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R B; V. TVR. TALMAS E Th* Eminent Divine’s Sunday Discourse. Subject: Go<l’ Saving Grace—Religion 1. au Active Principle Which Work* Constantly For the Welfare of Bo.ly anil Mind and Soul—Hope For Sinners. (Copyright 11*00.1 Washington, D. C.—Dr. Talmage is now traveling in Norway, where he has been deeply interested in the natural phe nomena and the quaint social life of that wonderful land. In this sermon he ar gues, contrary to the opinion of many, that religion is an active principle which works constantly for the welfare of body and mind and soul His test is Luke xiv, 34. “Salt is good.” The Bible is a dictionary of the finest similes. It employs among living creat ures storks and eagles and doves and uni corns and sheep and cattle; among trees, sycamores and terebinths and pomegran ates and almcsads and apples; among jew els, pearls and amethysts and jacinths and chrysoprases. Christ uses no stale illustrations. The lilies that He plucks in His discourse are dewy fresh; the ravens in His discourses are not stuffed specimens of birds, hut warm with life from wing tip to wing tip; the fish He points to are not dull about the gills, as though long cap tured. but a-squirm in the wet net just brought up on the beach of Tiberias. In my text, which is the peroration of one of His sermons, He picks up a crystal and holds it before His congregation as an illus tration of divine grace in the heart when He says what we all know by experiment, “Salt is good.” I shall try to carry out the Saviour's idea in this text and in the first place say to you that grace is like salt in its beauty. In Gallicia there are mines of salt with ex cavations and underground passages reach ing. I am told, 280 miles. Far underground there are chapels and halls of reception, the columns, the altars and the pulpits of salt. When the king and the princes come io visit these mines, the whole place is illuminated, and the glory of crystal walls and crystal ceilings and crystal floors and crystal columns, under the glare of the torches and the lamps, needs words of crys tal to describe it. But you need not go so far as that to find tire beauty of salt. You live in a land which produces millions of bushels of it in a year, and you can take the morning rail train and in a few hours get to the salt mines and salt springs, and you have this article morning, noon and night on your table. Salt has all the beauty of the snowflake and water foam, with durability added. It is beautiful to the naked eye, but under the glass you see the stars, and the diamonds, and the white tree branches, and the splinters, and the bridges of fire as the sun glints them. There is more architectural skill in one of these crystals of salt than human inge nuity has ever demonstrated in an Alham bra or St. Peter's. It would take all time, with an infringe ment upon eternity, for an angel of God to tell one-half the glories in a salt crystal. So with the grace of God; it is perfectly beautiful. I have seen it smooth out wrin kles of care from the brow; I have seen it make an aged man feel almost young again: I have seen it lift the stooping shoulders and put snarklo into the dull eye. Solomon discovered its therapeutic quali ties when he said, “It is marrow to the bones.” It helps to digest the food and to purify the blood and to calm the pulses and quiet the spleen, and instead of Tyn dall’s prayer test of twenty years ago, put ting a man in a philosophical hosnital to be experimented upon by prayer, it keeps him so well that he does not need to be prayed for as an invalid. lam SDeaking now of a healthy religion— not of that morbid relig ion that sits for three hours on a grave stone reading Hervev’s “Meditations Among the Tombs”—a religion that pros pers best in a *bad state of the liver! I speak of the religion that Christ preached. I suppose, when that religion has con quered the world, that disease will be ban ished, and that a man 100 years of age will eome in from business and say, “I am tired; I think it must be time for me to go.” and without one physical pang heaven will have him. But the chief beauty of grace is in the soul. It takes that which was hard and cokl and repulsive and makes it all over again. It pours upon one’s nature what David calls “the beauty of holiness.” It extirpates everything that is hateful and unclean. If jealousy and pride and lust and worldliness lurk about, they are chained and have a very small sweep. .Tesus throws upon the soul the fragrance of a summer garden as He comes in sav ing, “I am the Rose of Sharon,” and lie submerges it with the glory of a spring morning, as He says, “I am the light.” Oh, how much that grace did for the Ihree Johns! It took John Bunyan, the foul mouthed, and made him John Bun yun, the immortal dreamer; it took John Newton, the infidel sailor, and in the midst of the hurricane made him cry out, “My mother’s God, have mercy upon me!” It took John Summerfield from a life of sin and by the hand of a Christian maker of edge tools Jed him into the pulpit that burns still with the light of that Christian eloquenee which charmed thousands to the Jesus whom He once despised. Ah, you may search all the earth over for anything so beautiful or beautifying as the grace of God! Go all through the deep mine pas sages of Wieliezka and amid the under ground kingdoms of salt in Hallstadt and show me anything so