The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1922-06-07
DIR. TALMAGEs SERMON
The Child Emperor :.

The Child Emperor.
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- published by Request.)
Text: "Ye shall find the babe wrap
ped in swaddling clothes, lying in
nnanger. And suddenly there was
with the angel a multitude of the
heavenly host" St. Luke, ii, E12-lS.
AT midnight from one Of the gal
leries of the sky chant broke. To
an ordinary observer there may have
been no reason for such celestial derl-
onstration.- "A poor man and wife,
travellers, Joseph and Mary by name,
had lodged in an clubhouse of an or
binary village. The supreme hour Of
so1emnity had passed, and upon the
pallid forehead and cheek Of Mary
God had set the dignity, the grandeur,
the tenderness, the everlasting and
divine significance Of motherhood.
kuch scenes had often occurred in
Bethlehem bat never before had
star been unfi1ed or had baton of
light narshaned over the hills winged
orchestra.
If there had been brilliant and
mighty recognition in the sky at a
nativity in the house Of Pharaoh, or
at a nativity in the house Of Caesar,
or, Ia after ages at a nativity in the
! house of the Stuarts, Or house of
Hapsburg,, it would not have been so
wonderful; but a barn seemed too
poor centre for such delicate and
archangelic circumference, the stage
seemed too small for so great an act,
the music too grand for such unap-
i preciative auditors, the stable too
rude to- be. surrounded by other
WORLDS. No. sir; no madam. It is
fny joy this morning to tell you what
was horn that night in the village
barn, and that ! may make my sermon
cumulative. and climacterie begin by
you tllats that nigh il. the
gaasary af niehens hers ,sas
: ssas1 she poorly
Efafsad lde had Only two hisads.
His parepts. No satin lined cradle,
Z no delicate attendance, but the stray
and the cattle and the coarse jokes
and banter OF the camel drivers. No
wonder the medieval painters repre-
sent the oxen as kneeling at the man
gers. There were no men there at
that time to worship. But from what
depth Of humiliation had our Lord
risen. To what heighth! What is the
rnightiest name in all Christendom to-
day? Jesus. Who has more friends
than any other being? Jesus. Before
whom to-day do church and cathedral
and chapel bend? Jesus. For whom
might a hundred million men be mar
shaled to fight or die? Jesus. Oh,
what encouragement for the poorly
started. Was your birth more disad-
vantageous? Were your surroundings
more poverty stricken2 Do you know
that all the great deliverers of the
world were born in barn-like places?
Luther, the emancipator of religion,
born amid the mines. Shakespeare,
the ;ema aneipator Of litera .ure, born in
an humble home at Stratford- Upon
Avon. Columbus, the discoverer of
world, born in poverty at Genoa.
Hogarth, the discoverer Of how to
max b art administrative of virtue,
bornf in poverty at Westmoreland.
Prideau and Kilto, whose, keys have
unlocked apartments Of the Holy
Scripture that had otherwise never
been explored, bornsIn humble homes
and amid greatest privations. Nine
out Of ten Of the worlds deliverers,
nine out Of ten Of the worlds mes
siahs-the messiahs of law, the mes
Sans OF medicine, the meSSiahS be-
neyolence, the messiahs of philan-
thropy, the nessiahs of poverty, born
in barn-hke places. 1 stir your holy
ambition today if you feel that there
are those in your occupation or pro-
feseion, or outside Of it, who are try
ing to hinder your ascent and your
progress, and want to tell you that
the sympathetic heart and the al
mighty arm of the son Of God are on
your side, and you have an intimate
and sympathetic friend in the one
who isSwrapped in swaddling clothes
i; and lay in the Inanger. For all the
poorly started what encoura cement,