The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-04-28
CHRIST THE CoNQUEROR.
q oacremental Sermon by Rev. T.
Dewitt Talmage.
nr' Christ Has Done for Man Man 4.
Doing for Those Depend
ant Upon Him in tho
Home Circle.


was delivered by Rev. T. DeWitt IT.,
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next being:
VINO Is this that cometh from Edom. wit,
oyeo garments from Bozrah? this that Is p,or
Gus In his apparel. travelling In th. creatn..
OF mis- strength isaiah lxfii.
Edom and Bozrah, having been tb,
scene of fierce battle, when tho.,
words are used here or in any othe
part OF the Bible, they are figures q
speech setting forth scenes of never
conflict As now we often use tn,
word Waterloo to describe a decisiv,
contest OF any kind, so the words Roz
rah and Edom in this text are f;purs
OF speech descriptive of scene =
great slaughter. Whatever else an,
prophet may have moant to ,;A.rr;he
he most certainly meant to aan;ct ~,
Lord Jesus Christ, saving: ..Wbo !,
mat cometh from Edom. with dyet
garments from Boxrah, travelling II
she greatp ess of his strength?
"nen general is about to 60 on,
10 tae wars. a flag and sword are
paDiiciy presented to him. and the
maidens bring flowers, and the Young
men ieod the cannon. and the train
starts amid huzza that drovns
Lhe thunder of the wheels and the
mlek of the whistle. But all this
Will give no idea of the excitement
that there must have been in Heaven
wnen 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 NAL.
treatment He would suffer, and the
onruens He would have to carry, and
Inc battles He would have to fight. I
hnsnk there would have been a million
volunteers in Heaven who would have
insisted on coming along with Him;
out no. they only accompanied Him to
the gate, their last shout heard clear
down to the earth, the space be-
tween the two worlds hridred
with a great hosanna. You know
there is wide difference be-
tween a mans going off to battle
snd coming back again. When he goes
OH. 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 witch Christ.
He had not yet fought battle. He
was starting out. and though this
world did not give Him a warm-hearted
greetlng, there was gentle mother
VINO folded Him in her arms; and a
babe finds no difference between a
sta BILE and palace. between courtiers
and camel-drivers. As Jesus stepped
on the stage of this world. IL was
amidst angelic SHOUTS in the galleries
and amidst the kindest maternal adj
ministrations But soon hostile
forces began to gather. They de-
pioyed frorl the Sanhedrim. They
We're deta Led from the standing army.
hey G. mo out from the C@sarean cas-
Ties. the vagabonds in the street joined
thS gentlemen of the mansion. Spirits
lode 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 re-
cruits! A few shoremen, blind beg
gar, a woman with an alabaster box,
woman with two mites, and a |
group of friendless, moneyless and /
positionless people came to His stand
ard. 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 enslsved 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 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 combat
ants employed than at Chalons, a
rhastlier conflict than all the battles
Of the earth together, though Edmund
lsurke's estimate of thirty-five thou
sand millions of the slain be accurate.
The day was Friday. The hour was
between IL and 8 o'clock. The field
was slight hillock northwest of Jeru-
salem. The forces engaged were earth
and hell, joined as allies. on one side.
and Heaven represented by solitary
on the other.
The hour came. Oh, what time it
was! 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
,bove, and spirits getting furlough
rom beneath came up, and they list
,ned, and they looked. and they
watched. Oh, what an uneven battle!
Two worlds armed on sone side; an I'M
armed man on the other. The regi-
nent of the Roman army at that time
stationed at Jerusalem began the at
;ack They knew how to fight, for !
,hev belonged to the most thoroughly
,r;led army of all the world.