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EV. DR. TALMAGE.
he BROOKLYN DIVINES SlIN
DAYSKRMON.
Subject: «‘The Looking Glass.’*
. Text : “And he made the laver ot brass,
and the foot ot it was of brass, of the look
in,; glasses of the women assembling.”—
Ijxodus xsxviif., 8.
We often hear about the gospel in John,
and the gospel in Luke, and the gospel in
jfsttbew, but there is just as surely a gospel
of Moses, and a gospel of Jeremiah, and a
gospel of David. In other words. Christ is
as certainly to be found in the Old Testa¬
ment as In the New. ■
Wben the Israelites were marching
through the wilderness they carried their
church with them. They called it the taber¬
nacle. It was a pitched tent, very eostlv.
very beautiful. The framework was made
of forty-eight boards of acacia wood set in
sockets of silver. The curtains of the place
were purple and scarlet and blue and
find linen and were hung with most
artistic loops. The candlesticks of
tabernarle had shaft and
hraneh and bowl of solid gold, and the
of cherubim that stood there had
w7n?s of cold, of and gold, there and were tongs lamps of gold, of gold, and
and snuffers has
rings of gold, so that skepticism some¬
times asked, Wfiere’dtd all that precious ma¬
terial come from? It is not my place to fur
%ish the precious stones, lt-is only to tell
that they were there.
I wish now more especially in to midst speak of of that the
laver that was built the
ancient tabernacle. It was a great basin from
which the priests washed their hands
feet. The water came down from the basin
in spouts and passed basin away after the
eleansinc. This laver or was made
out of the looking glasses ot the women
who had frequented the tabernacle and
who had made these their contributions to
the furniture. These looking glasses were
not made of glass, but they were quality brazen.
The brass was of a very superior easily features and
polished until It reflected the
o! those who looked into it, so that this
layer.qf loQklngglasses spoken of in my text
did double work. It not only furnished the
water in which the priests washed them¬
selves, but it also, on its shining, polished
surface, pointed out the spots ot pollution
on the face which needed ablution.
I have to say that this is the only looking
glass in whiob a man oan see himself as he
is. There are some mirrors that flatter the
features and make you look better than y<pu
are. Thenthere are other pairrors that dis¬
tort your features and make you look worse
than you are, but I want to tell you that
this just looking-glass he Is. When of the the gospel priests shows entered a man the
as
ancient tabernacle, one glance at the
burnished side of this laver showed
them their need of eleafising. So this
gospel shows the soul its need of divine
washing. “All have sinned and come short
of the glory of God.” That is one showing.
“All we, like sheep, have gone astray.”
That is another showing. “From the
crown of the head to the sole of the foot
there is no health In us.” That Is another
showing. The world eccentricities, calls these defects, erratic
imperfections, ‘‘wild or oats,” “high or living,”
behavior, gospel or or transgression,
Viut the calls them sin,
filth—the abominable thing that God hates.
It was just one glance at that mirror that
made Paul cry out, “Oh, wretched man
that I am, who shall deliver me from
the body of this death?" and that made
David cry out, “Purge me with hyssop, and
I shall be cleaD,” and that made Martin
Luther cry out, “Oh, my stns, my sins!” I
am not talking about bad habits. You and
I do not need any Bible to tell us that bad
habits are wrong, that blasphemy and evil
speaking are wrong. But I am talking of
a sinful nature, the source of all bad thoughts
as well as of all bad actions. The Apostle
Paul Romans. oalls their They roll in the first chapter of
are a regiment of death en¬
camping around every heart, holding it in a
tyranny from which nothing but the grace
of God can deliver it.
Here, for instance, is ingratitude. Who
has not been guilty of that sin? If a man
hand us a glass of water we say, “Thank
you,” but for the 10,000 mercies that we are
every day reoeiving from the hand of God
how little sgfpresgion of gratitude—for thirst
slaked, for hunger fed, for shelter, and sun¬
shine, and sound sleep, and clothes to wear,
how little thanks! I suppose there are
men fifty years of age who have never vet
been down on their knees in thanksgiving to
God for His goodness. Besides that Ingrati¬
tude of our hearts there Is pride—wno has
not felt it?—pride that will not submit to
God ; that wants Its own way—a nature that
prefers wrong sometimes instead ot right;
that prefers to wallow instead of rise up.
