The Globe-republican., 1894-03-09
CHRIST THE CONQUEROR.
DR.. Talmage on the Truths Of the
Christian Religion.
The Saviour's Work Accom- plished, 1t Re-
mains for Us to Accept 1.-THE Mar
tyrs OF Commercial and Do
mestic Life.

The subject of late sermon preached
at BROOKLYN by Rev. I. Dewitt Tai
mage was Christ the Conqueror." the
text being Isaiah xiii L: 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 strength" DIR. Tai
mage said:
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 Water
loo to describe a decisive contest of
any kind. SO the words Bozrah and
Edom in this text are figures of speech
descriptive of scene of great slaugh-
ter. Whatever else the prophet may
have meant to describe, he most GER
tainly 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"
When a general is about to GO out to
the wars. flag and a sword is publicly
presented to him, and the maidens
bring flowers, and young men load the
cannon, and the train starts amidst a
huZZa that browns the thunder OF the
wheels and the shrek of the whistle.
But all this will give no idea OF the eX-
element that there must have been in
Heaven when Christ started out on the
campaign of the worlds conquest If
they could have foreseen the siege that
would be laid to Him, and the NAL
treatment He would suffer. and the
burdens He would have to carry, and
the battles He would have to fight, l
think there would have been a million
volunteers in Heaven who would
have insisted on coming along
with Him; but no, they only &C
companied 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 wide difference
between a mans going off to battle
and coming back again. When he goes
off, it is with epaulets untangled, with
banner 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 start
ing out, and though this world did not
give Him warmhearted greeting,
there was gentle mother who folded
Him in her arms; and a babe finds no
difference between a stable and a
palace, between courtierS and camel
drivers. As Jesus stepped on
the stage of this world, it
was amidst angelic shouts in the
galleries and amidst the Endest mater
nal ministrations But soon hostile
forces began to gather. They deployed
from the Sanhedrim. They were de-
tailed from the standing army. They
came out from the Cesarean castles.
The vagabonds in the street joined the
gentlemen of the mansion. Spirits
rode up from hell, and in long array
there came a 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 gathered about
it? How feeble the recruits! A few
shoremen, a blind eggar, a woman
with an alabaster box. another woman
with two mites, and a 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 Jeru-
salem 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
snslaved race. and He must do the
work Then they sent out their pick
cts 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 ere might be a
reinforcement that was not seen. But
at last the battle came. 1t was to be
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 to-
gether. though Edmund Burke's esti-
mate of thirty-five thousand millions
of the slain be accurate The day was
Friday. The hour was between 12 and
so'clock. The field was slight hillOck
northwest of Jerusalem The forces
engaged were earth and hell, joined as
allies, on one side. and Heaven, repre-
sented by a solitary inha bitant, on the
other.
The hour came. Oh, what a time it
was! l think that that day the uni
verse 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 getting furlough from beneath
came up, and they listened and they