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IN' Mi:MORr.\M. 
 
 The Late Rev. T. Dc Witt Talmage. 
 
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 TAi.MAGK I'UklXl. K\K,.v vkak^ ^r liKooKI.VX 
 
THE AUTHENTIC LIFE 
 
 OF 
 
 T. DeWITT TALMA6E 
 
 THE GREATLY BELOVED DIVINE 
 
 BY 
 
 REV. JOHN Rl SK, Ph.D. 
 
 Authnr<,f -Ufe nfQu^ai rirtoria.'- -f.,,!,- n„us,n„l JV„rs .l,j„,- e(.-. 
 
 WITH AN ■.\TBOUL'I.TIO.\ Ur 
 
 RHV. RUSSHLL H.COXWHLL, D D 
 
 Ann.or..f--Lir,s,,fO,r ,'r.sule,,,.," -UUuf /,„„„.,, vv,„/.r," -,.H, .., J ., 
 
 H'lrftihl, -UJ^ „/ Spu,;jc„n:- -Arres ,.J l>i„mo,„l.sr Ur.. , U: 
 
 l.NCLUniNO KXTBACTS FROM Ills MoST EloQUEVT SERMONS 
 AND LKCTUBE8 AND TRIBUTES OV IMS L.FE FROM 
 
 THE World's Greatest Men 
 
 AND A EULOGY 
 
 Br 
 
 JOHN FRANKLIN TALMAGE 
 
 EjcquUitely Iltu^trateH tuilh En^ra^inii^ 
 from Original Thoto/raph^ 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 Ihomns DcWitt Talniasc preacher aiul man. was eloquent in deetl 
 and speech. I-or seventy years he lived, and his !iiV was to fjreat 
 purpose. 
 
 (-{eared as a sturdy farmer's hoy in the heart of New Jersey. Cod's 
 sunshine was ever upon his head and in his heart. Educated for tlie 
 legal profession, he ceased to follow Blackstone that he might scatter 
 tlie gospels to p.ll tile peoples of the world. 
 
 I'ar greater was his success than he or anyone else anticipated. 
 But it came not without the struggles that come to all. From an 
 unknown preaclu-r he n.>c to the distinction of the foremost pulpit 
 orator of the world. Revivifying a Brooklyn church that was in its 
 death-throes, he dreu within the sound of his voice cnnuless thou- 
 sands. Church after church he huilt. that all who card might hear. 
 Dr. Talniage's greatness, it is generally conceded, can he ascribed 
 to his posver as an orator. Coupled with this he had the talent of sini- 
 ple and trenchant interpretation of the scriptures. He u~as a Christian 
 of the old .school, if that expression may he employed. He did not run 
 much to new thougiu. higher criticism or creed reform. He clung 
 »enaci(jusly to a plain, pure programme of every-day morals and right 
 living. He found enough noble texts in the liible to supply him with 
 inspirati(.)n. 
 
 He was a magnificent lecturer. .Some of his tlights of oratory 
 arc remembcre.I as l,eing of MU-passing impressiveness and picturesque- 
 ness. He drew lessons from everything. He talked to a purpose, but 
 at the same time he garnished Iiis .sentences with l)eauty. and his 
 voice, appearance and fire combined to entlirall and uplift the hearer. 
 
 Bounded not b\- church »va'I« "t t'^e cn^fi";-- ~.( -,- >.■ i • 
 
 -I. .la... ^....! i..f cn,,n.iC3 Ot j!:y ;;atlon. his 
 
^ PREFACE 
 
 congregation i.can.e as wide as the knowledge o. pnnting. „. .er- 
 "'->. .iKstnlnUed in every „an,let of AnKnca ,,v the relig.ous an . 
 -cnlar press, were spread broadcast in iCnglan,, and, ,ran>t,ed n ' 
 •"any langna,i(cs, uere read in cverv lan.l 
 
 ''->"'li-."udtitndes a. a -ectur;, he traveled ,hr.ng.,n h,s native 
 ""• -Hi -ade a trunnpl,al tour an.un., „,e uorl.l. ,.:verv > here he wa. 
 litaped wnh honors an,l attention... 
 
 Ministcrin, with all his strength to the fannne-Mnck.n pcnpl. ..f 
 
 -<1 ■.readtlM., tlKMV.-rld was a living nuh.enc-e for ,;od and the n,',t 
 
*>• 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 i:iil.,K'> by John Fninklin Taltir.Kc. . . . ''*"* 
 
 liilroduction by KihmII II, Cnnutll. j.l.L) '.'.'.'..'.'.'.'". '^ 
 
 CHAi'TKR 1, 
 DEATH Ol- THH C.RKAT PRKACHER. 
 
 ""■Ii'"'l',:"u'!^"i'' '"' ''^-•'^'":r ^ l'^""'"l 'l'"^'- lli^- tloqufi.t diuuc pa.>.. awav 
 i ,. ,^,, I ;'i"^ 'V ''?'"r--'^f"V^ surr..,„Kl,„g h.s dcathbed-Hi. last word^ 
 ih- met dcaih a. |„. had hvcd. tc irle>.ly and with abiding faith ^5 
 
 C llAI'll-.K II. 
 HIS LAST II.l..\i:ss-l\ Till- SHADOW OK IMC TH. 
 
 •. S \n ,,, .' '"""V^ '"'■',''•'' '■'"' •■" ^''^ "^l<-'ans follows bad new- 
 a San Antomu-Hon.r at last an.l Kra.Inal Ins> of strength -H<.w be k. ,1 
 ihos.- about linn liopctnl to the last ^ "e kijil 
 
 ch.\I'|-i:r III. 
 
 P.HMTII-I.ACT-. AND BOYHOOD. 
 
 ClfAI'TKR IV. 
 
 TlIK MIXISTRV CAINS A XIAV RIXRLJT AXD THE L.WV LOSES A\ 
 
 Al'PRi:\TICE 
 
 '^'■V',';"'b'i' 'ilr'rV"" V""<^ ''"^''r'^'W^VI""^ •!'>• law and .tnd,.. for the nnnisirv- 
 ■ urc ~ Mo. .''".''' '"■^''■';*-T''^\''' ■■' -^■"""? l>a^'"'-Acccp,. a call to a la gcr 
 
 44 
 
 ("H.M'TER \-. 
 HIS ELOQUKXCE S.WKS A I)V1\(; CiU RCH. 
 
 <;' « 
 
Jtoi^?!. 
 
 m>:j^. 
 
 ^^ CONTENTS 
 
 CIIAPTKK VI. 
 TRU'MPHS OVIiK PLKSUIXG TIRE TIEND. 
 
 K.rc d.s,r,.» .ecoMd tatir,,acelMorc a[aKnfi^^^^^ eloquent vvin- 
 
 -= p:.M..r-U-,.ndcrf„l .l,.,rcl, and '^^ X^'^r.^'I^vir "' .''^ P"^'^'' ,„ 
 
 CHAl'TKK \l|. 
 Ci:i,i;URATKS A SILVI'K jL hiij:i.: 
 
 an.lglonficahor--M,ra-,,lo„7,-s-i,,rn H^ ^liaractcr-Thrie days of praist! 
 
 71 
 
 CHAPTER Vllf. 
 TAI.MACa-.S VISIT TO Till- HOI.V I.AM) 
 
 CH \i'-ii-:k i.\. 
 
 TRIUMPIIAXT T.'H'R OF TllK WORI I) 
 
 CIIAI'TKK X. 
 l\IMW;i: AMI KINC; RDWAROS DOMArX 
 
 reminiM-nu-,-. ol Iha, ',,'„.rv '' ''" ''''"''" ^"'^ preacher-His 
 
 ■>5 
 
 CIIAI'TER Xl. 
 
 SKRMONS KKACil T\Vi;XTV MII.Mox PERSONS A WEiK 
 
 Iat.d into „ „n 1; .,« ,a'^r ^ u^r ■ '^ "nds then, attracive-Trans- 
 
 '».T l-„ro|.,. ;... ■ ' ''" '-''"' ^"•' '"^^•■"■'^ '" i-""tin..ntal. all 
 
 104 
 
 (11 M'TKR XII. 
 HKCOMHS PASTOR '^^^R^^jniCNT CLKVKLAXD'S CIIIRCII-HIS 
 
COXTHXTS j^ 
 
 out -ialary .•.rrange:iifm~V\:irUrH i,, l„ ,, .•,.ni..r . ''■»"■ 
 
 of nation '" """"^ "' K'Hrriinu rit ai',| |.(,litic, 
 
 1-5 
 
 ^ II wn-.\< xm. 
 
 I-AMH.V UiK Ml.i.i,,, uirii j,,v \m, •,-,< \gk tJV 
 
 ts a social favorite i^N a I,m U, ' 'T^'",''^ '"1% ^ *^''^"-'<='' *'^""''' «1>.. 
 interesting tann'v '' '' ' '"' >'^"^''"^- (-liarniinR h,>n.c lifo-An 
 
 i '.'.' 
 
 ni \('THR \i\-. 
 
 \ WONDKRKt I. AXSUIK TO I'RAVKK 
 
 n.nny beamiful trilu.te, .a \v.:,;.;',','l,oo,r ''"-■ ''^'"" """' "'^—''ay- 
 
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 <- II.\1'T!-.R W. 
 A STAK '.I'OX Till.; I.IXTIKI: PI. XiroRM 
 
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 CHAI'TICk Wl 
 PRRSONAUTV (,K THK MAX aXI, POUKR ,), „,s IXKLLKXCK 
 
 "^"^y,;;a^ne;^-^;;;:i^r'.;^?f:^- li;;"^'"^;:^- "^i^"! --'-^V-a. won.er- 
 I ho better / . '"•^--'■—-"'^Wtwyi thousan.I, of lives for 
 
 17I) 
 
 C'HAPTI'R Wii. 
 AXKCDOTKS, SCKXKS AXI) IXCIDI XTS 
 
 Anecdotes innu.nerall .0,., ./f'l^u,' hv^hr:ffnrn:^ d.r!,,"^ '''^ '"^^■•^>- 
 
 CM AI'THR XVIII. 
 
 A PROLIFIC \VRITKk-in.^ WORK A.^ AX .\l TIIOR. 
 
 Dr. Talniage a Rreat worker— Wrote miuii tor rl, . r 
 
 i"lerviewe<l-.\„tl,or of niain I'ool!,. . ' rel.jf.o.K ,,res._\Va. widely 
 
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 C"M M'TKR XIX. 
 T.\i.M.\(;i:s \-n:\vs ox womfx 
 
 ieading 01 ao>cIs g---:— \ ;:-.v. n;\ the 
 
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 CUNTKXTS 
 
 ("IIAPTF.k XX. 
 I M.MAUI- ON i;\i;kv dw ai tmks 
 
 JV> 
 
 lialiii— Si 
 
 vi.-ll ilissipritir 
 
 ilir:ilri-- 
 
 ClIAI'TI'-.K XXI. 
 
 1 1 M KAi ()!• T III: urn t\i..\ia(,i; 
 
 I'liiircssm- >ir\Ki- 
 Kreal divim'— I' 
 prai-r ilic w,,rk ..I ihr .load 
 
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 »'ii.\i'ri-;R XXII 
 
 IKIIil IKS |-R()M I'KKSS AXl) I'lLCIT 
 
 
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 FAMOUS SERMONS AND LKCTURES. 
 
 Mcixliiis till- Millie. 
 
 Till' Kerry l!,iai nil- ili> J.Milan 
 
 I )r(liii:irv IVopIo 
 
 N'lMPiUiiU' Ml l.ifi- 
 
 rill- Si'crci ( )iii 
 
 Allan ia> and Sajipliira ^^' 
 
 The (.i..rinii. March •'■'■♦ 
 
 Sliaiii- ill Uilij;iiiij ■'*-' 
 
 I'lit lUaiily c.f Kilisi'm ■'''" 
 
 Tilt Day We l.ne in •'^" 
 
 Kelii.-ioii an Aiitiyc))tie ■'^■' 
 
 Music 111 Wnrsliip •'"- 
 
 BiisiiH-s I. in- ■'"'' 
 
 'id-pel LdcikiiiR-gla-- '' 
 
 '["lie Ciiiiiiin; Seriiioii . . ■^' ' 
 
 The Blood ■'''^ 
 
 J<)5 
 ,V>i 
 
 The Spicery of Religi. 
 
 40^ 
 
 Splendors of Orthodoxy ■^"'' 
 
 ^■onr PediKree ■•'■"' 
 
 The Insigiiificani "''" 
 
 luoliitioii ■*"' 
 
 Intole 
 
 4.V) 
 
 The W'itnes-i-vtand "'"'^ 
 
 Paul in a Ra-k.i *'' ^^^ 
 
 460 
 

 EULOGY* 
 
 h\ JOHN hKANKI.IN TAI.MA(.K. 
 
 I'fiis arc (■\(r\ wluTf lniv 
 HcWitt TalinaLTC. S..1111 
 
 ^vritiii.n tnil(.j,rii.s ti],,,,, tlic- litf oi tlu- I-! 
 
 if ihfst' 
 
 "I 'red Willi liini. some 
 
 a-f written liv ministers w! 
 
 lu la- 
 
 mcmliei 
 
 strangers win. knew li 
 
 •I" l!ie 'laini; 
 
 pen iipdn his lite an( 
 
 IRC family, perhaps a cmtril 
 
 nn (inly by reputation 
 
 lilt" Work ma 
 
 iition from m\ 
 
 r DcWiii Tal 
 
 y not Come ami 
 
 'iiia,i;e has been callc. 
 
 to(la\ reali/et 
 
 .;i'cat 
 
 \ci 
 
 ilonbi 
 
 "1 what degree he was "Teat. ( 
 
 if the world 
 
 iit'ss connts for nothini. 
 fill, and bis hclpftilness 
 liate him more and 
 
 DeWiii 
 
 •reatnc-s without 
 
 (iiid- 
 
 almage was good — ] 
 
 was o 
 
 I such a nature that tl 
 
 more as time roils 
 
 StlAxl. 
 
 but 1 
 
 He work 
 
 It' paid little attenti 
 
 lie was help- 
 ouii me world will appre- 
 lie was often misunder- 
 
 '>n to man's mter])retat 
 
 ed on and left (be result with (iod. 
 
 "in of bis work. 
 
 HOME LIFE. 
 
 H 
 
 is home life 
 
 was extreme 
 
 left 
 
 awa\ has 
 
 I)raise which I 
 
 a void which will 1 
 
 y beautiful and bapjjy, and h 
 
 )e imi)ossihIe to ti 
 
 death 
 
 have been .sounded on a 
 
 is felt none the less k 
 
 would have lived man\ 
 and shortened his life I 
 
 :eenlv. With h 
 
 ■•ouig- 
 
 The tributes .if 
 
 Mi.solation, but bis 
 
 ,neat physical strength be 
 
 sides are a c 
 
 nseful years bad be not overtaxed 
 
 influci 
 
 )f I 
 
 )y unremitting ctVoriv 
 
 cncrg\- 
 
 nee ot Ins sermons has al\ 
 that he lived up to the things tl 
 
 and ceaseless activilv. T 
 intensilled by the knowled-e 
 
 •CopjTiKhled iw. bv L C. 
 
 gs that he pre: 
 
 :iched 
 
 As tl 
 
 lese sermons are 
 
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14 
 
 EULOGY 
 
 .cad aiKl re-read, the world will cnic more and inurt- to tec! thai a 
 ^ Rreat li>,']it \va- i\tiii(,'iii>lie.| when In- departed, 
 
 SECRET OF DR. TALMAOE'S POWER. 
 
 N.. minister ..f ,he (inspei who hve.l .hiring the lax ant.nv o.uld 
 iwssibly have ina.Ie a .leqier inipre.ssion uiK.n the reli.i,M..us world. It 
 l'.-is heen fre,|uently >tate.l In anarchists that their growth was held in 
 check i.v the influence which the sermons of H,-. Tahnape ha,| ui.on the 
 I'Kl.hc. If a.ked the secret of his power. I shonid say the great secret 
 ol his sncces> wa. his indomitable energv a-id ..riginalitv. His e.xpres 
 ^:ons. combined with an eanie.tnes. and power of elo'.,nence, carried 
 c^elyth,nK bef-.re ihem. The w.rld rewar.ls strong thinkers in every 
 .-.venne oi hfe. and it is „.,t t,. Ik- won.lered at that his originality of 
 llu.nghi an.l acti.M. along religions lines won for him great sncce.ss in 
 the world of religion. 
 
 Or. Talm;,ge cast as„le many of the ira.Iitions v. inch hamnere.l others 
 '" tl-e imlpii. I fe pnt asi.le forms, bnt never lost .sight of the snb.stanre 
 I le cast aside the <hc]]s. bnt ever ofTere.l the kernels of truth. .\o one 
 knew better than he how to attract an.l hold the attention of men. women 
 and children. 
 
 KEEN OBSERVER. 
 
 To Dr. Palmaoe-s natural ability was adde.l the knowledge acin^vd 
 from persona! contact with men of learning in all parts of the Hob.- 
 Fie was at !,on,e with crowned heads, he as.sociate.l with statesmen and 
 with men „f letters. Mis ,act. genial natnre an.l rea.lv wit nuule him 
 the center o, every company. lie was a keen traveler and a do.se ob- 
 server. ll,s sermons an.l lectnro alwavs lv,re the imprint of world- 
 wule experience an.l .Uplomatic association hlvcrv inclcnt. no matter 
 how trifling, an.l every relation pertaining to mankin.l. was tnrne.l info 
 examples for g.,o.l. ]W was especially kin.l to the p.u.r. Xo one man 
 could Dossiblv have ddtic nv.r,. r t.:i.....i,.. ., .- . „ . 
 
 - '■'••' •■■■ ;•■••>. ir.aiiup;. iir ;,,]• tn^. allc\ Kiting 
 
EUUMIV 
 
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 of liinnan want His jrcncrusitv \\a> fi 
 
 t'(|iiciilly kiiouii only to Ins u\mi 
 
 lioiiselinld. His daily lite at lin)()klyii and 
 liflialf (if iliaiiiv will live in the 1 
 
 liis uork and sermons ni 
 
 learts i)f men Innjj alter liis praise in 
 l«iil)lie has ceased. He lan well he called the man of the peojile. lalxjr- 
 in^f for the i»e(iple. 
 
 THE VACANT CHAIH. 
 
 Dr. ialniajfe ha.s written his last sermon and stood hcfore his last 
 as.scml)laKe ! I le has Im.ken hread for the last lime with those he loved ! 
 All who have km enconraf;ed hy his smile ..i made stroiij; |,y ti,e ^r,•as|) 
 of hi.s hand or npliftc.i hy his nohle deeds, must l.x.k heavenward, not 
 earthward, for T. DeWitt Talmaffe is no more of the earth earthly, hut 
 of heaven, heavenly. His chair is vacant! May tiie sweet companion- 
 sliip, which he e\er preached in heliali of ihe re.leemcd. he reunited in 
 the sweet hye and l.ye to all who came within the siihce of his inllnence. 
 
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 Dr. iralinaoc's life. 
 
 Born. OatevUlp. N. J., January 7, 1832. 
 
 Educated at the University of New York. 
 
 KeliKious denomination. Presbyterian. 
 
 First pastorate. Bellcvill... N. J.. 1836. 
 
 Preacliin-T in Syracuse, 1S50 to 1802. 
 
 Growing famous in Philadelpliia. 1802 to I8Q9. 
 
 Called to Brooklyn. March 83. 1869. 
 
 Preacher-pastor at the Central Church twen^y-flve years. 
 
 Built first tabernaclo. 1870-72. 
 
 Erected the second tabernacle (after fire>. 1372-74. 
 
 Famous trip to Holy Land. 1890. 
 
 Accepted call to Washington, D. C. January, !S91. 
 
 PiearliinR-, lecturing, traveling, 1895 to 1902. 
 
 Married three times. 
 
 Children living, one son. Ave daughters. 
 
 Lived to be seventy years old. 
 
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 De«th-I t«w a beautiful belnir walkins up and down the earth. 
 She touched the aged and they became youny. She touched the 
 poor and they became rich. They told me that her name was Death. 
 
 Sowing Wild Oata-It Is said that the younff must be allowed to 
 sow their wild oats. I have noticed that those who sow their wild 
 oats seldom raise any other kind of crops. 
 
 »■ n*« worry because God made you different from others. 
 
 V ige not In the discharge of your duty though all hell wreak 
 upc . you its vengeance and you become the targets for the little 
 devils to shoot .it. 
 
 London and Pekin are not the great cities of the world The 
 urave is the great city. 
 
 As the leaves fade and fall to rise, so do we. 
 
 You may wait for your last moment, hut wh-n your last moment 
 comes it will not wait for you. 
 
 Many men are wise for a time and foolish for eternity. 
 
 It is sad to say farewell on earth, but how sad to say farewell in 
 the judgment. 
 
 Long not for the last words that have not been spoken If the 
 life has been right, the death cannot be wrong. 
 
 Never put upon any one else an unnecessary- burden Never tell 
 a man what mean things you have heard of him. 
 
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 I X . I 1 I 
 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 By '^USSELL H. CONWELL, LL I). 
 
 We cannot introduce Dr. Talmas^ ! Like other -reat men. l,e intro- 
 duced himself. The world knows him. and has given l,is name to the 
 most fascinatingly hrilhant oratory of the last century. Permit me, 
 however, to introduce you to a systematic study of his inspiring 
 biography; in order that this hook may do you the go.,.! the biographer 
 wishes it to do. Consi.ler carefully the inherited advantages and con- 
 ditions, which influenced the beginning of this helpful life. In most 
 respects a million of young men arc beginning life now with all ,)f 
 Mr. Talmage's inherited family advantages. The .Yew fersev home, 
 the holy spirited mother, the strong, unflinching, in.lustrious Christian 
 father, the great family of children, the limited i'lcme, and the coarse 
 fare, have all been the privilege and j,.y of many other voimg men. 
 Others may have loved their parents as did De Witt. Thev may have 
 had associates as healthful as nere tho,.e about him, and 'the schools 
 are now as valuable to the children as thev were in 1S40. The .tu.ient 
 therefore, of this muKunic life will need to „.igh these circumstances 
 an.l ascertain what it was in them or in Dr. Tahnaoo which will make 
 the reader equ.ally loved and honore.I, .^nmc , •- ,I,e „„,re Ihon.dulc^s 
 throngs who have stare<l at hi. tall, dignified ligure. wept a, his dKux^e 
 of tone, or shouted themselves wild in the tumults nf applause Inve 
 found as many rea.sons for his greatness as there were Inm.lred. in hi. 
 cnnvd ot auditors. In the old day some said that Ions was Moses or 
 [•.has. or one of the Prophets, but only the few wh., studied Mini at 
 short r-mge really knew who or wh.nt Up >, w <.-, ;, ;. :.. .1 
 
'2-2 IXTKODUCTIOX 
 
 the life of a disciple of tlie Son of God, only those wlio get at the inner 
 facts and motives, can gain the lielpful instruction wliich only the truth 
 can give. Men have accounted for Dr. Talmage's popularity and deeds 
 in the greatest diversity of conclusions. Some said that he inherited 
 direct and fully all his strange power. Others claimed that he gained 
 all by tlie genius of "hard work." Others declared him to he a hypo- 
 crite, and a mo.st skillful deceiver. While others iiave Iield strongly to 
 the tlieory that his intluence was due wholly to accidental coiuhinations 
 of circumstances, such as fires, deaths, floods, accidental advertising, 
 and unexpected appearance of the right men in the nick of time. Hut 
 now the reader can take up this hook, written hy an impartial friend, of 
 years and discernment, and can study out a theory of this noble life to a 
 safe and permanent conclusion. Its lessons in industry, filial olicdience, 
 economy of time, in temperance, in Christian faith, in love for n . kind 
 will in this shape do more good in the <.::.ouragemcnt and ek'vn'iMn of 
 Christian thinking and living than did all his wonderful philHpics. 
 Such a biography is a heritage the rising generation will greatly need. 
 It is a. book which cannot die. so long as young men desire to know- 
 by what paths, wliat deeds and what cliaracters the great reached the 
 cloud-encircled heights of a solid fame. I therefore most seriously 
 and most reverently introduce you to this book. It is the plain story 
 of a great life. It is a history of one who mastered great obstacles, of 
 one who was true t.. himself: who fearlessly sailed straight on, and 
 escaped the ruin, wreck and woe of the millions who have tried to be 
 someone else th.an themselves. lie set his eye on the Xcrth Star and 
 kept it there; neither money, n.une. luxury, re-t, ridicule, caricature, 
 hate or falsehood moved him fmm the declaration of the Cospel. I !e 
 was a sacred orator. He ascended into realms nf imaginative svnib,.l 
 and beauty which reminded his generation ni Isaiah. Daniel and [nfin. 
 The fascinated, bound listener was carried away on the chariots of Tal- 
 mageV snpeii) speech until blinded by the brightness, encli. -ited bv the 
 music, courted tjy archangels, and blessed with an ahniHitv bonodictioii. 
 

 IXTIJODUCTION 
 
 23 
 
 he awakes in :i lieart-straiiiing spasm as the preacher suddenly says, 
 Amen. If the joy of the hstener was so entrancing in what gleaming 
 I.-alaces of plory must have dwelt the soul of the orator! One can but 
 faintly a])i)rtciate the heights of love or the thrilling, overwhelming 
 cxclcincs of haiijiincss which must have aroused the soul of Dr. Tal- 
 mage, when in those supreme moments of oratorical excitement he gave 
 liis whole be i!.,' to volcanoes, deluges, battles, judgments, hallelujahs, 
 or lived in a moment through ages of heaven's unlimited peace. How- 
 far he dwelt above the common man! His descriptive powers like that 
 ill ■"Beishazzar's last loa-t" seem su])erhuman ; so accurate tn all known 
 history and so insiiircd in all that appeared in his sermon concerning 
 the great realms beyond. 1 fc thought in mighty figures. Should an- 
 other try to use the same wings or to visit the same scenes he would 
 lind that to him the win^s were wax and the chariot of the sun un- 
 governable. Dr. '{"almagc would walk from Ranias to Edom in one 
 sermon. He lived it. Life was a Jordan. Hcrmon's cold snows wept 
 into fountains of fh-acc. Childhood was in the meadows of Mcnm. 
 Youth was like the Highland cascades of Gali'ce, love like tlic blue 
 Ccnncsarct sea. Manhood like the earth-shaking cataracts of the 
 lower Jordan, death like the Dead Sea. and the Life to come like the 
 rising spirit of the waters which rose at last to the sun. in clouds of 
 white and sailed -uvay to the Islands of the Blessed. What strides his 
 soul took! lie leaped from the Southern Cross to the Xorth Star, 
 from the i)estilential caver >. .stench and fumes of the dog star to the 
 throne o| (Ind and the eternal beauty in Alcyone. He passcil with the 
 s.-iintly soul ,.f tl,c nld father in tlie old armed ch.air by the fireside, 
 through the greetings of the angels, the welcome of the sainted loved 
 ones, on through the gates of tlaming gold right up to the seat of the 
 awful F.tcnial ( >iie. He hcanl the \oices of immortals, saw the smile 
 of the E\erl:istiiig leather. How much he lived! The bee and hum- 
 ming bird could not speak its love too low for his imagination to hear. 
 The crash of a continent, the hurling of a nionut.nin r.nnec inli.> a sea 
 
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 IXTUUDUCTION 
 
 of vulcanic f.ro could not deafen his attentive ear. The glance of hate 
 tl.esoft blusi, of love, the streak of coming day. the last flash of even- 
 ing s <,y„.g glnry on the wing of a swallnw. the grace of Power's chisel 
 tl.e majesty ..f Raphacrs l.rnsh. the rill in the Jersey farm, the canvon^ 
 of Colorado, th... ,a,.y l,y tl.e ncglectci grave^ .,r the .lecoration; of 
 \\ cstm.n.ter. I,c saw and noticed appreciatingly. The greatest preacher 
 ot h,s age. I here was no boundary between earth and Heaven to him. 
 1 H. ladder was aiuays standing there, an.l he went up and down at 
 -11 w,.h, he angels. The sp.ri, land was as r.al to him as was his 
 ..wne. He lued in both pl.nces. He spaUe as one wIk, knew, whenever 
 Heavenly ,h„,gs came np for discussion. Happy the man whose dual 
 ■Kiture ,s ,l,„s syn,metrically .leveloped. S.nall natures are usuallv un- 
 <lcvelnped nature. .Many other Talniages bv natrne now dig in the 
 '.eld cnpy ,„ the studi,., or "Mand all the day i lie." The world roHs 
 om belorc n, every ,Hu„,ent golden opportunities. Talmage saw them 
 •-"'<1 "sed the,„. We n,ay see then, and treasure then,. Reader, .stu.iv 
 tlus i.oicnt ebaraeter an.l then move up uhcre vo,, ou-ht to be 
 
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AUTHENTIC LIFE 
 
 (JF 
 
 T. DeVVitt Talmage 
 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 DEATH (jf Tin-: (.ui-Ai' I'R!: \ci ii.:r 
 
 His last strl(jc;i.k for i.u-k — Ai tf.r a !■ \i.\i\i. ii.i.\k.-,s tih. r.i.ii jikn r 
 
 DIVIXK I'ASSKS AUAV AT HIS W ASH 1 XC.TI )\ liO.MK — S( l.Nl.S SIR- 
 
 Ror.vniNc, liis 1)1£athi!EI) — His last uukds — Hi; ■!;;i ukath as 
 
 IIF. HAD LIVED, FKARLKSSLV AND WITH ABlDlXc; FAMll. 
 
 Tlioiiias DeW'itt Talmage. tlie ^M-cat rlieturician and pinvcriiil 
 preacher, lias ended liis life work. The final scenes of a I)i!>y life have 
 closed. Death came to him in his beautiful home in Mas^.-ichusetts. 
 avenue, Washington. D. ('.. Saturday evcuin-. April u. kjoj. at nine 
 o'clock. Surrounded l)y the family that he loved so well. ])nt all uncon- 
 scious of the loving care. Dr. Talmage slipped from this into another 
 and brighter world. 
 
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 FACED DEATH WITH A SMILE. 
 
 Always an optimist, he faced death witli a smile un his bright face. 
 and seemed to welcome release from exacting cares and duties whicii 
 had always crowded thick upon h.im. Dr. Talmage. although seventv 
 years old, was hale and vigorous up to this last illne'..-^. which prostmt.-d 
 him while traveling in Mexico. Each day lirought its alternate hopes a. 1 
 
 
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 DEATH OF THH (JKEAT Ph'KACIIKi; 
 
 fears for liis recovery, but it was not to Ik;. Tlie Mies>at;c u Incli. s, ,oner 
 or later, must come to all, h.-id come to tlie j^reat pre.ichcr. aud f.nnul 
 liim ready to meet it. Sustained by a Higher I'nwer. without complaint 
 or murnuir, he bravely bore his sufferings. 
 
 I!y his death-I^d sat Mrs. Talnia-e. wh<, ha.l been his cmnsellor 
 and c,.nipani„n for several years, and near him was his dau-hter .Maud, 
 a iiride of a few days. Despite the happiness of the l.oneymo,,n. the 
 borne was in utter .jarkness— a bouse of death. The weddin- of the 
 <lausbter, lung planne.l t.i Ix- a liappy epoch in the lannly hfe. was 
 pathct'c in the extreme. Dr. Talmage hope.l and expecte.l that he wouM 
 perform the cercm.my. giving the winsome girl v, her husb.uid. Instead, 
 lie was upon his deathd)cd. all but unc.nscious and barely able to recog- 
 nize the yomig woman wlu.se hapijiness he had plai.-.ed tn further. 
 
 Dr. Talmage's death will be as helpful to Christian. a> was liis life 
 and deeds. Xot lesr. elo(iuent than the mnst l)eaiitiful nf bis sermons 
 was the manner ..f bis death. With Cluistian furtit.ule and f.nth 
 unshaken be wei.c fearlessly to meet the God ho had so long and faiib- 
 fully served. 
 
 It had been evident for some days immediately preceding his death 
 that there was no hope of his recovery and the attending physicians so 
 informed the family. The naticnt gradually grew weaker untillife passed 
 away .s,> ,|uietly that even the memlx-rs of the family, all of whom uere 
 watching at the In-dside, hardly knew that he bad gone. Tbe immediate 
 cause of death was inflammation of the l)rain. 
 
 LAST WORDS TO HIS DAUGHTER. 
 
 The last rational words lUtered by Dr. Talmage were on the day 
 precedmg the marriage of his daughter, when he -aid : ■■(-,{ course I 
 know you. Maud." .Since then be was unconsciou-^ until his death. 
 
 At Dr. Talmage's bedside, besides bis wife, were the-e memb rs of 
 his family: Rev. Frank DcWitt T.dm.-ige, Chicago; M,-,. Warren G. 
 ^:":\h. Brooklyn; Mrs. Daniel M.u.g.iui, in-ookiyu ; Mrs. Allen li. 
 
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 DEATH OF THE GREAT PK'EACHKK 
 
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 Donnaii, Riciimoii.l; Mrs. Clarence W'ycuff and Miss Talmagc, Wash- 
 ington. 
 
 Aside from the family of tlic prcat preacher and the attending 
 nnrses, the i>nly dther jiersiin jiresent was Dr. Tahnage's old friend, 
 Dr. T. t'ii.iInKMs .''.aston. [lastor of the Masterii Presbyterian Church, 
 of Washington. 
 
 DIED WITHOUT THE SHADOW OF PAIN. 
 
 "It was just ;i> the hands of the clock pointed the hour of nine," 
 .said Dr. r.a.ston, sadly, "wlien tlie soul of the good man jjassed awav. 
 I offered a consolatory jirayer as the soul of Dr. Taimage passed 
 across the great imknowu. His end was most peaceful and lie died 
 witiiout the least shadow of pain." 
 
 The last day of Dr. Tahnage's life passed as the two days which 
 preceded it. The patient was simi)Iy d., ing. His vital force was ehhing 
 slowly away. Dr. (".. L. Magruder attended him througli his illness, 
 hut as complications became more serious, called in advice. The con- 
 gestion of the lirain grew out of r.n effusion, or accunnilation of fluid, 
 the pressure of wliicli caused a deadening of sensibilities and gradual 
 dcatli. The exact cause of death was the pressure of tliis fluid on the 
 brain, as in the case of apoplexy, when the rupture of a blood vessel 
 permits a great flow of blood to bear down ujion the v'tal organs. 
 
 Several days previous to Dr. Tahnage's deat'i Dr. Magruder called 
 upon for Assistance Dr. .\. P.. I^ichardson, t!ie superintendem of the 
 Government Hospital for insane. Dr. l\ichar<lson is a sjiecialist in 
 l>rain troubles, and it was hoped he might be able to administer treat- 
 ment which would bring relief. .\11 he could <lo, however, was to direct 
 Dr. ^Magruder in methods calculated to make the patient comfortable. 
 He saw almost innnediatcly tha. there was no chance for ultimate 
 recovery, .\bout the same time the services of Dr. C. W. Ricliardson 
 were requested. The latter is a specialist in affections of the tliroat and 
 
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 DR. TALMAOES VIEWS OF DEATH. 
 
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 FROSTS AT LIFE'S SUNSETS. 
 
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 lliin;: will wither. So nit 
 
 know ,ha, from that ,lav everv- 
 
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 LIFE IS BEING PROLONGED. 
 
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 DKATH OF TIIK ClfKAT ['RHArnER 
 
 Kvviiv. iIhtc w ail iiiir.a^nl ..pporttinii v (..,• cnjuymcnt. It is far nmrc 
 intcrcstn,^,^ t., I, v. n.,u ih.u, ,n fornuT ...ts. What (he ol.l patriarclis 
 «'"1 \\-tIi iHur nr live- luin.lrcl ycar^ „n their haii.ls I know not. There 
 was >,. hiile t,, ..r. !iiV „„„, |,;,vc hco.nie autiilly monotonous. There 
 ucTe no nnlr.M.N ,,, lake thnn to a.iy other place. Thev ha.l no letter 
 lidu than a ,1mI1 .an.lle. T!,eir nest ne,.t;hl>..r.s ha.l hve.I there as lon« 
 .-t- in-m the tune ..f the ,hso.\ery of America until now. 
 
 ■■'■"" '" "nr ,\.n there ,. s. , „„h.i, to >ee an,l hear as well as so mucn 
 •■• •''■• that hiV i. illle.l uuh „.,^elties an.l enteri. :,ems. ami while I 
 ^^-tIl,! n..i ,,^k (nr an earlhU re>„lence a. 1..,,^; .•„ ,i,,.,t „f y.,,,„^ ,,^ ,|,^. 
 sh,,rter-lue,| .Methuselah, I ^,,,,1,1 r.sk, u I IkuI the ..pportunity. a couple 
 < t ceiuurics. 
 
 "''"" '''^' li'''ltl"<-i m 1 an.l the mos, chn.tian moo.l is to he ready 
 
 tn -tav or I., ^,, a. the l,.,nl ,leeree. u. and there is nothing that I know 
 <" tli.'t can put ..,K. and keep one in such a state of composure and placid- 
 »y a< the Christian rel.^o.n. We want t.. wait for sailing oruers, if to 
 'Move to .„„, uork ,n tin, worM cheerfully „, go at it. and if to move 
 •<• another u,,rld, t,. e.nhark with ^d,.wing expectation of safe arrival in 
 a port where ue sh.ill he -reete.l l,y those who have gone hefore, and 
 where ue >lia!l wan I'.ir iii..si. uhoeonte later." 
 
 THE DECEMBER OF OUR LIVES. 
 
 -I liase heard ,t .„d that we ought to live as th,.ngh each tuoment 
 were to he ,„„. la.,. I ,|o not hehexe that theory. As far as prq.aration 
 is concerned, we o,,nl„ ,,1,,,,,^ to he ready; hut we cannot alwavs he 
 thmking of .leath. for ue have duties in life that demand our attention. 
 When a man is .elhng goods, it is his husiness to thmk of the hargain 
 he is ,„aknig. \\l,ei> a man i, pleading in the courts it is his duty to 
 thmk of the mtere.,. of his ehenls. When a clerk is achiing up accounts 
 It IS his duty to keep liis „iin(I „pon t!ic column of fignre.s. He who fills 
 up his life with thoughts of death is far from heing the highest style of 
 LhriM.'.n. I knew a man who use.l often to say at night. 'I wish I might 
 
DEATH OF TMK (ll.'KAT l'l.'i;.\< lil'i: 
 
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 d;c I)cfc.rc morning!' He is now an mrulcl. Uut there arc lime, when 
 we oujjlit to , .vc ourselvc- tu the contemplation of that solemn moment 
 when to tlie smil time ni.ls and eternity hej;m>. We muM j;,i tlironKli 
 that (.nc pav-. Then- is no rumnlahoiu way, no in i)ath. im circnitnns 
 n.nte. Die we mnst : and it wiH \k- in ns a shanietiil ..cnrreike or a lime 
 of admirable hehavior. Our frieixN may streuh .i.a tiieir hand, to keep 
 us Itack. hut no imploration on their pa-t can liinder us. JlRy mi.L;ht 
 offer large retainers, hut death unuld ii.ii take the fee. The hreatli wdl 
 fad and the eyes will close and the heart will stop. |!ut this nut^lit not to 
 he a depressinj,' theme: wh.. wants tn live here lMre\er:^ 
 
 LOOKING TOWARD THE SUNSET, 
 
 'The world has always treated me well, .uid every <lay I feel less and 
 less like scoldiiif,' and complaining. lUit yet I w..uld n-,t want to make 
 this my eternal residence. I love to watch the clouds, and to hathe my 
 soul in the hlue sea of h.caven ; but I expect when the tirm.iment i> rolled 
 away as a scroll to see a new heaven, grander, higher and more glorious, 
 Vou ought to he willing to exchange your l)od\ that has headaches and 
 sideaches and weaknesses innumerahle, that limp, with the -tonedjruise 
 or festers with the thorn, or llanies on the funeral i)yre (,| ie\ers, for ;m 
 .iinuTiptihlj hody and a:i - thai hlinks not hefore the jasper gates 
 and the great white throne. J!ut between that an,l this there is an h-nir 
 about which ik; man should be reckles-, or foolhardy. I doubt not your 
 courage, but I tell you that yuu will want something better than a strong 
 arm, a gjod aim and a trusty sword when you come to vour last ba.tle. 
 Vou will nec.1 a better robe than any in your wardrobe i., keep your arm 
 in that place," 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 HIS LAST ILI..\i:SS IN litl' SHADOW Ol' DICATU. 
 
 Thi: ruii' to Mkxuo \\ i i ii iiis wiii-; and ixicidu i-di; ins iii:\i.in — 
 [lis u. I. MISS CKuws si:kiiu> — 'I'lii: hai. k I'ok iinMi; — A i-(iKi|.;ii 
 Ki.sT Ai' Xi;\v ( )i^i.i;a\s ioi.lows i;ai) ni;>\s a r S\.\ Ax iijmc - 
 
 llo.MK AI' l,A>r AM) CRADfAI. I.IISS (.I' llnl'l. AMi . IKI^NCMIl — 
 
 lldU' iiF. Ki.i'i iii(i.-.K Aiuir I' HIM ii(iri;iri. Ill riii: i.Mi. 
 
 Early in llu' winter I )r. Talnia^t.', with lii> wile aiiil lllly^ii'iaIl, liail 
 ijijiK' td Moxii'd in ■-(.■aifli (if laalili anil recicaiinii. Tlio nuti'il ili\ini' 
 had CMTV v-<inif(irt. (.'xcry luxury tliai rouM lie siouroil. aiu! was rc'cci\- 
 iiiy niiK'li l.ciK-fii fniin his extcnili'd tour tlui)UL;h the souIIktii ropiili- 
 lic until early in March. Tlun i-anic an attack nf iiillucnza. iinlnced hv 
 the liiyh altitude of his loiujiorary residence. 'That was nil March _^, 
 and lie was iiiiniediatel\- ordered hoiiie li\ his ])liysici;in. 
 
 ILLNESS DEVELOPS ALAHMING SYMPTOMS. 
 
 The tri]) to W'ashiiii^'-ton was iinniediatel} hiLjun and e\er\- care 
 was taken to [ire\eiil fatigue. X'ecessarily the jirot^q-e^s was slow, for 
 it was desired lo uo li_\' ca^\- stances, in s|)ite of the tra\el the patient 
 apparently did well initi! S.an Antonio 'I'l \as, wa- reached. li was 
 from ihi-, point tlia.t the first alarming,' new- came {:■ Mie friends nf Dr. 
 Taliiiat;e and imiiiediatcK fears arose for his safety. 
 
 .March i,^ Dr. ralniai^e and his part\- had reached .\'cw ( )rlcaiw. 
 and there it was necessary to stop oxer ;i day to cnaMe the |>atient lo 
 rc-t and ])repare for the ioiirney north tii W'ashinuton. lAen a; tiiis 
 time it ■^eenis thai Mrs. 'ralinai;e and the other friends in attciidance 
 did not realize the acute stai^e of hi-^ ilhie--s. Mrs. Talniat^^e then said 
 that she had e\erv reason to expect that Dr. 'ralina^c would he him 
 self after two W"ctk< of rest and careful nnrsini^" at hi^ honi,-. Idiis did 
 not pro\e to he the case 
 
 K *L 
 
HIS LAST ILLXKSS 
 
 Altlio„-h ho,.cl.,I nous and optimistic reports of his condition 
 .■anu. iron, tl,c Lcl.i.lo of [)r. Tahna.^c, I,c stea.lilv l.ecamc uorsc, and 
 i'='".ii;Ii f,,i.duin,^^ the battle of his life. io>i ,i,M-onnd conlinuallv luuil 
 ''"'"'^ ■""";■ '''^ ^'■^■'^"•- -^H thai nic(hca! science and fo.id and'lovin- 
 ^ ■''■ ■■"'■"' '•" '■ ''■'>■ '''^" pn\i,'rcss of the disease was dune. Drs. ( i. 
 ! "vd M;u.'-id>r. C. W. Richardson and A. H. ivlichardson were ni 
 ■' ■|^;^i:cc .Mi-antly at hi. he.lside. Consnhatinn after consnilation 
 ^^as held anu i.alletins were i^^ncd t., the ea^er puhhc, each tdhnj; .n 
 a 111. re critical condition tlian i!ie previons one. 
 
 'I^vo days hclore his .lealh the .i;reat i-ainter nf uoni, and architect 
 -f I.hra.es passed into an nncon^cions stale. lie uas snltennLr from 
 o.n.^cMn.n ol the hrain. o.unph-cated l,y a verv inllamcl condi.i.n, of 
 ">•■ ^■^■'^■Mhuu. ThH fnllnued naturally ,he inr„ad> nf indnenza and 
 catarrh. 
 
 Dr. T.-ilniao-e lh,..n-h,.ni In. l,fe wa. hle..>e.l will, the l,e.l ,,f 1 -dth 
 ^'"■I t>-nm 1,:, hirlh „, In. MMicth year never i,ad a real dav ,.f .iciness' 
 lie nnce remarked: -i Ikuc never nn^^cd preaching a senn,.,. because 
 •■i any adnieni excpt ,,nc, and then 1 wa. ,n,.re mentallv exhan^led than 
 •n any way physically ,r,,ul,!ed. 1 .ainhnie tin. cun.iancv nf ^„„d health 
 '" <.'"rs i^nndnes. and m ,l,e care ulnch I have alwavs taken ..f mvsclf 
 1 low have I kept my health? is a.skcd. In a nut.sholl I answer- Bv trv- 
 inff to ob.crve the kiws nf nature, lakin;^ pleniv ni exercise, ^ettiit^ all 
 the sleep I can, eating heahh.nl food, .avoiding all rich dishe., and siu.lv- 
 incr the delightful art nf checrfulne^..' 
 
 TALMAGE ADVISES PLENTY OF SLEEP. 
 
 I'l-- Tahnaj;e u:,, a nnn believer ni deeping a. Imig a. he cn„Id -[ 
 ^ehc^e :n sleep," he .aid, -and resnrt m it a giv.it deal. [ go to be.l as 
 early :,. ! can e,ic!, day and get up when I an, rested, but nnt before 
 f.enerallv this is at s,x o'clock each morning, Em [ do not believe in 
 O.K- ..Id ,b nry nf varly to i,ed an.l early to rise' being applicable „, our 
 •""^' -^ ''il. In ihe tirst place, becau.e a man cannot get earlv f . bed and 
 
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34 
 
 TITS I. AST IIJAP^SS 
 
 .1 he rctn-cs a, okvon „^ ,uelv. oVInck at night, as the demands of social 
 I.^e „,ay snnu„,nc. c.npol h„n, i, is very foolish for him to get up at 
 s.x. A ,„;,„ .h,,„,.i ,,,,,, „„,,, ,,^, i^ ^^^,^,, ^^^^^ ,^^^1^.^ J j^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 .^ that .., .ln,ppin, ,,,T „,„, .,„,,, „,,„. ,;;,^„ jf , ^^,, ^,,,^. ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ 
 ■ ' "v^' >'"nnte.- ,!„,,■„„.„. I n„,i i, ,,freshes nu-. When o„ the cars I 
 ^lee,, every d.ance ! ^.:. l i.^ieve if ,„„• hnsiness ,„en coukl in some 
 ^^■•'y w-k ,n a hueen ,„„>„!.>• „ap ,n the middle of each day it would 
 mean years „f In. „. u,„„.a„,ls of ,l,em. l^.r an active tuan. a man 
 ^H-tive with the hra.n. there ,> no „,n,e so good, so henetkial or exhilarat- 
 ■"^ a. .leep. Thank (,,,,1 f, „■ .],,,, , ,,, , j, j^ „„^ ^,^ ^,^^ ^^^.^^^^^^ 
 
 ' "^ '''' -'"'•'-••"'^■■1 '" "-'I. 1. ha> done mneh for me. and I wish it 
 
 "n,ght dn as „Mu-h f „. ,h..nsnuN ,,f l,„.y ,„on whom 1 constantlv tneet. 
 
 -1 can .lel.vcr tw., .vnnn„. ,,„ .v;,,,,,,,,.. with all the accompanvin.- 
 H'admg ,„ hy.nn. and prayer olfcr.ngs. and feel as fresh vocallv at the 
 close ot the service a> when 1 ascended ,I,e pulpit. .\nd this' is .lue 
 Mmply t" my >u-dy adherence L. nature's laws." 
 
 ADVICE TO THOSE SUFFERING FROM SICKNESS. 
 
 Many per..„. „, Mckne.. .n„. l,ner^ to Dr. Talmage asking for 
 advK-e and sympathy, and ■ va. in,pn.„l,!e for him to answer in person 
 ■■'" '''"' ''"•'' ''''''• '" ■' "ew^p.apcr .article several vears ago he ad- 
 dressed all s,,.!, „, ih, f.ll,,w,;,;, I„autnul terms: 
 
 ■•My inen.is i,,,, f.u nf ,„ are entirely well. Xot one om of ten is 
 """■""-'^'> -"•'"'' '" '"'■'>• ^'"'i f''i^ '^ "■■ exaggerated statement. The 
 vast ni;,j,.r,;y ,,i ,he race arc c-nsiam s„!,jects of ailments. There is 
 s..nic ..;,r f ,nn ,1 dis,,,,^. tp,,, ^,,,,, ,„■ „, j^ p^.^.j,,,,^,,^. ^„,,j^.^.j ^^^ ^^^^^ 
 lias a ucak .{,], . ,■ hack. t!;e ..thrr is snhject to headaches, nr faintnesses 
 or hn,^s,aMh distressed. I, u.,„l.l „. „ ,ake a verv strong blow to shiver 
 tl.e giden 1,..,| ..( hie. , .■ hreal: the pitcher at the fountain. Manv of 
 >"U have kept , „ in 1, fc thn.n^h sheer f„rce of wiH. Vou think n-'one 
 ean nnderst.u.l y.nr distrcs... Perhaps yo,, ,ook strong, ami it is sup- 
 posed that you are a hypoch-ndnac. They sav vou are nervous-as if 
 
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 HIS LAST II.IA'HSS .^r, 
 
 tl.at were nothing! God have mercy up,,,, any man or woman that ,. 
 nervous! At times yon sit alone in y.,„r ,x.om. Friends ,!o not come 
 Noil fee! an indescribal)le l,>ne!iness in y„nr sufferings; Init God kn,.ws; 
 Cod feels; God compassionates. He counts the sleepless nii,rhts; lie 
 regards the acuteness of the pain; He estimates the hardness of the 
 hreathing. While you pour f,ut the medicine from the l»,,ttle, and count 
 tl>e .Irops. God counts all your falli,-.g tears. As you look at .he vials 
 hllcl with nau.seons draughts, an,I at the bottles of distasteful tonic that 
 suand on the shelf rememl,er that there ,s a larger bottle than these, which 
 i^^hlled with no mi.xture by earthly apothecaries, but it is God's bottle in 
 which He hath gathered all our tear>. 
 
 "AS THE NIGHT COMES, SO COMETH THE MOItNINO." 
 
 ••God keeps a tender remembrance ,.l all ,.ur sickiie> -s To every 
 s.ck-bed in the universe wouhl I say: Be of g.,„d cheer, dear sorn>win."r 
 heart, this world is not only of pam. As v,,n suffer n,,w, .o .hall vou 
 rejoice hereafter. Do not allow y,,nr>ell to gr w di.o,„>„Iatc. \s',he 
 night comes, so comcth the morning. ,,u\ a. the m,.>t vi,,lent rain-stonu 
 ■■■^ followed by glorious .sunshine, .o .hall .•,!! the M-ck^be-N ,,f this w,.rld 
 be transforms into thrones of g,,l,l. We a,-c here but f,.r a little while 
 arul we help to make that tune pleasant ju<t m proportion as we keep our 
 si)irits buoyed up. 
 
 AFTER THE TOILS OF LIFE. 
 
 -Those of us who were bnn.ght up „, th. cuntrv remember when 
 the summer was aiming on in our boyhood ,lav.. h„w we alwavs lo.t.ed 
 for the <Iay when we were to go barefootcl. an,l after teaming .'ur m/ul,, 
 ers ,n regard to it for a goo.l while, and they consented, we remember the 
 <Iehaous sensation of the cool grass on that duMv road uhen we -)ut ot,r 
 nncovered feet on it. And the time will come when thc.-e shoes we wear 
 now, lest we be cut of the sharp places of ,h,s world, shall be taken off 
 and w.th unsandaled feet we will step mto the be.l of th. .-IvPr. ,..;,i,, 
 
.If) 
 
 HIS LAST TLIA'ESS 
 
 ii'i'i untraniiiK'Ic'd. free irnm pain ami I'aii-iie. \\c will -aiii i~t jour- 
 
 ■•cy: when, with one fo.-t in the i.ed ul' the n\er. and the .ler i ..t on 
 ilie ulher bank, we ^truKRle n|)ward; tliat will he heaven. Oh, _ve arniv 
 ->t deiiarted kindred, we li.iil yuu in.ni hank to hank. Wait I'or u.s when 
 ilie Jordan of death shall part for n-. O-me <lown and meet us half- 
 \v;iy helween the willowed hanks of e.irtli and the ])alni -roves of 
 l!ea\en." 
 
 "On j(!i(lan"s stormy hank^ 1 ^tand 
 
 And cast ;i wistlnl e>i.-. 
 'I o Lana.an's fair and hapj>\ Liiid. 
 
 \\ here my po>M->-.ii .u^ lie. 
 Oh. the ir;ms]iortin'4. raptni.'iis seeni' 
 
 That ri-es on in\ sis,dit I 
 Sweet helds .arrayed in li\ in^^ screen. 
 
 And n\ei-s of dehi,dit '" 
 
REV. JOHN' RUSK, PUD 
 
^/^<r~r2./jL^:f. I^^jM- 
 
 ^-^tii M^^.y^.^£i: 
 
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 CHAPTER III. 
 
 BIRTHPLACI- AXl) nOVHOOD. 
 Early ixFi.unxci-s — His uvv. rrox titf. farm — His parents of r.ooo 
 
 STOCK SciIOOLliOY DAVS AND i.lCFDS L OI.I.F.Cil- DAYS A FOL- 
 
 I.OWFR OF Hl.ACKSTOXF. 
 
 Altliough stated in every hic-is^rapliy ever written about tlic prcat 
 prcaclier. Thomas DeWitt Talma.i^e was not horn in Hoinid Brook, 
 New Jersey. Instead, liis l)irthi)laoc was a very lunnhle farm house 
 near Gatevillc. New Jersey. It was tlien a distinct townsliip, but since 
 then it has been al)sorbcd into the town of P.ound Brook, and hence 
 arises tlie confusion reRardinj,' his birthpl;'cc. 
 
 TALMAGE'S FATHER AND MOTHER. 
 
 The cliild wlio was .lestined to attract the wliole world l)y his elo- 
 (juence was l)orn January 7, iS.^j. His father was a farmer of the 
 sturdiest stock of tliat sturdy .\ew Jersey lyiie which ha> made tlie 
 state famous in history. His moilier was a cultured woman of great 
 refinement and intense religious inclination. He was a merry lad, liv- 
 ntg out of door.,. mmpiiiLr ami working- as most farm lads do in acquir- 
 uig a line ijliysiquc. which stood him in good stead in the strenuous 
 life that he led th.roughoui his manhood. He behaved much as 
 ordinary farm boys do. and 'cing one of twelve children, necessarily 
 had much to contend with as far as Iioyhond matters went. His 
 parents, and in fact all his ancestors, were the sturdiest possible stock. 
 All were vigorous— energetic. From them he inheiited membership 
 m the Reform Cluu-ch. a strong religions faith and intense optimism. 
 W'ltli these things and a strong constitution. Thomas Taimage, the 
 boy, passed through his school days. He was a student that gave close 
 
 attention to all bis tnvls nml mui.^ r-i"-''' .^.■^r--^'- :■■, *'-- -.-i-i 
 
 — .t — . „ I..,.,., j.,..t.,..-, ,.-i ^..^ j^ijuca 
 
 30 
 
40 
 
 lUirrilPLACH AND llovilool) 
 
 schools of tlic linme t.mn. Studiously iuclined, he was ai.led I,y his 
 parents in securing,' a hij-hcr e.kication, an<l entered at an early ape the 
 University of the City of Xew York. There he took a very st otig 
 course in law. and had made up his mind to follow HIackstone throj^'h- 
 out his life. Graduating with hio;h honors from this university of hiph 
 standing, he continued for more than a year to prepare himself for 
 following the footsteps of the great lawyer to whom all law students 
 look up. Ahout this time, however, theological and religious topics 
 began to have the ascendency in his mind, and he was not quite sure 
 of the law as the profession most suited to him. Doubts assailed him 
 as to the wisdom of continuing. Still he kept on, studied hard, 
 attended trials, read law cases and pored over leg.d lore, burning the' 
 midnight oil night after night in a great and honest endeavor to 
 become a luminary of the legal world. Hut this was not to he, for 
 opposing inlluences were at work both in the mind of the embryo law- 
 yer and in members of his immediate family. 
 
 In response to (jueries about his boyhood, entrance into the ministry 
 .md pastorate. Dr. Talmage once said: 
 
 HIS OWN STORY OF HIS BOYHOOD. 
 
 "I know of nothing peculiar about my lunluxid except that which 
 now seems very strange and inexplicable— my fondness for religious 
 literature. I read Scott's Comment.iries when too small t.) sit on a chair. 
 They were place.l on a chair while T sat on a little stool. I surely could 
 not have understood them. There was not much except religious litera- 
 ture in our house, but there was a great abundance of that. 
 
 "As I grew toward manhood I started out for the law and studied 
 within six months of being licensed. I si)cnt a great deal of my boy- 
 hood in the court rooms of Somerville. \ew Jersey, They have always 
 had a peculiar fascination for me. They have to-day. Father was sh.en'fY 
 of the count}- and I useil to go to the court room when I got out of school. 
 
 • ■ •'•■••'i, '•• •■"- ^'=C:i f.-.x: ic.:u;uj^ ia.vycr Gt tlic legion. He 
 
BIRTHPLACE AND BOYHOOD 
 
 41 
 
 was a great lawyer and liad a mode of statement Ik; fort- a jury that was 
 very charming. Father and Tlicudore Ficelinghausen, who ran for vice- 
 president with Clay, were very intimate. However, notwitiistamhng all 
 this fondness for the law, 1 was turned into the ministry under the 
 impression that 1 ought to preach, the Gospel. I l.dicve it uas a divine 
 impression. Then I entered \ew Brunswick Theolugical Senunary, and 
 determined to go to China as a missionary, where my brother was spend- 
 ing his life. 1 wrote to him that I would join him and would iiavc done 
 so hut for one obstacle which stood in the way— the difticulty of learning 
 a foreign language. 1 was told that many missionaries after a life-time 
 of work were hardly able to preach intelligently to the natives. As I 
 was always very poor in learning foreign languages I Ijecame so 
 impressed with this idea that I did not dare undertake the mission. 
 Hence I determined to preach the Gospel in my own countrv." 
 
 SCHOOL LIFE OF YOUNG TALMAOE. 
 
 From a very early age Dr. Talmagc was a close student. He began 
 to attend school when about seven years of age, and he said himself. 
 "I think I stuck to my books i)rctty well, that is, for a boy. I was fond 
 of play, of course, and was out in the open air a great part of the time. 
 I played all the games known to the young, and I was as eager for a 
 day's fishing or a good horseback ride as any boy of my size. There 
 was nothing systematic in all this, however. I took life as it came. 
 When _;ht came on I sought my bed, and for ten subsequent hours 
 knew nothing of what transpired in the world. I sle]it well, and as a 
 boy I do not think I ever went to bed later than eight o'clock or arose 
 later than six in the morning. 
 
 "But at a certain period of my life, "Comb's Physiology' came into 
 my hands. It was at that time the standard work of its kind. At once 
 my eyes were opened to the wonderful mystery of our being. I learned 
 then a truth that I have never since forgotten — tliat a transgression 
 of the laws of nature is always followed, sooner or later, by a reckoning. 
 
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42 
 
 \atur 
 
 BIRTHPLACE AXB BOATTOOD 
 
 If slie Kcts (Jilt of order, slii- will 
 
 irc IS an c.\(|uisiie im-chaiiiMii. 
 ^■aii an accounting at M.n.c tnnc or other, aiul lav u,- for repairs \ 
 k.u.ule.lKV, appreciation an.l ol..crvatiun of nature^ laws is incun.hent 
 iijiun eveiv unc." 
 
 HE DID NOT LIKE COD-FISH. 
 
 -I llni.l.e.I „,y e.Incation in tiie city. My hours of mental work 
 |l.<ferec 1 stu.he.I har.i an.l persistently. Some .lavs I would spend 
 welvc hours over my books: sometimes ten: and now and then verv- 
 feu-. I still con.inue<l. an.l am now. in the enjoyment of a full-,n-own 
 appcfte. There is not an article .,f foo.I that I cannot eat with a great 
 deal of safsfacti.ni-except co.ir.h. , ,;,,. „,,, „,,,, ,,,^^.,^ ^^^.^ ^^ 
 
 -ore. I" all my I,,V. I never mis-ol ,,iH one meal. a,,d I uotdd not 
 uve m,sse.I that i, there ha.l heen anything- to eat within ten miles 
 1 uas on the ,op of one of the Alleghany Mountains, and half a dav's 
 .ratnp from the nearest cabin. So it was not my fault that 1 mis.^d 
 "'v "K-al on that occasi.,n. , eat at regular hours. Mv breakfast I 
 •ways have a, seven oVIock: a light luiu heon precisely at noon, and 
 at l.alf atter six o cl.,ck I enjoy my heartiest tneal. I never allow anv- 
 ti.mj; to mtertere ui.h the strict observance of this regularity. I eat 
 -I.at I can relish best, but never eat so much that I could not eat 
 «lnng else: hence I aluays an. from the table in a con.fortablc 
 tate of body an,| of mind. After my noon.i.le n.eal. 1 alwavs take an 
 l.our s nap. This calls the blood aw:,v from the brain an.l e'nabl-s the 
 Jtoniach to do, in the best possible tnanner its work of digestion. And 
 
 eheve too , ha, .nie ,,f the chief reasons of my continued good 
 I'caltn ,s foun.l ,n my non-iu.lulgence in tobacco an.l liquors." 
 
 BECAME A CHRISTIAN AT EIGHTEEN. 
 
 T. DeWitt Talmage became a Chri.,,.,, ,, ,„e age of eighteen. In 
 t''- - e year he entered the University of tlte Citv of XV; York It 
 ■^ not recorded that he was an exceptionally brilHant schoU. b U 
 

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 nTKTlU'l.ACF. AND TIOYTTOOD 43 
 
 tl.o Hr.f 1,0 rli.play.-.l a tnluu it, ..raf.ry an-l a .Iraniatic capacity ^vhicI. 
 attractc.l much attontio., ,„, rxhil.iti,,,, ,Iay.. \. a sclmfar of hdlcs- 
 Icttrcs lie was witlu.nt a rival anuniR- I,;, c..ntctni)nranc.. 
 
 At the cln.e of I,i. s,„<iic. Tai.na.;,. tr-ok „p the lau-, rcmninin- i,i 
 .1 law onicc f.,r three year. Then at the a.cre of ,wc:,tv-nne it became 
 manifest to him that hi. talents ,nn.t he ,hre, -e.l eKeuhere-an awak- 
 cnins which carricl him. hke hi< hmther. hef,,re him, into the ministry 
 of Christ. It was not without a strn-i^^le that he Hnallv made up his 
 mind to -ivc np his hopes of success in the le-al pn.fession. and he 
 met his new duty not without donl.ts and manv nu' -ivinq-s. 
 
 ITad lie so chosen Dr. Ta!ma,crc miolu I,avc I.ccome famous as a 
 star in the theatrical world. T1i> dramatic ahih'ty was -rcat in.leed; 
 in fact, it was the <Iramatic element which he hlended into his powerful 
 sermons in later years that added not a little to hi. unparalleled suc- 
 cess in the pulpit. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 THH MINISTRY (i AiXS A XKW RIXUTIT AM) TUF. LAW 
 I.USI-S AX Al'J'KI-:XTICi:. 
 
 After Mrrir disctsskin voinc; Talmagk (jlits i iK'; law and sti,'dies 
 i-oR Tin: MiMsTin— (iiiTs ins iihst ciuhcii— STRit;(;i.Es ok 
 
 A VOlNc; I'ASTOK AciKPTS A ( Al.l. TO A 1,AK(,1;r ( IHKCH 
 
 MoVKS ACAI.V AND IIUICAKS AWAV IRONt OI.I) lOKMS I.\ I'RKACII- 
 ISC. Ills KAMI; (JROWS. 
 
 One cnii scarcely imnt,'iiie the «ejoicing there \va . in tlie zca'ously 
 religions faniil\ of llie elder Talma-e ulien the hiu student. Thomas 
 DcWitt. Inirned hi. lau hook^, tlia-w auav lii> P.lackstone. tore np his 
 nianu.cript and ijnit the law forever as a i)rnfession. Tlie family lia.i 
 heen prayini,^ over tliis thin- for weeks and months, and liad been 
 strngj,dinj,' witli the son and brother to conijiel hitn !o recognize that 
 destiny called him to the imlint and not to the har. Their prayers and 
 labors were at la-t sncccssfnl, and in 1,^53 he entered tlie Xew Brun.- 
 wick, Xew Jersey. Seminary of Theology and struggled liard with the 
 questions of theology, wrestled with the hard, knotty problems and 
 catechism of the Reform Church, and finally became a minister after 
 years of studiojis and concentrated effort. 
 
 FIRST PASTORATE OF DR. TALMAQE. 
 
 His very fust charge was the little, almost tiny, Reform Church in 
 ncllevillc. Xew Jersey, a |iictures<|ne church on the l)anks of the jjcau- 
 tihil Passaic. Here he labore.l and strurrglcd witli iiis congregation as 
 every young and ambitious minister in every denonn'nation must. 
 (Jftcntinies he was discouraged to the point of de-pair, and it .seemed 
 to him tliat lie never would be released from the small cmfmes of this 
 first charge of his and enter a field where he could have larger useful- 
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 44 
 
THJ-: .MlXISTIfV (i.N'XS A XHW KKCUriT 
 
 45 
 
 and iiiaiiliood, and wn many years clapM'd licfoic lio was callcil to a 
 town tliat was almost a lity, and ulicrc h.- wouhl iiiidotil.tcdly liavi; 
 s^TiattT intluoiKf, and wlirii- there were tmdoulited iM)ssil)ilities for 
 great growth and development. 
 
 It was in i<S5(; that tlie el< 
 
 lenee of the I'.ellev 
 
 tlie attention of some of the gcvod Reform CIi 
 
 ille miin'stcr attracted 
 1 people of Syracuse, 
 
 Xew ^■orl<. Altl 
 
 loiigh onlv twent\-se\en vears old. v 
 
 onng I almage 
 
 |)as 
 
 d 
 
 til 
 
 e manifo'd re(|iiiremetit-. of .i large and fasliion. 
 
 iiile chnrcli 
 
 In tliat sail! 
 
 Syracuse. 
 
 highly crlucated professional men .uid women. It put him 
 
 lie. lie had a chance to tisk himself here hefore th 
 
 and he took the risk. 1 1 
 
 e year he uas gi\en the pulpit of the Reform Chnrch in 
 His congregation was comjioscd of critical, culture:, 
 
 on his niet- 
 mgregation. 
 
 e put himself lie.irl and soul into the work, 
 lahored long and earncsilx oxer his vernions, used words dc.\terouslv, 
 
 coined elo(|uent phrases and hecame a rhetorician in 
 attracted wide attention. The Imis! (.'Inircli could 
 After thrcf years of service, in iSoj, Ik w.is r,',Ile( 
 pulpit in the Second Refoim Church in S 
 
 1 h 
 
 the pulpit that 
 
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 and accepted the 
 
 yracuse, wiiere he hail an even 
 
 fi 
 
 wider tield and ir.oro critical auditors m lu- pew 
 
 I ere he broke 
 
 ay 
 
 entire from the forms and conventionalilio that had heli! preachers of 
 his denomination in a sisedikc grip for generations He removed 
 himself entirely from the stereotypeil pulpit m;mners and usages, and 
 this added greatly to his fame, which was s])readiug verv fast. He 
 
 reallv 
 
 li 
 md 1 
 
 us name was 
 
 was l)eginiiing to he known all oxer the si.ue, a 
 attracting attention in other sfa.tcs near hy. Flere he served like 
 Jacob, seven years, and as he was beginning to long for a large king- 
 dom and greater usefulness, came the opportunity of his life. 
 
 During this time liis marvelous power of i>resenting religious truths 
 in language lofty cnougli for the cultured and simple enough for the 
 plainest people began to be fully recognized, and before he left, tl 
 
 le 
 
 cliurch was unable to hold one-fourth of the multitude who sought 
 
 ad 
 
 mission. 
 
46 
 
 THE MINISTRY GAIXS A NEW HB^CKUIT 
 
 ATTRACTS ATTENTION IN PHILADELPHIA. 
 
 Wlien iic took charge of it tlic Second '-Reformed Dulcli Cluirch 
 in Pliiladelphia was an institution of little inlluencc. He put new life 
 into it and drew a crowd almost from tiie start. He attracted general 
 attention in the Ouaker City In his sensational methods. By many 
 lie was declared a pulpit clown, but despite detraction his congrega- 
 tion continued to grow in size until the church was inadequate 'for its 
 accommodatii)n. 
 
 An illustration of his methods, which provoked criticism in some 
 quarters which bordere.l on the vituperative, is found in the press re- 
 ports of the day. It is given as a fair sample of his sensationalism. One 
 Sunday morning when the time came for him to deliver his sermon, he 
 walked to the extreme edge on one side of his fifly-f„ot platform, faced 
 about, and suddenly started as fast as he could jump for the opposite 
 side. Tust as everybody in the congregation expected to see him pitch 
 headlong from the further side of the platform he leaped suddeidv into 
 the air and came down with a cr.-.sh. shouting. •■Young man, vou are 
 rushing toward a precipice." An.l he then proceeded to deliver a 
 moving sermon upon the temiHations and sins of youth in a big city. 
 lU such methods he drew thousand, cf person, to the church, and. 
 as it was said, the church treasurer .-oniplained that there were thou- 
 sands of cents in the contribution plates. 
 
 Mr. Talniage-s cnnnient .mi his style of preaching was: -.My posi- 
 tive mode of preaching seems to stir the hostiluies of all earth and hell." 
 
 ORIGINALITY IN TALMAGES SERMONS. 
 
 Dr. Talmage was nothing if nnt original, lie once .said that what 
 every nnnister needs is a fre^h mess.ge every Sundav from the Lord. 
 He wo.dd sell cheap all hi> parchments of licensure to preach. God gives 
 his ministers a license every Sabbath and a new 
 
 mess.i!,;!' 
 
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 THE MIXISTKY GAINS A NEW RECRUIT 47 
 
 none of us out so mentally i.oor tliai wc Iiave notliing to furnish but a 
 cold liasli of other ])cople's sermons. "Our haystack is large enough 
 for all the sheep that come round ii. and there is no need of our taking 
 a single forkful from any other barrack." 
 
 "Sermons are successful not according to the head involved in 
 them, but according to the heart implied. With such a beautiful Gospei 
 to preach, such a message of bewildering grandeur to impart, such 
 visions of heavenly glory to depict. I cannot understand how a man 
 can do aught than j.reach from his heart. And where there is such a 
 man who lacks the heart to preach that gospel, my tears are far more 
 ready for him than my censure." 
 
 THE SECRET OF HIS POWERS. 
 
 Speaking of the secret of his own powers. I^r. Talmage once said: 
 "I take the subjects that are interesting people all around me every 
 day. and particularly at the moment. 1 jot down my notes in a little 
 book, and always try to get down the jirecise point I wish to make. 
 Then I take all available sources of information on that ])oint and sift 
 them thoroughly, avoiding beaten tracks. 1 suj)i)o>e 1 have preached 
 more sermons than any one living on texts that are overlooked by other 
 preachers. 1 revise my work and boil it down, making it as pungent 
 and epigrannnatic a> i)os>il)Ie.. and then dictate it to get the oratorical 
 effect. I've found my subjects in odd, out-(jf-the-way places, in a loco- 
 motive train, (jn a hotel i)iazza. in a patent olTice report, in a rainstorm." 
 
 Dr. Talmage"s greatness, it is generally conceded, can be ascribed 
 to his ])ower as an orator. Coupled with this he had the talent of simple 
 and trenchant interpretation of the scriptures. He was a Christian of 
 the old school, if that expression may be employed. He did not run 
 nuich to new thought, higher criticism or creed reform. He clung 
 teiv-ciously to a plain, pure progrannne of everyday morals and right 
 
48 THE MINISTRY GAINS A NEW RECRUIT 
 
 AS TO THE LENGTH OF SERMONS. 
 
 A good old Presbyterian elder once complained of the length of the 
 sermons preached in the church he attended, and asked Dr. Talmage 
 how long he believed a religious service should continue. Dr. Talmage 
 replied: "Some say a sermon ought to last twenty minutes, others say 
 thirty minutes, and others forty, and others an hour, and prayers should 
 be three minutes long, or five or fifteen. Now, you might just as well 
 discuss how long a frock coat ought to be, or how many ounces of 
 food a man ought to eat. In the one case, everything depends upon 
 the man's size; in the other, everything on the capacity of his stomach. 
 A sermon or a prayer ought to go on as long as it is of any profit. If 
 it is doing no good, the sermon is half an hour too long, though it take 
 only thirty minutes. If the audience cough, or fidget, or shuffle their 
 feet, you had better stop praying. There is no e.xcuse for a man's talk- 
 ing or praying too long if he have good eyesight and hearing. But 
 suppose a man have his sermon written and before him. You say he 
 must go through with it? Oh, no. Let him skip a few leaves. Better 
 sacrifice three or four sheets of sermon paper than sacrifice the interest 
 of your hearers. But it is a silly thing for a man in a prayer-meeting 
 or pulpit to stop merely because a certain number of minutes have 
 expired while the interest is deepening — absurd as a hunter on track 
 of a roebuck, and within two minutes of bringing down its antlers, 
 stopping because his wife s.iid that at six o'clock precisely he must be 
 home to supper. Keep on hunting until ammunition gives out." 
 
 CHURCH CELEBRATES FIETIETH ANNIVERSARY. 
 
 Had not Dr. Talmage been stricken with his last illness he would 
 have been present at the services in commemoration of the fiftieth 
 anniversary of the organization of the Second Dutch Reformed Church 
 of Philadelphia, which occurred on Easter Sunday, March 30, 1902, 
 This is the church in the pulpit of which Rev. Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage 
 
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 THE MINISTRY GAINS A NEW RECRUIT 49 
 
 won his way to fame, the eminent minister having been pastor there 
 for the seven years preceding his call to the Presljyterian Tabernacle, 
 Brooklyn. 
 
 Dr. Talmage had been looking forward to this event with happy 
 anticipations, but his trip South in hopes of finding a speedy recovery 
 for his physical ills cut short his hopes. 
 
 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT INVITED TO ATTT5ND. 
 
 President Roosevelt, a member of the denomination, had also been 
 invited to attend, but was unable to do so. He sent a note of regret, 
 however, in which he expressed best wishes and congratulations to 
 the church, and this was read at the commemoration services. It was 
 as follows: 
 
 '•My Dear Dr. Williamson;— I sincerely appreciate the cordial invi- 
 tation which you so kit'dly extendeu to me to atlen.l the fiftieth anni- 
 versary exercises commemorative of the organization of vour church 
 and am really very sorry that it will not he possible for me to be present' 
 I send to you and to the officers and members of the church mv hearti- 
 est congratulations and best wishes in the a>miversarv occasion." Faith- 
 ^"">' >'°"''^' Theouore Roosevelt." 
 
 Of the one hundre.l and forty members v. inch constituted the 
 church at its birth only one is still living, and she. Miss Julia Le Van, 
 was present at the exercises. In appreciation of her presence the officers 
 of the church presented her with • bouquet of fifty roses. 
 
 The exercises comprised a historical sermon by the present pastor, 
 Rev. Dr. William Hall Williamson, in the morning, and addresses by 
 Rev. Dr. William H. Clark, of Detroit, Mich., and Rev Dr C P 
 Masden. of Milwaukee, Wis., former pastors, in the evening. Both 
 services were largely attended. 
 
 In his sermon Rev. William H. Williamson ga^e a detailed histori- 
 cal sketch of the church and a brief biography of each of its former 
 pastors. 
 
 
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 50 THE .MTXISTl?Y OATXS A NEW UECRUTT 
 
 HIS^PRY OF THIS FAMOUS CHXTRCH. 
 
 The cluircli was org-anizcd Mnrcli 29. 1852. iimlcr the title of the 
 Second Reformed Protestant Dutch Cluirch of PIn'ladelpliia. The lot 
 on wliich the church stands was i)urchascd froni Joseph T- Sharpless 
 for $13,000. and the total cost of the stnictnrc. inchidinfr furniture, 
 organ and so forth, was $38,000. The corner stone was laid April Ji, 
 '^53- 'f'le church a as dedicated March 5. 1S54. Rev. Dr. Ceorge W. 
 Bethune preachincf tlie sermon. 
 
 Rev. f3r. Joseph ]•". lierij was the first jxastor. having been elected 
 at its organization in 183J. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage followed Dr. 
 Berg. He was installed pastor April 17. kSCu, and remained till March. 
 1869. In January. 1870, Rev. Isaac S. Hartley Ix-came i)astor. lie 
 remained less than two years, resigning Xovemhcr i. 1871. He was 
 succeeded by Rev. Charles P. Madden, who remained till October 25. 
 1879. when he resigned and went back to the i>astorate in the Mcthodi.st 
 Episcopal Church. The church next extended a call to Rev. X. I. 
 Rubikain, pastor of the Presbyterian Church. Pittston. Pa., who was 
 installed paster May u. 1880. 
 
 On M.ay II. i88r.. Rev. Dr. William II. Clark was installed as pas- 
 tor. He remained till May i. 1891, an.l was succeeded by Rev. William 
 H. Tracy, who remained pastor till his death in the fall of 1895. Rev. 
 E. W. Greene was installed as jKistor January 15. 1897, and remained 
 till May. 1898. when he resigned to become pastor of the Reformed 
 Church of Keyport. X. J. The present pastor. Rev. William II. Wil- 
 liamson, began iiis labnr> there on January 1. 1899. 
 
 TALMAviE'S VIEWS OF HEAVEN. 
 
 About ten years ago Dr. Talmage expressed his views ot heaven. 
 His treatment of the -nbject caused some criticism at the time, but 
 Iiis expressions were nriucii)al]y idealistic, and ilie language used was 
 most beautiful, "I cannot fancy heaven," said he. "as a statelv. formal 
 

 THE MINISTIiY GAINS A NEW RECRUIT 51 
 
 place, a very frigidity of splendor, where people stand on cold formali- 
 ties and go round al)out with heavy crowns of gold on their hends. 
 No. that is not my idea of heaven. My idea of heaven is more like 
 this: You are seated in the evenincj-tide l.y the tire-place, vour whole 
 family there, or nearly all of them there. Wliilc vou are seated talking 
 and enjoying the evening hour there is a knock at the door and the 
 door opens, an<l there comes in a brother that has been long absent 
 He has been absent for years; you have not seen him, and no sooner 
 do you make up your mind that it is certainly he than vou leap up, 
 and the question is-who shall give him the first embrace? That is 
 my idea of heaven; a groat home-circle where they arc waiting for us. 
 Oh! Will you not know your mother's voice there? She who always 
 called you by ycur fir.t name long after others have given vou the 
 formal -Mister?' Will you not know your child's voice? She, of the 
 l^ngln eye and the cjuiet step, who came in from piav and flung herself 
 into your lap. a very shoucr of mirth and beauty? Whv, the picture is 
 graven in your soul; it cannot wear out. If that little one should stan-l 
 on the other si<lc of so.uc heavenly hill and call to you. vou would hear 
 her vo,ce above the bur>t of hea^ en's great orchestra. Know it? You 
 could not help but know it. 
 
 HOW TO SPELL HEAVEN. 
 
 "Xo. no! Do not tell mc that heaven is Miff and formal, bwcet 
 I'caven! You do not spell heaven as you used to spell it You used 
 to spell ,t h-e-a-v-c-n. heaven. Uut now when you want .o spell that 
 vvord, you place side by side the faces of the loved ones who are gone 
 and in that irra<liation of light and love, and beauty and jov. vou spell 
 It out as never before— in songs ami halleluiahs! 
 
 "Oh, ye whose hearts are down under the sod of the cemctcrv- cheer 
 "P at the thought of this reunion! Oh. hew much vou will have to 
 t- .hem when once you meet them! How much you have been through 
 
 since vou saw tlieiii 1-1';^' O" »'■<• -iv'--;,-- i ■•- 
 
 .^ I..,, „,c ;!u:;n:y t,liorc you wili talk it all over: 
 
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 52 
 
 THE MINISTRY GMNS A NEW RECRUIT 
 
 the heartaches; the loneUness; the sleepless nights; the weeping until 
 you had no more power to weep, because the heart was withered and 
 dried up. Story of the vacant chair and empty cradle, and little shoe 
 only half worn-out, never to he worn again: just the shape of the foot 
 that once pressed it. Talking it all ever, walking in the light. No 
 sorrow, no tears, no death. Oh, heaven! Beautiful heaven! Heaven 
 where our friends are! Heaven where we expect to be! 
 
 "Heaven must he populated. There is not so much room on the 
 western prairies and table-lands for more settlers as there is room in 
 the upper country for more peojile. Heaven has only one want, and 
 that is of greater population. It is sparsely inhabited yet. as compared 
 with its future citizenship. The crowns are not half taken, nor the 
 robes half worn. Heaven is like a house in which a levee is to be held 
 at ten o'clock. At nine o'clock the rooms are all ablaze with lights, 
 and the servants, gloved and vestured, are waiting to open the doors. 
 The rooms of our Father's house are illuminated, and the chamber- 
 lains are ready, and the table is spread. A few have entered, but heaven 
 is not yet fully begun. They have only sung the opening piece." 
 
CHAPTER V, 
 
 HIS ELOQUEN'CE SAVES A DYIXG CHURCH. 
 
 Young minister accepts call to Brooklyn church — Fame and 
 
 fortune burst upon him thousands come to hear him 
 
 Builds the first tabernacle — His sermons attract wide 
 
 ATTENTION BECOMES A RIVAL OF HeNRY WaRD BeECHER 
 
 Eloquence captures the press, religious and secular. 
 
 Late in 1869 three large churches sent calls to the young preacher. 
 One of these was a Chicago church, another was from Massachusetts, 
 and the third and last was from a little congregation in Brooklyn. 
 This church was dying. Tlie call was signed hy but nineteen out of 
 the entire membership of thirty-five. To all of the young preacher's 
 advisers the Brooklyn call seemed the least desirable of all, for it 
 seemed that the church had gone beyond redemption and that it would 
 be a hopeless task for any one, no matter what his ability or how great 
 his eloquence, to attempt to revivify it. 
 
 THE CALL TO BEOOKLTN. 
 
 Yet in spite of all advice to the contrary, and the apparent utter 
 hopelessness of the prospect, the courageous young preacher 
 accepted the call of the Central Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn. In 
 spite of the dire prophecy of the wiseacres and perhaps the forebod- 
 ings of his own nature, his success in the new surroundings was 
 instantaneous and ever greater. Before he went there the small church 
 had been sparsely attended, if not quite deserted. As if by magic the 
 old church took on new air. and drawn ny the magnet of power and elo- 
 quence, twelve hundred worshipers came to every Sunday and week- 
 day service. Standing room became scarce, then the four walls were 
 
 by far too narrow for tlie hundreds v.h 
 
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 54 ELOQl-KXCK SAVKS A DYINd CUnU'lI 
 
 brilliant minister ulu. had porfornicd ilic miracle of tlie resurrection 
 of the dying church. When he funnd that scores and hundreds were 
 being turned away from his church every service day. Dr. Talmage 
 began to clamor for a new and larger e.liiice. He did not propose to 
 build an ordinary church, a triile larger than thv one in which tliey 
 were worshiping, but he had an audacious scheme for that time. He 
 proposal to erect a great barn-Hke structure of wood an.l corrugated 
 iron that would seat three tlu.u^and and acconnnodate perhaps a 
 thousand more if need be. Money uas given lavi>hly for this new 
 project, an.l i8;o the ..riginal Tabernacle uas ready for occupancy 
 and dedicate.l with great religious ceremony. It was tilled that day to 
 overtlowing, ami every Sunday after that there was not a vacant seat. 
 Imleed. the magnetic power of Dr. Talmage increased month after 
 m.mth and vear after year until in iSjj thi> sanctuary, then great for 
 its time and'plac-c and puri.o>e, had to be enlarged. .\ rather complete 
 addition was made to it, and the congregation believed that at last 
 they had grown up to the pouer exhibited bv their famous minister. 
 
 ELOQUENCE RIVALS THAT OF BEECHES. 
 
 The church walls, bow ever, never contained one-tenth of his con- 
 gregation, r.econung a rival of I leury Ward Reecher, the giant pastor 
 ,,;• I'lymo.-th Church, the elo,|nencc and fire and brilliancy of Dr. Tal- 
 nia-c's r-ernuni^ attracted the attention of the press in this country ami 
 abroad. Hi- Sunday and I'ridav .liM-otu-ses were reported fully in both 
 religiou.s an<l secular p'-c-, and so,,n he was speaking to millions of 
 men and women every time lie mounte.l the pulpit in that rather inele- 
 gant but connno.lious building knoun as the l"ir>t Tabernacle. 
 
 Dr. Talmage's language, while forceful and elo(|Ucnt. was simple, 
 and it reiiuirc.l no advanced scholar to un.lerstand his words. Plain and 
 to the point he wa-, and he <lid not -can the lexicons to fuid b"g words 
 with which to d;\/zle hi- congregations. 
 
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 ELOQUKXCE SAVES A DYING CHURCH 57 
 
 extracts from an Easier discourse will be read with unflagging interest: 
 EASTER SAT A DAY OF BEAUTT. 
 
 "With blooming lily and tulip and crocus, the earth throws off the 
 icy embrace of winter and welcomes the first harbinger of spring-time. 
 How fitting it is that the flowers should first spring forth into beau- 
 teous bloom to welcome the day of a resurrected Christ! Raster day 
 has always had for nie a singular suggestive l-eauty; a time of the year 
 when I feel as if the goodness of God is closer to nic than at any other. 
 Full of beauty is the Kaster-tide, and fuller still of the lessons it can 
 teach us! 
 
 "There are one or two things which the world and the Church, I 
 think, have not noticed in regard to the resurrection of Christ: espe- 
 cially, our Lord in gardener's attire. Mary Magdalene, grief-stricken, 
 stands by the rifled sarcopliagus of Christ, and turns around, hojjing 
 she can find the track of the sacrilegious resurrectionist who has 
 despoiled the grave. As she turns she finds some one in working 
 apparel come forth, as if to water the flowers, or uproot the weeds 
 from the garden, or set to uplifting the fallen vine — some one in work- 
 ing ai)parcl. his garments perhaps having the sign of the dust and the 
 dirt of the occu|)ati<)n. 
 
 AN EVERY-DAY CHRIST FOR EVERY-DAY WORK. 
 
 "Mary Magdalene, on her face the rain of a fresh shower of weep- 
 ing, turns to this workman and charges him with the desecration of 
 the tomb, wlien lo! the stranger responds, flinging his whole soul into 
 one word, which trembles with all the sweetest rhythm of earth and 
 heaven, saying, 'Mary!' In that peculiarity of accentuation all the 
 incognito fe!! dtT, and she found that iiistead of talking with an humble 
 gardener of Asia Minor she was talking with Him who owns all the 
 hanging gardens of heaven. Constellations, the clusters of fofget-me- 
 
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 58 
 
 KLOgrKN'CK HAVES A DYINO (III IJCIf 
 
 nots, the siintldwcr tlic chief nf all. the niorninjj sky .ni^l midnight 
 aurora, flaring terraces of beauty lila/iiiR like a summer wall, with cor- 
 onation roses and giants of battle. lUesseil and },'l(ui()Us mistake of 
 Mary Mapdalene. 'She su|)i)osin)^ Ilim to l>e the i;aideiur." W'liat 
 docs tiiat mean? It means that we have an every -ila\ ( lirist for every- 
 day work, in cvery-day apparel. .\"t on .Sahhalh morning, in our 
 most seemly apparel, are we more attractive to ( hrisi than we ;ire m 
 our cvery-day W(irk dress, inanaj^inj,' our merchandise. >!nitin<i our 
 anvil, i)lowinj.j our field, tendinis the tlvinj,' shuttles, nieiuliii},' the },'ar- 
 ments of our household, providinj.^ food for <iur families, or loiHng witii 
 weary pen. or weary pencil, or we.arv chisel, 
 
 CHBIST IN A QABDENERS OARB. 
 
 "If Christ had ajipeared .it daybreak, with a crown i;|)on His head, 
 that would have seemed to su},'j;est especial sympathy for monarchs; 
 if Christ had ap])eared in chain of f^old. and with robe diamonded, that 
 would have sceme<l to be esjiecial sympathy for the .ifthient: if Christ 
 liad ai)i)eared with soldier's sash and sword d.in^linp ;il His side, tliat 
 would liavc seemed to imply es])eci;il sympathy for warriors. fUit wlien 
 I find Christ in (gardener's liabit. with perhajjs the Hakes of the cartli 
 and of the upturned soil u])on His j^arments, tlien I sjiell it out that 
 He has hearty and pathetic understandinj,' with evcr\ day work, and 
 every-day an.xiety, and every-day fatij^ue. Roll it down in comfort all 
 throujih the homes of the land. Tell it in tlie darkest corridor of the 
 mountain to the i)oor miner; tell it to the factor\ maid in most unvcn- 
 tilated establislinicnt; tell it to the clearer of r()nj.;hest new ground in 
 Western wilderness; tell it to the sewinj^-wcjtii.in. iirickiiifj; a stitch in 
 lier side for every stitch in the garment — those women whose cruel 
 employers ha\e no more right to think that they will get througli the 
 door of heaven than that they could through the eye f)f the broken 
 needle which has just dropped on the bare tloor from the pricked and 
 
 b! 
 
 eefimg rintrers <: 
 
 i !h. 
 
 insumptive sewiiiij girl 
 
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 ELogrKxcE savb:s a dyincj cnnuii 5<j 
 
 SHADOWS OVER THE ORAVE. 
 
 "Another tliinj,-- that the worl.l niid tlic Cliiirch h 
 
 in rcfjanl to tliis rcsiirrectidii, and that i-.. it 
 
 If tlie chroiioinctcr had li 
 
 watch as some of the Marvs of onr time liave si 
 
 was ahoiit lialf-past the 
 
 ave not ol)served 
 
 was t!ic moriiiiif,' twih^lit. 
 
 11 invented, and Mary ha<l liad as jrood a 
 
 le would liave fouml it 
 
 Matt! 
 
 Mark 
 
 lew says it was tlie dawn; 
 
 says II wa^ at the simrisinj^r; |,iil<i. ^;,vs it 
 
 was vers- carlv in the 
 
 moniinjj; John >ays it u; 
 was twih^ht. I hat ua^ t 
 Christ for t^H■ >,Mrdener. 
 
 :i> wliile it was yet dark. In other works, it 
 lie o'clock at whicii Mary Magdalene mistook 
 
 "What does that mean"" It 
 
 mea 
 
 unlifted, shadows of mvvterv that are 
 and tried to look to the other eml of tl 
 
 lis tlieie are shadows over the grave 
 loveriiig. Mary stooi)e(l down 
 
 le crypt. 
 
 She 
 
 outcry; she could not see to the other end. Xeithe 
 
 gave 
 
 lust.' 
 
 ric 
 
 the other end of th 
 
 c grave of your dead; neither can we 
 
 other end of our own grave. Oh ! if there w ere ^had< 
 plot belonging to Josei)h of .\rimathea, 
 
 r can vou see to 
 
 see to the 
 
 he some shadow 
 
 s over onr familv lot? I- 
 
 iws over the family 
 
 is it strange tliat there should 
 
 a-tcr dawn, not Easter noon. 
 
 IN THE MOBKINO TWILIGHT. 
 
 "Shadow of unanswered (juestion! Why were they taken away 
 from us^ Why were they ever given to us if they were to he taken so 
 soon? Why were they taken so sn.l.lenly? W!,y c.uld thev not have 
 uttere.l .some farewell words ^ Why? .\ short question, hut a whole 
 crucifixion of agony in it. Why? Shadow on the graves of go,„l men 
 and women who seemed to die before their work was done: shadow on 
 all the graves of children, because we ask ourselves why so beautiful a 
 craft was launched at all if it was to be wrecked one mile outsi.Ic the 
 liarbor? Hut what did Mary Magdalene have to do in order to get 
 Piore light on that grave? She had only to wait. 
 
 '•Alter a while the Master sun rolled up and the whole place was 
 

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 ELOQUENCE SAVES A DYING CHURCH 
 
 flooded with light. Vhat have you and I to do in order to get more 
 light on our own graves, and light upon the graves of our dear loved 
 ones? Only to wait: it is not the evening twilight tliat gets darker 
 and darker. Tt is the morning twilight that gets hrighter and brighter 
 unto the perfect day. Sunrise over Perc Ic Chaise, sunrise over Grey- 
 friars Churchyard, smirise over Greenwood, over Woodlawn, over 
 I.aurel Hill, over Mount Auburn, sunrise over every ct)iuitry grave- 
 yard, sunrise over the catacombs, sunrise over the sarcophagi where 
 the shii)s lie buried. Half past five o'clock among the tombs now, but 
 soon to be the noonday of exi)lanation and beatituile. It was in the 
 morning tv.ilight that Mary Magdalene mistook Christ for a gardener. 
 
 CHRIST'S CBEOENTIALS. 
 
 "Wnotlier tiling the world and the Church lia\e not observed: that 
 is, Christ's pathetic cre<lcntial--. Huw do you know he was not a gar- 
 •' iier? His garments said he was a gardener. The Hakes of the up-: 
 turned earth scattered upon His garments >aid He was a gardener. 
 How do you know He was not a gardener? fjcfore b'aster had gone 
 by He gave to some of lIi.^ disciples His three credentials. He showed 
 them His li;uiils and His side; tiirce paragraphs written in rigid or 
 depressed ciiaracters; a scar in the right palm, a scar in tiie left iialin, 
 a scar amid the ribs! I'hat is the way they kii'jw Him: that is the way 
 you and I wilt kiKiw Him. .\y. am I saying too much when I say that 
 that will be one of the \\;iys in which you and 1 will know each u Iier — 
 bv the scars of c;irth; >cars of accicjent. scars of sickness. sc;irs of |)crse- 
 cutioii, scars of b;ird work, scars of b;ittle. sc;irs of old age! 
 
 "When 1 see Christ's resurrected body having scars, it makes me 
 think that our remodeled aiul resurrecled bodies will have scars. Why. 
 before we get out of this world some of us will be co\ ered with scars all 
 over. He:i\en will not lie a bay into which tloat summer yacht* after 
 a pleasuring, with the gav bunting and with the embroidered sails as 
 fair as when they were first inifurled. Heaven will be more like a navy- 
 
ELOQrF.XCK SAVES A DYING CHURCH 
 
 61 
 
 yard where men-of-war conic in from Trafnlpar and T.cpanto, men-of- 
 war with masts twisted by a cyclone, men-of-war struck on all sides by 
 seventy-fonr pounders, men-of-war with decks scoiclied of the shell, 
 old Constitutions, old Constellations floatintj in discharpje from service 
 to rest forever! In the resurrection Christ credent iaicd by scars, ^'ou 
 and I will be credent ialcd, and will recognize each other by scars. Do 
 yon think them now a disfigurement? Do you think them now a 
 badge of endurance? T semi you the glorious thought at this Easter- 
 tide, they arc going to be the means of heavenly recogiu'tion. 
 
 "Many of us, too, I think, are ajit to overlook in the resurrection of 
 Christ the fact that Christ from Friday to Sabbath was lifeless in a hot 
 climate where sanitary prudence demanded that burial take place the 
 same day as death, and where there wa-; no ice to retard dissolution. 
 Yet. after three days Tie c.Mues up so healthful, so robust, and so rubi- 
 cund, Mary Magdalene tak ■ ■ Him for a gardener. Xot supjiosing 
 Him to • an invalid from a hospital, not supposing Him to be a 
 corpse from the tomb, but su))iiosing Him to be the gardener. Health- 
 ful by the breath of ; uiiturned sod, and by a perpetual life in the 
 sunshine. 
 
 CHARLES THE FIFTH OF SPAIK. 
 
 "Charles the iMfth, i>i .Spain, with his servants and torches, went 
 <lown into the vault of the necropolis where his ancestors were buried, 
 and went deeper, farther on tuitil he came to a cross around which were 
 arranged the caskets of his ancestors. He also found a casket contain- 
 ing the botly of line of his own family. lie had the casket opened, and 
 there by embalmcr's art he found that the body was as perfect as eight- 
 een years before when it was eiuombed. Rut under the explor.ition 
 his mind atid body ]ierished. ( )li. iu\- ie;i<lers. do imt let us morbiillv 
 struggle with the sliadows of the sepulchre. 
 
 ".After Christ's interment every cellular tissue broke down; and 
 nerve, and artery, and brain were a physiological wreck, and yet He 
 
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 ELOQUENCE SAVES A DYING CnUUCII 
 
 i ' 
 
 comes up swartliy. rulncund, and well. When I see after such mortuary 
 silence such radiant appearance, that settles it that whatever should 
 become of the dead l)odies of our Cliristian dead, they are going to 
 come up, the nerves restrung, the optic nerve reillumined, the ear drum 
 avibrate, the whole body lifted \\\\ without its weaknesses and worldly 
 uses, for which there is no resurrcctio)i. Come, is it not almost time 
 for us to go out to meet our reanimate<l dead? Can you not hear the 
 lifting of the rusted latch? Oh, the glorious thought, the glorious con- 
 solation of this subject when I fnid Christ coming up without any of 
 the lacerations, for yon must remember lie was lacerated and wounded 
 fearfully in the crucifixion — coming up without one. What does that 
 make me thiiik? 
 
 WHEN WE BECOME IMMORTAX ATHLETES. 
 
 "The grave will get nothing of us except our wounds and our 
 imperfections. Christ went into the grave exhausted and bloodless. 
 .\11 the currents of His life had poured out from His wounds. He had 
 lived a life of trouble, sorrow, and privation, and then He died a linger- 
 ing death. His entire body hung on four siiikes. Xo invalid of twenty 
 years' suffering ever went into the grave so white and ghastly and 
 broken down as Christ, and yet, as I said in a paragraph just before, 
 here He comes up so rubicund and rol)ust she sui)i)osc(l Him to be the 
 garilcner. .\li! all the sideachcs and the headaches and the backaches 
 and the legaches and the heartaches we will leave where Christ left His. 
 The ear will come u]) without its heaviness, the eye will come up with- 
 out its dinmcss. the lungs will come uj) without oppressed respiration. 
 Oh. what races we will run when we become innnortal athletes! Oh. 
 what circuits v.e will take when all earthly imperfections subtracted 
 .md all celestial velncities added, we shall set up our residence in that 
 citv which th.'ugh va-^ter than all the citic> v i tlii.i world, shall never 
 have one olKecpiy! 
 
 ■•.Mninsi within a few days of another anniversary of the day which 
 
ELOQUENCE SAVES A DYING CHURCH 
 
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 celebrates the shattered masonry of our Lord's toinh, I point you to a 
 world without hearse, without muffled drum, witliout tumuhis, without 
 catafalque, and without a tear! Amid all the cathedrals of the blessed 
 no longer the "dead march in Saul," but whole libretti of hallelujah 
 chorus. Oh, put trumpet to lip. and finger to key, and loving forehead 
 against the bosom of a risen Christ! (dorious Master! 
 
 THE LESSONS OF EASTEH. 
 
 "What are the I-laster lessons to us? Subjects of a conquering 
 Lord who yet calls us not servants, but friends, shall wc not work for 
 Him with greater zeal and more conscious fidelity in days to come, 
 than in the past? Shall we not take it to our hearts that He is living 
 and present, not absent and dead? He is ours and here. Sometimes 
 we talk about our Jesus as if He had once been with us, but. as if now, 
 in the ^^erenity of Heaven, He had removed to an infinite distance. 
 We make of our Savior an abstraction, and onr teachings of Him fall 
 on the hearts that hear like icicles, and glance ott hard, glittering and 
 cold. Not so. dear friends; Jesus, the Christ, is to-day 
 
 No dead fact stranded on the shore 
 
 Of the oblivious years. 
 Hut warm, sweet, tender, c\eii yet 
 
 A present licl]) is He; 
 .Nnd faith has still its Olivet. 
 
 .\nd love its tialilee. 
 The healing of Flis seandess ilress 
 
 Is by our beds of pain, 
 W'c touch liim in life's throng and piess. 
 
 .And we are whcvle ag.iin.' 
 
 "Let US talk of our Master, and work for Him as if He were here, 
 and close to us. In our |)rayers let us jiress near and take hold of the 
 hand that was pierced. Let us ask that angels may roll the barriers 
 of unbelief a\\a\ from a!l onr hearts, and so, on the 'stepping-stones of 
 i^iirdcnd *;chT-i.''!ct u>- jiKnint t'^ thing- higher and iK-l>!cr." 
 
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 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 TRIl'MrilS OVER PURSUING l-lRIi FIENU. 
 First tabernacle destroyed uy ilames ls rebuilt — Arix)r and elo- 
 
 giENCE WIN Vl' : DESTROYS SECOND TaBLRNACLE MORE 
 
 MA<;NIFICENT edifice erected by persistent I'ASTOR — Won- 
 DERFLL CULKCll AND I'LLIMT OF THE GREAT DIVINE. 
 
 Fire has seemed tn l)c a nemesis as far as Dr. Talmage is concerned. 
 Scarcely had the addition been finished to the first l)uil(hng when the 
 wliole structure was coni])letely destroyed liy fire. Tltat was in 
 December. 187J. But without a •^ ord I'f discouragement or .com- 
 plaint, with the optinvi, n of his naiure, and with vim and vigor. Dr. 
 Talmage began the work of Collecting funtls for a new and greater 
 tabernacle, lliis time he ])roposed to make it large enough, ,'>.nd so 
 when the plans were drawn tlicy called for a seating capacity of five 
 thousand, and with wide and s))aci()us aisles and foyer which gave 
 standing room for a thousand additional. The old iron and wood 
 structure was lujt duiilicated in this new tabernacle, for on the site of 
 the ok! and homily buililing arose a vast cathedral-like amphitlieatre, 
 elegant in design and finish. luid ipiite impressive, both interior and 
 exterior. With e\cn iiiore im])rcssive ceremonies than before, this 
 second tabern.ule was dcclii.itcd J.imiary _'_•, 1S74. 
 
 POWER AND INFLtJENCE WITHOUT LIMIT. 
 
 Even with all this capacit\ for great audiences hundreds and hun- 
 dreds were turned awa. at every service conducted by Dr. Talmage. 
 His ])owcr and intUience seemed to have no limit, and it v,as a ques- 
 tion whether he or the great I'eccher v.:i:\ exercising greater world 
 intluence. .\t this time it was estimated that Dr. Talmage's sermons 
 
 were heard or read liv ten million persons everv week. In fact, his 
 
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 words spanned the globe, for the papers in London, Liver^jool, Man- 
 clicbter, Glasgow, Cork, Dublin, Montreal, Toronto, tlic cities of 
 Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany. Sweden and Russia 
 printed in full the wonderful sermons so filled with eloquence and 
 power uttered by this former farmer's boy in far-away Brooklyn. 
 
 Fire again destroyed this new tabernacle, and again left Dr. Tal- 
 mage without a church, but did not danii)ea lii>, ardor or diminish his 
 enterprise and energy. With greater fervor than before began the 
 work of securing funds for a third and greater tabernacle, 'llie fire 
 had wiped out the second tabernacle in October of 1889. and the 
 embers were hardly cool before the vigorous pastor wa?- planning wavs 
 and means for the new edifice. This tiiuc he had .qixater difficulty 
 than ever before, but at last succeeded in carrying oin his pet jjroject. 
 and on a new site the walls of the magnificent Xiirmaii cluuvli slowly 
 grew to completion. This new church is at the corner of Clinton and 
 Green avenues, in the most fashionable section of Urooklvn, and was 
 one of the finest churches architecturally ever erected in this country. 
 Massive but finely lined and grairehil in design, the church boasted the 
 finest acoustic properties of any American church, and perhaps at that 
 time the most commodious amphitheatre. As an example of modern 
 church architecture it attracted attention far and wide, and added to 
 the immense fame of the pastor. It was fiiiislie<I in 1891, and dedi- 
 cated with ceremonials commensurate with the grandeur and beautv 
 of the building. 
 
 For fifteen years Dr. Talmagc preachetl to audiences which 
 crowded his church to the doors. He was also engaged in active 
 editorial work, in publishing volumes of his sermons, the circulation 
 of which from week to week in newsjjaper publications was enormous, 
 and in lecturing in all parts of the country. ( )iit of his relations with 
 "The Christian at Work" arose ins trial by the Brooklyn I'resbytery 
 ill i88i on charges of '"falsehooil and deceit," prefcne<l by '•common 
 
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 THUMl'IIS OVVAl VlUK FIKXD 
 
 pushed by tlie Rev. Dr. Henry J. Van Dyke, pastor of tlie Second 
 Presbyterian (nnirch. altlimiRh tlie ostensil)le prosecutors were the 
 Rev. .\rtliur CVosliy and tlie Rev. .\rchil)ald McCullagh; but Dr. 
 Talnia^H- was ably defended by the Rev. Dr. Sjiear, and the result was 
 a Scotch venlict of "not ])rovcn." for the Presbytery voted by about 
 two to one to dismiss the char^'es, and a subseciuent appeal to the 
 Synod of New ^'ork failed. 
 
 One t>f the fcatnro of the services at the Tabernacle was having 
 congregational >iiiLr'"g instead of a choir, l-'or years the seats were 
 all free, sittings being assigned to regular attenilants, but in 1883 the 
 sale of the pews at auction was adopted. .\t that time a newspaper 
 man askcil Dr. Harrison .\. Tucker, president of the board of trustees, 
 how many the clnircli would ;-eat. Dr. Tucker replied: 
 
 "Well, we lia\e had them counted and the pews will seat J, 650. 
 but the Dominie (Dr. Talmage) always says 4,^150. He sees things 
 large." 
 
 If Dr. Talniai;e. as Dr. Tucker said, "saw things large," he never- 
 thele-s continued to expound his religii)!! in a broad-minded manner, 
 and his words lost imthing in force as the years went on. 
 
 ••HALF-AND-HAXF" FBOFESSOBS OF KELIOION. 
 
 "! think." said he, "that the church needs a change m quality as 
 well as (|naniity of membership. One half the professed Christians 
 amount to nothing. They go to church. They have a kind regard 
 for all religious institutions. I'.ut as to any firm gri|) of the truth, and 
 enthusiastic service <if Christ, and cheerful self-denial, an overmaster- 
 ing i)rayer. .'Ui_\ capacity to strike hard blows for God. they are a failure. 
 ( )ne of :\\o things these half-and-half jirofessors ought to do — either 
 withdraw their names from the church-roll, or else go so near the fire 
 as to get warm." 
 
 Dr. Talmage uncc wrote that the religion of Ralph Waldo Emer- 
 son was tin- phii(js(ipiiy (]i icicles; tlie religion of Theodore I'arkcr 
 
 ■JliSiaSKii%'1IISSZVt3KVlcm!Ki 
 
TRIUMPHS OVER FIRE FIEND 67 
 
 was a sirocco of the desert: tlie religion of Renan was tiie romance of 
 helievinpf nothing: tlic religion of Thomas Carlylc was only a con- 
 densed London fog; the religion of the Hnxley? and the Spencers is 
 merely a pedestal on which human philosophy sits shivering in the 
 • night of the soul, looking up to the stars, offering no help to the na- 
 tions that crouch and groan at the hase. 
 
 A BELIEVER IN A LIVE CHURCH. 
 
 Dr. Talmage was always an advocate of what he termed "live" 
 churches. He wanted action an.l spirit an.l enthusiasm. He wanted 
 to hear his congregation sing with a vim and a go. He wanted the 
 financial end of his church looked after in the same manner as a busi- 
 ness man would look after his own individual business affairs. "A live 
 church is prompt in its financial engagements." he said. "Every relig- 
 ious institution has monetary relations. The Dank of F,ng!and ought 
 to be no more faithful in the discharge of its obligations than ought 
 the church of Jesus Christ. If a church standing in any community 
 fails to pay its debts, it becomes an injury to the place where it stands, 
 instead of a blessing. .Ml religious institution^ ought to be an example 
 to the world for faithfulness in the discharge of monetary obligations. 
 There are a tlunisand things that prayer will not do. Prayer will not 
 paint a churcli, prayer will not inirchase a winter's coal, prayer will 
 not pay an insurance, prayer will not supiwrt the iii'^titutions of 
 religion. .\ prayer never goes heaven high unless it g.ies pocket deep. 
 •Ml our supplication in behalf of religious iiistitmions amounts to 
 nothing, unless we are willing, so far as (Jod has prospered us. to con- 
 tribute lor their support. 
 
 HALF STARVED MINISTERS. 
 
 "I might at this point say that there are many cluuclies of fesus 
 Christ in our land that are utterly failing in this direction. There are 
 a i'rcr.t many of tlie ministers of rciigion hall >Uirved tcj death. Tliank 
 
 .isrf? aMn 
 
 it n—iiiiiin ■liiiiiiiii I'll '11 ninrMiTnn~ 
 
W.- :^im.j -Mjm^.r, j.iz ml , 
 
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 TRIUMPHS OVER FIRE FIKND 
 
 ycu." said a minister fn-m tlic far West, when some friends from the 
 F.ast -,ent him a few extra dollars: 'ihnnk you, sir. Until that money 
 came we had no meat in our honse for three months, and our children 
 this winter have worn their snnuner clothes.' There is no more ghastly 
 snfTcrinir in the I'nited States to-<lay than is to he found in some of the 
 parsonages of this country. I denounce the niggardliness of many of 
 the churches ,,f Je^us Christ, keeping some men who are very apostles 
 for pietv ami consecration, in circumstances where they are always 
 apologetic, and have not that courage which they would have could 
 they stand in the presence of people whom they knew were faithful in 
 the .lischar^'e of their financial duties to the Christian Church. .Mas! 
 for those men of wli.jm the world i> not worthy. Do you know the 
 Mmple fact that in the United States to-<l;iy the salary of ministers 
 average-; k- than six hnndred dollars, and when yon consider that 
 some of the salaric-, are very large, you, as husiness men, will immedi- 
 ately see to what great -traits many of Cod's nohlest servants are this 
 day're.luced. .\ live church will look after all its tniancial interests, and 
 he as prompt in the meeting of those ohligations as any hank in all the 
 
 ^'"*^^ LACK OF PUNCTUALITY IN CHUBCH ATTENDANCE. 
 
 •■.\ live church will he punctual in its .attend.ince. If in such a 
 church the services hegin at half-past ten o'clock in the morning, the 
 l)eople will not come at a (piarter of eleven. Tf in such a church the 
 services l.egin at half-j.a^t seven o'clock in the morning, the i>cople 
 will not come at a r|u.irter of eight. In many churches there is great 
 tardiness. The fact is some people are alw.ays late. They were horn 
 too late, and 1 s,.ppo>e they wiH <lie too 'nte. It is poor inspiration 
 to a ChriMian minister, when in preliminaiy exercises, h.alf the people 
 seated in their pews are looking around to see the other half come in. 
 It is very confuting to a minister of religion when, during the opening 
 exercises there is the rn-tling of dresscs through the aisle, and the 
 slanmiing of doers „. the entrance. 
 
TRIUMPHS OVEK FIKE FIEND 
 
 SHOULD BE NO PBELIMINABY EXEBCISES. 
 
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 '•There ought to I)e no opening', preliminary exercises. There is a 
 grami delusion in the churches of Jesus Christ on this subject. There 
 "U.st be no prehminary exercises. The very first ^^on\ of tlie invoca- 
 tion IS as important as anytliing that may come after. Scripture lesson 
 the voice of God to man, while a .^ermon n)ay be onlv the voice of man 
 to man. And happy is thai church uhere all the worshipers are pre^e-u 
 at the beginning of the services. I know there is a .lifference in time- 
 pieces, but a live cliurch goes by railroa.l time, an.l everybo.lv in everv 
 community knows what that is. Xo man goes to take the limited 
 express tram to Washington at five minutes past ten o'clock if the 
 train startc.l at ten. In many of the houselu.l.ls . ,f ChriMen.lom, everv 
 Sabbath morning the family might well .ing that old hymn: 
 
 '■ ' Early, my Gud. withnm delav, 
 I ha.ste to seek thy face.' 
 
 HTTSIC THAT COMES IN A DRIZZLE. 
 
 "Ves, 1 go further, an-l tell you that i„ everv live Jmrch ail the 
 people take part in the exercises. .\ ...ranger car. tell bv the wav ,he 
 first hymn starts, whether it is a live dmrch. It is ,-. -a.l thing ulun 
 ti.e music comes down in a cold Irizxle from the ...g.-.n l,.ft. and' freezes 
 on the heads of the silent people beneath. I, is an aufnl thiim f,„ a 
 liymn to start and then find itself lonelv and unbefricnded, wan.le.in.^ 
 around about, after a while lost amid ihe archo. That is no. mel-.dv 
 to th Lord. In heaven they all Mug. although .onie sing no. half ..s 
 vvell as others. The Methodist Church has sung its uav around tlu- 
 <-arth. .\ man on f.re with the Gospel, as John WV.lev preacbe.l it. 
 has taken hi. place in the far \\e>t, and on Sabbath mnr„i„g has c.mie 
 out in front of his log cabin and Muig: 
 
 ■■ ' A charge to keep I li.ive. 
 .\ (jod to glorifv.' 
 
70 
 
 THllMl'llS OVKIJ FIHK FIKND 
 
 And tliiv lieaiil it <>i> 
 
 aruuiiil tlie "loiirsic]', a; 
 
 tlif otluT side till- forot. anil they gathered 
 (1 alter a wliilc a clinrdi ^rvw up. and they 
 
 ilderi 
 
 had a >,'reat revival, and all tl'e wilde 
 chi!rcli that can -ini,' can i 
 
 heard llic voice of tiod. A 
 
 great hattle fnr ( ;<id let ii> 
 houk in the other, on t! 
 iircs that ne\er die. Sni 
 
 lo anythinj,' tliat ougiit to l>c don -. in this 
 
 take the I'.il.le in one haini ami the hymn 
 
 tinnni.hs \vitlu)nt end, an<l to plcas- 
 
 le \va\ to 
 
 LIBERAL CONTKIBUTIONS FOR NEW TABERNACLE. 
 
 The hnrninj; '>t' tl 
 
 (ind tahernacle 
 
 delaved Dr. Talmage's start 
 
 the II 'Iv l-and, hnt he delayed his j.mrney only lonj 
 
 on his trip ti 
 
 enonirh to >ee hi-- congrejjalion temporarily 
 
 of Mn-ic. C.MilnhiitiiMis for the third 
 on the dav of ii^ dedication S^jj.cxx) we 
 
 was a threat improvement 
 torium .ind \\\<< Ljallerie- 
 
 iiistalled m the .\cadetny 
 hnildins ix>nred in rapidly, and 
 re taken in. The new huildinK 
 
 ludi- 
 
 it on its predecessor, having a larger a 
 
 pre< 
 ...tead of one. Tims one 
 
 e more the iiide- 
 
 fatigahle pre.-iclur triumphe 
 
 ihed 
 
 e pmsning lire 
 
 hend. 
 
CHAPTER VII. 
 
 CFLKHR,\rf:s A MIAKU JIIIII.KF-, 
 
 WoNDt-RFn. DEMO>fSTRATIu.V M AHKS Till: U).M I'M TI<)\ OF A OL'ARTEK 
 OF A CENTJRV OF I'KFACHINV. 1 .\ BriiOKLV , -AfFAIR TAKKS ON 
 INTFRN MIONAI, II AKACTFR— Til RFK DAYS OF PRAISF AM. .il.O- 
 RIFICATION— MlKACULOl-S KS( Ai'l. OF TIIOISANDS FROM DISAS- 
 TER— GrF.AT BUILDING DESTROYED IIV FIKK JIST AS LAST OF 
 JIBIIEE CELEBRANTS WERE I.EAVlNi;— F|..\ M KS IIIRN HOOF OVER 
 
 Dr. Talm ace's head. 
 
 Dr. Talniap' after twenty-tivo years of >crvico in the Rrooklyn 
 pastorate, startled Lis congreKaiioii January ji. iS()4, l.y nnioiincinK 
 liis resignation. \Vei>rlite.l down l.y heavy cares, and the pressnre of 
 a tremcn.lons church del.t which it seemed was not i,, he lifted. Dr. 
 Talniagc dcterminc<! to take a long vacation, ilis resif,Miation came 
 at the end of a sermon of imusnal elo<iiicncc ihroMt;li which had run 
 a sorrowful vein. His text \\a>: ".Xiid Co,! shall wipe awa all tears 
 from their eyes." .\fter he had finished his sermon proper he said: 
 "This coming spring I will have I.ecii the j.astor .,1 tin., church twcnly- 
 hve years, and a qnarter of a century is long enough foi my minister 
 to preach in one place. M that anniversary I will rc>i.i;n this pulpit to 
 he occupied l.y such persons as > mi may select. 
 
 'Though the work has I.een arduous l.ccausc nf the uiii.aralleled 
 iiectssity of l.uilding three great cliuiclics. two of them I.eing 
 destroyed hy fire, the field has been delightfully Messed .,i Cuid. 
 TO PREACH BY BOTH VOrCE AND PRESS. 
 "Xo other congregation has ever hccn called D. l.uild three 
 churches, and I hope no other pa^mr ^^\\\ c\c' ' called to iich a fear- 
 ful undertaking. .My plans : 'ter resignation have imt hcei leveloped. 
 hut I shall preach hoth hy voice and new.spaper pios .,, :,,no as my 
 life "<v\ l-cnlt!: are continued. 
 
 71 
 
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 72 CKLKnUATKS A SILVKH JFRTLEK 
 
 "From first '<. Inst svc have liecn a niiiti'l people, and my fenent 
 thanks arc t.. all tlic hoar.ls ..[ triisU'i-s ami eUlers. whether of the 
 prcscirt or pa-l. an.l to all the conj,'rci;ation and to Brooklyn. 
 
 •i have no vocahiilary intense cMi.m^jh to express my Rratitude to 
 the newspaper i.rcss of thcNC rities for the generous manner in which 
 they have treated nic and aiitjnu'nted my work for this quarter of a 
 
 centnry. 
 
 •After such a lon^' pastorate it is a painful thing to break the tics 
 .,f afTection. hut I hoi)e our friemlship will he renewed in heaven." 
 PLANS rOK THE SILVER JUBILEE. 
 
 The .tnnouncemcnt <.f his rcsif,Miation came like a thimdercbp out 
 of a clear skv. The cmsieiration Kft the edifice in melancholy silence, 
 hut resolved full> u> make the .psarter century celebration of their 
 pastor's service a -iUer jul.ilee indeed. Indeed, they proposed to make 
 i, a„ iMiernati..nal event. .\ mas> meetiuK of the leading citizens of 
 P.rooklyn tnok the matter into their own hands and wrote thus to Dr. 
 Talmage: 
 
 •P.rooklyn, March 30, 1894. 
 
 •■Rev. T. DcWiii Talma^e, 1>. 1>.. 
 
 ■Tastor Hronklyn Tal.eniaclc. I!rookl\n. \ew York: 
 ••Rev. and Dear Sir: The (..rthcoming completion of the twenty- 
 fifth year nf y.mr i,ast..rate at the I'.rof.klyn Talx-rnacle offers a con- 
 venient :u)<l uilomc , .piM.rtunii v to api)roi>riately testify to our high 
 ai.preciation .if yonr diMinKni-hed -ervices for Cod and hum.anity. 
 and l.\ public <lenioii>tratiuu t.. emphasize our endorsement of the 
 -reat and e^nd work yn,, have u-ne for our city, our nation and the 
 
 world. 
 
 •We therefore re-pecifully request \ou to appoint a day when you 
 \m11 meet Mich -.f >our fellow citizens as may feel .lisposed to join in 
 honorinf^ one who. for a (luarter ..f a century, has held s . prominent a 
 
Hm^fm:"J. '^ 
 
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OELEBRATKS A SIIA'EK .irBILK 
 
 place am.-i^ the puhlic teachers of 
 
 our prufoiiiid c>>teciii, 
 
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 ige. and with tlie 
 
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 issuraiKc ni 
 
 \\c arc. very sincerely your^ 
 
 "CiiARLKs A. SrniicKicv 
 li- 1-. Tracv. I'Lx-Se 
 
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 To this Dr. T 
 
 •cretary uf the \avv. and ..ther>; 
 
 "To his Honor, .^fav()r Scl 
 
 :dniaf,'e made the lollouinj; repli 
 
 'Dear I'riends: I ft 
 
 iit-ren. and the Reception Connnitti 
 
 «eneroiis letter invitinf; nie t( 
 expression can he mad 
 service in Mrooklvn. PI 
 
 ■e. more i,natiinde than I 
 
 can express for \ 
 
 oin" 
 
 kind 
 
 •'iI'P"iiU a lime and nl 
 
 plat 
 
 e u Ik- re 
 
 iiiiir 
 
 e concernnii 
 
 my iueiit\ I 
 
 le invitation i> the n 
 
 i\e \cais of 
 
 IS siyne.l l.y friends of all prof 
 denominations of religioi-. 1 
 the meeting iirop©se<l he laid tl 
 
 lore imprc^-,ive i)eca 
 
 II c 1 1 
 
 ^■••-lons and occniiat 
 
 P 
 accept yotn- in\itatioi 
 
 tlou- 
 
 and 
 
 III a I 
 
 I an< 
 
 •^ii^i-.e-,! thai 
 
 lyn Tahcrnaclc. if siicl 
 
 If second week of .Mav in t 
 
 ic liriio 
 
 1 time and place ai 
 
 "Again thanking yon for tl 
 
 c con\ciiicnt. 
 
 leighhorhood, I 
 
 lis c\idenci 
 
 -f f 
 
 ncnd 
 
 am. y(jurs heartilv, 
 
 hip .-111' 
 
 i'. DiiWirr r 
 
 AL.\iA(;i; 
 
 A MEMORABLE CELEBRATION. 
 
 n,e celehration was one that will ne.er he for^o„.„. The ^rci, 
 l."iMmg was splen.ii.lly and elah<,rately decorated ui.hm and witho ", 
 he celehrat.on I.egan .May to. I, uill he alwav. rcmemhcrcd hj 
 tl.ose who ha.l the good fortnne to participate, Th,. i. . i, u Dr Ta] 
 mage said of it himself; 
 
 "l^-"- ^''■- ^'-or ami friends hcfore me, and fru-nds hchind nu- 
 ;"."' ^""'':.'''" •''^•"""' •-■• •■""• f'—>s I.-cring over me. and the 
 
 •ncmis m this room and the adjoining room., and tiie friend, Ind s 
 
 •■-' "•" of -luors-forever photographed n „u nund ami l,eu, „ 
 
 Mils scene of Mav ,o.,S,,, The ligh,. the dag. ,he de, ora,i„„; ,hc 
 "--. tl.e nn.ic. th. ilhnmiud face, uill .vn.an, u„h n,,- .,„,.■ 
 -•<I.yl.felaM.andheacan.e,.f,ha,,k,,i.,,,,a>,., . ha...,,a...d 
 III... .he great l,ey„nd. To.,nvh, I ,h,nk , ha, the 1,. :..,.,. al,,,. ..'n ue 
 
re 
 
 (•Hr.KBUATES A SlIA'HiJ .Il'IULKE 
 
 I'mII of in'.ro whhc \<\<:«']Uf:<. >ty t\\ont\ -five years in Ilrooklvn linve 
 I'trii luippx \ears. lianl work, of ei>iir-e. Tlti>> is tlie fmirtli clmrcli 
 ill uliieli I have priaclicl since coniinj: to Brooklyn. 'Hiis cluirch had 
 its inothir ami it- c;ranilniother ami its f^reat-Rrandmother. 1 conlil 
 not tell the storv of ilisasters without lelliiiK tlie .story of heroes ami 
 heroines, ami aronnd nie in all these years ha\e stood men anrl women 
 of whom the wurld was not worthy. I'nt for the most part the-e 
 twenty li\e ^ear- have hcen to me jrreat haiipiness." 
 
