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THE SUNNY SOUTH
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TABERNACLE SERMONS.
BY
BBT. T. DEWITT TiLMlCE
THE GREAT BROOKLYN TABERNACLE,
NEW YORK.
THE APOSTOLIC GOOD-BYE.
“The Time of My Departure is at
Hand.”
Brooklyn, July 27.—In hie sermon on
•‘Apostolic Good-bye,” Dr. TalmBge’s text
“I am now ready to be offered, and the time of
my departure is at hand.’*—II. Tim., iv,b.
Dr. Talmage said: The way ont of this
world is so blocked np with ctffin and
hearse, and undertaker's spade and screw
driver, that the Christian can hardly think
as he onght of the more cheerful passage in
all his history. We hang black instead of
white over the place where the good man
gets his last victory. We stand weeping
over a heap of chains which the freed soul
has shaken off, and we say: “Poor man
What a piry it was he had to come to this 1”
Come to what? By the time the people
have assembled at the obsequies, that man
has been three days so happy that all the
joy of earth accumulated would be wretch
edness beside it, and he might better weep
over you because you have to stay than you
weep over him because he has to go. It is a
fortunate thing that a good man does not
have to wait to see his own obsequies; they
would be so discordant with his own expe
rience. If the Israelites should go back to
Egypt and mourn over the brick-kilns they
once left, they would not be any more silly
than that Christian who should forsake
heaven and come down and mourn because
he had to leave this world. Our ideas of
the Christian’s death are morbid and sick
ly. We look upon it as a dark hole in which
a man stumbles when his breath gives out.
This whole subject is odorous with varnish
and disinfectants, instead of being sweet
with mignonette. Paul in my text takes
that great clod of a word, “death,” and
throws it away, and speaks of his departure
—a beautiful, bright, suggestive word, de
scriptive of every Christian’s release.
Now, departure implies a starling place,
and a place of destination. When Paul left
this world, what was the starting point? It
was a scene of great physical distress. It
was the Tullianum, the lower dung on of
the Mamertine prison. The top dungeon
was bad enough, it having no means of in-
gresB or egress but through an opening in
the top. Through that the prisoner was
lowered, and through that came all the food
and light and air reoeived. It was a terri
ble place, that upper dungeon; but the Tul-
lianum was the lower dungeon, and that
was still more wretched, the only light and
the only %ir coming through the roof, and
that roof the floor of the upper dungeon.
That was Paul’s last earthly residence, it
was a dungeon just six feet and a half high.
It was a doleful place. It had the chill of
long oenturies of dampness. It was filthy
with the long incarcerations of miserable
wretches.
It was there that Paul spent his last days
on earth; and it is there that I see him in
the fearful dungeon, shivering blue with the
cold, waiting for that old overcoat which he
had sent for up to Troas, and which they
had not yet sent down, notwithstanding he
had written for it.
If some skjllful surgeon should go into
that dungeon where Paul is incarcerated,
we might find out what are the prospects of
Paul’s living through the rough imprison
ment. In the first place, he is an old man,
only two years short of 70. At that very
time when be most needs the warmth and
the sunlight and the fresh air, be is shut out
from the sun. What are those soars on his
ankles? Why, those were gotten when he
was fast, his feet in the stooks. Every time
he turned the flesh on his ankles started.
What are those soars on his back? You
know be waB whipped five times, eaoh time
getting 39 strokes—195 bruises on tbo back
(oount them!)—made by the Jews with rods
of elmwood, eaoh one of the 195 strokes
bringing the blood. Look at Paul’s faoe
and look at his arms. _ Where d d he get
those bruises? I think it was when he was
struggling ashore amidst the shivered tim
bers of the shipwreck. I see a gash in
Paul’s side. Where did he get that? I think
he got that in the tussle with highwaymen,
for he had been in peril of robbers, and he
had money of his own. He was a mechanic
as well as an apostle, and I think the tents
he made were as good as his sermons.
There was a wanness about Paul’s looks.
