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THE OLD MAIN’S OATH.
Get out your ink, 'Squire, paper and pen—
Get them out quick for I’m just from the
den—
Just from the hell that ruined my life.
Beggared my children, and killed my wife.
Write it down quick and accordin’ to law,
So there will be not a break nor a Saw.
Pledges I’ve given, but they will net sti k;
Get out your ink and write it down, quick.
Say that he kicked me, to-night, from his
| door—
Kicked me, as often he’s kicked me before,
Tellin’ me then to go home to my shed,
i Where my poor children were crying .for
I bread.
Place that in capitals, as large as you can,
For that was the hardest kick from the man
Who had been robbin’ me until he had got
Every last dime for the miserablo sot.
Start, then another clause, ’Squire, and tell
How I first wandered away to this hell.
Weil you remember me, ’Squire, the time
When l thought drinking a horrible crime
When my good angel was a part of my soul
Ere 1 first cast her away for the bowl;
How she so tender a flower to stay
Long, with a drunkard, soon withered away.
Place that in capitals, ’Squire and let
Just a few tear drops each capital wet;
For these eyes, blood-shot, have long ceased
to shed
Tears for the livin’, or tears for the dead.
Start thero another clause, ’Squire, and say
How I threw home, friends and kindred
away;
How 1 first neared, then stood on the brink,
Pleadln’ and cursin’ and cryin’ for drink;
How friends would rescue me, but to return
Back to that hell that in me still would
burn,
Until my ruin was finished—complete,
Makiu’ me lower than hogs on the street.
Write it all down, and I’ll sign it and swear
By my sweet angel, so Heavenly fair;
By my true God, whom I’ve often cursed to
scorn;
By my poor ohildren, I’ve left so forlorn;
By my dear mother, who died at my birth;
By all that’s in Heaven or hereupon earth,
I will bo true to my oath and my God
Until they bury me under the sod.
—G. W. Clark in Miami Helmet.
SirtV&VT Qs .
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
BV REV. T. DeWITT TALMAGE
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UPSIDE DOWN.
“These that have turned the world up
side down have come hither also.” —Acts
xvii., 6.
T-here is a wild,bellowing mob around
the house of Jason, in Thessalonica.
What has the man done so greatly to
offend the people? He has been enter
taining Panl and his comrades. The
mob surrounded the house and cry:
“Bring oat those turbulent preachers!
They are interfering with our business!
They are ruining our religion! They
are actually turning the world upside
down!” The charge was true, for
there is nothing that so interferes with
■in, there is nothing ao ruinous to every
form of established iniquity, there is
nothing that has such tendency to turn
the world-upside down, as onrglorionß
Christianity. Tho fact is, that the
world now is wrong side np, and it
needs to be turned up side down, in
order that it may be right side up.
The time was when men wrote books
entitling them, “Apologies for Christ
ianity.” I hope that day has passed.
We want no more apologies for Chris
tianity. Let the apologies be on the
part of those who do not believe in our
religion. We do not mean to make
any compromise in the matter. We
do not wish to hide the fact that
Christianity is revolutionary and that
its tendency is to turn the world upside
down. Our religion has often been
misrepresented as a principle of tears
and madness and fastidiousness; afraid
of crossing people’s prejudices; afraid
of making somebody mad; with silken
gloves lifting the people up from the
church pew into glory, as though they
were Bohemian glass, so very delicate
that with one touch it may be demol
ished forever. Men speak of religion
as though it were a refined imbecility;
as though it were a spiritual chloroform
that the people were to take until the
sharp-cutting of life were over. The
Bible, so far from this, represents tbs
religion of Christ as robust and brawny
—ransacking and upsetttng 10,000
things that now seem to be settled on
firm foundations. I hear some man
say: “I thought religion was peace.”
That is the final result. A man’s arm
is out of place. Two men come and,
with great effort, pnt it back to the
socket. It goes back with groat pain.
