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THE.FEEKLY CONSTITUTION". [ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY APRIL 18 188
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
PREACHED IN BROOKLYN TABER
CLE YESTERDAY.
'She art At Divine Preacne* a Powerful end Effective
•' i icrracnon the 2fewapeper, ftsUing Port! the
Trial* and Tribulation* ThailSaaet the
New*paper Man in Bia Work.
Boooklyn, N. Y., April 11.—[8pecl*l.]—Bev.
T. DeWitt Talmago, D. D., preached before
mt congregation thto morning. The opening
Bymn begin.: .
"Before Jehovah’* awtal throne
Ye netlone bow with ucred Joy I"
After expounding remigre in reference
the epreed of knowledge ell over the world,
the eloquent speaker announced his text
Eechaiiah v; 1: "Behold a flying roll!” Dr.
STelmage laid:
Thla winged sheet of the text had on it
prophecy. The flying roll today Is the news
paper. In calculating the influences that af
fect society yon can no more afford to ignore
it than yon can ignore the noonday snn or the
Atlantic ocean.
It is high time that I preach a sermon ex.
pressing my appreciation of what the newspa
per press has done and is doing. Mo man,
living or dead, is or has been so indebted to it
as I am, for it gives me perpetual audience in
■ .very city, town and neighborhood of christen-
• dom, and I take this opportunity before God
and tbit peoplo to thank the editors, and pub
lishers, and compositors and type-setters tho
world over, and I give fair notico that I shall
take every opportunity of enlarging this Hold,
Whenever by stenographic report on tho Sab
bath, or galley-proofs on Monday, or previous
dictation. I have said again and again to the
ofllcers of this chnrch, whoever else are
crowded, don’t lot the reporters be crowded.
Each responsible and intelligent reporter is
ten or fifteen churches built on to this church,
Ninety-live per cent of tho newspa
pen are now my friends, and do
me full Justice and more than
Justice, and the other flvo of the hundred are
such notorious liars that nobodybelioveathom.
It was in sclf-dcfenso that sixteen years ago I
“ ‘ pher o'"
myself and chnrch. from tLat things have
mtracnlonsly changed, until now It Is just as
appalling in the marvelous opportunity
The newspaper is the great educator of tho
nineteenth century. There is no forco com
pared with it. It is book, pulpit, platform, fo-
xnm, all In ono. And there is not an interest
—religions, literary, commercial, scientific,
agricultural or mecnancial—that Is not within
Its grasp. All our churches and schools and
R ea and asylums and art | " ' * "
ng of the printing-press.
The institution of newspapers arose In Italy.
In Venice the first newspaper was published,
and monthly, during the time thet Venice was
warring against Solyman the Second in Dal
matia, It was printed for the purpoee of giving
military and commercial Information to the
Venetians. Tho lint newspaper published in
England waa in 1S88, and called the English
Mercury. Others were styled the Weekly Dis
coverer, the Secret Owl, Heraclitus Bldens, etc.
Who cast estimate tho political, scientific,
Commercial, and religions revolutions ronsed
up In England for many years past by Bell’s
Weekly Dispatch, the Standard, the Morning
Chronicle, the Post, end the London Times ?
The lint attempt at this Institution in France
Was in 1U31, by a physician, who published tho
Mews, for tho amusement and hoalth of bia
patients. The French nation understood fully
bow to appreciate this power. Napoleon, with
bis own band, wrote articles for tho press, and
Bo early as In 1889 there were- In Faria ISC
journals. But in the United States the news
^ ser has come to unlimited away. Though
1775 there were but thlrty-eeTon In the
. whole country, tho number of published jour-
. tiato to now counted by thousand, and today—
wo snayas well acknowledge It ae not—the
religious and secular newspapers are the great
educator! of the country.
I find no difficulty fas accounting for tho
world’s advance. Font centnrtee ago, in Ger
many, in courts of justice, men fought with
their Data to see who ahould have the decision
of tho court; end if the Judge'* decision was
unsatisfactory, then the fudge fought with
counsel. Many of tho Ionia could not read
the deedi of their own estate. What has
made tho change?
“Books,"
Mo, air! T —~. —
not read books. Take this audience, or any
other promheuona assemblage, and how many
histories have they read? Ilow
laea on constitutional taw, or pol
my, or works of science? How many elaborate
Menu or books of travel? How mnch of
Boyle, or Do Tocqncville, Xenophon, or
Herodotu. or Fercival? Mot many.
