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TRENTON, DADE COUNTY GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1887.
CALL OF THE GOSPEL.
“Come Thou. and All Thy House
Into the Ark.”
Calvary the Fulcrum by Which the World
Can be Lifted, and Christ the Door
Through Which Humanity May Enter
Heaven Sermon by Rev. T, De Witt
Talmage, D. D.
Dks Moines, lowa, March 27.—The Rev.
T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D., preached in this
city this morning to a vast, congregation.
His text was Genesis vii., 1. “Come thou
and all thy house into the ark.” The elo
quent preacher said:
We do not need the Bible to prove the de
luge. The geologist’s hammer announces
It. Sea-shells and marine formations
on the top of some of the highest moun
tains of the earth prove that at some time
the waters washed over the top of the
Alps and the Andes. In what way
the catastrophe came we know not;
whether by the stroke /if a
comet or by flashes of lightning, changing
the air into water, or by a stroke of the
hand of God, like the stroke of the axe be
tween the horns of the ox, the earth stag
gered. To meet the catastrophe, God or
dered a great ship built. It xvas to be
without prow, for it was to sail to no'shore.
It was to be without helm, for no human
hand should guide it. It was a vast struc
ture, probably as large as two or three
great Cunard steamers. It was the Great
Eastern of olden time.
The ship is done. The door is open. The
lizards crawl in. The cattle walk in. The
grasshoppers hop in. The birds fly in. The
invitation goes forth to Noah: “Come thou
and all thy house into the ark.” Just one
human family embark on the strange voy
age, and I hear the door slam shut. A
great storm sweeps along the hills and
bends the cedars until all the branches
snap in the gale. There is a moan in the
wind like unto the moan of a dying world.
The blackness of the heavens is shat
tered by the flare of the lightnings, that
look down into the waters and throw
a ghastliness on the face of the mount
ains. How strange it looks I Hoxv suffocat
ing the air seems! The big drops of rain
plash upon the upturned faces of those
who are watching the tempest. Crash! go
the rocks in convulsion. Boom! go the
bursting heavens. The inhabitants of the
earth, instead of fleeing to the house-top
and mountain-top. as men have fancied,
sit down in dumb, white horror to die.
For when God grinds mountains to pieces
and lets the ocean slip its cable there is no
place for men to fly to. See the ark pitch
and tumble in the surf, while from its win
dows the passengers look out upon the
shipwreck of a race and the carcasses of a
dead world. Woe to the mountains! Woe
to the sea!
lam no alarmist. When, on the 26th of
September, after the wind has for three
days been blowing from the northeast, you
prophesy that the equinoctial storm is
coming, you simply state a fact not to be
disputed. Neither am lan alarmist tvhen
I say that a storm is coming compared
with which Noah’s deluge was but an
April shower; and that it is the wisest and
safest for you and for me to get safely
housed for eternity. The invitation that
went forth to Noah sounds in our ears:
“Come thou and all thy house into the
ark.”
Well, how did Noah and his family come
into the ark? Did they climb in at the win
dow or come down the roof? No, they
went through the door. And just so, if we
get into the ark of God’s mercy, it will be
through Christ, the door. The entrance
to the ark of old must have been a very
large entrance. We know that it was
from the fact that there were monster
animals in the earlier ages, and, in order
to get them into the ark two and two, ac
cording to the Bible statements, the door
must have been very wide and very high.
So the door into the mercy of God is a
large door. We go in, not two by two, but
by hundreds and by thousands and by mil
lions. Yea, all the nations of the earth go
in, ten millions abreast.
The door of the ancient ark was in the
side. So now it is through the side of
Christ—the pierced side, the wide - open
side, the heart side—that we enter. Aha!
the Roman soldier, thrusting his spear
into the Saviour’s side, expected only to let
the blood out, but he opened the way to
let all the world in. O. what a broad Gos
pel to preach! If a man is about to give
an entertainment lie issues one or two
hundred invitations, carefully put up and
directed to the particular persons whom
he wishes to entertain.
But God our Father makes a banquet
and goes out to the front door of Heaven
and stretches out His hands over land ami
sea, and, with a voice that penetrates the
Hindoo jungle, and the Greenland ice-cas
tle, and Brazilian grove, and English fac
tory, and American home, cries out:
“Come out, for all things are now ready.”
It is a wide door.
