The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-03-07
NOTE OF TRIUMPH.
Rev. DR.. Talmage, Looking Through
Supernatural Lens,
docs Christ the Center of AL Popular At
traction and the Greatest Being
In All the World, and So
Acknowledged.

his Washington congregation. 1t
based on the text:
Unto him shall the gathering OF the Poop
be. Genesis Xix, 10.
Through o supernatural lens, O
what might call a prophescope, dy
ing Jacob looks down through the COZ
ridors of the centuries until he see
Christ the center of all popular at
traction and the greatest being in al
the world, so everywhere acknowl
edged. 1t was not alway so. Tn
world tried hard to put Him down ant
to put Him out. In the year 1900, whil
excavating for antiquities SO mile
northeast of Rome, a copper-plate tab
let was found containing the dealt
warrant of the Lord Jesus Christ, read
tng in this wise:
''In the year II of the empire OF III
berius Ce sar, and on the @5th OF March
4, Pontius PLATE, governor OF the
Praetore, condemn Jesus of Nazareth
to die between two thieves, Quintlus
Cornelius to lead him forth to the
place of execution"
several names. First, by Daniel, rabbi
Pharisee; secondly, by Johannes, rab-
hi; thirdly, by Raphael; fourthly. by
Capet, a private citizen. The capital
punishment 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 crucified
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 excruciation. A wall of the
city, built about those times and re-
Gently exposed by psychologists, shows
a caricature of Jesus Christ, evidenc-
ing the contempt in which He was
held by many in His day-that carl
cature on the wall representing 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 un-
der the worlds abuse. The most popu-
Lar name on earth to-day is the name
of Christ. Where He had one friend
Christ has 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 bla-
tant mischief of their lives-16 out of
the 20. Every man who writes let
ter or signs a document, willingly or
unwittingly, honors Jesus Chrisl.
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. 1 do not care
what you call Him-whether conqperor,
or king, or morning star, or sun of
or balm of Gilead, or
Lebanon cedar, or brother, or friend,
or take the name used in the verse
from which l take my text, and call
him Shiloh, which means his son, or
the tranquilator, or the peacemaker,
eShAO11. OhlJ Ndhb W YOU blldO
unto Him shall the gathering of the
people be-"
In the first place, the people are
gathered around Christ for pardon.
No sensible man or BEAUTIFULLY ambi-
Iious man is satisfied with his past life.
A fool may think he is all right. A
man knows he is not. 1 do
not care who the thoughtful man is, the
review of his lifetime behavior before
God and man gives to him no especial
"Oh," he says, there
nave been so many things l have done
/ ought not to have done, there have
been so many things j have said L
ought never to have said, there have
been so many things l have written
/ ought never to have written,
there have been SO many things
1 have thought 1 never ought
to have thought, 1 must some
how get things readjusted. l must
have the past reconstructed;
there are days and months and years
which cry out against me in horrible
Ali my brother, Christ
adjusts the past by obliterating it. He
does not erase the record of our misdo-
ing 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 &C
cusatory chapter. He blots out
our iniquities. Oil never be
anxious about the future; better be
anxious abo1t the past. Iput it not
1T the end of my sermon; put it at
the front: Mercy and pardon through |
Shiloh, the s:n-pardoning Christ. "Un-
10 Him shall the gathering of the PEG.
Die be- ."Ohl" says some man, 81 |