Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 33, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 December 1893 — Page 7

STAR OF BETHLEHEM. “I Am the Bright and the Morning Star.” R»v, Dr. T. De Witt Talmajce’t ChrUtmaa Sermon-ChrUt Heralds the Dawn of Heavea Upon Every thrUliuu's Dying Pillow. In the Brooklyn Tabernacle Sunday a great audience assembled to participate in the Christmas services. Standing before the organ, festooned with Christmas greens, this sermon was delivered by Itev. Dr. Talmage, after the throngs hud sung “The Star of Bethlehem.” Text, Revelation xxii, 10, “I am the bright and the morning star.” This ts Christmas eve. Our attention and the attention of the world is drawn to the star that pointed down to the caravansary where Christ was born. But do not let us forget that Christ himself was a star. To that luminous fact my text calls us. It seems as if the natural world were anxious to mako up for the damage it did 01# ra^Jin furnishing the forbidden fruit. If that fruit wrought death among the nations, now all the natural product shall become a symbol of blessing. The showering downof the wealth of 'the orchard will make us think of Him whom Solomon describes as the aipple tree among theireesof the wood, and the flowers of tangled glen and ^cultured parterre shall be the dewglinted garland for the brow of the Lord Jesus. Yea, ex«n ttys night shall he taxed, and its brightest star shall be set as a gem in the coronet in our

holy religion. Have you ever seen the morning -Star advantageously'? fit it was on your way home from a night's carousal, you saw none of its beauty. If you merely turned over on your pillow in th«?da>d;ness, glancing -out of the window, you l^now nothing'*.bout the cheerful id*uence of that star. Hut there arc funny in this house 5 to-night who in great passes of their life, some of the®: far out at sea, have gazed at that star, and been thrilled'ill rough pith indescribable gladness. That star comes-tremb-ling as though with the perils>)f the darkness, ai d yet bright withfthe anticipatiomncf the day. It seams emotional with all tenderness, tts eyes filled with the tears of many-eorrows. It is the g»m on the hand of .the morning thrust up to signal its coming. Other stars are dim, like holy candles in a cathedral of silver beads counted in superstitious litany, bat this is a living star, a speaking star, a historic star, an ■ evangelistic star—bright and brilliant and triumphant sya.bol of the great Redeemer. The telegraphic operator puts his finger on the silver key of the electric instrument, and the tidings fly across the continent. And sb it seems \to me that die finger of inspiration is placed upon this silver point in the heavens, aud its thrill is sent through all the eairth. “Hehold, I bring you good tidings of great joy whid: shall be to all pec pie. Hehold, I aon the bright: and unorning star.” The meaning of nay yext is this: As the morning star precedes and promises tfa: coming of the'day, so Christ heralds'.the natural add spiritual dawn. Inithe first place, Chriefdieralded the coming of the creation. There was.a ftiinewheu there was no order, no sound or beauty. No wing stirred. No wore was .uttered. No light sped. As far as God *ould look up, as far-down, as far out, there was nothing., immeasurable, solitude. Height and depth and length and breadth of nothingness. Did Christ then exist? Oh, yes, “By Him were all things made that are made; things in Heaacn and things in eatfih and things under the earth.” Yes, he antedated, the creation. He led forth A return* and Siis sons Ule shone before the first mousing. His voice was, Heard in the coneert when the morning' stars serenaded the advent of our aufant earth, when, wrapped in swaddling clothes of light, it lay in the arms ef the great Jehovah. He saw the first fountain JaicL He saw the first light kindled. That hand which was afterward crushed upon the cross was thrusj, into chaos, and it brought out one world and swung it in that orbit, and brought out another world and swung it in another orbit, and brought out all the worlds and swung them in their particular orbits. They came like sheep at the call of a shepherd. They knew His voice, and he called them all by their names. Oh, it is an interesting

thougut to me to Know that Christ hail something- to do with the creation. I see now why it was so "easy for Him to change water into wine. He first created thr water. I see now \*iiy it was so easy for Him to cure the maniac. He first created the intellect I see now why it was so easy for Him to hush the tempest. He sank Gennesaret I see now why it was so easy for Him to ^swing fish into Simon's net He made the fish. I see now why it was«.so easy for Him to give sight to the blind man. He created the optic nerve. I see now why it was so easy for Him to raise Lazarus from the dead. Ho created the body of Lazarus and the rock that shut him in. Some suppose that Christ came a strai ger to Bethlehem. Oh., no. He created ithe shepherds, and ,the flocks they vwatclied, and the hills on which tkiey pastured, ■ and the heavens that overarched their hea4s, and the angeiie that chanted the chorus on that Christmas night. That, hand which was afterward nailed t® -the cross, was au- omnipotent and creative hand and the whole universe was poised on the tip.af one of his fingers. Before the world vas Christ was. All the world came trooping up out -of the darkness, and he greeted them, as a father greets his children, with » “good morning,” or a “good night.” Hail, Lord Jesus, morning star of the first creation. * Again, Christ heralds the dawn of comfort in a Christian souL Sometimes we come to passes in life where all kinds of tribulations meet ns. You are building up some great enterprise. You have built the foundation—the wall— you are Just about to put on the cap. glove, when everything is demolished.

