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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION - ,' 'ATLANTA, G&7 (TUESDAY OCTOBER 19 '1886
TALMAGE’S sermon.
DELIVERED IN BROOKLYN TABfeR
NACJLB YESTERDAY. !
fix T»cu*aad VoIcm Join In Slegliic th» Oppnlns
-[BpectaU-
Eeooklvk, N. Y., October 17.
Tbe ooagregational tinging at tho teberpaeie
- this morning, *u led by Professor Browne,
organist, end Professor All, comet precentor.
Biz thoniud Tolcee joined in singing tho
opening hymn, which begins:
“The morning light la breaking,
Thedukneet dutppetn. 1 ' j
Vert number* of people oould not get lnelde
the building. The multitodee of each persons
on ordiniry Sabbaths, morning end night, ere
constantly increeelng.
The Bor. T. DeWitt Talmtge, D. D., 'took
for hie eubject “The Victory,” end for hli
text, Zeeberleh, eh. tIU, ▼. 5: “And the
streets of the city ahull be foil of boys 1 end
girls ploying In the atreeta thereof.” Ho said
Gllmpso of our cities redeemed. Now boys
and girls who play in tho streets ran such risks
that multltudea of them end In min. But iu
the coming time tpoken of onr dtlea will be ao
moral that lade and laaaee ahall be aa aafe In
the public thorougftro as in the nursery.
For purpose of rousing the people to the
work to be done I hare preached eome sermons
nbont the dark abudows of tho city. Pulpit
and printing-press for the moat part in our day
are busy In discussing the condition of the
dtlea at this time; but would It not be health
fully encouraging to all Christian workers sod
to all who are toiling to make the world bet*
ter, if wo shonld tula morning, fora little
while, look forward to the time when our
dtlea bo revolntloulmd by tbe Gospel of tho
Bon ot God, and all the darkness ot sin and
trouble ana crime and mil'erlng, ahall begone
Jhom the aky
Ertry man has pride In tho city of his na
tivity or residence. If It bo a dty distinguish
ed for any dignity or prowess. Our boasted
e, Virgil of Mantua, Lycur-
of bis native Borne, . —
*us of Sparta, Demosthenes Of Athena, Archi
medes of Syracuse, and Pan! of Tarsus. I
should have suspicion of baaehaartodnou in a
man who had no especial Interest In the olty
of hit birth or raaidenco—no exhilaration at
dty where he bss cot behaved well. Swart
out did not like New York nor did Parkjnan
like Boston, and people who have e free ride In
the prison yen never liko tbs' "
ished the vehicle. When I
__ , Argot and
Shodrs. and Smyrna trying to prove them.
‘ oof Home; *
war on laudable elty pride, or with the Idea of
building ourselves up; at any tlma try to pull
Dthoredown. Boston must continue to point
to Its Fsneuil hell and to lta common am
its superior educational advantages. Philadel
phia must continue to point to lta Indepeud-
Hogs.
If I should dud e men coming from any city
baying no pride in that city, that elty having
lUlfUJK UU UIHU Ul tints CA»/S Uldt tilt/ AAMVIUg
been the place of his nativity, or now being
the place of bis residence, I would fool like
asking him right away: “What mean thing
thing have yon boon gnllty of that you
like tbe ptoco?"
Now York la a goodly dty. It la on both
mdea the river, tho Beet rlvor, only tho main
artery of Its groat throbbing lite. Wo. or our
children, wlu live to aee tiro or throe bridges
spanning that river, end more and more as tho
yean go by, wo will bo one; 10 whan I toy In
my sermon New York, I moon well on two
'millions population, and everything from
V.fBvtuDnrllirttkleflaaiaaatSMridlK
' i one city, will help the other; that whtoh
Riant, and i
Hast rlvor, It steps scroes it as oasllyas yon
step acrebs a Dgnre in a carpet. God’s angel of
bteulighaa two wings, ana one wing haven
bleeds g has two wings, and one wing
over that dty and the other wing hovoza over
this dty.
In Infs:
In Infancy our metropolis was - put down by
the banka of the Hndson.- It was as feeble as
And like Miriam, there onr fothen stood ant
watched It. The royal spirit of American
commerce came dosrn to bathe. She took It
ap In her arms and It waxed strong, and for.
np In her arms and It waxed strong, and for
eign ship* bionght silver and gold to lta feat,
and it has stretched Itself np into a great me
tropolis, looking np to the mountains and off
s apom the ssa, the mightiest energy la Ameri
can civil!nation.
