Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 50, Petersburg, Pike County, 27 April 1894 — Page 6

“ FAIREST OF THE FAIR.” Rev. Dr. Taira age Discourses on the Personality of Christ. The Moral Attributes of the God-Man a Sure Index that He Most Hare Been the Perfection of Physical Manhood and Beauty.

On a recent Sabbath, in the Brooklyn tabernacle, Rev-^T. DeWitt Talmage discoursed upon “Fairest of the Fair,” as relating to the personality of Christ, basing his sermon on the text: ' He is altogether lovely—Solomon's Song, ▼., 1«The human race has during centuries been improving. For awhile it deflected and degenerated, and fronj all I can read, for ages the whole tendency was toward barbarism. But under the ever widening and deepening influence of Christianity the tendency is now in the upward direction. The physical appearance of „the human race is seventy-five per cent, more attractive than in the sixteenth, seventeenth or eighteenth centuries. Frpm the pictures on canvas and the faces and forms in sculptures of those who were considered the grand-looking men and the attractive women ot two hundred years ago, I conclude the superiority Of the men and women of our time. Such looking people of the past centuries as painting and sculpture have presented as fine specimens of beauty and dignity, would be in our time, considered deformity and repulsiveness complete. The fact that .many men and women in antediluvian times were eight and ten feet high tended to make the human race obnpxious rather than winning. Such portable mountains of human flesh did not add to the charms of the world. But in no climate and in no age did there ever appear anyone Who in physical attractiveness could be compared to Him whom my text celebrates, thousands of years before He put His infantile foot on the hill back of Bethlehem. He was, and is, altogether lovelyr. The physical appearance of Christ is, for the most part, an artistic guess. Some writers declare Him to have been a brunette or dark complexioned, and others a blonde or light complexioned. St. John, of Damascus, writing eleven hundred years ago, and so much nearer than ourselves to the time of Christ, and hence with more likelihood of accurate tradition, represents Him with beard black and curly, eyebrows joined together, and “yellow complexion and long fingers like His mbther.” An author writing fifteen hundred years ago represents Christ as a blonde: “His hair the color of wine and golden at the root; straight and without luster; but from the level of the ears curling and glossy, and divided down the center after the manner of the Nazarenes. His forehead is even and smooth, His face without a blemish, and enhanced by a tempered blobin; His countenance ingenuous and kind. Nose and mouth are in no way faulty. -His beard is full, of the same color as His hair, and forked in form; His eyes blue and extremely brilliant.” My opinion is it was a Jewish face. His mother was a Jewess, and there is no womanhood on earth more beautiful than Jewish womanhood. Alas! that He lived so long before the Daguerran and photographic arts were born, or we might have known His exact features. I know that sculptor and painting were born long before Christ, and they might have transferred from olden times to our times, the forehead, the nostril, the eye, the lips of our Lord. Phidias, the sculptor, put down his chisel of enchantment five hundred years before Christ came. Why did not some one take up that chisel, and give us the side face or full face of our Lord? Polygnotus the painter put down his pencil four hundred years before Christ Why did not some pne take it up and give us at least the eye of the Lord, the eye, that sovereign of the face? Dionysius, the literary artist who saw at Heliopolis, Egypt, the strange darkening of the heavens at the time of Christ's crucifixion near Jerusalem, and not knowing what it was, but describing it as a peculiar eclipse of the sun, and saying,/‘Either the Deity suffers or sympathizes with some sufferer,” that Dionysius might have put his pen to the work and drawn the portrait of our Lord. But no! the fine arts were busy perpetuating the form and appearance of the world's favorites only, and not the form and appearance of the peasantry, among whom Christ aDDeared.

It was not until the fifteenth century, or until more than fourteen hundred years after Christ, that talented painters attempted by pencil to give 1 us.the idea of Christ’s face. The pictures before that time were so offensive that the council at Constantinople forbade there exhibition. But Leonardo Da Vinci, in t^ie fifteenth century, presented Christ's face on two canvases, yet the one was a repulsive \face and the other an effeminate face. Rapheal’s face of Christ is a weak face. Albert Durer’s face of Christ was a savage face. Tition’s face of Christ is an expressionless face. The mightiest artists, either with pencil or chisel, have made signal failure in attempting , to give the forehead, the cheek, the eyes, the nostril, the mouth of our blessed Lord. But about His face I can tell you something positive, and beyond controversy. I am sure it was a soulful face. The face is only the curtain of the soul. It was impossible that a disposition like Christ’s should not have demonstrated itself in His physiognomy. Kindness as an occasional impulse may give no illumination to the features, but kindness as the lifelong, dominant habit will produce attractiveness of countenance as certainly as the shining of tnfe sun produce flowers. ‘‘Children are afraid of a scowling or hard-visaged man. They cry out if he proposes to take them. If he try to caress them, Jhe evokes a slap rather