In the United States, the people would not
average ono such books year for each ludl-
yldaal.
Whenco then, this intelligence—this capa
city to talk about all themes, secular and re
ligious—this acquaintance with acicncoaad
art—this power to appreciate the beautiful
and grand? Mcxtto the Bible, tho newspaper,
swift-winged and everywhere praeent, flying
over the fences, shoved under the door, tossed
into the connting-honse, laid on tho work-
bench, hawked through tbo cars! All road it;
white and black, German, Irishman, Swiss,
Bpaulaid, American, old and young, good and
bad, sick and well, beforo breakfast uad after
tea, Monday morning, " ‘ ‘ ' - ■
and week day.
I now declare that I consider the nowsptner
to bo tbo grand agency by which the gospel Is
to be preached, Ignorance cast out, oppression
dethroned, crime extirpated, the world raised,
beaven rejoiced, and God glorified.
- In tho clanking of the printing-press, ms the
Sheets liy out, I hear the voice of the Lord
Almighty proclaiming to all the dead nations
of the earth, "Laearns, come forth! ” and to
the retreating surges of darkness, “Let there
be light! ’’ In many of our city newspaper.
£ ofe«slng no more then eecnler Information,
ere have appeared during the past ten years
soma of tho grandest appeals in behalf of re
ligion, and some of the moat effective Inter-
pretations of God’s government among the
There are only two kinds of newspspera—
the one good, very good, tho other bad, very
UIB uuo gwu, VWJ £WU, vuo UbUUff WUi TCI/
bud. A newspaper may be started with an
Undecided character, bat after It hie been
going on for year, everybody find* oat just
what It la; and it is vary good or II is vary bad.
The one paper le the embodiment of new. the
ally of virtue, the foe of crime, the delecta
tion of elevated taste, the mightiest agency on
With for making the world better. Tho other
paper le a brigand amid moral force. It is a
(retime r of reputation, it I* tho right arm of
death and hall. It la the mightiest agency in
the universe for making the world worse and
battling the causa of God. The ana an angel
of Intel! igeaee and mercy; the other ■ Mend
of darkness. Between this archangel end this
Any is to b* fought the great battle which is to
deride the fote of the world. If you have any
doubt as to which la to bo victor, ask the
propheetee, ask God; tho ehlat batteries with
which Ho would vindicate the right and thun
der doom the wrong, have act yet been un
limbered. The great Armageddon of
the netlone le not to be fongbt with swords
bat with steel pen. not with bullet, bat with
type; not with cannon, but with lightning per-
lecting preawe; and the Sumter, and the
Moultrie. and the Puleekle. and the Olbral-
ten of that conflict will bo tho editorial and
reportorial rooms of oar great newspaper es
tablishments. Hen of the pres, nnder God
you are to decide whether the human race
■hall he saved or lost. God has put a more
utnpcndoua responsibility upon you than upon
gny other doss of persons. Whit long strides
your profession his mad* In Influence and
power since the day when Feter Shelter in
vented cast metal type, and because two
books were found just alike they were as-
■gibed to the work of the devil; end books
wen printed on strips of bamboo; and Rev.
Seise Glover originated the first American
printing prta: : and the common
council of New York, In solemn
rauoletlon, offered {40 to uny printer who
would come than sad live; aid. when Mu
ipeaker of the house or parliament io England
Announced with Indignation that the public
printehad recognised some of their doings,
until in this day, when we have in this coun
try about five hundred skilled phonograher.
and about thirteen thousand newspapers print
ing, in one year, two billion five hundred mil
lion copies. The press and the telegraph have
gone down into the aame great harvest field
to reap, and the telegraph says to the now*-
paper: "FU rako while yon bind;" and tho
Iren teeth of tho telegraph are lot down atone
end of the harvest field and drawn clean
acres, and the newspaper gathers up tho
sheaves, setting down one sheaf on the break
fast table in the shape of* morning newspa
per, and putting down another aheaf on the
tea tablo in the shape ef an evening
newspaper; and that man who neither
reads nor take* a newspaper would
be a curiosity. What vast progress
since the day when Cardinal Wolsey declared
that either the printing preae must go down,
or the chureh of God must go down, to this
time, when tho printing press and tbs pulpit
are in combination, and a man on the Sabbath
day may preach tho gospel to five hundred
people, while, on Monday morning, through
tho secular Journals, ho may preach, that got-
pel to million*.