 This hit^-nminj; of the eelehr.-ition was intensely l<H-al in eharaeter; 
 the si^coml ni-ht look on the eharnctcristies of an international event. 
 I'arlieipatin;; m it hy speeeh. letters and presence were, from all parts 
 of tin- world, famous men and distin;.;uislied uonicn ea,i,H'r to offer 
 inhiite to till- ].h:h-1ut who has Mattere<l t''e (lospcK to c\ery land. 
 (ieiur.il r.. 1'. Trac. . the presidni- ofticei of the eveninj,'. iiKule a 
 'iH't-ih m w'nrh l:e p.iid tl(i|nen' ttihnle to the powiT and inllnenct' i.< 
 I '• r.i'i!M;( . I U- s;i;il in I'.n I : 
 
 OENERAX TRACY'S ELOQUENT WORDS. 
 
 ' 1 ,:i-t (\cniti:.; I'.'onIJvn lioiioii d itself l.y a ccie!)ratH'n. loi-:il in 
 -oii|.(. Inn ihi- i\<niitL; the cilehr.ation takes nii :i widi-r cli.ar. icier, ll 
 i i-rotue- nation.i!, c'.en iMlei iritioiial. And il is titlini: tli.it it siionld 
 i c Ml. \\ In'i Pi. T ilm.i.-e f. t the la-I twent\ I'r.e year- ha Leeii 
 he.'ird in IWooklxi;, ,, ■ s.iiin.n.. ileli\<reil here ha\e hcen lead ll;e 
 world o\i r. \.i |ae u her > i 1.. i!;i\ . or of .inv da\ . or oi ;iii\ tnne. li.is 
 liin SI, L;t]ui.i'!\ he, ltd ;ind s,, uidel\ read .i- ilr. 'r.i-in,iL;e. lit- -it 
 iiiiitis .-IK ]i!:l'i-hed e',ei\ w i ek in nioit ih.in thfei- lhon-:nid ;ie\\s 
 |,;i|.,,,, (iii of whiih te.irhes |lioii..,inds n|ii.n ihoilsands of readet • 
 1 !,,•,■ i- -r,M<l\ a '.ill.iue I'l the I in'ed ."sl.ite- ftoin Maine |o le\.is 
 .It- fii.nt .sit w N oiK to S.iJi ii.iiii :-co ill \',iii.li tlu' s, rinoiis ileli\eied in 
 tl'i- laliinaile .iie ii"t itiMiiii') pnhhdied in full e\er\- week. I he 
 ,,;., 1. ii';,- ,,\ iiii.ii I'litain. \n^iia'i,i. \i w /ealatid :!iid India, and 
 i;,, ! , 1 I 1 !i ii,i!-',it'd into iiioir ih.in a li.di ;i d...in ihlleieiil 
 
wm'-^ 
 
 CFAMiHATDS A SIL\K|{ .IIHILKK 77 
 
 Kuropeai, )anKna,t:es. 1, ,. |,du^,.,l d,;,! tln^r -ni:„,n. of Dr. T..i- 
 inajjc entfr week hy uct-k miuio ilian live m;lli..ns ui hnnies. aii.l arc 
 I)l;.ce<l within the reacii .,f more ihati twenty n,illi..n> ,,f poui.le. \„ 
 minisiei of the (.o>ir.1 ,„ ,he uor!,]'. hi.f.ry ever eominan.le.l in his 
 lifetime s., ^jreat an an.junce, and no Mron^-cr proof .o,,],! he jrjvn, 
 that this man teaUies uhai the uoiK! ncol- to hear, that l,e trnlv 
 ministers to the sonis of men. Tin. ,s ,lu ,.vret of ,h. inth.enee uhieh 
 "iir fnen.l ha. rxerte.I, that in U'arinL- tl,e ine.sa-.- h.- .[..ak. a 
 lan^na.yt- uhuli Im.K a i.-spoti.,- in -m-u h\nnan lu-.ni " 
 
 OTHER NOTABLE SPEAKERS 
 
 Wilhatn .\I. Kvarts spoke aNo in .-ilo.^v of ,h, ^reai preaeh.-r, 
 ;'i..l Patrick Walsh. Iniir,] .<iair, .^r ,at..r fn ,„ („or,o|,,. ,UI,\rrr.| a 
 l-rilliant trihnte to the uortl; of liu- uo,,K an,l ,loe.|. .^i \)._ T.ihnaKe. 
 I.. Iters, tek-rains an,l eahh-t^rams un. r.a^l fr.an lum-lre.ls of pcr- 
 MHis. .\il uere lille.l uitli a<hnirali,,n for i\n- pastor of the elnnrh an.| 
 of eommen.lation for the jnhilce pro^ra.n. \n..m^; those u ho partici- 
 pated thns in vp,n, une the Anh.ha.o,, oi l.o,„lon. C ano„ W.lher- 
 f..ree, Ih.si.op of l.on.ion. .x Vn-^uh-m liarn.m. governors of manv 
 Mates, pronnneni ninn.ters ihr.n.,i.;I,on, the rountry, soeoral memher's 
 
 ■t the St 
 
 iprenie ( onrl 
 
 an. I irnin lanioii^ pn-o,,. ,:: all llir u;,lks of 1 
 
 ne. 
 
 SAD CONCLUSION OF THE JUBILEE 
 
 Tl 
 
 le Mlvi-r inl.ile.' u:iv (..ndu.le.l h 
 
 \ a Mi\uf at noon , „, .Suiuiav 
 
 '. V 
 
 -r tal'ei narir w a^ 
 
 aikcl to il 
 
 r \ ei \ i| 
 
 iir -cMii thonsanil peop 
 
 Ms Si 
 
 i \\e!c MiMilr ilii- t. .;n 
 
 \\al s :i,u! hnn.lre. 
 
 others iiTial'.e ii 
 
 ol 
 
 ' l,Mni a'!nntl:nK (■ I )| . Talni; 
 
 ii;.n) nsnai clo.ineiu-.'. and ai il 
 
 i!,'e prt-aohe.l with more 
 
 le eoniii'.Mon ot tii 
 
 Tsoiis in ill 
 
 e sci nion iiu itcil 
 
 a-t auiliei 
 
 ane lor\. ar.j for j f, 
 
 While the ori^anisi pl,;.i-.i il„ 'I alm,i-c [iihi!,.^ \\,^y,] 
 
 nal h.iii.lsh 
 
 ik, 
 
 1. Ih.uis.iii 
 
 men and women lio-.k Iiaiuj. . .h il 
 
 lis ol 
 
 U Sii'ol, 
 
 out of ihe hiiiMin 
 
 \, 
 
 minister .111, 1 p;is<eil 
 
 It .1 
 
 <ic oi peiMin- rem 
 
 niied ulien an 
 
 our 
 
7ft CELEBRATES A SILVEU JUBILEE 
 
 later Mr.^. Talmagc discovered fire leaping from the top of the organ 
 from whidi the i)rgaiii>t wa- >till pouring the >trains of tlie Jiihilee 
 Manii. In an niconii)rolK'nM\ cly >h<)rt time tlic entire l)nilihng was 
 ..n lire. I)r Tahna^e and hi> family harely e>eai)ing the falling walls. 
 The roDi (.f ihe Leaiitiiiil ediTue may trnthfnlly l.e >aid to iiave hurneil 
 ()\.-! ln> head. Ill- v~.ape. like that of the entire eongregation. was 
 niii;ieuloii-. Oni -liud.lei- to even eontemplate the awful eon^c- 
 (ineneix li.id ilie ine hi. km .ail when that great amphitheatre was 
 deiiH-U p.ukcd uilli liuih.inilv . 
 
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 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 TALM AGFS VISIT TO THF. IIOI.V f.WD. 
 The noted divine <um> m Paiestixe— Main onjErr is to write a 
 
 I.IEE OK ClIKIST— ill-; I-REACHES 0.\ MaRs' 1 I IM.— IJa,. , i^m , x 
 
 TiiE River Iukuan. 
 
 In the month of Octohcr. iSK-). T. IVWai Talma-c hnanicl a 
 -l.-amrrat Xou Voik, l.Mtnwl fnr :!:•■ Il.,lv I,.,n,|. 1 1.- u ,» a.o.inpanic.I 
 I'N his uiff an.) .iaii-litrr and vevtral f.ini.ls. ,„i,l u;,s .Ictrrniincl t^ 
 M-.- uiih Ins nun Of, the ,n,n..\ n.nnc.rnl.lc y].wv^ <..„n(Hti-,| VNJtii tlu- 
 life (il t liii-t. 
 
 STUDYING FOR HIS LIFE OF CHRIST " 
 
 'Mir of the thief oh|,ils „| Hi. Tahnapc's joniiicv |,, I'.W.'.tiiu- 
 was t,, gather nialcrial for iiis 'Kifo ,,| CIiriM." Ilr f.li that hy walk 
 ni^r .Ml the verv- (,''-.-nn.I tP.d 1,\ „,,,■ Sasinr he w-iil,! h,- the hotter 
 I'lepar*.! |n ,U-|.ut the u..n,!erfnl happening, in the hie .,f the Masi,.,-, 
 
 AltliniiKli a ronj^h Novate was predieted across t!„. Ailantie at tlial 
 lime of the >ear. all the passcij^ers were joyously di-ai,poinled, the 
 trip proving the smoothest of vov,,i;es-in faet sunn> ski,,, j^Mcctcd 
 the travelers all the ,\a\ a.ios, and ihroni;h I'nr.'pe to l-'j,'ypl. 
 
 TALMAOE LEARNED TO LOVE OLD OCEAN. 
 
 Althonsli m Ins yonnijer da\s onan irasel was . sonree of ^jreat 
 discomfort to the good doetor, he ^oon learned tv* love ilie water. 
 and in one of his letters dwelt in e!o<iiient terms on the beauties of 
 the sen. 
 
 "Oh. the io\ ,,f the sea'" !,,. wrotr '•T!,,- \e-sr! honn.ls like a 
 raeer ..ii the liome-siutch, l.endin- into the hit, its >ides danked with 
 
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 TALMAdK'S VISIT TO THE IIOLV I.ANI) 
 
 the foam, and its wliitc mane flyinp on tlie wiltl wind. Yon drop th* 
 world bcliind you. Go to Long Brancli, to Bar Ilarl)or. to Saratoga 
 ur to Sharon Springs, and your letters come, and the pajKjrs, but it 
 uoiiid J)e liaid for cares to keep np with an ocean liner. They cannot 
 >wini. They could not live an hour in such a surf. They are ilrowncd 
 (Mit, and are forgotten. With care hehind you. you hreathe the deli- 
 i.iou> freedom of a free man! 
 
 "Oh, the beauty of the sun on the ocean! On the lanti, when 
 inwrning cunics. it seems to run up from the other side of the hills, 
 aiid. with ii> face red from climbing, -tamls looking through the |)incs 
 anil cedars. On the --ca, it conio down from < iod out of heaven on 
 l.idders vi liglii i.. balhc ui the water, the \\a\cs drii>ping fmni thru- 
 imglct.- and -I'^li "f I'm. .t ihnu\iiig up their wbUe caps to greet 
 hc! ind ibi' -i;i gull .iligiu- on lui bvw .n llu- glMrmns baptism. .\'o 
 <„ .1. ,,f i.ui' I on the >lt;ii .nr. .No -Imlllmg of wciiy (cet on the 
 j^' ,,(• llu- uaici-p.iMnK'iii. r.ni linn oi (.ene^.uctli -ettiiig ili^ 
 the Miuw ut liic Muf. and ^licking the neck of the waves as 
 .ck His feet and pl.ny about llim." 
 
 A STUDY OF HIS FELLOW PASSENGERS. 
 
 Tal- ue \\a> alwa\s a cln~o nl,-ir\cr of \u> fellow men. and 
 i rc.i -df clianKter. 1 le had ample opportunity on j-hipboard 
 t iti' -e thc-e f.icullio. St) many s!\k-> of character come 
 ]>board th.it Ihcy are :i pcrpetna; -tudy. On this subject 
 >\nitc: 
 
 ■•M \ tlif third (lay tiirti inM.le out. ( I ritVr to their characters 
 
 .lud ti-, t. their -tomacb--1 Their gcneroMty or tiicir -eltishness. their 
 opulence of resource or llnir paiu-\, their courage or their cow.ardice. 
 are p.iteiu. What variety of nii-M.'i' This one got- to claim a large 
 estate; tbi- one to culture his ta^te ui foreign pirttire galleries; that 
 one to ain.iss a forinii. tin- one to ~ce wh.it he cini learn. On Some 
 die time liani;s lieaMl}. .uid ibey betake ihein-eKes to the "sinoking 
 
TALMAOK'S VISIT TO TIIK HOLY LAND ,,| 
 
 room." Since comiiij,' on hoard some of tliem have lost all their 
 money by unsuccessful waRcr. Two or three have won everything. 
 and the others have lost. They have bet about the speed of the ship-- 
 bet that it would be over four hundred and seventy-five knots a day. 
 bet tliat it would be less, bet that the numlier of miles run would he 
 an even number, bet that it would be odd. Pools, pools, pools! IV.nl^ 
 of hcttiii},' that are |)ooi, of sin!"* 
 
 PREACHES ON MARS' HILL. 
 
 The party made a >hort st.ip at Patras. Greece, and iIkmui' t.. 
 C".>nnth and Athens— the land of the classics. On the day after their 
 arrival at .\thcns they viMted the Acropolis and Dr. Talma^-c preached 
 on Mars' Hill. Afterward the travelers were jiroented hy the Prime 
 Minister to the Queen of Greece, whose welcome was moq i,Macions. 
 I'rom (heece the p.irtN went to Palestine, wlieie a len-lliy -top ua> 
 made lor extended stmly. 
 
 ■The three months I sjiciu in the Holy I.ainl," ^ai<l the doctor. 
 ■•ha\e been three months of trcmnl.ms excitement. A^aiii an.! a!.;.iin 
 1 luue been overcome with emotion .a.-. 1 \i>itcd and >a\v with inv 
 iiwn e>e>— yes. touche.l with my own liand--tlie lliin-s Ch:i.i ,si\v 
 and tonchc<l. Lca\ini,' a-ide all (ine-tions (jf -acred as-ociation and 
 li!-torical sn<;j;c>tiveness. Palestine, the natural .-ccnery h'-vli. i.-, ma- 
 je.-tic beyond description. I took my dragoman (hic alterno,,:' ju-i 
 a- the >nn was -ettini; and. pcjintin-- to the Ian(l-cai)e 1 cfore me. 1 -:;i,!: 
 •| have stood on the sunmiit. I have j4one lluoii-h hie ^■.-. ;ime \ al- 
 ley, but never before !iave I looked on ^nch a -i-ht a- il;!- ' 
 
 "The Holy Land is a vast wilderne-s of mis^liiy r. uks. raniruiL;- in 
 -r/e from mountains down lo the san<l.- of the ocean. The.-e rock- are 
 bccomin!.c .-kcletonizeil, ;i process of di-inte-raiioii i. -..in-- ,.n, ;..:ul 
 tl; 
 
 i;, 
 
 ime is meltiiii;- into the soil and c'lricliim,' it. 
 
 e .la\ 
 
 com: 
 
 wiieii the ?ca of Galilee, in-tea.l of bein,;^ a desolate -licet "i ,.ater •.■■iili 
 .1 han.ll'ul of pei'iiie upon it- -!„ .re-, -upp. .| ipi- ,i I;.^.i-^| i \i iciice. 
 
.A'-iliV..:i,«ttar3iW.. 
 
 ^C^ 
 
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 sj T.\l,.M.\(ii;s VISIT TO TIIK HOLY LAND 
 
 
 \\\\\ l>ci.<>ino till' M.nno it wralili ;mil oonimcriial ai-ti\it>. ll- Iinvdin 
 
 t * 
 * 
 
 will Ik- icMicil will) tUct^ of iiinrli.iiitincii. and tlirown beside it will 
 
 
 lie litic- <if popiilatidti rpacliiiic i"t" ^oo.rxxi. 
 
 ' 
 
 A BAPTISM IV THE JORDAN 
 
 
 'iverv ncrvr in my hr-ly «;<•- llnillerl as I liavc readied nne place 
 nfi..r nil,, ill. -r -in.l r.vnd ilir I'lisDok nf M.Tttliew Mark. Liikc and lolin 
 
 UT aniiuu' 
 
 (Ml the vcrv s|M>t wluTc (liri'^t went tlironjjli. I not only recnpnized 
 the !.H;i!itie< Ia tlu ir desn i)ilii>ns Imt recoj^nized every oliject referred 
 (ll ill tiie s.H red |':i->.\'.;e-. ll.id 1 f;<>nc there an inhdel. I would have 
 hcci) emr.crted In ( liiiMi.intx . 1 vhn'tld have ^aid: 'It i^ inipossiMc 
 
 (1 
 
 I'll' S'!ipr'''e- are i nnroclei 
 
 ll 
 
 e ituenlii'H nf an im|i"st 
 
 'lliiiik ni ll..'.'. I (i^h \\1hii 1 ira.hod ih<' J. .plan afltr -lee|iini,' the pre- 
 
 f In-liM.r-^ Jciii hn' Think nf hnw I (ell when 
 le In l.aT.li/r him, 1 Ir wi-xhed In 
 
 li/ed 1 
 
 \ 1. Ill ii;j,' III in 1 lir i iim 
 
 a man i:i . .iii p.Ti ! \ .■.'i 
 
 a^k. 
 
 me ami a-^kt-.l m 
 
 iiiM'if ! -C'l ir, ihr \•e^^■ walei^ where nni 
 
 axinr wa-. hap 
 
 |. ';i!i.| liic 1 .in 
 
 I . .TIMllU '1 
 
 lale .1 
 
 ptnfr-.iii;; (lui-ii.in and an earnei^t man. aii'i 
 
 heir w at :\ 
 
 diiik 
 
 \\ 111 1 1.1 I'Ce.U'll nl 
 
 ir caia\an, and hi-- mlie 
 
 !- jii-1 lil r I l..iiiti^mal mlie; 1 pnl it nn. and we 
 
 found another \\ liilc 
 
 f. .•• ilie eanilidatc, 'I'h.en. >!aiiilini,' mi the -.liore nf ihe Jnrdaii. 
 (I ;• .Ml nn I'.r '(■ 1 1 It' -t.'i \ nf tiic liapli-in nf (.'hri>l when the S|iiiil 
 
 ,1 C, 
 
 wl .Ic-i rll'lc .1 llise a :In\(' 
 
 finm I Ie:i\ en and 
 
 I vniee w a.- ilea 
 
 heard 
 
 11- I- in\ !iei. >\ e. 
 
 Smi. Ill w hniii I am we 
 
 'M-., ili'.i:;li;ti wi'ntc i.nl -niiu' .(ij.ics nf a faxniiic hxniii wliich we 
 prc'i'iit friend-, pilgrims and --tranjiers — joined 
 |..i l.in'-- I'.riik 'ilicn we went dovTii intn the 
 
 it In .tiir. ::n. 
 
 ;iiL;ir.:; il Lu'lr mi 
 
 ,ti r, ai.i! !m.,ci 
 
 im.lii \'.ill"v.> ^tiil rui I. ill iirduinter I hapti/ed tlie CI 
 
 !( 1 .-t I .\ II \' lu'iiiiii' ■ miiiiu'i 
 
 It of inv lif 
 
 ( )ii t!; 
 
 .H I! . ! 1 ill Kill 
 
 to le.ti 
 
 I he heat of the ^m\ ne: 
 
 .(■rwlii-'iiii-.! tiu' ti 
 
 U- 14; . ..111. 
 
 '|. I! Ihe 
 
 t.ik 
 
 r.i-1 
 
 'I'Ikv fn-'i'it nils di-nunmted and would 
 '>.in!,ii'i.- of wh.it iiUle '.hade w;is alTnided 
 
 iiiiir lii.r'-e-- 
 
 ,\it 
 
 er a ic-t in |ern>aU 111 a 
 
TALMACJE'S VISIT TU THE ' .)LV LAX!) Ki 
 
 trip u;i. nia.lc to notlildi.-in-il.c l-inliplacc of Cliri^t. TIio wt-ntlier 
 ha<l Rrown cooler, ati.l it was on a l.ritrlit. crisp mnrni-ip tliat tlic start 
 fr..rn Jerusalem was marie. The hills I^came hiRher anr| higher a« 
 they procee.Ie.l, aii.l the nhve trees fewer and fewer. Tlicv traveled 
 the road over which the wise men of old went in their searcli for Christ 
 -the same road uhich i. the dividing line Let ween the l.irthplacc and 
 liie place <.f denih <.i I Inn wh.. .lied to redeem the world 
 
 SACRED PLACES IS THE NORTH OF PALESTINE. 
 
 \ficr ,. reti.n, m Icii^.dcm a Mart wa.- made for a len-iln jonrnrv 
 •lin.nKh ll,c mMlh „f r',,I(Minc. l>..,n ;, hd! a feu miles ,,„t .-, Uur- 
 ".11 look wa. taken of jciu.alcm. 1 h, ,...,d , nuclei l.ro„Kht the 
 I'.ivclcr. within .i«ht .,f M,V,,,!, ,,„i ,,i,,.,,,„^ „,,^,.^. j,,^,,,,., ^.,,^^^ 
 • iMndcl the snn to Mand -lill. The ih-.t „i^.I„ ,„„ ,i„. ,,,;,, c,u-,n„p.-d 
 at I'.etlul, uhi.h ah'Mnid. uiih incident- .Mnnr.lcd uith the life ..f 
 .I<-u<. Here it «a^ ilui J;u,,I, ..-uv the l.^hh-r iim'.I hv the a„-eN. ;,nd 
 '■" the ni,i.d,t ,,f IV. T;.!,n;,^e\ slay iIutc he -.-,id thai -tlic'^hcavcn^ 
 "crc full of l,,dde,.- r„v, :, l.,,I,l,,- ,„- H.M.K. then a ladder of .,;„■., 
 ■""1 •■'11 n,. and dn„ „ ,1„. |„:u en. a:v il,e .n.L^eK ..f |„..-„,tv, an.i;eN of 
 con>Ml,,-i..ii, .mueK ,.1 (,,.,1 .iM-endiii;: ,.iid .l.'..ondin-;' 
 
 JACOBS WELL AND THE TOMB OF JOSEPH. 
 
 I'vnrr.Un- Mii! n. t: I, u . •„•.!, the next dav ;, vim! u;,- made to the 
 l"inl, .,f _I,,M'i.Ii. ul„,.o l.nnes uerc tratispnrted thiihn' from V^y\n. 
 j.io.l.-. ucll u.i- rearlied dnrniK' a heavy rain-fall, and uiihin Mjjh- 
 conld he m.ade ,,nt the I,.,., ,,f M„,mt Ceri/im and Mount h:hoI. uhich 
 mean the momn ,,f cur^iii).: .nid the mount of MesMn^-. 
 
 .\ feu da\^ Liter uid \-a/:,ro;li ua. i e,,. hed--the piacc inadr ^acre.l 
 < r, .acoMinl of it- hein.t; the vilb^-c in VNlml, jcMt. .pent nm., ,,t h,. I„,v- 
 
 ' ' '''■'> ^- ''■'"■ '■"•'<' '•■1" throutrb the X'allev of I-Mlraei,,n and hv the 
 
 I'^Mitifnl M.Mint Tal.,.r. 0,v „i;^ht ^^..^ -pent ,'. , Rn.-i;.,, c.,„vent. 
 uheic to, i!,e hr^t time in iii,,ii> ni^bi- the p.iiiv li,,,! :>.,!- ,,: v^hirli 
 
11^ 
 
 1 ?: 
 
 
 I . 
 
 H4 TAI.M.UiK'S VISIT TO TIIK IKMT I.ANH 
 
 to get a C(.miortaliU' -.iri'i>. lin' u.i> \».i> iiii.iinlai: 'ii'. aiu! . >i'. 
 Talnia^c frc<HKMUly nfcrrtil to the Minilarity nt tin voimtry to tli.ii of 
 our ouii Wliitf Moiuii.uiis. 
 
 A CAMP ON LAKE GALILEE. 
 
 laiia of tiahlcc :mu1 tlic Moiini . I'.iatiti k-^ uiif umiciI i.l.u iMii-st 
 <in till- jouriH-y, ami a >iay on the ^lioii- >■! tlu- I.;i1m <<i t<alilii- \\a> 
 of especial iiitiri>t. A lnoakfa-! of I'l^li fii>li fi'"" ili^' ^'^^^ ^^''^ 
 cnjoycil I'y Dr. Talinai;i'. 'I'lu' wV.a'^v of Tihcria- ui- iiiuk- a vt.'i'l'i' •; 
 point, and a riilt on the lake in a eoinhinaiioii >ail an.l lou hoat \\a i 
 feature of the >ta\ there. 
 
 The rnin> of Captiiiauni were ^oen to ad ,anl:i!^e. .ind llie \i>it.ir> 
 cliiiibed oMT the ancient -ti>ne reni.r!i- ol the -> n.iiM -.L;iie wlKvein 
 Jesn'> pr> ulud nitemr than in any otln > editice. Tlii. u,i> ncu'ly the 
 end ..f the Pal.-lui. j..urn>y. and !'c tra\.:er-. iM->cd iliom-h S_\n.i 
 an<l into l)aiua-iu-. theiiii cm to l!e\i"Mt ,i lioim wai .1. 
 
 WORN OUT BY HIS EMOTIONS. 
 
 .\h1ioi!uli eviTV lonnnit whuh ihe land i-..nld jiiovide hT tr.r, .-lei^ 
 was al't'nnkd the party. Dr. Talinaije u.;> lired nut and nuuh u-m 
 
 on reaching' Heyrout. Theemnticm^ espericnce 
 d jilaces vi>iteil. and the 
 
 saere 
 left h 
 
 In ni'j; o\ er ot -o 
 
 d liv him at the niaiiv 
 many exiitini; scene-, 
 
 is miiiii 1 
 
 n an extrcmcK neivoii- -i.ite. i mm si\ 
 
 1(1 e; 
 
 •lit lionr 
 
 a day on horseback in .i rout;h, niountani'Mi- coimtry, M\er ihc \\'>r-\ 'l 
 road-, was a trip which wt)nld tax the endnrance .a the -ir.in,L;e-t man; 
 
 d when ua-. ireunenlly 
 
 Is added to t!ii- a dicnJmii;. 
 
 d lain. Mime 
 
 of his ihscom 
 
 forts mav he e.i-ilv imaciiic 
 
 CHRISTMAS SERMON PREACHED AT BEYROUT. 
 
 Ihri-tma- \\;i- -iictit 
 
 tlie tra\eUi- iii i'.rMi.in. wlu-ia' u Inc 
 
 ited 
 
 Scotch rre-h\teri;m 
 
 .hiirch. I leic 1 'r. I .I'lnuuc i^reiiche.! t.i a cout'ie 
 
 Kat 
 
 ii.ii cmipip-ed mo-li\ (It S>rian-. u 
 
 lio C'Miid. Iiiiue\er. nni!ei>ta!ld 
 
Hlm^ 
 
 wMM 
 
 TAF.MAfJK'S VFSIT TO TIIK HOI.V LANMi 
 
 Knj;li>li, .111,1 in- ,1 
 
 I'Mrilifd ihoin as a most attcnti 
 
 flicy rciiilcrcl he inlli-,| ^upcrli 
 
 Vrum Hcyrout the inlands .if C 
 Iniiclicil at. and from S 
 
 vc people. 
 
 The 
 
 imisir 
 
 plicsiis. From tlicre llor^^•l.al■k joiirncvs w 
 
 yprcss, Kliodfs and I'atinus were 
 invriia a railroad train took the travelers to 
 
 seven clinrdieo of Asi.. and to tlie theatre an.l 
 
 ere made to one of the 
 
 I plie>ns tlie i>tand of MJt 
 
 K>nmasinm. 
 
 !• 
 
 rom 
 
 coiinmI >!ioued them tlie litv and 
 
 \lene was next in tlie imth. where the (ircek 
 
 mental and e 
 
 ecleHa-lnal ol'lii 
 
 introduced them to hij,-'- govern- 
 
 TKIP STRENOTHENS BELIEF IN THE BIBLE. 
 
 I'l rainia^; 
 
 e ..n |„, return related ,i m-tv .,f a diMmt,Mn^he.| man 
 who ^i.sited ihe llnlv |,i„d an inlid.l and rclnna-l a ( hri^ian. Thr 
 noted preaihct -,ii.l 
 
 1 1 1 - I H\ 1 1 
 
 fee!) 
 
 •I 
 
 iihI r I till 
 
 'elievci 111 the I: 
 
 the di\inil\ of iIr- ||,,Iv '>i.\\u\ 
 
 .inn- to Palestine a tirn 
 
 ncd ,1 tlioiis.ind fojcl nil 
 
 ire lontirmed in 
 
 |iliilc 
 
 rin> heaii-ifnl ex>erpt fro,,, a dis..,nr-.e deh\ered l.y Talm 
 
 nndoiiliti' 
 
 illy m-.|iired 
 
 llolv 
 
 a),'e was 
 
 joiirne\ : 
 
 .K>n. i, in ,lu. ^.inl.M o;,c n,:,d,t, and .ee> the ^,deam of torehes 
 
 and l,intern>. 
 
 jiid.i^ 
 
 mil 
 
 an .-irnu' 
 
 h.md 
 
 are eominj,' to take Hi 
 
 eaptive. In tl,i^ ,,,„v;Ii uay ended the reason of retleetion and recrea- 
 
 tion. W'l- find luTe. 
 
 i> el-ewiure. that le^n- 
 
 nd II 
 
 d tl 
 
 le CO 
 
 ini amoni; tin- mount.iin 
 
 lilv 
 
 and -iitinj; \,\ th 
 
 nntr)-. 
 
 W, 
 
 IS sermon, lie eam^ht a bird for a text. 11 
 
 le sea. He pressed a 
 
 e walked in the 
 
 Kardeii llif ni!.;ht of His capture. So it i^ 
 
 Is company, and siii^'-^'evtive 
 
 j,'ood 
 
 tm< 
 
 thinj,'s of (lod's world. Tl 
 
 •i^'n when a Christ 
 
 lan 
 
 iicss. ;md refreshment in the beautiful 
 
 lere may he means of j^race in a Iiyacinth 
 
 or japonica. A man can prca.-, Letter of love and faith and II 
 
 when there .are camel 
 
 eaven 
 
 HI the pulpit. It 
 
 is no e\iden 
 
 ce ot we.il 
 
 M'liiuiu-nt.iluy when a Christian 
 a garden." 
 
 'M 
 
 s natural beauty. Jesus resorted t( 
 
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 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 TRRMFHANT TOUR OF THE WORLD. 
 
 0\-F.RLAND TO Tl.K rACIFIC-WoNDERS OF AuSTRALIA-RfXORD- 
 BREAKIXC. CROWDS TO HEAR THE GREAT PREACHER— POMPEII, 
 
 Athens and I^.me each receive a visit— Is entertained 
 i!v THE C/AK OF Ki-ssiA— Sri:coRS the Russian poor. 
 
 M,i\ \.\. iS(M - the .lay rnllowiii};- tlic dcstnictioii of tlic ihircl tabcr- 
 naclc In- fire— Hr. TalniaKC plaited n„ a trip ainnind tlic world. L'ti<lcr- 
 lakcn ori}:iiiall> a^ a recreation, it l.ecaine a triumphal tour of llic great 
 divine aiul he was licaped with Imnors and attention in every country. 
 Dr. Talinaue went overland across the hroad plains an<l mountains of 
 the I'nited States, visited the i.rincipal cities an<l slinw-i>laccs of the 
 W est and ultimatel> took a steamer at San iMancisci for a sea trip over 
 the peaceful waters <>f tlie raciik. Instead of going directly to Aus- 
 tralia, where he was destined to land later. Dr. Talniagc hn-ught up 
 rir>t at Honolulu. Here he was offerc<l high official courtesies and was 
 entertained l.v royalty. He found many things to inspire his imagina- 
 ti.vn in this wonderful land of Hawaiians. and the Island of Lepers 
 made a great impression upon him. 
 
 LECTURES IN NEW ZEALAND. 
 
 Dr. Talmage touched at Sam..n d finally turned ui> at Auckland, 
 New Zealand, after some rather tempestuous experiences on board 
 ship. Here he lectured to one of the largest audiences on "The Bright 
 Side of Things." though l:e wa^ scarcely able to stand on account of 
 seasickness and hi>^ inability to use his sea legs. A tremendous cro^vd 
 met him at the pier and immediately proceeded to fill up the Op.^ra 
 Ib'u-^e I'hc good natured preacher had not the heart to disappoint 
 
 80 
 
woismki^^mmi'. 
 
 TKIUMPHANT TOUK OF THE WORLD 
 
 H7 
 
 I 
 
 1 
 
 them and he made smiles and tears come at will as if he were m the 
 best of pliysical condition and in his own pulpit. 
 
 Dr. Talmage's trip from New Zealand to Australia was several 
 times worse than the rough i)assage across the English Channel. 
 Througiiont .\ustralia he lectured in the large cities and traveled every- 
 where, learning the peculiarities of the great Ilritish colonies as few 
 travelers have ever learned them. At Melbourne he delivered one of 
 the famous lecture'^ to an .audience that Tilled the great town hall to it> 
 capacity, and then overflowed to the outside. 'I'lu- P.rooklyu i)reaclier 
 touched at Ceylon and \isited India, made a study of the religions of 
 that densely ])o])ulated coiuineut, and foimd nnich to woii.ler at in that 
 l)eculiar religious fanaticism (jf IJrahmaii and Hindoo. Dr. Talmage 
 and his party penetrated into the densest interior of India to fully 
 study tiie mystical secrets of that home of all that is mysterious. Kgypt 
 came ne.xt in tiie horizon of this indefatigable traveler and he was not 
 content until after he had mouiUed to the very toj) of one of the Pvra- 
 tiiids. He went outside the beaten paths of tourists and studied care- 
 fully the peculiarities of the peoples of the Nile. Dr. Talmage trod 
 the long buried and almost forgotten streets of Pompeii, gazeil in 
 sadness on the ruined gems of architecture in ancient .Athens, traveled 
 through the Holy Land and lingered in the spots made sacred by Holv 
 Writ and marveled at -he ruins of Rome. 
 
 Proceeding north the traveler made an extended tour of [Russia, 
 where he became convinced there was much untruth circulated about 
 tlie official government. 
 
 i • ■( 
 
 INTERVIEW WITH THE CZAR. 
 
 Dr. Talmage was invited to the palace of the Czar and was one of 
 
 the few -Americans so fortunate as to enjoy a delightful glimpse of the 
 
 family life of .Me.sander HI. 'i'he interview took jilace after many 
 
 formalities, as all such audiences neces^arilv follow, and the great 
 
 _^ipm"can pulpit orator found the Emperor ^tandin': beside a desk lit- 
 
 it.'^/mxf^-. 
 
8ft 
 
 TinUMPlIANT TOIIW OF TIIK WOWLI) 
 
 tered with jiapers. Tlie iMuperm- i^Tcctod tlio Aim'rican with nnich 
 heartiness, with no pretense, and less artfulness. The interview lasted 
 for half an hour or more. The two men seemed to feel at home with 
 each other from the start, Riddins; the i)reachcr farewell, lie told him 
 that the Empress would see him. hut in another a])artnicnt. Dr. Tal- 
 inage described her as every inch an F.mpress — a June morning. Tlio 
 royal mother introduced their three children to the American minister. 
 One of them was danghtcr seventeen years old. The other children 
 were young and roinpinj,'-. Tlie entire group was full of fun, jolly to 
 the eTitreme. Dr. Talmag wa-> jtresented by the F.mpress with some 
 flowers for his wife, and after an e.\change of good wishes he departed 
 for his own quarters, carrying with him an exalted idea of the Christian 
 courtesies and life that prevail in the home of the Czar, heralded every- 
 where as the most despotic of s'lvereigns. 
 
 THE CHIMES OF MOSCOW. 
 
 It was at this time that Dr. Talmage heard the grand hells and 
 chimes of Moscow. He tells of that incident in the following beautiful 
 
 language: 
 
 ■T climbed up among the bells and then as I reached the top all the 
 bells beneath me began to ring, and they were joined by the bells of 
 fourteen hundred towers and domes and turrets. Some of the bells 
 sent out a faint tinkle of sound, a sweet tintinnabulation that seemed 
 to bubble in the air. ami others thundered forth boom after boom, 
 boom after boom, until it seemed to shake the earth and fill the heavens 
 —sounds so weird, so sweet, so awful, so grand, so chnrmi-ig. so tre- 
 mendous, so soft, so rijipling, so reverberating— and they seemed to 
 wreathe and whirl, and rise and sink, and bur^t .-md roll, and mount and 
 die. When Napoleon saw Moscow burned i\ could not have been 
 more brilliant than when I s'uv all the fourteen hundred turrets atlame 
 with the sunset, roofs i ' gold and wall of malachite and jHllars of 
 porphyry and balustrades of mosaics and virions of lapus lazuli and 
 
^i^'r^y^^'?^ 
 
 i^^J^^?*v, 
 
 TUTT-AfPriAXT TOUK OF TTIE WORLD S!> 
 
 arclntectmc ui M cl.,,-.. muv^Vuv^ tl,c hn>u„ ,.f autumnal forests and 
 llie l.luc of summer heaven, an.l the eonllasration of mominj; skies ami 
 the Rrcen of rich mea.Jous and the foam of tossin- seas. The min-lino 
 of so many colors with .„ many so.mds was an cntranccmcnt almos" 
 t<K. much for human nerves -t Imman eyes or human ears. But all 
 tliat wa.. tame compared with the day of millennial -lorv that is coming 
 to <n,r world when the i.ells of joy shall so.md. not in the sunset hut 
 01 the sunrise, rinsing out Teace (,n earth, oood will to men.' From 
 the domes .,f all the churches, from the domes .►fall the palaces, from 
 llie <lomes <,f all the capitol-. from the d.nncs of all the cities, from the 
 domes of all the nations -helM hells' I.elM" 
 
 SUCCORS THE STARVING RUSSIANS. 
 
 It was at thi:- time that Dr. Ta!mai,^c appealed more to the humanity 
 of the world hy one act than he did by all the other things of his life. 
 including all ,.f his ..erm,ms. His humane sympathies were at once 
 aroused by the scene <,f awful desolation and suffering which sur- 
 rounded him in many parts ,,f Russi;,. He appealed at once to the 
 "Christian Herald." with which he was affiliated, for succor for the 
 dying Russians. Urged on hy the elo.iuent letters that Dr. Talmage 
 wrote to this country, the .\merican ],ul.lic responded with great gen- 
 erosity, and thousands up<.n thousand^ of bushels of corn and bread- 
 stuffs were contributed that the famished might be fed. It was no 
 light task to collect tInV amount of provender, let alone transport it to 
 Russia, and. once there, deliver it to the ones most in need of it, but 
 none of these <lifficulties stopiped Dr. Talmage for a moment. He 
 urged and jilead the terrible necessity of the starving peasants until a 
 full shiplo;id of life-<aving food was on the ocean, bound for the Rus- 
 sian ports. Dr. Talmage did not rest at this. He was at St. Peters- 
 iMu-g to meet that great cargii and at once took charge of its distribu- 
 tion. Dr. Talmage had made a studv of the famin. condition that 
 existed in Russia ;!i that time and was thorousdilv conversant with the 
 
!f»"P 
 
 ■•'f^.'o-'^rsw^n 
 
 .Pft 
 
 oo 
 
 TRIUMPHANT TOUR OF THE AVOHLD 
 
 .li>tril.iui(Hi ui the foud MiiM'lio. riic .i,Meat Itrcnklyn preacher knew 
 where tlic American coin aiul lluur would do the most good, and he 
 >aw to it personally, and it went straight lO its destination. He 
 labored unre!eniin-ly uniil he was absolutely sure that all of the iu- 
 icnde.l -nod b.ad been acc(miiili>hed by that great cargo of American 
 gcr.cri i^il\ . 
 
 PATHETIC SCENES AMONG THE BUSSIAN POOR. 
 
 ( m hi. niuni h> ibi- cnuiiiry and e\en before that he told of his 
 rcccpli.Mi by the mayor of St. I'eter.bnrg, an.l the pathetic scenes 
 attending the .liMiibulioti of fo,Kl to lean, hollow-eyed, cadaverous Kus- 
 <ians, uho regarded him a> a <uior. Previ.nis to this distribnti.ni 
 of food Mipplio, Dr. Talmagc met the CV.ar and had learnc.l from 
 other source.- that the I'.mperor of Russia had contributed .seventy-hve 
 millions of hi.- personal fortune to the relief of these suffering people. 
 He learned, too. that many of the wealthiest men and women of Russia 
 and tho>e of noble family had contributed very heavily to the allevia- 
 tion of the famine condition; one woman in particular, whose family 
 boasted a ducal coronet an.l an enormous fortune, had not only im- 
 poverished her estate, but had nur>ed the sick and cared for the dying 
 until she her.-elf became ill of typhoid fever. These examples of self- 
 sacrifice for their .nvn people arouse.l to the utmost the great humane 
 syuipathy of Dr. Talmagc, and spurred him on to gain .\merican aid 
 for the suffering millions of the Czar. 
 
 Just before this tour of the world was made by Dr. Talmage. the 
 United States was suffering from financial depression and "hard times," 
 but after viewing the condition of aft'airs in luirope the d<.etor came 
 ,o the conclusion that wc were better off than our neighbors across 
 the se;i, after all. 
 
 AMERICA THE PARADISt: OF INDUSTRY. 
 
 -While 1 deeply <vmpalhize uilh the ,lepie-ion .abroad," lie wroip, 
 "and no man ha- a heart that more thoroughlv bleed- lor the people 
 
^smc^.Mxmm. 
 
 If 
 
.i,iV7»:- *fr^,r^. 
 
 ,i*>v'- 
 
■j£^ 
 
 THIUMI'ILAXT TOL'K OF THK Wokli. 
 
 of this country wl.o are out of work nu.I out of I.rea.l. I proplu-sv 
 na -onal rescue. I „e„eve it .i„ co.e. Ju. as it has ahvL u 
 
 - If to ualk about auud the -lestitution au.l ,he .uTerin, an.l he 
 -ii cu, ,,,,, „,,,„,„ ,^, ^,^,, ^^^ .^,, ^^^^ _^^^^^.^^ _^^_ ^^^^^ ^^ c 
 
 would u do ,h,s ua.iou ,ood if it uouI,l look aero. ,hc uatcr'and sec 
 
 owe er„a,.o„shavcit. Sou,a„,u,e„iu,hisco.u,.,..u.,fe„,,. 
 a 1 >ct there ,s „ot a land on ear.h where so „.a,,v people have pro- 
 ductive work as in America. ^ 
 
 ••After waj,es have hee„ cut down, as they have heen. to ,hc lowest 
 po.nt of .educt,on. that lowest point is higher ,ha„ ,he hi.hc. ou 
 o^her s. e of t . seas. Twenty-hve cents a day for .o.k i„ ,,,J 
 On dollar u, hu.land ,ood wages for a -lay. The lahorin, dassc: 
 o ius country have it ten per cent Letter than thev have , in a, v 
 other country-twenty per cent, fortv per cent, hf.v p'e,. cent sevc 
 
 -percent. H.e editor of an uuportant paper in London tne 
 h.s .salary was seven hundred and fiftv dollars a ve-u- Stan I • 
 of the factories on the other side of the sea ol. r e ' ■ , '" 
 
 - and .llow then, to their homes and .: 2;:;;r:;;^r"- 
 stonemasons, and the carpenters, and the plund.ers. and' the shoenn 
 
 -.." our and, and all styles of mechanics and artisans, ha :. 
 
 7^r-;'^---^"--^as:!i::;;:;:;;i:'-:-- 
 
 children educated in the best schools- he has hi- if • , 
 
 ^-^o,.„,,..M„ .,.,,,,,.,,„„,;:; ;;:;:,- — ;;;'» 
 
 m, sy,„pa,l„« a„„,„,l in l.ehalt „, „„ „„„h„^ ,,,,,„ , „,„, ,, ' 
 
 A DINNER AND A DOG. 
 
 ^^'hiIe touring the balance of Europe on this world's trip 1> Tal 
 mage wrote voluminous lettpr= -^d ^ 
 
 pape 
 
 artic 
 
 >><v.>, au(i related 
 
 I-' 
 
 ija 
 
 Hfl 
 
■■^nrvm'*' 
 
 ^->.s-fr««-^r)?:^jiivw»« :^^ 
 
 94 
 
 TK'lUMrUANT TOUU OF THE WOULD 
 
 U s 
 
 incidents innumerable of his many experiences. I le always had a fond- 
 ness for all animals and was impressed hy the kindness sliown hy 
 Europeans to dogs. "Europeans caress the dojj," lie wrote. "He may 
 lie on the mat or sit near the tahlc. The mention of E.uropean dogs 
 always recalls to my mind a wretched dinner which some years since 
 T had in the Alps. Tlie dinner was not lacking in (jiiantity or %ariety, 
 hut in quality. Tliere was enough of it. Mich as it was. Tlie eggs 
 had seen tlieir best days, and the mutton must have been good for 
 two or three weeks after they killed it. .\ Saint Bernard dog sat near 
 by petitioning for a morsel. Tlie landlord was out. and I saw by the 
 bill of fare I should have high rates to pay. T could do nothing myself 
 toward clearing the i)lates, and so I concluded to feast our friend of 
 Saint T?ernard. So I threw him half an omelet, assuring liim first that 
 the amount I gave him would depend on the agility with which he 
 caught it. Either not understanding Erench or being surprised at the 
 "■enerosity of the provision, he let half the omelet fall to the floor, but 
 he lost no time in correcting the failure. Then I threw him a mutton- 
 chop. With the snap of the eye and a sniff and a long sweep of the 
 tongue over the jaw he said by his looks as jilainly as if he had spoken 
 with his lips: i like that better. I never get mutton-chops. I think 
 tl-.e,' will agree with me." When the landlord came in he suspected 
 that some unusual proceeding had taken i)lacc between his guest and 
 dog, ard so he kicked him out of the room— the dog. that is. The 
 remaining sin within me suggested my treating the landlord as he had 
 treatt.l the mastiff, but my jirofession, and more especially the size of 
 the man, restraineil me. I left the inn more sorry to leave Bernard 
 than his keeper." 
 
CHAPTER X. 
 
 T.\F..MA(.K \.\l) Ki\(, i:r)\V\Rn'S DOMAIN'. 
 
 Tm: GRKAT i.NKA.nnj kx.uvx almost as wki.l IX Enc,, .^xn ,s ix 
 IM. oux curxrin-TuKMKxnots sltckss .x V.hk.vv P.^itms 
 
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 THAT LilCXIKV. 
 
 T. DcWitt T,-,l,„ao-e cn.>.so.l ,l,e Atlantic l.ctwccn F.t.^^land an.I 
 the I tntcl State, nearly a score of tin.es. His Hr^t trip across ua- 
 nn, er the «ni,Iance of .Major Pond i„ ,8;.;. The hrst sermoti Dr. 
 Ialma,n:c preache.I in L<,n-lon was in the snnnner of .S85. 
 
 PREACHES IN THE CELEBRATED WESLEYAN CHAPEL. 
 
 The sern.on na. .!elivere,l in the ce!el,rated Weslcvan Chapel he- 
 
 >.-! uh.ch is the grave of John \\-esley, and in front Jf which i. linn- 
 
 "II n.n-,al Cronnd, .|,ere he the hones of John Ihtnvan. Isaac Watts 
 
 Han.el DeF.,c. and florne Tooke. The preacher referre,! in his .er- 
 
 "n.n .0 thi> hallowed ground. The Chapel wa. -rowded to sniToca- 
 
 t-on. During. „„ „„,„.,, .,,,i^^, ^^^.^^^,, ^,,^^^^^^ ^ ^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ .^ 
 
 tlic Iront graveyard and in the street, impeding v.. 
 
 Dr. Talniage ontsidc. Alter the regular service 
 cluirch porch and addrcsse.! the multitude in full voire. ..„, 
 a snu'ling face gave out a stirring hynni. alter ^^Igi^g ..]:.. 
 lace ma.le the policemen happy hy again frecinr i"lie ihon. 
 
 IMMENSE CROWDS IN EDINBURGH. 
 
 Later in the sea<,>n he preached in the I'nited IVc-ln teri, 
 Ilali, R.linhurgh. the .ervice heginm-ng at half-past two o''rl.,rI. 
 hcfore midday people desirous of heing present hegan to a-- 
 
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 tlie main entrance, ami on accmiiit of the iuniil)er ulm had arri\i'(l by 
 twelve o'clock it was resolved to open the doors. In less than an 
 hmir the spacit)us Imildinjj was rtllcd in every part, <il1 the i)ass,-igcs 
 ani! >onie nf the windows even heiiij^ oeen[>ied. The doors were closed 
 shortly ,ifter iiie o'clock, those outride in Castle Terrace, nnmhcririf; 
 several tin ii-^.uid-^, lieinp informed by means of hills whidi were cxhih- 
 ited. that the hall was fnll, i'he crowd continued to increase as time 
 wore on, \fry much disa[)iiointmcnt evidently being" felt at beini; 
 nn.intc to qain admission, .\boiit two o'clock, liowevcr, an intimation 
 that Dr. Talm.'i^'e would in the course oi the afternoon adtlress tiie 
 i^athcrinij in C'a>tle Terrace seemed to atford relief. Meanwhile, sev- 
 eral of S.mkcy's hymns were being sung inside by a choir, ant! sliortly 
 before the ai)[)ointed time for the commencement of the services, Dr. 
 Talmage ma<le his appearance on the platform, accompanied by Mrs. 
 Talmage. and their son and two daughters, .\fter devotional e.xer- 
 cises — Professor Calderwood having engaged in prayer — Dr. Talmage 
 gave out a> his text. "T will show wonders in the heavens and in the 
 earth." (Joel ii: .^o.) 
 
 MANY CRUSHES IN THE CROWDS. 
 
 At the close of the proceedings Dr. Talmage shook hands with as 
 many of the people as coulcl get near him. but the crowd jiressed for- 
 ward in such :i way that those in the front ranks were crushed to an 
 uncomfortable degree, and this put a temjiorary check ujion the leave- 
 taking. Dr. Talm.'ige then re-eiUcrcd the building, and made liis way 
 U) the rear of ilu hall, where a cab was in waiting for lumself and familv-. 
 L'i)o;i hi> apiieaiance a crowd rapidly assembled, eager to shake hands 
 with him. and crowdcel around the cab in such a way that it could not 
 move until the police cleared a jjassage. A few gentlemen jumped 
 n])on the cab steps, ladies got their dresses soiled with niud by rib- 
 bing against the wheels, and some, more adventurous than others, got 
 theii- toc~ cru-lied bv the wheels. Dr. Talmage then stood and shook 
 
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 TALMAdK AXI) KlSil KDWAin.S |h,\|ai.N .,7 
 
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 |."l,l r othian Roa.l was ..aci.e.l ,ha, W.c dTnr,. „f „„ ,„ ,,,,, „, ,, , 
 Dack tlic crowd wvrc no Ioiij^ht nre.lcd, 
 
 HIS NAME HEXD IN REVEKENCE AND LOVE. 
 
 Pn.U.ssor Si,np...„. of K.IinhnrKl.. Uhk dcM-ril,..,] „,, ..„. of I v 
 lalniapfs first ap|Hv,rancc a. a prcaclu-r in that nty: 
 
 'Wv l.avc i,„ plaa. in Ivlinln.r^d, where il ua's p,..,.,|,l,. f,,,- ,1,,. 
 people who wantc.,1 ,0 la-ar Dr. Tahna,. ,0 ,.. n..,- i,in,. , ..n.nr.l 
 myself that Sal.ha.h afternoon, havin,^ with ,ne son.e of „,. oun fantiiv 
 and a da.„-,ter of the Lord Mayor of London, all vcrv ea...,- .0 la-n- 
 your great paMor; In,t I conld not get witinn a street's len-th of the 
 place witere the er,,w<!s were .fathered arof.nd the doors. \\-; connted 
 oin-selves extren.ely fortunate .hat he was .ood enon,d, to eonu. and 
 take dntner with ns in onr onntty honse in Midlothian. ^ \, ,l,,, ,,i„„,, 
 tal.le there was a little tnaid frr.tn the far-MT hii;hlands of .S,„l,erl n,d 
 sh.re who asked: "Is the Dr. Talnta.ue who is to he a, dinner to'-.lav 
 the great Dr. Tahttage whose scrntons we all read?" When she wa's 
 told -^ es,- .she clapped her hands and said, l will write to ,nv ntother 
 that I had the honor of waiting on Dr. Tahnage.' Fron, tlu. highest 
 to the lowest we Iiold |,is name in reOerenee and 
 
 in lo\e. 
 
 WHAT TAI.MAOE THOUGHT OF THE ENGLISH. 
 
 Writing from London while there in iS.,j Dr. Talma.. e .aid- '"So 
 far as I have .seen the homes and habits of the nristoera,^ of'i.-n'ol,,^,," 
 I find them plain in their manners, highly cnltnred as to their nnmU 
 and many of then intensely Christian in their feelings. There is ,n,,re 
 strut and pretension of manner in many an .American constable or 
 aldetTnan. or legislator, than you will tlnd in the halls an.I cattle, of 
 the nob.hty of Fngland. One great reason for this Is that a n,an born 
 to great position in Great Britain is not afraid of losing it Tie got it 
 from his father, and his father from his graiuiia.her, and after tlic prcs- 
 

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 TALMA(JK AXI) KIX(! KDWAUD'S DOMAIN 
 
 cut occupant is done with the estate, liis child will get it and then his 
 grandchild, and so on perpetually. It is the man who lias had distin- 
 giiislied place for only two or tlirce years, and may lose it to-morrow, 
 who is especially anxious to impress you with his exaltation. His reign 
 is so short he wants to make the most of it. l':ven the men wlio come 
 up from the masses in England to political power are more likely to 
 keep it than in Aitierica, for the memher of the House of Commons 
 may represent any part of England that desires to compliment his 
 services instead of being compelled to contest with twenty small men 
 in his own district, as in America." 
 
 It 
 
 ENGLISHMEN AND THE LION. 
 
 Dr. Talmage wrote that the traveler sees more animals done in 
 stone and marble and bronze in Europe than in the I'nitcd States. 
 
 "If voung Americans, w ting quills to write with, have plucked the 
 .•\merican eagle until, featherless and with an empty craw, it sits on 
 the top of the Rocky Mountains wishing it were dead, the English 
 have paid quite as much attention to the lion. Von see it done up in 
 everv shape, sitting or standing, everywhere. The fountains are 
 guarded with lions: the entrances of houses flanked with lions; the 
 signs of stores adi-med with lions— fighting lions, sleeping lions, crying 
 lions, laughing lions, couchant lions. Engli^h artists excel with this 
 animal. When French and German sculptors attempt (Mie it is merely 
 a lion in the abstract, too weak to rend a kid and never having seen 
 ,1 jungle. But lying on the base of Xelson's monument in Trafalgar 
 Square are four lions that look as though they had a moment before 
 laid down there and curled their long tails peacefully around, and had 
 just stopped there a few minutes to see what was going on at Charing 
 Cross. On the top of Northumberland House is a lion with mouth 
 open and tail extended in rigid rage, making you feel uncertain which 
 way to run, as you know not with which end he v. ill assault you. There 
 

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 are more lions i., London tl.an in X,ni,i,lia. Beef and mutton are 
 l.ked well by the I-:nf,disl„nan. hut for re^ndar .liet ,Mve him lion." 
 
 FINDS TITLED PEOPLE UNOSTENTATIOUS. 
 
 Althou^d, fed upon lion. Dr. Taima.^a> did nut think such a diet 
 made the F.n,,d,>lur.en ostentatious. "The ^farquis of Townshend," he 
 wrote, "who once preside,! at my lecture at the Crystal Palace had 
 the snnplicity of a child, and n,eeting hin, amon.^ other men vou would 
 "ot suspect either his wealth or ' honors. The Karl of Shaftesburv 
 ■s hke a good old .grandfather fron, whon, it re.puVes no art to evoke 
 ether a tear „r a laugh. The family of Lord Cairns, the highest le^^al 
 authority in Kngland. is like any other Christian home which has hL 
 art and culture to adorn it. .\nu,ng the pleasantest and n,ost unaf- 
 fected of people are duchesses and "right lionorahle" ladies The 
 "K>st completely gospeli.e<l n.an J ever ,net was the Earl of Kintore 
 smce deceased. Seated at his table son,e years ago. he said: 'Do no^ 
 forget our journey next Sabbath night." I, ^vas useless to tell me not 
 to forget that which 1 had so ardently anticipated. M .six oVloek his 
 lordslup called at the hocel. not with carriage, for we were goi,,.. 
 where it was best for us to go, afoot. With his servant to carrv hk 
 coat and U.ble and psalm hook we sauntered forth. We were out to 
 see some of the evening an,l uiidnight charities of London. 
 
 VISITS THE CHARITY LODGING HOUSES. 
 
 -First .,f all we went into the charity lo,lgi„g houses of London 
 the places where omcast tnen. who wouhl otherwise have to lod<^e 
 on the banks of the Thames, or under the arch l.ridges. ,uav come 'in 
 atid find grattutous shelter. These tuen. as we went in. sat arou.i.l 
 "1 all stages of povertv and wretchedness. As soon as the F,arl entered 
 tliey all knew him. With sotue he shook hands, uhich in .ome cases 
 was a btg undertaking. It is pleasant to shake Itands with the clean 
 but a tnal to shake hands with the untidy. Lord Kintore did not stop 
 
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 lUU TALMAGK AND KING ED\VA1U)'S DUMxUN 
 
 to see wlictlier tliese men liad attended to proper ablutions. Tliey were 
 in sin and trouble, and needed help, and tbat was enough to enlist all 
 bis sympathies, lie addressed them as 'gentlemen' in a short, religious 
 ...Idrcss. and promised them a treat "about Christmas,' telling them how 
 manv pounds he would send; and acconuiiodating himself to their 
 capacity . he said: "It would be a regular blow-out.' lie told me that 
 he had no faith in trying to do their souls good unless he sympathized 
 practically with their physical necessities. 
 
 MISSIONS AND OUT-DOOB MEETINGS. 
 
 ■'I-'rom tbi? charily U)ilging house, which the imuatcs call the 
 'House of Lords.' wc went to one of the inferi-ir (piality, which the 
 inmates call ihc ilouse of Commons.' There were different grades 
 of s(|ualor. ditfercnt degrees of rags. iMom there we went to missions, 
 and out-door meetings, and benevolent rooms, where coffee and choco- 
 late were crowding out ale and spirits. Ready with prayer and exhor- 
 tation himself, his lordship expected everybody with him to be ready, 
 and. allbi-ugh he bad pronused to do the talking himself, he had a 
 sudden and irroistible way of tumbling others into religious addresses; 
 so that, at the clo<e (if this Sunday, which I luul set apart for entire 
 quiet. 1 found I had made live addresses. I'.ut it was one of the most 
 refreshing and instructive days of all our lives. .\s we ])arted that 
 night (in the ^treei> of London. I felt 1 liad been with one of the best 
 men cf the age. I have never met bini since. Not long after he went 
 home to his Ma-tt.i- tip receixe his reward." 
 
 A QUEER SCOTTISH BAPTISM. 
 
 I Dr. Tahnage had. an experience in the central part of England 
 while tm a lecture tour in 1892 that is well worth recounting: "It was 
 about ten o'clock at night." as he tel's the story, "after the close of 
 a lecture, and in the private parkir of a hotel, that a rap was heard at 
 the door. Word came in that a young man was there, desiring me 
 
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 TALMAGP: AXD KIX({ EDWARD'S DO.\[AIX 101 
 
 to officiate at a baptism, i thougln tlR-re must be some mistake about 
 it, and so delayed my appearance. 
 
 "About five minutes before tlie .^t.irting of the rail train I came to 
 the door of the private parlor an<l cn„fr„„tc,l a voun- man in a high 
 state of excitement. He said that he had come all the wav from Scot- 
 l.uul to have me baptize his child. I tuKl hin, the thin,;,^ wa^s impossible 
 for the tram would go in five nn-nutes. l!ut this onlv made the man 
 more intense. So I said: "Where is the bahy^ I have no time to wait ' 
 llie young man rushed down stairs, and returnc.l with the mother and 
 child. As she unrolled the boy from her plaul there came to sight the 
 phophecy of a genuine Roderick Dhu. I wante.l an hour to baptize 
 a boy hke that. Scotch all over. What cheek bones. an<l what a fist- 
 Give hun plenty of porridge and the .nr of Loch WMmachar. and what 
 a man he will make! Chief of Clan .\lpi„e! I a.ked the mother what 
 she was gomg to call him. and she said -Uouglass!' What a „an,e 
 suggestive of victory, defeat, warrior, b'ades and gates of Stirling 
 Castle! *' 
 
 NO TIME FOB REMINISCENCES. 
 
 "But it was no time to in.lulgc in Scottish reminiscence. If that 
 mfant Highlander was to be haptizci by uk- it nn,>t be within the next 
 si-xty seconds. T had the father and the n„„hcr. and the babv an<l the 
 tnnuster, but no water. T hastily ,c;n,ncd ,.11 tl,o vases and cup. in 
 the room. There was no liquid in all the place save the cocoa left 
 over from the evening repast, "(let so.ne wa.cr in a second.' [ almost 
 demanded. From the next room the father returned in a moment 
 bnnging a glass of it. clear, bright water, fn in christen a Douglass' 
 opahne as though just dippe.l by Rob Roy fro„, Loch Katrine 'Dou-' 
 lass!' I called him, as the water dadied upon the hvV, forehea.I quick 
 and bright as the gleam of Fitz James' blade r.t Inverlochv. I had no 
 time for making out a formal certificate, but only the words, ' Baptism 
 August — th,' the name of Douglass and my own. As I darter! fnr 
 
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 102 TAIM.AGP] AND KINO EDWAKD'S DOMAIN 
 
 the cars, the young man sulinierged me with tlianks, and put into my 
 hands as a baptismal gift the "Life of Robert McCheyne," tlie glorious 
 Scotchman who preached himself to death at thirty years of age, but 
 whose brave and godly words are still resounding clear as a pibroch 
 among the Scottisi : ills." 
 
 TALMAOE LIXXJO THS SCOTCH. 
 
 Dr. Talmage expressed his admiration of the Scotchman in no un- 
 certain language. "There is something about the Scotch character." 
 he says, "whether I meet it in New York, or London, or Perth, that 
 thrills me through and through. Perhaps it may be because 1 have 
 such a strong tide of Scotch blood in my own arteries. Next to my 
 own beloved country give mo Scotland for residence and grave. The 
 people are in such downright earnest. 
 
 "Take a Glasgow audience, and a speaker must have his feet well 
 planted on the platform, or he will be overmastered by the sympathy 
 of the populace. They are not ashamed to cry, with their broad palms 
 wiping away the tears, and they make no attempt at suppression of glee. 
 They do not simper, or snicker, or chuckle. Throw a joke into a 
 Scotchman's ear and it rolls down to the center oi his diaphragm and 
 then spreads out both ways, toward the foot and brow, until the emo- 
 tion becomes volcanic, and from the longest hair on the crown of the 
 head to the tip end of the nail on the big toe there is paroxysm of 
 cachiimation. Xo half an-l half about the Scotch character. What he 
 hates, he hates: what he likes, he likes. .\ Scntchmcm seldom cliaii!.;;es. 
 By the time he has fairly landed on his feet in this world he has made 
 up his mind, and he keeps it made up. If he dislike? a fiddle in church 
 you cannot smuggle it in under the name of a bass viol. .\nd I like 
 this persistence. Life is so short that a man can't afford to change 
 
 his mind." 
 
 SINCERITT or THB WELSH. 
 
 The Welshman much resembles the Scotchman in his sincerity of 
 purpose is Dr. Talmagc's verdict of that honest people. ''The na 
 
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 TAL^rAGK AND KIXO EDWAliD'S DOMAIN* 1(« 
 
 pamhy traveler," writes the doctor. "afrai.I of getting l,is sho^s tar- 
 n.sl,e,l, and ul,o loves to sl,ake lia.ids uiti, the tips of his fingers or 
 ^v'th ins l,and „„ ., level with his cravat, and .lesires conversation in a 
 wh.sper, w<ndd he dis,..s,ed with Wales. JU,t thev who liave nothin-^ 
 of the fast,du,ns in their temperaments, and who a.lmire strength oi 
 voice, strength of arn,. strength of pnrpose and strengti, of character 
 w.il fin.l among tl,e Welsh illi„,itaMe entertainment and opporttntities 
 or prohtahle .ludy. They .-.re the most genial and heartv of all people 
 1 thmk, 1 have ever met. When they iangh they langh. and w],en 
 I>ey cry they cry. and when they cheer they cheer, and there is no 
 half-way work ahout it. They are sincere, and thev are natural in 
 showing their sincerity. 
 
 "Many l.a.l Engli. novels that l,light other countries cannot live 
 a month m the pure a mosphere of tliese mo.mtains. The fact is that 
 the W elsh are an intensely religious peoj.le, an<! one of their foremost 
 men declares that in all their literature there is not one book atheistic 
 or inhdel.'' 
 
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 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 SERMONS RKACIl IW i:\ IV Mll.I.IOXS PF.R WKF.K. 
 L'Nrsi-Ai, Ki.cori-.Nci: (IF iiis itii'it r itkkancks attract attkntion 
 
 OF I'KFSS. KKLU.lors AND SKCT I. AK— i'UIU.ISIllin 1\ AMERICA 
 
 CiWr.AT P.RITA1N- SFRKADS T11F..M HKOAIHAST TrANSLATKO INTO 
 
 MAW i.A\(;rA(a:s — 'liiicv rfacii tiik kyks and hearts of 
 
 CON riNF.NTAI S all ()\ I'.R luUOI'F.. 
 
 Dr. T. DcWitt 'I'lilniai^e li.-nl i\w hw^csi cont,'regation of any man 
 tliat ever lived, l-'.very week the words lie nttered from tlie pulpit were 
 heard or read by twenty milliiMis of i)eoi)le. It is doubtful if the world 
 will ever sec n,t,'ain such widespread dissemination of one man's views 
 as attended that of Dr. Talniaj^'c. The Brooklyn minister was more 
 than a mere preacher. He w::- a woril i)ainler, a coiner of phrases, a 
 master builder of sentences, an architect of sermons. Always a tremen- 
 dous worker, he never slis^hted a single sermon, and they were delivered 
 m the most beautiful langua<,n-. ;uid tor that very reason had a value from 
 the sentiments thev expressed. It was this feature of his pulpit utterances 
 that appealed to the newspa])er< i^enerally all over the world. 
 
 TEN THOUSAND SERMONS. 
 
 During his lifetime Dr. Talmat^e wrote iierhaps live or si.x, or perhaps 
 
 ten thousand sermons, very few of which have gone unchronicled ; most 
 
 of them have ajjpeared simultaneously in thousands of publications all 
 
 over the world. The leading dailies of Creat Britain, Canada, United 
 
 States. Australia, iMance. ( iermany, Sweden and Russia printed them 
 
 for years in full, and when Dr. Talm.ige was nearing the silver jubilee of 
 
 his service in Brooklyn it is said that his congregation each week was 
 
 never less than twenty-five million. His sermons were remarkable 
 
 pictures, the preacher using wurds and phrases as a painter does colors 
 
 and brushes. 
 
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 SEHMOXS KEACn MILLIONS A WEEK 1U5 
 
 In the sermon on the text, "The S.:n Shall he Tnrned Into Darkness - 
 ." whtch Dr. Taln,age denonnces athei>n, as a retrogression into bar- 
 bansm. he says : -.My friends, there has never been such a plot on earti> 
 as tluu uh.ch inhdehty and atheisn, have planned. We were shocked a 
 few days ago tx-cause of the atlnnpt to hlou np the I'arhament Houses 
 .M lun,lon. but if infulelity and atheisn, succeed, they will dvnanute a 
 world. Let then, have then- way and the world will be a house with just 
 three ruo„ts-the one a n.ad house. anoti,er a la.zaretto, the other a 
 pandanonutn. In a theater the .rage.iy con,es fust, the farce afterwards- 
 '^"t m th.s infidel dranta of .leath the farce con.es first, the tragedv after- 
 wards, atul in the fonner. atheists laugh and n.nck. but in the latt;r. God 
 will laugh and mock." 
 
 THRILLING DESCKIPTION OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN. 
 
 I" a sermon preached by Dr. Tahnage in ,8So, jusi after his return 
 fron, a trip to the Sotuh, the eminent .l.vine gave this vivid description 
 of the scene from the famous Lookout Mouniair,: "Looking each way 
 a.id any way from the top of that n^ountain, eartlnvork.s-the beautiful 
 rennessee winding through the valley, curhng and coiling around, ,„ak- 
 .ng letter S after letter .S. as if that letter stnud f„, sha.ne, that brothers 
 should have gone into massacre with each other, while God an.l nations 
 looked on. I have stood on Mnunt Washmgton and the Sierra Xevadas 
 and on the Alps, but I never sau ., far as fnnn Lookout Mountain 
 
 W hy, s.r. I looked back scvcu.cen years, and I saw rolhng up the side 
 of that mountain the smnkc of Hooker's stornnng partv, while the foun- 
 dations ot eternal rock quaked with the cannonade. Four vears of 
 untrnecme strife seeme.I to cnne hack. and. uithout anv chronological 
 order I saw the events: Xorfolk Xavy Yard o„ fire; Fort Sumter on 
 hre; Charleston on tire ; Chambersburg n„ fire; Columbia, South Caro- 
 lina, on fire; Richmond on lire. And 1 saw ICllsworth fall and Lvon fall 
 Stonewall Jackson fall. And I saw hundreds of grave trenches afterward 
 
 cut into tW'l rrrpit r>-i.;l,,, ,. , ,11,. 
 
 - a- ■•• &..-.1..- .'■•.. -;^ ,,,c KuKi, liic uiie ior the dead men of 
 
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 SElt.MONS IJKACII MILLIONS A WKKK 
 
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 tlie South, tlie otlier for tlie ilcad men of the Xortli. And my car as well 
 as my eye was quickened, and I licard the tramp, tramp of tlie national 
 army, and I heard the explosion of mines and gunpowder magazines, 
 and the crash of fortification walls, and the 'Swamp angel." and the 
 groans of dying hosts falling across the pulseless heart of other dving 
 hosts. And I saw still further nut, and I saw on the hanks of the Pcnoh- 
 scot and the Oregon and the Ohio and the Hudson and the Uoancikc and 
 the Yazoo and the Alahama, widowhood and orplian,age and childlessness 
 — some exhausted in grief and others stark and mad. and I said: 
 'Enough! Enough have I seen into the past from the top of Lookout 
 Mountain. Oh God! Show me the future!' And standing there it was 
 revealed to mc. And I looked out and 1 saw great populations from the 
 Xortli moving south, and great populations from the South moving north, 
 and I found that their footsteps ohliterated the hoof-mark of the war 
 chargers, and I saw the .\ngel of the Lord of Hosts standing in the 
 national cemetery, trumpet in hand, as much as to say, 'I will wake these 
 soldiers from their long enc.iinpment.' 
 
 HAKVESTS OF SNOW ANB GOLD. 
 
 ".\nd I looked, and I saw such snowy harvests of cotton and such 
 golden harvests of corn as 1 had never imagined, and I found that the 
 earthworks were down, and the gun carriages were down, and the war 
 barracks were all down, and I saw the rivers winding through the valley, 
 making the letter S — no more S for shame, hut S for Salvation." 
 
 .\s a s.aniple of the orator's forcefulness of dictinn and llucncv of 
 metaphor, the following is a good example: 
 
 "How the shadows shuftle! How the crags shiver! Ilnw the ccIkjcs 
 laise! .An express train at night on the Rocky Mountains! The irre- 
 sistible trampling the immovable! Yet the way smoothed down by human 
 engineering. Then it will not be difllcult to prepare the way for the 
 grander coming, when the mountains shall be made low and the crcx)ked 
 
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 straight, and n.i.Kh places plain, and the glorv of the Lord shall be 
 revealed and all (Icsli shall see it t.-getlicr." 
 
 Dr. Tahnagc nas not uithont the sense of Inimor. One time in his 
 Pi.Ip.t he made the following oI,servation on the subject of anonvmon- 
 letter wntuig: "Sometimes an anonymons crime takes the form of a 
 newspaper article, and if the matter be pnrsue.I. the e<Iitor-in-chief puts 
 •t off on the nuanaging editor, an.l the managing e.Iitor upon the book 
 cnt.c, and the book critic upon the rq,orter. Whether Adam or Eve or 
 tbe serpent was the most to be blamed for tlie disappearance of the fair 
 apple of reputation is uncertain; the only thing you can be sure of is 
 t.iat the apple ,s gone. Xo honest man will ever write a thing for a news- 
 paper. „, editorial or any otl-.cr column, that he does not sign his name 
 to or IS not wilhng to acknowledge." 
 
 TALMAGE'S VIEWS ON THE RACE COURSE. 
 
 Dr. Talmage. preaching on the dissipation of the race course some 
 years ago. had this to .say: 
 
 •■We have recently had long columns of intelligence from the race 
 coarse, and multitudes flock to the watering places to witness equine 
 competu.on. and there is lively discussion in all households as to the 
 nght an.l wrong of such exhibitions of mettle a.ul speed, and when there 
 ■s a heresy abroad that the cultivation of a horse's fleetncss is an iniquity 
 .nstead of a conuuendable virtue-at such a tin,e a sermon is demanded 
 of every n,inister who would like to defend public morals on the one 
 Land, an.l who is not willing to see an unrighteous abridgment of inno- 
 cent amusement on the other. I„ this discussion I sha.l follon- no ser- 
 .nomc precclent. but will give independently what I consider the Christian 
 and common-sense view of this potent, all-absorbing and agitating ques- 
 tion of the turt. ^ ' 
 
 THE HORSE MORE THAN A BEAST. 
 
 "There needs to be a re-distribution of coronets among the h-te 
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 off his corunet and put the crown upon tlic lu.rse, in every way nol.ler. 
 whether in shape, or si.irit. nr -a};acity, or intelligence, or affection, or 
 usefulness. He is setni-huin.in and Uni>ws how to reason on a small scale. 
 The centaur of olden times, part horse and part man, seems to be a sug- 
 gestion <.l the fact that the hor^e is something more than a heast. Joh 
 in my text sets fortii his streii-ih. hi. l)eauty, his majesty, the panting of 
 his nostrils, the lowing of hi> hoof, and his enthusiasm for the battle. 
 What Rosa Honheur did for tlic cattle ;ind what Landseer did for the 
 dog, Joh with mightier pencil doth for the horse. Eighty-eight times 
 does the Bible speak of him. 1 le c .mcs int. . every kingly procession, into 
 every great occasi.in. into every great triumph. It is very evident that 
 Job and David and l>aiah .md I'./ekiel and Jeremiah and John were fond 
 of the horse, lie coine. into nuich of their imagery. .\ red horse— that 
 meant war: a black h..rse— that meant famine; a pale horse— that 
 meant death: ;i white horse— that meant victory. 
 
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 "But what shall 1 -ay of the effort iK'ing made in this day on a large 
 scale to make this splendid ceature of (io.l, this divinely honored being, 
 an instrument of atrocious evil ? 1 make no indiscriminate assault against 
 the turf. 1 believe in ;i turf if it can Ik? conducted on right principles 
 and with no 1)etting. 'ihere is no more harm in offering a prize for the 
 swiftest racer th:m there is h:irni at an agricultural fair in offering a 
 prize to the farmer uho has the be-t wheat, or to the fruit grower who 
 has the largest pear, or to the machini-t who presents the l)est corn 
 thresher, or in .a school offering a prize of a cn,.y of Shakespeare to the 
 best reader, or in a household giving a lump of sugar to the best behave.l 
 youngster. Prizes by all means— rewards by all means. Without the 
 prize tb.e hf.rse'^ tleetness will never Ik.- fully developed. If it cost. 
 one thousand, five th.ni.and or ten thousand dollars, and the result be 
 achieved, it is cheap. 'Un the sin begins where the betting begins, for 
 that is gambling, or the effort to get that for which yon give no ecpiiva- 
 
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 fifty cents or a tlinn>aii(! dollars as a wager, yoii had l.ctter get rid 
 of it. (let rid of it rijjht away. Voii cannot afford to keep it. Camhling 
 M.i'>ts a man <>r it h!a-.t> his -hildren. generally hoth and all. 
 
 'St. Jcim descrihiii- ChrKt as coming forth from con(|ucst to con- 
 quest represents him as .eated mm a white horse. In the parade of heaven 
 the Rihle makes „s hear t!ie clicking of h jofs on tiic golden pavement 
 as It says: riie armies whicii were in '.eaven followed him on white 
 liorses.- 1 vhnuld not wonder if the iiorse. s,, hanged, and hrnised. and 
 l.eaten, an.l outraged on earth, should have .some otner place where his 
 \^rongs shall lie righted. I .1,. not assert it, hut I say I should not he 
 surprised if, .after all. St. John's descriptions of the horses in heaven 
 turned out not ,-iltogether to he tigurntive. hut somewhat literal. 
 
 THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND HIS HORSE. 
 
 "As the I'.il.le m;ikes a favorite of the Inrse. the patriarch, and the 
 proiihit. an.l the evangelist, and the apostle stroking his sleek hide and 
 patting his rounded neck, and tenderly lifting his c.vquisiteiy formed 
 hoof, and listening with a thrill to the champ of his hit. s,. all great 
 n.itnres in all ages h;ne spoken of him in encomiastic terins. Virgil in 
 liis fieorgies almost seems to plagiarize from this dcr.-ription in the text. 
 s.. nuuh are the descriptions alike— the description of Virgil and the 
 descripti..n of joh. Tlu. \)ukc of Wellington would not allow anyone 
 irreverently to touch his ,,ld war horse. Copenliagen. on wIi.mh he had 
 lidilen lil'teen hours withr.ut clismounting. at W'.aterloo. and when old 
 Copenhagen dieil. his master ordered a military salute fired over his 
 grave. John Howard slioweil that he did not exhaust all his sympathies 
 in pitying the human race. f,>r when sick he writes home: 'Has my old 
 chaise horse hecoiiie sick or sjMnled?' 
 
 "There is li;irdly any i)assage o Fren-h literature more pathetic than 
 the lamentation over the death of ; .e war-charger, Marchegay. Walter 
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 that in 'St. Roman's Well' lie orders the girth slackened and the blanket 
 thrown over the smoking flanks. Edmund Burke, walking in the park 
 at Beaconsfield, musing over the past, throws his arms around the worn- 
 out horse of his dead son, Richard, and weeps upon the horse's neck, the 
 horse seeming to sympatlii;^e in the memories. Rowland Hill, the great 
 English preacher, was caricatured because in his family prayers he sup- 
 plicated for the recovery of a sick horse, but when the horse got well, 
 contrary to all the prophecies of tlic farriers, the prayer did not seem 
 quite so much of an abstirdity. 
 
 MALTREATMENT OF THE HORSE. 
 
 "But what shall T say of tlie maltreatment of this beautiful and 
 wonderful creature of God? If Thomas Cha' .ers in his day felt called 
 upon to preach a sermon against cruelty to animals, how much more in 
 this day is there a need of rcprchensive discourse? All honor to the 
 memory of Professor P.crgh. tlie chief apostle for the lirute creation, for 
 the mercy he demanded and achieved for this king of beasts. A man 
 who owned four thousand horses, and some say forty thousand, wrote in 
 the Bible: 'A righteous man regardeth the life of his l)east.' Sir Henry 
 Lawrence's care of the iK^rse was bcatUifully Christian. He says: 'I 
 expect we shall lose Conrad, thougli 1 have Laken so mucli care of him 
 that he may conu- in cool. I always walk him the last four or five miles, 
 and as I walk myself the first hour. il is only in the middle of the journey 
 we get over the grnuiul' The I'.ttrick Shepherd in his matchless 
 Ambrosial Nights s])caks of the maltreatment nf the horse as a practical 
 blasphemy. 
 
 "I do not believe in the transmigration of snuls. bin 1 can not very 
 se\erely denounce the idea, for when I ^ee men who cut and bruise and 
 whack and welt and strike and nianl and dutrage and insult the horse, 
 that beautiful servant of the human race, wlio carries our burdens and 
 pulls our ploughs. a;.d turns our threshers and our mills, and nms for 
 nnr doctors — when T sec men thus beating;- and abusing and outraging 
 
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 tliat creature, it seems to nic that it \v..ukl be only fair tliat the doctrine 
 of transmijf ration of souls sliou!,! prove true, and that for tlieir punish- 
 ment they should pass over int(, some poor miserable brute and be beaten 
 and whacked and ciuelly treated, and frozen an<l heated and over-driven: 
 into an everlasting stage-horse, an eternal traveler on a towpath. or tied 
 to an eternal post, in an eternal winter, smitten with et.rnal epizootics! 
 Oh. is it not a shame lb..- -he brute creation, which ha.l the first posses- 
 sion of our worbl. should In: so maltreated by the race that came in last 
 —the fowl and the fish created on the tilth .lay. the horse and the cattle 
 created on the morning of the sixth day. and the human race not created 
 until the evening of the sixth <lay ? It ought to be that if anv man over- 
 drives a horse, or fee.ls him when be is hut. or recklesslv drives a nail 
 into the quick of his ho<',f, or rowels him to see him prance, or so shoes 
 hnn that his fetlocks drop blood, or puts a collar on a raw neck, or 
 unnecessarily clutches his t.^ngue with a twisted bit. or cuts off his hair 
 until he has tie defense against the cold, or unmercifully abbreviates tiie 
 natural defense against insect. le annoyance-tbat such a man as that 
 himself ought to be made to pull and let hi. l„.rsc ride! 
 
 THE HORSE SHOULD BE DEVELOPED. 
 
 -Bm not only <ln nur bum,-.- ity and ,,ur Christian principles and the 
 dictates of Cod .leman.l that ,vc kmdly treat the brute creation and 
 especially the horse: but I go further. an,l sav that whatever can be done 
 lor the development of his (leetness and his strength an.I his majestv 
 ougiu to be done. We need to stud)- his anatomv and his adaptations 
 1 am glad that large books have been written to show bow he can be best 
 managed, and how bis ailments r,,, be cure.l. and what his usefulness 
 IS. and what his c.ap.acities are. It would be a shame if in this age of the 
 world, when tlie florist b,-,s turned the tinn flower of the wood into a 
 gorgeous n^sc. and the pomologi^t ha, changed the acrid and gnarled 
 fruit of the ancicins into the verx poetry of pear, and peach. 
 
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 become tlie great mastiff, and the miserable creature of the olden times 
 barnyard has become the Devonshire, and the Alderney, and the Short- 
 horn, that the horse, grander than them all, should get no advantage 
 from our science, or our civilization, our Christianity. Groomed to the 
 last point of soft brilliance, his flowing mane a billow of beauty, his 
 arched neck in utmost rhythm of curve, let him be harnessed in graceful 
 trappings and then driven to the furthest goal of cxcellcjice, and then 
 fed at luxuriant oat bins, and blanketed in comfortable stall. The long 
 tried and faithful servant of the human race dcscr es all kindness, all 
 care, all reward, all succulent forage and soft litter and paradisiacal pas- 
 ture field. 
 
 SWIFTER MEN AND HOBSES WAi<x£D. 
 
 "Those farms in Kentucky and in different parts of the north, where 
 the horse is trained to perfection in fleetness and in beauty and in majesty, 
 are well set apart. There is no more virtue in driving slow than in 
 driving fast, any more than a freight train going ten miles the hour is 
 better than an express train going fifty. There is a delusion abroad in 
 the world that a thing must be necessarily good and Christian if it is slow 
 and dull and plodding. There are very tew good peojile wlm seem to 
 imagine it is humbly pious to dri\e a spavineil, galled, glandcred. spring- 
 halted, blind-staggered jade. There is not so much virtue in a Rosinantc 
 as in a Bucephalus. We want swifter Ikm-scs, and swifter men, and 
 swifter enterprises, and the Church of God needs Id get ol' its jog irct. 
 Ouick tempests. (|uick lightnings, (juick streams; why not (|uick horses.'' 
 In the time of war the cavalry service does the nm^t execution, and a the 
 battles of the world are prob.'ibly not all i)ast, our Clirisli;in p,-itriotisin 
 demands tliat we \k interested in e(iuinal \el(icity. We niiglit as well 
 have nof-rer gmis in our arsenals and clumsier ships in our navy yards 
 than otli'^r nations, as t(. have under our cavalry saddles and heiore oiu' 
 parks of artillery slower horses. 
 
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 Philip Sheridan an.l Stonewall Jackson rode into the frav. this arm of 
 t >e n„,tar.v service has been recogtiized. Hamilcar. Hannibal. Gustavus 
 Adolplnts ^larshal Xe, ,-ere cavalrymen. In this arm of the service, 
 harles ^.arteI at the battle of Poitiers beat back the Arab invasion. The 
 C artha^^nnan cavalry, with the loss of only seven hundred men over- 
 tl>rcu- the R,„„n„ anny with the loss of seventy thousand. In the same 
 way the Spanish chivalry drove back the Moorish hordes. 
 
 THE BEST WAY TO KEEP PEACE. 
 
 "The best way to keep peace in this country and in all countries is to 
 '|e prepared for war. and there is no success in sttch a contest unless 
 .nere be plenty of li.ht-fnote<l chargers. Our Christian patriotism and 
 '•"■• .nstruct.nn front the Word of God demand that first of all we kindly 
 -at the horse, and then after that, that we develop his lleetness and his 
 .i;randeur and his majesty and his strength. 
 
 "What a spectacle when at Saratoga, or at Long Branch, or at 
 
 -ngbton Reach, or at Sheepshead Kay, the horses start, and in a fla.h 
 
 ■•t.y or a hundred thousand <lollars change hands! Multitudes ruined 
 
 hy losmg the bet, others worse ruined by gaining the bet; for if a man 
 
 Inse m a bet at a horse race, he may be discouraged and quit, but if he 
 
 wm the l)et he is very apt to go straight on to hell! 
 
 "An intimate friend, a journalist, who in the line of his profession 
 
 .nvest.gated this evil, tells ,„e that there are three different kinds of bet- 
 
 t.ngat horse races, and they are about equally leprous : bv -auction pools ' 
 
 ■y Trench nuuuals.' by what is called ■b,3okn,aking-all gatnbling. ail 
 
 h.-.'!. all rotten wuh ini,,uify. There is one word that needs to be written 
 
 -n the brow of every pool seller as he sits deducting his three or five per 
 
 cont. and slyly 'ringing up' n>ore tickets than were sold on the winnm- 
 
 horse-a word to be written also on the brow of every bookkeeper who 
 
 ••' extra nult,ce,nent scratches a horse ofif of the race, an.l on the brow 
 
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 board of the surroiimling fences. Tliat word is 'swindle!' i'et thou- 
 sands bet. Lawyers l^et. Judges of courts bet. Members of the legis- 
 Ipturc bet. Members of congress bet. Professors of religion bet. 
 Teachers and superintendents of Sunday schools. 1 am told, bet. 
 
 OETTING MONEY WITHOUT EAKNINO IT. 
 
 "Do you not realize the fad that there is a mighty effort on all sides 
 to-day to get money withont earning it? That is the curse of all the 
 cities: it is the cur>c of America— the effort to get money without earn- 
 ing it, and as other form;- of stealing arc not respectable, they go into 
 these gambling practices. I preach this scrnuMi on sfiuare. Pild-fashioned 
 honesty. T have said nothing against the horse. I have said nothing 
 against the turf. I have said ever\ i g against their prostitution. Young 
 men, you go into straightforward in'iustrics and you will have larger per- 
 manent success than you can c\cr get by a wager; but you get in with 
 some of the whisky, rum-hlotchcd crew which I see going down on the 
 boulevards. Thougli 1 never bet. 1 will risk this wager, live millions to 
 nothing, you will be debauched and damneil. 
 
 A MAN MAY OWN A HORSE AND BE A CHPTSTIAN. 
 
 "Cultivate the horse, own him if you can afford to own him, test all 
 the speed he ha-;, if he have ,any speed in him: but be careful which way 
 you drive. You can not always tell what direction a man is driving in 
 bv the way his horses head. In my boyhood, we rode three miles every 
 S.abbath morning to the cnunlry church. We were drawn by two fine 
 horses. My father drove, lie knew them, and tliey knew him. They 
 were friends. Sometimes they loveil to go rapidly, and he did not inter- 
 fere with their happines>. lie had M of us in the wagon with him. lie 
 , trove to the country church. The fact i-. that for eighty-two years he 
 drove in the same direction. The roan span that I spe.ak of was long ago 
 unhitched, and the driver put U]) hi> whip in the wagon-house never 
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 tliat I never forgot, tliat a man may admire a horse ar.d love a liorse, and 
 be pron.l of a horse. an<l not always he willing to take the dust of the 
 preceding vehicle, and yet he a Christian, an earnest Christian, an humble 
 Christian, a consccratc.l Christian, useful until the last, so that at his 
 death the Church of God cries out as I'lisha exclaimed when Elijah went 
 up with galloping horses of f,re: "My father, my father, the chariots of 
 Lsrael and the horsemen thereof!" " 
 
 IS LIFE WORTH LIVINGP 
 
 One of Talmage's hot and most cIo(iuent sermons was entitled 
 "Is Life Worth Living"^" It is as follows: 
 
 If we leave to the evolutionists to gness where we came from and 
 lo the theologians to prophesy where we are going to, we will have 
 left for consideration the important fact that we are here. There may 
 be some donI)t abont where the river rises and some doubt about where 
 the river empties, hut there can he no doubt about the fact that we are 
 sailing on it. So I am not -.irprised that everybody asks the question, 
 "Is life worth living?" Here is a young man of light hair and blue 
 eyes, and sound digestion, and generous salary, and happily affianced, 
 and on the way to become a i.artncr in a commercial firm of which he 
 is an important clerk. Ask him whether life is worth living. He will 
 laugh in your face and say. ••Ves. yes, yes!" Here is a man who has 
 come to the forties. He i at the tip-top of the hill of life. Every 
 step lias been a stumble and a brui.se. The people he trusted have 
 turned out deserters, and the money he has honestly made he has been 
 cheated out of. His nerve.; are out of tune. He has poor appetite, 
 and all the food he <loes eat does not assimilate. Forty miles climbing 
 up the hill of life have been to him like climbing the Matterhorn, and 
 (here are forty nn'les yet to go down, and descent is alwavs more 'dan- 
 gerous than ascent. Ask Inm whcilier life i. worth living, and he will 
 drawl out in shivering and lugubrious tones, an appalling negative. 
 
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 Kow are we to decide this matter righteously and intellie^ently? 
 Yon will find the same man vacillating, oscillating in his opinion from 
 dejection to exuberance, and if he be very mercurial in his temperament 
 ii will depend very mucii upon which way the wind blows. If the wind 
 blow from the nortluvest, and you ask him, he will say, "Ves;" and if 
 it blow from the northeast, and you ask him, he will say, "Xo." How- 
 are we then to get the question righteously ansv cred? Suppose we 
 call all nations together in a great convention on l".iistern or Western 
 hemisphere, and let all those who are in the aflirmative say, "Aye," and 
 all those who are in the negative say, "Xo." While there would he 
 hundreds of thousands who would answer in the aftlrinative, there 
 would be more millions who would answer in the negativ e. and because 
 of the greater number who have sonow and misfortune and trouble, 
 the "Noes" would have it. If you ask me. "Is life \v^)rth living?" I 
 answer, it all ileffcnds upon the kind of life you liz'e. 
 
 In the first place, I remark that a life of mere money-getting is 
 always a failure, because you will never get as nuich as you want. The 
 poorest people in this countr- are the millionaires, and next to them 
 those who have half a million. Th.ere is not a scissors-grinder on '.he 
 streets of Xew York or Brooklyn that is so anxious to make money 
 as these men who have piled up fortunes year .rier year in storehouses, 
 in government securities, in tenement houses, in whole citv blocks. 
 You ought to see them jumj) wiicn they hear the (ire Ijcll ring. You 
 ought to see them m their excitement when Marine Liank explod.es. 
 You ought to see their agitation w hen there is i)ropo>e(l a reformation 
 in the tariff. Their nerves tremble like hari)-strings. but no nuisic in 
 the vibration. They read the reports from Wall Street in the nioni- 
 uig with a concernment that threatens paralysis or a])oplexv, or, more 
 ;jrobably, they have a telegraph or a tele])h()ne in their own house, so 
 ihey catch e\ery breath of change in the money market. The dis- 
 ease of accumulation has eaten into them — eaten into their heart, into 
 their li;i ^s, into their spleen, into their liver, into tb.eir !;ones. 
 
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 That is not a life ucrtl, In.nj,.. There are too many earthquakes 
 in It. too many agonies in it, t.,o many perditions in it. Tliey build 
 tlieir castles, and they open their picture galleries, an,l thev summon 
 prima donnas, an.l they ofler every indncement for happiness to come 
 and live there, hut happiness will not C(.me. 
 
 They send footmannc.l and postillioned cpiipa-c to hrinp her; she 
 will not ri.le to their .loor. They send princely escort; she will not'take 
 their arm, They make their ;,rateways triumphal arches; she will imt 
 rule under them. They set a j,^olden throne before a golden plate; 
 she turns away from the banquet. They call to her from upholstered 
 l-aicony; she will not listen. Min.i yon, this is the failure of those 
 v.lio liave had large accumulation. 
 
 And then you must take into consideration that the vast majority 
 of tiiose who make the dominant ide.i of life monev-getting fall far 
 short of affluence. It is estimated that only about two'ont of L hundred 
 business men have anything worthy the name .,f success. A man who 
 si.en<ls his life with the one dominant idea ot linancial accumulation 
 spends a life not worth living. 
 
 So the idea of worldly approval. If that be donn-nant in a man's 
 life he is miserable. Xow, that is not a life worth living. Vcu can 
 get slandered and abused cheaper than that! 
 
 Take it on a smaller scale. Do not be so ambiticius to have a whole 
 reservoir rolled over on you. Hut what yon ^ec in the matter of high 
 p Jitical prefenrent you see in every commmiity in the struggle for 
 what is called social position. 
 
 Tens of thousantls of people trying to get into that realm, and they 
 are under territic tension. What is social position? It is a difficult 
 thing to define, but we all know uhat it is. Good morals and intelli- 
 gence are not necessary, but uealth, or the show of wealth, is absti- 
 Intely indisper able. There are men to-da\ as notorious for their 
 libertinism as the night is 
 
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 ill Anicricaii society whose names are mentioned among the distin- 
 tjiiislicd guests at tlie great levees. They have annexed all the known 
 \ ices, and arc longing for other worlds of iliabolisni to conquer. Good 
 morals arc not necessary in many of the exalted circles of society. 
 
 Xcithcr is intelligence necessary. You find in that realm men 
 who v.ould not know an adverh from an adjective if they met it a 
 hundred times a day, and wlu> could not write a letter of acceptance 
 or regret without the aid of a secretary. They buy their libraries by 
 the s([uare yard, only anxious to have the binding Russia. Their igno- 
 rance is positively suhlinie, making luiglish grammar almost disreputa- 
 ble. .\nd yet the Ihiest parlors open before them. Good morals and 
 intelligence are not necessary, but wealth, or a show of wealth, is posi- 
 tively indis])ensal)le. It (li>cs not make any difference how you got 
 \our wealth if you only got it. Perhaps you got it by failing four or 
 five times, 't is the most rajiid way of accumulation in this country — 
 that is, the i|uickest way to get in social position. Those who fail only 
 once are not very well off. Init b\- the time a man has failed the second 
 time he is comfortable, .and by the time he has failed the third time 
 he is aftluent. The be^t way for you to get iiUo social position is for 
 vou to buy a large amount on credit, then init your ])roperty in your 
 wife's name, have a few jireferred creditors, and then make an assign- 
 ment. Then disajipear froui tlie conmiunily until the l>reeze is over, 
 and then come back and start in the same business. Do you not see 
 how beautifully that will put out all the ]ieople who are in competition 
 with you and tr_\ing to ni.'ike an hone.^t living? How ([uick it will get 
 vou iiito high social position? What is the 'i>e t>f toiling with forty or 
 fifty vcars of h.'ird work when you can by two or three bright strokes 
 make a gre;U fortune. Ah! my friends, when you really lose your 
 nionev, Imw (|uick tliey will let you drop, and the higher you get the 
 harder _\(ju will drop. 
 
 There are thous;uiils to-d;iy in that realm who are anxious to keep 
 m It. i here arc thousands in that realm who are nervous for fear 
 
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 they will fall out of it. and there are chanpes going on every - r. and 
 every month, and every honr. wliicii iinclvc hearthreaks that are never 
 rcixjrted. High social life is constantly in a flutter ahom liie delicate 
 question as to vvliom they shall let in. and whom they shall push out, 
 and the battle is g<iing on — pier mirror atjjaiiist pier mirror, chandelier 
 against chandelier, wine cellar against wine cellar, wardrohe against 
 \vardrol)€, equipage against cqui]>agc. I'nccrtaiiity and insecurity 
 dominate in that realm, wretchedness enthroned, torture at a premium, 
 arul a life not worth living. 
 
 A life of sin. a life of pride, a life of indulgence, a life of worldliness, 
 a life devoted to the world, the flesh and the devil is a failure, a dead 
 failure, an infinite failure. I care not how many i>resents you send to 
 that cradle, or how many garlands you send to that grave, you need 
 to put right under the name on the tomhstone this inscription: "Bet- 
 ter for that man if he had never heen horn."' 
 
 But I shall show you a life that is worth living. A voung man says: 
 "I am here. I am not responsible for my ancestry; others decided 
 that. I am not responsible for my temiieramcnt : God gave me that. 
 But here I am, iji the afternoon of the nineteenth century, at twenty 
 years of age. I am here, and I must take an account of stock. Here 
 I have a body which is a divinely con.structed engine. I must put it 
 to the very best uses, and I must allow nothing to damage this rarest 
 of machinery. Two feet, and they mean locomotion. Two eyes, and 
 they mean capacity to pick out my own way. Two ears, and thev are 
 telephones of communication with all the outside wwld, and they 
 
 mean capacity to catch the swe(itcst music and the voices of friendshii) 
 
 the very best miisic. A tongue, with almost infinity of articulation. 
 Yes, hands with which to welcome, or resist, or lift, or smite, or wave, 
 or blesf — hands to help myself and help others. 
 
 "Here is a work which, after six ilujusand years of battling with 
 tempest and accident, is still grander than any ,~,rchitect. human or an- 
 gelic, could have drafted. I have two lamps to light me — a golden 
 
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 lamp and a silver laniii — a i^'uIiU n laiiii) set on tlie sa|)pliire mantel of 
 t!ic day, a silver lamp set on the jet ninntlc of tlie nitjlit. 'N'ea, T have 
 that at twenty years of af^c which defies all inventory o^ vahiahles — a 
 soul, with capacity to choose or reject, to rejoice or to suffer, to love 
 or to hate. Plato says it is immortal. Seneca says it is immortal. 
 Confucius says it i< ininiort.'il. An old hook ;unourr the family relics — 
 a hook with leathern cover almost worn out. and pages alirinst ohlit- 
 era<ed hy oft perusal, joius to the other hooks in sayinp I am immortal. 
 I have ci.t,'hty \ears for a lifetime, sixty years yet to live. I may not 
 live an hour, hut then I must l.iy out my ])lans intelligently and for a 
 long life. Sixty \cars added to the t\\ent_\ I have already lived, that 
 will liring me to eightN. I luu-t rememher that these eighty years arc 
 only a hricf i>reface in the fu e hundred thous.-md millions of (piintillions 
 of years which will he my chief residence and existence. Now, I un- 
 derstand my o])])ortunilies .-lud my re>]ionsil)ilities. 
 
 "If there is .-uiy i)eing in the iuii\er>e all wise and .all henetlcent 
 who can hel]) ;i man in >nih a juncture. I want him. Tlie (jhl hook 
 found among the f.".nnly relics tells nic there is a Cod, and that for the 
 s;ike of I lis Son, one jesu--, lie w ill give he''' \n ;i man. To TTim I ap- 
 ])eal. (iod hel]) niel lleie. I h.i\e sixty v ,irs yet tO' do for myself 
 ;uid to do for others. I nnisi deseloj) this hody hv all industries, by 
 all gymnastics. !)_\- all siuisliine, hy all froli ;iir, hy all good hahits. 
 And this soul I niu^t h;i\c >we]it, and L;,u'ni>hed. nnd illumined, antl 
 glorified liy .all th;u 1 can do Inr it .-nul all that I can get Tiod to do 
 for it. It ^hall he :i I .uximuIh nng of line ]>ictures. it shall he an 
 orchestra of grand harmonies, ll >liall he a i);dace for (jod and 
 righteousne--s to reign ir,. i winder how many kind words I can utter 
 in the next --ixt} year.--? I will trv. 1 wonder how manv good deeds 
 I can do in the next >-ixl\ \ears? 1 will try. ( iod help me!" 
 
 Th.at young m.an enters life, lie i> hiilfeted, he is tried, he is per- 
 ])lexed. A gr;i\e open< on this side, and a gra\'e opens on that side. 
 lie falls, hut he ri>e> ;igani. lie gets uUo a hard battle, but he gets 
 
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 SKirMoXS IfKACll MlLIJoXs A WKKk !-{ 
 
 <l'c Mctory. Tl.c .nam course m' 1,„ l,tV i, ,,, ,1a. n.^h, ,1„-cv,u,m. Uc 
 l.lesMvs fvcryluuly Iic o,n.o> „, o-ntact uul,, (..,,1 fupKivo his ,nis- 
 lakt>, ami n.akcs .vcTlastu,^- rrrnpl „i In, I„,lv .n.lcavnr,. and at the 
 ck.sc ,.f ,t („„1 .as. tn hnn: -Wdl .lu,,., o,„„l an.l fauhful vavanf 
 u-.u-,n,uthcj,..„r,l,. 1, ,„,.•• M, hn.th.r.nn M>,n-. l,l„„n, cat-e 
 ulu'lher that n,an .lie. a, tlnrty. Imty, t,f,s. ^xty, ,.vcnt^, „r n^htv 
 }far> of a^c; ^.,n can cl„>cl li^l,, nn.Kr h„ name on the tonihstonc 
 these uonls. "His lilV ua> wiuth living," 
 
 I wonl.l not fin,! „ hanl to pcMia.lc ) m, tl,,,i the ,„„„- la,l IVtcr 
 Cooper. „,akin« ^Uk' '"v a Innn,. an,l then an.a^Mn. a ;,,-eat fortnne 
 •nt.l he c<n,Kl hnihl a i-hilauilnopy uhuh ha, ha,l it> echo in ten ,hon- 
 "<! pinlanthropie.s all .,^e^ the co,nurv~^l uo„l,| n,,t fnul it I,,,nl to 
 I.crsna<le yun that hi- hfe wa, worth h\in,^-. Xeuher wonM I Cm,! it 
 Iiar.l to persuade yon that the life ..f Susannah Wesley ua, uorth liv- 
 itik'. She sent ont one m.„ to or-ani/e MetlmdiMn and the other ,,mi 
 to rin^r hi, ,„„,„„, .,„ „„,,„^,, „,^. ,,^^,^ I ^^^^^^1^1 _^^^^ ^.__^^ .^ ^^_^^^ 
 
 work to i.crsnade yon that the lite of iM-ance, I.eere uas worth livin^ 
 as she cstal.hshed in V.u^huA a school f,,r ,hc seientif.c .nn-ino r,f tli"e 
 s.ek. an.l then when tho „,,r l,n,ke ont hetuecn l-'rance a,id Cernianv, 
 went to the front, and uith her oun h,,nd, scraped the n,nd mt the 
 bodies of the M.l.hers dvin^ in the trenches, and uith her ueak ann- 
 Man.hntj one ni^ht in the ho:.pi,ar-pnd,inu hack a ( iernun s.,l,lior 
 to his conch, .as, all fren/ied with his u.mnd-. he rush..,l t,.ward the 
 d.J.ir, and sai.l: "Let ,ne ,^.,, let n,e ,^o to n,y /,V/„- ,,,„//.,-;• m,;,,,. 
 generals stan.Iiiift hack to let pa-s iliis ;,„Mel . f mercy. 
 
 Xeither wonl.I 1 have hard work t,, i.crsn.adc yon that (irace Har- 
 , I'.nv: live.l .a life u.,nh livin-^tp,. heroine of the lifehoat. Vo„ say: 
 -While I know all these lived lives worth living,, I .lon't think mv life 
 amonnts t.. mnch." Ah I my friends, whether y,,n live ;, life'con- 
 spicnons or ineonspicuons. it is worth lix in-, if \o„ live ari-ht. Ami I 
 want my next sentence tn oq 'ioun. itito fhp .-!.■ 
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 SKlfMoNS IfKACn MILLKJN'S A WKKK 
 
 liiit aicoriliiif; to till' linly iiiihi^tiios wiili which yon employed the 
 taleiit> }<)ii really possessed. The majority of the crowns (jf heaven 
 will not he given to people with ten talents, for most of them were 
 tempted only to serve themselves. The va>-t majority of the crowns 
 of hea\en will he given tu people who lia<l one talent, hnt gave it 
 all to Ciod. Aui' 'ememhcr that our life here i> introductory to an- 
 other. It is tlu slihule to a palace; hut who des])ises the door of a 
 Madeleine because there are grander glories within? Your life if 
 rightly li\ ed is the first har of an eternal oratorio, and who despises the 
 (h>t note of Haydn's sMnphonies? And the life yon live now is all 
 the more worth lixing because it opens into a life that shall nc\er end. 
 and the last letter of the wDrd "time" is the first letter of the word 
 
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CHAPTER XII. 
 
 IJECOMF.S PASTOR I\ I'RKSlDi: XT CI. lAKI.AXIVS CHURCH. 
 His aiiamx.nment ok IJrooklvn- .ou W \siiin(;i()\ a sikimusk— 
 
 ActEI'TANCE OF CAM. TO FIRST FRKSBVTKKl AN tlllR, |i ,„- , xp- 
 
 ITOL CITY iNi:xrK(Ti:iH-rR:;Aciii:s at fi'<st uitikut sm vry 
 
 ARRANnUMUNT-WANTK.. TO 111; IN lUE CI-NTE.< OF THE t;o\ KKN- 
 S'KNT and I-rd.lTUS OF TIIK NATION. 
 
 Washington society an.l pe<.plc in Waslun-tcMi nnt in socictv were 
 snrpiscl bcyon.I measure in SepteinLer, iS.^;. uIkm, it was authori- 
 tatively announce.! that ')r. TahnaKe. fnr a quarter of a centurv ulentitle.l 
 with tlic Brooklyn Tal)ernacle, ha.l ahan.ln„c.l the Citv of Churches to 
 become an associate pastor nf the I'irst I'reshytenan c'imrch. Washing- 
 ton. D. C. What a<I<Ie.l t,. the surprise was the >,,inewhat pecuhar history 
 of this peculiar Preshyterian church. I, was a church whose popularity 
 an.l usefulness faded away many, many year, hefore Dr. Talmage ever 
 thought of hecoming a spiritual adviser tn Crover Cleveland President 
 of the United States. The greater part .,f its cnngreg.-uinn had migrated 
 to the fashionahle quarters of the city t,, the nurthwot. leavin- the 
 old brick church on Four and a Half street .l.wii am,,„g the lawyers- 
 offices and iHiarding houses, forgofen and almost deserte.l. Jn'this 
 condition it remaine.1 for many years, until firovcr Clevelan.l. I,ecomi„„ 
 President of the Unite.I States, .hscvcrc, ,n Dr. Hvn.n Siin,lerland 
 an old aciuaintance. and lifted nis neglected church int.) cr>twhilo pmm- 
 inencc by l>eing marrie.l by its past-.r, and gning there occa.innailv 
 with his lovely bride to worship. The same crowds of curious puhlic 
 who used to hang alxnit the doors of the old .MetropoHtan ^rethodist 
 Church next d.^or tu Dr. Sundcrlaiurs to see Ceneral (inuit arrive o,, 
 Sunday morning, the same crow.ls that filled the street aln,,,, the F,)nn- 
 dry Church to see : . Hayes family o.ming on foot to worship, and 
 
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 the same crowils that wciv wmil tn sit on the benches in l.aFayette 
 Square to see President Arthiu- walk thmush it from the White House 
 to St. Jolm's Church, hlocke.l the streets in front of tlie First Pr-o.- 
 terian Church t.. -aze oi. (imver Clevelan.l and liis bride. The c iwil 
 went every Sunday d.uriiit;- the lir.-i Cleveland administration in spi ■' 
 many disappointments bin at tla .uue Dr. Talmage accepted the call 
 to the cluu-ch the crow.l- came le- oiien and the President more seldom 
 than the crowds 
 
 A SURPRISE TO WASHINGTON. 
 
 Xeverthcles<, Wa-hm-ton was Mu-pr...cd when Dr. Talmage was to 
 come and preach to the I're-.dent and have his K'rm.'ns go forth with 
 the endor>enicnt of the I'lr^i PrL>byteri;ni Church, whose m<ist con- 
 spicuou-, and, in l.act, the only coii-picuou- pew holder, was the Chief 
 Magistrate of the fcd.cral governmcni. Almost as much of a -surprise 
 after the knowledge of his accepiancc of the call wa> occasioned by the 
 statement that Dr. Talniage came witlio-at any valar>. As a matter of 
 f.act. no salary bad been -tipubued. Dr. I'.-ilmage simply agree<l to co.ne 
 and preach on Sunday evening and to. allow the -alary matter to be -ettled 
 later. However. Dr. Talmage u>ed to come I'or the reason that he liad 
 long wanted to have bi> -ermo.iK originate in and be disseminate.) from 
 the central -eat ' . i.olitic-,,i.lmuii-tration ;ind -tate-manship. He believed 
 it to be the cei.tcv of nati-nal lii'e . :' tin- country. 
 
 HISTORY OF THE CALL TO WASHINGTON. 
 
 The true vcr-ion of ihc call of I )i-. Talnia-c to the I'ir-t Presbyterian 
 Cluuvh of \\a-h;iii;t(iu probably ha.l never been tol,i previou- t.. 
 the great prcacber"- duitli. It i- as follow-: 
 
 Dr. Snndevlau.l called the otVieeis of the church together one day 
 
 ■ on his return from the North and told them that Dr. Talmage's son 
 
 Frank had been talking t(* him about the church and the p<issibility (if 
 
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 land said lie told I'raiik that the WasliingKjn people would I.e dclis^ditcd 
 tu liave liiin, and tliat lie himself would he pleased witli the a»oei-.tioii. 
 Dr. Sunderland saw in it the Iiand of rrovidencc in that it would hriuv, 
 throngs and money to the old eluirch whose interests and i)er;)etuity 
 he liad so much at heart. lie advised the trustees of the church to 
 >lraw up a letter and call t(, Dr. Taltnape. v.I'ich was done. 
 
 FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENT WIIH FIRST CHURCH. 
 
 The financial arrangement made hetwecii the trustee- of the Fir-t 
 Church and Dr. Talmage showed extreme liheralitv on the part of 
 the latter. Dr. Tahiiage was to make no charge for his service-. 
 Whatever siu-i)lus was found after jiayment of sa!; ies of tiie other two 
 pastors and all expenses, he wruhl take, Init no more. .Many wild 
 rumors of a jjrincely salary paid him were afloat. I'ut the greatest 
 amount paid him in any one year was ^.j^.^oo, and he never made ajipli- 
 cation to the trustees or to the treasurer for any funds, nor did he make 
 any complaint if tiie surplus was not what he hoped or expected. 
 
 lie was always sensitive to pulnic criticism, which seemed strange 
 for one who for several decades had st,,od in the f ltcc light of it. and 
 so at his request the tru.stees endeavored not to admit the puhlic to 
 their fmancial records while he was innnected v, itii the church. 
 
 AGREEMENT AS TO DIVISION OF WORK. 
 
 .\s to his past«M-al duties and his work as a pastor, it should he 
 home in mind hy those who are given to <Ietract from Iiis great service 
 to mankind, and hy small nu'nds. whi.-h are alwavs envious (,f men 
 of genius, that a ],ositive, tnnnistakahle agreement was made hv iiim 
 with the si)iritual and temjjoral authorities ..f the church in a conference 
 at the -Vrlinglon that he sho'.ild not he called upon to make p.a-ioral 
 calls or to conduct funerals. .\nd it is due, to the mcmoTy of this great 
 man that this was not done hecause he wished to escai^e it. hnt was 
 
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 ol'tVicil 1)V him as a plan i.> diviik' l!ic chiiroli wurk. so tlial his pulpit 
 a-MK-iales vliou'.d not In.' deprived of active labor and participation. 
 
 V.v. C. L. Dii l'-<ii>. chief of surveys of the General Land OtTicc at 
 Wa^hin^non and elder and trustee of the First Prcshytcrian Church, 
 lia.l thi.- to sav of Dr. Talniage's coininij lii W'ash.ini^ton, and nf his 
 vvcirk there: 
 
 ■In clauch matters." said Mr. Du Bois, "1 have probably been more 
 ir.timatcK associated with Dr. Talmaij;e than any one el-e in tlii> city 
 d.iirini; hi- residence here and more particularly while he was pastor 
 of the First Presbyterian Chm-ch, of which. I was treasurer, elder and 
 trustee at the time I'f his comini; amont; us. 
 
 "Mv imcrc<nu-se with Dr. Talmage was tluf an intimate and cor- 
 dial one. and I had an nnpornmity to (.)l)ser\e at close ran.i^e his char- 
 acter and lii-^ di.spii>ilion. 1 found him a most i^enial. ajjprecialive. 
 liicii-min<led, bbend niau. 'I'hi^ is a natural corollary of thirtv year> 
 of >ernion wriiin.iL;- ;ind iireachin,!;-. In his tribute to the printing; pre.-- 
 he -aid one dav: "It ha> enabled nie to preach a sermon to the juiMic 
 once a week for thirty year- without .a simple excejition.' When lbi> 
 i- couuirelien.ded. can any or.e e-timate or a'piireciate the \,a-tnc-> of 
 ilie LMod. he ha- wrought uiion the countle>s uullions who have rea^l 
 and. lieard. hi- m.arveiou- teachiu.^s? 
 
 "Of cour-e. i; would be lu'e^umptuous in me to .altem])t a euli\t;y. 
 Such a man ncc!- none. It i- found in the tliou-and- and ihoii-.mds 
 of lues he 1' - niade better an<l brii;hter ;ill o\er the world. 
 
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 LEFT FINANCIAL MATTERS TO OTHERS. 
 
 ••Personallv. 1 had a great atfeciion for iiim. I could n.it help it. 
 Hi- nature was sunny and his disposition optimistic. I have many 
 letter^ and notes which breathe this temperament. It seems as though 
 he attend.ed tvi all church matters himself, Imt had some member of 
 bis familv look after the linaneial and business part of his affairs. I 
 
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 on his salary), and l,e sai.l. "I l.eli.ve my daughter did sj.cak cf l.avino 
 received it,' sliowing that he left these matters to her at that time^ 
 He was prompt an<I methodical in all his engagements and prekTcd 
 to have all arrangements made in advance. He always selected !,is 
 hymns during the week ,n.l sent them to me hv special' messenger to 
 he transmitted to the chorister and ppnted in the leaflet or hnlletin. 
 f)ne kind act of his 1 shall forever remember most gratefiillv. It is 
 the Presbyterian custom to l.aptize persons on communion Sabbath, 
 but as it happened on a rainy day my wife was afrai.I to take our babv 
 down for the ceremony, and wished mc to ask Dr. Talmage to per- 
 form the rite the r.cxt Sabbath if it should be a pleasant dav. I hesi- 
 tated, knowing he did not like interruptions to the regular procedure, 
 hut upon a hint of my wishes, conveyed to him in writing, he sent a 
 special messenger to me with a cordial and graceful note heartily 
 consenting, an.l asking me to bring the baby forward after the second 
 hynm. and he would be glad to christen him. It was an impressi^ 
 l-iptism. and I am keeping that letter for the boy to read in the com- 
 ing years, because I ;.i,i sure he will treasure it as a valuable souvenir 
 of ,-, f.-inious nuui. 
 
 CHURCH ATTENDANCE AT WASHINGTON. 
 
 ••Attention has often been dn-ected lo ,he growth of the church 
 •lunng the Talmage pastorate, an.l inq.n-ries have been ma.Ie of me 
 as I., whether his i^reaching resulted in accessions. [ have always 
 ••mswered i:, thi. way: J,at ■, ,„,n,l,e,- .<f our people were n- : con,t.,rtab'le 
 or saiislled with the crow.ls r.f strangers wh., s.|ueexe.l themselves into 
 their pews, and they took letters to other cluuches in the citv, but on 
 the other hand then- places were fdled by new members, nu.stlv by 
 letter, and it is a fact drawn from the records <,f the ciiurch that .hiring 
 the i>crHx\ of his nnnistry the actual membership of the church was a1 
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 lie was not ahsent IcctnriiiR, atnl the services were profoundly interest- 
 ing and instructive. This fact is not generally known. To sum up, as 
 a result of four years' close observation of this remarkable divine, I 
 can truthfully assert that he was a man of deep and fervent piety. To 
 my mind there is nothing in the report so often credited that he was 
 fond of advertising himself or of preaching sensational sermons. He 
 was, it h true, full of (juaint sayings, original pre?cntations of the truth, 
 and uni(|uc oratory, but who will deny his splendid courage on all 
 occasions when he came out on the right side of every moinentous 
 tiuestion. \'igor, boldness, and sincerity were his characteristics. There 
 never was but one Talmage; there never can be, it is believed by many, 
 such a preacher. He stands forth a solitary figure among the world- 
 famous men of this century, a man who preached the gospel to a larger 
 number of hearers than any one in modern or ancient times." 
 
 Dr. Talmage practically retired from actual pastoral work in the 
 First Church in 1900, the greater part of his time from that year until 
 his death btiii,^, devested to editorial work and lecturing. 
 
CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 I^AMILV LIFE FILLED WITH JOY AND TRAGEDY. 
 
 Young MAKRiKD life blighted bv death oe wife bv drowving- 
 Markies iiAmLv A SECOND time-Death a,;ai.n takes Ills 
 
 MATE— llIIRU WIFE A TALENTED WOMAN WHO IS A SOCIAI 
 FAVORITE IN WASHINGTON AND ELSEWHERE-ClIARMING HOME 
 LIFE INTERESTING FAMILY. 
 
 Dr. Tal.nage was married three times. He was married when in his 
 early twenties to Miss Mary R. Avery of Brookiv.L For .several vears 
 ihe.r hfe was very happy, and. with tlieir one child, a little <lai.ghtcr 
 they made a congenial family imtil the greatest tragedv of Dr. Talmage\ 
 hfe destroye.1 the home. Ilis wife was drowned in the Schuylkill river 
 1 a.rmonnt Park. Fhiladelphia. Tragic as was the death, it caused Dr' 
 ralmage less sorrow than the terrihic lie which was told about the man- 
 ner of her death. The shadow of that malevolent falsehood hung over 
 the hves of Dr. Talmage and his second wife until the latter passed 
 heyond knowledge of such things. It was always a bitter subject with 
 Dr. Talmage, and the shadow never did leave him. 
 
 The story was this and it was malignantly circulated that Dr. Tal- 
 "lage's first wife was drowned because he permitted her to sink while 
 he saved the life of the other woman in the boat, the latter afterwards 
 becoming the preacher's second wife. 
 
 DR. TALMAQE'S OWN STORY. 
 
 Only once did Dr. Talmage ever refer to this oftlciallv, but it was 
 torceful and to the point. It came in one of his most effective sermons 
 some years ago. and this is the way he denounced the falsehood which 
 blighted his home more than the tragedy did of his first wife: 
 
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 llie sanctity of my Imnic, and wliiii I tell the story the fair-minded men 
 and women and children of the lan( will be indi/nant. i will read it. so 
 that if any one may want to copy it, they can. It has 1 cen stated over 
 and over again in private circles, and hinted in newspapers, until tens 
 of thousands of people have heard the reixirt. that sixteen or seven- 
 teen years ap;o I went sailini; on the Schuylkill River with my wife and 
 her sister. wHo was my sister-in-law; that the lioat cai)sizcd, and. having 
 the opportunity of saving cither my wife or her sister, I let my wife 
 drown and saved the sister, I marrying her in sixty days. 
 
 A HEAKT-RENPING CALAMITY. 
 
 "I propose to nail the infamous lie on the forehead of every villain. 
 
 m;m or woman, who shall utter it again, and t() invoke llie law to help 
 
 me. One heautifnl summer morning, my own sister. Clara Talmagc 
 
 Whitenack. and her daughter Mary being on a visit to us in I'liiladelphia, 
 
 I j)roposed we go to I*"airmount Park and make it i)leasant for them. 
 
 With my wife and child, she being a little daughter, my sister Sarah 
 
 and her daughter. I started for Fairmount. Having just moved to 
 
 I'liiladelphia I was ignorant of tlie topography of the suburb. Passing 
 
 along by the river I saw a row boat and proposed a row. I hired a boat 
 
 and we got in. W't <Ii(I not know anything of the dam across the river, 
 
 and, unwarned by the keeper of the boat of any danger, I pulled strnight 
 
 for the brink, suspecting nothing until we saw some one wildly w.iving 
 
 on the shore as though there was d.inger. I looked back and lo, we 
 
 were alreaily in a current of the dam. With a terror that you cannot 
 
 imagine I tried to back the boat, but in vain. We went over. The 
 
 boat capsized. My wife instantly disap])earcd and was drawn under the 
 
 dam, from which her body was not brought until days after; I, not 
 
 able to swim a stroke, my niece lianging on to me, my sister Sarah 
 
 clinging to the other side of the boat. A l>oat from shore rescued us. 
 
