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-■ f THE FAIREST OF THE FAIR —DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON ATTHE TABERNACLE. The Eloquent Pastor Discusses tlf At tributes of Christ—The Great, the Good, the Fair, the Sublime. Brooklyn, April 22.—Mrs. Prentiss’ hymn, “More Love to Thee, O Christ,” was never more effectively rendered than this morning by the thousands of voices in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, led on by organ and cornet, while by new vocabu lary and fresh imagery Dr. Tahmvge presented the gospel. The subject of the sermon was “Fairest of the Fair,” the text chosen being Solomon’s Songv, 16, “He is altogether lovely.” The human race has during centuries been improving. For awhile it deflected and degenerated, and from 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 di rection. The physical appearance of the human race is 7 5 per cent more attract ive than in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. From the pic tures on canvas and the faces and forms in sculpture of those who were consid ered the grand looking men and the at tractive women of 200 years ago I con clude the superiority of the men and women of our time. Such looking peo ple of the past centuries as painting and sculpture have presented as fine speci mens of beauty and dignity would be in our time considered deformity and re pulsiveness complete. The fact that many men and women in antediluvian times wero 8 and 10 feet high tended to make tho human race obnoxious rather than winning. Such portable mountains of human flesh did not add to the charms of tho world. Tlio Pliyulral Christ. But in no climate and in no ago did there ever appear any one who in phys ical attractiveness could be compared to him whom my text celebrates thou sands of years Indore he put his infan tile foot on the hill back of Bethlehem. He was and is altogether lovely. The, physical appearance of Christ is, for the most part, an artistic guess. Some writ ers declare him to have been a brunette or dark complexioned, and others a blond or light complexioned. St. John of Damascus, writing 1,100 years ago, and so much nearer than ourselves to tho time of Christ, and hence with more likelihood of accurate tradition, repre sents him with lioard black, and curly eyebrows joined together, and “yellow complexion, ami long lingers like his mother.” An author, writing 1,500 years ago, represents Christ as a blond: "His hair is the color of wine and golden at the r*s>t, straight and without lus ter, but from tho level of the ears, curl ing and glossy, and divided down the center after tho fashion of the Naza- reues. His forehead is even and smooth, his face without blemish and enhanced by a tempered bloom, his countenance ingenuous and kind. Nose and mouth are in jio way faulty. His Is-ard 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 lieautiful than Jewish womanhood. Alas that he lived so long In'foro tho daguerreau and photographic arts wero born, or we might have known his exact features. I know that sculpture and painting were born long before Christ, and they might have transferred from old n times to our times tho forehead, the nostril, the eye, tho lips of our Lord. Phidias, the sculptor, put down his chisel of enchantment 500 years l>efore Christ came. Why did not some one take up that chisel and give us the side face or full face of our Lord? Polygno- tus, tho painter, put down his pencil 400 years before Christ. Why did not some ouo take it up and give us at least the eye of our Lord—tho eye, that sov ereign of the face? Dionysius, the litera ry artist who saw at Heliopolis, Egypt, the strange darkening of the heavens at the time of Christ’s crucifixion near Je rusalem, and not knowing what it was, but describing it as a peculiar eclipse of the sun, and saying, “Either tho Dei ty suffers or sympathizes with some suf ferer, ” that Dionysius might have put his pen to tho work and drawn the por trait 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 tho peasantry, among whom Christ appear ed, I’ortraltg of ChrUt. It was not until the fifteenth century, or until more than 1,400 years after Christ, that talented painters attempted by pencil to give us the idea of Christ’s faca Tho pictures before that time were •o offensive that tho council at Constan tinople forbade their exhibition. But Leonardo da Vinci, in the fifteenth cen tury, presented Christ’s face on two can vases, yet the one was a repulsive face and the other an effeminate face. Raph ael’s face of Christ is a weak