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AT THE TABERNACLE Lessons Drawn From the Wedding Feast. The Many Excuses Men flake for Not Becoming Christians. Christianity Is a Great Help in Every . Proper Relation in Life. Brooklyn, April 16.—Rev. Dr. Talmage In his sermon in the Brooklyn Tabernacle this forenoon spread before the great audi ence in eloquent words the beauty and at tractiveness of the gospel feast, the text, chosen being from Luke xiv, IS. “And they all with one consent began to make excuse.” After the invitations to a levee are sent out the regrets come in. One man apolo gizes for nonattendance on one ground, an other on another ground. The most of the regrets are founded on prior engagements. 60 in my text a great banquet was spread, the invitations were circulated, and now the regrets come in. The one gives an agricultural reason, th ? other a stock dealer’s reason, the other a domestic reason—all poor reasons. The agricultural reason being that t he man had bought a farm and wanted to see it. Could he not see it the next day? The stock deal er’s reason being that he had bought five yoke of oxen and he wanted to go and prove them. He had no business to buy them until he knew what they were. Be sides that a man who can own five yoke of oxen can command bis own time. Besides that, he might have yoked two of them to gether and driven them on the way to the banquet, for locomot ion was not as rapid then as now. The man who gave the do mestic reason said he had got married. Me ought to have taken his wife with him. i The fact waa, they did not want, to go. “And they all with one consent began to make excuse.” So now God spreads a great banquet. It is the gospel feast, and the table reaches across the hemispheres, and the invitations go out, and multitudes come and si t down and drink out of the chal ices of God’s love, while other multitudes decline coming—the one giving this apolo gy and the other giving that apology. "And they all with one consent began to make excuse.” I propose this morning, so far as God may help me, to examine the apolo gies which men make for not entering the Christian life. RELIGION HAS MADE A RECORD. i Apology the First—l am not sure there is anything valuable in the Christian reli gion. It is pleaded that there are so many Impositions in this day—so many things that seem to be real are sham. A gilded outside may have a hollow inside. There is so much quackery in physics, in ethics, in politics, that men come to the habit of Incredulity, and after awhile they allow that incredulity to collide with our holy religion. But, my friends, I think religion hns "made a pretty good record in the world. How many wounds it has salved; how many pillars of fire it has lifted in the mid night wilderness; how many simoom struck Saharas it hath turned into the gardens of the Lord; how it hath stilled tbo chopped sea; what rosy light it hath sent streaming through the rift of the storm cloud wrack; what pools of cool water it hath gathered for thirsty Hagar and Ishmael; what man na whiter than coriander seed it hath dropped all around the camp of hardly be stead pilgrims; what promises it hath sent .nut like holy watchers to keep the lamps burping around deathbeds; through the darkness that lowers into the sepulcher, what flashes of resurrection moral Besides that this religion has made so many heroes. It brought Summerfield, the Methodist, across the Atlantic ocean with his silver trumpet to blow the acceptable year of the Lord until it seemed as if all our American cities would take the king dom of heaven by violence. It sent Jehudi Ashman into Africa alone, in a continent of naked barbarians, to lilt the standard of civilization anil Christianity. It made John Milton among poets, Raphael among paint ers, Christopher Wren among architects, Thorwaldsen among sculptors, Handel among musicians, Dupont among military commanders; and to give new wings to the imagination, and better balance to the judg ment, and more determination to the will, and greater usefulness to the life, and grander nobitity to the soul, there is noth ing in all the earth like our Christian reli gion. WERE THEY ALL DECEIVED’ Nothing in religion! Why, then, all those Christians were deceived, when in their dying moment they thought they saw the castles of the blessed, and your child, that with unutterable agony you put away into the grave, you will never see him again nor hear his sweet voice nor feel the throb of his young heart? There is noth ing in religion! Sickness will come upon you. Roll and turn on your pillow. No relief. The medicine may be