You have a harp all strung for sweetest accord, and some' great agony crushes it. There is a little voice hushed in the household. Blue eyes closed. Color dashed out of the cheek. The foot still. Instead of the quick feet in the hall, the heavy tread of those who march to the ■ grave. Oh, what are people ' to do amid all these sorrows? Some sit down and mourn. Some bite their lip until the blood comes. Some wrw~ tH“ir pale hands. Seme fall on their faces. Some lie on their backs, helpless and look up into what seems to them an unpitying Heaven. Some pull their hair down over their eyes and look through with a fiend’s glare. Some, with both hands, press their hot brain and want to die and cry, “O God, O God!” Long night', bitter night, stupendous night of the world’s suffering! Some know not which way to turn. But not so the Christian man. He looks up toward the Heavens.

He sees a bright appearance in the heavens. Can it be only a flashing meteor? Can it bo only a falling star? Can it be only a delusion? Js ay, nay. The longer he looks the more distinct it becomes, until after awhite he cries out, “A star—a morning star, a star of comfort, m star of grace, a star of peace, the star of the Redeemer!” Peace for ail trouble, lialm for all -wounds. Life for all dead Now Jesus, the great heart hosier, comes into our home. Peace! Peace that passeth all understanding. IVe look up through o*r tears. We are comforted. It is'the morning-star of the (Redeemer. ''Who broke *>ff. that flower?” said one servant in Jfho garden to •another. "Who broke off'that flower?” And the other servant sa«d, “The master.” Noth ing more <«nts said, for if the master had not the vight to break off a flower to wearotnt- his heart or to set in the vase in *he mansion, who has a right to touch the flower? • And when CStrist comes down into our garden to gather lillies,-Shall we tight him back? -Shall we tail: r.s though he had no riffi.t to come? If any one in n'A the universe lias anfght to that which is beautiful in cna- homes, then-Our master has, and be'will take it, and he will - wear it over-his heart, or he'Will set it- in the vase a»f the palace ew-nal. “The Lord gave,: and the Lord bath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” Pence, troubled soul! I pnt the balm on your wounded heart bo*iight The morning star, thdmorning star of the Redeemer. Again, Christ heralds the ifiewn of millennial glory. It is night in China, nr'ght in-India, night .in Siberia, night Her the vast m ajority of the world’s population. Hut it seems tontne there are some intia ations of the morning. All Spain is to be brought under the influence of t ie gospel.- What is that light; 1 see bn aking over theitop of the Pyrenees? The morning! V«a, all Italy shall receivetthe gospel. She shall have her schools and her colleges and her churches. Ber vast population shall , surrender themselves to Christ What is that light? see breaking ever the top I of the Alps? The morning. All India shall come tlod. Her ides shall be j cast down. Her juggernauts shall be : broken. Her temples of iniquity shall be demolished. What is; that light I see breaking over the top ®f the Himalayas? The morning. The unpurpled clouds shall gild the path of the conquering dir.. The llotteaiot will come out of his mud hovel he* look at the dawn; the Chinaman will come up on the granite cliffs, the Norwegian will get up on>_rhe rocks, and all the beach of Heaven will be crowded with celestial inhabitants come outdo See the sun rise over the ocean of the world’s agony. They shall come from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south, and «4 down in the kingdom>of God. These-sweltered under tropioal suns. These shived under Icelandic temperature. These plucked the vineyards in Italy. These packed the tea boxes in China. These were aborigines lifting-vp their dusky faces in the dawn'. And the wind shall waft it, aEd every mountain shall become a tnnnsfiguration, and the sea will become the walking place of Him who trod .the wave cliffs of stormy Tiberias, and the song of joy shall rise toward heaven, and the great sky will become a-aounding board which shall strike back the shout-of salvation to the earth wntil it rebovnds again to i the throne of the Almighty, and the | morning star of Christian hope will be- | come the the full sunbrret of millen- ! nial glory.

