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QltiKl— NOW.
I.UOLA.
Of a family of eight children, all except
the two eldest died within six months, three
within a week, and two were buried iu the
same grave.
Yes, all is quiet—now’—no laugh
Or shout breaks on the ear,
No carroled song or patt’ringfeet
Tell of the loved ones near.
’Tis spring, and birds are on the trees,
And bees upon the wing,
Yet no glad voices echo there
The minstrelsy of spring!
And all is neat and tidy now,
Without the aid of care,
No little hands will disarrange,
Or scatter playthings there;
No broken toys or tangled strings
Be left upon the floor;
Nor little feet their impress leave
Around the cottage door.
There side by side uncalled for too
Stand little stools and chairs.
Uncumbered now by books or toys,
Or aught that once was theirs.
Tite morning comes, the evening goes,
And still untouched they stand
Not needed round the fireside,
By one of that sweet band!
The cradle too—in every home
Almost a sacred tiling,
Is useless now—no voice is heard
A lullaby to sing.
And there the little pillow lies,
All smooth and fresh and round;
Tlie curly head that rested there
Is resting in the ground.
And there within that sad, sad home,
Where evening shadows fall,
The mother sits with broken heart—
The saddest tiling of all.
With folded hands and drooping head
And weary heart and eye,
She listless dreams, nor marks the hours
That drearily pass by:
Dream on poor suff’rer, hush’d and still
Is all within—without,
Thy revery will not be disturbed
By mirth or noisy shout;
There is no need of watchfulness,
No need of thrift or care,
You have no little wounds to dress,
No little griefs to share.
No little stockings now to knit
No little clothes to mend—
No little sufl’rer o’er whose couch
Tliy loving form may bend.
Yes take again that little cloak
And kiss it o’er and o er,
The last you ever made for him
The last lie ever wore.
That brimless hat and little shoe
All worn and stringless now,
Might once have called a stern reproof,
A frown upon thy brow:
But now they are bedewed with tears,
As holy things—are prized—
Your eyes are ’neath that little hat,
The wearer, in the skies.
Weep not—tell me why weepestthou?
They need no more thy care—
For want and suffering cannot come
Where thy sweet babies are.
Those little feet ne’er weary now,
There comes no ciy of pain;
bay, would’st thou rob them of their rest,
And call them back again?
Oil woman of the bleeding heart,
dome lift thy drooping eye;
The Tree of Healing standeth near
Tlie Stream of Life flows by.
In God’s thy help—thy balm In Christ —
Why murmur or repine?
Tlie Heavenly shepherd keeps thy lambs,
And they shall yet be thine!
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
BY REV. T. DeWITT TALMAGE
THE CLOUDLESS MORNING.
A morning without clouds.—ll Samuel,
xxiii., 4.
Pulpit and printing press for the
most part in our day are busy iu dis
cussirtg the condition ot the cities at
this time; but would it not be health
fully encouraging to all Christian
workers and to all who are toiling to
make the world better, if we should
this morning for a little while look for
ward to the time when our cities shall
be revolutionized by the Gospel of the
Son of-God, and all the darkness of
sin, and trouble, and crime, and suffer
ing shall be gone from the sky, and it
shall be “a morning without clouds?”
Every man lias pride in the city of his
nativity or residence, if it be a city dis
tinguished for any dignity or prowess.
Cresar boasted of his native Rome, Vir
gil of Mantua, Lycurgns of Sparta,
Demosthenes of Athens, Archimedes ol
Syracuse, and Paul of Tarsns. 1
should have suspicion of base-hearted
ness in a man who had no especial in
terest in the city of his birth or resi
lience—no exhilaration at the evidence
of its prosperity, or its artistic embel
lishments, or its scientific ad vancement.
I have noticed that a man never likes
a city where he has not behaved well!