bitter, the night may be'dark, the pain may be sharp. No relief. Christ never comes to the sick room. Let the pain stab. Let the fever burn. Curse it and die. There is nothing in religion! After awhile death will come. You will hear the pawing of the pale horse on the threshold. The spirit will be breaking away from the body, and it will take flight —whither, whither? There is no God, no ministering angels to conduct, no Christ, no heaven, no home. Nothing in religion! Oh, you are not willing to adopt such a dismal theory. And yet the world is full of skeptics. And let me say there is no class of people for whom I have a warmer sympathy than for skeptics. We do not know how to treat them. We deride them, we caricature them. We, instead of taking them by the soft hand of Christian love, clutch them with the iron pinchers of eccle- Biasticism. Oh, if you knew how those men had fall en away from Christianity and become skeptics you would not be so rough on them! Some were brought up in homes where religion was overdone. The most wretched day in the week was Sunday. Re ligion was driven into them with a trip hammer. They had a surfeit ofi-prayer meetings. They were stuffed and choked with catechisms. They were told by their parents that they were the worst children that ever.lived because they liked to ride down hili better than to read “Pilgrim’s Progress.” They never heard their parents talk of religion but with the comers of their mouths drawn down and the eyes rolled up. Others went into skepticism through maltreatment on the part of some who professed religion. There is a man who gays, “My partner in business was voluble ' in prayer meeting, and he was officious in all religious circles, but he cheated me out of ¥3,000, and I don’t want any of that re ligion.” THE PRIDE OP INTELLECT. There are others who got into skepticism by a natural persistence in asking ques tions —why or how? How can God be one being in three persons? They cannot un derstand it. Neither can I. How can God be a complete sovereign, and yet man a free agent? They cannot understand it. Neither can L They cannot understand why a holy God lets sin come into tne world. Neither can I. They say: “Mere.is 1 a great mystery. Mero is u uiscipieor ink. - ipn, frivolous and godless ull her days—sho lives ou to be an octogenarian. Here is a Christian mother training her children for God and for heaven, self sacrificing, Christ like, indispensable, seemingly, to that household—she takes the cancer and dies." The skeptic says, “I can’t explain that.” Neither can I. Oh. I can see how men reason themselves into skepticism. With burning feet I have | trod that blistering way. I know whnt it is to have 100 nights poured into one hour. There are men in this audience who would give their thousands of dollars if they could get back to the old religion of their fathers. Such men iv not to be cariea- I tured, but helped, and not through their heads, but through their hearts. When these men really docome into the kingdom of God. they will be worth far more to the cause of Christ than those who never ex amined the evidences of Christianity. Thomas Chalmers, ur.ee a skeptic; Robert Hall, once a skeptic; Christmas Evans, once a skeptic—but when they did lay hold of tho gospel chariot, how t hey made it speed ahead! If therefore I stand this morning before men and women who have drifted away into skepticism, I throw out no scoff; 1 rather implead you by the memory of those good old times when you knelt at your ! mother’s knee and said your evening pray -1 er and these other days of sickness when ■ she watched all night and gave you the | medicines at just the right timeand turned i tho pillow when it was hot, and with hand | long ago turned to dust soothed your pains, and with that voice you will never hear again, unless you join her in the better country, told you never mind—you would be better by and 1“ -and by that dying | couch where she talked so slowly, catching I her breath between tho words—by all those - memories I ask you to come and take the , same religion. It was good enough for her, it is good enough for you. Aye, I make a better plea; by the wounds and the death throe of the Son of God, who approaches you this morning with torn brow and lacerated hands and whipped back, crying, “Come unto me, all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and 1 will give you rest.” THE VICE OF ILL TEMPER. Other persons apologize for not entertain ing the Christian life la-cause of the incor | rigibility of their temper. Now, we admit ; it is harder for some people to become | Christians than for others, but the