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B¥ REV. T. DeWITT TALMAGE
THE STAB.
“And 10, the star which they saw in the
East went before them.”— St. Matthew ii. 9.
The old sexton of the village church
is about to put his hand ou the rope m
the bell. The cylinder of the chime oi
the city belfry i beginning readjusted.
All around the world the air will vi
brate with sweetest tintinnabulation
with the roar of cathedral tower, the
jingle of the lighter metal submerged
by the overmastering boom. When
this afternoon at 4.38 o’clock the sun
sets, there will come on a night of jubi
lant commemoration. Two plain peo
ple centuries ag® hotelled in a village
barn after a walk of eighty miles, too
long a trudge for one in poor health.
No lords of state awaiting in ante-cham
ber as when other kings are born, no
messengers mounted at the doorway
ready to herald the advent Iroin city to
city, no medical skill in attendance, no
satin-lined cradle to receive the infantile
guest, but a monarch born in the hos
telry called the house of Chim Ham,
the night with diamonded finger point
ing down to the place; the door of
heaven open that it may look out; from
orchestral batons of light dripping the
oratorios of the Messiah; on lowest
doorstep of heaven the minstrels ot.God
discoursing of glory and good cheer.
Soon after tho white-bearded astrolo
gists kneel, and from leathern pouch
chink the sheckels, and from open sacks
exhale the frankincense and rustle out
the bundles of myrrh; the loosened star,
the escaped doxology of celestials, the
chill December night afiush with Mav
morn; our world a lost star, and anoth
er star rushing down the sky that night
to beckon wanderer home again,
shall yet make all nations keep Christ
mas. Are there no new lessons from
the story not yet hackneyed by oft re
peating? O! yes. Know, in the first
place, it was a siderate appearance that
led the way. So, the star which they
saw in the East went before them.”
Why not a black cloud in the shape of
a hand or finger- pointing, down to the
sacred birth place? A cloud means
trouble, and the world had had trouble
enough. Why not a shaft of light
ning, quivering and flashing and strik
ing down to the sacred birthplace?
Lightning means destruction—a shat
tering and consuming power —and the
world wants no more destruction. But
it was a star, and that means joy, that
means hope, that means good cheer, that
means ascendency. A star! That
means creative power, for did not the
morning stars sing together when the
portfolio of the world was opened? A
star! That means defence, for did not
the stars fight in their course against
Sisera and for the Lord’s people? A
star! That means brilliant continu
ance, for are not the righteous to shine
as the stars forever and ever? A star!
That means the opening of eternal joy.
The day star in the heart. The morn
ing star of the Redeemer. The unusual
appearance that night may have been
a strange conjunction of words. As
the recent transit of Venus was fore
told many years ago by astronomers,and
astronomers can tell what will be the
conjunction of worlds a thousand years
from now, so they can calculate back
wards; and even infidel astronomers
have been compelled to testify that
about the year one there was a very
unusual appearance in the heavens.
The Chinese record, of course entirely
independent of the Word of God, gives
as a matter of history that about the
year one there was a strange and unac
countable appearance in the heavens.
But it may have been a meteor, such as
you and I have seen flash to the horizon.
Only a few nights ago I saw in the
northern sky a star shoot and fall with
such brilliancy and precision, that if I
had been on a hill as high as that of
Bethlehem, on which the shepherds
stood, I could have marked within a
short distance the place of the alight
ing. The University of lowa and the
British Museum have specimens of me
teoric stones picked np in the fields,
fragments flung off from other worlds,
leaving a fiery trail on the sky. So
that it is not to me all improbable, the
stellar or the metoric appearance on that
night of which we speak. I only care
to know that it was bright, that it was
silvery, that it flashed and swaved and
swung and halted with joy illustrious;
as though Christ, in haste to save our
world, had rushed down without his
coronet and the angels of God had
hurled it after him! Not a black cloud
of threat, but a gloaming star of hope
is our glorious Christianity. One
glimpse of that stellar appearance kin
dled up the sonl of the sick and dying
college student until words flashed from
his fingers and the star seemed to pout
its light from his white lips as Kirk
White wrote these immortal words;
When, marshalled on the nightly plain,
The glittering hosts bestrewed the sky,
One star alone of all the train
Can fix the sinner’s wandering eye
Hark!—hark to God—the chorus breaks
From every host, from every gem;
But one alone, the Saviour speaks:
It is the Star of Bethlehem!
Once on the raging seas I rode;
The storm was late, the night was dark,
And rudely blew the wind that tossed my
foundr ringbark.