face. Albert Dnror’s face of Christ was a sav age face. Titian’s face of Christ Is an expressionless face. The mightiest art ists, 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 J^ord. But about his face I can toll you some, thing positive and beyond controversy. I am sure it was a soulful face. Tho 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 illu mination to the features, but kindness as the lifelong, dominant habit will produce attractiveness of countenance as certainly as the shining of the sun produces flowers. Children are afraid of a scowling or hard visaged man. They cry out if he proposes to take them. Lf he try to caress them, he evokes a slap rather than a kiss. All mothers know JlOTV ^V*** r ! ^ tVtotr o go to a man or woman of forbidding ap pearance. But no sooner did Christ ap pear in the domestic group than there was an infantile excitement, and tho ^youngsters began to struggle to get out mothers’ arms. They could not io children back. "Stand back children!” scolded some of Pprhaps tho little ones flaying in the dirt, and bpeu clean, or tney may not have berm well clact.ortno disciples may have thought Christ’s re ligion was a religion chiefly fnr big folks. But Christ made the infantile ex citement still livelier by his saying that ho liked children better than grown peo ple, declaring, “Except ye become as a little child ye cannot enter into tho kingdom of God. ’ ’ Alas for those 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 tho human race die iu infancy. Christ is so fond of children that he tabes them to himself before tho world has time to despoil ami harden them, and so they are now at tho win dows of the palace and on the doorsteps and playing on the green. Sometimes Matthew or Mark or Luko tells a story of Christ, and only one tolls it, but Matthew, Mark and Luko all join in that picture of Christ girdled by chil dren, and I know by what occurred at that time that Christ had a faco full of geniality. Habit* of Chri t. Not only was Christ altogether lovely in his countenance, but lovely in his habits. 1 know, without being told, that tho Lord who made the rivers and lakes and oceans was cleanly in his appear ance. He disliked tho disease of leprosy not only because it was distressing, but because it was not clean, and his curative words were: “I will. Bo thou clean.” Ho declared himself in favor of thor ough washing and opposed to superfi cial 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 thing’, he says, “Wash thy faco, ” and to a blind man whom he was doctoring, “Go, wash in the pool of Rilnam,” and be himself actually washed tho disciples’ foot, I suppose not only to demonstrato his own humility, but probably their foot needed to be washed. The fact is, tho Lord was a great friend of water. I know that from the fact that most of tho world is water. But when I find Christ in such constant commendation of water I know he was personally neat, although ho mingled much among very rough populat ions and took such long journeys on dusty high ways. II»‘ wore his hair long, according to tho custom of his land and time, but neither trouble nor old ago had thinned or injured his locks, which wore never worn shaggy or unkempt. Yea, all his habits personal appearance wero lovely. Sobriety was also an established habit of his life. In addition to tho writer, he drank tho juiee of the no-ape. When fit a wedding party this beverage gave out, ho made gallons on gallons of grape juice, but it was as unlike what tire world makes in onr time as health is different from disease and ns o dm pulses are different from the paroxysms of delirium tremens. There ws.s no strychnine in that beverage or logwood or mix vomica. The tipplers ami the sots who now quote the winemaking in Cana of Galileo as an exeus * for the fiery and damning beverages of the nine teenth centnry forget that rln, wine at tho Now Testament wedding had two characteristics—tho one that the-Lord made it and tho other that it was made out of water. Bay all yon can of tha. kind anti drink it sit least three times a day and send a, barrel of it round to my cellar. You cannot msike me h blessed Christ who vent healing the sick would ci i that style of drink which ' rather and motnor. iuj* arm is strong, i Girls, von can depend on me!” Comfort of Tour*. But now Lazarus was sick—yea, Laz- ! arus was dead. All broken up, tho sis ters sit disconsolate, and there is aknock at tho door. “Como iu," says Martha. “Come in,” says Mary. Christ entered, and ho just broke down. It was too much for him. Ho had been so often