Connecticut western news., 1902-06-12
TALMAGE SERMON
 By Rev. FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE. DID,. Pastor of Jefferson Park Presby- teriAn Church, Chicago


 Christ is presented by Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage in this discourse on the text II Corinthians iv, 6, '"The face of Jesus Christ"
 Character is stamped upon the hu- man face. By that I do not mean a good man necessarily has a beautiful face and a bad man a homely face. Some of the most sinful men have the handsomest faces. The morally cor rupt and evil minded Edward ". of England had a face of such singular beauty that 1t became the idol of Lon don. When the king asked rich lady for f10 to help carry on the war against France, she replied, "For thy comedy face thou shalt have twenty" When the king kissed her with his smiling lips, the rich old lady made the gift $40 instead of f20. On the other hand. some of the kindest and best men have facial features which shock every artistic idea of harmonious pro- portions. But when state that char acter can be read in the face I mean that if aSman 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 a good man. If man is bad, 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 face is true. You have also learned that your wife can read the character in the human face great deal better than her husband. When a younger man, you used to bring your friends home to spend the evening. After those friends had gone you would turn and say, My dear, how did you like MT. So-and-soT Your wife would answer: 'I do not like him at all. He is not a man to be trusted. You had better beware and not get mixed up in any business dealings with that man. do not like his face" Or your wife would answer: "I like 5 that man. wish you would invite him up again to the house. like his eye and the curve of his lip. like his face" In almost every case, as you found out later, your wife's estimate of your friends characters was right. She judged them by the face.
 After my father died I stayed alone with his body for two nights. We were traveling around the world together. One night as sat there by his side I found myself speaking aloud. was startled by the sound of my own voice as soliloQuized, "No man could have had a face like that unless he was good man" My father had the index of his beautiful life stamped upon his face, even in the unconscious pose Of death.
 PicturinR the Divine Face.
 Now Paul declares that the glory of God was revealed to man in the face of Jesus Christ. As we have no au- thentic picture of Jesus I would try to paint a word picture of the divine face by accounting some of Christ's mental and spiritual characteristics.
 This was the method by which we obtained picture of my brother after he was dead. For years before his de- mise he had 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 . lock 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 young mans face. .
 Emperor William I. of Germany wanted an artist to paint the face of his mother, Princess Louise, as she was in the prime of her physical beau ty. He took all the different pictures ! of the dead empress to the artists stu dio. There the royal son told that art list the characteristics of his mother. From his verbal portraiture that artist painted the famous ideal picture of Princess Louise descending the steps of her palace. May God help me to- day to paint alright the face of Jesus Christ!
 Jesus must have had an intelligent face. Phrenologists teach that the seat of the brain is under the dome of the skull. They assert that certain characteristics of the brain can be read by the contour of the skull, as a blind man with his fingers reads by the raised letters of the Braille alphabet. But the intelligence of the brain can be traced in the face, as well as upon the top of the head. in the formation of the mouth as well as in the phreno- logical charts mapped off upon the back of the skull. The thin lip of the Caucasian Is entirely different from the thick lip of the African; the deepset eyes and overhanging brows of the university scholar are totally different from the twinkling eyes and narrow frontal bones of the Australian aborig- Ines. Some mems faces are so express I've that when they turn their keen eyes upon you they seem to bore hole right into the heart of your very be ing. If you try to deceive them, the look upon their faces reveals the fact that they know you are not telling the truth.
 The Penetrating Eye.
 Ormsby Mitchell, the astronomer, one day was making some dial observa tons. As the sun was setting a hill seven miles away was focused by the cyclopian eye of the telescope. While the astronomer was seated there in his observatory he saw two boys stealing apples from an orchard which grew up, on the top of that hill. So some mems eyes are such intelligent, penetrative eyes that they seem to have been watching you even when you were miles away.
 .Bayard Taylor relates a remarkable incident of the power of Daniel Web ster's eye and face. During the time when the senator from Massachusetts was being bitterly assailed in his own state and abroad, in company with James Russell Lowell and party of Harvard classmates Taylor went to a Boston meeting with the avowed in- xl SwxA