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and Mission of Today.
BRooKLYN, Sept 2r-This is Sacrament
Sunday at the Brooklyn Tabernacle. The
,ervices as usual on these occasions were
rery solemn and impressive. The morn
ing service opened with the long me
ter doxology The grand otfertoIy by
Grison was exquieitely rendered by Profes-
sor Henry Eyre Browne, and the service
closed with the majestic Coronation"
hymn Dr. Talmage's discourse was on The
March OF Christ Through the Centuries"
and his text Revelation xix. IL. "On His
head were many crowns"
NAV your ears be alert and your thoughts
concentrated and all the powers of your
soul aroused while speak to you of THE
march of Christ through the centuries"
You say, give us, then, good start, IN
rooms of vermilion and on floors of mo-
sale and amid corridors of porphyry and
under canopies dyed in all the splendors of
the setting sun" You can have no such
starting place. AT the time our Chieftain
was born there were castles on the beach
OF Galilee and palaces at Jerusalem and
imperial bathrooms at Jericho and ODE
lisks at Cairo and the Pantheon at Rome,
with its Corinthan portico and its sixteen
granite columns, and the Parthenon at
Athens, with its glistening coronet Of tenn
PIES and there were mountains of fine
architecture IN many parts of the world,
but none of them was to be the starting
place of the Chleftain celebrate
A cows stall, u winter month, an atmos-
phere in which are the moan of cames,
and the baaing of sheep, and the barking
of dogs, aud the rough banter of hostelfies.
He takes his first Journey before he could
walk Armed deancradpes, with hands Of
blood We're ready to snatch him down into
butchery Rev. William H. Thompson, the
veteran and beloved missionary, whom |
saw TINS last month III Denver, in his
eighty sixth year, has described, in his vol
une entitled, The Land and the Book"
Bethlehem as he saw it.
" inter before last walked up and down
the gray hills of Jura limestone on which
the village now rests The fact That King
David had been born there, had not during
ages elevated the village into any spec al
attention. The other fact that 1t was the
birthplace OF Our Chieftaiu did not keep
the place in after years from special dis
honor, 1or Hadriau built there tine Grove
OF AdOuis and for one hunG and eighty
years the religion there observed WIS the
most abhorrcnt debauclerr tu' world Las
ever seen. Our Chicitai8 VS. considered
dangerous from the start. lu- world had
put suspicious esq, upon hinl na. .u~c al the
time OF his birth the natroio1cr, had seen
ttellar com.4a:ions--a world out OF its
place ana shootinr down toward a cara
vansary STAR GiFnation was scence
As la,e az the H-n,renth century it had
its v0,aries At tUc court Of Catharine dc
Medlci it Wa, Aonured.
EeDler, ,.e ct the wsest philosophers
that tn! world .Ycl saw, declared it Was
a true sciuu... 49, la.e as the rei!gn of
Charles Il Iai.y, .an astrologer, was rallrd
before tLu i,ae.of commons in .nnlaud
to give u.- op.u.lu is to future eNcn,a.
For az. tal u.-lt appealaucr Of Mars
meant u3r OF Jupitrr. meant power, Of
the PiciuIe~. meant storms at sea- And,
as history move. II, circles, do not know
bat tnEi after awhile it may he found
that, rs THE moon hits the tides OF the sea
and the sun affects tine growth or Blasting
Of crops other world, besides tAOs, TWO
worlds may have something TO do with the
destiny Of individuals and nations in this
world.
THE WITNESS OF HEAVENS HOST.
do not wonder that the connections IN
the heavens excited the wise men on the
ullsht our Chlefraiu was born As he came
from another world and after thIrty-three
wears was again toeXchange worlds, it does
not seem strange to me that astronomy
should have felt the effect of hi, coming
And instead of being uubelieving about the
one star that stopped wonder that all the
worlds in the heavens did not that Christ
mas night make some special demou,,ra-
ton. Why should they leave to one world
or meteor the bearing of the news of the
humQuization of CHRISTI Where was Mar,