Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-06-14
TALMAGE
SERMON
By Rev.
FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE. DID,.
Pastor Of jefferson Park Presby-
terian Church, Chicago

Chicago. June S.-A pen picture o.
the lincaments Of the divine face OF
Christ is presented by Rev. Frank Dc
Witt Talmage in this discourse on the
text IL Corinthians iy, 6, THE face OF
Jesus Christ" =
Character IL stamped upon the hu
man face. BY that | do not mean q
good man necessarily has a beautiful
face and a bad man Il homely face
Some Of the most sinful men have the
handsomest faces. The morally cor
tupt 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 f10 to help carry on the war against
France. she replied, "For thy comely
face thou shalt have twenty" When
the king kissed her with his smiling
lips, the rich old lady made the gift
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 | mean
that if a 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 a good man. If a
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 human face a great
deal better than her 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 Mr.. SO-and-so" Your
wife would answer: 81 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: II like
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
alone, as we often used to be when
travelling around the world together.
One night rs | sat there by his side |
found myself speaking aloud. was
startled by the sound Of my own voice
rs | 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.
PicturinG the Divine Face.
Now Paul declares that the glory of
God was revealed to man in the face
IF Jesus Christ. AS we have no au-
-hentic picture Of Jesus | would try to
paint q word picture of the divine
face by recounting some Of Christ's
mental and spiritual characteristics.
This was the method by which we
picture of my brother after
ne was dead For years before his de-
mise he had not been to a photog-
'apher. SO after the funeral we took
o an artist all the pictures which my
brother had taken in his boyhoOd. We
llso took a lock of his hair. We told
he artist about my brothers happy
nature. told how the jokes which he
would be revealed in his
smile and laughing eye. We talked
lbout his nature, so that the artist
night paint that nature in the young
mans face.
Emperor William l. Of Germany
wanted an artist to paint the face Of
lis mother. Princess Louise, as she
vas In the prime of her physical beau
Y. He took all the different pictures
# the dead empress to the artists stu
lio. There the royal son told that art
st the characteristics of his mother
from his verbal pOrtraiture that artist
painted the famous ideal picture of
Princess Louise descending the steps
# her palace. May God help me to-
lay to paint Alright the face Of Jesus
yhrist!
Jesus must have had an intelligent
ace. Phrenologists teach that the
eat Of the brain is under the dome Of
he skull They assert that certain
Of the brain can be read
" the contour Of the skull, as a blind
nan with his fingers reads by the
aised letters of the Braille alphabet.
But the intelligence of the brain can
e traced in the face, as well as upon
he top OF the head, in the formation
f the mouth as well as in the phreno-
ogical charts mapped off upon the
ack Of the skull The thin lip Of the |
Caucasian Is entirely different from
he thick lip of the African; the deepset
yes and overhanging brOws Of the |
scholar are totally different
rom the twinkling eyes and narrow |
rOntal bones Of the Australian aborig- |
nes. Some mems faces are so express
ve that when they turn their keen |
yes upon you they seem to bore hole |
light into the heart of your very be-
ng. If you try to deceive them, the |
Ook upon their faces reveals the fact
hat they know you are not telling the
ruth.
The Penetrating Eye.
Ormsby Mitchell, the astronomer, one
lay was making some dial observa-
ions. AS the sun was setting a hill |
even miles away was focused by the
,yclopian eye Of the telescope. While
he astronomer was seated there in his
he saw two boys stealing
lpples from an orchard which grew up
N the top of that hill. So some mems