Every dty la influenced by tho character of
. the man who founded It. Bomnlas Impressed
bis Ilfs upon Borne. Tho pilgrim fathera will
merer relax their grasp from Now England.
IVIfotm Penn lets a legacy of foir dealing ani
integrity to Philadelphia,-and you can now,
any day, on tho streets of that dty. too his
customs, hit minut-t, hit morals, his hat, hit
wife’s bonnet, and bis meeting home. So tha
Hollanders, founding Now York, loft their
ImoRKlon on all the following generation*.
What southern thoroughfare was over unit-
ten by pestilence, and our physicians did not
throw thenudvea on tho sacrifice? What
foreign nation was ever struck with faming
and onr ships did not pnt out laden with
jbreadstufls ? What national straggle, and onr
cltlnna did not poor tholr Mood - into tho
trenches? What street of' Damascus, or Boy-
rout, or Madras, has not roaoundod wtthjths
step of onr missionaries? What gallery of
art, and onr pslntere have not hung In It
their pictures? What department of aclonoe
or literature, and onr scholars haTS not made
to it a contribution ? V' !
I need not talk to you of onr public achojols,
where tho children of the cordwalner and tho
mechanic and tbs glassblowcr alt aid# by aids
srith tha favored sons of millionaires and
merchant princes. Nor need, I tall you of the
-asylums for the Insane on. there Islands, whore
three who cut themselves among tha tombs
come forth clothed In their right mind. Nor
need I tell you of tho asylum* for tho blind,
tho deaf and dumb, and tho orphans, the
widows, "
and whl
thousand things
ought to bo overthrown, while I
for tho past, I look forward this morning to a
glorious future. I think wo ought—and I
lake it for granted you are all Interested in
this great work or evangallslng tho cities tad
String tha world—we ought to toll with tho
: sunlight in onr fie s Wo are not fighting In a
. gfilttnUa Bull Ban of defeat. We are on-our
way lo final victory. We are not foUostlng
• tha adder on tho bl.ck horse, leading ns down
to death and darkness and doom, bat 'the
rider on tho white horse with tho moon wider
bit feet and the start of heaven .for
his lisa a. Hail, conqueror, hall!
I know there are sorrows and there are tins
nod then are mffaringa around about us; .but
Min tom* bitter, eold srinter day, whoa' wo
are threshing onr anna around ns to kosp [our
thumbs ftcm freezlnr. are think of tho vrf—
Spring dty that will after* while come, or o i
the dark wtntar night we look up and no tha
the dark winter night we look np and seo 'too
northern lights, tho windows or heaven Bln-
znlusted by tome treat victory—Jnst to; we
look np from the night of suffering and Sor
row and wretchedness in our cities, and ire
see a Baht atnamlns through from tho other
aid*, and wa kaow wo are on the way to morn
ing—more thin that, on the Way to “a mim
ing wlihoat clouds.”
I want yon to understand, all yon who [are
toiling for Christ, shat she castles of sin ore all
go lag to be captured The victory for Christ
in these great tons la going to bs to comjil st#
that not a man oo earth, oran angel la hesreu,
or a devil in belt -will dispute it. How is l
know? I know jnst as caittlnly as Gsd lira
aad that this Is holy troth. The old Bible it
foil of it. If the nation Is to bo saved, of
courea, all tho eitlsa are to ho saved. It mikes
as great differenca with you aad with ms
whether wo are toiliae on toward a defeat or
-tolling on toward a victory.
Now, In this munictpalslavatletdof which I
Speak, 1 hare to rework than arOf bs greater
Can rial prosperity than ear cities Hare
ptopi*
«r«ws
have a morbid idea of the mlilonlum,
and they think whon tho better
time comu to our dHee and tho world, poo-
plostUl give their time up to psalm singing
and tho reta in* of tholr religions experience.
to be dost by urging tho water, tho wind and
the sunshtno to tholr full development.”