grace of i God never came toa mountain that it could not climb or to an abyss that it could not fathom or to a bondage that it could not . break. The wildest horse that ever trod Arabian sands has been broken to bit and trace. The maddest torrent tumbling from moun tain shelving has been harnessed to the millwheel and the factory band, setting a thousand shuttles all a-buzz and a-clatter, and the wildest, the haughtiest, the most ungovernable man ever created, by the grace of God may be subdued and sent out on ministry of kindness as God sends an August thunderstorm to water the wild flowers down in the grass. ( Good resolution, reformatory effort, will riot effect the change. It takes a mightier arm and a mightier hand to bend evil hab its than the hand that bent the bow of Ulysses, and it takes a stronger lasso than ever held the buffalo on the prairie. A man cannot go forth with any human weapons and contend successfully against these Titans armed with uptorn mountain. But you have known men into whose spirit the influence of t he-gospel of Christ came, until their disposition-was entirely changed. So it was with two merchants iu New York. They were very antagonistic. They had done all they could to injure each other. They were in the same lino of busi ness. One of the merchants was converted to God. Having been converted, he asked the Lord to teach him how- to bear himself toward that business antagonist, and he j was impressed with the fact that it was his ! duty when a customer asked for a certain kind of goods which he had not, but which he knew his opponent had, to recommend him to go to that store. I suppose that is about the hardest thing the man could do, but being thoroughly converted to God, he resolved to do that very thing, and being asked for a certain kind of goods which he had not, he said, “You go to such and such a store, and you w ill get it.” After awhile merchant No. 2 found these customers coming, so sent, and he found also that merchant No. 1 had been brought to God, and he sought the same religion. Now they are good friends and good neighbors, the grace of God entirely changing their disposition. “Oh,” says some one, “I have a rough, jagged, impetuous nature, and religion can’t do anything for me.” Do you know that Martin Luther anil Robert Newton and Richard Baxter were impetuous, all consuming natures, yet the grace of God turned them into the mightiest usefulness? Oh, how many who have been pugnacious and hard to please, and irascible and more bothered about the mote in their neighbor’s eye than about the beam like ship timber in their own eye, have been entirely changed by the grace of God and have found out that “godliness is profitable for the life that now is as well as for the life which is to come.” THE IMPETUOUS APOSTLE. Peter, with nature as tempestuous as the sea that he once tried to walk, at one look of Christ went out and wept bitterly. Rich harvests of grace may grow on the tiptop of the jagged steep, and flocks of Christian graces may find pasturage in fields of bram ble and rock. Though your disposition may be all a-bristle with fretfulness, though you have a temper a-gleam with quick lightnings, though your avarice be like that of the horse leech, crying, "Give!” though damnable impurities have wrapped you in all consuming tire, God can drive that devil out of your soul, and over the chaos and the darkness he can say, “Let there be light.” Converting grace has lifted the drunkard from the ditch, and snatched the knife from the hand of the assassin, and tho false keys from the burglar, and in the pes tiferous lanes of the city met the daughter of sin under the dim lamplight and scat tered her sorrow and her guilt with the words, “Thy sins are forgiven—go and sin no more.” For scarlet sin a scarlet atone ment.’ Other persons apologize for not entering the Christian life because of the inconsisten cies of those who profess religion. There are thousands of poor farmers. They do not know the nature of soil nor the proper rotation of crops. Their corn is shorter in the stalk and smaller in the ear. They have 10 less bushels to the acre than their neighbors. But who declines being a farm er because there are so many poor farmers? There are thousands of incompetent mer chants. They buy at the wrong time. They gefreheated in thesaleof theirgoods. Every bale of goods is to them a bale of disaster. They fail after awhile and go out of busi ness. But who declines to be a. merchant because there are so many incompetent merchants? There aro thousands of poor lawyers. They cannot draw a declaration that will stand the test. They