What makes that ? I think a part of that
oame from the faot that he was twenty four
hours on a plank in the Mediterranean Sea,
suffering terribly, before he was rescued;
for he says positively: “I was a night and
a day in the deep.” Oh, worn-out, emaciated
old man, surely you must be melanoholy;
no constitution could endure this and be
cheerful. But I press my way through the
prison until I come up to where he is, and
by the faint light that strreams through the
opening I see on his faoe a supernatural
joy, and I bow before him and say: “Aged
man, how can you keep cheerful amidst all
this gloom ?” His voice startles the dark
ness of the place as he cries out: “I am now
ready to be offered, and the time ot my de
parture is at hand.” Hark 1 What is that
shuffling of feet in the upper dungeon ?
Wtiy, Paul has an invitation to a barquet,
and he is goiog to dine with the King.
Those shuffling feet are the feet of the exe
cutioners. They come and they cry through
the hole of the dunge n: “Hurry up. old
man. Come, now; get ready.” Why, Paul
was ready. He had nothing to pack up. He
had no baggage to take. He had been ready
a good while. I see him rising up and
straightening out his stiffened limbs and
pushing baok his white hair from his crev
iced forehead, and see him looking up
through the hole in the roof of the dungeon
into the face of his executioner, and hear
him say: “I am now ready to be offered, and
the time of my departure is at hand.” Then
they lift him out of the dungeon, and they
start with him to the place t.f execution.
They say: “Hurry along, old man, or you
will feel the weight of our spear; hurry
along.” “How far is it,” says Paul, “we
have to travel ?” “Three miles.” Three
miles is a good way for an old man to
travel, after he has been whipped and crip
pled with maltreatment. But they soon get
to the place of execution—Aquas Salvias—
and he is fastened to the pillar of martyr
dom. It does not take any strength to tie
him fast. He makes no resistance. 0,Paul,
why not now strike for your life? You
have a great many friends here. With that
withered band just launch the thunderbolt
of the people upon those infamous soldiers.
No; Paul was not going to interfere with
his own ooronation. He was too glad to go.
I see him looking up in the faoe of his exe
cutioner, and as the grim official draws the
sword Paul calmly says: “i am now ready
to be offered, and the time of my departure
is at hand.” But I put my hand over my
eyes. I want not to see that last struggle.
One sharp, keen stroke, and Paul goes to
the banquet, and Paul does dine with the
King.
What a transition it was! From the ma
laria of Rome to the finest climate in ail
the universe—the zone of eternal beauty
and health. His ashes were put in the cata
combs of Rome, but in one moment the air
of heaven bathed from his soul the last
ache. From Bhipwreck, from dungeon,
from the biting pain of the elmwood rods,
from the sharp sword of the beadsman he
goes into the most brilliant assemblage of
heaven, a King among kings, multitudes of
the saintho d rushing out and stretohing
forth hands of welcome; for I do really
h ink that as on the right hand of God is
Christ, so on the right hand of Christ is
Paul, the second great in heaven.
He ohanged kings likewise. Before the
hour of death and up to the last moment
he was under Nero, the thick-necked, the
cruel-eyed, the filthy lipped; the sculptured
features of that man bringing down to us
to this very day the horrible possibilities of
his nature—seated as he was amidst pictured
marbles of Egypt, under a roof adorned
with mother cf pearl, in a dining-room
which by machinery was kept whirling day
and night with most bewitching magnifi
cence; his horses standing in stalls of Bolid
gold, and the ground around his palace
lighted at night by ite. victims, who bad been
bedaubed with tar and pitch and then set
on fire to illumine the darkness. That was
Paul’s King. But the next moment he goes
into the realm of Him whose reign is love,
and whose oourts are paved with love, and
whose throne is set on pillars of love, and
whose sceptre is adorned with jewels of love,
and whose palace is lighted with love, and
whose lifetime is an eternity of love. When
he was leaving so much on this side the pillar
of martyrdom to gain so much on the other
side, do you wonder at the cheerfui valedic
tory of the text: “The time of my departure
is at hand!”
Now, why oan not all old people have the
same holy glee as that aged man had?
Charles!.; when he was oombing his head,
found a gray hair, and he sent it to the
Queen as a great joke; but old age is really
no joke at all. For the last forty years you
have been dreading that which ought to
have been an exhilaration. You say yon
most fear the struggle at the moment the
soul and body parts. But millions have en
dured that moment, and why may not we as
well? They got through with it, and so can
we. Besides this, all medical men agree in
saying that there is probably no struggle at
all in the last moment--not so much pain
as the prick of a pin, the se ming signs of
distress being altogether involuntary. But
you say “it is the uncertainly of the future.”