than a kiss. All mothers know how hard it is to get their, children to go to a matt or woman of forbidding appearance. But no sooner did Christ appear in the domestic group than there was an anfantile excitement, and the youngsters began to struggle to ge£ out of their mothers’ arms. They could not hold the children back. “Stand back with those childrenl” scolded some of the disciples. Perhaps the little ones may hare been playing in the dirt, and their faces may not have been clean, or they may not have been well clad, or the disciples may have thought Christ’s religion was a religion chiefly for big folks. But Christ made the infantile excitement still livelier by His savincr that He liked children better

than gTown people, declaring: “Except ye become as a little child ye can not enter into the kingdom of God.” Alas! for the people who do not like children. They had better stay out of Heaven, for the place is full of them. That, I think, is one reason why the vast majority of the human race die in infancy. Christ is so fond of children that He takes them to Himself before the world has time to despoil and harden them, and so they are now at the windows of the palace, and on the doorsteps, and playing on the green. Sometimes Matthew, or Mark, or Luke tells a story of Christ, and only one tea it, but Matthew, Mark and Luke all'join in that picture of Christ girdled by children, and I know by what occurred at that time that Christ had a face full of geniality. Not only was Christ altogether lovely in His countenance, but lovely in His habits. I know, without being told, that the Lord who made the rivers^and lakes, and oceans was cleanly in His appearance. He disliked the disease of leprosy, not only because it was distressing, but because it was not clean, and His curative words were: “I will; be thou clean:” He declared Himself in favor of thorough washing, 'and opposed to superficial washing, when He denounced the hypocrites for making clean only “the outside of the platter,” and He applauds His disciples by saying, “Now are ye clean.” and giving directions to those who fasted; among other things He says, “Wash thy face;” and to a blind man whom He was doctoring: “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam.” And He Himself actually washed the disciples’ feet, I suppose not only to demonstrate His own humility, but probably their feet needed to be washed. The fact is, the Lord was a great friend of water. I know that from the fact that m >st of the world is water. But when I find Christ in such constant commendation of water, I know lie was personally neat, although He mingled much among very rou’gh populations, and took such long journeys on dusty highways. He wore His hair long, according to the custom of His land and time, but neither trouble or old age had thinned or injured His locks, which were never worn shaggy or unkempt. Yes, all His habits of personal appearance were lovely. Sobriety v.as also an established habit of His life. In addition to the water, He drank the juice of the grape. When at\a wedding party this beverage gave ou it, He made gallons on gallons of grape juice, but it was as unlike what the world makes in our time as health is different from disease, arid as calm pulses are different from the paroxysms of delirum tremens. There was no strychnine in that beverage, or logwood, or nux vomica. Thg tipplers and the sots who now quote the wine-making in Cana of Galilee as an excuse for the fiery and damning beverages of the n ineteenth century, forget that the wine at the New Testament wedding had two characteristics, the one that the Lord made it, and the other that it was made out of water. Buy all you can of that kind and drink it at least three times a day, and send a barrel of it around to my cellar. You can not make me believe that the blessed Christ, who went up and down healing the sick, would create for man that style of drink which is the cause of disease more than all other causes combinedf or that He who calmed the maniacs into their right mind, would create that style of drink which does more than anything else to fill insane asylums; or that He who was so helpful to the poor, would make a style of drink that crowds the earth with pauperism; or that He who came to save the nations from sin, would create a liquor that is the source of most of the crime that now stuffs the penitentiaries. A lovely sobriety was written all over His face, from the hairline of the forehead to the bottom of the bearded chin.