If you ccruld catch a glimpse would of your natur¬
al heart before and God, alarm. you The cry first out tning in
amazement very
this gospel does is to cut down our pride
and sell sufficiency. condition It a man before dues God, not ieel he
his loss and ruined
does not want any gospel. I think the rea¬
son that there are so few conversions In this
day ing is is because to make the tendency believe of that the they preach¬ are
men
pretty good anyhow—quite clever, only
wanting a little fixing up, a few touches of
divine grace, and then you will be all right
—instead of proclaiming the broad, deep
truth that Payson and Whiteflold thundered
to a race trembling on the verge of Infinite
and eternal disaster. “Now/’ says some one,
“can this really be true? Have we all g one
astray? Is there no good in us?” In
Hampton Court I saw a room where the
lour walls were covered with looking
glasses and It made no difference which
Wav yon looked you saw yourself. And so It
is in this gospel of Christ. If you once step
within iu fait precincts, you will And your
Whole character reflected, every feature of
morel deformity, every spot of moral taint.
If I understand the word of God, It* first an
nonneemeat is that we are lost.
Glory he to God, I find that this laver of
looking glasses was Ailed with fresh water
ovary looked morning, its burnished and the side priest and no saw sooner his
oa
need of eianneing than he washed and was
clean—glorious type of the gospel his of sin my
Lord Jesus, that first shows a man
and then washes it all away! *
I want yon to notice that this laver in
whieh the priest washed—the laver of look¬
ing glasses—was filled with fresh water every
morning. The servants of the tabernacle
brought the water Is buckets and gospel poured of it
into this iarer. So it is with the
Jesus Christ. It has a fresh salvation every
day. cumulated'corruptions. It knot a stagnant pool It is filled living with water, ae*
Which is brought from the eternal
rock to wash away the sins of yesterda;, of
one moment ago. “Ob,” says some on..
“I was a Christian twenty years agor
That does not mean anything to me. What
are you now?. We are not talking, but my
brother, about pardon freak ten salvation. years ego,
about pardon now, n
If I want to find out hog a friend feels to¬
ward me, do I go to the drawer and find
•omeold yellow letters written to me ten or
twelve years ago? No. I go to tb* letter
that wm stamped tne day before yesterday
ia the paetofliee, and I fled how he feete to¬
ll Is not in regard to old
ws had with Jesus ChrioL R 2
carious we have now. Are ws
aw with Him this morning,
mot spend tm sympathy with of
WS? Do not DO
year time In In tm the
ert tet e ter the old, Cease morning of
steoe.
the glittering robe of Christ's
oa the Saviour’s hand. You
is the fountain of the
a * of a
I teU yea to
M laver at
ia regard to this laver of
ageism of te thetas* that the
ooth
■wit'nont leaving anr filth In tb« basin, tho
priests washed both hands and feet. So the
gospel of .Tesus Christ must touch the very
extremities of our moral nature,
A man cannot fence off a small
part this of his soul and say, will “Now, have
is to he a (tarfen in which I
ail the fruits and flowers of Christian char¬
acter. while outside it shall be the devil’s
commons/’ No, nc. It will be all (tardea
or none. I sometimes hear people sav, “He
is a very good man except in politics.” Then
he is not a good man.
A religion that will not take a man through
'an autumn election will not be worth any¬
thing to him in June,' July and August.
They say he is a useful sort of a man, but he
overreaches In a bargain. I deny the state¬
ment. If he is a Christian anywhere, he will
be in his business. It is very easy to be good
in kindly the prayer and blessed. rneelinjp, %ut with not surroundings so easy to
he a Christian behinl- the counter, when
by one skillful twitch of the goods you
can hide a flaw in the silk so- that the cus¬
tomer cannot see it. It is verv easy to be a
Christian with a psalmbook in your hand
and a Bible in your lap. but not so easy
when you can go into a shop and falsely tell
the merchant you can got those goods at a
cheaper rate in another store, so that he
will sell them to you cheaper than he can
afford to sell them.
I remark, further, that this laver of look¬
ing glasses spoken of iu the text was a very
large laver. I always thought, from the
fact that so many that'Solomon washed there, and also
from the fact afterward, when
he copied that laver in the temple, built it
on a very large scale, that it was large, and
so suggestive of the gospel or Jesus Christ
and salvation bv Him—vast in its provisions.
The whole world may come and wash in this
laver and be clean.
When our Civil War had passed, the Gov¬
ernment of the United States made procla¬
mation of pardon to the common soldiery in
the Confederate army, but not to the chief
soldiers. The g03pel of Christ does not act
in that way. It says pardon for all, but
especially for the chief ot sinners.
Now, my brother, I do not state this to
put a premium upon great that Iniquity. whoever I merely
say this,to encourage man. he
is. who feels he is so far gone from God that
there is no mercy for him. I want to toll
him there is a good chance. Why. Paul was
a murderer. He assisted at the execution
of Stephen, and yet Paul was saved. The
dying thief did everything had. The dying
thief was saved. Biohard Baxter swore
dreadfully, but the grace of God met him,
and Richard Baxter was saved.