Deep horror than my vitals froze:
Death-struck, I ceased the tide to stem—
When suddenly a star arose;
It was the Star of Bethlehem.
Notice also in this scene that other
worlds seemed to honor our Lord and
Master. Bright star of the night, wheel
on thine orbit. “No.” said the star,
For Dyspepsia,
Costiveness,
tSick Headache,
Chronic Diar
rhoea, Jaundice,
Impurity of the
Blood, Fever and
| Ague, Malaria,
and all Diseases
caused by De-
“I most come nearer, and I must find
and I must watch and see what you do
with my Jesus.” Another world that
night joined our world in worship.
That star made a bow of obeisance. I
sometimes hear people talk of Christ’s
dominion as though it were to be mere
ly the few thousand miles of the worlds
circumference; but I believe the millions
and the billions and the quadrillions of
worlds are all inhabited, if not by such
creatures as we are, still such creatures
as God designed to make, and that all
these worlds are a part of Christ’s do
minion. Isaac Newton, and Kepler,
and Herschel only went on Columbus’
voyage to find these continents of our
King’s domain. I think all worlds
were loyal but this. The great organ
of the universe, its pedals and its pipes
and its keys all one great harmony,
save one injured pedal, save one broken
stop of oUr world—the vox human of
the human race. Now you know that
howsver grand the instrument may be,
if there be one key out of order it spoils
the harmony, and Christ must mend
this key. He must restore this broken
stop. You know with what bleeding
hand, and with what pierced side, and
with what crushed feet He did the
work. But the world shall be attuned
and all worlds will be yet accordant.
Isle of Wight larger in comparison with
the British Empire than our island of
a world is compared with Christ’s vast
domain. If not, why that celestial
escort? If not, why that sentinel with
blazing badge above the caravansary?
If not, why that midnight watchman
in the balcony of heaven? Astronomy
surrendered that night to Christ. This
planet for Christ. The solar system
for Christ. Worlds ablaze and worlds
burnt out—all worlds for Christ. In
tensest microscope cannot see the one
side of that domain. Further reaching
telescope cannot find the other side of
that domain. But I will tell yen how
the universe is bounded. It is bounded
on the north and south, and east and
west, and above and beneath by God.
and that God is Christ, and that Christ
is God, and that God is ours. O! does
it not enlarge your ideas ot a Saviour’s
dominion when I tell you that all the
worlds are only sparks struck from His
anvil? That all the worlds are only
the fleecy flocks following the one Shep
herd? That all the islands of light in
immensity are one great archipelago
belonging to our King?
But this scene also impresses me
with the fact that the wise men of the
East came to Christ. They were not
fools, they were not imbeciles. The
record distinctly says that the wise
men came to Christ. We say they
were the magi, or they were the alchem
ists, or they were the astrologists, and
we say it with depreciating accentua
tion. Why, they were the most splen
did and magnificent men ot the century.
They were the naturalists and the
scientists. They knew all that was
known. You must remember that as
trology was the mother of astronomy,
and that alchemy was the mother of
chemistry, and because children are
brighter than the mother you do not
despise the mother. It was the lifelong
business of these astrologers to study
the stars. Twenty-two hundred and
fifty years before Christ was born the
wise men knew the procession of the
equinoxes, and they had calculated the
orbit and the return of the comets.
Prof. Smith declares that he thinks
they understood the distance of the sun
from the earth. We find in the book
of Job that the men of olden time did
not suppose the world was fiat, as some
have said, but that he knew and the
men of his time knew the world was
globular. The pyramids were built
for astrological and atronomical study.
Then the alchemists spent their lives
in the study of metals and gasses and
liquids and solids, and in filling the
world’s library with their wonderful
discoveries. They were vastly wise
men who came from the East. They
understood embalmment as our most
scientific men cannot understand it.
After we have gone on in studying hun
dreds and thousands of years we may
come up to the point where some of
tlie ancient wise men began to forget.
I believe the lost arts are as mighty as
the living arts. They were wise men
that came from the East, and tradition
says the three wisest came—Casper, a
young man; Balthazar, a man in mid
life, and Melchior, an octogenarian—
the three wisest men of all the century.
They came to the manger. So it has
always been. The wisest men come to
Christ; the brainest men come to the
manger. Who was the greatest meta
physician this country ever has pro
duced? Jonathan Edwards, the Chris
tian. Who.was the greatest astrono
mer of the world? Herschel, the Chris,
tian. Who was the greatest poet ever
produced? John Milton, the Christian.
