The National tribune., 1897-08-12
cHRIST'S MAGNETISM

Wonderful in Teaching, Per-
sonality, Sorrow, and Vic
tory.
| DIR. Talmage Discourses on the Manifold
characteristics ofJesus-Pictures His Great
Influence over the People-Master of All
Nature.
The sermon prepared by Rev. T. De Witt
Talmage this week is on the magnetism of
Christ. Jesus is looked upon from an I'M
usual standpoint. His text is:
| Isaiah, 8: 6, "His name shall be called mon
deym."
| The prophet lived in dark time. For
some three thousand years the world had
| been getting worse. Kingdoms had arisen
and persisted. As the captain of a vessel in
distress sees relief coming across the water,
so the prophet, amid the stormy times In
which he lived, put the telescope of proph-
ecy to his eve and saw, $50 years ahead, one
Jesus advancing to the rescue. l want to
show that VIXEN Isaiah called Christ the
| NCnUeflul ne spoke Wisely.
In most houses there is picture of Christ.
Sometimes it represents him with face
effemnate, sometimes with a face despotic.
| have seen Vests grand sketch of the re-
lection of Christ; / have seen the face of
Christ as cut on an emerald, said to be by
command of Tiberius Cesar; and yet am
convinced that / shall never know how
Jesus looked until, on that sweet Sabbath
morning, / shall wash the last sleep from
my eyes in the cool river of heaven. ] take
up this book of divine photographs, and l
look at Luke's sketch, at Marks sketch, at
Johns sketch, and Mt Pauls sketch, and /
say, with Isaiah, Wonderful"
| / think that you are all interested in the
story Of Christ. You feel that he is the
only one who can help you. You have I'M
| bounded admiration for the commander
who helped his passengers ashore while he
! himself persisted, but have you no admira-
ton for him who rescued our souls, himself
falling back into the waters from which he
had saved us?
Christ was wonderful in the magnetism
of his person.
After the battle Of Antietam, when Cen
eral rode along the lines, although the sol
diers were lying down exhausted, they rose
| with great enthusiasm and huzzied. AS
Napoleon returned from his captivity, his
first step ON the wharf shook all the king
doms, and 100000 men joined his standard.
1t took 5000 troops to watch him in his
exile. So there have been men of wonder
full magnetism of person.
THE POOR YOUNG MAN FROM NAZARETH.
But hear me while l tell you of poor
/ young man who came up from Nazareth to
produce thrill such as has never been ex-
| cited by any other. Napoleon had around
| him the memories of Austerlitz and Jena,
| and Badajos; but here WAS a man who had
| fought no battles; who wore no epau!ets
| who brandished no sword. He was no
titled man of the schools, for he never went
to school, He had probably never seen a
| prince, or shaken hands with a nobleman.
The only extraordinary person we know OF
as being in bis company was bis own
mother. and she was so poor that in the
most delicate and solemn hour that ever
comes TO a woman's soul she was obliged to
lie down amid the camel-drivers grooming
the beasts Of burden.
Yet 10 sooner does He set his foot in the
towns or cities of Judea than every thing is
in commotion. The people 60 out on q
picnic, taking only food enough for the day,
yet are so fascinated with Christ that, at the
risk of starving. they follow Him out into
the wilderness.
A nobleman falls down fiat before Him
and says: My daughter is dead" A beg.
gar tries to rub the dimness from his eyes
and says: lord, that my eyes may BIZ
opened" poor, sick, painting woman
pressing through the crowd, says: l must
touch the hem Of His garment"
Children who love their mother better
than anyone else, struggle to get into Hi:
arms, and to kiss his check, and to run theil
fingers through his hair, and for all time
putting Jesus so in love with the little ones
that there is hardly nursery iii Christen
dom from which he does not take one, say.
ing: :" ] must have Them / will fill HEAVIER
with these; for every cedar that / plant il
heaven / will have 80 white lilies. In thu
hour when / was poor man in Judea they
were not ashamed of me, and now that
have come to a throne do not despise them
Hold it not back, OH weeping mother lay
it on my warm heart. Of such is the king
dom of heaven.o
What is this coming down the road?
friumphal procession. He is seated, not il
a chariot, but OH an ass; and yet The peopl
take off their coats and throw them in TIL
way. Oh, what time Jesus made anon,
the children, among the beggars, among tn
fishermen among the philosophers! Yo,
may boast of selfcontrol, but if you ba,
seen him you would have pnt your arm
around his neck and said: Thou art alto
gether lovely"
SEEMING INCONSISTENCIES.
Jesus was wonderful in the opposites an
seeming antagonisms of his nature. YO
want things logical and consistent, and 20
say: "How could Christ be God and man a
the same time?" John says Christ was III
Creator: All things were made by hin
and without him was not any thing made.
Matthew says that he was omnpresent
where two or three are met together i
my NAME there am in the midst of them.
Christ declares his own eternity ~ al
Alpha and Omega" How can he be liol
under his foot crushing Kingdoms, and ye
lamb licking the hand that Stays him?
At what point do the throne and mango
touch? If Christ was God, why fee in,
Egypt? Why not stand his ground? VII,
instead of bearing the cross not lilt-up h
right hand and crush his assassins? VIII
stand and be spat upon? Why sleep on I'll
mountain when he owned the palaces
eternity? Why catch fish for his breakfas
on the beach in the chill morning, when a
the pomegranates are his, and all the vim
yards his, and all the cattle his, and all tn
partridges his? Why walk wien wear.
and his feet stone-brnised, when he mgi