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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION - . ATLANTA, CMG TUESDAY MARCH 0 1886
TALMAGE’S SERMON.
TREACHED YESTERDAY W BROOK*
LYN TABERNACLE.
ITh. Orest DtelssPresohes tbs Zftotn of Hi. Scrfcl 0
BtiraoUt onTiuMtrrim Blur,, th» Subject
Belas “Til DomeMcCircle," Tb» Horn,
• Tjp ol Beerm-Ble; Etc.
JJBOOKIVK, N. Y„ Jlirch 7.—[Specisl.]—
Iiev. T. DelVItt Talmage, D. D., prcachcil to-
day iu the Brooklyn tabernacle, the ninth of
kla^erlti of sermons on “The Marriage Bing,”
the subject being "The Domestte Circle." Be
fore the sermon hejread the names of seventy
, new members, making thepresent number of
.communicants about thirty-three .hundred.
The hymn sung was:
"Oh, could I apeak the matehlcss worth!
Ob could I sound tho slorlea forth
That in my 8arior shine.”
Appropriate paasages of Scripture were read
ai d expounded by Dr. Talmago, after whieh
he took bis text from Mark v, 19; “Go home
to thy friends, and tell them how great things
the Lord hath done for thee.” Following la
'the sermon In full: i
There are a great many people longing for
tome grand aphere In which to serve God..
They admire Lather at the diet of Worms,
and only wish that they had somo such gnat
opportunity in which to display their Chris-
Mss prowirs. They admire Thill making Fe
llx tremble, and they only, wish that they had
aomo such grand occasion in which to preach
righteousness, temperance and judgment to
coma; all they want is only an opportunity to
exhibit their Chrixtian heroism. Now tho
Apostle comes to ns and ho practically says,
"I will show you a place whore you can ex-
.Dibit all that lx grand and beautiful and glorl-
our lb Christian character, a*d that is the do
mestic circle."
If one it not faithful In an iuaignifleant
aphere ho will not bo faithful In a resounding
aphere. If Fcter will not help the cripple at
the gate of the temple ho will never be aible to
preach three thousand souls Into the kingdom
at the pentecost. If Paul will not take pains
tdinstiuct In tho way of salvation tho Jailor
of the Philippian dungeon, he will never nuke
Felix ttcmblo. He who it not faithful in a
skirmish would not be faithful In ail Arina-
Bidden. The feet is we are all placed in just
the petition iu which we.can most grandly
.serve Cod; and wo ought not to lie chiefly
'thoughtful about aomo sphere of uaefulaeat
which wo may after a while gain, but tho all
abacrblng question with you and with me
ought to be; “ Lord, what wilt Thou have me
now and hero to do P*
There is one word in my text around which
the most of our thoughts will thia morning re
volve. That word ia “Home.” Ask ten differ
ent men the meaning of that word and they
will give you ten different definitions. To one
.H.mcsns love at tho hearth, it means plenty at
the table, industry at the workatand, intelli
gence at the books, devotion at tho altar. To
Ltpa it means a greeting at the door and a smile
at the chair. Peaco hovering like wings Joy
dapping its bonds with laughter. Llfo a tran
quil lake. Flllowed on the ripples sleep the
shadows.
. Ask another than what home is, and he will
tell you It is want* looking out of a cheerless
firegrate, kneading hunger in an empty bread
tray. The damp ur shivering with curses. No
TUble on tho shelf. Children robbers and mur
derers in embryo. Obeconc songs their lullaby.
Every faco a picture of ruin. Want in tbo
background and sin staring from the front. No
• Babbatli wavo rolling over that doorsill. Ves
tibule of the pit. Shadow of infernal walla.
Furnace far forging everlasting chains Fag
gots for an unending funeral pile. Awful
iron)! It Is spelled with curses, itwcops with
ittiu. It chokes with woe, It' sweats with tho
death agony of deSpatr.. . :t.v,.
’ other case me ana everything terrific.
| shall speak to you this morning of home as
B test of character, home as a refuge, homo as a
.political safeguard, home as a school, and home
as s typo of Heaven.
