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Great Showing- for the Brooklyn
Tabernacle.
Over Four Thousand Enlisted Members on
Its Rolls—Sermon by Itev, T. lie Witt
Tal xiage, 11. 11.
Brooklyn, March 6.—This is Sacramen
tal day in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, and
the sermon is preached at the reception of
847 new members, making 690 received
during the present revival, so that the
communicant membership now is 4,051.
The Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D., the
pastor, gave the right hand of fellowship
to the new members baptized about
ninety.
The audience sang,
“Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love.
There was a great arch of flowers over
the pulpit, containing the words, “I be
lieve in the Communion of saints.” Dr.
Talmage too k two texts —I Chronicles, ch.
xxiii., v. 5: “And four thousand praised
the Lord,” and Exodus, ch. xii, v. 14:
“This day shall be unto you for a memor
ial.” He said;
When week before last the communi
cant membership of this church passed
into the four thousand, now reaching four
thousand and fifty-one, the first part iff my
text came to my mind, and I bethought
mysely what
A GRAND THING
It would be if the four thousand of our
communicant membership would, like the
four thousand of the ancient Temple, make
It their lifetime business to praise the
Lord. Let them all take harp and timbrel
and anthem and doxology!
The allusion of my second text is to the
Passover, which commemorated the deliv
erance of the children of Israel oil the
night when the destroying angel sped
through the land of Egypt, destroying the
enemy but saving the Israelites, because
on the door-posts of their dwellings was
sprinkled the blood of the lamb. To-day
we come to celebrate a grander Passover,
all peril going away from our soul at the
sight of the sprinkled blood of the Lamb of
God on the door-posts of our hearts.
Christ, our Passover, sacrificed for us.
“This day shall be unto you for a
memorial.”
THE SACRAMENTAL SABBATH,
Whether it comes in an American church
or an English chapel or a Scotch kirk, is
more impressive than any other Sabbath.
Its light is holier, calmer, sweeter; its
voices more tender; its touch is softer;
its memories are more chastened. The
fruits of the Christian life suddenly ripen,
'ike orchards on the hill fronting the
South. The wine of the Holy Sacrament
seems pressed from the grapes of Celestial
vineyards, and the bread broken seems to
drop from the hand of Him who parted
the loaves for the five thousand. We
walk to the church of God with a more
thoughtful face and with quicker step. The
jubilant songs of other Sundays are struck
through with pensiveness and arc all
atremble with tears; and when, at the
close of the service, at the door we shake
hands, it is with a more cordial grasp, be
cause we feel thrilling through our body
and mind and soul the great doctrines of
Christian brotherhood; and our minds go
back to our forefathers celebrating the
Sacrament in times of persecution in Scot-'
land among the Highlands; commemo
rating the dying love of Christ, while they
were pursued of their enemies, pouring
the wine into rough wooden cups, dipping
THE WATERS OF BAPTISM
From the mountain rock, until one day
they heard the voices of the their enemies
coming up the hill, and the pastor cried
out: “Oh, Lord, the Shepherd, have mercy
on the sheep!” And instantly there was
a roaring heard as of great floods, and sure
enough a cloud had burst and there were
great torrents running down the mountain
side that whelmed their foes with sudden
wrath. What a deliverance it was for
them on that Sacramental day! Oh, that
on this Sacramental day the cloud of God’s
mercy might hurst and our sins be
whelmed and our souls be saved! This is
the amethyst of days. This is the pearl
of days. This is the diamond of days.
This is the day of days. Among the ten
thousand million ages of eternity tho first
Sabbath of March, 1887, will be to you sig
nificant and memorable, for “this day
shall bo unto you” forever and forever “a
memorial.”
There is much in the srene Of to-day to
impress us because it is a time of rein
forcement. I used to remark that if I ever
lived to see our membership reach four
thousand I thought I would be willing to
say with one of old: “Now, Lord, lettesf
Thou Thy servant depart in peace, for
mine eyes have seen Thy salvation.” But
I have changed my mind, and I never so
much wanted to stay as now, so as to see
them
ALT, ENLISTED FOR GOD
And to watch their victories. What might
they not accomplish in the way of making
the world hotter if they were all baptized
with a double portion of the Holy Ghost!