It is a vast laver. Go and tell everybody
to come and wash in it. Let them come up
from the penitentiaries and wash away their
crimes. Let them come up from the alms
houses and wash away their povertv. Let
them come up from their graves and wash
away their death. If there be any one so
worn out m sin that he cannot got up to the
laver, you will take hold of his head and
put your arms around him, and I will take
hold of his feet, and we will plunge him in
this glorious Bethesda. the vast laver of
God’s mercy and salvation. In Solomon’s
temple there were ten layers and one molten
sea—this great reservoir In the midst of the
temple filled with water—these iavers and
this molten sea adorned with figures of
palm branch and oxen and lfons and
cherubim. This fountain of God’s meroy
is a vaster molten sea than that. It Is
not adorned with palm branches, but with
the wood of the crbSs; not with the
cherubim, but with the wings of the Holy
Ghost, and around Its great rim Ml the race
may come and wash in the molten sea.
But I notice also, in regard to this laver ot
looking glasses spoken ot In the text, that
the washing in It was Imperative and not
optional. When the priests oame Into the
tabernacle (you will find this In the thirtieth
chapter of Exodus), God tells them that they
must wash in that laver or die. The priest
might have said : “Can’t I wash elsewhere?
I washed la the laver at home, and now vou
want me to wash here.” God says : “No
matter ^whether or not you have washed
* Wash In this laver die.”
before. or just
“But,” says the priest, “there is water
as clean as this. Why won’t that do?”
“Wash here,” says God, “or die.” So It Is
with the gospel of Christ. It Is imperative. sins
There is only this alternative—keep our live.
and perish, or wash thorn away and
But, says some one, “Why could not God
have made more ways to heaven than one?"
I do not know but He could have made half
a dozen. I know He made but one. You
sav, “Why not have a long line of boats
running from here to heaven?” I cannot
say. but I simply know that there Is
only one boat. You say, “Are there not
trees as luxuriant as that on Calvary, buTs more
luxuriant, for that had neither nor
blossoms, it was stripped and barked?”
Yes, yes. there have been taller trees than
•that and more luxuriant, but the only path
1o heaven is under that one tree. Instead
of quarreling because there are not more
ways, let us bo thankful to God there is
one, one name given unto men whereby we
can be saved, -one laver in which all the
world may wash. So you see what a radiant
gospel this Is I fireacb. I do not know how
a mnn can stand stolidly and present It, for
it is such an exhllaranl gospel. It is not a
mere whim or caprice. It Is life or death.
It is heaven or hell. You oome before your
child, and you have a present in your hand.
You put your hands behind your back and
say: “Which hand will you take? In one
hand there Is a treasure; in the other
there is not.” The child blindly chooses. that
But God our Father does not do
way with u<*. He spreads out both hands
and says : “Now this shall bo very and plain. life
In that hand are pardon and peace
and the treasures of heaven. In that hand
are punishment and sorrow and woe.
Choose, choose for yourselves !” “He that
belteveth and is baptized shall be saved, but
he that believeth not shall be damned.”
An artist In his dreams saw such a Chist splendid
dream of the transfiguration of that
he awoke and seized his diet” pencil and I said, hare
“Let me paint this and Oh,
seen the glories of Christ 1 I have beheld
something of the beauty ot that great saori
flee-on Calvary, and I have sometime# felt I
would be willing to give anything if I might
jnst sketch before you the wonders of
that sacrifice. I would like to do it while I
live, and I would like to do it when I die.
“Let me paint this and die.” He comes
along, weary and worn. His lace wet with
tears, His brow crimson With blood, and He
lies down on Calvary for you. Nc, I mis¬
take. Nothing was as comfortable as that.
A stone on Calvary would have made a soft
pillow for the dying head of Christ. Noth¬
ing so comfortable as that. He does not lie
down to die ; He stands up to die, HU spiked world.
hands outspread as if to embrace a
On what a hard end for those feet that had
traveled all over Jad«i on ministries of
mercy! What a hard end for those hands
that had wiped away tears aud bound up
broken hearts! you!
And that is ail for Ob, can yon old and not
love Him? Come aroond thU laver,
young. It is so burnished you can see your
sins wp* so deep yon can wash them all awar.
