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THE VEEKLY CCNS’IIILTICK, ATLANTA, GA., TLESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1887.
“GIVE IS A_CIIRIST.”
The Cry of Assyrian, Persian and
Egyptian Civilizations
FOR FOUR THOUSAND YEARS
Brooklyn, December 25.—Services today
at the Brooklyn tabernacle were jubilant
Professors Browne and All, with organ and
cornet, were unusually powerful, and Mrs.
Florence Rice-Knox sang three solos. The
thousands of people who packed the church
and all the approaches, seemed to join in the
great chorus:
"He shall reign from pole to pole
With illimitable sway;
He shall reign, when, like a scroll,
Yonder heavens have passed away.”
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D.D., took as the
subject of his sermon, “The Barn and Its Sur
roundings.’’ His text was taken from Luke
ii. 15: “The shepherds said one to another,
let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see
this thing which is come to pass.” Dr. Tal
mage said:
One thousand years of the world's existence
rolled painfully and wearily along, and no
Christ. Two thousand years, and no Christ.
Three thousand years, and no Christ. Four
thousand years, and no Christ. “Give us a
Christ,” had cried Assyrian and Persian and
Chaldean and Egyptian civilizations, but the
lips of the earth and the lips of the sky made
no answer. The world had already been
affluent of genius. Among poets had appeared
Homer and Thespis and Aristophanes and
Sophocles and Euripides and Alexis AEschy
lus. yet no Christ to be the most poetic figure
of the centuries. Among historians had ap
peiu'ed Herodotus and Xenophon and Thu
cydides, but no Christ from whom all history
was to date backward and forward—B. C. and
A.D. Among conquerors Camillus and Man
lius and Regulus and Xantippus and Hannibal
and Scipio and Pompey and Ca-sar, yet no
Christ who was to be conqueror of earth and
heaven.
But the slow century and the slow year
and the slow month and the slow hour at last
arrived. The world had had matins or con
certs in the morning, and vespers or concerts
in the evening, but now it is to have a concert
at midnight. The black window shutters of a
December night were thrown open, and some
of the best singers of a world where they all
sing stood there, and putting back the drapery
of cloud chanted a peace anthem, until all the
echoes of hill ahd valley applauded and en
cored flic hallelujah chorus.
At last the world has a Christ and just .he
Christ it needs. Come, let us go into that
Christmas scene, as though we had never be
fore worshipped at the manger. Here is a
Madonna worth looking at. I wondernot that
the most frequent name in all lands and in all
Christian centuries is Mary. And there are
Marys in palaces and Marys in cabins, and
though German and French and Italian and
English pronounce it differently, thev are all
namesakes of the one whom we find in a bed
of straw with her pale face against the soft
cheek of Christ in the night of the nativity.
All the great painters have tried on canvas
to present Mary and her child and tlie
incidents of that most famous night
of the world’s history. Raphael in three
different masterpieces.celebrated them. Tin
toret and Guirland.jo surpassed themselves in
the Adoration of the Magi. Corregio needed
to do nothing more than his Madonna to be
come immortal. The Madonna of the Lily,
by Leonardo da Vinci, will kindle the admira
tion of all ages. Murillo never wen greater
triumph by iris pencil than in his presentation
of the Holy Family. But all the galleries of
Dresden are forgotten when I think of the
small room of that gallery containing the Sis
tine Madonna. Yet all of them were copies of
St. Matthew’s Madonna, and Luke’s Ma
donna, the inspired Madonna of the old
book, which we bad put into our hands when
we were infants and that we hope to have un
der our heads when we die.
Behold, in the first place, that on the first
night of Christ’s life God honored the brute
creation. You cannot get into that, Bethle
hem barn without going past the camels, the
mules, the dogs, the oxen. The brutes of that
stable heard the first cry of the infant Lord.
Some of the old painters represent the oxen
and camels kneeling that night before the new
born babo. And well might they kneel.
Have you ever thought that Christ came
among other things to alleviate the sufferings
of the brute creation? Was it not appro
priate that He should during the first
few days and nights of His life
on earth bo surrounded by the dumb beasts
whose moan and plaint and bellowing have for
ages been a prayer to God for the arresting of
their tortures and the righting of their wrongs?
It did not merely “happen so” that the unin
telligent creatures of God should have been
that night iu close neighborhood. Not a ken
nel in all the centuries, not a bird's nest, not
a wornout horse on towpath, not a herd freez
ing in the poorly-built cowpen, not a freight
car in summer time bringing the beeves to
market without water through a thousand
miles of agony, not a surgeon's room witness
ing the struggles of a rabbit or pigeon or dog
in She horrors of vivisection but has an inter
est in the fact that Christ was born in a stable
surrounded by brutes. He remembers that
night, and the prayer ho heard in their pitiful
moan He will answer in the punishment of
these who maltreated the dumb brutes. They
surely have as much right in this world as we
have.