 After an hour of cfifort to resuscitate niy tliild, m ho was nine-tenths 
 
 dead— and i can sec her blackened body yet rolhng ovc' the barrel, such 
 
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 as is nscl in restoring the ,lrounc.l-she l,reatlie.l a^run. .\ carnage- 
 came up, an.l. leaving my wife in tlie l.nttom c,f the Schiulkill Kiv.r ami 
 with my little i^lr] in semi-consciousness. Moo.l issuin- fmn, lar no.t,,l, 
 n.Kl lips, wrappe.1 in a shawl on my lap. an,l with mv si.tcr Sarah an,] 
 licr chil.l in the carriage, we rode to onr desolate hnnie. Sine, t!,- 
 worhl was created a more ghastly and agr,„i.i„g cala.nitv never !,:„.- 
 I'cned. And that is the scene over which ,.nu, n,ini>iers n{ the o-,..i,,l, 
 and men an.l wnnicn i.retending to he decent, have made spnrt." 
 A CRUEL ACCUSATION REFUTED. 
 "My present wife w;is not within a hundred miles nf the place ^,, 
 far as heing sisters, the two were entire strangers. Thev never heard "ni 
 each <,ther. and n^t until nme nmnths after the traredv ,,n the ^clurl- 
 1^.11 d,d I even knnw „f ,1,,, exigence nf my present wife. Xme nmnths 
 ••iftcr that calamity „n the .Schuylkill she was in-roduce.l !„ n,e l.v n,v 
 I-rnther. the Rev. Cnyn Tahn.age. now of r„rt Iervi>. Xew ^'ork ' m'v 
 lirst wife's name uas Mary R. Avery, a n.emher of ,he K'efonned 
 (-hurch. llarr.son Street. South Ilrooklyn. where there are UKun Imu- 
 dre.ls of people who could tell the story. .Mv „resenl wife I si'v uas 
 v-ot wuhin a hun,!re<l miles of the spot. Her name uas Su-i. Wh;,te- 
 more. and she was a men,her of the Reformed C-hurch in (ireenpoint 
 where multuudes could tell the story. Mnltitudes of people o„ ,1,, 
 bauks of the .Sclnn-lkill who vitnesse.l nu- landing on that aWnl dav 
 «.t calamuy. and hundreds of people within an hour's walk of thi- pk.ce 
 and who knew Mary Avery, and hun.lreds of people in Creennon- 
 Ih-ooklyn. who knew my present wife-Susie Whitlemore-what d,', , ou 
 tlunk, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, editors and reporters 
 of a he hke that manufactured out of whole cloth? 1 „,ver have spoke,-' 
 of this subject before an.l I never shall again, but I give fair notice t!- 
 If any two responsible witnesses will give nie the name of anv resp.on.ihlc 
 person after this, affirming this slau.ler. 1 will pav the inforuKmt .-^,oo 
 
 and I wdl put upon the criminal, the !cn.ths..n,e v.rrtcl- vl--- u , •• •' 
 
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 DR. TALMAGES SECOND WIFE. 
 
 Hatlv in 18(13. ulitn Ur. Talniaye was prcadiiiig in riiiladclphia, 
 he went unc evening to the church of lii.s elder brother, llie Rev. Goyii 
 ■rahn.n^e, in (jreenpoint. Long L-land, to deliver a lecture on "Rocks 
 un Which IVi'i'lc Split." 
 
 It \\a> after the lecture, while the tno brothers stood talking, that 
 the older .said: 
 
 "DeWitt, let nic present yon to Miss Wiiitteniore — Miss Susan 
 W'hittcniorc. one of the brightest young members of my church." 
 
 ,\nd with these \\t)rds the future W'hi'cfield of tlie .\nicrican pulpit 
 was introduced to the woman who was destined to sliare his later honors 
 and triiiniplis. 
 
 Miss W hittcniorc's father was a real estate broker and architect of 
 ("ireen])oint. Previous to his settlement there, the family resided on 
 r.ast I'"ighth street, in Xew York cit\ , and it wos there that his daughter, 
 Susan Curtiss Wiiitteniore, was born. Tier education was carefully re- 
 garded, and when she was fifteen the family moved to Birmingham, 
 Connecticut, where she finished her training at the high school. Clara 
 Louise Kellogg was one of her classmates. .\ few years later the 
 Whitlcmorcs ~ett1ed in Cireen])oiut. 
 
 THE BEST IDEA OF A HELPFUL WIFE. 
 
 Oil M;i\ 7. iSr'i',, Mi>> W'hittemore was married to T. IX'Witt Tal- 
 mage in the building where they had first met a few months before, 
 the Crecnpoint Dutch Reformed Church. The bridegroom was then 
 but little kriown outside of his own field; reputation had not yet come, 
 and thus Mrs. Talmage started w ith her husband at almost the foot of 
 the ladder of fame which he soon began to climb so quickly. And few 
 wives have proved such helimicets to their husbands as did Mrs. Tal- 
 ni.-igc. She fulfilled the i>cst idea of a helpful wife, and pruvcd Iter hus- 
 banrl'' richest rndnwnienl. 
 
 
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 Mi>. Talnia-v ^va^ ,li>ti,uily lur liiuhandV tikIu Iiaii.l, and all llic 
 .lotails „f hi. h,„v lif^. ,,e>r lunkol after l.y \wr. She was a spicn.li.l 
 lnisincs> uninan. havin- a rare exeeiitive al.ility, cai.al.le .,f caMly lian.l- 
 lini; a iHi.nlHT ..f thitiKs at llie sune liine. Mueh .,f Dr. TaI!lK.,^rc•s 
 'laily u-rk was planned an.l laid mU l.y her. She nude his pasti.ral 
 and social en^-aKeinenls. and all l„s koturinK^ interest, were in her 
 Iiands. She knew hi, ,ap,uiii( ■. iven better than he. Whenever a 
 jniirney wa^ to he nKuIe, it was .Ik- uh,. laid nut the nuite. prnenred 
 the tickets ,!,id staierM,.,n,. and attended f all the details. Xn pnhlie 
 man. perha].-. uas save<I s,, many ann.Mances as «.., Dr. Tahna-e l,y 
 liis wife's foresight and aliilii\. 
 
 SAW ONLY THE CHEERTUL SIDE OF LIFE 
 
 1.1 lier personalny .Mrs. Tah),a,;e uas fau,re,l. llcr dispoMti.., 
 XV a. sMn,,a,helu- In nature. I.ike her hushand. she s.u onlv the 
 eheerful side ,,| IhV. llcr v, h„K- ^v•.^■,„^^•/ sn.^-^a-stcd aeiivitv. ' Her 
 eyes were a -, ...d index i,, her life: thev were never still. 1 ler features 
 were pleasin- and were rarely uithnut the s.nile vvhieli nmtinnally 
 played upcn then,. She u:.s ,,f n.ediuni hei-ht. full „f ll-nre. and more 
 <'lten considered handv-nie than fair, ller face was vouihful, because 
 she kcin her heart yonn...- and her hands busy. She was a good .Iresscr. 
 .•duays tasteful in her wardrobe, but ne\er showv. 
 
 Five chil.Iren resuhe.l from the marria-e. The eldest daughter, 
 May .Mortimer, was her mother's constant companion and !icr "social 
 rei.rescntative upon many occasions. The second daughter, K.lith El- 
 uood, married many years ago. making a most desirable and hnppv 
 marriage tor herself, and adding the <Iignity of grandmother to her 
 mother's other attributes. Jeanie (.asherie. nicknamed "Daisv" hv her 
 fond father, is third in age. Mati.le Demorest is the "baby''' o'i the 
 familv. The only son is I'ratd< DeWiti. v.\u.~r •;,!;■:-- t!w= p^ddi- 
 has already judged from hi-, p.d.lic lectures. In him is centered tlie 
 
 
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 liopc- nf ilii)ii--;m>lN lliat tlii' li^lit I'i tin.' r:ilm.ii;i' s^iiiins will nut cn- 
 tingiiisli with tlie f.-itiur. 
 
 Tun ntliir cliililrt'ii urrc i;i\rii In 1 >r. r,i!ii!:i;^i' li\ lii^ lir^t ti\,ir- 
 ri.ij^'f. ( )f tlu'M'. '^ll(>llla^ DeW'ill. Jr., is (jcul, wiiiK' JiN-i,.., li.ipjiily 
 innrrici!. is tin- ciniiitcrpart nf licr ini'lin.f in all that a])]iertaiiis tn wdiii- 
 aiily j;iaocs. 
 
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 W'hi'iK'v IT Mr. 'I"ahiiaj;c n.'i-i-i\ td i-niij;ratii!alinii~ (,r pr.ii-r fur his 
 successes ciii tlif platfurm ainl pulpit, his luiiid wniiM ic\crt In his 
 saintly innthcr. In wlumi he ;iscrilie(l the creihi for his rit;ht st;i!l in 
 life. In spc.ikin),' nf her se\eral yeais ayn, lie s.iiil; "In^t l.efnre their 
 Miarriaf^e ilay, ni\ father and innliier slnnd n]) in tlie nld ineetinL; Imnse 
 at Snnier\ ille, N'ew Jersex , and Innk njmn them the \ n\\ s nf tlic Chris- 
 tian. 'I'hmn^di a liin>;- life nf \icissitnde sln' lived h.arndessK and use- 
 full), an<l came tn lier end in peace. .\n child oi w.int e\er came tn 
 her dnnr and was turned em])ty away: nn nne in snirnw came tn her 
 '.'lit was cnmfnrted; no one asked her thi- \\,iy tn he s.nxd hiU she 
 pointed him tn the cross. When the an^'el nf life came tn a iieii;hhnr's 
 dwellins,^ she was there to rejnice at the incariiaiinn. When the aiijjjel 
 of death came In ;i ncij^lihnr's dwelliiif^, she was there tn rnhc the de- 
 parted for the Inirinl. We ha<l nftcn heard her, when le.adinj,'- faniilv 
 l)raycrs in tlie ahscnce of my father. sa\ : "( ) I,<'rd, 1 ask nnt fnr my 
 children wealth nr Imnor. hut I dn ask that they all may he the snhjecis nf 
 Thy comforting j^race!' Her eleven children ])rnut;lu into the kinj^dnm 
 of (iod. she had hut nne nmre wish, and thai \' as ili;it slu mij^dit see her 
 lonp-absent missionary son. And when the shij) from China anchored 
 in Xew York harhnr, anil the Inn^-alisent nne i)assed over the threshold 
 of his paternal liume. she said: 'Now, Lord, leltest Thnu 'Ihv servant 
 depart in peace, for mine eves have seen Thy salvation.' The prayer wa;^ 
 soon answered, 
 
I'AMII.V MKi: .lOV AND 'IKACKhV 
 
 WE NEVER FOROET THE LOCK OF MOTHER'S HANDS. 
 
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 "It was ail autumnal day when uc jjatlu-ri'd frnni afar and f<.nnd 
 only tlic Iiousc from wliicli tlic sonl lia<l tied forever. She looked very 
 natural, the Iiand.s very mueli as when tliev were einiilnvcd in kindness 
 for her children. Whatever ei-e we forget, we newr forj,at the look of 
 mother's hands. ,\> we stood there by the ca^kvl. we could not help 
 Init say: 'Doesn't she look '.eatitifu!?' It wa^ a cloudless dav when, 
 with heavy heart-., we carn.-d her out to the List rc>tin},'-|>lace. The 
 withered Iea\es cruniMed -mder ho.if ;nid wheel as we passed, and the 
 sun shone on the Raritan river until it looktii like lue: l.nt more calm 
 and l.eautifnl and railianl was the Nettiuj,^ sini of that aj;ed pilgrim's lif . 
 N'o more toil, no more tear^ un more sicklies-! Dear mulhcrl I'.eau- 
 tifid nuiiherl " 
 
 DR. TALMA&ES THIRD MARRIAGE. 
 
 Shortly after tin-. -eruKiu. the second Mr^^ Talmaf^a- died. There 
 were seven cliiMreu ; the oldest son, u.tnied for his father, died many 
 years a.tjo. The Rev. I'rank DeW'itt Ta'm;i|,'e is pastor (jf The Jeffer- 
 son Park IVeshyterian Church. Chicat;... 'I'lic other children were girls, 
 all of whom are married. 
 
 Dr. Tahna,c;c's third wife was a widow, Mrs. Charles Collier of Pitts- 
 I)iir|;f. 'i'hey were married January >G, 1S9S. at Pittsl)urf,^ and the 
 wedding- was the culmination of a hrief courtship, ;m enj^apement tinged 
 with romance. Dr. Talmage and his hride met for the lirst time the 
 prcvion.s summer in New York. Though Dr. Talmage was many vears 
 Mrs. Collier's senior, a bond stronger than friendship was formed when 
 they i)arte(l with an understanding that a correspondence was to be 
 kept u]). Three weeks previous to the wedding the engagement was 
 announced quietly to his intimate friends. The wedding itself was a 
 surprise to nearly every one. Mrs. Collier was thirty-nine years old 
 at the time of iier marriage. She had one dauL'ht.r. Mi^s Re!.>ccc.T Col- 
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 niotlier to Dr. Talniage. Mrs. Talmage is a pronounced brunette, quite 
 a beauty, wuh a great mass of black hair, tinged with gray, tall, dignified 
 and graceful. Since her removal to Washington she has been a social 
 favorite in official circles, and has entertained quite elaborately. She is 
 said to be wcaitliy in her own right. 
 
 TALM AGE'S VIEWS OF HOKE LIFE. 
 
 Dr. Talniage had a most beautiful home on Massachusetts avenue, 
 in tlie city of Washington. He loved beautiful things, and he always 
 made his home the most attractive place on earth for his children. He 
 once said, "I tliink tliat we might all make our homes a hundredfold 
 more attractive than they are. You will never keep yorr boy away 
 from outside dissipation until you make your domestic circle brighter 
 than other places he can find. Do not sit glum and with half-con- 
 demnatory look amid the s()ortfulness of your children. You were 
 young once yourself. Let your cliildren be young. Do not put on a 
 sort of supernatural gravity as though you never liked sportfulness. 
 You liked it just as much as your children do. Some of you are full 
 of mischief you have never indicated to your children or your grand- 
 children, and you never got up in the morning uiitil you were pulled 
 out of bed ! Do not stand before your children pretending to be speci- 
 ments of immaculate goodness. Do not, because your eyesight is dim 
 and your ankles are stiff, frown upon the sportfulness which .shows itself 
 in the first lustre of the eye and in the bounding foot of robust health. 
 Do not sit with the rheumatism wondering how the children can go 
 on so. Thank God that they are so light of spirit, that their laughter 
 is so free, that their spirits are so radiant." 
 
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 A WOXDERFL'L ANSWER TO PRAYER. 
 Dr. Talm.\ge OS irow ins family became ministers— His mother 
 
 THE GODLIEST PERSON HE EVER KNEW— BeLIEVE \V(JMEN TO RE 
 NATURALLY DETTER THAN ME.\— PaYS MANY REAUTIFLL TRIB- 
 I'TES TO WOMAN IlfUdl. 
 
 Roth of Dr. Talniajre's parents were marked in tlieir cliaractcristics. 
 and their differences blended in a common life rendered llieir home 
 one of harmony, consecration, Ijenignance and clieerfiilness. Tlie 
 father won tlie confidence and the honors a rigid. common-sen?c. 
 truly American community had to yield. Tlie motlier was the coun- 
 seh-ng. quietly provident force which made her a helpmeet indeed, and 
 her home the center and sanctuary of the sweetest innuences. The 
 family was a deeply religious one. 
 
 BELIEVE IN EFFICACY OF PEAYEB. 
 
 The now far-famed DeWitt said on August 12. 1885, at the 
 "Faith Cure" Rooms. Bethshan, London:— 
 
 "I tell you that I believe in prayer because there is something in 
 the ancestral lino that makes me believe. My grandfather and grand- 
 mother went to a great revival meeting in Baskingridgc, New Jersey, 
 and they were so impressed with the religious service that they went 
 home and said. If we could only have our children converted! if we 
 could only have this great influence in our family! That night all the 
 young folks were to go ofT to a very gay i)arty. Grandmother said. 
 'Xow, when you are all ready for the party come into my room, as I 
 have a word to say to you.* She was somewhat of an invalid, not able 
 to get about much. The children came into the room where she sat. 
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 j;ay time. I want you to know tliat all the time you are there your 
 mother is praying for you, and that we will kneel and pray for you 
 until you come hack.' They all went to the gay party, and, as may he 
 well supposed, did not have a very good time. They knew their 
 mother was i)raying for them. 
 
 TOLD THE WAY TO SALVATION. 
 
 "(handmothcr went to bed. and the next morning very early she 
 heard crying and sobbing in the room below. It was one of her little 
 party crying to God for mercy, seeking a new heart, wanting to act on 
 the Christian life. My Aunt Phoebe said to grandfather, 'Go down 
 and find what is the matter: go and hunt up Samuel — he is gone to 
 the barn; lie fools worse than I do.' Grandfather went to the barn 
 and found Sanuiel there kneeling and crying to God for mcrcv. lie 
 told him the way of salvation, so that he became a minister of )esus 
 Christ, and there was no man more useful in .\merioa during the cen- 
 tury than ho. Then Samuel said. 'Go to the wagon-luniso; David is 
 there' Grandfather went to the wagon-house. There was David, 
 afterward my own father, lie told David the way to the cross. David 
 became a Christian. David, then a young man, had some one in whom 
 he was affianced at the foot of the lane, not far oft — Catherine Van 
 Xest, afterward my mother. He t(jld the story of the cross to her, and 
 she ])ecame a Christian, .\ groat awakening resulted as this story went 
 round the neighborhood, and liooplc heard what things were going 
 on in Mr. Talmage's faiuily. Why, they were all getting converted, 
 and the whole family were converted to God. ,\nd t'uially, as manv 
 as two hundred and eighty from that neighborhood stood up in one 
 church to profess Christ. 
 
 A WEEKLY AFTEBNOON FOR PRAYER, 
 
 "That story lingered in my mother's mind until she made a cove 
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 and p, one afternoon of eacl. ueek for the salvation of her house- 
 no r" f- "-^'-s n^et. I did not hear this story till after my 
 no her s death. Xohody .new why these f^ve persons met. there was 
 a sou of mystery a!>«nt it. Son.etimes the question was put. 'Mother 
 uhere are you ^oin^P' She used to answer. 'I am just ,oing off a littlJ 
 h.Ie. They n.et to pray for their children; they prayed until they 
 --e all converts, n,yseif the last. Oh! I believe in praver. I believe 
 you can get just what you ask of Cod if it is good for vo^. This story 
 has no end. ■' 
 
 WOMEN BETTER THAN MEN. 
 
 In an interview when in Chicago not n,any years ago. I),-. Talmage 
 
 aul that he boheved won,en to be naturally better than n,en. and that 
 
 cy were getting better all the tin.e. The eminent preacher wrote 
 
 uch of and or wo,nan. and. naturally enough perhaps, one of the first 
 
 nKmi.ers of ,|,e fan- sex whon, he .li.cussed was Mother Kve. of whom 
 
 ••Ul.cn I see Kve with this pnucrful imlucnce over Adam .and 
 over the generations that have f.ilowed, it suggests to me the great 
 power al! women have for goo.l or for evil. I have no svn.pathv'. nor 
 1-ve you. with the hollow .l.-uteries showered upon won',an from the 
 P'a.fonn and stage. They tnean nothing; they are accepte.l as noth- 
 '"S. \ oman-s nobility consists in the exercise of a Christian in.luence 
 an.l w!,en [ see this powerful inlluence of Hve upon her husband and" 
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 talized in Iicr grandson Timntliy; of Cliarlcittc Corday. who drove the 
 das^pcr through the heart of the assassin of her lover. I write not of 
 these extraordinary persons, Itut of those who. iinamhitious for poUtical 
 power, as wives and niotliers, and sisters and daughters, attend to the 
 sweet ofllces of home. 
 
 MIGHTIEST INFLUENCES COME FROM THE HOME. 
 
 "Wlien at last we come to calculate the forces that decided the 
 destinv of all nation^, it will he found that the mightiest and grandest 
 influence came from home, where the wife cheered u]i despon<Iency, 
 and fatigue, and sorrow hy her own symiiathy, and the mother trained 
 her child for heaven, starting the little feet on tl't- :)ath to the celestial 
 citv: and the sifters, l>y their gentleness, refined the maimers of the 
 h'other: and the daughters were diligent in their kindness to the aged, 
 throwing wreaths of Messing on the roa<l that leads father and mother 
 down the steep of vears. Need I go into history to find you illustra- 
 tions? .\h, no! In your own memory there is at least one such." 
 
 Dr. Talmage, in speaking of \v .men's rights, .said that one of the 
 specific rights of woman is the right to reach, heaven. "Oh, what a 
 nniltituile of women in heaven! Mary, Christ's mother, in heaven: 
 Mlizaheth Fry in heaven: Charlotte Klizaheth in heaven; the mother 
 of .Augustine in heaven: the Countess of Huntingdon — who sold her 
 splendid jewels to huild chapels — in heaven; while a great many others 
 who have never hecn heard of on earth, nr known hut little, have gone 
 intf> the rest and jieacc of heaven. What a rest! What a change it 
 was from ti\e -^mall romn-. with no fire and one window, the glass 
 hroken out. and the aching side and worn-out eyes, to the 'House i>f 
 many man>ions!' X'o more stitching mi'il twelve o'clock at night, no 
 more thrusting <]f the thmnh hy the employer through the w(.rk to 
 show it was not done (|uite right. .\n entl foreser to the great sor- 
 rows which how the shoulders and whiten the hair. .\n eternal fare- 
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 A WONDERFUL ANSWER TO PRAYER U7 
 
 Plenty of bread at last. Heaven for aching heads; heaven for broken 
 hearts; heaven for anguish-bitten frames. No more sitting up until 
 midnight for the coming of staggering steps; no more rough blows 
 across the temples; no more sharp, keen, bitter curses! 
 
 TOIL AND STRtJGQLB AND SUFPERINO. 
 
 "Some of you will have no rest in this world; it will be toil and 
 struggle and sulTering all the way up. You will have to stand at vour 
 door fighting back the wolf with your own hand red with carnage, 
 lint God has a crown for you. I want you to realize that He is now 
 making it. and whenever you weep a tear He sets another gem in that 
 crown; whenever you have a pang of body or soul He puts another 
 gem in that crown, until, after awhile, in all the tiara there will be no 
 room for another splendor, and God will say to His angel. The crown 
 is .lone; let her up that she may wear it.' .Vnd as the Lord of right- 
 eousness puts the crown upon your brow, angel will cry to angel. 
 •Who is she?' and Christ will say. 'I will tell you who she is.' She is the 
 one that came up out of great tribulation. an.I had her robe washed 
 and made white in the blood of the Lamb.' And then God will spread 
 a banquet. an.I He will invite all the principalities of heaven to sit ai 
 the feast; an.I the tables will blush with the best cluste. . tiom the vine- 
 yar.ls of God, an.I crims.Mi with the twelve manner of fruits from the 
 Tree of Life; an.I water from the fountains <,f the rock will iLish m.ni 
 the g.,l.len tankards; and the old harpers .,f heaven will sit there mak- 
 ing music with their harps. And Christ will point you out ami.l tlu- 
 celebrities of heaven, saying. 'She suffered with mc on earth; now uc 
 are going t.. be glorifie.l t..gether.' An.I the banqueters, n.^ longer 
 able to hol.l their peace, will break forth with congratulations— -Hail! 
 ILail!' And there will be han.l-writings on the wall-not such a. 
 struck the Persian nobleman with horror— but fire-tipped fingers writ- 
 ing in blazinir capitals of litdit .-mil loy.* in.! ,;,.f, ...... •(- - i ' -> 
 
 away all tears from all faces!" " 
 
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 148 A WOXDKI.'FrL ANS\V?]K TO PI.'AYEK 
 
 ON WOMAN'S EIGHT TO VOTE. 
 
 Dr. l;ili!iat;o diu-c <lcclarc(l that Wdinaii always liad voted and al- 
 ways would. -O,.,- oreat-,t,'randfathers," I,c said, '•tliouglit they were 
 I)y tlKir \t)tfs puttiiii,- Washington into the presidential chair. Xo. 
 His mother. In the principles she taught him. and by the hahits she 
 inculcaie.l. made him president, it was a Christian mother's han.l 
 dropping the hallot when Lord Bacon wrote, and Xewton philoso- 
 phixed. and Alfred the tireat gwverned. and Jonathan F.iwards thun- 
 dered of judgment to come. How many men there have been in high 
 political station, ulm would iiave been insutiicient to stand the test to 
 which their moral principle was jnit. had it not been for a wife's voice 
 that encouraged them to do right, and a wife', prayer that sounded 
 louder than the clamor of partisanship. The right ,,f suffrage, as we 
 men exercise it. .ecms to me to be a feeble thing. Take your husband 
 for example. 1 le i. a Christian man. a man of intelligence. He come, 
 I'P t.) the ballot-box and drops in his vote. Right after him comes a 
 'Irunkard. or a man ignorant of not only uhat hi> vote means, Init 
 lacking in the cai)acity to even read the ballot in his iiand. }Ie drops 
 Iii. vote and it counteract- that of your husban.l. His vote means just 
 a- much as does that of the man of vour home. Rut if in the quiet of 
 home-life a daughter by her Christian demean, .r. a wife by her in- 
 dustry, a mothn- by he faithfulness casts a xo,e in the right direction, 
 tlien nothing can rcsis, j,. an<l the inMuence .,f that vote will throb 
 through the eternities." 
 
 THE LITTLE FOIBLES OF THE FAIR SEX. 
 
 ()ccasi,,n:,llv the eh„p,ent .livine s^uned lo enj^.y exploiting tlir 
 ■>'.eaknesses of his gcut e sisters, as witness tl,,. fnllowing: 
 
 •■When a woman listens to what cohir fashi,)n dictates shall be her 
 
 ife th.it is making 
 nieiUiics s|,,. (,, mar- 
 
 nair. sHe gncs oar im an element in our modern 
 
 sot'ielv" Tnoro m/l nii .1-.. iii..;.>.. ...... .... i... 
 
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A WOXDEHFUL AXSWEK TO PIfAYRR 14;) 
 
 vcl wliat tliis clement called 'fa 
 its devotees are made 
 
 shion has done. 
 
 Iiicnigh Its teat- 
 
 liin< 
 
 so iiisiiK-erc that voii scarcely kiio 
 
 w when to 
 
 ler or not tliev reallv 
 
 want \i)ii. 
 
 Wli 
 
 en thev 
 
 believe them and when not. They ask you tu -come an<l call,' and vo.i 
 
 do not know wheti 
 
 send tlieir rcirards, \oii d,, not k 
 
 tlieir heart, or ,-m exi 
 
 ll 
 
 now whether it i-, an exprcssit 
 
 m ol 
 
 exierii.il civility. One learns t,, i;,k 
 
 c ;Uniost e\erv- 
 
 imi. 
 
 aid hv these 
 
 )eo|)ie at a ih-conni 
 
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 Old i> sfii 
 
 t. X 
 
 oo 1,1/v to chC' 
 
 when they are onl\ i 
 
 has jiist j,'one <jut,' when in truth tli 
 
 ol ,11 honu', 
 
 ilK'ni^eK I-- 
 
 he\ -..u 
 
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 uriKue 
 
 apolo^i/f |(,r the uniiMial I 
 
 lai'i fiiiK'' 
 
 ad iio lire in it .ill winter. 'VUcv 
 if their lal 
 
 lie, when lhe\ ne\e'- 
 
 li\e ;iiu hetli 
 
 r 
 
 ie\ (lei 
 
 r\ 1 1 
 
 Kir most luNuriiiiis eniertainnients |. 
 
 will a 
 
 low 
 
 er of approwil. The\ 
 
 ;i|iolooizf fi,,- ihi'ii 
 
 ihoui^li it were 
 
 .■ili])ear,iiu-f, a- 
 
 nnu-ual. when alw,iy- at li.ane thev look 
 
 would make you 
 work of a mast 
 
 iieliev e 
 
 that 
 
 some like s 
 
 kelcl 
 
 1 on the wal 
 
 er p.iinter. 
 
 It w,i- 
 
 heirl. 
 
 II iin. ;inil oiu 
 
 alls of a castle: and a duke 
 
 :a\e it to their 
 
 jrandlatlier. 
 
 uill lie about nothint,^ el> 
 
 this •Fashion" i)r;K-tirally teaches us thai we iniist iiiak 
 
 hum,'- on the 
 I'eoplt.' w li( ) 
 
 e. will he ahoiit ;i picture. ( )n ,i small incoim 
 
 e the wiir 
 
 Id 
 
 lieve tliai w 
 
 e are attlueni, am 
 
 oiir hie 
 
 d a si 
 
 •econk-s a cheal. ,i counterfeit, 
 
 lam. 
 
 .he 
 
 •Some \er\ .o,„,d women I know \u^^c .a way of oftti,,,,- irrit.il,!,. 
 
 n the siUtT piik-ir;iles ini,. thfj 
 
 to whom I 
 
 ha|i 
 
 some ol those 
 
 write li.ive the s;une fet 
 
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 changes its mind \fiy oficn 
 The Romans 
 
 nnisk'a! i.ishinn. 
 
 notice, 
 
 ;is lo w Inch r 
 
 sprinkled iheiis with 
 
 the I 
 
 mil 
 
 icst I'liloi t(ir 
 i.;old. Our 
 
 jiowdcred theirs white, i In 
 hut (iod declares that He 
 
 I 
 
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 rmcestors 
 
 man custom decides ihis .-uid decides that; 
 
 lioarv he, 
 
 /' 
 
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 •est when 
 
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 id is ,1 crown of i^Worv if it I 
 
 Indeed! is there aiu tii 
 
 ic in the wa\ of riijhtcousness 
 
 ms.; more heainilul 
 
 .\l;! 
 
 lor ill 
 
 not take the adornment, and who swear l.v all tl 
 
 iisf who wil 
 
 carv that the 
 
 le i|\es (if the .'ipotlu 
 
 \ will not ha\e i 
 
 t. X( 
 
 .Tthel 
 
 ess. in\- (k-ar wom;in. 
 
 let nil 
 
 tell you that the ijreater part of humankind look upon s^riv hair, as a 
 
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 WONDERFUL ANSWER TO PRAYER 
 
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 crown of glory. It is beautiful in the church, it is beautiful in the home. 
 it is beautiful at the wedding, it is beautiful at the burial." 
 
 INFLUEKCE OP A GOOD XOTHEa. 
 
 One of the most tuudiing ,.f Dr. Talmage's discourses was on the 
 Mibject of "Motlierhood." in which he said that to hini. -that Christ- 
 mas night at Bethlehem had no more beautiful significance than that 
 It was the birth of an honorctl motherhood as well as of a Savior. Two 
 angels on their wings might have brought an infant Savior to Bethle- 
 iiem without Mary beitig there at all. When the villagers, on the 
 mornirii; nf December J5th awoke, by Divine arrangement and in 
 H,me unex])lained way, the child Jesus might have been found in some 
 comfortable cradle ..f the village. But no. no! Motherhood for all 
 iime uas to be- consecrated, and one of the tenderest relations was to 
 be the maternal relation, and one of the sweetest word:, 'Mother!' In 
 all ages (iod has honored good motherhood. John Wesley had a good 
 mother; St. Bernard ha<l a good mother; Nmuiel Bu.lgett, a good 
 niother; Doddridge, a good mother; Walter Scott, a good mother; 
 I'.enjamin W eM. a good mother. In a great audience, most of whom 
 were Chri.iiaiis, 1 asked that all those who had been blessed of Chris- 
 tian mothers arise, and almost the entire assembly stood up. Don't 
 you sec how imj.ortatu it is that all motherhood be consecrated? 
 
 A GOOD, FAITHFUL. HONEST MOTHER. 
 
 "W ben y(ju bear -ome one in sermon or oration speak in the ab- 
 stract of a gnod. faithful, honest mother your eyes fill up with tears, 
 while you say to yourself, that was my mother. The first word a child 
 utters is apt to be 'Mamma.' and the old man in his dying dream calls. 
 '.Mother! Mother!' It matter, not whether she was brought up in the 
 surrounding of a city, and in affluent home, and was dressed appro- 
 priately with reference to the demands of modern life, or whether she 
 svore the old-time cau. a-id great ro-.md -pcctacle;. and apron of her 
 
 
A WOXDKRFIL ANSWEK TO IMfAVKl,' i;,i 
 
 own make, an.| knit your .socks with !icr <nvn needles, seated l)\ tlie 
 broad fire-place, with great hack-lop abl 
 
 'It matters not how 
 
 a;^c on .1 wintci ntpht. 
 
 many wrinklck crnssprj and re 
 
 and how much her shoidder- str.operl with the hnrdens nf 
 if you painted a Madonna hers would l,c the face. Wl 
 
 cro.^cd her f.ire 
 
 ifc 
 
 ■•he h;i 
 
 id when we were ^ick, and what a voice 1 
 
 o ^('(itlif 11,1111! 
 
 < a lomn wnh pcue. and 
 \\;i^ when >\c ctnu' Ikmi 
 
 ihere any one who could m) till u| 
 
 light :■' And what ;i ^;„| ,\a^ th.-u 
 
 conid greet iis not, fm |i,i lip, were f,Me\er Mill. C.nu- h.uk 
 
 and take \oni old pl.i. c. uid 
 
 .Mid n|ifii tlu' ol 1 FiiM 
 
 w here yon u-.(-i| to pr,i\ 
 
 lal a gentle hand 
 
 And w.is 
 
 purity, and 
 
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 niotlicr. 
 
 as ten, or twent\ , m |ift\ \c 
 
 Us agii, cuine 
 
 V \<iu ii-cd 1.1 tend. ,uid k 
 
 iiicl in llu 
 
 •Mill. 
 
 Tliat 
 
 would Uf't Ipc f.ui I 
 
 I P I .III \ 1 rl 
 
 I hack. ^ 
 
 trouhles enough. ,1,1. 1 ,i,-lics enough, ;uid I 
 von were here. Tanv l.\ the thnme. niotlier. 1 
 
 .icc 
 
 h.id 
 
 crt;ocuiciit> cuou-li while 
 
 speak from \oui thro 
 
 ill we join \ou lher( 
 
 ;ul 
 
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 all \ou glcirilicd luntluMs, iiiid ,s,u t.. ;il| 
 
 e<e, \ our sdus ,ind 
 
 d,in;,;lit('r-. vMird- nf lii\c, word- of 
 
 >f cii 
 
 T\ 
 
 ie\ neeil \.iur \iiice, fur ilic\ li;ivc li.ivel 
 
 many a iieart-hreak since \<>u left iliciu. and 
 the heights of heaven to the \.-ille\s of il 
 
 wa'-nuig. words 
 ed l;ir ;ind uiili 
 
 yon 'lo well to call fr 
 
 le e.iilli. 
 
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 ancestr\ 
 I he t 
 
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 lil. cniliroiici 
 
 <l 
 
 e arc connui 
 
 I' ,-1 place for u-. ri-lii he^'d 
 
 e \ oil, a I 
 
 e tiaiKjiici 
 
 Slow -footed \ ears' More -wiftK 
 Into the golil of thill uu-ctt 
 Homesick wc arc for tliee — 
 I 'aim land hcvond the '•ca." 
 
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 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 A STAR ri'OX I III. l.K. ,1 Ki.; IM.A IFOKM. 
 
 \hhRI— .ll.soMI ,M nil ,,K1 vii-i MI.IINdMSKK \,>KMIII.i;i>— HroKK 
 Ml. KKdNI.-, \lii;nM, ScMI. MKM I \ Ix | Ni 1,>— | ,K( I IKKI) IN 
 l.\ I U\ IMI'iii; I \N 1 !(iWN |\ \\1|,1<|( \. 
 
 (•ill- (.1 lilt 111,. -I \\.i|.|,inil iii.i-mt^ ni ;in\ liTttiri' iilntf.irin. F')r. 
 
 I'.llllMKC InlMK.l I".,. lUMi!^ h^ilv r,\,. x,.,ir., II.. „|.„1j. treilH'IKl'.lH 
 .im.'ii:i|s ,| Mi,.iif\ tr..iii 1,1. Iciiiiifs ,il,.iu;. .111.1 \,\ iiMii,ij,Tr- u,i> cmi-i.I 
 
 in\ Vf.ii^ .■II. ..I the -uatc'-l alti.K li. .ii . llu_\ imuM |M.ssii,|_x 
 
 ircil lor 111, 
 
 "tfcr li. ilic |iiiMn-, tiilui 111 \niciu;i d .ilii.i.i.L 
 
 BEGINNING OF LECTURtNG CAREER. 
 
 Ill' lK-,i;,iii 111. Uriunnu i.iuTr in iS,,,,. |i,;„ „,,, ,„ pliila(k-l|,iiia. 
 aiMl \i-,ir atHT mmt. a^ In. lain,- iiuum-cI an.l In. ,i.-f|naiiitatu-i< IipvuIcih-.I. 
 lico.iimMii.lc.l lar.ijiTan.J hii.-ci Minis. ||,, j.^^^.s, irn.nanu I, .,■ a i.-ctiirc 
 uas Ir.. liiHhlml .[..llar-. an,l ilu- avcra.^c i.ai.i I.. Imn ua. ..iii- thon.nn.i 
 .."liars ll.ii. ( Milx the hcsi ,," ..piTatK- .lars o.ninian.lnl anytli.n.- near 
 liki' this siini, an.l tVw ..f ilu .,• c\vr t-xcivdcl the ani..uni pai.l t.. I)i. 
 'ralnia-c at the tinu' that he was iir..miiicnt a. a liTtiner. | ),-. Taliiia.i;,-, 
 li..\ve\,!. lu'Mi alluwcl liis laHinn^; t. . iiiiulViv with in. past,,,,,! duties, 
 an.l n-iiall\ liiniie.j the nninher t.. al...iit liitv per annum. I'.eeaiise ,.| 
 this. iii,niai,'ers ,h,l ,„,t think lii> terms excessive, an.! their pr.itit was 
 eirtam. the s,/e .if n .lepetidiii,- merely .m the eapaeitv ..f the hall iIku 
 e..nl.l \k- seenre.l t"nr the leetiire. in the vari.uts season- of his career 
 as a leetnrer Dr. ■ralma,i,'e iimhahly visue.l every town an.! city .if aiiv 
 im]..irtancc wliatevcr in the Tnite.! States, and it is certain lliat he drew 
 s.'iiie p!ien..mena! lidiLses, Imth in tins omntry an.l al.n.ad. On his trip 
 an.nn.l tlic w.irl.l in 18.(4, .mi.I in snn, .if his other trip.s al.rond. th.c 
 
 »5i 
 
A STAU II'ON TMK l-HCirKK I'LATKnKM i:,;; 
 
 r;iji;<"i lU'^'- I'f tlu' pciplc in hear liim rc-iilti'il in ^I'liii-jiatiir at ilift'iTCiit 
 
 I'laci"- wlu'if till' halU were iMai|p.|iiatf tHr llic ace. irinni iilatuMi if all. 
 
 It i^ a tmlli licv.inil ravil that ihi> i Icncal "lati'i, wliilc iiiakii';^ a 
 
 l"iir 111' |-.iiiii|if ill 1SK5, ail(lii'--»'il n|HMi air aiuhi'iiri'- 111 lU-lla^^l a;hl 
 
 [■"ihiiliiirj^h niiiiihorinj; iiinrc than Inrlv llii iii-anil. aii.i \ 'i icilUllial 
 
 llall. I.miiiImii, \\c was mui icii.-i\ imI h\ iwnitv thmi- Mii jn 'i '•■ Mic 
 
 I'i'llowiii},' nij^ht hi- Ifi-tmcii in iniu' tlii'iisaml aii'l ten panl ailiiii^^ii 'ii'- 111 
 
 tlir saiiir imiiii'ii-i' theater. Thntii^h lie lia-- lieeii alunail many liire-. lie 
 
 i- alwax^ j,'reeteil witli the -atne warmth, a-- \\a- |iiii\ei' when he m.nle 
 
 i complete tintr nt' Scntlaml and l''.iii,;lani! in lS<); a'lil n ■ hah \\a^ I.Mi^e 
 
 eiioiif;!! In acc.iiiimiiilate the tremetiilnn- ii'iwiU vxhieh claiiii ueil tur 
 
 ailmittance. 
 
 GREETED BY GREAT AUDIENCES. 
 
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 W'liile he ha^ lei-lnreil aii'l |ireacheil in e\ei t,>,\n "I an\ ->i/'' in 
 \incriea. and altliimyh the standard nf hi!,di jm ue^ wa- tiii-\\cr\iii,i,dy 
 maintained, there \\a^ veldMin ^tandinL; 1 1 " un in the ^iiaeii-n-- liall nr thea- 
 ter when I'rodklvn's !;ieate^t iireacher munnted the -t.iLrc 1 'e had ,1 very 
 lar^c \ariety and niimher nl' lecture-, nn i-t •<) thei" nf .1 \ery -eriotis 
 nature, intended In he hel|)l'iil r.ither th.Mi cinertainini,' nr .■mni'in^ : lis 
 mai;,meti>m. his delivery .iiid hi- wniideriiil rhetnrir.d ,i!,ihty fitted him 
 well fnr the lecture -t.ise; at an\ time he cnuM ha e hit lii. Iriri li and 
 crinied a -mall I'mlnne e\ery Near, -imply .1- ,1 lecturei .iiid pnhlic reader. 
 
 .\- an example nf hi- clo(|neiicc as a lecturer, cMiact- hum ? nuin- 
 hpr of i'l. 'rahii,iL;e'- inn-i famnu talk- ,tre 'j,'.\vu helow : 
 
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 PEOPLE — AGREEABLE AND DISAGREEABLE 
 
 "F^eforo talking: almut .ai^reeahle nr plea-ain peopk'. I wil! -ay 
 somethitiii ahout di-a.^reeahle pco|>!c: 
 
 "Of all the ills that tle-h is heir tc a crn-s, crnhhod, ilhconteiited 
 man is the most micndrrabie, hccause the most ine\eu-nhle. X>> 
 oeeasion. no matter liow trillinp;. is permitted to pa-- wahout elicilin.q- 
 
 111- iliwsrnl 
 
 sneer, or his urowl, lli- ureiod ;uid patieiit wife nc\C' 
 
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 ir)4 A STAIf rpox THK LECTURE PLATFORM 
 
 yet prepare.! a dinner that he like.l. One Har she prepares a d.sh that 
 .-he th.nks w.ll particularly please hitn. He comes in the front .io„r 
 H...I savs. -W heu ! „he« • what have yn„ got in the hn„se? N.nv mv 
 dear, yon knou that I never di.| like cnrlfish!" (I.anphter.) 
 
 -Son.e evening, resolving to he especially ^racions. he starts with 
 Ins fanuly i.. a place of ann.sement. He scolds the most of the uav 
 Wc canno, at.ord (he time or the n.oncy. an.l he does not l.elieve the 
 cntertannncnt will he much, after all. 
 
 •'He sits motionless a.,d .lisf,n,sted. He jjoes home, saving- "Di,! 
 
 you see tha, fat musician that got so red blowing that French horn? 
 
 He looked l,kc a stuffed toa.l. Did you c^er hear such a voice as that 
 
 iady has.^ \\Uy. m uas a perfect scp.auk! The evening was wasted.' 
 
 "And Ills companion says. 'Why, my dear!" 
 
 •••The.c. vo„ ueedn-t tell n,e-you' are pleased with evervthing. 
 I'Ut ne\cr ask me to gn again I" 
 
 -He goo ,n church. IVrhaps the sermon is .lidactic ..n.l argu- 
 •m-ntatue. lie yauus. He gapes. He twi.s.s himself m his pew and 
 pretends he ,s a-Iecp and says. 'I could not keep awake. Di.i von ever 
 hear anythnig m, .lead? Can thee .Iry hones live?' 
 
 EVERY-DAY THINOS IN THE PULPIT. 
 
 "Xext Sal.hath he enters a church where the .ninister is much 
 «.ven to dlustration. fie is still more .lispleasc.l. He sa^ ■ -Jlow dare 
 that m.-n, bring such eery ..lay things into Ins pulpi,? "ue ought ..> 
 liave l.ron.lu his illu.,rati.m, fro.n the ce.lar .,f Lebanon an.l the hr- 
 
 '7- ""'" f "'^' '''^■•^"'••^ -"' ---'f-as. He ought t.. have sp.,ken 
 
 of the I-.uphratcs an.l the Jonlan. an.l n.,t of ,he Kennebec an.l Schuvl 
 kill. He ought lo have mentioncl M.„u.f (.eri.nn instea.l ..f the Cats- 
 k.ll.s. Why. he ought to be discipline.l. Whv. it is ri.liculousi' 
 
 '•rerhap>. afterward, he join, the church. Then the church will 
 have ,ts han.ls full. He ..>hes tha, the ch..ir w..ul.| sing .lifTerentlv 
 that t!,e mnus.er woul.l preach .lifferently, ,ha, the el.lers would prav 
 
 
A STAW UPON Tilt: LECTURE PLATFORM 155 
 
 differently. In tlic morninp, lie said, 'The rlinrch was as cold as 
 (.lemhin.l;- in thr .voninfr. 'it wns liot as Na/cs.' Tlicy painted the 
 rhnrch; lie didn't like the color. Tiicy carpeted the aisle.-, ; lie didn't 
 like the fipiire. IIu'n pr,i in a luu fnrnaee: lie di.Jn'i like the patent. 
 He wriRf^le- and M|i,imis and ireis, and Mews an.l \\orries liinisoli. 
 He is like a horse lliat. praiuin- and iineas\ to the hi', worries him>clf 
 into a latlier of foam, while the lior^e hitclicl l,e,si<lc him jnst piill> 
 straiKdii ahead, makes 110 hi- and i-oiiu-- to his oats in ])eaee. Like 
 ••' herlKedioj.: he 1. all ,pi,ii-. Like a eiah. that yon know aluavs j,'oe. 
 tlic other uav. and ni.,Nr. i.arkuaid in order to s" f-ruanl. and turn^ 
 in fonr <lireetion. ail at o,„e, and the hrst y.ui kno-.v of hi. wheiealKmt. 
 >oii have mi-ed l„m. ind ^^hen he i> eompletely lost he has .;o,„. l,x 
 rhe heel— .so th;„ ,|,e Cnst tlnn- v.,„ knou yon d,,,,', knou anythm- 
 —and uhile yon expoeted to ..itJi the c r.ih. the eiah eatrhes yon. 
 (I.aiifjhter.) 
 
 PICKING A QUARREL WITH ST. PETKR. 
 
 "So some nun are erahl.cd— all hard-heil, an.l ol.Mmaev and oppo- 
 Mtion. I do not see how he is to .uel into heav.'ii. unless he poes in haek- 
 uard. and then there uill he dan-.i that at the pate he will irv to pi.k 
 a (ntarre! with St. IVter (F.an.uhter » (hire in. I feai he will not like 
 the music, and the services will he to.- Ion?:, and that he v\ill si)ciid the 
 hrst two or three years in tt->inp to f^nd out whether the wall of heaven 
 is exactly phimh. Let ns stand ,>tV from such tendennes. Listen for 
 sweet notes rather than f-T-hscords, pickintj up marigolds and Iiare- 
 hells in preference m ih-M'cs niul colo,|„i„ti,la, ciiltnriii,i; thynu- and 
 anemones rather than ni-hishade. \ii,! ,■, a word, where Cod halli put 
 excpiisjte tin.t^e upon the shells nashe,! m the Mirf, and planted ,1 
 liaradise of i.lo..in in the child's cheek, an.! a.lorned the pillars of the 
 rock hy hanKMnt; a tapestry of morniii- mist, the lark saving, 'I will 
 sins: soprano." and the cascade replyini,^. •] will carrv the hass.' lei us 
 leave it to tlie owl to lioot, and the frojr to croak, and the I)cast to 
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 OOOO-HUMOBED HUSBANDS. 
 
 "Strange tliat. in siicli a \cr\- ngrccalile world, there should he so 
 many di;^agrcealile jieojile! So many everywhere hut — here! (Laugh- 
 ter.) I .^ee hy yoiu' look'^. my friend.s. that none of you belong to this 
 class. These good-lnim<iri'd husbands before me are all what they 
 ought to be, good-natured -i^^ a May morning; and when the wife asks 
 for a little s|)ending-moncy. the good man nf the i)urse sav-. 'All right; 
 here's my poeket-book. Mv dear, take as nmeh a^ you warn, and 
 come soon again." (Laughter.) The-e wives at eveningiidi alwa\> 
 greet their companions home with a smile, and :>ay. 'My dear, vonr 
 slippers are ready and the nniftni.-- warm I'm ynur feet up on this 
 ottoman. Bkss the dear man'' (Laughter.) These I'rothers alwavs 
 prefer the companionship of their own listers to that nf ;m\ one else'< 
 sister, and take them mu almost every evening to lecture> ind con- 
 certs. .And 1 siif)pose that in no public building to-ui!;ht in this citv. 
 or in any other city, is there r. tiiore mild, affable, congenial and agree- 
 able collection of ]ieopk- tlsan (Uir'.eKe-.. 
 
 "The world his- a great many delightful |)eople who are casilv 
 pleased. Tliey ha\e a lacultx of lindimi nut that which is attracti\e. 
 Tiiey arc like a bee that no sooner g( i , out of iht- hi\e than ii pitches 
 for a clover-top. They never y t walked into a picture gallery but tliev 
 were refreshed and thankful. Thcv -aw -ome exquisite gem that 
 kindled their admiraliiMi There wa- some pleasant face in ;. picture 
 that for liours kept looking o\cr their .shoulder. 
 
 "Tluy will ne\er forget how in one of them a \inc in filial aftec 
 tion, with its tender arm hugged u]) an old grandfather of a tree tli.at 
 wa~ abo'it to feel the stiff breeze. 
 
 "They never came from a concert, but there was at least one voice 
 that they admired, and wondered how in one throat (iod could have 
 placed such exhaustlc^ fountains of harmony. 
 
 
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 BEAUTIES OF SFRINO AND SUMMER. 
 
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 "Tlicy like the spring, for it is full of liird and hloum, and. like a 
 pricFtes?. stand'^ swingjinp lier censer df perltinie ln'iCire (lod's altar; 
 and tlie sunmicr is just the thing f(ir tliciu. for tliev Inve to hear the 
 sound of niowing-machines, and lirittalioii^ of tliuiiderholts grounding 
 arms ainong the mountains; ami antnmn i- tluir exidtation. for its 
 orchards arc golden with fruit, and the fori-t'; march with baimcrs 
 dipped in sunsets and blood-red with the conllicts of frost and storm. 
 (Applause.) 
 
 "And they |iraise dod for uniter, that liiin^- ilu- ^Imnt of children, 
 playing blind-man's butt, with handkerchief they can sec through, 
 arotmd a bla/ing tire, .iikI the siiou shower th.it makes rarthcnons and 
 St. Mark's ( 'athr(Ir,ils out of .i pigeon-coop, and puts lirightcv coiDiief^ 
 than the (ieorges e\er wore on the brow of ilic Iir.imhlc, a'ld Inrn-' 
 the wood-shed mio a ■ro\al tower' filled with cmwn jewels; ,tni| th.it 
 sends the sleigh-riding p.irty, in bnt'falo robes, behind stuoking -teeds, 
 with two straps of belK, and fire in the eve. and snort of the nostril, 
 ami flaunt of the niane. impatient of the sawmg of the twisted bit and 
 the rein,'^ wound around the hamls (if the dri\er, till, coming np to the 
 other ga\' parties, we slacken the rein .i;id crack the whip, and >hout, 
 'do 'long. Charley!' and dart |>;ist everything on the road, and you 
 can only take iti the excited ro.iii spin' l'\ putting \onr foot against 
 the dasii-board. and lying back with all your strengtii, and sawing the 
 bit, while the jolly hearts in the liack seats mingle the ha. ha, ha, ha' 
 with the jingle, jingle, jingle of the sleigh belN. and the liostler of the 
 hotel gi;!bs the bridle of \onr Imrse-, uliile \ou go in to warm and lake 
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 the mm whom vmi uani fnr client'- anci jurors; if you are a physician, 
 they are the men you want for patients: hut you don't often get them, 
 for they rnre themselves In a hottle of laughter, taken three or four 
 Umc^ a <la\. well --haken iij). 'I'liree cheers for the good-nature'l man; 
 llirec gn..in'. for the gouty and sour-tempered! (.\pplause.) 
 
 "Ii IS -.(range that there sliould he any rivalries among ministers of 
 rehgion, when there is so much room for all to work. F'.iU in some 
 liimgs they are nmch like other people. Like all other classes of men. 
 they have one liver apiece, and here and there one of them a spleen. 
 In all cases the cpig.isiric region is higher up than the hypogastric, 
 save ni the act of turning a somersault. Like others, they cat three 
 timf s ;, ,lny when ilie\ can get anything to eat. fWides this, it some 
 tunes happen, that wc find ilieni racing fnr sf)mc professional chair or 
 pulpii. ihcv ,11,1 well- neck and m-rk— while churclie- look on an<l 
 wonder whether ,i will he 'Dc-,!,-,' ,,, the Wmerican ( iirl.' Rowels 
 l>lungc dee].. ,uid fierce is the cry, '(io "longl (i,, "long!' The privilege 
 of preaclii,ig the gosp.-I n, ilu- ,„„„- on inx- ihcusand dollars a year is 
 enough to mike a tight r.icr anywhere. Hut only one mounts the 
 coveted (ilace. an<l forthwith the cry goes up in conventions and syn 
 ods: Tnlit for the place! Can't i.re.ich! I nsfumd in the faitli! N'ow 
 IS your chance, oh. conferences ami preshx teries, to cut hehind!' 
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 ALL MEN ADMIRE BEAUTY. 
 
 • \ fair uoinan |..isscs. \\ (. ,,i| ;„],,„,-i. hcatitv. l-fe that says he 
 don't, lies. \ c.inting m;m. wlu. told me he li;id no admir.ition for 
 anythiiit; eanlilv. used, instead nf listening to the sermon, to keep 
 s(|iiiii'iiig o\cr low.ird the pew where >at Sipiire Ilrown's daughter. 
 Whether Cod plants .a rose in p.arterre or human cheek, we must 
 admire it. whellier we will or not. While we are deciding whether we 
 had better take that dahlia, the dalilia take us. .\ star does not ask 
 the astronomer to ;i.!mire it, hut just winks at him, and he surrenders, 
 "ith a!! his telescopes. This fair woman in society has mativ satciiiic5. 
 
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 The boys all run for this prize. One of tlicm. not having read enough 
 noveLs to Icam that ugliness is more desirable than beauty, wins 
 her. The cry is up: "She paints! Looks well; but she knows it. Good 
 shape; but 1 wonder what is the price of cotton! Won't <lie make him 
 stand around! Practicality worth more than black eves! Fool 
 to marry a viragt)!' 
 
 ■■Thank (iod there arc so many in the world that never 'cut behind,' 
 but are ready to give a fellow a ride whenever he want> it. Here is a 
 youtig man. clerk in a store, lie has small wages, and a mother to take 
 care oi I or ii-ii \ears he struggles to get into a higher place. The 
 fn>t of jaimary comes, and the head of the connnercial house looks 
 round and ^ay-: ■'I'rying to get up. are you'" And by the time three 
 more years haw passed the boy sits right be-ide the old man, who 
 hands over the reins, and says. Drive!" Jonathan doodhne was a bov 
 behind the couiuer: l)nt his employer gave him a ride, and London, 
 Canton and Calcutta heard the scratch of his i)en. Lenox, (irinnell, 
 .'ind the .\spinwalls carrieil nianv young men a nnle on the high road 
 of prosperity. 
 
 ■■There are hundreds of i)eople uliosf vhii-f joy i- lo lu-li, others on. 
 -Vow it is a snnle. uoa a good word, now ten dollar^. .Mav >uch a 
 kind man .iluays have a carriage to ride in and a \un^c noi too skittish! 
 .\s lie gofs down the hill of life, may the 1 reeiliint;-sir;i|, t„. strong 
 enough to holil back the loatl!" 
 
 EXTRACT FROM TALHAOE'S GREAT TEMPERANCE LECTURE. 
 
 ■■Joseph's brethren dippe<l their brother'^ cual in goat's blood, and 
 then brought the dabbled garment to their father, cheating him with 
 ihe idea that a ferocious animal had sl.iin him, and thus hiding their 
 infamous behavicjr. 
 
 "But there is no deception ;ibonl that .\liich \m- bold tip to vonr 
 observation tonight. A monster such as never ranged African thicket 
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 strewn llic continent with the mangled carcasses of whole generations; 
 and there are tens of tlionsands of fathers and mothers \nIio conld hold 
 up tiie garment of tiieir slain hoy. truthfnily exclaiming: 'It is my 
 son's coat : an evil heast Iiath devoured him.' 
 
 "There has. in all ages and climes, been a temlency to the imi)ropcr 
 use of siinnilams. \oaii, as if disgusted with the prevalence of water 
 in his tinu- (laughter), took to strong drink. l?y thin vice. .Alexander 
 the Conciueror was comiuered. The Romans at their feasts fell ofit 
 their seats with intoxication. I"our liundrcd millions of i^ir race are 
 xpium eaters. India. Turkey and China have groaned with the deso- 
 lation: and l.y it have heen (picnched such lights as Hallcy and De 
 (Juincey. (^ne himdretl millions arc the victims of the l.clel-nut. which 
 has specially Masted the 1-ast Indies. Three hundred millions chew 
 hashish, and Persia. Hrazil and Africa sulTcr the .Iclirium. The Tartars 
 employ nmroua: the .Mexicans, the agave: the people at Guarapo. an 
 intoxicating quality taken from sugar-cane: while a great multitude, 
 that no man can nuirher, are disciples vi alcohol, fo it they bow. 
 Cnder it they are trampled. In its trenches they tall. On its ghastly 
 holoiaiist they liurn. 
 
 DRUNKENNESS AFFECTS ALL CLASSES. 
 
 '•nrnnkenncss; does it not jingle the burglar's key? Docs it not 
 uhet the assassin's knife "^ Does it not cock the highwayman's pistol' 
 Docs it n.,t wave the incen.liary's torch? Has it not sent the physician 
 reeling into the sick-room; and the minister with his tongue thick into 
 the ])uli.it:' Did not an ex(|uisite poet, from the very top of his fame, 
 fall a gibbering sot, into the gutter, ou his way to be married to one 
 of the faire.i daughters of \cw luigland. and at the very hour the 
 bride wa> krking herself for the altar; and did he not die of delirium 
 tremen-i. almost unattended, in a hospital? 
 
 •■'i'amerlane aske.l for one hundred and sixty thousan.l skulls with 
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 l»uilt tlic pyramid. IJut if tlic bones of all those wlio liave fallen as a 
 prey to dissipation could be piled up. it would make a vaster pyramid. 
 "Who will j,nrd himself for the journey, and try witli me to scale 
 this mountain of the dead — going up nnlcs high on human carcasses, 
 tt) find still other peal- far above, mountain above mountain, while 
 with the bleached bones of drunkards? 
 
 THE SABBATH SACRIFICED TO THE RTTM TRAFFIC. 
 
 "The Sabbath ha> been -acrificeil to the rum trallic. To manv of 
 our peoi>!e, the be.-t day of the week i, the wor>i. I'.akirs must keep 
 their sho|)s closed on tiie Sabbath, U i> dangerous to have loaves of 
 bread going out on Sunday. The -lint, ^t()r^■ i^ closed; .-cvere penalty 
 will attack the nutn wlm >.ei|-, 'Uduts nu the Sabl)ath. Hut down with 
 the V. iiidow-shutters ..f the gnig-shnp^' Our law> shall confer par- 
 ticular honor upon ilu i lun-trarrickci -. \1! other trades must stand 
 a>ide for ilu-e. Let orr ciii/ens who have dis.^rrared themselves by 
 tr.-uling in cloib.iiijj^ and ^o-ivry and hardware and lumber and coal, 
 take off their hat> to the rimi-, viler, electe.l to particular honor. It is 
 unsafe for an\ tither cla-. ,.i meii •<> be allowed !icen-e for Sunday 
 work. But suiuv; out >our -i-u-. c.ii natricker- iit the i)eace of fanii 
 lies, and in tin- -ouK of ii.iuiori.il uicn' Let the co:ks ilv and liie beer 
 foam and liu- rum !jo u.-.iJ:.;.,' d.)\ui ilie half-con-iinicd throat of ihe 
 inebriate. (\oi\ due- not -ee! l)oe~ he" Judgment v.ill never come' 
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 MORE I.AW THAU IS EXECUTED. 
 
 "People s;i\, 'Let Us lia\e more law to ciireii this evil." We have 
 more lav now tlian we can execute, i-i what eit\ i- there a nuivoraltv 
 that d.are do it" Tiie fac! is. that tlie;e is no ad\,-nita;.;e in luuiiig the 
 law higiier than imblic oinnion. Wli.at would be the use oi the Maine 
 law in N'cw ^'ork? Xeal l>o\\. the niavor of I''oril:ind, c-imc out with. 
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 bciicvc tliat tlierc arc three inavors in the I'liitcd States witli his 
 coiirai;e ur nohility o{ spirit. 
 
 "I di) not kiiou hut tliat Goil is tictermined to let drunkenness 
 triumph, and the husI)aiKls and sons of thousands of our best families 
 he destroyed hy tiiis vice, in order tliat our peoi)!e. amazed and inchj,'- 
 iiant. may n^L• u]. and demand the externu'nation of this municipal 
 rrune. There i- a way of diivini; down the hoops of a barrel so tight 
 liiai they break. 
 
 ■'Oh' ue are a Christian people! From Boston a ship sailed for 
 Africa, with three mis^iollaries and tweiuy-two thousand gallons of 
 Xew r.ii-land mm on board. Which will have the most effect; the 
 missionaries, or the rum- 
 
 "Shall «e ir\ ihe power (,i the pledge? There are thousands of 
 men who have been saved I.v puttiiii,' their names to such a document. 
 1 know it is lauyhe.l at: but there are men who. haviiit,' once i)romised 
 a thing, do it. 'Some have broken the jiledtje.' \'e>; they were liars. 
 But all men are not liars. I do not say that it is the duty of all per- 
 sons to make nucIi signature; but 1 do say that it will be the salvation 
 of mail) of yon. 
 
 'The glorious work of Theobald .Matthew can never be estimated. 
 .At his hand four millions of people took the [ilcdge. including eight 
 t)relatcs and seven hundred of the Kuman Catholic clergy. .\ multi- 
 tude of them were f.iithful. 
 
 "Dr. jiistm i:,lw;irds sai.l that ten lIu.usaiKl drnnk.uds had been 
 iiern:aiiem!\ ref(jrme(l in t'i\e \ears. 
 
 " rhrougb the great Washingtonian inoveineiit in Ohio, sixty thou- 
 -and took the jiledge: in l'emisylv;mia, twenty-nine thous.ind; in Ken- 
 tucky, thirty thou.sand. .md nuiltitutle-^ in .ill p.arts of the laud. .Maiiv 
 of these had beeti habitual drunkards. Oiu- hundred .-iiid ilitv thou- 
 sand of them, it is e-iiiuated. were perniaiu ii;l\ reclaimed. Tw<i of 
 these men became foreign ministers, om a governor of a State and 
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 scvcniy-fivc. All dvcr tlic land itfoniii'd men wlic received Lack iiitn 
 tlie c-linnlu's tliai iliey had liefor< di\L;raeed: and li.nHelu.liN were 
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 cnianeiijaliiin. ( Apjilan-e.) 
 
 INEBRIATION AN AWFUL DISEASE. 
 
 "I think that ue arc coming ;il last to treat ineliriation as it onght 
 to l)e treated, namely, a- an awful di-caM-. self-mtlictcd, to be snre, 
 l)i't ncveriiieless a disea--e. ( )n.e la-tened npon a man. sermon- will 
 will not cnre him: tenii)eranec lecture- will not eradicate the ta-te; 
 religious tracts will not arre-t it; the go-jiel of C'hri>t will not arrest 
 it. Once nnder the power of this awful thir-i, the man is hound to go 
 on; and if the fe^aming glass were on the other side <A |)erdilion. he 
 would wade ; rough, the fires of hell to get it. A \onng man in prison 
 had Mirh a strong thir-l for intoxicating li(|Uijrs. th.u lu cut oil hi- 
 hand at the wrist, called for a howl of brandy in order to -top tlie hleed- 
 ing. thru-i his wrist into the iiowl and then diank the content-. 
 
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 Clear the track for him! .\way with the children; he would tread 
 tlieir life out! Away with the wife; he would da-li her to death! .\\\ay 
 with the Cross: he would run it down! \uay willi the Uihle: he would 
 tear it up for the wind-! Away with hea\en: he con-ider- it worlhles- 
 as a straw! "(iivc me the drink! (ii\e it to me! Though hands of 
 I'lood pas- up the howl, and the soul treinhk- (jcer the pit, -the drink! 
 L;ive it to v. v\ Though it he i)a!e with tear.-; though the frcuh of ever- 
 la-Mng an j-li float in the foam; giw ii to me! I drink to mv wife'> 
 woe; to iii\ children's rags; to my elerna! hanishmenl fiuin God and 
 lioi)C and heaven! (.i\c it to me! the drink!' 
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 "Oil. Iiou this rum (iciul would like to go ami hang up a skeleton 
 in your beautiful house, so ilint when you opened the front iloor to go 
 in you would sec it in the hall: anrl when yon sit at voitr table vou 
 would see it hauijiug from the wall; and when yuu open your bed- 
 room you would find it stretched upon your pillow: and waking at 
 lu'ght you would feci its loKI hand passmt; over \<iur face and pinchint; 
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 BALEFUL EFFECTS OF INTEMPERANCE. 
 
 "Tlicrc i^ no home so beautiful but u may lie devastated bv the 
 .iwful curse, ft throws its jargou uno the sweetest harmonv. What 
 was it that silenced Sheridan's voice and shattered the golden scepter 
 uitli which he swaved parliamcnls and courts? What foul sprite turned 
 the sweet rhythm of Robert liurns into a tuneless ballad' What 
 brought down the majestic form of one who awed the .\merican senate 
 with his eIo<|uence, and after a while carried him home (lead drimk 
 from the office of secretary of state' What was it that crippled the 
 tiiil.le spirit of oiu- of the heroes of tiie late war. tintil the other nigln, 
 in a drunken ft, lu- reeled from the ileck ..f a Western steamer and was 
 drowned' There was one whose voice we all loved to hear. lie was 
 I 'lie of the most classic orntors of tiie century. Peo|)le wondered why a 
 man of -d jnire a heart and sn excellent a life should have such a sad 
 countenance always. Ihey knew not that his wife was a sot. 
 
 "I call upon wdiiiau fnr her inlhieiue in the matter. Many a man 
 who had reformed and resolved on a life of sobriety, has been pitciu-d 
 <>fT into old habits by tin- delicate hand <if iier whom he was desirous to 
 please. 
 
 ■■Bishoj) Potter says that a younji man. who had been reformed, sat 
 ;it a talile, mid when the wine was jjasscd to him refused to take it. 
 A lady sittluir at Iiis side said, "Certaiiil} you will not refuse to take a 
 ^la=s with me?" Again he refused. But wlieu she had <]crided him 
 
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 anil .••ikiiIkt; .iimI, piiltmj; his tist haul down mi the lal)lf, ,.ii(|, -Nnu 
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 IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO CHANOE. 
 
 "1 call H|Miii (hi. SI- \\\u> arc- ^;niit\ o| tlu-^c iinhil^'tMU-fs \,, (juii llif 
 (lath of ili-a.h ( )!i. what a chanf^'e it wonKI inakf iii vonr Ikmih-' H'l 
 y< 1 sec liow cvcntliiiij^ there is I.einj: .lesolatfcl- WonM yon not hke 
 to hrinij iKiek joy to yonr uil'e's heart, and hau \otn- ehililreii eotne 
 I'lit to meet \oii witit as nmeh eon(i(IeiH-e a> o;iee thev slio^ved? \\'o;i' I 
 sou not like [<• rekindle tin- lioi.ie li^ht^ that loni; at,'" .>ere e'stni- 
 Kiiished.- It i^ not !oo late to elian^e. h may not cntireK ohtiierate 
 from your soni the memnry of wasted year- id a mined re|mlatinn, 
 nor smooth ont from anxious i)ro\\s the winkles whi^h tronhle has 
 plowed. It may not eall haek imkind wurd- nttered m- ron:jh deeds 
 done — for, perhajis. in those awful momeiu, yon >trnek Iml It may 
 ii't take from yoiu" memory the hitter thoui^hts conneetcil with some 
 little },'rave; Imt it is not too late to save yourself and >ecur»- |.m ( lod 
 and your family the remainder of yom I'asi-t; .inj; life. 
 
 "Hut i>erha|)s you li.i\e nm niti-rls t^mie astr.'\. I may address 
 one who may not have quite made up his miml. Let your hetter nature 
 speak ont. N'on take one ide or the other In the war as^^aiiist drunken 
 ness. Have you the eoura;(e to put your foot down rtj^ht, and say 
 to your eompanioiis and frieiuls: 'I will never ilriiik iiUoxieatiny 
 li(|Uor in all my life, nor will I conutetiaiiec ilu- haliil ui oih"rs?' Il.'ue 
 nothintj to do with strouj,' ihink. It ha-- turned the earth into a plaee 
 of skulls, and has siotid opeuini; the .L;ale to a lost world to let in its 
 vietims. until now the door swings in. iiHire ujjon its hinges, hut d.i\ 
 aiul tiij^ht stauils wide o|)eu to let in tlu- aL;oui/ed proirssidu ,if du.jincd 
 men 
 
 "Do 1 aildre--3 one whose rei^ulai \\iiik ni life i^ ;(. adiiiiiiistcr tn 
 this appetite- 1 hej,^ you to Ljet oiu oi i!u- husiuess li a wne I.e 
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 woes imist 111- Ii;- '.i;iT)^; over tlie man who docs lliis i\oiv dav. and 
 f\t'iv liDiir III till- dav!" 
 
 MAJOR POND'S STORY OF TALMAOE'S LECTURE TOURS. 
 
 Majnr J. I! I'diid, till- iidlcil niann}:;ci t.f UiImhi^, \\a^ •inc "f tin- 
 first til roi-nt;ni/i' tlif lalciUs cif |)r Talinai,'!' aii.l I'm- i)us>iliiliiif~ ,,f tl.i- 
 hnaiu'ial smciv> uliidi wmild attend an i-Mondid lirinriiii; tmir ni tlu- 
 Lircat divine. Majnr I'ond in his "lu-ccnlriiitH'- ni iicniii-" L;i\i-, an 
 entfrtainini,' acconnt nf liis nicctiii!; Dr. I ahiia-e, nf the |in.iii)sals 
 uh.K-h led ii|) t.i his first imir nf (ireat Uritaui. and nf liii- iiinrinmis 
 sneeess nf this trip. Majnr I'mid's narrative i- a- fnllnws: 
 
 "( >ne ninrnin;^ in early jnne nf iS/i) I was passiinr ;, m^us stand in 
 frmit nf tlie \sinr llinise in New ^'nlk, and was aiir.u-ted tn a small 
 jihuard whieli reat!: thrisnan ller.ild and Sis^iis ,if ih,' liinev ( )nK 
 antlinii/ed imMnatmn nf the l\e\. Dr. ralma^c'- -erin..iis.' | l.nii'^ht 
 ihc paper .aiid read ilie atiraeiuc headlines and an idimri.il hv ii- 
 edimr. deseril.ins; the pnpu!aiil\ nf j )r {'.ilmai^e a- a pre.udier and his 
 iidhieiu-e nil the reli-mn nf (neat Ihitiii I e.illed mi Mr ■|alin.i-e 
 and fnnnd him re;id> tn liMen in a iirn|insiiinii t,, o,, ,il,r, i,,,], 1|,. li.,d 
 never ern->ed the mf.ui. I.ni Im,! luaid iliat lus M^rnmiiN wire cMiii- 
 si\el\ |iiil,li~he.! ahrnad. In la^t. tin- l.iM mail had hmnMhi Inm i 
 letter fmm the ;^entral s,-,-retar\ m ilu- \'. M. ( . \. at l.i-ids, ad.nu' 
 him tn dtluir ten Urtmc- ni ihr l.ir^cr ciiie- m I'.n^Iand. In-laiid. 
 ::nd .'^inibnd f..r his pasv^,^,,- .iii.l tin p.uiihU a liUuu' Tin d<'.-ini 
 .ikrd nil In uriu- a prnpnsitiun and \>j ..all in the m.jiinn'^ 1 arnte 
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 ■"1 )iai .'^li I will LJIM' \..n Smmm ;■ n,. i l,,.,! 1,,-liiu- iii i .re.il 
 
 Hill. nil ihi- -nniiner. pa\ in- all iht liaw Ini- , \prii~, - i,.i mimv^'Ii an I 
 Mis I .dinaj^e fmm the tinu wmi -.nl imiu Ameriea niitil voii return; 
 settlement tn he m.ide wnlJx \,>\\r, trnlv. ] P,. Pond.' 
 
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A STAR rPOX THE LECTrRK PLATFORM IGl) 
 
 DR. TALMAOE ACCEPTS MAJOR POND'S OFFER. 
 
 "The follow lilt; morning 1 called again aiul lie read nie a letter 
 which lie had i)rc[)ared: 
 
 • 'j P.. Pond. 
 
 'Dear Sir: I will dclixrr one Imtidred k-cti^rcs for von in (Ircat 
 rSnlain. l(e,t,'innin); wiihm three weeks, for $100 a lecture, von paying 
 the expenses of m\sc!i. wile, and danghur I'rnm the lime we sail until 
 ''^" ^^'""'" T. HeWiit Talmage." 
 
 "I he i;c\t morninj: louiid nu- on hoard the tit_\ of Kerliii, hoimd 
 for Ijigbuid lor till' lii.t lime I pon my arrival at Westminster Palace 
 Motel, in London. I found several -entlemen waiting to see me. They 
 were the editors (.f religions papers who wanted to secnre privileges 
 during the lectures to he given under my direction. 1 secnreil $5(X) 
 hnm one man for tne exclusive right to i)aste advertisements of his 
 paper on the i-enclics in the halN where Dr. Talmag ■ was to lecture. 
 IVom anotlicr I seemed L\ix, for the exclusive right to piihlisli Dr. 
 and .^Il■s T.ilm.ige'-. piciuics 
 
 HIGHEST FEE EVER PAID TO A LECTURER. 
 
 ■■Th.e ailenio.in I .,rrive.| in l.'.ndon t,e editor of the Christian 
 Wciald hiouglu uu .1 p;ipei-. iiesji it ,m ilie pre.s. uith the announce- 
 ment th.it I w.,> lo maii.it^e Dr. Talmage .\li. Thorn, general secre 
 '''r\ "'■ ll'e ^■ M I \ al Leeds, w.uilcd llie lusl ten kclnres in Cie.it 
 I'lil'ii'i- •ii'd ..lleicd me tJo each I. .1 il,eni. jje .a,,] t|„\ ^\,,, (]„. 
 liii:hes| fee ever p.ii.l for .1 Ucline in ih.il coniitiv. lie .isKed lime to 
 wail upon his as-,,.i,iles .11 I'.xcler II, il! Lpoii hi~ rctmn he oflVred 
 me £5.)ea(h for ten lectures |,, he delivered at .\ottingIi,im, Ihrming- 
 
 ham, .Manclu-tvi liver] 1. (,!,iso,,v, Leeds !"dinl.nr-!i. XewcasiJe- 
 
 "U-Tyiie. r.r.idhiid. .md SheClieM I ,l,,..cd the connacl, fixing the 
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 " Al S:.v' "ilock ilu' iifxt iiuimiii.u. ii- 1 was fating i.riakfa>t. I 
 \va> approiulu'd li\ an atti'iiclant nl ilu- Imicl. ulm -aid: 
 
 " ■ I'lic |)(i^i lia- |ii-t lir(ni,u;lit ynn letters, where shall I lake them 
 sir;" 
 
 ' lirin;^ ilieni ti> nie iiere ' 
 
 ■■ 'Ihil 1 lan'i There are -e\eial b.iskets full." 
 
 "I aci-iim]ianie(I ihe fellnw to i1k- dltue am! there fnimil hctuecn 
 i'"tir liiuiiireil ami the lnimlre<l kiler^ from e\er> part of Irclaml. lu);^- 
 laml. aiiil Seollaiid. and many telei^vanis. Al! were ^eekiiii; to -ecnre 
 l\e\. Dr, 'I'ahnaLie for a leetnre. I felt certain that the d.>etor had n'> 
 •dea ol hi> |M)]inlarit\ "wv there. In .iddition lo tlie letter-, e.illei- 
 lliH'ked in and tilled the loMiie- of the Imtel. waitini.; answers to then 
 e.ird-. i ennlil mil -ee half ( pf iheni. With the aid of seeretane- ,ind 
 a mail. I wa- -ooii .-ilile lo -ee I eoiiM rasil\ li!! ;i\o hnmlrcd leeiiiie 
 iii^aL;emeiii-, I re]ilii'd to the sni.dk'r cine- thai no |>ropo^itioii ii. 
 k'ctnre would he ei iti-ideri'd nnder iKxi. and to ilu- iart;er eitie-. liki' 
 l.iiiidoii. I.i\ eipiiiil .\lam'lK--lrr. Ida-unx. I'.dinlinri.;h. eti.. that Lli»' 
 w I mid 111' leinmi-d. 1 reeeix ed ,u \e|it:nu r- . .f |irop( i-uioii- to Dnhliii 
 .;iid r.elfa-; fur ijf<K .nid to l.i\erpo(,K Mamdle-ter. and IJii-tol foi 
 i^^ixi. M,ni\ ( oiic-pMiidcni ~ wmc -o :iii\;.iu- in -cenie eontraet- ihai 
 the_\ .^eiit ilieek- h\ return liiail, in -oiue instame- eheik- Weli. -eir 
 h.irk '<■ tne .! -eeond time \\ilh tiu .i-Mii.iiuc th.it I w.i- held to po^ 
 diice I )r 1 ,din.iL;e. . 'r wonid li.i\ e I In '.m\ ajipheil li ■ !oi , i- nu . Sii' h ,i 
 -'laml'e for an atli .ntii -ii I iai' ncMi duanird nf liifnu 
 
 "W hdr ihe mad \\:i- pdir- np, I .ireepled m m\H,iii.n; |,,r | ); 
 I alniaj.;e tn pre:nh m !;:> l-Mn'^lui! I've -In U'i laii ( Imo li ( ■ ilti.i . mke 
 li'.id, l-te-ldi ihi- \iii.:rl I I ■ w ,i- 1. . h,l\ i' i I o i. ii i li.il . 
 
 GIVEN WARM WELCOME 
 
 "I met Dr. .md Mr- l.ilma'ji ind .\li-- p--ir l,dvi,iL:i m Liiiidon 
 -;ife and well. Iml \(r\ nred lie -.iid Im h.iil h,i,| ,i li.nonv ■ , ,ipe 
 with hi- life, tli.it .(- -."in ,1- i!n -teamer ai 1 1\ ed in < 'nun- low i: ;-mm' 
 

 A STAK II'ON THK LE( irith PLATFoIf.M 171 
 
 ili'lf),';itu)ii^ m-jlicil iiliouid llic lni.ii ami iId^ii in In- --t.Uri umih. -Ikmii 
 \u^, 'Wclcdim'. 1 .iliii nil i;i- ' ( l'lic\ :!!! l^.i.c the liUMd -"mnl di' 'u' 
 til ti'.c iniilillf 'a' I'l' In^ iiaiiu'i '\\ cir' imc w cU' 'iiii.- (hhI Mi--, vnt 
 (loil liU-s-, Ml- 1 alina;^!.- (iml ''Ic-- Mi--. '1 a'iiiaL;i.'. Wlu-if i- [\<r 
 doi'tiir"' 
 
 " And, iii-limi; inlii llir -tati'i ' " Mil, i1k'\ ;^rii Ip.'d i it Mr-, r,ihn.r^i-'- 
 .11111. -lie I'l'Mi;; 111 the InwiT I'l'ifli, and iii'aih iciKi'd it mil if n- 
 -mkti, '\'\\v\ '^K\ linlil III' the- diK'ii" ''i-|'i'i( thr' l;"' lliriniL;li. and 
 pulled Iiiin lint i a' hi- n.iini and -iiMi.k band- willi Inin -'inntin^ 'Wei- 
 eiiine' <ii"l \^]^■~• mmi'' a!! da-, i a; the -teanier .ind 'i:; the ^ ,iv - \i< 
 laiiidnn. I did iinl -ee Mr, lalina^e the ne\t iii' 'iiii.e^ a- i-e wa- 
 laeparinu In- -(iinon ht ihe afleiii".in. We dune tn i-!ne_;; in 
 ( liiirili, eenv^ ,i 'n!l-ide hhiek with th'iu-.ind- "! pe^ph' ,i - we die' 
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 SURROUNDED BY A MOB 
 
 "Snnn \'. r ',' ei r -nii'i eiiiiled li\ ,i'i nnpa--,!i''e mnh, \',!neh -hmilfd 
 iliee--,inl l\ , ■■ I'ahr u d •• e ( ri id I •',!-- I ,dii! ■ . i i •_; e '' ,in. ! in -hrd I a 
 I!-, Snliie jnnipid .ai |i. llie eaiii,!^! ,inu '^n; h..ld ■ a' In- hai- ' - an, I 
 -neeeeded m keepne.; them ( )ne -'U i eededi -n le.nni^ cat I .ai'n.a^e- 
 ei lal laii, -hi ai! iin,;, ' \ w ,.111 I hi- n a" .1 -> ai\ enn ' I hen I h.ev iiihn ■( iki,d 
 the lair-e- .nid hatdi'd ihe di,ni..' ihi^anjh ,1 l; 1 1 ' i.iin > a' hnni.ann' ,ind 
 .nnid iiprnai- and nm-e- wh'eh \rr_;aia .i.ihi, ,i,iid!\ i;",e dr"-',ned 
 kinalK, llu pieaihei \\a- Iitled h..dih. ,ind; ..iirie.i , ei liu- head- ,,\ 
 ;he niiili .i:;d (hiM-: inli. tlie p,tek'-d ehinih 1 \,;i- iianpei'ed 1,1 .■,,,|! 
 1 inl-lde in I 'ir 1 .n i ML;e until i're . ei ein. en. »■. ,1- i . , ei \', h,,; \<u,U pi.iee 
 eaii lie-t he nifiMtrd liinii the n lii' iw iiil; item, wlinii appe.ned i' ;he 
 1 .1 iiidi iii I '.iih, \e<,\ - 1 if I he fi ilk iw nii; d.iv • 
 
 I he plliihi , ■ninnin niieiil 'IlU the Kev 1 )i 11 )i\\ n; j .dnMi^e 
 111 r,ri)ipki\n w.i- I>i pieaeli, atti.aeted ', e-tei . ',1 ■. e\enin- ,1 kiiL;i- inmi 
 her 1 if pei-nn- l-i the iiilt-ide .it ie.i-l la ihr l-in'^n.ii I '1 ed r, tel ian 
 (, Iniieli ihe -e.il hnldi-i- and .• few .iliun- 'i.i iin,; ii'kia- ,ie:e en- 
 
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 .iM(Kl In l;cI ill Hciiuax-. rillinu all \hv scat- liiily two hnm^ before 
 ilic MiMci loiniiKiux.i. 'lliiir.smiN (.1 pcr.-nii;, cither ueiit awav 
 altofjetlier ..,■ leni.iiiicl to lake llieir elianee^ anion}; tlie i)iil)lie riisli al 
 • I i|iiartn- |.aM -i\. ilu- -erviee^ eniuineiu-in- at hall past. The ehureli 
 .hen i|iiu K'v heeanie er.-mnne.l, ami,! erir^ and -.hriek. here and there 
 lor hi'p III ennve.pieiiee of the pre--iiiv. and a leu uin,lou> liad to 
 he hrnken to iiicrea-e the \ cntikitioii. Manv per-..n. u^re injured." 
 
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 •■I lie -.one perf. irinaike ua^ -nne ihr(.ii;;h uith after the service. 
 ''•■■'l'"' '!'■" t'i<-' '"■'■-^■- were liitched „.,. Th,. ,.,-nu,l i,,ll,,wed for at 
 k'.iM hah' ,, iniK. -h..ntiii- pnii>e~ for •Tahn.i-e" a~ v,c drnw auay. 
 Hk- .i.Hinr w.-i- \er\ liiol. \i ■hniu-r hoih hi and .Mi^. TaJ ,,aj,'e 
 ""■!''' '''1^ "' nothin- I. lit ihi~ --xerwhehnin-ly enrdial u-reeliiij; to ;m 
 XnuruMM iinn,-,er.' 'Mai. ;. diJ N,,n o er liear of .urh ,, -reetinj; u> 
 •1 mmi-M' hr, T-ihiij-i- ad.rd in,. :ind I ciriamly ne\er h.id. 
 
 " ■ ' '•'■ ■ ■:'ii'^ '" '^' a», ml, l^,^^ , ;in I <.\cr live thmii-h .i hUCee^- 
 ~i"n "I 1'^. !■'■■!!- like ihai "■' hv -aid, 
 
 " \h\\.:\. v.iur.iii i:i'\ii iiid-ii-.' II -.iid Mr^. dalin.-i.^e. 
 "'''■'■ '^^-nn:- Hi. I ,dn;,i-c .^id 1 iiad .,iir hr-t priv.ue imMne-> 
 '•'''- 'II''' '"!-!' 'in I o. ;^.- ..,„ ,,f „;■ 1,,. ,,,i,^,,| .y,,,, ^^.( ^.,„,^ 
 ^""' ■' '"-''! -'■'' •" "'■ ' M'<n-i-." 1 r.piu-d; 'i-n'i that .,nr eontract-- 
 ■' "'■ I '•■"'• '!" ''i'''-' !■■ ■ y.A. -ii uuu'd 1., the niin.aiuMi nf ins iieahli; 
 ■"'I :•■'- ^•' '•''' ■'« L;'!!in- ri>!i and I u,.iiM have nniliiii!;-. | cm't 
 ■"•■'' '• ""1 '""-' ,^i"- i1h' vJ...'.' liiHiL; np link- I e.aii Iruc- :.t leaM 
 •"-.^" ■' i''"ni ' -111,!''- ,,;! I :^,i |,>, ilie (nM icii Icttires.' I said, -.ind 
 -> '''■■' "i'ii- ^\' 'i-n'i knnu ulu-ila, thcv v\ii! he ,v,,rih ain more. 1 
 ■"" '^'"'.^ '" ''" ''"■ ' 'ii lliiii.^. and ui!I eui.iin!) make ih, ir-u e..ntra.i 
 '"-'^ I '^' -iHlh.i Lk .hi ',«,■ h.ue is any i;..m1; A erv udl,' 1r- said, 
 
 ■"!• "I •!■' I \'.;': iak. Ml ■. T,i!m,u,c and J^smi- a::d -,, 
 "' 1 1^ I- \-.hu h I i:n d .ind tniv-l h.ae.' 
 
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A STAl; ri'OX THE LECTrHE PLATFORM 173 
 
 SAT ON THE STEPS OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY. 
 
 ■■ I luis \\c >;it un the -trps of Westminster Ahlicy iiiitil J o'clock 
 Moiidiiy iiKriiiiii!;. and ilic doctor was hooked to lecture at N'ottinp- 
 hain tliai iii.;;lil Wltcii w c >ei)arated lie asked iiie what horn he liad 
 Iicttcr sian for Xotiin^liain it he w^-iit. 1 said 9:,^n. ■I'll see vou at 
 breakfast at S and tell \mi lhiall\ ,' he saul, 
 
 "As we sat down i.. l.reakfast the doctor handed me a note. It 
 '•'•I'i: 'I^;:* 111'' .Sj<«) a Inliire and ni\ expenses (no! those of mv 
 fainilv ), ,ind I will l:o ,.n f,,r Km K-cttires. Put this note in \oiir 
 locket.' I re.Ml ,;.iil uiilied '.Ml n^hl. Hr, lalmaf^e. 1 accept. .Mrs. 
 Tahnai^e. do \ou know ahont this?' 'Ncs, Major Toiid.' she said, 'and 
 I'm s,, -lad \Mii and I )i . raliii.iLie ha\ c come to an agreement." 
 
 FILLED THE HOUSE. 
 
 "\l Xottm^ham 1 learned that the people had filled the house carK 
 tiiat afternoon, and th.at no others could <,'ct in The crowil was readv 
 for Dr. Talma^re to v.n on ,;t .anv time. When he went to the hall tliere 
 were thonsands ,,f the same hnman strata which had been seen on Sun- 
 day, waitin;; to set i-\cs on Dr. I'almai^e. ;inil tlie> were enthusiastic to 
 ihc \ei\L;e of in-anil\ The jiolice had protected a hack cntiancc. -n 
 that the speakti. ch.iirin.m, and nia\i'r could i;et m. I proceeded to 
 l.oinlon ami he^.in hookini^ the rcin.iinder of the enj.;aiiemeiu -. < )ne 
 ni,t;lit I recei\ed a leleLjr.ini from TalnLi^e tellmi; nic to st(.p e\er\ 
 lliim;. Ii was lion; llMininuham. 1 told him to tinish the Maiulu-icr 
 led' :c the luM iiii^dit, :in.' that I \'.Muiil meet him there. I arrived at 
 Manchcstci ahont ; p. in. In p.issin- J^ ^iI\ hall and pnhlic huildini;- 
 1 ohsfUfil crowii- of thousands ,ind tliousaiids .jf peopli. ,uid a-kcd 
 in\ cahhx what the\ were out to sve Me said a ^'.lnkc^ ininisicr li\ 
 the n,,mc <>:' l.ilm o .h- , ua- in lectni'c their tli.it in:;!;!, and ihc 
 people w.ie liMni; to ,,• inin .iUt] L;el s(ai- m the hall wIi'Tc h'- was 
 lo .ippi.u. I he iiowd wa- n-a iV'i-\, hut siir,pi\ ni.icK .i d.i h fur the 
 
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 door of tlie liall. burst open tlie iloor. and irammcd in. l-'vcry now 
 and then I conld hear some one say. "I \sill see Tain; n-d-g-c.' 
 
 TALMAOE WAS "BUSINESS." 
 
 ■'Dr. Talniapc saw mc after the lecture. Tlicre ua< verv little lerr- 
 nioiiy. lie struck right ont imm the >h(nil(ler. It was Ixisiness. \o\\ 
 lia\c got to pay me $330 a lecture or I go home.' he said. 'I cannot 
 j-tand this tremendous succes>i(pn of ovation-.' I told him if he conld 
 do it for ?35o he could do it for the price we agreed npon in London. 
 'I am killing myself and making yon or .^^iMueitodv cNe rich," he de- 
 clared, 'and I get nothing for it. Say yc< or no.' lie was po-ijtive. 
 hut good natiired. 1 said: 'Dr. Ta'mnge. 1 .m getting .'fj^o each for 
 iln\ series of ten lectures, as yon kiiov. . I am not making a fortune 
 I will t^ive ynti your ?J30 each for 100 lecture-, no mere ' JMnallv lie 
 said: "Well, that'- the he-t you can do. i^ ii:"' "Nes. -ir. and if vou do 
 this, I will hire an Ijiglish la\\\er to di:i\\ up piijier. that will hold.' 
 "All right,' hf -aid, 'make mmii couii.ict and I will -ign it ' 
 
 CROWBS WERE IMMENSE. 
 
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 "This had lieen .i Inng siege. We went together to i.ivirpnol. dlas- 
 gow. am! o;her cities in Scotland, and such crouds! The tenth lecture 
 of the innr '•cmclnded my contract with the Leeds ^". M. ('. \.. at ?JSo 
 a lectiin-. (hi them I had ni.nlc nothing. Inn <hiring the time 1 had 
 hooked the halancc of the lectmes. ninctv in numhei. .it a very hand 
 some profit, the U-west fee hcing fSo and the highe-i £j3i). His final 
 lecture in LngLuid was .sold in Livrr])ool id ilu \. .M. (.". .\, for £400 
 'llic Leeds V. M. L. .\. made .'>3.n()o on the .scries of ten lectures, or 
 ,s;3ix) profit 011 e.ach lecture. .\t the low pri.-cs paid for .idmission in 
 LngLind. is. j,-, 'h1 to _^s (id. it can he seen tlie crowds must have heeii 
 enormous. 
 
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 KARVELOUS SCENES IN ENGLAND. 
 
 "I believe I uitiicssed iiiiirvcloiis, iiiiiii.iulu .1 sieiies m old iuij^land 
 that siiniiner. Siicli irihntc as was laid at Taliiiai;c\ feet \va> never 
 paid to any otiicr religious leader, and when these people came to find 
 tlie lectures more of a seiular. not rclifjinu'^, character, their disappoint- 
 uu-nt knew no hounds. His final lecture in Liverpool was a dismal 
 i.nlure. i'Our rcspoiisililc mcij iiad siijned the contract for ;?J.n<x), I 
 .-eitlcd for $5<)<'. ;'nd if Dr. Talmaj^c had not refunded lliai ainouni 
 to the ^'. M. C . A. committee I helicvc he would ha\c hecM mohhcd 
 But III had niailc the fceiinj,'. I> ne had only enuilated his own leach 
 nigs instead of usinj; an old American lyceum lecture he nnjjht h.ivc 
 had .1 trimnphant home-comin;,' instead of the one he did h.nc. hul 
 he seemed to di-rej.jard in every way the wishes of tiic |H'opU- wlm 
 paid to sec and hear him. The result to the maiia!.;enuiit was '.he Io>- 
 of time. Dr. T.ilmai^c ;;ot all that u.i> made on the tour. .'S17.500. in- 
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 -'^'lll V\ V-- Wi'Mii i;| I I I >, M M.M.lli -Am \l I I) Yn TIIK 
 M \>-l > Im 1.1 IN ( I II I IliH -^XMi.- nl l.l\ 1^ 1 OK I III 111. I I IK. 
 
 1 >r I .iliii.ii;i-. in.|..ui-il uitli Mrtn-ili .nul \i-..i ,.| ilic i.inn. li.id yUc 
 inii-niI.M luiiM. hi-a,l s|i,,ul.lcf^ .nid iliuk ,ii)|n.MiaiUf ^i' ,i ni.in who had 
 -I'lnl iDiuli ..r 111- liu' m till' ..pen air. He \\a- lathtT iiiiiicr.M/i'.l -u Car 
 .1- lR-i;^hl c-r-. an. I xva- ii'^l |iartu-nlai 1\ inqn i-.sc--iii:; iii aiiju-araiKT. 
 I Irto ua- !!.. iiia-iiirK-iiuv aK. .m hi, sia^- pic-cnco. hiii when the man 
 K"! 111!" aili-ii . 11 the MaL;(M.r m llii' inilini ,<w l.iMkcl at liN |ih\sical H'lt. 
 I'll- tlicii- \\a> a mai^ncli-iii Kent hi- ilchwiv. a hrii^hliif-^. alxuit hi- 
 -niilc' ami an in In Ji. .ii>ik->- ..| In- i-\ it jm c-\ ak'iit '>ipliiiii-m that iifM-i' 
 lailrd I', lakr h..!.l ..| 111- an. lit. 'I-, i It- manner ..) ilelivcry ua- |n-iii!iar 
 W hill at 111- hi'-t he (.iil.l he hUeneil I., iiotlnn^^ il-r -, , \\i|| ,,, ., 1,^,,,,,,, 
 
 li\e . I ilc-!i .111.1 1.1 1. iiiTM- aii.l -iiiiw -. II I- imiiie--e,l tin- cm- ciiiallv 
 
 ^'■'•li I'l' '■'■'■ K'l.hinU'I !n-.an -e.il In ■ hieakin..; aua\ ir. .ni ..l.| tiailni..ii- 
 ■ill'l "h- le!e I im- thai have |ire\.iile.| in the c .ii-ei \ at i\ e |inl|iit t'' t 
 .M'.i! ■■ 1 'i lalin.i.-e ua- nlleilv ..hli\i..ii- ,,|' all eriti.'-m wh.ii m the 
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 ALWAYS MASTER OT HIS AUDIENCK 
 
 II'- .i<h.ir\ \\a- .ill hi, ,.■,•,11 n inie.l Inm ]iiiieiti > TalniaL'e. 
 .in.hii- lien.ie hi- .le-k nil'.mii- In- -.■1111. .11. \',..iil,| hi' ],,._.,, -iii^m;^. 
 ::,n-e!y iliMiu- . .r tin l,;ir,| .,|' \\ ,;, ..\Mini'^ !' , . -.iiaiel- lli- v ..ee 
 i..-iM -i.iivelx he i.illi.l niii-u..'. M! it ua- 11. ■! iini.li ,i- anl , an<l in a \\m\ 
 \-,.- leiii.iik.ihie I'M" 'I- lapaeitN .^i -tr, .11- ,111. 1 -i.irthiu; t'^ne , it railii,'e 
 ■""I \' 'nine ni ill,' p., -.M,,, ..| \a-l ,, -,enihl,it;e jia- -ehl-ni 11 eM 1 heeil 
 • ■i''.'ll''' li.'iii text I.. |.i i..ia!i..ii lu W.I- ah. a_\ nia-lii .1 hi- aii.lieiKe. 
 
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 fur lie wns iiitniM- in Ins dnnnatic ctTiri'., vi^jonin- it n.^t >tarilni}; ni 
 n.ann.T.-ni.l (,'j-Nnirf. an.l. like tlio skillful pla\ wri},'!it. p.issi..-,.,] tln' pcwci 
 nf Icadinj; liis lu-arcis stqi liy stfj. tn tal.loaiix nf crniial nitcnMU An.l 
 Iia\ \\\ti iliiM) at the climax, (iiiickly tttrttittj,' ami clfsrriliini,' tin- iimM wi-in! 
 liititifs. he cotiM call fortli teats an.l simlfv at will, c.ul.l Ik- -.inhic ..i 
 Kav, liitiiKin.n, .,i- -.nrn.u fnl, l.itt tic\i'r cnhl hr di-pan ini,'. lie ua- a 
 l.iiiii (iptiiiiist. 
 
 in Dr. ralinaj^ro'v eye there always heatiied an ahidnii; lailli ni In- 
 lellnu nieti. lie |ia,l a -tr^n^,'. lieaiitifnl nna^^tiiaiion. \\a- ainlMii.iu-. and 
 had aliilit) in a hitsiiu'ss way that i- si.hL.in found in pr. .le->-i..na1 men 
 ■f hi> callm^' His mauai'inj^pMV.T. lact and e!.i<|ueiu-e drew th..u-ands 
 I" the tahernacle when he \\a> n^ yiiidin},' star. I In entr|,'s and l-ve nf 
 iheean-e I'm- which he lahored enahled hitu in -..Kmil; mincaie iM-.>hlem- 
 "I ua\N and mean, i , carrs hi> chnvch .i\er nicrea-nii; |.|„tacle^ wluTt- 
 ■'Iher- u,.ul,| h.ivr Kiilc.l. He p,..,<-,scd in additi..n i.. ,iiher yreat and 
 
 > ' 'I'laliiie- nnin-in- perseverance, and a ph\-ical w-^.r t,, Mii)p..ri ^ich 
 
 :i teiiipiianienl, He ua^ a L.vahle in. id. ;i charnnii- c .nipain. .n, ;ind hi- 
 ll. .me hie uas i.leal. In Ih.M.klMi. at the eiwl .■! Iii> p'.a-l. ^ralc m tl;e 
 lahern.acle. he Ine.l in the m.iM l.i-hi. .n.ihle .ccti..ii ..| thecit\. in ,i lar-e. 
 rMlil\ Innii-heil h.,u-e. where lhe\ lixcd well :m.| eiuerl.iiiu'.l l,i\idilv 
 
 i>r. I'. DeWitt T.alma-e \\a> .|..n!iiIe-> the ni..-i raiiL.n^ iiiMU-ter 
 I 'f hi> a.i;e 
 
 *" •' ^1-" t" "i- Talttia-e -iiiee In- rcin..\al i.. W .idinisM, .11 a ineiid 
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 A VISIT TO TALMAQE'S HOME. 
 
 Never will 1 h.iLjvt the iileasaiil imp i •■ a, .n, i,|' .1 -e\er,il Ilhii' talk 
 with \)y r.ilma!.;e in hi-, heaittilnl heme in W a-hm'.;!. .11. I )i . r.dma-e 
 ;;. like till' !,tl.- Ml, (i!.i.|-l..iie. a yenlleiii.ni .,| the ..I.I -., h. ^ .1 .,| man 
 iiei- -h.^htlv .h-iiilie.|. hnl !.^r;ui,.|i- .in. I cmtc-ii-, 1.. the l.il .Ic-iee 
 l|ew.;-wr\ kiii.l and pi nV.ih hank i:i aii-wei iiil;- nu •> ,11 ud .|iu-l j. .ii- 
 ii...ni !i, ,->.p,-iieiice... \„\\-. an.l m.th...!. ..f u...k lie -i-cmcl .i> plea-e.l 
 .;• a h<i\. 411.1 as imaiyrae.l, m -h. iwni!; me the tre.i-me- ,iii,i ..inenir- 
 
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 K.itlicri>l 111 ilu' rotirsc ..i' lii> \,,\^^^ ami lii.iMr.ilile lauvr. 1 saw witli keen 
 initTot tlif ( (ritnial ri".iii. .In . r.-itril in .inint.il laslii,,n, an. I c. .ntamini; 
 .1 >Iali.it tiiarlil. fr.>in Mai\ llilj in \ilu-ns: a iufcf..! iln' I'artliiMiun . 
 a iMiTf >>i liic \,n.i"ilis; a jiiin- ..|' n.ck I'r.jm M.,iiiii Siiiai: a pini- -.f 
 l«-nclaiii In. in l'ilali-"s l.atli-r. ...in ; a |ili\ lattciv mi.Ii a- is .UhtiIh.I ni 
 
 llic (i<>s|n-!s, oic. \\ ,. atvi visiti-d tlic lihraiv \\\wn- st j i, ,u n|„,n r. >u 
 
 (if Well i!minl*.l li.i.iks; aii.l the i,'\iniiasmm ai tin- 1..|)..| ilu- liMii-r wluu 
 I'r. I.ilinaj^'e tak<~ nv;ular i'\i-riisf, |,,r |u- i> a j,'n'ai tpt-ln'Mr in cmtcim- 
 for kic|>in^' the l,ra! 1 . leai aii.l llii- lM..ly in \\w lust ,-, ,n.liii..!i i>>r hai.l 
 inltllr.liial u. k \s an cxaiiiiilf .if ilic .l.ttin's iniiiis,- ,li-\,.ti,,n i,, 
 t\i'i\i-c. 111' 1. hI lilt' thai I'M many veais, ulu-ni'M-r lit- umiIh-.I a l.iwii 
 ulirli- In- was [,, Iciinn-, he alua\~ s|i|,|k.,| .|in»'tl\ .|m',\ii the sHcti ami 
 li'i'k a lun t..i .1 iiiilc . .\ i\\., al.'iii; ilic (•..niiliv '-a.|s " 
 
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 In a renin iiiier\ lew I )i I aliiia^e \\a- aske.l il lie u.ailil lell ..| In- 
 niellicMl 1. 1 )iic|iann,i,' s.-ini'iis, 
 
 "' "I'i '"' i^l'i'l '" lell \..n,' he an-weie.! "llaMiii; In .( iniiipare.l 
 ihe siihjrii nil. In , -n-i.lei al |. .n a- far a- I .' ,n. I < il! in nn, su-ii. .-rajjliei 
 :.n.| .lulal. i.. hiin. \-. I .li.tale the s,., , , .i, „, | .l^hver il ■ .n Sniiila\ , 
 liii .!.. ni'i led h.iiiiiil 1.. hnnt m>self 1.. liie |.'e\ i. insl_\ .lielaie.l \ersi,in 
 .\I\ I.est .la\ - l.T w.pik are I iiesila\ - an.l \\ i ')ies.la\ s, j linn ..1 . .ver the 
 siilijeel. an. I reaM a s^'eai .leal ,.ii ihe I").!., hni .1.. ni..st ..| nu \\..rk v.hii.- 
 ualknii.;. I J"I i|..\\ii ii.ile- m a lillie iMM.k, s,„neinMr. j uiile ..iil llie 
 |'"iiit I.' 1'.- iiia.le. I'll when things are m .1 \ei^ . l.-ai I lin.l iinllnils.' 
 .lelines an ■■hs, me -nhjeil as u ell a- a pen. I f a man .1. lesii'i n-e a pen In- 
 hei.iliie- \eih..se. What \\..nl.l ■ ..cnps lu.. ..i three paj;e- ..| .luIati.Ml 
 eail he e..mp..-.r.| h\ a |.tn nil., an epii;iaiii . .| i;allaii.lei| ni!" a llietaph.'I 
 
 "I'ail I Itel ihat . .ne's ea^e in prej.arniL; s,-i m. .n he- a -jreat .leal lIi 
 havniL; his u,,iU u.i\ ahea.l l'..i evalliple la-t Ueek i rini-he<l a ser!li...li 
 .111 a -iihjett ihal I ha. I piepaie.l all the inaleiial f..r lilleen \tar- a'^.. 
 
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 HARDLY ANY KVOWLEDOE BUT WIXL PROVE rSEFtrL. 
 
 "l li.ni' hiiiiiil ili.it iln-ic 1 . Ii.inll\ .iti\lliiiij,' (iiic- kiii)\v> that docs not 
 ■.iiiii- liiiif Oiiiu' int.. i'l, I ilimk if ilii^ fart (if tin- valiit- of iniscci 
 I. inc.. 11- iiii'.rinath.ii win- 111..11 y.i-iuiall;. 1 i-n .;^iii/i-il it uuiili! lie far hct 
 H'l I lia\f a I. It ..I ..1.1 patent ..Iticf ic|i..it, that ill crrtaiii itin.ul-. I take 
 >i|'' •"!'• ''■' > ..i. .>|-\ -.i|._ ;;f-tt,f. r,....K- .iif l.ii.'iii.itui- tliat start thf 
 'i''iiTi ..t !l...!|.^'iii \ man in 1 ua.l a ili.ii.lci lliat uill nnf..|il Iii- 
 lliiMi;;lii ni .hrci ! i. .:, iliat ,iit i •,-. ,i;i.l \ i ' '. iiiqi' .1 i:itii. I .I'l me ^\\v 
 _\ou an t \a!;i].U ..f tl;, ,i!ii,' . .f 1,. .tli miutal u- lIiiil; 111. 1 iiii'|.arat!. m far 
 
 111 aiha!! •■ I'llti'tn 
 
 \' a- -itii!:>.' .'Ill- ili\ 1)11 ilif |iia//a n! 
 
 the l\'Ii\ li..ti.l in I iMir-' 1. Ktiiiniks \ ;;cntU-inan s.ii.! t.i mi-: 
 ■\\ liat .1.1 u. 11 tliiiiK ..l' the i..iniii:; -iriii'.n-' I !ia.l icuntl) lici-ii ruailiil^ 
 Dr. I'liininini;- ..n pi . .|.li.:iu-. Ihat -ti;.;..;c>tc.l t.. iiic the twentieth ecu 
 fnr_\ -i-ini..n. ami I p'e.ielie.l it three week-, ai^..." 
 
 "Wlial w.i-. the iiatine ..t \.iint'!i-l eini'ii, I )r. I'alnia^'e ?" 
 "\[ \ .1- luer illii-'rati .1." he i.-pl.'.-.l ' I'hi-Ii.iti. .n- aie a> ii;ittiral 
 tl. ine ,1 - I licit hull,' ll hi - .ilw .1; - leeil the .|Me-Ii. .11 w ith ine ii..v\ t.i f^ct 
 11(1 ..| illn-trati.iii-. I nitin..n\ ijimK in nicLipli. .v. When 1 pfcaeiied ui_\- 
 I'lr-t <er11i1.11 I e-'iilJ aiial\.-e.i -nhiid .1- \\(!l a- 11. .\\. i"\en tu-dax I find 
 my eailic--t anal\ -c- .'1 te,\t- m. 1 \ u-eiii! .'■^^ liie tinii!^-. are Imrii in ii- 
 aii.l i.ther lliinL;- i..iiie |i\ I'lal.i.iati .iiid l;:ii>l -tii.!\ " 
 
 AS TO ELOCUTION AND STYLE. 
 
 ''Ill \ lew I'l' v.'iir rem.aik.iMc • iWd ii\er .in .aiuhetice, I )r Talma^e, 
 w..nlil y..n ..hjinl t.. telliiiL; wheie y.iii --tnilit.l el...nti..|l .ni.l -t\l.'!'" 
 
 "I iKwer |..(.k liut three K--,.n^ m (I'eiiti.n in iiu hie." -.i;il the 
 'li.etiir. "With tliat e\eenti..n .ill the ii.i'ii.iiu I •eiine.l w,i- m ,1 ^'laiii 
 111, If mIh ■. j1 w hele .1 _\ . 'tuii; U 11 'W ,11 id iin ~t!l wen I . .lit in the w. •! ..N and 
 ;i ail led the \ . liinu- i .f . .111 \ • .i. 1 - \\ In ... ,1 |, \ I ha.l a 1 .ithei we ,k M.ice. 
 l.iit later 111 lile I i. 'iiM ea-;l\ -'pe.ik !•. i.ochii.r ;.(mm) pe. .jih- m ;|ic..pen 
 air. Xi.i hi\(' 1 li.id aiiv. ti.iniintj; in -t_\.le. I'.i --p^ik m inel.iplinr 1- 
 iiaiiir.al w nli me. ! n-e n in c .11, ( i-.iti.in ,it ii..me ;!-- uel! a - in tin- pulpit. 
 
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 PERSOXALITY OF THE MAX 
 
 
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 And T find tliat tlie majority of people understand this figure of speech 
 better tlian any otlier." 
 
 "Can yon noi give ine a few words about your travels?" 
 
 TRAVEL AS A MEANS OP EDUCATION. 
 
 "W'itli pleasure," lie replied. "I have always felt that travel was one 
 of the best methods of education. Things are so different when you come 
 to look at them from their descriptions. From the beginning of my min- 
 istry I had three or four journeys that 1 wanted to make and I bavi made 
 them all. I wanted to go to the Holy Land ; to Europe ; and to take the 
 Pacific course around the world, especially to see Australia, Xew Zealand 
 r.nd India. I spoke every day in eac'i of these countries. And once had 
 an interesting expcrien.ce of preaching in Ceylon with two interpreters — 
 one inter])reting to the Ceylonese, and one to the Hindoos. 
 
 '■\'ou nuist have met some interesting ])eople in the course of your 
 travels. Dr. Talniage. Who were two or three of the most notable ones?" 
 
 "I think Gladstone was one of the most imposing men 1 ever met," 
 he replied. "He was si.\ feet four inches in height and well proportioned. 
 His marvelous influence, his wonderful \ocabulary, his great personal 
 magnetism, all combined tu make him ;i i)eer among men. He was the 
 personitkation of health. 
 
 "I think the I'jn])ress of Kus-ia is the most charming woman I ever 
 met; and the Queen of (ircccc the must magnificent and gracious per- 
 sonage. 1 was cordially received right into the family of the Czar of all 
 the Rus^ias. They had fur years read my scrnmns. 'fhe (Jucen of Greece 
 also rcad^ iii\ sermons I by her graciuus llcrnlis^iun I was given a slab 
 of marble from Mar's Hill where Paul delivered his inmiortal message 
 lo the .\thcniaiis." 
 
 THE KIND OF PREACHING NEEDED TO-DAY. 
 
 ■'Dr. Talmage, what is the kind of preaching needed to-day, and what 
 should be the training of young ministers?" 
 
 
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 "Tlie only kind of preaching that reaches tlie heart of tlie world is 
 the sympathetic and the helpful. The preacher should start out with the 
 idea of helping somebody. Everybody wants help except a f ; All 
 have n' cds and infirmities. Tell me how many people there arc in an 
 audience and I will tell you how many people need help. 
 
 "I have sometimes thought that after his college c<.urse a man should 
 go back to the old time method of being associated with an <jld and excel- 
 lent pastor, in helping him preach and visit. Intellectuality has never 
 converted men and never will. The simi)le fact is that i; a man goes into 
 the ])ulpit to catch an audience by pure force of brain power, he will fail, 
 because some persons in the room will know more than he docs in various 
 directions. ,\iul that is especially important when w come to consider 
 the subject of political preaching, 1 don't believe a man who preaches 
 I)olitics does anything except irritate his audience. 
 
 "T think theological students ought to have a thorough knowledge of 
 systematic theology, for that is the framework (if religion. P.ut to-day 
 too much attention is paid to the controversial element. The tendencv 
 of some seminaries I know is to make out and out infidels, to loosen the 
 faith. There are criticisms of the Bible in some theological seminaries 
 that I consider infamous. It isn't the well-known infidels that are injur- 
 ing the Christian religion to-day. It is the professors that are teaching 
 that the Garden of Eden is an allegory ; that the story of Jonah is a myth ; 
 and that most of the miracles can be accounted for in a natural way, when 
 the fact is that if our religion is mn a supernatural religion it is the big- 
 gest fraud ever hoisted upon the human race. Supernaturalism must be 
 maintained and made dominant. 
 
 ORATORY AS A HELP TO PREACHERS. 
 
 "I believe our future preachers should be given a daily drill in 
 oratory. I should think that when a man gets so near his [jrofession as 
 to be in the theological seminary there ought to be hours of every day 
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 quent expression of timu^lit, hiii td a cuniiiioii-scnsical improvement of 
 the art of speecli." 
 
 "What do you ctjnsider the best method of deahnp;- with the liquor 
 question?" 
 
 "I believe we must ijriiig into jjreater prominence mnral suasion in 
 overcoming this evil and expect less oi legal enactment. People have 
 made the question of temperance too mucli a legal question and have 
 neglected moral suasion, without which all laws of creation would 
 amount to nothing. There used to he great temjierance meetings every 
 winter for rescuing drunkards. Xow all tem])erance nieetings are along 
 the line of laws." 
 
 A BELIEVER IN PHYSICAL EXERCISE. 
 
 Dr. Talmage was always a devotee of physical exercise and the 
 healthy out-door sports. He gave up a portion of each day to recrea- 
 tion and walking. "I am fond of walking," he wrote when residing 
 in Brooklyn. "Sometimes I tramp seven or eight miles in one day. 
 1 have another form of recreation and recuperation, which I have not 
 before seen included in this category. It is railroad riding. I could 
 ride for a week, as I have often done when journeying from N'ew \'ork 
 to San Franci.sco, and not feel tired. Railroad traveling I consider to 
 be good exercise. I have always been quite a fanatic on the subject 
 of gymnastic exercise. I have been accustomed to gymnastic exercises 
 ever since I entered my jirofession. When I lived in Philadelphia, I 
 went every day, except Sunday, to the gymnasium. I have been a 
 good deal to the gymnasiums of Brooklyn, but railroad traveling, as 
 I indicated, has very much the same effect, and I ride a great deal in 
 railroad trains. I take all the modes of gymnastic exercise, except 
 those that are very violent. I never hang by my feet upside down to 
 a bar, which is only an invitation to ajioplexy. I do not go in for throw- 
 ing very heavy weights. I think gymnastic exercise has done a great 
 
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 deal of harm to a great many i)co[)le, who have not used it with eom- 
 
 moii sense. 
 
 A OOOD BUN AS AN EXERCISE. 
 
 "I have no particnhir hours for exercise, l)Ut I generally take it in 
 tlie afternoon. I Iiave a pecnHaritv respecting running. I always run 
 a little every day. I started thai habit when I was in the grammar 
 school, and have kept it up ever since. Five minutes of a good stout 
 run will give as much exercise as two hours' walking. The difficulty 
 is, that people of sedentary habits do not take a full inspiration, which 
 fills the lungs, but running brings into action every part of the lungs. 
 If one should undertake the habit of running at forty or fifty years of 
 age it might be perilous, but if one begins in boyhood, and keeps the 
 habit up and does not run with anxiety, or reference to catching a rail- 
 way train, he will find it healthy. As a consequence of these habits of 
 exercise I have had more vigorous health than any person I ever 
 heard of. which statement I make with gratitude to a good Providence, 
 and not in any boastful s])irit. 
 
 "I do not run long at a time — not long enough to get any sense 
 of exhaustion. There is a very marked difference between running 
 for exercise and running because you are late, or running because you 
 wish to overtake something. In this latter case you forget yourself 
 and over-exert. Rut if a man is running for exhilaration he stops when 
 the exhilaration gives out. 
 
 "If I am in Brooklyn I generally take my runs in Prospect Park. 
 If I go off to lectures — as I generally do at least once a week — as soon 
 as I get to the city or hotel I find the nearest way out into the country. 
 I have alwavs had the theory that it should be a part of a man's religion 
 to look after his bodily health. " 
 
 TALMAGE A LOVER OF ANIMAXS. 
 
 A liatiaa' love for "the birds of the air and the beast? of the field" 
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 inemioii of this good friend of man many times in his sermons. On 
 one of lis luiropcan trips lie wrote that tlie continental cities "were 
 not asluinud to take some hinl or beast under Mieir patronage. Venice 
 looks especially after her pigeons. Stra.shnrg pets the sto-ks whofe 
 iH->ts are on ahnost al! the chimneys. Berne carefully guards Iier 
 I'ears. Kg\ pt apotheosizes cats. Oh, tliat t!ie cruelty of man to bird 
 and beast might come to an end! They have more right to the world 
 than man. for they preceded him in the creation, the birds having been 
 made on I-riday and the cattle on Saturday morning, man coming in 
 at the fag-end of the week. Xo wonder that these aborigines of the 
 world sometime resist, and that the bees sting, and the bears growl, 
 and the cats get their backs up. and the dogs bark, and eagles defend 
 their eyries with iron beak, the crag> echoing with the clangor of this 
 llying s(|uadron of the skv!" 
 
 IN THE DEPTHS OF THE FOREST. 
 
 Jiorn and broiighi up on a farm and in a country village, it is no 
 wonder that Dr. Tahnage loved the woods and out-door life. He was 
 never happier than wheti in the woods. "A few trees -lo not satisfy 
 nie," he once wrote. "They seem to me to feel lonely, and sigh: but 
 give me the untamed wood>. that with innumerable voices tlilk all 
 night in their sleep, and when God passes in the chariot of the wind. 
 wave their ],lumes and shout as multitudes in a kings procession. 
 Shrubs and bushes do not know much, and have but little to say, but 
 old tree^ are grruid company. Like t ti,ams, they talk in parables 
 from the to). ,.f (krizlm; have wIuV nstories in their trunk: tell you 
 of what happened when your fatln was a boy: hold engravings' on 
 iheir leaves of divine etching, an<l every bursting bud is a -Thanatopsis.' 
 Ihere are -mu. tree-; that were never meant to be civilized. With 
 great sweat and stnun 1 once <!ug up from the woods a small tree and 
 set it in our <loor-yard: but it was always in a huff, I saw at the time 
 that it did not like it. It never fell at home among the dressed-up evcr- 
 
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 greens. It is difiiciilt successfully to set hemlocks and knhnias, ami 
 witcli-hazel, into the rhyme of a garden. They do hetter in the wild 
 blank verse of the forest. Xalure is no no\icc at poelr\. and makes 
 few mistakes in tlie settings she gi\e> her lyrics." 
 
 A PEN-PICTURE OF NATURE. 
 
 .As heantifnl a (lescription of one of Xaliire's landscapes a> was 
 ever penned is Talmage's descrii)tion of an autunnial scene in the 
 West. "For several years I made a lecturing expedition to the far 
 west," lie wrote, "and otie autumn I >aw that which F shall never for- 
 get. I have seen the autunma! sketches of Cropsey's and other skill- 
 ful pencils, hut that week I saw a pageant two thousand miles long. 
 Let artists stand hack when God stretches llis catuas! .\ grander 
 s[)ectacle was never kindled before mortal eyes. .Mong by the rivers, 
 and up and down the sides of the great hills, and by the banks of the 
 lakes, there was an indescribable mingling of gold and orang'c, and 
 crimson, and saffron, now sobering into drab and maroon, now llaming 
 up into solferino and scarlet. Here and there the trees looked as if 
 just their tips liad 1)lossomed into (ire. In the morm'ng light the for- 
 ests seemed as if they had been transfigured, .'uicl in the evening hour 
 they looked as if the sunset had burst and drojipcil ujion the leaves. 
 In more secpiestered s|)ots, where the frosl> had been hindered in their 
 work, we saw the first kindli^ig of the tlanies of color in a Ujwiv sprig: 
 then they rushed up from branch to branch, until the glory of the Lord 
 submerged the forest. Here you would thid a tree just making up its 
 mind to change, and there one looked as if, wounded at ever}- pore, 
 it stood batlied in carnage. Along the banks (jf Lake Huron there 
 were hills over which there seemed ptniring cataracts of hre. tossed 
 u]) and down, and every whither by the rocks. Through some of the 
 ravines we saw occasionally a foaming stream, as though it were rush- 
 ing to put out the conflagration. If at one end of the woods a com- 
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 pared to follow. If God's urn of colors were not infinite, one swamp 
 that I saw along the Maunice would have exhausted it forever. It 
 seemed as if the sea of Divine glory had dashed its surf to the tiptop 
 of the Alleghanies. and then had come dripping down to lowest leaf 
 and deepest cavern. " 
 
 TAIMAOE AS A HEADER OF MEN. 
 
 T. DeWitt 'lahnage was a man of keen percciJtion, and besides 
 being a close observer of nature was a reader of mankind. Perhaps 
 nothmg will more clearly illustrate his powers in this direction than a 
 little essay he penned upward of twenty-live years ago, called "Our 
 Spectacles." It reads as fol„,ws: 
 
 OUR SPECTACLES. 
 
 A man never looks more digmlicd than when be takes a spectacle- 
 case from his pocket, opens it. unfolds a lens, sets it astride his nose, 
 and looks you in the eye. I have seen audiences overawed by such. a 
 demonstration, feeling that a man who could handle glasses in that 
 way must be equal to anything. We have known a ladv of plain face, 
 who, by placing an adornment of this kind on the bridge of her nose,' 
 could give an irresistible look, and by one glance around the room 
 would transfi.x and cat up the hearts of a dozen old bachelors. 
 
 There are men, who. though they never read a word of Latin or 
 Greek, have, by such facial appen.lage. been ma.le to look so classical 
 that the moment they gaze on you, you quiver as if you had been 
 struck by Sophocles or Jupiter. Wc strongly suspect that a pair of 
 glasses on a minister's nose would be worth to him about three hun- 
 dred and seventy-six dollars and forty-two cents additional salary. 
 Indeed, we have known men who bad kept their parishes quiet by this 
 spectacle power. If Deacon Jones criticised, or Mrs. Go-about' gos- 
 siped, the dominie would get them in range, shove his glasses from the 
 tip of his nose close up to his eyebrows, and concentre all the majesty 
 
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 of his nature into n look tlirit i-onsnincd all opposition easier than tlie 
 hnrniny-jjlass of Arcl)inic<lfs (ievoiircd the kt>nian shi|)s. 
 