Then it gets well. Our world is hor
ribly disordered and out of joint. It
must come uuder an omnipotent sur
gery, beneath which there will be pain
and angufih before there can come per
fect health and quiet. I proclaim
therefore, in the name of my Lord Jesus
Christ, revolution!
THE RELIGION OF THE BIBLE
will make a revolution in the family.
Those things that are wrong in the
family circle will be overthrown by it,
while justice and harmony witl take
the place. The husband will be the
head of the household only when be is
tit to be. I kuow a man who spends
all the money he makes in drink, as
well as all the money that his wife
makes; do you tell ate that he is the
head of that household? If the wife
have more nobility,more courage, more
consistency, more of all that is right,
shall have this supremacy. You say
that the Bible ays that the wife is to
be subject to the husband. I know it.
But that is • husband, not a masculine
caricature. There is no human or
divine law that makes a woman sub
ordinate to a man unworthy of her.
When Christianity sotnes into a do
mestic circle it gives the domiuancy to
tha|onc who is the most worthy ot it.
As religion comes in at the front door,
mirth and laughter will not go out of
the back door. It will not hopple the
children’s feet. John will laugh jost
as loud, and George will jump higher
than he ever did before. It will steal
from the little ones neither ball, nor
bat, nor hoop, nor kite. It will estab
lish a family altar. Angels will hover
over it. Ladders of light will reach
down to it. The glory of heaven will
stream upon it. The books of remem
brance will reeord it, and tides of ever
lasting blessedness will flow from it.
Not such a family altar as you may
have seen, where the prayer is long,
and a long chapter is read with tedious
explanation, and the exercise keeps on
until the children’s knees are sore and
their backs ache and their patience is
lost and for the seventh time they have
counted all the rungs in the chair; bui
I mean a family altar such as you may
have seen in your father’s house.
You may have wandered far off in the
paths of sin and darkness, bnt you
have forgotten that family altar where
father and. mother knelt, importuning
God for your soul. That is a memory
that a man never gets over. There
will be a hearty, joyful family altar in
every domestic circle. You will not
have to go far to find Hannah rearing
her Samuel for the temple, or a grand
mother Lois instructing her young
Timothy in the knowledge of Christ,
or Mary and Martha and Lazarus gath
ered in fraternal and sisterly affection,
or a table at which Jesus sits, as at
that of Zacheus, or a home in which
Jesus dwells, as in the house of Simon,
the tanner. The religion of Jesns
Christ coming into the domestic circle
will overthrow all jealousies, all jang
lings, and peace and order and holiness
will take possession of home.
Christianity will produce a revolu
tion in commercial circles. Find me
fifty merchants and you find that they
have fifty standards of what is light
and wrong. You say to someone
about a merchant, “Is he honest'?’’
“Oh, yes,” the man says, “he is honest,
but he grinds the faces of the clerks.
He is honest, but he exaggerates the
value of his goods. He is honest, but
he loans money on bond andJ|mortgage
with the understanding that the mort
gage can lie quiet fot ten years, but as
soon as he gets the mortgage he records
it and begins a foreclosure suit, and
the Sheriff’s writ comes down and the
day of sale arrives, and away goes a
homestead and the croditor buys it in
at half price.” Honest! when he
loaned the money he. knew that he
would get the homestead at half price.
Honest! but he goes to the insurance
office to get a policy on his life and tells
the doctor that he is well, when he
knows that for ten years he lias had
but one lung. Honest! though he sells
property by the map, forgetting to tell
the purchaser that the ground is all
under water. But it is generous of him
to do that, for he throws the water into
the bargain. Ah, my friends, there is
but one standard of the everlastingly
right and the everlastingly wrong, aad
that is the Bible, and when that prin
ciple shall get its pry uuder our com
mercial houses, 1 believe that one-half
of them will go over. The ruin will
begin at one end of the street, and it
will be crash! crash! crash! all the
way down to the docks. What is the
matter? Has there been an unaccount
able panic? This is the secret: the
Lord God has set up his throne of
judgment in the exchange. He has
summoned the righteous am? the wicked
to come before him. What was 1837?
