Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-06-13
TALMAGE,
SERMON
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By Rev.
FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE, DID,,
Pastor of Jefferson Park Presby-
terrain Church, Chicago

Chicago, June S.-A pen picture Of
the lineaments of the divine face Of
Christ is presented by Rev. Frank De
Witt Talmage in this discourse on the
text II Corinthians iv, 6, 1.-THE face Of
Jesus Christ"
Character il stamped upon the hui
man face. By that l 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 it became the idol of Lon
don. When the king asked rich lady
for E10 to help carry on the war against
France, she replied, "For thy corlely
face thou shalt have twenty" When
the king kissed her with his smiling
lips. the rich old lady made the gift
f4O instead of $50. 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 l mean
that il a man is good man there is
generally something in the smile o. 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 Il
man is bad. there are telltale sigrs 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 human face a 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 Mr.. So-and-so" Your
| wife would answer: 81 do not like him
at all He is not a man to be tru sted.
| You had Better beware and not get
mixed up in any business dea ings
with that man. | do not like his face"
Or your wife would answer: Il like
| that man. ! wish you would invite
him up again to the house. | like his
/ eye and the curve of his lip. | Xix his
face" In almost every case. as you
found out later, your wife's est
Of your friends characters was tight
She judged them by the face.
After my father died | stayed alone
with his body for two nights. We were
alone, as we often used to be YheI
travelling around the world together
One night as | sat there by his side
found myself speaking aloud. was
startled by the sound of my own voice
as | soliloquized, NO man could have
had face like that unless he was {
good man." My father had the .ndel
Of his beautiful life stamped upon hi
face, even in the unconscious pose o
death.
Pfcturing the Divine Face.
Now Paul declares that the glory o
God was revealed to man in the fac
of Jesus Christ. As we have no au
thentic picture of Jesus l would try t
paint a word picture of the divin
face by recounting some of Christ
mental and spiritual characteristics.
D This was the method by which w
obtained picture of my brother afte
he was dead. For years before his de
mise he had not been to photog
rapher. So after the funeral we too
to an artist all the pictures which IN
| 1,pOf 1,ars l.lI fo1 in, hie hnvhAnf NJ
1 also took a lock of his hair. We tol
; the artist about my brothers lapp
nature, told how the jokes which Il
= perpetrated would be revealed II hi
smile and laughing eye. We 1alke
about his nature, so that the arts
might paint that nature in the youn
mans face.
y Emperor William l. of German
4 wanted an artist to paint the face {
. his mother. Princess Louise, as 81
st was in the prime of her physical bea
> ty. He took all the different pi cturt
Of the dead empress to the artist S st
y do There the royal son told that al
ist the characteristics of his mothe
n From his verbal portraiture that arti
u painted the famous ideal picture
Princess Louise descending the ste
Of her palace. May God help Inc
:, day to paint Alright the face of Jes
Christ!
Jesus must have had an intellige
- face. Psychologists teach that t
seat of the brain is under the dome
the skull. They assert that Certa
characteristics Of the brain can he re
by the contour of the skull. as Bill
man with his fingers reads ty t
b. raised letters of the Braille all hab
But the intelligence of the brain c
r be traced in the face, as we'll as up
II. the top of the head. in the forlnati
rs of the mouth as well as in the / hrel
'er logical charts mapped off upon t
ty back of the skull The thin lip of /
Ia Caucasian is entirely different fir,
The thick lip of the African; the deep
eyes and cyerhanging brows Of
. university scholar are totally differ,
Y from the twinkling eyes and narr
frontal bones of the Australian aboI
ines. Some mems faces are so EXPIRE
" i've that when they turn their k,
- eyes upon you they seem to bore b
right into the heart of your very
ing. If you try to deceive them.
look upon their faces reveals the
that they know you are not telling
'e' truth.
oN The Penetrating Eye.
fac. OrmSby Mitchell. the astronomer.
,ate day was making some dial Cbsel
ice. tons. AS the sun was setting Il
sses seven miles away was focused by
,fe's cyclopian eye of the telescope. W
the astronomer was seated there in
ons observatory he saw two boys stra
bills apples from an orchard which grew
on the top of that hill. So some m
2 in eyes are such intelligent. penetra
eyes that they seem to have |
ri. watching you even when you '
- miles away.
.M Bayard Taylor relates a remark
~ incident of the power of Daniel Y
ster's eye and face. During the
when the senator from Massa shus
was being bitterly assailed in his
T state and abroad, in company
LIZ james Russell Lowell and a part
,es. Harvard classmates Taylor went
Boston meeting with the ave wee
tention of interrupting Mr.. Webs
entail speech and turning his remarks
ridicule. when Mr.. Webster arc.
speak," wrote Bayard Tay or,
turned his great eyes upon us stud
TO- AS he did so he seemed to us to