Now, child of God, do not play the infidel.
After God has filled the Bible till it can bold
no more with stories of the good things
ahead, better not talk about uncertainties.
But to Bay, “I cannot bear to think of
parting with friends here.” If you are old
you have more friends in heaven than here
Just take the census. Take some large sheet
of paper and begin to record the names of
those who have emigrated to the other shore;
the companions of your school days, your
easly business associates, the frieods of mid
life and those who more recently went away
Can it be that they have been gone so long
you do not care any more about them and
you do not want their society? Oh, no,
there have been days when you felt that you
could not endure it another moment away
from their blessed oompanionship. They
have gone. You say you would not like to
bring them back to this world of trouble,
even if yon had the power. It would not do
to trust you. God would not give y.ou res
urrection power. Before one day had passed
you would be rattling at the gates of the
oemetery, crying to the departed “come
baok to the cradle where you slept! Come
baok to the hall where you used to play
Come back to the table where you nsed to
sit!” and there would be a great burglary in
heaven. No, no, God will not trust y ou with
resurrection power; but He compromises
the matter and says: “You oannot bring
them where you are, but you oan go where
they are.” They are more lovely now than
ever. Were they beautiful here, they are
more beautiful there.
Besides that, it is more healthy there for
you than here, aged man. Better climate
there than these hot summers and cold
winters and late springs; better hearing;
better eyesight; more tonic in the air; more
perfume in the bloom; more sweetness in
the song. Do yon not feel, aged man, some
times as though you would like to get your
arm and foot free? Do you not feel as
though yon would like to throw away spec
tacles and canes and crutches? Would you
not like to feel the spiing and elasticity and
mirth of an eternal boyhood? When the
point at which you start from this world is
old age and the point to which you go is
eternal juvenesoenoe, aged man, clap your
hands at the anticipation and say, in per
fect rapture of soul, “the time of my de
parture is at hand.”
I remark again, all those ought to feel
this joy of the text who have a holy curios
ity to know what is beyond this earthly ter
minus. And who has not any curiosity about
it? Paul, I suppose, had the most satisfao
tory view of heaven, and he says; “It doth
not yet appear what we shall be.” It is like
looking through a broken telescope: “Now
we see through a glass darkly.” Can you
tell me anything about that heavenly place?
You ask me a thousand questions about it
that I oannot answer. I ask you a thousand
questions about it that you oannot answer.
And do you wonder that Paul was so glad
when martyrdom gave him a ohance to go
over and make discoveries in that blessed
country?
I hope some day, by the grace of God to
go over and see for myself; but not now.
No well man, no prosperous man, I think,
wants to go now. But the time will come, I
think, when I shall go over. I want to see
what they do there, and f want to see how
they do it. I do not want to be looking
through the gates ajar forever. I want them
to swing wide open. There are ten thousand
things I want explained—about you, about
mveelf, about the government of this world,
about God, about everything. We start in a
plain path of what we know and in a minute
come up against a high wall of what we do
not know. I wonder how it looks over there.
Somebody tells me it like a paved city,
paved with gold; and another man tells me
it is like a fountain, and it is like a tree, and
it is like a triumphal procession; and the
next man I meet tells me it is all figurative.