and so kindly entertained in that homo Itefore sickness and death devastated it that ho choked up and sobbed aloud, and the tears trickled down tho sad face of the sympathetic Christ. “Jesus Why do you not try that mono of help ing? You say, “I am a man 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 :md cry with them. John Murphy! Well, you did not know him. Once, when I was in great bereavement, ho came to my house. Kind ministers of tho gospel had come and talked beautifully and prayed with us and did all they could to console. But John Murphy, ono of tho best friends I ever had, a big souled, glorious Irish man, came in and looked into my face, put out his broad, strong hand and said not a word, but sat down and cried with us. I am not enough of a philosopher to say how it was or why it was, but some how from door to door and from floor to ceiling the room was filled with an all pervading comfort. “Jesus wept,’’ 1 think that is what makes Christ such a popular Christ. There are so many who want sympathy. Miss Fiske, tho famous Nestoriau missionary, was in tho chapel one day talking to the heathen, and she was iu very poor health and so weak she sat upon a mat while she talked and felt tho need of some thing to lean against, when she felt a woman’s form at her back and heard a ; woman’s voice saying, “Lean on me.” ! She loaned a little, but did not want to bo too cumbersome, when the woman’s voice said, "Lean hard; if you love me, lean hard.” And that makes Christ so lovely. He wants the sick and troubled and Move that tho ii]i and down ate for mail is tho cause of disease morn than all other causes combined, <>r that lie who calmed the maniacs into their right mind would create that style of drink which does more than anything else to fill inraue asylums, or that he wlm was so helpful to tho poor would make a style of drink that crowds the earth with pauperism, or that he who came t<* save the nations from sin would create t li<|nnr that is the source of most oi the rritne that now stuffs the penitentiaries. \ lovely sobriety was written all ever hi-face, from the hair line of tho forehead to tho bottom of the bearded chin. ClirKt (li#* IMin. Domesticity was also his habit. Though too poor to luu^^blionie of his own, ho went out to s]^^Fthe night at Bethany, two or three miles’ walk from Jerusalem, and over a remm and hilly road that made it equal to sis or seven ordinary miles, every ntoi-nii v ami night going to and fro. I would rather walk from here to Central park, ersvalk from Edinburgh to Arthur’s Seat, or in Lon don clear around Hyde park, titan to walk that road that Christ walked twice a day from Jerusalem to IVMinnv. I>ut he liked tho quietude of le.u." lie-, and ho was lovely in his done stieity. How he enjoyed handing over the res urrocted boy to his mother, and the res urrected girl to her father, and recon structing homesteads which disease or death was breaking up! As the song “Home, Sweet Homo” was written by a man who at that time had no home, sol think the homelessness of Christ added to his appreciation of dinm stieity. Furthermore, he was lovely in his sympathies. Now, dropsy is a most dis tressful complaint. It inflames and swells and tortures any limb or physical organ it touches. As soon as a ease of that kind is submitted to Christ e, without any use of diaphoretics, com mands its cure. And what an eye doc tor lie was for opening the long closed gates of sight to the blue of the sky, and the yellow of the flower, and tho em jrald of the grass! What a Christ ho was for cooling fevers without so much as a spoonful of febrifuge, and straight ening c noked backs wit! out any pang of surgery, and standing whole choirs of music along tho silent galleries of a deaf ear, and giving healthful nervous system to cataieptics! Sympathy! Ho did not give them stoical advice or phi losophize about the science of grief. He I sat. down and cried with them. It is spoken of as the shortest verso ' in the Bible, but to me it is about (he longest and grandest, “Jesus wept.” Ah, many of ns know tb<< meaning of that! When wo wero in gn at trouble, some one came in with voluble consola tion and quoted tho Roripturo iu a sort of heartless way and did not help us at all. But after awhile someone. Ise canto in, and without saying u word sat down and burst into a flood of tears at tlx sight of our woo, and somehow it In Ip ed us right away. "Jesn* w. pt You see, it was adoe.ply uttaehed lions. In .<!, that of Mary and Martini and Lazani -. The father and mother wore dead, and * the girls depended on their biotlier. Lazarus had said to them: ‘Now, Mary, now, Martha, stop your worrying. 