and is all i Uriel Ufa wlU bo purified there w!li
hilarity, and st all busluea will bs pu
bs no 1
area osv uiimis/. MtU M HU UU11UDU WlU D9 piA”
rifled there will bo no enterprise. There Is
no ground for such au absurd auttelpattou. In
the time of which I speak, where now one
fortnno iMtadA then will ho a hundred for
tunes made. We all know holiness prosperity
depends upon confidence botwoon man ana
man. Now when that tlmo comes of which I
speak, and all double dealing, all dishonesty
and all fraud are gone oat or oommeroUl cir
cles, thorough confidence trill bo established
and there will he bettor business done and
larger fortunes gathered, and mightier son-
Tho great business disasters ot this country
have come bom the work of godless specula
' ' ‘ MOri^ Tho groat
tore and lnfemous stock gambler..
foe to business in New York and Brooklyn la
crime. When the right ehall have hurled
heck the wrong, end ehall have perilled tho
commercial booa, and shall have thundered
down fraudulent establishments, and fihall
have put Into the hsnfie 'of honest men. the
keys of business, blessed time for the bargain
makers. I am not talking an abstraction, I
In that day of wnlch I speak taxos will bo
a mere nothing. ” ‘ - “
Now, onr business mon are
taxed for everything. City taxes, county
taxes, state taxes, United States taxes, stamp
tales, license taxes, manufacturing taxes—
taxes, taxes! Onr business men hare to
make a small fortune ovary yasr to pay
tholr taxes. What fastens on onr great
Industrie* this awful load? Crime, Individual
and official. Wo hake to psy the board of tho
villains who are incarcerated In our prison
IWo have to tako care of tho orphans oH
who plunged into tholr graves through beastly
indulgence. We haveto support the municipal
governments, which are vast and oxpe^ta
almshouses and police stations find all tho ma
chinery of municipal government? Tho tax
payers.
rind I loll you, republicans, and you demo
crats, that Ifyou do not let down, .tho. tax**
and Yet the people up, wo will form it now
MBMlvt
party, antf
taxation, anti-rum,
antimonopoly, anti-abomination, sod you
who have been
fattonlng.on tho public spoils
and reckless of the public virtue shall not
have so much M tho wages of a street -sweeper.
But in the glorious time
time of which I speak,
grievous taxation will all bare ceased. Thon
will be no need of supporting criminals; than
will bo no criminals. Virtue will havo taker
... there
vtakan
the place of vice. There vrtU be no Orphan
asylums, for parents will bo Sble to leaves
competency to tholr children. Thera wUl bo
no voting of large sums of moneys for some
municipal improvement, which, moneys, be
fore they get to tho improvement, drop into
tho pockets of those who voted them. No
and blackmail, Bettor factories. Grander
architecture. Fine equipage. Larger fort
une!. Bichor opnlonco. Bettor churches.
In that better time, also, coming to those
cities, the churches Of Christ will he more
numerous, and they will be larger, and (bey
will bo mors devoted totheoburohes of Jesus
Christ, and they will accomplish greator In
fluence for good. Now, it la often tha case
that churches are envtoui of each other, pod
denominations collide with osoh other, and
bond of brotherhood. Bat in the
which I speak, whllo there will be .jnst
many differences of opinion as there are now
there will be mo aoerbUity, no bypercrltlolam,
no exclusives eat.
In our great cities tho churohet an not .to
ddy largo enough to hold more than a fourth
of tho population. The Churches that are
ho only neediest tho atari a company In whlol
tho share shall bo tHO each, and a .hundred or
two hundred thousand ahall bo raised jnst to 1
make a specimen community, and this being
1, the world srill.tee its practicability,
four hundred. Now, In the glorious ttmo
of which I speak, there are
going to ho vast churches, and they are going
to be all thronged with worshippers. O, whit
rousing songs they will ling! O, what earn
est Mimosmsy will pnaeh I 0, what fervent
HHfsthlonsbld church Is a plica
Iwhere* few people, having attended Very
carefully to thalr toilets, coma and alt down—
they do not want to bo crowded, they like a
whole seat to thomselvos—and than, if they
have any time loft from thinking of tholr store,
front of them, they sit anliH
warranted tohlt no man’s ala A and listen to |
moslo which la rendered by a choir warranted
to ting tunes that nobody knows: And (hen
after an hour and a half of Indolent yawning
they go homo refreshed, livery man feel*
better after he has hid a tletpl
I Iu manyoftho churchcaof Christluour
day, tho motto Is simply a mockery, I have
not a cultivated car, nor* cultivated voice,
yet no man can do my rinsing for mo. I havo
nothing to say agttoal artistic music. Th*
I two or five dollars I pay to hoar any of the
great queens of tong. Isa good investment.