In the first chapter of Genesis yon may see
that they were placed on the earth before man
was, the fish and fowl created the fifth day,
and the quadruped the morning of the sixth
day, and man not until the afternoon of that
day. The whale, the eagle, the lion, and ail
the lesser creatures of their kind were prede
cessors of the human family. They have the
world by right of possession. They have also
paid rent for the places they occupied. What
an army of defense all over the land are the
faithful watch dogs. And who'ean tell what the
world owes to horse, and camel, and ox for
transportation? And Robin and Lark have
by the with cantatas which they have tilled
orchard and forest, more than paid for the few
grains they have picked up for their susten
ance. When you abuse any creature of God
you strike its creator, and yoii insult the Christ
who, though be might have been welcomed
into life by princes, and taken his first infan
tile slumber amid Tyrian plush and canopied
couches, anil rippling waters from royal aque
ducts dripping into basins of ivory and pearl,
chose to be born on the level with a cow’s
horn or a camel’s hoof, era dog's nostril, that
he might be the alleviation of brutal suffering
as well as the redeemer of man.
Standing, then, as I imagine now I do, in
that Bethlehem night with an infant Christ
on the one side and the speechless creatures of
God on the other, I cry: Look out how yon
strike the rowel into that horse’s side. Take
off that curbed bit from that bleeding mouth.
Remove that saddle from that raw back.
Shoot not for fun that bird that is too small
for food. Forget not to put water into the
cage of that canary. Throw out some crumbs
to these birds caught too far north in the win
ter's Inclemency. Arrest that man who is
making that one horse draw a load heavy
enough for three.
Rush iu upon that scene where boys are tor
turing a cat, or transfixing butterfly and
grasshopper. Drive not off that old
robin, for her nest is a mother's
cradle ami under her wing there may be three
or four prima donnas of the sky in training.
And in your families and in your schools teach
the coming generation more mercy than the
present generation has ever shown, and in this
marv< lons Bible picture of the nativity, while
you point out to them the angel, show them
also the camel, ami while they hear the celes
tial chant let them also hear the row's moan.
No more did Christ show interest iu the botan
ical world when ho said: “Consider the lilies.’’
than he showed sympathy for the ornithologi
cal when he said: "Behold tbo fowls of the
air,” and the quadrupedal world when he al
lowed himself to be called in one place a lion
and in another place n lamb. Meanwhile,
may the Christ of the Bethlehem cattle ven
have mercy on the suffering stock yards that
are preparing diseased and fevered meat for
onr American households.
Behold, also, in this Bible scene how cn that
Christmas night God honored childhood.
Christ might have made bis first
visit to onr world in a cloud, as He
will descend on his next y isit in a cloud.
In what a chariot of illuminated vapor he
might have relied down tho sky escorted by
mounted cavalry with lightning of drawn
sword. Elijah had a carriage of lire to take
him up why n t Jesus a carriage of fire to
letch him down? Or, over arched bridge of a
rainbow tbo Lord urigh have descended.
Or Christ might have had his mortality
built uc cn earth out of the dust of a garden,
as was Adam, in full manhood at the start
without the :ntr> ductory feebleness of infancy.
No, not Childhood was to be honored bv that
ad-, ent. He must have a chi'd's light limbs,
and a child’s dimpled hand, and a child’s
beaming eye, and a child’s flaxen hair, and
babyhood was to be honored for all time to
come, and a cradle was to mean more than a
grave. Mighty God! May the reflection of
that one child’s face be seen in all infantile fa
ces. Enough have all those fathers and moth
ers on hand if they have a child in the house.
A throne, a crown, a sceptre, a kingdom under
charge. Be careful how you strike him across
the head, jarring the brain. What you say to
him will be centennial and millenial, and a
hundred years and a thousand years will not
stop the echo and re-echo. Do not say, “It is
only a child.” Rather say, “It is only an im
mortal.” It is only a masterpiece of Jehovah.
