Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-09-28
THE SAVIOUR Is WITH Us
or. rALaA6E breaches ON THE
+ CONTINUED MISSION or CHRIST.
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ssa Mlssisa Of Today.

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The r.a ps.sis.. assT.y&L cEssiaxisa
and nissisa Of TODAY.
BRooxLYz. sept. y This Il Sacranasas
Sunday sr ne Brcoklyu TabeFnacle. TIE
ssrFiess as usual GA thsse ocexsioas were
very saieean ani impressive The morn
.sz service speasd vita the long Iss-
Ter esxsiezy. Ihs grand odsrtery by
GEison vas =xquisstely rendered BY Protes
ssr Henry Eyre browDe. aad axe service
closed with the majestic Coronation"
hyuan. DIR Talasgs' discourse WAS on he
March OF Christ Through the Centuries.
aad ais text Revelation III. y. On His
bead were MANY crowns"
Nay your sasas De alert and your thoughts
concentrated and all the powers Of your
soul aroused while | speak 70 you OF -ths
march OF Christ through the centuries.
You say, s'Glvs uz. then. good start. In
rooms Of vernailion and ON doors OF mo-
sale zna amid corridors OF poTphyry and
under eanoples dyed in al the splendogs OF
the setting sun" loa can hare no such
starting place. A. the time our'C hiefcain
was born there were castles on the beach
Of Cables aad palaces ~ Jerusalem and
imperial bathrooms at Jericho and ebo-
liAks &C Cairo and the Pantheon at Rome
with rs corinthian postlco and its sixteen
granite columns. and the Psrthencn ~
Atheas. with i;s glisten.ng corooes Of tenn
ples. and there were mountains q hns
architecture IN many parts of the world,
but none Of them Was To be the starting
pace OF the Chiefsain celebrate.
A cows stall, a winter month. an atmcs-
phsre In which are tie mean Of camels.
aud the basins OF sheep. and the barking
OF dogs. and tho rough banter of hosselries
He taxes bis first journey before he could
walk. Armed despsrsdoes. with hands OF
blood. were ready 20 snatch him down into
butcAary. Rev. William III. Thompson. the
veteran and beloved missionary. whom
Jaw this last moath In Denver. in his
eighty sixth year. has described, in his vol
ume entitled. The Land and the Book. !"
BeshIehem Us he SAW it.
Winter 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 special
attention. The other fact that it WAS the
birrhplaee OF our Chieftain did not keep
the place In after years from special dis
honor, for Hadrian b1i,s there the Grove
OF Adonis. and for one hundred aud eighty
years the religion there observed was the
most abhcrrrns debaucaery the world has
ever seen Our Chiestain was considered
dangerous from the start. Tho world had
put suspicious eyes upon him because ut the
tiuls Of his birth the astrologers had seen
stellar eommotions-a world out Of its
place and shooting down toward q cara
vanssry. Star divination wxs . science.
a. late as the Eighteenth century IL had
It's votaries. Al the court Of Cxtharine de
MsdIci IL was honored.
Kepler. one OF the wiyess philosophers
that the world ever saw, declared 1t was
q true science. As late az the reign Of
Charles II. Lilly. an astrologcr, was called
before the house commons In England
20 give his opinion a. TO future. events
For ages the bright appearance Of Mars
meant war. OF Jupiter. meant power; Of
the Pleiasies. meant storms at sea. And.
- history moves in circles, do not know
bus that after awhile 10 may be found
that, rs the moon lifts the tides Of the sea
and the sun Affects the growth or blasting
OF crops, other worlds besides those two
worlds may have something TO do with the
destiny Of individuals and nations In this
world
THE WITNESS OF HEAvzx's Hosr.
lido nos wonder that the connections in
the heaveas excited the wise men on the
night our Chieisain was born A. he came
from another world and after thirty three
years was again 20 exchange worlds. IL does
not seem strange to me that astronomy
should have felt the effect OF his coming.
Aud instead Of being unbelieving about the
one star teas stopped l wonder that all the
worlds In the heavens did not that Christ
mas night make some special demonstra-
ton. Why should they leave to one world
or meteor the bearing OF the news Of the
humsu.xation OF Christi Where was Mars
that night that it did not indicate the
mighty wars that were TO come between
righteousness and iniquityf Where was
jupiter that night that IL did not cele-
brats omnipotencs incarnatedi waere
were the PIeiadss that night that they did
not announce the storms OF persecution
that would assall our chieftain-
Ia watching this march Of Christ through
the centuries. we aust not walk before
him o. beside hin. for that would not be
reversn.sal or worshipful So we walk be-
hind him We follow him while not yet
Ia eis teens. mp jerusalem terrace. to a
building six hund--sd feet long and six
hundred fsee wide. and under the hoyectng
spiendcr of. gstsxays. snd By pillar
crowned with capital chsseled into the
shape Of flowers and leaves. and along by
walls OF baxeled masonry and near mar
bic screen. until = group OF white haired
philosophers and theoiogisns gather around
him. aud then the boz bewIidsrs and con-
Pounds and ovrrwhelms these scholarly
septuagenArians with questions they can
not answer. AID under his quick why's and
uhyfors aad hows and whens they pail
their white boards with embarrassment
sad rub tksir wriakied forcheads in CON
fusion. and. putting their stats hard down
on ths marble floor - they arise To 60
they must feel ESs ending the boidness
thss allows tweive years Of age IN ask
ssvsnsy-sve years 81 s-- such puzzlers.
Out OF this oriidin- wefollov him into the
Cuarantaais the mountain OF temptation,
- side 70 this saT black with robbers
dsrs Looks Up the side % this mountain
CONS ell tie forces Of rsrlition 60 effect
cur Chisftains captnre Bus although
weakened By forty s'sgs and forty rights
81 abstinence. he hurts al pandemoairm
down the rscks. sngxestivc Of how he can
huri into hclpie~sness all our TEN ptstions
And now we climb right after him mp the
Tough sides Of the Mount OF Bestitndes, -
ard on 81. highest puipis 81 rocks. tha
Valley OF Hsssn before hin. the Lake 1t
Gasiles te the right % him: the Medlserra-
mean sea 90 the left sf him. aud he presdArs
= sernaon thar yes viii tvansform the wetld
with ia supplied sentiment Vow We fol-
low ear Chieftsia on Lake Gsiilse We
mu-s Keep - she e-sch, fos our fest are noe
shod wish tas supernatural and vs re-
rncu,h~r ~hst poor work Peter mads II il