CHRISTMAS SERMON. REV. DR TALMAGE I CMRI

W»«iiMrn>K iJrw- Tt —In hi* mrm<n t.Amr I>r. Talmaffv «b«»* Ux nnl' thraM-of tbr amane—Un> (3in«Unartidr. w»». "N .w wl tou wa* Uini io llr.hlch. m " lAttbww ii. 1. At midDifrht froci otw <rf tb« jtalWJ«« of tlx- «kT a chant trokc. T*( an •» itiuary nbawrnr tlwrc Aaa n<> t^a-' n for rnch a oolcrual licunriatrat A |»r man anil wifi*—trar<-l^t>*- and Harr by name—had Indirtr! lv*u>- ut na anlnit>jrtaiit vtl anjifnw huor irf x.krauity had and upon tin- pallid fint-hnad and check of Mary, thai bad art the dlftnity, Uh-pramh-nr. tin tendanica*. the erortart inft and divine «i8tii6cano* of motber-

Bnt inch anrmi had often romured in Brthjnh. in. yrt uev.r hof.ne had a etar Imn tinfixnd nr had a baton of li«ht ruarabalnd over tb>> hilia trinited irrhre Ira If then-had liennaDrhbnUiantand miehty ruxtpiltiiai at an advent in the hocua- of I'baraiih, nr at an advent In the b-rua- rd c«p*^r, or the bonae of ifapelmnt. nr -<Ee hrtae rrf Stuart, we vr-mld tail eoznnch have woudmd; but a barn aeeins too poor a oeuU*’ for wtrh delinale and an hanjjeltc circnmfercnm. The atotte etviue Uiu amall fur ao (treat an art. the tamdr too (trand t f each oiHtpprreiatlve audit-rv, the window of the atable too rode to be aarmaJfd by

It ia my >oy to tell yon what wa* hurtf that ui«;bt in the village barn, and a- 1 want to make my diamoraa entuulative and ellmartenc I ben in in the tir»t place by telling yon that that night in the Bethlehem manger waa bin eor nragrtuenl for all the p>«*ly atarled. He bad only two tnMxia—they hi* par mta. No aaun lined oradb-. no delnwte athatiotM. Imt atraw and the cattle and the marae joke and banter [< the camel driven. No wunder the medla-val

la-fore the infant Jmrm. fur thenno men there at that time to werahip. From the depth* of that poverty be rare until today be U honored in all (Ihrlai the imperial throne mightitwt -today Who haa n earth than any other Joana. Before whom do the mr» canda Vi>’ I in chapel and church and <*tbedra! thin hour? Jean*. From what depth* of; poverty to what height of txiwnl And *o let all tbom who jr-irly atarted tetnembn’ that they a Ix« he mare p>«jrly born or more di* vnntagnom- !y than thi< < Tirin. Let them kaik tip to isi* example while they have time and eternity to Unite Do yon know that the ' of the world'a Aelivtrer* oirthphw* * liather, the emancipator trf n-ligion, b-m am-aig the minea. BhakHajawre. the etnancipabr of liter*ton-, born in a humble home at fttrat-furd-oo-Avuu. Columbtl*. the (Uacrmrer of a world, txra in poverty atXhm-at Hogarth, the diaooverer of bow to make art aomnmlattve and adminlatralive of

Kitto and Frideanx. whom kuya tmlorkedBew apartment* the holy heriptarea which had nev bean entered. Urn in want. Yea, I have to tell you that nine out of ten of the world'* deliverer* were born in wa I atir your holy ambition* today, and 1 want to tell ytw. although the whole world may be op|io*ed to you. teid inaide and ontaide of your occupatlcru or prefeanoua there may be Uxaie who would hinder your aacmt, on your and enluted in your behalf are the l, _ pathetic heart and the almighty arm of rate who one Chriatmaa night about 1.M9& year* ago wa* wrapped in *w add Hug clotht* atid laid in a manger. Oh. what ngemeut f-r ti^poor

Again. I have to tell yon that in that Tillage barn that night win barn good will to men. whether you call it kindnea* <r furtiearance or fdrgivanem or geniality ir affectun er love. It wai no apart of high heuvou to ■end it* favorite to that humiliation, ll wa* bee fir a rrta-Uion* world. After the calamity in inradi*)- not only did the begin to gire. and the adder to atl and ttH>Tl.T-fiahl ioiimitc with hi* tc and the lim to pnt to bad uae tooth and iww. lint und'-r the very tree from which the forbidden fruit wa* plucked wire hutched out war and revenge and ma'ico and nnvy and Jealonay and the whole brand if nrkatrioe*. Bui again*1 thai *0000 I act the Beth Kem manger, wbk— vay*. "Blee* rather than curw-. endure rather than aa■anlt." and that Ctirlatma* night pnta not vindirtivennw. It aayt, "Sheathe yur awurd, dumunnt your gun*, dumautle your batu-nn*. turn the wamhip Oowb-llatiin that carnrn ahut and obeli into a gruinohip to take find to f.vmii-hing Ireland, book your cavalry b-rms to the plow , nae your deadly gun jeiwdcr in l-laxting ncka and in pa trimic celebration, atop your lawiraiu. quit writing atHaiymotu lettnw. extract the ■ting from yuor aarcaam. let your wit mruMuitu but never burn, drop all the harnh word* out cf your vocabulary—