It is only a being that shall outlive sun and
moon and star, and ages quadrillcimial. God
has infinite resources and he can give presents
of great value, but when he wants to give the
richest possible gift to a household he looks
around all tho worlds and all the universe and
then gives a child. The greatest present that
God ever gave our world be gave about 1»87
years ago, and he gave it on a Christmas night,
and it was of such value that heaven adjourn
ed for a recess and came down and broke
through the clouds to look at it. Yea, in all
ages God has honored childhood. He makes
almost every picture a failure unless there be a
child either playing on the Hoot', or looking
through tlie window, or seated on the lap
gazing into the face of its mother. It was a
child in Naaman’s kitchen that told the great
Syrian warrior where he might go and get
cured of the leprosy, which at his seventh
plunge in the Jordan, was left at the bottom
of the river. It was to tho cradle of leaves in
which a child was laid rocked by the Nllethat
God called the attention of history. It was a
sick child that evoked Christ’s curative sym
pathies. It was a child that Christ set-in the
midst of of tho Squabbling disciples to teach
the lesson of humility. We are informed that
wolf and leopard and lion shall bo yet so
domesticated that a little child shall lead
them. A child decided AVaterloo, showing
tlie army of Blucher how they
could take a short cut through the fields
when, if the old road had been followed, the
ITussian general would have come up too late
to save the destinies of Europe. It was a child
that decided Gettysburg, he having overheard
two Confederate genarals in a conversation in
which they decided to march for Gettysburg
instead of Harrisburg, and this, reported to
Governor Curtin, the federal forces started to
meet their opponents at Gettysburg. And the
child of today is to decide all the great battles,
make all the laws, settle all the destinies and
usher in the world’s salvation or destruction.
Men. women, nations, all earth and all heaven,
behold the child! Is there any velvet so soft
as a child’s check? Is there any sky so blue
as a child’s eye ? Is there any music so sweet
as the child’s voice? Is there any plume so
wavy as a child’s hair?
Notice also that in this Bible night scene
God honored science. Who are the three wise
men kneeling before the divine infant ? Not
boors, not ignoramuses, but Caspar, Belthasar
and Melchior, men who knew all that was to
be known. They were the Isaac Nowtons and
Herschels and Faradays of their time. Their
alchemy was tho forerunner of our sublime
chemistry, their astrology the mother of our
magnificent astronomy. They had studied
stars, studied metals, studied physiology,
studied everything. And when I see these
scientists bowing before the beautiful babe I
see the prophecy of the time when all the
telescopes and microscopes, and all the Leyden
.jars, and all the electric batteries, and all the
observatories, and all the universities snail
bow to Jesus. It is much that way already.
AVhere is the college that does not
have morning prayers, thus bowing at the
manger? AVho have been the greatest phy
sicians? Omitting tho names of the living,
lest we should be invidious, have we not had
among them Christian meh like our own‘Jo
seph C. Huclrinson, and Rush, and Valentine
Molt, and Abercrombie, and Abernathy? Who
have been our greatest scientists? Joseph
Henry, who lived mid died in the faith of the
gospel, and Agassiz, who, standing with his
students among the hills, took off Iris hat and
said; “Young gentlemen, before we study
these rocks let us pray for wisdom to the God
who made the rocks.” Today the greatest
doctors and lawyers of Brooklyn and New
York, and of all this land, and of
all lands, revere the Christian
religion, and are not ashamed to say so before
juries and legislatures and senates. All geol
ogy will yet bow before tlie Rock of Ages. All
botany will yet worship tho Rose of Sharon.
All astronomy will yet recognize the Star of
Bethlehem ; and physiology and anatomy will
join hands and say: AVe must by the help of
God get the human race up to the perfect
nerve and perfect muscle, and perfect brain,
and perfect form of that perfect child, before
whom nigh twenty hundred years ago Caspar,
and Belthasar, mid Melchior bent their tired
knees in worship.
Behold, also, in that| first Christmas night
that God honored the fields. Come in, shep
erd boys, to Bethlehem and see tho child.
“No,” they say “we are not dressed good
enough to come in.” “Yes, you are, come
in.” Sure enough, the storms ami the night
dew ami the brambles have made rough work
with their apparel, but none have a better
right to come in. They were the first to hear
the music of that Christmas night. Tho first
announcement of a Saviour’s birth was made
to those men in the fields. There were wise
acres that night in Bethlehem and Jerusalem
snoring in deep sleep, and there were salaried
officers of government who, hearing of it,
afterward may have thought that they ought to
have had the first news of such a great
event, some one dismounting from a
swift camel at their dfior and knocking till at
some sentinel’s question, "Who comes there?”
the great ones of the palace might have been
told of the celestial arrival. No; the shep
herds heard the first two bars of the music, the
first in tho major key and the last in the sub
dued minor: “Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace, good will to men.” Ah,
yes. the fields were honored. The old shep
herds with plaid ami crook have for the most
nart vanished, but we have grazing our
United States pasture fields and prairie
about fortv-five million sheep, ami all
their keepers; ought to follow the shepherds of
mv text, and all those who toil in the fields,
all winc-dressers. all orchardists, all husband
men. Not only that Christmas night, but all
up ami down the world's history God has
been honoring the fields. Nearly all the Mes
siahs of reform, and literature, ami eloquence,
ami law. and benevolence, have come from
the fields. -Washington from the fields. Jef
ferson from the fields. The presidential mar
tyrs. Garfield ami Lincoln, from tho fields.
