
at lie humnnzlliun of Christ? Where
was Mars ttnL niGht that IT did not ind-
cate the mighty wars that were to come
lctwetn righteousness and iniuuL,?
Where waS JuWtcr hat night that IL did
not celebrate omnpotencc lncaruulc d?
Where were the Plclades that night,
that they H.d rot miDOunce The storms
"l persecution that would assail oul.
Chirliain!
in watching this march of Christ
through tht centuries we must not walk
heiorc hi or beside him. for that would
not lie rtVcirnlial or worshlpiu. So we
walk bthn,'t him. We follow linn " hile
not yet in Lis tens. up Jerusalem ter.
i"NN; w al piiloilY JuO lccb long ana UUU
iccL wide, and under the hoverlng splen.
dor OF galewaSs and by pillar crown. d
with capital ChseGd into the shape of
howers and leaves, and along by walls
oi bcVelled masonry and near q marble
screen until II group OF white-ha!red
philosophers and theulOgians gather
around hlm, aud then the BOY bewildcrs.
and cOniouu0s, AID overwhtlms these
scholarly Srptmgen with questions
llcy cannot answer, and under hls quick
why's and whyfors, aud hows and wilens,
they lull their white boards with em-
balrassment, and rub their wrihkled for
heads in confusion, and putting their
stan hard down on the marble floor as
they arise TO go, they must feel like
chidng .ho boldncss that allows twelve
years OF age to ask sevenly-iive Years
OF age such puzzles.
Out Of tilis building we follow him
into the Quarantania, the mountain OF
temptation, its side TO this day black
withrobbers' dens. Look! Up the side
OF this mountain, come all the forces OF
perdition TO effect our Chle'taln's cap.
lure. But although weakened by forty
days and forty nights Of abstinence, he
hurls all PandelnOnium down the rocks.
Sppvpstiyo ,f how a.. oo,, I,,,.l ;.,.. tal