Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-06-09
TALsMAGE
SERMON

BY Rev.
FRhNK DE WITT TAE.MAGE. DID,.
Pastor CT jefferson Park Presby-
terrain Church, Chicago


Christ is presented by Rev. Frank De
Witt Ta)mage In this discourse on the
text ii Corinthians iv. G. THE face of
Jesus Christ
Character Is stamped upon the hui
man faos>. Ely that do not mean a
good. man necessarily has beautiful
facs, and a had man n homely face
SodNe. of the Aoost sinful men have the
'lapdsomeSt faces The morally cor
nnpt. and exil minded Edward ". of
England had face of such singular
beauty that it became the idol of Lon
dop. Whenl the king asked rich lady
fpri f10t0, RaaIS carry ON the war against
France she replied. For thy comely
face thon shalt have twenty" When
the King. kissed her with his smiling
lips. the rich old lady made the gift
tdo instead Of f20. On the other
hand. some af the kindest and best
men have, facial features which shock
every artistic idea of harmonious pro-
portions. Bur when / state that char
acterr can, be <ead in the face l mean
that if q, man is good man there is
generally something in the smile of his
lip. the glance of his eye. the wrinkles
of. his cheek. the set of his jaw. which
suggests that he is good man. If a
mann is had there are telltale signs in
the face which prove that he is bad
man,
BY long and bitter experience you
have learned that the revealing power
of the fare is true. You have also
learned than your wife can read the
character i'm the human face great
deal better than her husband. When
younger naNnA you used to bring your
friends. hcEaF to spend the evening.
After thoSs friends had gone you
would turn aud say, My dear. how
did you like Mr. So-and-so?" Your
wife would answer Il do not like him
at, all He is not q man to be trusted.
You had better beware and not get
mixed! M. i'm any business dealings
with lthae HSn> I do not like his face"
OR your wife would answer: ~ like
that man. 1 wish you would invite
him up again to the house. l like his
eye and the curve of his lip. l like his
face. In alInost every case. as you
found out Aattr> your wife's estimate
of your friends characters was right.
She judgeG them by the face
Aftan my father died I stayed alone
with his body for two nights. We were
alone. us we often used to be when
Travelling arOund the world together
One nighk as sat there by his side
foundl @ysslf speaking aloud. | was
startled 10y Tia sound of my own voice
as ] solilcQaized. No man could have
had n face like that unless he was
good mau> Ny father had the index
of his beautiful life stamped upon his
face. even in the unconscious pose of
deaths.
Pictrrrr-S rae Divine Face.
Now Paul declares that the glory of
God. Was n~veSled to man in the face
OF Jesus Christ AS we have no au-
thentie picture of Jesus 1 would try to
paint a wcrd picture of the divine
face by receontiug some of Christ's
mental ana spiritual characteristics.
This was the method by which we
obtained = picture of my brother after
he was dead Fer years before his de-
mise he. bad not been to a photog-
rapher. So, after the funeral we took
to an. artist all the pictures which my
brother had taken in his boyhood. We
also took u kick of his hair. We told
the artist about my brothers happy
nature. told how the jokes which he
perpetrated would be revealed in his
smile and laughing eye. We talked
about his nature. so that the artist
might paint that nature in the youne
mans face
Emperor William 1. Of Germany
wantedl an, artist to paint the face OF
his motheE Princess Louise. as SHE
was in the prime of her physical beau
~. HR took all the different picture:
of the dead suppress to the artists stu
do Theme the royal son told that art
ist tue characteristics OF his mother
From his verbal portraiture that arts
painted the famous ideal picture o
Princess, Leuise descending the step
Of her palace May God help me to
day to paint Alright the face of Jesu
Christi
Jesus must have had an intelligen
FACE. Rhrenologists teach that tn
seat oft the brain is under the dome o
the skull They assert that certain
characteristics of the brain can be rea
by the contour OF the skull. as a kin
mRn With his fingers reads by tn
raised letters of the Braille alphabet
But, the Intelligence of the brain Ca
I've traced IN the face. as we'll as upo
the top ct the head. in the formatio
ofIthe mouth us well as in the phrenC
logical charts mapped off upon til
hack OF toe S6un The thin lip of th
Caucasian is entirely different fror
THE 'taiick fip OF the African; the deepst
eyes and everhanging brows of th
university sc6oiar are totally differer
from ta,c twinkiiug eyes and narro'
frontall borrsS of the Australian aborii
ines. Some mems faces are so expires