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Direct Connections & tweeu ail Points North and JSasU NEW TI M E CARD Oct. S, 1SQO-- . UTIM CENTRAL DISTRICT. n at Salt Lake Citj as follows: GOIK3 NORTH. ' Fast Mall and Utah & Northern Local 8:10 .W Local Express 1:30 p.n Fast Atlantic and Portland & Butte Express..... 5:(S?-- Local. Express. 7:J0j.a coma south. Juab, Provo. Leht, Iroaton and En- - rek Express . 7:10 a.m Milford Express. 4:00m S,W,JLES C. F. RESSEGU1E, FatSMgar ZPriL . General rtUo .Tickets for Sale ia.Wwatoh Buildup, 20UMain Street, aat Depot Tare for Ratmd Ttip50 ceats. HIS GREATEST WORK. A Glimpse at the Proof Sheets of T. De Witt Talmage's Life of Christ. DESCRIPTION OP BIBLICAL LAUDS. A Striking Title, "From Manger to Throne" Most Ambitious Liter-ary Effort of His Life. ' Few persons posseBs Dr! T. De Witt Tal-mage's moat distinguishing characteristic something to say, and the ability to cloths the thought in lauguago fresh and strik-ing. The great Brooklyn divine bus given Us another example of his tireless energy, Lis great study and his matchless word paintings in his life of Christ "From Manger to Throne" to be issued in a fow days from the press of the Historical Publishing company, of Philadelphia. Through the courtesy of Mr. II. S. Smith, president of the company, 1 am enabled to . tell something about the work in advance, tor I have seen the proof Bheets. Ajalon, over which, at Joshua's command. Astronomy halted; on the plain of Esdrae-Ion- , the battlefield of ages, Its long red flowers suggestive of the blood dashed to the bits of the horses' bridles; amid the shattered masonry of Jericho, In Jerusa-lem, that overshadows all other cities in reminiscence; at Cana, where plain water became festal beverage; on Calvary, whose aslant and ruptured rocks still show the effects of the earthquake at the awful hem-orrhage of the five wounds that purchased the world's rescue, and with my hand mlt-tene- d from the storm, or wet from the Jor-dan, or bared to the sun, or gliding over smooth table, this book has been written." Dr. Talmage is the only author of a life of the Christ who visited the Holy Land for the purpose of seeing for himself the scenes made famous by the birth and cru-cifixion of the Saviour, and this record of his life is one of the most interesting por-tions of the book. The writer vividly por-trays the visit of Mary and Joseph in Egypt: ''Over the hills and down through the deep gorge they urge their way. By He-bron, by Grt.ii, through hot sand, under a blistering sun, the babe crying, the mother faint, the fathor exhausted. How slowly the days and weeks pass. Will the weary three ever reach the banks of the Nile? Will they ever see Cairo? Will the desert ever endf When at last they cross the Hue beyond which old Herod has no right to pursue their joy is unbounded. Free at lastl Let them dismount and rest Now they resume their way with less anxiety. They will find a place somewhere for shel- - triumph, the'lionlike'ancT the lamblike, the face that frowned the bestormed lake into a calm, and yet was such an invitation to babyhood that children tumbled from their mothers' arms into his bosom that was what 1 was looking for, and that I have found, and that we present to our readers. "I think it will satisfy mora people than any other face that has ever been put on canvas. The cranial development of this picture of Christ is marvelous, and differ-ent from anything previously produced. We must not forget that he was not only a Christ of great heart, but also of great head. Most other paintings of our Lord were made from models. This artist had no model. He feels that it was an inspira--j tion, and I believe it was. The German is apt to paint a German Christ, the Italian an Italian Christ, the Frenchman a French Christ, the Spaniard a Spanish Christ But it was left for our artist, in whosa veins commingle the blood of many na-tionalities, to paint for us 'The World's Christl' Blessed be his glorious name far everl" The publio will be curious to see the work of this artist. Perhaps the good doctor has found a new Correggiol There are a great many other features too numerous to even mention in a newspaper article. The readers will find these for themselves, and will probably lay down the book, as I did the proof sheets, with a new knowledge of the Christ, and a higher ap-preciation of Dr. Talmage's splendid abili-ty- Foster Coates. Then follows a graphlo picture of the great city, and the visitor's thoughts as his eyes beheld it for the first time. Dr. Talmage gives a doscription.of a bap-tism in the Jordan. He says: "Yesterday on horseback we left Jericho, and having dipped in the Dead sea we came with a feeling that we cannot upon the Jordan, a river which more people have desired to see than any other. On our way we overtook an American, who requested me to baptize him by immersion in the river Jordan. We dismounted at the place were Joshua and his host once crossed the river dry shod. We were near a turn in the river, and not far off from where rocks and sand are piled np in shape of cathedrals, domes and battle-ments. We pitched our tent, and after proper examination of the candidate for baptism I selected portions of Scripture ap-propriate. One of our Arab attendants had a garment not unlike a baptismal robe. With that garment girdled around me I led the candidate down under the trees on the bank, while near by were groups of friends and some strangers who happened to bo there. After a prayer I read of Christ's baptism in the Jordan and the commission, 'Go, teach all nations, baptizing them.' The people on the bank thon joined In singing to the familiar tune that soul stirring