Henry Clay from the fields. Daniel AVcbster
from tho ’ fields. Martin Luther from the
fields. And before this world is right, the
overflowing populations of our crowded cities,
will have to take to the fields. Instead of ten
merchants in rivalry as to who shall sell that
one apple, we want at least eight of them
to go out and raise apples. Instead
of ten merchants desiring io sell that one
bushel of wheat, we want at least eight of them
to go out and raise wheat. The world wants
now more hard hands, more bronzed cheeks,
more muscular arms. To the fields! God
honored them when he woke up the sheperd
bv the midnight anthem, and he will, while
the world lasts, continue to honor the fields.
When tho sbeperd’s crook was that famous
night stood against the wall of the Bethlehem
kahn, it was a prophecy of the time when
thresher's flail, and farmer's plow, ami wood
man’s axe. and ox’s yoke, and sheaf binder s
rake shall surrender to the God who made the
country as man made the town.
Behold, also, that on that Christmas night
God honored motherhood. Two angel.- on
heir wings might have brought an infant Sav
or to Bethlehem without Mary's being there
nt nil. AVfii-n the villagers, on the morning of
December 25th, awoke, i-y divine arrangement
and in some unexplained way, tho child Jesus
might have been found in some comfortable
cradle of the village. But no,no! Motherhood
for all time was to l>e consecrated, and one of
the tenderest relations was to be tlie maternal
relStion, and one of the sweetest words "moth
er.” Iu all ages God has honored good moth
erhood. John Wesley had a good motner: St.
Bernard had a good mother; Samuel Budgett
a good mother: Doddridge a good mother;
AV alter Scott a good mother; Benjamin
AVesta good mother. In a great audience,
most of whom were Chtistians. lashed that
all these who had been blessed of Christian
mothers arise, and almost the entire assem
bly stood up. Don’t you see how important it
is that all motherhood be consecrated'.’ AVhv
did Titian, the Italian artist, when he sketch
ed the Madonna make it an Italian luce?
Why did Rubens, the German artist, in his
Madonna make it a German face? Why did
Joshua I’.eyncbls. the English artist, in bis
Mador.ua n:ako it an English face? AA'hy did
Murillo, the Spr-irisli artist, in his Madonna
make it it .Spanish in -e? I never heard, but
I think they took their own mothers as the
type c! Mary, tin: nnulier of Christ. AVhen
you hear some one in sermon or oration
speak in the abstract of a good,
faithful, honest medier your eyes fillup with
tears while you say to yourself, that was my
mother. Tho first word a child utters is apt
to be “mother,” and the old man in his dying
dream calls, “mother! mother!” It matters
not whether sho was brought up in the sur
roundings of a city, and iu ati’.nent home, ami
was dressed appropriately with reference to
tho demands of modern life, or whether she
wore the old-time cap, and great round spec
tacles, and apron of her own make, and knit
your socks with her own needles seated by the
broad fireplace, with great backlog ablaze
on a winter night. It matters not
how many wrinkles crossed and.
recrossed her face, or bow much her shoulders
stooped with the burdens of long life, if you.
painted a Madonna, hers would be the face.
What a gentle hand she had when we were
sick, and what a voice to soothe pain, and was
there any one who could so fill up a room with
peace, and purity and light? And what a sad.
day that was when we came home and she
could greet us not, for her lips were forever
still. Como back, mother, this Christinas day,
and take your old place, and as ten, or twenty,
or fifty years ago, come and open the
old Bible as you used to, read and
kneel iu the same place where you used to
pray, and look upon us as of old when you
wished us a merry Christmas or a happy New
Year. But, no! "That would not be fair lo
call you back. You had troubles enough, and
aches enough, and bereavements enough while
you were here. Tarry by the throne, '"mother,
till we join you tiiere, your prayers all an
swered, and in the eternal homestead Jof
our God we shall again keep Christmas
jubilee together. But speak from your
thrones, all you glorified mothers, "and
say to all these, your sons and daughters,
words of love, words of warning, words of
cheer. They need your voice, for they have
traveled far and with many a heart-break
since you left them, and you do well to call
from the heights of heaven to the valleys of
earth. Hail, enthroned ancestry! AVe are
coming. Keep a place for us right beside you
at the banquet.
“Slow-footed years! More swiftly run
Into tlie gold of that unsetting siin. '
Homesick we are for Hies,
Calm and beyond the sea."
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