Notwithstanding mil this that you havo
gained in petition and Influence, men of tho
pree. how many words of sympathy do you
get daring the ceuree of a year? Not ten.
How many sermons of practical helpfulness
for your profession are preached during the
twelvemonths? Mot one. How many words
of excoriation and denunciation and hypocrit-
icism do yon get in that same length or time?
About ten thousand. If you are a type-setter
and get the type In the
wrong fount, the foreman atorma
at yon. If yon are a foreman and cannot
snimonnt the insnrmonntbale, and get the
‘forms” reedy at just the time the publisher
denounces yon. If yon are a publisher and
make mismanagement, then the owned of the
papCT will be herd on yon for leek of divi
dend. If yon are an editor, and you aunounco
an unpopular sentiment, all the pane of Chrto-
tenddm are flung at yon. If you are a re
t, you shall be held responsible for the
tlnctness ofpublic spcakorssndfor theblun
dere of type-setters, ana for the feet, that' you
cannot work quite so well in the flickering
gaslight and after midnightssyon do In the
noonday. If you are a proof-reader, upon you
shall come the united wrath of tho editor, re 1
sorter and reader, because yon do
iyarrango the periods, and the ,
and tbo exclamation points, and the asterisks.
Flenty of abuse for yiu, hut no sympathy.
Having been in a position where I coaid see
these things going on from year to year, I havo
thought that this morning I would preaoh a
sermon on the trials of the newspaper profes
sion, preying that God may bleastho sermon to
all those to whom this message may come,
and leading those not in tho profession to a
more kindly and lenient bearing toward
these who are.
One of the great trials of thla newspaper prates
sion is the fact that they are Compelled to sae
more of tho shams of tho world than any other
profession. Through every newspaper ollloe,
day by day, go tho weaknesses of the world*
the vunitiea tlfht want to be puffed, the rovong-
ea that want to bo wreacked, all the mistakes
that want to ho corrected, all the dull
era who went to be thought eloquent,.
meanness that wants to got its wares noticed
gratia in the editorial columns in
order to auvo the tax of advertising
column, all the men who want to be act right
who never were right, all the crack-brilned
philosophers, with story as long as their hair,
and as gloomy as their finger nell. In mourn
ing because bereft of soap; all the lntlnerant
bores who come to stay five minutes and atop
an heur. From tho editorial and reportorial
rooms, all tho follies and shams of the world
are seen day by day, and the temptation ie to
hollevo ntlther in God, man, nor woman. It
Is no surprise to me that In your profession
there are soma skeptical men. I only wonder
that you believe anything. Unless an editor
ora reporter has in hit present or hia early
bom*,, model of earnest-character,' or he
throw himself upon the upholding grace of
God, bofmust make temporal and star-,
nal shipwreck.
Another great trial of tbp newspaper pro
fession is Inadequate compensation. Blnno
the days of Huxlitt, and Sheridan and
John Milton, and tho wallinga
of Grab-street London and literary toll, with
on tho window, became there was only ono
chair. Llnaees sold his splendid work fora
ducat. De Foe,theauthor oftwohundrod and
btcen volume, died penniless The learned
neon dined behind a screen beeaus* his
clothes were too shabby to allow him to dine
with the gentlemen who, on tho other tide of
the screen, were applauding bis work. And
so on down to the present time, literary toll la
a great struggle for bread. The world seems
to havo a nudge against a man who, as they
say, gets his living by bis wits; and the day
laborer saye to tbe man of literary toil: “You
come down bore, and abovo a piano, and ham
mer, a ahoclast, and break cobblestone, and
earn an honest living as I do, instead of sitting
there In idleness scribbling!” But God knows
that there are no harder worked men in
all the earth than tbe newepaper
>le of this country. It is not a matter of
I times; It is characteristic of all times.
Men have a better appreciation for that which
appeals to the stomach, than that which ap
peals to tho brain. They have no idea of the
immense financial and Iutelloctual exhaus
tions of the nowipaper press. They grumble
becauso they bavo to pay five cents a copy,
and wish tboy had only to pay three, or pay
ing three, they wish they bad only to pay
one. While there an a few exceptions—and
some few do make large fortunes—the vast
majority of nowspencr people in this day have
a stragglo for livelihood; and if in their herd-
abfpand exasperation thoy sometimes write
things they ought not to write, 1st these facts
be an alleviation. O, men of tbo press, it will
he a great help to you, If when you come home
lste at night, fagged out aud nervous with
your work, you would Inst kneel dnownand
commend your ease to God, who baa watched
all the fatigue of those days, and who hat
premised to be your God and tho God of your
children forever.
