Connecticut western news., 1894-03-08
CHRIST A CONQUEROR
REV. DR. TALMAGE PUTS OLD TRUTHS
 IN A NEW CARE.

REV. DR. TALMAGE PUTS OLD TRUTHS
 IN A NEW CARE.
 A Remarkable Sermon Full of the We'll
 Known Prsachsr's Apt Metaphors and
 Glowing nlustrntIons-A Sermon For the
 Unconverted.
 BROOKLYN, March 4.-From the star Hing figure of the text chosen by Rev. Dr. Talmage in his sermon in the Brooklyn Tabernacle today the preacher brought out the radical truths of the Christian religion. 1t was sacramental day in the Tabernacle. The subject of the sermon was ''Christ the Conqueror," the text be- ing Isaiah xiii, 1, "Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah-this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strengthY'
 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 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, sWho is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed gar ments from Bozrah, travelling in the greatness of his strength
 GOING TO BATTLE.
 When general is about to go out to tho wars, a flag and sword are public ly presented to him, and the maidens bring flowers, and the young men load tho cannon, and the train starts amid a huzza that drowns the thunder of the wheels and the shriek 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 haves to fight, I think there would have been million volunteers in heaven who would have insisted on coming along with him. But no; they only accompa- nied him to the gate; their last shout heard clear down to the earth; the space between the two worlds bridged with great hosanna.
 You know there is awide 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, and though this world did not give him 8 warm hearted greeting there was gentle mother who folded him in her arms And babe finds no difference between stable and a palace, between courtiers 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 manifestations. But soon hostile forces began to gather. They deployed from the sanhedrin. They were detailed from the standing army. They came out from the C@sarean castles. The vagabonds in the street joined the gentlemen of the mansion. Spirits rode up from hell, and in long array there came force together that threatened to put to rout this newly arrived one from heaven.
 Jesus, now seeing the battle gathering, lifted his own standard. But who gath cred about it? How feeble the recruitsi A few shoremen, a blind beggar, a wom- an with an alabaster box. another wom- an with two mites and group of friend less, moneyless and positionless people came to his standard. What chance was there for him? Nazareth against him, Bethlehem against him, Capernaum against him, Jerusalem against him, Galilee against him, the courts against him, the army against him, the throne against him, the world against him, all hell against him. No wonder they asked him to surrender.
 But he could not surrender, he could not apologize, he could not take any back steps. He had come to strike for the deliverance of an enslaved race, and he must do the work. Then they sent out their pickets to watch him. They saw in what house he went and when he came out. They watched what he ate, and who with; what he drank, and how much. They did not dare to make their final assault, for they knew not but that behind him there might be re-enforce- ment that was not seen.
 But at last the battle came. It was to he more fierce than Bozrah, more bloody than Gettysburg, involving more than Austerlitz, more combatants employed than at Chalons, a ghastlier conflict than all the battles of the earth put together, though Edmund Burke's estimate of thirty five thousand millions of the slain be accurate. The day was Friday The hour was between 12 and 8 o'clock. The field was 8 slight hillock northwest of Jerusalem. The forces engaged were earth and hell, joined as allies on one side, and heaven, represented by soli- tary inhabitant, on the other.
 HERO OF EARTH AND HEAVEN.
 The hour came. Oh, what a time it wasl think that that day the universe looked on. The spirits that could be spared from the heavenly temple and could get conveyance of wing or chariot came down from above, and spirits get ting furlough from beneath came up; and they listened. and they looked, and they watched. Oh, what an uneven bat tel Two worlds armed on one side; an unarmed man on the other. The regi- ment of the Roman army at that time stationed at Jerusalem began the attack. They knew how to fight, for they be- longed to the most thoroughly drilled army of all the world. With spears gilt tering in the sun they charged up the hill. The horses prance and rear amid the excitement of the populace-the heels of the riders plunged in the Hanks, urg ing them on.
 The weapons begin to tell on Christ. See how faint he looks! There the blood starts, and there, and there, and there.