Connecticut western news., 1891-10-01
THE MARCH OF CHRIST.
SERVICES OF SACRAMENT SUNDAY AT DR. TALMAGE'S TABERNACLE.


 of Christ's Separate Walks from Beth
 lehem to Calvary.
 BROOKLYN, Sept. 27.-This is Sacrat ment Sunday at the Brooklyn Taber- nacle. The services as usual on these occasions were very solemn and impress sive. The morning service opened with the Long Meter Doxology, The grand offertory by Grison was exquisitely rendered by Professor Henry Eyre Browne, and the service closed with the majestic "Coronation" hymn. Dr. Talnage's discourse was on "The March of Christ Through the Centuries" and his text Revelation xix, 12, "On his head were many crowns"
 May your ears be alert and your thoughts concentered, 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 a good start, in rooms of vermilion and on floor of mosaic and amid corridors of porphyry and under canopies dyed in all the splendors of the setting sum-" You can have no such starting place At the time our Chieftain was born, there were castles on the beach of Cali lee, and palaces at Jerusalem, and i'm perial bathrooms at Jericho, and obe lisks at Cairo, and the Pantheon at Rome, with it's corinthian portico and it's sixteen granite columns; and the Parthenon at Athens, with it's glistening coronet of temples; and there were parts of the world. But none of them were to be the startling place of the Chieftafn celebrate. .
 A cows stall. a winter month, an at Inosphere ill which are the moan of camels, and the baaing of sheep, and the barking of dogs, and the rough banter of hostleries He takes his first Journey before he could walk Armed desperadoes with hands of blood were ready to snatch him down into butch cry Rev William H. Thompson, the veteran and beloved missionary whom I saw this last month in Denver, in his eighty sixth year. has described ill his volume entitled, ''rhe Land and the Book" Bethlehem as he saw it. Win, ter before last I 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 ele vated the village into any special at tention. The other fact that it was the birthplace of our Chieftain did not keep the place in after years from spe cial dishonor, for Hadrian built there the Grove of Adonis and for one hun dred and eighty years the religion there observed was the most abhorrent de bauchery the world has ever seen. Our Chieftain was considered dangerous from the start. The world had put suspicious eyes upon him because at the time of his birth. the astrologers had seen stellar commotions. world out of its place and shooting down to ward caravansary. Star divination was science. As late as the Eight eenth century it had it's votaries. At the court of Catharine de Medici it was honored. Kepler, one of the wisest philosophers that the world ever saw declared it was q true science.
 As late as the reign of Charles II, 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. And as history moves in cir cles. l do not know but that afte, awhile it may be found that as the moon lifts the tides of the sea and the sun affects the growth or blasting oi crops, other worlds besides those two worlds may have something to do with the destiny of individuals and nations in this world
 THE SYMPATHETIC STARS.
 l do not wonder that the co1uluo tions i'll 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, 1t does not seem strange to ne that astronomy should have felt the effect of his coming And instead of being unbelieving about the one star that stopped, wonder that all the worlds in the heavens did moi that Christmas night make some speria demonstration. Why should they leave to one world or meteor the bearing o the news of the humanization of Christ Where was Mars that night that it die not indicate the mighty wars that were to come between righteousness ano inlquity2 Where was Jupiter thai night that 1t did not celebrate omnipo tence incarnated2 Where were the Pleiades that night that they did no announce the storms of persecution that would assan our Chieftain2
 In watching this march of Chris through the centuries, we must not walk before him or beside him, for tha would not be reverential or worship tul. So we walk behind him. We fol low him while not yet in his teens. up { Jerusalem terrace, to building si7 hundred feet long and six hundred fee wide, and under the lowering splendo of gateways. and by a pillar crowned with capital chiseled into the shape o flowers and leaves, and along by wall of beveled masonry and near mar ble screen until group of white haired philosophers and theologian gather around him, and then th boy bewilders and confounds ane overwhelms these scholarly septuage narians with questions they cannot an swer, and under his quick why's ane wherefores and hows and whens the! pull their white boards with embarrass ment, and rub their wrinkled forehead in confusion and uniting their Staf