Four thousand! That is four full regi
ments, as military men count a thousand
to a regiment. 1 think not one hypocrite
among them. Taking into the church
sometime" in large numbers, hut each one
as carefully examined as to change of heart
and evidence of regeneration as though he
or she were, the only one present ing him
self or herself. Many of our former mem
bers have passed away into the skies, and
have joined the Church triumphant, but
we have four thousand and more left for the
Church militant. To arms! Quit you like
men! We want no reserve corps among
them. Go into action, all of you. Borne
will bo officers and command. Some will
make cavalry charges. Some will be
sharpshooters. Some will stand guard.
Some will be on picket duty. Many of you
will belong to the rank and tile. Let there
• be no stragglers, none off on furlough, not
one deserter. With Christ for Commander
in Chief, at d the one-starred, blood-striped
banner of manger and cross to lead the
way 1 give the order that the General in
the war gave, when rising in his stirrups,
his hair flying in the wind, lie cried out till
all the host heard him: “Forward! tlio
whole line!”
THERE IS ALSO SOMF.TTIISG
In such a scene to deeply impress one, be
cause it rehearses a death scene. Now,
you know, there is something very touch
ing in such an incident. Though you are
in a hotel, and it is a stranger that is dy
ing, how softly you move about the place,
and if you come up to his couch it is with
uncovered head. Even the voice of the
jester is stopped, and when the eyes of
that stranger are closed it is with emo
tion. But lam to tell you this morning of
a death such as has never before
or since occurred. When we die ;
wo die for ourselves, and the
crisis is alleviated by all beneficent
ministries. Bathings for the hands, bath
ings for the feet, the light
turned down low or set in just the
right place, all the offices of affection
about us when we come to die. But not so
with Jesus. Ho died not for Himself, but
He died in torment, and He died for others.
He might have moved around in gardens
made by His own hand, an earthly pota
tion amid vineyards and olive groves slop
ing to the sea. Instead of being tossed in
the fishing-boat on Tiberius He might
have chosen a sunshiny day and a pleas
ant wave for the lake crossing. Instead ol'
being followed by an unwashed rabble lie
might have charmed sanhedrims and uni
versities with His eloquence. Instead of a
cross and a bunch of twisted brambles on
His brow He might have died in the castle
of a Roman merchant, the air bland with
lilies and frankincense. But no; lie died
in torture; the good for the bad; the kind
for the cruel; the wise for the ignorant;
the divine for the human. Oh, how ten
derly we feel toward any one who lias
done a great kindness, and, perhaps at the
imperiling of his own life! How we ought
to feel toward Christ, the Captain of sal
vation, on the white horse riding down
our foes; but in the moment Ho made the
victorious charge the lances of death
struck Him! There was
a - :ry touching scene
Among an Indian tribe in the last century.
It seemed that one of the chieftains had
slain a man belonging to an opposite tribe,-
and that tribe came up and said: “Wo
will exterminate you unless you surren
der the man who committed that crime.”
The chieftain who did the crime stepped
out from tho ranks and said, “I am not
afraid to die, but I have a wife and four
children, and I have a father aged and
a mother aged, whom I support by hunt
ing, and I .sorrow to leave them helpless.”
Just as he said that his old father from be
hind stepped out and said : -‘He shall not
die. I* take his place. lam old and well
stricken in years. I can do no good. I
might as well die. ,Jd y days are almost
over. He can me.”
And they accepWd the
ful sacrifice, you say, but not so wonderful
as that found in the gospel, for we de
served to die; aye, we were sentenced
when Christ, not worn out with years, but
in 4he flush of His youth, said: “Save
that man from going down to the pit; I am
the ransom. Put his burdens on my shoul
ders. Let his stripes fall on my back.
Take nix heart for his heart. Let me die
that live.”
SHALL IT BE TOLD
I’Alay in Heaven that,notwithstanding all
thlse wounds, and all that blood, and all
thse tears, and all that agony, you would
not accept Him?
‘•Was it for crimes that I had done,
He groaned upon the tree ?
Amazing pity, grace unknown,
And love beyond degree.”
There is no woe amid the surroundings
of that scene that impresses me more than
that of His own mother. You need not
point her out to me. I can see by the sor
row, the anguish, the woe, by the up
thrown hands. That all means mother.
“Oh,” you say, “why didn’t she go down to
the foot of the hill and sit with her back to
the scene! It was too horrible tor her
to look upon.” Do you not know when u
child is in anguish or trouble it always
makes a heroine of a mother? Take her
away, you say, from the cross. You can
not drag her away. She will keep on look
ing; as long as her son breathes she will
stand there looking. Oh, what a scene it
was for a tender-hearted mother to look
upon! How gladly she would have sprung
to His relief. It was her son. Her son?