'Good will to m*n. ’''

"Uh,” you nay. "I can’t exercier it I wrm't exen-iae it until they apologia* I won’t forgive th-m tmttl they aak ux t-i firglve tbi-m. ” You are no Chriatiau then—I aay you are no tihrinuan, or you are a very iuoauistent < Tiri.tlan 11 y<« forgive not man their treapaaaea, Imiw can you expect your him verily Fa iImt to forgive you? Forgive tl«-m if they a*k your forgiTi>nei*i and forgive them anyhow. Shake hand* all around.

"Goad will to men. ”

O my lard Jiwu*. drop that apirlt into all our heart* thl* Ohriatmaa time. I tell you whal the world want* than anything eke—mtre helping hand*. m>n- »yiu|aubetic heart*, m.ire kind wor.i* that ucv--r die. mire dinjoaition to give other (nojile a ride, and to carry the heavy end if the load and give er people the light end. and to aatrihe g>««l motivi* inutood if twd. and to find our ha|t])lniv» in making other* happy. Out if that BetUb'iu-iu crib let the bau and the Hun eat ntniw like the "Good will to men. ” That principle

will yrt aetlle all e-artf’nvtkvw, aun uu der it the world will li«i> >* uaprovt'ng until there will be -ally two *Btag'«iWl* in all the earth, and th-y will »i-k-i.y abb- take u«- jubilant *b-igb nde inn mated by th<- ja-yibct * ik-ii be «*id. '■H.-ittn *» rhaii !»; on tt.e bell* of Ui.

Again. 1 r-mar^ that b<«n that OiriKroa* night in rtie villag" twru wa* >.510 pathetic uni.* with olbrt w-vM* Kr >tn that aupematural gnmping if th* cbiod bank* ov«r Brthieh>m. ami fern the apeciul tmu* that rah down to Uh- men* 1 find that our w-rki 1* beautifully a*»d gk-i-awly anl maguiSeMitlr euiTMaid ed Tin meWr* ure with u*. f-r -me them ran to ncint down to the birtBplare. The heat* t» are w ith u>. hecanae at tic thought <f out redemption ttiey r«.!l buaaxma* oot <f the mumight «ky Oh. yt». IduOrt nsf» irfi our w.rld may he Urter eorr.iulull'd than we have acourtlmea imagiuoi. and'when a child 1* hern, angel* bring it. and when ti die*, angel* take it. and w hen an old man bend* rnni-r tbt weight if yew*, angel* uphold bin*, ami when a heart, hrvwk*. angel* **4he it Angel* to the

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bo*pital to take ei

gMl • tr^r

tbry wont f«rk «ft--r lie enueert that fight over the hilk. f-.rput to afant the dia*’ All the ••vrrt i* out No mirv uw ef ttymg to hade in mi u* the ghruw

■ the gate.

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! JOHN ^BROWER, I'ai ii 1 rr anrt Glazier

CORSON & WARE

inarch Lug tbt* w.'y. and- hallrlniali* man-hiug that **y In the kpiend-a <f the antii ljwion I f*»J e* if I wa* dying —oot physicaliy. f<r I never wa* nr re well—I ml mine ttauapin <f the Chriat-

t< the thougl-t

that 1

c-h uni

in the ornw-tery to watch Angel* In the church mady to fiy

inward with the m-w* if repentant amh Angel* above fbr w-rld Angel* utid- t the wirid. Angel* all around the

world.

Bub the dimt if human taperfrttfOM out if your eye*, and look into tb*- b*wv on* and wee angelc if pity, angel* if merry, angel* if pardon, angd-k jf help, augvk crowned, angeb chantfrd. The world defended by angel*, giflkd by angel*, aborted' by angel*—<1. ■u-k of angel* Hear David cry onl : ••Thechariou of God are JO.OOti. Even tli.mean-1* of angel* ' Bui the mightinu angel ati»*i mg that night in the cloud* over Bethlehem ; the migb^jnat- angi-1 that night lay among the cattle—Che angel

of the now oovtaiant.

A* the clean white linen waa king wrapped around the little form of thai child emperiv. not a cherub, nig a aerajih. not an angel, not a world but wept and ttirtlkd and vhooted. '*1. yw. our wot Id ha* pkoty if eymfWthtaeT*! Our world i* <mly a diver rung of a great laddiv at the top if which 1* our Father'* bnu*H m<r*jtt*41ar .•-■Utari Dear fur our w-fltlTno other Irn-tidkw*

planet* aptm out into epace

but a world in the hi

ternity.

ml I have l*vu. viikd imly f.it th-w ubo hod alway* th-uglit rigid and -|-A"ti right and artrtl r.gW. you asd 1 w mld ha< had no intetert to It. had no abate in it, v- 1 and L w'tiiid have gtock to the rnft mubwivm. and let ■hip i.itl by, rarrT,t.« prrleet pti " life III hi-ATin Boll bail-

