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Di. TALMAGE'S SERMON. PIS ADV ANT AGES OF SOME PEOPLE. Text. “All these things are against me.” Genesis, xlii, 3ii father Jac »b. you are wrong: You think vour sonJtseph is dead, tut he is Prime Vjnister of Egypt and has the keys of the great corn crib. \ on think that < ii\ uinstances are all adverse, but they will turn out well. In all vour life you never ma lea gr< ater mistake than when you said: “All those things are against me.” A treat multitude of people are under ■eeming disadvantages, and I will today, in the swarthiest Anglo Saxon that I can man age, tn at their cases; not as a nurse counts out eight or ten drops of a prescription, stirs them in a half glass of water, but as when a man has by mistake taken a large amount of opium, or Varis green,or belladonna, and the patient is walked rapidly round the 100 m and shaken up and pounded until he gets wide awake. Many of you have taken a large draught of the poison of discouragement and I come out by the order of the 1 )ivine Physi cian to rouse you out of that lethai gy. “First, many people are under the disad vantage of an unfortunate name given them by parents who thought they were doing a good thing. (Sometimes at the baptism of children while I have held up one hand in prayer I have held up the other hand in amazement that parents should have weight ed the L abe w ith such a dissonant and repul sive nomenclature. I have not so much won dered that some children should cry out at the christening font as that others with such smiling face should take a title that will be the burden of their lifetime. It is outrageous to afflict children with an undesirable name because it happened to be possessed by a parent,or a rich uncle from whom favors are expe ted, or some prominent man of the day who may end his life in disgrace. It is no excuse, because they are Scripture names, to call a chill Jehoiakim or Tiglath-Pileser. At this very altar I baptized one by the name of Bathsheba. Why, under all the circumambient heaven, any parent should want t > give to a child the name of that loose and infamous creature of Scripture times I cannot imagine. I have often felt at the baptismal altar, when names were announced to me, like saying, as did Rev. Dr. Richards, of Morristown, N. J., when a child was handed him for sprinkling and the name given: “Hadn't you better call it something else?” Impose not upon that babe a name sugges gestive of flippancy or meanne s. There is no excuse for such assault and battery on the cradle when our language is opulent with names musical in sound and suggestive in meaning such as John, meaning “the gra cious gift of God’,’ or Henry, meaning “the chief of a household,” or Alfred, meaning “good counselor,” or Joshua, meaning “God our salvation,” or Ni holas, meaning “vic tory of the people,” or Ambrose, meaning immortal,” or Andrew, meaning “manly,” or Esther, meaning “a star,” or Abigail, meaning “my father’s joy,” or Anna, mean ing “grace,” or Victoria, meaning “victory,” or Rosalie, meaning ‘ beautiful as a rose,” or Margaret, meaning “a pearl,” or Ida, mean ing "Godlike,’’ or Claia, meaning “illustri ous,” or Amelia, meaning “busy,” or Bertha, meaning “beautiful,” and hundreds of other names just as good.tbat are a help rather than hindrance. But sometimes the great hindrance in life is not in the given name but in the family name. While legislatures are willing to lift such incubus there are families that keep a name which mortgages all the generations with a great disadvantage. You say: “I wonder if he is any relation to so and so,” mentioning some family celebrated for crime or deception. It is a wonder to me that in all such families some spirited young man does not rise, saying to his brothers and sis ters: “If you want to keep this nuisance or scandal ization of a name, I will keep it no longer than until by quickest course of law lean s.’ough off the gangrene.” When the general assembly of the Presbyterian church of the United States met in this building in 1876 two estimable men of the sweetest dis position stopped at the same house, and one bad the misnomer of being Mr. Sour and the other the misnomer of being Mr. Pickle. And your city directory has hundreds of names the mere pronunciation of which has been a life long obstacle. If you have started life under a name which either through ridiculous or thography or vicious suggestion has been an encumbrance, resolve that the next genera tion shall not be so weighted. It is no bemeaning to change a name. Saul of Tarsus became Paul the Apostle. Hadas sah “the myrtle” became Esther the “star.” We have in America, and I suppose it is so in all countries,names whi bought to be abol ished and can be and will be abolished for the reason that they are a libel and a slan der. But if for any reason you are sub merged either by a given name or by a fam- . Dy name that you must bear, God will help • you to overcome the outrage by a life conse crated to the good and useful. You may erase the curse from the name. You may somewhat change the significance. If once it stood for meanness you can make it stand for generosity. ] f once it stood lor pride you can make it stand for humility. If it once stood for fraud you can make it stand for honesty. If once it stood for wickedness you can make it stand for purity. There have been multi tudes of instances where men and women have magnificently conquered the disaster! of the name inflit ted upon them. Again, many people labor under the mis fortune of incomplete physical equipment. We are by our Creator so e onomically built that we cannot afford the obliteration of any physical faculty. We want our two eyes, our two ears, our two hinds, our two ieet our eight fingers and two thumbs. Yet hov many people have but one arm or but out eye or but one foot. The ordinary casual ties of life have been quadrupled, quintupled, sextuple*!, aye centupled in our times by the Civil War, and at the North and South a great multitude that no man can nurnbej aie fighting the battie of life with half or le s than half the needed phvsicai armament. 