I A yum, Christ heralds .the dawn of Heaven upon gvery Christian’s dying1 pillow. 1 suppose you have noticed that the characteristics .of people in jrt heir healthy days are very apt to be their characteristics in their dying days. The .dying words< of ambitious Napoleon were, “Head of the army.” The dying words of poetic Lord , ltf.'ron were, *T must -sleep now.” The dying -.words of affectionate L«rd Nelson were, “Kiss me, Hardy.” The dying words of Voltaire were, as he saw one whom he supposed to bo Jesus in the room, “Crush that >yretch.” Hut I have noticed that the dying1 words of Christians always meau peace. Generally the pain is all gone, and there is great quietude through the room. As one of these brothers told me of his mother in the last moment: "She looked up and said, pointing to same supernatural beings that seemed U be in the room, ‘Look at that bright form, \Mtiy, they have come for me now.’ ” /’The lattioe is turned so that the light is very pleasant. It is peace all around. You ask yourself: “Why, can this bo a .dying room? It is se different from anything I ever expected.” And you w alk the floor, and you look out of the window, and you come back and look at your watch, and you look at the face of the patient again, and there is no change, except that the face is becoming more radiant, more illuminated. The wave of death seems coming up higher and higher, until it has touched the ankle, then it cotnes on up until it touches the knee, aud then it comes oq up until it reaches the girdle, and then it comes on np until it reaches the lip, and the soul it about to be floated away into glory, and you roil bach the p*

tienvs sleeve, and you put your finger on the pulse, and it is getting weaker and weaker, and the pulse stops, and you hardly know whether the Me has gone or not Indeed, you can not tell when slfe goes away, she goes away so calmly. Perhaps it is four o’clock in the morning, and you have the bed wheeled around to the window, and the dying one looks out into the night sky, 'and she sees something that attracts her attention, and you wonder what it is. Why, it is a star. "It is a star that out of its silver rim is pouring a supernatural light into that dying experience. And you say, “What is it that you are looking at?” She says, “It is a star.” You say, “What star is it that seems so well to please you?” “Oh,” she says, “that is the morning star— Jesus!” I would like to have my death bed under that evangelistic star—I would like to have my eye on that star, so I could be assured of the morning. Then the dash of the surf of the sea of death would ojaly be the billowing up of the promise. “When thou passeth through the waters, I will be with thee, and the rivers, they shall not overflow thee.” All other lights will fail—the light that falls from the scroll of fame, the light that flashes from the gem in the beautiful apparel, the light that flames from the burning lamps of a banquet—but this light burns on and burns on. Paul kept his eye on that morning star, until he could say: “X am ncr.v ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight. 1 have finished my course. I have kept the faithu” Edward Payson kept his eye on that

star until he could s«y, “I he breezes of Heaven fan me." Dr. Goodwin kept hr. eye on that evangeKstic star until ;ho could say, ‘‘I am -swallowed up in 'God.” John Tennant kept his eye on 'that evangelistic -st»r until he ccmld say, “Welcome, sweet Lord Jests— welcome, eternity.” Mo other star ever pointed a mariner into so safe a harbor. No other star ever swnk its ! silvered anchor into the waters. No i other star ever pierced such nccnmu- | lated cloud, or baokoned with -such a ! holy luster. With lanterns and torches and a guide, we wetit down in the Mammoth cave of Kentucky. S'ou may walk fourteen'miles and see no-sun-light. It is a Stupendous place. Some places the red' of the cave a hundred feet high. The grottoes Riled with wierd echoes,.'cascades falling from invisible height to invisible depth. Stalagmites rising up from the floor of the cave—stalactites descending from the roof of the > cave, joining each other, and making! pillars of the Almighty’s sculpturing. There are rosettes of amethyst 'fin halls of gypsum. As the guide carries his lantern ahead of you, the shadows have an appearance supernatural and spectral. The darkness is fearful. Two people, getting ; lost from their guide only for a few hours, years ago, were demented, and for years sat in their insanity. You feel like holding your breath as you walk across the bridges-that seem to span the-bottomless abyss. The guide throws his calcium light down into the caverns, and the light rolls and tosses from rank to rock and from depth to depth, making at everytplunge a new revelation of the awful power that could have made such asplace as that. A -sense of suffocation . comes upon you as you think that yon are two hundred axd fifty feet inasstraight line front fihe sunlit surface-iof the earth. The guide after awhile; takes you into whatt is called the “Star Chamber,” and then he says to^ you, “Sit here;” and then he takes tne lantern and goes down under the rocks, and it gets darker and darker, until the night is so thick that the hand an.inch from the eye is -.unobservable. And then, by kindling one of the ! lanterns and placing it in a cleft-of the rock there is a reflection .-east on the dome «ff the cave, and there are stars coming out in constellations—a brilliant night heavens—and you involuntarily i^claim: “Beautiful! beautiful!” Then he takes the lantern down in other depths of the cavern, and wanders -on, and wanders off, until