Who was the wisest writer in law?
Blackstone, the Christian. Who is
the mightiest intellect in Great Britain
to-day? Gladstone, the Christian.
Why is it that every college and uni
versity in the land has a chapel? They
must have a place for the wiso men to
worship. Come now, Ist ns under
stand by ounces and inches this whole
matter. In post mortem examination
the brain of distinguished men has
been examined, and I will find the
'largest, the heaviest, the mightiest
brain ever produced in America, and I
ask what that brain thought of Christ.
Here it is, the brain weighing fifty
eight ounces, the largest brain ever
produced in America. Now let me
find what the brain thought of Christ.
In the dying moment that man said:
“Lord, I believe; help Thon mine un
belief. Whatever else I do, Almighty
God, receive me to Thyself, tor Christ’s
sake. This night I shall be in life and
joy and blessedness.” So Daniel Web
ster came to the manger. The wise
men of the East followed by the wise
men of the West.
Know also in this scene that it was
a winter month that Christ chose for
His son’s nativity. Had it been tht
month of May—that is the season of
blossoms. Had He been born in the
month of June—that is the season of
roses. Had He been born in the month
of July—that is the season of great
harvests. Had He been born in the
month of September—that is the season
of ripe orchards. Had He been born
in the month of October—that is the
reason of upholstered forests. But He
was born in the month of December,
when there are no flowers blooming out
of doors, and when all the harvests
that have not been gathered up have
perished, and when there are no fruits
ripening on the hill, and when the
leaves are drifted over tho bare earth.
It was in closing December that Ho
was horn to show that this is a Christ
tor people in sharp blast, for people un
der clouded sky, for people with frosted
hopes, for people with thermometer be
low zero, for people snowed under. A
December Christ! That is the reason
He is so often found among the desti
tute. Yon can find Him on any night
coming off the moors. You can see
Him any night coming through the
dark lanes of the city. You can see
Him putting His hands under the faint
ing head in the pauper’s cabin. He
remembers how the wind whistled
around the caravansary in Bethlehem
that December night, and he is in sym
pathy with all those who in their pov
erty hear the shutters clatter on a cold
night. It was this December Christ
that Washington and his army wor
shipped at Valley Forge, when without
blankets they lay down in the Decem
ber snow. It was this Christ that the
Pilgrim Fathers appealed to when the
Mayflower wharfed at Plymouth Rock,
and in the years that went by the graves
digged were more in number than the
houses built. O! I tell yon we want a
December Christ—not a Christ for fair
weather, but a Christ for dark days,
clouded with sickness, and chilled with
disappointment, and suffocating with
bereavement, and terrific with wide
open graves. Not a springtime Christ,
not a summer Christ, not an autumnal
Christ, but a winter Christ. O! this
suffering and struggling world needs to
be hushed, and soothed, and rocked,
and lullabied in the arms of sympathet
ic omnipotence. No mother never with
more tenderness put her foot on the
rocker of the cradle of a sick child than
Christ comes down to us, to this inva
lid world, and 11. rocks it into placid
ity and quietness as He says; “My
peace I give unto you; not as the world
giveth, give I unto you.” O! you
broken-hearted; O! you persecuted and
tried souls; Olyou burden-bearers, this
day I declare unto you a December
Christ.
Notice, also, a fact which no one
seems to notice—that this Christ was
born among the sheep, and the cattle,
and the horses, and the camels, in order
that He might be an alleviating influ
ence to the whole brute animal crea
tion. It means mercy for overdriven,
underfed, poorly sheltered, galled and
maltreated creation. Hath the Christ
who compared Himself to a dove no
care for the cruelties of tho pigeon
shooting? Hath the Christ who com
pared Himself to a lamb no care for the
sheep that are tied and contorted, and
with neck over the sharp edge of the
butcher’s cart or the cattle train, in
hot weather, from Omaha to New York
with no water—l,soo miles of agony.
Hath the Christ whose tax was paid by
a fish, the coin taken from its mouth,
no care for the tossing fins in the fish
market? Hath the Christ who strung
with His own hand the nerves of dog
and cat no indignation for the horrors
of vivisection? Hath the Christ who
said, “Go to the ant” no watchfulness
for the transfixed insects? Hath the
Christ who said, “Behold the fowl of
the air.” Himself never beheld tlie out
rages heaped upon the brute creation
which cannot articulate its grief? This
Christ came not only to lift the human
race out of its trouble, bat to lift out of
trouble and hardship the animal crea
tion - And in the glorious millennial
time the child shall lead the lion and
play with the cockatrice only because
brute and reptile shall have no more
wrongs to "avenge. To alleviate the
condition of the brute creation,
Christ was born in the cattle pen—the
first bleat of the Lamb of God
heard amid the tired flocks of the Beth
lehem shepherds; the white horse of
eternal victory stabled in a barn.
