The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-29
FOR -.
Latest Discourse from Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage.

Witt Talmage.
The People Ace Gathering Around Chris
fcrKs fardon-The World Can Of
fer No HeIp-Looking to
the Saviour.
The text for the latest sermon
preached by DIR. Talmage at Washing
ton was from Genesis, XliX:1O: "Untc
Him shall the gathering of the people
be-" Following is the m
Through a supernatural lens, OF
what | might call a prophescope. dying
Jacob looks down through the cor
ridors of the centuries until he sees
Christ the center of all popular attrac'
ton and the greatest being of all the
world, so everywhere acknowledged. II
was not always so. The world tried
hard to put Him down n put Him
out. In the year 1900, while eXcavat'
ing for antiquities SO miles north OF
Rome, a copper plate tablet was found
containing the death warrant of the
Lord Jesus Christ, reading in this wise;
"In the year IL of the empire OF
Tiberius Caesar, and on the 25th OF
March, i, Pontius PLATE, governor OF
the Praetore, condemned Jesus of Naz'
areth to die between two thieves,
Quintius Cornelius to lead him forth
to the execution"
The death warrant W a signed by
several names. First, by Daniel, rabbi
Pharisee; secondly, by Johannes, rabbi;
thirdly, by Raphael; fourthly, by
Capet, a private citizen. The capital
punishment was executed according to
law. The name of the thief crucifed
on the right hand side of Christ was
Dismas; the name of the thief cruci-
fed on the left hand side Of Christ
NJ Gestus. Pontius PLATE, discrib-
ing the tragedy, says the whole world
lighted candles from noon until night.
Thirty-three years of maltreatment
They ascribe His birth to bastardy and
His death to excruciation. A wall of
the city, built about those times and
recently exposed by psychologists,
shows a ~caricature of Jesus Christ,
evidencing the contempt In which He
was held by many in His day-that
~caricature on the wall representing a
o and q donkey nailed to it, and
under 1t the inscription: This is Jesus
Christ whom the people worship"
But 1 rejoice that that day is gone
by. Our Christ is coming out
from under the worlds abuse. The
most popular name on earth to-day Is
the name of Christ. Where He had n
friend Christ has a thousand friends,
The scoffers have become the worship
ers. OF the q most celebrated infidels
In Great BritEin in our day, 16 have
come back to Christ, trying to undo
the blatant mischief of their lives-16
out Of the 90. Every mar who writes
q letter or signs a document Willingly
or unwittingly, honors Jesus Christ
We date everything as B. c., or A.. D.
B. c., before Christ; A D., Ammo
Domini, in the year of our Lord. All
the ages of history on the pivot of the
upright beam of the Cross of the Son
of God, b. C., A. d. l do not care
what you call Him-whether Con-
queror, or King, or Morning Star, or
Sun OF Righteousness, or Balm of Gill
cad, or Lebanon Cedar, or Brother, or
Friend, or take the name used In the
verse from which l take my text, and
Hin. Shiloh, which means His Son,
or the Tranquilator, or the Peace
Shiloh. 1 only want to tell
you that ''unto Him shall the gather
ing of the people be-"
In the first place, the people. are
gathered around CHRIST for pardon,
No sensible man or BEAUTIFULLY am
man il satisfied with his past
life. A fool may think he is all right
A sensible man knows he is not do
not care who the thoughtful man 10,
the review Of his lifetime behavior ber
God and man gives to him no es-
satisfaction. oh" he says,
there have been SO many things !
have done | ought not to have done;
there have been so many things I have
aid I ought never to have said; there
rave been SO many things Lshave writ
] ought never to have written;
have been SO many things l have
thought I ought never to have thought,
I must somehow get things Feadjusted,
[ must somehow have the past recon
,tructed; there are days and months
md years which cry out against me in
horrible vociferation." All! my brother,
Christ adjusts the past by celebrating
I. He does not erase the record of our
nisdoing with q dash of ink from a
registers pen, but lifting His right
hand. red at the palms, He puts it
His bleeding brow, and then
his pierced side, and with the
accumulation OF all those
Wounds He rubs out the accusatory
He blots out our iniquities-
Dbl meyer be anxious about the future;
peter be anKiops about the past 1
,ut It not at the end Of my sermoni
,ut IL at the 'front.' Mercy and pardon
h-oroh Shiloh the Rin-na rdnninG
christ. unto Him shall the gather
ne Of the people bs.o
But, 1 remark again. the people will
rather around Christ as a symPathizer.
)hi we all want sympathy. 1 hear
talk Is though they were indie
,endent of it. None Of US could live
Without sympathy. When parts of our
are away, how lonely the house
Gems until they all get homel But,
Ilasl for those who come homo.
1t seems as if it must be ign
What, will their feet never
come over the thresholdP Will
hey never again sit with US at the
able? VIII they never again kneel
as at family prayer? Shall we
lever again look into their sunny
aees7 Shall we never again on earth
AXE counsel with them for our
vorkP Alasl me. who can stand I'M
Iep these griefsa Oh, Christ, Thou
anst do more for a bereft soul than
ny one else. It Is He who stands be-
ide us to tell of the resurrection, It
Is He that came to bid peace. 1t is He
hat comes to US and breathes into us
he spirit of submission until we can
ook up from the wreck and ruin of
'ur brightest expectations n say
Father, not my will, but Thine bs
Oh, ye who are bereft, ye
aRHish=bitten, come Into this refuge.
he roll Of those who came for relief
, Christ is larger aad larger, Unto
his Shiloh of omnipotent sympathy
lie gathering of the people shall be.
that Christ would stand by all
iese empty cradles, and all these des-
homesteads and all these broken
carts, and persuade us it is we'll.
The world cannot offer you any help
} such q time. Suppose the world
and offers you monsy. $oH
ould rather live on a crust in q cellar
nd have your departed loved ones
18th you. than live In palatial sur
,undings and they away, Suppose