O mourner, here bathe your bruised temples soul, in
and, sick one, here cool your hot
this lave,! Peace! Do not cry any more,
dear sou.! Pardon for uli thy sins, comfort
for all th 7 afflictions. The black cloud that
bang thundering over Sinai has Coated above
Calvary and buret into the shower ot a
Sirloar’i tears. piri of
I saw a Kensington Garden a ore
Waterloo a good while after the battle
had aad the
aU over the field. There was a dto
■»s m iamb had
up- from the peainre and lay aleepiag ia
the mouth of that cannon. Bo the artim
ted k—a most suggeriive be¬
thing. Then I thought how the war
tween God and the soul bed ended, and
of the , “The
of is death,” then the
words, “My mee I give nato thee,” and
ot the law that had ohee
quaked with the baft of death 2 beheld
tae Lamb of God, wfeteh tafceth away the
sin of the world.
I to as I
w<
And He I glad.
SOUTHERN FLASHES.
<a
A SUMMARY OF INTERESTING
HAPPENINGS,
And Presenting an Epitome of the
South’s Progress and Prosperity.
The fly-wheel of the engine at Her¬
mitage plantation, near Donaldsonville,
La., broke Saturday, killing two white
laborers and injuring two oihers.
A destructive fire occurred at Phenix
City, Ala., Saturday afternoon, entail¬
ing a loss of over ten thousand dollars.
The fire originated from a defective
flue in a building occupied as postof¬
fice, and the flames spread very rap
idlv.
Forest fires are raging in the vicin¬
ity of Corinth, Miss., and a dense
smoke overhangs the town. Several
cotton fields have been destroyed in
the outlying districts, valuable timber
ruined and the country laid waste.
Hundreds of farmers are fighting the
flames.
A Montgomery, Ala., special says: the
Governor-elect Outes has gratified
friends of Captain Harvey Jones
greatly by announcing that the gen¬
tleman would be the chief secretary in
his office upon his inauguration. Cap¬
tain Jones is one of the best known
men iu the state. He is at present
recording secretary in Governor Jones’
office.
General J. Whiting, of Mobile, Ala., -
has been re-appointed major general
upon the governor’s staff; his commis¬
sion having expired on October 1st.
General Whiting is an old soldier,
having teen arduous service as colonel
of the First Alabama. It will be re¬
membered that he was the governor’s
mainstay in preserving prder in Bir¬
mingham during the recent strike
trouble.
Governor Stone, of Mississippi, has
addressed a letter to the governors of
cotton and grain growing states asking
them to appoint two delegates from
each congressional district and five
from the state at large to the anti-op¬
tion convention to be held at Vicks¬
burg on the 20th. The governors,
senators and congressmen from the
several states are also extended a
cordial invitation to Attend.
Lively interest is already being
manifested in'the proposed conference
of southern cotton growers to be held
at Montgomery, Ala., on November
13 th. Some large planters in-that lo¬
cality who Lave thought over the mat¬
ter are greatly impressed with its prac¬
ticability and will assist in making the
meeting the success it is intended to
be. The conference will be in session
during Montgomery’s exposition.
A special frbm Bessemer, Ala., says:
There is no yielding nor modifying of
the purpose of the Bessemer Land and
Improvement company to erect a large
steel plant costing $1,000,000. Presi¬
dent DeBardeleben agreed with -the
board, of directors to commence on the
1st of November and take active and
the detailed management of the com¬
pany’s affairs. He will then go to Bos¬
ton to finally perfect the plans for be¬
ginning construction. He is expected
to return in time to start a force at
work on the foundation by the )5th of
November.
The federal court at Memphis, Tenn.,
will be asked by Tate Bros., of that city,
to enter upon an investigation of
charges that heve been made against
the cotton seed oil owners of the south
to the effect that they have nearly all
entered into a gigantic conspiracy to
control the market for cotton seed, and
that the combine extends all over the
southern cotton states. The specific
allegations that are made in the pnblio
prints refer only to the Memphis
mills, and there are eight, and these
are the largest in the world and the
same owners control mills in Louisi
ana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Geor¬
gia and the Carolines.
CAPBIVI’8 RESIGNATION
Caused a Shock of Astonishment
Throughout Europe.
A cable dispatch from Berlin gays:
Europe has not yet recovered from the
shock of surprise at Chancellor Capri
vi’s resignation, which was entirely
unexpected. Count Von Caprivi hag
been heard to say, “I am disgusted.”
Friday he had a very lively explana¬
tion with the Emperor, who, having
heard at Liebenbnrg of the Cologne
Gazette’s attack on Count Eulenburg,
had telegraphed inquiries made ae to
ite source of inspiration, which was
traced to Caprivi The Kaiser there¬
upon ordered Caprivi to aek Eulen
bnrg’s pardon. On his refusing, the
Emperor d ismissed hi m abruptly.
