Connecticut western news., 1897-01-07
YET FOR YOUR SAKES
REV. DR. TAlMAGE BREACHES ON nFnOM LILIES TO THORNS.n

He Tells the Greatest Story of All Times
 In New way-His Celestial Departure
 and Earthly Arrival vividly Contrasted. : Tho Prince Divine.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-In this dis course of Rev. Dr. Talmage the greatest story of ali time is told in new way. and all realms are drawn upon for illus tration. His text was II Corinthians viii, g, "Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor. '
 That all the worlds which on cold winters 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 ent 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 respiratory organs. But that there is great world swung somewhere. vast be- yond imagination, and that it is the headquarters of the universe and the metropolis of immensity and has a 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.
 Tho Kings Son.
 That is where Prince Jesus lived 19 centuries ago. He was the Kings Son. It was the old homestead of eternity, and all its castles were as old as God. Not a frost had ever chilled the air. Not a tear had ever rolled down the cheek of one of it's inhabitants. There had never been a headache, or side ache, or Q 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 pomonic richness! Gardens of perpetual bloom and orchards in intending fruitage. Had some spirit from another world entered and asked: "What is sin? What is be- reavementr What is sorrow? What is death?'' the brightest of the intelli- gences would have failed to give defini- 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 of from their brows garlands of white lilies and threw them in the way. He never entered any of the temples without all the worship CTS rising up and lowing in obeisance. In all the processions 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 90, 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 mane 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 made a picture for the royal gallery representing the Emperor William on the throne and the crown prince as hay ing one foot on the step of the throne, the Emperor William ordered the picture changed and said, Let the prince keep his foot of the throne till leave it. '
 A Rich Dominion.
 Already enthroned was the heavenly Prince side by side with the Father. What a circle of dominioni What null titudes of admirersi What amending round of gloriesi 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 inn mensity rolls its pillows, the Prince was the acknowledged favorite. No wonder my text says that "he was rich" Set all the diamonds of the earth in one ecepter, 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 680, 1000, 900 pounds and in silver 1,029, 900, 327 pounds. But a greater than Solomon is here. Not the millionaire, but the owner of all things To describe his celes- tial surroundings the Bible uses all colors, gathering them in rainbow over the throne and setting them as agate in the temple window and hoisting 12 of them into . wall, from striped jasper at 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 loveliness of landscape in foliage and river and Till, and all enchantment aquamarine, the sea of glass mingled with fire as when the sun sinks in the Mediterranean. All the thrill of music, instrumental and vocal, harps, trum- pets, doxologies. There stood the Prince, surrounded by those who had under their wings the velocity of millions of miles in a second, himself rich in love. rich in adoration, rich in power. rich in worship, rich in holiness, rich in "all the fullness of the Godhead bodily"
 A Contrast.
 But one day there was a big disaster in a department of Gods universe. A race fallenl A world in ruinsl Our planet the scene of oatastrophe A globe swinging out into darkness, with noun tains and seas and islands, an awful centrifugal of sin seeming to overpower the beautiful centripetal of righteous. ness. and from it groan reached heav- on. Such sound had never been heard there. Plenty of sweet sounds, but ne1er