I ho ocones up from • behind the rocks gradually, and it seems like the dawn of the morning, and it gets brighter and brighter. The guide is a skilled ventriloquist, and he imitates the voices of the morning, and soon the gloom "is all gone, and you stand congratulating yourself over the wonderful spectacle. Well, there are a great many people who look down into the grave as a great cavern. They think it is-,a thousand miles subterraneous, and all the echoes seem to be the voices of despair, and the cascades seem-to be the falling tears that always fall, and the gloom of earth stems coming up in stalagmite, and the gloom of the eternal avorld seems descending in stalactite, making pillars of isdescribable horror. The grave is (no such place as that.to me, thank God. Our divine -Guide takes us down into the great caverns, and we hare the lamp to our fecft and the light to our path, and all -the echoes in the rifts of the rock are anthems, and all the falling waters are fountains of salvation, and after awhile we look up and, be- | hold! the cavern of the tomb has become a king's star chamber. And while we are looking .at the pomp of it an everlasting gunning begins to rise, and all the tears of earth crystallize into stalagmite, rising up in a pillar on the one side, and all the glories of Heaven seem to be descending in stalactite, making a pillar on the other side, and you push against the gate that swings between the two pillars, and as tho gate flashes open yon find it is one of the 13 gates which are 13 pearls. Blessed be God that through this gospel the mammoth cave of the sepulcher has become ths illumined Star Chamber of the King! I would God that if my sermon to-day does not load you to Christ, thatbeforo morning, looking out of the window, the astronomy of the night heavens might lead you to the feet of Jesus. Hark! Hark! To God the chorus breaks From every host, from every gem: But one alone, the Saviour speaks— Is the Star ot Bethlehem.

STYLES IN STATIONERY. Cream wiin'E and blue paper and envelopes are the popular colors in fashionable circles. A browx paper embossed in silver is popular among those. not well posted in what is perfectly correct. A sort of pepper-and-salt gTay for writing paper is pretty, but not sensible, for neither white nor black ink will be clear on it. To be in it your writing should be adorned either with a coat of arms, a monogram or an address stamped across the middle of the top. Silver on blue and dark blue or red on white are the favorite colors, though gold is also used, especially for monograms. Seai.inq wax in all possil’le shades is displayed, but while for L/he paper, dark blue or red for white and black for mourning are the. colors most used. Some pretty effects are obtained by using a sort of clear amber wax mottled with silver. Wax, by the way, is a necessity in these days of very insuf ficicntly gummed envelopes.

WAYS OF QUEER PEOPLE. In marriage announcements in Spain the ages of both parties are given. Wri.su mot hers put a pair of tongs or a knife in the cradle to insure the safety of their Children. • Roumanian mothers tie red ribbons around the ankles of their children to preserve them from harm. Among the Bengalese shouting the name of the king of birds (garunda) is supposed to drive avray snakes. Shouting Ram! Ram! drives ghosts away. The husband does not buy his wife in Mari tele, and although there Is a suggestion of a memory of marriage by eaptare in the details of courting and in the avoidance of the parents-in-lat^, she would appear to remain her father's property. When children are born the father has to buy them ©f his father-in law. __ WHERE WE LEAD. Tue United States is the richest country on the globe. The United states stands ahead ff all nations in the value of cattle. The United States has twenty-two dollars for each inhabitant in the savings banks. The total %et (earnings of national banks in this country in 1892 was £0(5,658.015.27. The annual increase of wealth in the United States is over thirty-five dollars per inhabitant. The people «f the United States have" over §£50,000,000 invested in church property. The total dividends paid by the United States national banks it 1892 were $50,400,713.93. IN TIMES OF PEACE. Even little Belgium spends e very year 4(5,000,000 francs on.her army. The annual cost of the British army is £17,000,000; of the navy, £14,000,000. The peace footing of the Russian army calls lor the service of 170,000 horses. Austeja spends every year 15,000,000 florins on the army. Twelve' florins equal §5., The army «af Bolivia costs the people of that impoverished country $1,800,000 a year.

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