UUllieMiuu)' waa aiair nia uauu. Though too poor to have a home of His own He went out to spend the night at Bethany, two or three miles’ walk from Jerusalem, and over a rough and hilly road that made it equal to six or seven ordinary miles, every morning and night going to and fro. I would rather walk from here to Central park, or walk from Edinburgh to Arthur’s seat, or in London clear around Hyde park, than to walk that road that Christ walked twice a day from Jerusalem to Bethany. But He liked the quietude of home life and He was lovely in His domesticity. How He enjoyed handing over the resurrected boy to his mother and the resurrected girl to her father and reconstructing homesteads which disease or death was breaking up. As the song “Home, Sweet Home,” was written by a man who at. that time had no home, so I think the homelessness of Christ added to His appreciation of domesticity. Furthermore, He was lovely in His sympathies. Now, dropsy is a most distressing complaint. It infl unes and swells and tortures any limb or physical organ it touches. As soon as a case of that kind is submitted to Christ He, without any use of diaphoretics, cominands its cure. And what an eye doctor He was for opening the longclosed gates of sight to the blue of the sky and the yellow of the flower and the emerald of the grass! What a Christ He was for cooling fevers with f 1 \

out so much as a spoonful of febrifuge; and straightening crooked backs without any pang of surgery; and standing whole choirs of music along the silent galleries of a deaf ear; and giving healthful nervous system to cataleptics! Sympathy! He did not give them stoical advice, or philosophize about the science of grief. He sat down and cried with them.

u is opuikuu ui ao vuc ouui trcaii vcisc in the Bible, but to me it is about the longest and grandest—“Jesus wept.” Ah! many of us know the meaning of that. When we were in great trouble, some one came in with voluble consolation and quoted the Scripture in a sort of heartless Way, and did not help us at all. But after awhile some one else came in, and without saying a word sat down and burst into a flood of tears at the sight of our woe, and somehow -it helped us right away. “Jesus wept” “You see, it was a deeply-attached household, that of Mary, and Martha, and Lazarus. The father and mother were dead, and the girls depended on their brother. Lazarus had said to them: ‘’Now Mary, now Martha, stop your worrying. I will take care of you. , I will be to you both father and mother. My arm is strong. Girls, you can depend on me!” But now Lazarus \\«s sick; yea, Lazarus was dead. All broken up, the sisters disconsolate, and there is a knock at the door. “Come in,” says Martha. “Come in,” says Mary. Christ entered, and He just broke down. It was too much for Him. He had been so often and so kindly entertained in that home, before sickness and death devastated it, that He choked up and sobbed aloud, and the tears trickled down the sad face of the sympathetic Christ. “Jesus wept.” Why do you not try that mode of helping? ^fou say: “I am a mdn of few words,” or “I am a woman of few words.” Why, you dear soul, words are not necessary. Imitate your Lord, and go to those afflicted homes and cry with them. Do you wonder that the story of H is selt-sacrifice has led hundreds of thou- * sands to die for Him? In one series of persecutions over two hundred thousand were put to death for Christ’s sake. For Him Blandina was tied to a post and wild beasts were let out upon her, and when life continued after the attack of tooth and paw, she was put in a net, and that net containing her was thrown to a wild bull, that tossed her with its horns till life was extinct. All for Christ! Huguenots dying for Christ! Albigenses dying for Christ! The Vau- ' dois dying for Christ! Smithfield fires endured for Christ! The bones of martyrs, if disturbed, would make a path of moldering life all around the earth. The loveliness of the Saviour’s sacrifice has inspired all the heroisms, and all the martyrdoms of subsequent centuries. Christ has had more men and women die for Him than all the other inhabitants of all the ages have had die for them. Aye, He was lovely in His doctrines. Self-sacrifice, or the relief of the suffering of others by our own suffering. He was the only physician that ever proposed to cure His patientf by taking their disorders. Self-sacrifice! And what did He not give up for others? The best climate in the universe, the air of Heaven, for the wintry weather of Palestine; a scepter of unlimited dominion for a prisoner’s box in an earthly court-room; a flashing tiara for a crown of stinging brambles; a palace for a cattle pen; a throne for a cross. Self-sacrifice! What is more lovely? Mothers dying for their children down with sdfcrlet fever; railroad engineers going down through the open draw bridge to save the train; firemen scorched to death trying to help someone down the ladder from the fourth story of the consuming house; all these put together only faint and insufficient similes by which to illustrate the grarder, mightier, fartherreaching self-sacrifice of the “Altogether Lovely.”

