Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-01-15
TALMAGE'S SERMON
INTERESTING THEME ny THE
WASHINGTON PREACHER
Subject: "a Princes Career"

IENr:' "Ye know the grace OF our Lord
Jesus Christ. that. though He was rich, YET
for your sake He became poor IL Cor
inthians viii. q
That all the worlds which on cold win
tiers night make the heavens one great gilt
ter are without inhabitants 4 an aburdity.
Scientists tell us that many OF these worlds
are too hot or too cold or too mrehed OF at
mosphere for residence. But, II not III for
human abode, they may be 1T for beings
different irCm and superior 90 ourselves.
We are told that the world 81 Jupiter Is
changing and becoming 1T for creatures like
the human race, and that Mars would do for
the human family with little change in tho
structure OF our respiratory organs. But
that there Is great word swung some
where, vast beyond imagination, and that It
is the headquarters Of the universe and the
metropolis OF immensely and has a popula-
ton in numbers vast beyond all statistics
and appointments Of splendor beyond the
capacity OF canvas or poem or angel to de-
scribe Is as certain as the Bible IS authentic.
Perhaps some Of the astronomers with their
big telescopes have already caught glimpse
OF II, not knowing what il Is. We spell it
with six letters and pronounced it heaven.
That is where Prince Jesus lived nineteen
centuries ago. He was tho Kings Son. 1t
was the old homestead of eternity. and all its
castles were as old as God. Not frost had
ever chilled the air. Not tear had ever
rolled down the cheek OF one of its inhabi-
tants There had never bee, headache or
side ache or Heart ache. There had not
been Il funeral in the memory of the oldest
inhabitant. There had never in all the land
been woven black VEIL for there had never
been anything to mourn over. The passage
of millions OF years had not wrinkled or Grip
pied or bedimmed any of its citizens. All
the npOniR thprn In "a pf al a
adolescence. What floral and pomOnic rich
ness! Gardens of perpetual bloom and or
chards In unending truitage. Had some
spirit from another world entered ard asked,
What is sin? What is bereavement? What
is sorrow? What is death? the brightest OF
the intelligences would have failed 10 give
definition, though to study the question
there was silence in heaven for half an hour
The Prince of whom / speak had honors,
emoluments, acclamations such as no other
prince, celestial or terrestrial, ever enjoyed.
As He passed the street the inhabitants took
oil from their brows garlands of white lilies
and threw them in the way. He never en-
tered any Of the temples without all the w0r-
shippers rising up and bowling in obeisance.
In all the professions OF the high days He
was the one who evoked the loudest welcome,
sometimes on foot, walking in loving talk
with the humblest of the land, but at other
that the psa,mst spoke of His was the swift
est and most flaming, or, as when st. John
described Him. He took white palfrey, with
what prance Of foot, and arch OF neck, and
roll of name, and CLEAN of eye Is only dimly
suggested in the Apocalypse. He was not
like other princes, waiting for the Father to
die and then take the throne. When years
ago an artist in Germany made picture for
the royal gallery representing the Emperor
that . T..., d.
as having one foot on the step OF the throne,
the Emperor William ordered the picture
changed and said, Let the prince keep his
foot off the throne till leave it.
Already enthronvd was the heavenly
Prince side by side with the Father. What a
circle of dominion. What multitudes of ad-
mirers! What unendinC round Of glories!
All the towers chimed the Princes praises.
or all the inhabitants, from the center of the
city on over the hills and clear down to the
beach against which the ocean of immensely
rolls its pillows, the Prince was the acknowl-
edged favorte. No wonder my text saws
that "He was rich" Set all the diamonds
of the earth in one Scepter, build all the
palaces of the earth In one Alhambra
| gather all the pearls of the sea in one dia-
| dem, put all the values Of the earth in one
| coin, the aggregate could not express His
affiuence. Yes, St. Paul was right. Solo,
mon DHu III pOil tSU,UJU,UUU POUNDS,
and in silver 1,029000, 377 pounds. But q
greater than Solomon is here. Not the mill
ionaire, but the owner OF all things. To de.
scribe His celestial surroundings the Bible
uses all colors, gathering them in rainbow
over the throne and setting them as agate in
the temple window, and hoistilg twelve Of
them into wall from striped jasper ut the
base to transparent amethyst in the capstone
| while between are green OF emerald, and
snow of pearl, and blue Of sapphire, and
| yellow OF topaz, gray Of chrysoprase, and
flame of jacinth All the loneliness of land.
scape in foliage and river and rill and al
enchantment aquamarine, the sea Of glass
| mingled with fire as when the sun sinks il
the Mediterranean. All the thrill Of music
instrumental and vocal, harps, trumpets
doxologies. There stood the Prince, sur
| rounded by those who had under their wings
the velocity of millions of miles in II second
Himself rich in love, rich in alteration, ricl
in power, rich in worship, rich in holiness
rich in ''all the fullness OF the Godhead bod
ily."
But one day there was a big disaster in {
department Of Gods universe. A race fallen
| A world in ruins! Our planet the scene o
catastrophe! A globe swinging out into
darkness, with mountains and seas and isl
ands, an awful centrifugal of sin seeming t
overpower the beautiful centripetal O
| righteousness, and from it a groan reached
| heaven. Such n sound had never been hear,
there Plenty OF sweet sounds, but never al
cutlery OF distress or an echo of agony. A
that one groan the Prince rose from all the
blissful circumference and started from
The outer gate and descended into tn,
night of this world. Out of what a brigh
harbor into what a rough sea! "Stay will
us, ;" cried angel after angel and potential,
after potentate, NO. said the Prince, -
cannot stay. I must be off for that wreck o
a world. | must stop that groan. mus
hush that distress. | must fathom that abyss.
must redeem those Nations. Farewell
thrones and temples, hosts cherubic, Sc
raphic, archangelic! l will come bacl
again, carrying on my shoulder Il ransomeC
world. Till this is done / choose earthl,
scott to heavenly reclamation, and cattle
pen to kings palace, frigid zone Of earth
to atmosphere of celestial radiance. have
no time to lose, for bark ye to the groal
that grows mightier while | wait! Fare
WE'LL FAREWELL ''Ye know the grace O
our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though H wa:
rich, yet for your sakes He became poor"
Was there ever q contrast 50 overpowerinI
as that between the MONDAY OF Christ
celestial departure and the midnight of Hi
earthly arrival? Sure enough, the angel
we're out that night in the sky, and Al
especial meteor acted as escort. But al
that was from other worlds, and not from
this world. The earth made no demonstra
ton of welcome. If one of the great prince
of this world steps out at depot, cheer
resound, and the bands play, and the flag
wave. But for the arrival of this mission
airy Prince of the skies not torch flared
not trumpet blew, not n plume fluttered
All the music and the pomp were overhead
Our world opened for Him nothing bette
than barn door.
! The Raiah of Cashmere sent to Queen Vic
toria bedstead of carved gold and canop
that cost $750,000, but the world had for tn
Prince of Heaven and Earth only litter q
straw. The crown jewels in the Tower Q
London amount to 1000, 900, but this mem
Der of eternal royalty had nowhere to lay Hi
head. To know how poor He was ask tn
namel drivars ask the shenhnrds ask MARY