Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-02-24
A NOTE OF T 3IUMPH.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE'S SERMON OF RE-
JOGGING.


world-His Name the Most Popular on
Earth-Scoffers Have Become Worship
ers-Infdels Return to God.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-This sermon
sounds the note of triumph, a note that
all will be glad to hear in these times
when SO many are uttering and writing
jeremiads of encouragement. DR.. Tai
mage took as his text Genesis xix, 10,
"Unto him shall the gathering of the
people be-. -
Through supernatural lens, or what
/ might call prophescope, dying Jacob
looks down through the corridors of the
centuries until he sees Christ the center
of all popular attraction and the greatest
being in all the world, so everywhere
acknowledged. 1t was not always so.
The world tried hard to put him down
and to put him out In the year 1900,
while excavating for antiquities %
miles northeast of Rome, a copper plate
tablet was found containing the death
warrant of the Lord Jesus Christ, read
ing in this wise:
''In the year II of the empire Of I'll
berius Caesar, and ON the 25th of March,
/, Pontius PLATE, governor of the Prae-
tore, condemn Jesus of Nazareth to die
between two thieves, Quintius Cor
nelius to lead him forth to the place Of
execution"
The death warrant was signed by
several names. First, by Daniel, rabbi
Pharisee; secondly, by Johannes, rabbi;
thirdly, by Raphael; fourthly, by Capet,
private citizen. This capital punish
ment was executed according to law.
The name of the thief crucified on the
right hand side of Christ was Dismas.
The name of the thief crucifed on the
left hand side of Christ was Gestus.
Pontius Plate describing 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 ex-
cruciation. A wall Of the city, built
about those times and recently exposed
by arch9ologists, shows a caricature of
Jesus Christ, evidencing the contempt
in which he was held by many in his
day, that caricature on the wall repre-
senting a cross and donkey nailed to
it and under it the inscription, "This is
the Christ whom the people worship. "
But rejoice that that day is gone by.
Our Christ is coming out from under
the worlds abuse. The most popular
name on earth today is the name Of
Christ. Where he had one friend Christ
has a thousand friends. The scOffers
have become the worshipers. Of the 20
most celebrated infidels in Great Britain
in our day 16 have come back to Christ.
trying to undo the blatant mischief of
their lives-16 out of the 90 Every
man who writes a letter or signs doc
ument, Willingly or unwittingly, honors
Jesus Christ. We date everything as B.
@. 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. I do
not care what you call him-whether
Conqueror or King Or Morning Star or
Sun of Righteousness or Balm of Gilead
or Lebanon Cedar or Brother or Friend
or take the name used in the verse from
which I take my text and call him
Shiloh, which means his Son, or the
TranquilatOr, or the Peacemaker, Shi-
lob. I only want to tell you that ''unto
him shall the gathering of the people
be-.
Gathering Around Christ.
In the first place, the people are gath
cred around Christ for pardon. No sen
sible man or healthfully ambitious man
is 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 is the review
of his lifetime behavior before God and
man gives to him no especial satisfac-
tion. "Oh,'' he says, 'there have been
SO many things | have done l ought not
to have done; there have been SO many
things [ have said ought never to have
said; there have been SO many things [
have written [ ought never to have
written; there have been SO many
things ] have thought I ought never to
have thought! l must somehow get
things reaGj1sted [ must somehow
have the past reconstructed There are
days and months and years which cry
out against me in hOrri BILE vOciferatiOn. "
All, my brother, Christ adjusts the past
by obliterating it. He does not erase
the record of our misdoing with dash
of ink from registers pen, but lifting
his right hand, crushed, red at the
palm, he puts it against his bleeding
brow and then against his pierced side,
and with the crimson accumulation Of
all those wounds he rubs out the accusa-
tory chapter. Be blots out our iniqui-
ties. Oh, never be anxious about the
future; better be anxious about the
past put it not at the end of my SER
mon: put it at the front-mercy and
pardon through Shiloh. the sin pardon
ing Christ. unto him shall the gath
ering of tho people be. :" "Oh," says
some man, ''I have for 40 years been as
bad as I could be, and is there any mer-
cy for me?" Mercy for you "Oh,'' says
some one here. 81 had a grand ancestry.