 Hut nearly all. yountj and old, near-sighteil. and far-siglitcd. look 
 tlironph sjH'ctacle-^. By reason of our prejudices, or education, or 
 temperament, thinLjs are ai>t to come to ii •- magnified, or lessened, or 
 distortcfl. W'e all sec tliinj^s differently — not so nnich hecaiise our 
 eyes are ilifferent, as because the medium through wliich we look is 
 (lifTerent. 
 
 Some of us wear Muc spectacles, and consequently everything is 
 hlue. Taking our p<oition at Trinity Church, and looking down Wall 
 Street, everytliiug is gloomy and dcjjressing in financials, and looking 
 lip Broadway, everything is horrible in the fashions of the day. All 
 is wrong in churclies, wrong in education, wrong in society. An 
 undigested slice of corned-beef has covered up all tlie bright prospects 
 of tlie world. A droji of vinegar has extinguished a star. We under- 
 stand all the variations of a growl. What makes the sunshine so dull, 
 tlie foliage so gloomy, men so heavy, and the world so dark? Blue 
 spectacles, my dear, blue spectacles! 
 
 .\n unwary voung man comes to town. He buys elegant silk 
 pocket-handkerchiefs on Chath. "i Street for twelve cents, and dia- 
 monds at the dollar-store. He ■ ;pp> es tint when a play is advertised 
 "for one night only," he will lia n •">' ■iportunity of seeing it. 
 He takes a greenback with an >. nn ! i >ure sign that it is ten 
 
 dollars, not knowing there are coinitcrft lie take- five shares of 
 
 silver-mining stock in the iiimi>an\ i 
 the moon. lie supposes tlia' every m 
 man. He goes to see the lions, not !. 
 bite: and that when people go to sec ', : 
 come out to sec them. Tic has an idea tlia 
 
 loping 'he -esources of 
 "^ses well )- a gentle- 
 it any of them will 
 •lie lions son: times 
 '.nes lie thicklv around. 
 
 and all he will have to do is to stoop and ]<■ -ic np. 
 brought up v,hcrc the greatest tlissijiati. '■'.'.:, ' 
 
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 I'lkkulK-.it-liil.ls iK'viT issue f;;lsc stock, nnd brooks arc always 
 'Vtirrcm." ,111(1 ripi' fall pippins arc a IcK'al-temliT. and blossoms an- 
 Iioncst wIkh ilivy pnunisi' to pay. lie was niiprepp--(! to resist tlic 
 allurements (,f .ity life. ,\ .liari>er lias Uroeed him. an evil companion 
 lias .lespoiled liini. a pMlicenian's '•liilly" has struck him on the head, 
 or a |)ri<on"s turnkey Lids him a qrulT •■('iood-ni),rlit !" 
 
 ^\■hat ,t;ni him jm,, all this trouble? Can any mortal optician 
 inform us? f/'nrn ,t,'i i,Lrt,de-.. my dear, prccn popjrles ! 
 
 "S'our neiKdibor's first -real idea in life is a dollar; the second idea 
 is a dollar— makin.; i,, all two dollars. The smaller ideas are cents. 
 Friendship is with liim a mere <|iKstion of loss and ^'ain. He will 
 want your n.tiiie on UU note, l-.vcry time he shakes hands, he estimates 
 the value ..f siu h a -rcciin- He is 'lown on Fourth of Julys and 
 Christmas I);iy>. I.u;n.c on ihem yon spend money instead of makiiii,' 
 It. He ha- reduced everyihiin,^ in life to vulgar fractions. He has 
 been hmitin- .ill lii~ liiV f,,r the cow that had the jjolden calf. He has 
 cut the Ford's Prayer on the b.ick of a three-cent piece, his only regret 
 that he h;i- spnikd the piece. lie lia> calculated how much the interest 
 would have been on the wid,,A's "luo mites" if she had (miy kept them 
 till now. He thinks that the celestial city with pavements of gold is 
 a great wa-te of l)iiIiion. Xo steel or hone eye-glass would fit the 
 bridge of his nnse. Through what does he look? Gold spectacles, 
 my dear, gold spectacles! 
 
 I know a man who sees everything as it is: black is black, white is 
 white, and speckled is -peckled. He looks straight through a man, 
 taking him at any p,,int— heart, lungs, liver, ribs, backbone being no 
 obstruction. People jia-s before him for what they arc worth. The 
 color (.f the -kill i- nothing, the epaulettes nothing, the spurs are 
 nothing. He think- no more of a dog because it once ran under the 
 carnage of the l-'ud .Mayor; and when a prince has an l tack of nose- 
 bleeding, the blon.l -ecms iin more royal than that of other people. 
 Jle takes out of one of hi- vest-pockets scales, in which he weighs 
 
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 them off and wipe them on her apron hefore she could see thronijh 
 then! at all. Her ■■.-econd-siij^ht" had now come, and s!ie would often 
 
 and then look o\-er the top of them while 
 
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 lis return of her vision. 
 
 inu' aloni;- -n well without them, she often lost her spectacles. 
 T weeks unloiiclied on the shelf in the red 
 
 SMiiietinies thev would lie fi 
 
 morocco case, the tla]) uiilifted. She could now look otT upon the h 
 which for thirty _\ ears -he had not hccn ahlc to see from the pia; 
 
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 irimrose. or cultured the eer; 
 
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 of fire, and wondered who rode m it. She saw a vapor lloatins,^ thinly 
 away, as though it wc-e a wing ascending, and Grandmother muttered 
 in a low tone: "A vapor that appearetli for a Httle season, and then 
 vanisheth away." She saw a hill higher tlian any she had ever seen 
 before on the horizon, and on top of it a King's castle. The motion 
 of the rockirg-chair hecame slighter and slighter, until it stopj^ed. 
 The spectacles fell out of her lap. .\ child, hearing it, ran to pick them 
 up, and cried: "Grandmother, what is the matter?" She answered 
 not. She never spake again. Second-sight had come! Her vision 
 had grown better ami better. What she could not see now was not 
 worth seeing. ' ot now \]iyough a glass darkly! (Irandmother had 
 no more need of spectacles! 
 
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CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 AXF.CDOTKS SCENES AXI) IXCIDEXTS. 
 Talks ii.i.rsTKATixc, tiu: c haracter or the great prkaciier — Some 
 
 ()!■ THE INC'HlENTS IN HIS CAREER THAT CHANCED H ES AETER LIFE 
 (iREAT El'ESCIDES I X H ES EIEE HISTORY ANECDOTES INNUMER- 
 ABLE TOED • AND UV THE ILLISTRIOLS DIVINE. 
 
 Stories and anecdotes innunicrahle conld he related of T. DeW'itt 
 Talmage— in fact, volumes could he tilled with theuE A more i)rolific 
 writer prohahly never lived, and no man more freciuentlv made use of 
 story and anecdote in his sennr)n> :md Iccturo than he. He was not 
 without a large vein of humor. ;ind when in the mood couKl vie with 
 any of our famous wits in framing an apt replv. 
 
 HARB ON THE INSURANCE COMPANIES. 
 
 After the 1)urning of tlie sccoml lahernacle in Octoher. i8S<), when 
 an acquaintance remarked to him that the Lord seemed to deal hardiv 
 with his church, he said: "Xo. the Lord has hles-ed ns all the time." 
 
 "But what a lo.-s." the friend said. "Three hundred tlunisand 
 ilollars!" 
 
 "Oh. no'" replied the witty preacher, "the Lord is chastising the 
 insurance companies. We were fully insured." 
 
 THE DOG AND THE ICE-CREAM FREEZER. 
 
 Dr. Talmagc wa- fond of relating an incident which occurred in his 
 younger married days. He said that he was sitiing in the countrv 
 parsonage on a coid winter day. looking out of his hack window toward 
 the house of a neighbor. She was a model of kindness, and a most 
 convenient neighbor to hax'c. 
 
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 ■"U was a rule between us," said tlie doctor, "tliat when either Iioiise 
 was in want of anythinij it should borrow from the other. The rule 
 worked well for tlie jjarsonage, l)ut rather badly for the neij^hhor. 
 because on our side of the fence we had just bei^un to keep house, and 
 needed to borrow everythinl,^ while we h;ul nothing; to lend except ;i 
 few semions, whicli tlie nei,u;hbor never tried to borrow, from the fad 
 that she had enough of them on Sundays. There is no danijer that 
 your neighbor will burn a hole in your new brass kettle if \(iu have 
 none to lend. It will excite no surprise to sa\- that we had ;in interest 
 in all that happened on the other side of the ]Kirsonage fence, .ind tli.at 
 any injury inllictcd on so kind a woman would rouse our ssniiiathy. 
 
 "On tlie wintry morning of which 1 sjieak. our neighbor had been 
 making ice-cream; but there being some defect In tlie machincr\-, the 
 cream had not sufticiently congealed, and so she set the can oi the 
 freezer containing the lu.xury on her back steps, expecting the cold 
 air woukl completely harden it. What was my dismay to ^ee th.'it my 
 ilog Carlo, on whose early education I was expending great care, had 
 taken upon himself the office of ice-cream inspector, .uid w;is actually 
 liusy with the freezer! I hoisted the window and shotUed ;u him, but 
 liis mind was so absiirbed in his undertaking he did not stop m listen. 
 Carlo was a greyhound, thin, gaunt and long-nosed, and he was already 
 making his way on down toward the bottom of the can. Ifi- eyes and 
 all his heail had d'sappcared in the dipllis of the freezer. Indceil. he 
 was so far submerged that when he hearil me. with (|iiick ;ind infuri.it',- 
 pace coming up close behind him, he could not get his head out. ;md 
 so st.arted with the encumbrance on liis head, in what <lirection be 
 knew not. Xo dog was ever in a more enib.arrassing jxisition— freezer 
 to the right of him, freezer to the left of him, freezer on the top of 
 him, freezer under him. So. thoroughly bliiided. he ru-~hed against the 
 fence, then against the side of the house, th.en ;igains[ ;i irce. lie 
 bp.rkei'; ;is though he thought he might exjjlode the niii-;iiu'e with 
 loud < lund, but the ^ound was conlincd m so sii-ange ,i ■-iie.ilsing- 
 
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 inimpet that he c.aild i„u have kiu.un liis own voice. I lis way secnic! 
 Iic.!,i;e<l np. l-ri.nlu and an^er and remorse and shame whirled him 
 alioiit wiihiml niercv. 
 
 HOLDING ON TO THE DOG'S TAIL. 
 
 -A iVelinn ..f mirthf.dness. wl-.ieh s<,nietime> takes me on most 
 inappropriate (K-easions seized me. and I sat down on the .ijround, 
 I'owcrless at the nuMnent when Carlo most needed help. If I „nly 
 c-onld have -.)t near enon-h. I wotil.l have put mv foot on the freczei^. 
 an.l. takin,;,r i,,,,,, ,,,- ,,„ ,,,,^.v ,^,j,^ ,u,u.^„^,] him instamlv: Inn thi, I 
 wa. not permitted to do. At this static of the <lisaster mv nei^hhor 
 api)eare.l with a look of consternation, her cap-strin-s flvim,^ in the 
 cold wind. I ,rie<l to explain, hut the afore.sai.i untimelv' hilaritv 
 Inndered n,o. All 1 c,,„!d do was to point at ti,e flvim,. freezer and the 
 a.ljonnnj, do^. and a>k l:..r lo call oli her freezer, and. with assumed 
 _n>'l:,i;nat,on. demand uhat sl,e meant hy tryin- to kill mv -•cvhonnd. 
 Hie poor do.^V, every aite.npt at e^-ape on1v wedoe,! hi„i „,„,c 
 tl'orouyhly fa-i. Mm, after a while, in time to save the <]o^r. .h,,,,^.,, 
 not to save the ice-ccam. my neii-hl.or and myself ettectcd a rescue 
 r-.hvin [.and.eer, the .^nvat painter of do^s anrl their friends, mis.e.i 
 h,s best chance !,y not hein^ there when the parishoner took hold of 
 the freezer and the past,.r seized the dog's tail, and. pullinsj mightilv in 
 opposite directions, they each got possession of their own prope'rty. 
 Carlo was cured ,,f his love for luxuries, and the sight of a freezer on 
 the hack steps t>ll the .lav of his .leath would sen,' him howling away." 
 
 THE STORY OF THE TWO BROTHERS. 
 
 Tn doctrine. Dv. Talmagc was always strictly ortho.Iox. Ffe never 
 changed his hclici unr leaned toward agnostici>m. When a<ke,l ahout 
 opposing N.nie new theological ideas one dav, he said: 
 
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 nothing gained to I'litisiiaiiity li} wrangling. \'on rcnicnihcr tlie 
 -tory of the two l)rother.-.," he said, "wlio went ont to take an evening 
 v'.alk. ai ' one of them looked nji to the sky and said: 
 
 " '1 wish 1 had a pastnre-field as large as the night heavens." ,\nd 
 the other brother looked n|i into the sk\, and said: 
 
 '■ 'I wish I had as inan_\ o.xen as there are --tars in the skv." 
 
 " 'Well.' said the lirsi. how wonld yon feed so many oxen?" 
 
 " 'I would turn them into ycjin- jiastm-e,' replied the second. 
 
 " 'What! whether I would or not?' 
 
 " '\'es. whether yon wonld or not.' 
 
 ".\nd there arose a (jiiarrel: and when the (jnarrel ended, owe had 
 -lain the other." 
 
 One day. speaking of joining the chtn'eh, Mr. Talmagc said: 
 "I'.NCry Christian shonlil anchor to a church, if he gets into trouljle, 
 the I imrch will take care of him. .\ pious captain of a Ciniarder was 
 riding over to I'hiladelphia on the cars. .\ young man came and sat 
 down liy him. when t'.ie cajUain said: 
 
 ■■ '(ioing over to I'hiladelphia?' 
 
 ' "Yes. I'm going there to live.' replied the vonng man. 
 
 " "Have _\on letters of introduction?' asked the old cajitain. 
 
 " '\'e>." said the young man. and he pulled some of tlicm out. 
 
 " 'Well.' continued the old -ea-capiain, 'li,-i\-en t you a church cer- 
 tificate?' 
 
 " 'Oh. \e-.' replied the young man, 'I didn't suppose you would 
 want to lorik :it that.' 
 
 " '\'es.' -aid the sca-ca])tain. i war.t to see that. .\s soon a.s you 
 get to riiiladel])hia. pre-^cnt tliat to some C!iristi;in church. I am an 
 old sailor, and I ha\e l>een up and down in the world, and it's my rule, 
 .-.- soon as I get into pwrt, to fasten my ship, fore and aft, to the wharf, 
 :i;tliough it may cost a little wharfage, rather than have mv sliip out 
 
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 IT NEVER PAYS TO HUNT A FLY. 
 
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 (Jiie \i;r}- warm siiinmer when the iii()S(|uiioes ?nd flics were more 
 holliersonie tlmn usual — au occasion when most men would have been 
 tempted to u>e harsh lanijunt^c — Talmafjc sat down to his desk and 
 calmly wrote a ilr_\ly-humonius essay on the small insect. "It never 
 pays to hunt a lly." he wrote. '\\>n clutch at him; you sweep your 
 hand convulsively throu^di the r'ir: yju wait till he alights on your face, 
 and then give a fierce >lap on the ])lace wlierc he was. You slyly wait 
 till he crawls up your sleeve, and then give a violent crush to the folds 
 of your coat, to find out that it was a different lly from the one you 
 were searching after. That one sits laughing at your vexation from the 
 tip of yr ir nose, .\pothecaries advertise insect exterminators; but if 
 in sumn :r time we set a glass to catch Hies, for every one we kill there 
 are twe .c coroners called to sit as jury of inquest: and no sooner does 
 one disajipear under our fell pursuit, than all its brothers, sisters, 
 nephews, nieces and second cousins come out to see what in the world 
 is the matter." 
 
 THE STORY OF THE KILKENNY CATS RETOLD. 
 
 In the earlier days of his niini-.tr_\ Dr. Talmage made a humorous 
 analysis of the -tory of the Kilkenny cats, in order to forcibly illustrate 
 (lie contrariness of human nature. His version of this famous battle is 
 as follows: 
 
 .\mong the beautiful hills of an inland county of Ireland, occurred 
 a tragedy with which we arc all familiar. It seems that one day. 
 r.rged on by a malevolent and violent spirit, two cats ate each other up, 
 leaving nothinsz but tb.e tijis of their tails. There never has been a 
 more e\hausti\e treatir.ent of any subject. 
 
 We were once (lis]ioscd to take the whole account as apocrvphal. 
 We asked ourselves how it was possible. There are anatomical and 
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 mem. thai tliey succeeded in inasticatint,' each other's heads, all protr- 
 rcss must have ceased at that iioint. for the teeth of hnth pafties haviiiLj 
 hcen destroyed, how could they have i)ursucd their ])hysiolo^rical 
 investii^ations any further? Beside this, di^'estion could not have been 
 S<)m«- on in Ixith then- stomachs at the same time, for at tlie hour 
 \\hen the saliv.iry IliuM was ()assins; from the parotid and suhmaxill.-irv 
 glands oi cat minilK-r one upon cat numlK-r two. the pancreatic secre- 
 tions in the latter wrnild have l.ecn so neutralized that tlicy could not 
 have acted upon the or.L,Mnism of the former. 
 
 Iiuthermore: The conclusion of the Kilkenny story in re,t,Mrd to 
 the uninjured extremities of the two cats would seem to imne the 
 fallacy of the whole narrative, because tlic ferocity of felines which 
 stoi)i)ed not lor ribs, back-bone, sirloin, and haunches, would have 
 S:one on till none would have been left to tell tlie tale. 
 
 Xeverthelos. I mu>t accept the historical accuracy of the statement. 
 It is confirmed by the Fathers and contemporary witnesses, and by our 
 own observation. In our boyhood, the housekeeper complained about 
 a cat that was perpetually ravat,nng; the milk-pans: and so we <lescendcd 
 into the cellar with a l)ean-iiole. expectins; at one blow to wre.ik capital 
 punishment upon the de[)rcdator. It was one of the evilest hours of 
 our lives. Sitting- in our study this mornin.q-, at peace with all the 
 world, we shudder at the reminiscence. At our first stroke the cat 
 of ordinary dimensions swelled up into a monster, that with .qlarini^ 
 eyes darted after us. We felt that our future u-efulnos, and the inter- 
 ests of the Reformed Dutch Church, with which we were then con- 
 nifted. depended upon the stren-tli of our l)ean-i)ole. and with one 
 lerritlc stroke -vc sent her back to the wall of the cellar. ICach stroke 
 of our weapon increased the circumference of her eyes, the hcislu of 
 her bristles, the length of her tail, and the a-ony of the enco.mter. 
 Our bean-pole broke! but this only rouK^l us to more determination. 
 What a story it would be to tell, that a vouth. fresh from scannin-- 
 
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 killed l)V a cat! Tliat slunilil lu-vor lie! Slu- came up with ridoiibled 
 fury, tlic (lilt living; frnni her pau?-. and her inletisity of feelinp; oil the 
 siihject ein])hasi/ed hy a -iipeniatnral -•{>[{. We called out for 
 re-eiiforcenieiits, Thv hoii'^ekeeper came with hm istick to tlic 
 cliart^e. We .tjave her ihe field. We did not want to monopolize all 
 the i,dory of the affray. We stood on tlie stejis with every possible 
 word of enconraoemenl. We told her tliat the eyes of the world were 
 npon her. We cried: "(iive it to her!" All our sympatliies were 
 witli the hroomstick: ,ind it is sufficient to remark that we won the dav. 
 
 F have lieen read\ ever since to believe the story of the Kilkcnnv 
 cats. If ;iiiy other cat. and in the same frame of mind, had met the 
 one that we foiis^ht, they would not have sto])i)ed, thev could not iiave 
 been appeased, they would have clinclied. j,niawed, chewed uj), jijround 
 to pieces, ;md devoured each other, and the nielanclio'v event with 
 wliich we opened this chajjter would have been eiiualled if iKtt sur- 
 [lassed. 
 
 I'iUt why t;o so far to look for Kilkenny cnts, when we could, in 
 ihree minutes, point you out a do/en? 
 
 Two men i^n to law about some insitjnificant thinj^. Thev regain 
 counsel, enter complaints, subpcrna witnesses, eniiianel juries, hear ver- 
 dicts, make appeals, multiply costs, .\djournment after adjournnient, 
 vex.ation after vexation, business neglected, i)atience exliaustcd, vcars 
 wasteil, :md on both sides the last dollar siiem, the cats have inter- 
 locked their paws, clashed eacli other's teeth, ojiened eaoh other's jaw.s, 
 and j^ulped down erich other's all! Mxterininalion more coini)lete tliaii 
 th.at of Kilkenny. 
 
 Two women slander each other. "Ynu arc a miserable creature!" 
 .says one. ■•^'ou■re another!" is the rc])ly. Each one hauls out to 
 public [iiv/.e all the frailties of her antag-onist. They malign eacli other's 
 hats as shockintr. each other's hair as fal<e, each other's tecdi as bad 
 specimens of ilentisiry. While F'et.sy is goini;- up Fourth Street to 
 deiHiinice riaiinuii, Iiaim;ih is iioin,y; doAii I'ifth Street siashinpf Betsy. 
 
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 c<e two cats meet <>n c^(lss-strect^ 
 
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 there is a sudden dash, aii<l tlie fur Hies and down the hill of rcspecta- 
 hihty they roll toi^ether. over and over and over, covered with dirt and 
 slnsh— now one on the to|), now tlie other, now neither, for they have 
 both vanished, lixcuut cat> of Kilkenin ! 
 
 .\ church i» divided into two parlies. What one hkes the other 
 abhors. They feel it their duty to stick to it. In the devotional meet- 
 ing they /-n/v al each other's inconsistencies, hopuit,r that the |.rayer 
 will RO to heaven, but by the way ,.| Deacon KaftVrtyV pew, jn>t stop- 
 ping' a moment to -jive him a shaking. If ,,ne want, the church built 
 on the hill, the other wants it down by the .au-n;i'l. If the ,.ne wants 
 the minister to avoid politics, the other would like to have him -,ret up 
 on the side of the jjuljiit and i,n"ve three cheers for John I'.rown's knap- 
 sack, which is said to be still "strapped upon his back!" When i:ider 
 Baiitrs sits still in prayer, l-'.lder Crank stands u]) to show his contempt 
 for such behavior. If one puts ten cents on the i)late, the other throws 
 a dollar on the toj) of it, to .show his abhorrence of such parsimony. 
 The whole church catches the (luarrelsoine spirit, and be,i,nns to j,r,> 
 down. ( )ne-hall of the choir eats np the other half. The pew devours 
 the pulpit, and the puljnt swallows the pew. The sessi,,n take down 
 the trustees, and the tr.i.stees masticate the session. Tlie Sunday 
 school and sewing--society show their teeth, and run out their claws, 
 and f-'et their backs np. and spit fire. .\nd church councils assemble 
 to stop the quarrel, and cry "Scat! scat!" to the infamous howlers 
 But the claws \;o on with their work, till there stands the old church 
 by the wayside, windowless and forsaken! Xothiii- „i„re nor les^ 
 than a monument to the memory of the dead ecclesiastical cats of Kil- 
 kennv! 
 
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 ANIOCDOTHS, SCHNKS AND INCIDPLNTS 
 
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 Rut uliy should I lilii'l till' cats liv iilaciii^ tlicin in such (lisaRrco 
 alilo company:-' ( )1<1 Talihy, tlic Maltese, with a hhic lilihon about his 
 lU'ck. and a wliitc spot on Iiis face, ever since the dav his mother took 
 liim tenderly l.y the nape of the neck and lifted him out of the asii- 
 liarrel, the pl.ue of hi^ nati\ity. ha-, heen a )>et of sour family. He 
 r.ever had anythiiii^r l,iit a \elvet ))a\v for the children tliat mauled him, 
 Itt'lin.ir Iiim l>y the ear-, or pulling' him hy the tail backward up and 
 down the nursery. He ate out of the -ame saucer with the c' 
 not waiiiutj for a spoon. And when a pair of little feet stopped 
 the journey of life, the white lids covered the eyes like i 
 snow on \iolets, and you went in one rainv dav to look at " 
 lied on which the (l;i\eii curls once lay. you found old Talili\ 
 on the pillow : and he looked uji as if he knew what was the n:. 
 
 Old faliliy is almost Mind now. Mice inav canter across 
 
 without disturliinjj his slmuher. Many of the hands that str 
 
 e still now. and he knows it, .\fter a while his own time '■• 
 
 .nd with all four jiaws stretch.- ' out siitT and cold, you w " 
 
 some mornin,tj dead on the th- 
 
 Tlicn the children will come aiiu him up. and carr\ 
 
 and dif,' a hole. , 1 hury luni with a Sunday-school hvmn i 
 hoard at his head, with this epitajih written on it in lead ]< 
 licf-. Old Tahhy! I\ei|uies — cat in I'acel" 
 
 THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE TONGUE, 
 
 In sjieakinj;- of lyinj,' and slander Dr. 'r,ilmaj;e said that the tn-„-iie 
 "is loose at one end and cm swinj: cither way. hut it is fastened at i! 
 other end to the tloor of your mouth, and that makes von responsibU 
 for the way it wa.^s. X.anthus, the philosoi)her, told his servant that 
 on the morrow lie was t^oint,^ to have some friends to dine, and told 
 liim to i,an the best thins;- he could find in the market. The philoso 
 
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 'wn the next day at the table. Tliev had 
 
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 this u;._\ a. 1.1 lonj^nc .nnkd ,„ iliat ua,. a.i.l i|,c i.hilns,,|,!u-r Inst In, 
 I-aticm-c ati.l sai.l t.. tlu- servant : ■lYuini I trll v-mi t., .^cl the l.cst 
 ilnnj; in the maik.t?- II. sai-I: •[ .lj,| ,,,, ,.,;. i,,., ,,„„^. ;„ „,p 
 market. Isn't tlir t.m.mu. iIr. ,,r(,ra„ of snrialiis. liu' ..r-an of 
 iln.|iienoe. the (-r-an nf km.liHs-. tic nr.i,'aii nf « ,,rsl,j,,:-' riH.n \aii- 
 Ihiis sai.l: ' T.. -ninrr..u I «ant y,.n i.. j;,i the u..rsi {Um^ in tl;. 
 market; An.l on the ni..n.,u the pliil.isnpluT sat at tlie iai,k', an.l 
 there was nothinj^^ tlieie hut toUK'ne— f.nir or live eoinses ,,| tonj^Mie-- 
 tnn.une in this shape an,] t.,n,i;i!e in that shape, an.l the i.hiN.snphcr 
 a^ain l..st his paiienee an.l sai.l: DMn't I tell y.ni t.. vet the u.)rst 
 t'i",k' ill the market :-■ The servant replie.l: ] ,\u\. f,,r isn't the 
 t<Mi«:„e the .M-an ..f l.laspheiny. the ..."Kan ..f .lefamati. m. ihe ..t-an ,,f 
 lyinn'' hanpLiy the LMii^ne uhieh („,,1 so won.jertnllv er- it.-.l as the 
 (ir^'an ..f t;isle. the ..r.i;an of .ieKliiiili,.ii, the .ir^Mn .,f arti. ati.in, t.i 
 make others happy, an.l in the service . .f ( i...]! If yon whisper, whisper 
 jrn,„!_eneoura.i;e.neiu t.. the fallen an.l lu.pe t., the I.,,!. The time 
 will soon eome when we uill all whisper! The voice v. ill he enfeehle.l 
 in the last sickness, an.l thonj,^!, that voice conl.l lanj^'h an.l sh..nt. an.l 
 MiiJT an.l hall.H, nntil the forest echoes answere.l. it will he s,, feehle that 
 we can only whisper c ins,,|ati,.n t.. th.,se wh..ni we leave l.ehind, and 
 .■nly whisper ..iir h.ipe ..f Heaven." 
 
 AN INCIDENT IN TALMAQE'S FATHER'S LIFE. 
 
 Dr. T.ihn.a-e .mce l.iM this siory .,i his li,,yl„„„l days; ■■T|„, ,\■^y 
 I left h.ime t.. l.i.ik after myself an.l f.,r myself, in the wa-.m niy f.nher 
 .-at .Irivin,-. an.l he s:iid that .l.ay s.)meihin.L; uhicl, li.is kept with me all 
 my life: -DeWitt, it is always safe t.. trust (i...l. I l,:,ve m;my a time come 
 to a crisis ..f .lillictilty. \\,u tn;iy kn.iw th;it, havin- been sjck f.ir fif 
 teen years, it was no easy thin- f..r ii j to sup.port ;i family; hut aiw:iys 
 Cod came to the rescue. I rememher the time.' i:e sai.l, 'when I .lidn't 
 know what to .1... ami 1 saw a man on horsehack ri.lini; up the farm 
 laiiv. an;! he aiui.iUiKe.i i.. me ih.u i iia.i heen nominate.l l.ir the niosl 
 
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 Iiu-iatuf ..iVi.c in .ill tlio i;iit ,,f ilu' pcnplf ,,i the loimty; .•iii.l to that 
 "I'tuf I u;i- rlc'clf.l. aii,| („„I jn thai \va\ im^t all m\ \\aiit>, ailM 1 tell 
 \"\\ ii iv alu.i\ ^ ,ak' tn liu>t I inn.' " 
 
 TALMAQES INTERESTING THOUGHTS. 
 
 \- ilhi-itatin- the inrr.tnhif.s ,.|' iiian'UT and nri^niality ni th(.nj,'ht 
 "I Dr. lahna.Ljc. iho f.ill, uiiiM i.ara.t,'raphs t;,la'ii at ran.lnin iVoin -vr- 
 in.ui- and K^imv-, uill . ,vv' ihu uadi-r an inM^ht int.. the diaractor of 
 tin- man : 
 
 • 'n Iho iSihk-. — After the haltli' ],vi<<rc kiidiniond ha<l hcon over 
 ■•iveral day-, a man was fonnd cUa.l. uith hi> hand on the open Hihlc. 
 'I"lu- Mnniner inM-rt- had laketi the lle>h from the hand, and there was 
 notliin- |„„ ,1,,, .l,,.],.,,,,, K.f, . i„„ ,1,^. ,i.;,,]^,,,,„ f|„^,^,,., i;,^. ,,„ ,1,^. ,,|,^,„ 
 
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 "I the shadou nf .li.ath. I will iVar no evil; Thy ro,l ;,nd Thv staff thev 
 
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 me will eoine when all the line novel 
 
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 t(!ries and .all the e\(|niMte es.-.iy, wiK d 
 
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 prompt .answer wliirh w.as i^iveii l.\ Wilkes, wl 
 n;,aiiist. "\\ here w.as vonr eliiireh hefoie f 
 
 erin ''ro!est;iiitisin reminds ns nf tl 
 lo was .asked hv a i\( 
 
 l.aet' Irefore yon wa lied it this morniiu 
 
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 On liu-oiisisieiuy.— .\ p.„,r hoy slyly takes from the basket of a 
 hoke pear — s.a'.ins,^ some one else fiom the cholera 
 
 market 
 
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 and yon sii.olher him in tlu' horrihle attiK 
 
 jail, or Xew ^■nrk T 
 
 "phere of Ravmond street 
 
 omiis. \vlii!e his cousin, who has heen skillful 
 
 ennu,<;h to -tea! .Ssn.ood from the city, y.,u will make a candLl 
 tl;e .\ew ^■ork I. 
 
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 10 :.L:\ptian (lueen was a fool when she di.ssolved a 
 
 icticss p,,ui in a sini^ie cup of pleasure! Tiie Indian chief was a fool 
 
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 I'tXi ANECDOTES, SCENES AND INCIDENTS 
 
 when lie. nndcrratins tlie mnim'ntiim of the current, and thinkinaf he 
 could stem the nn'c;hty flood, laiinclicd his canoe in the rapitls and went 
 over Niaijara! He is a fool who sports with a deadly seri)ent! A man 
 is a fool, who, unarmed and alone, springs to comhat with a lion! I'ut 
 sin is stronii^er than a lion, and more \enomous than a serpent! 'llie 
 momentum of its destroyin.ij llood is mightier than Nia.^ara's. and. 
 more precious than all (pieeuly regalia, it dissolves in one cup of evil 
 gladness "the Pearl of (ire,-\t Trice!" 
 
 ()n I\emorse. — I>"or e\er\- sin. great or small, conscience, which is 
 the voice of (iod. has a reproof more or le.-s emphatic, ("harles IX., 
 responsible for the St. liartholoiiicw massacre, was chased li\- the hitter 
 memories of l;is deeds, and in his dying moments >aid to his doctor, 
 .Ambrose I'arr\ : 
 
 "Doctor. I dciu't know what's the matter with me; I am in a fever 
 of limly and mind, and ha\e been for a long while. O'l. if 1 had onlv 
 spared tlie innocent and the imbecile and the crippled!" Rosse.ati de- 
 clared in old age that a sin he committed in his youtli still ga\e him 
 sleepless nights. Charles II.. of Spain, could not sleep miles-- In; had in 
 the room a com'essor df two friars. C'ataline had such bitter memories 
 he w;is -tariled at the le.ast sound. Cardinal Heanfort, ha\ing slain the 
 Duke of (ili'ucester. often in the night wouM say: 
 
 " \\\:i\! awa\ ! \\'li\- do you look :U me?'" 
 
 ki'-b.ard 111., li.'iving >-lain his two nephew^, would sometimes in 
 the night leap fr<im his c((uch and clutch hi-- swonl. lighting appari- 
 tions. 
 
 ( )n I.n'e. — I once stixid >;\ :i platform with a clergyman, who told 
 this in.arvelous st,,i-\: '■Thirty year> ago two \onug men started out 
 to .aiiend I'ark Theater. \'ew \'ork. to sec a p'a\ vshich made rvligion 
 ridiculous .-ukI h\ pocritic.al. 1 law had been biougli! up in Christian 
 families. Tluw st,irte<l for the theater to m-c that \ile [)l.av. .and their 
 carK coinictioiis came back n]Hin them. I bey felt it was not right to 
 L'o. but still thev wenl. 'Tliev came to the door ,.f the theater. ( )ne t)f 
 
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ANKCDO'I'KS, SCHXKS AND INCIDENTS 2()7 
 
 tlic vdimi,'- men stoppi^d and started for lionic. Inn returned and came 
 nji t(i tlie door, lint had nut the coura.ije to '^n in. lie again started for 
 h.nnie, and went Imine. The otlier xdiiiiL; man went in. lie went from 
 nne (i-^rree df tiMn|itati(in \<i another, C'atii.;ht in tlie whirl of frivolity 
 a.nd sin. he sank lower and lower, lie lo-t his Im.sine-s jiosition. He 
 losi his nioraN. lie lost his s(jnl. He died a <lreadinl death, not one 
 star of n!ere\- shining- (ui it. I stan<l before yon id-day." said that min- 
 i-ter. "tci ih.ank (iud that for twenty years I ha\e heen permtiteil to 
 jireaeh the .yosml. 1 am the other yonns;- man." 
 
 On Destiny. — I n the State of Ohio tliere is a eoinn-honse tiiat 
 stands in sn;ii a way that the ram-drops that fall on the north sicle i^o 
 into Lake Ontario .-ind the (iiilf of St. Lawrence, while those that fall 
 on the sonth side .i^n into the Mississippi and the I mlf of Mexico. |iist 
 a little putt' of wind determines tlie destiny of a rain-(lrop f,ir two thou 
 sand miles. \\'liat a suu ;estive thon.ijht, tiiat you and 1 mav he setting 
 in motion inllnences that shall determine a man's destiiu- for eternitv! 
 
 On l'ors.;i\eness. — .\n old Christian lilack woman was LjiiiiiL^ along' 
 the streets of Xeu 'S'ork with a hasket of apples that she had for sale. 
 .\ rough sailor ran against her and up^et the ha-ket. and stood hack, 
 e.xpcetjiig to hear her scold friglitfull\- : hnt she stooped cjciwn amlpicked 
 n|i the ap]>les and said: "( ioil forg^i-.e y<in, mv son, as 1 do." The 
 sailor saw the nu'a.iiiiess of wh.at he had done, felt in his jiocket for his 
 nione\, and insisted that slu' shmild take it all. 'i'lunigh she was hlack, 
 he called her mother, and -aid: "I'orgive me, mother, I will never 
 do anything so mean aijrain." .\hl there i-- a power in a iorgi\ing spirit 
 to o\ercome all hardness. There is no \\a\- <>i coiuiuering men like that 
 of bestowing upon them _\i)ur pardon, whether the\ wiil accejit it or 
 not, 
 
 On Mercie--. — Tln're was a man whu i-ame o\er frdin Xew ^'ork 
 some years ago, ,-'n(l threw himself down on the I'lUiige in his hnu^e. 
 and s;iiil, "W "11. c . crv thiiiL;"^ g' Mie." The\ saiil "W hai dc i \ on mean -" 
 
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 Koiif to pieces— notliing left." His little diild i.oundcd from the otiicr 
 .side (if the room, and said: 
 
 "Papa, you have me left." And the v\'ife, who had l,een very .sympa- 
 thetic and helpful, came up and ^aid: 
 
 "Well, my dear, you have me left." And the old grandmother, 
 seated in a corner of the room, put up her >pcctacle> on her urinkieu 
 forehead arid said: 
 
 "My son, you h;i\e all the promises of (...d left." Then the merchant 
 I'lirst into tears and said: 
 
 "What an in-rate I am' 1 fmd I have a -reat many thin--, left. 
 Ciod forti^ixe me." 
 
 On Salvation. — j was rcadiii-- o, ;i >lii|i thju was comin- from Cali- 
 fornia during the time of the .yold excitement. The crv of -iMre! lire!" 
 was heard on shiiihoard, and the cajitain headed the vessel for the shore, 
 hut it was found that the ship woul.l he consumed before it reached the 
 hcacli. There was a man on deck fastenini; his t;-old an mud him in ;i 
 belt, just ready to sjiring overboard, when a little i,nrl cime uji to him 
 and said: 
 
 "Sir, can you swim'" lie saw it was a (|uestion whether he should 
 save his ij^<dd or save that little child, and he said: 
 
 "Ves, my darlint,r, I can swim," and he dashed his ,i;-old ,,n the deck. 
 "Xow," he says, ••])ut your arms .around my neck; hold on very hard: 
 put your arms arotmd my neck." 
 
 .\nd then !he man plun.tred into the sc;i and pm out for the be.ach, 
 and a i;reat w;i\e lifted him hinjli upon the >liore, mkI when the ni;m 
 was beiui;- brought to conscion.Mie^s he looked u]); the little child, with 
 an.xious face, w.is bi'iidiuf,- over him. lie had s.aved her. 
 
 On Self.— Cleiieral l-'isk says that he once -tood at ;i sl.avc-bhjck 
 where an old Chri-ti.in minister was bein- sold. The .-mctioneer s.ai.l 
 of hiiu, "What bid .lo 1 hear t'or this man' He is a very j,r,H,d kind o! 
 a man; he is a minister." SomcboiK >ai(I: 
 
 "Twenty dollar-." (lie wa> very old, and not worth much.) 
 
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 '"Thirty.'" "•Thirty-live."" •'I'ortv."' 
 
 Ihf ai,H'.l Christian niini-HT 1io-;iii to trfiiiMc: he had expected to 
 lie ahle to htiy liis o\m, UxWu.m. and he had just seventy ch.llars. and 
 expected witli the ^evenly doilar> to -et free. .\> the Lirls ran up the 
 '-III ni,-m trenililcd more and more. 
 
 "horty," ""hortx-live." ■'j-ifty." •"I" ii't\-l"ivc."" "Sixty."" •"Sixiy-Cive." 
 Tiie old man cried ont, ■•.V,tv///.v /.t viy s.ntl. Xol ,i crni tor the 
 body!- Tiie men around were transfixed Xoi.ody dared l.id: and tlie 
 auctioneer struck liim down to him.--eh'. 
 
 ■"Done— done! Soul and l.ody for seventy dollars!"" 
 The wicked \;i!iie ihc liody uiorc than the -oul. 
 
 On r.apti-m.--\\lien I wa- in San l"r;mci>co a few summers affo. 
 at the close of ,1;^. pre.-ichin- ser\ice. a yotm- man came up on the steps 
 of the ])iilpit and -;;id: 
 
 "'^'ou don't know me. do \ou?"' 
 ""Xo."" I replied. "'I do not reniendtei- vou.'" 
 
 Said he. 'd a.n J.anic- I'.irri-h. nou"t you know Janie,- Parrish?" 
 '"Oh. yes."" I -aid. ■■] do know you: I rcmemher."" 'Hieu the scene 
 rdl tladied hack upon me of ,i .m.all room in Syracuse. Xew ^'nrk, and 
 a dyiuq; mother who <eni l"or me and an elder of the church to come and 
 hai)tize h.er children; and a-ain I saw her lyin- there as she turned to 
 nie and -.-.id. ".Mr. Talma-e. I ,-ent for you; I ;mi .uoin.i; to die. but I 
 can't die imtil my children :ire in the church of (io,l. Will you please 
 to baptize thenv-"" And "in the n.imc of tHe i'aiher. and of the Sou. 
 ■•'"'' "f '''^' ■'"'> <ilioM.' 1 lM,,ii/ed them. Then >he foIde,i her hand,> 
 and <aid. "Mt i^ enou-h. l.,,rd h -us, come (|m'ckl\.'" 
 
 \\dia.t w:is the use of h;i\iiiL; iur children in the church: 
 1 sai.l to the youn- man -!;!-din- .m the liulpil >tairs in San Fran- 
 cisco. "Oh. vcs. 1 suppose you x .luseli have l)ecome a Christian. 
 ha\cn"i \ou?" 
 
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 "I knew you would."* 1 said. ".Any yt)ung rnan wlio liad a mother 
 like yours couhl uot liclp hut he a Christian." 
 
 A father said to his son. ■'\'nu arc tou younp; to connect \ourself 
 with the church of Ciod;" and the next d;iy. wlnle they were out in the 
 fields, tlicie w;is a lain!) that had ^tra\cd aw a}, and it was hleating for 
 its mother, and the t'a^her said to the son: 
 
 "Take tliat land) oxer to the fold lo its nmther." 
 
 "I'-ather." said the lioy. "1 ^ui's- not: you hail hotter let it stay out 
 here six months, and see whether it li\es or ii^t: and if it lives then wc 
 can take it in." 
 
 The fatiier felt the truth at hi> heart, and said: 
 
 "My st)n. take that land) in. and ytui go sourself the next time the 
 Lord's fold opens.' 
 
 "Suftcr the little hildren to come unto Me, and forhid thern not, for 
 of such is the kingdom of hea\en." 
 
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 CHAPTER XVlll. 
 
 A P[<OLIFIC \VkITI-:k— His WORK AS A\ ArTHOR. 
 Dk. Talmacie a cklat wurkkr — W'rotk mich idk tuk kei-igiois 
 
 PRESS- — W \S \VlI)i:i.\ IN ! ER\ ll;U K|) \li HOR OK MAW HOOKS. 
 
 Always a busy man, i)r. Talniai^e w loU' ^ojncthing like eif^lit or ten 
 thousand seiTiiuiis durin.i;- lii> lilV. Many of these were pnhhshed in 
 hook form, and thou.-and> that were ne\er ])riinc(l in hook fonn were 
 scattered liroadcast hy the new>i)ai)ers ot the (hiy. With his lectures, 
 liis regular church work and the man._\ call- upon his time, besides the 
 absolute necessity of spend.iiig ninch tinu' on his sermons e\erv week, 
 he fomul time \.o write of his tra\-els, commentaries on ditTercnt stories 
 of the Bible and books of advice and counsel to the voung and relig- 
 iously inclined, ai ■! these lia\e had a wide sale. .\s soon as he re- 
 turned from 1.)-. trip around the world in iSi;). he published a large 
 vr)limie describins,' the scene- and incidents of th.at triumphal tour. 
 
 TALMAGE'S LIFE OF CHRIST. 
 
 Inimediatel\ after his retur.i n-oni abroad in I'ebruarv. 1890, 
 nfter touring the IIolv Land in search i>f new and fresh material, he 
 began writing his Life of (.'liri-t. llis publi-her exjiected at that time 
 to make S5(x),ooo oiu of the sale for himself and .S_'5o,(X)o for Dr. Tal- 
 mage. He also wrote a Large hoi.k on the (|ue-tion of C'hristian Mar- 
 riage, calling it "'The Wedding Ring." It had a large circulation at 
 the time ui its puhlicatinn and was widely ui ited in the religious and sec- 
 ular press. Identified for a great number nf years in the closest editorial 
 and business relations with the "Christian 1 lerald." this paper has become 
 ill realitv. as far ,as the peop.Ie are concerned, his official organ. It has 
 flone much to further the fa.me erf the n^ted preacjier. .and he himself 
 lias been perhaps it- most famous cuntributor. Of his sernions one dav 
 
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 he said: "There are fifty-four lieavv vohimcs of my sermons in print, 
 and those arc only the ones my inihlishcrs picked out. In iSgj I esti- 
 mated that I had delivered hetween forr tlioiis-nid and live thousand 
 sermons; how many more I have written -inee tlien I do noi know." 
 
 Dr. I;ihnai;e wrote easily ;ind willi ;is threat freedom as he t.alked or 
 spoke from tiie puljiit. lie li.iil iki |iartienl;u- literarv haliits l)iu 
 worked early and Late and had rei^tilar hours f<]r eoneentrati(.n in his 
 stuil;. That he w.as aMe to aeeomplish dnedi.ah' the hter.arv work he 
 dill aeeomplish is little slion ,,i a miracle, for his tinu' was fidly occu- 
 pied with travel, church dutits and the willing; of his siTnions. That 
 lie did accomplish uiore than that is testilied hy the iar-e list of hooks 
 lie has jilaced uixrn the market, s,,ine of which .are as follows: 
 
 '■Crunilis Swept I'p:" ".\roinid the Te;it;due:" '•.Miisk Torn Oft';" 
 "The Marriaire Riiii;:" "Wcjukiu: Her Powers ;nid l'rivile.L;es;" "I'"roni 
 .Maiii^er to Throne:" "Sports tli:it Kill;" "I'he l-'.;u-th ( iirdled ;" "The 
 I'athw:iy of Life:" "( )Id Wells l)ii,u- Out:" ■h'.very-D.av Reli.^icni;" 
 "Simduwu:"' "l'"i-i',in!-: 'i'oo .\e:u- Slmre;" "Xiylu Side- of City Life;" 
 "Li\e ( o;ils," and a seore of other voIuuicb of sermons auii adilresses. 
 Slime of which Ir.id wide circni;itioii. 
 
 ENORMOUS SALE OF TALMAGES BOOKS. 
 
 All of Dr. T;dma!;e's li(„ik. were widels re;id, ;nid of his Lil'e of 
 riirist. entitled "l-'roni Manner tn Throne." it is s.aid th;it over four 
 hundred thousand copies were -old. | L- als,i edited successively the 
 "Chri-iian :it Work," " \d\;;:Ke," "l"r;iids Le-lie's Sund.iv .Mai^-izine" 
 and the "Clirisii.ui ! ler.ald." ret;iiin'n:,;- clnr-e of the ia-t r.amed up tmtil 
 the time of his dejitli. lie w:is ;i'.mi c.in-t;unly upon the lecture pl;it- 
 lorm. and s,,i,ie i lea of his diawiu- cap;icity ;is a -speaker ;is well :is of 
 the tni;inei;d independence his ojfts hmuulit him m;iy he .gathered from 
 the i:u^ that he was ^^ucv ulYered and refu-ed S5t>.o<H> fur a series of 
 lectures whose dates, i.ic:ility and sulijeels sh.,iil,l he cmnpletelv his own 
 choice. Souie i .ne once cmnited U]) hi- receii)ls fmui his \arious sources 
 
 
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 HIS WORK AS AX AUTHOR ^l.j 
 
 "i .nc„nu.an,| cM.nKUc, ,l,a, in- ,n,y n.n.cmf bran, coHd pr,„h,ce frc m 
 ^500 til .Si.ooo a day ilu' _\<ar n .mil. 
 
 MADE IMMENSE SUMS OF MONEY. 
 
 ■I'''-" "'•■ Talni,-. ,„a,Ir nm, ,„.,„. ,„nN ,,t ,n,,ncv can ,„.t be «ain- 
 ~a..l. b,u n „ .,|Ma!h ,,•„. ,I,at he ua> aluay, ,,n„lij,al witl, hi. funds 
 ^M-nenn,s and .....dK-ntcd in hi. diarilv and toward hi. friend, 
 iravdcd n, ,he 1^^, „f ..yle. .pen, nmnev freelv if n.„ lavi^hlv. and ,n 
 .general, n.annam.d an expenHvo e.tablidnm-nt. lie ua. aluav. aver... 
 t- ^.vn,o- any idea ,,f :W an,nnn, .,f nmney he ,nade ,m, .,f hi^ varion. 
 c'Hterpn^e.: per!,ap. ,hi. ua. dn,- ,„ critu-i.n, directed a^ain., Inn, the 
 '""■'''■""• ^^l'K■lM^a. , ha, he ua. nuTcenary in hi. pnblic a„i,nde. 
 ESTIMATE OF TALMAGES EAENINGS. 
 
 \l-n, >i)e ,ime..f hi. Silver Inluke he ua.ad.ed „,.,vean e.,i- 
 "^^f '" 1... eannn^-. fn,n, a-l -.nv,.. ||e deehned lla.lv suin.- 
 ^" ' ^■'"' ^■•'> •■''""" " i- "'••" 'lu' I..M-d ha. l,een verv .,M,d „, me''" 
 However, a very eln-e friend ,,f h,., ui,e„ a.ked ,he same .,nesti,m 
 ^aHl: -I ilnnk a ^ er> l,,u e.,i,r,a,e of ,i,e monev received l.v Dr Tal- 
 n.a^e ,nan In. lecnre. and h,. l„„,k. ^.,,,,1,1 b, S-^o.noc. and the „„al 
 "K.y be a ^reat deal tMore. Tun ,hm^. are al.,. cer,ain. He could 
 !'^'ve tnade dnnble uha, he ha. made n he ha.l n,n refuse,! on account 
 
 '".'"^ '''"'■^■'' "'"'^ ■""' ' "'^■'- "'a- '!>a, ! ever heard ..f ha. had anv- 
 
 ■dim.t;- hke hi. .ncce.. in the .anie fielil." 
 
 In iS.^o an amh..r„a,iNe ann. ,,,n,emein ua. made thai Dr d'al- 
 .na^eua.annllinpain.. W l,e,her iha' u a. exac. ly trne , ,r nn, camto, 
 '" ^•"''- ''''^' a""o,.n.enH'm ,,c .tinned -rea, .urpri.e and erdlc 
 >li^r„..,un in ]lr.,..klyn and ,ahe, place uhere I )r d'almaue ua. 
 IsHoun. Alihnn^-h he ^a^, :reely ,., ,],e p,„,r and .pen! a .-rea! dea' 
 "" hin-elf and fannly. hi. en,;rn,.m. incme fmm hi. sdarv at- 
 
 ''^'"■'';" '''^' '^''-•■•"acle. fn.n lecnre.. ntarna^e fee. .ermon. and 
 other literarv u , ,i-: v, n. -it ,1,.. ,;,,,., ; 1,; 1... .. 
 
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 HIS WOUK AS AX Al'TITOR 
 
 AN ENORMOUS INCOME. 
 
 What has hccn tlic size of hi-- iiunmc siiuc Dr. Taliiiapc went to 
 Washington is iicccss-irilv iiiurc or lcs> :i niattLT nt conjci-tnic; wliilc 
 !ii> income has Keen lar.i;e. h\< sernioii- lia\e heeii less wiilely ihssein- 
 inated; anil l)eeausc nf iniTea--iii,t;' aL;e and a desire fur re--! Dr. Tahna^e 
 has heen withdrawing;' from liis .!;real activities in the lecture field as 
 well as in literary life. Wit'iotu dnnht lu' died a \ery rich man, and 
 had he followed a more --ecnlar profe^--ion he doiihtle^- would have 
 hi'Cn innnen>el_\- wealthy at the time of lii- death. 
 
 In ilrooiclyn the Trdma^e lamil}' alwa\s li\e(l in excellent ^tyle, 
 er.tertPiined freely and were h^nd of ha.ein,!.; their friends alMint them, 
 and since lixint,'' in \\'ashin,L;ton the heautifnl h"me of the ']",alniaj,'e'> 
 on Massachusetts aveime ha^ been the <-enter of much -social .i;ayety. 
 
 NO USE FOR TRASHY BOOKS, 
 
 Dr. Talmag-c, although a wnuderful ]iroduccr of hook.- hmisclf. 
 was of the opinion that aitoi^ether too niany Imoks hail >een the lit^lit 
 of il.ay. (hi thi-. -ulijeci he wrote the followini;-; 
 
 "Wdiether it he \>ia!ic cholera "r the trichina' that has u;ot amonj^ 
 iiooks I know not. Imt mo^t certain it i> they arc dyinsj a liundr'^il a 
 day. The secriid hand hookstores are the morLTue.- wh.cre thou.sands 
 of them are laid out. .Many nf them dieil after doiuti' their work, and 
 their eml wa< j^cace. Hut many I'f them fiotii the start weic 
 a.ftlicted with a mara:-mu~ ihat never allowed them to lake one healthy 
 hrcath. The moita.litv of no'cl- is ■-omeiliinj4" fearful, 'ilu'ec-fourth^ 
 of them nevr paid the iiuhH^hiui,'" exjiense--. 
 
 EXPECTATIONS OF BOOK WRITERS. 
 
 ■'Must I'eupli I'ccd to pul)li-.ii iiiu- liiiuk ui urder to tlinl wli.it an 
 e\i)ensi\i' uul uns'iti--factory business it is in most ca~es. T had a 
 friend who had yiven birth t^ a reliL,'ious poem. He thouL^ht it would 
 rival ■paraiii'-e i.o<t.' and -iiaisC tiie nation- lie kcja the secret luiiier 
 
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 HIS \\()|,'K AS W AITIIol,' 
 
 'ock and key for a U>w^ wliilc. -I 
 
 kiuiml; II '111 
 
 a I'cw sDci-ial frieiub 
 
 .111(1 tliat luulcrpniiniM' .,i -tHRr^. I !,■ -ic« ilini iiicalculann.i,' at u! 
 liiiU' the \\(i|-l(l c.nilil liu>t cii'hni' ilic ixlnl. 
 
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 iiaiioii (ii it- I'liMii-atioii. 
 K- iiiatHi>cn|ii \va> in t_\|i.-, and tlir pinni ua- read, and the 
 
 Ilk put ii|.(Mi the markel. lie iMiUjiieted hu Iriend> mi pnM 
 
 leatioii 
 
 liay. Ill aiitici|iati<iii di a lar^e Inrinne. lie li-ined up I 
 
 p liDw many uduI 
 
 l>e Mild. iMfsi. he ealculaied ..n di^|M,>ui,- ..i lucntv ih.msaiid; 1 
 
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 i)e reviewed the impdrtanee m| tlu- u.,ik and ilie laM-itiatiMU .i| the stvle. 
 he put the li,-ure> to utty th-n-and. \iieruard. helhinkniL; himself ..t 
 the I'aet that it i- impovMhle i,. keej, , rare iliin- mi tin. side oi the 
 
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 intie, and tlie eertaintx <,\ it- w nrld-w hh> di 
 
 ■trihiitidii, he eoiichided 
 
 iDiiiKiii, he eoiicliKleil 
 II rea-miahle to e\peet the eireuIatKin m' mie hundred ilimi>aiid. 
 
 I he faet «a-, that m' i!r. iir-t editimi .,i li\e liundrivl enjiies, one 
 hundred and fifty were Mild, and the reM were L;i\en a\\a\. It- rivalry 
 did uiil hurt Jnhn Miltmi's reputatimi a hit. M\ friend'.- experience was 
 that III the inaii -]i(iken . if in the tenth ehaptei m kev elatn m : I took 
 
 ■''^' ''"'^' I !< '>!'! "f the an-el'- hand, and ate it up: and it wa- in iii\' 
 
 nimith sweet as Imnev ; and a- s(„,ii :,- I iiad eaten it. iii\ helly was hit- 
 ter.' .My friend died (if eha-rin. and wer.t where hi- luKik had no eir- 
 «. Illation, and therel'ore will ne\er -ee tlu- ariicle: otherwi-e I would 
 not have written it, Hefore any one i--ne- a hook he had hetter make 
 .1 tour (ii the -eeonddiand iiook-tore-. ,ind a-k what iiroportion of the 
 hooks puhlislied in thi- da\ are profound tiz/les. 
 
 THE BEST WAY TO REFORM THE RACE. 
 
 'I once had a cross old relative who heheved in war, hccause he 
 thini,i.dit the he-t wax to reform the race wa- to keep killini,' it ot"f. 
 While I reject that theory I really he!ie\e that thi- eiiidemic anioii;,^ 
 hooks is fortunate. If mie liah' of the hook- which ha\e heeii printed 
 in the l.i-t thirty ve;'.r- lia'l (.mKinued to live, our lihraries and hook- 
 -taiid- would ha\c iieeii -o crowded that the world w(inld have had no 
 louiii iu tuiu au.uiid. il ail liie -now tiiat iia- ever ftiien had contimied 
 
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 ly.n>; on tlK- .nmn.l. uc ^lu.„l,l 1,.^. I,a,l hank. .,f „ ..arlnn- udl up 
 on touanl ti.e nmon; In.t f.,run.atdy the cn>tal. „k1,: aiul'ihc onlv 
 reason that nur way i> nut cMitircly hlucknl hy >nouMnnn. , .f htcTatuiv 
 is hccan.c iln-.-nKi. tK- paper mills iho nialcria! M,aks a\,-iy. I.nni,^ i,fe 
 to all o,hmI h,H,i.s, an.l inninrahlc Mpnltnrc m ih...,' that ,i:v I'arly !" 
 ON THE DEATH OF PERIODICALS. 
 Mn.-h in till- snm. vi^n i. tlu- h.ll,,uni,- on ih.- -.Imn hiV an.l cariv 
 mortality ,,f ni-uspapcr> an,l prr:.HhVaN. TIu' artirU. ua> urittni in 
 l-V'. Init hcar> as „UH-h truth today a- it .li,l then. -Thcv i- a tVar- 
 ful nmrtality an„,n,i,r pcrio-jicaks." he umir. -An vpi.lnnir ha> hrnkon 
 out uhid, has hr,,nt;ht to the ki^t -.^p manv ,,i iho .lailie.. uirklit-s. 
 ■■""I "imuhlies. D.Min- the la^t feu weeks, M-,,re, nf the^e ha^e ,lie,l of 
 eholer;. i.U-ant,nn. < -nly a little uhile ,.-n. th.x eanie i-nrth unh llan,- 
 "i.t;- I)r.,speetns an,l 1,,,,^ h'-t nf e-iiinetit e. .„,; iluu. ,r,; hm the plaees 
 ;lial knew them onee kii.w theni iid ni' .re. 
 
 A PROVIDENTIAL INDICATION. 
 
 -Men sneeee.lin- in n,,thin- e!>e ha\e enneludea it t,. he a provi- 
 <lential in.lieation that th.^v .h„nl.l pnhh.h a paper. .Manv hun.lre.ls 
 of thonsan.ls „f .lollar., ha heet, ,.,tnk, an,I exery i^Mte of the majoritv 
 of the temperance. .Snnday-.eliMol. reli.^io,,., an,l political papers o'f 
 tlie country is a i.Iun-e into .leht frotn ul;id, thev are hoping; s.„n- 
 lu.rcha.H-r w,ll hft them out. It i. a con^atu qne.Mion in the commu- 
 mty uhere relioi,,,,, neu..papers ^,. to uhen they .lie? We kn..w whc 
 the hasely parti-an -n to, '\ith,,ut askiii.-. 
 
 '•Tlie mania i. fearful. Many of our literarv trie,,. Is are unease till 
 they have invesie.l their las. h^e tl,.M,sau.l .h.il.nx in printer's 'ink. 
 .\ine-tenths of them may whistle i",,,- their mouvx ; hut the ,1,,^- will not 
 come hack, having foun.l ..ut M„„e other ,i,asie,-. Wh> all this t^ivin- 
 u]) of the .irliost amo,,L,'- new sjiapers? 
 
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 or periodical go forth unassaulted, ruin i- w^h. Tlu-re is notliing tliat 
 so decidedly lifts a thing up before the public gaze a> the end of a 
 bayonet. The neutral paper almost always fails, because it clears the 
 scorn of parties and churches. Kicks and cuffs are an imlispensable 
 inheritance. The more valuable the quarry, the ninre fre(|uent the 
 blasting. You cannot make wine withdut the cru-liing of the clusters. 
 1 he most successful perimlicals of the ila}- arc those that have been 
 most violentlv hmuKled. 
 
 WHAT AN EDITOR MUST UNDERSTAND. 
 
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 ese papers died for lack of I rains. .\ man may plead 
 
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 10 editor i!iii<i understand ^ouie*hin<j- 
 
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 c wants more than a sci^^-ors and a bottle of mucilage. If h 
 
 thing. 
 
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 retan the idea 
 
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 :is of others, the ])ubiic will prefer to go up and get the 
 
 ling at the wholesale establishineni. lie nui-t be abU 
 
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 enterprises. 
 
 iiing i>en, t 
 
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 '\ernnienis. religions, educational 
 
 social 
 
 idiangi 
 
 .k- 
 
 aniusenicnt.- 
 
 men, in>titution- 
 
 everything. He must have strength to take a thought on the end of 
 his pen and Iling it a thousainl niilo. till it Mrikes within an inch of the 
 jioiiit at which he aimed it. 
 
 "Lack of capital has thrown other>. Ink. pai)er. pi js^. tvpe. jirinters, 
 editorial sa'aries. contributors" fees, post.a! e\i)ense>, rent, machinerc, 
 necessary repairs, are taking ■lown ir,an\ large fort.- The literarv 
 
 enterprise is often .rushed under it> own c\Iinde, drciwiied in it> 
 
 own ink, is chewed u]i with its own t\pe. i^ shrondci in us own jjaper, 
 has its eiiita])li in its own columns. The wider the circulation of the 
 illy-manageil new^iiaper. the more certain the doom. He who attempts 
 to publish a pajier witliout puckei- t'ull of read_\ cash, publishes his own 
 discomfiture. C'all on the witncss-^taiiil the hundreds of men who are 
 now settling up the bill> for their extinct new -paper. 
 
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 HIS WOKK AS AX ATTHOR 
 
 POCKETS TURNED WRONG SIDE OUT. 
 
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 "Every mail Uriiij^s to us tlie parting lx)\\ of retiring publisliers. 
 with pockets turned wrong side out, from which hungry creditors arc 
 trying to milk out another shilling. 
 
 "Many of them have died from lack oi room. At this very tiine we 
 have so many good religious papers on our table, we think we shall 
 once in a while have to take up the 'London Punch' to keep ourselves 
 enough worldly to attend to our secular duties. We fear that some 
 of these religious papers will eat each other up, so that there will be 
 nothing left of them save a few remaining columns of advertising medi- 
 cines and shaving-soap. New ^■ork city has ten evening papers; the 
 number of morning papers no one has had 'ime to count. ^Ve wish 
 them all success: but it would certainly be wise if the three himdred new 
 periodicals which are about to be started would look before thev leap. 
 
 "We wonder not at the ambition that aims for the editorial chair. 
 All other modes of atTecting the public mind are narrow and weak com- 
 pared with it. The jjcu is the lever that moves the world, and the ink- 
 roller of the printing prc^s the battering-ram that smites into the dust 
 the walls of ignorance and sin. Hut the press is a strong team to drive; 
 and one nnist be siu-e of the harness and the wlieels, or, coming along 
 a steep ])lace. there will lie a capsize, and a wreck from under which the 
 literary adventurers will not have strength to draw themselves. 
 I'lueton's attempt to drive the chariot of the sun ended in a grand 
 smash-up." 
 
CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 TALMAGES VIEWS ON WOMEN. 
 
 Noted divixe wrote mlcii ot and for womankind — Woman the 
 yuEEN of the home — The curiosftv of I.ve — 1\fi.l-ence of 
 
 WOMAN FOR (.(lOI) \'lK\\S ON THE READING OF NOVELS. 
 
 Witlmut u(;inan in the church, what a dreary place it would be! 
 Xo one realized this fact more tlian did T. DeWitt Talmagc. and he 
 frequently addressed liiniself directly i > the gentler sex in liis scrinons, 
 lectures and writings. 
 
 WHAT WOMAN IS. 
 
 Dr. Talniage once described woman as a creature direct from God, 
 a sacred and delicate gift, with affections so great nothing short of the 
 
 shioned to lefine and soothe and 
 
 Infinite God can tell their bound. Fa 
 
 lift and irradiate iiome and society and the world. Of a value that 
 
 voi: 
 
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 ed 1. 
 
 enough to let you know. 
 
 or in some great e.\igenc_\ of life when all other resources failed, vou 
 
 were reinforced 
 
 iv a wU'j s 
 
 faitl 
 
 1 in CJod. that nothing could disturb 
 
 In s])eaking of woman as being the queen of the home. Dr. Tal- 
 niagc said that "babella fled from the Spanish throne, pursued by die 
 nation's anathema; but she who is queen in a home will never lose her 
 throne, and earth itself will only be the annexation of I 
 cipalitics. When vou w 
 
 iea\eniv 
 
 mt to get your grandest idea of a queen 
 
 prm- 
 vou 
 
 <lo 
 
 not think of Catherine of Russia, nor of Anne of En<d; 
 
 ;Ui(l. r.'^r o 
 
 Marie Tlieresa of German v; i)ut when 
 
 de 
 
 Idea ot a queen \ 
 
 ou think of the 
 
 you want to get your grandest 
 woman wlio sat opposite your 
 
 father at the table, or walked \»ith him arm- 
 
 in-arm down lite s 
 
 path- 
 
 way — sometimes to tlic tbankst: 
 
 i\ mg banquet, sometimes to tlie grave, 
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 hut al\\a\ - toL;ctliri d.iilimo \ uur pettv i;riclV. corri-i-liiii,'- voiir child- 
 
 i^li \\;iy\var(Incss. jniniiiL;- in ymii' iiil'aiuilc s|i()rls, li-~tciiin[,' U) your 
 fvoninjjf prayer-, tdilin;.;- for you witli medic or at the spiuninLC-wliccl, 
 and on cold niuht> wiappiny you suu!^ and \\;iriu. And then at last 
 i-n thai day when -he la\ in the hack room iIu'ul;, and vou -aw her take 
 ihose thin hands with wbirli -he loilcd for \ou -ci loivj; an<l ])ut them 
 lojjetlier in a dyini; jira.Ncr that cununended you to (lod, whom -he had 
 taii.<,du y<m tn trr.-t-^dh, -he ua- the (j'uui: 'riie chariot- of (i<Hl 
 came down to fetch her. and a- -he weni in all Heaven rose u]). ^'ou 
 cannot tliiid< of her imw, without a ru-h of teudernes- that -lirs the 
 deep foiuida.tions ,<\ your .-otd. and uui feel a- nuich a child a.ijaiu a-, 
 when _\i)u cried i.u hei- lap: an^i if you could hrini; her hack a^ain to 
 speak just .'Uce more yotu' name a- tenderl} a^ -he used to -peak it, you 
 would he uillin,- to tlir..\. wmi-elf on the -roimd and ki-- the -od that 
 coM-rs her, cryin-: 'MMtlu-i' nir.tlier'' \li' -he \\,-|> tin; (|ueen." 
 
 EVE AND HER CURIOSITY. 
 
 In a di-coiu-,-e i .n \dam aii<I h'.\e Dr. Talmas^e said that 1".\e just 
 wanted to know how ilu- fruit la-ted. "She found out." he continued 
 "hut six thou-and \ears have deplored that unhcalthful curiositv. 
 Healthy ctn-io<ity ha- dcme a ^re.at deal for letters, for art. for science 
 and for relii;ion. It ha- i^oue down into the depth< of the earth with 
 the .ucolopi.-t and seen the tir-l chapter of (iene-i-. written in the hook 
 of n.ature. illu-!r,ated with eui^ravin-- on rock, and it >too<l with the 
 anlii|uari,ui while he Mew ilu' tnuniiel of rcMirrection (uerhuried Her 
 ctdaneum and rom]ien'. until from their -epulchre lliere came up -li.aft 
 and terr.ace anil amiMiiihcitre. ilc.ihlifnl curiosil\^ h;is eiil;u-j.;e<l the 
 telescope \ i-ion of the a.-lronomer uutil world> hidden in the di-taiil 
 heavens ha\e trooped forth and ha\e joined the choir jiraisiui,'- the 
 I.<ird. rianet weii^hed a^ain-t planet and wilde-t comet lassoed with 
 res])lendenl law. Healthful curio-ity ha- .i;one <lowii and fomid the 
 
 tr.-ick- of the I'teinnl ( li.,l in llw i„,K i,! •,■,.1 .1,,. . ..,..C, 1 l i. . 
 
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TALMAGE'S VIEWS OX WOMEN 2-25 
 
 and the majesty of t!ie f^veai Jcliovah cncatTi]iefl under the gorgeous 
 curtains of the dahlia. It lias studied tlic spdt^ on the sun. the larva 
 in a heacli leaf and tlic Heht under the firelly's wing. Ft lias studied tlie 
 myriads of animalcules that make up the iihos]ihoresrcncc in the ship's 
 wake .-uid 'he mighty maze of sims and siuiercs and constclhtions and 
 galaxies ,iat IikL-e on in the march of Go<l. Healthful curiosity has 
 stood liy the inventor until forces that were hiilden for ages came to 
 wheels and levers ami shafts and shuttle^— forces that llv the air. or 
 s',\im the -ea. <ir cleave the mountain initil the earth jars and roars and 
 rings, and crackles, and l>oom> v.ith strange mcch;ini-;m. and shii)S with 
 r.osiri!.^ <if hdt steam and yoke- of t\w draw the continents togetiier. 
 I say iKithing again-t healthful curiosity. I'.ut we inu-t admit that im- 
 healtiifid iiKiiiisiti\ t'iie>~ has ru-.hed ihuu<,-!nd- intn rniti, 
 
 CURIOSITY BLASTED ALL NATIONS. 
 
 ■■I'.ve just tainted the fruit. She was etirii)i;>. Her curiosits blasted 
 licr and blasted all nations. So there ;ire clergy in this da\ insiiired liv 
 mihc-dlhful iu(|uisiti\ enes-. who liavc tried U> look tiirough the key- 
 hole (.f Cod's mysteries— my.-ierics that were barred and bolted from 
 all human in^iiection. an<l the\ have wrencb.e<l their whole moral nature 
 out of joint by trying to ])luck frmt from branches beyond their reach, 
 or have come oin on limbs of tlic tree from which they have tumbled 
 into ruin without remedy. There are a thousand tree., of religious 
 knowledge from which we may e.at aii<l get advantage. Ijut from certain 
 trees of mystery how many have ishicked their niiii! h'llectioii, free 
 agency, trinity, resurrection! In the di-.- ..-sion of these stihjects hun- 
 
 Ireds 
 
 and tl 
 
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 lioiisandv of peojile ruin the soul. There are men who have 
 
 ;utitally been kept out of the kingiioin of heaven because ihcy could 
 i;ot understand why Melchisidec was not! 
 
 THOUSANDS OF ADAMS AND EVES. 
 
 "Oh. how mail}- have been destrove.l bv an imhealthful iiujuisitivc- 
 
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 tye-stare and nioutli-jjape f>f curidsity. They are the first to hear a 
 fal.ehood, build it another story higli with two wings to it. About 
 othe- peoplv;'s apparel, about other iK'ople"; business, about other 
 jieople's financial conditions, about other people's alTairs, tiiey are over- 
 anxious. Kvery nice piece of gossip stojjs at their door, and they fatten 
 and luxuriate in tlie endless round of the great world of tittle-tattle. 
 They invite and sumptuously entertain at their house Captain Twad- 
 el and Colonel (.'hitcliat and (iovernor Smalltalk. Whoever hath an 
 innuendo, whoever hath a scandal, whoever hath a valuable secret, let 
 him come and sacrifice it to this goddes> of splutter. Thousands of 
 Adams and lives, who do nothing but i-at fruit that does not belong 
 to them: men (|uite well known as mathematicians failing in this com- 
 putation of moral algebra; gooil sense plus good !)reeding, minus 
 curiosity, ecpials minding your own alTairs! Then, how maiiv voung 
 women, through curio.Mty. go thrtnigh the whole realm of I'rench 
 novels to see whether they are really as bad as moralist^ have pro- 
 nounced them! They come iwar the verge of the precijiice just to 
 look off. Tlicy want to see how far dowi, it really is, but thcv lose their 
 l)alance while they look and fall into remediless ruin; or. catching them- 
 selves, clamber up. bleeding and ghastly, on the rock. T.y .all mean> 
 encourage healthful inc|uisitiveness, but discourage illv-regulated 
 curiositv." 
 
 THE GLORIOUS RIGHTS WOMAN POSSESSES. 
 
 Dr. Tahnage did not believe in women taking pan in politics. He 
 stated that hi- chief .anxiety was "not that woman have other rights 
 accorded her. bin that >he, by the grace of (iod, rise up to the .appre- 
 ciation of the glorious rights she already ])ossesscs. Take the grand 
 and all-absorbing right that every woman has, and that is to make home 
 hap|)y. That realm no one has ever yet disputed witli her. Men may 
 come home at noon or at night, and they tarry a comparatively little 
 while: but she all day long eoverns it. beautifies it sanctifies <> T* -'s 
 
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TAL.\IA(}E'S VIEWS ON VVUMEX 
 
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 within her power to make it the most attractive place on earth. It 
 i- the only calm harl.or in the world. Every man knows as well as I 
 <lo that this oiitsiile uorld, tlic business world, is a 'onj,' scene of jostle 
 and contention. The man who has a dollar strupsles to keep it: the 
 man who ha> it not stni^j^lcs to get it. Prices up. Prices down. 
 Losses. (iain>. .Misrepresentations, (iougings. l-ndersclling. Hnyers 
 depreciating: >ale,Miien exaggerating. Tenaius seeking le.-s rent: land- 
 lords demanding more. ( iold tidgety. Struggle^ about office. Men 
 who are ni tr\ing to keep in: men out trying to get in. C^h. mv good 
 woman, thank ( iod you have a home, and that in it you may be queen. 
 Better be there than wear a oronet. Vour abode may be of the hum- 
 blest, but you can. by your faith in (\,h\ ;md your cheerfulness of de- 
 mean, .r, gild it with splend,.rs such as an upholsterer's hand never vet 
 kindled. There are abodes in all our great cities— humble, two stories. 
 four plain, uniiapered rooms: undesirable neighborhood, and vet the 
 men who live in them would die rather than surreniler them," 
 
 A SMALL "DON'T" FOE THE WOMEN. 
 
 The eloipient i)reacher gave his fair hearers a mild lecture when- 
 ever he observed anything that he thought called for it. On one of 
 these occasions the lecture was ,,n the habit of scowling, when he said: 
 
 'T have a special message f.r women—one ,/,)»'/— small as a word, 
 l)Ut mighty in inlluence. It is this: Don't scowl. Scowling s|)oils 
 faces. I!efin-e you know it your t'orehead will resemble a small railroad 
 map. There is a grand trunk line from your cowlick to the bridge of 
 your nose, intersected by parallel lines running east and west, with 
 curves arching your eyebrows: and, oh, how much older you look for 
 it. Scowling is a habit that steals upon us unawares. We frown when 
 the light is too strong and when it is too weak. We tie our brows into 
 a knot, and kni; them even more tightly when we can not think. There 
 is no denying this, there arc jilenty of things to scowl about. The bab\ 
 in the cradle trowns when something fails to suit. -Con.stitutional 
 
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 scour ue ^ay. The little uMh-r who likes sugar on I,is bread ami 
 butter tells his trotihh in the ^luu- ^^■ay when you leave the sugar 
 off. -Cross,' we say ahoui the ehiUlren. and 'worrie.l to .lealh,' 
 about tlic grown folks, and as for ourselves, we can't help it. 
 But we in.ist. Its relle.x inlluence makes others unhappv; for 
 face answcreih unto face in life as well as in water. It be- 
 lies our religion. \Vc should possess our souls in such peace that it 
 will rellect itself in placid cnuntenanco. If y-.nr forehea.I is ri.Iged with 
 wrinkles before forty, what uill it be at seventy? There is one con- 
 Miling thought about the^e marks of time and trouble— the death angel 
 ahnost alway. erases them. I'.ven the extremely aged in death oft^en 
 wear a smooth an.l peaceful lu-ow, thu> leaving our la^t memorie. of 
 ihem calm and tr;..n<|ui!. Hut our Inisinc.s.: i. uith life. Scowling is a 
 kin,l of sile.n >coIding. It .hou< that our souI> need sweetening. " F,,r 
 pity's sake, let u> take a >ad-iron, f.r a glad iron, or smoo:!ur:g tool of 
 some sort, and .traigliien tlu-e creases out of our faces before they be- 
 come indelibly engra\ed 'ipini our vi:-age." 
 
 ON READING THE MODERN NOVEL. 
 
 A woman once a^ked IJr. Talmage his \iews on the right or wrong 
 of women reading modern novels and he replied that it all depende ! 
 on the nove'. -.Sonic noveN ;u-e exhilarating," he wen' n to say. "bt:! 
 a great perceiuage vi them r-eem to me to belong more lo the Iiterar\ 
 men and women of tlic past than of the present. Some of our moderii 
 novels are appalling in their inlluence." "lUit." .said the ladv. "the 
 heroes are >o adroitly knavish, and the persons ^o bewitchingiy uiUrue, 
 and the turn of the .tory >,, exquisite, ,ind all the characters so enrap- 
 turing, I cam.ot quit them." 
 
 Dr. Talmage replied: •■^•ou ran tlnd styles of literature just as 
 eharnn'ng that will elevate and pmily, and ennoble, and Christiam'j 
 while tliey please. The devil docs n.^t "\ n all the honev. 
 
 g foiili iiuni ./.ir publisliing houses that 
 
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TALMA(JE\S VIEWS ON WUMEN 
 
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 leaves no excuse for the choice of that uliich is (lcl)aiichiiig to l.ody, 
 mind and soul, do to s(jnie intelligent man or woman and ask for 
 a list of Ijooks that will lie strcngtliening to your mental and moral 
 condition. Lifij i> so short and your time for improvement so aldne- 
 \iated, that \ o" cannot afford to fill up with husks, and cinders, and 
 (lehris. In the interstices of I)usine>s that young man is reading tliat 
 which will i)rei)arc him to he a inerchaiit prince, and that young 
 woin;m is iilhn- her mind with an intelligence that will yet cither make 
 lier the chief attraction of a good man's liome, (jr give her ,ni inde- 
 pendence of character that will (|ua!ify her to build iier own iiomc and 
 maintain it in a happiness that recpiire^ no augmentation from any 
 of our rouglur sex. That ycning man or woman can, In- the right 
 literary and iiu,ral imprnvemeiit of the spare ten minutes Iiere or tliere 
 m every <h\ . r\-v hv.ul and shoulders in i)rosi>erity and character and 
 innuenceahM\c the loungers who read nothiiigor that which hedwarfs." 
 
 SYMPATHY FOR THE WORKING WOMAN. 
 
 Mr. Tahnage took a great interest in the working women <if \ew 
 'iork and lirooklyii, and in his nn'ssion work did much to make life 
 I'ieasanter for many of them. On this subject he once made the 
 follow ing .'ipiieal : 
 
 ■•Iherc arc siMv-five thousand sewing-girls in Xew York and 
 Brooklyn. Across the sunlight comes their death groan. It is not 
 such a cry as comes from those who are suddenly liurled out of life, 
 hut a slow, grinding, horrible wasting away, (lather them before 
 you and look into their faces-^pinched. gliastly, hiinger.struck! Look 
 at their fingers, needle-pricked and blood-tipped! See that premature 
 stoop in the slu.ulders! At a large meeting of these women hehl in a 
 hall in I'hiladelpliia, grand speeches were delivereii, but a needle- 
 woman took the stand, threw aside her f-adcd shawl, and with iter 
 sliviveled arm lmrlc<l a verv ihmidcrbolt of eloquence, speaking out 
 tlie liorrors of Iter own e.NperKncc. Stand at the corner of a street in 
 
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 TALMAUK'S VIKWS OX Wu.MKN 
 
 New York at six or seven oVhx-k in the moriiiiij,', as tlie women go 
 to work. Many of tlieni liad no lircakfast. except the ennnhs tliat 
 were left over from the ni^ht before, or the ernmh> they ehew on their 
 way thronph the street. Here they come— the workinj,' gkh of New 
 York an<I Hrnoklyn: Tliese en^aueil in hcail-work. tliese in flower- 
 makinj,', in millinery, in i)aper-liox-niak -: hut mcKt overworked of all 
 and least compensated, the sewin},-w..man. Why do tliey not take the 
 city cars on ttieir way np?^ They cannot atTord the five cents. If. 
 concludinj,' to deny herself somethinfr el-e. she Rets into tlie car. ^,'ive 
 her a seat. Yon want to see how Latimer and Riley a]ii)eared in tlie 
 hrc. Look at that woman and hehold a more horrilde martvrdom, a 
 hotter fire, a more ajjoni/.in^- death. Ask that wom.ui h..u much she 
 K'ets for her work, and she will tell you— six cents for making coarse 
 shirts and furnishing her own thread!" 
 
 PURITY IN THE HAUNTS OF SIN. 
 
 Speaking of mission work one day. Dr. Talmage said tliat he never 
 knew of a Christian woman working among the liaunts of inicpiity on 
 a Christian errand to ever meet with an indignity. -1 stood." he said, 
 "m tlie chai)cl of llelen Chalmers, the daughter of the celehrated Dr. 
 Chalmers, in the most al.andoncd part of the city of lulinhnrgh. and 
 1 said to her as I looked artmnd upon the fearful surroundings of the 
 lilace: 'Do ycni come here nights to ludd a service?' "Oh. yes." she 
 .'^aid. 'Can it he possible tliat yon never meet with an insult while 
 [performing tliis Christian erraiKL-" •Never." she said, "never." Tiiai 
 young woman who has her fatlier by her side walking down the street, 
 an armed jiolice at each corner, is not so well defended as that 
 Christian woman who goes forth on gospd work into the haunts of 
 iniquity, carrying the P.ibles and lire.id. (i<Hl. with the ;inn of His 
 wrath omnipotent, would tear to i)ieces any one who should otYcr lier 
 indignity. He would smite him with lightnings, and drown him with 
 
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TALMAUK'S VIKWS ON WOMHN 
 
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 indignation. Some one ■^aitl: "I dislike very nnicli to see that Chris- 
 tian woman teachmi,' tliusi- had l.ovs in the mission scliool. I am 
 afraid to have lier instruct them.' 'So,' said another man. 'I am 
 afraid, too.' Said tlie first: 'I am afraid they will use vile language 
 hefore tliey leave the iilace.' '.\h,' said tlie other man, T am not 
 afraid of that. What I am afraid of is that if any of tliose hoys should 
 use a nasty word in that jirescnce the other boys would tear him to 
 liieces and kill him on the spot.' " 
 
 HOW TO CURE "THE BLUES." 
 
 .\ woman oiue wrote to Dr. TalmaKe that she often liad spells of 
 "the blues." and w;inted him to tell her how to cure tile maladv. The 
 famous lecturer wrote as follows: 
 
 "Almost every nature, however sprightly, sometimes will drop into 
 a minor key or a subdued mood that, in conmion parlance, is rccog- 
 m'zed as 'the blues.' Tlierc may be no adverse cau.scs at work, but 
 somehow the bells of the soul stop ringing, and vou feel like sitting 
 otiiet. and you strike off lifty per cent, from all your worldly and 
 spiritual prospects. In such depressed state no one can afford to sit 
 lor an hour. First of all, when 'the blues' seize you. get up and go 
 out of doors. iMesh air, and the faces of cheerful men, and pleasant 
 women, and frolicsome children, will, in fifteen minutes, kill moi)ing. 
 I'lie first moment your friend strikes the key-board of vour soul it will 
 ring nnisic. .\ hen might as well try on impulous Uroadwav to hatch 
 out a feathery group as for a man to successfully brood over liis ills 
 in lively society. Do not go for relief among those who feel as badlv 
 as you do. Let not tooth.-iche. and rheiuuatism and malaria go to see 
 loothache, rheumatism and malaria. On one block in Brocjklvn live a 
 doctor, an undertaker and a clergyman. That is not the row for a 
 nervous man to walk on. lest he soon need all three. Throw back all 
 the shutters of your soul, and let the sunlight of genial faces sliinc in. 
 Hesides that, why should any woman sit with the blues? Shone upon 
 
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 Iiy sm-li .stars as dot tlic Caiiadinn sky, an. I l.io.iilu-il <,ii l)y siirli air, 
 and Sling to I)y so many i)Icasant sounds, yon oii|;lit not to 1)C seen 
 niopinjr. Esiiccially if lii^dit from tlie Letter world -trikes its aurora 
 llirougli your niL,dit-.,ky ouj,dit you 1)0 clieerfid. ^■.>n can .itTor.i to 
 liave a rou),di Innclion l,y the way if it is vnon to end amid the 
 lianqucters in white. Sailing toward such a blessed port, \cl n. not 
 have our Hag at half-mast. I,eave to thos^. who take Un, nuuh wine 
 
 'the gloomy raven tapping at the ehamher d ■,' I.nt as for yon and 
 
 I give ns the rohin red-l.rcast and the ehatVnui). Let snme .me uiih ,i 
 strong v.ii.-e give out the long-metre doxo|.)gy, an. I the wh.,le world 
 'l)raise Cii.d from wliotn ail Mcssings tl.)u.' 
 
 TIMES WHEN THINGS 00 WRONG. 
 
 "Of eour-^e there are undoidite.lly times uiien everything seems 
 to g.) wr.)n,y. Fn.m seven .)VliKk A. M, until ten P. M. ;,ir,urs are 
 m a twist. \.)u rise in the m.)rning, ami the ro.im is col.l, the steak 
 for breakfast is tough, the stove sm..kes, the pipes have hurst, and 
 y.ni start f.ir your marketing nettled from head t.. inn[. All .l;iv l.mg 
 tilings are a.lver-e. insinuations, petty l.isses. iiK'aiine-.s <,ii the part 
 of everyl)...ly. The ink-hottle np.sets au.I sp..ils the earpel. ;;.,me one 
 gives a wrong turn to the .lamper. and the gas escapes. I'.csides this, 
 you have a ol.l m your Iiea.I, aii.I a grain of .lirt in yi.ur eye, and you 
 arc a walking uueasincs-. The .lay is nut <,f j.iiut. and n.) surgcn can 
 set It. Xow, the prohahility is that if y.ui would l...)k at the we;iilier- 
 vane y.ui w.)u!.l fm.l that the wiu.l is u.irthea-t. and you might remcm- 
 her that you liave lost much .sleep lately. It might liai)pen to he tlia- 
 you are out .)f i..ii,t instead ..f the d.ay. ]\c careful, and not write 
 many letters while yoti are in thai n ; iiated m.)od. Vou will pen some 
 things that you will he ^..rry i.,r afterward. Let ns remcniher that 
 these .piked nettles of life are part of our discipline. Life would get 
 nauseating if it were all honey. Tliat table w.nil.I be p.wly set that 
 ha.i on it nothing hut treacle. We need a little vinegar, mi^.tard, 
 
TALMA(iK'.S VIKWS oX WOMKX 'J.'U 
 
 pcppiT aiPl lH.r>cr.i,li>li i,, l,ii,i^' the tt-ais even ulu-n uc <io nut feel 
 patlietic. If tln\ worM were all sinn.,tlnu—. uc unuM never lie reads 
 for euH^ratinii to a hi-hcr and Letter u-.iM. P.histerin.L,' March and 
 ucepinj,' April prepare ti. fnr ^hhuuu^ Mav. 'I'liis uorM is a p<;.,r 
 Iriti-liin- p,,^t. In-ioad of t} in^'' fa>i . n the eul.l monntains. we had 
 latter u!np and h.i-ien on luuard the '.sarni inn where niir j;o<id friends 
 are limkin- ,,iit ..• the winduw walel mi^' ti> -ee n- OMiie np." 
 TAKE CARE OF THE PRESENT. 
 lo \M.nien Jin are alway- unrryinj: alunit the Inline Dr. I'alnia^e 
 addi (.•ssfil tlu-t- u oi-.js: 
 
 " i here an \M.nien who are in feehle health, and the are worried 
 ■'hont the finnre. 'Iliey are making out very well nnw, l„!t the\ are 
 hotherin- theni^eheN ahont fntnre pleiiri.ie-. and rhemnatisni-. .and 
 nenral,^ia>. and le\ers. Pheir e\eM.i;ht is feeble, and they are worried 
 leM lluy emirel> In-e it. Their hearin- i. indi'-tinet. atid ihey .are 
 alarmed l.'^i ihry heeoine entirely deaf. 'Idiey felt ehilly to-d,av. and 
 are e.Npeetin- ,in .ati.iek ni typliMid. They have heen tronhled for M)nie 
 weeks with M.nie iierple\i!ii^ malady, and dread hecomim; liiVlon- 
 mv.alid-.. Lake e.ne oi \onr Italth now .and trust (iod for the fntnre. 
 r.cnot -niltv of ihel.la-plieniy nf;,skit!o Him to take eare of you wliile 
 yon sleep with yonr w indow - tif,dit down, (,r eat ehieken-silad at eleven 
 oeloek at u\'^h\. or sit ,l,,vvn on ;i e.ake of ire to eool off, I'.e prudent 
 and then he eonlident. Some of the siekeM i)eople have heen the 
 most ,,-efnl. It wa- so with Payson. who , lied deaths dailv , and K,,i,^,,., 
 Hall, who Used to slop in the midst of his sermon ati.l lie down on 
 the pnlpit-s.,f;i to rest. ;.nd then -o ,,„ a-ain. Theodore l"reliti,i;huyseii 
 had a L;reat horror of dyin- till the time eame, an.l then went peaec- 
 fnlly. 'I'ake eare of the preseiu, and lei the future look out for it.self. 
 I'oirt he (.l.livious of ;i future before you, i.tit d.m't worry and fret 
 about it. Live in the present the very best you kiunv h.wv: let vour 
 kindnesses to ulhcrs be of to-day, y<.nr life an immediate example lor 
 others," 
 
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 TALMACIE'S VIEWS OX WOMEN 
 
 WORDS TO MABRIED WOMEN. 
 
 "Wctniep have tlie eternal salvation of their Inisliaiids in their right 
 liand. On tlie niarriagc-day you took an oath before men and angeK 
 that you would he faithful and kind until death did you part, and 1 
 believe you are going to keep tliat oatli; but after that parting at the 
 door of the grave, will it be an eternal separation? Is tliere any such 
 thing as an inmiortal marriage, making tl;e llowers that grow on the 
 tops of the sepulchres brighter than the garlands which at the luarriage 
 ban(|uet flooded the air with aroma? Yes; I write here as a i)riest 
 of the most high Go*!, to proclaim the I)ans of an immortal union for 
 all those who join hands in the grace of ("hrist. O woman, is your 
 husband, your father, your son, ,iway from (iod? Is there a friend 
 whom you can iulluence? Don't say that you ha\c done all in your 
 jiower. The Lord demands their redemption at your hands, and will 
 provide the means. 
 
 "It is easier for a woman to be a Christian than for a man. Why? 
 ^ ou say she is weaker. Xo; her hc.ut is moie rcs])onsive to the 
 pleading of divine love. She is in a vast majority. The fact that she 
 can more easily become a Christian I jirovo by the statement that 
 three-fourths of the members of the churches in all Christendom arc 
 women; so Ciod ;ip])oints them to be chief agencies for bringing this 
 worlil back to ( lod. 
 
 STORY OF A CHRISTIAN WIFE. 
 
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 "l^ic trrcatcst sermons are not i)rc,ulicd on celebrated platforms; 
 they are preached with an .uidicncc of two or three, and in private 
 home life. .\ consi>teiU. consecrated Christian service is an unanswer- 
 able demonstration of ( iod's truth. A grou]) of rough men were 
 assembled at a ta\crn nne night. It came on toward morning — one 
 or two o'clock. One man boasted that it did not ma' e any difYerencc 
 wli.at time he went home, his wife cheerfully opened the door and pro- 
 
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 laid a wager. They said: "Xdw, we'll t^o alnnp; with you. S(i much 
 shall be wagered. We'll bet so nuich that when you go home and 
 make such a demand slie will resist it.' So ihcy went along at two 
 or three o'clock in the morning, and knocked at the door. The door 
 opened and the man said to his wife, 'Get us a su])per.' She said, 
 'What shall I get?' He selected the articles of food. \'ery cheerfully 
 were they provided, and about three or four o'clock in the morning 
 they sat down at the table — the most cheerful one, in all that presence, 
 the Christian wife — when the man, the rul'tian, the villain, who had 
 demanded all this, broke into tears, and saiil, 'I can't stand this. O, 
 what a wretch 1 ami' He disbanded that grouj). He knelt down 
 with his Christian wife and asked her to pray for the salvation of his 
 immortal soul, and, before the morning dawned, they were united in 
 the faith and hojie of the Ciospel. 
 
 "MY MOTHER'S PKAYEKS HAUNT ME!" 
 
 "A patient, loving, Christian demeanor in the presence of trans- 
 gression, in the presence of hardness, in the presence of obduracy and 
 crime, is an argiunent from the throne of the Lord Almighty, and 
 blessed is that woman who can wield such an argument. .\ sailor 
 came slipping down the ratline one night as though something had 
 happened, and the sailors cried, 'What's the matter?' He said. 'My 
 mother's pravers haunt me like a ghost.' Home intluences, conse- 
 crated. Christian home intluences, ,-ire the migluiest of all inllueiues 
 upon the soul. There are men who have maintained their integrity, 
 not because thev were anv better naturallv than some other jjcople, 
 but because there were home intluences pra\ing for them ;ill the lime. 
 Tliev got a good start; ihey were l;unuhed on the world with the bene- 
 dictions of a Christian mother. They may tr.ick Sil.'erian snows, they 
 may plunge into .\frican jungles, they may lly t" the earth's end — 
 thev cannot go so far and so fast but the prayers will keep up with 
 them." 
 
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 CHAPTER XX. 
 
 TAI.MAGE OX F,VERY-D.\V AFFAIRS. 
 
 The great oivine took for his si'bjects many incidents of every 
 DAv life — The infi.i-ence of cubs — What he thought of 
 health resorts — Views on the tobacco habit — S<icial ms 
 
 SIPATIONS, theatres, ETC. 
 
 For the siiljjects of liis discourses Dr. Talniage looked not alone tn 
 the Bible, hut into tlie every-day lives of men and women. Many of 
 his sern-.ons of tliis character were written in his most powerful descrip- 
 tive manner — sparkling with graceful imagery and illustrated with inter 
 esting anecdotes. Tliey will lie classed among the keenest, sliarpest and 
 most vigorous specimens of oratory ever written, and for originality, 
 force and splendor of imagination will hear favorahle comparison with 
 tlie greatest pro<luctions of any age or country. 
 
 THE INFLUENCE OF CLUB LIFE. 
 
 In a discourse such as de.scrihed alnne. Dr. Talmage once sji^ike as 
 follows on cluh life: 
 
 "Cattle in herds. Birds in flocks. Fish in schools. The human 
 race in social circles. V'ou may hy discharge of gun scatter the flock 
 of quails, and you may hy plunge of the anchor send apart the denizens 
 '■f the deep, hut they will rea.ssemhle. .Xnd if hy sonic power von could 
 scatter all the present associations of men, they would again reassemhle. 
 
 "Ilerhs and flowers prefer to stand in associations. You plant a 
 forget-me-not or a heart's-ease away u]) alone on the hillside, and it will 
 soon hunt up some other heart's-ease or forget-me-not. Von find the 
 
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 herbs talking to each other in the morning dew. A galaxy of stars is a 
 mutual life insurance company. Once in a while you find a man unsym- 
 pathetic and alone, and like a ship's mast, ice-glazed, which the most 
 agile sailor could not climb; but the moj<t of men have in their nature 
 a thousand roots and a thousand branches, and they blossom all the way 
 to the top, and the fowls of heaven sing amid the branches. Because 
 of this we have communities and societies — some for the kindling of 
 mirth, some for the raising of sociality, some for the advance of a craft, 
 some to plan for the welfare of the State — assodations of artists, of 
 merchants, of shipwrights, of carpenters, df masons, of plumlx'rs, of 
 plasterers, of lawyers, of doctors, of clergymen. IJ<p you cry out against 
 this? Tlien you cry out against a divine arrangement. 
 
 "You might as well preach a .sermon to a bu>v ant-hill or beehive 
 against secret societies. In many of the ages peojjle have gathered t>j- 
 gether in associations, characterized by the ol<l blunt S;L.\on designation 
 of club. If you have read history you know there were the King's Head 
 Club, and the Ben Jonson Club, and the P.-otliers' Club — to which Swift 
 and Bolingbroke belonged — and the Literary Club, which Burke and 
 Goldsmith and Johnson and Boswell made immortal; and Jacobin Club, 
 end Benjamin Franklin Junto Ciub, and (jthers almost as celebrated and 
 conspicuous. Some to advance arts, some to vindicate justice, some to 
 promote good literature, some to destroy the body and b'ast the soul. 
 In our own time we have many clubs. They are as dilYercnt from eaih 
 other as the day from the night, i might show you two s])ecimens. 
 
 TWO SPECIMENS OF CLUB-HOUSES. 
 
 "Here is the imperial hallway. (>ii this side is the parlor, with ;iie 
 upholstery of a Kremlin or a Tuilerio. Here is ;i dining-ro<,>m which 
 challenges you to mention any luxury it cannot ati'ord. Here is an 
 art gallery with pictures and statues and drawings frim ilie best of 
 artists — Bierstadt and Church and Colo .-md Towers — iiKtures fo,*- all 
 moods, impassioned or placid: Sheriilan's lsi,!e and I'armors at then- 
 
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 talmagb: on every-day affairs 
 
 Nooning; Sliipwreck and Sunlight over the Seas; Foaming Deer with 
 the Hounds after it in tlie Aihrondacks; Sheep Asleep on the Hillside. 
 And here are reading moms with the finest of magazines, and libraries 
 with ail styles of hooks, from hermeneutics to fairv tale. 
 
 "Men go there for ten minutes or for many hours. Some come 
 from Ix-autiful and happy home circles for a little while that they may 
 enter into these cluh-housa socialities. Others come from dismembered 
 households, and while they have humble lotlgings elsewhere, find their 
 chief joy here. One blackball amid ten votes will defeat a man's mem- 
 hership. For rowdyism and gambling and drunkenness and every style 
 of misdemeanor a man is immediately drojiped. Brilliant club-house 
 from top to bottom — the chandeliers, the plate, the literature, the social 
 prestige a complete enchantment. 
 
 "Here is another club-house. Vou open the door, and the fumes 
 of strong drink and tobacco are something almost intolerable. You do 
 not have to ask what those young men are doing, for you can see by 
 the flushed cheek and intent look and almost angry way (jf tossing the 
 dice and dropping the chips, they are gambling. 
 
 THE BARK SIDE OF THE SUBJECT. 
 
 "That is an onl\ son seated there at another table. He had had all 
 art, all culture, all refinement, showered u])nn him by his parents. That 
 is the way he is paying them for their kindiiess. That is a young mar- 
 ried man. .\ lew months ago, he made promises of fidelity and kindness, 
 every one of which he has broken. Around a talile in the club-house there 
 is a group telling vile stories. It is getting late now, and three-fourths of 
 the members of the club are intoxicated. It is between twelve and one 
 f)'clock. and after a while it is time to shut up. Tlie conversation has 
 got to be groveling, base, filthy, outrageous. Time to shut up. The 
 young men saunter forth, those who can walk, and balance themselves 
 against the lamp-post or the feiKC. .\ young man not able to get out 
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TALMAGE ON EVERY-DAY AFFAIRS 
 
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 not quite so overcome by strong drink, he is led to his father's house, 
 and the door-bell rung, and the door opens, and these two imbecile 
 escorts usher into the front hail the ghastliest thing ever ushered into a 
 fatiier's house — a drunken scin. There arc dissipating cIul>-liouscs which 
 would do well if they ould make a coniraci with Infenn) tu furn'sli 
 ten thousand men a year, and do that for twenty years, on the con 
 dition that no more would l>e asked of thcni. They would save — the 
 dissipating club-houses of this country would sa\e— hundreds of home- 
 steads, and bodies, miiuls, and souls innumerable. The ten thousand 
 they furnish a year by contract would be small when compared with 
 tiie vaster multitudes they furnish without cont'.act. But I make a vast 
 difTerence I^etween the club-houses. I ha\c during my life belonged to 
 four clubs — a base-ball club, a theological club, rmd two literary clubs. 
 They were to me physical recuperation, mental toinl, moral health. 
 
 TEST YOUR CLUB BY YOUR HOME. 
 
 "Xow, what is the principle by which we ;ire t" judge in regard to 
 tlie profitable or baleful influence oi a club-house? That is the practical 
 and eternal question which Inmdrcds of men to-day are settling. First. 
 I would ha\e you test your club-house by the influence it has upon your 
 liome, if you have a home. I ha\e lx;en told by a prominent member of 
 one of the clul)s, that three-fourths of tli i,^.'mlx;rs are married men. 
 Tliat wife has lost her influence over her lu;sbrmd who takes every 
 evening's absence as an assault upon domc^iieit\. How are the great 
 enterprises of art. and literature, and education, and the public weal to 
 go on if every man has his world Ikiunded by iiis front doorstep on one 
 side, and his back window on the other, his thoughts rising mi higher 
 than his own attic, going down no deeper than his own cellar? When 
 a wife objects to a husl)and's absence for some e'exaling jjurpose, she 
 breaks her scepter of conjugal power. 
 
 "There should \>e no protest nu the part of the wife if the husband 
 goes forth to some practical, u^elui, honorable mission. But alas! for 
 
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 the fact that so many men sacrifice all home-life for the club-house. I 
 lia\ c ill my liouse tlic roll of the members of many of the clubs of our 
 !?,rcat citii's, and 1 cnnid ])niin you to the names of many who have com- 
 mitted this awful sacrile.t;e. 
 
 ■■(icnial as ani,'e!s at ilie eluh-honse, uRly as sin at home. Generous 
 to a fault for all v, iiie-ui)pers and yachts and horse races, but stingy 
 about the wife's dress and the children's shoes. That which might have 
 been a lualiliful recreatii>ii has become a usurpation of his affections, 
 and he has married it. and he is j,niilty of moral bigamy. 
 
 "I'nder that i)r<Kess, whatever be the wife's features, she becomes 
 unintcrestinj; and lamely. He criticises everything about her. He 
 iloes not like her dress; he does not like the way she arranges her hair; 
 he cannot sec how he ever was so unnmiantic as to offer her his hand 
 and heart. It is all tlic time talk about money, money, money, when 
 she t)ught to be talking about Dexters and Derby Days and English 
 dra.c^s. w ith six horses all under control of one ribbon. There are hun- 
 dreds ..f li. .mcs in Xew N'ork and Brooklyn being clubbed to death. 
 
 MAY MEAIT DOMESTIC SHIPWKECK. 
 
 "Member.-hip in <onie of tlie>e clubs always means domestic ship- 
 wreck. Tell me .1 man has l)ecome a member in a certain club, and tell 
 me nothing- m^ re about him for ten years, and I will write his accurate 
 biograiihy. lly that time he is a wine-guzzler, and his wife is broken- 
 hearted or prematurely old, and his property is lost or reduced, and his 
 home is a mere name in a directorv. 
 
 ■■The damatrc is often increased by the fact that the scion of some 
 aristocratic I'aiiiily beloni,'-s to a club, and people lx>rn in humbler circles 
 feel llat'.ercd to h-j.^io; to that one where he belongs, not realizing the 
 irtct that s' mc o' the ,-.,.,11^ .-ind i;iand>oiiv of the great ex)mmercial estab- 
 li.-limems ( f the pa.>t as x., mind are imbecile, as to body diseaseil. as to 
 morals rotten. They would long ago have got through with their 
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TALMAOE OX EVEKY-DAV AFFAIUS 
 
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 knows how it will be, and so lie tics up everything in his will. There 
 is nothing left now to that unworthy desccndam Init his grandfather'^ 
 name and roast beef rotundity. And yet many a steamer is proud tu be 
 lashed fast to that worm-eaten tug-, though it pulls straight for the 
 breakers. I can point y.u to men in Iho-klyn and New York who, 
 because of an illustrious ancestry, are iu>\v taking scores of men to their 
 eternal ruin. 
 
 INFLUENCE ON SECULAR OCCUPATION. 
 
 "Another test by which you may try your chihliouse. i>r the one 
 into whose membership you are invited, is the question, What is the 
 influence of that institution upon one's secular occuiiation? I can sec 
 how through a clubdiouse men may advance their commercial interests. 
 I have friends who have formed their Ik'sI mercantile relations through 
 such institutions. But what has l.een the iutlucnce of the (jiie with which 
 you are connected upon your worldly credit ? 
 
 "Are people more cautious now how they let you have go(xls? Be- 
 fore you joined the club was y. .nr cvcdit with t!;c commercial agency 
 Ai? and has it gone clear down ■ .n tlio scilc: 'i'h.ii licw.-ircl 
 
 "We every day hear the going to picce> • f commercui! establish- 
 ments through the (lis>ipatioiis of some club-li' .u^c libertine or club- 
 house drunkard who has wasted his estate, and wa-tcd the estate of 
 others. Tlie fortune is beaten to pieces with the ball-player's bat, or 
 cut amidship by the prow of a regatta. . t falls under the -Ivav]) hoof of 
 the fast horse, or is drowned in the potions uf Cognac an<l Mononga- 
 hela. The man's club-house was the Loch luirn, ln\ occnp.ation was the 
 \'ille du Havre. They struck on the liigii seas, and the \'illc dn Havre 
 went under. 
 
 TWO HIGHWAYS TO THE FUTURE. 
 
 "\ow, here are two highway> into the great future, the Qiristian 
 hiG^hwav and th.e Uiich.risti.i!!: tlv,' one '.:'.{:• the :'.t!i!';- i\u::trr-i:::^ 
 Anything that makes me forget that, i> .i bad in-titution. I had familv 
 
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 prayers bffore I joint'd the club. Dd 1 have tliem now? 1 attemled 
 regularly the liou^c ut (i.nl before I joined the club. I>o I now attend 
 religious ser\ice? Would you rather have in your hand, when you 
 cnnie to die. a ])ack of cards or a Bible? Would you, in the closing mo- 
 ment of your life, rather !iave the cup of Helshazzarean wassail put to 
 your lip. or the cup of holy comiuunion? W()uld ytju. my l)rother, 
 rather iiave for eternal companions the swearing, carousing, vile, story- 
 telling crew that surround the table in a dissipating clul>-house, or your 
 little child, the bright girl that (iod took? Ah! you would not iiave 
 been away so many nights if yon had thought «he was going so soon. 
 Your wife h.is never brightened up >nice then. She has not got over it. 
 She never will get over it. What a pity it is that you can not si)end 
 more evenings at home consoling that great sorrow ! Oh, you can not 
 drown that grief in a wine-cup! ^^>u can not forget those little arms 
 that were thrown around your neck while she said: "I'apa, do stay 
 home to-night, do stay home ti>-night !" \'<\\ can not wipe from your 
 lips the dying kiss of that little child. And yet there has been many a 
 man so completely o\erl)orne by the fascinations of a dissipating club- 
 house, that he wem ott the night the child was dying of scarlet fever. 
 He came i);ick about midnight, and it was all over. Tlie eyes were 
 closed. The undertaker had done his work. The wife lay unconscious 
 in the next room, from having watched for three wc^eks. He caiue up- 
 stairs, and he saw the empty craillc, and saw the window was up. He 
 said. '\\'hat is the matter?' In (iod's judgment day he will hnd out wliat 
 was the matter. Oh. man astray, (iod hel]) you! 
 
 TAKES DOWN THE BEST MEN, 
 
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 "The intluence which >ome of the clubhouses are exerting is the 
 more to be (k'i)loreti because it takes down the very best men. 
 
 "The .idiuission fee sifts out tiie penurious, and leaves only the best 
 fellows. Thcv are frank. the\ are nreneroiis. tliev are whole-sonlprl, thev 
 are talented. Oh. I begrudge the devil sucli a prize! After a while the 
 
 
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 frank look will go out of the face, and the features will he h.yjg.ird, 
 and when talking to you. instead of looking you in the eye they will look 
 down, and every morning the mother will kindly ask, 'My son, what 
 kept you out so late last night r' and he will in;ikc n<> answer, or he will 
 say, "That's my Inisines-^.' Then sumc time hf will inmc in the store 
 or the twnk cross atid l)efogge(l, and he will neglect some tiuty, and 
 after a while he will lose his i)lace, and then, with nothing to do, he will 
 come down at ten o'clock in the morning to curse the servant because 
 the breakfast is cold. The lad whi> was a clerk in the cellar has got to 
 be chief clerk in the great commercial e>tabli>liment ; the young nian 
 who ran errands for the hank has got to be cashier; thousands of the 
 young men who were at the fo(;t of the ladder have got to the top of 
 the ladder; but here goes the victim of the dissi])ating club-house, with 
 staggering stej) and bloodshot eye and mud-s])attered hat set sidewise 
 on a shock of greas\ hair, his cravat dashed with cigar ashes. I^ok at 
 him! I'ure-hearted young man. look .it him I The club-house did that. 
 I know one such who went the whole round, and. turned out of the 
 higher club-houses, went into the lower club-houses, and on down, until 
 one night he leajHid out of a third-story window to end his wretched- 
 ness. 
 
 WHAT THE CHILDREN KNOW. 
 
 "Let me say to fathers who are heconung dissipated, your sons will 
 follow you. You think your son docs not know, lie knows all about it. 
 I have heard men who say. 'I air profane, but never in the presence of 
 my children." Wmr children know ymi swear. I have heard men say. 
 'I drink, but never in the presence of my children." Wmr children know 
 you drink. 1 ilescribe now what occurs in luinilreds of households 
 in this country. The tea-hour li.is arrived. The f;imily are seated at the 
 tea-table. Before the rest of the famils arise from the table, the father 
 shoves back his chair, says he has an engagement, lights a cigar, goes 
 oiU. comes Ixick after midnight, and that is the history of three Imndred 
 and bixty-iive nights of tlie year. Does any man want to stultify him- 
 
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 n^v. and yoti will In- at the lea tal)ic. and he will shove back and have 
 ail eiij,'a,i,'eiiieiit, and lie will li^iit Iiis ci^i;ar, and he will po out to the club- 
 house, and yon will liear nnthinj; of him until you hear the night key 
 ill the (liinr after iiiidnit,dit. I'.iit his physical constitution is not quite 
 so ^tiiiiii; as \onrs, .-m,! ,ii^. lii|itiir he iliinks is more terrifically drugged 
 than that uliieli \.>u diink-, and so he will catch up with you on the 
 mad to death, tlioiiL;li yun got such a long start of hii.i, and so you will 
 ]ioth go to lull together."' 
 
 
 TALMAOE ON HEALTH RESORTS. 
 
 Dr, Talniau'f lielie\ed in taking an occasional vacation, and when on 
 sueli short trips a-- lie was m the hahit of taking was always on the look- 
 out, and a elo^e ol)ser\er of e\ .Tything going on aliout him. So one 
 Sunday he preached a sermon on Health Resorts. His interesting talk 
 on this snhject wris in part as follows: 
 
 ■J believe in watering-places. I go there sometimes. Let not the 
 lomnicrcial tirm iK'grudge the clerk, or the employer the journeyman, 
 or ilie patient the i .ysician. or the church its pastor, a season of inoccu- 
 pation, Luther used to sport with his children; Edmund Burke used to 
 eare>s his favorite horse: Thomas Cluilmers, in the dark hour of the 
 t liureh's disniiition. jilayed kite for recreation — so I was told by his own 
 daughter — and the Inisy Christ said to the busy apostles, 'Come ye apart 
 awhile into the di--ert and rest yourselves.' And I have observed that 
 they wlio do not know how to rest, do not know how to work. 
 
 "Rut I have to declare this truth, that some of our fashionable 
 watering-place-; are the temporal and eternal destruction of 'a multitude 
 that no man can minil)er,' The first temptation that is apt to hover in 
 this direction is to leave your piety at home. 
 
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TAI..MA(JK ON' HVKHV-DAY AFFAIWS 
 
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 for soiucwIkto c1>c; hut the temptation will l)c to leave your rcl' ;iuii 
 in the room with the hlitids douii and the door lK>lted, and tiicn yoii will 
 come hack in the aiitur'ti to find that it is starved and suffocated, lyinj^ 
 stretihcd on tlie rnj;, stark dead. There i- noi <uri)his of piots at the 
 \\aterin^'-l)laces. 1 iie\er knew any one to gr').» \ery rapidly in j^race at 
 tile ("atskill Mounlain House, or Shan/U Spiings, or he I'alls of Mont- 
 morency. It is j^enerally the case that the Sahh.ith is more of a carousal 
 than any other il.iy, and there are Sunday walks, Sunday rides, and 
 Suntlav excnisiinis. 
 
 AS TO THE ELDSBS AND DEACONS. 
 
 "Elders and deacons and ministers of religion, who are cntirtly 'U- 
 sistent at home, sometimes when the S. hhath dawns on them at N'i.n ra 
 Falls or the White Mountains, take the .lay to themselves. If thex u" 
 to the church, it is apt to he a sacre<l p.iradc, and the disct»urse, instcail 
 of being a i)Iain talk ahout the soul is apt to l)e what is called a era k 
 sermon — tliai is, some discourse picked out of the effusion,-; of the ' ea: 
 as the one most adapted to excite admiration; and in those chur. it- 
 from the way the ladies hold their fans, you know that tiiey are iv 
 much impressed with the he.it as with the picturesfjucness of ha!. ■- 
 closed features. lM)ur iiuny souls stand in the 'd'gan-loft and sij .all 
 a tune that nolxxl)- knows, and worshipers, with two thousand doUa- ' 
 worth of diamonds nn the right hand, drop a cent into the poor-box, l: 
 tiien the benediction is \ ononnced. and the farce is ended. Tlie touglu 
 thing 1 ever tried to do was to Ije g(X)d at a watering-place. The n- 
 is bewitched with 'the world, the flesh, and the devil.' Tliere are Chi 
 tians who, in three or four weeks in such a place, have had such terril t 
 rents made in their Christian robe that they had to keep darning it ur i 
 Christmas, to get it mended. 
 
 "The health of a great many people makes an annual visit to some 
 mineral spring an absolute necessity; but, my dear people, take your 
 Bible along witii you, ami take an hour i'oi secret piavci e^ciy u.iy, 
 
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 thougli you ]x surrounded by guffaw and saturnalia. Keep holy the 
 Sabbatli, though they deride you as a bigoted Puritan. Stand off from 
 gambling hells and those other institutions which proiwse to imitate on 
 this side the water the iniciiiitics of Baden-Baden. Let your moral and 
 your immortal health keep pace with your physical recuperation, and 
 remember that all the sulphur and chaiyl)eatc springs can not di> you so 
 much good as the healing, pereimial tlooil that breaks forth from the 
 •Rock of .Ages.' Tliis may Ije your last summer. If so, mc»kc it a fit 
 vestibule of heaven. 
 
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 TEMPTATION TO SACRIFICE PHYSICAL STRENGTH. 
 
 "1 go further and speak of ..nothcr tcmiuatioii that hovers over the 
 watering-place, and that is the tcmi)tation to sacrifice physical strength. 
 The modern Bethesda was intended to recuperate tiic physical health; 
 and yet how many come from the watering-place^ their health ;il)So- 
 lutely destroyed ! Xew York and Brooklyn simpleti boasting of hav- 
 ing imbibed twenty glasses of Congress water l)efore breakfast. l"am- 
 ilies, accu.stomed to going to bed at ten o'clock at night. gossi|)ing until 
 one or two o'clock in the morning. Dyspeptics, usually very cautious 
 about their health, mingling ice-creams and lemons and lobster salads 
 and cfKoannts. until the gastric juices lift up all their voices of lamenta- 
 tion and protest. Delicate women and brainless young men dancing 
 themselves into vertigo and catalepsy. Thousand- of men and women 
 coming back from our watering-places in the autumn with the founda- 
 tions laid for ailments that will last them all their life long. 
 
 "You know as well as 1 do tliat this is the simple truth. In the 
 summer, you say to your go<Kl health: 'Good-bye: 1 am going to have 
 a gay time now for a little while; 1 will lie very glad to see you again 
 in the autunm.' Then in the autumn, when you arc hard at work in 
 vour office, or store, or shipp, or cKuntini,' room. (loud ileallh will come 
 in and say, '(J<XHl-byc; I am going." \<'U s:i\ : 'Wlarc are mmi going?' 
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 rule that will not work t»th ways, and your good health will leave you 
 choleric and splenetic and exhausted. You coquetted with your good 
 health in the summer time, and your good health is coquetting with you 
 in the winter time. A fragment of Paul's charge to the jailor would 1>o 
 an appropriate inscription for the hotel register in every watering-place: 
 'Do thyself no harm.' 
 
 WATEBINO-PLACE ACQUAINTANCES. 
 
 "Another tcmi)tati()n hovering around the watering-piace is the for- 
 mation of hasty and life-long alliances. 'Hie watering-places are respon- 
 sible for more of the domestic infelicities of this country than all other 
 things combined. Society is so artificial there that no sure judgment 
 of character can l)e f.)rmed. They who form companionships amid such 
 circumstances, go into a lottery where there are twenty blanks to one 
 prize. In the severe tug .d life you want more than glitter and splash. 
 Life is n.)t a ball-n.om where the music decides the step, and 1h)W and 
 prance and graceful swing of l,mg train can make up for strong common 
 sense. You might as well go among the gaily-painted yachts of a sum- 
 mer regatta to find war vessels. a>^ to go anuMig the light spray of the 
 summer watering-place to find character that can stand the test »i the 
 great struggle of human life. 
 
 ••Ah. in the battle of life you want a stronger weapon than a lace 
 fan or a croquet mallet. The load of life is so heavy that in order to 
 draw it yon want a team stronger than one made up of a masculine grass- 
 hopper .and a feminine huttertly. If there is any man in the ommunity 
 that excites my contempt, and iliat ought to excite the contemi)t of every 
 man and woman, it i> the soft-handed, soft-headed ihnlc who. perfumed 
 until the air is actually sick, spends his summer in making killing atti- 
 tudes, and waving sentimental adieux. and talking infinitesimal nothings, 
 and lln.ling his heaven in the set of a lavender kid glove. Boots arc tight 
 as an in(iuisition. Two hours of consummate skill exliibited in the tie 
 
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 of a flaming cravat. His conversation made up of " Alis !' and 'Ohs !' and 
 •He lies!" 
 
 "Tliere is only one coimterpart to such a man as that, and that is 
 the frothy young woman at the watering-place; lier conversation made 
 up of French moonshine; what she has in her head only equaled hv what 
 she has on her l>ack; useless ever since slie was horn, and in be useless 
 until she is dead, useless until she becomes an intelligent Christian. We 
 may admire music, and fair faces, and graceful step: Init amid the heart- 
 lessness, and the inflation, and the fantastic influences of our modern 
 watering-places, l>e\\are how you make life-long covenants. 
 
 SUMMEB. BEADING MATTER. 
 
 "Another temptation that will iiover over the watering-place is that 
 of baneful literature. Almost every one starting ofY fur the summer, 
 takes some reading matter. It is a book out of the library, or off the 
 bookstand, or l)ought of the l>iy hawking 1)ooks through the cars. I 
 really believe there is more pestiferous trash read .iniong the intelli- 
 gent classes in July and August, than in all the other ten months of the 
 year. Men and women who at home would not be satislRd with a b.)ok 
 that was not really sensible. I find sitting <>n a hotel piaz/.i, or under the 
 trees, reading Ixwks the index of which would make them blush if they 
 knew that you knew what the book was. 'Oh,' they say. 'you nuist have 
 intellectual recreation.' Yes. There i>. no need that you tike along into 
 a watering-place 'Hamilton's Metaphysii-i," <,r some ])onderous discourse 
 on the eternal decrees, or 'Faraday's Philosophy." There are many ea^y 
 b(K)ks that are gootl. You might as well say. 'I propose now to give a 
 little rest to my digestive organs, and instead of eating heavy meat .ind 
 vegetables, I will, for a little while, take lighter food— a little strychnine 
 and a few grains of ratslKine." Literary i)oi.-oii in August is as IkuI as 
 literarv poison in IX'cember. Mark that. Do not let the frogs :uicl the 
 lice of a corruin pointing-press jump and crawl into your Saratoga trunk 
 or tWhite Mountain valise. 
 
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 "Are there not good botiks that are easy to read— books of entertain- 
 ing travel; books of congenial history; books of pure fun; books of 
 pnctrv; ringing with merry canto; books of fine engraving; Iwoks that 
 x\ill rest the mind as well as purify the heart and elevate the whole life? 
 My hearers, there will not he an hour between this and the day of your 
 death when you can afford to read a book lacking in moral principle. 
 
 ••My friends, whether you tarry at home— whicli will \x quite as 
 safe, and perhaps (luite as comfortable— or k'" into the country, arm your- 
 self against temptation. The grace of Ciod is the wily safe shelter, 
 Avhelher in town or country." 
 
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 TALMAOE ON THE TOBACCO HABIT. 
 
 days loved a good cigar. Init *inding that 
 
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 it injured his hcahli and shattered his nerves he gave up 
 
 the habit main- 
 
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 had shown him the evil effects 
 
 ng. he ever .-iftcrward preached again 
 
 ist it;, use. In a dis- 
 
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 course on this subject he once spike as follows: 
 
 •■The two fu-st born of our earth were the grass-blade and the herb. 
 They prcccdc.l the brute creation and the human family— the grass for 
 the auini.il creation, the herb for human service. The cattle came and 
 took po^^scssion of their inheritance, the gra^'^-blade : man came and took 
 iwsscssi(.n of Ins hiheritance. the herb. We have the herb for food as in 
 case of hunger, for nai-cotic as in case of insomnia, for anodyne as in 
 lase of paroxysm, tor stimulant as when the pulses flag under the weight 
 >.f .lise.nse. The caterer comes and takes the herb and presents it -ii all 
 Mv!"^ of ,U!ic:i. V. Tlie pliy>ician comes and t;ikes the herb .and coi.i- 
 IHUuid- it for physical recuperation. Millions of people come and take the 
 IhtI) for ruinon- pl.ysic:d an-l intellectual deleclati.ni. The herb, whiHi 
 was divinely .-reatcd. an-l for g...<l puri^^ses. has often been degradcl for 
 had results. There is a useful .and a baneful employment of the heri)ace- 
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 AN HEBB THAT BEWITCHED THE WORLD. 
 
