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TALMAGE
SERMON
BY Rev.
FRANK DE WITT TALMAcE. DID,,
Pastor Of Jefferson Park Presby-
terrain Church, Chicago

Chicago, June ga pen picture of
the lineaments Of the divine face of
Christ is presented by Rev. Frank De
Witt Talmnge in this discourse on the
text II Corinthians Nv, 6, 1.-THE face of
Jesus Christ"
Character is stamped upon the hui
man face. BY that do not mean q
good man necessarily has beautiful
face and q bad man homely face.
Some Of the most sinful men have the
handsomest faces. The morally cor
rupt and evil minded Edward ". Of
England had face of such singular
beauty that it became the idol of Lon
don. When the king asked a 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
| f40 instead Of 200 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 l state that char
acter can be read in the face l mean
that if man Is a 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
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 Mr.. So-and-so" Your
wife would answer: II 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. do not like his face -
Or your wife would answer: Il like
that man. l 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 wifes estimate
Of your friends characters was right
She judged them by the face.
After my father died l 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 l solloquized, mo man could have
had face like that unless he was a
good man." My father had the index
of his beautiful life stamped upon his
face, even in the unconscious pose of
death.
PicturinE 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 would try to
paint a word picture Of the divine
face by recountlng some of Christ's
menta! and spiritual characteristics.
This was the method by which VIC
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 talket
about his nature, so that the artis
might paint that nature in the young
mans face.
Emperor William l. 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 picture.
of the dead empress to the artists stu
do. There the royal son told that art
list the characteristics Of his mother
From his verbal portraiture that arts
painted the famous ideal picture o.
Princess Louise descending the step
of her palace. May God help me to
day to paint Alright the face Of Jesu
Christ!
Jesus must have had an intelligen
face. Phrenologists teach that TIT
seat Of 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 blnt
man with his fingers reads by tn
raised letters Of the Bralle alphabet
But the intelligence Of the brain cal
be traced in the face, as we'll as upol
the top of the head, in the formation
Of the mouth as well as in the phreno
logical charts mapped Off upon tn
back Of the skull The thin lip Of til
Cauca sian is entirely different from
the thick lip Of the African; the deepse
| eyes and overhanging brows Of tn
university scholar are totally differen
from the twinkling eyes and marrow
frontal bones Of the Australian aborie
ines. Some mems faces are so express
i've that when they turn their kee
eyes upon you they seem to bore hol
, right into the heart Of your very be
, ing. If you try to deceive them. tn
look upon their faces reveals the fac
that they know you are not telling tn
/ truth.
r The Penetrating Eye.
Ormsby Mitchell, the astronomer on