\ The old cross has been taken apart, and
its two pieces are stood up for the door
posts, so far apart that all the world can
come in. Kings scatter treasures on days
of great rejoicing. So Christ, our King,
comes and scatters the jewels of
Heaven. Rowland Hill said that he
hoped to get into Heaven “through the
crevices of the door. But he was not.
obliged thus to go in. After having
preached the gospel in Surrey Chapel, go
ing up toward Heaven, the gate-keeper
cried: “Lift up your heads, ye everlast
ing gates, aud let this man come in.” The
dying thief went in. Richard Baxter
and Robert Newton went in. Europe,
Asia, Africa aud North and South
America may yet go through this
wide door without crowding. No, every
one!—all conditions, all ranks, all
people. Luther said that this truth was
worth carrying on one’s knees from Rome
to Jerusalem; but I think it worth carry
ing all around the globe and all around
the Heavens, that “God so loved the world
lhat Ho gave His only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in Him should not
uerish. but have everlasting life.” Who-
soever will, let him come through the
large door. Archimedes wanted a ful
crum on which to place his lever, and
than he said that he could move the world.
Calvary is the fulcrum, and the Cross of
Christ is the lever; and by that power all
nations shall yet be lifted.
Further: It is a door that swings both
ways. Ido not know whether the door of
the ancient ark was lifted or rolled on
hinges; hut this door of Christ opens both
ways. It swings out toward all our woes;
it swings in toward the raptures of
Heaven. It swings in to let us in; it
swings out to let our ministering ones
come out. All are one in Christ—Chris
tians on earth and saints in Heaven.
1 bne army of the living God,
At his command we bow;
Pert of the host have crossed the flood,
And part are crossing now.”
Swing ill, O blessed door! until all the
earth shall go in and live. Swingout until
all the heavens come forth to celebrate the
victory.
But, further, it is a door with fastenings.
The Bible says of Noah: “The Lord shut
him in.” A vessel without bulwarks or
doors would not be a safe vessel to go in.
When Noah and his family heard the
fastening of the door of the ark they were
very glad. Without those doors were
fastened the first heavy surge of the sea
would have whelmed them, and they might
as well have perished outside the ark as
inside the ark. “The Lord shut him in.”
Oh, the perfect safety of the ark! The
surf of the sea and the lightnings of the sky
may be twisted into a garland of snow and
fire—deep to deep, storm to storm, dark
ness to darkness; but once in the ark, all is
well. “God shut him in.”
There comes upon the good man a deluge
of financial trouble. He had his thousands
to lend; now he can not borroxv a dollar.
He once owned a store in New York, and
had branch houses in Boston, Philadelphia
and New Orleans. He owned four horses,
and employed a man to keep the dust off
his coach, phaeton, carriage and curricle;
now he has hard work to get shoes in
which to walk. The great deep of
commercial disaster was broken up,
and fore, and aft, and across the
hurricane deck, the waves struck him.
But he was safely sheltered from
the storm. “The Lord shut him in.” A
flood of domestic troubles fell on him.
Sickness and bereavement came. The
rain pelted. The winds blew. The heav
ens are aflame. All the gardens of earthly
delight are washed away. The fountains
of joy are buried fifteen cubits deep. But,
standing by the empty crib, and in the
desolated nursery, and in the doleful hall,
once a-ring with merry voices, now silent
forev<*4 he cried: “The Lord gave, the
Lord hath taken away: blessed be the
name of the Lord.” “The Lord shut
him in.” All the sins of a life
time clamored for his overthrow.
The broken vows, the dishonored Sab
baths, the outrageous profanities, the
misdemeanors of twenty years, reached
up their hands to the door to pull him out.
The bounding ocean of his sin surrounded
his soul, hoxvling a simoom, raving
like an euroclyijmi. But, out of
the window, hesatvhis sins sink like lead
into the depths of the sea. The dove of
heaven brought an olive-branch to the ark.
The xvrath of the billotv only pushed him
towi*d Heaven. “The Lord shut him in.”
The same door-fastenings that kept Noah
in keep the world out. lam glad to know
that when a man reaches Heaven all earthly
troubles are done with him. Here he may
have to get bread for his fam
ily; there he will never hunger any more.
He i*i ho may have wept bitterly: there “the
Lait® that is in the midst of the throne will
leailjiim to living fountains of water,
and God will wipe away all tears
from his eyes.” Here he may
have hard work to get a house;
hut in my Father’s house are many man
sions, and rent-day never comes. Here
there are death-beds, and coffins, and
graves; there no sickness, no weary watch
ing, no chokingcough, no consuming fever,
no chattering chill,no tolling bell, no grave.
