The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-03-16
CHRIST THE C0NQUEROR.
A Sacramental Sermon by Rev. T.
Dewitt Talmage.
What Christ Has Done for Man Man Is
Constantly Doing for Those Depend
ant Upon Him In the
Home Circle. 5sa

The following sacramental discourse |
on the subject: Christ the Conqueror''
was delivered by Rev. I. Dewitt Tai /
mage in the Brooklyn tabernacle, the |
text being: i
Who is this that cometh from Edom. with |
dyed garments from Bozrah? this that Is glor1- |
GUS in his apparel, travelling in the greatness
of his strength?-Isaiah xiii. s
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 describe decisive
contest of any kind, so the words Boz
rah and Edom in this text are figures
of speech descriptive of 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
that cometh from Edom, with dyed
garments from Bozrah, travelling in
the greatness of his strength?
When general is about to go out
to the wars, flag and sword are
publicly presented to him, and the
maidens bring flowers, and the young
men load the cannon, and the train
starts amid huzza that browns
the thunder of the wheels and the
| shi iek of the whistle. But all this
will give no idea of the excitement
that there must have been in Heaven
when Christ started out on the cam
paign of the worlds conquest. Ii they
could have foreseen the siege that
| A1aT H.
| 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 million
volunteers In Heaven who would have
insisted on coming along with Him;
but no, they only accompanied Him to
the gate, their last shout heard clear
down to the earth, the space be-
tween the two worlds brdged
with a great hosanna. You know
there is wide difference be-
tween 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. de
was starting out. and though this
world did not give Him warm-hearted
greeting, there was a gentle mother
who folded Him in her arms; and a
babe finds no difference between
stable and palace, between courtlers
} and camel-drivers. AS Jesus stepped
/ on the stage of this world, it was
r amidst angelic shouts in the galleries
9 and amidst the l<indest maternal adj
i ministrations. But soon hostile
4 forces began to gather. They de-
}. ploved from the Sanhedrim. They
were detailed from the standing army
E They came out from the C@sarean cas-
? ties. The vaga bonds in the street Joined
8 the gentlemen of the mansion. Spirits
rode up from hell, and in long array
!, there came a force together tha'
threatened to put to rout this newly
d arrived one from Heaven. Jesus nov
= seeing the battle gathering lifted Hi
e own Standard; but who gathered
j about it? How feeble the re
/. cruits! A few shoremen, a blind beg
a gar. woman with an alabaster box
another woman with two mites, and I
is group of friendless, moneyless AM
II positionless people came to His stand
ard. What chance was there for Him
O Nazareth against Him. Bethlehem
r. against Him. Capernaum against Him
70 Jerusalem against Him.. Galile
against Him. The courts against Him
2. The army against Him. The thron
y, against Him. The world against Him
le All hell against Him. No wonde
thev asked Him to surrender. But Il
1f could not surrender, He could no
/, apologize, He could not take any bac
X steps. He had come to strike for tn
deliverance of an enslaved race, an
IL He must do the work. Then they ser
Ii out their piokets to watch Him. Ihe
saw in what house He went, and whe
w He came out. They watched what ID
ate. and who with; what He dranl
ID and how much. They did not dare
or make their final assault, for they kne
ne not but that behind Him there migf
de be reinforcement that was not seel
O | Rut at last the battle came. 1t w;
5e to be more fierce than Bozrah, mo-
Iv bloody than Gettysburg. involvin
more than Austerlitz, more comoa
m ants employed than at ChaIons'
rhastlier conflict than all the battl
90 of the eafID GOg6GnSls ohOOF1A - -
nm Burl<e's estimate of thirty-hve tho
an sand millions of the slain be aceurat
u The dav was Friday. The hour w
a. between 70 and o'clock. The fe
was slight hillock northwest OF Jer
se salem. The forces engaged were ear
as and hell. Joined as allies, on one sid
no and Heaven represented by sollta
zee inbabitant, on the other
,rbe hour came. oh, what time
It wasl I think that that day the VI
; verse looked on. The spirits tn
hit couId be spared from the heaven
ay temple, and could get conveyance
at wing or chariot. came down frc
above, and spirits getting furlou
ell from beneath came up, and they II
ened, and they looked, and til
yn watched. Oh, what an uneven bait
he Two worlds armed on sone side; an I
armed man on the other. The re
D." ment of the Roman army at that I'll
led stationed at Jerusalem began the
+aclx They knew how to fight
Go they belonged to the most thorough
drilled army of all the wor
full with spears glittering in
,dy sun they charge up the hill. I
nd horses prance and rear ami
nd the excitement of the populace-t
see heels of the riders plunged in
tanks, urging them on. The weap'
begin TO tell on Christ. See how ia
-. an' He looks. There the blood starts, 8
there. and there, aDd there, II lie