1 do not wonder at the pathos of a soldier during the war, who, when told that he must have his hand amputated, said: “Do-tor, can’t you save it:” When told that it was impossible, said, with tears rolling down his cheeks: “Well, then, good-bye, old hand, 1 hate to part with you. You have done me a good service for many years but it seems you must go. Good-bye?” A celebrated surgeon told me of a scene in the clinical department of one of the New York hospitals when a poor man with a woun ied leg was brought in before the stu dents to be operated on. and the surge n was pointing out this and that to the stud nits and han iling th* wounded lez, and was about to proceed to amputation, the poor man leapt fr ni the table and hobble I to the door and said: “Gentlemen, I am sorry to disappoint you. but by the help of God I will die’with my leg on.” What a terrific loss is the loss of our physical faculties! (The way the bat tle of Crecy was decided against the Fren h was by the Welshmen killing the French horses and that brought their riders to the ground. And when you cripple this bodv. which is merely the animal on which tha soul rides, you may sometimes defeat the so»l]. Yet how many suffer from this phys ical fa’ mg off! Good cheer, my brothers! God will make it up to you somehow. The grace, the sympathy of God will be more to you than anything you have lost. If God allows part of your resources to be cut off in one place, He will add it on somewhere else. As Augustus, the emp-ro»*. took off a dav from February, making it the shortest month m th* year, and added it to August, the nionth named after h mself, so advantages taken from one part of your nature will be added on to another part But it is amazin? how mu r h of the world s work has been done by men of subtracted physical organisation. 8. 8. Preston, the great orator of the Southwest, went limping all h'« life, but there was no foot rut down anv nlatform of his dav that rebounded so far as his club foot Beethoven was so deaf that he cou!d not hear the cra-h of the or'hpfltra rendering his oratorios. To Thomas Carlisle, the dysnenti° martyr, wa ; given the commission to drive cant out of the wo-ld's li’orature. Rev. Thomas Sto *kton. of Philadelphia, with one lung raised h's an dien'es nearer heaven than most minister can raise them w ith two lungs. In the ban cs. the the rommenval es tablishn ent •.the reformatory association<.fht churches, there are tens of thou-andsof men and women to-dav do dried up of rheumtisnu or stabbed bv neuralgias or with nnlv f» ng mnnt; of limbs, the rest of whi< h thev left. al Chattanoo ri o*- South Mountain or the Wi! derness, and yet those people are worth mnn t> th 3 world and more to the church am more to God than those ns who have never so much as had a finger joint stiffen d bv t felon. Put to full use all the faculties that remain and < harge on all opposing circum stances with the determination of John of Bohemia, who was totally blind, and yet a! a battle cried out: “I pray and l»es«ech you to lead me so far into the fight that I riiay strike one good blow with this sword of mine ” Do not think sc. much of what facul ties you have L»st as of what faculties re main. You have enough left to make your self felt in three worlds while you help the earth and balk bell and win heaven. Arise from your discouragement, O men of de pleted or crippled physical faculties, and see what, by the special help of God, you can accomplish. The skilled horsemen stood around Bu cephalus, unable to mounter manage him, so " ild was the steed. But Alexander noticed that the sight of his own shadow seemed to disturb the horse. Ko Alexander clutched him bv the bridle and turned his head away from the shadow and toward the sun anil th? horse’s agitation was gone and Alexander mounted him and rode off to the astonish ment of all who stood by. And what you people need is to have your sight turned away from the shadows of your earthly lot, over which you have so long pondered, ami your head turned toward the sun, the glorious sun of gospel consolation and Chris tian hope and spiritual triumph. And then remember that all physical dis advantages will after awhile vanish. those who have been rheiunatismed out of a foot or cataracted out of an eye or by the perpetual roar of our citie’ thundered out of an ear, look forward to the day when this old tenement house of flesh will come down and a better one shall be rebuilded. The resurrection morning will provide you with a better outfit. Either the unstrung, worn out,blunted and crippled organs will be so re constructe I that you will hardly know them, or an entirely new set of eyes and ears an I feel will be given you. Just what it means by corruption putting on incorruption we do not know, save that it will be glory ineffable, no limping in heaven, no straining of the eyesight to see things a little way off; no putting of the hand behind the ear to double the capacity of the tympanum; but faculties perfect, all the keys of the instrument attuned for the sweep of the fingers of ecstasy. But until that day of resumption