But, when the peoolo assemble in religious
convocation, and tb* -hymn is read and the
angels oEGod stop from thalr throne to catch
the music on tholr wifigs, Ao not let us drive
them sway by onr indlftranee. T'-hare
preached in churches srksre vast mml of
money were employed-to keep up the music.
and It was (exquisite Mara hunt- on earth,
' 1 time, for '
bnt I thought el the asms time, for all matters
itactlcal, I would prefor tho hearty, outbreak -
S radical, I would prefer tno horny, outeroax-
ig. song of a backwoods-Methodist camp-
Lot oa’o of those starvelingfancy songs song
In cbnrch get np before tho throne ot God, how
would it look standing amid the great doxolo-
glee of tho ndeesudi -Lot (ha finest operetie
sir that over wont ap from tho - ohturch of
Christ, got-many boon tha atari, it will bs
caught and passed byrihahcaaaua of the Sab.
bsth-icbool children. I know a ohureh where
tho choir did all tho singing, tare on* Chris
tian man, who, through perseverance of tho
saints, went right on, Ul afterward a commit
tee was appointed to watt an bird aad Mk him
if ho would not please to stop staring U* ho
bothered tha choir.
“let three refuse la slug
“Praise yo tho Lord: ktiOTOiythiBg' with
breath praise the Lord.” In tha glorious
time coming In our dries and In the world,
hosanna writ moot hosanna, and hallriojsh,
hallelnjtb, - -. .
In that lima, also, of which I speak, all the
haunts of Uiqnity, aad trim*, and squalor,
will lw cleansed aad will bo illuminated.
How la It to bo done? - You say perhaps by
one Influence. Perhaps I say by another, I
will tell you what it my idea, and I know I
am right In ft. The gospel of thaSrer-cf God
is the only agenoy that will accomplish this.
Ur. Eerier, of England, had a theory that
If the natural faeces of wind and tide and
sunshine and wave wen rightly trailed, a*d
rightly developed,itwouloaak*this whole
earth a paradise. In a book of great genius,
and which rushed from edition to edition, he
said: Fellow men—I promise to allow
dance without labor aad without pay—where
tho whole face of nature shall bt changed into
tha molt beeutifnl farms, and man may lire In
the moat magnificent palaces. In Vt
, 9? lasagne-
bis refinements of lnxury, end in themeatds-
rightful gardens—'whore he may accomplish
without labor in one year mare Iran hitherto
ccuJd bo done in thvuunds of years, and
may lava! a con tin ear, sink Talleys, create
laker, drain lakes and swamp*, end interfeot
the land ' * ‘ ‘
end
many
•end miles In twenty-four hours.
1 From the houses to he built will bs afforded
tbe meet cultured views to be fancied. From
tbe galleries, from tbe roof, and from the tur
rets, may bo seen gardens aa for as tha'ey*
• an tea, Aril of fruits and flowers, arranged la
the most beautiful order, with walks, erio-
tides, aqueducts, canals, ponds, plaint, am;
phhbemtess. terraces, foontalas, sculpture!
es, aratn taxes ana swamp*, nua luserfsut
i land everywhere with beantifol email,
I reads for transporting hoary leads of
ny thousand tons, and for traveling a thou-
works, pavilions, gondolas, pireu af popular
arauarmeut to tire tha eye and fancy. Ail this
forned, ___
aad very soon two or three mUIloa dollars oan
bo obtained, and in ten years tho whole earth
Will bo cmparadlsed. The plan It not so pre-
potterous u some I havo heard of! Bat I will
take no stock In that oompany! I do not be
lieve that it will ever be done Ur that way, by
any mechanical force, or b;
that tho hitman mind can pul
to be don* by the Gospel of t!
the omnipotent machinery of love and graoe
and pardon and salvation. That la to empara-
disc the nations. Arehimsdca destroyed*
fleet of iMps coming up the harbor. You
know how bo did it? Ho rifted a greri sun
glass, history tells us, and when tno flee 1 af
ships came np the btrborof Syracnse ho
bronght to boar this sunglass and ho conveyed
the eon's rays upon those ships. Now, tho
sola sink.
glam of
reyifrlaM», by tb*
tho Gospol converging th* rays of tho Bun of
Blghteonsnereupon tho sins, tbs wiokodhea
of the world, we will make them bias* and
“lartbat day of which I speak, do you be
lieve then will be any midnigkt carousal?