A day of judgment. What was 1857?
A day of judgment, What was 1863?
A day of judgment. Do you thiuk
that God is going to wait until he has
burned the world up before he rights
these wrongs? I tell you nay. Every
day is a day of judgment. The fraud
ulent man piles up his gains, bond
above bond, United States security
above United States security, emolu
ment above emolument, until his prop
erty has become a great pyramid, and
as be stands looking at it, he thinks it
can never be destroyed, bnt the Lord
God has come, and with his little fin
ger pushes it all over.
You build a house, and you put in a
rotten beam. A mechanic standing by
says: “It will never do to pnt that
beam in; it will ruin your whole build
ing.” But you put it in. The house
is completed. Soon it begins to rock.
Yon call in the mechanic and ask:
“What is the matter with this door?
What is the matter with this wall?
Everything seems to be giving out.”
Says the mechanic: “You put a rotten
beam into that structure, and the
whole thing has got to come down.”
Here is an estate that seems to be all
right now It has been building a
great many years. But fifteen years
ago there was a dishonest transaction
in that commercial house.
THAT ONE DISHONEST TRANSACTION
will keep on working ruin in the whole
structure, until down the estate will
come in wreck and ruin about the pos
sessors ears—one dishonest • dol
lar in the estate demolishing all his.
possessions. I have seen it again and
again and again and so have you.—
Here is your money safe. The manu
facturer and yourself only know how
it can be opened. Yin have the key.
Yon tonch the lock and the ponderous*
door swings back. Let me tell you
that however firmly bolted and barred
your monsy safe may be yon cannot
keep God out.. He will come some
day into your counting room and he
will demand “Where did that note of
hand come from?” How do yon ac
count for this security? Where did
you get that mortgage from? What
does this mean? If it is all right, God
will say; Well done good and faithful
servant, Be prosperous in this world.
Be happy in the world to come. If it
is all wrong he will say: Depart ye
cursed, be miserable for your iuiquties
in this life and then go down and spend
your eternity with thieves and horse
jockeys and pickpockets. Y’ou have
an old photograph of the signs of your
street. Why havo those signs nearly
all changed within the last twenty
years? Does the passing away of a
generation account for it? Oh, no.
Does the fact there are hundreds of
honeßt men who go down every year
account for it? Oh, no. This is the
secret. The Lord God has been walk
ing through Wall street, Broadway,
Water street, Fulton Street and At
lantic street, and he has been adjust
ing things according to the princi
ples of eternal rectitude. The time
will come when through the revolu
tionary power of this gospel a false
hood, instead of being called exagger
ation or evasion, will be branded a lie,
and stealings that now sometimes go
under the head of percentages, com
mission and bonuses, will be put in
the catalogue of State prison offenses.
Society will be turned inside out and
upside down, and ransacked of God’s
truth until business dishonesties shall
come to an end and all double dealing,
and God will overturn, and overturn
and overturn; and commercial men in
all circles will throw up their hands,
crying out, “These that have turned
the world upside down aro come hith
er.”
The religion of Jesus Christ will
produce a revolution in our churches.
The non-committal; do nothing poliev
of th Church of God will give way to
a spirit of bravest conquest. Piety in
this day.
SEEMS TO ME TO BE SALTED DOWN
just so as to keep. It seems as if the
church were chiefly anxious to take
care of itself; and if we hear of want
and squafi>r and heathenism outside
wessat“y t “ What a pity;” and we put
our hands in our pockets and we feel
around for a two-cent piece and with a
great flourish we pnt it upon the plate
and are amazed that the world is not
converted in six weeks. Suppose there
was a great war and there were 80<*,-
000 soldiers, but all of those soldiers,
excepting ten men, were in their tents
or scouring their muskets or cooking
rations. You would say, “of course
defeat must come in that case.” It is
worse than that in the church. Mill
ions ot the professed soldiers of Jesus
Christ ar cooking rations or asleep in
their tents, while only one man here
and there goes out to do battle for the
Lord. “But,” says someone, we are
establishing a great many missions
and I think they will save the masses.”