The sorrows of life shall come up and
knock at the door, but no admittance. The
perplexities of life shall come up and
knock at the door, hut no admittance. Safe
forever! All the agony of earth in one
wave dashing against the bulwarks of the
ship of ecclesiastical light shall not break
them down. Howl on, ye winds, and rage,
ye seas! The Lord—“the Lord shut him
j in.”
O, what a grand old door! so wide, so
easily swung both ways, and with such
sure fastenings. No burglar’s key can
piek that lock. No swarthy arm of hell
can shove back the bolt. I rejoice that I
do not ask you to come aboard a crazy craft
with leaking hulk and broken helm and
! unfastened doors but an ark fifty cubits
| wide and three hundred cubits long, and a
. door so large that the round earth, witli
i out grazing the posts, might be bowled in.
Now. if the ark of Christ is so grand a
place in which to live and die and triumph,
come into the ark. Know well that the
door that shut Noah in shut the world out;
and though when the pitiless storm came
pelting on their heads they beat upon the
door, saying: “Let me in 1 let me in!” the
door did not open. For one hundred and
twenty years they were invited. They were
expected to come in, but the Antediluvians
said: “We must cultivate these fields; we
must be worth more flo ks of sheep and
herds of cattle; we will wait until we get
a little older; we will enjoy our old farm a
' little longer.” But meanwhile the storm
was brewing. The fountains of heaven
were filling up. The pry was being placed
; beneath the foundations of the great deep.
The last year had come, the last month,
the last week, the last day, the last hour,
' the last moment. In an awful dash, an
ocean dropped from the sky, and another
rolled up from beneath; and God rolled the
earth and sky into one wave of universal
destruction.
So men now put off going into the ark.
They say they will wait twenty years first.
They will have a little longer time with
their worldly associates. They will wait
until they get old'w. They say: “You
can not expect a man of my attainments
and of my position to surrender myself
| just now. But before the storm conies, I
; will tro in. Yes. I will. I know what I
am about. Trust me.” After awhile, one
night about twelve o’clock, going home, he
passes a scaffolding, a gust of wind strikes
it, and a plank falls. Dead! and outside
the ark! Or, riding in the park, a reckless
vehicle crashes into him, and his horse be
comes unmanageable, and he shouts: i
“Whoa! Whoa!” and takes another twist
in the reins, and plants his feet against
the dash-board, and pulls back. But no
use. It is not so much down the avenue
that he flies as on his way to eternity. Out
of the wreck of the crash his body was
drawn, but his soul is not picked up. It
fled behind a swifter courser into the
great future. Dead! and outside the ark!
Or, some night he wakes up with a dis
tress that momentarily increases, until he
shrieks out with pain. The doctors come
in, and they give him twenty drops, but
no relief; forty drops, fifty drops, sixty
drops, but no relief. No time for prayer.
No time to read one of the promises. No
time to get a single sin pardoned. The
whole house is aroused in alarm. The
children scream. The wife faints. The
pulses fail. The heart stops. The soul
flies. Oh, iny God, dead ! and outside the
ark!
1 have no doubt that derision kept many
people out of the ark. The world laughed
to see a man go in, and said: “Here is a
man starting for the ark. Why, there will
be no deluge. If there is one, that misera
ble ship will not weather it. Aha! going
into the ark! Well, that is too good to
keep. Here, fellows, have you heard the
news! This man is going into the ark.”
Under this artillery of scorn the man’s
good resolution perished.
And so there are hundreds kept out by
the fear of derision. The young man asks
himself: “What would they say in the
store to-morrow if I should become a
Christian? When I go down to the club
house they would shout: ‘Here comes
that new Christian. Suppose you will not
have any thing to do with us now. Sup
pose you are praying now. Get down on
your knees and let us hear you pray.
Come, now, give us a touch. Will not do
it, eh? Pretty Christian, you are.” Is it
not the fear of being laughed at that keeps
you out of the Kingdom of God! Which of
these scorners will help you at the last?
When you lie down on a dying pillow,
which of them will he there? In the day
of eternity, will they bail you out ?
My friends and neighbors, come in right
away. Come in through Christ, the wide
door—the door that swings out toward
you. Come in and be saved. Come and be
happy. “The Spirit and the Bride say
come.” Room in the ark! Room in the
ark!