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great and glorton* and *y iti|ath<«g- one who huclwd the teutpiwt around the boot cat G..llb* , and I tiav- heard that ail

the pu-wengiv* m the *hlp

itTod ky grace. Agdtkoww hail the

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n \hi» w

ad j »iiip.

hf the dde .f it

'; iju-wti-ai*. ' Wboaretbim?" and "Viheik-i w And be nay*. "I am captain 'f .Knlvali-ci, and 1 am from the manger. '' tfi, bright Ch lug of my aaDl’* delight! < 'hime all the bella. Merry < Tiri-o tna*!. Merry with the thought if etna forgtvrtt. uiiTrj with the Idea if wan nr* conifort-.i. merry with the rajgure* te come tHi. lift that «lirtid fr-au the mang- r on.i lay him down in all our heart*' We may mf king to him. a* costly a promt a* ihe magi brought, but we bring to ht* feet and to the man gor ti«iay tlx- franktndeaee if out J«*y, the prn*tTmrl<« at our worship. Down at hi* feet all church re, all ag**, all cv.th. all btoivm. Ia-wh at hi* feed tie f.mr uud twenty xlder* in their face*. IViwn the ''groat multitod<> no man can numtieV'' Down Mb* the ■r- hang' J ' Iknvn all world* at ht* feet and won-hip likirT to ttod tn t high-* t. and on earth pearr^gaod will

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Again. I remark that That night bunt that village Isim wa* the • •'Si-ndfi'* ipe. Some *ermoni*er* may *ay I ought to have prn}e6ted thia thought at ' - of tberorniou. Ch. not I rard It. I want**! w -Imn* and the jaaprtv and the crystal* Ufotv I ahuw.vl you the Kohinoor—'the crown Jewel of the agt*. < Ih. tliat Jewel had a vi-ry pc* * ' rotting! The cub of hear I* fcm amid the grand old pillar* of the forest, the whelp of lii-n takes it* fimt *tep from the Jungle if laxurtant leaf and wild flower, the kid of g-wt I* kan in cavern chandelierod with atalartite and pillar nd with atalagmiui. (Sniat waa kxn in

a hare barn.

Yet that nativity wae the offender’* hope- Over the door if heaven are wnt ten throe wurda, "None bat .the *inlew may enter htrr." "Oh. bom a." yoo my. "that ahot* n* all imt!” No Chriat came to the world in noe door, and he deparitd through ^nother door. He came through the d'*^*of the man ger, and be deiairvvTrfirough the di*» if the ropuleher. an*, hi* cam bneiner* wae ao to wmh aw ay our nu that after we an- dead throe will be no mure rin about n* than about the eternal (sod. I know llutt ia putting It atnngly, but that i* what I understand by full rronis-

All a

I, all w

r, all

acoured out, all gone. That uudrogir dhng and overarching and irradiaticg and imparadulug j*w*ihillty fur ym. and for me. and fro the whole race, that

wo* given that Chrietma* night.

Do you woodepjwe bring fl-iwera today Ui celebrate aorh an event ? Do you wonder that we- take organ and youthful rotes and quronly soloirt to celebrate it ? Do you u ■aider that Raphael and Rohen* and Titian and Giotto and Ghirlandajo oi|d all the old Italian and German painltm gave the mightirot atroke of their Jt-nm* to akrtch the Ma-

donna. Mary, and her kiy?

Oh! now I roe what the mang-r wax Not *<- high the glided and Jeweled and embroidered ernffb- if the Henryg if Ijiglami. ro the Loui* tf France, or the Frederick* if Fnuata Now X find oot that that Bethleliem crib fed nut ao much the oxen if the atoll a* the white

iU'KAK <;ITY. K.J.

Joseph G, Champion,

Ajmai.tJKW VlKhai. NowT find the swaddling clothes enlarging and omblasaiing into an imperial r-.be fro a conqueror. Niro I find that the Mar of that Christ tna? night wa* only the diammdid sandal if him who hath the unib-r hia feet. Now I none to underttand (hot the music if that night a* not a completed *ung. but inly the ringing if the instrument* fro a grout iron* cf two world*, the baro to breamed by earthly nation* sarnd. and the aoprano by kingdion* if glia? w-ai Oh. brown. Iieav. u, heaven! 1 shall set y-si there. Afi- r all istr imperfecmt an- giax- 1 ahall mert you there. I look out today, through the inK* of yean, through the fug that rtau from the cold Jordan, ttirongh the wide open doer of aolid pearl to that reunion. 1 rt to roe you there a* ecclainly a* 1 you here Whaf a time we ahull have in high canverae, talking over *m* pardoned and aorrowa oauforted and

bait lie tnnmphabt 1

kune if your children have already gone, and though peoj.le pa<*>ing along the Mrert and neeing white era|*> on the door!* 11 may have said, "It is only a child," yrt when tile liroken IxArtid

father came to solicit my aervioe, he II'111 if! I IT? I\|l aaid, "Ciaue around and cumfrot tu, f-i n i'jNI l.ll)

we loved her eo much.' ‘

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