ivanseendently beau tifui as this grace of God fashioned and liung in eternal crystals. Again, grace is like salt in the fact that it is a necessity of life. Man and beast perish without salt. What are those paths across the western prairie? Why, they were made there by deer and buffalo going to and coming away from the salt “licks.” Chemists and physicians all the world over tell us that salt is a necessity of life. And so with the grace of God; you must have it or die. I know a great many speak of it as a mere adornment, a sort of shoulder strap adorning a soldier, or a light, froth ing dessert brought in after the greatest part of the banquet of life is over, or a medicine to be taken after powders and mustard plasters have failed to do their work, but ordinarily a mere superfluity, a string of bells around a horse’s neck while he draws the load and in nowise helping him to draw it. So far from that I declare tire grace ox God to be the first and the last necessity. It is food we must take or starve into an eternity of famine. It is clothing, without which w? freeze to the mast of infinite terror. It is the plank, and the only plank, on which we can float shoreward. It is the ladder, and the only ladder, on which we can climb up into the light. It is a postive necessity for the soul. You can tell very easily what the effect would be if a person refused to take salt into the body. The energies would fail, the lungs would struggle with the air, slow fevers would crawl through the brain, the heart would flutter, and the life would be gone. Salt, a necessity for the life of the body; the grace of God, a necessity for the life of the soul! Again, I remark that grace is like salt in abundance. God has strewn salt in vast profusion all over the continents. Russia seems built on a salt-cellar. There is one region in that country that turns out 90,000 tons of salt in a year' England and Russia and Italy have inexhaustible resources in this respect. Norway and Sweden, white with snow above, white with salt beneath. Austria, yielding 900,000 tons annually. Nearly all the nations rich in it—rock salt, spring salt, sea salt. Christ, the Creator of the world, when He uttered our text, knew it would become more and more significant as the shafts wore sunk, and the springs w'ere bored. and the pumps were worked, and the crys tals were gathered. So the grace of God is abundant It is for all lands, for all ages, for all conditions. It seems to undergirt everything—pardon for the worst sin, com fort for the sharpest suffering, brightest light for the thickest darkness, < Around about the salt lakes of Saratov there are 10,000 men toiling day and night, and yet they never exhaust the saline treas ures. And if the 1,600,000.000 of our race should now cry out to God for llis mercy there would be enough for all—for those furthest gone in sin, for the murderer standing on the drop of the gallows. It is an ocean. of mercy, and if Europe and Asia, Africa, North and South America, and all the islands of the sea went down m it to-day they would have room enough to wash and come up clean. Let no man think that his case is too tough a one for God to act upon. Though your sin may be deep and raging, let me tell you that God’s grace is a bridge not built on earthly piers, but suspended and spanning the awful chasm of your guilt, one end resting upon the rock of eternal promises and the other on the foundations ot heaven. Demeiriup wore a robe so in crusted with jewels that no one after him ever dared to wear it. But our King, Jesus, takes off the robe of His righteousness, a robe blood dyed and heaven impearled, and reaches it out to the worst wretch in all the earth and says: “Put that on! Wear it now'! Wear it forever!” Again, the grace of God is like salt in the way we come at it. The salt on the surface is almost always impure—that which incrusts the Rocky Mountains and the South American pampas and in India —-but the miners go down through the shafts and through the dark labyrinths and along by galleries of rock, and with torches and pickaxes, find their way under the very foundations of the earth to where the salt lies that makes up the nation's wealth. To get to the best saline springs of the earth huge machinery goes down, boring depth below depth, depth below depth, until from under the very roofs of the mountains the saline water supplies the aqueduct. This w'ater is brought to the surface and is exposed in tanks to the sun for evaporation, or it is put in boilers mightily heated and the water evaporates, and the salt gathers at the bottom of the tank. The work is completed, and the for tune is made. Have you not been in enough trouble to have that work go on? I was reading of Aristotle, who said there was a field of flowers in Sicily so sweet that once a hound, coming on the track of game, came to that field and was bewildered by the perfumes and so lost the track. Oh, that our souls might become like “a field which the Lord hath blessed” and exhale so much of the sweetness of Christian character that the hounds of temptation, coining on our track, might lose it and go Howling back with disappointment! But I remark again that the grace of God is like the salt in its preservative quality* You know that salt absorbs the moisture of articles of food and infuses them with brine, which preserves them for a long while. Salt is the great antiputre factor of the ■world. Experimenters, in