 "There sprang up in Yucatan, of this continent, an lierb that has l>e- 
 witched the world. In the fifteenth century it crossed tlic Atlantic Ocean 
 and captured Spain. Afterward it captured Portugal. Then the French 
 an.bassadors took it to Paris, and it captured the French Knipirc. Then 
 Walter Raleigh took it to Umdon, and it captured Great Britain. 
 \icotiana. ascrilied to that genus by the lx)tani.-,ts. but we all know it is 
 the e.Khiiarating. elevating, cniparadising. nerve-shattering, dyspepsia- 
 breeding, health-destrfiying tobacco. I shall not in my remark:^ be ofTen- 
 sively (wrsonal. because you all use it. or nearly all! i know by cxi)eriencc 
 how it so<nhes and roseates the world, and kindles sociality, and 1 also 
 know sonic of its baleful results. I was its slave, and by the grace of 
 God T have become its contiucror. Tens of thousands of people have 
 been asking the (luestion during the i)ast two months, asking it with 
 great pathos and great earnestness: 'Does the use of tobacco produce 
 cancerous and other troubles?" I shall nd answer the question in regard 
 to any particular case, but shall deal with the subject in a more general 
 
 way. 
 
 "You say to me, "Did God not create tobacco '" Yes. You say to me. 
 is not c;<h1 goixi?" Yes. Well. then, you say. if (iod is good, and He 
 created tolvicco. He must have created it for ^ome goml purpose.' Yes, 
 vour logic is complete, i'.ut God create;! the common sense at the same 
 time, by which we are to know how to use a poison, and how not to use 
 it. G<id creitcd tli.at just as He created henbane and nux vomica, and 
 copperas, and l)elladonna. and all other poisons, whether directly created 
 bv Himself or extracted by man. 
 
 EXPERIENCES OF CENTENARIANS 
 
 "That it is :i poison no man of cninni'ii >en-e will deny. .\ ca-e was 
 re])()rtcd where a little child lay uikmi its mother's lap. and I'lie droj) fell 
 
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TALMAOE ON EVERYDAY AFFAIRS 
 
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 But you say. 'Haven't people lived on in complete use of it to old age?" 
 Oh, yes; just as I have seen inebriates seventy years old. In Boston, 
 years ago, there was a meeting in which there were several centenarians, 
 and they were giving their exi)orience, and one centenarian said that he 
 had lived over a hundred years, and that he ascribed it to the fact that he 
 had refrained from the use of intoxicating li(iuors. Right after him an- 
 other centenarian said he had lived over a hundred years, and ascribed it 
 to the fact that for the last fifty years he had hardly seen a sober moment. 
 It is an anoazing thing how many outrages men may commit upon their 
 l)liysical system, and yet live on. In the case of the man of the jug, he 
 lived . .n because his Ixxly was pickled. In the case of the man of the pipe, 
 he lived on because his lx)dy turned into smoked liver. 
 
 -But are there no truths to be uttered in regard to this great evil? 
 \\'hat is the advice to be given to the multitude of young people? What 
 is the advice you are going to give to your children? 
 
 -First of all, we must advise them to abstain from the use of tobacco, 
 because all the medical fraternity of the United States and Great Britain 
 agree in ascribing to this habit terrific unhealth. The men whose life- 
 time work is the study of the science of health say so. and shall 1 set up 
 my opinion against theirs? 
 
 •'.\bout sixtv-fue years ago a student at .\ndover Theological Sem- 
 inary graduated into the ministry. He had an eloquence and a mag- 
 netism which sent hitn to the front. Xothing could stand before him. 
 But in a few months he was put iti an insane asylum, and the physician 
 said tobacco was the cause of the ilisaster. It was the custom in those 
 (lays to give a portion of tobacco to every patient in the asylum. Nearly 
 twenty years p.i^sed along, and that man was walking the tloor of his cell 
 in the asylum, when his reason returned, and he saw the .situation, and 
 he tcx)k the tobacco from hi-^ month and threw it against the iron gate of 
 the place in which he was confined, and he said : 'What brought me here? 
 What keeps me here? Tobacc « ' tobacco ! God forgive me, God help me, 
 and I vviil never use it agtiiti." He uas fully restored to rca=o„, came 
 
 
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 TALMAOE'S PEBSONAL EXPEBIENCE WITH TOBACCO. 
 
 "Tliere are ministers of religion now in this country who are dying 
 by inches and they do not know what is the matter with them. They 
 are being killed by tobacco. Tliey are despoiling their influence through 
 tobacco. Tliey are malodorous with tobacco. I could give one para- 
 graph of history, and that would l)e my own exixjncnce. It took ten 
 cigars to make one sermon, and 1 got very nervous, and I awakened one 
 day to see what an outrage I was committing upon my health by the use 
 of tobacco. I was about to change settlement, and a generous tol)acconist 
 of Philadelphia told me if I would come to Philadelphia and be his pastor 
 he would give me all the cigars I wanted fur nothing, all the rest oi my 
 life. I halted. I said to myself, 'If I smoke more than I ought to now 
 in these war times, and when my salary is small, what would I do if I 
 had gratuitous and unlimited supply?" Then and there, twenty- four 
 years ago. I (luit once and forever. It made a new man of me. Much 
 of the time the world looked blue before that because 1 was looking 
 through tolxicco smoke. Ever since the world has been full of sunshine, 
 and though I have done as much work as any one of my age. God has 
 blessed mc. it seems to me, with the Ix-st health a man ever had. 
 
 'T say that no minister of religion can .itTord to smoke. Put m my 
 hand all the money expended by Christian men in llrouklyn for tobacco, 
 and I will support three orphan asylums as well atul as grandly as the 
 three great orphan a>ylunis iilready established. Put into my hand the 
 money spent by Christians of America for tobacco, and I will clothe, 
 shelter and feed all the suffering poor of the continent. The American 
 church gives a million dollars a year for the salvation .)f the heathen, and 
 American Qiristians smoke five million dollars' worth of tobacco. 
 
 •'I stand here to-day in the presence of a vast multitude of young 
 people who are forming their habits. Between seventeen and twenty-five 
 
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 years of age a great many young men get on tliem habits in the use of 
 tohacco tliat they never get over. Let me say to all my young friends: 
 "Von cannot afford to smoke : you cannot afford to chew. You cither 
 take very good tnl>acco, or you take very cheap tobacco. If it is cheap 
 I will tell you why it is cheap. It is made of burdock and lampblack and 
 sawdust and colt's foot and plantain leaves and fuller's earth and salt 
 and alum and lime and a little tobacco, and you cannot afford to put such 
 a mess as that in your mouth. But if you use expensive tobacco, do j'ou 
 not think it would be better for you to take that amount of money which 
 you are now expending for this herb, and which you will expend during 
 the course of your life if you keep the habit up, and with it buy a splendid 
 farm, and make the afternoon and the evening of your life comfortable?" 
 
 DANCING AND SOCIAL DISSIPATION. 
 
 Dr. Talmage loved society, and he liked to sec people enjoy them- 
 selves; but he 1«licved that <ocial amusement- were often carried on to 
 such an extent that they deserved the term of 'Social dissipations. His 
 opinions of tliis matter arc told in the following extracts : 
 
 "I am not to <liscuss the oM (iue-;tion. Is dancing right or wrong? 
 but I am to discuss the question. Does dancing take too much place and 
 occupy too much time in modem -ociety? and in my remarks I hope to 
 carry with me the earnest conviction of all thoughtful persons, and I 
 believe I will. 
 
 "You will all admit, whatever you think of that style of amusement 
 and exercise, that from many circles it has crowded out all intelligent 
 conversation. You will also admit that it has made the condition of those 
 who do not dance, either because they do not know how, or l)ecause 
 they have not the health to endure it, or because through conscientious 
 scruples they must decline the exercise, very uncomfortable. You will 
 also admit, all of you, that it has passed in many cases from an amuse- 
 ment to a dissipation, and yon are easily able to understand the bewilder- 
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 tliere was dancinfj going on foii- or five hour., and the guests seemed 
 exhausted, tinned to the proprieior of the house and said : 'Why don't you 
 allow your servants to do this for you?' 
 
 DANCING IN ANCIENT TIMES. 
 
 -Dancing is the graceful motion of the body adju>ted liy art to the 
 sound and measures of musical instrument or of the human voice. All 
 nations have dance.l. 'Oie ancients thought that Castor -md Pollux taught 
 the art to the Laceda:monians. But whoever started it. all climes have 
 adopted it. In ancient times they had the festal dance, the military dance, 
 the mediatorial dance, the bacchanalian dance, and queen and lords 
 swayed to and fro in the gardens, and the rough backwoo<lsman with 
 this'exercise awakened the echo of the forest. There is something in the 
 sound of lively music t.) evoke the movement of t,,e han.l and foot, 
 whether cultured or uncultured. Passing down the street, we uncon- 
 sciously keep step to the sound of the brass band, while the Christian in 
 church with his foot beats time while his soul rises upon some great 
 harmony. While this is so in civilized lands, the red men of the forest 
 liave their scalp dances, their green-corn dances, their war dances. 
 
 •In ancient times the exercise was so utterly and c.mpletely depraved 
 that the Church anathematized it. The old Christian fathers expressed 
 themselves most vehemently against it. St. Girysostom says: 'The feet 
 were not given for dancing, but to walk modestly, not to leap impudently 
 like camel ~; One of the dogmas of the ancient Church reads : 'A dance 
 is the devil's possessi.in. and he that entereth into a dance entereth into 
 his possessi^ n. As many paces a^ a man makes in dancing, so many paces 
 docs he make to hell.' Elsewhere the old dogmas declared this 'The 
 woman that singeth in the dance is the princess of the devil, and those 
 that answer are her clerks, and the beholders are his friemis. and tin- 
 music are his bellows, and the fiddlers are the ministers of the devil. For, 
 as when hogs are strayed, if the hogsherd call one, all assemble together, 
 so when the devil calleth one woman to sing in the dance, or to play on 
 
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 some musical instrument, presentlv all the dancers gather topcther.' 
 This indiscriminate and universal denunciation of the exercise came from 
 the fact that it was utterly and completely depraved. 
 
 THE CUSTOMS OF THE PRESENT. 
 
 "But we are not to discuss the customs of tjie olden times, but customs 
 now. We are not to take tlic evidence i>f the ancient fatliers, hut our own 
 con.science, enlightened by the Word of (lotl. is to lie tl)e standard. Oh, 
 bring no harsh criticism upon the young. I would not drive out frf)m 
 their soul all the hilarities ■ f life. I do not believe that the inhabitants 
 of ancient Wales, when they stepped to the soiun' of the harp, went 
 down to ruin. I believe G<id intended the young pi-ople to laugh and 
 romp and play. I do not l)elicve G<h1 would have put exuberance in 
 the soul and exul)erance in the body if He iiad not intended they should 
 in soiiie wise exercise it and deiut)nstrate it. If a mother joins hand-; 
 with her children :iiid cross the tlonr to the sound of music, I see no harm. 
 'f a group of friends cross and recross the room to the sound of piano 
 well played. I see no harm. If a company, all of whom are known to 
 host ami hostess as repnt.able. cross and recrnss the room to the sound 
 of musical instrument, I see no harm. I trieil for a long while to sec 
 harm in it. I could not see any harm in it. I never shall see any harm in 
 that. Orir men need to \>c kept young, young for many years longer than 
 they are kept young. Xevcr since ni) boylioo<l days Iia\e I had more 
 sympathy with the innocent hilarities of life thin 1 have now. What 
 though we have felt heavy burdens? Wliat though we have had to en- 
 dure hard knt)cks! Is that any reason why we should stand in the way 
 of those who, unstung of life's misfortunes, are full of exhilaration, and 
 full of glee? 
 
 WOULD MOT REPEE8S YOUTHFUL SPUIITS. 
 
 "God bless the young! They will have to wail manv a long \e;ir 
 before they hear me say anything that would depress their ardor or clip 
 
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 tl.cir wiiiRS. or make them believe that life is hard and cold and repulsive. 
 It is not. I tell them, judging from my own experience, that they will be 
 trc-itcl a great .leal In-ttcr than they deserve. We have no right to 
 grudge the innocent hilaritie.s to the young. 
 
 "As ue go ..,, in years Ut us renu-mhev that we had our gleeful times; 
 let us \)c able to say, 'W.' lu.l our go.nl times, let others have their good 
 times- Let us uUIuikIn resign our place t.^ those who are coming after 
 „s, 1 will cheerfully give them everything— my house, my IkjoIcs. my 
 position in society, my heniage. .\fter twenty, forty, fifty years we have 
 i,een .IrinkiuK ov.i of the cup of this life, do not let us l)cgrudge the pass 
 i„g ,,i ,1 that others may take a druik. But while all tlus „ so. we can 
 liave no sM,ii)aihy with sinful indulgences, and I am goin.i; to speak in re- 
 gard lo .oi,ui,.f them, though I slu.uld tread on the long trail of some 
 I..,pular v.inities What are tlie .lissipatioiis of sooal life to-day. 
 and what are tlie .lissipations of the hallroom' In st)me cities 
 rui.l in some places reaching all tlie year ar.nind. in other places 
 onlv ,n the sninnier tune a.ul at the watering-places. Tiiere are dissipa- 
 tions of social life that are cutting a very wide swathe with the sickle of 
 death, .-m.! hnndreds and thousands are g..ing down under these inflr. 
 cnccs. and in^ snl.jecl ni .application is as wide as the coiuinent, and as 
 wide as flirisiendoin The whirlpool of social .lissipation is drawing 
 down some of the hriglitest craft that ever sadcd the sea— thousands and 
 tens of thous;inds of the l^Klics and souls annual'y consumed in the con- 
 llagralion of rihlions. 
 
 HAKD TO DRAW THE LIN*. 
 
 •Social dissipation is the abettor of pride, it is the instigator of 
 ie.ilonsv, it is the s.icrificial altar of healtii, it is the defiler of the soul, it 
 is tlie avenue of lust, and it is the curse of every town in .\merica. Social 
 .lissipation. If mnv he hard to .Iraw the line and say that this is right 
 on the one side, and that is wrong on the oUier side. It is not necessary 
 
TALMAOE ON EVEHY-DAY AFEAIKS 
 
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 that we <Io that, for Go,! has pul a thn.nc in every man's snul. and I .ip 
 peal lo that ihr-nc mdiiv Whon .1 iii.ui .!cks wn.nK lie kn-.us lie .L.- 
 wrong, anci wlien !i«- <1<h-s ny;lu Mr kuMU- b.' .Inc .1^111. .m.l lo ilui 
 throne that AlmiKhty CkhI !ifle.l 111 llie luMtt ..f cmtv man ..n.l u. man. 
 
 1 appeal 
 
 •In ii'v p.in^li -I nnl.i.klplua tliere v.as a ynunj; \\<>\wu l)rilli,iin a- a 
 
 spru-.K nv.rnin- Slu- j,-'^'" ''^•'- l"''' "» ''"' ^^"•■''' ^'''' """"' '"""' '" 
 relip^us i!icelin^> anri nii.lcr onuiction uoul.l U'V a hllle while l-e.^MM i- 
 prav. an.l then W'\M rush ..tT agani nito the .iiMipleship ui the umiI.I. 
 Slie ha.l aU the worl.l onild olTer of hrilliant sneial -.,.s,t...n fhie <by a 
 thi-he.l and excited niesseiiKer askol me i" ha>leii :.. her hon-e, l>.r she 
 wa- dyniK. I eiUered the ruoin i'liere uere the phy>iei;.iis, there ua- 
 the mother, tlicre lav ilii^ diM iple ..| 'le u..rl.l. I a^ke-l her sumr qucs 
 turns in regard n. tlie smti She ma.Ie im ansuir 1 kiieh down U> p-ay. 
 
 1 rose again, and desirinj; l.> i;el v. me expres- 11 rcK;'"' '" ''''' eteriul 
 
 interests, 1 -aid; Have >on an> li"].e:-' and then lor 'lu' Ihst her lii» 
 moved m a uhisper a- she -aid . 'Xn l„.pe!' riien she died. The wo-ld 
 slic served it. and the WMild lulrK-d her in't in the la-t 
 
 •i wonhl ui-li ilial I eoiild mar>l:,il ..M ilie v-nii); i)eople m tin- 
 andienee U> an appreciation ni the fact that yn have an earnest work m 
 life, and your anui-ement- and recreation- are only t<. lieij) ynu alon^ m 
 that work. .\t the timenf .1 ietn;i..us awakening, a Chrisn.-m younj; 
 woman spoke \" a m,in m regar.l to Ins .soul's solvation, lie Ih.ated ",n 
 into the w.>rhl \fter auhile -he tiecanu- >vnr!dlv in her t'liristian proles 
 sion The man -aid one .lay. -xV.-ll. I am a- sate a- -he 1- I wa- ;i Chris- 
 tian, she -aid slu- wa- a Ihristnn. She talked with me ahnni my -.ml: 
 if she is sale 1 am s.iiV.' Then a -nd.lcn ,icci.!enl t.x.k Inin ..tf, uilli-'Mi 
 an opportr.nity to ntler .me word .'I pr.iyer. 
 
 ••Do you n(jt realize, have y.m not n..t,ced. >oun,c men an.l ol.l— ha\ ■■ 
 you not noticed that the dissipation^ <>\ sctial hie .ire l.la-tm- aiai 
 destroying a vast multitude?" 
 
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 TALMAGE ON EVERYDAY AFFAl S 
 
 DB. TALMAOE ON THE THEATEE. 
 
 Dr T.ilniaRc Iikcd tlic plays of Shakespeare and the higher order of 
 clean draniatic productions, but on the whole thought the drama was in a 
 -tatc of decadence from n moral standpoint. "Since the armies of civil- 
 ization and Oiristianity started on their march," he said, "they have not 
 fallen h.ick an inch. There have hcen regiments cowardly, which have 
 retreated and -nrrendered to the enemy, jti^l as m all armies there are 
 lliMse nn\\'irih\ tlic --t nidard they carr\ ; hut ihe great host nf Gf>d has 
 heen answering !.• llie rdiniuand given .at the sl.iit of. 'I'orward, march!' 
 
 ■il,i\'' the Illicit. liiiiinii!- ,111(1 the r<'creatioii> •>] the world kej>t 
 ahrc.i''t 111 till- gr.nicl ni,n« 'i i.\ the age-: Are the imveK ..f <inr d.iy ■-n 
 pcn-r t" llii'so tli.ii are p,!-! ' N the dame i>f tins decade in impnnc 
 iiieiit iipi'ii the dance oi ..iliei .lecaMe-- Are the i.pera houses rendcnnu 
 gi.indcr iniiMc th.iti tli;it which they leiideMd in niher time-" Are parl'M 
 i;aiiic.> ninie healthful than they ii-cd l<i he? Are the theatre- ad\ an. 
 mg ill moral tone ' Mark yoii. I am not m disciis- uliether the theatre i- 
 M^ht or wroiit; I ,1111 Hot to make wholesale attack iiiwni tr.aged'aiis and 
 comedians. There are a hundred (pie-tioris m regard to the tlie.itic that 
 might he aski'd which 1 sh.ill not aiisWAi. the most of them h.ning heen 
 
 • iiiswered at s. ,|iu-Mthei lime in this piilpit \i'\\ s.iy that Henry Irving 
 
 • md I-Mwiii i!o,ith. .iiid John McCnllongh. ;md Josqili leffersou are great 
 
 • utois. .md all' hoih .lahlc iin^il. I helicKC it. The i|iiestioii that I am to 
 discuss |s Arc ilu- ihe.itics aihaiuing m high mora! tone? and I shall 
 m no wisi- |if duertcil t'n.ni that cliscnssic m 
 
 REASONS FOR MORAL DECADENCE. 
 
 "There are tlnee oi i.iur reasons loi aiis>\ernig tins rpiestion in the 
 negativ .i .d tlie iii-l i- ilie coinhined .ind universal testimony of all the 
 secular newsp,i[iei - ol the land that are worth anything. There is not ,i 
 secular nev^spapii of ,ui\ power in the I'liited States which has not 
 within the past few vears, hoth in editorial and reportorial colnmi;. repre- 
 hended the st\iis of ])lay most fre(|iient. It is contrary to the linan'-Mal 
 
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 TALMAGE UN EVEHY-DAY AFFAIHS 2rt;i 
 
 •ntercsts of the secular newspaper severely to criticise the playlmusc, be- 
 cause from it comes the largest a-lvcrtismp patronage, thousands and tens 
 ..f thoiisan.ls of .Inllars a year. W lien, therefore, the secular newspapers 
 ..f the laml, contrary to their llnancial interests, severely criticise the play- 
 house for initiecilc an.l iniiiurc spectacular, their testimony is to me con- 
 clusive. On the ncgatixc side of this ,|nc-tion I roll up all the respectable 
 priming-presses of .\merica, 
 
 •• Aiiollier re.ison for answering this question m the negative :> -.he 
 depraved .uKcrtisfmcnl- on the hulielin boards and on the lx>ard fences 
 and in the show uindou-. from ocean to ocean. I take it for granted 
 that those advertisements are iionest, and tliat niglit by night are deincted 
 tiv.: scene, there advertised. .\re those the ^celles to which parents take 
 their sons and daughters, and young men their affwinced ? Would you 
 allow in vonr parlor such brazen indecency cnacte.l as is dramatized 
 every night in some of the theatre- of America, unles, their advertise- 
 ments he a libel 'l If the incture- be genuine, the scenes are damnable 
 
 WRONG IN THE PARLOR. WRONG ON THE STAGE. 
 
 •That which is wrong m a pirloi i-^ wrong on a -t.igc. li ought to 
 rcfimre just as much completeness of apparel to be honorable in .me 
 place as to Ik- honorable 111 another If you, lathers and mothers, lake 
 vonr sons ami daughters to see such Sodomite lack of robe, and then, m 
 after tune, the plowshaic of libeitinisin and proHigricy should go through 
 your own bousehoM, you will get what uni .le-ervc It seems as if, hav- 
 ing obtained a surplus of -amt.ty during the Lenten services, right .f'.rr 
 Kastcr, all through the L'uite.l States, the streets become a picture gai.erv 
 winch rival the museums of i'ouipeu. which are kept under lock .uid 
 key Where are the mayors of the citiCs. and the judges of the courts, 
 an.l the iH.hce, that they allow siich things? When our citu-s are blotched 
 with these dei-i^ued advertisements is ,t not s,,me reason why we slunild 
 Ihink that the theaters of tins .oumi> are not vc.v rapully .HivanciUi; 
 low,ird inilleum.i! esx'Heni e • 
 
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 TALMAOE ON EVEKY-UAV AFFAIUS 
 
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 "Another reason for answering this question in the negative is tiio 
 large importation of bad morals from foreign conntnes to the American 
 stage. France sent one of her (jiieens of the stage to this country, her 
 infamy, instead of a shame, a boast. Never a more pipnlar actress on the 
 .American stage, and never one more dissolute. Thousands and tens of 
 tliousands of professed Christian men and women went and burned m- 
 ciiisc before that goddess 'if debauchery. Miigland, lo", has sciu her 
 delectable specimens of i ieff.ible sweetness commended i)y l(ircii;n 
 j.rinces. not .is good as their mother. When 1 take iiit'i cnsideration this 
 large imjiortation of bad morals from foreign part-, 1 onic to the conclu- 
 sion tiiat tl;e .American tlieatres are not. as a general thing, advancing in 
 moral tone. 
 
 "Another reason for answering this (jueslion to tho negative is the 
 fact that the vast majority of the play- of the d.iv aw dc,i;ciieratc. 1 wii! 
 i-.ot nante many of them, iK'causc I mi^dit ad\citr-c that which 1 condomii. 
 and the mere meiuioii of them would U- a iiirtidy. If 1 mention any 
 thev must be those that are a little p;:-t, but which max cmc back again 
 when the .\merican taste wants a charge of carrion. Take the plays of 
 the last t'.fteen years, and I will admit that oue-teiuh of them ate niiob 
 jcctioiiablc. but the nine-tenths of ihcni are unlit to be looked at by 
 the families of .\nierica. Subtr.'ict from them tin- liliertmisin and the 
 domestic intrigue and the mmifiulo ,ini! llir vulgarity and the marital 
 scaiidali-!:i. and vou would leave tlio>c play- povveiK-^s ui the diauuitic 
 market. 
 
 "Put -ide bv side the plav- of tliu time oi Macre.idy .md tiu elder 
 Hooth and the modern plas-. and you will Hu.l tlii'i.' li.i- Ui-n an awful 
 decadence. I have not -ecu tli.i-e play-, but 1 li.ivc taken the lestiiuonv 
 of authentic witnesses, a. id I luive -een the -.killiul an.ily-i-^ by critic-—,! 
 score of critics — amoui; iliein such men .t- 1)1. I!iukle_v, >'{ New 'S'oik. 
 men who have read -core- "f the plav- and wb- can reiioit in regard V^ 
 tln-m — 1 take the testimony of tho-e who witiie-~ei: the plays, and t!i«n 
 
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TALMAdl-: (>\ Kv'l'JHV-DAV AFFAIKS 
 
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 I ,akc tl'f testimmn nt tin- cntir.-. wlio like tlic tlicattr ;inii wIki iIo not 
 likf it, I put ilicin all ii'^i'lluT, aiiii I Inn! a moral (k'cailcncc 
 
 "Now. 1 ilcinati'l that a- iiioii uul w'tin'ii wli'i !i'\i- the lio^l iiilcrcst> 
 'if -ifticty. thai \\i- hand ti',c;ethci \'> -natili tlie drama I'li'tu it- dvha-cd 
 siiriuiiiidiiig^. 1 diriaiid t'at :!■- |)hilaiithru|>isi- and (.'liii^liaii>. wc 
 re^iiic til'.- drama. 
 
 THE THEATRE A HUMAN INSTITUTION. 
 
 "'Ih.' drama i'^ n<il the iliiaiu-. riie tlii-atif i i human in^litniion, 
 riic drama i- a lilciarx i-\|ire--!i mi < ,{ ^niiu'thmt; v 1; > h < i -d miplaMtcd 
 m iiearly all • t .T.r - iiU, I'lMplc talk a> thnii^h it .■ ci f 'inri'mii:; built 
 lip cnlireix "Ut^idi "f w- h\ ih<- ( . .nLMii. cs and iln- SI rnl, iii-> and the 
 Siiaki-peate.s I l" iilfi:.li::r I th, <<••. It i- an crho . if -. iincthni,; diMiiel- 
 p- ' \\;tlnn !>. N' n ht :: ni \i'n, hilic clu'd tlnee "r luiir viai-i of .i'.".-. 
 with till- .h>!l- and the ir.iiia- and ilic lart. \'>u -ei it tei' \i-ar> allei 
 in till' pari '! i liarade^ \'i\\ ~i-:- i; . ^n I'lrinksi^iv nii; Day, wlu-ii wo 
 c lex I irate the Im n.^e < il' ( .■ d u nh the l'rnil~ and liar\ e^t- ■ i|' the <\.itli, that 
 speetai'iilar arfn^mj;' ( mr :,'r,il!!nde. \\ ( -ee il on !'.a.-Ier ini.'ii, uheti we 
 ^pell lint tin ihe wall- I't tl:e !; ■::-■■ •■' I n 'd in llouer> the \\« rd- : He i- 
 Ui^en,' thai speetai iil.ir .trciMnr; ■ m (ni.'iMn l'\ery pari.. ' Iikc^ it, and 
 deniniistrates it \\hrn lie L;-.e- h- -ee the -eli'dl e.\liiliili' in with il-i 
 di.ilo^ies and itsi.lri'11 e^ -tnnies, li i, ovi-'unied in the ("rclihght Jjruccs 
 
 ■:oii amid great pohtii; 
 
 11 exiMeme;!'. 
 
 ., ' t iiehl't;ht prueebsion only a 
 
 d.rainatization of the | 'r,'r.< .d pimeiple-. pi' elaimed. 
 
 THE DIIAMA AN ECHO OF THE HUMAN SOUL. 
 
 "DitlnTamliie ih ,mia, i in iiuu h .:i;i.i. eiitimeniai d: ania, all an eeho 
 of the human -'ml. I'.n iiih,.; .wA t ■ n^re\r ji:;! m hn^hdi liter.aiure 
 • ililv that whiih w,!- m the 1 ludi-'n heii! I iie-jn- .snd l->eh\ln- di.im- 
 ,iti/ed I'liK that whu!) \\,t- in l:;e tiieiL heart; .Seliei.i and ri.n;:" 
 dramati/ed I'li'e tha; whieh \\a- in ihe Iviiilan heart; K.ieiiie and X'.liei i 
 diani.!ti/ed "nU that wtiieh was ni the l-'ieruh and the It.ili.iii he.irl 
 

 2m TALMAGE OV EVEHY PAV AFFAIHS 
 
 Shakc-iR'an- ihaiiuUi-'cd Mtily ii.at wlmli wa'; in ilif wDrld's heart. But 
 till, aiviiic i.iiiiciple n not m l,c .Ic-poilci ami .Iragge.l into the service 
 (it >in. It 1- "wr hnviiu.s !■> n-me it. \>' lift it up. to bring U back, to 
 exah it. Will \'>ii Mijiprc.-. il : ^■ 'ii niiglit as well try tn suppress its 
 Creator. Just a> we cultivate tlu- In-autiful .iiid the sublime in taste by 
 hinl haunted glen and r.'Vsteniig stream and cascade let ilown over muss- 
 coverei! rock-, and the day setting up its banners of victory in the cast, 
 and p.i-sing out tiie gates of the v.e-t. seunig everything on fire, ihe 
 .Xusterht/ and the Waterloo of a July thunder st,.nn bla/nig its batteries 
 into a siiltrv .iflei u. - 'U. ,ind the imiiid ten -t t!;. world wet "U the cheek 
 of the iiigli^ .is by these things we try t- ciihin- ,i M^te f-r the sublime 
 and the be.uui : 'I. so we are t.^ culture this dr.im.Uic ta-'c b\ staccato 
 pass.-iges )v lij.i.iiure. b\ .uUitheM- an<l -vitli. is, bs all tr.igic pa-sages 
 'n hui:i.in lilt 
 
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 MORE DRAMATIC ELEMENT WANTED. 
 
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 "W'e are t^' t.ike this dramatic element and we ,iie t.i h.irness it for 
 (,...!. I'.ec.-u'H' U li.;> been taken mt.. the -erMce .>f sip is uotluiig against 
 it \'..ii niiL;li! as wcl! di-noiir-. e msisir liei.iuse in forintii and ller 
 lulaneum it w :. - r.-vA t- .lenv nr-ti ale .tihl m'I forth depravity and turpi- 
 ;nde. Sha'l we ■:■ ! er! hi • >nc iinisi,. , .n thv..iL;an U-cause music again .and 
 :i".iiu h.is been triuui'ad under the foot 'if imi)ioUs dance? I'.ec ise there 
 .,ic |„,!!nii-'.- ui rt shah wr luru back up.>n Church"- ■Niagari." or 
 I'.twer-' 'Creek ^i.ive,' i ir Ixubeiis' ■!K>cent from the Cross,' ,.r Muhael 
 An^el. .'s '!,.!si jii.lgr.ient ?' l'ec,ius<- jlu-se things h.ave been di.igged into 
 the siT\ice' f sin Is the ver\ leasMU ili.i! \ .n ,ind I shMuld t.ike the drama 
 ,.iit and haiiie-'. ii i' a C .d .ind the iiuth \'. 'U S.i!)batli school teachers 
 -.■..•iiM ilMie .f till- 'ii.imatic eleiileiil ul }oii; W'-rk. iu your recital ui the 
 Ib.bie scene, in il'.e .luecilote tluil \.u tell, in the descriptive gesture, in the 
 iinper'' iiati. 'U -f the ch.ivacter yu present-->ou want ni-re of the 
 diani.-uic eli-ini.:i! I cm td! in !."ikiiiL; i.-'i .ui nulieiui' ^f .^^.ibkttii- 
 
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 TALMAGE ON EVEKY-DAY AFBWIKS 
 
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 sdiKol children in wliich teacher the dramatic clement is dominant, ar^' 
 in which the didactic element is dominant. 
 
 "Oh. there are hundreds of people who are trying to do good. Have 
 less of the didactic element, and have more of the dramatic. The 
 tendency in unr time is to drone relif^ion, t<> moan religion, to croak re- 
 ligion, to sciniklu rize religion, when it ought to be put in animated and 
 s])cct;icnlar manner. 
 
 "1 say to all these young men who are preparing for the Gospel min- 
 istry, go to your libraries, and yuu will fmd that tliDse who bring most 
 "iU tn (mkI, bring uv»{ into the kingdom of our Lmd Jesus Girist, are 
 .It.ima'ic. John Knux. dramatic; riiom-is (liahr.crs. dramatic; Robert 
 M't !i. \nc, dr.imatic. Rowland Hill, dramatic; Rolwrt Hall, dramatic; 
 lv>l»ii South, Ivam.itic. FciH-loii. dramatic; Gcntge Whitefield. 
 .hiniiiic; Dr I"lui .M.i'-on, dramatic; Bourdaloue, dramatic; Dr. Kmjtt. 
 .li.ini.iiic ; (icoruc \\' Ikthuiie, dramatic. ,\nd ymi have a right t.) 
 .rJi:\;it, that clcmem iii your nature. .Mi. young men prei)aring for 
 ^ liM-ti.in work, and tliough you may meet witii mighty rebufT and 
 caric.iture if you attempt it, and though y(ni may be arraigned by church 
 courts whr> wilt try to p\it \ou down, the l.ord will sta: I you, and He 
 will keep you all through, and great will be the reward for the assidu<jus 
 and the plucky." 
 
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CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 I-UNERAI, OF T. DM WITT TALMAtiE. 
 l.MrRi>.-ivE st:KVl^l■^, IN TWO ciTiKs— Washington and Hruuklyn 
 
 IVW TKIIUTK TO TIIIC GRliAT DIVIN t— I'RIiSinENT RooSKVELT 
 M;NnS A WKKATIl Ol' ILOWKRS — LlFE-LONG FRIENDS PRAISE THE 
 WORK cif Till. PKAI). 
 
 \Vnsliiii.:;i()n p.u.l licr last irihiilc to T. DcWilt Tnlmapc on Tucs- 
 (lav afurr.oon. April 13, 19OJ, when tliroiiRs of licr citizen^ attended 
 tlio inipicssivc funeral services of the eminent religions leailer, which 
 were held in the Church of tlie Cnvei nit. That llic >:reat piilpit orator 
 was esteemed, loved and li'Miorcd conld mU he donhled when one 
 j^azed on the sorrow in- face- oi the nun and women of \Va>hin,t;ton 
 who listened, (.ften with tens in their e.\e>, to the eulogies paiil the 
 deal .1. it:\inan l.v men wIm had heen his closest friends for the past 
 qnar ler < 'i 1 fcnlin \ , 
 
 nWMENSE CROWDS AT FUNXRAL. 
 
 The funer.il uremomcs were announced to hej^in at 5 o'clock, 
 Lilt \>wj: heiiirc lliat time the crowd l>e|j;an to t,^atlier without tlic 
 ilnirJi Thousands <f people had collected on the .sidewalk in front 
 ni the dnir.h wluMi the do(,is were opcne<l at 4:45 o'clock. The hiiilcl- 
 in-; was filled insiaulh , and many were unable to pain entrance. 
 
 At 4:s," '>\1(kU the hearse containing- the body of Dr. Talmage 
 was ,lriveti solemnly np to the <hurch <l<"'r. lollowecl l>y carriages con 
 laining his f.imily.' With dillicnltv a pass.igcway through the crowd 
 at the door was made, and the funeral procession proceeded into the 
 cliurch. .\s the casket entered. Organist Harvey Murray began the 
 •Dead March.'" from Saul, which continued until the body lay in state 
 
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 before the altar. Ur. Tcniii> Ilaiiilin, the juistor of the cliiirch, headed 
 the procession down tlic ai>!o. 
 
 NOTABLE IJ8T OF PALLBEARERS. 
 
 Seldom has such a group of notable men hecn >cen together to do 
 honor to a life-lonp friend as wee the distinguished persons who acted 
 as honorary pallbearers on this solemn occasion. They were as fol- 
 
 Kiws: 
 
 Mr. Justice Harlan, Mr. Justice Brewer. Senator Dolliver, Senator 
 nuritn\s Senator Culloin, ex-Secretary John \V. Foster. Mr. B. II. 
 Waiiicr, Rev. Dr. Bitii> -er. Dr. G. L. Magruder. Rev. Dr. Fiske, 
 Mr I.. M Branch, Mr. F. M. Lawrence, and Dr. Louis Klopsch, of 
 Xi'w York City. 
 
 The casket was f.>llowf>d by the Talmagc family, as follows: Mrs. 
 Talmage, leaning upon the arm of Rev. Frank DcWitt Talniage, of 
 Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence L. WyckolT. the latter the bride of 
 a week and the youngc-t daughter of Dr. Talmage: Mr. an.l Mr^. 
 Daniel Mangum, N'ew Ynrk City; Mr. and .Mrs. Allen E. Donnon. 
 Richmon.l, \'n ; Mr. and Mrs. Warren G. Smith. Brooklyn. X. V.. and 
 Mis^ Talmage. W..>hiiigtoii 
 
 FLOWEKS FROM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. 
 
 The lloral i.nVriiigs, .ill of which hail been jilaced on and about 
 til' . hanccl rail, were jirofn^c and bcautifnl. Fully a dozen large 
 liieces were sent, all by friends of Dr. T;ilnn-i and of the family. .\ 
 large, beautiful wreath of lilic;; wa^ >-eti'. by I'rr-i.jent RM.wevelt. Tlic 
 lid of '.be casket was stnddci! \>. ith Eng'isb violets. 
 
 Xo sermon wrs-; preaclut!. the -e^vice^ consisting of music and 
 addresses by friemls of Dr. Talmage. Dr. Hamlin conducted the 
 
 •eremonie<. 
 
 The nuisir wa^ finiii-lKd by the male choir of the cliurcli. consist- 
 ing of Mr. William Md'arland, br^t tenor; Mr. I'evrx 'ruq)iu. second 
 
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 tenor; Mr. Frank Keeside, baritone, ami Mr. Walter Humphrey, bass. 
 Mr. Harvey Murray was at the orfjau. 
 
 EULOOT OF DK. HAXLIN. 
 
 As soon as tlic ca>.kt't Iia«l been placed on il^ MipiM)ris and the 
 family of Dr. TabnaK'e and tl:e pallbearers hail taken seats, the choir 
 sanjf. ■l.ead. Kindly l.i>;ht." after which. Dr. Hamlin read the Presby 
 terian funeral service. .\t its conclusion he si)oke biielly of the life 
 and character tif Dr. I'alinaKe. sayinjj: 
 
 '■I-\ir the jiast thirtv >ears Dr T.-dinaue has been knuwn c\eryuhcre 
 in the world that luij;lish is read, as the };rcatcst i)rcachcT cif his time. 
 lU'eclier and .SpurKeon stand out as ^rcat picachers of the last century, 
 bm the sermons of 1 )r Talma^je were read ninrc widely than either 
 of these. He w.is a genius :md i)oet in ini.i^inatiun, having; a 
 wuiiderful abiiits l>i i>auit his m.-ij^nificenl tln)i;i;hts fm iioth the rfa<ler 
 and the listener. li ^ hiunan kindncs- ,iiul fieiiii^. his knowledge oi 
 lunnan hearts, made him able to touch whoever read his sermons or 
 listened to l]im s|>eak." 
 
 A SORROW DEEP AND HEARTFELT. 
 
 I'ollowint; 1 )r. (iamlin was Dr. J.inies Dem.ufst. nf Hroipklyn. 
 \. N' . a iifelcinL,^ friend am! schnolm.'ile of Dr 'lalmame. \\lio said in 
 jiart: 
 
 'Has his nreat heart re.illv cease. 1 in beat' 11. i- Ir,- expressive 
 face reallv become immobile' lla\e tiiose sti.ini; tiiil^ei- liecoine lix 
 and lifeless- It -.eenis impossiiile. vet it i- tine When this enormous 
 tact (iawiis on the mind, it c;iu<es a great surging of thought, which is 
 followed b\ intense sorrow : a smiow c!e<p and heartfe'l for the great 
 void whicli has been created. 
 
 "Tliink bow wide is that void! Think how deep i- that void' 
 'llii'ik that tile wonderful sermons, whicli useil to go into every home, 
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 lieart*. will never be known again; but remember, that altliough Dr. 
 Talmajje is pone, bis infliRMu-e remains. Still wc have the memory of 
 liim. and the knowledge that lie once lived, and these are thoughts 
 wliich will never perish. 
 
 ONE AIM-ONE CONTKOLLINO INFLtTKNCE. 
 
 "In vcars past it has ^dven me the t^-reatest pleasure to defend 
 Dr. Talmat^e from certain aspersions which were c,i<t upon him. I 
 knew Dr. 'Palmare intimately, and feel that 1 under>to<,il his character 
 as perhaps few people did. From his ea'-lic>t life I positively know 
 that he worked with one aim, one Cdntrolliii},' inlluence before him. 
 That inlluence was iiis sincerity in preachiuf^ the f,'osp«l as he believed 
 God intended it >lu>u!.l be preacheil. Any criticisms which may have 
 been bcajicd ii|M)n liim were unjust, becau>e tlirnut,diout his life he 
 was sincere and honot in his convictions. He served Gotl as he 
 belicveii (".od intended he should serve." 
 
 DR. THOMAS EASTON'S TRIBUTE. 
 
 .\t the cnnclu-ion ( f Dr. Demarest's address the choir sanp 
 "Beyond the Suulinj^ and tlir Weepiiit,'." by Stebbins. after which an 
 ;iddrc^,s was .!i''ivered bv 1 >r Tlinmas Chalmers F.aston. pastor of F.ast- 
 ern Preslivteriau Church. Dr. Fasten and Dr. 1 alir.;iL;c were friends 
 for twenty years, and it was Dr. Faston wlio Mtlered prayer Saturday 
 evening at the deathbed of hi.-, companion, as the spirit of the great 
 leader departed to its new and trrealer life. Dr. Faston said: 
 
 "Can we compress the ocean into a dewdrop' Xo more is it pos- 
 sible to condense into one brief hour what is due to the memory of 
 our belcved and illustrinus friend. 
 
 "If. as his person.i! friend f'lr over twenty years. I should attempt 
 to open the treasures ..f hi- real greatness, where shall we find more 
 of those sterling virtues that poets have sung, artists portrayed, and 
 
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 ,,,lcllcci— hrilliant imaRination liRhtiug up tlic path of an indomitable 
 will ami I rmulating it-clf in splondiil cflicicni-y. His moral courage 
 was c<|ualcd only hy lii^ giant frame and physical strength. He ua^ 
 made of tlu' very -.tMlT that martyrs are made "f. ,.nc of the mn^t 
 lemarkahle individii.i'.ities of our tiniex A man with no negative 
 (pialitieN. aggre^>ive and jjo^itive. hi> uliolo soul w.i-- lull of iMjiivictions 
 <<i light and duty. A firm friend, a man of ready recognition, a human 
 n;agiiel in I - foeali/nig pouer' He u.i. true in ever) deed and 
 lliuligln of his life. 
 
 TALMAGE GIIEAT IN MAGNANIMITY. 
 
 "[Jr. r.-ilv a;, w.i- i'.o-.a til 111- I'>n\ ma^'i;.iinnnt\ . I )urmg lite 
 wh.i!.' |iiii...! of hi-- reel. -i.-i-iK-.d tri.al in I'.ro, ,kl_\ n— -and I wa- with 
 him day :md nighl--h< never onee tittered a word of unkindiu-- 
 .igaiii-t his tiadiutTs or ihosf whose maliee had heeii evoked hy protest 
 si..ii;i! je.ilonsv. < >nei; Miily did 1 sec ';i!n arousod to a whiti' heat oi 
 anger and in<lii;nation. and then he lielehed forth as W-sitviiis when 
 loiu-nhcd witli internal fires. It wa- ,■ 'u-ii a \i!e s!k< t of the 
 niciropn!i~ : '-sistrntly a-sailed I::-:! for week- li\ di'Iiherate. nialii'ious 
 f.ilsehoods, ind li\ eartooiis :ind . li:iri:e~ 'li.-i! on!\ :i S itaiii. l.r.ain ei.nld 
 hateii. 
 
 ■'He was j^Teat in his spun i'\ i>lir.aiithrop\ When a heatlun 
 n.ation sutTercd fi'r v.ant of hrc.id. his powerful appe:ds tnahled a 
 ri'spiiiisi' tr, 1,1- ^i\in that s.ui'd millions ,,n millions of hntnan lives. 
 India, pan of I'liidand'- i iiMiiri-. will never forget Nmeriea's philati- 
 tliropie 'laImaL;e, Russia aekimwU-dged its everlasting deht to him 
 also for aid in a rnuial |ieri.id. .Tud in thr palace of the C/ar he w;i~ 
 welcomed as a Irnther hcloved. Oeece, l.y its royai sovereign, p.iid 
 homage to his greatness, and in the thvotu' chamher of the f}ucen he 
 ii'cei\ed her cxpri ssid a.lmir.ation of hi-, iMiiius. fcr\nr. and power as 
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 PREACHED THE GOSPEL, NOT THE PHILOSOPHIES. 
 
 Followincf Dr. ]{nsi('ii was Dr. S. J. .\ichols, of lirooklyti. Dr. 
 Nichols knew Dr. Taliiiat^o nearly all liis life, and from almost l)o_\liooiI 
 liad ])cen liis warm jiersonal friend. Hi.s address was delivered, in jiart. 
 as follows: 
 
 "Wherever F.tii^dish is spoken or read, there have jjone Dr. Tal- 
 tnafje's sermons. Messages of comfort, love, and relief have fjone fruni 
 him to tens of ihonsands of homes, and have become hoiiseliold words. 
 And these homes 1 sjieak of are as L;real in variety as were the ora- 
 torical powers of the helovcii minister. 
 
 "Fvery one read his sermons. In the railroad shops of Pennsyl- 
 vania thcv were pored over during the noon hour. In the ho\el of 
 the poor and in the mansion of the rich. Dr. Talmage's sermons were 
 eagerly sought every week, rmd it is in these places, as well as here. 
 in tliis heautifid church, that his death is keenly regretted, and that 
 heartfelt sorrow is demonstrated. 
 
 "Whatever critici>m there was of Dr. Talmage, it must never he 
 forgotten that he p''eached the go-pel. not the ])liilosop1iies. the ideas, 
 the thoughts, or the whims f>f men. Tic spoke with coiivictioii. and 
 preached the gospel of lo\c. hope, and kindness to lost men." 
 
 .\t tlie conclusion of Dr. Xichols" address, the choir sang "It Is 
 \\'e11 with My Soul." Dr. Hamlin offered a fersent prayer, after 
 wliich the family and iiallhearers passeil out of the rear door of the 
 building, the otlurs ])re-ent rem.'iining seated. Organist Mnrrav 
 closed the -(■r\ ice- hy pl.iyiiig ("hopin's "I'^uier.'d M,'U"ch." 
 
 THE LAST LOOK IN WASHINGTON, 
 
 At the conclusion of the ser\ice-. which lasted more than an hour, 
 ihose present who desired to t;ike the last look at the dead preacher 
 were in\itcd forw.ird. Dr. Hamlin w;is sm-prised to learn that a great 
 crowd lingered without, expecting to enter the church ;ind look again 
 
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 on the face of tlie great preacher at tlie conclusion of the services. 
 It was arranged that the public pass up the north aisle of the building 
 and down the south aisle, leaving by the south door. As soon as 
 those who ha^l been in the church viewed the body, the north door was 
 opened and others were jjermitted to enter. The body remained at 
 the church until lo o'clock, where it was viewed by thousands of 
 people during the evening. At lo o'clock it was taken to the Penn- 
 sylvania station. 
 
 EEMOVAL OF BODY TO BROOKLYN. 
 
 At i^:io o'clock W'ednesday morning a special car bore the body 
 and the Talmage family to Brooklyn. 
 
 Dr. Talmage was a member of the Society of the Sons of the 
 American Revolution, and the following members attended the funeral 
 services at the Church of the Covenant: Hon. Cornelius A. Pugslcy, 
 treasurer-general National Society, S. .\. R.; Maj.-Gen. Joseph C. 
 Breckinridge, ex-president-general National Society. S. .\. R.; Sur- 
 geon-Gen. George M. Sternberg, U. S. A.; Brig.-Gen. Thomas M. 
 Vincent, U. S. A.; Admiral James A. Greer, U. S. N.; Capt. T. F. 
 Jewell, U. S. N.; Noble D. Larner. Dr. Josepli Taber Johnson, William 
 J. Rhees, Col. Feli.x .\. Reeve, Harry C. McLean, and Henry \V. 
 Samson. 
 
 BODY INTERRED IN GREENWOOD CEMETERY. 
 
 The burial of the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage took place Wednesday 
 morning. April iG, 1902. in Greenwood Cemetery, and in addition to 
 the members of the family and a few close friends who accompanied 
 the remains from Washington ovei four htmdred persons were present. 
 
 Tlie grave is about the center of the I'almage plot, between those 
 of the first and second wives of the dead preacher. There were many 
 floral ofTerings, inc'uding a wreath of lilies and ivy, the offering of 
 President and Mrs. Roosevelt. 
 
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 The relatives and friends from Wasliiiigtnn reached the cemetery 
 aljout lo o'clcxk. Among them were Mrs. Elenor Talmage, the widow; 
 her daughter, Miss Keljecca Collier; Rev. Frank Talmage, of Jefferson 
 Park Presbyterian Church, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Warren Smith. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Daniel Mangam, of Brooklyn; Mr. and Mrs. Donnai.x, of 
 Richmond, \'a. ; Mr. and Mrs. Oarence Wyckoff; the ladies daughters 
 of Dr. Talmage. E.xactly a week after Mrs. Wyckoff's wedding her 
 father's funeral was held in his church in Washington. 
 
 Miss Daisy Talmage. an invalid daughter, was unable to ..'tend. 
 Present also were Mrs. Whittemore and Mrs. Bok, sisters-in-law of Dr. 
 Talmage, and T. V. Talmage. a cousin. 
 
 The relatives stocxl near the grave, and around them gathered several 
 hundred men and women, many of them old parishioners in Dr. Tal- 
 mage's Brooklyn Tabernacle. Three cushions of English violets com- 
 pletely covered the casket, and the burial plot was hidden under flc-al 
 tributes from friends in Washington and Brooklyn. 
 
 CROSSES OF ROSES AND LILIES. 
 
 There was a large cross of green gala.x leaves with white rosebuds 
 and lilies from the "Christian Herald." Another of red roses and white 
 lilies in smilax was sent by the Tabernacle Sunday School Teachers' 
 Union. 
 
 The wreath sent I)y the President and Mrs. Roosevelt was of brown 
 galax leaves with white roses and lilies, and at the Ijasc was a yellow 
 sickle wrought in narcissus. .\ large wreath of green and white rested 
 at the foot of the grave and a sheaf of wheat in the center. 
 
 The Rev. Dr. J. Howard Suydam, of Rhinebeck, an old college 
 friend of Dr. Talmage. made a brief impmmptu eulogy. "The whole 
 world." he said, ''mourns the departure of th'.» man from this life. Every 
 nation he reached, and all will pay tribute ' his tnemory. X'^iewed from 
 u liiuiiuii staudpoiiit, it is Invd to see liow h.e can be replaced. A man 
 
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 of gigantic intellect, uf high and nuble ambitions, has been removed from 
 the earth. 
 
 "Dr. Talniagc reached more people 'n his lifetime than any other 
 man in the history of the world. liis great aim was to do gtwd to the 
 greatest niimlx;r. and he had twenty milli(in of readers a week. Well 
 may we regret his dei)artnrc! We miss him. this man who held ont 
 hope to every part of the earth, but it is the Lord's will, and heaven will 
 gain. If here he wonld ask that we sing and rejoice. 15rookl\n has 
 the right to claim his remains. Here he made his greatest triumi)h 
 and here he worked for all maiikiiid." Rev. .\lr. Su\dam tlien offered 
 prayer, all repeating it bv rci|ucst. 
 
 AFFECTION SHOWN BY OLD FAMILY SERVANT. 
 
 An old colored m,"!! who stood near the gra\e listening intentlv 
 to the remarks suddenly broke down and sobbed like a child, "(iood old 
 man," he e.xclaimed : "nia_\- (iod i)less b.im !" 
 
 Xo one knew the old darkey, but a relati\e of the family said that 
 he was always kncnvn as William, and for nearly twenty years did 
 chores for Dr. Talmage's household. Immediately after the l>one^lictiun 
 the aged servant disappeared. 
 
 On the casket plate was this inscription: 
 
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 The remains were brought to Jcrsev C/it_\ in the same special car that 
 conveyed the remains of the late President .McKinley from Ruffalo to 
 C aiilou, aiiii acconi[)ari\ iiii, iiiciri a^ paiiijeaici^ wcic: i<c\. .\ii. Su}- 
 
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 dam. Rev. J. Deinarcst ami Rev. Mr. F'-iston. When tlie train reached 
 Jersey City WilHs !•".. SiatT.ird. df 45 Court street, assunied charge of 
 the funeral arr:ir.t,'enK'nt'; ;uid cnn(Uicted the funeral cortege to (ircen- 
 wood. 
 
 Many old parishioners of the Tabernacle .and friends of Dr. Talniage 
 .veri' .'ii the ser\ice. Among others were: I.eon.ard Moody. Mr. and 
 Mr-. J. H. Ferguson, 'Hionias Pithladdo, .trustee of the church; Mrs. 
 ]•;. H. r.ranch. P.. J. I'ernie and d. If. .Sandison. associated with Dr. 
 r.ilnuigf in the "Chrisli.an Herald"; V. M. I^iwrence, the Rev. Mr. V.. 
 Dennett, pastor of the Taheruacle Baptist Ciuirch; the Rev. l^r. James 
 l">emare-t. pa>ior of the North Reformed Church. Clermont avenue, who 
 ■pi 'Ice ;it the funeral service in Washington, autl Mrs. I.nuis Klopsch. 
 .M:i;ty old friends expressed regret that services were not held in a Brook- 
 lyn church, hut the family preferred a (|uiet liurial. 
 
 Women lingered after the interment, and some carried away flowers 
 and leaves as mementi>s. 
 
 LAST WILL OF T. DE WITT TALMAGE. 
 
 The last will of Dr. Talm.ige was filed for jirohate at Washington. 
 D. C. on .April ji, ]goj. Tt beipieathed an estate valued at more than 
 $300,000. of which one-third is bequeatheil to the widow and the rest 
 divided equally among the children and their descendants. About $250,- 
 000 is in personal jjroperty. consisting of secured notes. United States 
 4 per cent bonds, stock, and cash in bank. The real estate is worth alxiut 
 •S^o.ooo, comprising a house at I4(X.> Mass;icluisetts avenue in this city 
 ,-uid property in luisthampton. I>ong Island, and in Brooklyn. The 
 Washington Loan and Trust Company is named as executor. 
 
 The will set aside Si.cxx) to the Cireenwxxxl Cemeterv Companv of 
 P)n)oklyn for caring for Dr. Talmage's luts, and <lirected that in the 
 settlement of the estate each of the children of the testator "shall l)e 
 charged with the amount of advances made by me to them in my life- 
 time, as per a nieuioianduni 01 >-aui aiuauces made hv me." 
 
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 The will gave to tlie son, the Rev. Frank DcWitt Talniage, all the 
 lx)oks, manuscripts, and copyrights thereon now or hereafter secnrecl, 
 in trust, to superintend, manage, and control their printing, publishing, 
 and sale, and gave his son exclusive control of all contracts existin-j: 
 at the time of the testator's death relating to all literary work, with full 
 and unrestricted authority to fulfill and enforce them for the benefit of 
 the estate. Of all moneys arising from the literary productions he is to 
 distribute one-third of the net proceeds to the testator's widow and the 
 remaining two-thirds equally among all of his children, share and share 
 alike, the issue of any deceased child or children to receive the parent's 
 share. 
 
 The testator left his library and all books, except as otherwise pro- 
 vided, to the son, Frank, in trust, first, to permit the widow to select 
 therefrom whatever books she desires; second, the children to enjoy the 
 same privilege ; and, third, the son, Frank, to have the remainder. 
 
 IN MEMOSIAM— T. BE WITT TALMAaE. 
 
 BY RF.V. A. C. FItRGUSON. 
 
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 A great prophet of Christ, through the •.-'' ' now has passed. 
 Where thousands of souls his comiu' .d wait. 
 
 To welcome his tender, great heart tli. at last. 
 By the crystalline sea, through the gi J pearly gate. 
 
 Of these glories he told, of that rest and that peace. 
 Where sorrows and battles of earthlife are o'er. 
 
 Where mourning, and groans, and falling tears cease. 
 And the loving and lovers shall part nevennore. 
 
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 But luillious of eartli wlio awaited his word. 
 
 And were blest by tlie message his clarii)ii voice gave, 
 As Iiis mighty liearl power tlieir soul depths stirred, 
 
 Would scatter spring blossoms, tear-bathed on his grave. 
 
 As the glad luistcr bells had but just died away. 
 Where were .uill bridal joys, of the child of his love, 
 
 He left for the realms of eternal blest ilay. 
 At the Sabbath eve hour, for the Sabbath above. 
 
 All hail thee! lx:Ioved; in the name of our I^rd. 
 
 The wide world will miss thee, as the years shall go by, 
 A multitude praise thee in grateful accord. 
 
 Whom thou cheered, bound their wounds, and oft hushed 
 their sigh. 
 
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 rKIHrTl'.S FROM l'Ki:SS AND I'l I. PIT. 
 \\oKi)> oi I'KAisK iKiiM Till; (,ui..\T i.i;ai)i:k.> (II- THE woKLD— What 
 
 KMIMAT MIMSIT K.> AMi ITHTOUS .sAV m- IHi; MuM la.onlKNT 
 or I'KKAl I11;K> — Al.l. IMTI; 1\ AITHUDIM, Talmai;!: a WO.NDIiR- 
 1 r;. INSTRIMI-.NT I'dk COdh. 
 
 Dr. 'I'nlmas^c was licld in \ery 'ii;,'li i>iiiiiatii)n liy a!l ministers nt 
 tlie ■;cis|)il ii.\i,'ai(llcss n\ (IciKniiiiuuioii. ami rcccixed finm men in every 
 walk (if life warm iriluite of Ins wonli as a citizen and a eliristianizinj; 
 intlnenee iliriuif,di(Hit the wcrld. This was accctUnated in iK(>4 dnring 
 liis SiKer Jnl)ilce, when lie received enlcgistic messafjes from leaders 
 in tlii- and ntlier lands. I".\en tlmsc disagreeing with him (ni religions 
 (|uestions recognize the great good he has done fur all luimanity, and give 
 him ail credit for the civilizing inthicnce of his life. 
 
 Since the death of the imted divine the press and pulpit have vied 
 cne with the other in according him the praise he Sd deservedlv was enti- 
 tled 1(1. I almage's name was known wherever (,'liristianity was known, 
 and the entire civilized world united in paying him luMuage. Some of 
 the tributes paid h.is name ami li few irk follow : 
 
 DR. TALMAGE'S BEST SERMON. 
 
 The Re\. I'rank DeWitt Talmage, df the Jefferson i'ark Prcshy- 
 terian Church. Chicago, said in a sernn m preached after his return 
 fniiii his father's funeral that his '"fatherV best sermon was the dai!v 
 life which he lived in his own home. 1 bear my lotininnv tn the fact 
 ihat from my iM.ylvmd until the time that I entered my own parsonage 
 and was ordained by him t'nr my own pulpit. 1 had before me the example 
 II me tile "^wcct infl'ience c.f a ( l;;-!-.;!!;!!'. iiivi^u- 
 
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 in AuKTira a lia]iiii(.r nr mnn' praM'i nil li..|.ic than that <ii ulmii he 
 ua^ thf iR'ail. 'lln' chilihTii nl.ilvcl |mn. 'Ilu' cxaiiipk' he ^.'t hct(>rc 
 ihciii was that >'I a ci ■nscrralii! ( Im-liaii yi'iilk'niaii. al\\a\> aiixiuu, to do 
 what L'lirist wmild havr him <[■■." 
 
 WITHOUT AN EQUAL IN AMERICA. 
 
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 r.ahiiiiiiic ■• Anici ican" : In Iii^ |K'i\ihar --tyK m|' pnlpit uratory Di. 
 Tahiia^c i> thini,i;hl hy a iiia|Mrit_\ ,,f all « h^ , Waw lifavd liiin to Ik uitli- 
 niit an C(|iial in .\iiu-rica, and \w ha- .iltcn i)i'cn i-allcd tJK' Simrgcon nf 
 the \\i>trin I lcini-|iluTf lli> miml \\a- filkd witli nil'mmatii m cm all 
 -uhjtrt-.. and hi- -irniMUs, kvtm-c-- and a<',dM'--.cs were wdiiderfnl exam 
 plesoi' inav;neli>in and el.H|ueiice. His krlmes made him wealthy, as tiie 
 willnl his late wile testilieil. Slie heiineathed him a larL,^' tnrtnne. whieli 
 represented his kx'me eannn-s "i earlier da\s, which he had re<,'iilarlv 
 transferred in her. lie had heen I'.-r s,,iiie time iiracticallv independent 
 "t the salary as ])a>tor. and t'nr M.me time after the hniklinif ,,f tlie thinl 
 and last tahernaek- in HiMMklyn he preached witlmnt remtuierati<Mi of 
 any kind." 
 
 ••ReyiiohN's Newspaper." L.m.lnn: --Dr. Talniai^e, uh,, had manv 
 imitators, wa- admittedly withont any ser: - n\al in his own pecnliar 
 line of oratory. To ;i larye extent it w;i- n i- 'od 
 older i)reacher. (Jnick in ino\ement, often 
 encrt,'-etic in .ijestnre, there mi^hl he dilTerenci . t , ,i 
 Dr. Ik-echer — was lackin<;- in the ,:^ravil\ wlii '■ n '' 
 ciate with ;i minister >'i reli,L;i; m. Ikit r.^ni tin- .i,, 
 from riii'.-ideliihi.i to liroMklyn Dr. T, ma-e Ik. 
 cit\-. \o man ever swayed an American audic; 
 leave Xeu ^'ork witln m liearinL; TahiLat^e w;i- a', i: 
 of a preaclier's opportunities. 
 
 "Dr. I alni;i.'je. I;e-:de- hein:; .a leeiocder a.n'l :. 
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 A FACE BRIGHT WITH ANIMATIOW. 
 
 ItaltiiiKnc ■■.\im'rii-an" : ■l.cinkiin; iiitn ralma^e's face, mie was at 
 I nice struck uitli its amiahihtv ami chccri'iilness. In coiucrsatimi it \\a>j 
 always htij^ln with animation and was at all timt-s a pcii'cct inirnir of 
 Ills ciiK tiiitis. Ills cyi's were clear, tender and ahsorbiiij;. while his tunc 
 and manners weie gentle and warm. He was plain and iinustentati.nis 
 in his l)eariii<. and u\)<<u the -treet had the appearance of a plain Iiiit weli- 
 tii-do hn>iness man. .\-- a preacher Pr. 'i'alniaj^e had Mime strikinj^ 
 pecidiarities. That he was sensatinnal in the accepteil sense nf that term 
 i^. a fact, hilt tliat he wa-^ much less sensatiniial than he used to he i> no 
 less a fact, lie wa-^ an "rioinal, terse, hold and cUxiiient writer and a 
 lluent, iinpa'^'^iiiied '-peaker. 
 
 "With a ci'ini)lete C'>inniiiid "f lan,t;uaj;e, his thouj^lils took a wide 
 ranf;;e cm e\er\ snhject, and the)- were sudden in tlicir changes fmm the 
 solemn and >uMiine to the humorous and odd. At one time he wmild 
 indul,:;e in a strain of touching pathos and then suddenly introduce some 
 humorous and grotesque illustration that would set his aiuliencc into a 
 roar. His language was chaste and heaiitiful in the expression of the 
 more sentimental passages and most jiungent and overwhelming in 
 criticism and deiiuticiation." 
 
 RESOLUTIONS BY CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF BROOKLYN. 
 
 Oil Sunday, .\pril 13, njoj. the Central I'reshyterian I'hurch of 
 Ikooklyn. Dr. Tahnage's old ]iastoraie passed the following resolutions: 
 
 "Resohed, That we expre-s (.r,r jirofound sense of loss at the tleatli 
 of Dr. Talmage. We sorrow. l)ut we do not mourn. T. DeW'n lal- 
 iiiage has gone \i\> to his resplendent crown. 
 
 "!\(>so'\"<'(l. I li.'it we exiircss oiir atfcctioiKitc trihu.te to his nipmii^-v 
 and our deep appreciation vi his character. 'A prince and a great man 
 
TiniU'THS Fi.'OM I'iJHSS AND ITIJ'IT -IHb 
 
 \\A-- t.illc'H ill Israel.' Dr. raliii.i^c w.i- iin ni ilic Ntr'Hipcst (ii>^|)cl 
 liriaclicrs in Amcriia. I'nr twuity lui \tar-. lie jiviMcluil t^' tlic larjjcst 
 rniiL;rc;;ati(iii-> a>>ciiil)k'<l iii ■■iir I'ily. l!iu wliile I'.rM.iklyii \\;.v ilic >i-ci'" 
 ><\ lii> ntiiiisiry fur \]wm- twenty the \ear>. \i'l ii \\a> Imt tlu- radiatinij; 
 center df an inllui'iiee, intense, rel'iiU'il, li.'h, thai li.i-. lieen felt in all the 
 wi'iM. Dv. 'raliiiai;e's ( Id^jiel nie'-^aj^^'-es have L;"i'r t" the iiiiK i.f the 
 earth. l'ei']ilr ,p|" every n.atmn ha\e I'eacI hi^ ^-ernii'ii- ami I'elt an nplift 
 and a thrill. .\^ a jireaeher. civilian, pairim, a^ a ^ttulent and writer, 
 .ahiive all a^ a I'rieiid and a ;;"dl\ in.iii. I )r. 'r.ilinai;e ha-, tniudieil and 
 inllnem-ed many li\'e>. Dr 'r.ahnai^e's -ennun-. were tinielv, pr.aclical 
 and Seriptnral. ( iirist enuilied w,i~ his |ia.--iiiii. Ili^ aim in every ser- 
 niiiii \v;is to iiV'\e men (i'ldward. He l'i\cd the Sasinur I'f men. lie 
 helieve<l the I'.ihle. We liniMr him T'lr lii-. ni;iinleii.nu-e i.{ the I'aith dtice 
 delivered to the saint--, lie sidml fmir square ;ii;Min-t all the winds i>f 
 adverse <li)etrine. We plaee m red ird mir keen appreciatimi nf and mir 
 f^ialitiide fi>r all th;it (i'ld h.ith wrinii^ht thnini,di him." 
 
 TAUGHT WHAT THE WCKLD NEEDED TO HEAB. 
 
 
 (leneral P.. F. Tracy, t'nrmer secretary nf the ['. S. Xavy: "Xo 
 minister nt" the j,j()S])cl in the world's histury ever commanded in his 
 lifetime so threat an andience, and no strnn'j;er proof could he given 
 that this man teaches what the world needs to hear; that he truly min- 
 isters to the souls of men." 
 
 The late President "McKinley : "The .American people, irrespective 
 of denominational differences, have a ])ri(le in the ahility and puhlic 
 service of Dr. Talmage. His influence for j;ood in the direction of 
 public seiniment extends far heyond his own church and his own con- 
 f^reRatioii; it is felt all over the country, and even heyond the seas." 
 
 Rev. Thom.-is 11. (iregory, of Chicago: "Dr. Talmage was probably 
 the best-known clergyman on earth. His name was .-s familiar as a 
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 and Iicr col(mi.c's. and liis \\im(N. spukcii and piintcd. reached millions 
 every week. 
 
 "In addition to his lahors a-^ i)reacliJr and pnpular lecturer Dr. 
 Talniage was a most volnniimus writer. .\ constant writer for the 
 newspapers, a steady c intrihntur tn the magazines, he still fonn>l time 
 to make many liu(.k>. lie puhlislied dir.iii;; his Inisy lirooklyn [las- 
 toratc as many as fourteen volumes, hesides vcveial \ohimes ni cnUected 
 sermons and a nnmlx.! t'< lecture^ and addressee. 
 
 ■'Talmage was lucked upon li\ man\ as ha\ini;' heen two sensational 
 in his methods, hut no nne ever dnnlncd hi- p. iwcr with men, his ahilitv 
 to draw mighty audiences wherever a'ld whene\er he was anncjnnced 
 to preach (ir lecture. 
 
 "ilis was ;i n.ame in ...njiu'e with, and in the day of his power he 
 was easily the king of the .\mericaii pl^.tfurm." 
 
 TH-E GREATEST OF WORD PAINTERS. 
 
 Dr. Gregg nf l!ri>i>k'_\ n : "I ci>n>ider him the gi-eatest word jiainter 
 on any ccnitinent on earth. He prdnt-- for Christ. He thinks in pic- 
 tures, and he who thinks in jjicture-- think-, \i\iilly. He paints with 
 a large hrush, with colors that hnrn and glow, and nations gather around 
 his pictures and feel an ujilift and a holy tin-ill. "" 
 
 Kev. John I'. I.oha, jiasti'r of the l''n--t Congregational Church of 
 Evaiiston : "l"(jr more than twenty-fne ye;u>. -incc 1 lia\e known Tal- 
 niage through the press, he ha.s lieen a remaik.ihle ligme in the .\meri- 
 can pulpit. His sermons h.i\e ]kx-,i read li\ luiiulred> of thousands of 
 people :ill over the land, and ha\e e\en reached the most remi)te and 
 obscure districts. 
 
 "lie \\a> .a pictureS'iue rather than ;i remarkah]\- able preacher, and 
 was ^ciUiewhat sensational, i'.ut ;ill prcacl',er> resort to more or less sen- 
 ■~alion;di-m to catch die public ear. .uul 1 'r. ralniage never resorted to 
 ■sen>ation,al scnsatioii;ilivui." " 
 
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 the sentimi-m n{ all admirers of Dr. Taliiiaj,a' when lie said : •'Vor knowl- 
 edge (if Ininiaii life, and the adaptation of Divine truth to the whole 
 benig of mar— intellectual, emotional, moral, practical— and for the 
 power of aiiplyini,' that truth, we know iv t his equal." 
 
 UNRIVALED IN FERTILE IMAGINATION. 
 
 The Rev. Josej)!! I'.irker, pastor L'ity Temple, London: "In tlie 
 realm o| reli^iou^ inKii^ination. power. fcrtiHty and ardor of fancv. Dr. 
 lalm;ige stands in my estcv ihsoltUely without a rival in tlie Christian 
 pulpu t.i-da_\. it i> wuhin my cert.nn knowledge that not only is his min- 
 istry imaginatively and \eiiially .--plendid. hut that it carrier with it c:>n- 
 \erting and ele\ating jiowcr." 
 
 I'.ishop John !•". 1 hirst : '■The church in thi> and all other countries 
 has keen enriclied hy hi-; laliors. .\L-my a life has l)ccoiiie heautiful 
 ihrongh !ii> teachings All cla>scs have >liared in the henefactions of Ills 
 heart and hand." 
 
 Dr. Teuni- .'<. Hamlin, pastor of the Church of the Covenant. Wash- 
 ington I). C.. -poke of Dr, T.ahnagc a- "one of the great clergymen of 
 the ccnlmy." lie siid tli.at "Dr. Talmage. in his m.arvelons word pic- 
 Inre-,. ;llway^ bespoke hope and cheer: tliat he aimed at the hearts and 
 cmolionM.f tile people, ni>te;id of .-u tlieir intellects." 
 
 I\e\. Thoni;i> Chalmers r'.i-ion, W ;islinigton. I). C.. .said that "Dr. 
 Talmage wa'- made .if the -i.,ck I'mm which martyr> siiring. and that 
 no man had lived m . ;ipi.>iolic ;i hfe mucc the da\- of I'aul. Jieecher, 
 .'-;j)nrgeon ami r,iIina,L;e were the three greatest preachers of the centur\-. 
 Inn the i.i-t named \\;i^ the pi'ince of the pulpit." 
 
 A MAGNETIC ORATOR AND A FLUENT WRITER. 
 
 Kev. William .M.acafee, pa>tor of the Fir.-^t MethtHlist I'hurch of 
 I'v.-mstnn: "Dr. T,il!ii;!,.;e w;is ;i -Teat pre:icher. ;i!thougli he lia> been 
 s.. mew hat <ta . i the imlilic . \e hM -..me time. A m;i.i;netie orator and 
 a tiueiit V. liter, he accomiili-ik .i -rc.-u '.un„\ \, .r iIn. eai:>'' o* ( 'i..-;^! " 
 
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 l\c\. 1'.. A. (irtTiu'. i);istnr of the Mist I'aplist Church (if F.vanstnn : 
 "Dr. Tnhii.iuv was a very able man. and many of his sermons will live 
 for ^'cnerations." 
 
 Rev. John 11. r.oyil. pastor of the I-'irst Presbyterian ("hurch of 
 I'-vanston : "Mr. TalniaL^e was the t'nst mail to realize the value of the 
 press ill exteniliiii:; the word of (iod. Tliroii,!;!! the pulpit and press he 
 lireachcd to more people than any man of nuulern limes. He was a rc- 
 markahle man. " 
 
 ENCOMIUMS FROM THE RELIGIOUS PRESS. 
 
 As exaini>'es oi the view s expressed liy the religious press, the follow- 
 ing: will serve to show tlie universal esteem in whicli Dr. Talmage was 
 held : 
 
 'nie 'Outlook": "His sermons were singularly graphic in illus- 
 tration: and their piet.'ri;il \i\idiiess secured for him wide h.caring wherc- 
 e\er he chose t.- -ni.aU." 
 
 The •■(.'ongreg:ii'. iiaiist .ind C hri.siian Wmi-UI" : •'Rev. Dr. T. DeWitt 
 Talmage was f, ,r num\- ye:n-s "iic of the most i)roininent lecturers on the 
 Americ;in platform, lie pos-,cs>cd a hrilliant imagination, lie had the 
 art of presenting lnini;in feelings and experiences in word pictures, which 
 he could change hy deft, swift ^trokes, so tli.at they expressed pathos and 
 humor, tragedy and C"nieily. .at almost the same moment. '■ * * 
 His sernii'iis lia\e ]iroii;ilily lie'?n re;i<l hy more ])ersons than those of 
 any other .\nK'ric;in iircacher of his time, and they have hcNond ijues- 
 
 tiiiii d'.nc a greai deal • i g 1. One of the hcst things we have heard 
 
 <aid "i tlieni w.is the lap^M't . ;' ;i coinersation o\erheard hetween s, iinc 
 anarcliists. muc ..f win in s,i.,l tli.at Dr. T;ilmage was a great obstacle 
 to the spix';id 'if their d'ictrine-. l)ei';iuse so many people read his sermons 
 aiKJ were mjule h'i])eiul and contented by them." 
 
 TALMAGE, THE PEOPLE'S PREACHER. 
 
 William I"!!i"t ' iiiiiis, in the "Snnd.ay .School Times," says: "Slowly 
 Init siirelv, tlMuH.L;li many ol)stac]e-. he made his way to the pinnacle. 
 
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 He kci>t his IkkIv ir subjection. He first coiiqiiercd himself. When a 
 student he liad learned to >moke. Tie told me that, fur months after leav- 
 ing the seminary, he could not write a sermon without a cigar in his 
 mouth. When, by and by, he saw that nicotine was weakening his 
 nerves and befuddling his brain, he resolved once and forever to (luit 
 smoking, and he did >o. I le ma-tered the iiuA itable reaction, and so per- 
 severefl a^ to reach finally the- height of grrice frMui which one free of 
 the iK;i-.on ran look on the fme-t brand of rig;ir^. or the imaginary I)liss 
 <jf the -]a\e- of the weed. .'Uid c i\et neither," 
 
 TliC "Interior": ".\ l;irge .-md commanding figure in the T'res- 
 byterian mini-try d:-a[)])ear> from it> rank- when Dr. Talniage is gath- 
 ered to hi- fatlier-. .\'o m.-m of ;ir.y time e\er ])reache<I the gospel to 
 >uc1j vait audience- a- lie; hi- -ermon- of late year> reached millions of 
 people weekly. In tl'.e hi-tory of the world's evangelization he will lie 
 V. ritten <! .-.vn f^r gra'.eftil rctiiemi trance a- tlie man uho prove'l that 
 the secular i-r-.--- cai^. I>c nia'le in (hri-tian land- a vehicle for bringing 
 Ixjth tl'.e '.■.ariiing- ati'l co.ti-olat: ■- ■ :' the go-jic-l to the \ ery hearth- 
 side> of tl;e pe pie. Iti ten- of t!-.ou-and- of .Xtnerican lionie>, many of 
 them otiitrrv. -l-e t-nciiurcrx-'I. Tal:n.-;ge'- -crn-r ii-, f.itnil in the local 
 [;aper-. r.a-.c been ti'.c -piri'.tta! food atnl dirink of the liou-eliold, and now 
 that his N'.jtce can tto uv re be heard fr tn the printed jjage, it will he in 
 sucli li -iries almo;;: as if one v.ere gone from the faimly circle. Dr. 
 Ta'mage r.a i a 1 ng and n-e:ul p"'p:t mini-try in tlie P.rfxiklyn Taber- 
 !:acle, l.'Ut e'.en tl.at great ci'.urcii v.a- -".ch. a limited field C' mpared with 
 tl'.at uliicli tr.e ttev.spapers ■ pencd i;p to him. that liis power grew r.ather 
 thati waned when he di'.c-tcd l;::t>';lf of tl;;; pa-'otvil relation." 
 TBIBrrXES FROM CHICAGO PULPITS. 
 
 Re'.'. W. -\. Danlctt. pa-t' r '■: tlie hir-t Congregational (Ihurcli, 
 "I c^_f!-i'-lcr .Dr. 'ialtviage .a great and, typical .\merican 
 The -ecrct > •! hi- -ucce-- la;, in hi- per-otial g.-pel mc--age. 
 
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 Rev. II. Atw 1 ri.'!Ti\;il. pa-tnr ni" Xmiiial I 'ark I'rcsbvterian 
 
 Clnirclt, Chica<,'(): "Hr. ■I'aliiiai^'c >\as a famous prcacIicT. Ilisscniioim 
 rtm-licil every land and lianilei. Hi- liie-wnrk was rather a!i)iii( sensa- 
 tional and sentimental li)ie> of con-trnctive elmreli work, hut in tlie wliole 
 III' was a i^ri : preaeher." 
 
 Re\-. Myron W. 1 laynes. ]iastor I'.elden Avemte I5aptist (.'hnrcli, C'hi- 
 i-a-o: •■'ralmai,'e was al)sohitely iVarle-s. He foiiLjht sin witlt an open 
 hand. I le never catered t" wealth and fa>hi.pn. l^)s■^ihlv lie loved earthly 
 I'ame too well, htit certainly never saerilieed princiiile to ohtain it." 
 ADMIRES DR. TALMAGE FOR LOYALTY TO TRUTH. 
 Rev. John I). Leek, p.istor of Cniee .Methodist l''.piscopal L'hnrch. 
 ('hicaj^d: "I have always greatly ailmired Dr. Talmage for liis ortho 
 do\yr his eloi|iience and his l.iy.ilty to truth. !!y the piililieation of his 
 sermons lu- h;is aeeoniplished niMve than ,iny .\merie.ni preacher of his 
 ij^eneration."' 
 
 Kex'. t'haries (ir.anville Kindred, pa -tor ' >i I".ni.;Ie\\ o, id ( 'hnrch of 
 Christ, Cli':i.t;o: •■T,a]ma,t;e wa-- a txpical .\merican preacher, ] fe was 
 hold, and pre.aehcd with ;i fearless tongue, fearing' neither comment nor 
 criticism. His sermons were read .ironnd f. c world and were instru- 
 mental in leadinj^f m;my lost s. ails to sanation." 
 
 Rev. Frederick C. f'riest, pastor of the Cliurch of the Redeemer ( L'ni- 
 \-ersalist), ( iiicaoo : "Talmai^e was undouhtedly the "(reatest pulpit 
 li"wer with the masses nf his L^eiieratioii. His sermons were extcnsivelv 
 read. and. 1 donhi not. were instrumental in leadiuL;- uianv to Christ." 
 
 Rev. M, l'",dward I'.iwcetl, rect(ir of the Church i^i >\.. Uartholomew 
 ( I'.pisCopal ), ( hica,!.;'' : ".M.iy he re-t in peace ,uid m;iy the light of C.od 
 shine perpetu.ally upon him, is wh;ii I \\i>Ii the ashes of Dr, T.alniage." 
 FROM THE SECULAR PRESS. 
 Xew ^ ork " rimes": "With perli;ips the sinole- (.•\ception of Ilenry 
 Ward i'.eecher, tlie Rev. T. ! )e\\itt Talma^e had a more widespread 
 reputation than any other .\merican ]>re;icher of the ,i,^ospel. For over 
 
 lorlv Ne.'U's he h.as lici'U .i con-,nicuoiis h'jiivi' in thij rchtlii'U.s life of Amer- 
 
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 ica. Hveii diiriiig Bettlier's life lie lield with that eminent divine an 
 ahiiust f'liial jjlace as a pulpit orator, and since Beecher's death no other 
 preacher lias iiad a popularity with religious audiences comparable to 
 liis. His lame was not confined to America. He preached with great 
 success m i:tij,'land. and his sermons have been translated into many 
 languages. During the greater part of his career he added to the circle 
 of his HilhiL-iice by writing sermons especially for the newspapers through- 
 out tlie country, and the last few years of his life have been devoted 
 exclusively to this work." 
 
 Xew York '•American and Journal": "His sermons have appeared 
 weekly in the ■Gnistian Herald' since 1879, and, through the agencv 
 i.t the .Xinerican Press Association, in no less than 3.500 other publica- 
 ti(jns throiii^lunu this country and Europe. It is estimated that in thi-. 
 way his sermons have been within the reach of 30,000,000 persons 
 we.'kly. The large.n ctjiigregatinns of the world's most famous preacher ^ 
 dwindle in'o insignificance in c<jmparison." 
 
 Washington 'i'c/st": ".Xmerica's nu)>'. celebrated preacher." 
 Xew York "'rribune" : "The sermons of tiie Rev. Di . Talmage have 
 perha].- been more widely read than those of ;'iiy wtlier preacher. While 
 he was pastor of tlie Brot)klyn Tabernacle, a period of twentv-fi\e yeaib, 
 be filled a large -pace in the public eye. In that period three edifices were 
 erected for his congregations, each !arj;er ilian the other, and eacli wa . 
 ilot roved by i'lre." 
 
 St. bonis ■■Cilobe-Democrat": "T. DeWitt Talmage was unques- 
 tionably oiR' of the most remarkable men of his time. His success finan- 
 cially was pbeiiomenal for a clergyman." 
 
 Chicago ■•Record-Herald"; "He was a inagniricent lecturer. Some 
 of his flights of oratory are rememiiered as being of surpassiiig impres- 
 siveness and picturesqueness. He drew lessons from everything. He 
 lalked to a purpose, but at the same time he garnished his sentences with 
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 294 THIMPTES ?^WOM T'HESS AND PFLPIT 
 
 TRIBUTES FROM NATIONAL LEADERS. 
 
 Will. p. Frye. I'rt-i.lem L'nitcil States Sfiuitc; i)r. Talmage was 
 i.ne of tlie great prcaclicrs of this age. Both in puli.it aiul on platform his 
 influence was [xiwerful, alway-- for good." 
 
 Charles \V. Fairhanks. L'nited States Senator from Ii.diana: "Two 
 hemispheres mourn at the grave of one who has been a most potent influ- 
 ence in lifting humanity into a higher and serener atmosphere, and in 
 pointing the way to an everlasting life." 
 
 John P. Dolliver. United States Senator from Iowa: •■.\t the time 
 of liis death he was the greatest popular orator in the ICnglish-speakmg 
 pulpit. He was a poet as well as a preacher. His name will appc.-ir 
 among tlie great evangelists of the Christian reli^^ion." 
 
 Chaimcey M. Depew. United States Senator from New York: ■The 
 influence of a teacher who ci»mmands so wide an audience can h.irdly 
 lie estimated. an<l his death leaves a large V(Md in the agencies which go 
 fcjr better thinking and better living." 
 
 Bishop T. H. V. Satterlee of Washington: 'Dr. T. DeWitt Tal- 
 niage's name will ?o down to posterity as among the forenmst ministers 
 (if the nineteenth centurv. He was a many-sided man. whose message-^ 
 were delivered in many ways. Xot often to one man the double gift is 
 accorded of moving the iR-tter aspirations of others, equally by his eln- 
 Cjnence in the pulpit and his thoughts upon the printed i.age. He knew 
 lu.w to touch the every-day life of the people at large." 
 
 .\dniiral Dewey: "In the death of Dr. Talmage the world loses one 
 of its brightest Cliristian (irnaments. I knew him well atid esteemenl hini 
 liighlv. He and his sermons will be missed in cnuiulcss bnme> all over 
 the world." 
 
 C.eneral N'eN.>n A. Miles: "I'Jr. Ta'mage t(niclicd and moved the re- 
 ligious feelings of the masses most oimpletcly. He was a great and good 
 man. who dev-.ted his life work tn the moral and spiritual welfare of his 
 fellowmen." 
 
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 T. DE WITT TAL.WAGE. 
 MENDING THE BIBLE. 
 
 "If aiiy man shall take away fnun the \\>n^U of tin- 1i.k,1< ,,f \],\< 
 pruphecy. God ^hall take awav his part out oi the l)<j..k ni life, and tnil 
 of the holy city." — kr\ . xxiiig. 
 
 Vou see it is a v*ry risky business, this changin<( of the [luly Scrip 
 
 tines. 
 
 A pulpit in .\e\v York has recently set forth the idea that the Scrip- 
 tures ouglit to be e.xpurjjaled, tliat portioUh of iheni are in.ht t(j Ix- read, 
 and the iiispiiaiioti df uiuch of the Bible has been denied. Among otiier 
 striking statements are the-c: 
 
 The Book of Genesis is a tiailition of creation, a successive layer of 
 traditions thought out centuric- h.-fuiv, ^b.se^■ mistakes alxmt creation 
 were the mistakes of his age. That there are many systems of theology 
 in the Xew Testament. That Paul had all the notion-^ of tiie rabbinical 
 schools (jf his time. Th.at Job winds up liis epilogue in genuine I'airy- 
 tale style. That r^evelati.m is a long array of misshapen progeny in the 
 apocalyptic writings, tracing themselves back to D.aniel. That Revela- 
 tion comes to a madman, or leaves him mad. That what he calls the 
 abominable Icwilness of some things in the Uld Testament is not tit to lie 
 read. Tliat it is an abominable misuse of the Bible to suppose the 
 prophecies really foretell future events. That the book .^f Daniel is not 
 m the right place. That Solomon's Songs are not in the right place, and 
 
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 Iio si'iiiiM to applaud the idea of some one who said that the book of Solo- 
 nmn'^ Sonj:^ oiijjht not to be in any unc's liands under thirty years of age. 
 Ilf iiitiiii;itc> that hi' does not hclieve tliat Samson slew a thousand men 
 with tin- jawl.. .nc n\ an ass. Tliai tlie whole Bible has been improperly 
 chopped up inti) cliai/tcr^ and verses. 
 
 He dues not l)elie\e liie liCKinning of the Bible, and he does not be- 
 lieve the close of it. nor anything hetwcen as fully inspired of God, and 
 he think- tiie Rook ought to be expurgated, and there are those who re- 
 echo the '■aine sentiment. 
 
 Xow . 1 believe in the largest liberty of discussion, and there are halls, 
 and I pera-houses, and academies of music, where the Bible and Chris- 
 ti:iiiit\ may be assaulted without interruption ; but when a minister of the 
 (m spel surrender- the faith of any denotninalion. his first plain, honest 
 (!ut\. 1- v.> get uut of it. What would )uu think of the clerk in a dry- 
 gijtuN ti'Te. <)i a factory, or a banking-house, who should go to crit.cis 
 iiig the l)olvk^ .if liie lirni, and denouncing the behaMor of the tirm, still 
 lakiii;; lilt- -alaiy of that firm and tlie support of that tirm. and doing ail 
 his .li laiiiciatioii oi the books of the tirm under its cover'- Ccrtamly, a 
 niiiu-tei of the (.uspel ought to be as honest with his denomination, as a 
 dry-i;.^d> clcik is honest with his employers. 
 
 The heiiiuubncss of tinding fault with the Bible at tlus time by a 
 rhiisiian iniui-ter i> most evident. In our day the Bible i:. assailed b\ 
 scurrility, 1«> misrepresentation, by intidel scientist, by all the vice of 
 earth and all the venom of perdition, and at this particular time minister- 
 oi relii;-.. ii fall mto line of criticism of ilie Word of God. Why, it make.-, 
 me thmk ..f .i ship in a September equinox, the waves dashing to the top 
 of the Muoke-stack. and the hatches fastened down, and many prophesy- 
 int; tlie fouridering of the steamer, and at that time some of the crew 
 with axes and -aws go down into the hold of the ship, and try to saAV 
 . iff some of the planks and pry out some of the timbers because the timber 
 (lid not come from the ri<ght forest ! It does not seem to me commenda- 
 
'^:.«"m 
 
 SKirMOXS .VXD LK( TURES 
 
 Jin 
 
 Me bu>inp>> ini ilu' cu w v- \k )ii.li>ing the \\ iinl- .iiid -tniin- uni-iilc unh 
 ilifir .1NC-- ,111(1 ^,^\\ - in'^nlt\ 
 
 Xow, till-- iild (ii 1-1*1 -!np, uliat with the roaniip; o;' f.iith .md lull 
 .iruiiiKl the strut ,iii<i -tern, mid niiitm\- nn deck, i- li.uin;.; .1 \er\ rcnii^h 
 voya^'C. hilt I have iii-tieed th.ii not miu ..f the t'lnlMi'. h.i- -i.nli.l. ,nid 
 ihe('aiitain -a\> He will -ee il ihi. iij.;h. And I iia^e iimIuim thit ktcl 
 -Ml and ei'iintei tinih'.i knee are Imill ■mt ni' I.ehan.in ceilar, ,ind -he i- 
 iC'inj,' '" w-aiher the i^ale. hut ,10 eredii tn tli"-e wliu make miitiii} ■m 
 d.'ck 
 
 Whin I -ee nimister- "f religion in tin- paiiunlai d.i\ rindiii;; i.wi 
 nith the S<-n(itiire-, it iiiak<'- ine think •<l"a lurtre-^ lei lit';' alK h -inhard' 
 and the men "ii the rnmiiart-, in-tead ni swahhiiif; 'iiii .n\i\ iM.idmj^ ■ 
 ;,'iin- and hel[iing tfteh up the aiiimiiniti"n t'mni ilu- m ij;a/inr, an ir\i 
 with crowhar. t" jiry miii frnm the w-all eertaui hluk- 'if ,ti>ii(, l.ei-ac 
 the}' did iiMt ei'iiu frc'tii the rijjhl rpiariv. ( 'h. nun "n ihc i.inip.ir 
 hettP'- 'Tht hark and light down tlu e.iinm'Mi eneniv , niMt ad > 1 ii \ nip 
 maK faehe- m the wall. 
 
 \\ nile I (i]>peise thi- expiirgHtion ■ '^'iiptmi--. i di.ill ^i'.^ m 
 
 my reason- ior such (>ppn-itir>n. "Wh.., ni> ■ i the ilieol , 
 
 evolutionists, who.sc brain- h.nc tx'en addled , ,■'., l^w^ |ii."i.Ini^ 
 them hy Darwin and Sj- leer, "\riii clon't n^w re.ilU hchrxe ,ill il 
 iif tlu' (larden of Fvleti, clo vmh r" ^ (■>, as iniieh ,1- I hehc\ e .ill 1! .■- 
 
 that were in my garden last -iimmer. "Riit," say the\, "x. m dun' dh 
 heli'.'ve tliat the -nn and nvon stc'd -till;" \'e-. .ind 11 I li.id miglli 
 enough to create a sun and iiidoii I emiM make them -.t.ind -li!i. 1 .i ciii-i 
 the refraction of the sun's rays so it would apiio.ir i.i -i.md -'ill. ' Ihii." 
 they say, "you don"t realh helie\e that lIu' wh.ile -w ,ill' iW eij h'li.ih?" 
 \'es, and if [ were -troiig etinugh tn ni.ike the wh.ile 1 conlil n:i\c niadi- 
 \cry e.t-y inj^ress for the refractory inophel. ie.i\iiig |.i h"\olnfioii lo 
 eject him, if he were an unwnrthy tenant. "I'lUt," s,i\ the\-. "v^w don'i 
 really hclicxe that the water was turned into wine'" ^ e-. jii-t as e.isiJv 
 as water now is often turned into wine with an admixture of -irvchninc 
 
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 .111(1 U'Rwooil! "Ijni.' .1} tlu'x. "\x)ii jDii't rc.ill} Iv "ieve tliat Samson 
 -liw ,1 tlinii-.iiu! uitli till jau Ii'MU' >>{ .111 .1^-?" Vc.s, as I think thai the 
 ni.tii whi. Ill ilii- cl,i\ .i-^.iiili-- till I'lililc 1^ wicichng the >ame wcapMi! 
 
 luH' I- inilntij; m the liiMr tliat >taf;jjfr> iin' Tlicrc are niaii_\ 
 thlllJ;■^ I il'iiMt iiihlti ~t<.iiiil, I .l.'iiot iMitL'tid til iiinUr-taiKl. never shall in 
 till- wcild niKliT'-t.iiiil r.iit ih.il wi'iilil hr .i very |mh.i {',i\(\ whcci.uM 
 he i'iiIIn iiinl»r>ti'M,| l)_\ ihi- hiimaii. 111. it wuulil he .i \cv\ --mail liitinite 
 ili.ii ran hf iiic.i>iiu'i| hv the liiiiie Ni'ii inn>l not espcct in \\i'i;;h ttie 
 ihmiiK iholt- "I < •iiinii>"tt lue in .in .i])' iilici.iiy'^ h.-ilaiioe^. ."-^tartin^ witii 
 the i.le.i that i r>'\ e.ni d' ► .m\ tiling;, .nid tli.it lie \\.i^ |ire^etn at the l>e.iiin- 
 iiiiiL;, and th.ii lie i^ jiic-eiit tinw, iheve i^ ii"tlnnp; in the Holy Senptnro-i 
 t'> .111 'if-c kipiuiMii in nu hc.iit. lieu I >t.md. ,i !■ wsi! i it the aqe-;. dnjj 
 i'|i tr.'iii the teiti.iiN I. iiiiii'iiMi. t'.iHen ..|T the dicll '<\ .m anli(|iiarmii, .t 
 in. Ill 111 the l.ittei p.iit ni the ;;bMMn, nineteenth ecntut>. I)clic\inj,' ir 
 \\h"le r.iMe. fi.in iid n. lid ' 
 
 I .1111 M|.].. iM'cl |m the i'.\|>in t;alii'n '>t the Sniptiire- in the first place. 
 l'veaii--e the Tiihlc in it- |'ie-eiit --iLijie ha-- U-en ^" > iniracnli "i -ly pre^erxed, 
 hitteen hundred yc.ii^ .it'tei llemilotn^ uti'Ie ln> history, there \\,i. ■'iily 
 (•lie in.annseri|it inpx ot it I'ueKe luindied \ e.ars aftei I'l.it" wmte hi-. 
 hiHik, tlieie was ciil', mie liLinitscript e^py of it. (iixl w.is so carefnl tn 
 ]i.i\e lis h,i\t- the P>ilile m iitst the rii;hi -h.i]i( . that we ha\e tift\' inaim- 
 -eii|>t ("pie- "i the .\'e\\ le-Liment. ,i tli' iiis.iinl \e.ir old. .ntd in.in\ of 
 them tiltten hundred ve.iis ..Id, Ilii- liook. handed down li"in the time 
 oi' I liii>t, c'l jii-t .itiei the Mini of ( lirist. liy the hand of siuh men .i- 
 ' )iiL;eii. Ill tile -eioiid ■eiiliiry. ;iiid leitiillian. in the third eentmy— men 
 i<\ dilVereiit a^es \\ Im dud f"i then principles. I'iie tliiee hest copie~ of 
 the .\'e\\ Ti ^t.iineiil in iii.inn-iripl .ire in the povNcs^ioii i>\ three ;^reat 
 clnirches- ill!' I'roie-iani ( linnli oi l'iii;i;iiid, the (.ireek Chnreli of St. 
 I'eti-rshnri;. and ihe Uiiiiii>ii ( liiirch of it.dy. 
 
 is ;t plain ni.itier "i history that I'l -iheiuli nf went to ,i consent in 
 the jieninsnla of Sin.ii. .iiid was Ity ropes lifted over the w;i]! into the 
 convent, that heini; the oiiK iiicxie nl .uimission, .-iikI that he saw there iii 
 
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 Si:i{MnNS AM> l.KCTIIfKS 
 
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 the waste basket for kiiulliiiK for the \'ux^. n itiami>cript of ttic Holy 
 Scriptures. That nipht lie co|)ic<l many of tlie passages of tliat Bible, 
 but it was not uiUil fifteen \ear> liad i)a--e(l of canif-t ciitrcat_\ and 
 praser. and coaxing, and luinli.i-c <>\\ lii- part tli.it th.it copy df tlif Holy 
 Scriptures wa> put into the ii.ind- cf the inipci'T of Rus-ia — tli.it one 
 lopy so Inarvelon^!y protected. 
 
 Do you not knou that the cataloj,'i'e of the lio<ik> of llic Old and New 
 Tc>»taniens. a> we have it. is tlie ^ai le catalogue tliat lia~ been coniinj,; 
 on ilown tliiou;^di the :i?;v^'. 'I"liir* .-nine h'">k- of the Old d'c-tauieiit 
 thousand^ of vear-. .i^'o rhnly-nine now. i"went_\ >c'. en liook^ of the 
 \'ew Te-lanient, si.\tecii Inindicd \ear^ aj^o. Twenl} ■•e\cn Iiooks of tile 
 Xcw Tc- latnciit now. Marcmn. for wickedness, was tuiiied out of the 
 ' luirch iti the second icnturv , and in lll^ a^^anll on the Hihle and I'liri-^- 
 iianitx. he inciilentally t;i\e.- a catalogue of t!ie N'ok- i>f the Bible — that 
 i-.italoi,M;r n.rre-iK'iiding e\actl\ with ours — te>tnnon, gi\eii In tiic 
 ciicnix "f the I'.ibtf. ;uid the fiK-niy "f (,'hri^tianity. I'be catalogue now. 
 just like tlu- catalot;iu- then .X^saulted and spit on, and torn to pieces 
 .-ind ttnrned. vet a<lherin^; The Ixwik to-dav. in three hundred laiiguag' >. 
 Confronting foin- ruths ..f the human race in tliei.- own tongue. Three 
 linndreil million copii-^ i.f it in existence. I\k'~ nut th.ii iook as if tlii> 
 Book hnd been di\inel} protected, as if (ind had guanied it all tlirough 
 the cent uric- ? 
 
 \'o| -Illy have .ill the attempt.^ to detract irom the Book failed, but 
 all the .ittenipts to add to it. M.tny ;ittcmi)t-. were made to add the 
 ,i|iociypli,d bi'ok> to the Did Te tanient. Tbe ( ouncil of Trent, the 
 .^vnod of Jerus;i'em, the r.i,-Ii'>iis of lliiipo. ^11 decided that the ,ipnc- 
 ryph.al 1)ook> mu~t be ad. led to the Old Te-tamcnt. "They must stay in." 
 said those learned men. but tliey ^ta\ed out. There is not an intelligeiu 
 Clirisfian man tliat to-day will put tlie P.ook of Maccalnni- or the I'lHik of 
 Judith beside the Book of Isaiah or Romans. Then a great many said. 
 "We must ha\e b«^oks adde to tl c Xew Testament." ;md there «vere 
 
 eplstie■^ ami ( ii >~.|iei.i .imi .ijioei.i) p>e> urill>.ii .liiii auik. 
 
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 iiu'iit, Iml tliey liaxcall fallni mit. Yon canivit add aiiytbiiip:. \\m can 
 ni>t suljtract an}tliin,[;, Di\iiicly pnnccicd Bo"k in the present ^liaji ■ 
 I. ft n:) nian dare ti' lay h\> h:\\\(]- nn it \vit!i tlic intention nf detracting; 
 fi'dni the r><« k. or ea-tin;:: I'lit an_\- nf these linly pajje-. 
 
 T am aisn c pjiiwed io this proposed expm'j^ation nf tlie Seriptnns for 
 ih.e fact thai in p;M]i'inion as people heci'ine self sacrificinj; and lT'lhI and 
 h ily and enn-ecrated. tliey like the Book as it is, 1 lia\'' yet to liinl a man 
 I'V a woman distini^nished for self-.-acrifice, for consecration tn (ind, for 
 hi'h'ness of life, whi.i wants the llihle chan;,ed. Many if n^ have inherited 
 f:.inil\- Rihles. Tiiosc P.iljlcs were m use twenly, h'liv. Iift\'. jierhaps a 
 I nndrcd years in tlie .itinerations, Thi> afternoon, when you j^n home, 
 ' e down those family Diblcs. and t'md ont if there are any chapter- 
 1 'i ha\e been erased li\- Icai' pencil i:i pen, .and if m any niars^irs yi^n 
 oan find il e words: "This ch,a]i',cr ii"t t;t tn i. id." There has heen plenty 
 '■i op > rtniiity dnrinj: the l;i-t lull centm'y pri\ately to expnr^.!t(. tlic 
 Biul' it,) _\on know an_\ case of such expnr^.itinn ? r')id not yotn .^lanil- 
 fa'' .r i[;vc it t^) yonr t'ather. and did in.'l yotu' father .c;;\c it to you? 
 
 "xpnrt^ate the Bible! \"on mi.ijht as well go tii the "Id picture gaiierie> 
 in 1 esden anrl in X'enice and in Ronie and expni'g.atc the old ]i;'inl- 
 inf,'s. Yrliaps you could Inid ;. fool of Michael .\ni:;eIo's "l^ast Judg- 
 n:ent" tiiat migln be impr''i\ed, Perhajis yon could tbr.iw more exprcs- 
 sIlu ir;tn Raphael's "Madonna." rerh.aii- \ou cHiId put more patho- 
 into Rube. Is' ' Descent ivom the (.'ri)?s." Perhap- you could change the 
 > rests of the \va\'es in Turner's "'S'a\e Shi;)." I^erhajjs ynu might go 
 into the "Id gallerit- i.f sculpture ,-uid change the form-- .lud the postures 
 of the statues of I'hidia^ and I'raxilele.s, Such ;m ic )noil;i-i \\,iuld \'er\- 
 soon find himself in th.e penitential}-, b.ut it is worse \and.iiism when a 
 m;in jjrojioses to refashion the^c ma-terjiieces of ins])iration and to re- 
 m."!e! the moral giruus of this gallerv of Ciod. 
 
 Xow, let Us divide off. Let tr.ose jieople who do not believe the BiMe 
 and ^vlio are critical of riii.s and that p.arl of il. go clear o\ er to the otlur 
 '•■1'.'. T-ct them stand behind the devil's gun^. Tlicre can be no compro 
 
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 niise I' 'ti\ ecu inficlrlity and Cr.rir tianily. Give us the ■ ".it and out opposi- 
 I ■■'■< '■•: iiitKlcIity rather than the work ,,f tl.cse hybrid tlicologians, tiicsc 
 iiK.nc^rel ecclesiastics, these lialf and hall cvchated pulpiteers who behievc 
 the P.ihle and do not believe it, wlio accept the miracles and do not accept 
 them. v«-!i(. belie.e in the inspiration ..f tlic Scriptures and do not lie'ie-.r 
 in I'r: uispir,;';^>n of t;;e Scriptures— liimming tluir Ixlief on one :'idc 
 to Milt the skei)ticisn, ..f tiic world, trimming th.cir be!. el on the other .side 
 i'> smt the pride o: !',■ ir own Iicart, and feeling t!ia< in order to demon- 
 ^'rau their cov.ragc tiny must make tlic Bible a target, and shoot at God. 
 rhere is one tiling that encourages mc very much and that is. that tliv 
 '.Old y.r.de om to manage the universe Ix;lorc they v. ere bom. and will 
 probably be ible to mrd<e out to manage t!ic universe a little wh.ilo after 
 they are dca.l. Wliilo I demand tliat the antagonists .f tb.c Bible, and 
 tne critics ■ f tli Bible go i.;c,!r ever wdicrc tlicy bclcing. or. the devil's side, 
 I n.-^k all \\:r friends of this good Book to come uul (jpenly and above 
 board in behalf of it. That B:ek. v hich was the best inheritance you ever 
 received fn.in yuur .sncc^try, and which will be the best legacy you wiil 
 leave to your children when you bid tliem good-bye as you cross the 
 ferry to the golden city. 
 
 THE FERRY BO.AT OVER THE JORDAN. 
 
 Every day I find pcopK tr> lug to . .x;vm;;ori.-re a w.iy from earth tc 
 heaven. They .gathei- up th.b. .;,.o,i vo.rkx and some seniimenta! theories, 
 and they m.ake a raft, slioving it frran this shore rmd poor, deluded souls 
 .LCt on bmard tb.at raft, and they go do\',;n -jdie fact is, that skepticism and 
 infidelity never yet heipe 1 . iie man n . die. I invite all the ship-carncmcrs 
 of w<irldly philos ph}- to cm- and build one boat that can safely cross 
 iliis river. I invite them all to miite their skill, .md Bolingbroke shall lift 
 fie stanchions, and Carlyle shall set Uji the tinibiM- h.eadis, and Tvndall 
 
 all lift the bowsprit, and Spino.^ 
 
 1 siiaii make the main-top 
 
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 ^o to lacking, and wearin.i;-. and bo.xi 
 
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 All t ^:ctlier in ten thousand years they will never be able in make a 
 boat tliat can cross this Jordan. Why was it tlial Spinoza and Blount an(' 
 Shaftesbury lost their souls? It was becau-c they tricil to cros.-- tlie 
 •tti.uu in a bnat ■'■f tlivir I'uu construction. What ini.->cralilc wnrk tiiey al! 
 iii.ioc cf (!;in;;! Piod' >rus died I'f tU'Ttilication, I)ecau^e he could not 
 4,tie-- a i->'iniiidruin wliicli had been propo-^cd t" him at a [uiblic dinner; 
 /<.n\i-<. the pli'!i,i-<'phcr. ilied of mirth, laui^hini; at a caricaliu'c of an 
 ai^cd \\i'nian— a caiicature made b>' hi- "wn hand; while another (jf their 
 C'lmpany anil of tlicir kind tlied sayiuc. "Mu<t 1 lca\c all tlic^c 1>eautiful 
 pictures!'" and then a-kcd tlijit he miL;ht be bn'stc.cd up in llic bed in hi> 
 last monicm^. and be sha\ed and [lamtcd and ron ;cd. (~>i ail the unbe- 
 lievers of all ai^'cs nni ,.inc (.if ihoni died well. '^ ac nf thcni >neaked out 
 of life; <onie of iliein \\e])l tlicmsel'.c- away into d:n-kne^>; -nmc of them 
 blasphemed and raved, and tore th.eir bi'dci:i\ers to l;Ulci -. Th.-it is the 
 wa\- woi'ldly i>liil. -Miphy helps a man to die. 
 
 \\'luii we cr;',-> over from this wurld to the next, the lxiat will have to 
 C(inie from the (jther side. 1 ^tand on the eastern side of the ri\cr Jordan, 
 and I find n(-> shi])ping at all; but. while 1 am ^tandir.i; there. I s^e a 
 Ixiat plowing through the ri\cr. .and as I he:ir the ^wirl ni the water-^, and 
 the boat comes to the eastern sule of the Jordan, and David and his family 
 and his old friend step on iM.aid that Iniat. 1 run mightily impressed with 
 the fact that, whu we cr^'ss (i\-cr fmui this world to the nc.\l. the boat 
 will have ti i come from the ojipn.Nite shoie. 
 
 IV.osed Ik.* (iod. there is a Imat coming from the ■'•thcr shorf. Trans- 
 portation at last for our si)ul> friiui the other -li ore ; c\erythmg about 
 this (ios[)el from tlie other shore; ]i.ird'in froiu the other shore, nierc\' 
 from the other shore; pity frou) the oilier >hore; mimstry of angels from 
 the <ither shore; power to work niir.icles from the other shore; Jesus 
 Christ from the other shore. "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of al! 
 accej.'ation. thai ('liri>t Jcsus came into the world (a foreigner) to save 
 dinners," 1 see the ferry boat coming, and it rolls with the surges of a 
 .Savior's Siiffering; but as it --trike^ the eai'tli the monntaiu- rock, .and the 
 
SEKMONS AND LECTURES 
 
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 dviad adjust their apparel su that they may be tit to come out. Tliat boat 
 touclics the earth, and glorious Thomas Walsh gets into it, in liis ex- 
 piring mome!!t, raying: "lie has; come! He has come! My Beloved is 
 mine, and I am Mi'-." (hxkI Sarah Wesley got into that boat, and as she 
 shox'ed "tY from the >h(>!(- >hc cried: "'(^pen the gate-! open the gates!" 
 And the d_\ing ( liristian -nldier g^t into that boat. He was fatally 
 winmded setting iijj the tc'cgr;iph p'lles which had been torn ddwn by the 
 iippnsing aiiiiv, and in hi^ d\iiig ni'iments his Christian triumph and the 
 feverish delirium >eemiMl 'n mingle, and he cried out with exultation: 
 'The wire- are all laid: the p' 'Ic- arc ;dl up from Su ny r(.)int Xn head- 
 quarters! itu//ah !" (j1i. I blc-s (I'ld that as the boat came from the 
 other -linrc to take Da\id and his men acro-^. 50, when we come to die, 
 the boat will come fmni the same direction, (loci forbid that I should 
 ever tru>t to anything that starts from this side. 
 
 Xo\v. I want lo iirr.ik ,1 delu.-ion in your mind, and that i- tin-. \\ hen 
 our fiicnd> go out froi ' thi- worlil. we feel sorry for them bccau.-e they 
 have to go alone, and parents hold on to the h.mds of their children who 
 arc dying, ami hold rm w ith something of the impression that the moment 
 they let go the little one will be in the darkness and in the boat all alone. 
 "Oh," the parent -ays, "if 1 could only g" with my child, T would be will- 
 ing to die h:df a dozen time-. I am :ifraid she will be !o-t in the woods or 
 in the darkne--; I am ;ifr;iid -he will be \ery mucii frightened in the boat 
 all alone." I break up the dc!ii-i"M. When a -oul go'cs to heaven it does 
 not go alone; the King is on Niard the boat. 
 
 \\ a - IVin! alone in the la-t exigency? Hear the shout of the scarred 
 nii---io!iarv- a< he 11 ic, . mi. "l .ini ii"\\ read\ t'> Ik' otTered. .lud the time of 
 niv d(']i,artiiie i-- .it hand." \\';i- jolni We-ley .iloiu' in the l,i-i exigency? 
 ,\'o. Hear him -ay, "HIc-l "f .I'l. (',o,l i- with n-." Wa- Sir William 
 !-'oibi's ,alone in the la-t exi^^i'inv : \'o. Ilear him s;iy to his friends. 
 Tell :i!l the pei'ple who .ne c^ lining do»Mi to the bed of do:itli. fr'.)m my 
 I ,perieiK'e h;i- 110 teiroi-." "Oh." -:iy a great ;n.any people, "that does 
 
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 SEF^MOXS AX1> I.H(;TL"KES 
 
 n;c, n C'lnimnn u'tnan. \vi' (";in'i expect iliai cjnidancc and li'^lp." If I 
 innild t,H\c yon ,i pn-';aj:(' nt Scripture tliat wiiild pn^mise t(i yon po^i- 
 IutIv, when \i>n are ci'x-iny tlic river tn the ni.xi world, the Kinj; would 
 \'i: lii tlie h'lat. W'lili.l \"n l>clie\c llie [)roniise? "( )li, ye-." ymi say, "1 
 wonlcl " Here i- the promise: "When llpni pas>c-.t lhroni;li tlie waters, 
 1 will l>e witli tlice ; and ilirovi^h tlie ri\'ers. the_\- shall not o\erll'i\\ thee " 
 (,'Iiri ■! ::! the -lek pillow In t.al.e tlie sdil ont of the Imdy; Christ to iielp 
 the soul .l"\\n till li.aiik inln ilie hi'.at; Cliri'-t niid-streain ; (.'lirist on tlie 
 other side t' ■ help the -inil np the heaeli, Me ei 'iiiforti'il ah<'nl youi' flepartcd 
 friends. He comforted .iln)nt voin o\vii denii--e when th.e time shall come. 
 Fc'l it tr, al! the peo|)!e under the >iin tli.U li" ( hii'-lian e\er dies alotie ; 
 trie KiiiLT 1- in the li. 'at. 
 
 I e.i\ mcj this w^rld i,. ■■ixcii '.- •miy rri --ui^ .t fei ry. Dr. Shaw 
 1 iin-.-.te- ll)r ,i\er,im widii. nf the Jorfl.ui \" he .iliout thirty yards. 
 W'liat ' -" ii.itiow; ^■^■s. ^\■., ^nln^ lo he.iven i- ■ iily a siioit tri]) — 
 I nK .1 leirw it iii,i\ li ei,i;ht\ iniii,-, lli.i; i- ei,L,dtty years, heloie we j;ct 
 ti' tl:e wei ij.mk "u the other sirlc. ,ind \\ e may tr.ixel millions ot mile- 
 i.h ii :~ iiiiiinn- nf >e,irs, on the ntlna -idc; hut the er(.)ssiii,rj is short. 1 
 ■,,;'i till y.'ii the '.vlio'e secret, ft is not live minutes across, n^r three, 
 1 -; iv.'i. iiMi :•,■ niuinte. It i- an iii<taiit.meoi,s transportation, f'eople 
 !.;!Ic a-' t]iiai,L;li Icin '.n- ;lii- hfe, the Christian went phniKing, and lloundei 
 nit;, and .\v ininiiitt;, !■> cr.iwl up e\h,iu--ted on the other shore; and 
 t.i he ])^lUd o:it i^i th<' iie'iini; :-nrf .is h\' .i ]\;ims.[;,ite life hoat. Xo 
 -'•,ch t!. ■:;!.;, Ii !- onh ,i ferr}. It i> so narrow th.it we can 
 !i,iil e.-' li "ilier ir"in hank tn h.aiik. It is only four ;irm-' length 
 ;:cro<s liir .iviii .f c.ariliU farewell luu out front this -ide. ihc arm of 
 le.;\i -I'v wi Icnim put > tu fmni the mher side ; while the dyinj; Christian, 
 ■ ::nidin,L; nud -m.-uii, -tretche- lait his two ;iinis. ilic ntie to take the fare 
 ',',ell nf e.ntli, ;ind the ithei t" lake the greeting i<\ lica\eii. That makes 
 fnur ariio' 'eii;;'hs aero-- the river. 
 
 iKC-scd he ''i"d. lU.it when we leave tlii- wnrld we .ire not to have 
 
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 sf:rmoxs axd lectures .-so,-; 
 
 PVankliii cxpcilitioii, tn I'iiilI tlit- Xipi'tliucbl paisagc ainon:; i... bergs. 
 OnI_\- a ferry. 'I liat acciiimt> for >umetliiiiLj ymi !iave nc.-er been able to 
 understand. ^'lJn never .supposed lat \er\- iier\ou> and tini!d Ciiristian 
 peijple euuld W- ^o (lerleetly nnexeited and placid \\\ the last hour. The 
 lact is, they were clear d^wii • ai llie bank, .uid tlic_\ saw there was nothing 
 to he frightened alxan. Sut li a shuit di?iance — >.nly a ferry. With c:ie 
 ear tiiey lieaid the funeral p>alni in then- nieruciy, and with the otb.er 
 ear they heard the song of hea\enlv salutation. The willows on this side 
 the Jordan and the Leban^.n K-dar.- nn the other almost interlocked their 
 branches. Onlyaferr\. 
 
 When we cross .;\ei at the last, we -hall find a soIkI Innding. The 
 
 David and his 
 
 ferry-b'.ai means a place to start fruinanl a place t'> la; 
 
 people did not find the eastern shore of the Jurdun any more solid 
 
 than 
 
 the westiiii : hore where he landed, and \-et tu a c;i''i' in.-'m- ! 
 a real place. To you heaven is a fdi; bank in tlic d.i^t.iKC. 
 heaven i-, a solid liea\eii. After the re.-^urrccl i. .n 1::- i. '\vx \'''i 
 
 eat ir.aiiy r.eav lh ; ;;'.;t 
 '.'. my 
 1 have 
 
 a resm reeled f'ljt, and iiiethiny t.. tn.ul mii ; aiiil :; l^■•^^^r: ectC'l e\e, .and 
 colois U. ^ce with it ; aiul a iv-nnc( itl eai, .nid i'i;;Mc t'l '.\;;ah ;:. .'--mart 
 men itl ib.i-- da\ .iic makir.:; ;i v.ical .Ir.d 
 leriali^liv' descriptimis < ■[ beawn. Wfii ih. 
 me what will 1k' the ii^e .if a ic-.in rrcn d b. 
 
 I li;n a'Niul 
 
 ma- 
 
 . ni\- iVieild-.. if }-0i; 'vi:' tell 
 K m iica\i'n w i;li i.ui'iin.'- to 
 
 tread on. and ihitbini;' 1m lu-ai, ami n.iibini; tw handle, and n '.hini,' to 
 taste, then 1 will l.uiyb in. >, Arc \.pii i^'UiiL; '" tlnil :d!"m in ed.i'^i 'vA'- 
 .•vei'. swinyiny ab.'at >onr baiid^ atiil feci tbr(^iiL;b tlie air mdiscran- 
 matelw and i>ne moment sweltering in the center of the >iin, and the r.ext 
 moment -hivci iiig in the moiiniams of the ni'i ii ? That is iK't mv Iieax'cn. 
 Dis^aii^lied wiiii John's niaieriali>tic liea\en. iheulugical thinkers are 
 trying tu p.uch up a heaven th.at will di> fur them at the last. I ne\-er 
 h.card of any he.i'.en 1 want to l;. ' I", except .^t. J.'hn's hea\e!i. I be!ie\c 
 I shall hear Mr. I'upl.idy sing \rt, ai;il Uaac Watts recite hxnins. ai;d 
 Mozart !)lay. '( )b." yon say. "where would you get the organ?" The 
 
 
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 ic C'tgaii. LJi;ii i ^ou bi.iIi'iCi iiij'jul liie olgall. 
 
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 SETniOXS AXD LECTT'IJKS 
 
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 hii; 
 
 lieve I >li;ill yet see Dasul with a liai'ii, and I will a^k liini t<i sing one nf 
 the Sollies nf ZiiMi. 1 helievo alter the res.inectit'ii [ shall see Masilluii, 
 the fjieat I'reiuh ])uli)it nrainr. and 1 shall hear trt)ni his uun lips how he 
 felt (Ml that ilay alien he ])reache(i the king's funeral sermon, and thing 
 his whole audience into a jiarowsni oi giiet and solemnity. 1 ha\e no 
 patieiiee with your transcendental gelatiiums gaseous hea\eii. My heaven 
 is iioi ;i fog hank. My eyes are unto the hills, the e\eilasting hills. The 
 King's fci I \ iioit. starting from ;i wharf on tliis sidf, wdl go to a wiiarf 
 on the 1 pther side. 
 
 (Jur arri\al \^iil not he like stt'pi)ing ashore at .-Xntuerp or ( onstan- 
 tinoplc. among a crowd of strangers; it will he among friend■^. gocxl 
 friends, warmdiearted fiiemls. and all their friends. 
 
 We know people whom we have iie\er seen, hy hearing snmelyjdy 
 talk ahout them \i'r\ niiuh; we know them almost as well as if we liad 
 seen them. And .lo >ou iioi sii|)pose thai our jjaren's and l)rothers and 
 sisters and children m lica\eu have hccn talking ahout u^ all tliese years, 
 and t.'Uking to their friends? so tli.at. I -uppose, when we cross the ri\er 
 at the last, we shall not only he met hy all those Christian friends whom 
 we knew on earth, ])iil hv all their friends. rhe\ will conie down to the 
 landing to meet us. ^'o^lr dei)aited fiiend< lo\e you more now than they 
 ever did. \'ou will l>e unpriscd at the 1. si to tlnd how they know ah'iul 
 al! the affairs of your life. \\'li\, they are onl> across the ferry; and the 
 Ixjat is coining this way, ami the hi»al is going that way. I do not know 
 hut that thev ha\e alread\ ;iskcil the Lord the dav, the hour, the nujinem. 
 when you are coming acro^^. and tliat iliey kii"W now ; hut 1 do know 
 von will he met at the landing. The poei Soulhey -aid he thought lie 
 should know Bishop lleher m hea\eti h\ the jiorliails he h.id seen ol him 
 in l.ondou; and l)r. Randolph -aid he ilhaighi he would kiiou William 
 I ' 'wpei . the p. .el. in tiea\ en, fi'i iiii the pii'luie-. lie had sei'ii oi him in I'.ng 
 land : hut ^s c will know i..ur departed kindred h\' the portrait- hung in the 
 throne-room of our hearts. 
 
 On ^tariiijht nighi - von lo(;k wu aiid 1 :MippOf;e :t i:' -m; wit!; any one 
 
 

 
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 who lin> frieii(l> in liea\ i-ii— <.iii starlight nights you look ui), ami you 
 cannot liclp hut think of those whu liavc gone; and 1 suppose they l(Xik 
 clown, and cannot hut think of us. lUu Licy have the advantage of us. 
 W'e know ni>t just where their world of joy is; they know where we arc. 
 There was romance as well as ChriNtian hiMuly in the life of Dr. 
 .Adouirain Judsun. the ISapti^i niis>i(inar_\ , when he conchidcil to part 
 from his wife. >hc to come to .America to restore her health, he to go 
 back to Piurmah to preach the Gospel. They lunl started from luirmah 
 for the United States tngellKv. hut. getting ne;ir St. Helena. Mrs. Jud- 
 son was sij much hetter she ^aid ; "Well, nnu, I can get home very easily: 
 you go h.ack h> i'.urm;ili and preach the rio.-pel h> ih.ise p^mr peo]ile. 1 
 am almost well; I sh;ill soon he well, and then 1 will return to you." 
 .After she had made that resuUuiun. territ'ic in its grief, willing to give 
 up her hushaiid for Christ's sake, slie sat down in her room, and with her 
 
 trembling h.uid 
 [ will give y(,iU ; 
 
 wrote some light or ten verses, two or three of which 
 
 "W'e ]i;ui on this green islet, love; 
 
 1 iiou r. .r ilic cistern main ; 
 [ I'l >v ilu- setting sun. Io\-e : 
 Uh. wlii-u t'l meet agaiM i 
 
 "When we knelt to ^ee our Henry die, 
 
 .\nd luru-d his la-t f:iiiu mi)an. 
 l-!acli wiped aw;iy the other's tear..; 
 
 X'ow each must wee;, .alone. 
 
