The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-01-08
YET FOR YOUR SAKES
REV. DR.. TALMAGE breaches ON
"FROM LILIES TO THORNS."

HUM Lilies ~ ! 1O1INO.
He Tells the Greatest Story of All Times
In New way-His Celestial Departure
and Earthly Arrival wildly Contrasted
The Prince Divine.
WASHINGTON, Jan. BIN this dis.
course of Rev. DR.. Talmage the greatest
story of all time is told in a new way,
and all realms are drawn upon for illus.
tration His text was II Corinthians
viii, 9, "Ye know the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich,
ret Tor your sakes he became poor.
1aat all the worlds which on a cold
w. ter's night make the heavens one
great glitter are without inhabitants is
an absurdity. Scientists tell US that
many of these worlds are too hot or too
cold or too rarefied Of atmosphere for
residence. But, if not fit for human
abode, they may be fit for beings differ
emit from and superior to ourselves. We
are told that the world of Jupiter is
changing and becoming fit for creatures
like the human race, and that Mars
would do for the human family with a
little change in the structure Of our
respiratory organs But that there is a
great world swung somewhere. vast be-
yond imagination, and that it is the
headquarters of the universe and the
metropolis of immensely and has pop
ulation in numbers vast beyond all sta
tistics and appointments of splendor be-
yond the capacity of canvas or poem or
angel to describe is as certain as the
Bible is authentic. Perhaps some Of the
astronomers with their big telescopes
have already caught glimpse of it, not
knowing what it is. We spell it with
six letters and pronounce it heaven.
The Kings Son.
That is where Prince Jesus lived 10
centuries ago. He was the Kings Son.
1t was the old homestead Of eternity,
and all it's 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 inhabitants. There
had never been a headache, or a side
ache, or heart ache, There had not
been a funeral in the memory of the
Oldest inhabitant. There had never in
all the land been woven a black veil,
for there had never been anything to
mourn over. The passage of millions of
years had not wrinkled or crippled or
bedimmed any of its citizens All the
people there were in state of eternal
adolescence. What floral and pomonio
richnessl Gardens of perpetual bloom
and orchards in unending fruitage. Had
some spirit from another world entered
and asked "What is sin? What is be-
reavement? What is sorrow? What is
death?" the brightest of the intelli-
gences would have failed to give defni-
tion, though to study the question there
was silence in heaven for half an hour.
The Prince of whom speak had hon
ors, emoluments, acclamations, such as
no other prince, celestial or terrestrial
ever enjoyed. AS he passed the street
the inhabitants took off from their
brows garlands of white lilies and threw
them in the way. He never entered any
of the temples without all the Worship
ers 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 hum blest of the
land, but at other times he took chariot,
and among the 20, 900 that the psalmist
spoke of his was the swiftest 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 SC Il 1xy
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 a picture for the royal gallery
representing the Emperor William on
the throne and the crown prince as hav
ing one foot Oh 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.
A Rich Dominion.
Already enthroned was the heavenly
Prince side by side with the Father.
What circle of dominionl What null
titudes Of admirersl What unending
round of gloriesl All the towers chimed
the Princes praises. Of all the inhabit-
ants, from the center of the city on
over the hills and clear down to the
beach against which the ocean of i'm
rolls its pillows, the Prince was
the acknowledged favorite. No wonder
my text says that she 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 diadem, put all
the values of the earth in one coin-the
aggregate could not express his afflu-
ence. Yes, st. Paul was right. Solo
mon had in gold $50, 900, 600 pounds
and in silver 1929, 900, 1927 pounds.
But a greater than Solomon IS here.
Not the millionaire, but the owner
If all things To describe his celes-
5ial surroundings the Bible uses all
,olors, gathering them in rainbow over
he throne and setting them as agate in
he temple window and hosting 10 of
hem into a wall, from striped jasper at
he base to transparent amethyst in the
apstone, while between are green of
merald, and snow of pearl and blue of
apphire, and yellow of topaz, gray Of '
,hrysoprase and fame of jacinth. All
he loneliness of landscape in foliage