preserving wood, have tried sugar and smoke and air-tight jars and everything else, but as long as the world stands Christ’s words will be suggestive, and men will admit that as a great preservative “salt is good.” But for the grace of God the earth would have become a stale carcass long before this. That grace is the only preservative of laws and constitutions and literatures. Just as soon as a government loses this salt of divine grace it perishes. The philo sophy of this day, so far as it is antagonis tic to this religion, putrefies and stinks. The great want of our schools of learning and our institutions of science to-day is not more Leyden jars and galvanic batter ies and spectroscopes and philosophical ap paratus, but more of that grace that will tench our men of science that the God of the universe is the God of the Bible. How strange it is that in all their mag nificent sweep of the telescope they have not seen the morning star of Jesus, and that in all their experiments with light and heat they have not seen the light and felt the warmth of the Sun of Righteousness! \Ye want more of the salt of God’s grace in our homes, in our schools, in our col leges, in our social life, in our Christianity. And that which has it will live; that which has it not will die. I proclaim the tenden cy of everything earthly to putrefaction and death, the religion of Christ the only preservative. My subject is one of great congratulation to those who have within their souls this gospel antiseptic. This salt will preserve them through the temptations and sor rows of life and through the ages of eter nity. I do not mean to say that you will have a smooth time because you are a Christian. On the contrary, if you do your whole duty 1 will promise you a rough time. You march through an enemy’s country, and they will try to double up' both flanks and to cut you off from your source of supplies. The war you wage will not be with toy arrows, but sword plunged to the hilt, and spurring on your steed over heaps of the slain. But I think that God omnipotent will see you through. I know He will. But why do I talk like an atheist when I ought to say I know He will ? “Kept by the power of God through faith unto complete salvation.” When Governor Geary, of Pennsylvania, died years ago I lost a good friend. He impressed me mightily with the horrors of war. In the eight hours that we rode to gether in the cars he recited to me the scenes through which he had passed in the civil war. He said that there came one battle upon which everything seemed to pivot. Telegrams from Washington said that the life of the nation depended on that struggle. He said to me: “1 went into that battle, sir; with my son. His mother and I thought everything of him. You know how a father will feel toward, his son who is coming up manly and brave and good. Well, the battle opened and con centered, and it was awful. Horses and riders bent and twisted and piled up to gether. It was awful, sir. We quit firing and took to the point of the bayonet. Well, sir, I didn’t feel like myself that day. I had prayed to God for strength for that particular battle, and I went into it feel ing that I had in my right arm the strength of ten giants,” and as the Gov ernor brought his arm down on the back of the seat it fairly made the car tremble. “Well.” he said, “the battle was desperate, but after awhile we gained a little, and we marched on a little. I turned round to the troops and shouted, ‘Come on, boys!’ and I stepped across a dead soldier, and 10, it was my son! I saw at the first glance he was dead, and yet I did not dare to stop a minute, for the crisis had come in the bat tle, so I just got down on my knees, and I threw my arms around him, and I gave him one good kiss and said, ‘Good-by, dear,’ and sprang up and shouted, ‘Come on, boys!’ ” So it is in the Christian con flict. It is a fierce fight. Heaven is wait ing for the bulletins to announce the tre mendous issue. Hail of shot, gash of sa bre, fall of battleax,groaning on every side. We cannot stop for loss or bereavement or anything else. With one ardent em brace and loving kiss we utter our fare wells and then cry: “Come on, hoys!” There are other heights to be captured, there are other foes to be conquered, there are other crowns to be won.” Yet as one of the Lord’s surgeons I must bind up two or three wounds. Just lift them now, whatever they be. I have been told there is nothing like salt to stop the bleeding of a wound, and so I take this salt of Christ’s gospel and put it on the lacerated soul. It smarts a little at first, but see, the bleeding stops, and lo the flesh comes again as the flesh of a little child! “Salt is good.” “Comfort one another with these words.” Great Britain imported 16,000.900 great hundreds (1,920,000,000) of eggs last year. Constipation. You cannot possibly enjoy good health un less you have at least one free movement of the bowels each day. When this is not the case, the poisonous products are absorbed in to the system, causing headache, biliousness, nausea, vomiting, dyspepsia, indigestion. Ayer’s Pills are a gentle laxative, suitable for any and every member of the family. One pill at bed- I time will produce one good, nataral movement the day following. 25 cents a box. All druggists. “ Ayer’s Pills have done me and my family great good. They are I like a tree friend in trouble. 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