cannot re cover just damages. They cannot help a defendant escape from the injustice of his persecutors. They are the worst evidence againstany case in which they are retained. But who declines to be a lawver because there are so many incompetent lawyers? Yet there are tens of thousands of people who decline being religious because there are so many unworthy Christians. Now, I say it is illogical. Poor lawyers are noth ing against jurisprudence, poor physicians THE AUGUSTA WEEKLY CHRONICLE. APRIL 19, 1893 nrt notnuig against medicine, poor farmers aro nothing ngaiyst agriculture, and mean, contemptible professors of religion are noth ing against our glorious Chris tiauity. THE WILD FANCIES OF SKEPTICISM, Sometimes you have been riding along on a summer night by a swamp, and you have seen lights that kindled over decayed vegetation—lights which arc called jack-o’- lantern or will-o'-the-wisp. These lights aro merely poisi nous inhuniuta. My friends, ou your way to heaven you will want a bet ter light than tho will-o’-the-wisps which dance on tho rotten character of dead Chris tians. Exudations front poisonous trees in our neighbor's garden will make a very floor balm for our wounds. Sickness will come, and we will be pushed owt toward the Hod sc i which divides this world from the next, and not the inconsist ency of Christians, but the rod of faith will wave back tho waters as'a commander wheels his host . The judgment will come, with its thuudershod solemnities, attended by bursting mountains and the deep laugh of earthquakes, and sunswill fly in-fore the feet of God like sparks irotn the anvil, and ten thousand burning worldsshall blazelike banners in the track W Cod omnipotent, Ob, then we will not stop and say, “There was a mean Christian; there was a cowardly Christian; there was a dying Christian; tin re was an impure Christian.” In that day, as now, “if thou be wise, thou shalt. be wise for thyself, but if thou scornest thou alone shall bear it.” Why, my brother, the inconsistency of Christiaus„so far from being an argument to keep you away from God, ought to bean argument to drive you to him. The be.\t place for a skillful doctor is iu a neighbor hood where they are all poor doctors; the best place for au enterprising merchant to open his store is in a place where the bar gain makers do not understand their busi ness, and the best place for you who want to become the illustrious and complete Christ ian, the best place for you is to come right down among us who are so incompe tent and so inconsistent sometimes. Other persons apologize for not becom ing Christians because they luc\ time, as though religion muddled the brain of the accountant, or tripped the peu of the author, or thickened the tongue, of the or ator, or weakened the arm of the mechanic, or scattered the briefs of the lawyer, or in terrupted the sales of the merchant. They bolt their store doors against it and fight it back with trowels and yardsticks and cry, “Away with your religion from our store, our office, our factory!” They do not understand that religion in this workaday world will help you to do anything you ought to do. It. can lay a keel; it can sail a ship; it can buy a cargo; it can work a pulley; it can pave a street; it can lit a wristband; it can write a consti tution, it can marshal a host. It is as ap propriate to the astronomer as his telescope; to the chemist as his laboratory; to the ma son as his plumbline; to the carpenter as his plane; to the child as his marbles; to the grandfather as his staff. RELIGION ADDS TO ONE’S ENERGIES. No time to be religious here! You have no time not to be religious. You might as well have no clerks in your store, no books in your library, no compass on your ship, no rifle in the battle, no hat for your head, no coat for youT back, no shoes for your feet. Better travel on toward eternity bare headed and barefooted and houseless and homeless and friendless than to go through life without religion. Did religion make Raleigh any less of a statesman, or Havelock any less of a sol dier, or Grinnell any less of a merchant, or West any less of a painter? Religion is the best security in every bargain. It is the sweetest note iu every song; it is the bright est gem in every coronet. No time to be reli gious? Why, you will have to take time to jbe sick, to be troubled, to die. Our world is only the wharf from which we are to em bark for heaven. No time to secure the friendship ot Christ? No time to buy a lamp and t rim it for that walk through the darkness which otherwise will be illumined only by the whiteness of the tombstones? No time to educate the eye for heavenly splendors, or the hand for choral harps, or the ear for everlasting songs, or the soul for honor, glory and immortality? One would think we had time for nothing else. Other persons apologize for not entering the Christian life because it is time enough yet. That is very like those persons who send their regrets and say: “I will come in perhaps at 11 or 12 o’clock. 