Aud in the first place I remark, that home is
n powerful test of character. Tho disposition
In public may be in gay coetume,while in pri
vate it is in' dishabille. As play actors may ap
pear in one way on the stage and may appear
]n Strother way behind the scenes, so private
pbsracttr . may be very different from
public character. Private character is
often public character turned wrong side
bttt. A man may rcceivo yon into his parlors*
'though ho wero a distillation ofamllM, and
yet his heart may he a swamp of nettles.
There are businessmen who all day long are
mild and courteous and genial and good natur-
cd in tonuberdal life, damming back their ir
ritability and their petulance and their dis-
content, but at nightfall the dam breaks and
scolding pours forth in floods and freshets.
Bcputation is only the shadow of character,
aud a vciy small house sometimes will cast a
very long shadow. Tho lips may seeiu to drop
with myrrh and cassis, and the disposition to
be as bright and warm os a sheaf of sunbeams,
mid yet they they only may be a magnificent
aim w w Indow to a wretched stock of goods. Thera
Is mauy a man who I* affable la public life and
pm id commercial spheres, who, in a cowardly
way, takes his anger and bis petulance homo
and drops' thorn on the domestic circle.
The reason men do not display their bad
temper in public is because they do not want
to bo knocked down. There are men who
bide their pctulauco and their irritabllityjast
for tho same reason that they do net let their
notes go to protest: It does not pay. Or for
the same reason that they do not want a man
iu ^their‘stock company to soil his stock at
lets than the right price, lest It depreciate tha
value. Aa at sometimes thowlnd rises, so af
ter a tuuthlny day thero may be a tempestu
ous night. There are people who in public act
the philanthropist, who at home act the Nero,
With rtipect to their slipper* and their gown.
. Audubon, tho great ornithologist, with gun
and pencil, went through the forests of Amer
ica to bring down and to sketch tho beantifnl
birds, and after yean of toll and exposure
completed his manuscript and pat it In a trunk
In Philadelphia foraf aw days of recreation
and rest, and came back and found that tha
S is bad utterly deitroyed the nuumseript;
it without sny discomposure and without
nny fict or had tamper; he again picked np his
gun and pencil and visited again all the great
Arrests of Annie*and reproduced bis Immor-
tal work. And yet there are psepto with the
ten thousandth part of that loss who are ut
terly ii n reconcilable, who, at the loss of a
pencil or an article of raiment, will blow as
long ami sharp at a northeast storm.
- Now, that man who is affable in public and
Who Is irritable in private, is making a fraudu
lent ever it sue of stock, and hols as bad asa
bank that might hivw $100,009 or $">00,000
of bills in circulation with no apecie in
tho vault. Let ue learn to show piety at
home. If we have it not there wo have it not
sinywbcre. If we have not genuine xraco In
tho family circle, all our outward ami public
plausibility merely springs from a fear of tho
world or from tho alimy, putrid pool of our own
selfishness. I tell yon the home is a mighty
test of chnneter. What yon treat home you
nre evciy where, whether yon demonstrate it or
I remark that home is a refuge. Life
is l& lulled States army on the national road
Ao Mexico, a long inarch with ever and anon a
akirmbh and a battle. At eventide wo pitch
Cur Just and stack tho arms; wo haug up the
war cap and lay our head on the knapsack, wo
sleep until the bogie calls at to marching and
action. How pleasant it Is to rehearse the vie-
roiie: • :.d the iorpru.es and the attacks of tho
day.erstcd by the still oamp-flreof the home
life Is a stormy sea. With'shivered
xnssu ;.r.d tom sails and hulk aleak, we put in
little bailor of homo. Blessed harbor! Ikon
vre go-for repairs la the dry dock of quiet Ufe.
The candle firthe window Is to the toUlngman
the light house guiding him Into port, chil
dren po forth to meet their fathers as pilots at
tt< -i.sirows ” take the band off ship a Tho
den sill of tho home is the w hart where hoary
H5» U unladen.