But notice also in this account the
three Christmas presents that are
brought to the manger. Gold, frankin
cense and myrrh. Gold to Christ—
that means all the affluence of the world
brought to Christ. For lack of money,
no more asylums limping on their way
like the cripples whom they helped,
feeling their slow way like the blind
people whom they sheltered. Millions
of dollars for Christ where there are
now thousands for Christ. Railroads
owned by Christian stock holders, and
governed by Christian directors, and
carrying passengers and freight at
Christian prices. George Peabodys
and Abbot Lawrences and James Len
noxes no rarity. Bank of England,
Bctirse of France, United States Treas
ury, all tho moneyed institntions of the
world for Christ; the gold for Christ.
That not merely paid the way for
Joseph and Mary and .the divine fugi
tive into Egypt, but it was typical of
the fact that Christ’s way shall be paid
all around the world. The gold for
Christ, the silver for Christ, the jewels
for Christ. Australia, Nevada and
Golconda for Christ. The bright,
round, beautiful jewel of a world set
like a solitaire on the bosom ofChrist!
But I notice that these wise mco also
shook out from their sacks the myrrh.
The cattle came and they snuffed at it.
They did not eat it because it was bit
ter. The pungent gum rosin of Abys
sinia called myrrh brought to the feet
of Christ. That means bitterness.
Bitter betrayal, bitter persecution, bit
ter days of suffering, hitter nights of
woe. Myrrh. Tnat is what they put
into His cup when he was dying.
Myrrh. That is what they put under
His head in the wilderness. Myrrh.
That is what they strewed His path
with all the way from the cattle pen in
Bethlehem to the mausoleum at
Joseph’s country seat. Myrrh. “Yea,”
says the psalmist, “all thy garments
smell of myrrh.” That is what the
wise men wrapped in the swaddling
clothes of the babe, of a crucified Christ.
The myrrh. O, the height, the depth,
the length, the breadth of the Saviour’s
sorrow. Well might the wise men shake
out the myrrh. *
Rut I notice, also, from another sack
they shake out the frankincense. Clear
up to the rafters of the barn the air is
all filled with perfume, aud the hostlers
and the camel drivers in the furthcrest
part of the building inhaled it, and it
floats out upon the air until the passers
by wonder who in that rough place
could hayo by accident dropped and
broken abox of alabaster. Frankincense.
That is what they burned in the censer
in the ancient temple. Frankincense.
That means worship. Frankincense.
That is to fill all the homes, and all the
churches, and all the capitals, and all
the nations, from cellar of stalactited
cave clear up to the silvery rafters of
the starlit dome! Frankincense. That
is what we shake out from our -hearts
to-day, so that the nostrils of Christ,
once crimsoned with the hemorrhage of
the cross, shall he flooded with the per
fume of a world’s adoration. Frank
incense. Frankincense in song and
sermon and offertory and handshaking
and decoration. Praise Him, mountains
and hills, valleys and seas, and skies
and earth and heaven-cyclone with
your trumpets, northern lights with
your flaming ensign, morning with
your castles of cloud, and evening with
your billowing clouds of sunset. Do
you know how they used to hold the
censer in the olden time, and what it
was made of. Here is a metal pan,
and the handle by which it was held.
In the inside of this metal pan were
put living coals, on the top of them
a perforated cover. In a square box
the frankincense was brought to the
temple. This frankincense was taken
out and sprinkled over the living coals,
and then the perforated cover was put
on, and when they were all ready for
worship, then the cover was lifted from
this censer, and the covers were lifted
from all tho other censers, and the
perfumed smoke until it hung amid all
the folds and dropped amid all the al
tars, and then rose in great columns of
praise outside and above the temple,
rising clear up toward the throne of
God. So we have two censers to-day
of Christmas frankincense. Here is
the one censer of earthly frankincense.
On that we put our thanks for the mer
cies of the past year, the mercies of all
our past lives, individual mercies, fam
ily mercies, national mercies, and our
hearts, building with gratitude, send
aloft the incense of praise toward the
throne ofChrist. Bring on more incense
and higher and higher let the columns
of praise ascend. Let them wreath all
these pillars and hover amid all these
arches, and then soar to the throne.