I really want to know, after the body is ros-
surreoted what they wear and what they eat,
and I have an unmeasurable curiosity to
know what it is, and how it is, and where it
is. Columbus risked his life to find this
continent, and shall we shudder to go out on
a voyage of discovery which shall reveal a
vaster and more brilliant country? John
Franklin risked his life to find a passage
between icebergs, and shall we dread to find
a passage to eternal summer? Men in
Switzerland travel up the heights of the
Mattehorn with alpenstock and guides and
rockets and ropes, and getting half-way up
stumble and fall down in a horrible maasa-
ore. They just wanted to say they had been
on the tops of those high peaks, And shall
we fear to go out for the ascent of the east
ern hills, which start a thousand miles be
yond where tops the highest peaks of the
Alps, and when in that ascent there is no
peril? A man doomed to die stepped on the
scaffold and said, in joy, “Now in ten min
utes I will know the great secret” Oue
minute after the vital functions oeases the
little ohild that dies knows more than Jona
than E i wards or St Paul himself before he
died. Friends, the exit from this world, or
death if you please to call it, to the Christian
is glorious explanation. It is demonstra
tion. It is illumination. It is sunburst It
is the opening of all the windows, it is
shutting no the oatechism of doubt and the
unrolling of all the scrolls of positive and
accurate information. Instead of standing
at the foot of the ladder and looking up, it
is standing at the top of the ladder and look
ing down. It is the laet mystery taken out
of botany and geology and astronomy and
theology. Oh, will it not be grand to have
all questions answered? The perpetually re
curring interrogation point ohanged for the
mark of exclamation, it no will fear to go
out on that discovery when all the questions
are to be deoided which we have been dis
cussing all our lives ? Who shall not clBp
his bands in the anticipation of that blessed
country, if it be no better than through holy
curiosity, crying: “ The time of my depart
ure is at hand ?”
I remark again, we ought to have the joy
of the text, because, leaving this world, we
move into the best society of the universe.
You see a great orowd of people in some
street, and y ou Bay: “Who is passing there ?
What general, what prinoe, is going up
there?” Well, I see a great throng in
heaven. I say: “Who is the focus of all
that admiration ? Who is the oenter of that
glittering company ?” It is Jesus, the cham
pion of all worlds, the favorite of si' ages.
Do you know wbat is the first question the
soul will ask when it comes through the
gate of heaven ? I think the first question
will be: “Where is Jesus, the Savior that
pardoned my sins, that carried my sorrows,
that fought my battles, that won my victo
ries ?” O, radiant One, bow I would like to
see Thee, Thou of the manger, but without
its humiliations; Thou of the cross, but
without its pangs; Thou -of the grave, but
without its darkness!
The Bible intimates that we will talk with
Jesus in heaven just as a brother talks with
a brother. Now, what will you ask Him
first? I don’t know. I oan think whst I
would ask Paul first if I saw him in heaven.
I think I would like to hear him desonbe
the storm that came upon the ship when
there were 275 souls on the vessel, Paul be
ing the only man or board cool enough to
describe the storm. There is a fascination
about a ship and the sea that I never shall
get over, and I think I would like to bear
him talk about that first. But when I meet
my Lord Jesus Christ, of what shall I first
delight to hear Bim speak? Now I think
wbat it is. I shall first want to hear the
tragedy of His last hours. And then Luke’s
account of the crucifixion, end Mark’s ac
count of the crucifixion, and John’s account
of the crucifixion will be nothing, while
from the living lips of Christ the story shall
be told of the glocm that fell, and the devils
that arose, and the faot that upon His en
durance depended the rescue of a race; and
there was darkness in the sky and there was
darkness in the soul, and the pain became
more sharp and the burdens became more
heavy, until the mob began to swim away
from the dying vision of Christ, and the
cursing of the mob came to His ear more
faintly, and His hands were fastened to the
horizontal piece of the cross and His feet to
the perpendicular piece of the cross, and
His head fell forward in a swoon as He ut
tered the last moan and cried: “It is fin
ished I” All heaven will stop to listen rptil
it was called “The Two Roses,” and was
originally published in the Crusader, a lit
erary paper published by Col. John Seals
during the war. She wrote a serial story
for the /Detroit Free Fresscalled (I t hink)
“Darlingtonia.” She had only one sister—
Mrs. Lide Merriwether, now living in Mem
phis. Mrs. Merriwether is herself a very
graceful writer. She has lately gotten out a
volume of her own and her sister’s poems.
Mrs. French had two daughters, both of
whom have published poems and sketches.
One of these is very happily married and
lives in a beautiful home near Nashville.
Her sister, Miss May, a charming and very
versatile girl, lives with* her. They spent
part of last winter in Florida and at Thom-
bsville, Ga.
Mallie, of Louisville, Ky., asks: “Where
can I obtain sale for my designs for em
broidery, muslin printing, eta?”