There U the place wires wo way talk ° f
wliat ww have doos vrlHumt Was charged
With sclf-adnlstlon. There If (ho place where
we may lounge without being thought ungrace
ful. There is the place where we may express*
affection without being thought silly. There
is the place where we may forget our annoy
ances and exasperations and troubles. Forlorn
earth pilgrim! no homer Then die. That ia
better. The grave ii brighter and grander and
more glorious than this world with-no lent
from marchings, with no harbor from tho
storm, with no place of rest from this scene of
S eed and gouge and loss and gain. God pity
e man or the woman who has no home!
Farther, I remark, that home is a political
■ safeguard. The safety of the state must »«
built on the safety of the home. Why cannot
France come to a placid republic? Ever and
anon there Is a threat of national espeise.
France as a nation baa not the right kind of a
Christian home. The Christian hearthstone is
the only corner-stone for a republic. The vir
tues cultured in the family circle are an abso
lute necessity for tho state. If there be not
enongh moral principle to make tho family
adhere, there will not bo enough political prin
ciple to make the state adhere. “No home"
means the Goths and Vandals, means the No
mads of Asia, means the Numidiansof Africa,
changing from place to place,
according as the pasture) hap
pens to change. Confounded be those Babeb
of intimity which would overtower and de
stroy the home. The same storm that upsets
j the ship in which the family sails will sink
the frigate of tho constitution. Jails and pen
itentiaries and armies and navies are not our
beat defense. The door of tho home Is the
beat fortress. Household utensils are the hist
artillery, and the chimneys of onr dwelling
bouses arc the grandest monuments of safety
and triumph. No home. No republic.
Further I remark, that home it a school.
Oid| .round must bo turned up with a tub
soil plough, ahd It must bo harrowed and re
harrowed, and then the crop .will !uot he as
largo as that of tho now ground with loss cul
ture.;*. Now. youth and childhood nre new
ground, and all the influences thrown over
their heart ami life will oorno
upjin after’ life luxuriantly. Every
time, yen havo given a smile
ef approbation—all tho good cheer of your
life will come up again in the geneaiity of your
children. And'every ebulliuonlof anger and
every uncontrollable display of indignation
will be ftiel to tbeir disposition twonty or
thirty or ftrty years from now—fuel for a bad
Are a quarter of a Century from this. Yon
praise the Intelligence of your child too much
sometimes when you think ho is not nivare of
it, and you will Bee the result of it before ten
yean of age In his annoylngaffectatloni. You
praise his beauty, sunposlug ho is not large
enough to understand wliat yon say, aud you
will And him standing on a high chair before
a flattering minor. Words aud deeds ami ex
ample are tho seed of character, and children
are very apt to bo the second edition of their
parents. Abraham begat Isaac, so virtuo ia
apt to go down in tho ancestral line; bat Herod
begat Archelaus, so iniquity is transmitted.
What vast responsibility eoiucs upon parents
in view of this subject!
O! make your home tho brightest place on
earth, If yon would charm your children to
the high jath of virtuo and rectitude and re
ligion. Do not always turn the blinds the
wrong way. Let the light which puts gold on
the geotisn and spots the pansy pour into your
dwellings. Do not expect the little feet to
keep step to a dead march. Do not cover up
your walls with Such pictures as WestV'Dcatn
on a Bale Horse,” or Tintoretto’s “Massacre of
the Innocents.” Bather cover them, if you
have pictures, with “Tho Hawking Farty,’
and “The Mill liythc Mountain Stream," aud
“The Fox Hunt,” and "Tho Children Amid
Flowers,”aid "The Harvest Scene,” and “The
Saturday Night Marketing.”
Get yon no hint of chcerftilness from grass
hopper's leap, anil lamb’s frisk, and quail's
whistle, and garrulous streamlet, which from
the rock at the mountain top clear down to
the meadow ferns under the shadow of. the
steep, comes looking for the stcepc.it pltco to
leap off at, and talking Just to hear Itself talk?