No; they will not. Five hundred thou
sand of them will not do it. They are
doing a magnificent work, but every
mission chapel is a coufession of the
disease aud weakness of the church. It
is making a dividing line between the
classes. It is saying to the rich and
the well-conditioned: “If you can pay
your pew rents, come to the main au
dience room.” It is saying to the
poor man: “Your coat is too bad and
your sh es are not good enough. If
you want to get into heaven you will
have to go by way of the mission chap
el.” The mission chapel has become
a kitchen where the clihrch does its
sloppy work. Hundreds and thous
ands of churches in this country —gor-
geously built and supported —that even
ou bright and sunshiny days are not
half full of worshippers, and yet they
are building mission chapels because
of some expressed or implied regula
tion the great masses of the people are
kept out of the main audience room.
Now, I say that any place of worship
which is appropriate for one class is
appropriate for all classes. Let the
rich and the poor meet together, the
Lord the maker of them all. Mind
you. I say that mission chapels are
a necessity, the way churches are now
conducted, but may God speed the
time when they shall cease to be a ne
cessity. God will rise up and break
down the gates of the churches that
havo kept back the masses, and woe
he to those who stand in the way!—
They will be t.ampled under foot by
the vast population making a stam
pede for heaven. I saw in some paper
an account of a church in Boston in
which it is said there were
A GREAT MANY PLAIN PEOPLE.
The next week the trustees of that
church came out in the paper and said
it was not so at all; they were “elegant
people and high conditioned people
that went there.” Then I langh very
loudly. Those people, I said are afraid
of the sickly sentimentality of the
■churches. Now my ambition is not
to preach to you so much. You have
good things in this life. Whatever
may be your future destiny, jou have
had a pleasant time here. But those
dying populations of which I speak,
by reason of their want and suffering,
whatever may be their future destiny,
are in perdition now; and if there be
any comfort in Christ’s gOßpel, for
God’s sake, give it to them!
Revolution! The pride of the church
must come down. The exclusiveness
of the church must comedown! The
financial boasting of the church must
come down! If monetary success wer
•he chief idea in church, then I say
1 that the present mode of conducting
finances is the best. If it is to see
how many dollars you can gain, then
the present rnodo is the best. But il
it is the saving of souls from sin and
death aud bringing the mighty popu
lation of our cities to the knowledge ot
God, then I cry revolution! It is com
ing fast. I feel it iu the air. I hear
the rumbling of an earthquake that
shall shake down in one terrific crash
the arrogance of our modern Christian
ity. The talk is whether Protestant
churches or Roman Catholic churches
are coming out ahead. I tell you, Pro
testants, tho truth plainly; that until
your churches are as free as are the
Roman Catholic cathedrals they will
beat you. Iu their cathedrals the mill
ionaire aud the beggar kneel side by
side, and uutil that time comes in out
churches we canuot expect the favor ot
God for perinaueut spiritual prosperi
ty. It may be that before the church
learns its duty to the masses God will
scourge it and will come with the whip
of omnipotent indignation and drive
out the money changers. It may he that
there is to be a great day of upsetting
before that time shall come. If it must
come, O Lord God, let it Cvine now!