But Jdo not come alone. The text in
vites^. you to bring family. “Come
thou* and fill fhy house.’’ 'J&Uat means
your wife and your children. You can
not drive them in. If Noah had tried
to drive the pigeons and the doves
into the ark he would only have scat
tered them. Some parents are not wise
about these things. They make iron rules
about Sabbaths, and they force the cate
chism down the throat, as they would hold
the child’s nose and force down a dose of
rhubarb and calomel. You can not drive
your children into the ark. You can draw
your children to Christ, but you can not
coerce them. The Cross was lifted not to
drive, but to draw. “If I be lifted tip I will
draw all men unto me.” As the sun draws
up the drops of the morning dew, so the
Son of Righteousness exhales the tears of
respentanee.
“Come thou and all thy house into the
ark.” Be sure thatyou bring your htisband
and wife with you. How would Noah have
felt if, when he heard the rain pattering on
the roof of the ark, he knew that his wife
was outside in the storm; No; she went
with him. And yetsome of you areonthe
ship “outward bound” for Heaven but your
companion is unsheltered. You remember
the day when the marriage-ring was set.
Nothing has yet been able to break it.
Sickness came on and the finger shrank,
but the ring staid on. The twain
stood alone above a child's grave, and
the dark mouth of the tomb swollowed up a
thousend hopes, but the ring dropped not
into the open grave. Days of poverty
came, and the hand did many a hard day’s
work, but the rubbing of the work against
the ring only made it shine brighter. Shall
that ring ever be lost! Will the iron clang
of the sepulcher-gate crush it forever? I
pray God that, you who have been married
on earth may be together in Heaven. Oh!
by the quiet bliss of your earthly home, by
the babe’s cradle, by all the vows of that
day when you parted life together, I beg
you see to it tnt you both get into the
ark.
Come in and bring your wife or your hus
band with you—not by fretting about re
ligion, or dingdonging them about religion,
but by a consistent life, and by a com
peling prayer that shall bring the throne
of God down into your bedroom. Better
live in the smallest house in Brooklyn and
get into Heaven than live fifty years in the
finest house on Madison Square and wake
up at last and find that one of you, for all
eternity, is outside the ark. Go home to
night. lock the door of your room, take up
the Bible and read it together, and then
kneel down and commend your souls to
Him who has watched you all these years,
and before you rise there will be a flutter
ing of wings over your head, angel crying
to angel: "Behold! they pray!”
But this does not include, all your fam
ily. Bring the children, too. God bless
the dear children! What, would our
homes be without them? We may have
done much for them. They have done
more for us. What a salve there is for
a wounded heart in the soft palm of a
child’s hand ! Did harp or flute ever have
such music as there is in a child's “good
night?” From our coarse, roagh life the
angels of God are often driven back; but
who comes into the nursery without feel
ing that angels are hovering around?
They who die in infancy go into glory, but
you are expecting your children to grow
up in this world. Is it not a question,
then, that rings through all the corriders,
and windings, and heights, and depths of
your soul, what is to become of your sons
and daughters for time and for eternity?
“Oh!” you say, “I mean to see that they
have good manners." Very well. “I
mean to dress them well, if J have m/self
VOL. IV.—NO. 6.
to go shabby.” Very good. “I shall giva
them an education, and 1 shall leave them
a fortune.” Very well. But is that all?
Don’t you mean to take them into the ark!
Don’t you know that the storm is coming,
and that out of Christ there is no safety?
no pardon? no hope! no Heaven!
How to get them in! Go in yourself. If
Noah had staid out, do you not suppose
that his sons, Shem, Ham and Japhet,
would have staid out? Your sons and
daughters will be apt to do just as you do.
Reject Christ yourself, and the probability
is that your children will reject Him.
HINTS FOR WOMEN.
A Lady Correspondent Advises Them lloxr
to Manage Business Affairs.
I give you a few business hints for wom
en. They are needed:
Always count your change, or money
paid you in any transaction, immediately.
Any error can then be corrected and save
clerks and book-keepers valuable time as
well as the money to make good a loss.
Always keep a cash account. Make your
entries each night, and see that the bal
ance on your book agrees with the cash in
hand. Such entries are valuable proofs of
payment, and can serve as a basis for
future economies. When you buy a draft
have it made to your own order, then in
dorse on the back: “Pay to the order of,”
otc. The etc. being the name of the per
son to whom you send it, and your name
written on the face of the draft. This is a
full receipt, when paid, for the money sent.
