Milford chronicle., 1892-01-01
BEI'IlAEIlEM D4
DR.. TALMAGE RELATES HIS ExPE-
RieNcE At cHRlsT's BIRTHPLACE.

RleNcE At cHRIsT's BIRTHPLACE.
: Immortal Masterpieces of Art which
Portray the suenes of the Nativity.
Mission of Children in the Scriptures
The Shepherds and Other Heroes.
BROoKLYN, Dec 25.-Rev. DR.. Talmaae
preached this morning sermon apDro-
nriate to the Christmas season Taking mn
dbe subject of the Nativity, he drew from it
IONS which, though perfectly legitimate
are commonly overlooked. His text was
Luke ii, l6, And they came with haste
and found Mary and Joseph, and the Babe
lying in a mauger"
The black window shutters of a Decen,.
I Der night were thrown open and some of
the best singers Of Il world where they all |
sing stood there, and putting back the |
drapery of cloud, chanted a peace anthem. |
until all the echoes of hill and valley an
plauded aud encored the EIalleluiah chorus
Come, let us go into that Christmas scene rs
though we had never before worshiped nt
the manger Here is Il Madonna worth
looking ut. ! wonder not that the most
frequent name in all lands and in alI
Christian centuries is Mary. And tberf
are Marys in palaces and N,Srys in cabins
ana tho!ghGerman and French aud Italian
ana Spanish and English PRONOUNCE it diff
erently' they are all namesakes of the one
whom we find on bed of straw. With her
pale face against the soft cheek of Christ
10 the night OF the Nativity All tho great
painters have tried on canvas to pNesent :
mary ana her child and the ncideAts Of !
that most famous night of sthe worlds his
-ory Raphael, in three different nnSter | =
pieces, celebrated them. Tintoretto lnd
ihlrlandajO surpassed themselves in Nhe Y
idoration of the Magi Correggio nee,lsd :,
o do nothing more than his Madonna 70 ! !.
'ecome immortal The Madonna of th& / y
Aly' by Leonardo da Vinci, will kindIeN h
he admiration Of all ages But all the A.
alleries Of Dresden are forgotten when 4
nlnk OF the small room OF that gallery cen eII
aiming Sistine Madonna. Yet all of then, r
ere copies OF St Matthew's Madonna and
uke's Madonna, the inspired Madonna of
le Ola Book, which we had put into onr
lnds when we were infants, and that va.
1pe to have under our heads when we die
AMID THE BEASTS OF THE STALL
Behold, In the first place, Tint on the
st night Of Christ's lie God honored the 4
ute creation You cannot get into thai Vi
'thiehem barn without going past tho. 'l. 'l.
nels, the mules, the dogs. the oxen. 'Pba Voi
1tes of that stable heard the frs; CRY M chi
infant Lord. Some of the old painfci,s =,
present the oxen and camels lspeelipg n
Il night before the newborn babe. Ard Uoo
II might they kneeli Have Won eve, WIS
'ught that Christ came among Other IAN l,4
ngs to alleviate the suffernys of .h, S''S
tic creation? Was it not appropriate M, Aiie
{ he should, during the first few DAYS ene
nighGs OF ms life on earth, be sur e1e .t1'''l
lrrr Ita.rN rNrrs,, q,
plaint and believing have for a.,ea unell
n prayer to God for the arrestinu m cent
r tortures and the righting of tbei- stud
ngs? It did not merely ''happen so ever.
the unintelligent creatures of God Vls1s
I'D have been that night in close neigh see
loOd teles
1t kennel in all the centuries not - den j
3 nest, not Il wornOut horse on tow aIl tl
i not herd freezing in the poorly Iles $
cow pen, not freight car in summer way
bringing the beeves to market with does
water through a Thousand miles of ing al
y not surgeons room witnessing the great
ygles Of fox or rabbit or pigeon or ON
n the horrors of vivisection 6,+ 1.oa we sh
terest in the fact that Christ vas hnrr among
table, surrounded by brutes. lie re- Josep
bers that night, and the PRAYER he entlne
in their pitiful moan he will answer nethy
2 punishment of those who maItreat tlsts?
umb brutes. They surely have as IN the
right in this world as we have. In who $
st chapter Of Genesis you NAV soc NILS [
hey were placed on the earth before gentle
vas, the fish and fowl created the iftb US pra
M the quadrupeds the morning of .he roc
lth day, and man not until the after lawyer
u that day. The whale, the earle MS ial
M and all the lesser creatures of THEN tlah rel
we're predecessors Of the human ia 50 Deio
They have the world by right oi ates.
sion. They have also naid rent fo' Rock O
ICES they occupied. What nn n,.,,,, the ROs
nse all over the land are the faith yet rect
Ltchdogs. And who can tel Whit physiol,
Jrld owes to the borse nnJ o,n,oi and shy
for tiqlnsportationy And robin ,,rd get the
we, by the cantatas with which tj,a, and per-
He'd orchard and forest, more than perfect
= the few grains they have picked Whoiil
heir sustenance when voI, .,b,,s, the wis
ature Of God you strike its Creator worship
/ insult the Christ who tbonob H.. Behold
have been welcomed into Tfe L, that Go
and taken his first ipfantil. Sim, shePher,
lid Tyrian plusb and ,.,no,,i,.l child. ct
and rippling waters from rp,'oi good emo
is dripping into basins of w.. come in.
.rl chose to be born an the Iayol night dc
ows horn, or a camel's ho0f, or 4 roush "
stril that he might be the allevia nave bt
nimal suffering ms wnII nc fb, ~, the first
Of man. mas nigi
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. saviour
ng then, as imagine now do in the helds
thlehern night. With nm inean, in Bethlt
4 the one Side and the snecclisi. 'i' deep sleeI
5 OF God on the other, J cry look oi GoVefi
you strike the rONvel into that ward ma
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