1 will not be there at the opening of the banquet, but I will be there at the close.” Not yet! Not yet! Now, I do not give any doleful view of this life. There is nothing in my nature, nothing in the grace of God, that tends to ward a doleful view of human life. I have not much sympathy with Addison’s de scription of the “Vision of Mirza,” where he represents human life as being a bridge of a hundred arches, and both ends of the bridge covered with clouds, and tho race coming on, the most of them falling down through the first span and all of them fall ing down through the last span. It is a very dismal picture. I have not much sym pathy with the Spanish proverb which says, “The sky is good, and the earth is good— that which is bad is between the earth and the sky.” ■ But while we as Christian people ar bound to take a cheerful view of life, we must also confess that life is a great uncer tainty, and that man who says, “I can’t become a Christian because there is time enough yet,” is running a risk infinite. You do not perhaps realize the fact that this de scending grade of sin gets steeper and steep er, and that you are gathering up a rush and velocity which after awhile may not answer to the brakes. Ob my friends, be not among those who give their whole life to the world and then give their corpse to God. It does not seem fair while our pulses are in full play of health that we serve our selves and serve the world and then make God at last the present of a coffin. It does not seem right that we run our ship from coast to coast carrying cargoes for our selves and then when the ship is crushed on the rocks give to God the shivered tim bers. It is a great thing for a man on hi> dying pillow to repent—better that than never at all, but how much better, how much more generous, it would have been if he had repented 50 years before! My friends, you will never get over these pro crastinations. NOW IS THE PROPER TIME. Here is a delusion. People think, “I can go on in sin and worldliness, but afte: awhile I will repent, and then it will be a though I had come at the very start.” That is a delusion. No one ever gets fully over procrastination. If you give your soul to i God some other time than this, you will cn- ; ter heaven with only half the capacity for - and knowledge you might have i had. There will be heights of blessedness you might have attained you will never reach; thrones of glory on which you might have been seated, but which you will never climb. We will never get over procrastination, neither in time nor in eternity. We have started on a march from which there is no retreat. The shadows of eternity gather on our pathway. How insignificant- is time compared with the vast eternity! I was thinking of this while coming down over the Alleghany mountains at noon by that wonderful place which you have all heard described as the Horseshoe, a depression in the sfr’e of the mountain where the train almost turns back again upon itself, and you see how appropriate is the description of the Horseshoe, and thinking on this very theme and preparing this very ser mon it seemed to me as if the great courser ot eternity Speeding along mta juct bsr:-" the mountain with one hoof and gone on iuto illimitable space. So short is time, so insignificant is earth, compared with the vast eternity! This mqyning voices roll down tho sky, and all the worlds of light are ready to re joice at your diseutbrnllment. Rush not into tho prrounco of tho King ragged with sin when yen may have this robe of right eousness. Dash not your foot to piece against the throne of a crucitled Christ. Throw not your crown of life off tho bat t 1< • meats. All tho scribes of God are this mo ment ready with volumes of living light to record the news of your soul emancipated. COTTON MANUFACTURING. What Brad.trevl’s Hay of the South’s Posi tion nnd Aflvnnt Much has boon printed lately regard ing the availability of tho South ns a ri val of New England in the manufacture of cotton goods. Recent articles in the ('liatlanooci Tradesman and Boston Journal of Commerce have defined the positions of tho partisans of both sec tions of tin- country ns regards the mat ter? Tn the latter journal the usual ob jections. such ns