 ".And who can p.iini fiw mutual jov 
 
 When, ail our w.auderiug e'er. 
 We h^ili shall clasp om- infants three, 
 
 At home on llnruKili's shore? 
 
 "Hut Inu'lier sliall our r;iptures glow 
 
 On you celesti.'il |)laiu 
 When the loved and parted here helow 
 
 AUei . ei i' I p. II I .lyaiii. 
 
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WIA. .<M%yi^:^y''-V Ti^^t^-^^ ■^^..' 14. ^ 
 
 Wj^&(lf'^^'m':^!iM¥^_ 
 
 .?08 
 
 SERMONS AND LECTURE:^ 
 
 She folded that manuscript; a relapse of her disease came on, and she 
 died. Dr. Judson says he put her away, for tlic resurrection, on the Isle 
 "i St. Helena. They had tliought to part for ;i year or two; now they 
 parted forever, m far a? this world is concerned. And he sa\ - lie 
 hastened on board after the funeral with hi:; little children to -tart i. v 
 Bunr.ah, for the vcss.'l had already lifterl her sail-; and he said: "I sal 
 do'.vii for jC'ine tisiv.' in my cabin, my little children around nie cryiny;, 
 ■.Mother, mother I' and 1 abandoned myself to heart-brealsing grief. But 
 one day the thought came acre?-; u:e, as niy faith, 'tretched iier winf^, that 
 we should meet in h.caven, and I was comforted." 
 
 Was it. my frientls, all a delr.fion? W'Ik'ii lie tiud, did she meet him 
 at the la;id;:ir.: - When she died, did th.e scrres .if s>)uls whom ^lie had 
 brouijlit to (.'hi" t, .ind who had pn.cci.'.L(i iier \' ■ I.eav.ii. meet lier :u the 
 l.Tudin.g? I l)c!ie\e it; I km/., ii. Oil. gloiions cunsolalion, iliat when 
 (•lur p'.or work nn earth i;, drr.e .•tnd \'. .' cr i the river, we shall be met at 
 i!ic land.nsr. 
 
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 ORDINARY PEOPLE. 
 
 "Salute .\syncritus, PhleLf'^i. Herma', r.itrobas, Hermes. r'hilol(_.gus 
 and [iili.'i." — Rom. xvi:i.]. i; 
 
 .Matthew Henry, .\lbert F.ariie';, .-\dam Gark, Thomas Scvj, :iiid all 
 the con;nien;a;'. .:- i')a^.- by il;e-e verses 'Aitliiiut any especial rtiiiaik. 111.' 
 other tv.ei'.t'. pt\;p'.e r..i'ii!ii >nf d in tile rhapler wire di:-tiv,L;iii -Ind r^i 
 ,-o:iielI;;;i^', an<l wero there!' ire discussed by the illu-tri' 'U> cxposii. ii's : 
 but notl'.iuy is said about .\syncritus. rhlei^,):!. Henna-. P.uv. has. 
 Hermes, IMiilili.gus, and Julia. Where were they burn" N'. ■ m;il' km 'w s. 
 When did they die? There is no record of their decease. i'\ir what were 
 they di-'inqnii-hcfl ? .Vhsohitely for ni-thincf, m- the trait df clinracler 
 woulfl luive been brou),dit o b\' tlie a[)uslle. If tliey had lx:i;n \ery in- 
 trepid, or opulent, or hirsute, or musical of cadence, or crass of style, or 
 
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 SKI.'MoXS A XI) KKCTCHHS 
 
 :ill 
 
 .■il)Mst(,lic (■.•iiiun. Hut they uort- jr,H„l iK.,,pI.-. Iicimusc Paul sci;.I- tn 
 tlH-tii Iii ln,o|, (lirmiaii n-anU. Tlicy ucio nnliiiary pcMpIc. tiMviii^r j,, 
 -i.Im.iiy -ilnTc. aiU'iidni- t,, ,.nlinai_\ <\x^\^. au.l imrtuio nr.liiiarv a- 
 
 -^pnllMliililifs. 
 
 \\ ii.it tlic \\..i!(l uant> is a iTli^n.ni fiir unliiiary ])o>i)!c. if ilicic lit- 
 in ;li<' I Tiitc! States 35,()(x>,<hki ptci-k-. tlicif arc ( citaiiily ih.I iii-ic ilian 
 i.|"K.,(;<H) t\iia..i,l,naiy ; and ilieii tlnTf aiv 5.|,(xx),()(k, or.lmarv. and \u' 
 dn ufil I., iniii iiLir l.ai-ks i",,r a little wiiilc- >ii..,ii the disiiii),'iiislied and 
 • ■'.ii-iiieii.ui-, people ,,t" tlie I5il)le and consider in (.tir text tiie v^ven 
 "idniiiiy. We >pend too niiicii of our time in twistiiii; i^ariands for w- 
 ni.irkaliles. aii.l luiildiiii;- tlinnies fo|- magnates, and sculpturiii;,' warriors, 
 ■nid apr:ilieos|/i,,=,- philantiiropists. 'Ihe niiik an.l I'lle of the Lord's 
 Soldiery luid especial help. 
 
 I he \asi majority of people will never lead an arm>, will never write 
 :i Slate coiiciuuiion, will never electrify a Senate, will never ni.ake an 
 imiioitaiii iii^eiitioii, uill never introduce a new piiilosopiiy. will never 
 decide the fate of a nation, \'ou do ik ,1 e.xpect to; yuil do not want t-. 
 \in\ wdl ii.,; he .a ,\lo-,es tc» lead a ii.ition out of i)ondage. \'on will iiot 
 lie a jo.liii.a to prolong; t!ie d.-iyli-hl until yuii can shnt Ihe kinj,rs in a ca\ 
 eni. N'on v.ill not 1,^ ;i St. John to niiroll an .\pocaIypse, \\n\ will not 
 he a I'.-ml to jireslde over an ajjostolic collej^e. \\<u will not he a Maiv 
 to ni.ither a ( hrist. N'oii will niore prolxihly Le .\syncritus, ,,r l'hlc>,^oi), 
 or ileimas, or l*atrohas. or Ilernies, or fiiilulogus, or Julia, 
 
 M.iiiy of vcjii are women at the head of households, Kvery murniiig 
 you plan for the day. The culinary departineiit of the houseliold is in 
 your dominion. Vuu decide all (juestions of diet, .\,il the saiiitarv 
 regulations •<( yo.jr hoiise are under your supervision. To regulate the 
 I 'od, and the a.pparel, and the liahits. and decide the thousand (luestions 
 oi home hie i.s a ta.x up(..n hrain and nerve and general health absolutely 
 appalling, if there he no divine alleviation. 
 
 It does not iieip you much to be tuld that Elizabeth Fry did wou- 
 dciiui tilings amid the criminais at Newgate. It does not help vou 
 
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 SKUNK >NS WD IJK'rrifKS 
 
 iniuli im l.f 1m!.1 ili.it Mr-. IlkKmh wa- \ciy l>f;i\i' .iiiiiii^ tlir [innie,-ian 
 r;ininK.i'v li ii..i-. ii. .1 Ik>1|p \(iii MTV iiuicli to hc lolil tliat l'!..rfiice 
 \i'.;Iinii.L;a'.- w a- \ fr\ ki::.! In ilif woiiinlfc! in tli Criim-a. It W'lilcl 1)C 
 U-ttcr f. r nil- m iil! )^>\\ ilial tin- iliviiic fru-ml of Maiv ami Martha 
 1- \niir i'licii'l. aii'l '.lial 111' -ft'> all llif aimii\ aiU'i-- and cli-ap|>' 'iiit- 
 iiU'iil-. ,i;i(| aKia-i.iii~. .,:i,| r\a-iK'ratinii- m' an i^riliiiarv Ii. .nM-Lci-pi-r 
 frnin i'l..iii till :-lit. and l'i..n\ the til-! day uf the _\i-ar tn the la-I day 
 c.r ilir M-.ii. ai. .1 \i'nr c'all lie 1- ready with hflp and ri-iniorc-i-nifnt. 
 
 Till'. \.li.> jimvidf the i'..u,| ,,f tlu- uoiid dtritle the hi'altli "f ilic 
 w.ald. ( (iif ..f ihi- u;ifaU'-t haltlf- nl' tin- ii'nlin\ \\a- l.-i hi-cau-f the 
 ii.mmandi.T tlia! nLiinint; IkuI a lit "f nidi,i;i--ti' 'H \><\\ ha\i- ^nl) !■> 
 -■' "n -nine cuaiiil annd the lavcrn- and tlir liiitcU "i' iIr- I'mtcd Statf- 
 aiidt ileal llvitam t^ aiipici-iatc tlu- lact.lhal a \a-' niuhilnde . >i' ilie lunnan 
 lai'f are -laUi^liltitd h\ inr. 'inpetent cinki'iv. riinn!.di a \i>nni; wnniail 
 nia\ lia\c la! en l<'-iai- m tini-ie, and nia\- lia\e laken le--'pn- m iiaMitiilL;. 
 and le-Min- ni a-ti' 'H. nr, . -he i- 11 1 \vell <diHated mile-- -lie ha- take'i 
 l,_<s,niv ill ihuii^li' 'I'iiev wliii lU'i'i.le the a|i]ia!rl <•] the wniM, and the 
 I'imhI (.1 the WMild. ileeida- the emlnraliec nl" ihe \M'ild 
 
 An iiiilhinkni;; man iiia\- i. ■n-ider it a matter "t hllli' imp. ji tani'i — 
 iheeare-nr t,.. '., ai-elb .!■! aiiil ihe ei. .li. muu' i .f .k >me-tii- life Inn I tell 
 \ni; the earth i- -lii\.ii with the marl'i- ••< kilehen and mir-efy. I lir 
 healih-hailered u.'inanhn.id i.i' \meriia eiie- I'lit Ini a find uhn I'an 
 Iielp "'din.irv \\"iiun in tlu' .admary dntie- nf iMii-ekeepinu. i'he wear- 
 iiiL;. i^iiialmi; nnappreeiaied w 1 a'k .L;iie- .'ii. hiil the -anie i hri-t w In > 
 
 -t 1 ..ii the hank "i' (lah'ee in the eaily niiaiims,' anil kiiidhd tlie tire 
 
 and had the li-h already cKaiied ami hrniliiii; when the -pnrt-nien -tepped 
 a-hnre. ehilled and lnim;r\. will help e\ery woman to prepare hieakt'a-t. 
 whether hv hei' own hand, or the hand of her hired iiiip. The ( "lod \Uio 
 made IikK -tructihie ei;loL;\ of Hannah, wlio made a eo;ii for Samnel. 
 her -oil. and carried it to the temple e\ery year, will help twer\- woman 
 in preparin.Gf the family wardriJie. The (ioi] who open- the Hihle with 
 
 tile -toi'V oi .\in .liLiiii - eiliei la iiiMieni in iliv. liilie .iii^el- on tin- pi.iiii- 
 
*jl(*r Ay 7 
 
 ^aia'.-i&/*4\^v 
 
 SKI;M(i\s ami I.KCTIl.'KS 
 
 .1 1 .) 
 
 of ^famr^•. will licl|, i-s,-,v uuin.in t.. i.n.vi.Ic liM.piMluy, hcufvi' rnrr 
 •""' '•"i''air.,--ini.. !i ,s l,,o|, time tli,.r -.mir ,.| |1„. .•iti.nliMP u ,• l,:i\r 
 h<<'li .L;i\in- I,. 111.- r<'iii;iik:,l,!c v.,,iniii ..| ili.- I'.ihlf ■-rmi.irk.iMc |..|- llicir 
 Mltllf, .,1 tlifil u.TIl ..f il. ,.r I.!ll.il'.;,!,lr |.,| ih.ir ,1,.,,1, |),.|,.,|.,1, ;,|„1 
 J<Vf;.<l. ;in,I ll.r.Hli,,, ;iii,I \(li.,Ii,i ■,„„] |),,, , .,,,.| ,[„, .M.,,v ,,...,, M, n, 
 •■""' ■''•■iii'iMiu.l II ,- In;.;, iniic ,„,,.• .It ilir .ill.iilii.p uc h.nr luvn 
 '^'•■''i^ '" I'"'-'- " n-puii-n- ^^.,■,u,^. ..I 111, |;,1,'-. !„■ -JMii t- liili.i'.iii 
 oiilui.irv \\. .111.111, .iiiinl ,.i,Iiii.ii\ (11, Mill-' , IK-,-, .iiicii,|iii-4 1" ..i.liiiai\ 
 '!nlH-. ,111(1 intc'tni'.' ..nliiui < ic-p. .ii-il,ilii .,-. 
 
 I li>-ii ilicrc .lie all tli(.. (.iilin:ii\ Ihimih,, incn. 
 
 Tlio ncnl ,li\inc and ( liri.iian lulp, Wlini u <■ l.i.-m 1.. talk aUdil 
 IniMiir- liic „t. ,1,,.,,, lij,],, ,,„■ ,„„i ,.,||^ ,j„„,| „,^.„ ^j„, ,,,,! |,„^,„^.^^ ,„, 
 
 ■•I l.iri'c M-alf, and wIk. s,.1,1 inilli..n> ,.| d..I!ar. ..f i; N a \car: and 
 
 III'' \:i^\ niai..vi!y i.| ImMUi-- men d. . iid .ill a iiiilli(.n (I.,l!ar. . i' ■.; 1-. 
 
 "'"■ ''■''•' ■■' iiiilli.in. n..r a .|naricr ..f a niilli..i). n. .r ihc (-^luli |,.,ri •■{ :, 
 I'li'li"" I'll' .all tlif l.iiM!ic-> III, Ml ..f ..in cilit'v l.un., viliai^c-. and 
 
 "'■'-I''""' '' i'''''\ -id,-, and _\..n uill find iliai lluy m!I ',•,, than IIiin 
 
 '''""^•''"' 'l"il.'i- v.". til .1 V, N \!1 ili,-r iiu'ii 111 ,.^,l,l,al■^ I.umiu--, 
 
 lii'.- u.iiii diMiu^ Iu.!|,. N',,,, „.,. 1,,,^^ ,1,^. ^^,|,ik1,.- arc piiniiiiv; , ,n ilu- 
 (■•.liiih'ii.niii. ilu' -i.dv ct" U(.rriimail and ,ari-. ^ . .n , an ii..l t.-II li,,u 
 (id .1 hii-iii,.,, man i- l,y l.M.kiii- at Imn. Cray liaii- at tliifM . \ man 
 ■•It !('il\ t"i\,' \\itli tin. M((..p (.1 a iiciia,L;<-iKirian .\.. laiic t.. atli-nd t.( 
 imiiroMd (|,;iili-tr\. ij,,. -i itidci- coa-,' l,o,aUM- llu'y ar,' t",-,\ , \,tna!l\ 
 (iMiii; ..t" ..1,1 a-. ,ii i..it\ (.1- liM\. uli,-n ilu'\ ..n-lii i..l,.;ii ili,. m,-i idiaii 
 Many ..f iIkm- Iuimik-.-, m,n li.i^,- U.di, 'ik,' a luid. ,:,■.! ,l....k t.. \\liuli 
 Vdii x.iiif, and \()n wind n up. and ,| h.^m. i,, l,|,,v and v,.:u-. and ilu-ii 
 the liand- -^Lirl aK.iiiid m-i s i.ipi.i;, .,ii,| i!,,,! il,,- ,|,iik -ink,-. Ii\r. . .r 
 ten, ,.r i,irty, and -tiik,-. wlili, .m aii\ .,'iim-. and tlini -i.i.l.kaih i..],~. 
 S..) IS tlu- l«,dy ,,|' that \\,.in .-ut l,iiMii,>. mail. It 1> a lU'Ljlfcicd ,-l(..-k. 
 and Ihdugh 1>\ -onw siimnur uvicati(.ii it may l.e \V(.tin.l up. Mill tin- 
 inacliiiiety i. all otii ,.f -lar. 'l"hc haii,!- turn aixuin,! with a \i'l..,ity 
 tiiat c.xc.k- iiic a-i.iniMiincm oi tiie worid. :\ian can not understand the 
 
 
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 SElfMDXS AND LKrTrRP]S 
 
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 Wdiiilcrfiil actixity. and there i-^ a rdar, and a buzz, and a rattle about 
 ihe-e di-. rdei'ed live<. and tliev strike ten when they iHiglit V> strike five. 
 and ihi'\ -trdse t\\(:\e when tliey mij^lit tu strike six. and they stri';" 
 l'iirt\ wl'.en tlie\ .ii;L;!il t" strike ndthini;, and suddeni)' tliey stnp r, .-;- 
 iiMrtein exainir.atit.ii roeals the faet that all the sprins,'-, and \ny s, .nd 
 weiLdil-. and halanei' w heel- <■!' health are eoni])letel> derangti ' 'e 
 liu'inan en- I. i- -imply run d^ m:. And at the time when the stead\ 
 hand Mni^lil l.j In' ]i. ■in;in<4 t" ih.- ^ldu-trinn^ hcurs mi a clear and siiiilil 
 cii.d, tlic wh'ile niarhiiierx ot' 1,. .d>. mind, and eai'thly capaeity stojis l^r 
 t\er ( irei Mw. I 'd ha- lhiiu>aiid- .'t" Xew \i>r\< and Hi'ioklyn l)n>ine>s 
 iiuM wli.. ditd lit" cid a^ff a.t thinv, thirty-tive. fort}-, fnrty-tive. 
 
 X'-w, wh.'a 1^ wanted i^ L;r:Ke — di\ine i,'r.aee fur (irdinary hn-incss 
 iiieri. nun w In > are liarne--ed I'r.iin ninrn till night .and all the days cif their 
 iil\' -li.iine--ed Ml hi;>;iie---. X'l't graee in Inse a luuidred thiui>andi. 
 l;iil L'r.ti'e !■ I' i-e te,; d"!!arv X'l it graee tn --nperviNe twd hinidred and 
 |if;\ iiiipli \i-- III a :ae;i'r\, hm L;raee t' i -npersi-^e the Lnukki. ■per. and 
 I -.Vi I --liv-nu-iL and the --niall ],<'\ that sweeps i mt the store. Grace to 
 u:\e-i Ml i[ in tlie ei!.;li!\ ihiU'.-and dnllar- nf net prulit. but the twenty- 
 tl,- :aMiii:cd 'if elear ,;,iin. • Iraec nut tn eii'liu'e ilie lo-- of a wlifile ship 
 1 .id ■ :' -lie- irnni the Im!:'-. hiu ujiaae tn endure the kiss ol' a jiaiK-r 
 if ijiliar- Ml in ihe leakage '■) a displaeeil shingle on a poor runt", (h'.ai'e 
 tint t I etiil"T t' e iarili'n--- nt ilie Aineii'an Congress iti passing a neees- 
 ^.|.i\ law. iivt L.-.R-e tn I'uditre the t.irditiess nf ;in errand boy ^tnppini; 
 ti,i pla\ iii,;;l.ie- when he nught ; deliver the gonds. Such •; giace a^ 
 thnn-.iiid- ii l.n-nn" uieii have tn-da_\ — kce[iitig tltein tran(|uil. whether 
 imiikK -til Ml .III nni -ill. w lietliei eustoniers pay nr do nnt pay. whether 
 l.irill' I up • : t.ititf 1- d.jwn. whether the ernps are lu.xuriant or a dead 
 i'.iduic i.i'ni in :i'l < ircinn-tances, and amid all vicissitudes. That is 
 the kind ni l;i ace we want 
 
 Mil!inn-> if uieti wan' it, .iiid tliey may liave it for the asking. Soirn 
 lieri.i or hernine cjines to ♦own, and as the procession passes tliiongh the 
 -trect the Lusine>s men come out and stand on tiptoe on their store stc[i 
 
 n- 
 
.SER^r^xs axd lectitrp-.s 
 
 ;n5 
 
 and look at stmw mw who in Aixtic ilmic. nr jn f.rr.!!i -torm, or in day 
 of battle, or in hospital agonies did the hra\r thinj,'. hmI roah/mi,' iliat 
 tlu'v, the enthiiMa.tir spectators, have jijone tlirnnfjlt triaK in Im-mcs. 
 life that are in-t a- j;reat before Gjd. There aic men wh.. have '^>>\h- 
 tliruiigh frer/nii: .\retie> and bunn'ng torrids, and awful Maren,i,'M,.s ,,f 
 experienees \\iil'...ni moving five miles frrmi their (Wir-tep. 
 
 Xi'w. wliai -nlmary business men need is ii. realize that thcv have 
 the iriendshiji m| tliai Christ who looked afte:' the relismn. inlrrc-,!. nf 
 Matth'.'w. tiie ctist<,m-honse clerk, and helped l.ydia, i>\ ■riuaina, Im 
 -ell the dry f,'o,idN .ind who ripened a 1 akery and fidi market in ihc wil 
 dcrne-s ..f Asia Mmi.r to feed the seven thousand u h^. lia.l cunc nut 
 '1 .1 religious picnic, and wIm counts the hairs n{ your he.id with i- 
 much particularity as though they were the plumes ,,f a cnn.nati.in, ,ui<l 
 V. iio took the irMuMe to st.-p down with I lis linger wruing .,;i thr 
 gr.iund. although the tlrst shuffle nf feet nhliterated ihe divine caiigraj)!!) , 
 aii.l w h.i knows jiisi how many locusts there were in the I :,-\ ptian plague, 
 an.l knew just how many ravens were neces„ir\ i,, s;;pp'v I'.hiali's 
 pantry by the \n\»>k C'herith. and who. as tlnral iMinmander, leads fmlli 
 all the regiments of primroses, foxgloves, d.ilfiMlils, hy.icinths, ;,nd lihrs 
 which pitch their tents ,.f beauty ami kindle tluir camp tn-cs of .-, ,|,,r .•,!! 
 around the hemisphere— that th.tt Christ ;md that Cod knows the mo.t 
 mmtue affairs of y,,ur business life and liowe\cr Mico.i-.|.!eral::c, nndcr- 
 standmg .ii; the af^'aus of that wciman who kec) s a ihivad and-ncedle 
 <tore as well .is ,U1 the affairs of ,a K'otlischild and ,a llarin.g. 
 
 riien there are all the ordmarx farmers. We talk aboui j,jl 
 
 tural life, and we immediately sho.t off n, talk alKHit Cmcinii,. ... thr 
 patrician, who went from the plow to a high jiosiiii.n. and alter he ■•o; 
 through the dictatorship, m twenty-one days went b.ack ,ag:iin n, the 
 
 I)low. What encouragement is that to ordinary farmei r T! 
 majority of them— none ■ 
 them will be Senators If 
 
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 eili.aps 11, MIC oi 
 
 U,,r^A^^. 
 
 ! them will be patrician- 
 
 any L<i them have dictaiorsjup i „,!] |„, ,,Y^^y 
 
 v., :ji inc olu iionn-sir.i'l, \\ iiat thone 
 
»K 
 
 ;;i(i 
 
 SKinioNS AND i.HCTri.'ES 
 
 I' I . 
 
 Hi 
 
 
 
 ■■r 
 
 men want i> .ur.nc, in kfi'|i thfu- ])atKnci' wink I'low mi; ith balky (ixen, 
 and to kei'p rluri I'nl ;nni(l llu' ilvMntli lli:il dc'tniy-, t!ic oTn ith]). and 
 tliat cnalilc- tlicm In ri'-tiac llic i;ardcn ilif day ai'tiT tlic ni-i^lilxji '- 
 cattle !ia\-f lirokiMi in :,nd tianiplcil tnit tlu' ■-tva\\lnTr_\ lied, and L;nii( 
 thnni,t;ii tlif Lima hean iiatcl:, and c.itin np llic --wi'ct (crn in -ncli latyc 
 ipiantitic- that iIkv miM lie kcp; fr^m die water ie~t tiiey -well np and 
 die. 
 
 (iiaee i)i ca' Inm; wealliei ilial enaliKs them, withont nninee.ii n >n. tn 
 ■piead out ilir hay ihe third tnne, altlvingh aj,'ain, and a-ain. and a.L;am 
 it has Keen ahno-t ready for the mow. .\ j^race to il.ctor the eow witli 
 a Iiollow horn, and the -heej) witn the I'oot rot. and the hor-e ualh the 
 drstemper. an^i to eonijiel the nnwillini; aere> t ' xield .1 livelihood lor 
 the I'.innlv, and srIioolin.L;- t". r the elhldrcn. and little exfa- to help the 
 older li. i\ in hn-ine>-. and -'methin.^- for the dan,L,diter'v wedthn^ outfit, 
 and a litl'e -nrnln- f^r d'e mne when the ankles will ii;e! Milf with a,L;e. 
 and the hreaili will he r. little short, and the swini,nn- of the cradle 
 ihrouLih tli; li-t harvest -field will liiini;- on the oM ni.in"s \erti.!;o. Hct- 
 tcr c!o>e r.p .ih^.m ( niciimatn-. I know li\e hundred farmer- just as 
 ni'hle a- he wa>. 
 
 What d;e\ want ;- to know that 'liey ha\e the fnenddnp of that 
 ( hri-l who ofiru drew h\^ -nmle- from the farmer'- hfe. .1- when lie 
 -,iid: ■• \ -o>\,i weni f-ith to -ow ;" a- when lie huili III- he-i p.ir.iMc 
 ,„;t ,,|- ,],, .,uie of a fanner'- l.oy coniini; li.ick from In- wanderm--. ,ind 
 tlic ,,],! :;,rniliou-i- -hook that m-ht wuli rural juhilee, auti who com 
 paic'l llmi-elf to .1 !,imli m the |ia-lure tiehl. and who -aid that the 
 eioin.il I i"d I- .1 faimei. dedaiim; : "My I'ather i- the Im-handm.in" 
 
 Tlio-c ,,-/,.;.',■ ni.is.'iiy do u, ,i want to hear alH)Ut ( 'liri-topher W oai. 
 the aivlntd-l win h'lilt St rank- ( athedrak It would he better to 
 nil them how lo laiix the ho,! ni hrick np the kidder without -h|ipm- 
 ;i,,,l how oil ,1 lolil monim.i; w I'h the trouel to -niooth oft' the mori.ir and 
 keep cheerfu;. and ho\\ to 1„ thankful to (',.1,1 for the iilam fo, kI taken 
 ...,,,, ,n,< f..ii! hv tlie loadstde. (.'(" A''.'".'''''.> -t.mdm^ amid the adze, and 
 
SKI.'MONS AND l.ECTrinCS 
 
 ;'.i: 
 
 tlie bit. and ilic |)IaiK', and the biMadaxc. need tn l>o t-nd that l.'h.i t 
 \\a^ a (.arpcnic)-. \vit!i I 1 1> • '\\ n hanil w ichhnj,'' saw and hannncr. ( )h, ihi - 
 i . a tuid \\nii.|. and it i- an ■ i\ crworkcd wmld. and u is an undcr-fcd 
 ',' "fid, and it i^ a ;nn<4-i'nt wrndd. and men and wnnicn need to \:\v>\\ 
 that tiiovc 1- ic-t and n'cnpiTat!' iii in (iod and in tnat reh^inn which \'.a^ 
 n'>t ■■ ' n:nf!t nitcndcd f: i; c\tr;',' >' dniai}- people a> \t>v i Jidniai';, ]r.-:[ilc. 
 Iit'i I'; ■,' ;!i('i-c arc m^ iw > n' thcni. 
 
 The lii'ii'ii:;- ]ii ■ ii'v' -im;i i;a. had n ^ Ahcrri > inihic-. a-'d it- .'.hern'; !i> -. 
 and i:- X'ali'iitinc .Nh-tt-. and it'^ W'lilaid I'arkci- ; lint the cidinar} 
 ph} -K'ian^ (Im the nm^t "i the wivld'^ nieiheiinn^;. and thc\ need tuniidcr- 
 -tand that while taknii; iha,i;ii"si~ "f priit;ii"si~. nr wiatniq; ])re>cvii)ti')n, 
 111' ci inipi umdni;; niedieainent. "i' holding 'he deheate pnlse "t a dvii'L,'- 
 ehtid tliev nia\' li;re the |)i'e^enee rnd the (heatinn "t' llie .\hniL;hty 
 l).it.t"! \\l\" \^'"k the ea-e "t the nuuhnan. and. after lie hail torn i>\\ 
 hi-- ■.;arineiit- lii fo.nnniL; d.^nientia. clothed Inm ai;ain. hody and mmd, 
 and ".'' ' '..' 1 rp the ',\oina.n ',';■' i'"i" ei;;'hlt.'en yeai> had been l'':i': 
 a!i'r •; r-i'M'' v, i:h the i heninati-i!i ml' ■ L;raee!"i'l -tatni'e. .iml w ho inrn'-d 
 die -all- of li.p;o-\ mn, rnhicnnd ei ,ni]ile\ion, and who vnhhed th ■ 
 nnnil'iie-- fV.\ • \ paiai\-i--, and wh.o >\\ nnj;- wiiie open the elo>ed win- 
 d '\'. ■• "f heiediia;\ r aceident;il Iihndne^^. nntil die inoniin;; h,c;iU eanie 
 • 'iieannni; d.r' tiLjii the ile-!il-> ea-enieni-, and who know > ,d! the di-easc^. 
 ,ind ail tla- irni'sjic-. .ra-i a!' ihe herh-. and all the eatlioiicons. and i^ 
 iijonai-ih of phainiae\ and thei apentu'>. .nid who ha- >ent ont ten thon- 
 ■-and do<-toi- i.f whom tlie worM niake^ no record; Imi to pi-o\e tiia! 
 liie\ aie an^ei-- of nieic\. I in\ okc \\]^■ thon-and- of men whose ailnients 
 the\ iiaxe a--n,a>;ed and the thon-,.nd- of women to whom m cfi>cs of 
 pain i1k'\ h:i\e heeti next to (iml in henefa.ctlon. 
 
 I onie, now, let n-- ha\e a religion f. ii oi'dinar_\ peo]ile in iiiofcssicui-, 
 in occupations, in ayiicnltin e. -n tiie household, in merchandise, in cvei'v- 
 tliin,^. I salnte aero-- the ceiilin ic- A-\ nciatii^. I'hie.L^o.i. 1 lernias. Tatfo- 
 lias. Iicrine,s. I'liiiologn-. and Jnlia. 
 
 First of all, if vou feel that von are onlinarv. tlcink ( "lod that voti 
 
I '.'5 
 
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 l.'MOXS AXr> IJ'J'TrHHS 
 
 ii 
 
 I:- 
 
 if 
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 f.i 
 
 ii 
 
 aif \'."\ c\ti;ioii ii\. I am lircil ami --uk, ami Imu'il almn i Im (jcaili 
 with cNtiaiinliiiaiy |ii'i^i'k'. TIhx laki' all their tiiiu- tn tell ii^ li'>u \ir\ 
 cxliai 'nhiiaiy liioy ually are. \i<\\ kimw a^ well a~ I iIk im hii'ther 
 aii'l si>ler. thai the iii'i-.! nf the irsefa] wi.rk nf the wnrld is done he 
 ;'.ii|)retenliiMi , j)eii|)U> wlm |,iil ri.t;hl nn- li\ pe'ipje u Ip > dn if a i^c\ mnih 
 aii|)iii\al. and no one seem- to saw ''I'hai is well done.'" I'lienoniena 
 aie of hnt inile use. I'hni^s thai are exieplionai e.ni not he ile;ieii(led 
 on, I'ellei trust the smallest planet that -win,;.;- ni its oihii ih.m ten 
 comets shoount; this way and thai, imiieiiln;^ the lon,i;e\it\- oi worlds 
 attending; to their in\n business. l''or steady ilhiimnation hettei ;- a lamp 
 than .1 roeket. 
 
 Thci!. if yim feel that you ate onlinare. reineinhei' th.it \'inr llo^ition 
 in\itcs the less attack. Coiisjiicnoiw ]>ei>|)le— Irw t]ii'\- \\:i\ - [■, t.'ke it I 
 I low- they arc Tiiisreprescuted. and abused, and shot at I 'I'iie h.i.^dier the 
 h'-rns of a roebuck the easier to tra.ck him down. W li.u .a drh<-ion- thin,; 
 it imist he to he a candidate for President of the I'liitid St.atc-! It 
 must hv soothing to the ncr\es! It nui-t p 'Ur inii> the soul of a candi- 
 d.ite such a sense of serenity when lie read- the h'essed newspapers! 
 
 1 came intri the possession of the ahusi\e c.irto'Mi- in the time of 
 N'a.pojc 11 !.. printed while he was yet ,,h\e. The retreat .f the a'tny 
 troni MoMoiw, that army buried in thi' snow> of Ru~s!,-|. one of the iiio^t 
 a. w fill tragedies of the c('ntiirie-. leprescnied under the llqnre "i a mon- 
 ster called (leneral I'li'st sh.ivinj.; the I'rench k'niperor with a r.a/or of 
 icicle. As .'-^ater and I'.ci'lzdiiib he i- represented, naii^c after Jiat^e. jiai^e 
 alter i)a,i;e l'.ni,''and cursinn- him. Spain cursin,;.;- him. (icrmany cui-ini; 
 liim, Russia cursinj,' him, I'.urope cursiiit,' him. Xoith am! Soin'n .Xn.uica 
 cursing him. Tlie most remarkable man of his da\. and the m i-i al u^^^d. 
 All those men in history \,ho iiou ha\e a halo around their name, on 
 earth wore a crown of thorns. Take the I'ew e.Mraordiiiarv raihoad 
 men of om- time, and see \\liat abuse c-'Uies upon them, while tlioir,:miU 
 of stockholders escaj^e. New York Central Railroad has '>.-'63 stock- 
 holder*. If anythinj,' m that raihoad affronts the i)eoi)le all the abu^e 
 
skkwkjxs and i,i;ci !i;r; 
 
 mnic^ flown mi ' iic man. . ;i.l ilii- i).ji \ i 
 
 Ml 
 
 ;!■ nnvul t' 
 
 iftiT Tlii.ma> Scott, I'lH'sidrnt of the V 
 
 ;iin;-ylv;!nia Rriilroad, abused liiin 
 
 niiti! lie j,'.^t under the ^^roiind. (Jvcr I7.(.0(' -ilcckliolduis m tl):it ..m^:;- 
 
 J>any. All tin lil.iiiir ji.vinan! 'I'ho ( 'I'uti.d I'acitic Radrnad — tv> '.u- 
 
 three men f,'et all the Idame il' aiiythin;,' poe-, wron,'^'. 'Idierc arc lo/xxj iii 
 that compain. 
 
 menti. II ihe-e tiiin,;^ to jiom- it i-. i^.xii aurdiiiary peoiiie who 
 
 iin.-c<l. while the '.vdii 
 
 Th 
 
 ■ther i.f lit 
 
 e l^ ni il so >c\ere 
 
 '11 the [ilam a-, ii i. ..ii the lii.L;h pe.ikv The '.vorltl never for-^ivcs a man 
 ■.\ h( > know 
 
 ■ y .^aiii'., . ir d' 'e^ more lii 
 
 .11 u eaii know, or ijain, or di 
 
 'arcnt> ^niiieimK^ ^Mve eonfcetioneiA to then cliildi 
 
 en ;'.> an indiu'emeiit 
 
 |i- take 1- 
 
 e hull. I- nitdienie. ana the wond .-, -^u-j/av |ihini precede.- the woriii' 
 tniiiii-fiirli.,. The nii.l) cried in re-ard to (.hri-t, ■Trnciiv Him, cnicil'\ 
 liiml" and they had to -ay it twice t.> he understood, f,,,- tlie\ wtn 
 
 -o hoarse, a; 
 
 th. 
 
 )t their iK.arseuess l)v crvins-' a little wl 
 
 I lie he ton 
 
 ,it the top oT their voice, 'Tlosanna." The rner Rhone m foul when it 
 eiiteis \.:\ki: l,em;in, hut crystalline when it comes out on tk^ other side. 
 llul tliere 
 
 are men wh-. h.ave entered the hnglit lake lU' worldlx pr. 
 
 perit} cr\sta!line ,ind came oui terribly riled. If, theiaforc, \om feel tiial 
 \ou are ordin;ir_\, th.aiik ( iod fr.r the defences ;md the ti,uii|uilhl v of vour 
 jiosition. 
 
 let Ms all be coiitriit Willi such. tlun;> a- we ha\-e. (,oii i, jn 
 ;;ooii in what lie keeps away from Us ,(s m what I U- ,t;i\es iis. Eve 
 knot m;iy be useful if it is at the end of a thread. 
 
 .\t .111 anniversary oi a deaf and dumb ;isylum, ^ iie of \[]r ,jhild 
 wrote upi u liie blackboard words ;is sublime a.'i the lliao. the Oih's- 
 
 a ,as 
 
 re'l 
 
 ;uicl the ■i'ivinia (.'omedia" ,a!i expressed in one para^rajai. Th 
 
 mer. m tr.e sit^ns ot the mute kui<,ai,ai;e, .askcvl her: 
 
 A\" 
 
 e ex.iin 
 
 lo m.'ide tile 
 
 world?" The (!e;if ;uid dumb t^u"! wrote upi'n the Iji.-'.ckboa.nl. "In the 
 begiimiii;,; (iod created the heaven ,aiid the ear:lt." Idle ex.-unmei aski.i 
 her, "For wiiat purpose did liirist (oine into \\\c world?" Ihe deaf ,iud 
 
 i^--IM>>.'ui U 
 
 1 Ins Is ri i.' 
 
 OI I III i.ly Ul^, ,11111 
 
'l^M 
 
 :?•_'(■) 
 
 SKIJMONS AXI> LKCI'l'ltKS 
 
 \\('illi_\- i<\ all ;ii\-oi)t.it-un, liial C'liri>l Jc>u> (.aire iiit'> llic uniKi to save 
 ^iiiiu : •." I'Ik i'.\:immci" ^a'li lii Irm', "W h_\ wcic y<\\ Ip-mi i1(.mi" aii'l 
 chip ill. w lull' i ilea I ami >i)cak .' She y\ ic.'li.' ii])' hi liu' liLu !sli mj il : " !■/, en 
 . ". I'^aith; t'i'i ii -cfiiK'th •_;i."(l m '\'\\\ <ip;hl," (Jii. that \m.' iiii,l;1ii be 
 l,;;ui/e>l '.\i!!! a i ■ lUctiic' I -|i:;!t' Tia' .-pali.: ara\\> iM^i-'iii "lit ni a 
 llnwi'i'. ihe luc -ri-. IiniHj, "III 'I a tlii-lh'. l>iii !i i|)i)ini.'- - ; ,i hi'a\ii!ly 
 chxli. aii'i lie '":i!tii!(ii -liil i' '.'.Mail ll iv4 I'ldiii ihc IJi' "IihIciI'Ii all 
 (if liiL lull:.. 1>iit t'nnii thi iiK m tlu \a!lt\. 
 
 
 iui '., 
 
 NOOMIDK OF Lll"F.. 
 
 It sccnv- 1m 11^' that m -nine n'-pii'i^ 'iu' hiH-i"ii :ii \bv iiunn'-\ oi 
 life is tin l>(•^l part > a' the i'liiiMiv. 
 
 While 111 call, In'e \', e an' i. iimhii'L; I'ji thf U'lp hill -aiu v.v lia-.'C 
 W'lrric.'- .!i;'' fii'i-", ami \\i' -^aji. aiiii we lail, aii'i we -hii- h-ai'.. a'l j v.r 
 ria; hjm.ii iiaiii aii'a^'Mn-ir,--. aa^l .;" 'h'' |i; i ifr-.- i"ii-. an'l ■ mc i!j):i' ;. i;v; 
 'la' '■ ■Iniil:^ I'll - aii'l -hai']! rivaha'- at thr ■' iii. We aic al'iaal we ■.\i'! 
 lint he ]M' ;hi1\ apprenatnl We tnil i.n, aiiil we |iaiil. ami we -irir^i^le, 
 aii'l \\ r ai'' ll! •>' hiaaili. aii'l -iiimimir^ we aie leiii]itr.! ■•' ae ilnwii in 
 the li-'/er <i l['\ imhilL;enee. In a^lihtinn t" :!ie--e ili:in':il' a'v ni" elinih 
 111L; ill' hill "f iiie. tliere are ih'.-.;' wlm rejnu'e in -eitiiiL; a mill hae!. 
 ail'] tiMii.u t" iiia'a' a .''laii; ivaii e'i'\eil i1"',m' 
 
 i'A er_\' vi aiiiL; man h !•- JKi'l -imih l_^ i^.m.fa inm i- Iv w a- t'h'nihiii;^ 
 111), aii'l ~ay t" limi : "I'ai'!, >1 iii'l ■ ^>>'-; lan'i. \ ii ean'l — r|ml. i|ini I" 
 I''.\'er\' vinii; inan ha- had tweiiM <li.-hearteii:m'iil-- \\hei'' In' ha- i iiie 
 nmiul wM',1 , ,f i^' " 'll cheer. I'm .iller we lia\ e eaiiili( .1 id ihe !■ 'ii nf the 
 hill I if life, then we I'r. e ri iinpara' i', e ira.iii|mlli!_\ ,11 kI repine. Wi lieL;in {<> 
 1. ink .ahnnt 11-. Wi' lai'l that it i^ jti-; three mile- finui ei.iil't t 1 i;ra'.'e: 
 \'nilth th ' tir.-t mile, manhnnd the -eenni! mile, n'li .'i.^e th.e ihinl mile. 
 Standin,^^ em the hilhtnp nf the jninnry nf j-fe and in 'h." ^i■nnll mile, 
 h.a\'inr' (,'i>niP nn one si'le the hill, and iK'fnre I 'jn down tlic nther ^rde 
 
 y; ■!!. 
 
SHRMCIXS AM) l.KC'iritKS 
 
 ;;2i 
 
 I w.iiit |m tell U)U tliai life i■^ In iiir a liappim- .^, and tniuh nf tlic time 
 It lla^ liccii In iiic a ra])tiirt', and iiinctniic> m c'^tasv-. 
 
 'I here Iia^ lii'cii a ;,'rcat deal i<\ w lioloalc slander of this \\i.)rld. 
 i'e'iplc al>iNc II. and i!ie lra\iler ■ 'n llie innnntain curses the chill, and 
 'lie \ii\a?;(r i i ilie dee]) cni-.e- llic re>lle-^iu-^. aiul tliere are tlmsc who 
 '■a_v ii i> a iniaii. "M. de^|iKalile unrld, and fmin iHile Id pole il has licen 
 ralninmalid ; and if ilic world slii inid pre-enl a libel snil for all those 
 who have slandcicd il, tlure ',\onld not he f,''old enon;;"h in the nionnlain . 
 to |iay ilu' (laniai;es, or ]i!aie> eiiouf^h in the jieniteniiaries to hold the 
 otlind''! ~. The iiroplf not only slander the world, hnt Ihcy slanilcr its 
 ni'i^hlpir--, ,ind tluy hel.ihor the snn, now hccau^c il i> too .ardent, and 
 \]"\\ hecan^e it i- io" distant ; but by experience coiniiiL; up the hill of life 
 1 l..i\c foiiiKl oi;t when there is anylhini^ wroiit;' the irou!)le is not with 
 ihc -V.]]. or the ni 'on, or the ^tar>, or the ineteorolnjric.al conditions; tlie 
 !i I mhie i~ \\ ilh ni\ ~el f. Oh, I .•iin -■ ■ t,d.ad that while this wc irld as ;i hnal 
 "y ;-■ ,1 de,id f,'!i!i;re, ,a- a hotel wh.ere we >to|) for awhile in our traveling 
 ■n tow.nd a better p'.ice, it i-> .i \ery L;ood world, a \ery kind worhl, and 
 I ail! gl.id that the -hepherd in ~o plea>.nit a place m.akes hi> t1oc..> rest 
 ,il ii' I'll I 
 
 Ihii li,i . iiiL,' I' '1<1 \"i: liow hie -eeiii- to nie oii the hill-top of the jour- 
 lu'v . \on iiatiiralK w.uit |o know how :t ^eein> to mc when 1 look !)ack- 
 \ ,iid, .iii'I \ 'len 1 look forwaril. 'The first thing a traveler docs after 
 ' liinliMig nji to tin- top of a nionntain is to take a long breath, and then 
 '••k aboiit ,{i;d -ee \shat i^ ,[11 around liini. He sees out in this direction 
 the winding lo.ui i;p which he ■:ainc. and out in that direction the wi.id- 
 i;i,l; i",id down which he shall go. .\nd ^o. standing on the hill-top c)f 
 'ife'N ioiiriic\. 1 put ni_\ outspread hand to my fi.u'ehcad, so as to keep off 
 ^iie glare of liie noonday"> ^un. and to concentrate my \isinn. and 1 look 
 back oil tlic winding road, o,i) \\!iich I ha\c traveled, aii'l i see f.ir on down 
 ,'1 the foot of ih.it road, in the dim distance, sonielliing small, some- 
 'inng iti'-ignnicant. and it \ ibiatc-, and it trembles, and it :•-, "ks. 1 won- 
 
 if: 
 
 ilcr wnat it i-. i gue^-^ wnai ii i~. .v ciaiiie: 
 
I 
 
 .'VJL' sKinmxs WD i,K('Tri;Es 
 
 Then I ti:r!:. .1:1- M;'! l<C(|iiiii;- nu (iHt-;>i. i,l liMtid tn in}' torolliviil so 
 .'1=; t" sliailo my cy- I'l^in tlic <'I.-n i f tin- 'MiiiKlny's smi, and tci coii- 
 cciiti.ilr iii_\ \isinn, I JM.ik ..ii il. \'ii;ri;!,j; i...iii ilnwn whicli I '-linll travel, 
 and 1 -n .11 i!ic f. - I ni' till- tn.id siinRiliiii-- that cI.hs not tremble, iliv- 
 ii"l \ilii,ite, (Ipc-, ii't n H'k- siiinctliini; wliitc -nuA then near it a hank 
 "I till > ii'th. .ind I \\i iiidfi' w ii.ii ii is, \1) ' I -^ee what it is. I puess what 
 it i-. I kn<<\\ w !mi it i^. A L;r.i\ e. 
 
 .'^ ' siJii.Ini'; 'U ihc hill tii|i. Ii.i\in<,' enmc up one .siile the liill, and 
 hi i"i"r I ;;m i],>\\]] (.11 the I'tlifi ^ide, ymi a^k im- two ny three qne.stions. 
 .Mid I icl! Mui tl.,!! I ha\e UmiiikI m i-.'mintj up this .side of life, the .steep 
 •idf, ilu' fn>t -idf I h;ue le.iined ili;u nothinf,' is ;ieei iinplisju'd witliont 
 li.iid w'rk. And I s.iy to the niiiltitiide of vouiij;" peo])le st.arting in oeeii 
 ]>,ili'Mi- ;md piMiV- -imh,, iinthii:- is aecmnpli^hed witiiout work, hard 
 \' 'I'k. I' 'iilimi'i;; . wi.ik, :i'l-;ilisi 'i hiii^; work. e\ erlastiiit;- wnrk. 
 
 A pa-ishiMiuT .iskiNl a rlcrij^-vm.-m why the C' uiLjreLratii ni had filled up. 
 .ind why the ihiiiih w;is n^w s. > jirosperons a!io\e what it had ever been 
 hi-fi :r. 'AWH," s.iJd the eleii^N in.in. "1 will tell voti ilie scerct. I met .1 
 
 i;;[-t!i,in -.line time a^'.. .ind I ^aiil to h 
 
 ow IS it you get aiont; 
 
 '' v.tll in y.;i; ];n 'fe-si, .|i :" 'i In' traseiliaii re[)Iicd. 'I'lie secret is, I 
 ::!'.\;!\s d . my Im, -i ; \\j:;ii -i.^iiii', il.iys cnme. and the theater is not more 
 ■'i'ln h.ill wt ,' fourth .ncnpud. 1 .liw.iys do my best, and that li.as been 
 liic srnci •<( in\ -ittiii- nil.' ■■ And the eler>;_\ tn.iii reeititij; it. said: "I 
 ': :\c rriiieinlH ]i d i.'.it. ;md t'\ cr sin.-t" then I ha\e alwavs i\,,ut: \ liest." 
 
 \iid, 1 -,;iy In \. 11 in ",li.ite\cr "rcn]iatioii 01 jirnfession (li.d has p>it you. 
 '!'! Ni.nr hcst; '.liitiKr the wmli! .aiijireciales it or not. dn \our best — 
 ..Iways d' ' \Miir lu -t Domiti.ii;, the Rnman emperor, for ciie hour every 
 d.ay e.-u'.ciit tlir- ami killed tliem with his jicnknife; and there are peo]>le 
 witli imperial npn. irtiinit) wli ■ s^.t themseKes to some insi,i,'iiitieant bnsi 
 ness. ( )'i, for -omctliii;-- t;-r;md to do. and then eonrcnliTite all your 
 eneigies of iiod_\ . ir.ind. .and soul upon tliat one ihinjj;. .nul nothing in 
 eartii or hell e.'m -t and before yon. There is tio Mich thing as good luck. 
 
 -5 ■•!' 
 
 J: Inl. ■■: hie, that aii cvcnrs 
 
SHiniOXS AND I.KCTrHKS 
 
 nil ilii-y 
 I iiiiiinic is in;ulf up ni' 
 
 arc Cf.iinectcd. I I,,nk hack and imu s«. cvimu. uludi I tlH„;j.l,i ,,ure 
 isolated an.l aK.iie. Imt I ilnd now tlicy were adjnine,! i,. everytliin.i; ihat 
 went before, an.l everything that came after. Tlie ehani m, liiV ,- made 
 lip >>i a great nian\ links— large link-. ,niall link-, -ilve,- link-, wm 
 links, hcantifnl hnks, „gly link-, mirthful links -oh-mn links- 
 are all part- ..f ,,ne great chain of de-iinw hlacl 
 
 -i\t\ link-, and each day i- made up <<i iweiit) -i. ,ur Inik-, and e.icli Ncai 
 IS made up of three Imndred an.l -ixty-llve links: hiti ihe> .ue .ail p.iii 
 of one endless chain which plays a:i,l work- through llu hand ,>i an all 
 goverr,ing(;..Kj. No event ever stand- al.,ue, S. iiicium- y,.n -av. Tlii- 
 IS my .lay ..ff." \\,u will never li.ave a .lay off. Xoihing i> ,,tT. 
 
 But if y.,u cntinue tn ask im- h.,w the past >cciii-, I an-wer it -eem- 
 like three ..r four picture galleries-I)„s<d.l..rf.l.,,nvrr and l.uxeml.ung. 
 their corri<|.,rs interj.uning. I cl.,-c my eyes an.l -cc ilu-m .-..a-tii,,^ the 
 hillsi.Ie. and tlying the kite, an.l trtiiullmg the li....p, an.l Kaihenng'nut - 
 in the autumnal f.,re-t-, an.l then a little while alter, h.-n.ling in atLxi..a..- 
 -tndy ..ver the lexicon- an.l the trig. ,n. .nielrie-. W lure are th.-e ...mi- 
 lades.' .\l..sinf them g.. lie. .'^.)me are in u-elul -plieies . ,11 earth. S.Jine 
 died in rapture, and a g..,,! many ,,1 them peri-he.l 111 ,li-ipati.jn before 
 llmty years ..f age. The wine-cup. uitli it- -harp edge, cu; the jugular 
 '.ein of their .s.jul. I'.H.r fell.uv-' Tliey tne.l the uorld witli..ut Crod, 
 and the w..rld was Uj>> much for them, ."^pleiuli,! fell,.\\.-' ()h, what 
 forehead they ha.l f,,r brain, an.l uhat nut-cle they ha.l f.,r -iiengtli, and 
 uhat gleam ..f eye they had for geiiiu-. an.l uhat Invino letters they 
 fc"i fn.iii h..me. ,and h.>u they carrie.l ..|l the bouquet- ,,„ Commence' 
 >"ent I),.y' Hut they made the terriilc mi-take ..f thinking religion a 
 siipeitlmty. and lu.w they are in ni\ niein..r\. not ,-. much canvas a 
 scull till e--s<-,me Liioa...n stnigglmg with snapped niu-cie-, ,md eves 
 stalling from the socket f 
 
 .>r ti.rture; -truggling amid the cii 
 
 oi a 
 
 ^erpeniine inonstro-it\ , a rentile 
 
 »f tl 
 
 ptile liorior. a l-i..)Coon \\o:-e tlian that 
 
 le ancients. 
 Satan ha;: a 
 
 lait. 
 
 diuUi appetite, 
 
 i 
 
 i <i 
 
 la ti 
 
 ic \ uigai bouis He tiirows into 
 
I { 
 
 
 ^r^ 
 
 IV 
 
 '■■(:- 
 
 ■ I 
 
 :vj4 
 
 SERMON'S AND I.ECTl'l.'KS 
 
 .•I imiijjl, to fatten lii- -\\iiu-: ]«.\{ lio ^av;: •' I'-riii-,' !•> my jjdldcii jibti- all 
 tl'i- I'liie natures linn- t" ii;;, -.I.li-ii \>'.:\\c all tlic clear iiilellect , linui,'- 
 lliein t.. me: tiiy knii'e will eiit iImwu llnMiii;!! tlie Ihm iniisiie>- ; lill in> 
 
 ilialiee \sitli the tieliest '.l' their M !; l)"Ui it in \nitil it edlie^ threc- 
 
 fi.nrth- full ; ii'itn it in nnli! it L'..nie- t.. the lini nf the ehaliee; jxini it 
 until th<' M'x.d hnhhles ( a er the rim. Th.-ie. l' will <1" ii'^u ' >h. ihi • 
 niiVinal l.an.|nei n\ uriM s, ,nK ' Aha' aha' let ilie (MUimnn .leni-n-. liav.' 
 the \nl-ar ■ . .uU, but ,L;ive t. ■ me. wlm am the Uiul,' of all iliali..hMn. th.- 
 j..lluvt, (he ^;la(l(Ie-t. ami the l'i ■i'"'l''~' "'' •'" ''''- immnrtal -aiiilhr 
 Aha!" 
 
 ■j hen Ml m\ mind there i^ the iK.U'e ^'allery. 
 
 ( )h. tho^e ilear lace^. uhl I'aees and ynnni; faees, faee^ that ha\e 
 l.i~t noihin,!,' iif their l"\eliiie^^ h} the reee-.iiin ni year^. i'aees intu wliieh 
 we looked when we sat on their lap-, I'aee- that looked nj) to n- v\ hen they 
 -A\ on our laps, l'aee> that wept, faee> that laiii^hed, i'aees that wrinkled 
 with old ai^e, I'ace-, all alhi-h with jn^enile j.h nudity, I'.ue- tha" ha\e dis- 
 ai>peared, faces <,;one. 
 
 Hut von ask how the reM >>\ the j. nniev ajipeai -. lo me \- I l^'ol; 
 d.'wn now. haviut; eoine u\> one >ide. ami -.landnn; on the hill t'.p. and 
 hel'ore 1 take the other journey, let me say to \ou, the road >ei {■< he trav- 
 eled seem^ to me hrij^hter than the "Ue ou whieli 1 have jourue\ed. 1 
 Would not want to live lilV over at;ain. a-> -ouie wi>h to. It ue lued lite 
 over again we wouhl do no hetter than we ha\e done. ( )ur lives have 
 been lived o\ er live hundred tim<- Itefore. We -aw li\e hundred people 
 make nustakes in lite, and we went riLjIlt on and made the same mis- 
 lakes. ( )ur life was not the lirst. There were li\e hundred or a thousand 
 people living before u-. We ilid iMt pn.tit lv\ then e\,iuiple. We went 
 rii;ht on and br..ke down in the same jilaee. and if we ihd not do any 
 betiu" with th.ise eNperienees before Us, do you tlimk we would do any 
 better if we tried hie over again? Xo. 1 -houUl .rather go right on. 
 If we tried life over again wc wcmld ie|)eat the same journey. 
 
 ut. savs some .jue, uon t y-.-u r.ir.--.-. oic.^ -.::.•; .- ,,■■^^-^, ..-.t-i 
 

 si:i;\i«».\s AXl> M'X'TiUKs :!j.-) 
 
 ^Iiip--. iikiu-^(-. .iiiil -■•MIC ilnlic. iilici'l?" nil. \c-I lliil if 1 .1:11 oil 
 .1 r;iili'i;ii! i.iii!iu\ i.i' a ili. .u-a'nl niili-^, aiiil 1 'ii,i\i- !;"iif l'i\t 'mmlrcil 
 1 'l' tlu- mik' -. aiiil dm ini; tli. i-^i- |i\ (.■ Imiulii'd iniks 1 lia\ c I "in 11 1 llii Inidm- • 
 -■aU', ;iiii| i!:i' iiail^ -oliil. aiiil the i miiiIhiIi ms h im|)iiitti, aiiil llu- iiit^iiiicr 
 
 N. I'll- av. .;l,i-. (1. .1-. Ill r| ill ,1 i,;i\ (■ lllc rMiil' Iciiri' i'mI' tin . .lilt i Ii\ c tiMliili rd 
 i,i;lr-. I .• id lia- -trii iiK llii.aiL;li up to \\]\< liiii" and I am i;"!!!'^ lo 
 iiu I llii,> I'l llu- roi o| ilif jnuiiun . I liclii-w I li.i\i-a i!iroi!u;h lukri, 
 .lid allli.aiL;li ■-. iiiittiiiu-- the trark iiia\ liiiii tlii^ wav or tin- oiIkt wav, 
 .Mi'l ..iiuiiiiic \\ I' iii.i\ 1)0 ])!iiiil;ii1 tlir. iii^li Uiiiiu'U. and -. iinctiiiics ut' 
 ni..> li.m- a 1.. .; 1.. .\ ilia I dilaiii^ llu' tram, ;ind •-' iiik'tiiiK -, we in.av s\\ itch 
 • II ii|i' 11 a '.Ii i:a(l, !.. Ill -oinclioilv I'Kr |ia^^, .and ^. nii'tiiiir^ w c ma\' 
 
 ■Of .1 1 I'd l!.!'.; wariiiiiu; i:- i'. ^l i\\ up, 1 IhIiono w i- ,irr lyin^' lliiouj^li ;,> 
 tin- ri.i;l!l p'.u'o. 
 
 I li.i\ i- 11. 1! a l'i.-ar, ,111 auMci \ . ill. at I imu iiu 1 it a.; 1 1 d > n. it kn. .w one. 
 
 I put all ni\ ca-.c in ii.T- Ikiih!-. ,aud 1 li.iM.- 11. .1 .an\' ansit'lv ahoiil llu- 
 luliiro. I do Hot I'll 1 1". I .lii.iidv - 1 oii'v tru-l I ii;i-t. I tni-l, I trn^t ! 
 
 \.nd loi ila 1 1 .11 !■ 1 li. i~t' 1:1 rr . .| in\' 1 1\\ n .i;.;c — let UK -.i\'. \\ Ik'ii \\ o (. iiiil' 
 t. . dutif-, .-in.! I n.al- , .aii'l ii^i ddiip-,. ( io.l w ,i;oiu;4 t. ■ cc 11-. llir. iiil'Ii 
 
 i'loiu ilii liil! io|, oi liii I i.iiili a i'liiup--f oi tlh.^o hill tojK when' 
 .■id -oriovi .ainl -.iLdiiiiL; -li.dl In- d-ino ;o,.i\ 1 )h. ili.ii ( lod would mak^' 
 that woild t i 11- .1 roalitv ! I.aitii in that .0 aid holpiil old Dr. 'fyils,;, 
 ulitii lio >t'iod \i\ till- ra-kti o|' ln> do.id -^oii, wlioso arm had hccn torn 
 oil lu tlic tlnc^hiiiL; iiKuiiii.o. doatli 0M--uiiii;-; .and Dr. lyni;, with iiilinitc 
 composure, prcaclkal lliu luiuial ^ormoji of hi., own l)ulo\-od >..ii. I-'.aitli 
 in th.ai world holpid .Martin l.iithor. williout om- loai'. t ■ put awav in 
 <U.ith lii-~ f.axorin' child, l.iiili in that w.ii!.] lioipcl the duiij; woman to 
 sec oil the 'ky the litter "W ." and the, a-i^cil hi-r what ^llc -npposcil the 
 litter "W" ..11 the -k_\ luiaiit. "( >h," --he -aiij. "d. .n't voti know'-' \\' 
 ^t.iiid-. i.a wekiiiiie." () llea\ en. .-wiiij; open th_\ ,L;ate^I (> llea\eil, 
 roll upon n> ■-. me of tliiiie anthem- 1 ( I I ie,i\ en, ilidi up. .n 11 ~ the u>.ion 
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 I'.Ms. ,1111 1 ilii' liiuiiij; I.I i!u' oM'ti wliK-li 1 lu-.ir .'"- 1. S;im \v . i .( 
 
 rin' .\iii.i!i'kilcs th. 'ii};lit ihai lln's ha. I c. iiU|UiTcil (mil, aiul tli.ii Mr 
 iM.iil.l iifvcr ixaiitf III- llin:it> again>t lliciu Tlu'\ liail inunK'icil l^.f 
 l-i,u!i!r- Ml l.atilf and "111 .if liattlf. all.! Ii-M lui .aitras^o uiitiicl Tli.) 
 liiiaiKlu that (;i..l<itlui .lul ii.'t .lart' tu iiiuu>b tlii'in, MI- that Ilclia.l i..i 
 v'liU'ii >M 1.1 .1... let lis M-f. Samuel, llu- l-'inl's iin'plui, u-lU Saul i.. 
 1,;,, ,l,,\\ii aii.l lU-Mr..;. \\\^■ .\iiiak'kiti's, leaviiij,' ii..l '.lu' ..i thciii alive, 
 anil ti. ili--ir..v ,ill ilu' Least- in tlieir p. is>css|, m. ..\ and sliee]). laiii^'! 
 an. I ass, 
 
 lli.' Anialekiles ,m.l 1-raelites e..m'r.>iit eadi .'tliei The triiiiii><l ■ 
 . 1 1 attle are hl.'wn, |rm! ..n iK-al \\vtnl sieiie, that aiieient liatlle. ihii 
 hn.va' t'..r the Israelite- M.ae than tw.i luaidred lh.>iisaiul men \\a\e 
 tliiii plumes and ilap ;heii- :iiie!.l-. I'.'i (iml has j^nen them tlu' \Kt..r'. 
 lli://a' fi.r Israel, 
 
 Vet this trmmphaiu armv is mkui captured and ei,)U.iuer«:.l 1>> sheep 
 ,>n,l i.\<ii, (,nd ti.ld Saul t.. ^o and destro) the Amalckitcs, and i. • .!<• 
 -tn.\ all the heasts m theii possesbiun. Saul tlinut,du he knew hetiev 
 ihati ;he l.ord and su lie saves .Xgaj,', ihe kin^; ..l the ,\malekites. an.l 
 ■ave- suiue .-f the I'lnest .;( the sheei> ■">^1 '1"-' '-'•"^^■'^- "^' ''''"''^^ '''^' ''•'' 
 eheaL.d tile pr.-.pliet, aiul thfiii^h him .heated the Lnrd, and he is dm 
 iii,l; ;hese .^hee;. and "xeii un luward hi.-, h .me. lie has n. . idea that 
 Sjti'.uel, t!u- pr..iphe!, will e\er ;i;u! it cut. 
 
 Saiii'^el met. nan. Saul with ■.olemn visage—for there is no one that 
 ean look niuie sokimi than \our ::enuiiu hypocrite— Saul says: 'i hav.' 
 fuliiUed ih" conunandment ci the 1.. r.; S.anuel listens, and at th.a' 
 moment he heai;- the noisy d'. "-.c in :■• rear, and he says to Saul; '1: 
 vou have .1 lie a., Vuu have ^ai.!, it y...u have , heyed the l..)r(l. what mean 
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 consumed witli blusl.cs. Xo. He says : "l .lid not do tl.is : tl.e army did 
 It. Tlie army are savin<; tliese slieep and oxen for sacrifice." Then Sam- 
 uel slasiies Agag to pieces, and in Oriental style takes hold of the skirt of 
 liis coat, anil ren,U it apart, as nnich as to say, "So shall you be rent 
 from your crown, s„ shall you he rent from your kingdom, and all nations 
 shall know that Saul, hy disuheying God, won a llock of sheep. Init lost 
 a kingdiim.'" 
 
 ("od will exp.,se hypocrisy. Saul thought this whole thing had lieen 
 husiied up, and he li.-.d no idt-;, that the secret of hi^ dis..l,e<iience would 
 ever come uxu. and at the ni..st in(.i)]),,rtune lime the sheep bleat, and the 
 oxen bellowed. .\ liyp,,crite i> ..ne who prufesses to be what he is not, 
 or to do that which he does not. Saul was a type of a large class. A 
 hypocrite in our time is a man who lo.jks awfully solemn, whines in his 
 prayer, never laughs or smiles, .,r, if he should Ik.- caught laughing or 
 smiling, afterwanl is apologetic, as tliough he had cx.mmitted some great 
 sin. The first time he has a chance, he prays twenty minutes in a prayer- 
 meeting, and if lie give an e.xliortation. it is with an air that seems to 
 nnply that all men are sinners .save one, his nn)desty forbidding that lie 
 should state who that one is. In Churclies of Chri.st all over the land 
 are ecclesiastical L'ri;di Ileeps. When the fox iK'gins t,. pray look out 
 for your chickens! The genuine impostor in religion makes a pride of 
 his misery. The genuine Christian liiuls -eligion a joy. The hypocrite 
 lias priile in his being uncomfortable. 
 
 Those are the kind of men that damage the Church of Jesus Christ. 
 Wolves are not of so much danger, .save when they are in sheep's cloth- 
 ing. Arnold was of more peril to the American army than Cornwallis 
 and bis host. A shi]) may outriile a hundred .storms, and yet a handful 
 of worms in a ])lank may sink it to the I>ottom. The Church of Jesus 
 Christ has not so much fear of cyclones of per.secution as it lian of the 
 vermin of hy|)ocrisy sometimes infesting it. 
 
 Xow, such hyiioerisy will be exposed. CkI .sees behind the curtain 
 as well as before the curtain. Cod sees everything inside out. Ml their 
 
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 solemn looks will not save them. All their long prayers will not save 
 them. Ail their professions of religion will not save them. Tlieir real 
 character will be demonstrated, and at the most unexpected moment the 
 sheep will bleat and the oxen will bellow. 
 
 One of the cruel bishops of olden time, about to put one of the mar- 
 tyrs to death, began by saying: "In the name of God, amen." The mar- 
 tyr said: "Don't say 'in the name of God!' " And yet how many cruel 
 and mean things are done in the name of religion and sanctity. You 
 sometimes see ecclesiastical courts when they are about to devour some 
 g )od brother, begin by being tremendously pious in their utterances, the 
 venom of their assault corresiKinding with the heavenly pathos of the 
 prelude, .\bout to devour him. they say grace before the meal ! Just 
 at the time when you expect them almost to rise in translation, and arc 
 l)eginning to think that nothing but the weight of their boots and over- 
 coats keeps them down, the sheep bleat and the oxen bellow. Ah ! my 
 friends, pretend to be no more than that you are. If you have the grace 
 of God, profess it ; but i)rofess to have no more than you really ixjssess. 
 If you have none of it, do not profess to have it. 
 
 History tells of Ottocar who was asked to kneel before Randolphus I. 
 Coming into the presence of the king, Ottocar declined to kneel, but after 
 :i while be compromised the matter and said: "I will kneel in private 
 some time in your tent where no one sees me." But the servant of the 
 king arranged a rope by which he could instantly let the tent drop. After 
 a while Ottoc;ir came into the tent and knelt before Randolphus in wor- 
 ship. The king's servant drew the cord and the tent dro])|)ed, and Olttx'ar 
 in the presence of two great armies, was kneeling before Randolphus. 
 .■\h! my friends, if you pretend that you arc a servant of Jesus Christ, 
 an<l at the >;inie time are kneeling to the world, the tent has ahe.uly 
 drop])ed, and all the armies ai heaven are gazing on the hypocrisy. The 
 uiii\er>e is a \ery public place, and hypocrisy always comes to exposure. 
 
 Hut while there is one hypocrite in the Church there are tive hun- 
 dred outside of it. for the held is larger. Peojilo sometimes look iiver 
 
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 SERMONS AND LECTURES 3.U 
 
 into tlie Cluirch, and they find Iierc and there a hypocrite, and they de- 
 nounce the Qiin-ch uf G«d. Yon liavc more on your side than we have 
 on our side. I'ive Iiundred to one. Men wlio in your presence are ob- 
 sequious, wliile at tlie same time they are aiif,ding for an imperfection. 
 Tiiey are <iij,'j,niig for a hait. Men wlio will Ik; in your !)resence in coni- 
 mercia! circles as <,aiiial as a summer morn, while they have the fierce- 
 ness ..f a cataii.ntiit and the shyness of a snake and the sjiite of a devil. 
 Hut the .HUM ihcy .,lii„,t ,,(( will l.nr>t in their (jwn IkiikIs; the lies they 
 tell crack their own teeth, and their liypoeriNy will k- demonstrated, and 
 at the mo-,t iiiiexpeeted time the sheep will hUat and the oxen will liellow. 
 It is \i-iy natural to i)ut off sin on other people. Saul, confronted 
 with his criiiie, saiil : "Oh. it wasn't me. it was the army ; they saved these 
 sheep and oxen, and disoU-yed the cotninand of (iod. It wasn't me. Oh, 
 no, it was the army." Human nature the same in all a,t;es. Adam con- 
 fronted w ith his sin, said : "The woman tempted me and 1 did eat." And 
 she charged it upon the serpent, and if the serpent could have spoken it 
 would have charf,a'd ii ujion the devil; when the simiile circumstance, I 
 supiwisc, was that .\dam saw five eating this forbidden fruit, and he 
 begged and caxed until he gd a piece of it! .\dam just as much to 
 blame a- V.w. Ah! my bioilar. you cannot jnit olY your sins on other 
 people. Saul tliMiight he could, but he could not. 
 
 (iod dem;nided the obliteration i.f ;ill of the Amalekites, and the de- 
 struction of all the k'asts they owned, and Saul saves .\gag, the King of 
 the .\in,ilekites, and those line sheep and oxen, (i.'d said, extermination. 
 Why, do y,,u sui)pose that if we have as many sins as there were men 
 111 the army of the Amalekites, God is gi'ing to let us kee]) any of them? 
 They ha\e all to be exterminated. 
 
 Here is a Christian man who says: "1 have an Amalekitish sin which 
 I call jealousy," l\,\\n \\\\]\ jealousy. Here is a Christian man who 
 says; "I have an Amalekitish sin wlueh 1 will call backbiting." EK.)wn 
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 out yonder, there is a sin lifting up its head. Wliat is that? It is Agaff. 
 That is worldliness. Tliat is a pet sin. it is n darling sin he is going to 
 let live. Xo mercy for Agag. You cannot keep a darling sin. Exter- 
 mination ! 
 
 Some Presbyterians call it "the higher life;" some Methodists call 
 it "perfection :" 1 do not care what ytm call it ; hut without holiness no 
 man shall see the l^ml. We have to give up all our sins, my brothers 
 and sisters ; give them all up. No mercy l..r Agag. Saul kept. I supixoe, 
 the iinest, the fattest of the sheep, and killed the meanest. .\nd there are 
 many Christians who kill their unpopular sins and keep the resi)ectal)le 
 sins, while the b)rd Cod from the heavens thun.lers extermmation. 
 
 A mere profession of religion, if it be not kicked up by right beha- 
 vior, amounts to nothing, and worse than noti.aig. Saul came out with 
 a magnificent ])rofession of religion. He says : "1 have fulfilled the com- 
 mandments of the U.rd. Just look at me! See what a hero 1 have 
 been !'" Then the sheep bleat and the oxen bell. iwed. It seems to me that 
 the Church of Gn-ist is to make a ntw dei)arture in the direction of 
 straightout honesty. 1 believe the time will come when men. instead of 
 going to commercial records to see whether a man is A i— hearing that 
 a man who ])roposes a bargain is a member of the Christian Church, 
 a professor of religion— the merchant will say: "That is all I need." 
 
 lUit how much a cluuch certificate would be worth in Wall Street 
 todav, judge yc! It seems to me the Church has not kept up with the 
 worlds enterprise. It u-^ed to take a gfKid while to make a sixpenny 
 nail. .\ bar would l)e thrust mo the hot coals, and then the bellows 
 would blow, and tl,?n the bar would be brought out on the anvil, and 
 they would ]Miund it .-.nd smite it and cut it and cleave it. and there 
 would be the nail. Xnw. a bar is thrust into a m.ichine. and instantly 
 there is a wh.»k' shower of nails on the tloor of the manufactory. It 
 Used to take a great while t.) tluesh wheat. The farmer would slowly 
 unfasten the band from the sheaf, then he would shake out the sheaf on 
 .1,^ fl,,,,,-, .n.nd then he would take the slow flail, and pound out the wheat 
 

 
 SERMONS AND LKCTIJHES 333 
 
 from the .straw. Xow. the horses start, or the engine begins to hiss, and 
 Lore are many sheaves instantly threshed. The printing-pre.ss that made 
 two InnKlred and f.fty impressions an honr was considerc.l wonderfnl 
 ^o^v. tens of thonsan.ls of in,pressions are made in the same length of 
 ■"'c. Tl,e n,ad uas a very slow institution. Once in two week-s it went 
 rom U,ndon to I-.Iinburgh. Once in two weeks it went fron, New York 
 to Boston. Now. a half do.en tinx-s a day yon have to rnn to get out 
 of the u.y. or yot, will be run over by the wagons that eome through 
 Nassau Street, with whole tons of United States mail. Over eijtt 
 u.ndren„„ions of letters and papers in one year going through that 
 -u,. (hangcs n, j.„-isprudcnce. ( on>,i,ntio„ of ,1,, State of New 
 ^ork changed in ,X^,, l,„pn,ve,nent. in the crin,inal code. Improve 
 mcnts m the civ.l code. La u of ,;,,„„,■„,-„, „^,_^ ''''' 
 
 -\-u. has the Church of (iod kept up wuh the n,oven,ents of ,|,e d-,v = 
 -"• -■<■ -I. >neuce, wuh n.oderu travel. -Oh.- savs so„,c o„e -.hJre 
 are no new prn,ciples,o 1,0 e^o,vedm religion." .VhM admit it There 
 are no new principles n, nature. They are new to us. bu, thev are old 
 pnncples brought out nUo den,oM>,ra,iou and iuto lig|„. Th'e law of 
 
 ^''"'"'"";' ■ '"' ^^^'*' ""••' '-- >^-^tou uas bo,.„. There was just 
 
 as uuuh electncity iu the snuuner cloud, hcfore Heujanun Franklin l.gan 
 '-• play kne wuh the .hunder>tonn. as afterward ; j„., a. n„,ch power in 
 M<-ambe„,reKobertFu,to„ was hon, as afterward. The carbln.ferous 
 
 and jur.p. sn-a,a of ,hc earth did not wan to be laid d.,wn untiiriugh 
 M kr plnugc ,„s geological crowbar. Thev are old principles, as ll 
 
 as t>-vorl. bu, brought ,0 new deu,on.,ration. So . sav m regard to 
 rehg.on. " a man tells me he has a new religion, 1 sa^. -, l^,,, no 
 ^-tl. ...... fo,. , he Ibble is my standard." Hut if he con.s and ..vs to 
 
 ..>e. I have a new application of the old principle.'' I sav. -flear 5,ear 
 hear! ' ' "'-'"' 
 
 Xow what [ want is to have this old (iosi^I wheel, this grand Cospel 
 vheel wluch has turned so n.a.gninceutly so n,,any years, to have another 
 '--^' i".t on a. the band eonnectmg ,t w.th every shop, with every store. 
 
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 with every banking house, with every institution, with every place of 
 hard work — the religion of Jesus Christ making its conquest in the direc- 
 tion of common honesty, so that when a man shall say, as Saul said, 
 "I have fulfilled the commandment of the Lord." everybody will believe 
 him. 
 
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 There are thousands of ways of telling a lie. A man's whole life may 
 be a falsehood, .and yet never witli his lips may he falsify once. Tlicre 
 is a way of uttering falsehood by look, by maimer, as well ;is by lip. 
 There are persons who are guilty of dishonesty of speech ;iuil then .after- 
 ward say "m.iy Ix.-;" call it ;i white lie. when no lie is tli.tt color. The 
 whitest lie e\er uAi\ w.i-; .as black ;is ]icrditiiin. There are tliosc so gi\en 
 to dishonesty of --pccch that thev d'l not know when they ;ire lying. 
 
 With sonic it is an ;uf|uireil sin, .and with r.thers it is a natural 
 intirmity. There ;irc thii-.c whom you will recognize a> l>orn liars. Their 
 whole life, from cr.idle tn grave, i^ tilled np with \ ice of >»pecch. Mis- 
 representation .iiid prc\.iric,itii>n are .i> natur.tl to them as the infantile 
 diseases, anil ;nc .-i sort of uior.d croup or spiritu.il scarlatina. Then 
 there are those who in after life have op|)orlnnities of developing this 
 e\il. and they go from deception to deception, and from cla^^^ to class, 
 until they are regularly graduated liar-;. 
 
 There i'- something in the presence of natur.il objects th.it Ita'^ :i ten- 
 dency to ir..ike one pure. The trees never issue false slock. The wheal 
 fields are always honest. Rye and I'ats never move out in the night, not 
 paying for the place they occupy. Corn shocks never m.ike false assign- 
 ment. Mountain brooks arc always current. The gold of the wheat 
 fields is never counterfeit. I'.ut while the tendency of agricultural life is 
 to in.ake one honcsl, honesty is not the chaiTictcristic of all who come to 
 the city markets from the country districts. Vou hear the creaking of 
 the dishonest farm-wagon in alniosl every street of our great cities, .i 
 frtrin-\^agon in whiih liaic is not oiie Ilollc^t >poke oi one irutlifut rivet 
 
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 from tongiie to tail-boanl. Again and again has domestic economy in our 
 great cities fonntlered on the farmer's firl<in. When New York, and 
 Brooklyn, and Cincinnati, and Boston sit down and weep over tlicir sins, 
 Westchester and Long Island counties and all tlie country districts ouglit 
 to sit down and weep over theirs. 
 
 Tlic tendency in all rural districts is to suppose that sins and trans- 
 gressions cluster in our great cities: but citizens and merchants long 
 ago learned that it is not safe to calculate from the character of the apples 
 on the top of the farmer's barrel what is the character of the apples all 
 the way down toward the Ixittnm. Many of our citizens and merchants 
 have learned that it is always safest to sec the farmer measure the Ivirrel 
 of I)eets. Milk cans are not always honest. There arc those who in 
 country life seem to think they have a right to overreach grain-dealc.s, 
 merchants of all styles. They think it is more hun.^rable to raise corn 
 than to deal in corn. 
 
 The producer sometimes practically says to tne merchant : "Von get 
 your money easily, anyhow." Docs he get it easy? While the farmer 
 sleeps, and he m.-iy go to sleep conscious of the fact that his cnvn and rye 
 are all the time progressing and adding to his fortune or his livelihood, 
 the merchant tries to sleep while conscious of the fact that at that moment 
 the ship nm- be driving ,m the rock, or a wave sweeping over the hurri- 
 cane deck spoiling his goods, or the speculators may be pi. fng a momen- 
 tary revolution, or the burglars may be at that moment at hh money safe, 
 or the fire may have kindled on the very bU)ck where his store stands. 
 
 luasy is it ? I^t those who get their living in the quiet farm and barn 
 take the place of one of our city merchants an.l see whether it is so easy. 
 It is hard enough to have the hands blistered with out-door work, but it is 
 harder with mental anxieties to have the brain consumed. Cnxl help the 
 merchants. And do not let those who live in country life come to the 
 conclusion that all the dishonesties belong to city life.' There are those 
 who apologize for deviations from the right and for practical deception by 
 
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 saying'it is commercial custom. In other words, a lie by multiplication 
 becomes a virtue. 
 
 There are large fortunes gathered in which there is not one drop of 
 the sweat of unrequited toil, and not one spark of had temper flashes from 
 the bronze bracket, and there is not one drop of needlewoman's heart's 
 blod on the crimson plush ; while there arc other fortunes aI)out which it 
 may^be said that on every door-knob and on every figure of the carpet, 
 and on every wall there is the mark of dishonor. What if the hand 
 wrung by toil, and blistered until the skin comes off should Ix; placed on 
 the exquisite wall paper, leaving its mark of blood — four fingers and a 
 thumb? or. if in the night the man should be aroused from his slumber 
 again and again by his own conscience, getting himself up on his ellxnv, 
 and crying out into the darkness: "Who is there?" 
 
 Tliere are large fortunes upon which Clod's favor comes down, and it 
 is just as honest and just as Christian to l)e afilucnt as it is to be poor. In 
 many a house there is a blessing nn every pictured wall, and on every 
 >crolI, and on every tracericd window, and the jny tb.it Hashes in the 
 lights, and that showers in the nnisic. and that dances in the (|uick feet of 
 the children pattering through the hall, has in it the favor of Cod and 
 the approval of man. .\nd there are thousands ;uid tens of thousands of 
 merchants who. from the first day they sold a yard of cloth, or a tirkin 
 of butter, have maitUaincd their integrity. Tbey were l)orn honest, they 
 will live honest, and they will die honest. 
 
 Hut you and I know that there are in commercial life those who are 
 guilty of great dishonesties of speech. .\ merchaiU says: "1 am selling 
 these gcxids at less than cost." Is he getting for those goods a price in- 
 ferior to that which he paid for them? Then he has six)ken the truth. 
 Is he getting ruorc? Then he lies. A merchant says: "I paid $25 for 
 this article." Is that the price he paid for it ? .Ml right. Hut suppose 
 he iKiid for it $J3 instead of $25? Tben he lies. 
 
 But there arc just as many falsehoods I)eforc the coutUcr as there are 
 behind the comUer. .\ customer coines m and asks: "llow much is this 
 
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 article?" "It is live dollars." "I can get that for four somewhere else." 
 Can he -et it for four somewhere else, or did he say that just for tiie pur- 
 I^ose nf -ettinj,' it cheap by deprecialinj; the value uf the j,'oods? If so. 
 he lied. Tlierc are just as many falseh(M,ds behind the counter as there 
 arc before the counter. .\ man unroll, upon the counter a bale of hand- 
 kerchiefs. The customer says: 'Wre tliese all silk r" "Ves." -Xo cot- 
 ton in them?" "Xo cott.m in them." .\re those handkerchiefs all silk? 
 Then the merchant fold the truth. Is tlierc any cotton in them? Then 
 he lied. Moreover, he defrauds himself, for his customer, coming in from 
 Hempstead, or Vonkers, or Newark, will, after a while, (iud (.ut that he 
 has been defniuded. and the next time he comes to town and ,i,'oes shop- 
 ping,', he will lo,,k up at that sijjn and s,iy : "\o. j w,,|,'t -,, there: that's 
 the place where 1 K"t those han.Ikerchief>." birst, the merchant insulted 
 (lod. and secondly, he pickc<l his own pocket. 
 
 Who wiiuld take the responsibility ,,f ^ayino; ii,,\v many falsehoods 
 were yesterd.iy told by h.inlware men, and cl(tihier>, ;ind hinibcrm'-n, and 
 toh.icconists. ;md jewelers, ami imp.irtcrs and shippers, and dealers in 
 furniture, and dealers in co.il, and dealers in j,mc K-eries ? I.ics .-dxHU 
 buckles, about saddles, .iIhiuI h.irness, about s|i,,cs, .about hats, about 
 coats, about -^hovels, about tonj^s, about fork-, alH)Ut chairs, .about sofas, 
 about horsfs. about kinds, .ib.ut everythin•,^ I arraign commercial false- 
 hood ,is oue of the cryinj; sins of our time. 
 
 .\monj;- the artisans .are those up^n wlioni we are deiiendent for the 
 h.iuses in which we live, the s^'nuents wc wear, the cars in which we ride. 
 The vast majority of ihoin are, so f.ar as 1 know tlieni. men who speak the 
 Iruth. and they are uprij^Iil. and many of them .are foremost in great phil- 
 .•uUhropies and in churches: but tliut they all do not Ix-long to that class 
 every one knows. 
 
 In times when there is a great demand for lal>ir. it is not so easv for 
 such men to keep their oblig.itions, because they may miscalculate in re- 
 trard to the weather, or thev in.-u- not tin nl>l(. to rrpf ti,« i,,.i., .i,_.. .., ,..■..: 
 pated in their cnteri)ri.se. I am speaking now of those who promise to do 
 
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 tliat which tlicy know they will not In: ahlc to ilo. Tlicy say they will 
 come on Monday ; they eld not come until Wednesday, niey say they 
 will come Wednesday; they do not come until Satnnlay. They say they 
 will have the job done in ten days; they do n-t get it done l»cforc thirty. 
 And then when a man becomes irrigated and will not staml it any longer, 
 then they go and work for him a day or two and keep the job along; and 
 then some one else gets irritated and outraged, and they g<i and work for 
 that man and get him pacified, and then they go somewhere else. I believe 
 they call that "nursing the job." 
 
 Ah. my friends, how nuich dishonor such men would save their souls 
 if they would promise to do only that which they know they can do. 
 "Oh," they sav, "it's of no importance; cverylxxly expects to 1)0 deceived 
 and disappointed." There is a voice of thunder sounding among the 
 saws and the hammers and the shears, saying: ".Ml liars shall have their 
 place in the lake that burns with fue and brimstone." Siv in all styles of 
 work there are those who arc not worthy of their work. 
 
 How much of .society is insincere. N'ou hardly know what to believe. 
 They send their regards; you do not exactly know whether it is .an ex- 
 pression of the heart, or an external civility. Tlicy ask you to come to 
 their house; you hardly know whether tlicy really want you to come. 
 We are all accustomed to take a discount off nf what we bear. 
 
 Social life is struck through with insincerity. Tbcy apologize for the 
 fact that the furnace is out; they have not had any fire in it all winter. 
 Tliey apologize for the fare on their tabic; tbcy never live .any better. 
 They decry their most luxuriant entertainment to win a shower of ap- 
 proval from you. They point at a picture on the wall as a work of one 
 of the old masters, 'nicy say it is an heirloom in the family. It hung on 
 the wall of a castle. .\ ituke gave it to their grandt';itbcr ! People that 
 will lie .alKHit nothing else will lie about a picture. (>i sni.all inroinc wc 
 want the world to believe we are afnucnt, and society to-d.iy is struck 
 through with cheat and counterfeit and <h:\m. How few jK-ople arc nat- 
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 FriKidify sails around, icclx-rp prindinp apainst icclierp. Vnn must 
 not laiigli outright ; tl.at is vulgar, ^•n„ must smile. Vou must not dasPi 
 (|iiic-kly across the ro-.m; that is vulgar. You must glide. Society is a 
 round of Ix.ws and grins an.l grimaces and nh's and ah's and he, he,' he's, 
 and simperings and nanil.y panihyisms, a whole worl.i of which is not 
 worth one good honest round of laughter. From such a hollow scene the 
 torture.! guest retires at the dose of the evening, assuring the host that 
 he has enjoyed himself. S.ciety is hecome so contorted and deformed 
 in this res[.ect that a in.mntain cal.in where the rustics gather at a f|uilting 
 or an apple-paring has in it m-re goo.j cheer than all the frescoed refriger- 
 ators of the nictropulis. 
 
 It is hardly worth ymir while lo a-k ,in extreme Calvinist what an 
 .Arnuni.ui l.rlieves. II,. uiH tell you an Artninian believes that man can 
 save hini<elf. An Arminian hclieves no micIi thing. It is hardly worth 
 your white to ask an extreme Arnntnan what a Calvinist believes. He 
 uill tell you that a Calvinist believes that Cod made sr»me men ju.st to 
 damn them. .\ (ahiiiisi believes no such thing. 
 
 It is hardly w.Mth your uhile to ask a I 'edo Baptist what a Baptist 
 believes. He uill tell yon ,i Baptist In-lieves that immersion is necessary 
 for salvation. .\ BaptiM ,I,,cs n..| believe any such thing. It is hardly 
 worth your while m ask a man. who very much hates Presbyterians, what 
 a FVesbyterian Wieves. He will tell ymi that a Presbyterian believes 
 that there are infants in hell a spa.i long, and that very phraseolr.gy has 
 comedown from generation to generation in the vhristian Church. There 
 never was a Presbyterian who believe.l that. "Oh," y,,n say, "I heard 
 .some Presbyterian minister twenty years ago say .so." Vou di,] „ot. 
 There never was a man who lK..lieved that, there never will be ;i man who 
 will believe that. And yet from l)oyhoo<l I have heard that particular 
 slander against a C'hristian Church going down through the community. 
 Then how often it is that there are misrepresentations on the part of 
 individual churches in regard to other churches — especially if a church 
 comes to great prosperity. As long as a church is in poverty, and the 
 
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 singing is i)'>,.i anil ill tlu- snrii>nn(linKN arc decrepit, and tlu- oongrcga- 
 tion arc so hardly bestead in life that their pastor goes with ell)<)\vs nut, 
 then there will alway-- l>e (hriMian people in oluirehes who say. "What a 
 pitv, what a pit\ '" I'-nt let the day of prosperity eonie to a Christian 
 flunxh. and let the nni-ie Ih' triutiiphant, and let there tn.- vast assetn- 
 hlages, and then there will he eviii ministers of the ( lospil eritieal and 
 dennneiatory an<l fnll of niiMeprescntalion and falsinealion, giving the 
 impression to the .aitside world that they do not like the corn heeanse it 
 is not ground in their mill. Oh, my friends, let us in all dep.irtnieiUs of 
 life st.'Uid li.uk Ir. in i|iie|)tion. 
 
 '■( >h." s.us M.iiu' ,'\\v. "the dceiption ihal I praelife is so sin.ill it don't 
 amount to aiivlhiUL;," \h. iiu I'lieiids, h doi', amount \<> a great deal. 
 \'on s,i\ : "When I deieue a is only aliout a i,in' of needles, or a lio.\ of 
 hnltous. or .1 ripw "\ pin-." I'.ut the .iiliile may he s, t mii.iH you can put 
 it in vour vc^t pocket. Imt the Mil is .is hi)-, as the p\ r.uiiids. ;md the echo 
 of yoiir dishonor uill revei berate tluoigh the mountains of eternity, 
 'riiere is no such thing .is ,i sm.ill sin. They ;ue all vast ;ind stupendous, 
 hecaiisc tliey will all have to c-me iiudtr in-pectiou in the Day of Jndg- 
 nient 
 
 THE ULORIOUS MARCH. 
 
 "I'.iir a- thf nwoii. clear ,'is the sun, and leirihie as an army w illi Ii.in- 
 ners, ."s. .1. miou's .*song \ i : lo. 
 
 The fr,n;r.iiice lU' spikenanl, the ll.ish of jewels, the fruit fulness of or- 
 chards, the luMiri.incc of g.irdeiis. the he.iuty of lieshhon lish-pools. the 
 dew of the night, and the splcinlor of the morning — all contrihute to the 
 richness of SolomoiTs style, when lie comes to speak of the gli'>ry of 
 the Churcii. In contrast with his eulogium of the Church. l(H)k at the 
 ilenuneiatory things that are said in our d.iy in regard to it. If one sli>ck- 
 holder hecome a ilicat, does lli.at destroy the whole coiiip;iiiy ? If one 
 soldier he a cowanl. <loes that condeiu liie wiioje army? .Xiid yet tiierc 
 
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 arc many in this .lay m, im,,l.il.,s..|,lno. m. .lIc^K.-d. >,, .l.^lu.nvst. and so 
 unfair a. to <lcno,Muc ilu- ctuc Clund. of (io.l |,cr;.P>c ihuc aic here 
 and tliiTc l)a(l men helonj^mj,' i,. ;;. 
 
 There are tho.c who ^ay that tlie Churdi of (kj,| i^ „ot up to tlie spirii 
 
 of the .lay in uhid, we live; hm I have t.. tdl yon that tuiihstandniK 
 
 all the swift wheds, an.l the llyin;; shnttles. an.l the hKhtnin^ > ,mnnini- 
 cations, the w,,rM has never yet U-eu al.le t.. keep np u iih the (lunvh. 
 As hi},'h a. Co.l is aU.ve man. so hijrl, is the Chnr. h of ( io.l -Iiij-hr; than 
 ■■ill lininan instii,ni,„is. Pr.,,,! her lamp the U-si .lu.o k-s ,.! .he wo.l.l 
 4iave heen h.ijhte.l. The l.e>t ..f .,nr invent..r, l,;ue iR-he^-d ,„ ,;,o ( hris- 
 liaii rdijiio,, ,lu. l-„lt,,„.. ,1,,. M,„.s,.s, the Whitneys, the IVrry-,, ,„ul the 
 I.ivin^Mo.u-s. She has oune.l the l.est ..f the tde .opes an.l l.i'v.len jars; 
 an.l while intl.lelity an.l atheism have ^-ne hlin. i,.|.le.l amon.^ the m..st 
 startlinjr dise.-veries that were ah.nit t<. he ,level-pe,l. the eart^li. and the 
 air, an.l the sea have ma.le .p.ick and magnilkcnt resp.>nses U. Christian 
 jiliilosopliers. 
 
 The world will no, he „p t., the Chnrch ,,f Christ nntil the day when 
 all merdiandise has hecme h..ne>t merdiandise. an.l .il! j;, \ernnien(s 
 have hecme free ^..vernments. an.l all nati..ns evanj,a-Ii.e,l naii...,s. an.l 
 the last deaf ear .,f spiritual .leath >hall he hn.ken .»|Rn l.v the million- 
 voice.l slunn ui nati..ns horn in a .lay. The ( hurch ih,.i .\\1, :d,a.iMr/Aar 
 trie,I t., hnrn in the fnrnace, an.l Darin, to tear to pieces witl, the li.ms, 
 an.l l.or.l Claverh,.nse to cnt with the swor.l. has ^a:w ,,n. wa.lnif,^ ,l,e 
 no.Kls an.l en.lnring the lire, imtil he .leepe>t harlnriMn, and the lim-e>t 
 criidties. an.l the hlackest snperstiti.,ns have k-en eompdle.l t,. I.u.k t.) tht 
 [vast, cryiiifj. •AVlu. is she that l...keth forth as the m.^ming. fair as the 
 nio.m, dear as the sun, and tcrniik- as an army with hanncrs?" G.,d. 
 who has detcrmine.l that everything >hall ho heantifnl in its season, has 
 nnt left the night with.nit ch.um. The m.x.n rules the nioht. Tlie stars 
 are .nily .set as gems in lur ti-.ra. Sometimes hef.,re the sim has gone 
 down the m.ion mounts her throne, hut it is after nightfall that she sways 
 her undi-puie.i seejner over isiaiul and n.ntment. river an.l sea. Under 
 
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 her shining the plainest maple leaves becuine shivering silver, the lakes 
 fruni shore tu shure look like shining mirrors, and the ocean nnder her 
 glance with great tides comes up panting upon the beach, mingling, as 
 it were, foam and fire. 
 
 Under the witchery of the moon the awful steeps lose their riigged- 
 ness. and the chasms their terror, '["he poor man l)les>es i'ax\ for throw- 
 ing >o cheap a light through the hruken window pane of his cabin and 
 to the sick it seems like a light from the other shore that IhiuikIs this great 
 deep of human pain and woe. If the ^un \k- like a >oiig. lull and loud and 
 poured forth from bra/en in^tnimtni> that till liea\en and earth with 
 li.irnionv. the moon i> iijaiiitive and s-ul. -taiidiiig bciu-.ilh the throne ol 
 < iod, sending ii|) her >oft. ^\\t■et \oiie of praise, while the ^tar> listen. 
 .\iid the sea! .\'o mother ever more lo\iiigly walcheil a sick cradle than 
 this pale watcher of the >ky btiids over the weary. heart->ick, slumbering 
 e.'irth, singing to it silvery nuisic, while it is rocked in tl ;;',dle of the 
 spheres. 
 
 "Who is she. fair a^ the moon?" Our answer is the Church. Lik^ 
 the moon, she is a Ixirrowed light. 
 
 She gathers up the glory of a Savior's sulTerings. a S.i\ ior's death. 
 ,'1 Savior's resurrection, a ."savior's ascen-^ioii. ;ind pours that light o!i 
 palace .'iml ditngcor:, on -i|ualid lieatlieuiMii and elaborate skeiitici-.in. on 
 w i. low's tear-> and niartvr'N lolte of liami'. on uccpiiiL; iiLinteiicc and loud 
 mouthed M •■ni. 
 
 .Slie i- the (filly iiislitution l.id.i\ tliat j^inc- any li,i;lit to our woiid. 
 Into her po,;al the poor couu' .iiid i;ct tlu' ^vmpathy of .-i oiu-e |)illo\\le s 
 ( liri^t. Thf lic«i c.ived ci 'liic an<l ^ee the N 'ttli' in u hicli (iod '•a\ e> all our 
 trar-.. and the captive^ come, and on the sharp idiiu-i> of her ahai> da^li 
 ilf their ch,iin>. ami the thirsty c. •me and jiut their cup under the "Kivk 
 of Aj^i---." which p"iii ~ f^rth Iomii it< --mitten -.ide living watiT. --iiark 
 bug w.itci . ci sstailiiie w.ilcr, lioin iiridi r llu' llu. iiir ipf ( i^d .md the 1 -;imb. 
 r.le--ed the bell that c.il!-. her wo^-^l^per^ Iwi pr.iyer. i'.le-- ed the walei 
 111 wbiili bei miinber-- are b,tpti/ed. lUe-j.-.ed the wine that glow ^ in hei 
 
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 sacramental cup. Blessed the songs on ulneli her devotions travel up 
 and tile angels of Go<l travel down. 
 
 As the moon goes thruugi, the midst of the roaring storm-clouds un- 
 flushed and unharmed, and comes out calm and beautiful on the other 
 side, so the Church of Go.I has gn„e through all the storms of tiiis worhl's 
 persecution and comes ,n,, uninjured, no worse fur th. fact that Rolxs- 
 P-erre cursed it. and \\,I,ai,c cancatured it, and T-m Paine sneered at 
 .t. an.l all .he forces of darkn... have hnml.arde.l it. Xot like some l>ale- 
 ful comet shuutmg acro.s the >ky, scattering terror and dismay among 
 Ihv natinns, h„, al>,ve the 1..,,=, howling night „f the world's wretchediies.-. 
 the Christian (.liurcli lia> ni.ide her mild way. 
 
 After a seasm, ,,1 Morni ,.- i,,g. h,.w yuu are thrille.l when the sun 
 comes .,ut at n,„„ulay! The mi^.s travel up. hill al.,ve hill, mountain 
 alH-vc m„un,ain. until Huy are .ky lo^t. The forests are full of chirp 
 a"'I Inix. and so,,.: l,.,ney nK.'.er. i„ ,he log. hird's beak ,H,un.ling tli. 
 I>;nk. the chatter of ,he >,|,„rrel on the rail, ihe call of a hauk out of 
 "lie clear sky. make yo„ ,|,ankful for the M„,>hine uliicli makes all the 
 world M, l.„._v and so glad. The s.me sun which in the morning kindled 
 conllagratio,,. .uuon.t;- the eagles o, elo„d .;,K,p. down to paim the lily 
 ulnle. and ihe Inutercup yellow, .and the 1-orget-me-not blue. 
 
 Light lor Noyat,aT ,„, tla^ deep: 1,^1,1 for .hepher.ls guarding the 
 llocksaheM: light for the po,,r ul,., Iku e no Lamps to burn : light for the 
 • lownca.t and the ue.iry; I,i;hi t'or aching eyes and bnn.ing braiti and 
 coiiMiming eaplive; ii^ht f.,- ,l,e Mn.H.th bn.w of childhood and the dim 
 vision of the o.-togvn.,r>,.n; ],.^h, f,,- ,i,e ,,ueeirs coronet and sewing- 
 girl's nee.lle. "I. el there In- ii-lil." 
 
 ll"- ( lunvh, V,.n have been ^..m^ aK.ng a road before davbreak. and 
 -'".•ncsideyonihon.^hl von-,,u .M'. ..i, and on the other .Jde vo„ thought 
 you saw .a ,L;o!>liii of the .l,„knes-.. bni u hen the sun eame out. von foimd 
 these were harmles, apparitions. And it ,s ,l,e gre.n ,nis,ion of the 
 Uiurch of Jesus (ini.t to come forth •clear as the sun," to illumine all 
 
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 earthly darUncss, to explain, as far as possililc. all invstcry, and to make 
 tlic \vt)rlcl radiant in its brightness; aiul tliat which yon thought was an 
 arouscil lion is found out to Ix; a slumljering iamb; and the scpulclirp.! 
 gates of your dead turn out to be the opening gates of heaven; and that 
 which you supposed was a llaining sword to keep you out of paradise is 
 an angel of light to beckon yon in. 
 
 Tlie lamps on her altars will cast their glow on your darkest pathway, 
 and cheer yon initil, far I>eyond the need of lantern or lighthouse, yon arc 
 safely .-inchorcd within the \eil. () sun of the Church! shine on mitil 
 there is no sorrow to s<H>the. no tcar> to wipe aw,'iv, no sh.ickUs to lireak, 
 no nii>re souls to Ijc reilcenied. Ten ihous.and hands uf sin ha\e attemi)tcil 
 to extinguish the lamps on her altars, biU tlicy are (|nenchless; and to 
 silence her pulj)its, InU the thunder wouK! leap, and llie lightning woulil 
 Ikimc. 
 
 The Cliurch of (lod will yet come to full meridian, and in that day 
 all the mountains of the world will be sacred mountains touched with tl.e 
 glory of Calvary, and all streams will llow by tlic mount of God like cod 
 Siloam, and all lakes be retlolent with Go>pcl memories like Geuncsaret. 
 and all iskmds uf the sea 1)e crowned with api ;;i^ ptic \ ision like ratmos, 
 and all cities Ik; sacred as Jerusalem, and all g.irdcus luxuriant as Para- 
 dise, with GimI walking in the cnol nf the da\. Then the chorals of grace 
 will drihwn out all the anthems of earth. Then the thnme of Christ will 
 overtii]) all earthly autlmrity 'I'licn the cvcjwii of Je^us will outllante all 
 otlier CMrnuels. Sin destroyed. HeatK dead. Hell defeated. 'P.ic 
 Church triumphant. .\ll the darkni'sscs of sin, ;d! the darknesses of 
 trouble, all the d;u-knesses of earthly mystery, hieing themsehes to tbei'" 
 dcn>. "Clear as the sun: clear .as the sun." 
 
 You knnw there i^ mithiug that excites a soldier's enthusiasm so much 
 ns an old ll.ig. Many a in;m almost dead, c;itching a glimiise uf the na- 
 tional e!l^ign, ha< ■-prting t" hi^ feet, and started again into the battle. 
 Xow, my friends, I d^n't w.inl yen to think of the Church of Jesus Ch^i^t 
 as a defeated iu-iittiiinn, as the victim of inl'idel sarcasm, something to 
 
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 Tile |i)!li >iiilm\ ~i<ni- 1" li.m bi'i ii |i.irtu-iilarl> •■I'lpnti- in i!- >.'riMt 
 
 nuiiii" 1 "I p'.i'i'i; ni-.'ii.ir- Tin- .iIhim- |,,ur' ■; JMii'liih! • 
 
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 I.C kicked, an.I cuffed, and traniple.l on tlirough all the ages of tlie world. 
 It IS "an army with hanners." It has an inscription and colors such as 
 never stirre.l t!,e hearts of an eartlily soldiery. We have our banner of 
 recruit, and on it is inscrihc.l. -Who is on the Lord's side?" Om banner 
 of dellance. and on it is inscril^e-l, -The ^ates nf hell shall not prevail 
 against us." fXir banner -.f triumph, and ,,n it is inscril)ed. -Victory 
 through nur Lord Jesus Chri>t !" and we mean to plant that banner .,n 
 every hilltop. ;ind wave it at the gate of heaven. 
 
 . With Chri-t to lead us. we need n..t fear. I will not underrate the 
 enemy. The\- are a tremendous host. They come on with acutest strat- 
 egy. Thtir v. capons I)y all the inha!)itants of darkness have been forged 
 in furntcfs of everlasting fire. We conten.l not with tlesh and bloo.l. but 
 with principalities, and powers, and spiritual wickedness in high places; 
 but. if fiod he tor u>^. who can be against us? Come on. ye troops of the 
 Lord ! Fall into line! Clo.se up the ranks! (3n. through burning sands 
 and over frozen mountain-tops, until the whole earth surrenders to God. 
 He made it; He redeemed it; He shall have it. Tbey shall not be 
 tnimpled with hoofs, they sh.ill not be cut with sabers, they sliall not l)e 
 cru>he<l with wheels, they shall not be cloven with battle-axes, but the 
 marching, and the on-,et. and the victory, will 1* none the less decisive 
 for that. 
 
 With Christ to lead us. and heaven to kw-k down upon us, and angels 
 to guard us. and martyr spirits to bend from their thrones, an.I the voice 
 of (;<,(] to l)id us f.irward into the combat, our tiiemies shall tly like chaff 
 in the v.hirlwin.I. an.I .ill the towers of heaven ring because the day is 
 oins. 
 
 SHAMS IN RELIGION. 
 
 The worl.l wants a rcligi..n that will work into all tlie circumstances 
 of life. We do not want a new religion, but t!.c uh\ religion applied in all 
 p'issible directions. 
 
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 Yonder is a river witli steep and rocky banks, and it roars like a young 
 Niagara as it rolls on over its rougli bed. It does nothing but talk about 
 itself all the way from its source in the mountain to the place where it 
 empties into the sea. The hanks arc so steep the cattle cannot come down 
 to drink. It does not run one fertilizing rill into the adjoining field. It 
 lias not one grist mill or factory on either side. It sulks in wet weather, 
 with chilling fogs. Xo one cares when that river is lx)rn among the 
 rocks, and no (ine cares when it dies into the sea. But yonder is another 
 river, and it mosses its l)anks with the warm tides, and it rocks with floral 
 hillahy the water lilies asleep on its bosom. It invites herds of cattle and 
 flocks of sheep and coveys <if birds to come there and drink. It has three 
 grist mills on one side and six cotton factories on the other. It is the 
 wealth of two hundred miles of luxuriant farms. Tlie birds of heaven 
 chanted when it was Imrn in the mountains, and the ocean shipping will 
 press in from the sea to hail it as it comes down to the Atlantic coast. 
 The one river is a man who lives for himself. The other river is a man 
 who lives for others. I think you will agree with me in the statement 
 that the great want of this world is more practical religion. We want 
 practical religion to go into all merchandise. It will supervise the lalwling 
 of goods. It will not allow a man to say that a thing was made in one 
 factory when it was made in another. It will not allow the merchant to 
 say that watch was manufactured in Geneva, Switzerland, when it was 
 manufactured in Massachusetts. It will not allow the merchant to say 
 that wine came fn>m .Madeira when it came from California. Practical 
 religion will walk along by the store shelves, and tear off all the tags that 
 make misrepresentation. It will not allow the merchant to say that is 
 [)ure civfTee, when <landelion root .-ind chicory and other ingredients go 
 into it. It will not allow liim to n.iv that is pure sugar, when there are in 
 it sand and ground glass. 
 
 When pr.ictical religion gets its full swing in the world it will go 
 down the street, ami it will come to that shoe store and rip off the ficti- 
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 board sa„,,..icl,e.l I.twecn .he s.n.n.I Ica,l,cr. And this practical religio,, 
 -lU^o r.ght nun a grocery store, an.l it w.ll pull out the plug of all the 
 adulterated syrups, and it will dun,p into the ash-barrel, in front of the 
 store the cassia hark that is s„,d f,„ ,,•„„,„,„ ,,„,, ^,,^ ,,^i^.^^,^_^^ ^^^^^ .^ 
 sol. for cayenne pepper; and u will ^hake . ,ut the IVussia hlue from the 
 tea leaves, and it w,l, s,f, -,.„„, the n„ur plaster of Pari, and honedu.t 
 an. soapstone. and it will. ,,y chenncal analysis, separate the one ,uart 
 ot Rulgewood .ater fron, the few honest drop, of cow's nulk. an.l U . M 
 tlirrnv out tlie live anin.alcuk-s fn„n the brown sugar 
 
 Tbcre has been so 
 
 much adulteration of articles of food that it is an 
 
 ama.e,nent to n,e that there is a healthy ,uan or w,>n,an in An.erica 
 Heaven only knows what they put into the spices an.l int.. the su^ar^ 
 a- .mo the butter, an.l into the apo.he.vuy .Irug. R„t chemical analvsis 
 and the nucroscope have n.a.ie won.lerfnl revelations. The Hoanl „f 
 Health m ^ra.sachusetts analyze.! a great an,ount of what was calle.l 
 I>>.re colTee. an.l f.nn„l in u not „„e partule of coff... ,„ K„„,,„, „„,, 
 ■^ ^' '''' "^:'. "-'-'^ "- l-".ng of alum in bread. The pubhc'authcrities 
 .■xannued (nty-oue packages ,,f bn,d. an.l f,.und then, all gnil.v The 
 — s, phys.cian, writu.g a prescrip,i„n, does no, kn.,u but tlKU it „.ay 
 
 >n..g .leath utstead of heahh ,0 his patieu, becan. ,h.e mav be one ..^ 
 I.e drugs weakene.1 in- a cheaper article, a. 1 another .Irt.g nun- be in full 
 orce an.l so the prescription n,ay have just the opposite efTecl inten.Ie.I 
 0.1 of wormwoo.1 warrante.l pure front lioston was fo,„,d to have fortv- 
 ••■H' per cent of resin an.I alcohol and chlorof„rm. .Scanm,..nv is one .'.f 
 .he .nost valuable tne.hcal .hug. I, is very rare, verv precion; ft is the 
 sap .,r the gu.n of a tree .„■ a bush in Syr.a. The root of ,he tree is ex- 
 I'osed: an n,c,sion is u.ade into the ro,„, ,„., u.en shells are place.! at this 
 .-.s.on t., catch t!,e sap or the gnu,, as „ exu.le. It is verv precious 
 ;lns scunntony. ih,t the peasant ,n,xes i, . nh a cheaper tnaterial ; the,; 
 n .s taken t.> Aleppo, an.l the n,e,chan, ,he,e n.ixes it with a citeaper 
 matenal. then it cotnes on to the uholesale .Irugg.st in I.,ndon ..r Xew 
 \ .^rk. an.! he nn.ves it with .-. cheaper material ; then it com.s r,> ,l,e .e-,i! 
 
!«il 
 
 ;i5(> 
 
 SEh'MUXS AND l.KCTl'UKS 
 
 »i^! 
 
 I 
 
 lih 
 
 JN 
 
 '|f«' .if 
 
 ■|j.i: 
 
 if 
 
 druggist, and lie mixes it witli a clicapcr iiiaterial, and hy tlic time tlie 
 jioor sick man gets it into his bottle, it is aslie> and chalk and -and. and 
 sfjinc of what ha> been tailed pure scamniony alter analysis, has been 
 I'onnd to be no scamniony at all. 
 
 Now. practical religion will yet rectify all this. It will go to those 
 hypocritical professors of religion who got a ""corner" in corn and wheat 
 in I hicago an<l Xew York, sending price- np and np until they were be- 
 yond the reach of the \»n<r. keeiiing these breadstuffs in their own luinds, 
 or contnilling them until the price> going uj) and np and up, they were, 
 .-liter a while, re.idy t^ sell, and they -old out. m.iking themselves niillion- 
 ;iires in one or two \ear> — trying to ll\ the matter uj) with the Lord by 
 laiilding a church, or a university, or a hospital — deluding themselves 
 with the idea tli.u the Lord would be so pleased with the gift He would 
 forget the swindle. .\(.w. as -uch a man may not have ;my liturgy in 
 which to s.iy lii> [jr.iyers. I will comjjose for him one which he pr.actically 
 is making: ""() Lord, we, hy getting a 'corner' in hreadstuffs. swindled 
 the people of the L'nited .States out of ten million dollars, and made 
 suffering all up and d<iwn the land, and we wnuld like to e-uupromise the 
 m.iiter with Thee. Thou know est it was a scaly job. but then it was 
 smart. Xow, here we comjjromise it. Take one per cent of the jirofits. 
 and with that one per cent you can build an asylum for these poor niiser- 
 .ible ragauuiflins of the street. ;iud I will t.ike a yacht an<l go to luudpe, 
 fi irever ;md e\ er. Amen !" 
 
 Ah! my friend-., if a ui.in li.itli gotten his otate wrongfully ;uid lie 
 build a line ni hospitals and universitie- from here to .\' .>k;i, he cannot 
 .'itone for it. .\fter .i while, this m;m who li;i- been getting a "corner" 
 in wheat, die-, and then Sat.iu get- a "corner" in him. He goes into a 
 ;;reat. l(iUg I'.lack iMid.ty. There i- a -lire.ik" in ihe market. .According 
 to \\'all .Street parlance, lie wiped -.thers (,m. and now he is himself 
 wii)ed out. \'(. c .ll.iteral- . .n whiih i<> make ,i -piritual Inaii. l-'.iernal 
 defalcat'iiU. 
 
 I'ut this practical religion will not miK lectify .all merch.audjs.e ; i! will 
 
 '!k 
 
 , Z'^^'*Mf'3Mi::iimri.-: -"ssslW. ' i. ' jBs:;",t 
 
 ,;-*-rt«irC»;' >;i?-;-f: ■!»,*:«* 
 
SKI.'MOXS AND hKCTn.'KS 
 
 lol 
 
 al>M ratify .-.11 MicdKiiiiMu. ;in,l all t.-il. A time will come u hen a man 
 will w.-rk a. faithfully l.y the j,,I, as he .Ines I.y the -lay. ^^,u say when 
 a lliin^' is sli^'htiiiKly ,l.,ne: ••(>!,. ,),,,, ..as done l.y the j..l>." Vnn can 
 tell I,y the swiftness .,r slowness with which a hacknian .hives whetlicr 
 lie is hired l.y the liour or l.y the excursion. If he is hired l.y the hour 
 he drives very slowly, so as to make as many honrs as i).>ssil.]e. If he 
 is hired l.y the excursion, he whips up the hordes so as to j^et an.un.l and 
 set another cust,,nKT. .Ml .tyles of work have to l.e inspected. Ships 
 in.spected. horses inspccte.l. machinery inspected. Itoss to watch the jour- 
 neyman. Oipitali>t conun- down miexpecte.lly to watch the Ik.ss. (on- 
 <ltH-tor r.f a city car sounding the punch U^Il to prove his hone.f, as a 
 passenger han.is to him a dippd nickel. .\11 thin^^s nutst Ik- watcl.e.l 
 and inspected. Imperfections in tlie wo.mI covered with puttv. (lar- 
 .ncnts warrante.1 to last until y,.u put then, on the third time. " Sluuldy 
 ill all kinds of clothinj,^ Chronios. I'inchlRTk. I)iamon,Is f,.r a .L.llar 
 an.I a half. Fio.,kl,indinj,r that holds on muil you read the thin! chapter. 
 Si.avined horses, hy skillful .lose of jockeys, for .several ,l:,ys tnade to 
 lonk .spry. Waijon tiro poorly p,n o„. Il-.rses p,H,rly sho.I. " Plasterinff 
 that cracks without any provocation. an.I falls off. I']unil.in<,r that need.s 
 to he pluml.e.1. Imperfect car wheel th.it iialts the wlu.le train with a 
 lu.t 1X..X. S*. little practical religion in the mechanism of the world. I tell 
 y.u. my frien.ls. the law ..f man will never rectify these thin!,'s. It will 
 I.C the all-pervadin- intlnencc ..f the i.ractical religion of Jesus Chri.st 
 that will make the change for the Letter. 
 
 Ves. this practical re!igi..n will ;iKo ^o into agriculture, which is 
 pn.verhially h-.nesi; hut needs t,. he rectihed. and it will keq. the farmer 
 fr*»m sending t-. the Xew York market cal that is t.n, young to kill, an.I 
 when the farmer fanu> .,n shares ,t will keep the man who ,l,,cs the 
 w..rk fn.ni making hi. h,df ilncc-fourths. an.I it will keep the farmer 
 from l.uil.Iing his p.,-t .nid r.iil icn.e o„ his neighN.r-s premises, aii.l 
 it will make him shelter his ...iile iu the winter storm, an.I it will keep 
 llie .M.I ei.ler from workuig ,,n Sun.kiy al'teni..on in the new gr.,u;i.I 
 
 'l^BS^if: 
 
 "^fmrssL^i^i / 
 
■:f^ 
 
 I 
 
 n 
 
 
 To: 
 
 SEHMUxNS AND LErmil'.S 
 
 where nolxxly sees liiiii. And iliis " .utical rcligiuii will hover over 
 the liDibc, ;in<l over the barn, ami over the heltl, and over tlie orchard. 
 N'e>. tlii> practiial reHj;iun of xsiiicii I s|)eak. will tome into tlic 
 learned i>rofesMoii>. Tlie lauvir will Uel lli'^ rcspon>.il)ility in dcfendiii^j 
 innocence and arrai^Miinj,' evil. ;ind e\|Hinndiii),' the law. .u»i it will keep 
 li:ni from charf;in^ for hrief^ he ne\er wrote, and for picas lie never n adc, 
 and for |)erccnta>,'es he never e;;rned, and from rohhinjj; widow and 
 or])haii, i>ei.insc they are defencciess. Vi-<. this practical religion will 
 conic into the physician's life, and he will feel his rcs|)<insihility as the 
 conservator of the piiMic health, a profession honored by the faci that 
 (.lirist Himself was a i>hysician. .\nd it will make him hones*, and 
 when he does not nndcrstand a case, he will say so, not tryin;,' to cover 
 np lack of diaj^nosis with ponderons technicalities, or send Mic patient 
 to a reckless drngstorc. hec.inse the apothecary happen^ to pay a |)er- 
 centaj;e on the prescriptions sent. And this practic.il rclij^ion will comc 
 to the school-te.icher. makint; her feel her re^iMmsihility in preparinj; 
 onr youth for usefulness, and for happiness, and lor honor, and will keep 
 lier from jjivinp a sly l)o\ to a dull head, chastisinj,' him for what he can 
 iii't he!]), and sendms discouraj,a'mcnt all through the after vears of a 
 lifetime, 'i'liis ])ractical religion will also come to the ncwsp,i|)er men, 
 and il will hclji them in the gathering of the news, and it will hel|) them 
 in setting forth the hest interests of .-ociely, and it will keep them from 
 liutting the sins of the world in larger type than its virtues, and its mis- 
 takes than its acliu vcments, and it will keej) them from misrepresenting 
 interviews with jjulilic men, and from >!.irting suspicions that never can 
 be allayed, and will iii.ike them stanch friends of the opi)res.sed iustead of 
 the opprcs-or. 
 
 Yes, this reli-ion, thj- practical religion, will come and put its hand 
 
 on what is called good s, .ciety, c!e\.ited society, .successful .society, so 
 
 that i>eopIe will lia\e ilicir e\|icn(litures within their income, and thev 
 
 will exchange the hypocritical "not at home" for the luHiest e.\pIan;ition 
 
 loo tiiiKl, oi "loo im>\ I., see }"n, and will keep innocent reception 
 
SEKMUX.S AND JJH TIU'KS 303 
 
 fmn, beccning i„,.xicate.l c.u . ,.,.,,. ,„, , ,,.,1 „ f.a„K ,„a„„ers 
 and Chnsfa,, scnt.mcnt drive ,-„, ,!,,„ crc.mnc un!. .I,ar,,-t.>..cl sl.oc 
 
 ami t,g,a,, bandaged ,nn.,. an.. C1...WS .ira..M... .n. .,i,i .all !" 
 •nflnuesunal cane, and .ckening swagger. I,,,,,, i„ Anu.-ca, I,u, a ',K.,r 
 copy of a f.,.p,„. ,.:„g,i„,„„,„, ,„ „.,, ^„„„^.^^ „. __^, _,^,^__ 
 
 monly called the "Dude." ' 
 
 cail2i't;j'"" '' r ,'7'' "'"'''""'• '"■ ""^^"""'^' ^^'"^ - -''^'t are 
 
 a edtHesnccessful classes ..fs„deu. I. ,s n„ nue ,l,in, ..see 
 
 a faslnonable wu.nan intoxicated in the „cet. ,„• U,e ...il car .,r the 
 restaurant. n,e nun.her „f Hue ladies wh„ dr,„k „,., „„.,, i-, i.."....... 
 
 I crhaps y..u may f.nd her at the recep.u.n in n„., exalted o,n,,Mnv hut 
 S.C has „,ade ,.., n.any v.sits „. the wu.e ru„n,. and n„u- her ^vc >s 
 glassy. a,.i after a ulnle her cheek is ,nn,a,urally Hushed, and .hen she 
 fair, mtu fits „f excruciatn,g lan^h.er ah-ut nn.h.njr. and then she offer. 
 -ckcn,ng flatter... telling .„„. ;,„„„,, „„„ ,,„,, ^^^„ ,,^ ^, 
 
 I.en she ,s hel,,. 1 i„t., .hc c,-.rr,a,e. and by ,he tin.e the carriage gets „, 
 her lK>nte, ,t takes the husband and the c„achn,:.n t„ get her u, ,hc Ma.rs 
 TJ.e report .s. She was taken suddenly ill a, a ,„-,Han. .Xh! ,„, She 
 took too ,u, ch ebamiMgne, and nn.xed !„,.>..,>, ar.l «,„ dr„„k n.at 
 was all. 
 
 Yea. this practical religion udl have to cn,„e i„ ,,u\ ,is up the ,nar- 
 nage relation in .America. There are n,cn,l,crs ,„• .inuchcs wh., have 
 UK. ,„any w.ves and t,H. many iu,.band. Sects need, to be expur- 
 gated, and uashed. and fumigated, and ( lnis;,,-,„i.,d. We bue nrs 
 stonary societies to reform the b'ive IN.in, in .Xeu Y^.k. and Hcdford 
 Street. I bila.lelphia. an,! Shoreditch. I.,ndo„, ..,„d ,!,, ,:,,.,kk„ .,,,.^,. 
 l.nt there .s need of an organizat.on to refor,,, „„,,!, ,I,at is',.oin.^ on 
 .n Beacon S. ct. and .\b..li.son Square, and Ki.tenhnu.c Square ^nd 
 \Vest Lnd. and ih..klyn Heights, and Brooklyn Hill. The trouble is 
 Uiat peopK i,ave an idea they can do all their religiou o„ Sunday with 
 
 nvmn-book, .-i!id nrnvcr-is,<i^k' -•••' '•• ■ - ■ 
 
 rolbng up thetr e). as though they were ready for translation, when 
 

 354 
 
 SKIJMDNS AND LKCTl IJES 
 
 111 
 
 ^^.ij 
 
 ^>'/- 
 
 tlicir Sal)l).iili u 1h)iiiiiU(I mi ali m(1i.> by an iiici'ii>i>lcm life, and vslnlc 
 yini arc expecting to icune tmt fmni uiider tlicir arms tlie wingi of an 
 angel, there conic out from tlicir forehead the horns of a hcast. 
 
