The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-15
Dr. Talmage's Sermon.
BY REV. FRANK DE WITT TALMAeE, D. D.

 llneaments of the divine face of Christ is presented by the Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage in this discourse on the text II Corinthians iv, 6, "The face of Jesus Christi
 Character Is stamped upon the human face By that 1 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 corrupt and evil minded Edward ". of England had a face of such singular beauty that 1t be- came the idol of London. When the king asked rich lady for e10 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 920. On the other hand, some of the kindest and best men have facial features which shock every But when l state that character can be read in the face I mean that if a man is a good man there Is generally some thing 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 man Is bad, there are telltale signs in the face which prove that he is a 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 hun daal holt than hnr husband. When 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-so?" Your wife would answer: T do not like him at all. He Is not man to be trusted. You had better beware and not get mixed up In any business dealings with that man. I do not like his face" Or your wife would answer: "I like that man. I wish you would invite him up again to the house. I like his eye and the curve of his lip. I like his face" In almost every case, as you found out later, your wifes estimate of your friends charac- ter was right. She judged them by the face.
 After my father died I stayed alone with his body for two nights. We were alone. as we often used to be when travelling around the world together. One night as l sat there by his side found myself speaking aloud. l was startled by the sound of my own voice as I soliloquized, No man could have had a face like that unless he was a good man" My father had the index of his beautiful life steamped upon his face, even in the unconscious pose of death.
 Picturlng 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 authentic picture of Jesus I would try to paint a word picture of the divine face by re- counting some of Christs mental and spiritual characteristics.
 This was the method by which we ob- tained a picture of my brother after he was dead For years before his demise he had not been to a photographer. So after the funeral we took to an artist all the pictures which my brother had taken in his boyhood. We also took a lock of his hair. We told the artist about my brothers happy nature. told how the jokes which he pereptrated would be revealed In his smile and laugh ing eye. We talked about his nature, so that the artist might paint that na- ture in the young mans face.
 Emperor William l. of Germany want ed an artist to paint the face of his mother, Princess Louise, as she was in the prime of her physical beauty He took all the different pictures of the dead empress to the artists studio. There the royal son told that artist the character istics of his mother. From his verbal portraiture that artist painted the fa- nous ideal picture of Princess Louise descending the steps of her palace. May God help me today 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 blind man with his fin- gers 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 chronological 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
 
 mems faces are so expressive that when they turn their keen eyes upon you they seem to bore q hole right into the heart of your very being. If you try to deceive them, the look upon their faces reveals the fact that they know you are not tell ing the truth.
 The Penetrating Eye.
 ormsby Mitchell, the astronomer, one day was making some dial observations AS the sun was setting 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 upon the top of that hill. So some mems eyes are such in telligcnt, penetratiyc eyes that they seem to have been watching you even when you were miles away.
 Bayard Taylor relates remarkable incident of the power of Daniel Web stcr's eye and face. During the time when the Senator from Massachusetts was bitterly assailed in his own State and abroad, in company with James Russell Lowell and a party of Harvard classmates Taylor went to a Boston meeting with the avowed intention of in- turning his remarks into rdicule. "When Mir. Webster arose to speak" wrote Bayard Taylor, 'he turned his great eyes upon us students. As he did SO he seem- ed to us to read our very thoughts. The intelligence of his face seemed to speak volumes although his lips had not yet