Another great trial of the newspaper pro
fession Is the diseased appetite for unhealthy
intelligence. Yon blame the newepaper preae
forgiving such prominence to murders and
scandal. Do yon suppose that as many papers
would giro prominence to these things irtha
people did not demand them? I go Into tho
meat market of a foreign city, and I find that
tho butcher hang np on the most complcuous
hook, meat that is tainted, while tho meat
that to fresh and savory to put awuy without
any especial ear*. I come to the eonclosloa
that the people of that city love tainted meat.
Yon know very wall that if the great mats of
people fat thla country get bold of a newspaper,
and than are in it ao runaway mateke. no
broken up families, no defoaation of
men in blah position, they prooounc* the pa
per insipid. They say: “It to shockingly dull
tonight/’ I believe It to one of the trials of
the newspaper press, that the people of this
country demand morel slush instead of healthy,
intellectual food. Mow, you ere a respectable
man, an intelligent man, and a paper oomes
into your baud. You open it, and there are
three columns of splendidly written editorial
recommending some morel sentiment, or evol
ving so>»* scientific theory. In the next col
umn tl , he miserable,contempiibiedivorce
case. \. hich do yon read first? Yon dip into
the editorial longenough to say; “Well, that’s
very ebly written,” and you read the divorce
case from tbo “long primer” type et the top,
to tbe “nonpareil” type et the bottom, end
then yon ask year wife if she baa reed It! O,
it to only a cue of supply end demand. News-
jape r men arc not fools. Thoy know whet
yen want, and they give It to you. I hollevo
that If tbe church and the world bought noth
ing but pure, honest, healthful nawipaptn,
nothing but pure, honest and bealthftil news
papers would bo published. If you should
gather all the editors and tbo reportari of this
country In one great convention, end then ask
of them wbet kind of a paper they would
irefer to pobliab, I believe they would unau-
mooaly say: “ We would prefer to publish an
elevating paper.” Bo long ea there to >n in
iquitous demand, there wul be anluiqutteue
pply- Intake«o apology for a debauched
order to divide the rreponetbillty between
those that print and those who read.
Another temptation of tbe newspaper pro
fession is tho great allurement that surrounds
them. Every occupation and profession hai
temptations peculiar to itself, and tho newspa
per probation to not an exception. Tho greet
draught, u you know, to on the nervous
force, end thebretn to reeked. Tbe blunder-
ins political speech must read well for the
sake of the party, and so tho reporter, or thi
editor, has to make it read well, although ev
cvry sentence waa a catastrophe to the Eng
lish language. The reporter must hear all
that an Inaudible speaker,who thinks it to vet
gar to speak out, says; and It must be right
the next morning or the next night in tho pa
per, though the night before tho whole and!-
enco sat with its band behind
its car, in rain trying to
catch It This man mutt go through killing
night-work. Ho must go into heated assem
blage. and into nnvenulatad audionoe rooms
that are enough to take tho life out of him,
He wnst visit courtrooms which are almost
always disgusting with ram and tobacco. Ha
must expose himself at the fir. He must
write in fcctld alley-way. -Added to all that
he must bavo hasty mastieatlonand irregular
habit. To hoar up under this tremendous
nervous strain, they are tempted to artificial
stimulu. and how many thousands have gone
down nnder that pleasure God only know.
They must have something to counteract the
wet, they moot have something to keep out
the chill, and after a scant night’s deep, they
must have something to revivo them for
the morning’s work. This to what
made Horace Greeley such a stout temper
ance man. He told ms that he had aeon ao
many of bia comrades go down under that
temptation. Oh, my brother of the newspa
per profession, what you cannot do without
artificial stimulu. God does not want you to
do. There to no half-way ground for our lit
erary people, between teetoteltom and dissipa
tion. Your professional recces. your domes-
y
down under the temptation, their brilliancy
quenched, their home* blasted, that I cry
this morning, In tho words of another: “I
not upon tho wine when It to red, whon it
nioveth Itself aright In tho cup; for at tho
last, it biteth'llke a serpent, and It stlngeth
like an adder.”