A MILLIONAIRE LUNATIC
Dies in nn Ii e Asyl 1 —A Fortune
in Patent Me dici ne.
Henry T. Helmbold, the millionaire
patent medicine mnn, died Friday epi¬ in
New Jersey lunatic asylum of an
leptic fit, and his body is establish¬ now an
claimed in an undertaking
ment at Trenton. The relatives have
not answered the dispatch inquiring
what disposition is to be made of tbs
body. bold died suddenly in At
Helm m
He was between fifty and sixty y
old, and has been in varions asyl
for the last thirteen yeen.
’ Stolen PeUtksel Letters.
Tt has been dieeovered that MGraw, daring
the pas* week, while Chairmen
in charge of Mr. Wileon’s
was absent in Wheeling, the
era tic headquarters at Grafton, W.
Va., were broken into aad e n u mber
of letters from political correspondents
were stolen. One of these letters,
ids as to the
work done the
published in a Wheeling paper.
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Shekels and sense are necessary in
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The best advertising will not create
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The advice of a bishop to a yonng
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The men who fail and go down in
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He—“What do you think your father
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get married?"
Sh “Really, I don’t know; bat I
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fool tlnm he thought I was.”
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Iron, when very finely divided, i* iilflam
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Monarch of Telescopes.
A San Francisco, Cal., special says:
Ex-Senator James G. Fair is inter¬
ested in a telescope building project
which may result in the construction
of the greatest star magnifier the world
has ever seen.
The instrument will not only bring
distant planets nearer than the great
equatorial at Lick observatory, but it
will permit as mauy as fifty persons to
use it at the same time. The instru¬
ment has been perfected by Professor
George, formerly director of the as
tronimical station at Melbourne, but
now in the Paris observatory.
There he has worked on his new
telescope, which will ’have no tube.
It will be a reflector with a mirror
tweuty feet in diameter. The cost
will not be more than $100,000, yet it
will have ten times the light-giving
power of the Lick Observatory glass.
Mr. McGeorge, when he had perfected million¬
his plans, began hnnting for a
aire patron. Ho wrote to an old friend
in this city, Dr. McLean, and gave
him an outline of his plans, McLean
saw ex-Senator Fair and the California
capitalist was so muoh struok with the
idea that he offered to advance money
to build the telesoope and mount it in
the Lick Observatory. The plans is to
perfect the glass here and then take it
to the Paris exposition, where it would
soon pay for itself.
A Beautiful Thing.
The lady in her elegant victoria
drove up to the great dry goods store,
and, stepping daintily out, she walked
into the bnsy plaoe. Approaching the a
weary-looking girl at one of coun¬
ters, she said:
“What time do you get off replied duty?’’ the
“Usually at 6, madam,”
astonished girl, “but today at 5.”
“Don’t you get very tired, working
so long?” I work
“Yes, madam; but must or
starve.”
“Well, will you let me take you for
a drive of an hour, after you are
through today? I am sure it will do
you good. ”
The girl knowing the wealth and
social position of the lady, blushed
with pleasure and she was only too
glad to accept the invitation so polite¬
ly and kindly extended, and the lady,
with a cherry smile and bow, walked
out.
Then the man who dreamed this
woke up and wondered how the mis
ohief people could dream such improb¬
able and ridiculous things.— Exchange
An Attractive Window.
The head of the house had told the
new clerk to try his hand at window
dressing. make
“I want you to every woman
on the street look at that window,” he
said.
, The clerk went at it. He made' a
curtain of solid black velvet and hung
it close inside the plate-glass. doing?”
“What on earth are yon
asked the senior member.
“Making a mirror of the window,”
said the clerk. “If the women won’t
look at that, they won’t look at any¬
thing.” member of the firm
The clerk is a
now.
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The elephant hit the bars of the ti*
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“What do you want?" growled the
tiger. replied the el
“I wanted to know,”
ephant mildly ,fit you knew we had
gone “Of into winder I do; qqArters?” -fhat do take
course* J J yon
me for?”
“Well,” snylecjF the-elephant, smything, “I
don’t have to take yon for
thank goodness; bnt if I did, I suppose
I’d take you for medicine," and be
blew a trunkful of dust into the tiger’s
cage,— Detroit Free Press.
The Sensitive Oyster.
Any man who leaps heavily upon the
deck of an oyster boat is likely to make
an enemy of his master. It is a belief
of oyBter-catchers that the oyster is
peculiarly sensitive to such jars. The
careful oysterman never chops wood
on deck when he has a cargo on board,
lest he kill the oysters, and he dreads
a thunder storm for the .. same reason.
—New York Sun.
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