If all tho skies hurtled with tempest, aud
everlasting storm wandered over tho sea, and
every mountain stream went raving mad,
frothing at the month with mud loam, and
there were nothing bntsimoonsblowlogaurong
the hills, and there were neither lark's carol
nor hamming bird’s trill, nor waterfall’s doth,
but only a bear’s bark, and panther's scream,
and wolfs howl, then you might well gather
Into your homes only the shadows. But wliqn
God hoi strewn tho earth and tho heavens
with beauty and with gladness, let us take
into onr homo clreles all Innocent hilarity, all
brightness and all good cheer. A dark homo
makes bad boys and bad girls, iu preparation
for bad men and bad women.
Above all, my friends, tako into your homes
Cbrietian principle. Can it bo that in any of
the comfortable homes of my congregation
tho voice of prayer Is never lifted? What!
No implication at night for protection? What!
No thanksgiving in the morning for care?
Hew, my brother, my sister, will yon answer
God in tho day of judgment, with reference to
your children? It is a plain question and
therefore I ask it. In the tenth chapter of
Jeremiah God says bo will pour out his fury
upon the families that call not upon his name.
O parents! when you are dead andgeueand
the more Is covering tho inscription of the
tombstone, will your children look bark an.!
think of father and mother at family
prayer? Will they tako the
old family Bible and open it anil ace tha mark
of tears of contrition and tears of consoling
promise wept by eyes long before gone out
into darkness? Ob, if you do not Inculcato
Christian principle in the hearts ofyonr chil
dren, and you do not warn them against ovll,
and you do not invito them to holiness and to
Gad, and they wander off into dissipation and
into infidelity, and at last make shipwreck of
their immortal soul, on their death bad anil
in iheirday of Judgment they will curse
yon! Heated liy the refiner of the stove,
what if on the wall should come out tho his
tory ofyonr children? Wliat a history—tha
mortal and immortal life of your loved ones!
Every parent Is writing the history of his
child. Heis writing It, composing it into a
song or turning itlntoa groan.
My mind runs back to one of tho best of ear
ly hornet. I’raycr, like a roof, over It. Feaco,
like an atmosphere, in it. Parents, personifi
cation! of faith In trial and comfort In dark
ness. The two pillars of that earthly home
long aro crumbled to dost. Bat shall I over
forget that early home? Yes, when tho flow
er forgets the son that warms it. Yes, when
the mariner forgets the star that guided him.
Yes, when love bat gone out on the heart'ssl-
tar and memory has emptied its urn into for-
getfalncis. Then, the boms of my childhood,
I will forget thee; the family altar ofa father's
importunity and a mother’s tenderness, the
voices of affection, the ftmerals of onr dead la
ther and mother, with Interlocked arms like
intertwining branches of trees making a per-
pctnalarbor of lore and peace and kindness—
then I will forget them—then and only then.
Yon know, my brother, that a hundred times
you have been kept out of sin by the memory
of such a scene at I have been describing. Yen
bare often had raging temptations, but you
know what has held yon with supernatural
p. 1 tell yon a man who has had such a
home as that never gets over it, and t
man who has had a bad early home never gets
over it.
Again, I remark that home Is a type of hear-
i. To bring us to that homo Christ left bis
home. Far up aid tar back In the history of
heaven there came a period when it* most Illus
trious citizen was about to absent Himself. lie
was not going to sail from beach to beach; we
have often done that. He was not going to
get ont from one hemisphere to another hemis
phere;? many of ns have done that. But be was
to sail from world to world, the spaces unex
plored and the Immensities untrareled. No
world bad ever bailed heavea, and heaven had
never baited any other world. I think that
the windows and the balconies were thronged,
and that the pearline beach wai crowded with
those who had come to see Him sail out the
harbor of light into tho'oeesns beyond. Oat,
and out, and out, and on, and on, and on, and
down, and down, and down He sped, until
one night, with only one to greet bias, He
arrived. Ilia disembarkation so un
pretending. so quiet that It
was net-know a on earth nntll the excite
ment in the cloud gave intimation that same-
thing grtand and glorious had happened. Who
comes there.' From what port aid he sail?