Swartoutdid not like New York, nor
did Parkman like Boston, and people
who have a free ride in tho.prison can
never like the city that furnishes the
vehicle. When I find Argos and
Rhodes and Smyrna trying to prove
themselves the birthplace of Homer, I
conclude right away that Homer be
haved well. He liked thorn and they
liked him. We must not war on laud
able city pride, and with the idea of
building ourselves up at any time try
to pull others down. Boston must con
tinue to point to its Faueuil Hall, and
to its common, and to its superior ed
ucational advantage. Philadelphia
must oontinuo to point to its Independ
ence Hall, and its Mint and its Girard
College. If I should find a man com
ing from any city having no pride in
that city, that having been the place
of his nativity, or now being the place
of his residence, I would feel like ask
ing him right away: “What mean
thing have yon been doing there? what
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outrageous thing have you been guilty
of that you do not like the place?”
New York is a goodly city. It is on
both sides the river, the East River be
ing only the main artery of its great
throbbing life. We or our children
will live to see three or four bridges
spanning that river, and more and more
as the years go by, we will be one; so
when I say iu my sermon New York, I
mean well on to two millions popula
tion, and everything from Spuyten
Duyvil Creek to Gowanus. That
which helps one city will help the other;
that which blasts one city will blast
the other. Sin is a giant, and when it
comes to the Hudson or the East River,
it stops across it as easily as you step
across a figure in a carpet. God’s an
gel of blessing has two wings, and one
wing hovers over that city and the
other wing hovers over this city. In
infancy our metropolis was put down
by the banks of the Hudson. It was
as feeble as Moses in the ark of bull rush
es by Nile, and like Miriam, there our
fathers stood and watched it. The
royal spirit of American commerce came
lown to bathe. She took it up in her
arms and it waxed strong, and foreign
ships brought silver and gold to its
feet, and it has stretched itself up into
a great metropolis, looking up to the
mountains and off upon the sea, the
mightiest energy in American civiliza
tion. Every city is influenced by the
character of the men who founded
it. Romulus impressed his life upon
Home. The Pilgrim fathers will never
elax their grasp from New England.
William Penn left a legacy of fair
lealing and integrity to Philadelphia,
ind you can now any day on the streets
if that city see his customs, his nian
aers, his morals, his hat, his wife’s
lonnct and his meeting house. So the
ilollanders founding New York left
their impression on all the following
generations. Grand old New York!
What Rouchern thoroughfare was ever
smitten with pestilence and our phy
sicians did not throw themselves on
the sacrifice? What foreign nation
was ever struck with tamine and our
ships did not put out laden with bread
stuffs? What national struggle, and
our citizens did not pouf their blood
into the trenches? What street of Da
mascus, or Beyrout, or Madras has not
resounded with the step of our mission
aries? What gallery of art, and our
painters have not hung in it their pic
tures? What department of science or
literature, and our scholars have not
made to it contributions? I need not talk
to you of our public schools, where the
children of the cordvvainor, and the me
chanic, and the glassblovver sit side
by side with the favored sons of mill
ionaires and merchant princes. Nor
need I tell you of the asylums for the
insane on these islands, where those
who cut themselves among the tombs
come forth clothed and in their right
mind. Nor need I tell you of the asy
lums for the blind, and the deaf, and
the dumb, and the orphans, the wid
ows, the outcast, or of a thousand arm
ed machinery streaming down from our
great reservoirs the pure, bright, spark
ling water, rushing through the aque
ducts, and dashing out of the hydrants,
and hissing in the steam engines, and
tossing in the fountains, and shower
out the conflagrations, and dripping
from the baptismal fonts in our
churches, and with silvery tono and
golden sparkle and crystalline chime
saying to the hundreds of thousands of
our populations, in the words of Him
who made it: “I will; be thou clean.”