Will there be any kicking off atom the tnarblo
steps, of shivering mendicants? Wlllthoroba
any unwashed, unfad, uncombad children?
Will there bo any blasphemies in- th* street?
Will (here bo any Inebriates staggering pari?
disUUariaa where
no WMMnI ayat na bfoatofi «h«*k; no IMtra-
ments of ruin and darimntlOD; no Oat-poani-
cd forehead. Tha grandchildren of that, wo
man who" goes dosrn the atreet with a cans,
stoned by tho boys that follow her, will b*
tha reformers ana philanthropists and' th*
Christian men and tho honest merchants
of Now York snd Brooklyn.
Then, what municipal governments, tod, wo
will havo In all tho eftlaal Some cities are
srono than others, bat in many of onraltiel
you just walk dosrn by the olty halls and look
In at toms of the rooms occupied by politi
cians, aid seo to what a sensual, loathsome,
ignorant, besotted crew rily poliriet Is often
Joncd, Or they aland around tha olty
ball picking tholr tooth, waiting fotaoma
emoluments of crumb* to fall to tholr foot,
ighl
waiting all day long, and waiting all nlghl
‘ are thoso wretched women'taken up
Nothing. Who are those prisoners in jail?
of them stole a pair of shoos. That, boy
Ono
stole a dollar. This girl snatched a pnrio,
All of them crimes dauugtng
society leas than twenty or thirty dollars. [Bat
what will you do with tho gambler who last
night robbed the young man of a thousand
dorian? Nothing. What ahall be C
done with
that one who bieakt through and destroys tho
purity of a Christian hmno, and with an
adroitness and perfidy that beats the strategy
of hell flings a shrinking, shlcklng sonl into a
’ “ " ‘ nothing. What will
bottomless perdition?
you do sritb thoso who fleeco that young min,
getting him to purloin largo sums of money
from his employer—tho young man who Otmo
officer of mvchnren
loan t
crimes, bnt I have somctlmos thought It wputd
bo better, In some of onr dries, If tha ofllplala
would only tun ont from tho Jails tho petty
criminals, tho little offondari,
$10 desperadoes, and put iathdr-plaoasaomo
of tbe monsters of Iniquity who drive tholr
roan span through tho atreet* so swiftly that
honest men have to loap to got ont of tho way
cfbelngrunover. Oh, tbodamnabloschdmos
that professed Chqferian men will aometimoi
robed
pocrisy and rips it clear to tho bottom! i »•
Bnt all then wrongs are going to bo righted.
I expect to live to see the day. I think I
expect
■mpffiffiOTPPffimPffilBJly. l
hear in the dlatanco tho rumbling of tha
king^ chariot. Not always ln tho minority
church of God going to bo, or are
i. The atreeta are
good men
going to ^Donnia^wiiiireTenerlTctr
populations. Three handrod and sixty Hells
rang In Moscow whon ono prince waa marriod;.
Do not think that Gdd hat boon
mr. cases Ob, profane a wearer! that
there nothlng-now In tho pern-
expiring,
silent In yo
ho le dead.
liar fooling of your - tongue or nothing In tho
nembneta of you brain that lndicatoa that
God nay earns to avenge your blaachemies, or
•sdrounT avenging them? There arohnn.
drcdaofsnehcaaox Families keep thorn still
to avoid tho horrible ooneplcalty. FhysloUut
dancS** U, * IB confl-
*'• Tolmtgo wt* atkod to writa a dream-
ctantial account of tbo blsaphomor who was
miracnlonaly bnrnod to doath. Ulsrosnonso la
•rfollows: I appredste tho dsriro for further
details In this matter, but I porpowly avddad
locating th* event in my seriuon, and tha rea
sons that actuated m* thm would Impd mo
ntw to keep the affair Arons tho public. Bach
an event is a terrible thing for tho {tally and
friends of the man who was puntshod, and ft
mas oot of consideration for them that I omit-
ted (o state where tht scone wit laid. That it
strictly tree. however, I
conclusive evidence. I forgot
hay which, out I am indinod to think that tt
was tho tatter. But no matter. I asked*
trotted ftlcnd of mlno to Investigate forma,
he did so. Some correspondence ensabd,
to n^ and from It I am
whloh ho toned over to tno, a
assured that tho *p-‘“
exactly tako place aa]
MNltqffitaMffi
kosp!
assured that. tho afikta Aid ..actually and
I havothe
norrtipondcuo* ttiU, but Uttak^ had bettor
fttomyadf.