Why was this the pfe-ra of his destination? I
question the shepherds, I question the carnal
driven, I question the angels. I have (hand
out. Howaaan exile. But the world has
bad plenty of exile*. Abraham an exile from
Ur of the Chaldees; John, an exile from
Ephesus; Kosciusko, an exile from Poland;
Marxini, an exile from Borne; Emmett, an st
ile from Ireland; Victor Hugo, an exilo from
France; Kossuth, an exila from Hungary,
Bnt this one of whom I speak today had snob
resounding farewell and came into such chill
ing reception—foe not even an hostler weat
out with his lantern to help him hi—that he
ismorotobecelebnted than any other ex
patriated one of earth or heaven.
It ia ninety-live million miles from here to
tho sun, and all astronomers agree in saying
that our solar system' it only one of the small
wheels of the great machinery of tho unlvone,
turning round tome one great center, the cen
ter so fer distant it ia beyond *11 imagination
and calculation; and if, as tome think, that
great center in tho distance is heaven, Christ
came far from home when he esme here. Have
yon eveqthought’oOhtlhomeiicknMS of Christ?
Heme of yon know what homesickness Is, when
yon have been only a few weeks absent from
the domestic circle. Christ was thirty-three
years sway from home. Borne of yon feel
homesickness'when yon are a hundred or
a thousand miles away from the domestic’ cir
cle. Christ was morb millions ef
miles away from homo than you could calcu
late If all your IHe you did nothing but calcu
late. You know sshat if Is to be homesick
even amid pleasurable surroundings; but
Christ slept in huts, and he was a-thirst, and
he was a-hungered, and he eras on the way
from being born in another man's barn to be
ing buried In another man's grave. I have
read bow the Swiss, when they are far away
from their native country, at ther sound of
their national air get so homesick that they
fall iuto melancholy, and soiuotinie* they die
under the homesickness. Bnt oht the home
sickness of Christ! Poverty, homesick for ce
lestial riches. Persecution, homesick for ho-
ssnna. Weariness, homesick for rest. Home
sick for angelic and archangelic companion
ship. Homesick to go ont of tho night; and
the storm, and the world’s execration, and all
that homesickness suffered to get us home!
At our best estate we are only pilgrims and
strangers hero. “Heaven Is onr home.”
Death will never knoek at the door of that
mansion, and in all that country there is not a
singlo grave. How glad parents are in holiday
times to gather their children home again.
But 1 have noticed that there ia almost always
a son or a daughter absent—abaont from homo,
perhaps absent from the country, perhaps ab
sent from the world, Ob. how glad our Heav
enly Father will be when he gets all his
children homo with him ib heaven I And
hotv delightful it will be for brothers and
siitcrato meet after long separation! (lace
they parted at the door of tho tomb; now they
meet at the door of Immortality. Oaec they
saw only through a glass darkly, now it is
face to fact; corruption, incorruption, mortal
ity, immortality. Where are now all their
tins and'sorrowa and trouble? Overwhelmed
in tlie Bed sea of death while they passed
through dry shod.
Gates of pearl,capstones of amethyst, thrones
of dominion do not stir my soul so much aa
tho thought of home. Once tbero 1st earthly
sorrows howl like storms and roll like Seas.
Home! Lot thrones rot and empires wither.
Home! Lot tbe World die in earthquake
struggle, and ho hurled amid procession of
planets and dirge of spheres. Home! Let ev
erlasting ages roll Irreslstlbio sweep. Home!
No sorrow, no crying. No tears. No death,
But home, sweet nomc, beautiful homo, ever
lasting home, borne with each other, hojne
with angels, borne with God.