 There ha-, got to he a new departure in religion. 1 do not say a new 
 religion. Oh. no; l>ut the old religion hrought to new appliances. In 
 iiur time we have had the dagncrrcotypc, aud the amhrotype, and the 
 photograph ; Init it is the same old sun, ami tlic>e art-- arc only new appli- 
 ances of the old sunlight. So thi- glorious (iospel is just what we want 
 to photograph the image of Clod on one soul, and daguerreotype it mi 
 another soul. Xot ;i new ('n^^pel, hut the old (iospel put t<> new \\<irk. 
 In our time we nave had the telegraphic invention, and the tcleiihonic 
 invention, and the electric light invention; hut they are all the children 
 iif old electricity, an element that the philosnjihers have a Imig while 
 known much ahout. So this electric (lopel needs to flash its light on 
 the c\es. and eats, :md souls of men, and hcconie a telephonic medium 
 to ni;ike the deaf hear; a telegraphic medium to dart in\ilalion and warn- 
 ing to all nation^; an electric light to illumine the I'astern and Western 
 iiemis|)heres. .\ot a new (Iospel, hut the old (iosiwl doing a new work. 
 
 Now you -ay. "That is ;i very beautiful theory, but i-- it [lossible to 
 take one's religion into all the avoc.-itimis and bu>iness of life?" \'es, and 
 I will give yon some specimens. !\lcilical iloctors who took their religion 
 into everyday life: i )r. John .\hercrombie, of .\berdecn. the gre.itcst 
 Scottish physician of his day. his Ixiok on "Diseases of the I'rain ;md 
 Spinal Cord." no more wonderful than his Kiok mi "Tlie Philosophy of 
 the ^^)^,lI IVeliiigs," and often kneeling at the bedside of his p.itients to 
 commend them to (iod iu prayer. Dr. jolni Ihown. of i'.diiiburgh. im- 
 mort.'d ;i> an ;iutlMr. dving recently under the benediction of the •^ick of 
 I-.dinburgli : niysflf renicuibcring him .•l^ he sat in hi-- study in I'.dinbnrgh 
 t.ilking to me ,iIhhii ('hri--t. .lud his \\,<\n; of hc.isen. And a score of 
 ( hristiaii I'aniiiy ])li\ ■^i^■i.•^l- in Ihooklyn ju'-t .'i^ go.K] ;i-, they were. 
 
 I,n\\_\er-> who ciriieil llieir religi"U into their profc'---ion ; I.oid 
 
 ir~ liu' h!"lir-,t l?-"al anthoiitv 
 
 ( ;ti,M^ the ('Hern s jjdvisrr for m.'iM.v 
 
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rr. 'y,f»A'Vf^|!7s;;.^..^^^-;..j 
 
 sKi:\r<)Ns AM) Li;( Ti I n;s 
 
 ill ( irc.it l;iii;iiii— l.,,r,| t 
 
 IS ail c\ 
 
 .■inj^'cti\| 
 
 :uiiis, tvciy Miiiiiiur in Ins vacal 
 
 ■ imiin;,' tlio [Hior of hi- 
 
 'I tlic Supreme t ..urt .,t iIr. L'liiicI S 
 
 nalmii prcavlinijj 
 i'litiy. J.ilin Mct.can. Jn.l^e 
 
 I'.iii Snii.lay ScIkm.I I" 
 
 talcs, and rrc^idciit of ilic At 
 
 ncri- 
 
 lliaii in the former. Ai,.| 
 
 iiion. tcciinp more satiNfaet 
 
 ion in the latter 
 
 ^ei ires i 
 
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 t Ininli of (;,,(! as il 
 
 iristiaii lawyers as eminent in tl 
 
 ic 
 
 Mereliants who took their re 
 
 it'V are eminent at tlie har 
 
 • Icridcil in hi- 
 
 I' 
 
 come to lind ont tl 
 entii 
 
 lav U 
 
 i;;ion into evervday hfe: Artlnir T 
 
 >cean>e he cstahhslid that system hv 
 
 UlllCM wc 
 
 10 Commercial ^tandinj,' of I 
 
 cliai 
 
 c systtm. derided for it il 
 ■icter A I., \r, 
 
 insmess men, sl.n linfj fh; 
 
 len. Iiim>elf, as I k 
 
 new him well, in moral 
 
 storehouse tl 
 
 le i 
 
 lerk- 
 
 .rldl 
 
 i> inornm^'s inviting: to a ro,,m in the top „f l,is 
 csiahlishment. a .mg them alx.nt their 
 
 o| 
 
 lead; 
 
 y interests and their spiriinal interest 
 
 "K III n prayer, kww' them ,1 f 
 
 s, tiicM f,'i\inj.;^ ,Mit a hv 
 
 inn. 
 
 uliai chnrch they attendee! ,,n the .S.al.hat 
 tliey hail .iny speci.d t 
 licard his enli 
 
 ew words of jjoo,! advice, asking tl 
 
 icin 
 
 ronh!e 
 
 II. v\li.ir the te.xt was, \\!)etlicr 
 
 ■ I their 
 
 o\\ n. 
 
 .\rtl 
 
 inr 
 
 r 
 
 appall 
 
 I 
 
 never 
 
 proiionnii 
 
 cli.nits jnst 
 
 Will 
 
 pron..uiiee it now. .\nd other mcr- 
 
 lam 
 
 I). 
 
 'irinncll. 
 
 ,'0, m the iron hii 
 
 siness. 
 
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 111 tlie shippinjr Inisiiiess, JVter t 
 
 II. 
 
 scores of men just ;is jr,„„| ;,^ , 
 
 "per, in the glue husines 
 
 I- 
 
 lev were. 
 
 ■mers who t.ikc il 
 
 niimitc their h 
 
 icu- religion i,,i,, d 
 
 lories and w: 
 
 M'.'ition: \\ hv. tin" 
 
 .\me 
 
 st.ind 
 
 rica. 
 
 '1 
 
 lev I 
 
 ;iiound all the meetingdioiises 
 
 in 
 
 K'.t^.-m tin- 
 
 get home at 
 
 t" (Io<l at the i.il 
 
 d.iy hy a praver to (i 
 
 ii"oi). alter tliey ]\u\v ptn their h, 
 
 ;md when 
 
 lie. si-i 
 
 kin 
 
 ses lip, will olTei a 
 
 they 
 lir.iycr 
 
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 icir fields not ,,ne di^l 
 
 .t; a lile-m-. .nid this >nmmer thcr 
 
 e will he 
 
 m 
 
 loiK'st he; 
 
 II' 't one dis: 
 
 'I i\e, iMt (iiie d 
 
 loiiest ;ipp 
 
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 isiionest car of cori 
 
 I irsiiiniii 
 
 i'.erkshire llill- 
 
 ont ,-unid t! 
 
 the l\,iril,in 
 
 to-d 
 
 or 
 
 ••iw.-iv d'.un ;niiid the I 
 
 ly ;iw;iy up .-miong the 
 
 luoons o 
 
 f ]■! 
 
 loriil.i. 
 
 e iiiiiie- 
 
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 or aJMn- the I 
 
 ).lllk. ot tin 
 
 '1' ;iw;i\- 
 '.issaie .-iiid 
 
 Merl 
 
 i;iiiiis wh,, (, 
 
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 I'M' leliLjioii in; 
 
 I llieir 
 
 icy, liie iaiiii 
 
 Ills niillw light. .\,itliniiicl 
 
 "cnip;i|iMih 
 
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 :i56 
 
 SKI{M(»NS AM) LKCTLlfKS 
 
 cliatuiler, Mliliii H>,.ritt. ilic faniMii- lihuk-iiulli. ami Imiulifils and tluui- 
 saiulb of sIiiMij; ariii> uliuli 1m\c ma. a tlic iiainiiKi ami ilic >aw ami tlic 
 ail/.e ati.l tlii; diill and ilic a\i- ->>i\V'\ in tin. i;iaiid niai«li i>l our national 
 indnstrit'-. 
 
 C;i\i- V'Mir heart to (l.'d and ihiii li'.l ynur litV with t;'"ul uork-^. Con- 
 secrate to Him \inir >t'.ic. }"in- -ii^'ii. y. 'nr lia/.kinu;- hnu-c, your factory, 
 and your liomc. Hn-. as im . m- w ill licar it. (iud will hear it. 'lliat 
 is enonj;h. \iA\ hardly Uii'^w of an_\ I'ne cl-e than Wellington, as con- 
 nected with the \uliiry .it W ,ttei I. ■.> ; hm he ilid n. it do the hard lii^htinK- 
 TIk hard ti-hlni'.; \\«i^ d. lu' liy llii- ."^c imer-~ct ca\.dry an<l the Ryland 
 re;,dnient.-, .iml Keniiii'- ini.inliy. .ami the ScUli (irays, and the Life 
 (iiiards. Who cares. :l',.ii'\ the day wa^ W'Ui.-' 
 
 In the lailer ]i.iil • i' liu' l.i-; cc'iliiry. a i;irl in lai^land hecainc .'i 
 kitchen maid m ,i i ii iiihi 'ii-r. .^he had ni.iiiy -;_\Ii- i>\ work and much 
 hard u.'rk. dnne I'-Wi] .•n. and •la- nianiid l!ic -n of .a weaver of Hali- 
 fax. Thev ueri' iiidr.^ti !■ ■!!-. !1h\ -,i\ed in ney en^aiL;]! after a while to 
 linild iheni a h'liie ( In ihc in. anm;; "i liie '\.i\ when they were to enter 
 that hi'ine. llie yMiiin; wife ar.-o at f"tn- '•'. '..>k. ..niered the fmnt iliK)r- 
 vard. knelt duuii, i > i!i-ecra!ed tin- jiLice t. • d'^i. and there made this sol- 
 emn \n\\ ; ■•( ) l.i.-.cl. if '{']]■.]] wilt Me-- me in tl!i^ pl.ice, the jioor shall 
 ha\e a share of ii," Time L.Iled <'i\ and a nntine O'IKd in. Children 
 j;re\\ np ao'iin.l t!uin, and i!a> all h.c.inie a.liIiKiit. ( liie. a .Meinher of 
 rarliameni. m a piil'u ]■'.•.>(■ dnlaied lii.it !::■ -la-.a-s , ame from that 
 j)ra\eri.f hi- m-ilur in tl:e d' ■• .: _\ aid. \\] <i iIimh w ere anhieiil — four 
 thonsand li.md- i;i then fac!-ru-. 'I'lu) hi::!! dwi'liii- li.ai-es f..r lalior- 
 trs at cheai> reiil-. aid ul.eie t! ay wen i u.aid. ,;nd e^ iiild n^t pay. they 
 had the li '- • i-r n.^thm-. ( )ne .if tia > ••■!!- ...iiie I- tins c.^nntry. 
 adnnred .in ii.nk-. wen; h;uk. ]• r.-l.' i,.i:d . [> ad ,i -le.a imMic park, 
 and made it .i pie-i iiI I" ihi' i:ity . f iiahf.rs, in;;', aid. '!1uy endowed 
 an .aph.iii.ir.e. lla >. iiid-wc! t >.\ . ■ .ilaid;. ■n-i-. \'.l |-'iiu;!.ind h.is heard 
 (,{ ihc -itii 0'-il\ and l!a l;. ■ 'i \'" ' " "f ii^i * if--Ie_\-. .Nh^i.d: l.'ollse- 
 crate to (l..d m-'w -ni.i ! iin*i:,. and \.'iii hnmii'e -^a o .iin.lin,!;-, an<l you 
 

 
 SKH.MOXS AXl) LECTITUES 357 
 
 will Iiave larger means aiul Kran.lcr siirroun.lings. -Godliness is profit- 
 able untn all things, having pnMnisc of the life that now is, and of that 
 uhuh i> lu o-M,e." -i lave faith in God by all means, but remember that 
 laith uitlnMU uiiik, j, ,lea.i." 
 
 THE BEAUTY OF RELIGION. 
 
 'Hif rry.tal is ihc star ,.t ih,. n.unntain; it is tlic queen uf the cave; 
 •A IS tlie ear ,|„,p ,,f ,ho h.lK; it il„.ls its heaven in the diamond. Amonp 
 ■•'II iIk' pai^es ,,1 natural lustnry tlicie i> no page more interesting to me 
 than the pa^e • rystalIograi)lue. 
 
 _ Ivcl.g.'.i ,. Mipennr t,, t!,e crystal u. exactness. That shapeless mass 
 <'l n\st..l .,j..„„M uhuh >.„, aa-i.lentally dashe.l your foot is laid out 
 uilh in >vv rxactness than an> earthly uty. There are >i.x stvles of crys- 
 l.tlli/ai,,..,. and all ..f then, duu.ely nrdatned. IlNery crystal has mathc- 
 oiaiual precis,,,,, (.,„|-, .c..n,ct,y teaches thn-ugh it. an.I it is a .s.jnare 
 or it i. a ,ecian,i;le ,.r ,t ,. .a rh,,inl,o,d ,,r ni s,.,ne nay it hath a mathc- 
 n,alic,il ligure. 
 
 Xuw ie!:,^i,,„ he.ats th.ii ,n the simple fact that spiritual accuracy is 
 <ii-tc lKa„;i|-,i! than niater,,,! accuracy. Ci.^rs attributes are exact. God's 
 !;iu ex.ici. v„.,lV ,|cciee. exact. i„.,\\ management ,,f the u,,rl,l exact. 
 .\c^cr c,,;,„i,„g u,,,„g. i|„,ugl, He „,:„> ,he g.-ass-bla.les and the stars 
 ..nd the san.N a,.,l the cycle>. 11„ pr,,v„Iences never dealing with us 
 l>npc,„hc„laiiy uhn, tl„..e pi. ,vi,le„ces ought to Ix- obli.pie, nor lateral 
 uhc, they ,,,,^1,1 I., l,c Nenu-al. Mvcvthmg in nur life arranged without 
 an> ]. sM!„!i,y , ,f „„.,ake 1 ..ch hie a s,x side.l prism. i{,,rn at the 
 .i.L^ht ,n„e; d.Mug ..i ,he ,,gl„ tune. Tlice are no •■happcn-sc/s" in our 
 
 Il I ih-ught this uas a slipsh,„l universe I would go crazv. (lod 
 I- >|..l an an..uh,s,. I.,u, ,„.lcr, -y„,n,el,y, p,ec,-i,,n. a perfect' s-inare. 
 a peiic. 1 rcct;nii;'r. ,, pcric. 1 ,l„„nU,i,i, a perfect circle. The edge of 
 '"■!■ i-l'c .1 -,,'.c,nincm „cv., 1,.,^ ,„„. The,,. ,„e ,„, I.k.sc i-crcws 
 
" iPfr 
 
 :;r»s 
 
 SKI.'MdNS AND l.KlTl'I.'KS 
 
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 in the wi-rld's m;ninncry. It <li(l nut jiisl li.ippcii l!i;it X.iiK.lonn was 
 attaclsc(! witli in.Ii,i4i"-ti..ii at I'mpmImh. >, . that 'u- iKvamc ino.mpoHiit 
 f.ir t!ic (lay. It ilid imi just liapiRMi tliat Jolm Thomas. t!ic niissinuary, 
 (111 a iK-atlicii island, waiting; for an "iitt'it and urdcrs lor auotlicf ihi-skmi- 
 aiy tour, received that ontfit and tluwe orders in a Imn that floated 
 asliorc. while the ship and crew that carried the hox were never h.eard of. 
 The liarkiiif; ot' F. W. Roheitsnn's do<,r, he tells us, led to a line of events 
 which hroufjht him from the army into the (.'hrisli.in minisiiy, where he 
 served ( lod with world-renowned usefulness. It did not merely h.-qiiien 
 so. I helieve in ;i particnl.'ir providence. 1 lK-lie\e (i'MTs j;eometry may 
 he seen in all our lit'e more heautifully than in crystalloi;r.iphy. J^h was 
 rii^ht. "The crystal can uoi e|i(,il it." 
 
 Inst after mv ;irriv.al in I'lnladelphia to take a pas|i.r;in' I wa^ called 
 to a h 'Use of j,'reat s.ivrow. The family had heen to Cape .M.iy {"V sinu- 
 meriii),'. The son of the liMn-eli"'<l h.id heen drowned in a ])"nd not far 
 from the heach. .\s 1 entered the aflhcled h^me and the lad prepared 
 1-,- the sepulchre lay in n-ie P^'in, there r.niL,' throui,di the hall the wailin;< 
 of the I'.ather ;md the ni'-iher, ,i -rief ,i]>i),il!iti,!;- .and indcscnh.ihle. The 
 p.i'cnis -;iid thev could n-t f. 'r.i;ive lhemsei\es. luranse they had ch.u!,L;ed 
 their p'.ii!- f-r the -iinimer and Ii.id ii ! .i;"ne t.i the White ^'onIU,uns 
 as ihfv had iiiMpoH-d. and li:;d i.;.'ne !■■ i '.qie .May. ■■< )li," 1 said to them, 
 "do not -a\. 'I wish we had .^"ne to tlie mountains instead of '^fwv^ to 
 f.-ipe Ma\ :' d^' \ 'U n^'t think (l^d has ari.ini^ed .ill this? \,.u can U' 't 
 miiUr-land n-w the ;neir_\ ..f ii, hiil trust llim; there an no ,i, , .lent-; 
 thf (i.id wh'i arr,\n,m- .all the alfaiis ..f ywy niV arrai.-ed the .kath ..t" 
 ;hat li"V." Uo n..t s.r, , as i h.i\e "ften luMid -"Uie i a' y '11 -ay. •()!!. M 
 1 had n"t i,'"nc Iiere and if 1 li.id n-t ;; 'iie there. tlii~ w-iild u-t li,i\e 
 i.ccurred .and ih.it ward n- .t ha, c imiiru-d!" _ rhui-;- an.- w ■[ at L-.s^' 
 eiid~. I'lcci-!' 'U. .accMi .n\ . Jiih \', a-, i iL;hi ; "T'lc i v\ -I.il i .ii! iii i| r'|iia! i!. 
 
 K('i'.^i'ii i- -upcli''!- I'l ihi' ii;. -i.il 111 ti ail-p II I'lcy \\ f l.n^w ii'i! 
 wluii "r h\ \\h"m ,;;'a- vv a . fir-I di-."\cMd. 1 '.i . d - "f it hivc hem 
 f..imd In the (..nil. .if Ale .aider Se^enn \'.ie~ of it aie ho.n^hi up 
 
sKi.'.Muxs A.\i> i,i;cTn;i:s 
 
 •;,■>;) 
 
 l>-"n. ihc run,. ,,f 1 IcvMlan.nn,. Tlicrc ;ne icnalo ■.ul,vwv,,ui. >na.l.; 
 '"" "1 II lliixc tl.nn.an.l year. a-..-t!i..^c a<I.,rnmcm. i.nn..! nuw at- 
 'a«!.e,l to tl,. nuninnic. .,f |.;.vp,. A ^r.at many o ..ninenlat. .•.- hdunc 
 liiat nu U'xt nuan. ^la-.. What u<,ul,l uc ,!,. uitl,,,,,, ,m, ,,.vMar 
 ll'c crvMal in il,c un,.!,,u i,, k..,, ,„„ ,!„■ .tnnn, a.i,| ki in !!„■ ,'lav- 
 Iliccry-ial ...,n tl... uald, .k-iVn.lin.t; it. .Wiratr niadnnrrv, vet allium- 
 n^ in s.r tl,. l,.,u,--- tl,. u-y,tal . f ;lu tdr-o.,,.. l,y ulnrl, i!k' a Mr, ,n, ■nu-'i^ 
 I'in.^-liMant u. ,r!.!. . , n.ar !„■ r„n nrp.ri i!u,n. ()!,. i!,,. trnnn,,!,. , .f 
 Ilii- nvMat. Ml i!,c .TlclM-atc-.l uni,i,.u. ..i I<. ncn an,l Sali.lnrv! 
 
 '■"'''"■■''^ ""='"'•-: -■l':.n-|,auMt ina.-.v,tala.n,..nr h. Iv rdl^i. ,ii 
 It i- a tran-,M,u.. rd.^; ... \ m, ,,„ u f, y,,nr .v. an,i v, .„ '.r ,nan- 
 '"-'"■'"■ ^■"i.ln-.U.-;n,v. V,,n I. „ ,k a, ( ., „1 an,I s,u, -..■ .„„c,lnn. 
 '■' till' |;ran,k,i,- ,.{ Hj. ,!,ararl,r. |, i. „ ,ran.|,aruu rdi^i..,,. inll.kU 
 ''■' "■' " '^'t^^TH'. l).:y,; kih.u uliy ,lu-y tdl n. it i-opaMUc? It „ 
 I'cran.e lli.y ar.- l,;,n.!. Th.. natural man nvns.tl, n..: th.- ilnno, ,n 
 '-'1 'Kvan^; ,h.y ar. s'lrnnal'v ,!i..m,nl. Thcr. i. n,, irMnMo ui,l, ,!„• 
 '■n^tal: the tr.Mikk. i. u„Ii tl.. .w- uhi.h trv r, I,„,k- tlir..n"li n W.- 
 I"'^'>' '"'■ ^'^"•"' '■'■'''■ •'-= ""•-- HM,],, 1,;. ,,,,.„.,!. Ulin, the.N.' 
 st'vcTnrc. ..n I.!n.,!i,..s,l,.nu.hn,! i!,a! u-n^u.n i^ tran~,.ar.nt. 
 
 It is a tian^pa-cn; l;,!,k. \i; th. „. ..niain^ m' i!,r i;,l,'. o -n,. , .,l ■ 
 Sntai. ,1,. ,,,,,„ntan, ,,f ,h. !a^^ ; Pi..;.!,. ,!,.„,,;,,,;,;„,,• ,,,,,^,,,.^,, ., ,,.^^,,; 
 !'■'• >ii"t;ntani ,.1 inMrn.ti. ,,. : I aKar>, ilu- n„,n„lav , ,■ ,::,niia'. \U tli. 
 Mv.r.,„-,|K-!;,I.ko„n.,,„t.-il„kU.|.,,r,!u.,u.., ■ i' pa.a.liM.al hcautv 
 -''"■''^"^' "■■ '''^•"^^■=■■•tl^.Iy,■l, ,,.„,;( lu,ni,, ,.r lii. ,i • r . ,f ,„ , .pI,.,,. 
 -Pl'bMlK' N'!<'. ■ I- t!K■,i^,■r,„pa!a^..:a■l.l.;;,.pnr..n^.r.,fl,fc ,,,,„, 
 '^'■'''■' ''"• ''"'■''^' '■''■"• ''s cry.lal. Wink ua.ln,^ ih,, Dikk aMrr ,,,n- 
 .>.sku.-l,..n,,.r,I„.,ll,> ;;nir... u.hn,lna:i t.an.painit.atul ,!„..., „tl, 
 ""'■" ""'^ ^^"'' '■"■ '■""■'I1m-i a.;..,,) a, 1,1 n,,,, uul, tl,. jn.l^ni.nt t.n,,r^ 
 •^'"' '''"'^' •' '"- '^' >'""«■ ■■! Ill- lu.. 1)11,1,!,.,! an,! fni. MX tli!... a. 
 
 tar J. I ,an .,.nni tli.ni ili,^ laaa^l, tli. i,..l.. il 
 
 III. ( ai^lain. t! 
 
 . .^ ■,niiia,,,l.r. 
 
 I. I' !H|n.r,ir, tli. .[,,]■, ,-|,|, 
 
 n ai„l Iiiy iii,! any laiiacn., .,,' mi;,,] 
 
 t., ic- 
 
 i.ai -. tli.iii I ran-i 
 
 lamit I .lmi, ii " 
 
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 360 
 
 l> '(4, 
 
 ■l 
 
 SEIJMON'S AXD LKCTrRKS 
 
 The providence that sccnie.I <l;irl< l)Ctore heo.mes pellucid. Xn\v yc.u 
 find (iod is nut iryinp to jiut yon d^wn. Now vcni nn(lcr>tand whv von 
 lost that child, and why yuu lost \<<[\r ])nii)eity ; it was to prepare yun I'.ir 
 eternal treasnre>. And why sickness came; it l)ein{T the precursor of iin 
 mortal juvenesccnce. And now y.m uiideistand why they lied alxnit von. 
 anil tried to drive yon hither and thither. It wa^ to put von in the t^lorion. 
 company of snch men as I^'itatins. who, wlu-n lie went out to he ,le>tr.>yed 
 by the lions, said: 'i am the wheat, and the tretli of the wild hca-.t^ 
 must first grind me before I can l>ecome juiie bread I'or Jesus ( luist ;" or 
 the company of such men a^ Polycarp. who, when -t.iiidiiif,' m the nnd-t 
 of the amphitheater waiting for the lion> to conic ..m ..f their c,i\e and 
 destroy him. and the jieople in the .i^alleries jceriiij.; .and ^hontint;-. ••'riic 
 lions for I'olyc.irp," rejihed : "Let them coinc on." ,ind then -^looiiin- 
 down lou:iid the ca\r where the wilil bea^i- were r MimL,' to <.ci ,,nt. 
 "Let them cotne on " \li. ye-, \: is i)er-eci:tion to ],;it \::\\ in .^dorion- 
 conipany ; :ind while theic ,iie many iIiiiil;- tliat \on v, ; ' Imm- to p. . i;jone 
 to the future uorld for exp'.inal; ii. 1 t.ll \,,n tli.it it 1, in,- r, h, ,1^ imdciic^ 
 n\ votn rt-hyion to iMuav.-l and rx]Mani ;iiid inlciprcl :u,-i illniuine and 
 irradiate 
 
 Reli^'ion Mnp;i--M-, tin- i i \ ~tai in it, he;iiit\. 
 
 Th.-it lump ..f crvM.al i- ].',)[ under I'u ni.i-tnfyini; .^la-- <'\ the crv^- 
 talloi^raiiher. aix! he -re-- in -t indcM i ilial.le hcanty — >no\\,|rift and sl.lin 
 ters of ho,irfr..-t .and ...r.i'v .ind wreath- ,ind -t.ir- and rr.v.n- and ,i- 
 tellations of t, .n-piruou- U-anty. ■I'lic fa,t i- lii.it crv-tal i- -o hcnitifu! 
 that I ran think of |,ut one tlinij.' in .all ilie uni\er-e that i- so hrautiful. 
 and that i< the reli-ion of the I'.ililc. Xo w^.nder tins I'.il,!,- icpicsent- 
 that religion as tlie daybreak, a- the aiip!.' bio--, -in-, a- the '^'ittcr of ., 
 king's I»an(|uet. It i- the joy of tin uholc c-iriii 
 
 IVopie talk too mm h abait their <toss, ;tnd n, a choul;!! ab. i:t iheu 
 crown. Ho you know tiie I'.ible mention- ;i cr ■-- hut t weiit\---c\« n tiuu'- 
 while it mciuions a crown eightv time-:^ .\sk that old man what he 
 thinks of religion. He has l>ecn a ilor ob-erver, lb- ha- been cultunn" 
 
 h f ''■ - 
 
'\' 
 
 - -^^^^^ 
 
 sKi.'Moxs .\\i) ij:cti'i;ks .uu 
 
 an :cs,l,c,ic ,:.„.. He I,a. ..en ,1,.. ^nnri.. of a half cnturv. He I,as 
 iH-en a„ .ariv rwcr. He i... I.een a„ a.l.nirer „f ean.ens. ami a>rnl., and 
 all k„ul,,„l,eau„!,:. ,!„„,.. A-l. I,i,n ul,a, 1,. ihink. nf relij;i„n, and 
 
 1- -11 . d; y,n,, -l.i, ,:.,„„„., l.a.tM„l ,..„;; I ever .aw. The crvs.al 
 can not e<jiia! i-.." 
 
 '''■^'""'"'"'^-^>'"''^^^'-- V.:k-, n,„v.ent.r;,„r,el,aracferitdoes 
 
 'V' '''■""''''''■' ^' ■ ''^" '''^' '-■-- ^' ^-■^MM-..i" ranee o,, .,„e s,d.. ,.f 
 His iialine. \va niakr, llu; ]..•,,■ .,, !,■„■,;,,,,„ 
 
 Ili.it will ;,.-,v|,: an III.,.., \,';.. ,,i 
 
 no nuM'i , iea! the i^<\[:\ . 
 
 '''^""^' l-n,„fnl„.',;;:,.n:„,:.. 1;,,.,,. . |,,„,|,,. Meamifnl religion in 
 
 "" '"■' '''"' ■ l""i—- •'^■•■^.'M. .n.l en,!n,,nr. and en,,,aradNe an 
 
 """""■'■'' ^l"^-'' S.iri.M ..:y, „ ,, ;, UW. |'a„! >a 
 
 I 111' A]'. Talv |'.-i' -:i', , i; i- 
 
 i- a f.'iiaL;ed 'edar. ( 'a w 
 
 Willi Hi> justice — a love 
 ■"' '" ll'i'i. ■I'l'I a jiiMKc (hat will l>y 
 '"'''■''■'■' i<'i^i"n in the -eminieiit it im- 
 
 a.\'^ II w a erown. 
 ■■' ■' •■■ -'d •■{ tile Min. I'./ekiel >ays it 
 - I- '■■ •' '•!;di-;,.om c.nk- to leteh home 
 ^''"■"'^■- ^^''''^^''''''^'->^- .'--:-..■- '■,...v,,.n,M.,ne.--,he,o,,a. 
 """'"'^•'■•''•''"■^"^''''--'- I"-^'- -.-■i'H.Mk.-o,„ofdn.lH.an„ft,l 
 '""' J"^' ' ■''■ '■^>' '■ ^^ = ''! '^;'''- •' H' =::::d ,: ^Van,. nnhe w'lrn, hj;ht of 
 
 -■ " i '■'■■ <■: \ >I.il I .111 II. ,1 e(|iia! it." 
 '•■ ■■ I-- ■■ '1 a -;n;iid leli-!"!!. it ■', not a 
 •■ "'l'' i-!id II : li i-, not a M-g .Mer, 
 '" > 'ni'^"' v.-'M, h i- the f.iire.t dangli- 
 
 *" ' ''- I i'' I'liek the in. iniiiiL; ^k\ : her 
 
 w>ice llie iiui-ir . f ! .,■ -, :;rji v., ■■!,! !, - i ., i'. , i , .- i 
 
 ^ ' •■ ' ' ' •' :' ' ■' ''•"•'■i' '•! the M'a C ome 
 
 ' !■'■' ^' -^.i.' >■ 'I'U. and whM.,,eNer will, 
 let Iriii .-, .Ill,- I ), , ,, ,,; ^|,.,, ^ ,.^ i|:, .^^ • ,, 
 
 the e.i.tei n -k\ . .ii'.; h.- i. 
 < >h. II is i;..t ,, .,|.,!,. ,.^ r 
 
 toothle-s !;a-. ;.. ,. ;.;i. ,,.,.,,, I , [|^ 
 
 rilie> u i'h diri\r', ,1 ...-i:! ,- ,, 
 ter of ( ,..-!, hriii- , , i' .i'l I I 
 
 and W..O liei- liic .^■,ii-,i 
 
 an.! „iy 11 1. ;, iiiv 
 
 iiH '■■ it, .and wi.ir ii . .\e! 
 
 '= ■'^'■■!- !•■' :.'ii .i-iee \utii Paul, and sav 
 '' '" •' '■'■"wii? ri;,., ',. ,1,;, ;, ,,,,. !„ 
 
 with the \|i. .eaAp-e. :,■■.! . ;\ ;; ., 
 
 and s'ake llie \' n ~l ..:" \.,:i, . ,;;' | ) 
 
 ■e ;,..i:r ,■••;. .imh. ,,. 1 ), , y,„, ;,j^r,-^.,. 
 '■I,;;;":-; i. 'iiiit.nn ' Then come 
 
 '■ ht;iv\i- with I'/ekiel, and say 
 It is a f..li.i-ed ee.lar: Ilk', e. •':.■ i-i u-. 
 with Chn-i .m.l -,i\ n i . .. 1 v:,',.. ;, 
 
 s.iad. .■„. p., y,,„ helieve 
 - <"n.e I.. fe;,h !i..iiie a !)ride:- 
 
 li 
 
1 1 
 
 
 ■m: 
 
 SHirMONS AXl) LHCTl'IfHS 
 
 ' 'a! 
 
 i'l 
 
 Ji - 
 
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 'f>' I 
 
 :i4i 
 
 Pi •■ H 
 
 Then strike liaiuls witli your Lord, tlic kiuj;, while I pronounce yon ever- 
 lastingly one. Or if y(nt think with Job lliat it is a jewel, tlien put it on 
 your haiKl like a ring, on your neck like a l)ea(l, on your forchea<l like a 
 -t.ir, while hxjkinj;- into the mirror of (ind's word you acknowkilj(e "The 
 I ryst.d tan nm ecjnal it." 
 
 I>!elijjion i-^ su])erior to the cry>t.il in its transformations. 
 
 The diam.iiKl is (july a crystallization of cual. I .irhonate of lime 
 ri-cs till it heci inies calcite or ;ir;i'.,'onite. Iscd "xide of ci'pper crystallizes 
 into cnhe- .and ictahclrons. 'I'lm'-c cry-t.als which adorn our ]>crsnns. and 
 1 nr Ikiuics. and oiir museum^. ha\e linly hecn resurrected from forms 
 that were far fmni lu^triuis, Scicmi:^ts f. .r aj;es have hecn examining 
 these wonderful iran^fnrniaiii n^. ilut I tell ynu in the (ios])e! of the 
 .'^nn of ( !nd there is a nii^rc wonderful tranr-fc irmatinn. ()\er souls, hy 
 rc;i'-i-n of >m lil.ick as cimI ,ind hard ;i- ir n. (ind hy iiis comfnrting 
 Hr.acc st'"'|)s and >a_\ s ; " Thc_\' ■^llall lit- Mine in the <lay when 1 make up 
 .My ji\\cN." 
 
 "What,'-' sa_\' ynu, "will ( ii'd wear jcwilrv'" If lie waiUed it lie 
 ciiiiM in.tke the ■-t.ir> nf lica\en lli^ hilt ;:nd luue the celling clnud for 
 till- ^aiidiil- i.f jji- ftxt ; hr.t lie di ^t--, ni.t w.iiii ih.it ;iclMrniiK-iit. lie will 
 ii'it ha\c tli.'it jewelry. \\ Inn < 1^ .d w,uil> jewelry lie C'pmc> dnwn and 
 diL;^ It I'f.t I if Uie depth- ,md darkness of sin. These si mis ;ire .all crys- 
 talii.'.itii iii^ \:\ mercy, lie iJiit^ tlii-m i 'ii and lie wears tliiin in the i)res- 
 iiHi'i^f die wIkJi. i'.ni\ir>e. lie we.ir- them nil ;lie hand that was n.ailed. 
 >\iT the luiirt that wa- pierced, on the teiii])!i-. ih.at were -tiing, "Tliev 
 -li.-i!l l.<' mini'." ^.iiili the I.i.rd. "in the il;i\ when I make n|) m\ jeweK." 
 W . ndcrfn! ii;m~f( .niiaii< 'ii ! The i.irlii.n hec.mes ;i -(.liLaire! 
 
 \''>w, I h.'iNc Up hkinL; \"\' ihn-c ]ifMp!c who .arc .alw.iy-- enl.arging in 
 t liri-tiaii mectiiiL'- .ihiitil tlitir e.ii ly di-->ip;iti' ill. I )■ i lint on iiitn the par 
 !u :i]ai>, my liiniher-. .^imply ~.;iy y.iii were -ic k. liiil make iin di-pl.av nf 
 ■.'.iw iilccr>. Ti.e chief -inik in iradi' nf -nine miiii-tci^ and ("hri^ti.an 
 wniker- -ceiiis In he their early crimes mid ih---ipalii ai^. The mimher nf 
 pnckel^ ynii pu ked and the mimher nf chicken^ you -tnle make \crv pi nr 
 
 ,:1 
 
SERMONS AXl) LKCn'RES 363 
 
 praycr-meeting rl,etoric. Besnles tliat. i, .li so ..rages other Christian 
 people who „ever go, drunk or stole anything. lUu it is pleasant to know 
 tl.at those who were farthest down have been hronglu highest up Ottt of 
 mfernal serf.iom into eternal hherty, ()„, of .larkness into light From 
 coal to the solitaire, "'nie crystal can not ecpial it." 
 
 But, my friends, the chief transforming ,:,.wer of the Gospel will not 
 Ik- seen m tins world and no, until heaven breaks upon the soul When 
 that hght tails upon the sonl then you wll s.e the crvstals. Oh, what a 
 magnihcent setting f.,r these jewels of eternity! 
 
 "Oh." says some one. pmting his han.l over his eves, "can ,t be that I 
 who have been in so much sin an,. ..rouble w,ll ever come to those crvs- 
 tals.-" 
 
 ^•es. ,t may be-it will be. Heaven we mus, h.ue, whatever else we 
 !>ave or have not, and we have erne here ,., g.t „. -llow much must I 
 pay lor u :" y,.u say. N",,,, will ,.ay m,- i, ,„., as nu.ch a. ,hc coal pavs 
 U, UrouK- the d.a.nond. In oth^r uords, „o,hu,g. TIk- .-nne .Mnngh'tv 
 power that makes the cr>~tal n, tlu- ,n.,nnan, w,ll c!,ange vour hear,' 
 winch >s hanler than s,„„e, for ,1,. ,„•,.,„;.. ,.. -I ^11 take'awav vour 
 stony heart, and I uill guc you a licai; ,,f ile.h." 
 
 ■•Oh," says some one, -„ ,. juM il,c doctnne I want; Cod is to do 
 everything an.l 1 am t,. do no,l„n,.- M, l.r-.lu.r. n ,. „,„ ,1,, ,,„„,,ne 
 you uam. 1 he coal makes „,, rcMsiancc. 1, l„a,. the rcsurrec„..n v,>ice 
 "' the m,,uman,, and .1 ...nu-^ t, . crystal!, A.,:,.,,. 1„„ ,,,„ h.ar, res,s,s 
 I he trouble with yon. uu brother. ,.. the ,,..-,1 u.an! t.. .uv, coal. | ,!,, 
 
 "■■' •'''^>'"" ""'"-"^^ "pni tiled ,n,d id < !„,s, ,;:. I ,,nK ,,.k iha, yon 
 
 -^l.'p boidui; u .-md harring ii. 
 
 ".nv br,.,h.,.y..umus, .nhcrk^H -:„,..:„ .,^,11 K,i! vou. It is uo 
 wild csaggcrat,. „ when [ s;; . -Ik,, :,„v nia:. ..,- u,,mau iha, uans to be 
 sa\ed n;.iy be s.:,,d. Trcni. ud> .ii~ , h, -ice A t!,,,,, 
 
 in, ,h,. n,ou-c:4 between .d.at,.,n :,p,! des„a,c,i, ,n, be.ueen i,gh, and 
 -larkness. her\xeen lieaven and lieil, bctuceii chaiaed 
 iTv~;,dli/atiiin. 
 
 )e'i|)le ;i,-e choos- 
 
 tueen light and 
 
 luin .and glorioiis 
 
;!fi4 
 
 >H i 
 
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 ^^i 
 
 1^ 
 
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 SKl.WroNS AXn LKCTnjHS 
 
 THE DAY WE LIVE IN. 
 
 It i>^ my hiisinos to tt-ll yni wli.it >i\li' ni nieti and woiihmi yni 
 oiitfl.t to Ik- in ciriliT that yu may meet tlie clcmaiid of tlu- n),'e iii wliicli 
 r,(i(l has la-t y.nir lot. It \i.ii really wnnM hl<i' to know what this ape 
 lias a rii,'ht to expeet of yon as (hrivlan nun an.! women, tjun 1 am 
 leady. in the l.onl's name, to look yon in ilic face. \\ hen two armies 
 have rushed into hattle tlie .t'tieers of either army do not want a plnlo- 
 si'|iliical discussion ahoitt the chemical i)roperties of hnman hlood. or the 
 natme of ijnniiowder: they want some one to man tiie hatteries and 
 swali out the t^nns. .\iid now. when all the force- of lit.ht and darkness, 
 of Iiea\en aiicl hell. ha\e ^)Inn^'e(l nUo the lii;ht. it i- no time to '^\w onr- 
 ^ehes to the detinitioiis, and formula--, and technic.ilities, and i-oiiveii- 
 tionahtiesof reli.t,noii What we want i- practical, eaiiu-t. coiiccntrateil. 
 entlm>i;tstic anil trinmpliant help. 
 
 In the til >I place, in oiili-r to meet llir -pcc!;i! .Icni.ind of tins ai;e. 
 voii need to he an nnnii-tajsalil\' a,irt,ncs-.i. i- (hn-iiaii. ( )f half and half 
 Christians we d. ■ not want any more. Tlie ( linrcli of Ic-n- ('hn-i will 
 he hetter witliom lr:i ili.iit.;ind of tliciii. 1 licy :iie the chief ohstacl' to 
 the Chnrch's ,id\ ancement. I ; ni -pcikini;- • i ;ni..tlirr k,iid of ('hris- 
 ti.an. \II the ajiplianci's for son- l,ccomin'.^r ;iii i-.-mu'si ('IniMi.in are at 
 \onr hand, and there !~ a str.ai^It p.-itli f. r \ on mi,, the lir,,.id davlit^ht 
 of (loci's l,,ri;i\eness. \,,]\ renicmU'r wlint fxt'iicnuni ilicrr was in 
 this country, years .i^r, ,, \vln.ii the I'mui' , f \\ .ik-- i::nu' here ii,,w the 
 ]ieople nisju'd out hv luni,lrtwN ,,f tlion„iii,ls i., ^i-i' lum. \\ li\ - lU- 
 c:,nsi- tlif\ expected th.il -,imeda\ lie w.iiil.j -i\ !i;.,.ii tli.- ihi-,,neof l-aii.;- 
 ti.nd I'.iu wh.it u.is .ill tli.ir lioii,ir c,,mp;n\d \\i;h thr li-iior i.> winch 
 (,.,d calls \,,n--t,, he s.ii's an, I ,!ai;i;li!er- -f '!ic i.. i,| \'iiiil^1i| ■, , \c:\, 
 to he' kint;s ;md .ineeiis nii!o(„„l- ■■ jlu' -liall rciun \miIi hiiii I Tever 
 an,l f, ,rc\er," 
 
 I'.iit. m\ fiie!i,is, y,u need !,■ In- a^'^rc-sv, ,• ( lirisn.iii .. and not like 
 those pe'i-,,,11. uli,, -peii,l lliej- li-,- in l;n'__ :mi<^ their llin-o.in "r.ices. 
 
SKinfONS ANM) lJ-:(TrUES 
 
 36.') 
 
 and won.lmiiK- why tlicv -lo imt m.ik 
 iic>> of lu'.iltli Would 
 
 I'.iin |)r.,j;ress. How miRli rolmst- 
 ^•- "t nc.;,m, w„„l.| a ,na„ have if l,c hid him.cif i„ a ,lark clu.ef- A 
 «r.a. deal „i ,h. ,i„, „, „„ ,,,, j, ,„„ ^^^.,,,^.^,^ j^ ^^.^^^^ .^^^^^ j^ 
 
 "'"'^ """^ ^'■^^'' ^"'■- ' '• ""•■'-• — n.c. There are .na.n Chris- 
 
 l.a..> uhn are ^u,,,^ ,he,r entire hie In self-exa.nn.ati,,,,. Thev are 
 
 eeh„^ .hen- ,ml.M., ... wha, . ,he en„di,,.„ ,,f ,H.M s,nrHual h^altL 
 I-v l„n« w„n!,| a n,,.n have rohns, ,,hy>Kal lual.h U U. ke,., all the 
 
 <la^^ and the week, an.l n,„„,|,.. an.l year. .,f 1,,. Ui. Muv, his ,.„|s. 
 
 ...Mead M, .,,„,^^ ,,nt n,in aeiu.-, ...uneM. everx ,lav w-rkr 
 
 I ^^a^ ..nee annd the u.,n,lennl, hewUelnn^^ eaetu. «n,w.hs of X„r,h 
 
 '""'"'" '""■^■'•'■"^'^""'■■•''^■^^''-.-lunlMhel.eautv,„,],,wer. and 
 ycM. »lK-n I w,.„ld tak,. n,, ,,ne ..i th.^e eaetn.. and ,.nll the leave, apart 
 .'H Leant, wa.a!! .„n., V,.n .-...M hardK tell that ,t had ever tn-en 
 ■' """'•'. And .'.ere ar. a ^,e;„ ur.un ( hr„t,an ,,.,,,,1. ,„ ,i,„ .,,, ■ 
 l-"l".Ka,.an .hen- . hr,M,an esperunee. f, .ee w hat .here is in then, 
 ^'"'1 'l.^.— .Inn^ ief. in thnn. Th,- M vl. . ,f ..It -exa„nna.,n„ „ a 
 -la.'.a«enMea,l,.raMadwn„a,et,.,lH.i,(ln-,.„and,aram.r. Ire.netn 
 
 '"•;/;""' '^"'^^''"'^ '"-"■''— -alt p.eeen, the .anlen that I 
 ealled niv ..wn, an. I I plante.l 
 
 I'lill It lip t- 
 
 e. .rii tlu'i-f. am 
 
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 Kreat inaiiN ( liriMi; 
 ani..niii- i.. ih,- imll 
 
 11 pe..pli- in 111!. da\ w h. .-. 
 
 e -ell t-xaniinat 
 
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 i.'ii inerelv 
 
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 .l:.itiv;li >|..nii-. 
 
 '"■'.^ ''•■"■''■ .ip.'ii il, an.l ili..n!.;h tin- 1 
 
 laraeicr, 
 iri-iian ii-i-i"nlne>.. and 
 
 tr\ |.i (-. n^ninc ii , 
 
 I". Mill ..r trial 
 
 i! \' ill lliri 
 
 ina\- 
 
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 tile r.'ul-. . •■ 11, ,;\ , ii in 
 
 I '"■'■". lie- a -roit tm. in which 
 
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 i;> lia\r llu'ii liali!lati..ii | |, 
 
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 ive 11. J iiatH^nec will 
 
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 ".it^hl 1.. pi, ml :t 111 I 
 
 !e\ U,-.-p tlKMii-vKcs nn.kT du-ltcr, an.l 
 
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 .SKi;.M(tNS AND KKCTl UKS 
 
 niu>i»luir loiiM lif .irdnatir uitli tlirir ( liristian usp|lllllcs^. \\ lial \\c 
 w.'int ill llif ( lutrcli ■'! (ioil In iiinro brawn of pii-ty. 
 
 'I'lu' I'll' '\ plant i- wondcrlnl!) ^IIJ;K^"'''^'<' •""' winiliTtiill} Itc.iii- 
 lit'iil. liin I luw'i lix'k at It witliMiit llimkinc: "t its ]>arsiinoi)\ , It It-t-- 
 will ic t^tiH'iatii'n^ t;'> !i\ iH'tmc it puts fniili ciiu' liln>s..ni; m> I liaxc 
 rcall\ iniTc licai licit admiialimi wlu'ii I ^cc tlic ilcwv tiMi^ in llu' Mm' 
 I'vts ipf the \i..k'i^. fur tlu'v cntiic c\cry -prini;. My (hii^tian tiuiiiU. 
 iiiiK' is j;"iiii,' liv -'1 lapiilly tliat we laiiiitit affMrd tn lie idle. 
 
 A recent ^t.u wijcian ^.i\s that human life iinw lia> an a\eraL;e d 
 nnly tliirtv t\\" >ear^. Ii^ni tlte^e ihirtytwn years yi-ii inii-t sitlittaii 
 all the time \><\\ take f.'i >leep. and the taking,' nf fi.i.il and reereali^'ii . 
 that will leave M'II ah^iit -isteeii \eai^. I'lum those si\teeii \eai-. v.^ii 
 i;i'.i>t ^nlitrail all the lime that \nn are nei r--^ iriK- eiii^aijed in the earn 
 mi,'' nt a li\e!ih'iiid ; that will lc,'\e \ ■ 'H alioni ei'.dit ve.irs. l-'runi tliii-,e 
 eij;hl _\ear- noh nm-l lake :'ll llie ila\ -, and week-, and nicnith- all the 
 len;;tli nf mne that i^ pa-^ed m ihildhond and -iikne-s, li^aviiij; \iin 
 al)"iit one \ear im vnIiIi'i \" \\oil, fur (!■'!! Oh, in\- sonl, wake iipl 
 Ijow ilare--! thoii .-Uip m harxi^t time, and with ^o few hour-, in xihi'li 
 til reap' .'so ih;it 1 -i.ite u ,i^ a ~impli- fael. ilit all the time th,it the 
 \a^t Piajoniy o; ,..11 \,ill lia\e for thr e\ihisi\e service of (jnd will he 
 less than one v ear' 
 
 "Ihit," >av> ^oinc man, "I hlKialK upporl the (io'.pel. and the 
 t hitrch !■■ open. ,,iid the (i.'spi-l i-. tireacliecl; ,ill the -]iiritiial ailv;mt,i-e-- 
 are --preail hcfuie men, md if lliev w.,i:t to he ■.:i\cd lit them cotile |o 
 he -,aved: 1 lia'.e di-cii,ii^ed .I'l iiiv le-poiisiliilii v ' \h! j^ ih,ii the 
 Master"'- --piiii.' 1- iln;c iioi .m i.Jd |',.iiik >•, miew heir ih,ii coinm.iiiiK 
 !!■, to 'u, mit iiUo the ln'_;Iiwav- .iiid the heil^'c^ ,ind c .inpel the people 
 to eonie in? What wouM h.ive become of \i,tt .-unl me if (hri-t h.id 
 not come down off ihe InlN of heaven, ;md if lie h.ad no' c. .me ihion^li 
 the door (.f the lallilehcm c.irav aii-;irv , and if lie li.id ii.it with l!ii- 
 ern-he.l li.iiid ..f the ciiicilision knocked at the ir .11 ;^^•lle of the vepnlcliie 
 <'l' our -piiiliM! .!e,ilii. civiiiL', ' l..i/ain-, c. .me I'orth:" < lli. tnv (.hn- 
 
 !i_-'lk 
 
SKIfMOXS AM) LKcnifK 
 
 367 
 
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 i'li'i-lKt. uIhii .ill till- l,,no> ..f ,|ark 
 
 irkiic-is 
 
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 • H-l .r;u.,>. ulu.n c-xpr. -. nnl,„a,l ,r:n„s an- .arrvn^ „u...„^.rs ... 
 
 ■'''-;''^-^' f-' .hpiK.rs arc laWn, wi,lM,,MM„, and nun: ulu.Mlu. m.h, 
 
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 368 
 
 SERMONS AND LECTURES 
 
 lian Churcli. They said the iimleitakiiig was i)iei)oster()U6. And so 
 also the work ot Jesus Clirist was assailed. People cried out : "WIio 
 ever heard of such theories of ethics and government? Who ever 
 noticed such a style of preaching as Jesus has?" Ezekiel had talked 
 of mysterious wings an<l wheels. Here came a man from Capernaum 
 and Gennesaret. and he drew his illustrations from the lakes, from the 
 sand, from the ravine, from the lilies, from the cornstalks. How the 
 rharisees scoffed! II. nv Herod derided! How Caiaphas liissed. .\nd 
 this Jesus they plucked l)y the iK-ard. and they spat in his face, and they 
 called him "this fellow!" -Ml the great enterprises in and out of the 
 Church have at times heen scofl'ed at, and there have hecn a great mul- 
 titude who have thought that tlie chariot of Co.l's truth would fall to 
 pieces if it once got out of the old rut. 
 
 And so there are those who have no patience with anytliing like im- 
 pnnement in church architecture, or \vith anything like good, hearty, 
 earnest church singing, and they deride any form of religious discussion 
 which goes down walking among every-day men rather than that which 
 makes an excursion on rhetorical stilts. Oh, that the Church of God 
 would wake up to an adaptahility of work! We must admit the simple 
 fact that the churches of Jesus Christ in this day do not reach the great 
 masses. There are fifty thousand people in Edinhurgh who never hear 
 the Gospel. There are one million people in London who never hear 
 the Gospel. There are at least three hundred thou-.nd souls in the 
 city <jf P.rooklvn who come not under the immediate ministrations of 
 Christ's truth, and the Church of God in this ilay, iiiste,-.d of heing a 
 ],lace full of living epistles read ;uid known of ;ill men. is more like a 
 "dead-letter" postoftice. 
 
 "But." sav the people, 'die world is going to he converted; you 
 must he i)atienl : the kingdoms of this world are to hecome the king- 
 doms of Christ." Xe\er. unless the Church of Jesus Christ puts on 
 more speed and energy. Instead of the Church converting the world, 
 the worlil i> coiucriing iiic Lnurc;:. ilciv i- .-. L;it.-.i t.-rt. (..--. n--.. ^,,.1.1 
 
 Mi 
 
SERMONS AND LECTURES 
 
 361) 
 
 it be taUcn? \n army comes and sits around about it, cuts off the sup- 
 plies, and says : "Now we will just wait until from exhaustion and starv- 
 ation they will have to give up." Weeks and months, and perhaps a 
 year pass along, and finally the fortress surrenders through that starv- 
 ation and exhaustion. But. my friends, the fortresses of sin are never 
 to be taken in that way. [f they are taken for God it will be by storm; 
 you will have to bring up the great siege guns of the Gospel to the very 
 wall and wheel the flying artillery into line, and when the armed in- 
 fantry of hcav n shall confront the battlement?, you will have to give 
 the quick command, "Forward! Charge!" 
 
 Ah, my friends, there is work for you to do and for me to do in 
 order to this grand accomplishment. Here is my pulpit and I preach in 
 ii. Your pulpit is the bank. Your ])uli)it is the store. Your pulpit is 
 the editorial chair. Your pulpit is the anvil. Your pulpit is the house 
 scaffolding. Your pulpit is the mechanic's shop. I may stand in. this 
 place and, through cowardice or through self-seeking, may keep back the 
 word I ought to utter; while you, with sleeve rolled up and brow be- 
 swcated with toil, may utter the word that will jar the foundations of 
 heaven with the shout of a great victory. I tell you, every one, go 
 forth and i)reach this gospel. You have as much right to preach as I 
 have, or as any man has. Only find out the puljiit where God will have 
 you preach and there preach. 
 
 Hedley \'icars was a wicked man in the Engli-h armv. The grace 
 of God came to him. He became an earnest and eminent Christian. 
 They scoiTed at him and said: 'A'ou are a hypocrite; \i)U are as bad as 
 ever you were." Still he ke])t his faith in Christ, and after awhile, find- 
 ing that they could not turn him aside by calling him a hvpocrite, they 
 said to liim : "Oh. you are nothing but a Methodist." That did not dis- 
 turb him. He v.cnt on perfonniiig his Christian dutv until he bad 
 formed all his troo]) into a I'ihle clar^s. and the whole encampment was 
 shaken with the jiresence '>f Go<l. So Havelock went into the heathen 
 temple ni liiiHa wjiiie iiie i:ngii>ii army was there and put a candle mto 
 
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 the liainl of eacli ni the heathen gods that stood around in the heathen 
 tcnii)lc, and by the h,q;ht of tliose candles, held up by the idols. General 
 llavelock preached ri^diteou;>ness, teini)erance, and judgment to ct)nie. 
 And who will say, on earth or in heaven, that Havclock had nut the 
 right to ])reach? 
 
 In the niini>ter"s house where 1 prcjiared for college there was a man 
 wlio worked, by the n.ime of Peter Croy. lie could neither read nor 
 write, but he was a man of (iod. Often theologians would stop in the 
 house — grave theolor'^iaiis — and at family jirayer Peter Croy would be 
 called upon to lead; and all those wise men sat around, wonder-struck 
 ,U his religion'- cfticiency. When he prayed he reached up and seemed 
 to take hold of the \ery throne of the Almighty, and he talked with God 
 until the very he.uens were bowed duwii into the sitting room. (^h. if 
 I were dving 1 would rather have plain I'eter Croy kneel by my bedside 
 and conuuend my immortal spirit to God than the greatest archbishop, 
 arraved in costly canonicals. G(j preach this Gospel. You say you are 
 not licensed. In the name of the Lord .\lmighty, I license you. Go 
 preach this Gospel — i)reach it in the SJjbath schools, in the prayer 
 meetings, in the highways, in the hedges. Woe be unto you if you 
 preach it not. 
 
 .•\gain. in ortlcr to be (lualitied to meet your duty in this particular 
 age. vou want unbounded faith in the triumph of truth and the over- 
 throw of wickednei^s. I low i!:irc the Christian Church ever get disour- 
 aged' Have we not ilie Lord Almiuhty on our side? How long die' 
 it take (iod to -la\- the hosts of Scnnaclu'rib or burn Sodom, or shake 
 down Jericho? How I'Ug vill it take God, when He once rises in His 
 strength, to ir.crthvow all die forces of in!(iuity? Between this tini,' 
 and that there may be long sca-oiis of darkness — the chariest wheels of 
 God's Gospel may seem to drag heavily, but here is the promise and 
 vonder is th, throne; and when omniscience has lost its eyesight, and 
 oninii)otence falls back ;mi)otcnt. and Jehovah is driven fmm His throne. 
 Then the Church o| Jcsus Ciu'i-t can attord to be despondent, i>ut nc\er 
 
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 until then. Despots may plan ami armies may march, and the con- 
 i^rcsses of the natitms may seem to think they are adjiistinjr all the af- 
 Mirs of the world, '^-it the- init^'hty n^ii of the earth arc only the dust of 
 iht chariot wi'.eeb ■ ■ (Jod'^ providence. 
 
 1 think hcfore tiic ^un oi this cer.tm-y shall set the last tyranny will 
 lall. and with a splciidnr o,' denr -nitration that .-hall he the astonish- 
 ment (.1 the universe (iod will >ct forth the hrightness and pomp and 
 j;lory .-md perpetuity of lli> etern;il .^■'.iwnunent. Out of the starry 
 tl;i,L;s and the cnihla/oned insi,!.,nna of thi> world (iod will make a path, 
 lor liis own triumph. an<l rcturninj;- from universal conquest. He will 
 Mt down, the i;ran<lcM. stroni;est. hi<,diesl throne of earth His footstool. 
 
 I'licn >-li;ill all nations" souj^ ascend 
 
 i'o Thee, our Ruler, [■".atlicr. l'"riend. 
 
 Till he;i\en"s hii^h ;irch resounds a.sj^ain 
 
 With "Peace on earth, good will to men." 
 
 1 losts of the living (iod, march on ! march on ! His spirit will bless 
 \ou. His shield will det'end you. His sword will strike for you. 
 M.irch on! march on! 'j"he despotisms will fall, and paganism will 
 bm-n Us idols, and .Mohammedanism will give up its false prophet, and 
 Judai.sm will confess the true Messiah, and the great walls of .supersti- 
 tion will come down in thunder and-wreck at the long, loud blast of the 
 G<.si)el trumiict. M.arch on! march on! The t>esiegement will soon be 
 ended. Only a few more steps ..n the long way; only a few more sturdy 
 M'lws; only a few more battle cries, then Cod will put the laurel upon 
 :.'inr brow, .-md from the living foimtains of heaven will bathe off tlic 
 sweat an<l the he.it and the .lusi of the conflict. March on ! march on! For 
 \"U the time for work will sn.-n be i)assed, and amid the outHashings of 
 t'lc judgment throne, and the trumpeting of resurrection angels, and the 
 • 'leaving of a world of graves, and the hosanna and the groaning of 
 t;,c saved and the lost, we shall be rewarded for our faithfulness, or pun- 
 ished for our stupidity. T.lessed be the Lord God of Israel from ever- 
 
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 RELIGION AN ANTISEPTIC. 
 
 tiracc is like sail in ii.- l)c;iiU\, In (i;ilicia. aniuii!; ibc mines of salt. 
 there are two lumdreil a.ml eii;iity miles (if nmleri^roinKi i)as>ai,a-s. Down 
 ui tliose salt mines there are eliapel^. and eathedrals. and thea'.er-.. and 
 halls of recci)tiiin, and the altar> are i<\ erystai, and the enhnnns .'.re of 
 erystal, and the ceilini; is id" erysial. When the emperor eome- an<I tlie 
 prinecs. all this is li^lited up uitli |i 'relies, ami the seene is indeserihahle 
 f(.r heautv, a> the emperor and the mii;hty men of his realm walk 
 throngh. and some of them worship in llie elianeel>, and other> are en- 
 tertained in the theaters, and all the iloor. all the pillars, all the eeilinf,'s 
 are of erv-tal. I'.nt why slionld 1 t;o so far to tell you of the heautv 
 of salt when vou ean take a morninj; train :md ,l;o to liie salt mines in 
 a few hours? Vou have it three time- a day u]ion your lahle. 
 
 It is lieantiful to the nrd<ed eye, liut put under the mieroseope. you 
 see the star-, and the splinters, ami the >hafts, and the hrid,i;es of Inx 
 j^lint of the >un. Salt ha> all the heauty of water foam and snow tlake, 
 witii durahilitv added, Xo human skill hath ever put in ,\lliaml)ra or 
 St. I'eter's sueh marvelous heauty as (lod Iiatli ])in in one erystal of 
 salt. .\n ans^el wnuld need to take all of time with an infringement 
 upon eternitv to sketeh the heauty of that whieh you sometimes east 
 aside as of no importanee. 
 
 So 1 ha\e to tell \on that the graee of ( iod is 1)eautiful and heauti- 
 fying. Ila\e vou ne\ it -een a life ilhimined l>y it? Have you never 
 seen a sou! eomforted li\ it? lla\e you ne\er seen a eharaeter grandly 
 eonstrueted through it? 1 lia\e seen it smooth the wrinkles of care 
 from the ])row, I have seen it -eeiningly change the aged into the 
 M)ung. I ha\e seen it lift the stoojied shoulder and put sparkle into 
 tlie dull eye. It is heautifying in its results. It is gr;, ud :md glorious 
 in its intluence. Solouiou descrihed its an.atonucal effect when he said: 
 "It is marrow to ilie houo." 
 
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 sits for three hours uii a g^a\c^tone reading llerveys "Meditations 
 Among the Tonlll^" — a kind of religion wiiicli always thrives best in a 
 had state of the liver; Init a religion sucli as Christ preaclied. the health- 
 iest thing in all l!;;' earth, good for the body as well as good l'(jr the 
 s(4i!, lor it calms the pnNes and it soothes the nerves, and it (|iiiets the 
 spleen, and it is .-i ]}hysical rein\ igoration. -Many a man has felt it. I 
 suppose when the grace of ('oh\ has triumphed in all the earth disease 
 will he banished, ,-ind that i man one hundred years of age will come 
 into the house and, say, "I am very tired, and it i^ time for me to go," 
 and without me physical jiang heaven will have him. 
 
 When I was living in Philadelphia there was an aged bank pres- 
 ident : he was somewhere in the nineties. .\t the close of the business 
 of the day he came home, lay down on the sofa, ami said to liis daugh- 
 ter: "My time has come, and I must go away from you." "Why." she 
 said, "f.-ither. are you sick? .Shall I send for a doct(M-?" "Oh, no," 
 he replied. "I am not sick, but the time has cuine for me to go. You 
 have it put in the morning ])a])ers about my death, so that tliey will 
 not exi)ect me in business circles." .\nd instantly he ceased to breathe. 
 That was be;unifiil — th;it was a glorious transition from the world. And 
 the time will come when men will leave the world without a jiau"-. 
 
 The grace of (iod is .going to do just as much for tl'.e bodies of men 
 as it does for the s. ails of men. I'ut i think tlie power of relif^ion is 
 chielly seen in the snul. It takes that which i> hard and cold and re- 
 imlsive ami casts it out. It makes ;i man all over ;igain. It takes his 
 pride and his sellishness and his worldlines-, and chains them — chains 
 them fast so that they can move around with very small swee]) — for 
 they are chained. 
 
 (io all through the umleriirouml l";dls of Weilitzka and through the 
 underground kingdoms of Ilo!>t;i(lt and ^how me anvthing so beautiful, 
 so grandly beautiful, as this eternal cryst.al. It throws a beaut v over 
 the heart, and a beauty over the life. Christ comes into the soul and 
 eiinti nil ii tile glin\ iii a Miuiinci garden, a> he sa\s : "1 am the rose of 
 
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 Sharon and the lily nl" tlic valley." .Xnd tlicn lie omies and thrown 
 ail over the lite and the heart the heauty of a sprin!:^ mnrninfj as He 
 cries <>ut: "I am tlie iit,du nf tlu' world." Oh, i-^ there in all the earth. 
 i-~ there in all the heaven^ anvthini,' so heantifnl a-' the t,'raee of (iod? 
 
 (iniee i>^ like salt in the fact that it is a luee-sity of life. lUa-^ts an<l 
 nun die withunt it. What are iho^e paths acm^s the Western jirairie.-' 
 Thev have been made hy the deer and hnlTalo eoniini,^ to and iroinj,' fn^n 
 the sail licks. .\11 ehemists. all physioloi^nsis. all iihy-ieian- will tell _\on 
 that salt is an ahsolnte necessity for physical health and life. Withonl i; 
 we soon ilie. And I came to nnderstand also that thi- i,nace of (iod is 
 an ah-;ohne necessitv. I hear |)eoiile talk of it as thont;h this religion 
 were a mere adornnuMit, a shonlder-strap d'Curatint;- a >-ol(lier, a frothy, 
 lii,dn dessert after the chief han.jnet has passed, si .methiny; to he tried 
 after calomels and nnistard ])la<ters have failed, hnt in ordinary cir- 
 cnmst.ances of no especial importance — only the jin.i,dinu: of the 1h.'1Is on 
 the horseV neck while he draws the load, hnt in no way helpin;,'- Inm to 
 draw it. Xow. i denonnce tlnit style of relisj^iim. Kelitrion. while it 
 is an adornment, is the first and the l.ist necessity "'. an innnortal natnre. 
 I mnst ha-.e it. yon nuist ha\e it, or we camiot live. 
 
 \'iiu know how a man wonld soon ))erish it h.e took n^ --alt with his 
 fi^(]d. 'The ener^ie-; would i]:\ix. the hin,s,^s \\.>nld strni^i^de with the air, 
 slow fevers would crawl throuj,di the hrain. the heart wi'uld thuter, and 
 the life would he s^nme. .\nd that is what is the matter with a tj;rcat 
 manv peojile who are dyin;.; in their souls. They take ncme of this salt 
 of di\ine .u;race. They have never trie<l it. They do not want it. 
 Weaker and weaker will they t,a't in the spiritual life, until .after awhile 
 thev will he stretched out on the hier of death. C"ol:"ni him in a <iroan. 
 Hearse him in ;i sijj^ii. Thr.iw ;i wreath of nitjhtshade on the casket. 
 Kindle no lamp at the head or the f<iot, hut rather set up the expired 
 torches of the foolish vir<;ins whose lamps went out. Salt an ah.solute 
 necessitN- for the life of the hoiiy ; the [.jrace of Clod an ah-olute necessity 
 f'lr the life of the soiil. Oh, that it might thunder m our ears today. 
 
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 ••ENCcpt yc he iH.rn aj,'ain ye cannot, ye cannot see the king.k.m of God." 
 Wc have srot to have more faitli in this Gospel, in its power to save 
 all classes ,.i people, not ,,n!y those h.f,'h up, InU th(,sc low <lown. not 
 -nly the wi^e. Init the i^n ,rant-all classes. It is r.,inK' to regenerate 
 -.ciety. While we sit in holy pl.-ues today h-.w many thousands there 
 .ire who h.ive no Sahliath. They pass down tlioe streets. They know 
 i'<.t it is the .Sahlmlh. cxcejit that it j^ives them more opp,,rtimity for di.s- 
 sipation and wicked hilarity, and more time for sin. They have gut to 
 he hronght imder the power ,,f this (iospcl. It is an ahun.lant Gospel. 
 The Christ that saved von will save them. 
 
 "Oh," s.iys s..mc one out there, "if I rmi to he saved 1 will he saved. 
 ■•'"•1 il I am to W loM I will he lost." \-o,i misrepresent the Guspel. mv 
 hn.ther. 1), , „nt say that. There is sometiiing for yon to <lo. Strive 
 to enter m .at the str.ai-ht g.ate. Take the king<l,.m of heaven hy violence. 
 I his grace is .also like salt in its preservative (juality. 
 ^'on know that salt ah,sor1)s the m.iistnre of f,,,,,!. and so food is 
 preserved. .S;dt is the great anti-putrefactive n\ the worUI. Hveryhody 
 knows that. i:x])erimciitcrs in the preservation of food have' tried 
 sugar an.l smoke and air-tight jars, and everything: hut as long as the 
 w.irld .stands Christ's remark will he suggestive: "Salt is good."-' And 
 this grace of God is t<i he the preservative of jaws, of co.mitutions, of 
 .government. Why is it that the Cnited States flovernment an.l the 
 British (;.wernmcnt have stoo.l so long? While there has been corrup- 
 tion often in high places, there have heen gnn.l men always in the front. 
 Take the grace of God aw.ay from a nation, and y.ni work its destruc- 
 tion. It c.innot live without it. 
 
 So a great dc;d .,f mo.lern philo.sopln-. What j, Uic matter with it? 
 The grace of G,.d Ikis g,,iic out of it. and it inurehes an<l n.ts. What 
 our schools of learning, wh.at ,nir institutions ,,f ..cience want now is 
 not more I.eyden jars, more g:.lvanic l.alteries. more spcctn. scopes, more 
 piiilosophic apparatus. ()],. „,, Wjuit is most wanted is the grace of 
 God lo icacii ..;ir men .m" icumng liiai tiic (...d ot the universe is the 
 
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 Guil ut" till- llihlc. 1> it imt stran.nv lluil uiili all their maKnilkciit 
 s\veci)S of the trk-o.pos they have never >een the moriiiiiK star of Jcsii>? 
 oi. hnviiiL; hecn m. Im,-- studyiii!^- ahoitt li.i,'ht a-i.l heat, they have never 
 ~een an.l felt the h^ht and iieat "f the Snn nf Ri-hteonMie» that ha> 
 ,i~cn on the world uith healini; w. His \vini;>? Oh. my friend>. the 
 (lospcl of the f,M-aee of ( iod is the only anti-i«ntrefaetive anions^r the na- 
 tions. Take that away, yon take their life away. I'.verythinj,' on earth 
 is tcndins,' to deeay and death. This is the preservinij; (inalitv. "Salt 
 is j^ood." 
 
 MUSIC IN WORSHIP. 
 
 The he-i mnsie has heen rendered nnder trouble. The lir-t duel 
 that 1 know ;inythin<,' of was .s^iven hy Paul and Sila> when the> --an-,' 
 praises to (iod and the prisoners heard them. The Scotch Covenant- 
 ers, lioimdcd hv the doj;s of persecution, sani; the ii>ahn> of David with 
 more sjjirit than they have ever since heen rendered. Ml oin- churches 
 need arousal on this subject. Those who can sini,' must throw their 
 Minis into the exercise, and tiio^e who cannot sinj,^ must learn liow. and 
 It shall be lieart to he.art. voice to voice, hymn to hymn, anthem to 
 ;:nthcm, and the music ~hall >well jubilant with thankst^Mvin- and trem- 
 ulous with pardon. Music seems to have b.cen bcirn in the soul of the 
 natural world. The omnipotent voice with which dod commanded the 
 v.orld into bein.t( seems lo linj^er yet with it^ niajoty and sweetness, an<l 
 \. \i hear it in the i:rain field, in the swonp of ilic wind ami<! tlie nioiiii- 
 l;iin f;i-tncsscs. in the canarvV w.arble. and the thimder shock, in the 
 brook's tinkle .ami the i>cean's iia-an. There are ~ofi cadences in n;i- 
 ture. .and loud notes, sunie of which we cannot hear at all, and others 
 tl'.at are so terrific that we cannot appreciate them. 
 
 Tile animalcul;e h.ive their nui-ir, and the spicnla of hay and the 
 t,dol)ule of water are ;is certainly resonant with the voice ol Ciod as the 
 I'.i'^hest heavens in whicli the armies of the redeemed celebrate their \ ic- 
 tunes. 'When tiie )ire;uh of liie iiower siiikc> ilie .lii. .imi the xwCis^ of 
 
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 llic tia-lly ilc;i\i> II. ilicrc i- -niiiiii aii.l iIkmi' is nu'Iudv; ;iiiil ,i^ ti. ilm^c 
 uiliT.iiici- Hi" n.iinrc whiili -cim h.-ush aixl "Mtw IR•lll;inJ,^ it i- a- wlicii 
 yu slaii.l 111 till- niid-t ,,| a ),MTat (ircliostra, an.l the s.ntnij alninsi mi(N 
 sum lar iKcaiise Vdii arc tno near t.i catch tiic l.lcndint: ..f the music. 
 ."^n. my tricii.l.. \\c stand tno near the dcsnlatinjf stnmi and tlie fnj^rhtfiii 
 • hirlwind tn catch ilie hlcii(Hn.i,' of tlic nnisjc; hut when that iniisic rises 
 I" wlicrc (ind i>. and ilic iiuisiMe hemtjs w hu licit ;ilin\e us. t!un I suj)- 
 I'nse the li.irini.ny is .-i- sweet as it is treniendntis. 
 
 My ciiiet interest is m the music m| tlie liihie. The Hihic. hke a fjreat 
 hai-]) with inn nicrahle strm-^s. ^wv]>l hy the tlnf,'ers of iiispirati.Mi. trem- 
 l)les witli it. .S,, far hack as the I'mirth chai)ter ,>{ (ienesis you find the 
 first orKamsi an.l hariier-Juhal. So far hack as the thirty-first chapter 
 of Genesis y,,u find the first choir. .Ml uj) and dnun the iJihlc you 
 fmd sacre<l music— .it weddin,s,rs, at inanjjfuratinns, at the trea.ling of the 
 wine press, (an vou ima.<,nne the liarin.>ny when tlicse white-rohe.i 
 l.evites. hefore the symhols nf (ind's presence, and iiy the sn.okinjr altars, 
 and the candlesticks that -prano- upward ami hranche.l nut hke trees ..f 
 Rold, and under the winj,- uf the cheruhmi. chante.I the one hundred 
 and thirty-si.Kth Psalm nf David :^ \\:u know how it was done. One 
 part of that i^reat choir stn,„l up and cliante.l. -Oh! jrive thanks untn the 
 Lord, inr He is g...,!!" Tlien the other part of the cli.Mr, staudin- in 
 some (,ther part nf the temple, w.nild come in with the response: •■F.,r 
 
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 mercy endnrcth forever." fhcn the Hrst part w.)uld take up tlie 
 
 -am. and s.iy. ■•I'nto him who only dneth ,i,M-cat wonders." The 
 
 r pan of the choir would come in with the overwhelminsr response. 
 
 His UKi. cndnieth f.irever," until in the latter ])art of the son<,'. 
 
 "IMC il. ''11: '.ackward and I'orward. harmony j,rrapplin,<,r with Iiar- 
 
 ■ry truniiK't souiidiiiiLr, every hosom hcavin-;-. one part of this 
 
 c-rohed ch.^ir would lift the anthem. "Oh! <,mvc thanks unto 
 
 i' heaven," an. the other jiart of the Levite ch..ir would come 
 
 vv 1 die rcsjionse: 'T'or I (is mercy endnrcth forever." 
 
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 ly (it iliiirih imi>ic? Tlierc may Ik- a j;''*-"-'" '"■"i) <littVmici.-. of npiii- 
 idii. In MiMU' uf the diurilifs tliey iiri-l'rr a ttaiiu-d clmir; in (itlRT>. 
 the ol'l-'itvlc pnrcMiti'i'. In ^"inc i)laiis llu'v prcfi-r the nieldileun, tiie 
 liarp, the enrnet. the orpan; in other plaies tliey think tlie>e thiii.i;^ are 
 the invention ol the devil. Some woiilij have a iniisical instnimeiit 
 l)layeil s.. loud von cannot stand it. and others woiiltl have it played so 
 soft Von cannot hear it. Some think a musiial iiistniment onijht to he 
 jjlaved onlv in the interstices of worship, and then with indescriUdjIe 
 Softness; while others are not satisfied unless there he startling contrasts 
 and staccato passa,<,'es that make the .audience jnm]), witli ijreat eyes 
 and hair on end. as from a vision of the Witch of l-'.ndor. lUit, while 
 there may he great \arieties of oi)inion in regard to music, it seems to 
 me that the general sjiirit of the Word of (iod indicates what ought to 
 he the great characteristic of church music. 
 
 And I remark, in the first jilace. a ijn.minetu characteristic oUL;ht to 
 he adajjtiveuess to devotion. Music that may he ajiiiropriate for a con- 
 certdiall, or the operadiouse. i>r the dr.iwing-room, may he shocking iti 
 church, ('dees, madrigals, hallads. may ho as innocent as psalms in 
 their jilaces. liut church music has only one design, and th.ii is devo- 
 tion, and that which coiues with the toss, the snug, .and 'he disid.iy of 
 an oiieni-house is a hindrance to the worshii). from -ucli perl'orm- 
 ;'.nces we go awav, saving: '"WlLit splendid execution' Did >ou ever 
 he.ir such a snpr'ino? Which of those sol. is did you like the hotter?" 
 When, if we hail heen rightly wrought upon, we wouhl have gone away. 
 '-;i\ iiii;-: ■'< ih, how mv s,iul was lifted up in tlie iiresence of (;,,d while 
 thcv were -inging tliat first hymn! I never had -iich rap'nroiis views 
 of ie-us Christ as mv Saviour as when thev were singing that list do\- 
 ,,logy." 
 
 M\- frieniN, there is .'i;i everlasting distiiu'tion hetween music as an 
 ,irt ar. ; music as a he!]) to devotion. Though a Schuinami comprised it, 
 
 though ;i Mo/art jjlayed it, though a Soiitag s.ing it, away with it if it 
 
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 the progra,„mes of worldly gaycty when wc have so many appropriate 
 songs and t„nes composed in onr ou„ day. as ^vell as tliat magnificent 
 inheritance of Cln.rch psahnody .liid, has come down fragrant with 
 the devotions of nther gencraiions-tnnes no more worn out than thev 
 uere wlien onr great-grandfathers chmJ-ed up on ll,en> from the church 
 l)ew to glorv? 
 
 And in those days there were certain tunes married to certain hymns 
 .-Hid they have hve.l in peace a great uhile. thise two old people, and we 
 have no right to divorce tlicm. -What fiod hath joined together let 
 no n,an pttt asunder." Il„rn. as we h.-ue heen. atnid this great wealth 
 ot Church tnusic. augmented hy tlie c,„„p„sitious of artists in our own 
 day, we ought not t,, he tempted out of the sphere of Christian har- 
 mony and try to seek- unco„.ecrate,l sounds. 1, is absurd A,r .-, nnliion- 
 aire to steal. 
 
 I remark, als.,, ti,;.t correctness ought in he a char.icteristic of Church 
 'm.s.c. While we all ought t,, take ,,ar, in this .en ice. with perhaps a 
 few exceptions, we ought, at the <unr time, tn culture -mrselves in this 
 sacred art. (iod loves harmony, and we uught U, l.,ve it. There is no 
 devotion in a howl. 
 
 Another characteristic must he spirit and life, ^[usic ongh^ to rush 
 from the au.lietice like the w:,ter imm .-, nx-k-~cle:n-, hright! sparkling. 
 Jl all the other part of the Church service is dull, do not have the musk- 
 <Iull. 
 
 With so m.-my thrilling things to sing .ahout. awav with all <lraw!- 
 ing and stupidity. There ,. nothiug th:.! make^ me ., uervous as to sit 
 in a pulpit and look off o„ ,,„ audience with their eyes three-fourths 
 close.1. an,l their lips almost ^hut. mumbling praises of (io.l. l>eople 
 <!'- not sleep at a coronatiou; do not let us >leep when we come to a 
 Saviour's coronatiou. 
 
 Again. Church music mi,.t he congreg,itio.,;d. This opportunity 
 nmst k" brought down within the nin-e of the whole audience. A souo- 
 
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 tliat tlic woisliipcr;, cannot sing is of ikj more use to tlicni tlian a ser- 
 mon in Clioctaw. 
 
 Let us wake up to this duty. Let us sing alone, sing in mir families, 
 sing in our schools, sing in our churches. 
 
 "Gloria in F.xcelsis" is written over many organs. Would that hy 
 our a])preci;itiiin (if the goodness of tlod. and the ir.erc\- of Christ, and 
 the grandeur of heaven, \vc could have "Gloria in Excclsis" written over 
 all our souls. "Glory he to the Father, and to the Sun, and to the Tloly 
 Ghost: as it was in the heginuing, is now, and ever shall he. wmld with- 
 out end." 
 
 BUSINESS LIFE. 
 
 We arc under the impression that the nmil and tug of husincss life 
 are a prison into which a man is thrust, or that it is an unequal strife 
 where, unarmed, a mm goes forth to contend. 
 
 Business life was intended of Gud fur gr;uid .-uid glnridus education 
 and discii)line. and if I shall he lulped to say \\h;it 1 want to say, T 
 shall rul) some of the wrinkles of care out of your hrow and unstrai) 
 some of the hurdens from your hack. 
 
 Business life was intended as a school of energy. God gives us a 
 certain ainotnit of raw luatcrial out of which we are to hew our char- 
 acter. Our faculties are to he reset, munded .and sliarpencd up. Our 
 voung folks ha\ing graduated from school or college need a higher ed- 
 ucation, th;it which the rasping and '-ollision of every-day life alone can 
 effect. F.nergy is wrought out only in .a th-e. .\fter a m,-ui has heen in 
 business ;icti\-itv ten, twenty, thirty years, his energy is not to he meas- 
 ured hv wciglits. or plummets, or Ladders. There i^ no height it cannot 
 scale, and there is no dejith it cannot fathom, and there is no ohst.acle it 
 caimot thrash. 
 
 Now. my hrothcr, why did God put you in that school of energy? 
 Was it merely that yriu might he ;i yardstick to measure cloth, or a steel- 
 vard to weiuh Hour? Was it merelv th;it vou miirht he better dualitied 
 
SEHMOXS AND LECTURES 
 
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 U) cliafifer and lii.cf.i^k? N'(x God placed you in tliat scliool of energy 
 tliat yon migln Ite developed for Christian work. If the undeveloped 
 talents in the Christian churches of today were hrought out and 
 thoroughly harnessed, I helievc the whole earth would he converted to 
 r.od in a twelvemonth. There are so many deep streams that are luni- 
 nig no mill-wheels, and that are harnessed to no factory-bands. 
 
 Xow. (](h\ demands the best lanih out of every flock. He demands 
 the richest sheaf of every harvest. lie demands the best men of every 
 generation. A cause in which Xewton. and Locke, and Mansfield 
 toiled, you and I can afford to t(jil in. Oh, for a fewer idlers in the 
 cause of Christ, and for more Christian workers, men who shall take 
 the .same energy that from Monday morning to Saturday night they put 
 forth for the achievement of a livelihood, or the gathering of a fortune, 
 and on Sabbath days ],ut it fnrih to the advantage of Christ's kingdom, 
 and the bringing of men to the Lord. 
 
 ]^r. Duff visited, he said, in South Wales, and he saw a man who 
 had inherited a great fortune. The man said to him: "I had to be very 
 busy for many years ..| my life .getting my livelihood, .\ftcr awhile 
 this fortune came t^ me. and there has been m. necessity that [ toil sine 
 There came a time when 1 said to myself. -Shall I now retire from busi- 
 ness, or shall I go ,,,1 and serve the Lord in my worldly occupation?" " 
 He said: "I resolved on the latter, and 1 have been more industrious in 
 commerci;il circles than i ever was before, and since that hour I have 
 never kept a farthing lor myself. I have thfught it to bo a great shame 
 if I coubln'i toil ;is hard for ihe Lord as 1 had toiled for myself, and a'l 
 the iModucts ..r my factories and my commercial establishments to the 
 last fart^iing have -one for the bnihling of Christian instittuious and 
 supporting the Church of Cod." Oh, if the same energy put forth for 
 the world coul.l be put forth fe,r (iod! Oh, if a thousand nien in these 
 great cities who li;ive achieved a fortune could see it their diuy now to 
 do all business for Christ and the alleviation of the world's suffering! 
 Lusmess life is a school ot patience, in your everv-dav life li^w 
 
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 many iIiiiil;- lo .iiinny at..' \>> (lisi|itic'i I Hari^ains will nil), (ninnicr- 
 cial men will >•' mu'tinRs tail in nu'vi tlioir cn^atji'mciits. Cash Ixmk an<l 
 nu)ni-\ (liawcr will si Miii-tiinc'- (Hiarrcl. (Inmls nrdfrcd fnv a special 
 ( incrt;cni'\- will inmiu' i"' l.iic, nr In- .laniamvl in the Ifansiiortatmn, I'cci 
 I'll- intfiiilini; no liaiin will l;" >li"]iinn,y; witlnuit any intontinn nf ])ni- 
 iIkisc, iiNcrtnrninij vjcaI ^ilH■k^, of i;oiHls. and in^istint; that ymi hrcak 
 the (lo/cn. More had dehts <in lie ledL^er. More eonntert'eit bills in 
 the drawer. More ilel)ts to jiay t'or other peoiile. More meannesses 
 on llie pari oi p.iilner^ in Im-ine^-. .\nnoyanee alter annoyanee, sex ■ 
 atioii alter \e\atior,. and lo-.-; alter loss. 
 
 All that proees- will ei;li' r lu'eai^ yon down or liri,i;hten yon np. It 
 is a seliodl of iiatienee. \ "\i lia\e known men under the proe.ss to he 
 eome iietn'anl, and eholerie, and ;iii,i;ry. and pii',Miaeions. and ross, and 
 -our. ami ipieer. and tliev lo>t ll'.eir enstoniers, and their iia le became 
 a dele'statii'n. I)i|ur men h.ave been brightened u]) nnder the i)rncess. 
 Thex' were to;,-lieiied by the e\po>nre. 'I'hey were like roeks, all the 
 nii're valuable ior bem- bhi^ied. .\t lir-t they had to choke down their 
 wrath, at first iliev had to bite their lip. at tirst they thout;ht of Mmie 
 -tin,i,Mr,i;- reto.i tliev would like to n':ike; but they con(|uered their im- 
 patie'ite. Thes lune kind word- imw for sarcastic tlini^'s. They have 
 i^'entle behavior now for nimianner'y customers. They are patient now 
 with r.nlortiin;ite debt r-. The\' ba\e ("hnstian rellections now for sud- 
 den re\er-e-. Wh.ere did they ;;et that patience? P.y liearini,' a min- 
 i-ter pre.-ich eoncei iiitii;- it on Sabbath? Oh. no. They trot it just 
 where von will yet it- -if von e\er Qet it at all — scllintr hats, di.-count- 
 in.t;- note-, tnrnini;- b.ini-ler-. plov.iniL; corn, tinnini; roofs, jileadin.i; 
 causes, dli. lh;it iiniid the tnniioil and anxiety and eNasperstion of 
 every-da\ life \ on iniLih! b'. :iv the \ oice of ( lo,l -.;iyin(;-: "Ii patience p<is- 
 ^c^s v.'Ur -'111. l-i.; patience !::i\e her perfect work," 
 
 r,n-;i;e-- lif'' i- :i -c-'-m-I cf u-efn! knowledge. Merch:ints do not 
 re.ad m;!ii\ boi.k-. and di i iv ' -!iid\ lexicon-. They do no| di\e into 
 
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SHIJMOXS AND LKCTI'I.'KS .{sr, 
 
 to understand c|nesti,n,s of nnancc. and politR-s. an.i ffCo;,r,a,,l,y an,i 
 jurisprn.InKT, and cthic-s. Bnsincss is a severe sel,..,,|,„,.,re^. If 
 P-I'ils will n,„ learn, s],, ..rikes then, :,ver the head an,l heart unh 
 severe losses. ^ on put S;.ooo into an enterpri.r. Iii, all-,,ne N'.ni 
 sMy: -That i. a dea.i I,,..." ( ,i, „,, ^■,„ ,,,. ,,,,,„^ the .-h,,,,!,,,^. 
 Iliat was only tuitinn. very lar-e tnitin,,.^- | t,,],] vm,, ,i v,a^ a M-veu- 
 sehoohnis,ress-h,n it was w-.rth it. ^^,„ ].,,,„.! thn.i,- under ,h;,t 
 im)ee-s y,,„ uoiil.l not have learned in any other way. 
 
 Traders in nrain erne t,. know sonielhin- aLan fnrei-n harvei-,- 
 tra,lers i„ fnm ennie t,, know .nnetliin,v ah..ui the prospect^ ,,f ,r,,p- 
 
 H-al prodnetion; nianuf:.el.n-er.s of .American ^l; N eonie f, un.lerM.Mid 
 
 tlu' larill .,„ itnported artieles; pnhlish.ers (,i ho,,k.. „„,., o.ne i., u,>der- 
 stan.l the new law .,f copyri-ht : .,v.ner> ,,f d,i,.- ,„n.t e.,„,. „, kn.nv 
 wni.ls an.l shoals an,l navigation: an.l every hale .,f o.tto,,. an-l every 
 raisin cask, and every tea l.nx, and every elu^ter ,,f hanana. ,. >• , ,n,u-h 
 hleratnre I'.ir a l,nsine» man. X,a\, ,nv l.miher, what an- v,,u .■...,.,- 
 to do with the intelh^enee? I), , ^ , ,„ ...pp^.e <„.! p„t ^,,u ,„ ih,. ^:,' ^ 
 -t n,f,,rniati,,n merely that y. .„ mi^ht he .han;er in a iiade. ti;at y. ai 
 mi-hl l)e more Mieee>-inl a-, a w..rldli„-:- ();,, ,„,. ,, ,. .,^ ,,,.,, ;._^^. 
 . mi.trht take tliat n>el"nl ini.irmatiun and n- it f, :■ ((.„,., (!,,.,,; 
 
 ("an it he that y-n have l»vn deaiin- with i-rei-i, land- and ne^•cr 
 had the missinnarx -pnat, wi^lnn- -he -ai'-ati^.n .^i f,,r(.i<.„ peppier Ca;', 
 it he that ynn have hen.nic acmainfed with all liir -^ntra-e> milicfjd w 
 luiMnes> life, an, I that y. .1, have neM'r trivd t.^ Irin- t.. he; r h- ■ C] ,-,,^! 
 which is f extirpate all evil and c-rroi all urn--, a:al il!uni;;:aie a!! 
 .iarkntss, an.l lift up all wretrhedne-. and -ave ii];:, f, ,- ,!„, ,,, , |^i ^j^j 
 the world to come- (.'an u Iv that nnder-tatidi:';. ail ;!a nificacir- of 
 husiness uu know uothin- ahout t!,.-e thin--, which xmII la-t afu- v'' 
 
 nils ot i-\<dian:;e a.nd c^n-i"-;!;);...;- 
 
 nd noi.ice- and re:;; r^ ::^ sliu'l 
 
 have crnmnled n;, and heen co:,-umcd m t!:e lire- of tla ;;:-. -rcat dav - 
 Can it he tliat a man will he wi-t- nr tanc. and a tool n.,r ef-nnv- ' 
 i;;;-mc- life i- a -.i.ool „,, :ni,vni-. Xo mai! kno\\ - wi-n ha will 
 
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 il.. until he is tcmi.tcd. There :uc th..u>;Muls ..f mkm. who liavc kept 
 their integrity merely hccause they never h:ive heen teste.l. A man was 
 ulecte.1 treasurer of the State of Maine some years ago. 1 le was distin- 
 i;uislie.l for his honesty, usefulness an.l uprit^htness. hut hefore one year 
 ha.l passed he iia.l taken of tlie puMie funds for his own private use. 
 and was hurled out of olV.ce in .lisKrace. Distintrnished for virtue he- 
 fore. DistiuK'ni-hed for crime after. Von can call over the names ot 
 men just like that, in whose honesty you had complete contidenc.-. hut 
 placed in certain crises of temptati(.n they went overhoard. 
 
 Never so many temptations to snmndrelisin as now. \ot a l;iw on 
 the statute lu.ok hut has some hack door thmnt^di which ;i miscreant 
 can escape. .\li ! how many deceptions in the fahric of i,^oods: >o nuich 
 lilunderin,-;- in commercial life that if a man talk al.out livin.i,^ a life of 
 complete commercial accuracy there are those who ascrihe it m -reen- 
 ness and lack of tact. More need of honesty now than ever hefore. tried 
 honesty, complete honesty, more than in those times when husiness was 
 a plain affair, and woolens were woolens, and silks were silks, and men 
 were men. 
 
 How many men do you suppose there are in connuerci.il life who 
 could say truthfully. "In all the sales 1 have ever made 1 have never 
 ..verstated the value of Roods: in all the >ales 1 have ever made 1 have 
 never covered up an imperfection in the fahric; of all the thousands of 
 dollars I have ever made 1 have not taken one di>honest larthiuR?'" 
 There are men. however, who can say it. hundreds who can say it, 
 thousands who can say it. They are more honest than when they sold 
 their tirst tierce of rice, or their first firkin of hutter, hecause their hon- 
 oty and integrity have heen tested, tried and came out triumphant. 
 iUit they rememher a time when they could have mlihed a iKutner. or 
 have ah^coiided with, the fimds of a h.ank. or spniuL;- a -.nap judi;nient, 
 ,,r nv-ide a false a-^>ii;tnnent. or horrowed ilhniitahly without atiy efforts 
 at i.ayment. or Rot a m.in into a sharp corner and tleeced him. P.ut they 
 never to,,k one step on that pathway of hell lire. They can siy their 
 
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 prayers uitliotn liuariii- the clink „i .lishoncst .lullar.. Tliey .an rca,! 
 llicir l!il,lc uitliont tiiinkin- nf the time wiien, with a lie ,.n'tl,ur soul 
 in the C uMo.n llnnse, they kissed the ho„k. They can linnk of .leath 
 ■•""1 ""■ in-Ionicnt that o.nics after it with.mt any tlinciunij-that <lay 
 when all eiiaflaian^ an,l ehcats and jnckcys an.l frauds shall he ,|.,„hlv 
 ''.■">nie.i. It dn.s ,„„ „K,kc their knees knock toouhcr, and it .loes no't 
 "lake then- teeth cliatter to read "as the partridj,', siilelh on r,,-s a.id 
 li.-ileheth then, not; s, , |„ that Ketleth riches, and not hy ,-i^d,t. sl,,,ll 
 leave theni in the midst of his days, and at his cn.l shall hj ;, fo,,l." 
 
 GOSPEL LOOKING-GLASS. 
 
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 .eoltenliearal.ont tlic ( losijcl of John, and the ( i<,spcl of Matthew, 
 and the (iospel of I.nke. There is jnst as certainly a (lospel of Mosc^. 
 a (Iospel of David, a C.ospel of Jeremiah. In other v,.,rds. Chri-t i. as 
 certainly in the ( )l,lTestament as in the.Vew. If.after .,nc has ,k parted. 
 we want to -et an idea of jn.t how he looked, we .Leather u] .-I! ihc plio- 
 toj^raphs— some taken from one side the face. <,thrr~ from the other 
 -i.le the face, some the full face, some the fnllden-th portrait, and then 
 from all these pictm-es we recall to our mind jnst how the deimrted one 
 looked. And I want all the pictures of the evan-elist. an<l all the pic- 
 tures of the jirophet- to hrinj,' hcforo me the ima.cre of Jc-s„, Chrin. 1 
 want to knou just how lie !<,oked,and tiie more inetures 1 have of Him 
 the better I -hall understand 
 
 When the Israelites uere on their march throu-h the wilderness 
 tlicy carried their church with them. They had what they called a taher- 
 nacle. a i.itched tent. It was very costly and very heautiful. The frame- 
 work w.as made ,.ut of forty-ei^lit hoards of acacia w^od. set in sockets 
 of silver. The curtains of the iiuildin.t;- were of purjile .and scarlet and 
 l.lue and fme linen, and they were huno- oii artistic l.,ops. The candle- 
 stick had a shaft and hranches and howls of <,rol«l. and there were lamps 
 of gold, and tongs of gold, and snuffers of gold, and r;n-s of -old. 
 
 
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 \o\v, M'' J l^ <'uc iliiui; 111 tills iiuciciu lahfiiiaclt. tliat csiieciatly 
 attracts my a tcntion, ami tiiat is tlie lavcr. It was a i;Ti:M basin filled 
 with water, and the water wont ddwn thr()Ui4h spmits and passed away, 
 and the priests eaine and washed their lunuls and their feet as this water 
 came down thruu,L;h the -ji. 'lUs and passed away. The laver was made 
 out of the Io(>kin;4-,ul:i->e> of the \^. men who had freipiented the tal)er- 
 iiaele. and who liad tna<le that eoninhiuion to the furniture. The looking- 
 -da'-scs were not ni.i(k' out of -ia--. Iml of hiass of a superior quality, 
 poii-hed and hurnir-hetl. uniil jii-l a> >ooii as a priest looked into the side 
 of the lavcr he saw his uNerv fe,it:!ie and any siMit of delilement that may 
 ha\e heen on his eounte:iaiKe : s, , iliat this laver of looking-glasses had 
 two purposes; the lirsi, i.. sli,,\\ those who came up tlie delilement upon 
 themselves, and scconily, to offer them a place where they could get nd 
 of it.- And as e\eryi:iin,!,' in the ancient tahernacle was typical of some- 
 thing in the ( iospd of the Son of ( i"d. or. at any rate, suggestive of it, 
 I take this laver of lo,)king-glasses as all suggestive of this Gospel, which 
 tirst shows mc sni. and then gi\es mean opportunity of divine ablution. 
 
 '■ ( )h. happ\ day. happ_\ day. 
 When Jesus washed my sins away!" 
 
 This is tiic onlv inirpir. the hunhshed side of this laver is the only 
 ,„iir, ,r— th.i! ^ilows \(Ui just as you arc. Some mirrors llatter the fea- 
 tures, and thev make \ ou look better than yon are. Some mirrors distort 
 the features, and they make vmh !o,.k worse th;m you are. This mirror— 
 this mirror of Cod's W,,nl— ,liov,,., you just as you are. These priests 
 would come in. and just as -ouii as they confronted the burnished, 
 polished side of this looking-glass, this metal out of which the laver was 
 made, they sav\ where there was any pollution upon the countenance, 
 where there was any sjiot that needed to he cleaned off. 
 
 Just as soon as we cume in and look at this mirror of the Gospel of 
 Jesus Christ, we see ourselves just as we are. ".Ml have sinned and 
 come short of the glory of God." That is one showing. ".Ml we, like 
 
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 SERMONS AND LKCTUUKS ;;m<i 
 
 slu'c]). li.-.\ <■ i;,,nL' astray." Tliat is another sliowing. -i.-roin tlie cmwii 
 of the head to the sole of the foot there is no health in us." That is 
 anotlier shouin,^•. Some people call these defects imperfections, or cccen- 
 tncities. r erratic I)ehavior, or wild ..ats, or hifjh living; but this Book 
 rails them lilth. transfrressi(,n. the ahoniinable thing that God hates. Paul 
 got one .glance at that mirror— that polished mirror— and he cried out: 
 "Oh. wretched m;m that I am, who shall deliver me?" l>avid caught 
 "lie .i,diiiil'>^" "t tli.it minor. ;md he cried out; "I'urge me with hyssop. 
 anr! 1 shall l.e clean!" .Martin I.uther got one glimpse of that mirror, 
 and he cried oiu to .Staupitz : "Oh. my sins, my sins, my sins!" 
 
 Miii'l yon, I am n.>t talking alxnit had habits. We do not nce<l any 
 Bible to persuade us that blasphemy is wrong, or impure life is wrong, 
 or evil speaking is wrong. 1 am now talking of the heart, the evil heart 
 the fountain of l,;id thoughts, of b;ul words, of bad actions. Here is 
 ingratitude, for instance, i f you hand me a glass of water. I say. -Thank 
 you." If ! hand you a glass of water, you say, "Thank you." But here 
 we have 1 en taking ten thousand mercies from the hand of C.od— our 
 hunger fed, our thirst slaked, an.l we have had .shelter and home, and 
 ten thousan.l blessings and ad.antages. and yet I do n-n state a thing 
 that you will not believe when I say that there are people in this house 
 this morning fifty years of age who have never got ilown once on their 
 knees and thanke.l (iod f..r His giKulnes.s. .\nd here is pride of iieart. 
 Oh. we all have felt it. the pride that will imt submit to Gr.d. Pride 
 wants its own way. 1 will not quarrel with theologians about terms. 1 
 do not care whether you call it total tlepravity. or whether yo,, call it 
 something else. This evil nature we got from our parents, and they got 
 it from their parents. an<l it goes down from generation to generation— 
 a nature obnoxious to (kid before conversion, and after conversion there 
 is n.it ..lie in any of us except that which the grace of Cxi planted and 
 fostered and keens. 
 
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 il.iv is sii apt t" i>t'i>tia('U' a man that lie is aliiuist rij^ht aiiyliow, lu- 
 I'liK iiccils a little t"i\inj; iiii, lie only needs a few touches of divine grace. 
 and then lie will U- all right: only a little ont of order; only 
 a little repair necessary tn onr nature, instcail of the broad, dee[) 
 talk, which Baxter, and i'ayson. and Wesley, and George Wliite- 
 liild tluindered in the ears of a race tremhling on the verge of 
 iii>taiit and eternal disaster. Ah! my friends, if there is any truth 
 plainly set forth in this llnok. it is that we have thoroughly gone 
 a>tray, and that we arc not hy nature almost right, but allogetlRv wrong. 
 "The heart i- deceitful alx've all things, and d> -peratcly wicked." Some 
 of us have been in liampton Court, and we remeniher that room wliere 
 all the fcur w.ills .ire covered with mirrors, and it does not make any 
 dilYerence which way ynii lnok. you see yourself. .\nd when a man 
 I nee fulh steps inside tliis |)recinct of the (jospel he r.ees himself on 
 all sides, e\cry feature of moral deformity, every spit of moral taint. 
 The whole head is sick, and the whole heart is {■>•• ' 1 do not care what 
 \(iur aiicotry w,i>. yi.ur .iiicestry was no lK;tt<.i n my ancestry. I'ut 
 ;iil geiier.-itions li.ixe fell this ;oucli of sin. lla.e you not reali,-;e(l it? 
 I will tell vou why. Yi>u have never looked into the looking-glass, 
 y 'U have never s(.cn the mirror. 
 
 "iUit,"' ,-ay- smnc mie, "what is the use of displaying our defect:- lo us 
 if we cannot get rid of them?" None. You .say: "What is the use 
 <<i >iinwing me tli.it 1 am a sinner if I cannot be anything but a sinner?" 
 X'l u.-e. 1 ciiiiii't imagine anything meaner than for a physician t" 
 come iiit" a ^ick r^iom ;inil tell the patient how bad he looks, and to t!is- 
 coursc iip'iii his ;ifilii-tiiiii. and enlarge upon the fact that his case is 
 hi'lieless. and then ,^. > mit with lii> hands Ix'hind his Ixick and wliistling. 
 There ncsei' lui-- been a ca>e like that. Xo physici.'in would be so hard- 
 liearleil a> that, if yi 'U caiiiint cure a disease you certainly will not 
 make tlie matter wni-c by discoursing upon it, and I am the last man to 
 -land here and tall: abmu ilic -in of my iieart and the sin of your heart 
 unless tiieic is a cuie im U. i iieic is no lim; lui liic polished sule ul iiiis 
 
 If -f^ 
 
SKI{M()> -^ AND J.KCTrifHS 
 
 :!!H 
 
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 111, ■ iki 
 
 >tct i (1. 
 
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 •hat 
 
 lavcr, no use fur tin- Imrnisli lookiiig-j^lass, if tlierc is iin place fur mc 
 ti) wasli ami Ik- cl"an. 
 
 Xow, \(jn iii.tico that tlii- 'aver of LiokiiiK-Rlasscs si).,k(Mi of in my 
 text, was filliMl with fresli wa-r every iiKirniiif,'. Tlie servants of tl:e 
 taheriiaele t<iok luiekcts. ami t, v tilled them with the uater. ami they 
 hroiiKht this hrifjht water ami jn ired it into the laver; and that i> a type 
 of tliis Ccspel of Jesus flirist. wh ch is a fresh (inspel lM-,h every year, 
 every day, every li(,ur, every m 
 accumulated cor' 
 riiristiaiis often 
 Why. my hrotlR 
 ten. fifteen ycai 
 <IospcI. What 
 prove to the go-, 
 any excuse for i 
 would not a>k r 
 'And I do not .: 
 fne years, cr 
 under the stai 
 now ? 
 
 The tr( ;il ;s. {h ,! 
 against thi nag( t 
 
 the great l e — o; 
 allowed tlu r re insurr 
 your lK)ine should be 
 to-morrow mornintr a 
 demand the amount ni 
 "Vou have no lHisines> 
 
 ;at I 
 
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 le yea 
 
 iI''iS ( ■ ; 
 
 ■lent. It is ii.ii ;i ^t;l;4llallt ])0()1 (if 
 
 g water hreaking fmni the i<K;k. 
 
 'ing satisfied with ol<l experiences. 
 
 r are wh.il ydur exjicrieiice'^ were 
 
 ;;;.■. ,i st.ale (iM-pd (live in ;i fre^li 
 
 ^' pji a war should come, and 1 could 
 
 ^■;i .).; I was Inyal, umfd that l,e 
 
 .itf. .■• il'-giance? The giivernmenl 
 
 ■n year ,,^ .. I it. "What are ynu now?" 
 
 'U -vere ' ,il t" Jous Christ ten nr 
 
 : !"y: I now? .\re you lighting 
 
 .M' ynn a soldier of Jesus Chrisr. 
 
 r. tf 
 
 r.v- ire depending upon old insurances 
 ■r-l insurances again>t the damage of 
 la-., run out. SuiJjiose that you 
 ■■ 'ionie to expire yesterday, and to-dav 
 v\ uld you have the impertinence to gn 
 p.n rs to the in>urance companv and 
 j..;icy: \'o. If ymi did they would say; 
 re. you h, e n. ■ right to a-k th.-it. y, .n let the 
 insurance expire on Saturday ; this i- donday." () follower > .t the ].' ird 
 Jesus, do not depend upi>!i old insu- :ices, ten, or twenty, or forty years 
 old, as T know some of hi are depending upiMi them I Vou want the 
 
 I .( tlirx- rvii-l lit"! \w fli*> til. w^. 1 '1.1,1 ♦I»o ».....-- ..f *1. ^ t' ,- .- / • 1 
 
^ In-s-^h 
 
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 i>Kl{.M(»N>. ANI> LKC'I'l |{|;s 
 
 Uut I notice in regard u< tins lavcr lodkinijgla^s that tli;' piic-^t- 
 there waslieil tlieir hand . and their feet. Tlic watiT lanie d.'wn thmntjli 
 till- siHints fmni the Iia-in, and they larefullv and lomplelelv wa>Iied 
 their liands and their feet. tyiJieal nf the fad ihat 'lii- (i. ^pel i^ h, reach 
 to tile very extnimties nf ..nr ntmal nainie. Here i-^ a man who say> : 
 "I will feiiee i<(( part of my heart, and it >hall he a -ardeii full of flowers 
 and frnits of Clnisti n ehar.ieter. .and all the resi shall hi' the devil's 
 eoinmons." \,,u can not i|o it. li is ,ill !;,irden or none. Non tell ine 
 .'.hont a man. th.it he is ,i ^(«,d ( hristian except in i>olities. I (\a\\ 
 \onr statenieiU. If his religion will not take him in pniily thron^di the 
 .intnmnal election, that religion i^ wdrth nothiiijr in May. June, or Jnh . 
 \ on s.iy that a man is a very >;o(j(l m;m. he is a Christian, he is nsel'ul. 
 Imt he over-re.iehes in a harjjain. I dmy yonr statement. If it is an 
 all-i)erva(Ii"i; relij,non. if it touches ,i man at all at one ix.iin of hi^ 
 nature, it > i ])ervade his entire nature. 
 
 It is tpuie e.asy to he a Christian, or seems to he. on Sal.hath, sur- 
 r-undeil hy kindly inlluences; hut not so easy to he a (. lin ti.an when 
 hy one twitch of the roll <if .>,Mods y, .u cm oner ;i ilj'\'v[ m the silk. 
 It is ijuite an easy tiling' to he .a Christian with ;; p>a!::;!).Mik in yot;- 
 hand .and the I'.ihle on _\ mn- Lap; not so ea-y i.. he a lh::.i:;'.n when 
 lellinj,' a merchaiu \nn can j;et U'tter ;;o,m1s .at le^s price at .another stor^ 
 niUil he lets yoii have the j,'ooils che,ai)er th.an he li.as any cajiacit) to sell 
 them: he is goinrr to hurt himself when he does sell, for theie are more 
 lies tiild l)efore the counter th.an hehind the counter, ten to one. Christ 
 will have yon all. or He will have none of you. This i^race must reach 
 to the very extremities of <iur nature. 
 
 Sui)pose you h.ave reined or purchased ;i whole li. mse. and the former 
 owner comes to you with the keys. There .are twelve rnnms in the 
 house and he j^dves you six of the keys, ^'ou say: ••Where ;ire the 
 other keys?" "Oh." he says, "you can't have them! There is .a looni 
 on the second floor yon can't have, and there is a room on the tli ! 
 floor ,and a room on the fourth floor von can't Ii.-ue .-in. I tliro. is •. ,i-, i.- 
 
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 SKI{.M()NS AND LKlTlltKS 
 
 39;i 
 
 I.lacc III tlu' .iitic ynii .-.iirt have, tnit here are the kevs for th.' others 
 
 V. 
 
 1 
 
 'I imrchasi'd the whuk 
 
 'li'ii'l uant .iii\ I, I' iluin 
 
 Here 
 
 iii>e. and I want all the keys, or 
 1.-. a man who comes to (iod. and lie 
 
 ;i\e- 
 
 part o| hi-, naliire. and n>v- 
 
 •Y 
 
 on ni.is ;,'() to tills am 
 
 that. Init tlifie i- 
 I tan't siirreiidei 
 
 K" I" 
 
 ■'' 'llU'lllUH'- 
 
 ii 1 lan t .:4Ue ii|t. there i> a room in niv natiiic 
 
 and tll:^ 1 want to keel), ■'"nl tl'i't I want to k 
 
 on can lia\e hall liie key> of my soul, hut not ail." Then (,' 
 
 eti). 
 
 iri>t wil 
 
 not have any. 
 kev> to al 
 
 ll( 
 
 ill taki 
 
 e e\erytliin^'. from cellar to attic— all of the 
 
 'in aiTe.tiniis. all your hoi)e>. all your amhit 
 
 ions, all vour 
 
 leart, all vitr !ili 
 
 ir lie will not take one key. The j;race of ( od 
 
 nin>t tniKh till. iMiiinitie-. the very extremities of 
 The pric-!' when they came to tl 
 han<N .iiid washed their feet. 
 
 our mora! ii.iture. 
 
 lis la\er oi 
 
 ;inK- 
 
 asses \va 
 
 their 
 
 I 
 
 llotl 
 
 ce III tills 
 
 ler of li-ikiiij;-),dasses tiiat the wa 
 
 shmg 111 It was not 
 
 "Ptioiial, It w.is imiKTativc. Here the priests came int.) the t.ilK'rnacIc 
 
 Suppose How one of them s!i< 
 
 i washed hefcfre I 
 
 h 
 
 came Iroiii 
 
 then 
 
 no Use oi my washing' in this laver." (iod s.iv- 
 
 1 oil 
 
 wiish in this 1,1 ., r 
 
 u- die." r.ut su|i|),,se the priest had said: 
 
 •w 
 
 there are other l.ivers just as hri.tjht as that fn.m which ti 
 
 IIS watf.T was 
 
 takt 
 
 d 1 
 
 mifjht wash there jiist as well; why wash in the water of 
 
 ins 1,1 \er 
 
 (iod 
 
 tivp. 
 
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 picil ot tlie (.os|h;1 which sav 
 
 •w 
 
 I 
 
 isll 
 
 ere or die 
 
 N'ot optional — impel 
 'Vou wash in this fount: 
 
 'Iicii lor sin and uncleanness. 
 
 perish 
 
 W 
 
 e have no choice 
 
 "lint, 
 ihati'Hi 
 
 ays some one. "couldirt (iod h.ive provided other 
 
 wa\s ot 
 
 I""ifty of them, iierlia] 
 
 not think that (iod exhausted 
 
 lis wisilom wlien lie l.ii 
 
 nii.!;lU have iirovidec 
 
 1 tift\ 
 
 ^^ 
 
 ■11 sav 
 
 •M 
 
 ILMlt not ;i wl 
 
 'lit this plan of salvation, Pcrhuiis lie 
 plans of salvation. He provided only one. 
 lole line of ships s.ail from c.irtfi to heaven:" 
 
 N cs. Ir.il there is onlv one 
 as !!k' tier of ('a!v;irv? 
 
 .\re t! 
 
 lere ;iiiv (,tlirr trees 
 
 as luxuriant 
 
 ^ 
 
 es. in':re, for that one had neither 
 
 )iiit iior 
 
 1)1' s-oiii, ,-iii(i it v\,i> sirippci! and h.-trk^'d, liut tl 
 
 le one p;:th to heaven 
 
 lauler 
 
 the I 
 
 lare ;inii . :| t: 
 
 ii ppcd Iree. 
 
 \'ot opt; 
 
 otial 
 
 hut 
 
 impci;iti 
 
 I » 
 
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 SEKMONS AND LECTURES 
 
 
 
 
 O brother, sister, conic up to the laver of tlie Gospel? O afflicted 
 soul, conic and bathe off your wounds, and, sick one, come up and cool 
 your li(3t temples. Pardon for all your sin. Comfort for all your troubles. 
 The dark cloud that hung thundering over Sinai floated above Calvary 
 and burst into a shower of the Savior's tears. If you have any trouble, 
 come to CkhI. He will make you His darlings. He will make you His 
 favorites. We cannot in our households have favorites, but if you have 
 a favorite, mother, I know which one it is; it is the sick one, the crippled 
 one. the one tiiat coughs all night, the weary one, the wan one — that is 
 your favorite. .\nd God seems to have His favorites, and they are the 
 weak and the worn and the sick and the weary. Just come up to Him 
 to-day. and He will put Ilis arms around you, and He will kiss your wan 
 cheeks, and He will say as He hu ''cs you with the divine lullaby: "As 
 one whom his ninihcr coi,:tortcth. so will I comfort you." 
 
 THE COMING SERMON. 
 
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 We hear a great ilea! in these days about the coming man, and the 
 coming woman, and the coming time. Some one ought to tell us of 
 the coming sermon. It is a simple fact that everybody knows that the 
 sermon of to-dav does not reach the world. 
 
 The sermon of to-dav carries along with it the deadwcx-id of all ages. 
 Hundreds nf vcar> ago it was decided wh.at a sermon ought to be, and it 
 i- the attcmiu .'f nianv theological seminaries and doctors of divinity to 
 hew the moilcrn luilpii utterances into the same old-style proportions, 
 r.ookscllcrs win tell yw tlicy di-po-e of a hundred histories, a hundred 
 nowls, ;i luii; lied pociu'- to ,nw bonk of sermons. 
 
 What is the m.Utcr? Some ^ay the age is the worst of all the age-. 
 It i- bettiT. Some -av religion is wearing out, when it is wearing in. 
 S'line -;iv there ;ire -o in;iny wlio de<i)ise the Christian religion. I 
 answer, there never w.a-. an a,L;e when there were so many Christians, or 
 

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 395 
 
 so many fiiciids of Christianity as this ajj^e haN — our a.cfe — as to otl.ers 
 a hundred to one. What is the matter, tlicii ? It is simply because our 
 sermon of to-day is not suited to tiie age. It is tlie caiial-iKxit in an age 
 of locomotive and electric telegrapii. The sermon will have to lie shaken 
 out of the old grooves, or it will not be beard, and it will not be read. 
 
 Before the world is converted the sermon will have to be converted. 
 You might as well go into the modern Sedan (jr Gettysburg with 1k>ws 
 and arrows instead of ritles. and bombshells, and parks of artillery, as 
 to expect to conquer this world for Cod by the old styles of sermonology. 
 Jonathan Kd wards preached the sermons mo>t adapted to the age in 
 which he lived, bit if those sermons were preached now they would divide 
 an audience into two classes: Those sound asleep and those wanting to 
 go home. 
 
 That coming sermon will be full of a living Christ in contradistinction 
 to didactic technicalities. .\ sermon may ])e full of Chri-t though hanllv 
 mentioning Ilis name, and a sermon m;iy be eniptv of Christ while every 
 senlencc is repetitions of His titles. The w.irld wants a living Clu-ist, 
 not a Christ standing at the head of a formal system of theologv, but a 
 Chri.it who means pardon and sympathy and condolence and brotherhood 
 and life and heaven. .\ jioor man's I'hrist. An overworked man's 
 Christ. An invalid's Christ. A farmer's Christ. .\ merchant's Christ. 
 An artisan's Christ. .\n every man's Cbri>t. 
 
 A symmetrical and t'ine- worded system of theology i-; well enough 
 for theological classes, but it ha> no more business in a pulpit than have 
 the technical phases of an anatomist, or a pliy-i..], ,oist, or phvsician in 
 the sick room of a patient. The world w;mts help, immediate and world- 
 uplifting, and it will come through a >ermon in which Christ shall walk- 
 right dtiwii mto the iiumortal soul and take everla-ling possession of it, 
 filling it as full of light as is this noond.iy tnniameut 
 
 Oh. in that coming sermon of the Christian C'lunvh there will I)e 
 living illustrations taken out from everyday life of vicarious sulTering — 
 illustrations that will bring to mind the ghastlier sacrifice of flim who 
 
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 SHHMOXS AND T.KCTriJHS 
 
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 in the liigli places of tlie field, cti the cross fought mir battles and wept 
 our griefs, and endured our struggle and died our death. 
 
 A Cerman sculptor made an image of Christ, and he asked his little 
 cliild, two years old. who it was. .and she said: "That must he some 
 verv great man." The sculptor wa^; displeased with the ciitici-m, so 
 he got anollier block < ' marble and chiseled away "U it t\\. > or three 
 years, and then he brought in his little child, four or live years of age. and 
 he said to her, "Who do you think that is:" She said. "That must be 
 the One wlio to(.k little children in His .arms .-ind bU--.cd them." Then 
 the sculptor was sati>t'ied. (Jh. my friend-, wh.at the world wants i> not a 
 cold Christ, not an intellectual l'hri>l. not ;i severely magisteri.al Cbri-t. 
 but a loving Christ. si)rea.!iiig oiu lli^ arm- of ■ymp.athy to i)res> the 
 whole world to I lis loving heart. 
 
 The coming seiaiion of the Christian Church will be a short sermon. 
 
 Conden-ation is demanded by the age in which we live. Xo more 
 need of long introductions :ind long apjilicaiion and -o manv divi>ions 
 to ;i discourse that it m.ay be said to be hydra headed. In other days, 
 men got all their infoianation from the (nilpit. There were I'ew books 
 •and there were no newsitapers. .and there was little travel from ])lace to 
 place, .and people winild sit .and li-ten two atid a half hottr- to a religious 
 discourse, and "sevenleenlhly" would tiiid them fre-h an<l cliijiper. In 
 those time- tlicre was enough room for a man to take an hour to warm 
 himself up to the abject, and .an hour to oh.I oil. Hut what w a- .a 
 neces.-itv then is a superlluity now. ( ongregation> .are full ■ I ktiowledge 
 
 fv,.ni 1 ks. from newsi.apers, f r. .m rai)id and coiitinu^.u- uHeiTonimum- 
 
 caiMii. and long di-i|iii-itions nf what tlie\ k,..'w a!read_\ will ii"t be 
 abi<leii. If a religiini- teacher cannot eoinpre— ulia.t he wi-lie- to -ay 
 to the pcojile in the -p.ace < a' forty-tivr minute-, belter adjourn it to -ouie 
 I ither (Lay. 
 
 The trouble is. we preach aihiience into a Chii-tiaii ir.niK- ,i:ii' then 
 we jireach them out of it. We for-el that e\er_\ ,au.ht..r has so much 
 cajiacitv of altentinn. ati<l when that i- i\li.in-ted be i- re-tle--. In all 
 
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 Till Rii.iir Ri \' run i.ii's iir(hik>. n n 
 
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 Beeclier's succu'^sor as r.-istur of Plymouth Cburih Hr<K)k!yn. 
 
SEU.MOXS AND LECTUIJES 
 
 399 
 
 rclit^inus <Ii-c-(iiirsc wc want IdCuiiUjtivc power .'m,l iiropul^ioii ; we v.ant 
 at tlic same time stunt l)rakc> t=) let «l'i\vn at the right instant. It is a 
 dismal tiling after a licnrcr has coniprclicnded the win'le subject to hear 
 a man say. "Xow. to recapitulate," and "A few wurds hy way of appli- 
 cation," ,-md "'Once more." and "l-'inally," and "Xow to conclude." 
 
 Paul prcaclied until inidn:.:;l!t. and Liutycluis got sound asleep and fell 
 I 'lit of a window and l)roL-e hi■^ neck. Some \\<>u'icl say. "(ioiMl for liiin." 
 1 would r;ither l:e sym]Kitlici:c like Prail, and resuscitate him. The acci- 
 dent is niten (junted now' in religious circles as a warning against 
 scmimleiice in church. It i< ju-t as much a warning to ministers against 
 jirolixity. ImlvcIuis was wrong in hi^ sonui' ilence. l)Ut I'.aul nia<Ie a 
 misiakc when he kept i<n till midnight. He ()ught to have stopped at 
 ck-ven ii'eliick. and there would l;a\c heeii im ;iccident. If l\iul might 
 have gone on to t^ii great ;i ieiigih. let al' ilu'Se ( f us who arc now 
 l):c;iching the Gospel reniemher that theic is a limit to religious discourse, 
 III" inigl-,t t'j be, and that in oiu' time we ha\e no apostolic power 
 of mn'.acles. 
 
 Xapi'leiin in ;in address of sc\en minutes t'lrilled his army ar 1 
 thrilled h'urope. ( hrist's sernii n cji; the mount, i!.c model --ermoii, was 
 less than eighteen minute^ kuig at ordinary m- 'do nf deli\'ery. It is not 
 electricii}- scatteieil all i'\er tile sky that -irikcs, bui electricity gathered 
 ill'.', a thuiideilKili ;md hurled: ami it is not religious truth scattered over, 
 spreail nin nxer a \a>L re;icli cf time, hut religious truth jircjjected in 
 conijiact form that lla.-hes light up m the soul and ri\cs it- indiltcrencc. 
 
 When the comiuL; -ernioii arrives in iliis land aiid in the Christian 
 'v.'lnii'cl). ihe ■erm, 'It which is to ar^4l^e th.e world .and .-tartle the n.ati'His 
 and u-1ki" in the kingdom, it will he a hricf sermon. 1 lear it, all theo- 
 logical students, all ye just eiiicring iqion religious >. ..rk. ;ill ye men and 
 ^■,"mcn wIm in Sal:li,-;th->ch".i!s a.nd t tlicr departmci:;- are toiling for 
 L'iiri>t aii'l the -..iKatiou of ininuTtaK, i',;-e\!t\ ! I'.reN'ityl 
 
 The Coming; -erni'in >' .icli I speak \'.ill he a p-iiuiar sermon. 
 'I'here arc thu^e in these time.-- who -peak of a p'pular sermon as though 
 
 
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 SEWMONS AND LKCTriJKS 
 
 tlicrc must be something wrong almut it. As tlicse critics are dnll tliun- 
 sclvcs the world gets the impress'on that a sermon is good in proportion 
 as it is stnpitl. Girist was the most popular preacher the world ever 
 saw. and considering the small number of the world's population, had 
 the largest auilicnccs ever gathered. I le never iircached anywhere with- 
 out making a great sensation. People rushed ■■^it in the wilderness to hear 
 Ilim. reckless of their physical necessities. So great was their anxiety to 
 hear Christ, that taking no food with them, they would have fainted and 
 starved had not Chri.t performed a miracle and fed them. 
 
