Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-03-07
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-u MAGE PUTS oLDTRUTHs
IN A NEW eARe.

80 Sermon Full of the Well
oocber's Apt Metaphors and
linz IllustratiOns-A sermo" For the
.cursrted'
IVY March 4.-From the star
n-sof the text chosen by Rev. DIR.
'ir his sermon in the Brooklyn
...cle today the preacher brought
radical truths of the Christian
II was sacramental day in the
.o,e The subject of the sermon
sTSrist l% the Conqueror," the text be-
,iah xiii. /, "Who is this that
u s'h,a from Edom, with dyed garments
5D pDo,rab-this that is glorious in his
! travelling in the greatness of his
n and Bozrah, having been the
a. fierce battle, when those words
.od here or in any other part of the
tbev are figures of speech setting
zones un of severe 1nfict As now
aon rse the v.Jrd Waterloo to de-
oo decisive contest OF any kind, SO
4 rords Bozrah and Edom in this text
\ sgnres of speech descriptive of a
y Of great slaughter. Whatever else
4 ..onbet NAV have meant to describe,
ro.t certainly meant to depict the
4 ! Iesus Christ saying, "Who is this
\ cometb from Edom, with dyed gar-
3"ts from Bozrah, travelling in the
illness of his strength"
GOING TO BATTLE.
rboa a general is about 10 go out to
wars, a flag and sword ere public
resented to him, and the maidens
5fng flowers, and the young men load
\. cannon, and the train starts amid
,rzza that drovns the thunder of the
4sels and the shrek of the whistle. But
tbis will give no idea of the excite
nt that there must have been in heav-
when Christ started out on the cam
ion of the worlds conquest. II they
MAJ have foreseen the siege that Tould
shid TO him. and the maltreatnent he
mild suffer, and the burdens he would
we to carry, and the battles he would
lave to fight, think there would has
cen million volunteers in heaven who
IOuld have insisted on coming along
.nh him. But no; they only Gccompa-
nd him to the gate; their last shout
ard clear down to the earth; the space
tween the two worlds bridged with a
reat hosanna.
You know there is a wide difference
etween mans going off to battle and
,ming back again. When he goes off,
is with epaulets untangled, with ban
.r unspecked, with horses sleek and
lining from the groom. All that there
Of struggle and pain is to come yet. Sc
was with Christ. He had Iot YET
,ught a battle. He was starting out
nd though this world did not give hin
warm hearted greeting there was
sntle mother who folded him in hel
ms. And a babe finds no difference
etween stable and a palace, between
yurtiers and camel drivers.
As Jesus stepped on the stage OF thi'
Orld it was amid angelic shouts in thu
llleries and amid the kindest materna
inistrations. But soon hostile force
gan to gather. They deployed from
le sanhedrin. They were detailed from
e standing army. They came out from
e Cesarean castles. The vagabonds il
e street joined the gentlemen of tn
ansion. Spirits rode up from hell, an'
long array there came force togethe'
atthreatened to put to rout this newl.
rived one from heaven.
Jesus, now seeing the battle gathering
ted his own standard. But who gath
ed about it? How feeble the recruits
few shoremen, a blind beggar, won
with an alabaster box. another won
with two mites and a group of friend
S, moneyless and positionless peopl
me to his standard. What chance wa
ere for himp Nazareth against him
thlehem against him, Capernaun
ainst him, Jerusalem against him
.lilee against him, the courts agalns
n, the army against him, the thron
ainst him, the world against him, a.
i against him. No wonder they aske'
n to surrender.
But he could not surrender, he coul
apologize, he could not take an
* steps. He had come to strike TO
deliverance of an enslaved race, an
must do the work. Then they sen
their pickets to watch him. The
y in what house he went and when h
ne out. They watched what lie at;
who with; what he drank, and ho0
lch. They did not dare to make thei
al assault, for they knew not but tina
hind him there might be a re-enforce
snt that was not seen.
But at last the battle came. 1t was 7
more fierce than Bozrah, more blood
an Gettysburg, involving more ina
usterlitz, more combatants employe
AN at Chalons. a ghastlier conflict ina
the battles of the earth put togethe
!ough Edmund Burke's estimate
irty. five thousand millions OF the slal
accurate. The day was Friday. II
our was between 12 and 8 o'clock, II
eld was slight hillock northwest
erusalem. The forces engaged we
arth and hell, joined as allies on o.
lde, and heaven, represented by a SO
lry iuhabitant, on the other.
HERO or EARTH AND HEANEN.