Never sign a paper unless you fully un
derstand its meaning. Do not be afraid to
ask for explanations, and give them your
entire attention. Very few men under
stand all the intricacies of different busi
ness transactions, and a clear understand
ing on your part may prevent trouble aud
loss.
If you own a farm and have property,
find its position and description on a map.
Always keep a correct written description,
with which to compare the one given in
tax receipts, insurance policies or deeds. —
Cor. Chicago Journal.
Words Fitly Spoken.
A word spoken at one time may have an
effect exactly opposite to what it would at
another. The impression may be lasting.
It often takes only a word to ruin a man,
and it often takes only a word to save him.
We should not make too much of a hug
bear of this fact, for it would take away
all the pleasure of conversation. Ona
might as well be dead as feel that every
word he said was freighted with the fate
of a human soul. Besides it would be a
huge mistake. Still on rare occasions a
single word is charged with saving or fatal
electric power.
Sometimes the subject does know where
the shock came from —does not know that
it was in the word spoken, and never
thanks the speaker for it. When the influx
enee is recognized and acknowledged the
result is most pleasant. Words are not
such cheap things as they are supposed to
be. They do not always come easy. Wa
often find it utterly impossible to speak the
word we want to.
Hence gratitude for a word spoken fitly
and in season may be increased by a realiz
ation of how hard the word was to say. It
may have almost stuck in the throat of the
person who said it And yet it was said,
and saved a soul, who never knew it and
gave no thanks. The amount of that kind
of ingratitude that there is in the world is
quite shocking. — l)es Moines Leader.
Power of Self-forgetfulness.
Whoever is wholly absorbed in one pur
pose has power for the time in the direc
tion of that purpose. Look at a boy, for
example, in a game of “p ;g-top. ” Hold
ing his own top in his upraised hand, he
fixes his eye and mind on the spinning top
of his antagonist, which he purposes to
“peg.” In one sense he takes no aim, he
does not even look at the top in his own
hand, but his whole being centers itself on
the top before him; and his hand and arm
are subject to that, all-controlling pur
pose of his being. And just so far as that
boy is successful in this absolute self
absorption is the one thing he has to do
—not even giving thought to a fear of his
failure—is that boy likely to have success
in the doing of that one thing. So it is in
every sphere of practical endeavor. It is
singleness of mind that gives gracefulness
and skill aud force of personal action. If
one is thinking partly of himself, instead
of thinking wholly of his mission, he is so
far clumsy and embarrassed and ineffective
in the line of that mission. This is as true
of a public speaker in his advocacy of an
important cause, as it is of a person enter
ing a room where is an ordinary social
gathering. Divided 'thought gives a lack
of ease and a lack of power. Self-forget
fulness, in self-absorption, is cost of
every practical success- iu life.— a. H.
Time*.
A I’retty Incident.
A Baltimore policeman found a little boy
wandering about one of the wharfs of the
city at ten o’clock at night, and took him
to the station house. The little fellow was
fair-headed and rosy-cheeked, and could
speak German only. He had lost his hat.
A comfortable bed was made for himon ona
of the settees. He lay down, but remem.
bering himself, he said, in his native
tongue: “I have not prayed yet.” Then
while three reporters and two policemen
reverently bowed their heads, the littio
hands were clasped, and in childish ac
cents the prayer ascended to Him who loves
to hear and answer. When he concluded,
a reporter tucked a policeman’s coat
around the child, who, in angelic charge,
dropped asleep.
Humility and I.ove.
“Love is lowliness.” Is not this one of
the most beautiful sentences? Perhaps
Richter never wrote three words that
meant more. Ah! it is human pride that
breeds envyings and strifes, distmbs the
harmony of congenial souis and the peace
of the individual. What lowliness unites
it is hard to break asunder, for each es
teems the other better than himselt. Love
without lowliness is all smiles during
prosperity; but when the hard things of
life arc to be battled against or to be simply
borne patiently, then it is the smile of low
liness that is valued. But we forget, “Love
is lowliness." Without lowliness, love is
not love, however otherwise it may seem
for the time being.
It is foolish to try to live on past experi
ence. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal
habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because
of something that we felt or did twenty
years age.— iipurgiot*.