In that future day of
THE RECONSTRUCTED CHURCH OF CIIRIsT
the church building will be the most
ct eerful of all buildings. Instead oi
the light of the sun strained through
painted glass until an intelligent andi
tory looks green, blue, yellow aud cop
per-colored, we will have no such
things. The pure atmosphere of heav
en-will-sweep out the fetid atmosphere
that has been kept in many of out
churches boxed up from Sunday to
Sunday. The day of which I speak
will be a day of great revivals. There
will be such a time as there was in
the parish of Shotts, where 500 soul
were born to God in one day; such
times as were seen in this country when
Edwards gave alarm, when Tennent
preached and Whitefield thundered,
and Edward Payson prayed; such
times as some of you remember in 1857
when tho voice of prayer and praise
tvas heard in theater and warehouse
and blacksmith shop and factory and
engine-house, and the auctioneer’s cry
of “a half and a half and a hall” wa
drowned out by the adjoining prayer
meeting,in which the people cried out:
“Men an ! brethren, what shall we did”
In those days nf which I am speak
ing the services of the Church of God
will be mo-e spirited, the ministers ot
Christ instead of being anxious about
whether they shall lose their place in
the notes, will get on fire with the theme
and pour
THE WVINtJ TRUTH OF GOD
upon an aroused auditory, crying oui
to til* righteouH, “It shall he weli with
you,” and to the wicked, “Woe, ii
shall be ill with you!” Iu those day
the singing will be different from what
it is now. The music will weep and
wail and chant and triumph. Peopb
then will not be afraid to open the!>
mouths when they sing. The man
withacrackid voice will risk it on
Wyndham and Ortonville and Old
Hundred. Grandfather will find the
place for his grandchildren in the
hymn-hook or the little child will hi
spectacles for the grandfather. Hosann i
will meet hosanua and together go
climbing to the throne, and the angel
will hear and God will listen and the
gates of heaven will hoist and it wiil
be as when two seas meet, the wave id
earthly song mingling with the snrg
ing anthems of the free. May God let
me live to see that day. Let there be
no power in disease or accident or wavt
of the sea to disappoint tny expecta
tions. Let all other sight fail my eyes
rather than that I should miss that vis
ion. Let all other sounds fail my ears,
rather than that I should fail to heat
that sound. I waut to stand on the
mountain top to catch the first ray ol
the dawn, and with flying feet bring
the news to this people. And oh, whet,
we hear the clattering hoofs that bring
on the King’s chariot, may we all be
ready with arches sprung and with
hand on the rope of the bell that is to
sound the victory, and with wreaths all
twisted for the way, and when Jestis
dismounts, let it be amidst the httzzah.
huzzah! of a world redeemed. Where
and when shall that revolt tion begin?
Here and now, in your heart and
mine, sin must go down. Our pride
must go down. Our worldliness must
go down that Christ may come up.
Revolution! “Except a man be born
again he can not see the kingdom of
God.” Why not let the revolution be
gin? Not next Sabbath, but now.
Not to-morrow, when you go out into
commercial circles, but now. Archias,
the magistiate of Thebes, was sit
ting with many mighty men drinking
wine. A messenger came in bringing
him a letter, informing him of a con
spiracy against his life and warning
him to flee. Archias took the letter,
but, instead of opening it, put it into
his pocket, and said to the messenger
who brought it: “Business to-morrow.”
The next day he died. Before he open
ed the letter the government was cap
tured. When he read the letter it was
too late. I put into the hand of every
man and woman here a message of life.
It says: “To-day, if ye will hear His
voice; harden not your hearts.” Do
not put away the message and sav:
“This business to-morrow.” This
night thy soul may be required of thee.
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A CURIOUS SERMON.
(The following old sermon is said
to have been actually preached many
vears since iu the parish church of
Barston, Norfolk. It was printed in
/Vie British Magazine, for November,
1750. Most of the names mentioned
now stand in the parish registers, and
the family’ names still exist in the
neighborhood:)
“Fight the good fight.”—l Tim. vi. 12.
Beloved, wa are met together to sol
emuize the fuueral of Mr. Proctor.