How gladly she would have clamored up
on the cross and hung there herself if her
son could have been relieved, How
strengthening she would have-been to
Christ if she might have c&me close
by Him and soothed Him. Oh, there
was a good deal in what the little sick
child said upon whom a surgical operation
of a painful nature must be performed!
The doctor said: “That child won’t live
through this operation unless you encour
age him. You go in and get his consent.”
The father told him all the doctor said, and
added: “Now, John, will you go through
with it? Will you consent to it!” lie
looked very pale, and he thought a minute
and said : “Yes, father, if you will hold
my hand I will!” So the father held
his hand, and led him straight through
the peril. Oh, woman! in your
hour of anguish whom do you
want with you! Mother. Young man,
in your hour of trouble whom do you want
to console you ? Mothe -. If the mother of
Jesus could only have taken those bleed
ing feet into her lap! If she might have
taken the dying head on her bosom! If she
might have said to him: “It will soon be
over, Jesus; it will soon be over, and we
will meet again, and it will be all well.”
But, no, she dared not come.up so close.
They would have struck her back with
their hammers. They would have kicked
her down the hill.
THEKE CAN BE NO ALLEVIATION
At all. Jesus must suffer and Mary must
look. I suppose she thought of the birth
hour in Bethlehem. I suppose she thought
of the time when with her boy in her bosom
she hastened on in the darkness in the
flight toward Egypt. I suppose she thought
of His boyhood, when he was the joy of
her heart. 1 suppose she thought of
the thousand kindnesses He bad
doue lie-, uot, forsaking hoc 01
forgetting her, even in His last moment,
but turning to John and saying: “There
is mother; take her with you. She is old
now. She can not help herself. Do for
her just as I would have done for her if I
had lived. Be very tender and gentle with
her. Behold thy mot her!” She thought it
all over, and there is no memory like a
mother’s memory, and there is no woe like
a mother’s woe.
I remark again: This is a tender scene
because it is
A CIIRISTAIX REUNION.
Why was it that in the sessional meet
ing, when I asked a woman if it were her
son who sat next to her making profession
of his faith, she made no answer; but after
a moment, trying to control her emotion,
she burst into tears? I said within my
self, she need not tell me the story. It is
the old story of a pordigalgot back. “Tho
dead is alive again and the lost is found.”
Oh, now many families there are that re
joice together to-day!
These Christians during the rest of the
year, perhaps, will not know much about
each other. You go in one circle of society,
these go in some other circle of society,
and this one travels in that path and this
one the other path; but to-day we will all
come on one platform, and we will make
one confession, and we cling to one cro3s,
and we gaze upon one death anguish. It
seems to me this morning not like a church,
but like
A GREAT FAMILY CIRCLE,
And we join hands around tho cross of
Christ, and we say, “One Lord, one faith,
one baptism, one cross, one Christ, one
doxology, one Heaven!” While I stand
here it seems to me as if this communion
table, which is only seven or eight l'eet
long and three or four feet wide, widens
until all the Christians of our own denom
ination can sit at it; and still the table
widens until all the Christians in this land
of all names and denominations come and
sit at it; and still the table widens until it
bridges the sea, and Christians on tho
other side of the Atlantic tome and sit at
it; and still that table widens until the
redeemed of Heaven mingle in the com
munion. Church militant; church tri
umphant.
“One army of the living God
To His command we bow;
Part of the host have crossed the flood,
And part are crossing now.’’
Again, my friends, this is an absorbing
scene because it arouses so many precious
memories. We look back and remember
the days of our chiWtiood, when, long be
fore we knew the meaning of the bread
and the wine, we sat on the side pews on
sacramental days, or in tiie galleries, and
looked as our fathers, mothers, and older
brothers and sisters sat at the! commu
nion. Or, if wc sat with them,
we pulled at mother’s dress and
said: “What does that mean?
What is that in the cup? What is that on
the plate!” O, yes; we remember those
sacramental days of our boyhood. Wc re
member how much more tenderer father
was on that day than on any other day. Wo
remember how mother stood, and without
saying any word looked at us, and her
eyes got full of tears. Oh, the dear old
soul! They have gone! But until the day
of our death we will associate this holy
ordinance with their memory. And when
our work on earth is done we will just
GO UP AND SIT DOWN
Beside them in the heavenly church, as we
used to sit beside them in the earthly
church, and then wo will drink now wine
in our Father’s kingdom.