Mallie writes a long letter, in the course of
which she asks: “Who is the best lady ar
tist in America?” One of the beet and most
successful is the lady to whom we would ad
vise you to send your designs for embroid
ery—Miss Rosina Emmett of New York. She
is the artist who first came prominently in
to notice only a few years ago through hav
ing won Prang’s thousand dollar prize for
the best Christmas card. She is now co-op
erating with Mrs. Candace Wheeler and Miss
Dora Wheeler in a society called the “Asso
ciated Artists.” They receive and pay for
all really good designs from artists, and em
ploy workwomen to reproduce these in va
rious kinds of embroidery.
E. M. Ni yr, of Cullcden, sbjb: “We are
again treaitd to the splendid spectacle ot
red sunsets, not so vivid however, as those
°* * 88t saniIner an d f a H» which were said to
the story is done, and every harp'wTJf be' have been caused by the earthquake—at
THE FIRST ELECTRIC RAILROAD.
Cleveland, Ohio, Leads the Way with
Street Cara Ron by Electricity.
Cleveland, Ohio,'July 27.—The first elec-
trio railroad for public use in America went
into operation in this city yesterday in con
nection with the East Cleveland Street Rail
road Company, who have just completed a
mile of eleotrio road. The experiment was
so successful that the company expect to
change their entire system, comprising over
twenty miles, into eleotrio road. The sys
tem u«ed was a combination of the British
and Knight and Bentley systems, and the
current was carried on underground conduc
tors laid in conduits like those of the oable
roads. The cars were started, stopped and
reversed with the greatest ease. Any Dum
ber of oars up to fifteen oan be run at a time
on a single oirouit and from one machine,
which is a result not attained by any of the
European systems now in operation.
WESLEYAN
FEMALE INSTITUTE,
STAUNTON, VIRGINIA.
put down, and every lip closed, and all eyes
fixed npon the Divine Narrator nntil the
story is done; and then, at the tap of the
baton, the eternal orchestra will ronse up;
lit ger on string of harp and lips to the
mouth of trumpet, there shall roll forth the
oratorio of the Messiah, “Worthy is the
lamb that was slam to receive blessings And
riches and glory and power, world witbunt
end!”
‘What He endured, oh, who can telL
To save our souls from dtai h aod hell!”
When there was between Paul and tost
magnificent personage only the thinnest of
the sharp edge of the sword of the extcu-
tioner, do yon wonder that he wanted toigo?
0, my Lord Jesus, let one wave of that gjory
roll over ns. Hark! I hear the wedding
bells of heaven ringing. -The marriage of
the Lamb has come and the bride kith
made herself ready.
CORRESPONDENTS’ COLUMN.
Acton, Maoon, Ga., apks: Who is the pres
ent owner of btone Mountain, and is i( true
that it was once sold for a yoke of oxet ? Is
its origin voloanio? What is the nature of
its rocks?
Stone Mountain is now owned by a com
pany, and is extremely valuable as an icex
haustible stone quarry. It is said to have
been sold by its original owner for a mule
and a shotgun with a one-eyed dog thrown
in by way of ohromo. It is not volcano in
its orgin, or at least its rooks indicate no
suoh origin. Dr. Means thought the foun
tain was a vast hollow stone bubble made
during the liquesoent state of the earth.
The rocks are mostly pare granite. " "
Marion, Charlotte, N. 0., asks: What is
the pronunciation of the word “either?” 1
have been corrected in pronouncing it
eether very peremptorily and told mat it
must be called ey!her. V‘-V*40“"'
Both ways of pronouncing it are ifi use,
Java—wasn’t it ? We talked about it last
evening on the balcony, and none of us re
membered the details. Would you kindly
refresh our memories, and give the details
that make it probable the red suueets were
in consequence of the earthquake ?”
