The Penn's Grove record., 1901-12-27
DIR. TALMAGES SEpsNN
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.

DIVINE.
Subject: Lessons Taught by the Nativity
On That Christmas Night God Hot
ored Motherhood-A I rfbutc to Scien
Most Famous Night in History.
WASHINGTON. d. C.-The discourse
DR.. Talmage Is full of the nativity and a
propriate for the holidays; text, Luke
l6, And they came with haste and four
Mary and Joseph and the babe lying in
manager"
The black window shutters of a Decor
Der night were thrown open, and some
the best siagers of a world where they (
sing stood there and, putting back y
drapery Of q cloud, chanted a peace a
them until all the echoes Of hill and va
ley applauded and encored the halleluit
chorus. Come, let US go into that Chris
ma scene as though we had never befo
worshiped at the manser. Here is a NJ
donna worth looking at. | wonder n
that the most frequent name in all lam
and in all Christian countries is Ma
And there are Marys in palaces ar
Marys in cabins, and, though German az
French and Italian and Spanish and En-
lish pronounce it differently, they are .
namesakes of the one whom we find Oh
bed of straw, with her pale face again
the soft check OF Christ in the night Of Il
nativity. All the great painters have trie
on canvas, to present Mary and her chi
and the incidents of that most famol
night in the worlds history. Raphael in thr'
different masterpieces, celebrated ther
Tintoretto and Ghirlapdajo surpasst
themselves in the alteration of the Mas
Correggio needed to do no more than h
Madonna to become immortal. The IN
donna of the Lily" by Leonardo da vino
will kindle the admiration of all ages. III
all the galleries of Dresden are forgottt
when l think of the small room Of TIL
gallery containing the "Sistine Madonna
Yet all of them were copies Of st. Ma
inspired Madonna OF the old book whiC
we had put into our hands when we we
infants, and that we hope to have md
our heads when we die.
Behold, in the first place, that on Il
first night Of Christ's life God hono.sd Il
brute creation. You cannot get ;Fto tht
Bethlehem barn without going asst Il
canels, the mules, the dogs, the Zen. tt
brutes of that stable heard the first cry
the infant Lord. Some r. the old painte
represent the oxen and camels kneelir
that night before the newborn babe, Al
we'll might they kneelt Have you q
l4tOukAt tAldL CHiAcb Kill ALl II "
things, to alleviate the suffer IS Of Il
brute creation? Was it not .ppropria
that He should. during the first Sew da
and nights of His life on. earth, be su
rounded by the dumb beasts. whose moi
and plant and believing have for ages be-
a prayer to God for the arresting of the
fortunes and the righting Of their wrong
Not a kennel in all the centuries, not
birds nest, not a worn-out horse on 70
path, not a herd freezing in the poor
built cow-pen, not q freight car in SUI
mer time Bringing the beeyes to mark
without water aas ! th r. ieaas-sa . . !,
struggles Of fox or ran II. pigeon or d,
in the horrors Of vivi% ZION but has an j
terest in the fact than thirst was born
a stable surrounded brates.
Standing then, as. lnaeine now I d
in that Bethlehem NJ {t. with an fnial
Christ on the one si94 and the speechle
creatures 81 God oil! he other, I or,
Look out how you 81 Ee the rowel in
that horses side; tak4 III that curbed |
from that bleeding 2 Luth; remove tn
saddle from that raw aek: shoot not E
fun that bird that ia 90 small for FOO
forget Hst to put w4& into the cage
na"n""Eutk4w} -ame "rrns',hs
those birds cPnght. tpy
winters i~nclemency% Mon ,n ~
is making that onN iSoanJJ
heavy enough for thN i,ncn III
scene where boys Ord q % a.
t%ransfxing butterfly gTassbonrorr..
drive not off that 3h |for her pas
is a mothers CRADLE Lan aH
there may be threeA knus;c;an"s VII
the sky in training. @famiIiasN III ~
in your schools tes1 bming ceneral
ton more mercy thu lresenf senero-
ton has ever shownx tb;s ma,voln,as
bloie picture q " Fity, while you
point OUT 70 mem lgel, show them
celestial chant let also hear X
cows moan.
beho,d aiso m " e scene how on
hood. Childhood \ [be bonored ~.
that advent. rs nj + a child's light
llmbs ana q cmld.sA ID hand and a
hair. and babyhoodd be honored for
nll time to come, and l. WIS 10 mesn
more than a grave fS6tv Godi Nav
the reflection of thu HI cbildia face ny
seen in all infantile N
Enough nay az " fathers and moth
on n y tne We a child in the
kingdom, under ch Be %earefnl Now
you strihe laaal WI Kthe head, ~jarring
the brain; what yay TO him will be
ceheenhlal ana and years will not
SOP ehe eeno ana eho. Do not say, ]
y, = on!y 2 cniia Rather say, 1T is s
piece Of Jehovah, only a beino that I,
shaii outiiNe sun w hoon and star and J
ages quadr,enhlai, has infinite re- +
sources and ne csI3e presents Of great VI
value, put when H9 It's to give the rich. n
around all the-wcr} i ali Tie univerSe y
and then gives yali ares q
God has honoredk AZ makes {,
almost every nictul are unless there el
be q chiid eitherA on the floor or d.
looking through w pw or seated on in
the lap gazing intoA Of the mother. 70
II was q child 1 MS kitchen that a
told the great BY rrior where he Dc
might GO and gel Of the leprosy 10
which, at bis seven, e in the Jordan an
was lett at the b the river. 1t ri,
was LAIN, rocked uoh
called the astentlQ .story. 1t was
SICK enIa thas eA Christ's curative
sympathies. 4 va ID that Christ set
N tne miast ~ "a bling disciples to
teac1 me lesson ( Eity. A child de-
eicsa ssagersoo p the army Of, Blu
the fields when, 4 rad lad heen t
followed, the Prt yneral yonld have COZ
come up 700 iatet We the destinies OF saa
Europe. ~ was that decided Get ,b,
tysourR, ne navlH rheard two Confed- ~
crate generals Id nrsrsalion in Witch lca
they decided to- for Gsttvsburg IN. 10
stead Of HarrisMn Ma renortsJ VI uIn
governor tNrtl be Federal forces
started 70 meet bpp6rgnts at Gettys, H.
burg = to5v child is 10 decide IN
an tne great p make all the laws, VI
settle az the and usher in the M a
worlds saiyaf}1 destruction. Men, eeIt'
W9men, natl2Ht arih and all heaven, Sa aH,
NOTICE ~ IA this Bible night lie
scene GOD .ience. Who are the M,
Infee wise \ Eng before the Divine fish
INFANT; NOT not isnoramuses, but con
Saspaf, hatn Melchior, men who he
knew az tnat be known. They were ana
tne isaac new Hcrschels and Far. In;
aaays OF theif Their alchemy was *
the ~forerunner sublime chemistry,
theif ~nstFoiogy ther OF our magnifi.
cent h~stfonony when | see these II
Rc1cntlSt8 b0Vlttnra tle heautifnl Z, I,