I thank God for the place of our resi
dence, and while there are a thousand
things that ought to be corrected, and
many wrongs that ought to be over
thrown, while I thank God for the past,
I look forward this morning to a glo
rious future. I think we ooght—and
I take it for granted you are all in
terested in this great work of evangel
izing the cities and saving the world—
we ought to toil with the sunlight in
our faces. We are not fighting in a
miserable Bull Run of defeat. We are
on the way to final victory. We are
not following the rider on the black
horse, leading ns down to death and
darkness and doom, but the rider on
the white horse, with the moon under
bis feot and the stars of heaven for his
tiara. Hail, conqueror, hail! I hear
there are sorrows, and there are sins
and there are sufferings all around
about us; but in some bitter cold winter
day, when we are threshing our arms
around us to keep our thumbs from
freezing, we think of the warm spring
lay that will after a while come, or in
the dark winter night we look up and
wo see the northern lights, the windows
of heaven illuminated by some great
victory—-just so we look up from the
night of suffering and sorrow and
wretchedness in our cities, and we see a
light streaming through from the other
side, and we know wo are on the way
to morning—more than that, on the
way to “a morning without clouds.”
1 want you to understand, all you who
are toiling for Christ, that the castles
of sin are going to be captured. The
victory for Christ in these great towns
is going to be so complete that not a
man on earth, or an angel in heaven, or
a devil in hell will dispute it. How
do I know? I know just as certainly
as God lives and that there is holy
truth. The old Bible is full of it. The
nation is to be saved; of course, all the
cities are to be saved. It makes a
great difference with you and with me
whether we are toiling on toward a de
leat or toiling on toward a victory
Now, in this mnnicipal elevation of
which I speak, I have to remark there
will be greater financial prosperity than
our cities have ever seen.- Some peo
ple seem to have a morbid idea of the'
millennium, and they think when the
better time comes to our cities and the
world, people will give their time up
to psalm singing and the relating of
their religious experience. And as all
social life will be purified, there will be
no hilarity; and as all business will be
purified, there will be no enterprise.
There is no ground for such an
absurd anticipation. In the time of
which I speak, where now one for
tune is made thero will be a hundred
fortunes made. We all know business
prosperity depends upon confidence be
tween man and man. Now, when that
time comes of which I speak, and all
double-dealing, all dishonesty and ail
fraud are gone out of commercial cir
cles, thorough oonfideuce will be estab
lished, and there will be better busi
ness done, and larger fortunes gathered,
and mightier successes achieved. The
great business disasters of this country
have coma from tlie work of godless
speculators and infamous stock gam
biers. The great foe to business iu
New York and Brooklyn is crime.
When the right shall have hurled back
the wrong and shall have purified the
commercial code, and shall have thun
dered down fraudulent establishments,
and shall have put into the hands of
honest men the keys of business, bless
ed time for the bargain makers. lam
not talking an abstraction, I am not
malttng a guess. I am telling you
God’s eternal truth. In that day of
which I speak taxes will be a mere
nothing. Now our business men are
taxed for everything. City taxes,
county taxes, State taxes, stamp taxes,
license taxes, manufacturing taxes—
taxes, taxes, taxes! Our business men
havo to make a small fortune every
year to pay their taxes. What fastens
on our great industries thisawful Gad?
Crime, individual and official. We
have to pay the board of the villains
who are incarcerated ; u our prisons.
Yfe have to take care of orphans of
those who plunged into their graves
through beastly indulgence. We have
to support the municipal governments,
which are vast and expensive just in
proportion as the criminal proclivities
aro vast and tremendous. We support
the almshouses and police stations, and
all the machinery of municipal govern
ment? The tax payers. Ever since
the morning of the Bth of November
the politicians have been trying to ci
pher out what was the cause of the
revolution in American politics. Well,
in some cities it meant one thing, per
haps. and some States amother thing;
but I tell yon what it meant all over:
It meant that, the people of the United
States are infuriate at the fact that the
officers of the government and those
who have the arrangement of these
things, keep taxes up when they might
go down—a hundred million dollars
more than necessary taxed out of the
hard-working population of this coun
try. and stored up as a temptation to
public officials The only way to keep
the Congress of the United States from
misappropriating $50,000,000 out of
the national Treasury, is to have no
surplus in the Treasury to steal. In
this coming Congress the Republican
party will have another opportunity .of
putting down taxes, and if they do not
put down taxes, the revolution in Massa
chusetts and in New York this autumn
will be only as a snowflake compared
with the avalanche of popular indigna
tion that shall comedown. And I tell
you Republicans and you Democrats,
that if you do not let down the taxes
and let the people up, we will form a
new party, anti-excessive taxation, an
ti-rum, anti-monopoly, anti abomina
tion, and you have been fattening on
the public spoils and reckless of the
public virtue shall not have so much
as the wages of a street-sweeper. But
in the glorious time of which I speak,
grievous taxation will all havo ceased.