insufficiency of canital. unskilled labor, imperfect construction and liiuidciinato maohinory wore lain aside as being removable, and tho chief objection to tho probability of enlarg ing Southern manufacture was given ns the unfavorable effect upon labor of the enervating climate of -the Smith. Tho de bilitating influence of a high temperature upon tho physical, if pot tho mental, effi ciency of the labor so employed was the chief argument advanced. Every thins else, it was admitted, could be corrected, but this one objection, it was stated, warranted tho expectation of bettor pc enniary results for a series of years from cotton manufacturing operations in the North rather than in the South This and others hitherto regarded as .im portant objections are combatted by Mr. C. F. TTnhlein of Louisville, in the Tradesman, in answer to an Enidish in quiry regarding tho prospects of cotton manufacturing in tho South. The ques tion was asked. “Why should not the mill bo built whore tho cotton grows?” •A striking comparison between the prosperous condition of Southern cotton mill employes and those of Oldham, Lan cashire. wore a five months’ winter strike involving terrible hardships to the working classes has just ended, wv mndo by the writer. Tie said: “Verily ‘why should not the mill Ivo built where the cotton grows?’ We can -assure our on the baW« nil the United States census returns, hist mndo public, also on the very reliable reports of Mr. Secretary Hester of tho New Or loans cotton exchange, on the basis of the reports of Bradstreets Agency and Bradstreet's journal, and on reports ana dividends of the vaimis cotton-mill cor porations of the South, that for several seasons past, and in general from their inception. Southern cotton mills have made and are making, profitable re turns, and rank as solid, healthy and thoroughly prosperous institutions.” Tn co-nnbotion with the diverse views ot American exports regarding the possibil ities of Southern manufactures, it is or interest to refer to an article in tho Southern States Magazine for March. Tho article which 1-s form the pen oi Mr. J. S. Jeans, secretary of tho Brit ish Iron nnd Steel Institute, deals pri mnrilly with tho progress made from ISWI to LSno by Southern mills, nnd in i cidontallv advances reasons not hither- I tn prominently brought forward why the , Southern states should in future bo the i center of American cotton manufacture. Mr. J'Mga. in opening, explains the ad vantage which England has had in be ing thoi homo of the most important ap plications of cotton machinery. The ad ■ ranee of the United States, however, in : this direction has brought about a ' change. Ho says: “Lancashire is fal ling back and the United States is conn ing forward, and among the recent ad vances of the United States no feature is more conspicuous than the remarkable growth of this industry in the New Sonth.” Mr. Joans instances tbo facts that tho United States furnish SO per cent, of the world's raw cotton consumption, but only use one-third of their own produc tion. Ho quotes census figures to show that Southern mills in capital invested increased about 180 nor cent., in opera tives 105 per cent employed and 125 per cent, in value of production during tho ten years from ISBO to IR9O. That suc cess in the industry does not depend upon mere nominal cost of labor Mr. Jeans seems to regard as plain. He gives some figures showing a higher cost of manufacturing sheetings in Georgia than in Now York, owing mainly to high cost of material, in -which he ex cepts raw cotton, but includes fuel and other stores. Some statistics showing the advance in efficiency of Southern la bor in ten years are also given. Curious ly enough, from one point of view Wes tern cotton mills are shown to work un more cotton per empolye than those ot either Now England or tho South, owing 1o the employment of latest -improwe ments in machinery. It is. however, in the matter of access to the markets of the world that, a most potent, argument in favor of the supremacy of the South ern mills is found. The great cotton markets of the world, he says, are In dia, China, Japan and the East general ly. The Southern states are nearer to China and Japan than England, and if the Nicaragua Canal ho complete*], as seems probable, the geographical posi tion of the South in reference to these markets should be improved.—Brad street's. QU ARA NTINING CHt ILER A. Austin, Tex.. April 16.—Governor Hogg has issued h proclamation quaran tining all vessels or persons from in fected ports, to go into effect May 1. 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