comes let us bear ea<‘h other’s burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ Another form of disadvantage under which many labor is lack of early education. There will be no excuse for ignorance in the next generation. Free schools and illimitable op portunity of education will make ignorance a crime. I believe in compulsory education, and tho’e parents who neglect to put their children under educational advantages have but one right left, and that is the peniten tiary. But there are multitudes of men and women in mid life who had no opportunity. Free schools hud not yet been established, and vast multitudes hail little or no school at all. They feel it when, as Christian men, they come to speak or pray in religious as semblies or public oc asions, patriotic or po litical or e lucational. They are silent, l»e --< ause they do not feel competent. They owe nothing to English grammar or geography or belles lettres. They would not know a participle from a pronoun if they met it many times a day. Many of the most successful merchants of America and men in high political places cannot write an a ’curate letter on any theme. They are completely dependent upon clerks and depu ties and stenographers to make things right. I knew a literary man who in other years in Washington make his fortune by writing speeches for Congressmen or fixing them up lor the Congressional Record after they were delivered. The millionaire illiteracy of this country is beyond measurement. Now, suppose a man finds himself in mid life without education, what is he to do? Do the best he can. The most effective layman in a former pastoral charge that I ever heard speak on religious themes could within five minutes of exhortation break all the laws of English grammar and if he left any law unfractured he would complete the work of lingual devas tation in the prayer with which he followed it. But I would rather have him pray for me if I were sick or in trouble than any Christian man I know of, and in that church all the people preferred him in exhortation a id prayer to all others. Why? Because he was so thoroughly pious and had such power with God he was irresistible, and as he went on in his prayers, sinners repented and saints jshouted for joy, and the bereaved seemed to •get back their dead in cel stial companion shin. And when he had stopped praying, ana as soon as I could wipe out of my eyes enough tears to see the closing hymn I ended the meeting fearful that some long winded, prayer meeting bore would pull us down from the seventh heaven. Not a word have I to say against accuracy of speech or fine elocution or high mental culture. Get all these you can. But Ido say to those who were brought up in the day of poor school houses and ignorant schoolmasters and no opportunity, you may have so much of God in your soul and so much of heaven in your every-day life that you will be mightier for good than many who went through all the curriculum of Harvard or Yale or Oxford, yet never graduated in the school of Christ. When you get up to the gate of heaven no one will ask you whether you c an parse the first cliaptei of Genesis, but whether you have learned the fear o. the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom; nor whether you know how tc square the circle, but whether you have lived a square life in a round world. Mount ZL n is higher than Mount Parnassus. But what other multitudes there are under other disadvantages! H re is a Christian woman whose husband thinks religion a sham, and while the wife prays the children on 4 wav the husband swears them another. Oi here is a Chi istian n an who is trying to de his best for God and the church and his wif« holds him ba k and says on the way home from prayer-meeting where he gave testi mony for Christ: “What a so >1 you made of yourself! I hoyie herea.ter you will ke<p still.” And when he woul 1 be benevolent and give fifty dollars, she criticizes him for not giving fi.ty cents. I must do justi e and publicly thank GoJ that 1 never proposed at home to give any thing for any cause of humanity or religion but tae other partner in the dome tic firm approve ! it. And when it seemed beyond my ability, and laith in God was necessary, she had three fourths the faith But I know men who, when they contribute t > charita ble objects, are al raid that the wife will find it out. What a withering curse such a w >man must lie toa good man. Then there are others under the great dis advantage of poverty. Who ought to get things chea| est? ion say those who have little means. But they pay more. You buy coal by the ton. 7 h y buy it by the bu ket. You buy i our by the barrel. They buy it by the pound. You get apparel cneap be cause you pay cash. They pay dea- be< au.se th *v have to get right when it said: “The destruction of the poor is ti.eir poverty.” Then there are those who made a mistake in early lite and that o ershadows all theii days. “Do you not know that that man wai on ein prison?” is whispered. Ur “Do yon know that that man once attempted sui ide?” Or “Do you know that that man on< e abs -onded?” Or “Do you know that that man wa> once discharged for dishonesty Perhaps there was only one wrong deed in the man’s life and that one act haunts the sub set uent half-< entury of hisexGten e. Ot iers have unfortunate predoininen e of some mental fa ultv and their rafhnesi throws them into «ild enterpri «s. or theiz trepi lation makes them decline great opp>r tunit es, or theie is a vein fme ancholy it their disposition that defeats them, or thej ha.e an endowment <»f over mu tn that giv« the impression of