There will be no need of supporting
criminals; there will be no criminals.
Virtue will have taken the place of
vice. There will be no orphan asylums,
for parents will be able to leave a com
petency to their children. There will
be no voting of large sums of moneys
for some municipal improvement, which
moneys, before they get to the improve
ment, drop into the pockets of those
who voted them. No Oyer and Ter
miner kept up at a great expense to the
people. No empanelling of juries to
try theft, and ai Son, and murder, and
slander, and blackmail. Better facto
ries. Grander architecture. Finer
equipage. Larger fortunes. Richer
opulence. ‘A morning without clouds.’
In that better time, also, coming to
these cities, the churches of Christ will
be more numerous, and they will be
larger, and they will be more devoted
to the service of Jesus Christ, and they
will accomplish greater influences for
good. Now, it is often tliß case that
churches are envious of each other, and
denominations collide with each other,
and even ministers of Christ sometimes
fight the bond of brotherhood. But in
the time of which I speak, while there
will be just as many differences of opin
ion as there are now, there will be no
acerbity, no hypercriticism, noexclnsiv
ness. In onr great cities the churches
are not to-day large enough to hold
more than a fourth of the population.
The churches that are built, compari
tively few of them are fully occupied.
The average attendance of the churches
in the United States to-dav is not 400.
Now, in the glorious time of which
I speak, there are going to ho vast
churches, and they are going to Be all
thronged with worshippers. O! what
rousing songs they will sing! O! what
earnest sermons they will preaoh! O!
what fervent prayers they* will offer!
Now, iff onr time, what is called a fash
ionable chnrch is a place where a few
people, having attended very carefully
to their toilet, come and sit down—
they do not want to be crowded, they
like a whole seat to themselves—and
then, if they have any time left from
thinking of their store, and fiom ex
amining the style of the hat in front of
them, they sit and listen to a sermon
warranted to hit no man’s sins, and
listen to music which is rendered by a
choir warranted to sing tunes that no
body knows! And then, after an hour
and a half of indolent yawning, they
go home refreshed. Every man feels
better after he has had a sleep! In
many of the churches of Christ in our
day, the music is simply a mockery. I
have not a cultivated ear nor a cultivated
voice, yet no man can do my singing
for me. I have nothing to say against
artistic music. The two or five dollars
I pay to hear Miss Thursby or Miss
Abbott, or any of the queens of song,
is a good investment. But when the
people assemble in religious convoca
tion and the hymn is read, and the an
gles of God step from their throne to
catch the music on their wings, do not
let us drive them away by our indiffer
ence. I have preached in churches
where vast sums of money were employ
ed to keep up the music, and it. was as ex
quisite as any heard on earth, but
1 thought at the same time, for all
matters practical I would prefer
the hearty, outbreaking song of a
backwoods Methodist camp meeting.
Let one of these starveling fancy
songs sung in church get up be
fore the throne of God, how would it
look standing amid the great doxolo
gies of the redeemed! Let the finest
operatic air that ever went up from the
church of Christ get many hours the
start, it will be caught and passed by
the hosanna of the Sabbath-schoolchil
dren. I knew a church where the eh >ir
did ali the singing save one Christian
man, who, though perseverance of the
saints, went right on, and afterward a
committee was appointed to wait on
him if he would not please to stop sing
ing, as he bothered the choir.
Let those refus to singe
Who never knew our God;
But children of the Heavenly King
Should speak their joys abroad.
“Praise ye the Lord; let everything
with breath praise the uord.” In the
glorious time coming in our cities and
in the world, hosanna will meet hosan
na, and hallelujah, hallelujah.