Another trial of thla profreelon it the fact
that no one seems to care forthelr toul. Thoy
ficl bitterly about it, though thoy tough.
I'rople sometimes tough tbe loudest when
' y feel tbe wont. They am expected to
her up religious proceedings and to discuss
Igious doctrine* in the raltorial column,
but who expects thorn to be saved by the aor-
pather up religious proceedings and to discuss
religious doctrines in the Mil
but who expects them to he sui
irons they phonograph, or by tho doctrine*
they discuss in the editorial columns? The
world looks upon them as professional
Who preaches to reporters and oditors? Some
if them came from religious bombs, and whon
bey left the parental roof, whoever regarded
r disregarded, they came off with a father’s
benediction and a mother’s mayor. They
i ever think of those good oil times but tears
come into their eye. and they move around
this great, roaring metropolis homesick. O, if
thoy only knew what a helpful thing It to for
a man to put hie weary head down on tho
bosom of a sympathotle Christ! Ho knows
bow nervous and tired you arc. He has i
heart large enough to taka in all your Inter
cuts for this world and the next. O, men of
1 he newspaper prea. you sometime* got sick
of this world; H seems so hollow and unsatis
fying. If there are any people In.all the
earth that need God yon ere the men, and yon
shall have Him if only this day you implore
Ilia mercy.
A man was found at the fqot of Canal street.
As they picked him up A-om the water aud
brought him to tbo morgue, they saw by tho
contour of hto forehead that be had great men
tal capacity. He had entered tho newspaper
§ reflation. He bad gone down in health,
te took to artificial stimulu. Ho went*
further and further, and until onoatud
day, hot, and hungry, and slok, and in
pair, ho flung himself off the deek. They
found in hto poeket, a reporter's pad, a lead
pencil, a photograph of somo ono who had
oved him long ago. Death, as aomotlmeiit
will, smoothed out all the wrinkles that bad
gathered prematurely on hto brow, and as ho
lay there, hto face was as fair as when ssren
yean ago ho left hto country home, and they
hade him goodbyo forever. Tho world looks
through tho window oftha morgue, and lays:
“It’s nothing but an outeast;’’ bnt God says it
was a gigantic soul that perished, because the
world gave him no ebanoe.
Let mo ask all men connected with tho
printing press that they may help us more and
more In tbs effort to make the world better. I
charge yon in the name of God, before whom
yon must account for tho tremendous influence
you hold in this country, to consecrate your
selves to higher endeavor. You are the men
to fight back thii(tnvation of corrupt literature.
Lilt up your right hand and swear new alto-
stance to tho cause of philanthropy and relig
ion. And when, at tost, standing on the plaines
of Judgment, yon look out upon the unnum
bered throngs over whom yon have bad In
fluence, may it bo found that you were among
tbe mlghtucst energies that lilted men upon
exalted pathway that leads to tbe renown of
beaven. Better then te have sit in the edl-
toilal chair fromjwhloh, with the finger of typo,
you decided the destinto* of empire, bat de-
tied them wrong, thst you bad boon somo
-nngeoned exile, who, b; “ ‘ ‘
iron-grated, on scraps ol
' * -’ • * Tom tho ,
who taketh awey tho tine of
tho world.
In Eternity dives, to the Beggar!
Well, my frlende we will ell soon get through
writing and printing and proof-reading, and
publishing. What then? Our Ufttoa book.
Our year* ere the chapters. Our months are
the pert graph. Our days are the sen
tences. Oor doubts are the inter
rogation point. Onr intention of other*
the quotation mark. Our attempts at display
adaah. Death the period. Eternity the pero
ration. O, God, where will we spend it? Here
f ’ou heard the new. more startling than any
onnd in tbe Joarnato oftha last six weeks? It
a the tidinp that man to lost. Have you
heard the new. tbo gladdest that waa erer
announced, coming thla day from the throne
of God, lightning couriers looping from tho
juriacogstc? The nows! The glorious news!
That there to pardon for all guilt, and comfort
for *11 trouble. Bet it np in “double-leaded”
columns and direct It to the whole race.
A Hootch pact, taaan* on everything but re
ligion, wrote thto beautiful yet strange
rhythm:
God both pardoned ell my sin,
That’s the news I That's the news 1
I feel the witness deep within.
That's the nows t Thar's tbe news I
And alas* Be took my tint away.