Ob, that we might all nave something of the great (german reformer’s love for this Christ, which led him to say: “If anyone knocks at the door of my breast and says, ‘Who lives there?’ my reply is, ‘Jesus Christ lives here, not Martin Luther.’ ” Will it not be grand if when we get through thi% short and rugged road of life we can go right up into His presence and live with llim world without end? And if, entering the gate of that heavenly city we should be so overwhelmed with our unworthiness on the one side and the supernal spendor on the other side, we get a little bewildered and should for a few moments be lost on the streets of gold and among the burnished temples, and the sapphire thrones, there would be plenty to show us the way, and take us out of our joyful bewilderment; and perhaps the woman of Nain would say: “Come, let me take you to the Christ that raised my only boy to life.” And Martha would say: “Come, let me take you to the Christ who brought pp my brother Lazarus from the tomb.” And one of the disciples wotfld say: “Come, let me' take you to the Christ who saved our sinking ship in. the hurricane on Gennesaret.” And Paul would say: “Come, and let me lead you to the Christ for whom I died on the road to Ostia.” And whole groups of martyrs would say: “Come, let us show you the Christ for whom we rattled the chains,and waded the floods, and dared the fires.” And our own glorified kindred would flock around us. saying: “We have been waiting a good while for-you, but before we talk over old times, and we tell you of what we have enjoyed since we have been here, and you tell us. of what you have suffered since we parted. come, come, and let us show you the greatest sight in all the place, the most resplendent throne, and upon it the mightiest Conqueror, the Exaltation of Heaven, the Theme of the immortals, the Altogethergreat, the Altogether-good, the Alto gether-fair, the Altogether-lovely! Well, the delightful morn will come. When my dear Lord will brin? me home. And I shall see His face; Then with my Saviour, brother, friend, A blessed e ternity I'll spend. Triumphant in His grace.

A BRIGHTER OUTLOOK Which Extensive Storms end Naaerom Strikes Have Checked Hat Not Arrested —Dan's Review of the Commercial and Industrial Situation on the Whole Rather More Encon raging Than Last Week’s Report —The Week’s Failures Etc. New York, April 21.—R. G. Dun Co.’s weekly review of trade, issued day, says:

j^iiensive storms cnecaeu improvement in business only for a time, and numerous strikes have not yet arrested It. Distribution of products to consumers seems larger, for more people are earning, and therefore more people are able to buy. But it is less clear that the increase of working force will continue, or that' orders for products will further expand. The improvement thus far realized ia based on actual increase in orders for consumption, but part of this was to cover belated demands for the spring season. A considerable portion of the industrial force is still unemployed, and with wages much lower than a year ago consumption is not as larg«. Payments through all clearing houses for the week are 27.2 per cent, less than last year. 29.6 at New York and 22.9 elsewhere. New.orders for future distribution are still materially restricted by uncertainty about action at Washington, and about the extent and outcome of labor difficultiesThe strike of coke workers, though virtually over, still affects output and deliveries. Strikes in building trades at many cities restrict employment of labor and demand for materials, and during the past week there have been numerous strikes in textile and other manufacturing works, most of them because restoration of wages to rates formerly paid is not yet conceded. Most of the recovery realized in business has been made possible by consent of workers to accept lower wages for a time, and if they insist on restoration of wages before consumption has restored prices, many works must stop. I The great strike threatened by the bitu- ! minous coal miners and strikes of associated employes on some railroads make the future! less hopeful. Out of twenty-nine textile and i metal-working concerns which stopped during the past week about a third closed because of trouble about wages. Otherwise the number resuming work or increasing force, which was twenty-five, would have been larger. Enough orders have been taken in iron and steel to keep employed for h time the werks now In operation; but this week no definite increase Is seen. Structural work at the west is limited, and new business at the east hardly makes up for orders filled. Rails move slowly, and completion of orders for wire, nails and barbed wire is followed by weakness in prices. The great sales of Bessemer iron at Pittsburgh have been at such low prices—about 100.000 tons going at a little over $10. with part below $10—as to suggest that the expected demand for this material has not been realized. Shipments of boots dnd shoes for the week are not quite 9 per cent, less than last yearbut the week's shipments last year were unusually low, and it is estimated that production is about a sixth less than usual. New orders are not large, but nujnerous enough to keep most of the works fairly busy. Textiles look a little weaker, in spite of somewhat better distribution. Sales of goods already made are stimulated as better weather comes, but orders for the spring season are running out, and in orders for the fall there is rather more uncertainty, except in dress goods, for which the demand continues fair. In men's woolens no improvement is seen, and quite a number of mills have stopped or are about to stop.orders being insufficient for profitable production. In a few grades of goods lower prices are quoted, and iu gone an advance, although strikes tor higher wages are not infrequent. The attempt to advance print cloths has been followed by a slight decline, and while the cotton business has not materially changed dimensions, the tone is rather less confident. . -v It is a healthy sign that speculation is restricted. Industrial stocks have been flighty as usual, and the average of prices has advanced 30 cents per share, while the average for railroad stocks has declined 45 cents per share. Exports of gold had some influence, and continuous loss in earnings some. Earnings for April thus far decreased 13.4 per cent., against 14.1 in February and 13.4 in March. Demoralization of lake freight^ already diverts much bulky east-bound tonnage from railroads,, though the movement of other merChan dise is well sustained. Wheat has scarcely -changed in prices during the week, though exports were about 30 percent, of last year’s and western receipts about 66 per cent. Predictions of a short crop are treated with indifference, and though only 30,000,000 bushels have come into sight since Jannary 1, against 30,000,000 last year, it Is felt that farmers would naturally retain wheat at current prices if they could. Corn moves less freely advancing half a cent, western receipts being a little larger than a year ago, and exports 5) per cent, lar ger. Cotton has changed scarcely a fraction, though receipts from plantations have been larger and exports smaller this week than a year ago, and men consider stories of decreased acreage entitlod to little confidence. Spinners are not taking largely, and the supply of cotton is enough for the world's maximum production.« It is expected that &,503,000 gold will go abroad to-day, owing tcrBritish investments in the Pam loan, which is another way of saying that this is a withdrawal of foreign capital from this country. Exports in March showed a moderate in crease, with great decrease in imports, and in April thus far exports from New York have been about 40 per cent, smaller. Commercial loans do not increase, and the rate for the best paper, drops to cents, the lowest on record. The failures of the pas* week have been somewhat more important than usual, but were 319 in the United States, against 18* last year, and 45 in Canada, against £2 last year. For the first half of April liabilities reported have been $4,168,416, of which $3,082,350 were of manufacturing and $1,904,367 of trading concerns.