In that time also of which I speak,
all the haunts of iniquity and crime
and squalor will be cleaned and will be
illumined. How is it to be done? You
say perhaps by one influence. Perhaps
I say by another. 1 will tell you what
is my idea, and I know I am right in
it. The Gospel of the son of God is
the only agency that will ever accom
plish this. Mr. Ecsler, of England,
had theory that if the natural forces of
wind tide and sunshine and wave were
rightly applied and rightly developed,
it would make this whole earth a para
dise. In a book of great genius, and
which rushed from edition to edition,
he said:
“Fellow men, I promise to show the
means of creating a paradise within ten
years, where everything desirable for
human life may be had by every man
in superabundance without labor and
without pay—where the whole face of
nature shall be changed into the most
beautiful farms, and man may live in
the most magnificent palaces, in all
imaginable refinements of luxury, and
in the most delightful gardens—where
he may accomplish without labor in one
year more than hitherto could be done
in thousands of years, and may level a
continent, sink valleys, create lakes,
drain lakes and swamps, and intersect
the land everywhere with heautifnl
canals and roads for transporting heavy
loads of many thousand tons and for
travelling a thousand miles in twenty
four hours—may cover the ocean with
floating islands movable in any desired
direction, with immense power and
celerity, in perfect security, and with all
the comforts and luxuries bearing gar
dens and palaces with thousands of
families, and provided with rivulets of
sweet water —may explore the interior
of the globe and travel from pole to pole
in a fortnight—provide himself with
means yet unheaid of for increasing his
knowledge of the world and so his in
telligence; leading a life of continual
happiness, of enjoyment yet unknown;
free himself from all the evils that af
flict mankind, except death, and even
put dea' h far beyond the common period
of human life, and finally render it less
nfflicting. From the houses to be built
will be afforded the most cultured views
to be fancied. From the galleries, from
the roof and from the turrets may be
seen gardens as far as the eye can see,
full of fruits and flowers, arranged in
the most beautiful order, with walks,
colonnades, aqueducts, canals, ponds,
plains, amphitheatres, terraces, foun
tains, sculptured works, paintings, gon
dolas, places of popular amusement to
tire the eye and fancy. All this to be
dons by urging the water, the wind and
the sunshine to their full development.”
He goes on and gives plates of the
machinery by which the work is to be
done, and he says he only needs at the
start a company in which the shares
shall be twenty dollars each, and a hun
dred or two hundred thousand shall be
raised just to make a specimen commu
nity, and then, this being formed, the
world will see its practicability, and
very soon two or three million dollars
can he obtained, and in ten years, the
whole earth will be emparadised. The
plan is not so preposterous as some I
have heard of! Bat I will take no stock
in that company! I do not believe it
will ever be done in that way, by any
mechanical force, or by any machinery
that the human mind can put into play.
It is to be done by the Gospel of the
Son of God—the genuineness and finery
of love, and grace and pardon and sal
vation. That is to emparadise the na
tions. Archimedes destroyed a fleet of
ships coming np the harbor. You know
how he did it? He lifted a great sun
glass. history tells ns, and when the
fleet of ships came up the harbor of
Syracuse he brought to bear this sun
glass and he converged the sun’s rays
upon those ships. Now, the sails are
wings of fire, the masts fall, the vessels
sink. O, my friends, by the sun-glass
of the gospel, converging the rays of
the sun of righteousness upon the sins,
the wickedness of the world, we will
make them blaze and expire.
In that day of which I speak, do you
believe there will be any midnight ca
rousals? Will there be any kicking off
from marble steps of shivering mendi
cants? Will there be any unwashed,
unfed, uncombed children? Will there
be any blasphemers in the streets?
Will there be any inebriates staggering
past? No wine stores. No lager beer
saloons. No distileries where they
make the three X’s. No blood-shot eye.