The convulsion you allude to was the
eruption of the volcano Krakatoa. It is sit
uated on an island eqnally distant from Java
and Sumatra, about five miles in length and
three miles in breadth. On it were volcanic
peaks and cones, the tallest 2750 feet above
the S' a. There are several small islands
near, all of volcanic origin; but the volca
noes had boen extinct since 1681. On the
20th of May there seemed to be some troub
le underground, and on the 21st smok6 is
sued from Krakatoa. It grew more active
until the 26th of August, when violent ex
plosions were heard as far as Batavia, and
high waves rolled upon both sides of the
straits, indicating an upheaval of the ocean
bed. Between 5 and 7 o’clock a. m. on the
27th, occurred an explosion heard in the
Audoman Islands and in India, followed by
an immense tidal wave, which overwhelmed
th6 coast and caused frightful destruction
of life. The material thrown ont covered
the whole western end of Java and thesonth
of Sumatra for hundreds of square miles,
with a fall of impenetrable darkness. Be
tween 10 and 12 o’clock of the same mor
ning, occurred the greatest explosion known
to mm. it spread consternation for 1500
miles in every direction. It was as though
an explo-ion had occurred in St. Louis aud
had been heard in San Francisco, Nova
Scotia, Cuba, Hayti and the oity of Mexioo.
One end of Krakatoa was blown ont of
the sea, and shot northward for eight miles
and dropped into the sea, forming a new
island, on the 26th of Angust; and the next
day the larger part of Krakatoa was parted
throngh the air over Lang Island, seven
miles to the northeast, forming another
island, and leaving a hole into which the
pea water poured 1,000 feet deep. It was as
, though a mountain seven times as high as
Mobil vita and tr.ree milts in di&me-
though both Webster and Worcester prefer
the former. The latter is called the E lglish
pronunciation, and Anglomaniacs nmke
point of pronouncing the ey Very br adly,
but it has an affected sound.
Mallon, Albany, Ga., asks:' Why is si fish
erman called a disciple of' Izattk Wi .ton?
Who was the said Walton? /
The said Walton was an English gfiitle-
man who lived in the fifteenth centnri and
wrote sevei al books abont country lif<t the
most noted of which was the Complete
Angler, in which he records his piscatorial
knowledge so fully an^ freshly that his look
has survived and is still enjoyed.
Onie says: “Ple>-se explain the following
passage from Solomon, it has always puz
zled me: ‘Like a rich jewel in the snout if a
swine is a fair woman witbont discretion’ ”
Does it not mean that a fair but impu
dent woman loses her moral influence Did
her proper social standing by her indis
cretion, and is a thing to be looked on with
eadness and contemptuous pity ?
Martin, of Greenville, S. C., asks: “Who
is the author of the prbtty baby song begin
ning:
“ ‘What is the little one thinking about ?'" I
It was written by Dr. J. G. Holland.
Angela, Atlanta, says: “I have always
thought that Shelley wrote the ‘Prometheis
Unbound,’ but a professor from the State
University, Athens, Ga., told me it was writ,
ten by the Greek poet Et-chylns. Will you
tell me who Prometheus was supposed to
signify ? A11 those Greek fablee were sjin-
bolia”
Esohylas wrote the “Prometheus Un-
bound,” of which Shelley’s grand poem of
the same name is not a translation. Prome
theus is Satan, the ambitions, rebellious
spirit, ooeval with Jove or God, and intfinl!
on imitating His work. Prometheus is a
more magnanimous spirit than Milton’s Sa-
than, however, for he is simply ambitions
and prond, no f malignant.
Mrs. Kittie B., Clarkston, says: “Can you
tell me some simple way to eradicate corns,
ao that they will not return ?”
A lady friend, who has tried it with per
fect success, says that to paint the corns
with censtio for a few times will not only
take them away forever, bnt wiU also carry
away that dreadful nuisanoe, the bunion.
Monteith, asks: “Has not slavery been
abolished in Brazil long since ?”
It has not. It still exists. The govern
ment of Brazil has had the question of the
emancipation of slave' y in discussion for
many years, but it proposes to buy the slaves
from their masters, not to emancipate them
vi et armis as cur government saw fit to do.
A sufficient sum for the purchase has not yet
been raised. It is being gradually made up
by taxation.
May Carlton says, “I have just read a new
novel c.illed ‘Love’s Warfare,’ and it strikes
me 1 hbve read it before, though not under
that name. Can yon tell me anything abont
it? Please tell me if Mrs. Frenoh ever wrote
a novel, and what was the name of it?
Where are Mrs. Frenoh’s sisters and what
has beoome of her daughters? Is not Mrs.
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