song, 'On Jordau's Stormy Bank I Stand.' With the candi-date's hands in mine we waded deep into the Jordan, and I then declared, 'In this historical river, where the Israelites crossed, and Naamau plunged seven times for tha cureof his leprosy, and Christ was baptized, aud which has been used in all ages as a symbol of the dividing line between earth and heaven, I buptize thee in the name of tho Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.' ,As the candidate went down under the waves and then rose I felt a solemnity that no other scene could have inspired. As the ordinance was observed under the direction of no partioular de-nomination of Christians, and no particu- lar church could be responsible for It, J feel it my duty to report what I did to tho church universal." Dr. Talmage's description of his depart- ure from Jerusalem is characteristic: "Now wo leave Jerusalem for the long journey north through Palestine. ' A little way out we got on a hill and took the last look at Jerusalem, and I felt and remarked It was the last look at that sacred city on earth, and the next Jerusalem we shall see will be the heavouly. We went on within sight of Mizpahand Gibeon, where Joshua commanded the sun to stand still; on by llama, connected with Samuel's history; on by the traditional village where the parents of Christ missed their boy, about three and a half miles from Jerusalem. This is the road over which Jesus came and went from Jerusalem to Nazareth. To-night weencamp at Bethel, where was once a school of the prophets, a theological Bomiimry. Elijah and Elisha were here. Near this Abraham and Lot divided the place, and I know it!" ..' The doctor has this to say about tradition, history and fact before beginning the real work of the book: - ' "Are the places that I see in Palestine and Syria and the Mediterranean isles tho genuine places of Christly, patriarchal and apostolic association? Many of them are not, and many of thora are. We have no sympathy with tho, bedwarfing of tradition. There are traditions contra-dicted by their absurdity, but if for several generations a sensible tradition goes on in regard to events connected with certain places, I am as certain of the locali-ties as though pen and document had fixed them. Indued, sometimes tradition is more to te depended on than written communi-cation. A writer may, for bad purposes, misrepresent, misconstrue, misstate; but reasonable traditions concerning places connected with great events are apt to be true. I have no more donbt concerning the place on which Christ was cru&fied or in which Christ was buried than I have about the fact that our Lord was slain and Intombed. But suppose traditions contra-dict each other? Thon try them, test them, compare them as you do d3cuments. It is no more difficult to separate traditions, true and falso, than apocryphal bocks from Inspired books. Do not use the word tra-dition as a synonym for delusion. There is a surplus of Christian infidels traveling the Holy Land who are from scalp to heel surcharged with unbeliefs. A tradition may be as much divinely inspired as a book. The scenery of Palestine is inter-joine-intertwisted, interlocked with the Scriptural occurrences. The learned Hit-ter, who has never been charged with any weakness of Incredulity, writes: 'No one can trace without joy and wonder the veri-fication which geography pays to the his-tory of the Holy Land.' "When the brilliant Renan went to Pal-estine he was stutfodwith enough Incredu-lity to make a dozen Thomas Paines, and yet he gives the following experience: 'The marvelous harmony of the evangelical pict-ure, with the country which serves as its frame, was to me a revelation. I had be-fore my eyes a fifth gospel, mutilated but still legible; and over afterward in t he re-citals of Matthew and Mark, instead of an abstract being that one would say lias never existed, I saw a wondorful human figure live and move.' So said an unbeliever. In this my visit to Palestine, in the year of our Lord ISSU-9- 0, 1 also find the landscape a commentary. The rivers, tha mountains, the valleys, the lakes, the rocks, the trees, the costumes of the Holy Laud, agree with Matthew and Mark and Luke aud John. Tho geography and topography are the background of the Gospel pictures. They earry a tflffersnt part of the same sonjj Admit Palestine aud you admit the New Testament. A distinguished man years ago came here, and returned and wrote, '1 went to Palestine an infidel and came home a Christian.' My testimony will be that I came to Palestine a firm believer in the Bible, and return a thousand fold more confirmed in the diviuity of the Holy ' Scriptures." Quite as interesting as anything else in the book is this announcement: "Wandering up and down the chief art galleries of Europe I have looked for a fa?e of the Saviour which I would like to hve in my life of Christ. The one I have chosen in preference to all Is that executed by a modern artist already widely honored. "I have no idea that the Fourteenth cent-ury, or the Fifteenth century, or the Six-teenth century monopolized all the brain. I think the best music is yet to be com-posed, the best sculpture yet to be chiseled, the best paintings are yet to be presented to the world. We are almost always dis-appointed with a .picture of Christ. It is the universal criticism of such pictures, While I admire the artistic merit of the production, the picture is not my idea of the Saviour.' The picture fa apt to repre- sent Christ either as effeminate Or severe, weak or awf uL To commingle In one pict- ure strength and humility, sufejjBg and ARAB INHABITANTS. The book differs from all other lives of the Christ in this, that it is a simple