And taught atatbow to watch sad pear,
I'm happy now from day to day,
Than UN news I That* the new*’
And now If any on* should say:
U hat's the nowa? What's the Hewl
ett* 11 him you're begun to -pray—
That's the news i That's the new
That's the news I There the nows I
THE CHURCH IN THE HOUSE.
A Service Of Home-Worship tbe Rrery Bundty la
the Year.
B v Brv. CnAnr.ES F. Deem. D. D„
Pastor oftha Chnrch of the greater. Mew York.
BRCOND BCNDAY IN APRIL.
[Here the whole family may unite in some prayer
Including a general confession. I
THE LESSON PROM THE OLD TESTAMENT,
fTb* lead*! shontd announce the place of I os ton,
so that each worshipper may open Use JUbla and
follow the reading :T
Generis it, 1 s$ Hymn, Prayer. _
The Epistle—Hetin-wsix.. 11-17, The Gospel; John
vt I.. te-SO; Hymn: The Discourse.
(Then may be read the following or any other
short discutins. The reader may tnlargaupou any
sentence, or Introduce other matter. The para-
* dlTitiona will artist.I
_'ext: “Walk In love.”—Ephes'ans v., 2.
God to lov. God so loved the world that
Ho gave Hto only begotten Hon.
God was in Christ Then Christ waa tho in-
earn arise of lav.
'At Then hast rent M* Into the world, wren
•apply. 1 make no apology ter a aeneucaea ASiscu neat aeat me turn ane worm, wver
newspaper, but I am laying these things In I ao have I alee lent them Into tit* world.'
(John xvll., 18.) Then Christiana are te be the
embodiment of love.
Our Master walked In love. Bo wo mutt
walk in lov. aud thus “bo followers of God, at
drsr children.” (Eph. v., 1.) Thai we (how
forth oer Lord, as our lives exhibit lore.
“Walh” to equivalent to “lire." Our whole
Inteicoune with our fellowmen to the be in
spired by levs. In social, political, and buti-
nets life, wo are to be animated by love. If
we defend ourselves from the attacks of other*
it mast bo done lovingly. If we aorreot * child
or a servant, if we prosecute or defend a suit
ton a culprit, lovo must reign
This to not ease. There are many people
that are very unlovely, very unloving; rosily
hatoflil, and bating us. How are wo to lovo
them? Let oe recollect;
1. That we have loved onnelvee when we
knew ourselves to bo false, andean, nnder the
rule of vile pestion. end really hatoflil.
2. That we were glad to have the love of
others even then.
a That we may be ae dbagreeable In the
tight of God as those others.
4. That Christ bss loved us, and there can
not be ao great a difference between the worst
ofmenandtha beet a* there Is between the
best of men and Christ.
Dwell on Christ’* lore for you until yon bo
inflamed with love for Him.
Then remember that Ho died for lore of
those whom you find it so hard to lov.
Then, that thto lovo-saeriflee on the part of
Christ to delirious to God—a sweet-smelling
savor.
(Tho Lord's Prayer should be used somewhere In
esieh service, and the service may bo closed with
the "Gloria’' or other Horology.)
AFTERNOON TALK.
[A service may be held end the following dUcourse
read:)
the RnmsiD reed.
By Rev. Dr. Haclaron, of Liverpool, Eng.
Isaiah xlil., 3, makes thto representation of
the servant of tho Lord: "Ho ehall not break
the braised read.”
Here to the picture: A slender bulrosh
growing by the margin of somo tarn or pond;
lie tide* crashed ana dinted In by some out
side power—come gust of wind, somo sudden
blow, the foot of some ptuilng nnlmsl. The
head ishans' - — • • ■ - '
snapped or I
"bruised,” but tho bruise 1s not Irreparable.
And ao, there are reads braised and ’’shaken
by tho wind,” but yet not broken. Aud the
tender Christ comes, with Hto gent!, wise,
skillful mtrgeiy, to bind these up and to make
them strong agtin.
To whom doe* this text apply? Who are
meant by tbla metaphor of the embed reed
not yet broken? In a very solemn sonso, *11
mankind. In yon and me end all our brethren
every whtr. the dints and marks of tin are
plainly seen. Our manhood hse boon crashed
end battered out of It* right ahapo. and has
received avrfol wounda from that evil thst bo-
eeta us, and has found entrance within ns.