insincerity. Others have a mighty obstacle in their per sonal appearance, for which thev are not re sponsible. They forget that God fashioned tneir features and their complexion and their stature, the size of their nose and mouth and hands and fe?t, and gave them their gait and their general appearance; and they forget that much of the world's best work and the chur.’h’s best work has been done by homely people, and that Paul, the apostle, is said to nave lieen humn-baek«d an 1 bus eves ght weaken ) 1 by ophthalmia, wnile many of the fine;t in aopearanee have passel their time botore flattering looking glasses, or in study ing killing attitudes and in displaying the richness of wardrobe-, not one ribbon or ve<t or sa k or glove or b utton or shoestring ot which they have had brains enough to earn f.»r t ML Others had wrong proclivities from the start. Thev were born wrong, and that sticks to one even after he is born again. They have a natural crankiness that is 275 yea sold. It came over with their great grandfathers from Scotland or Wales or France. It was born on the banks of the Th lines, or the Clyde, or the Tiber, or the Rhine, and has survived all the plagues and epidemics of many generations, and is living to-day on the banks of the Hudson, or the Androscoggin, or the Savannah, or the La Plata. And when a man tries to stop this evil ancestral proclivity he is like a man on a rock in the rapids of Niagara holding with a grip, from which the swift currents are try ing to sweep him into the abyss beyond. Oh, this world is an over burdened world, an over-worked world! It is an awfully tired world. It is a dreadfully unfortunate word. Scientists are trying to find out the cause of these earthquakes in all lands, cis- Atlantic and trans-Atlantic. Some say this, and some say that. I have taken the diag nosis of what is the matter with the earth. It has so many burdens on it and so many fires within it, it has a lit It cann >t stand such a circumference and such a diameter. S mie new Cotopaxi or Stromboli or Vesu vius will open and then all will l>e at pea e for the natural world. But what about the moral woes of the world that have rocked all nations, and for six thousand years. Science proposes nothing but knowledge, and many people that know the most are the most un comforted. In the way of practical relief for all disad vantages and all woes, the oidy voice that is worth listening to on this subject is the voice of Christian tv, which is the voi< eof Almighty God. Whether I have mentioned the partic ular disadvantages under which you labor or not, I distinctly declare in the name of my God that there is away out and away up for all of you. You cannot ba any worse off than that Christian young woman who was in the Pemberton mills when thev fell some years ago, and from under the fallen timbers ’she was heard singing: “I am going home to die no more.” Take good courage from that Bible, all of whose promises are for those in bad predica ment. There are better days for you either on earth or in heaven. I put my hand under your chin an I lift your face into the light of the coming dawn. Have God on your si le and then you have for reserve troops all the armies of heaven, the smallest company of wh ch is 20.000 chariots and the smallest ba talion 144,000,the lightnings of heaven their drawn sword. An ancient warrior saw an overpowering host come down upon his small company of armed men, an I mounting his horse, with a handful of sand, he threw it into the air, crying: “Let their faces be covered with confusion.” And both armies heard his voice, and history says it see ned as though the dust thrown in the air had become so many angels ot supernatural deliverance, and the weak overcame the mighty and the immense host fell ba k and the small number marched on. Have faith in God, and though all the allied forces of discouragement seem to come against you in battle array, and their laugh of defiance and contempt resounds through all the valleys and mountains, you may, by faith in God and importunate prayer, pick up a handful of the very dust of your humiliation and throw it into the air and it shall become an gels of victory over all the armies of earth and hell. The faces of your adversaries, hu man ami satanie, shall be covered with con fusion, while you shall be not only conqueror, but more than conqueror through that grace which has so often made the fallen helmet of an overthrown antagonist the footstool of a Christian victor Couldn't Get In. “What class do you want to enfei your horse in?” said the president of the agricultural fair as he met the honest farmer at the gate. “Enter my hoss? I ain't got no hoss to enter nowhere.” “Don't want to put either of your horses on the track?” “? o, sir.” “Got a wheel of fortune or any such thing you want to set up?” “Naw!” “Then what are you driving in with the team and wagon for?” “Why, I’ve got a pun’kin here four feet high and a lot of big corn and some o’ the best squashes in the whole country and there’s a two year old steer tied be hind the wagon that beats anything you ever see, I know!” ■•That may all be, my friend, but this is no place for you. If you’ve got a hor.-e that you want to put on the track or any kind of a confidence game you might come in, but as it is we have no room for you. Come, move on there, end give Colonel Toeweight a chance to to drive in. Go and feed your garden truck to your big steer.”— EtUlline {Dak.) Bell. Chilled Enthusiasm. There is a very charming English lady here just now who will never be quoted in any guidebook. 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