narra-tive in which no theological questions are propounded, no "views" extolled, and there is no straining after effect It is made up of 600 pages, with over 409 engravings, copies of famous paintings by the old masters illustrating scenes in the life of Christ and portraits of the Saviour by many famous painters. In addition there is a splendid panorama of the cruci-fixion in colors, ten feet in length, which is a great achievement of the publishers. As a literary effort the book is the most ambitious of the great preacher's life. It fulfills all the requirements of literary tyle and finish. Each fact was carefully weighed and scrutinized before put on paper. Nothing was taken for granted. It , Is not the work of an Idle hour, but rather the life work of a strong man still in bis prime. It should meet with a cordial wel eome. It is not written above the head of the average reader. On the contrary, it is a series of magnificent word pictures, so simple that a child would be interested in them. The reader is taken to every spot ' made remarkable in the Holy Land, and the guide is like a delightful elder brother sitting in the twilight rehearsing the old. Id story, ever new. "I have been writing that book for thirty live years," Dr. Talmage told me recently, and he supplements this in his preface by aying: "In my American home, on the Atlan tic, on the Mediterranean, on camel's back, en mule's back, on horseback, under chan-delier, by dim candle in tent, on Lake Gal-See- , in convent, at Bethel,where Jacob's pil-low was staffed with dreams and the angels of the ladder landed; at the brook Elan, irom which little David picked up the am-munition of five smooth stones, four mors than were needed for crushing like an egg-Ite-the skull of Goliath; in the valley of DR. TAXMAQE BAPTIZINO A CANDIDATE, ter apd the earning of their bread. Here they are at Cairo, Egypt. They wind through tho crooked streets, which are about ten feet wide, and enter the humble house where I have been today. It is nine steps down from the level of the street It is such a place as no render of this book would like to dwell in. I measured the room, and found it 20 feet long and Hi feet high. There are three shelvlngs of rock, one of which I think was tho cradle of our Lord. There is no window, and all the light must have com from lantern or candle. What a place for the king of heaven to live inl" As ho approaches Jerusalem the doctor can hardly contain himself. Ho is sitting on a patient camel's back writing these words: "Along the route I am amazed be-yond expression at the boldness and jagged-nes- s of the scenery of the Holy Land. I expected to see it rough, but not Alpinian and Sierra Nevadian in grandeur. The hills are amphitheatres, piled up galleries ot gray rock, with Intervals of soil, brown and maroon, until the eye and head and heart surrender, and the lips that for a long while were' exclamatory become Bpeechless. Before sundown we will see Jerusalem. I never had uch high expec- tations of seeing any place as of seeing the holy city. I found myself singing, 'Jeru-salem, My Happy Home,' while dressing myself this moruing. I think my feelings may be slightly akin to that of the Chris-tian just about to enter the heavenly Jeru-salem." GROUP OF MODERN GALILEANS, land. Here Jacob, pillowed on a stone, saw the ladder used by angels' feet, and he set up a stone and consecrated it the heavens were full of ladders first a ladder of clouds, then a ladder of stars, and all up and down the heavens are the angels of beauty, angels of consolation, angels of God ascending and descending. "Surely God is in this place," said Jacob, 'and I knew it apt' Bu.t trnight God is in this English Clothiers and Customers. One of the best reasons why London business houses become so ancient is be-cause it is so hard to wind up their affairs. Hundreds of pounds must go out in credit before the first shilling can be said to be earned. As long as the business lasts new credits take the place of old ones, and the importance of u concern is determined by the number of people able to paywhai they get good and ready whose names ap-pear on its credit books. A British tradesman will fail with triple the assets in outstanding accounts re-quired to liberate his indebtedness, because he considers it little short of a crime to bother Sir Clarence or to iun Wd Charles. Accounts of this kind are sought after and encouraged, while those who run them up know full well that the fact of their patronage is being laid great stress on in dazzling plebeian patrons with the importance or their The one saving feature of the system is that the aristocratic patron never deserts his appointed tradesman except for good cause, and never fails to recommend him on every occasion.-C- or. Clothier and j He Saved Something. We meet many peculiar characters in this world. I ran across a man once-a- nd he was a man of intelligence and a man oj splendid family, wealthy and all that-w- ho lost his wife, and who, in telling me of his bereavement, said: "Well I will save something out of the wreck. I can wear her here." end he rolled up his pantaloons. Sure enough, there were women's stock-ings of fine texture and reaching away above the knee. He proceeded to explain that he had bought her several pairs at S2 each just a week before she died, but she .niST"" h any use of them, and he to wear them out. though he was sorry he had bought them. The idea was so funny that it was all I could do to keep from laughing right out as he sayins is, but the man was so very s 'to'dhlfc 'T t as long nW wre somathing out of the he wearing hu dead wife's hosier, was not in snch a bad te, hi could not see the toUcronUe . |