The Monitor-register., 1897-08-13

Christ the Wonderful-His Miracles and
His Infinite Sympathy For Mankind.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.-Dr. Talmage,
referring to recent reports as to the sew
GRANGE of his present pastoral relations,
has authorized the following statement:
81 have denounced the infamous
falsehood concerning my dissatisfaction
with my Washington church and the
statement that l had determined not tic
return there Relations between that
congregation and myself are perfectly
happy, and the church has met all its
obligations to me. Our attendance was
larger last year than ever before, many
more people coming than we could ac-
commodate. / will be in my regular
pulpit second Sabbath in September. "
In the discourse below by DR.. Tai
mage Christ is looked at from an un
usual standpoint. His text is Isaiah TX, e.,
His name shall be called wonderful. :"
The prophet lived in dark time
For some 5000 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 prophecy to his eye
and saw, 750 years ahead, one Jesus
advancing to the rescue. Iwant to show
that when Isaiah called Christ the
Wonderful he spoke wisely
In most houses there is picture of
Christ. Sometimes it represents him
with face effeminate, sometimes with a
face despotic. have seen Vests grand
sketch of the rejection of Christ l have
seen the face of Christ as cut on an en-
erald, said to be by command of Tiberius
Caesar, and yet l am convinced that
shall never know how Jesus looked un-
til, Oh 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
look at Luke's sketch, at Marks sketch,
|, at Johns sketch and at Paul's sketch,
and / say, with Isaiah, Wonderfully
! / 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 unbounded admiration for the
commander who helped his passengers
ashore while he himself persisted, but
have you no admiration for him who
rescued our souls, himself falling back
into the waters from which he had
saved US?
Christ's Magnetism.
Christ was wonderful in the magnet
ism of his person.
After the battle of Antietam, when "a
general rode along the lines, although
the soldiers were lying down exhausted,
they rose with great enthusiasm and
huzzaed. As Napoleon returned from
his captivity his first step on the wharf
shook all the Kingdoms, and $50, 900
men Joined his standard. 1t took 5000
troops to watch him in his exile So
there have been men of wonderful mag
netism OF person. But hear me while
tell you of a poor young man who came
up from Nazareth to produce a thrill
such as has never been excited by any
other. Napoleon had around him the
memories of Austerlitz and Jena and
BadajCs. but here was a man who had
fought no battles, who wore no epau-
lets, who brandished NO sword. He is
no titled man of the schools, for he
never went to school. He had probably
never seen a prince or shaken hands
with a Dobleman. The only extraor-
binary person we know Of as being in
his company was bis own mother, and
she was so poor that III the most deli
cate and solemn hour that ever comes
to woman's soul she was obliged to
lie down amid camel drivers grooming
the beasts of burden
imagine Christ one day standing in
the streets OF Jerusalem A man de-
scended from high lineage is standing
beside him and says: My father was
merchant prince He had castle on
the beach at Galilee. Who was your
father" Christ answers, Joseph, the
carpenter. A man from Athens is
standing there unrolling his parchment
OF graduation and says to Christ,
Where did you go to school?" Christ
answers, Il never graduated. Aha!
The idea Of such all unheralded young
man attempting TO command the atten-
ton of the void! AS we'll some little
fishing village on Long Island shore at
tempt to u...Icn NV York. Yet no
sooner does lie vet his foot i'll the towns
or cities of J4t.Gl than everything is in
commotion. The people go out on IL pic
nic, taking only food enough for the
day, yet are so fascinated with Christ
that, mt the risk of starving, they fol
Inyv him mi ~ tha NpiIflnp,,or, A
nobleman falls down fiat before him
and says, My daughter is dead" A
beggar tries to rub the dimness from
his eyes and says, Lord, that my eyes
may be opened. " A poor, sick, painting
woman pressing through the crowd
says, 81 must touch the hem of his
garment. Children, who love their
mother better than any one else, strug-
gle to get into his arms, and TO kiss his
chuck, and to run their fingers through
his hair, and for all time putting Jesus
so in love with the little ones that there
is hardly u nursery i'll Ch1istendom
from which he does not take one say
ing: II p>St have them. | will fill
heaven With these For every cedar
th0t pitiLu III iltdNNiI L Will liuNt w
white lilies In the hour when | was il
poor man in JuuHa they were not
ashamed of me, and now that | have
come to throne do not despise them
Hold it not back, oh, weeping mother;
lay it on my warm heartl Of such is
the kingdom of heaven.
What is this coming down the road:
fr,,, al l.
not in a chariot, but on an ass, and yet
the people take off their coats and throw
them in the way Oh, what a time Je-
sus made among the children, among
the beggars, among the fishermen,
among the philosophers! You may boast
of self control. but if you had seen him
you would have put your arms around
his neck and said Thou art altogether
lovely
Jesus was wonderful in the opposites
and seeming antagonisms of his nature
You want things logical and consistent,
and you say, ''.lJH could Christ be
God and man at the same timer" John
says Christ was the Creator. "All
things were made by him, and without
him was not anything made" Matthew
says that he was omnipresent "Where
two or three are met together in my
name there am in the midst of them. "
Christ declares his own eternity, 81
am Alpha and Omega" How can he be
lion, under his foot crushing king
doms, and yet lamb licking the hand
that Stays him? At what point do the
throne and the manger toach? If Christ
was God, why flee into Egypt? Why
not stand his ground? Why, instead of
bearing the cross, not lift up his right
hand and crush his assassins? Why
stand and be spat upon? Why sleep on
the mountain. when he owned the pal