Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-03-10
CHRIST A C0NQUR0R
REV. DR.. TALMAeE PUTS OLD TRUTHS
IN A NEW GARB.

Known Preachers Apt Metaphors an,
Glowing IIlustratlons-A Sermon Hort
Unconyerted. -
BROOKLYN, March 4.-Fromi thb star
ting figure of the text chosen by Riy. DR.
Talmage in his sermon in the BrYoklyl
Tabernacle today the preacher bpugh
out the radical truths of the Christian
religion. 1t was sacramento taylin th'
Tabernacle. The subject of the sermon
was "Christ the Conqueror," tle text be
ing Isaiah xiii, I, "Who is this thai
cometh from Edom, with dyed garment.
from Bozrah-this that is glorious in his
apparel, travelling in the greatness Of hi;
strength"
Edom and Bozrah, having been the
scene of fierce battle, when THOSE words
are used here or in any other prt 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, SC
the words Bozrah and Edom in this text
are figures of speech descriptive of q
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 general is about to goout to
the wars, flag and sword arepublic-
ly presented to him, and the lhaidens
bring flowers, and the young men load
the cannon, and the train starts amid
huzza that browns the thunderof the
wheels and the Shrek of the whistle. But
all this will give no idea of the excite
ment that there mrst Lave been in heay-
en- when Christ started out on the cam
paign of the worlds conquest II they
could have foreseen the siege thatwould
be laid to Kim, and the maltreatlnent he
would suffer, and the burdens he5would
have to carry, and tie battles heswould
have to fight, think there would have
been a million volunteers in heaven who
would have insisted on coming along
with him. Dut no; tl:cy only accompa-
MED him to the gate. their lastshout
heard clear down to til" earth; the space
between the two worlds bridsed with q
great hosanna.
You know there is wide difference
between mans going off to battle and
coming back again. When he goes off,
it is with epaulets untangled, with Ian
ner unspecked, with horses sleek and
shining from the groom. All thatthere
S of struggle and pain is to come yet. So
t was with Christ. He had not yet
ought a battle. He was starting out,
md though this world did not give him
| warm hearted greeting there was
yentle mother who folded him ia her
rms. And babe finds no difference
,atweA,as tae SO Oh TIC sttsge c this
world it was amid angelic shouts an the
.alleries and amid the kindest maternal
But soon hostile forces
began to gather. They deployed from
he sanhedrin. They were detailed from
he standing army. They came outfrom
he Cgsarean castles. The vagabonds in
he street joined the gentlemen Of the
mansion. Spirits rode up from hell, and
n long array there came force together
hat threatened to put to rout this newly
,,r;vad one from heaven.
Jesus, now seeing the battle gathering,
fitted his own standard. But who gath
,red about it? How feeble the recraitsl
A few shoremen, blind beggar, pm-
an with an alabaster box, another ypm-
an with twomites and group of frind-
ess, moneyless and positionless peple
came to his standard. What chancefas
there for him? Nazareth against I'm,
Bethlehem against him, Capernpm
against him, Jerusalem against i'm,
Galilee against him, the courts agnst
him, the army against him, the tone
against him, the world against hill all
hell against him. No wonder they ked
him to surrender.
But he could not surrender, 10 pun
not apologize, he could not tak!any
back steps. He had come to STIR for
the deliverance of an enslaved raGand
he must do the work. Then theSent
out their pickets to watch him. hey
saw in what house he went and wfn he
came out. They watched what late,
and who with; what he drank, anhow
much. They did not dare to makheir
final assault, for they knew not brhat !
behind him there might be a re-eIrce-
ment that was not seen. :,
But at last the battle came. ltEs to
be more fierce than Bozrah, more ody
than Gettysburg, involving NOR han c
Austerlitz, more combatants enpyed
than at Chalons, a ghastlier confi1 han c
all the battles of the earth put t0her, L
though Edmund Burke's estim of a
thirty-ive thousand millions of tllain e
be accurate. The day was FridaThe g
hour was between 10 and 8 o'clocThe n
field was q slight hillock northit of b
Jerusalem. The forces engageyere Il
earth and hell, joined as allies one I!
side, and heaven, represented oysoh- "
tary inhabitant, on the other.
HERO OF EARTH AND HEAvE
The hour came. Oh, what re it 81
was! think that that day the 7erse q
looked on. The spirits that q be g
spared from the heavenly tenn and Il
could get conveyance of wing o1riot Sc
came down from above, and spiget- tt
ting furlough from beneath cup; Sc
and they listened, and they looiand &c
they watched. Oh, what an uneoat- OIL
tie! Two worlds armed on one an re
unarmed man on the other legl- m
ment of the Roman army at THINE W
stationed at Jerusalem began theck. hi
They knew how to fghts for 1be- er
longed to the most Thoroughbred W
army of all the world. With spqlt- bl
tering in the sun they charSedthe tn
hill. The horses prance and rqid ar
the excitement of the populace-lels