1 will take care of you.. 1 will be to you both 4 weary to lean against him, and he says, “Leanhard; if you love me, lean hard. ” Aye, he is close by with his sympathet ic help. Hodley Vicars, the famous sol dier and Christian of the Crimean war, died because when he was wounded his regiment was too far oft from the tent of supplies. He was not mortally wound ed. and if tho surgeons could only haye got at the bandages and tho medicines he would have recovered. >So nvncli of human sympathy’and hopefulness comes too late. But Christ is always close by if wo want hint, and has all the medi cines ready, and has eternal life for all who ask for it. Sympathy! A Siit)Hr.»e Self S.-icrltleo. Aye, he was lovely in his doctrines. Self sacrifice or the relief of tho suffer ing of others by our own suffering. He was the only physician that ever pro posed to cure his patients by taking their disoid -rs. Self sacrifice! And what did ho not give up for others? The best cli mate in the universe, the air of heaven, for the wintry weather of Palestine, a scepter of unlimited dominion for a prisoner’s box in mi earthly courtroom, 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 scarlet fever, rail road engineers going down through tho open drawbridge to save the train, firemen scorched to death trying to help some ono down the ladder from the fourth story of the consuming house. All these put together only faint and insufficient similes by which to illustrate (he grander, mightier, farther reaching self sacrifice of flu “altogether lovely.” Do you wonder that the story of his self sacrifice has led hundreds of thou sands to die for him? Iu ono series of persecutions over 200,000 were pat to death for (Christ's sake. For him Blau- dina was tied to a post attd wild beasts were let out upon her, and when life continued after tin. atlaek of tooth and paw she was put in a net, and that net eontaining her was thrown to a wild hull that tossed her with its horns till life was extinct. All for Christ! Hugue nots dying for Christ! Albigensesdying for Christ! The Vauduis dying for Christ! Smithfield fires endured for Christ! The bones of martyrs, if distrib uted. 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 tho martyr doms 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. Furthermore, he was lovely in his -• rm..ns. H" knew,, ion to begin, when to -t..p and just wfffi .to say. The long- < ,t sermon ho evwq. .. ached, so far as tho Bible reports him—namely, the ser mon on the mount was about 16 min utes in delivery—at the ordinary rate of speech. His longest prayer reported, commonly called “The Lord’s Prayer,” was ujiout naif a minute. Time them by’ your < wn watch,*and you will find my e.'-tiiuate accurate, by which I do not in.-an to say that sermons ought to be only 11 minutes long and prayers only half a minute long. Christ had such infinite power of compression that he could put enough into his 16 minute Keniiihi at d his half minute prayer to keep all the following ages busy in t In Might and action. No one hut a Christ could afford to pray’ or preach as short us that, but he meant to tench ns com pression. C lirlftt'* Krriimnfi. At Reima, Ala., tho other day I was shown a cotton press by which cotton was put iu such shape that it occupied iu transportation only one car when* three cars were formerly necessary, and ono ship where three ships had been re quired, and 1 imagine that we all nets! to compress our sermons and onr prayers into smaller spaces. And his sermons were so lovely for sentiment and pru. tieality and simplic ity ttiid illustration. Tin* light of aean- die, tin* crystal of the salt, tho cluck of a hen f.»r her chickens, the hypocrite's dolorous physiognomy, the moth in the clothes closet, the black w ing of a raven, the snowbank of white lilies, ear ex treme botheration nlsuit the splinter of liu|M.rfiJution in some one rise's charac ter, the sw I no fed oil tlio pearls, wolves ilniuiati/.lug sheep, and ths iiernratinn made up of a cjvli.no In which you hear the crash of a tumbling house unwisely construct, d No l< chnicalitios, no split ting of hairs between m rth mid north- west side, no dogmatics, hut a great, trfiirlstly throb of helpfulness, 1 do not wornU r ut the record which says, “When he was come down from the nioiiiitutn, great multitudes followed UUu.” They hud but one fault to find with tils sermon. It was tpo snort c»oo help all of ns in Christian work to get down off our stilts and realize there