Connecticut western news., 1896-02-27
X NOTE OF TRIUMPH.
Rsv, OR vAlMAos's SERMON OF RE-
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 H~rth-seaasrs HAvs Become Worship ers--lMAaels Return to God.
 WASHINGTON, Feb a3.-This sermon sounds the note of triumph, note that all will be glad to hear in these times, when % many are uttering and writing jeremiads of discouragement Dr. Tal- mage took as his text Genesis xix, 10, Unto him shall the gathering of the people be-" .
 Through a supernatural lens, or what l might call prophescope, dyiug 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. It 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 5S 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 17 of the empire of Ti- berius Cesar. and on the 25th of March, l. Pontius Pilate, governor of the Pr@- 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 citi,ea. This capital punish mept 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 crucif1ed on the left hand side of Christ was Gestus. Pontius Pilate describing the tragedy says the whole world lighted candles from noon until night Thirty three years of maltreatment They ascribe his birth to bastardy aud his death to ex- cruciation. A wall of the city. built about thoee times and recently exposed by archeologists. shows caricature of Jesns Christ. evidencing the contempt in which he was held by many in his day, that caricature on the wall repre- senting . cross and donkey nailed to 1t 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 . thousand friends. The scoffers have become the worshipers. Of the 20 most celebrated infidels in Great Britain in our day 18 have come back to Christ, trying to undo the blatant mischief of their hves-16 out of the 90. Every man who writes a letter or signs doo- ument. wittingly or unwittingly. honors Jesus Christ We date everything as B. 70. or A. D-R O.. before Christ; A. D. Anno 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. O, A. D. do not care what you call him-whether Conqnefor 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 | take my text and call him Shiloh, which means his Son, or the Tranquilator. or the Peacemaker, Shi- loh. only want to tell you that unto him shall the gathering of the people 6s.
 0atAsring Around Christ.
 In tho first place, the people are gath cred around Christ for pardon. No sem xthle man or healthfnISy ambitious man is satisfied with his past life. A fool may think he is all right. A sensible man knows he is not. I do not care who tho 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 co many things I have done ought not to have done; there have been so many things have said fought never to have said; there have been 90 many things I have written I ought never to have written; there have been so many fhings have thought ought never to have thought! I must somehow get things readjusted. must somehow have tho pest reconstructed. There are 'days and months and years which cry out against me in horrible yociferation. Ah. my brother. Christ adjusts the past by ohliterating it. He does not erase tho record of our misdoing with dash of ink from a register g pen, but lifting his right hand, crushed, red at the palm. he puts it against his bleeding hrow and then against his pierced side. and with the crimson accumulation of all those wounds he rubs out the aconsa- tory chapter. He blots out our iniqni- tics. Oh, never be anxious about the future; better be anxious about the pasti put it not at the end of my ser mon; I put it at the front-mercy and pardon through Shiloh. the sin pardon ing Christ. Unto him shall the gath ering of the people be "Oh." says some man. "I have for 40 years been as bad as could be. and is there any mer- cy for mel" Mercy for you. "Oh, says some one here, 'I had grand ancestry. the holiest of fathers and the tenderest of mothers. and for my per6dy there is no excuse! Do you think there is any mercy for mel" Mercy for you But. " says nrother man, 1T fear I have com- mitted what they call the unpardonable sin. and the Bible says if man com init that sin he is neither to be forgiven in this world nor the world to come. Do you think there ia any mercy for mef' The fact that you have any solici- rnde about tho matter at all proves posi- lively that you have not committed the unpardonable sin. Mercy for you? Oh. the grace of God which bringeth saliva fionl
 Code Mercy Unreasonable.
 The grace of Godi Let us take the snzveym's chain and try k measure Gods mercy through Jesus Christ. Let ono surveyor take that chain and go tc the north, and another surveyor take that chain and go to the south, and an other surveyor take that chain and go te the east, and another surveyor take that oaain and go to the west. and then make report of the square miles of that vast kingdom of Gods mercy. Aye. you will have to wait to all eternity for the re. port of that measurement. It cannot be