Ills father’s name was Mr. Thomas
Proctor. He lived some time at Burs
un Hall, iu Norfolk, and was high
constable ol Diss hundred. This man’s
name was Mr. Robert Proctor; and his
wile’s was Mrs. Bnxtou, late wife of
Mr. Matthew Buxton. She came from
tlelsdoii Hall, beyond Norwich. He
was a good husband, and she a good
housewife; and they two made money;
she brought a thousand pounds with
ner for her portion.
But now, beloved, I shall make it
clear by demoustative arguments, first,
he was a good man, ami that in several
respects. He was a loving man to his
neighbors, acharitable man to the pool,
a favorable man iu his tithes, and a
good landlord to his tenants. There
-its one, Mr. Spurgen, can tell how
great a sum he forgave him on his death
oed; it was fourscore pounds. Now,
oeioved, was tint this a good man, aud
a man of God, think you? atnf his wife
a good woman? and she comes fr-mi
Helsdon Hall, beyond Norwich. This
is the first argument.
Secondly, to prove this man to be a
good man; in the time of his sickness,
which was long and tedious, lie seut
for Mr. Cole to pray for him. He was
uot a self ended man, to be prayed for
himself only; no, beloved, he desired
Mr. Cole to pray for all his neighbors
aud acquaintances; for Mr. Buxton’s
worship, and Mrs. Buxton, and for Mr.
Buxton’s children against it should
please God to send him anv; and to
Mr Cole’s prayers he devoutly said
"Amen.” Now, beloved, was this not
a good man, and a man of God, think
you? and his wife a good woman? and
-lie came from Helsdop Hall, beyond
Norwich. This is the second argument.
Thirdly, I come to a clear demon
strative argument to prove this to be a
good man. There was one Thomas
Proctor a very poor beggar boy; ho
came into this country on a dun cow;
it was a dun cow. Well, this poor
boy came a begging to this good man’s
door. He did not do as some would
have done, give him a small alms and
send him away, or chide him, ami make
him a pass and send him into his own
country; no, beloved, he took him into
his own house, and afterwards bound
mu apprentice to a gun-smith. Alter
his time was out, he took him home
again, and married him to a kinswo
man of liis wife’s—Mrs. Christian
Rohertsnn—there she sits; and to her
his good man gave a considerable
jointure. By her he had tliiee daugh
ters; and this good man took home the
eldest, brought her up to woman’s es
tate, and married her to a very honora
ble gentleman, Mr. Buxton, there he
sits. Now, beloved was not this a
toad man, and a man of God, think
von? and his wife a good woman? and
she came from Helsdon Hall, beyond
Norwich.
Beloved, you may remember some
time since. I preached at the funeral of
Mrs. Proctor; at which time 1 troubled
V*u with many of her transcendent\ir
’ues; hut your memories tuay fail you,
therefore! shall now remind you of
me or two of them.
Tne first is, she was as good a knit
ter as any in the county of Norfolk.—
When her husband and family were in
bed and asleep, she would get a cush
ion clap herself down by the fire and
-it. and knit, but, beloved, be assured
she was no prodigal woman, but a spar
ing woman; for to spare candle, she
would stir tip the fiiewith her knitting
oinx, and by that light would sit and
knit, and make as good work as many
others by daylight. Beloved, I have a
nair of stockings on mv legs that were
knit in the same manner, and they are
the best stockings that I ever wore in
my life.
Secondly. She was the best maker
of toast in drink that ever I eat in my
life, and they were brown toasts, too.
When I used to go in a morning, she
would ask me to eat a toast, which I
was always very willing to do, for she
had such an artificial way of toasting
it, by no means slack, nor burning—
besides, she had such a pretty way of
getting nutmeg and dipping it in the
heer; and such a piece of rare cheese,
that I must say that they were the best
toasts that ever I eat in my life.
Well, beloved, the days are short,
and many of you have a long way to
go; T must, therefore, conclude. —Odds
and Ends.
Washington, D. C., May loth, 1880.
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