The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-03
CHRISTvS MISSION.
Rev DR. Talnage breaches Christ
mas Sermons
The Worlds Greatest Emancipators Were
All Of Lowly Birth -- Tho Offenders
Bopo-Season OF Forbearance and
Forgisencas--Good VIII TO Men.

10
A. midnight from one of the gallerie
Of the sky chant broke. 10 an OF
binary observer there was no reaso
for such a celestial demonstrate
poor man and wife-travelers, .Josep
and Mary by name-had lodged in a
outhouse OF an unimportant village
The supreme hour Of solemnity ha
passed, and upon the pallid forehea
and cheek of Mary God had set the dig
nifty. tho grandeur, the tenderness, tn
everlasting and divine significance o
motherhood
But such scenes had often occurrot
IN Bethlehem. yet never before had {
star been unfixed or had baton o
Hight marshaled over the hills winged
orchestra II there had been sucl
brilliant and mighty recognition at an
advent in the house Of Pharaoh, or al
an advent in the house Of Caesar, or the
house Of HapsburR. or the house o,
Stuart, we would not 50 much have
wondered but barn seems too poor a
center for such delicate and archan.
Eelfc cfrcnmterencA Tho stage Seems
too small for SO great an act. the music
too grand for such unapprecintive au-
dftors~ tho window Of tho stable too
guide to be serenaded by other worlds
It Is my joy to tell you what was
worn that night In tho village barn,
ind rs want to make my discourse
Gccumura tive and c1imacteric begin
In the frst place by telling ron that
thst night in this Bethlehem manager
WAS born encouragement for oil the
poorly stzrted He had only two
friends -they his parents. No satin.
lined cradle, no delicate attentions,
out straw, and tina cattle, and the
coarse jolse and banter of the camel
drivers No wonder the midnival
painters represent tho oxen as kneel-
ing before tina infant Jesus for there
were no men there ct that time to
worship From the depths of that
property he arose until to-day he is
honored in all Christiandom and sits
on the imperial throne in Heaven.
! What nzme is mightiess to-day in
sChristendom9 Jesus. Who has more
,zriends on enrth than any other being?
Iesust Before whom do the most
thousands kneel In chapel and church
and cathedral this hour2 Jesus! From
what depths of poverty to what height
of renownf And SO let all those who
are poorly started remem Der that they
cum not be more poorly born or more
than this Christ. |
Let them look up to his example while |
they have time and eternity to imi- |
tate It.
Do yoG know that the vast majority |
OF the worlds deliverers had barnlike
birth places7 Luther, the emancipation
Of religion, born among the mines
the emancipation of liter
allure, born in an humble home at
Standardization. Columbus, the dis
coverer of world, born in poverty at
Genoa Hogarth, the discoverer of
how to make art accumulative and ad-
of virtue, born in an
humble home in Westmoreland. Kitto
and Prideaux, whose keys unlocked
new apartments in the Holy Scrip
lures which had never been entered,
born in want Yes, have to tell you
hat nine out of ten of the worlds de-
iverers were born in want
I stir your holy ambitions to-day,
ind want to tell you, although the
whole world may be opposed to you,
md inside and outside of your occupa-
IONS or professions there may be those
rho would hinder your ascent, on
rUur side and enlisted in your behalf
re the sympathetic heart and the al
mighty arm of one who one Christmas
light about eighteen hundred and
Iinety-five years ago was wrapped in ;
clothes and laid in man
,er. Oh, what magnificent encourage
uent for the poorly started
Again, have TO tell you that in that .
fllage barn that night was born good
vii TO men, whether you call it kind
lesS or forbearance. or forgiveness. or
-eniaIity. or affection, or love.
It was no sport of high Heaven to s
end its favorfte to that humiliation. '
{ was sacrifice for a rebellious world
lfter the calamity in paradise, not on a
7 did the OK begin to gore, and the /
oder to sting. and the elephant to o
mite with his tusk, and the lion to q
ut TO bad use tooth and paw, but I'M I
err the very tree from which the for d
idden fruit was plucked were Matched u
at war and revenge and malice and t
nvy and jealousy and the whole brood v
cocl1atricea Ia
But against that scene / set the s
ethlehem Manager, which says, BLESS 2
lther than curse, endure rather than Il
xsault" and that Christmas night '
ufs ont vindfcfivane<z IL eave
Sheathe your sword, dismount your n
uns, oiSmantIe your batteries, turn
he warzhip Constellation, that car d
les shot and shell into grain ship to '
AXE food TO furnishing Ireland, hook '
our cavalry horses TO the pillow. use 9
our deadly gunpowder in blasting I;