A DIABOLICAL CRIME And a Questionable Ruling' or a Mississippi Justice of the Peace. Holly Springs, Miss., April 21.—A diabolical crime, followed by a miscarriage of justice, occurred here yesterday. Some time last night Ida Samshe, a colored girl of 16, gave birth to an illegitimate child. E rly in the morning the girl’s mother wrapped the child in rags, laid it in the fireplace of their cabin and built a fire over it Neighbor’s c ;lled in and saw the infant’s feet in the fire and pulled the 1 half-burned body out. The old negress seized the infant and gain thrust it in the fire, holding it there with a spade until the body was consumed. She was arrested at noon yesterday and taken before a magistrate, who discharged her because there was no evidence produced that the child was born alive. There is great indignation here among both whites and blacks, and justice in some form will be meted out Mmc. Joniaux Confesses to Wholesale Poisoning to Obtain Insurance. Antwerp, April 21.—It is rumored that Mme. Joniaux, who is under arrest on charges of having poisoned her sister, brother and uncle in order, to obtain the insurance on their lives, has confessed her guilt under the three charges. It is said that she procured large quantities of morphine from chemists in Brussels by means of forged orders. She originally obtained an order for a quantity of the drug and used copies of that order whenever she desired to obtain new supplies.

A Cremation Rock From Mlchlma *n the Smithsonian institution, Wash* iiugton, there is a large bowlder of almost solid copper which, if it could talk, would tell many a dark tale of superstitious rites and sacrifices. This bowlder came from the upper peninsula of Michigan, about twenty miles from Lake Superior. The Indians in that locality held it in great veneration, and were accustomed to offer up human sacrifices on it. According to their tradition i| had been sent to their forefathers by the Great Spirit as a token of His favor. They asserted that it sometimes spoke. to them with,, a voice of thunder demanding sacrifices. A victim, usually, a prisoner of war from some other tribe, was then bound fast to the rock and speared or shot to death with arrows, after which a fire was built upon the bowlder and the body burned.—St Louis Globe-Demo-crat. ♦—Three centuries ago a small-sized book was held in contempt, and an author was valued not by the quality of his works so much as by their size. A French patron of letters of the time of Louis XIV., when he gave a dinner to literary men, was accustomed to place them according to the size of their books, he who had written" a folio volume taking precedence ofi^im who had only produced a quarto, alpP soon. ] f —Thi little boy had come in with his clothes torn, his hair full of dust and his face bearing unmistakable marks of a severe conflict. “Oh, Willie! Willie!” exclaimed his mother, “vou have disobeyed me again. How often have I told you not to play with that wicked 5Stapleford boy?” “Mamma.” said Willie, wiping the blood from h® nose, “do I look as if I had been playing with anybody?”—Vogue.

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