One night lying on my lounge, when vory
tired, my children all around about me in- full
rompnna hilarity and laughter—on the lounge,
half awake and half asleep, I dreamed this
dream; I was in a far country. It was not
Persia, although more than oriental luxuriance
crowned tbe cities. It was not the
tropics, although more than tropical
fruitfulness Ailed tbe gardens. It was not It;
aly, although more than Italian softness fillet'
thoalr. And I wandered around looking fo:
thorns and nettles, bnt I found that .nono.c
them grew there, and I stw tbe suu rlso, am
I watched to see it set- hut it sank not. Anil
I aaw tbe people iu holiday attire, and I raid:,
“When will they put off this and put on work:
men’s garb and again delve into tlio mine or
awcller at tbe forgo?” bnt they never pnt off
tbe holiday attire. And I wandered in tbe
suburbs of tbe oily to And. tbo place where
the dead sleep, and I lookcdJsU along tho line
of tho beautiful bills, tho placo where the
dead might moat blissfully sleep, and I raw
lowers and castles, but not a man,
Folium or a monument or a whito
rlab could I see. And 1 went into the chapel
of tbo great town and I said; “ Where do tho
poor worship and where aro the hard benches
on which they sit?" Aud tho answer was made
me: "We have no poor in this country.” And
I wandered out to And tbo hovels of tbo desti
tute, and I found mansions of amber and ivory
and gold, but not a tear conld I see, not a sigh
could I hear, and I was liewtldored and I ut
down under the branches of a great tree and
I raid, " Where am 1 ? Aud whenco comes all
Ihlsacene?” And then out from among the
leaves, and tip the flowery paths, and across
the bright streams there came a beautiful
group, thronging all nbotit rar, and as I
raw them rotnc I thought I knew their
step, and aa they shouted I thought I knew
their voices; hot then they were to
gloriously arrayed In apparel sneb as I bad
never befere witnessed, that I bowed aa stran
ger to atranger. Bnt whon again they clapped
their bands and shouted “Welcome, welcome!”
tho mystery all vanished, and I fooud tint
time bad gone and oternlty had come, aud we
were all together again in onr now home In
heaven. And I looked around aud I mid “Aro
we all here?” and the voices of many genera
tions responded “All here!” And while tears
of gladness were raining down our chocks, and
the branches of the Lebanon cedan were clap,
ping their bands, and tbe towers of the great
city were chiming their welcome, we all to
gether begin to leap and about ands|ng:“Home
home, home, home!”
Mrs. n»ry Ward Beecher ntes and gives
stray over three hundred Allcock's Porous
Pluters every year. She writes that the hat
found them a “genuine relief for meat of tha
ache* and paint whieh flesh Is heir to.” Hon.
Bsmnel J. Bandall said that they cured him of
inflammation of the kidneys when everything
els* failed, and cured Mm of a sevara cold that
threatened to run into pneumonia. Hon. James
W. Hutted writs# that they cured Ms son of
chronic rheumatism and relieved Mm of seri
ous pulmonary troubles.
It is noamtso to believe (here Is any particular
wsy to rub Stic eyes. It nukes no difference wheth
eryou move bom or toward tlie now or up or
How to Dsn Honey,
and we might also ray—time and piin as
well, in onr advice to good housekeepers ami
ladies generally. The great necessity always
to bare a perfectly safe remedy convenient for
tho relief and prompt core of the ailments pe
culiar to Woman—functional irregularity, con-
slant pains, and all tbe symptomi attendant
upon uterine disorders—induces ns to recom
mend strongly and mtnualifiedly Dr. Pierce’s
"Favorite Prescription"—woman's best friend
It will save money.
THE CHURCH IN THE HOUSE.
A Service of Hoase-WoiFhip for Evety Sunday In
the Year.
Br Rtv. Osama F. Damn, D. D„
Pastor of the Church of the Strangers, New York.
Fixxr Sunday is Maxod.
IBB LESSON FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT.
-jwHL ,
(Then may be read the billowing or any other
ttauaigt upon any
-rs. xxvii.. If.
on in tronble we wilt on those who can
help us. Tho patient walla on his physician,
tho client on bis lawyer, tbe subordinate on
his superior, tbe needy on bit rich and boun
teous friend.
At all times the soul Is beset by spiritual
foes. If It looks only st these, It wl II become
discouraged. It must wait on its Gnat De
liverer.
Are you tempted to lose courage? Wait on
tbc-Lord.
Wait on Him with t plain statement of yonr
can. The very attempt to put n statement of
our trouble into words often make it cease to
bo a trouble.
Our tronble* are real or Imaginary. If we
make a statement to God, It will be deliberate
ly formed' on tbe basis ef real troth.
Reducing our own notion of our euo to
rouble appear
repost it to
God.
Aud then it will cease to have powor over
u*.