• “Behold the saints, beloved of God,
Washed are their robes in Jesus' blood;
Brighter than angels, 10, they shine;
Their glories splendid and sublime.”
I remark again: This scene is tender
to-day because it is a confessional. ’You
and I remember tho time when if a man
had charged us with any thing like imper
fection or .wrong doing, we would havo
thrown ourselves back on our honor, and
said: “You don’t know who you are talk
ing to. I shall resent, such an insult to my
honor and integrity.” We do not feel that
way to-day. As wo gaze upon the sacrifice
of Christ, and think of what we have been
and what; we have done, our hearts melt
within us. We see one dying accursed for
our sin, and we hear him in his
dying words begging for our ser
vice, and yet how little service we
have rendered. Of ihis short life wo have
begrudged G<i even a fragment. Alas!
Alas ! Sonuyjus have lived out the most
of our yet we have rendered to
God no earnest service. Sad, that wo
could have so maltreated Him on whom
all our hopes depend. Oh, my brethren
and sisters in Christ, to-day join hands
with mein a confession before Christ!
If there be any place more humble than
another, let us take it. If there bo any
pray r more importunate than another,
let us breathe it. If there be any con
fession more bitter than another, let us
now weep it out.
“Well might the sun in onrkness hide
And shut His glories in,
When Christ, the mighty Maker, died
.For man, the creature's sin.”
Once more: This is a lender and ab
sorbing scene because it is anticipative.
Mv brethren, wc arc not always going to
stay here. This is
not or n HOME.
This is only the vestibule of the church
in which, at last, we expect to enter.
After awhile our names will be off tho
church books, or there will be a mark in
the margin to indicate that, wc have gone
to a better church, and to a higher com
munion. Our Father is not going to let
His children remain in the dust. Tho
grave is no place for us to stay in. “Tho
trumpet shall sound and the dead shall
rise.” The Lord shall descend from
Heaven with a shout and the voice of tho
Archangel, and ye shall rise. The white
robe in which they put us to our last slum
ber hero must get whiter. Oh, the re
union of patriarchs and apostles and
prophets, and of all our glorified kindred,*
and of that “great multitude that no man
can number!” Our sorrows over. Our
journey ended. It will be as when kings
banquet. And just as the snow of winter ,
melts, and the flelds will brighten in tho
glorious springtime, so it will be with all
these cold sorrows of earth; they shall lie
melted a>vay at last before the warm suu
suina oi Heaven.
VOL. IV.—NO. 3.
JACOB AT BETHEL.
International Sunday-School Lesson for
March 13, 1887.
[Specially arranged from S. S. Quarterly.]
Gen. 38:10-22; commit verses 15-17.
10. And Jacob went out from Becr-sheba, and
went toward Haran.
11. And ho lighted upon a certain place, and
tarried there all night, because the sun was set;
und he took of the stones of that place, and
put them for his pillows, and lay down in that
place to sleep.
12. An J he dreamed, and behold a ladder set
up on die earth, and the top of It reached to
Heaven: and behold the angels of God ascend
ing and descending on it
13. And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and
said: 1 am the Lord God of Abraham thy
father, and the God of Isaac; the land whereon
thou liest. to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.
14. And thy seed shall be as the dust of the
earth; and thou slxilt spread abroad to the
west, and to tho east, and to the north, and to
the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all
the families of the earth be blessed.
13. And, behold, I am with thee, and will beep
thee in all places whither thou goest, and will
bring tliee again into this land; for I will not
leave thee, until I have done that which I have
spoken to thee of.
16. And Jabob awaked out of his sleep, and
he said: Surely the Lord is in this place; and
I knew it not.
17. And he was afraid, and said: How dread
ful is this place! this is none other but ths
house of God, and this is the gate of Heaven.
18. And Jacob rose up early in the morning
and took the stone that he had put for his pil
lows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil
upon the top of it.
19. And he called the name of that place
Bethel; but the name of that city was called
Luz at the first.
20. And Jacob vowed a vow. saying: If God
will be with me, and will keep me in this way
that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and
raiment to put on,
31. So that I come again to my father's
house in peace; then shall the Lord be my
God:
22. And this stone, which I have set for a pil
lar, shall be God’s house: and of that Thou shalt
give me I will surely give the tenth unto Thee.
Time— B. C. 1780, 91 years after the last
lesson. (Others call it B. C. 1760.)