T. Dx Wirr Tamliob, D. D.
T1IE EPUCOPALEAim.
Chicauo, October 1L—The haul* of depa-
tics of the Proteitant Epltcopal cbnrch re
sumed Its sitting this morning. Tha gallerias
were crowded with ladle* and gentleman.
Bishop Lo* occupied the chdr. Bish
op Dudley, of Kentucky, made an adicau to- I
•peering work among colored people in tho I
EXHAUSTED YITAWri.
4a|||u»tratlv« 8amplt FrMl>»
nOHf THYSELF.
A Brest Medical srerk on Manhood, Nervous ani
^fttjmindtoowUoniorexoeMM} WO]-—
■* * ■ miutUu. '**■
SS»sr£pkrik
>book for orerrnun. Prlooonly |lby null,
_ tha next 90 dart
atmwktopoolnrm
Nam* thla paper.
DR.W.J.TBCKER
PERMANENTLY LOCATED
south.
He said ha had worked among those neople,
' brlstlod
and ho nndetatood that tho suit
with dinicnlllca, yet hocould not faal that
the church had done Its full duty In lho put.
Ho . believed In - a sathollo
church in whloh there was
neoolor line. He spokt oloqnontly on tho
— * ’ ‘ • • iptalnto ' ' •
othe church
need of briogtngfcolorod people _
or else the Imputation soaoUmos made, that
It was a church of cute, might prove trua.
Ho did not desire the appointment of a apo
dal blahop for this —~ ‘ ' —
woikt but broad
and general mlulonary work. The neod of
>oIa v
schools war very pressing, and this kid would
P«ir, ...
In this direction, despite tho social ostracism
aad neglect ho mot with When he first on tend
upon this branch of work.’ Blahop Pcterkln,
ot Wot Virginia, spoke of the work la the
weak domestic missions of tbe church. ‘
Bov. Dr. Benjamin Franklin, of New Jer
sey, read an unanimous report of tha joint
ccamittce on marriage and ulvoroo appointed
at - -the general Convention of
I8S3. It embodied a netr canon
which contained several stringent modifica
tions of tho existing canon .on matriago and
parents or guardian bo present; that a divoroo
lead or granted on the
can only bo recogaisi
ground of adultery; tha gnllty parson being
forbidden again to mirry daring tho life "
of poison ftom whom ho or »bo was dlvoreod.
forbid* tho roprarriago of
Th* propooed canon . _
divorced poraona,inder certain clrcumstancos,
and provides for penalties to bo Imposed
provides for panalrica to bs Imposed upon
tbo Clorr j for any non-obtervanoa of tho strict
tatter ot tha oaaoa.
Mr. J. Bancroft DivUm of-Maryland, pre
sented* rotolnrion.providing for a. joint com.-
mltteo of threo bishops, threo cloncsl and
lay delegates, to eanaldor tho duty of
RtchJn wojk among i tho oolorod pooplo
n A( Um UuiMfiiitcis i '
Bar, J.gVJohmton, of Alabama, offeroda
series of rerolntloni on tho subject of church
work among colored people, with apodal ref--
ercnco to the feeling ovor tho color lino. Tho
_ . ,
harden of tho resolutions wu that no further
tag talari] ' ‘ ‘
but'whon Blghtoousness and Teuco kiss d»oh
other In all the earth, ton
r HVthonuuiAtlntbslton
1 thonnnd bolls shall strike tho Jublleo. Pov
erty enriched. Hanger fed. Grime pnHflod.
Ignorance enlightened. AU the eltfaa iafod.-
ill not this acanso worth working in? «b,
MMrnimMMid tabunt (o
you think sometimes It does not an
much! You toil on In your different
sometlmcs with great discouragement. Pooplo
have no faith and say: “It fioca not amount
to anything; you might aa well quit that."