But if It boreal, an explicit statement will
show ourselves what onr trouble, in point of
fact, is, ami we shall not make vague prayers,
nor seek the Inappropriate medicine, nor put
the plaster where there is no sore.
Then wait patiently; let tho Lord tntwar
when He will nnd how He will. He- It eter
nal, and we immortaL There it no hurry.
Walt trustingly: being quite sure that lie
w ill sttcud to your cate just st lie should.
Walt obediently: do not suspend duty nntil
tho Lord answer you. You have given that
ess* to Him. Take up tke next, and the next,
and the next.
Bo of good courage. You havo a right to.
Yon hnve called for reinforcements. The Lord
has the reserves of. the Universe. It It His
work. Ho knows whkt to tend, nnd where, and
when.
Only those have a right to bo courageous
whonre servants of tho Omnipotent, watting
on (he Lord.
[After Uil», or fuiy other abort discount, a hymn
or hevcinl hymns may Ihj Mine, m the family, may
find agreeable and profitable. After whieh all
jnsy unite In n thanksgiving prayer.]
A 1'TKBNOON TALK. .
(A service may be held aud tho following dlv
ciiuie read:;
TELL IT OUT.
By Joseph Porker, P. IX, London.
M I will praise tho Lord accordiuff to Ills
rightconsnca and will sing praise to tho nsmo
of the Lord most high.”—Pea. yil., 47.
The Psalm comes In with a touo of sorrow
and loneliness, hut it goes out with cymbals
nnd dances, and songs and utterances of
trinrapb. Wo thought iu tbe earlier part of
tho Psalm,David bad never sung in his lib, or
if he hnd, ho certainly would never sing again.
Ho seems to writo himself ont of his misery,
na men now pray themselves ont of their trouble
When the prayer begins, tho llstoner says:
“How heavily loaded is that heart with sorrow!
Surely tbst lifo is distressed beyond all poisl*
hillty of recovery! Oh, how sad and mourn 4
fnl and pensive tho utterance of that heart!”
And Jo! the man talk* over his cast with (tod,
goes into critical detail about * megtlbni
awry thing ho dm recollect; and the tamo
subtly changes all tho while, and -behold.-at
tho last/the man is singing; the prayer had
blossomed Into a song, and he who bogan with
supplioatlon ended with pralso. So it may he
in our life: there Is room enough, onemlos
enough there tre no donbt, and dlmcoltier ap
parently innumerable aud Insurmountable.
Never underestimate there difficulties. You
cannot lecture a man out of sorrow. Kncour-
ngc him rathor to go over his sorrow, to men*
f ion it syllabic by syllable, Jotter by letter, and
when he has continued the story n long time,
ask him if he cannot recollect something more,
even more deeply distressing in its nature.
Kucounigo him to tell all that is iu his heart,
llo good listeners. It soothes poor misery
hearkening to hor tale. Ask her to tell It over
again; ask her if she is quite sure that you
heard the statement correctly; and by this
sympathetic cross examination, by this com*
pnninnshlp of soul, you will extract the tor-
row, and the heart, without any exhortation
from tho listener, will begin to recover Itself,
to tako down Its harp from tho willows; and
you, who cutcrcd iuto a house of mourning,
shall And yourself presently at a wedding
frnsti swinging round In Inflnlto delight in the
sacred dance before the Lord, because the rain
is over and gone, and the tlmo of the singing
of birds has cauio.
(An appropriate poem I* added, which nujr bo
commuted to menwr^VjHbo^roung people. 1 .
Bo not afraid to pray-to pray Is right.
Pray If thou canst, with hope,
111001)1 hope lie weak, or tick with long delay;
Pray in tho darkness if there be no light.
Par Im the time, remote froui human night.
When war and discord on tbo earth shall oease;
Yet every prayer for universal peaco
Avails the blcFScd time to expedite. ..
Whatc’cr is good to wish, ask that of Heaven,
Though It he what tlioit eanst not bopo or see ;
Pray to be perfect, though material Ilc*vcti
i Forbid the spirit soon earth to be;
Hit If Tor any wish thou darest not pray,
ben pray to God to cart that wish away.
t-JUmmv Colhmdok.
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