But here is the other censer of heavenly
thanksgiving and worship. Let them
bring all their frankincense—the cher
ubim bring theirs, and the seraphim
theirs, and the one hundred and forty
and four thousand theirs, and all the
eternities theirs, and let them smoke
with perfume on this heavenly censer
until tho cloud canopies the throne of
God. Then I take these two censers—
the censer of earthly frankincense and
the censer of heavenly frankincense—
and I swing them before the throne,
and then I clash them together in one
great hallalnjah tint® Him to whom the
wise men of the East brought the gold
and the myrrh and the frankincense as
the star which they saw in the East
went before them.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
The world doe. not require so mnoh
to be informed as to be reminded.
Aou had better take for business a
man somewhat absurd than over for
mal.
The best remedy against an evil com
panion is to refuse an introduction to
him.
Slumber not in the tents of your col
umns. The world is advancing, ad
vance with it.
All the scholastic scaffolding falls
as a ruined edifice before one sing!,
word—faith.
Action may not always bring hap
piness without action.
To correct an evil which already ex
ists is Bot'-so wise as to foresee and
prevent it.
The devil always either comes him
self or sends someone when you call
for him.
To prove a fool is simply lost labor:
therefore do not sit down and scold
yourself.
The master of superstition is the peo
ple. And in all superstition wise men
follow fools.
It was old Sam Johnson who said:
“ Words are men’s daughters, but God’s
sins are things.
\\ hen you receive a favor you ought
never to forget it; when you do one you
ought not to remember it.
Common sense does not ask an im
possible chessboard, but takes the one
before it and plays the game.
“Raise no more spirits than you can
conjure down,” is the motto of the liq
uor dealers of this country.
Talking very much and lying just a
little are a good deal nearer to each
other than most people think.
We think our civilization is near its
meridian, but we are yet only at the
eockcrowing and the morniDg.
Be independent as far as a man can he
if you would honor yourself; or be hon
ored by others, or be happy.
You must have confidence in your abil
ities to serve the public, if you desire to
contribute to their wants.
Exact nothing beyond your just dues;
exhorbitant claims engender distrust,
and bar the way to advancement.
Every man knows what is right,
even if, as Swift says, “his under
standing, at the best, is of the middling
size.
Live according to your light, and
seek not to diminish the reputation of
others in order to increase your own.
Be courageous and noble-minded;
our own heart, and not other men’s
opinions of us, forms our true honor.
Nothing makes the world seem so
spacious as to have friends at a distance,
they make the latitudes and longitudes.
It is probable that the world owes
every man a living, but liis best claim
for what is due is that he has earned it.
Many a genius has been slow of
growth. Oaks that flourish for 1,000
years do not spring up in beauty like a
reed.
If “prosperity is the worst enemy
man ever had,” we can only say that
all our life we have been surrounded
by fronds.
Pleasure may he aptly compared to
many great books, which increase in
real value in the proportion they are
abridged.
There is very little that we do in
the way of helping our neighbors that
does not come back in blessings on our
selves.
We live in progressive times. Holmes
said only ten years ago. “Put not your
trust in money, put your money in
trust,” but we have learned that it is
not safe to do even that.
Every duty well done adds to the
moral and spiritual stature. Each op
portunity eagerly grasped and used is
the key to larger privdeges.
The next thing to excellence is to
love excellence, and to love its opposite
is to be its opposite. To hate excel
lence is to be at its opposite pole.
As in nature things move more vio
lently to their place, and calmly in
their place, so virtue in ambition ie
violent; in authority, settled and calm.
To express no move than is really
meant is one of tho first steps towards
correct speech, just as careful pruning
is as important to the vine as a rich
soil.
The history of every discovery, of
every enterprize, of benevolence, of
every reform, is the history of toil and
watching through long discourage
ments.
Simple-minded John Wesley, when
preaching against riches, “To ride in a
coach here and to get to heaven here
after” is almost too much for any man
to ask.
A sharp retort is sometimes better
riian an argument. When Sir John
became exasperated at a puppy who
persisted in asking impertinent ques
tions he suddenly turned upon him and
said, “Who pays the dog tax for yon,
sir?” and there really seemed no room
for further remarks.
A fear that present joys are “too
good to last,” and that a sadder day ie
coming, is hardly less common, and
not a whit more excusable, than the
thought that the former days were bet
ter than these.
If Spring puts forth no blossoms, in
Summer there will be n. beauty, and
in Autumn no fruit. So, if youth be
trifled away without improvement, riper
years will be contemptible, and old age
miserable.