Why, whan Moses stretched his band over tho
Bed sea, ft did not socm to mom anything
especially. -Pooplo camo ont I suppose, and
•aid: “Aht!" Boma ol them found ont what
ho wanted to do, Ho wanted tho aaa
It did not imoaat to anything,
stretching ont of hit hand over tbo sqs!
after a white tbe wind blow all night ffom
tho east, and tho waters were’ kathered Intp a
slittaring palisade on either side, and Us* bil
lows leased as God pulled back on their crys-
>d palled back on their crys
tal bits! Wheel Info line, O, Israel! march,
march! Pearls crashed under feet Firing,
•pray gathers into ralnbowarch of victory for.
tno oooqooron ‘ ‘
conquerors to march - under. Shout; of
hecta on the beach answering tho (hoot; of’
hosts amid sea. And Whan tha last llupof,
tho Israelites reach the keabh, ■ the eymkals|
clap, and tho shields clang, and tho waters
ruth ovor tha pursuers, and tho isrift fiogerod
wands on tbo white keys of th* fotm, plgy tbe
stand march of Israel delivered, and tho (w-.
In! " " ~
il dlrgo of Egyptian ovartbreir. •’ ‘ ■
So you and 1 go forth, and all the pooplo of
God go forth, and they ftreteh forth their
band orsr tho aca, and tho botllng sot of crime
and sin and wretchedness. “It don’t- amount
toanytbloy,” people say.'Don’t ft? God’s
srindsof help will after* white begin to blow.
A path will be elaared mi lho army of Chris
tian philanthropists. The path wilt Ms lined
and w* will bo greeted to
the clapping of all heart
lined
„ shlfieonoo,
other beidh by
onk oymblfls,' while
thon who pursued ns and deridod usand tried
to destroy ha will go dosrn under tho «e»,
'■ bo ltftof them wUlbocsat
all th»t will _ _
and dt7 upon the baaob,tha spUntored whorl
of a chariot, or thrust ont from tbo form, tho
breathlcm nostril of a riderioas charger.
TALMAGG ON BLASPHEMY.
Th* Uan Who Wa^lHirnad to Daathfarins
New Yo*x, October lfi.—[Special.]—In a
recast sarmon, tha Ear. Dr. Talmaga dlscnssod
blarphasy and-its consoquaneaa. Ha drew
from ancient and mi * ‘ ‘
, modern hlitory for Instanooa
of tha sodden and awful punishment lnfiletad
by divine power upon blasphemers, and srarn-
od hlahrarera to avoid the eln as ono that
brings them Into special danger from an of
fended providence. Hit most striking Illus
tration wu an incident that b* declared hap-
id*ht’
■u obtained from tha reverend gentleman
tha following correct version of his narrative: I
So common has blasphemy become that tho
MEre public oar,
public mind, aad tho |
, hare got used
to ft, «nd a blasphemer goes np and dosrn this'
—®^-1riu« th* plalu
conhuy in hi* lectures deft _
law against blasphemy, and that* Is net a
mayor In Amerlea that hu backbone enough
to interfere with him.rove om, and that, tb*
mayor ofToronto. Trofanity la won* than
tbelt, or anon, or murder, for these crimes
ete attacks of humanity—that la an attack oa
God. Tbia country is pre-oarinaat for blas
phemy. Tbecrime It multiplying in intensity.
what Ha thinks of It,
ttty is hashed
ired by score*
bnt for tbe most port the fetatUy libuil
np. I flit* you a fact tbat la proved by ucc
or wltbfOece. Tbia lut August of 1W8, a man
got provoked at tbo coatinued drouth and tbo
ruin of his crepe, and in th* presence of h<s
neighbors cursed God, stylng that b* would
cut Hit heart out if Ha srbold noma; cilHog
Him a liar aad u coward and fUvhtsg a
knife; aad white ha was spaaklag bis lower
lew dropped, smoko imssod from mouth aid
nostrils, and tha boat of his body was so la
tease tt drove book those who wualdcomv
naar. Scasuof paupte visited tha aoauasad
mw tha biatphamar, in tha awful process of
PHI ng In regard to th* matter was noc-
cowry, that what Is needed it work nnder tho
present lairs of the church, and sympathy and
tupport for the mon woo are doing tho sroijk
and others who are willing to do -it when
mean* are presided for tho purpoie. The'
dlapoul of the subject was- temporarily de
ferred, . -
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