The times., 1897-04-05
Popularity Of the Savior Ex-
tolled by DR.. Talmage.
GREATEST NAME ON EARTH
The Worst Sinners Can Be Pardoned,
Quotes the Eloquent Divine
titudes Die for Want of Sympathy
When They Might Turn to Christ
and Be saved,

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| His text was from Genesis, xlix:i0 Unto
Him shall the gathering of the people be- -
| He said:
| Through supernatural lens, or what
| might call Irophescope, dying Jacob
| looks down Through the corridor OF the
| centuries until he sees Christ the center
| of all popular attraction and the greatest
| Being in all the world, SO everywhere
| acknowledged. T. 1t was not always so.
| The world tried hard to put Iiim down and
| to put Him out. In the year 1900, while
excavating for antiquities fifty-three miles
| northeast OF Rome, copper-plate tablet
was found containing the death warrant
| Of the Lord Jesus Christ, reading in this
wise:
In the year II of the Empire or
! Tiherius Caesar and on the 25th of March,
| |, Pontius PLATE, Governor of the PraetOIe,
| condemn Jesus of Nazareth to die ON the
cross between two thieves. Quintius Cor
nelius TO lead Him forth TO the place of
execution.
That death warrant was signed by
several names. First, by Daniel rabbi
Pharisee, secondly, by Johannes, rabbi;
thIdly by cne Raphael, fntrLhly. by Capet,
private citizen. This capital punishment
was executed according to law. The
name of the thief crucificd ON the right
hand side of Chr ist was Dismas the name
of the thicfcrucified on II e left-aand side OF
Christ was Gestes. Pontius PLATE, de-
scribing the tragedy, says the whole
world, lighted candles from noon until
night.
..Thirty y-three years OF maltreatment
They ascribed his birth to bastardy, and
his death was eXcrUCiaton wall of
the city. built about those times, and re-
Gently exposed by archaeologists shows
caricature of Jesus Christ, evidencing the
contempt in which He was held by many
in His day-that caricature on the wall
representing cross and a donkey nailed
to 1t, and under it the inscription, This
is the Christ whom the people worship
But re ioice that that day is gone by and
Christ is coming out from under the worlds
abuse. The most popular name on earth
today is the name of Christ. The sCoffers
have become the worshippers or the
twenty most celebrated infidels in Great
Britain in our day, sixteen have come
back to Christ, trying To undue the blatant
mischief OF their liyes-sixteen out of
twenty. Every man who writes letter,
or signs document, Willingly or unwit-
tiugly honors Jesus Christ.
in the first place, the people are gather
ed around Christ for pardon No sensible
man or healthfully ambitious man is salts
fled with his past life fool may think
he is all right. A sensible man knows heis
not do not care who thethoughtful man
fore God and man gives 10 him no special
satisfaction.
"Ah. my brother, Christ adjusts the past
by obliterating it. He does not erase, the
record OF our nIisdong with dash of ink
from a register pen, but, lifting His ri ght
hand crushed red at the palm, He puts it
against his bleeding brow and then against
His pierced side, and with the crimson ac-
cumulation of all these wounds he ruhs
out the accusatory chapter. He hIots out
our iniquities. o men, anxious about the
future! better be anxious about the past.
put it not at the end of my sermon; put
it at the front mercy and pardon through
Shiloh, the sin-pardoning Christ.
You notice that nearly all the sinners
mentioned as pardoned in the Bible were
great sinners. David, great sinner. Paul.
a great sinner. Rahab, great sinner.
MagdaIen, q great sinner. The prodigal
son, a great sinner The world easily
understood how Christ could pardon half
and-haif sinner; but what the world wants
to be persuaded of is that Christ will for
give the worst sinner the hardest sinner,
the Oldest sinner, the most ineXcuSable |
sinner. To this sin-pardouing Shiloh let all
the gathering of the people be.
THE people will gather around Christ
as sympathizer. Oh, we all want |
sympathy. l hear people talk though
they were independent Of it. None of US |
could live without sympathy. In the |
autumn Of the year we come home fromour |
summer absence, and perhaps we leave a |
portion of our family away until the cool |
weather is established, and how lonely the !
house seems until they all get home.
But alas mel for those who never Come |
home. Sometimes it seems as If it must |
be impossible. What, will the feet never |
again cross the threshold? VIII they never |
again sit with us mt the table?
The worlds heart of sympathy beats I
very irregularly Plenty of sympathy I
when you do not want it, and often when
we are in appalling need of it no sym
dying for sympathy-wide, deep, high,
everlasting, almighty sympathy. We must
have it, and Christ has it. Christ is it,
that is the cord with which He is going to
draw all nations TO him.
But in larger vision see the nations in
some kind of trouble ever since the world
was derailed and hurled down the embank-
ment. The demon of sin came tothis world,
but other demons have gone through other
worlds. The demon of conflagration, the
demon Of volcanic disturbance, the demon
Of destruction La Place says he saw one
world in the northern hemisphere sixteen
months burning. Tycho Brahe says he saw
another world burning. A French astron-
omer says that in three hundred years
fifteen hundred worlds have disappeared.
do not see why infides find it so hard to |
believe thattwo worlds stoppedin Joshua's
lime when the astronomers tell us that
fifteen hundred worlds have stopped.
''By one toss of the world at Trinboro,
Of 10000 Inhabitants only twcnty-siX
people escaped. BY one shake OF the
world at Lisbon In five minutes G0,000
perished, and 200, 900 before the earth
stopped rocking A mountain falls in
switzerland, burying the village of Goldau.
A mountain falls in Italy, in the night,
when 1900 people are asleep, and they
never arouse
''By CONFUSION of the earth Japan is
broken off from China By convulsion of
he earth the Caribbean Islands are
,roken off from America.
standing in the presence OF all those
tupendous devastations, 1 ask if l am