is only one thing we havo to do—there is tho great wound of tho world’s sin and sorrow, and here is the great healing plaster of tho goal**). What you and I want to do is to pnt the plaster on the W’ound. All sufficient is this gospel if it iu only applied. A minister preaching to an audience of sailors concerning tho ruin by sin and the rescue by the gospel accommodated himself to sailors’ ver nacular and said, “This plank bears. ” Many years after this preacher was called to see a dying sailor and asked him about his hope and got the suggest ive reply, “This plank bears. ” An Appcsl For Love. Yea, Christ was lovely in his chief life’s work. There were a thousand things for him to do, but his great work was io get our shipwrecked world out of the breakers. That he came to do, and that ho did, and he did it in three years. He took 30 years to prepare for that three years’ activity. From 12 to 80 years of age we hear nothing about him. That intervening 18 years I think he was in India. But he came back to Pal estine and crowded everything into three years—tlireo winters, three springs, three summers, throe autumns. Our life is short, but would God we might see how much wo could do iu three years. Concentration! Intensification! Three years of kind words! Three years of liv ing for others! Tlireo years of self sacri fice! Let us try it. Aye, Christ was lovely in his demise. He had a right that last hour to deal in anathematization. Never had any one been so meanly treated. Cradle of straw among goats anil camels—that was the world’s reception of him! Rocky el iff, with hammers pounding spikes through tortured nerves—that was the world’s farewell salutation! Tho slaughter of that scene sometimes hides the loveli ness of the sufferer. Under the satura tion of tears and blood we sometimes fail to see the sweetest faco of earth and heaven. Altogether lovely! Can coldest criticism find an unkind word ho ever spoke, or an unkind action that ho ever performed, or an unkind thought that he ever harbored? What a marvel it is that all the na tions of earth do not rise up in raptures of affection for him! I must say it hire and now. I lift my right hand in solemn attestation. I love him, and the grief of my life is that I do not love him more. Is it an impertinence for mo to ask, Do yon, my hearer—you, my reader, love him? Has he become a part of your na ture? Have you committed your children on earth intfrliis*'keeping, as yonr chil dren in heaven are already in Irislibsom? Has lie done enough to win your confi dence? Can you trust him, living and dying and forever? Is yonr back or your face toward him? Would yon like to havo his hand to guide you, his might to protect you, his grace to comfort you, his sufferings to atone for you, his arms to welcome yon, his love to encircle you, his heaven to crown you? A Grand Thought. Oh, that we might all have something of tho great Gorman reformer’s love for t his l 'hrist which led him to say, “If any ouo knocks at the door of niy 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 this short and rugged road of life, we can go right up into his presence and live with him world with out end? And if, entering the gate of that heav enly city, w« should be so overwhelmed with our umvorthiness on tho one side, and the supernal splendor 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 (’hrist who raised my only boy to life. ” And Martha would say, "Come, let me take you to the Christ who brought up my brother Lazarus from the tomb.” And one of tho disciples would say, “Come, and let me fake you to the Christ who saved our sinking ship in the hurricane on Geuuesaret. ” And Paul would say, “Come, and let me lead you to the Christ for whom I died on tho road to Ostia.” And whole groups of martyrs would say, “Qpme. let us show yon the Christ for w) .iu wo rattled tho chain and waded the floods and dared the fires. ” And our own glo rified kindred would flock around us, saying, “We have been waiting a good while for you, but before w T e talk over old times, and we tell you of what we have enjoyed since we have been here, and you tell ns of what you havo suffer ed since wo parted, come, come and let us show yon the greatest sight in all tho place, tho most resplendent throne, and upon it tho mightiest conqueror, the exaltation of heaven, tho theme of the Immortals, the altogether gloat, tho al together good, the altogether fair, the altogether lovely!” Well, the delightful morn will come When my dear Ixird will bring me home. 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