No bloated cheek. No instruments of
ruin and destruction. No first-pounded
forehead. The grandchildren of that
woman who goes down the street, with
a curse, stoned by the boys that follow
her, will be the reformers and the phil
anthropists and the Christian men and
the honest merchants of New York and
Brooklyn. Then, what municipal gov
ernments, too, we will have in all the
cities. Some cities are worse than oth
ers, but in many of our cities you just
walk down by the city halls and iook
in at some of the rooms occupied by
politicians and see to what a sensual,
loathsome, ignorant, besotted crew city
politics is often abandoned. Or they
stand around the City Hall picking
their teeth, waiting for some emolu
ments of crumbs to fall to their feet—
waiting all day long, and waiting all
night long. Who are those wretched
women taken up for drunkenness and
carried up to the courts and put in
prison, of course? What will you do
with the grogshops that made them
drunk? Nothing. Who are those
prisoners in jail? One of them stole a
pair of shoes. That boy stole a dol
lar. This girl snatched a purse. All
of them crimes damaging society less
than S2O or S3O. But what will you
do with the gamblers who last night
robbed the young man of a thousand
dollars? Nothing. What will be done
with that one who breaks through and
destroys the purity of a Christian home
and with an adroitness and perfidy that
beats the strategy of hell, flings a
shrinking soul iuto a bottomless per
dition? Nothing. What will you do
with these who fleece that young man,
getting him to purloin large sums of
money from his employer—the young
man who come to an officer of my
church and told the story, and franti
cally asked what he might do? Noth
ing. Ah! we do well to punish small
crimes, but I have sometimes thought
it would be better in some of our cities
if the officials would only turn out from
the jail the petty criminals, tho little
offenders, the ten-dollar desperadoes,
and put i.i their places gome of the
monsters of iniquity who drive their
roan span through the streets so swift
ly that honest men have to leap to get
out of the way of being run over. O!
the damnable schemes that professed
Christian man will sometimes engage
in until God puts the finger of his ret
ributions into the collar of their robe of
hypocrisy and rips it clear to the bot
tom. But all these wrongs are going
to be righted. I expect to live to see
the day. I think I hear in the dis
tance the rumbling of the King’s chari
ot. Not always in the minority is the
Church of God going to be; or are good
men going to be. The streets are going
to be filled with regenerated populations.
Three hundred and sixty bells rang in
Moscow when one prince was married;
but when Righteousness and Peace kiss
each other in all the earth, ten thousand
times ten thousand hells shall strike
the jubilee. Poverty enriched, hunger
fed, crime purified,ignorance enlighten
ed and all the cities saved! is not this a
cause worth working in? O! you think
sometimes it does not amount to much.
You toil on in your different spheres,
sometimes with great discouragement.
People have no faith and say; “It does
not amount to anything; you might as
well quit that.” Why, when Moses
stretched his handover the Red Sea, it
did not seem to mean anything especial
ly. People came OHt, I suppose, and
said; “Ah!” Some of them found out
what he wanted to do. He wantad the sea
parted. It did not amountto anything,
this stretching out of his had over the
sea! But after a while the wind blew
all night from the sast, and the waters
were gathered into a glittering palisade
on either side, and the billows reared
as God pulled back on their crystal
bits. Wheel into line. Oh! Israel,
march, march! Pearls crash under feet
Flying spray gathers into rainbow arch
of victory for conquerors to march un
der. Shout of hosts on the beach an
swering; the shout of hosts amid sea.
And when the last line of the Israelites
reach the beach, the cymbals clap and
the shields clang, and the waters rush
over the pursuers, and the swift-linger
ed winds on the white leys of the foam
play the grand march Israel delivered,
and the awful dirge of Egyptian over
thown. So you and I go forth, and all
the people God go forth, and they
stretch their hand over the sea, the boil
ing sea of crims and ain and wretohed
ness. “It don’t amount to anything,”
people say. Don’t it? God’s wind of
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A path will be cleared for the army of
Christian philanthropists. The path
will be lined with the trensnres of
Christian beneficience, nnd we will be
greeted to the other beach by the clap
ping of all heaven’s cymbals, while
those who pursued us nnd derided ne
and tried to destroy ne will go down
nnder the sea, and all that will be left
of them will be cast high and dry upon
the beach, the eplintered wheel of n
chariot, or thrust ont from the surf,
the breathless nostril of a riderless
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