The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-03-09
CHRIST A C0NQUEROR
REV. DR.. TALMAGE PUTS OLDTRUTHS
IN A NEW GARB.

Glowing lllustrations--A Sermon For TIL
Unconverted.
BROOKLYN March 4.-From the star
Ting figure of the text chosen by Rev. Dr.
Talmage in his sermon in the Brooklyn
Tabernacle today the preacher brough
out the radical truths of the Christian
religion. It was sacramenta1 day in tn,
Tabernacle. The subject of the sermon
was "Christ the Conqueror," the text be
ing Isaiah xiii, /, "Who is this tha
cometh from Edom, with dyed garments
from Bozrah-this that is glorious in his
apparel, travelling in the greatness of his
strength?'
Edom and Bozrah, having been the
scene of fierce battle, when those words
are used here or in any other part of the
Bible they are figures of speech setting
forth scenes of severe conflict. AS now
we often use the word Waterloo to de-
scribe a decisive contest of any kind, so
the words Bozrah and Edom in this text
are figures of speech descriptive of a
scene of great slaughter. Whatever else
the prophet may have meant to describe,
he most certainly meant to depict the
Lord Jesus Christ saying, "Who is this
that cometh from Edom, with dyed gar
ments from Bozrah, travelling in the
greatness of his strength?'
GOING TO BATTLE.
When a general is about to go out to
the wars, a flag and sword are public
ly presented to him, and the maidens
bring flowers, and the young men load
the cannon, and the train starts amid
a huzza that browns the thunder of the
wheels and the shrek of the whistle. But
all this will give no idea of the excite
ment that there must have been in heav-
en- when Christ started out on the cam
paign of the worlds conquest. If they
could have foreseen the siege that would
be laid to him, and the maltreatment he
would suffer, and the burdens he would
have to carry, and the battles he would
have to fight, think there would have
been million volunteers in heaven who
would have insisted on coming along
with him. But no; they only accompa-
MED him to the gate; their last shout
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between the two worlds bridged with
great hosanna.
You know there is wide difference
between a mans going off to battle and |
coming back again. When he goes off,
it is with epaulets untangled, with ban
ner unspecked, with horses sleek and |
shining from the groom. All that there
IS of struggle and pain is to come yet. So
It was with Christ. He had not yet
fought battle. He was starting out,
md though this world did not give him
/ warm hearted greeting there was
gentle mother who folded him in her
lrms. And babe finds no difference
between stable and a palace, between
;ourtiers and camel drivers. -----
As Jesus stepped on the stage of this
world it was amid angelic shouts in the
galleries and amid the kindest maternal
But soon hostile forces
'egan to gather. They deployed from
he sanhedrin. They were detailed from
he standing army. They came out from
he Cesarean castles. The vagabonds in
he street Joined the gentlemen of the
mansion. Spirits rode up from hell, and
q long array there came force together
hat threatened to put to rout this newly
rived one from heaven.
Jesus, now seeing the battle gathering,
fled his own standard. But who gath
red about it? How feeble the recruits!
! few shoremen, blind beggar, a wom-
n with an alabaster box, another wom-
n with two mites and a group of friend
,ss, moneyless and positionless people
anne to his standard. What chance was
1ere for him? Nazareth against him,
ethlehem against him, Capernaum
gainst him, Jerusalem against him,
+alilee against him, the courts against
i'm, the army against him, the throne
yainst him. the world against him, all
ell against him. No wonder they asked
i'm to surrender.
But he could not surrender, he could
ot apologize, he could not take any
ack steps. He had come to strike for
lie deliverance of an enslaved race, and
, must do the work. Then they sent
1t their pickets to watch him. They
w in what house he went and when he
me out. They watched what he ate,
I'd who with; what he drank, and how
UGH. They did not dare to make their
lal assault, for they knew not but that
hind him there might be a reinforce
emit that was not seen.
But at last the battle came. 1t was to
more fierce than Bozrah, more bloody
an Gettysburg, involving more than
more combatants employed
an at Chalons, a ghastlier conflict than
the battles of the earth put together, l
ough Edmund Burke's estimate of
irty-five thousand millions of the slain I
accurate. The day was Friday. The I
ur was between 10 and o'clock. TIE t
Id was a slight hillock northwest of J
rusalem. The forces engaged were t
nth and hell, Joined as allies on one i
lie, and heaven, represented by soil
~ inhabitant, on the other. b
HERO OF EARTH AND HEAVEN.
The hour came. Oh, what a time it C
isl think that that day the universe
,ked on. The spirits that could be c
AIRED from the heavenly temple and b
uld get conveyance of wing or chariot a
me down from above, and spirits get e
e furlough from beneath came up; G