Place— Bethel (house of God), twelve
miles north of Jerusalem.
Abraham lived fifty years after the last
lesson. Ho died B. C. 1821, aged 175. Baralt
lived to be 127.
Isaac— ll 7 years old at this time. He had
married, when 40 years old, his cousin Ro
bekah, and they had two children, twins,
Jacob and Esau.
Jacob and Esau were born B. C. 1833,
when Isaac was 60 years old. Esau was a
hunter, a brave, sensual, worldly, jovial
man; Jacob was a farmer, plain, shrewd,
selfish at this time.
Belling the Birthright—When they
were atout32 years old, Esau, being very
hungry, sold his birthright to Jacob for a
mefis of pottage (Gen. 25 : 28-34). This was
uotVs° n»uch a double portion of property,
as tne inheritance of the promises.
The Birthright Obtained nr Fraud—
Twenty-five years after, when laaac was
old. he proposed to confer the birthright
on Esau, tho cider. Jacob knew that it
was designed for him by God, and that lie
had purchased it; but now it seemed to be
about to be given to Esau. So he and his
mother deceived Isaac, and obtained the
blessing. They paid dearly for obtaining a
good thing in a bad way. Esau was angry,
and Jacob vvas-sent secretly to his uncle.
Helps over Hard Places—lo. Beersheba:
Isaac’s home. Haran , a city in Padan
arain, Mesopotamia, from which place
Abraham came. It was 450 miles away.
13. And the Lord stood: he confirms Jacob
in tho birthright by confirming in him the
promises made to Abraham 130 years be
fore. 15. Behold lam with thee: against his
four-fold cross here is a four-fold comfort.
(1) Against the loss of his friends, “I will
be with thee.” (2) Of his country, “I will
give thee this land.” (3) Against his pov
erty, “Thou shalt spread abroad to the
east, west,” etc. (4) His solitariness;
angels shall attend thee, and “thy seed
shall be as the dust,” etc. 17. Afraid: con
sc’ous of guilt, he could not but fear at the
learness nf a holy God and a holy Heaven.
18. Poured oil upon it: an act of consecra
tion to God. 19. Beth-el: see Place. 20. If
God itill be: rather, since God is: not a con
dition, but a statement of a fact. 21.
Tenth: as an acknowledgement that all
comes from God.
Subjects for Bpecial Reports —The
twin brothers. Selling the birthright.
How Jacob obtained it. How his deceit
was punished. The journey to Haran.
Beth-el. Tho ladder to Heaven. Its mean
ing. Jacob’s vow. Tithes
Golden Text— Surely the Lord is in
this place.—Geu. 28:16.
Central Truth— Every true life is a
ladder from earth to Heaven.
New Testament Light on Old Testa
ment Themes —1. What is Esau ealled in
the New Testament for selling his birth
right? (Heb. 12: 15-17.) Could he regain
it? Why not? What is our birthright!
(Ram. 8: 14-17 ) In what ways do people
sell their birthright? 2. What vision of
hope does God give us? (Eph. 1: 18, 19.)
Who makes us promises to be our God?
(Eph. 3:20,21; Jude 24,25.) 3. The New
Life. What change do we need like that
of Jacob? (John 3: 5; 2 Cor. 5:17.) How
can we prove whether we have really be
gun a new life?
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS.
1. The deeds of youth bear fruit in later
years.
2. The commonest work or place is
transfigured by communion with God and
Heaven.
3. Stony pillows of affliction are often
our gate to Heaven.
4. Every true lifo is a ladder from earth
to Heaven, growing brighter and brighter
step by step.
5. Our prayers, doji res, aspirations, en
deavors, are ascending angels; and God
sends back answers, blessings, helps, love,
His Holy Spirit.
6. Jesus is lik;o this ladder, joining earth
to Heaven.
7. Every Christian home should be k
house cf God and gate of Heaven.
Applying Lesson-Truths.
Every Bible lesson has its special phase
of fitness \0 each individual scholar. It is
a teacher’s privilege to observe and to point
out the personal application of the truth to
every scholar of his charge. In prepara
tion for this service, it is well for a teacher
to run over in his mind, while studying his
lesson, the several members of his mass,
and to decide which of the lesson-truths is
most applicable thei'e. This will enable the
teacher to know more of the practical value
cf the lesson- 1 ruths, for himself; even if
his si hoi. rtj are not made the gainers there-
V v.— ’2 ii/t&f.