Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-01-07


tial Departure and Earthly Arrival.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-In this discourse
of Rev. DIR. Talmage the greatest story of
Ill time is told in q new way, and all
realms are drawn upon for illustration.
His text was II Corinthians viii, Q, "Ye
know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that, though he was rich, yet for your
sakes he became pool"
That all the worlds which ON q cold
winters night make the heavens one great
glitter are without inhabitants is an alb
surdity. 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 different 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
little change in the structure of our re-
| spiratory organs. But that there is great
world swung somewhere, vast beyond
| Imagination, and that it is the headquar-
ters of the universe and the metropolis of
| immensity and has population in num-
bers vast beyond all statistics and appoint
ments of splendor beyond 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.
That is where Prince Jesus lived 10 CEN
turies ago. He was the 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 it's in
habitants There had never been head
ache or side ache or heart ache. There
had not been q funeral in the memory Of
the Oldest inhabitant There had never in
all the land been woven q 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 a state of eternal adolescence.
What floral and pomonic richnessl Gar
dens of perpetual bloom and orchards in
unending fruitage. Had some spirit from
another world entered and asked, What Is
sin? What is bereavement? What is sor-
row? What is death? the brightest of the
intelligences would have failed to give
definition, though to study the question
there was silence in heaven for half an
hour.
The Prince on the Throne.
The Prince of whom I speak had honors,
emoluments, acclamations such as no 9TH
er prince, celestial or terrestrial, ever en-
ioyed AS he passed the street the inhab-
itants took off from their brows garlands
of white lilies and threw them in the way.
He never entered any of the temples with
out all the worshipers rising up and bow
ing 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 times he took
chariot, and among the 10000 that the
psalmist spoke of his was the swiftest and
most flaming, or, as when st. John de-
scribed him, he took white palfrey, with
what prance of foot, and arch of neck, and
roll of name, and gleam 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
|
senting the Emperor William on the
throne and the Crown Prince as having
one foot on the stepof the throne, the En-
peror William ordered the picture changed
and said, "Let the prince keep his foot of
the throne till leave it. -
: Already enthroned was the heavenly
Prince side by side with the Father. What
a circle of domiuionl What multitudes Of
! admirersl What unending round of glo
| ries All the towers chimed the Princes
praises. OF all the inhabitants, from the
center of the city, on over the hills anG
clear down to the beach against which the
ocean of immensity rolls its billows, the
Prince was the acknowledged favorite. NJ
wonder my text says that she was rich. y
Set all the diamonds of the earth in ont
scepter, build all the palaces of the earth il
one Alhambra, gather all the pearls of tht
sea in one diadem, put all the values of tht
earth in one coin, the aggregate could MOI
express his affluence Yes, ST. Paul wa
right. Solomon had in gold $50, ,0o0,0 00t
pounds and in silver 1,o99, 900, 371
pounds. But a greater than Solomon
is here. Not the millionaire, but tn
owner of all things To describe hi
celestial surroundings the Bible use
all colors, gathering them in rainbow
over the throne, and setting them as agat,
in the temple window, and hoisting 12 O
them into wall,s from striped jasper a
the base to transparent amethyst in tn,
capstone, while between are green of emer
aid, and snow of pearl, and blue of sap
phire and yellow of topaz, gray of chryso
prase and flame of jaointh. All the love
illness Of landscape in foliage and river ant
rill and all enchantment aQuamarine, tht
sea of glass mingled with fire as when tht
sun sinks in the Mediterranean. All th
thrill of music, instrumental and vocal
harps, trumpets, doxologies. There stoot
the Prince, surrounded by those who hat
under their wings tho velocity of millions
of miles in a second, himself rich in love
rich in alteration, rich in power rich il
worship, rich in holiness, rich in ''all tn
fullhess of the Godhead bodily"
on For the Wreck.
But one day there was big disaster il
D department. of Gods universe A rae
fallepl A world in ruinsl Our planet th
scene of catastrophel A globe swingin.
out into darkness, with mountains ant
seas and islands, an awful centrifugal 0
sin seeming to overpower the beautiful
centripetal Of righteousness, and from it
groan reached heaven. Such sound hat
never been heard there. Plenty of swee
sounds, but never an outcry Of distress O
an echo of agony. At that one groan th
Prince rose from all the blissful circum
jacence and started from the outer gat
and descended into the night of this world