Whatsoever be tho strength, boauty, wisdom,
nobleness of any man, In the eye of that God
whoso will to perfection, thst man to a bruised
reed.'
But, blessed bo God! there emerges from
the metaphor, not only tbo solomn thought of
thobntliesbytintbat all men bear, bnt tho
other blessed one, that there to no man ao
bruited as that he to broken; none so injured as
that restoration to Impossible, no depravity so
total that it may be healed, none ao far off but
’ i brought nigh. On no man haa
It* venomous claws so deeply bnt
that three maybe vrrenohed away.'In none of
us be* the virus so gone through our veins but
that It to capable of bring expelled. The reeds
aro-all bruised, tbe reeda are . none of them
broken. And so the text comes with Its great
triumphant hopefulness, and gathers Into one
mass as capable of restoration the most eh] sat, j
the moat worthless, the most ignorant, the <
most sensuou. tho most godless, the most !
Christ; biting of the race.- And ho looks on all I
the trejnendons bulk of a world's sins with tho :
co that he esn move that mountain and
o the depths of tho sea. ~ |
.iiuuiiiinn His text may be taken In a soma-;
what narrow sens, applying more directly to
a class. In accordance with other metaphor*
of Scripture, wo may think of “tho bruised
reed” a* exprreslvo of the oondltlon of men
whose hearts havo been crashed by the con
sciousness of their line. “The broken and the
contrite heart," braised and pulrertoad, as It
~rr. by the eense of evil, may be typified for
by this braised reed. And then from tho
text there emerges tbe great and blessnd hops
that such a heart, wholesomely removed from
its self-complacent fluey of sonndnee. shall
certainly be haalod and bound up by Hto
tender band. Did you ever see a gardener
dealing with some plant, a spray of whioh may
havo been wounded? How delicately and
' r the Mg, clumsy hand bustes Itself
o tiny spray, and by stays and band
ages brings it into an erect position, and then
give* it enter and loving care. Just so does
Jesus Christ deal with the conscious and sen
sitive heart of a man that has begun to find
out how bed he Is, and hee been driven away
from all hto foolish confidence, Christ comes
to such a ono and restores him, and just be
cause he to crashed deals with him gently,
pouring in Hto consolation. Wheresoever
there to a touch of penitence there to present a
restoring Christ.
And the words may be looked at from yet
another point of view. We may think of them
as representing to u* the merciful dealing of
theu eater with tbo spirits which are beaten
and braised, sore snd wonnded by sorrows and
calamities; to whom the Christ come* In all the
tenderness of Hto sympathy and the sweetneee
of Ills gentleness, snd leys a hand upon them;
the only bend In all tho unlverao that can
tench a bleeding heart without hurting It.
The Christ that knows onr sins and sorrows
will not break the bruised reed. The whole
race of man may be represented In that parable
thatcame from Ilia own lip. as fallen among
thieve* that have robbed him, and left him
braised, but, bleatsd be God! only "half deed,”
ended, Indeed, but not eo sorely but
my be restored. And there oomes
One with the wine and oil, and pours them In-
tho wound. “The brnlsod reed ehall He
not break.”
[Tbo following poem may be committed te
tnemoty by the young p*opl.l
LAVATEB’S nYMN.
'Ite must lucre**, but I must deetesst."—John
O Jtsus Christ, grown In mi,
And all else fid* away;
My heart be dally noarer Thee!
Remove all sin, I pray.
Grant dally grace and power;
My strength In weakness be;
ForTbMl wMptaMortit
offj/SSf *oi, Hcatralf Lort t
Unlaa ever over u*f
Shine gloriously throofh me:
_ Fall of friedom, *rrnee nod joy (
In heppiDeMorauffferinf *
Njr grateful praise employ.
Make ell in me leas fault/;
Fill with e Christ like lim.
Hr* to Thee, then my fellowmen;
Folating to Thet ftboee.
Now to The® end Thy kingdom
Mr life shall *11 b« given;
Pride, wandering thoughts and Indolent*
Must from my soul be driven.
My own vain self bo empty;
Be humbled every da/;
Make me Thy earoett, loving child.
To work tor Thee, X pray.
Fill everyday with Jesus!
let all be I oat In Thee
O Thou who taught us how to pray,
Listen to even me!
Let loving thought* ef Thee, my Lord,
My every impulse move;
Be thou alone my Blewed Guide,
Be Thou my Yrlmd. mj Lore!
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