 Wiiv did so many people take the truth at Christ's hands? P.ecause 
 thev all understood it. Me illustrated His subject by a hen and her chick- 
 ens, by a Inishcl measure, by a handful vi salt, by a bird's flight, and by a 
 lilv's aroma. .\1I the jieople knew what He meant, and they flocked to 
 Him. .\nd when the coming sermon of the Giristian Church ai)pears 
 it will not be I'rincetonian. nor Rochesterian, nor .\ndoverian, nor Mid- 
 dletnnian. but Olivetic — pl.iin, practical, unique, earnest, comprehensive 
 of ;ill the woes. want-., sins, sorrows and necessities of an auditory. 
 
 P.ut when tli;it sernmn iloes come, there will be a thousand gleaming 
 scimeters to charge on it. There are in so many theological seminaries 
 ]inifessor-. telling young men how to ])reach, themselves not knowing how, 
 and I am Inld ih;it if a young man in some of our theological seminaries 
 s;ivs anvt'.fiiig i|uaint or thrilling or unicpie, faculty and students fly at 
 him. ;ui(l -et iiim right, and straighten him out. and smooth him down. 
 anil chd]) liiin otV niuil he s.nys everything just as everybody else says it. 
 
 Oh. when the coming -.ermou of tl;. Christian Clm-ch arrives, all the 
 clmrclR's iif thrift in our great cities will 1k.> thronged. The world wants 
 ^l)irilua] lielp. .Ml who li;ive buried their dead want comfort. .Ml know 
 tlK'in->e!\es to bo uiortal and to lie immortal. ;nul tlie_\- want to hear about 
 the gre.'it fntui-e. I tell you, my friends, if the ]>eoi)le of these great citio 
 wli'i iia\e*h;id trouble onlv thought tlie_\- could get i)raclical and s_\ui- 
 patlutic licl]) in the I'hri-ti.an Church there would U"' be ;i street in New 
 ^'■'ik. IT Urni.khn. or Chicago, or Ch.arleston. or I'iiiladelphia, or Bos- 
 
SERMON'S AXI) LECTURES 
 
 401 
 
 ton which uoiil.l l,c passable ..n the Sahhath day, if tlierc were a church 
 on It, fur a'l the peuple would press tu that asylum of mercy, that great 
 house of comfort and consolation. 
 
 We iiear a great deal of discussion now all over the land alxxit why 
 people do not go to church. Some say it is iK-causc Giristianitv ,..s dvmt^ 
 out, and because people do not Ix-lieve in the truth of G^xl's \Vord,'and 
 all that. They are false reasons. The rea.son is because our .sermons are 
 not interesting and practical, and sympathetic and helpful. Some one 
 might as well tell the whole truth on this subject, an.l so I will tell it. 
 The .sermon of the future, tiie Gospe' tuiou to come forth and shake 
 the nations, and lift people out of darKuess, will be a popular sermon, 
 just for the simple reason that it will meet the woes, and the wants, and 
 the an.xieties of the people. 
 
 The .sermon of the future will k' an awakening sermon. From altar- 
 rad to the front doorstep, under that sermon an audience will get up 
 and s»rt for heaven. There will Ik.- in it many a staccato passage. It 
 will not be a lullaby ; it will be a battle charge. Men will drop their sins, 
 for they will feel the hot breath of pursuing retribution on the back of 
 their necks. It will be a sermon sympathetic with all the physical dis- 
 tresses as well as the sjjiritual distresses of the world. Christ not only 
 preached, but lb- healed paralysis, and He healed ei)ilcpsy, and He healed 
 the dumb, and the blind, and ten lepers. 
 
 Th.at sermon of the future will be an everyday sermon, going right 
 down into every man's life, and it will teach him how to vote, how to 
 bargain, how to ])low. how to do any work he is called to, how to wield 
 trowel, and i)en. and pencil, and yardstick, and plane. .And it will teach 
 women how to preside over their households, and how to educate their 
 children, and how to imitate Miriam, and Esther, and Vashti and Kunice, 
 the mother of Timothy: ".nd Mary, the mother of Christ: and liiose 
 won.cn who on Xorthcrn and Southern battlefields were mistaken by the 
 wounded for angels of mercy Jrcsh Irom the throne of Ciod. 
 
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 402 SEK'MONS AND J.KCTUIJHS 
 
 THE BLOOD. 
 
 •■The 1)1(">(1 'if Jcsii> llui^t lli^^ S^ii ckaiisctli \h fmiii all sin." — 
 I Jiiiiii I : ~. 
 
 I know that circnnistanccs simictinK's a.i;.i:ra\ ate nni-"s ttan-grcs^ions. 
 If a child uiuvittint^ly dnes wnMin _\,,u easily fnri;ivc him: l>iit we have 
 (lime wronj,'. and we knew we were dnintj; wmnK'. I'. very lime man sins 
 conscience rings the fnneral hell. We may pretend not to hear it, we 
 mav put onr lingers in nur ears and try to go away from that >(innd ; inU 
 having transgressed, although we may have our lingers m our ears, we 
 will hear the word coming, "'rhe wages of sin is death. The soul that 
 siimeth, it sliall die. They way of the transgressor is hard." When you 
 and I do wrong, when we have said that which we ought not to have 
 said, when we have done that which we ought not to hr.ve done, we knew 
 it. we knew it. 
 
 I can come to the man who declares he i> the worst man on earth, and 
 I can iire.-ich the (io-pel with just as nuich confidence to him as to this 
 man who has all his life preserved his integrity. Oh. the hroadncss of 
 this Gospel that >avs. "Who-oevcr. ulU'S^'i'Vcr!" 1 lowever f;ir you have 
 wandered away from (lod you can come liack. though you liave gone 
 through all the sins of the decalogue. "Whosoe-er, whosoever will, let 
 liim come." 
 
 ' Oh." s;ivs some man. ";i!i that is very true for immoral people, liut 
 I have 1)cen a moral man all my life, and I don't need the gracious par- 
 don." Have your thoughts always K'en right r Would you like to have 
 the thouglits of the la^t tifteen vear> wrillen out and presented hefore 
 the eve of the world? Xo. .\iv, if you would not want the thoughts 
 of the last tifteen vears all written out iiefore the e_\e of the world, cer- 
 tainly yon could not stand the divine scrutiny. \ow. there is my right 
 hand, and there is my left hand. N'ou sec the one just as plainly as the 
 other. Well now, the sin of the heart and the sm ot the life are as plain 
 
SKIi'MOXS AND LFX'TI'IfKS 
 
 403 
 
 l)ffiiic ( kkI. till' Miic as the otlicr, and a thonj^'lit U> I lim is just as plain as 
 ;'•■ ;iiiii. All! yw iiceil ilic iwrdnn df the (i(is|)cl. 
 
 ^'on say Villi liavc iiisiT cimimitud tlii>, ami ymi lia\f never ci.m- 
 niiltiil that, ami ymi wmilil imt lia\i' (Imif as tlii> man did, and yim would 
 nut as this man have ^i.iie astiay in this directimi. and as that man in 
 aiiiitlicr direetii'ii. Why, my hiutiier, whether \in\ Wnnw it or not, yon 
 ha\e Inline astray in m.iny directiutis. \tn\ say ymi have never com- 
 mitted minder, ilnw do yon know? ii.ive you ever hated anyhiHly? 
 \ es. 'I'iien ymi are a murderer. The I'ihle savs so. Christ says so. 
 "lie thai hatetli his hiother is ;i murderer." Do vmi h;ite an\lx)dy now? 
 Is there anvlnMlx' in all the earth \'mi hate imw? 'S'mi are a murderer, 
 "lie thai h.Ueili his hiniher is a nnnderer." So, niv hrother, you are 
 not as pure as yiUi thmi^hi \i>{\ were, ymi are imt .-is {.jood as vou thought 
 ymi were, it" ymi s.iy ymi have no sin to he t"or;,n\en. 
 
 \'mi s;iy ymi ha\e iie\er emnmitted tliel't. I do tint snpjjose ymi have 
 ever wrmi.i;ed ymir fellow -man, hnt h,-i\e you taken ,111 hmir of a day 
 from (ioil and de\iiled it to wrmii;' ])nrposes? If \ou h.ave. then yon 
 havelieen ,t,Miilt_\' of lohliin^ (iml. It is ;i mean tliint;- to steal frmn a man. 
 It is a worse thiiiL,' tn sti-d frmn ( iml. The I'.ihle eriesmit. Will .-i man roh 
 (iiid? \'es: we have ;dl mhU'd I lim. N'ow. let us emiie to confessional, 
 and let us aeknowledL;e th;it we need the merey and the pardmi of Cjixl. 
 We all need it: there is imt .-in exeeption. ".MI lia\e sinned ami coine 
 short oi the ,L;"lory ni (Iml. There is nmie tli;it doeth i^ood. no, not one." 
 Just let me Mow the tniiii]iei of resin reetimi, ,-md let the sins of the 
 hest man in this hm^c — all the sins of his past life — cmiie up. Let the 
 Iarj;er sin of the liniulied he eaptnni of the emnpany. and let the greater 
 sin of the thmi-.iiid he colmiel of tlu' regiinent, ;ind lei the mightiest sin 
 iif his life emiimand the t'ofces, \;ist ;is those if Xerxes, \aster, xasier. 
 -Ml the sins of that man's life coming iImwii ii])oii him. (Jue man against 
 ;i million tr;m-gi-e~sioi!s, w n.it chance h.is he? Where in the round of 
 (iod's mercy is there ;my help for ns? Rise, you seas, and whelm the 
 
 St. Strike 
 
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 .•ni(l ci insnme ihe toe 
 
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 4(4 
 
 SEHMONS AN' I) LE( TURKS 
 
 IriMii the bcadi. and siys. "Xo lielp in inc." 'Hie li^litninp sheathe^ it- 
 self in tlie l)laek seahbard of tlie ini(lnij,'lit cloud, and says, "No help in 
 nie." N'onder I see the rider on the wliite horse. M.ike way for the 
 eoiirier. lie suinjjs his sword. It is the captain of sal\atii>n conu- for 
 our rescue, '•"all back, my sin?.. l""al! l),ick, my sorrows. .\11 the tnms- 
 jjressioiis of my heart and Hfe are utterly scattereil, and I cry, "Victory 
 tlinniRli our I.oni Ie>us Christ !" Oli. what a rhri>t I le is. 
 
 Do you Wonder that men and wdiiieu h.ive died for Ilini? Ho yi«i 
 wonder that .Marj;aret, tlie Scotch s"'. \Minld not j.jive u[) her Lord 
 when fastened down to tlie beach of the sea, and the persecutors thouj.;ht, 
 as the waves rolled on, she would j,'i\e up her ("hrist? Hut f.istened 
 ilowii at the beach when the tide was out. she continued in [)rayer until 
 the title came u]), came to the ankles, came to the j;irdle, came to the 
 shoulder, came to the lip, and with her la^t utterance she said, "My lj)rd, 
 my (lod! lie has been so jjood to me; I cannot surrender Him now, 
 thiuigh the wa\es may },'o over me — my Ij)rd, my Christ, my pardon, my 
 peace," and the w.aves rolled over her. 
 
 Do yon wonder that men and women and children h.ive died for such 
 a Lord as this? Oh. do you not want His consolation ,is well ;is pardon? 
 How many of yon have had misfortunes and trials, and you want this 
 Christ. Oh, when those into whose bosom we have breathed our sor- 
 rows are sn.itched away, Christ's heart still be.its; and when all other 
 lights go out we see cou.'ng oiU from behind the cloud something that 
 we cannot .it tirst tell what it is, but it gets brighter and brighter, and we 
 find it is the star, the star of hoiK-, the star of consolation, the star of 
 Jons! 
 
 Oh, there are ditYerent kinds of hands. There is the hand of care that 
 ojjeus hard on you. and there is the h;ind of berea\ement that snatched 
 your loved ones away from you. and there is the hand of temptation 
 that strikes you back into darkness; but there is a hand si; ditYerent from 
 all these, .and it is so kind, and it is so gentle. It is the hand that wipeth 
 
 'i;\'l\- 'ill t.'-irc i'r. itil 'ill |»\-|'*.; it i^ tllt> li-in/l txi T(>^ii^ FX , i--,** *^n* • 
 
Him? \\'..ul(| 
 
 like tn liavi- \\\> cuinfcprt ! 
 
 REKMONS AXn LKC'Tf^ItES 
 
 \>>u iiut like to liavf that i)anl(iii to-.lav? 
 
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 405 
 
 uUld Vnll Hot 
 
 As at tl 
 
 ic s(.'a 
 
 bcadi 
 
 VM' jiMti iiaiiih 
 
 >wn and liallic, atid let 
 
 tlic uattTS Pd 
 
 ivtT ii>, and \\c feel 
 
 icat c'xlularatioii 
 
 1 
 
 wi^li \\f CI 
 
 Mild 
 
 scores and Iitmdrcds and (Iii)nsand> t. 
 down in this j;ri»t Alia ic of (,<M's I 
 niarj^'iii paddlmo the- ripples with otir feet, I 
 
 ly just join 
 
 hand- 
 
 and wadi- 
 
 'irj;ivcMi>s — II, ,t siaiidiiij; ini the 
 
 sea and letting,' the eri 
 
 jni wadinj; clear dnwn in tlu 
 
 nison hilldws mil over lis. Ol 
 
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 1. Villi nnist ha\e 
 
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 !in-t: 
 
 II ynii reject llini, all tl 
 
 yoii, and tiiey will haunt xmi tlin 
 
 i"se .trapin.i,' wcuhkN will plead aL,Min>t 
 
 you mij^dit have heen. Oh. tak 
 
 nui,di eternity with the thiiii,!.;lit i<\ wl 
 
 Kit 
 
 Do iiDt j,'o <Ii,wn Cdiideinned fnr fratric 
 not do it! r.etter fnr thee that C 
 
 e your teet nut cf vmir 1 in ill 
 
 ler > him 111 
 
 cule and re,t,ncide and deicide. I). 
 
 ilvarv had never 1 
 
 I'l 
 
 'S iiaii never ntterei 
 
 hetter fnr thee that tlmse iovin-. 
 
 rejectinj,' all, ymi ^n dnuii intn desnlatinn an<l darkne> 
 
 feet l)edal.We(I with the hi I ,,{ the Snii nf (ind. () ,1 
 
 x>rne its l)iirden, am 
 
 an iiuitation, if. 
 
 \i lur li.iml 
 
 aiii 
 
 iiion. () jiidi,Mnei:t-l.nuiid hearer>. 
 
 we escape if we nej,dect 
 
 > idil; hut iininnrt;il 
 
 repent, lieheve, an 
 
 (1 lue: 
 
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 iW ^h 
 
 j,'reat salv.-itinii: 
 
 There will he a pa- 
 
 sunnl at the 
 
 ate ni heaseti ! 
 
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 tudc coniinj; ii]), and they say "Mak 
 were honnred nii earth : 
 
 see a ,i,M-e;it linilti- 
 
 f way. npeii the j,^ate. let us i 
 
 n. we 
 
 we h.-Hl a ,t;reat i)nMtinn in the wniid. and 
 
 want a ^rvM ix.sitinn in heaven. 
 
 kne 
 
 w \ . m. 
 
 II 
 
 ere coine> aimther tl 
 
 It the ,L;ate-keeper savs. "I 
 hrnn,u;-. They .say, "We did a 
 
 ne\er 
 
 rreat 
 
 many ina.i;naniin(ni.s thin</ 
 
 and we were celehrated f 
 
 weendnwed cnlle-es, we estahlished scln 
 
 nr nur philanthr<>i)ies. Open the gate i 
 
 us cnme in and t,^., ,,i,,- rewari 
 
 A 
 
 voice !r«in within 
 
 cnew \nn. 
 
 lint 1 
 
 low. 
 
 •I 
 
 Let 
 
 never 
 
 lere cnme up a -^real tlimii"-, tl 
 
 tlmiisands. and thev kimck at tl 
 
 ic R-ate. Thc\ 
 
 from f^.tl. and we deserved to <lie, but 
 Vve," s.-iys the !.;ate-keepcr. "that is the jv 
 
 Lift 
 
 ip your heads, ve everlast 
 
 lousands and tens of 
 
 A\'e were wanderers 
 
 we heard the voice of jcsns." 
 
 -wnrd — Jesns. fcsus. lesus! 
 
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 gates, ami let them cnnie ii 
 
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 406 SERMONS AND LIOCTUKES 
 
 !"HE SPICFRY nr RELIGION. 
 
 AH llK!iliis;iar. . r.p;rc. ni iiiakinq- Si.lmiK.n a ivin- of c liri^t, and in 
 'iiakiti!,' till' (jm'iii i>i S'ni.l)a a type nf c\ oi y tnitiiscilcr ; and I sliall lake 
 tlie rt'^pnnsiliility ( f savins;- thai all the spikenard, and cassia, ami trank- 
 iiict'iisc wliii'h tltc (jnci'ii "f Slulia Iiroiij^lit ',■' Kin.i; So|oinn!i i, niii^luily 
 snpj^'cstiN I.' I'l the ^wpci -pices nf uur li^ly rcli.t,'i"n. ( "liri>tianity i- nnt 
 a C('Ili'i.ti('n 111" --liaip icrhnicnlilic-. and an.^nlar I'acN, and i-hrunnlniju-al 
 tables, and dry siali>lit's. Onr reliLjicn i-> compared l^ t'rankinren^e and 
 to cassia, 'xil lUAer to ni.i^lit-Iiaili.-. It i-- a l,nnd'e of niyrrli. It is ;i da-^Ii 
 vf holy li.ul'l- ll is >'l sp.'uklc i'\ coi>l foiniiain>. It is an opening' of 
 o])aline K'''<-"^- ll 's a collection of ^pice--. W'onld ( i. d llial we were a^- 
 wise in taknit; ■-iiice-' to or,r l)i\inr Kim;- as (Jiieen r>a!ki-> wa.s wi:e in 
 takiii); the apices to the cari'ily I^oi .mon 
 
 The fact i^, that the dntios and care- of this lifi-. coming; to n^ from 
 time to time, are stupid t ftcn. and inane, and inioleiahlc. Mere are 
 men who h.ave liein hattcrin!::^. climhinj;', ponndins;, Jiam, .eiiiiu; foi- iwciUs 
 years, forty \ears. I'lfty )-:ars. ( )iie ^-reat, loiii;- dnulLjer', iia^ iLeir life 
 heeii. Their f.ace.i airvior.s. ilieir fee!in<;s heiunnhed. their da\-. moii,,|- 
 ono';s. What i . : eccs-;u'y f.. hri^hten rp that m.-ui's life, .end to >\\i'e;en 
 thai acid dispo>i!:on. and to put sparkle into the man's -.pii-jts? The 
 S])icery of om hi iy relii^ion. \\'hy. if helween the los -o of life there 
 (lashed a ,i;kain of an eternal vain: if hetwecn the hetrayals of life there 
 came the ,L;Ieani of the und.yini; friend--liii) of (.hri-t: if in 'lidl time- in 
 Lnsiness we f"V,r,d mini>terinL; spirits ll} ii!;< to and fi'o in our oilice. .and 
 store, and -hi i]). e\ eryd.iy- life, inr^tcad of hi. in l;- a stupid nv 'n. .t( .ne, won Id 
 he a i,doi-ion-. inspiration, iienduhimin^' hetween calm s.aisf.ietion and 
 hii;h raptnre. 
 
 Ih'W .any vonian keep- h 'I'.se with"'.!: the reli.Ljion of fliri-t to hc![) 
 her. is a mystery to me. 'i'o ha\e to spcnil the .i;reater part of one's life, 
 as ni;m}' women do, in plannint,'' for the meals, and stitching- ^-arinents 
 li-iiiL wiii -soOu uC rcni a-^iiiri. iWiu iic]»i*.'riii^- itrcaixii^es. ■■ml siipLivisin^ 
 
SEKMOXS AND LECTLKES 
 
 407 
 
 tardy siil). nliii.itcs. and driving' nff dust that soon again will «icttlc, and 
 diiiii^,' the same tliiiifj day in and day out, and yiar in and year out, until 
 tlie liair silvers, and the hack >lnn|is, and the s[)atacles craw! to the eyes, 
 and ihe f^ravc hreaks (ipin under the thin sole n< the shoe — oh. it is a long 
 monotony' I'.ut when Christ coines to tin- diav. ing-ioom, and comes to 
 the kitclien, and c mies lo the mirscry, and comes to the dwelling, then 
 how cheery k'come all womanly duties. She i- never alone now. Martha 
 gets through fretting and joins Mary at the f<'et .if Jesus, .\'' day long 
 Dehorah is hajipy hecause she can hel]) I^ipidoth ; liamiah. I>ecause she 
 can make a coat for ymmg Samuel; Miriam, hecau^c she can watch lie- 
 infant hrother; Rachael. hecause she can help her father water the stock' 
 the widow of Sarepta, hecause the cruse oil is l)emg repleni>;he<l. 
 
 (), woman, having in your paatry a nest of boxes containing all kii.Js 
 of condiments, why h.ive you not tried in your neart and life the spiccry 
 of our holy religion? "Martha! Martha! thou art c:reful and troubled 
 alwut many'hings; but one thing is needl'ul, and Mary hath chosen that 
 good part wliich shall not l)c taken away from her." 
 
 I must confess that a great deal of the religion of this day is utterly 
 insipid. Th.crc is nothing piquant t>r elevating about it. Men and women 
 go around h.umming psalms in a minor key, and culturing melancholy, 
 ar.d tlicir wnrsliip has in it more sighs than raptures. We do not doubt 
 their piety. Oh, no. But they are sitting at a feast where the cook iia.s 
 f :irr;otten to season tlic food. Eveiything is flat in their experience and 
 in tlicir conversation. Ijiiancipated fn.ni sin, and death, and hell, and 
 en their way to a magnilicent lieaven. they act as though thcv were trudg- 
 •n^^ 0:1 t nvr.rd an everla.-iing Botany B.-iy. Religion docs not seem to 
 rjrce v.itli l!:em. It ^ccnis tu catch in the wind])i])e, aiul become a stran- 
 gr.'atini iiistecd c f an exhilaration. 
 
 All tlic infulcl l:o:;.ks th.at lir.vc been written, from X'oltairc down to 
 Herbert Spencer, liave U' t done so much damage to our Christianity as 
 lugubrious Christians. Who wants a religion wo\en out of the shaduws 
 of tl;e nigl'.t ? Why go growling on your way to celestial enthronement? 
 
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 (.'ome (Hit of tliai ■■aw. aiiil ^>it clown in the warm lii;lu of the Sun of 
 l\i,^Iit(.'oiis"i;s-. Away with your i.<lcs to melancholy ami Ilcrvcy's 
 Me.''.' ■, '•• "," \i;5 r;;- the Toillli^." 
 
 "T!:i"i '< I I mr si nii^^ nix mud, 
 \im! v'\ ery tear he ilry ; 
 \U'i>. marehiiii,^ thronyh I'mnianuel's j;roun(l 
 To fairer woiiih- (mi hii;h," 
 
 I have *o say also, that we need to put more '-pice and cnlivcnment in 
 oiir reht;^ious teaehinL^s; whether it In.' in the prayer-meeting, "r in the 
 Sahliatii->ehool. or in the (hnreli. W'c minister^ need more fresh air 
 and >inishme in our Iuii.l;^, and our hearts, and our heads. Do ycni won- 
 der that the world is so far from Iieing eon\erled when yon find so little 
 \i\;uity in the pulpit and in the jiew ? We want. like the Lord, to ])Iaiit 
 in I'Ur sermon..- and exhortations more lilies of the lield. We want few 
 rhetorical elalu ira.ion-, and fewer se~i|uipedah:in words; and when we 
 talk ahout shadows, we do not want to -ay adumhration; and when we 
 mean (ji,eerius>, we <lo not want to talk ahoin idiosyncrasies; or if a 
 stitch in the hack, we do not want to talk about lumbago; but. in the 
 plain \crn:icular of the great mas-es, pi each that (iuspel wliich pro[)oses 
 to make all men Ii.appy, honest, \ictorioii-, and free. In other words, we 
 want more ciiinain^.n and le-- gri-tle. I .ct this lie so in all the different 
 dei)artnienls of work to which the i.ord calls us. I.tt us be plain. Ixt us 
 be eanie-l. Let u- be c< 'iniii' iU-seiisical. When we talk to the people in 
 .1 \ernauilar thev can undersi.uid. they will Ix.' very glad to come and 
 rivei\e the tiiuh we pie-ent. W'otild to (lod that fjneen lialkis would 
 dri\e her -pice-ladcn dromedarie.- into all our sermon^ and [irayer-meet- 
 ing e\hi irlatii -n-. 
 
 More tlK;:i liiat. we want more life and >pice in our Cliristian work. 
 Tiie pi.ior do 111. it want so much to he groaned o\er as sung to. With the 
 bread and medicines, and the garment> you give ibeiii, let there be an 
 ;iccomii;inimeni of smiles and l)risk encoura.i;ement. Do not stand and 
 
SKRMOXS AND I.KCTl'lJKS 409 
 
 talk to thern ,•.).„,. ,hc ua.u-lK.lne.s of .hcr ahn.lc. and the hunger of 
 tiKMr lo„k., an.l ,hc hanlnc.. „f .hcir l,„. Ah ! ,hev know it better than 
 y..u can tell then,. Sh-w them the hri.uht si.Ie .,f the thing, if tl,erc he 
 
 any hnght >i,le. Tell tl,en, g ,„.cs will o,n,c. Tell them that f„r the 
 
 dn dren „f C.,,! .here i. in,n,„r,al re<a,e. Wake then, up out of their 
 stoluhty hy an inspiring laugh, an,! while un, .,nd in praetical help hke 
 the Queen ..f Sheha also send in the si)iees. 
 
 There are two uays of n,eet„,g the poor. One is to come i„t„ their 
 l.ousc wnh a nose devaled in di.gu... as nmch as to sav : "I don't see 
 
 !;:;' ^■"" ''^-^ ''^'•'' ■" "- "-^"l' ■'■' 'l- n actuaHv makes me .ick. 
 
 I here ,s that huudle-takc it. y, .u po„r miserahle wretch, and make the 
 •"■'St o, u. • Another way i^ to g„ uUo the abode of the p.K.r in a manner 
 |vh.ch seen,s to .ay: "The ble^.ed Lord sent n,e. lie was p,.,r himself 
 
 It is not more tor the g 1 1 am going to try to do vou than it is for the 
 
 «oo,I ynu can do u,e." C„ming in that spirit, the gift will be as arouutic 
 as the sp.kcnar.I on the feet of rhri.^t, and all the hovels on that alley 
 will be Iragranl with the sjiice. 
 
 We need m,,re spice and enlivenment in ,.ur church-niusic Churches 
 
 sit discussing whether they shall have choirs, ,.r precentors, or organs or 
 
 lK.ss-v.o|s, ,,r cornets; I say, take that winch will bnng out the most 
 
 inspiring music. If we h: 1 half as ,nuch xeal and sp.rit in our churches 
 
 as wc bav.- m the songs of our Sabbath-schools, it would not be Ion- 
 
 bclore the whole earth uo„l,l ,,„ake with the coming (nnl Why „i„e^ 
 
 tenths of the neople in church do not sing; ,,r they sing so feeblv that 
 
 the peor , .heir elbows .lo not know they are sin.ging. People mouth 
 
 an.l mum. . .:,e prai>es of (io.l ; but there is no, more than one out of a 
 
 Inindred wh., makes a joyful noise unto the Rock of our Salvation. So: 
 
 times, when the congregation foruets it 
 
 ome- 
 
 .goodness nf (] 
 
 ^'cts ilsell, and 
 
 tl; 
 
 all al)sorlx'd in the 
 
 c glorie-, ot heaven. 1 
 
 church-music will be a hundred ye, 
 eratioii shall wake u]) to its diitv. 
 
 .get an intimation of what 
 
 irs Ironi now, when the coi 
 
 mug gen- 
 
 ii music, ionj;-,liaun-oui inuMc. is aiiprojjriate for the d 
 
 raw 
 
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410 
 
 SERMONS AND LECTURES 
 
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 rwm. ami appropriate for the concert; but St. John pives an idea of the 
 sonorous and resonant congregational singing Kppropriate for churches 
 when, in Hstcning to the temple service of heaven, he says: "I heard a 
 great voice, as the voice of great nnUtitude. and as the voice of many 
 waters, and as the voice of mighty tliunderings. 1 lallelujali. for tlie Lor.l 
 GoJ omni])otent rcignclh." 
 
 Join with mc in a crusade, giving mc not only yuur hearts, but the 
 migiitv uplifting of your voices, and I believe we can, through Christ's 
 grace, sing five thousand souls into the kingdom of Christ. An argu- 
 ment, they c;in laugh at; a '^ermon, they may talk down; but a five- 
 thousand voiced utterance of praise to God is irresistible. Would that 
 Queen Balkis would drive all her si)ice-la(lcn dromedaries into tuir 
 
 church-mu>ic. 
 
 Religion is sweetness, and perfume, and spikenard, and saffron, and 
 cinnamon, and cassia, and inuikincen>c, and all sweet spices together. 
 "Oh." von say, "I have not looked Jit it as such. ' thought it .vas a nui- 
 sance: it h;id for me a repulsion: I held lUy breath as though it were a 
 via! odor; I have been appalleil at its .-Mlvance: 1 have said, if I have any 
 religion at ;ill. I uanl to have just as little of it as is possible to get 
 through with it." 
 
 Oh, what a mist.ake you iiave made, my brother. The religion of 
 Cdirist is a present and everlasting redolence. It counteracts all trouble. 
 Just put it on the stand l)eside the pillow of sickness. It catches in the 
 curtains, ami perfmnes the stilling air. It sweetens the cup of bitt.-r 
 medicine, and throws a glow on the gloom of the turned ! Utice. It is a 
 balm for the aching side, and a soft Ixmdage for the temple stung with 
 IKiin. It lifted Samuel Rutherford into a revelry of spiritual deliglit, 
 while he was in i)hvsic;il agonies. It helped Richard Baxter until, in the 
 midst of such a comi)lic;ition of diseases as perluips no other man ever 
 sutfered. he wrote "The Saint's Mverlasting Rest." .\nd it poured light 
 upon Jiihn Hunyan's dungeon— the light of tlie shining gate of the shin- 
 ing c'tv. And. it is (rood for rheumatism, and for neuralgia, and for low 
 
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 spirits, ami for omsuniiition ; it is the catholicoit for all disordi'rs. Vcs, 
 it will Ilea' all ymir sorrows. 
 
 A widowed niotluT. with licr little child, went West, hoi)ing to i;et 
 better wai;:cs there; and she was taken sick, and died. The overseer of 
 the poor .<;ot her Ixidy and nut it in a box, and jnit it in a wa^^m, and 
 started down the street tow;ird the cemetery at full trot. The little child 
 — the only child — ran after it through the streets, karedieaded, crying: 
 "Bring nie Iiack my mother! hring me hack my mother!" .\nd it was said 
 that as the people looked on and ,v her crymg after that which lay in 
 the liox in the wagon — all she loved on earth— it is said the whole village 
 was hathcd in tears. 
 
 And that is what a great n.any of you are doing — chasing the dead. 
 Dear Lord, is there no appeasement for all this .sorrow that I see about 
 me? Ves, the thought of resurrection and reunion far beyond this scene 
 of struggle and te.V'^- "The} shall Inniger no more, neither thirst anv 
 more, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat; for the Lamb 
 which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of 
 water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their e}es." .\cross the 
 couches of your sick, antl across the graves of your dead, I lling this 
 shower of sweet spices. Queen IJalkis. driving uj) lo the pillared portico 
 of the house of cedar, carried no such pungency of perfume as exhales 
 to-day from the Lord's garden. It is peace. It is sweetness. It is com- 
 fort. It is infinite satisfaction, this Gospel I commend to vou. 
 
 Some one couKl not understand why an old German Christian scholar 
 used to be always --o calm, and happy, and liopeiuK when he had so many 
 trials, and sicknesses, and ailments. .\ man secreted himself in tlie house. 
 lie said: "1 mean to watch this old scholar and Christian;" and he 
 saw the old Christian ;.ian go to his room and sit down on the chair 
 beside the stand, and ojjcn the Bible and begin to read. He read on and 
 on. chapter after chapter, hour after hour, until bis face was all aglow 
 with the tidings froir. heaven, and when the clock struck twelve, he arose 
 and shut his Bible, and said: "Blessed Lord, wc arc on tiie sninc terms 
 
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 yet. (.Idod-nij^ht. C.ood-iiight." f )h, you .■,iii-parolu'tl and you troiihlc- 
 pounded, licie is comfort, lierc is satisfaction. Will you come and get 
 it? I can riot tell yon what the Lord offers you hereafter so well as I 
 can tell you now. "It doth not yet appear wliat wc shall he." 
 
 SPLENDORS Or ORTHODOXY. 
 
 The Hihle is not only <livinely insiiircd, hnt it is divinely -protected 
 in its present shnpe, Vou conld as easily, witliout detection, take trom 
 the writings of Shakespeare, Hamlet, and institute in place thereof 
 Alexander Smith's dram:i, as at any time .luring the last fifteen hun- 
 dred years a man could have made any important ch;ingc in the I'.ihle 
 without immediate detection. If there li;id hecn an element of weakness 
 or of deception, or of disintegration, the I'.ook would l<?ng ago liave 
 fallen to pieces. If there iiad heen one loose hrick or cracked casement 
 in this castellated truth, surch the honihardment of eight centuries 
 would have discovered and hroken through that imperfection. The fact 
 that the P.ihle stands int:ict. notwithstanding ;ill the furious assaults on 
 all sides upon it, is proof to nie that it i> a miracle, and e\ cry miracle 
 is of (lod. 
 
 "But," say some, "do von really think tlie Scripiures .are insjiired 
 thou'dit?" N'es, either as history or as guidance, (iihhon and Josephus 
 and I'rescott record in their hlstorie'^ a great many things they did not 
 approve of. When (ieorge Bancroft i)nt .ipoii iiis hrilliant historical 
 l)age the ;iccount of an Indi.in massacre, does he .approxe of tli.at m;is- 
 sacre? There are scores of things in the Bihle which neither (iod nor 
 inspired men sanctiotieil. Either :is history or as guidance, the entire 
 Bihle was insi)ired of (iod. 
 
 "But," says some one. "d.oii't you think that the copyists might have 
 made mistakes in tnuisferring the divine uords from one manuscript to 
 another?" Yes, no douht there were such mistakes; hut tliey no more 
 affect tlie mer.nincr of the Scriptures than the misspelling- ui a wjrd or the 
 
SKRAfOXS AM) I.KCTCIiKS 4,;. 
 
 ungramn,a„cal s.nKl.,:. „r a sentence n, alaM w,ll a„,I ,e.an,e„, a^ect 
 
 the valHl.ty or t!,e nieanin.t; nf that will. All ii,e nnstakos >„a,lc- l.v .he 
 
 o^y.sts in the Scnptu,-es d- n„t an.n.nt to any „,ore in,po,-,ance'than 
 
 IH .htfere.ue hetween yonr spelHn,. in a ,loe„n,e„t the word fortv 
 
 ot-tyor ,urty. This hook is the last will and ,e.an,ent of ( iod to on; 
 'St world, and ,t he,,uea,hs every„„„. „, „,. ,„„ ,,,, „„„ „ ,,^„^^^,_ 
 
 i'--ls „Ku- have dan,aged the ^rannnar or „Ku!e unjnstinal>ie inter- 
 liolatiori. 
 
 These men who pride themselves i„ o„r dav „n hein, advanced 
 
 iH.ikers ,„ Bihlical interpretation w,Il all ,,f then, end in athe,sm if thev 
 
 - Ion, enon,h. and , declare here -o-day they are doin, more in tl. 
 
 . .fferent ,leno„„„ations of Chri.t.an.. and thn.^hou- the world for 
 
 -l-.ag,n, C-hristianity and lnn,lcnn. tl . cau.. of the world's bJttcr- 
 
 -nt. than tlve tho„.and Robert In.ersolls conld do. That man who 
 
 Mands msule a ca.lc . far more dan.ero„. ,f he he an enemv than tive 
 .li..us.ml cnem.es outsule the castle. :^ ,bert (i. In.ersoll assail, the 
 |-ast e rom the ontside. These n,e„ who pretend to he advanced tlnnkers 
 a I the de„onnnat,ons are li^htin, the -ruth fn.n ,1,. n,s;de. and trvin. 
 U> shove hack the holts and swin- op^i the t;ates ' 
 
 Now. I am in favor of ,he ^re^te^t freed^in, „f religion, thought and 
 ■sen ss,on. wonld have a. mnch hherty for hcterodo.v as f,;ortho- 
 .i'-y. H M,,,nld change n,y .heories of rel,,,on I .h,,„ld preach them 
 "t and o,n. hu, noHn tins hniMm,, for th. wa. erected l,v people who 
 W.eve m an entn-e R.hl... and ,, would he d,.h,,ne.t fo,: me ,0 pro- 
 "n.I,a,e semnnents different from ,ho.e for u Inch tins hnildm.^ las 
 P^-- "p. \.hen we enter anv denonnnat,,.. a^ nnni.ters of reli-don we 
 take a so.entn vow that we will preach the sent.nent. of ,hat denomi- 
 
 •-"- 'f.--'-"ff—theo„e. as we have a r„ht,o change them 
 .hen there ,s a world several thonsand n„les in cn-c„mference, a^l there 
 
 -■eJumdreds of hall, and hn.dred, of academic, of mns,c where we can 
 \entdate our sentiments. 
 
 I remember tliat in tlip^e rit.Vc :., ^:.,.„ ,<■,•... . . 
 
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 are tlie Republican liea(l.|uaitor^ and iliu Denn.cratic licadquarlers. Sup- 
 pose I sliould go i"t" ""*•' "' '''*-'^<^ heaiUiiiarters pretending to be in 
 sympathy witli tlieir work, at the same time elccliunccring for the oppo- 
 site party. I would soon find that the centrifugal force \vr.5 greater than 
 the centripetal. Now, if a man enters a denomination of Christians, 
 tJang a solemn oath. a> we all do. that wc will iiromulgate the theories 
 of that denominatic.n, and then ihc man shjll proclaim some other theory, 
 he lia> broken his .aih. and he i^ an cut-and-oul perjurer. Nevertheless, 
 I declare for largest liberty in reV.glcns discussion. 1 would no more 
 have the present attempt tT rear a monument to Thomas Paine in New 
 York interfered with than I v.cukl have iir.crfered with the lifting of the 
 splendid monument to Wa<l:.ngt.ii in Wa'.l Street. Largest liberty for 
 tlie bodv. largest liberty for the mind. :r.r-<,-l liberty for the soul. 
 
 Now, I want t^ shiiw \ou. as a ir.attcr < : advocacy for what I be- 
 lieve to be tlic right, the splendors of orthodo::y. Many have supposed 
 that it> disciples are people ..f llat skulls, and no reading, and behind 
 the age, and the victim:, of gollibility. I shall show yen tliat the word 
 orthodcxv stands for the greatest splendors out>ide of heaven. Behold 
 the splendors of its achic\ cmcnts. All the mis>ionaries of the Gospel, 
 the world round, are men who believe in an entire Bible. Call the roll 
 of ai; the mi>sionarie> ulio arc to-day enduring sacrifices in the ends 
 (,f the earth ior the cause of religion an.l the world's betterment, and 
 they all believe in an entire Bible. Jn-^t as >oon as a missionary begins 
 to doubt whether there e^ was a Garden of F.den, or whether there 
 is any such thing as future punishment, he comes right home from 
 Beyrout or Madras, and goes into tlie insurance business! All the 
 missionarv societies of this day arc officered by orthodo.\ men, and are 
 supported by ortlioclox cliurches. 
 
 (Orthodoxy, beginning with the Sandwich Islands, has captured vast 
 regions of barbarism for civilization, while heterodoxy has to capture the 
 first sciuare iach. Blatant for many years in (ireat Britain and the 
 Tnited States, and stnitting about with a pea-cockian braggadocio, it 
 
 
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 lias yet to capture the first continent, tlie first Stale, tlic first township, 
 the first ward, the first space of ground as hip as you coul.l cover with 
 the small end of n sharp i)in. Xinety-nine out of every hundred of the 
 Protestant cinirchcs ..f America were huilt hy people who helieved in an' 
 entire Rihle. The pulpit n.,w may preach some <.ther Cnspel. hut it is a 
 heterodox ruh on an .,rthodox carriage. The foundati,,ns of all the 
 churches that are of very .i-reat use in this world to-day, weie laid by 
 men whohelicved the T.ihle from lid to lid. and if I can n,.t take it in that 
 way, I will not take it at all. 
 
 Xo church of very jjrcat innueiicc to-day hut was huilt hy those who 
 believe in an entire Hihle. Xeither will a church last Ion- huilt on a 
 part of the Bible. Vuu have noticed, I suppose, that as sonn .as a man 
 begins to give up the Bible, he is apt to preach in some hall, .and he has 
 an audience while he livo. .ind wlicn ho dies, the church dies. If I 
 thought tliat this church Mas built on a (|uartcr of a Bible, or a hall of a 
 Bible, .,r three-cpiarters of a Bible, or ninety-nine one-hun.lrcdths ,)f a 
 Bible. I would exi)ect it to die when I <lic: but when I know it is built 
 on the entire Word ,,f God. I know it will last two hundred years after 
 you and I sleep the last sleep. Oil. the splcndnrs of an orthodo.xy which, 
 with ten thnusruid hands and ten tlmnsand pulpits and ten thousand 
 Christian churches, is trying to s.ive the world! 
 
 Behold the splendors of chanicter built i)y ,)rthi.doxy. Who had the 
 greatest human intellect the world ever knew?' Paul. In physical 
 stature insignificant; in min.l. head and slmuldcrs above all the giants 
 of the age. Ortho.K.x from scalp to heel. Who was the greatest poet 
 the ages ever saw. acknowle.lged to l,e so both by infidels and Chri.s- 
 tians? John Milton, seeing more without eyes than rmvbodv else ever 
 saw with eyes. Orthodox from scalp to heel, W ho was the greatest 
 reformer the world h.as ever seen ^ so acknow!e<lged hy infidels'iis well 
 as by Clfristians? Martin Luther. Orthodox from scalp to heji. 
 
 Then look at the certitudes. O man. believing in an entire Bible, 
 Where did you coiiic from? Ansuc : -J descended fr,,m a perfect 
 
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 lai-nitage in l'ara(li>c. aiul Jilinvali l)ic'atlRMl int.i my nostrils llic hixatli 
 .,t lite. I am a sun of (lod." O man, bclicvin-; in a liaU-and-halt Bible 
 — U'licvin-- in a I'.il.lc in s].ots. where di.l ;.on eonie from? Answer: "It 
 is all nneertain; in my ancestral line away back there wa^ an oranj;- 
 ,,ittan- an.l a ta.liu.le an.l a polvwos,'. :>ii.l it to,,k million^ of years to 
 -ct me e\..lntecl." O man, believini,' in a ISibic in si-ots, where are you 
 o,,iii- to when you quit this world? Answer: '•(ioinjj: into a ^rvM to 
 he, M, on into the -reat somewhere, and then I shall pass tin-ough on to 
 the i;re;it anywhere, and 1 shall iirolubly arrive in the nowhere." That 
 i. where 1 th..n-lit y. ui would fetch \\\k O m:m, belies in^' in an entire 
 i'.ible. :nid liclie\in- with all \om- heart, where are \ou i^oiujr to when 
 _\,.u leaxc till- w>.i!d? .\n-wer; "I ;nn i;-oini;- to my i":ilher's liouse; 
 I am -Mm- iiil.> the CMiupaiiion-hii. of uiy loved ones wh.i luive ^'"1^- 
 1 (tore; I am ,L;Min- i. , lea> e all m> -m>, and 1 ;im -[oini; to be with ( iod 
 ;i'id like ('.."l f..re\cr .,ii<l fore\er." Oh, the i,donou> certitudo, ccr- 
 laintie^ of crtlii 'duxy ! 
 
 r.ehold the -pleiidors <if orthodoxy in its announcement of two 
 
 dotinies. 
 
 I'alaci' ;md penitentiary. ]':ilace with K-'H^- "» •'" ^'''^'^ throu^'h 
 which all m:iv enter and live ou celotial lu\m-ie- wurld without end, 
 .ntd all f..r the kiiockin-' ;ind the askinir. .\ p.ilace k'"""'^''" l'"'" '' =''1 
 the .\lh,imlii-a- ami the \'er>;iilles :ind the Wind-or ca-tles and the 
 w; •■ u;ir<leiis and the imperKal ribode- of all the e:irtli were heavei! up 
 int- one architectural i^dory. At the other end of the universe a iieni- 
 tenti;ii\ wlu're men wlio \\;int their sins can ha\e them. Would it be 
 f;iir that \<'\\ and I sliouM h:i\e our choice of Christ and the pakice, and 
 other men be denied their choice of sin and eternal <le!;radation? I'alace 
 ,■111.1 peiiiteiili:iry. The hr^t of no use nnlos yon have the last, I'.rooklyn 
 ,iiid Xew ^ ork would be better places to live in with Raymond Street 
 lail .-ukI the Tomb> an<l Sini^ Sini,^ and all the small-pox hospitals 
 emjitied on us than heaven would be if there were no bell. Palace and 
 p^..,;...,,t;avv. If 1 see a man with a full buwl of sin. and he thirsts for 
 
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 it. an.l l,is ul„.lc ,muvv craus it. .-,„,| ),, takes 1,„1.1 with l,„th hands 
 ami presses that h.wl to his lip.. a„,i the,, proses it hard he.ueen his 
 iceth. and the dra„ght he;,n„s to p„„r its sweetness down l,is ti,roat 
 sliall we snateh away the howl and jerk the ,na„ np to the .^.-.te of 
 licaven. and pn.h hi,n „, if he does not want to g,. and s,t down and 
 sM,y psal,n> to,ever:' .\o. ( i„d I,a. n,a.le you an.l ,i,e sc. con.plelely 
 free that we nee.l not .^n to heaven nnless we prefer it. .\o, „„„e free 
 lo Soar tliai, free to vink. 
 
 y'nuv^ .nen. old „k„. n,iddle-aged ,nen. take sides in this eontest 
 Letween o,-,l,„doxy and heten.doxy. -A.k for the old paths walk 
 "HTcn. and ye .hall Imd ,e., for yonr .o„I.." lUn von follow this 
 c-rnsade a^an,., any. par, of tlu- n,l,le--llr>t of all vou will give np 
 <.u,e.s,s, wlneh i. a. „„e ,-,. Matthew: then vo,, will g,ve np all the 
 l>.stor,eal pa,t> of ,I,e |:,|,le; then af,er a winle vo„ w,ll give „p the 
 "itraele.; then yo„ u,ll tlnfl ,, convenient to give np the Ten Co,n,na,Kl- 
 n.ent,: and then after a while yo„ will uake np in a fountainless. n.ck- 
 Icss. t,-eele>s de>e,-, swept of everlasting .in,eeo. If yo„ a.'e langhed at 
 yon can affonj to he lan.ghed at for standing I,y the liiMe. jnst as Cod 
 has given it to _\on and ,ni,-aei,loi,sly pivserved it. 
 
 YOUR PEDIGREE. 
 
 This .|ne>tion ,,f he,-edity is a mighty question. The longer I live 
 
 the more I helieve in hlood-g 1 M,,od. ha.l blood, pn.ud hlood. hunihle 
 
 1'1'""1. linnest hlood. tineving hlood. he,-oio hlood. cwanllv hlood. The 
 tendency may skip a .gene,-at,o„ or two. hnt it is smx- to co,ne out. as in 
 a little ehild you son,etimes see;, >i,„ilarity to a giTat-grandfather whose 
 l-cture hangs on the wall. That the physical, and .nental. an,l ,noral 
 qnahties a,-e inheritable is patent to any one who keeps Iiis eves open. 
 The similarity is so striking sometimes as to he amusing. Great families, 
 regal or literary, are apt t.. have the characteristics all ,lown through 
 the generations, and what is more perce])tible in such families, may be 
 
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 seen (in a smaller scale in all families. A thwu^aud years have no power 
 to ()l>literate tlie differenee. 
 
 If you liave come ..f a (■!u•i^tian aiRestry. tlien ymi are -ojeninly 
 l)onntl to preserve ami .levelnp tlie i;lnvinus inheritance; or if you have 
 come of a depraved ance>tr\. then it is yoir duty to hrace yourself 
 against the evil tendency hy all prayer and Christian .letermination, 
 and vou are to tind out uhat are the family frailtie-. and in arming' the 
 castle ]nit the strou;^H'st -uard at the weakest L;aie. With the-e Muootli 
 stones from the hn.ok I h.ipe to strike >nu, not where David struck 
 ("■oliath, in the head, hut where Nathan -truck David, in the heart. 
 
 I-irst. 1 a.ccost all those uiio are descendvd of a Christian ancestry. 
 1 (1,1 not ask if y.nir parents were perfect. There are no i.erfect people 
 now. an.l I ilo not sujipose there were any perfect jicople then. I'er- 
 hai)s there was sometimes tno umch iilood in tlieir eve when they 
 chastised you. ihu I'roiu what 1 know of you. you -ot no uiore than 
 you deserved, and i.erhaps a little more chastisement would liave l.een 
 salutary, i'.ut ymi are willin- to ackn>.\\led,i;e. I tliiuk, that they 
 wanted to do riijht. I'rom what you uverheard in cuuversatious. and 
 from what you saw at the family altar and at uen^hliorliond ohsecjuies. 
 you know that they had invited C.i>d iiUo their heart and life. 
 
 .\ father sets his son up in hiisincss. He keeps an accoimt of all of 
 the e.xpcnditures. So much for store t"\tnres. so much f.ir rent, so niuclt 
 for this, so mucli for that, an.l all the item, aii-re.^ated, ;md tlie father 
 expects the son to i^ive an .account. \nm iie.ivenly I'.ather chari;es 
 against vou all tlie .-idvanta-cs ,,| a jiious ancestry -^s,, uiany prayers, 
 so much Christian e\ami)le. >■> many kin<l entreaties— all these -racious 
 intluences oue tremendous a.^.L^re^ate, and lie asks ynu for an account 
 
 of it. 
 
 Oiiuht not vou, my brother, to he hetter. hasin.LC had Christian nur- 
 ture, than that man who can truly say this niorniui,^: 'The first word 
 I rememher my father si)eakin,n- to me was an oath; the first time 1 
 rcinember mv fathei lakiiii; ii-M of me wa^ m wrat'i; ! never saw a 
 
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 F'ilik' til! I w:is iiMi yi'.-irs of ai^e, and tlu'ii 1 was told it was a pack of 
 liiv 'llu- lii^t turiiiy M-ars ,,f mv life I u;.^ asMuiati'd with the 
 \lnnu-. I .cuiu.! t,, 1,1' uallcd in l,y sin and dc.nh.- \nw. my 
 iM-othcr. nn^bi y„u n,,t- 1 K^vc ii a^ a matter of fairness with y.ni— 
 "ii,L;lit Nnn ,„„ I,, 1,^. lav |„.i„., ,i,,,„ ,i„,.^, ^,,„, ,,.,,, „,, ^..^^j^. c^j^ij^,, 
 inlhienr,-:- Stan.Iin- a> >..„ ,],, \,v^,^,■vn ihe veneration that is past 
 and the L'enerati..n that i- I., en.ne. are y,m ^,,in- tn pa>s the hlessinR 
 "II. "I- .He >,,„ i;,,ni,L^ In have y,„„- h'fe the -idf in wliieii that tide oi 
 I'k-s'n- .hall dn,p cnt .,f M.^ht f.^reser?^ \uu are the trnstee .,f piotv 
 
 in that anre^tial hue. and are \nii .',miil 
 
 .-Dienin trn~t fnnd: 
 
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 TrotiMe develops ehar^uler. It uas hercavetiietit, poverty, andcxilc. 
 that developed, ilhistr.ate.l, and announced to all a.L,'es the sublimity of 
 Knth's eharaeter. Th.it i. a very nnf(,rtnn;ite man ulio Iia> lu, troii'l.Jc. 
 It was Murou th.at in.ade John IhniMui the better dreamer, and Dr. 
 ^■oini- the better poet, and OWninell the better orator, and Bishop 
 Hall the better pre.icher. an.l llaxeloek the better soldier, an.l Kitto 
 the better eneyelope.liM, and Rnth the belter daiii,diter-indaw. 
 
 I onee a>ked an .i-ed man in re-ard u, his pastor, who was a very 
 hrilliant man. -W by is it that your pa.tor, so very brilliant, seems to 
 Iiave so little he;irt .and tenderne.-s in hi. sermons?" ••\Vell." lu replied, 
 ••the reason is. (,nr pastor has never h.ad any trouble. When nn-sforti:nJ 
 comes upon him, hi. style uill be ditlerent." .\fter a while the Lord took 
 a child out of that pastor's hou>e: and thou-h the preacher was just as 
 hrilliant as he was before, oh. the warmth, the tenderness of hi.s dis- 
 courses' The fact is. that trouble is a -leat educator. Vo„ sec, some- 
 times, a musician sit down at an instrument, and his execution is coldand 
 formal, and unfcelin- The reason is that all his life iie has been pros- 
 pered. But let .insfortune or bereavement cotue to that man. and he sits 
 
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 iliiwfi til the iii^'trimuiit. and y>\\ i1i'mii\ct tlio ii,itlii>s iii tlic lirst ^uw]) 
 nf till- ki'\ s. 
 
 Mi^fiirtiiiH' ami 'riaN an- >;ri'at I'lltK'atnr^, A \nii!i;j ilm-tur cunn's 
 iiit'i a >uk r. 1, -m wlnvv iIktc i- a ilyiiij^' I'hild. IV-rliaii. he i^ very rnii^li iti 
 hi> ine^criptii'H, and very inii^di in hi^ inainuT, and iciii^h in the leehn;^' 
 I't the imNe. and nnii^h in hi- answer [<> the nintherV anxMii^ c|ne^ti'Mi; 
 lint \ears ri '11 > ^n, and tliere lia^ heeii i ine dead mi In-, i u\ n h' 'n^e ; and ni iw 
 he ei 'nu'> nitu the -iek rm 'MI. and with teai till e\ e he Icwiks at the dyini;' 
 elnld. and he -ay~, "( )h. Imw thi- rennnd^ tne nl' ni_\ ( liai'ie!" Trunlile. 
 the f;i-eat edneat-n. S. irri>\\ — I ^ee il^ imuh in the yraiKk'^t iiainlini;; I 
 hear it^ tremor in the -weeteM -■ niK ; ' i^'l "^ jx^uer ni the nn.uditie^t 
 ar>;iittient. 
 
 (rrecian niMhiiin-y said that thi' t".iinitain <■{ I lipiK a rene \\a- -tniek 
 nut h;,- llie I'mi'I "t llie w nij;ed luT^e i't\;,^a^Us. I ha\r <'i'ien iMtieed in hl"e 
 tliat tlie hriL;lite-t and iH"-t lieantil'nl fiauitain^ nt ihri-tian enmi'ort and 
 spiritual lit'e ha\e het'n strnek nnt hy tlie in in---lii .d hiM.f nl" di>a~ter and 
 ealaiiiit}-. I ^ee I Janiel's ei>ina;;e hest hy the l1a-.h ■>!' \\-linehadne//ai'-. 
 Iiirnaee. I -ee I'anlV jirnwe-^ he^t when I t'md hiin . ^n the f' uimlerini; 
 >]]'][) inider the L,dare nt the liL;htninj^ in the hreaker- "t" Melila. (incl 
 eriiwns ||is chilihen ainici the hiiwlini; nt wild lieast^. and the ehcjipinL; 
 <it hlii'id^plashed i^nillMiine. an<l the eraekHn;; tire^ nf martyrdi iin. it 
 tiink the per>einti"ns .if Maretw Anreli\is tn de\eli'p i'nlyearp anil Jn-tin 
 Martyr. It tiiii!< the I'nlie'- luill. and the canhnaK' eiir-e. and the wnr'd's 
 anathema tn dexelii]) Martin l.nther. It tnnk all the In I'-tilities a<;ain-t 
 the Senteh ( i ''. enanter^ and the fnry • 'f L.ird ( 'la\erhi in>e to develn]) 
 James Renwiek, and Andrew Melville, and llii.t,di MeKail, tlie j^lurimis 
 martyrs nf Senteh hisinry. It innk the stnnny sea, and the Deeetiiher 
 Mast, and the de^nlate Xew l'.n,i;land ena-t. ;ind the war-wlump nf 
 savages, to show forth the prowess i^i the I'llgiim I'athers — 
 
 'A\'hen .amid the st-rms they s;mg. 
 .\ii(l the st.'irs heard, and the se.i ; 
 .\nd the snundinij aisles of the dim wnncl 
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 It t.-k all ,.nr i.,i^l tiati.mal .liMn—.-, ainl ii takt-, all ,,nr pM-ci.' 
 
 "■'"""•'' ^■""'"^. '" 111! lip ..nr nat ,i ihat l,i-|, ,anvr uhnv ii «,'] 
 
 "i.'iTli l..n- alter ilic i,,rn,^n an>i, .cranr^ ihai Ikuc niuckoi. an.l llio 
 
 •yran.iH^ ihat liavc jirrnl, shall he -„q,t ,l,,u,. , .,• tlio . .,n,n,,MUM,t 
 
 urall! nM„„|, uh,, hau-, .lq...|iMn, an,i uli,,. i.y ilu- Mmi-il, ,,i 1|,, ,,„„ 
 H'.l n^lit arm, u,ll make all ,mn t,v.-. An.l ., , ii ,, m,i:v„!na!!s a.^l m 
 ""' ''•'""'>• •■""' '" ""■ '■'""■^li. ■iii'I 111 llic- v,.,l,l. that lhn.,>:;l, .lark,,,-,,, 
 ■•iii'l -1..,,,,, ;n„l i,-,,„l,l,., HKn. u.,i,.,n. rlniivlu-, iial.,,,,.. aiv ,!i'vim, .jaMl. 
 I Mii,|,.,M' ilu.iv urn' |,k-my Ml iVu.n.U f, „■ X,„,„„ ,j,,i,. .],,. ,, ,' ,„ 
 i-r.-lKTUN; ]„„ ,„• all I,,,, aoiuaintana.. l„,u „m,u u nv uilli,,.^ ,-, 
 'ni.l.i;. Mil u,il, lur iMsvanl Jn,lah, uIkm, .Ik- l,a,l ,,, mak. ,ha, l/^ulv 
 jnnnu.v;- (),K. J,„.!,„.ly ,„,.. I m,|,,„.. ulun \a.,„n\ l.n.haM,] u a', 
 lum,^'. .-ui.l ,luT l,a,l |,!uu> , .f „„„„y. an,! all ,1,,,,^, uuu u.ll. tho l,a,l 
 a «>vat many .allrr.; I.^ 1 m,|.|„..o that afirr h.r l„„l,an.l ,1h.,| an',1 lur 
 i'-IKTly u.nt. an,l .1,. ,,. „ ,,1,1 an,] ,„„„. si,, ua^ n.., ,„,nl,l..,l ,,, v ,„„,!, 
 ^^'""■all^'-v All ih. l,n.N that sn,^ n, H.v 1„ ,u .■■ „ Ini. th. sun .1,. .„• 
 
 Oh. tlii-..l,cant!inls„n,l,,uTrs,l,a- -p,val.,ui then- . ■,,!,„■ n, ilu- niMin ■ 
 111^^ liMnr: l,„t ilu-y a,v aluay> a^hrp uhn, the -n,, i, ^,,m,^ ,|,,u„i |,,i, 
 li.-"l I'l^-iitN Mf iVu.n,N uh.n h. ua, the nWu., man in IV: hnt ulu./hi, 
 
 '"■"I--'> "'"'••■•■"Itlu. tnaK^anu., tlu-ntluTcun. n,.u. s,,,„n,h tha, 
 IK'Mm.! a. I.hpha/. ,1,. ■|Vmamt.. an,l li,Ma,l, ,1„. Shnhitc. an,l /,,p|,ar. 
 the Xaamaihit'-. 
 
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 ''"""''ll"H'..tIu.rnK.nm„,h,>,.u„lap. Let ^nspiei^ns anse'al,,,,,. a 
 "Kin s eharaeter. an,l he In^eMmes hke a hank in •■ panic. an,l all the impn- 
 tai.Mn> rnsh , „, !,„„. an,] hreak .Inun in a -lay that eharaeter uhich in .In. 
 time WMnkI have ha.l stren.L,nh t,, ,lelen,l itself. There are teputati..,. 
 tliat have heen hall a eentm-y in Iniildin.L;. uhieh ^ , , .;.,«„ nn.ler s,,n'e 
 ""Tal exposure. a> a ^ast te.nple is eMn>nn,e.l hy the tMueh ..f ;, ,„!phnr- 
 • Ills iiiateh. \ liM- ran iipniMt a eentm-y pl.tnt. 
 
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 is to find some friend as faithful in days of adversity, as in days of pros- 
 perity ! David liad such a friend in Hiishai. Tlie Jews had such a friend 
 in Mordecai, who never forgot their cause. Paul had such a friend in 
 Onesiphorus, who visited him in jail. Christ had such in the Marys, who 
 adlicred to Him on the cross. Naomi had such a one in Ruth, who cried 
 out: "luitrcat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after 
 thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will 
 lodge; thy people shall be my people, and ' .y God my God; where 
 thou die.-it, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, 
 and more also, if aught but death part thee and me." 
 
 The paths which open in hardship and darkness often come out in 
 places of joy. When Ruth started from Moab toward Jerusalem, to go 
 along with her mother-in-law, I suppose the people said. "Oh, what a 
 foolish creature to go away from her father's house, to go ofif with a poor 
 old woman toward the land of Judah! They won't live to get across the 
 desert. They will be drowned in the sea, or the jackals of the wilderness 
 will ilestroy them." It was a very dark morning when Ruth started off 
 with Naomi; but behold her in the harvest-field of Boaz, to be affianced 
 to one of the lords of the land, and bec-ome one of the grandmothers of 
 Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. .\nd so it often is that a path which 
 often starts very darkly ends very brightly. 
 
 When you started out for heaven, oh. how dark was the hour of 
 conviction — Imw Sinai thundered, and devils tormented, ar.d the darkness 
 thickened! .Ml tlie sins of your life pounced upon you, and it was the 
 darkest hour you ever saw when you first found out your sins. After 
 a while you went into the harvest-field of God's mercy ; you began to 
 glean in the fields of divine promise, and you had more sheaves than you 
 could carry, as the voice of Qjd addressed you, saying: "Blessed is 
 the man whose transgressions are forgiven, and whose sins arc cov- 
 ere'." .\ very dark starting in conviction, a very bright ending in the 
 l)ar(lon, and the ho])e. and the triumph of the Gospel. 
 
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 we start off on a very dark path. We must go. TTie flesh may shrink 
 back, but there is a voice within, or a voice from above, saying: "You 
 must go," and we have to drink the gall, and we have to carry the cross, 
 and we have to traverse the desert, an.l we are pounded, and flailed of 
 misrepresentation and abuse, and we have to urge our wav through ten 
 thousand obstacles that have Ijecn slain by our own right arm. We 
 have to ford the river, we have to climb the mountain, we have to storm 
 the castle ; but blessed be God, the day of rest and reward will come. On 
 the tip-top of the captured battlements we will shout the victory; if not in 
 this world, then in that world where there is no gall to drink, n.', burdens 
 to carry, no battles to fight. How <lo I know it? Know it! I know it 
 because God says so. "They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any 
 more, neither shall the sun light on them, n,>r any heat, for the Lamb 
 which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of 
 water, and God shall wipe all tears from their eyes." 
 
 It was very hard for Xoah to endure the scofllngs of the people in his 
 day, while he was trying to build the ark, and was every morning quizzed 
 about his old hoat that never would be oi any practical use; but when 
 the deluge came, and the tops <,f the mountains disappeared like the 
 backs of sea-monsters, and the elements, lashed up in fury, clapped their 
 hands over a drowned work!, then X,,ah in the ark, rejoiced in his own 
 safety, and the safety of his family, and looked out on the wreck of a 
 ruined earth. 
 
 Christ, hounded of i>ersecutors, denied a pillow. u,>rse maltreated 
 than the thieves on either side of the cross, human hate .smacking its lips 
 in satisfaction after it had l^en draining His last drop „f Wood, the 
 sheeted dead bursting from the sepulchre at I lis crucifixion. Tell' me, 
 O Gethsemane and Golgotha, were there ever darker times than those? 
 Like the booming of the midnight sea against the rock, the surges of 
 Christ's anguish beat against the gates of eternity, to be echoed back 
 by all the thrones of heaven and all the dungeons of hell. But the day 
 of reward comes for Christ; all the pomp and dominion of this world 
 
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 are to be hung on His throne, uncrowned heads are to bow l)efore Him 
 on Whose liead arc many crowns, and all the celestial worship is to come 
 up at His feet like the lumimin!; of the forest, like the rushing of the 
 waters, like the tlumderings of the seas, while all heaven, rising on their 
 thrones, beat time with their scepters. "Hallelujah. fc>r the Lord &)d 
 omnipi>tenl rcisnctlil Hallehijali, the kini^doms of this world have be- 
 come the kingdoms of the Lord Jesus Christ!" 
 
 "That song of love, now low and far. 
 i'.re l.mg shall swell fnnn star to star; 
 That li.ybt, the breaking day which tips 
 The gol(lcn-s])ire(l Apocalypse," 
 
 Events which seem t" be most insignificant may be momentous. Can 
 you imagine anything nmre unimporf -it than the coming of a poor 
 woman fnmi Mnab to Jud.ah? Can ydu imagine anything more trivial 
 than tl'.c fact that this Ruth just happened to alight — as they say — just 
 happened t.v alight <m that tield of D.iaz? Yet all ages, all generations, 
 have an interest in the fact that she was to become an ancestor of the 
 Lord Tesus Christ, and all nations and kingdoms must look at that one 
 little incident with a thrill ni unsi)eakable and eternal satisfaction. So 
 it is in yi >m hist( irv and in mine ; events that you thought of no importance 
 at all have lieen of very gre.it moment. That casual conversation, that 
 accidcnt;d meeting— yui did unt yWvk of it again for a long while; but 
 how it char.ged all the phase of your lite! 
 
 It seemed in be of no importance that Jubal invented rude instru- 
 tnent> of miiMC, calling them harp and t)rgan, but they were the introduc- 
 tion of all the worM's minstrel>y: and as you hear the vibration of a 
 -triiigcd instrument, even al'ler the lingers have lx?en taken away from it, 
 ,Mi all n\u-ic now of lute and drum and cornet are only the long-con- 
 tiniu-d -trains < <{ Jubal's harp and Jubal's organ. It seemed to Ix a matter 
 of \cry little imi)ortance that Tubal Cain learned the u.ses of copper and 
 iron; but that rude foundry of ancient days has its echo in the rattle of 
 
 
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 Birmingham machinery, and the roar and bang of factories on the 
 Merrimac. 
 
 It seemed tn lie a matter of no importance that Luther found a Bible 
 in a monastery: but as he npened that I5iblc,'and the brass-tound lids 
 fell back, they jarred everything, frcm tiie X'atican to the furthest con- 
 vent in (iermany, and the rustling of the wormed leaves was the sound 
 nf the wings nf the angel of the Reformation. It seemed to \k a matter 
 of no importance that a woman, uli,)se name has been forgotten, dropped 
 a tract in the way of a very bad man by the name of Richard Baxter. 
 He picked up the tract and read it, and it was the means 6f his salva- 
 tion. In after days that man wn.te :i Inuik called "The Call to the Un- 
 convertc.1." that was the means of bringing a multitude to God. among 
 others, Philip I),,ddridgc. Philip Do.Jdri.lge wrote a book called "The 
 Rise and Progress of Keligi,,n." which has brought thousands and tens 
 of thousands int.. the kingdom of CkI, .among others, the great Wilber- 
 force. Wilberforce wrote a hnnk calle.l ".\ Practical X'iew of Chris- 
 tianity," which was the means of bringing a great multitude to Christ, 
 ;inmng others, I.egh Richmond. Legh Richmond wrote a tr.act called 
 "The Dairyman-.. Daughter." which has been the means of the salvati.jn 
 of unconverted nniliitudcs. .\nd that tide of intluencc started from the 
 fact that one Christian wom.m dmppcd a (.-hristian tract in the way of 
 Richard Ba.Mer— the tide of influence rolling on through Richar<l Ba.xter, 
 through Phihp Doddridg., through the great Wilbertorce, through Legh 
 Richmond, vn. on. on. forever, forever! .S,, ,1k> insigniticant events of 
 this world .seem, after all, to be most m,.mentous. The fact that you 
 came up that street or this street seemed to be of u,. import.mce to v'.ni. 
 and the fact that you went insi.le of some church may seem to be a matter 
 of \ery great insignificance to you, but you will find it the turning point 
 in yoiu- history. 
 
 Bciiold Ruth ti 
 taking plain bread with the 
 Poaz handed to her. The customs nf s,jcictv. 
 
 liling in the harvest-field under the hot 
 
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 and without tlie hardships and exposure to whicli Ruth was subjected, 
 every intelligent woman will fuid something to do. 
 
 I know there is a sickly sentimentality on this subject. In some 
 faiuilies there are persons of no practical service to the household or 
 community: and though there arc so many woes all around alwut them 
 in the world, they spend their time languishing over a new pattern, or 
 bursting into tears at midnight over the story of some lover who shot 
 himself! They would not deign to look at Ruth carrying back the barley 
 on her way home to her mother-in-law. Naomi. .\11 this fastidiousness 
 may seem to do very well while they are under the shelter of their father's 
 house; but when the sharp winter of misfortune comes, what of these 
 butterllies? Ter-sons under indulgent parentage may get ujion themselves 
 habits of indolence; but when they o>n)e out into practical life, their soul 
 will recoil with disgust and chagrin. Tliey will feel in their hearts what 
 the poet so severely satirized when he said: 
 
 "Folks are so awksvard, things so impolite, 
 Thev're elegantlv pained from morning until night." 
 
 Through that gate of indolence, how many men and women have 
 marched, useless on earth, to a destroyed eternity! Spinola said to Sir 
 Horace Vere: "Of what did your brother die?" "Ot having nothing to 
 do." was the answer. ".\h!" said Spinola, "that's enough to kill any 
 general of us." Oh. can it be possible in this world, where there is so 
 nnich sutTcring to be alleviated, so much darkness to l)e enlightened, and 
 so m.mv burdens to be carried, that there is any i)erson who cannot find 
 :iiivthiiig to do .•■ 
 
 Madame de Stael did a world of work in licr time: and one day. 
 while she was seated amid instruments of music, all of which she had 
 mastered, and amid manuscript books, which she had written, -onie one 
 said to her, "How do you find time to attend to all these things?" "Oh," 
 she replied, "these are not the things I am proud of. My chief boast is 
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 a livelihood if necessary." And if in secular spheres there is so much 
 to \x done, in spiritual work how vast the field! How many dying 
 all around about us without one word of comfort! We want more Abi- 
 gails, more Hannahs, more Relx;ccas, more Marys, more Delxirahs con- 
 secrated—body, mind, s(Hil— to the Um] who I)ought them. 
 
 Rutli, going into that harvest-field might have said: -Tlierc is a 
 straw, and there is a straw , but what is a straw ? I can't get any barley 
 for myself or my mother-in-law out of these separate straws." Not so 
 said beautiful Rutli. She gathered two straws, and put them tt)gether. 
 and more stra^-s, until she got enough to make a sheaf. Putting that 
 down, she went and gathered more straws, until she had another sheaf 
 and another, and another, and another, and then she brought them all 
 together, and she threshed tlicm out, and she had an ephali ni barley, 
 nigh a busiiel. Oh, that we might all be gleaners! 
 
 Ehhu Rurritt learned many things while toiling in r blacksmith's 
 shop. Abercrombie, tlie world-renf)wned philosoi)Iier, was a philosopher 
 in Scotland, and he got his philosophy, or the chief part <if it. while, as 
 a physician, he was waiting for the door of the sick-room to open. Yet 
 how many there are in this day who say they are so busy they have no 
 time for mental or spiritual improvement; the great duties of life cross 
 tlic field like strong reapers, and carry off all the hours, and there is only 
 here and there a fragment left, that is not worth gleaning. Ah. my 
 friends, you could go into the busiest day and busiest week of your life 
 and find golden opj^ortunities, which, gathered, might at last make a 
 whole sheaf for the Lord's g.irner. It is the stray opportunities and the 
 stray privileges which, taken up and Ixmnd together, .uul beaten out. 
 will at last fill you with much joy. 
 
 Tliere are a few moments left worth the gleaning. Xow. Ruth, to 
 the field! May each one have a measure full and riuining over! Oh. 
 you gleaners, to the field! .\nd if there be in your huiisehold an ageil 
 one. or a sick relative that is n.)t strong enough to come forth and toil 
 in this field, then let Ruth take home to feeble X.io-iii thi- -hcaf of •'■■'ean- 
 
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 ings: "He tliat goctli forth and wcepctli. bearing precious seed, sliali 
 doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his slieavcs witli him." 
 May the Ij)rd CukI of Ruth and Xaonii be our i)ortion forerw! 
 
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 Tlierc is no contest between genuine science and revclaliou. The 
 same (!od, who by the hand of pro])het wrote on parchment, bv the hand 
 of tlie storm wrote on tlie rock. The liest telescopes and microscopes 
 and electric batteries and philosopliical apparatus l)elnng to Christian 
 universities. Wlio gave us magnetic telegraphy? IVofessor .\b)rsc, a 
 Christian. Who swung tlie lightnings under the sea. cabling the conti- 
 nents together? Cyrus W. \"\M. the Christian. Who discovered the 
 ana-sthetical properties of chloroform, doing more for the relief of human 
 pain than any man tliat ever liveij, driving kick nine-tenths of the horrors 
 of surgery? James V. .Simi)son. of lulinlmrgh, as eminent for piety as 
 for science: on week days in the university lecturing on profoundest 
 scientific subjects, and on Sabbath preaching the (ins])el of Jesus Christ 
 to the masses of lulinburgh. I saw the universi:ies of that city dra])ed in 
 mourning for liis death, and I heard his eulogy jironounced bv the desti- 
 tute i)opulations of Cowgate. .Science and revel:ition are the bass and 
 the Soprano of the same tune. The whole world will vet acknowledge 
 the comi)lete harmony. P.ut between science falsely so called and revela 
 tion, there is an uncompromising war, and one or the other must go 
 under, .\nd when 1 say scientists, of course, I do not mean literarv 
 men or theologians wh > in es>ay or i.. serm<in. .and without ,gi\ing then 
 life to M'iemilk- investigation, look at the subject on this side or that. Ry 
 -cieiuists 1 mean those who have a specialty in th.at direction, and who. 
 tlirotigh zoologieal garden and aquarium and astronomical observatory, 
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 mals, and the regions beyond so far as r,ptical instruments have exi)lored 
 them. 
 
 I put niK)n the witness stand, livin<,r and dead, the leading evolu- 
 tionists—Ernst Hecke!. John Stuart Mill, Huxley. Tyndall, Darwin. 
 Si>encer. On the witness stan.l, ye men ..f science, living and dead, 
 answer these questi,)ns : Do y..u believe the I b,ly .Scriptures ? Xo. And 
 so they say all. Do you believe tiie I'.ible story of Adam and Eve in 
 the Garden of lukn? Xo. And >,, they sav all. Do vou believe the 
 miracles of the Old and Xew Testament:^ Xo. And so thev .sav all. 
 Do you i)elieve that Jesus Christ .lie.l t.. ^ave the nations? Xo. 'And 
 so they .say all. Do you iK-lieve in the regenerating power of the Holy 
 Gh.xst? Xo. .\n.l so they s,-iy .-dl. Do y,u believe that human supplica- 
 tion directed heavenwanl ever makes any difference? Xo. .\nd so thev 
 say all. 
 
 Merlx;rt Spencer, in the only address he made in this country, in his 
 very first sentence ascribes his physical ailments to fate, and the'author- 
 ize<l rep,,rt <,f that address begins the u.,rd fate with a big "E.- Pro- 
 fes.s<n- Heckel, in the very first page of his two great volumes, sneers 
 at the Bible as a so-calle.l revelation. Tyndall. in his famous praver test, 
 defied the whole of C-hristen<lo,n to show that human supplication made 
 any difiference in the result of things. Job,, Stuart Mill wrote elab- 
 orately against Cliristianity. .and to show that his rejection of it was 
 complete, ordere.1 this epitaph for his t,,mbstone: "Most unhappy" 
 ^fu.^:iey said that at the first reading of Darwin's In.ok he was convinced 
 uf the fact that theology, by which be means Chr.stianitv, had received 
 Its death-blow at the hand of .\Ir. Darwin. All the leading scie.uisis 
 who believe in evolution, without one exception the world over, are 
 infidel, r s,ay nothing against infideliiy. mind you; I only wi.sh to <lefine 
 the belief and the meaning of ibc rejccti.m. 
 
 Xow. I put opposite to each other, to show that evoluti,,n is infidelity 
 the Bible account of how the human race started, and the evolutionist' 
 account as to how the huninii nice started RiKU- -.•• 
 
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 let us make man in onr imaRC. God create.! man in his own image; 
 male and female created He tliem." He breathed into him the breath of 
 life, the whole story setting forth the idea that it was not a perfect kan- 
 garoo, or a perfect orang outang, but a perfect man. That is the Bible 
 account. The evolutionist account : Away back in the ages there were 
 four or five primal germs, or seminal spores from which all the living 
 creatures have been evolved. Co away back, and there you will find a 
 vegetable stuff that might be calle.l a mushroom. Tliis mushroom by 
 innate force develops a tadpole, the tadiwle by innate force develops a 
 polywog. the polywog develops a fish, the fish by natural force develops 
 into a reptile, the reptile develops into a (juadruped, the quadruped de- 
 velops into a baboon, the baboon develops into a man. 
 
 Darwin says that the Iniman hand is only a fish's fin developed. He 
 says that the human lungs are only a swim bladder showing that we once 
 floated or were amphibious. He says the human ear could once have 
 been mtned by force of will just as a horse lifts its ear at a frightful 
 object. He says the human race were originally web-footed. From 
 primal germ to tadpole, from tadpole to fish, from fish to reptile, from 
 reptile to wolf, from wolf to chimpanzee, and from chimpanzee to man. 
 Now, if anybody says that the Bible account of the starting of the human 
 race and the evolutionist account of the starting of the human race are the 
 same accounts, he makes an .ippalling misrepresentation. 
 
 Prefer, if you will, Darwin's -Origin of the Species" to the book of 
 Genesis. !>ut know you are an infidel. As for myself, as Herbert Spencer 
 was not present at the creation and the L.jrd Almighty was present, I 
 prefer to take the divine account as to what really occurred on that occa- 
 sion. To show that this evcjlution is only an attempt to eject G<xl. an.l 
 to pnstpune Him and to put llim clear out of reach. I ask a question or 
 lioK The l)ab.H>n made the man. and the wolf made the baboon, and 
 the reptile made the (luadruped. and the fish made the reptile, and tlie 
 tadixjle made the fish, and the primal germ made the tadiwle. Who made 
 the primal germ? Most of the evolutionists say: "We don't know." 
 
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 Others say it ma...- i.self. Others say it was s,.„,ane.M,s generation. 
 There .s not one of then who will fairly an.i ..,H^nly. an,l frankly an.l 
 emi)liatically say. "fio.! niade it," 
 
 The nearest t.. a .lirect answer is that ma.le l.v Herbert S,H-ncer i„ 
 which he says it was ma.le l.v the great "unknowahle nustery." JU.t here 
 comes Huxley with a pail of protoplasm to explain'. he thing Thi. 
 protoplasm, he says, is primal life-giving quality with which the race 
 away hack in the ages was starte.l. W„h tin. protoplasm he propose, 
 to explam everything. Dear Mr. Huxley, who n.a.le the protoplasm > 
 
 To show you that evolution is intulel, 1 place the Bible account of 
 Low the brute creation was started opposite to the evolutionist's account 
 of the way the brute creation was starte.I. Hiblc account : You know 
 the B.ble tells how that birds were made at one time, and the cattle made 
 at another fme. and the fish made at another time, and that each brought 
 forth after its kind. Evolutionist account: From four ur five primal 
 germs or seminal spores all the living creatures evolved. Hundreds of 
 thousands of .pccies of insects, of reptiles, of beasts, of fish, from four 
 germ.s~a statement flatly contra.licting. not onlv the Bible, but the very 
 A B C of science. .\ species never develops into anything but its own 
 species. In all the ages, an.l in all the world there has never been an 
 e-xception to it. The shark never comes of a whale, nor the pigeon of a 
 vulture, nor the butterfly of a wasp. Species never cross over. If there 
 be an attempt at it. it is hybrid and hybrid is always sterile and has no 
 descendants. 
 
 Agassiz says that he found in a reef of Florida, the remains of insects 
 thirty thousand years old-not three, but thirtv thousand years old-and 
 that t;,ey were just like the insects now. There has been no change Ml 
 Uk. facts of ornithology and ^o61ogy and ichthyologv and conchology 
 but an echo of Genesis first, and twenty-first. -Kverv winged fowl after 
 his kind." Every creature after its kin<l. \\-hen commo,i observation 
 and science corroborate the Bible I will not stultify myself by surrender- 
 ing to the clahoratc.i guc^es of evolutionists. 
 
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 To show that evolutiim is iiitidcl I place also the Bihle account of how 
 worlds were mailc oi)i)o,itc the e\olutionisls' account of how worUK 
 were made. Ihlilc acci'iiiu ; (lod made two «reat lights — the one to rule 
 the day, the i>thcr t.) lulc the nielli: lie made the stars also. Evolu- 
 tionist account: .\wa\ hack in the ages, there was a fire mist, or star 
 dust, and this hre nu-t cookd otY into granite, and then this granite hy 
 earth<|uake and hy storm, and i)y light, was shaped into mountains. an<l 
 vallevs and seas, and so what was originally lire mist, hecame wiiat we 
 call tiie eartli. 
 
 Who made the lire nii>!? Who set the lirst mist to world-making? 
 Who cooled off the tire nii-.t mtn gra nte? Vou have pushed God some 
 sixty to seventy million mile-, from the eartli, hut He is too near yet 
 for the liealth of evolution. l"or a great while the evolutionists Ijoasted 
 that they liail found the very stuff out of which this world and all worlds 
 were made. T\wy lifted the telescope and they saw it, the very material 
 out of which worlds made themselves. Xehula of simple gas. They 
 laugheil in triumph hecause they had found the factory where the worlds 
 were maiuifactured. and there was no (iod anywhere around the factory! 
 But in an unUicky hour f..r infidel evolutionists the spectroscope of Fraun- 
 hofcr and Kirchoff were invented, hy which they saw into that nebula, 
 and found it was not a simple gas. hut was a compound, and hence had to 
 be supplied from some other source, and that imiilied a God, and away 
 went their theory, shattered into everlasting demolition. 
 
 So these infidel evohitioitists go wandering up and down guessing 
 tlirongh the universe. .Anything to push l>ack the Jehovah from His 
 empire and make the one hook, which is His great communication to 
 the soul of the human race, appear ol>solctc and a derision. But I am glad 
 to know that while -ome of these scientist -. have gone into evolution, there 
 are more that do not believe it. Among them, the man who hy most is 
 considered the greatest scientist we ever had this side the water — Agassis. 
 A name that makes every intelligent man the earth over uncover. 
 
 A-U!ssi: S:!\-' "'Tlie m.inner in whicli the evolutioti tb.eory in zoology 
 
is treats would lead ...o.e .,.0 arc ..„ .pecu.l .ool.gi.t. to M,pp<,se that 
 "»-erv..„„„s l,a.e been made i, uhu 1, „ ,,,„ 1. ,n,Vncd tha. .Ikt- ,s „, 
 ..au,rc s.,ch a thing as chan,. nn,.,n« ,.„a„,..d ,...„,. aCally takin, 
 pace. There .s .v. sncl, ,h,n« u„ ,eo,n,, „ .. shun,,,, the ,.ound ' 
 <.l.servat.-,„ fn,.n .,„e field ..f observat.on .0 a„„tl,er „. „,ake th.s state- 
 -.ent. a..d whe., the a.serti.,„s , , so far a. „. .xH„d. fn.,„ the doma.n 
 
 ..f scence those who n, 11.,, Lcl^a.^ed ;„t,. , I,., „,„.,, ,„..re as..r- 
 lioii, flioi) ,t is time to pictest." 
 
 U-m, e<,wal vehe,„ena. a,ai„st ,I„s d,.,„..e „r ...l.t.o,, Hu,„ MiHer. 
 
 larn^day, Ws.erM»a„., ,,aus.n,,a,.dl.u.M.^ 
 
 country and other cunr .. U:.. ,na.l.. pn.teM. I ,„,„. ,„at ,he feu ,ne„ 
 
 who have ad,,p,ed ti,e ,1 ...y „.ake „„.re „„... „.a„ .h. thousands uho 
 
 "averejecte .t. The l; nia „f tl. Cnna.l Line .,.Une hundred pas- 
 sengers safely fro. Xe. ^ ... ,, ;,. ,. , ,„, „„^ ,, ^,,^ ^^^.^ ,;;^;^_ 
 
 cired made any exc.ten,en, P.n -"-er .. had ,.ee„ f„„r davs out. one 
 
 •-rn.n, we fonn.I on deck man"- „ac .-. .„.. and ve. and lxx,ts. im- 
 
 I'lying that someone ha.: inj,!,,,.,: (Hx.v.I K r,I„. ;,i ,1 1 
 
 .„ , . .11' (nxiu (I. 1 -ruiwitli we .lU becar, tu 
 
 talk alxHit that one man T - ^ .,,,,r- ,.,,,. .,, „ „ 
 
 , , , . ^'"^^ '''"^ aLx.ut that one man over- 
 
 iKwd than all ,he five h- ., ,,ss..,.. ,,, ,,,, „„ „, ,,, ..^^^ 
 
 .l.<ll.ejumpovcr.x,ard.^ 1 „,„.<ie, ...•, 1„. jumped overboard- -I 
 >^.de, ,f when he Jump., ... ,.oard he .n„d l,ke t, > have jum,.d back 
 
 to tl,e IxittO'n of the sea- I r .1 
 
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 talked alwut that poor man 
 
 Here is the glorious an, ^ ■ .ar ..kent .-.v that Ck.d by II.s omnijK> 
 
 tent power made man, an. -is nnm • 
 
 creation, and by His omni; •, . .wer -• 
 sand scientists have taken |^. ssa, n bo;, 
 ten or fifteen have jumped uve, .i-.? ,-- - 
 five thousand that did not jump. I . pc ■.- , 
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 test for yourselves vvlietlier your hand was really a fish's fin, and whether 
 you were web-footed originally, and whether your lungs arc a swim blad- 
 der. And as in every experiment there must be a division of labor, some 
 who experiment and some who observe, you make the experiment, and 
 
 I will observe. 
 
 There is one tenet of evolution which it is demanded we adopt, that 
 which Darwin .ills "Natural Selection." and that which Wallace calls the 
 "Survival of the Fittest." By this they mean that the human race and 
 the brute creation are all the time improving, liecause the weak die and 
 the strong live. Those who <U> not die survive because they are the 
 fittest. They say the breed of sheep and cattle, and dogs, and men, is all 
 the time improving, naturally improving. No need of God, or any Bible, 
 or any religion, but just natural progress. 
 
 You see the race started with 'spontaneous generation." and then it 
 goes ht on until Darwin can take us up with his "natural selection." 
 and Wallace can take us up with his "survival of the fittest," and so we 
 go right on up forever. Beautiful ! But do the fittest survive? Garfield 
 dead in September— Guiteau surviving until the following June. "Sur- 
 vival of the fittest ?" .\h ! no. The martyrs, religious and political, dying 
 for their principles, their bloody persecutors living on to old age. "Sur- 
 vival of the fittest ?" Five hundred thousand brave Northern men march- 
 ing out to meet five hundred thousand brave Southern men. and die o« 
 the hattlefield for principle. Hundreds of thousands oi them went down 
 into the grave trenches. We staid at home in comfortable quarters. EHd 
 they die because they were not as fit to live as we who survived? Ah! 
 no; not the "survival of the fittest." Ivllsworth and Nathaniel Lyon fall- 
 ing on the Northern si.le. .Mbert Sidney Johnston and Stonewall Jack- 
 son falling on the Southern side. Did they fall because they were not as 
 fit to live as the soldiers and the generals who came back in safety? No. 
 Bitten with the frosts of the second denth \x the tongue that dares utter 
 it ! It is not the "survival of the fittest." 
 
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 child physically the strongest, intellectually the brightest, in disposition 
 the kindest? Did that child die because it was not as fit to live as those 
 of your family that survived ? Not the "survival of the fittest." In all 
 communities some of the noblest, grandest men dying in youth, or in 
 mid-life, while some of the meanest and most contemptible live on' to old 
 age. Not the "survival of the fittest." 
 
 But to show you that this doctrine is antagonistic to the Bible and to 
 common sense, I have only to prove to you that there has been no natural 
 progress. Vast improvement from another source, but mind you. no 
 natural progress. Where is the fine horse in any of our parks whose 
 picture of eye and mane, and nostril and neck, and haunclies is worthy 
 of being comparc<l to JobS picture of a horse as he thousands of years 
 ago heard it paw. and neigh and champ its bit for the battle? Pigeons of 
 to-day not so wise as the carrier pigeons of five hundred years agt^ 
 pigeons that carried the mails from army to army and from city to city 
 one of them flung into the sky at Rome or \^enice landing without ship 
 or rail train in I-ondon. 
 
 And as to the human raee, so far as mere natural progress :s con- 
 cerned, it started with men ten feet high; now the average is about five 
 feet s:x inches. It started with men living two hundred, four hundred 
 eight hundred, nine hundred years, and now thirty years is more than 
 the average of human life. Mighty progress we have made, haven't we> 
 I went into the cathedral at York, England, and the best artists in 
 England had just been painting a window in that cathedral, and right 
 beside it was a window painted four hundred years ago. and there is not 
 a man on earth but would say that the mo<lern painting of the window 
 by the best artists of England is not worthy of being comapred with the 
 painting of four hundred years ago right Inside it. Vast improvement 
 as I shall show you in a minute or two, but no natural evolution. 
 
 I tell you. my friends, that natural evolution is not upward, but it is 
 always downward. Hear Chrisfs accotn.t of it. Fifteenth Mattliew 
 and nineteenth verse: "CKit of the heart pr.Keed evil thoughts, murders' 
 
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 adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies." Tliat is what 
 Christ said of Evolution. Give natural evolution full swing in our world 
 and it will evolve into two hemispheres of crime, two hemispheres of 
 penitentiary, two hemispheres of lazaretto, two hemispheres of brothel. 
 New York Tombs, Moyamensing Prison, Philadelphia; Seven Dials. 
 London, and Cowgate, Etlinhurgh. only festering carbuncles on the face 
 and neck of natural evolution. See what the Bible says about the heart, 
 and then what evolution says about the heart. Evolution says, "Better 
 and better and better gets the heart by natural improvement." Tlie 
 Bible says: '•Tlie heart is deceitful al)ove all things, and desperately 
 wicked." Who can know it? \\'hcn you can evolve fragrance from 
 malodor, and can evolve an oratorio from a buzz-saw, and can evolve 
 fall pippins from a basket of decayed crab apples, then you can by 
 natural evolution fmrn the human iicart develop goodness. Ah! my 
 friends, evolution is always downwanl ; it is never upward. 
 
 What is remarkable alx)Ut this Jiing is. it is all the time developing 
 its dishonesty. In our day it is ascribing this evolution to Herbert Spen- 
 cer and Charles Darwin. It is a dishonesty. Evolution was known and 
 advocated hundreds of years l)efore these gentlemen l)egan to be evolved. 
 The Phoenicians, thousands of years ago, declared that the human race 
 wobbled out of the mud. Democritus. who lived 460 years before Christ 
 rememljer that — knew this doctrine of evolution, when he said : "Ev- 
 erything is composed of atoms, or infinitely small elements, each with 
 a definite (juaiity. form and movement, whose inevitable union and .sep- 
 aration, shape all different things and forms, laws and efforts, and dis- 
 solve them again for new combinations. Tlie gods themselves and the 
 human mind originated from such atoms. There are no casualties. 
 Everything is necessary and determined by the nature of the atoms which 
 have certain mutual affinities, attractions, and repulsions." Anoximan- 
 der, centuries ago, declares that tliC human race started at the place 
 where the sea saturated the cartli. Lucretius develops long centuries ago. 
 in his poems, the d'X-trinc '>f {'Vishnion. 
 
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 It is an old Iieatlien corpse set up in a mori,- c. Charles Darv in an ' 
 Herbert Spencer are trying to galvanize it. They drag this old putre- 
 faction of tiiree thousand years around the earth, boasting that it is their 
 originality, and so wonderful is the infatuati..n that at the Delmonico 
 dinner given in honor of Herbert Spencer there were those who ascrl^d 
 to him this great originality „f evolution. There the banqueters sat 
 around the table in honor of Her]>crt Spencer, chewing beef and turkey 
 and roast pig, which, according to their doctrine of evolution, made 
 them ; eating their own relations ! 
 
 There is only one thing worse than English snobbery, and that is 
 American snobbery. I hke democracy and I like arist.;cracy : but there 
 IS one kind of ocracy in this country that excites niv contempt, and that 
 IS what Charles Kingsley, after be had witnesse.l it himself, called snob- 
 ocracy. Xow I say it is a gigantic dishonesty when they a.scribe this 
 old heathen doctrine oi evolution to any modern gentleman. I am not a 
 pessimist but an optimist. I do not believe everything is going to de- 
 struction: I believe everything is going on to rc<lcmption. But it will 
 not be through the infi<lel doctrine ..f evolution, but through our glorious 
 G.ristianity which has ctTected all the good that has ever been wrought, 
 and which is yet to reconstruct all the nations. 
 
 
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 There are a great many pco,,le longing for some grand sphere in 
 which to serve Cod. lliey a....,ir Luther at the Diet of Worms, and 
 only wi.sh that they had .son^e such great opportunity in which to display 
 their Christian prowess. They admire Paul making Feli.x tremble, and 
 they only wi.h that they had some such gran.t ncca^ion in which to 
 preach righteousness, temperance, ai.d jiulgnu-nt io come. .Ml they want 
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 where you can exliibit all that is grand and beautiful and glorious in 
 Christian character, and that is, the domestic circle." Let them learn 
 first to show piety at home. 
 
 If one is not faithful in an insignificant sphere, he will not be faith- 
 ful in a resounding sphere. If Peter will not help the cripple at the gate 
 of the temple he will never be able to preach three thousand into the 
 kingdom at the I'eiuecost. If Paul will not take pains to instruct in the 
 way of salvation the jailor of the Philippian dungeon, he will never make 
 Felix tremble. He who is not faithful in a skirmish would not be faith- 
 ful in an Armageddon. 
 
 The fact is. we are all placed in just the position in which we can 
 most grandly serve God ; and we ought not to Ix: chiefly tliDughtful about 
 some sphere of usefulness which we may after awhile gain, but the all- 
 absorbing quc-'tion w ith you and with me ought to be : "Lord, what 
 wilt Thou have me mm' and here to do?"' 
 
 Home. .\sk ten different men the meaning of that word and they 
 will give you ten different definitions. To one it means love at the hearth, 
 it means plenty at the table, industry at the workstand, intelligeticc at 
 the books, devotion at the altar. In that household Discord never sounds 
 its warwhoop and Deception never tricks w ith its false face. To him it 
 means a greeting at the door and a smile at the chair. Peace hovering 
 like wings, Joy clapping its hands with laughter. Life a tranquil lake. 
 Pillowed on the ripples sleep the shadows. 
 
 Ask another man what home is, and he will tell you it is Want look- 
 ing out of a cheerless fire-grate, needy hunger in an empty bread-tray. 
 The damp air shivering with curses Xo Bible on the shelf. Children 
 robbers and murderers in embryo. Oliscene songs their lullaby. Every 
 f ice a picture of ruin. Want in the Ixickground and sin staring from 
 the front. No Sabbath wave rolling over that doorsill. Vestibule of the 
 l>it. Shadow of infernal walls. Furnace for forging everlasting chains. 
 Faggots for an unending funeral pile. Awful word. It is spelled with 
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 agony ©f despair. The word "lionie" in tlie one case means everything 
 hright. Tiie word "home" in tiie other case means everything terrific. 
 
 Hume is a powerful test of character. Tiie disposition in public 
 may be to gay costume, while in private it is to dishabille. As play 
 actors may appear in one way on the stage and may appear in another 
 way behind the scenes, so private character may be very different from 
 public character. Private character is often public character turned in- 
 M<le out. A man may receive you into his parlor as though he were a 
 tlistillation of smiles, and yet his heart may be a swamp of nettles. There 
 are business men who all day long are mild and courteous and genial 
 and g(.(xl-natured in commercial life, damming back their irritability 
 and their petulance and their discontent, but at nightfall the dam breaks, 
 and scolding pours forth in floods and freshets. 
 
 Reputation is only the shadow of character, and a very small house 
 sometimes will cast a very long shadow. The lips may seem to drop 
 with myrrh and cassia, and the disposition to Ik- as bright and warm 
 as a sheaf of sunlK;ams. an.l yet they may only be a magnificent show 
 window, but a wretched stock of good.. There is many a man who is 
 afTable in public life and amid commercial spheres, who. in a cowardly 
 way. takes his an-,^cr and !ii> petulance home and drops them on the 
 domestic circle. 
 
 The rcas<jn men do not display their bad temper in public is because 
 they do not want to be knocked down. There are men who hide their 
 petulance and their irritability just for the same reason that they do 
 not let their notes go to protest : it does not pay. Or. for the .same reason 
 that they do not want a man in their stock company to sell his stock at 
 less than the right price lest it depreciate the value. As at sunset some- 
 times the wind rises, so after a sunshiny d:iy there may be a tempestuous 
 night. There arc people who in jjublic act ilie philanthropist, who at 
 home act the .\'ero. wit 
 
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 and alter years of toil and exiKisure com[)leted liis niaiuisciipt and put 
 it in a trunk in riiiladclphia, and went i>ff for a few days ui recreation 
 and rest, and came baci< and found that tlie rats liad utterly destroyed 
 the manuscript ; but without any discomi^surc and withf)Ut any fret or 
 bad temi)er, he again picked up his gun and his pencil, and visited again 
 all the great forests of America and reproduced iiis immortal work. And 
 yet there are people with the ten-thousandth part of that loss who are 
 utterly irreconcilable, who. at the loss of a iK-ncil or an article >>f raiment, 
 will blow as long and loud and sharp as a northeast stt)rm. 
 
 Xow. that man who is affable in public and wiio is irritable in private 
 is making a fraudulent and over-issue of stock, and he is as bad as a bank 
 that might have four or five hundred thousand dollars of bills in circida- 
 tion and no specie in the vault. Let us learn to show piety at home. If 
 we have it not there, we have it not anywhere. If we have not genuine 
 grace in the family circle, all our outward .ind public plausibility merely 
 springs from a fear of the world, or from the slimy, putrid pool of our 
 own selfishness. I tell you the home is a mighty test nf character. What 
 you are at home you are everywhere, whether you demonstrate it or 
 not. 
 
 .\gain, home is a refuge. Life is the United States army on the 
 national road to Mexico, a long march with ever and anon a skirmish 
 and a battle. .\t eventide we pitch our tent and ^t.^ck the arms, we hang 
 up the war cap. and, our head on the knai)sack. we sleep until the morn- 
 ing bugle cills us to march to the action. How pleasant it is to rehearse 
 the victories and the surprises and the attacks of the ilay. seated by the 
 still camp-fire of the home circle. 
 
 Yet life is a stormy sea. With s!i:\trcd masts and torn sails, and 
 hulk aleak, we put in at the harbor of home. Blessed harbor! There 
 we go for repairs in the dry dock. The catid'c in the wimlow i> to the 
 toiling man the lighthouse guiding him into port Children go forth to 
 meet their fathers as pilots at the "'Xarrows" take the hand of ships. 
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 Tliere is the place where we may talk of what we liave done without 
 heing chargerl with self-a(hilation. Tlierc is tlie place where we may 
 Inimgc without Ixing thought ungraceful. There is the place where wc 
 may express gratification without being thought silly. Tliere is the 
 place where wc may forget our annoyances, and exasperations, and trou- 
 bles. Forlornearth, pilgrim, no lume:- Then die. That is Ijetter. The 
 grave is brighter, and grander, and more glorious than this world with 
 no tent from marching, with no harbor from the storm, with no ploce 
 of rest from the scene of greed and gouge, and loss and gain. God pity 
 the man or the woman who has no home. 
 
 iMirther. I remark, that Ixime i- a political safeguard. Tl^c safety 
 of the State nuisl be built <m the safety of the home? Why can not 
 l-rance come to a placid republic .' Mc.Mahon appoints his ministry, and 
 all F-"rance is a<|uakc lest the republic be smothered, (iambetta dies, and 
 there are hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen who arc fearing the re- 
 turn of a monarchy. France as a nation has not the right kind of a 
 Christian home. 
 
 The Christian licarth-stone is the only hearth-stone for a republic. 
 The virtues cultured in the family circle are an absolute necessity for the 
 State. If there be not enough moral principle to make the family adhere, 
 there will not Ije enough [wlitical principle to make the Slate adhere. Xo 
 home means the Goths and \^mdals, means the Nomads of Asia, means 
 the Numidians of .\frica changing from place to place, according as 
 the pasture happens to change. Confounded be all those Bafjels of in- 
 Kiuity which would overiKiwer and destroy the home. The same storm 
 that upsets the ship in which the family sails will sink the frigate of 
 the constitution. Jails, and penitentiaries, and armies, and navies, are 
 not our best defence. The do<ir of the home i> the best fortress. House- 
 hold utensils are the best artillery, and the chimneys of our dwelling 
 hou.ses are the grandest monuments of safety and triumph. No home, 
 no republic. 
 
 Home IS a scIuxjI. (Jld ground must be turned up with subsoil plow, 
 
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 and it must be harrowed and rcharrowcd. and then the crop will not be 
 as large as that of the new ground with less culture. Now, youth and 
 childhood are new ground and all the influences thrown over their heart 
 and life will come up in after life luxuriantly. 
 
 Every time you have given a smile of approbation — all the good 
 cheer of your life will come up again in the geniality of your children. 
 And every ebullition of anger, and every imcontrollable display of indig- 
 nation will be fuel to their disposition twenty or thirty, or forty years 
 from now — fuel for a bad fire quarter of a century from this. You 
 praise the intelligence of your child tix) much sometimes, when you think 
 he is not aware of it, and you will see the results of it before ten years 
 of age, in his annoying affectations. You praise his beauty, supposing 
 lie is not large enough to understand what you say, and you will find 
 him standing on a high chair before a flattering mirror. 
 
 Words, and deeds, and example are the seed of character, an<l chil- 
 dren arc very apt to be the second e<lition of their jiarents. Abraham 
 Ijcgat Isaac, so virtue is apt to go down in the ancestral line; but Herod 
 l)egat ,\rcliclaus, so iniquity is transmitted. What vast resjwnsibility 
 comes uj)on parents in view of this subject. 
 
 Oh, make your home the brightest place on earth if you would charm 
 your children to the high path of virtue, and rectitude, and religion. Do 
 not always turn the blinds the wrong way. Let the light, which puts 
 gold on the gentian and spots the pansy, pour into your dwellings. Do 
 not expect the little feet to keep step to a dead march. Do not cover 
 up your walls with such pictures as West's "Death on a Pale Horse," or 
 Tintoretto's 'Massacre of the Innocents." Rather cover them, if you 
 have pictures, with "The Hawking Party," and "Tlie Mill by the Moun- 
 tain Stream." and "Tlie Fox Himt," and "Tlie Giildren Amid Flowers," 
 and "The Harvest Scene," and "Tlic Saturday Night Marketing." 
 
 Get you no hint of cheerfulness from grasshopjKr's leap, and lamb's 
 frisk, aiul cpiail's wliisllc, and garrulous streamlet, which, from the rock 
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SERMONS AND LECTURES 
 
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 of the steep, comes looking to see where it can find tlie steepest place 
 to leap oflf at, and talking just to hear itself talk. If all the skies hustled 
 with tempest, and everla.sting storm wandered over the sea, and every 
 mountain stream were raving mad, frothing at the moutli with mud 
 foam, and there were nothing but simoons blowing among the hills, and 
 there were neither lark's carol nor humming-bird's trill, nor waterfall's 
 dash, but only l)ear's bark and panther's scream and wolf's howl, then 
 you might well gather into your homes only the shadows. But when 
 God has strewn the earth and the heavens with beauty and with glad- 
 ness, let us take into our home circles all innocent hilarity, all brightness, 
 and all good cheer. A dark home makes bad lx)ys and bad girls, in prep- 
 aration for bad men and bad women. 
 
 INTOLERANCE. 
 
 "Then said they unto him. Say now Shibboleth ; and he said Sibbo- 
 leth ; for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, 
 and slew him at the passages of Jordan."— Judges xii :6. 
 
 Do you notice the difference of pronunciation between shibboleth and 
 sibboleth? A very small and unimportant difference, you say. And yet, 
 that difference was the difference between life and death for a great 
 many people. The Lord's people, Gilead and Ephraim, got into a great 
 fight, and Ephraim was worsted, and on the retreat came to the fords of 
 the river Jordan to cross. Order was given that all Ephraimites coming 
 there be slain. But how could it be found out who were Ephraimites? 
 They were detected by their pronunciation. Shibboleth was a word that 
 stood for river. The Ephraimites had a brogue of their own, and when 
 they tried to say shibboleth always left out the sound of the "h." When 
 it was asked that they say shibboleth they said sibboleth, and were slain. 
 "Then said they unto him, say now shibboleth; and he said sibboleth. 
 
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 fi,r lie could not frame to promjiincc it riglit. Tlicn tliey took him and 
 slew him at the passages of Jordan." A vci • small difTcrencc, you say, 
 between Ciilead and Kpliraim, and \ct how much intolerance alxnit that 
 small difference' The 1-ord's tribes in our time — by which I mean the 
 diflferent dcnDininatioiis of (liristians — soitictimes niaj;nify a very small 
 difTeience. and 'lie only difft renee between ^^curc^, df dennminalions to- 
 day is the (litference be, veen shiblK>leth and siblxilelh. The thnrch of 
 God is divided intn a j,'reat miinber nf denominations. Time would fail 
 me to tell of the Calvinists, and the .\rminians, and the Sablmtarians. 
 and the liaxterians and the Dunkers, and the Shakers, and the ynaker^, 
 and the Metho.''sts, and the I'.aptists, and the Lpiscopalians. and the 
 Lutherans, and t'.ie f .nj^'re^atioiialists, and the I'resbyterians, and the 
 Spiritualists, ;md a score of other denominations .f religionists, some 
 of them foimded !_> very gtxnl men, some of them founded by very 
 egotistic men. some of them founded by very bad ii'oti. But as I demand 
 for myself liberty of conscience, I nnist give that same liberty to every 
 other man. remembering that lie no more differs from me than I differ 
 from him. I advocate the largest liberty in all religious lH;licl .nid form 
 of worship. In art, in ]iolitics, in morals, and in religion, let there Ije no 
 gag law, no moving of the previous (|uestion, no persccr'ion, no intol- 
 erance. 
 
 Yon know that the air and the water kee]> pure by constant circu- 
 lation, and I think there is a tendency in religious discussion to purifica- 
 tion and inoial health. Between the fourth and sixteenth centuries the 
 Church proposed to make people think aright by prohibiting discus-ion, 
 and bv strong censorship of the press, and rack, and gibbet, and hot lead 
 down the throat, tried to make peojjle urlhod. x ; but it was discovered 
 that you cannot change a man's belief by twisting off his head, or that 
 you can make a man see things differently b> [nttting an awl through 
 his eves. There is something in a man's conscience whicl, will hurl off 
 the m> iintain that you threw ujKin it. and, unsinged of t'e hre, out of the 
 fl...,if. ._Yi!i jv..iks' red wind's un wh.ich the martvr will p.ioi.int to ^!orv. 
 
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 The truth will corKiiier just as a-rtaiiily as that (iod is stronger than 
 tlic ficvil. I.ct I'.rroT run. if y<ni only Id Truth nni along witii it. Urged 
 on by skeptic's shout and transcendcntalist's spur, let it run. (Jod's 
 angels of wrath are in hot pnr^uit, and (juicker than eagle's lieak clutches 
 out a hawk's heart, (iod's vengeance will tear it to jneccs. 
 
 Higotry is often the cliilil of ignorance. Vou seldom find a man with 
 large intellect who is a Ingot. It is the man who thinks he knows a great 
 deal, hut does not. That man is almost always a Ingot. The whole tend- 
 ency of educatinii and civilization is to bring a man out of that kind of 
 state of minri ami heart. There was in the far l-:ast a great obelisk, and 
 one side of the obelisk was white, another side of the obelisk was green, 
 another side of the obelisk was blue, and travelers went and looked at 
 that oljelisk. but they <lid not walk around it. f>ne man looked at one 
 side, another at another side, and they came home each one I(X)king at 
 only one side; and they hajiijcned to meet, the story says; and they goi 
 into a rank (|itarrel about the color of that (obelisk. One man said it was 
 white, another man said it was green, another man said it was blue, and 
 when they were in the very heat of the controversy a more intelligent 
 traveler came, and said: •C'rt.-ntlemcn. 1 have sec; that oljelisk, and 
 you are all right, and you are all wrong. Why didn't you walk all 
 around the obelisk r" Ij>ok out for the man who sees only one side of a 
 religious truth. Ijh^ out for the man who never walks around about 
 these great theories of (iod and eternity and the dead. He will Ix; a bigot 
 inevital)ly— the man wIkj only sees one side. There is no man more to 
 be pitied than he who has in his head just one idea — no more, no less. 
 More light, less sectarianism. There i- nothing that will so soon kill 
 bigotry as sunshine — (;o<r> sunshine. 
 
 So I have .set I>efore you what I consider U> bo the causes of bigotry. 
 I have set k-fore you the origin of this frreat evil. Wliat .ire some of 
 the ])aleful effects? First of all, it cripples investigation. You are 
 wrong, and I am right, and that ends it. \o taste for exploration, no 
 f^pirit "t mvc-tigatiim. From the glwricnij rcaiin ui Gods irutii, over 
 
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 which an ardiangel mijjlit (ly from eternity to eternity ami not rcacli the 
 hmit, the man sluits himself out and «hes. a blind imle under a corn- 
 sh(Kk. It stops all investigation. 
 
 While each denomination of Christian^ is to present all the truths of 
 the Hihle. it seems to me that (Jo<| has given to each denonnna'ion an 
 es|MX'ial mission to give particular emphasis to some one doctrine; and 
 so the (alvinistic churches nnist present the sovereignty of rnKl. and the 
 Arminiaii churches nnist i)resent man's free .igcncy. and the I-'piscopal 
 churches must present the im|Hirlance of onler and solemn ceremony, 
 and the Hai»ti>.t churches nuist present the necessity of ordinances, anti 
 tile Congregational Church nuist present the res|)onsihility of the indi- 
 vidual meml)er, and the Metluxlist Churrh must show what holy en- 
 thusiasm hearty congregational singmg can accoriiplish. While each de- 
 nomination ()f Christians must set forth all the <l(Ktrines of the Bible, 
 I feel it is especially incumlieut ujion each denomination to put particular 
 emphasis on some one doctrine. 
 
 .\nother great damage done by the sectarianism and bigotry of the 
 church is that it disgusts people with the Christian religion. N'ow, my 
 friends, the Church of G(xl was never intended for a war barrack. Peo- 
 ple are afraid of a riot. You go lown the street and you see an excite- 
 ment, missiles flying through the air, and you hear the shocks of fire- 
 arms. Do you, the peaceful and industrious citizen, go through that 
 street? Oh, no! you will say. 'Til go around the block." Now, men 
 come and look upon this narrow path to heaven, and sometimes see the 
 ecclesiastical brickbats flying every whither, and they say. "Well, I guess 
 I'll take the broad road: if it is so rough, and there is so much ."^harp 
 shr>oting on the narrow road. I guess I'll try the broad road." 
 
 Francis I. so hate<l the Lutherans that he said if he thought there 
 was one drop of Lutheran blood in his veins he would puncf.ire them 
 and let that drop out. Just as long as there is so much hostility between 
 denomination and denomination, or between one professed Giristian 
 nv.'A another, or iictween one rlinrrb, .nnd .Ttv-itJipr, ji.v-t so long men will 
 
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 44;) 
 
 l)c «li^J»tlst^•(I with the Cliri'^tian rdigioii. and say, "I I that i<; religion. I 
 want tKnc of it." 
 
 Bifjotry and sectarianism do great damage in the f.i : 1 at they hinder 
 the triumph <>f the Cspcl. (>|i. hou mttcli wa^t. imition, hi-w 
 
 many men of '■pli'iidid intcllcrt hnvr given tlicir \vt life to confo- 
 vcr'iial di'.ptitcs, when, if they hn.I gi'cn ihcir hfc to sfuncthing pratticat, 
 they might have heeii va'-tly ii-cfnll Siipi>.se there were a >.n,.,.t)nn 
 Cfiei:i\ inmiiig up the hay thmngh \\,r N'arrows, and r.l! the forts around 
 Xcw ^ .>rk hegaii In fire into each nther— vou wnn!d rry out. "N'atinnal 
 suicide! why don't |i ise forts hlaze away iii one direction, and that 
 against tlie c.ininon enemy?" .\nd yet I sometimes see in tlic Cliiirch of 
 the I>inl Testis Clirist a strange tiling g-.ing on; Church against Gnircli. 
 minister against minister. denominatiiMi against denomination, firi.ng 
 a\va\ into their own fort, nr the fort whidi ought to he on the same side, 
 instead of cMucntrating their ciurgx. and giving one mighty and ever- 
 lasting vf.lle> against the navies of darki;oss. riding up through the bay! 
 
 I go out sometimes in the summer, and I lind two fn-ehives. and ,\'i^e 
 two hives are in a (|iiarrel. I come near eiiiutgli. not to Ik stung. l»ut I 
 come just near enougli to hear tlie comroversy. and one bcchiv- says. 
 "Tliat field of clover is the sweetest." and another beehive sa>s. "Tltat 
 field of clover is the sweetest." I ci>iTie in between them, and I say. "St> p 
 this quarrM; if you like that fitld of clover l)cst. .go tliere; if you like 
 that field of clover best, go there; but let .nc tell you that that hive which 
 gets the mt>-t honey is the best hive." So I come out Iietween the 
 tliurches oi the I>ord Jesus Giiist. One den,,mination of Oiristians 
 says. "Tliat field of Giristian doctrine is best." and another savs, "This 
 field of Giristian doctrine is iiest." Well, 1 s.,y. "Go where you get 
 die mc St honey." Tliat i•^ the l>est church whicli gets the most honey of 
 Giristian grace tor the he:irt. and the must ho.u-y of Christian useful- 
 ness fur the lite. 
 
 Beside that, if you want to build up any denomination, yen will ne\er 
 biir.i ir tip i,\ ti.Mii^ i.i pull some other down. Intolerance never put 
 
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 anything down. How inucl'. lias Intolerance accomplished. I'or instance, 
 against the Mcthwlist Church? For long years her ministry were for- 
 bidden the pulpits of Great Britain. Why was it that so many of them 
 preached in the fields? Siiv.ply lujcause they could not get in the churches. 
 And the name of the Church was given in derision and as a sarcasm. 
 Tlie critics of the Church said, '-They have no order, they have no 
 method in their worship:" and the critics, therefore, in irony called them 
 "Methodists."' 
 
 I am tokl that in Astor Lihrary, New York, kept as curiosities, there 
 are seven hundred and seven lK)oks and pamphlets against Methodism. 
 Did Intolerance stop that church? No; it is either first or second amid 
 the dciKMuinations of Christendom, her missionary stations in all parts 
 of the world, her men not only important in religious trusts, but im- 
 p.irtant also in secular trusts. Cluirch marching on. and the more in- 
 tolerance against it. the faster it marched. 
 
 What (lid Intolerruuc acc('nipli>li against the Baptist Church? It 
 laughing scorn ami tirade could have destroyed the church it would not 
 have tn-(lay a disciple left. 
 
 The Baptists were hurled out of Boston in olden times. Tliose who 
 sympathized with them were coiifnied, and when a jKtilion was offered 
 asking leniency in their bel'-.If. nil the men who signed it were indicted. 
 Has Intolerance .t-ppcd the Baptist Church? 'Hie last st.vistics in re- 
 gard to it showed twenty tlioiiv.uul churches ;ind two million communi- 
 cants. Intolerance never ptU down anything. 
 
 In I'.ti-land a law was nuide against the Jew. F.ngland thrust Ixick 
 the Jew and tliru-t down the Jew, and declared that no Jew should hold 
 oftkial pKit.nn. What eaine of it? Were the Jews destri.yed? Was 
 their religion overthrown? No. Who l^c.-tme IViine Minister of I-Jig- 
 land only .i little wliile ago' Who wa^ next t.< the throne? Who was 
 higher than the tliione lieeause lie was eoiuiselior and adviser? DisraeH, 
 a Jew. Wlirit were we eelehrating m all our churches as well as syna- 
 gogues onlv .1 iVw weeks a-o? The one hundreth birthday anniversary 
 
SEIfMOXS AM) LMCTIKKS 
 
 451 
 
 of Montffiorc. tlic >,'>c;i( k-wisli plijlimili 
 jHit (Iiiwii anyfliini,'. 
 
 "pist. Intiilcrniicc never yet 
 
 if 
 
 aviii;,' sliuwn y.»ii ihc <n\fr\u ni hij^utry or seel 
 slioun you tl,f .lamaKc it does. | want ],Twi\v to si 
 to war aj-ainst this terrible e\ i 
 
 arianism, and liaving 
 low you liovv we are 
 
 l>y reali/iuf,' our r.un weak 
 
 1. and I think we oujjht to Ijegi 
 
 111 our war 
 
 many mistakes in the oin 
 may make mistakes in rej^'ard 
 
 ness and cur imperfections. If we make so 
 
 mon affairs ,,( life, is it not possil)le that 
 
 wc 
 
 we take a 
 
 lo our relif^ions affairs? Shal 
 
 'lar. lle^■an^e he can not see religious trutli> 
 
 man hy the thmat. or i)v the o 
 
 j.ist as we do? I„ ,1k. i,>,i„ .„- ^.,^.,.„j,,. j, ^^.j;, ,,^. f,„„„, ,„„ j',',,;,,,^. j,^^'^'^ 
 
 was somethini,' wronj,' i 
 
 n all our creec 
 
 and 
 
 creed 
 
 Hut 
 
 •metl 
 
 since we may make mistakes in 
 
 inj,' ri^jlit in all our 
 
 world, do ,i,,t let us 1 
 
 re-jard to tilings of the 
 
 that we can not make any mistake 
 then 1 think we will d. 
 
 ic so e<,n,ti>tic ,ni.I .,, pulTed np as to Iiave 
 
 an i( 
 
 lea 
 
 s m rei,'ard to religiotis tiicories. And 
 
 a irreat deal t 
 
 imr heart, and tl 
 
 o o\erthrow 
 
 the 
 
 -ectarianism from 
 
 lie seclariani-m fmni tlie world h 
 
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 lose things in whicli we .-igree. rat 
 
 ly chielly enlarging in 
 
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 ner than iIi.nc ou which 
 
 difTei 
 
 ow. here i- a great (i, .sj 
 
 )el iilallonn. 
 
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 shove him off? Here 
 
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 IS a man c .min;/ u 
 
 h 
 
 e s.ivs 
 
 i don't I 
 
 heliexc in lialiy sprinkling." Siiall I 
 g up on tliis side tlie platform, amf 
 
 sliove him off? .\,,. [ 
 your .Savior? do you trust H 
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 •ciieve m the perseverance <<i t! 
 
 ic saints," Shall I 
 Do you believe in the Lord Jesus as 
 
 you take ( hrisi for ti 
 
 m' lor tinie and eternitv 
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 on. brother ; 
 
 sa\ : "Come 
 
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 ever. 
 
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 i\v, brother for- 
 
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 cei\e ( lirist nia\ staiii 
 
 plaff. .ini s,, i.irge th.it all w I 
 
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 hearts, an 
 
 ve may o\erll,row liu- severe sectar 
 
 lanism aiK 
 
 d in the chunh al 
 
 IV real 
 
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 iristians h.ive vieldeil iio! 
 
 ili/ing that ail the de 
 
 1 iiigolry in our 
 nominations of 
 
 ing that so stirs m 
 
 >le lllstltu!ioI.^ ;,ud iiolile men. T] 
 
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 soul as this liiought. One lien. 
 
 lere is noth- 
 
 md an .\doniram IikKou ; anoi 
 
 lination vielded 
 
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 SKKMOXS Axn T.ECrrEKS 
 
 ,1 Melville; aiv-tlu-r yielded jnlm Wesley an<l iIk- Me^-ed Suiiinicrr,eM. 
 whi'e oitr own (len«>min:ai<)n yielded Jolin Knox and tlie Aloxander—- 
 men of wliom tlie wnrUI wa-i not wnrlby. X. w , I -ay. if we are liciie-t 
 and fair-minded men. wiien we ome up in tlie presence <if sucli clnirches 
 and sncli dennminatinns. altlmuj^li liiey may 1r- different from our ..wu. 
 we nuglit to admire tliem. and we ou-lit I., love and honnr them 
 Churdies uliidi can pmduce smli men, and >ucli largo iiearted charily. 
 and such maKniticent martyrdcm. cuijht to win i.ur affection— at ,niy 
 rate, our rc>|H'ct. So. come on. ye ninety-lixe thdu^an.l I' pi-cnp.dians 
 in this countrv. atid ye four lunidred tli..usand I'reshyterian-. and ye luue 
 lumdred thousand Uaptists. and ve twn nullion Methndi-t-— -.ome <<n: 
 -houlder to -houlder we will mareli fi>r the world's cnuiuc-t ; tor all 
 nations are to 1)C save<!. .-md (iixl demauds that you . and 1 help il" it. !"or- 
 
 w.ird. the whole line' 
 
 Moreover, we uiav al-' overthrow the icehni; of severe soct;inani-ni 
 liV ioiuint;- I'tlur dcnoiniuaiion-- m Christian work. 1 like when the 
 s])riniitime conie- and the anni\ersar\ . icca-ion-; ln-i^in. and all deiiomina- 
 iion< come niiou the -ame iilatl-rm. Th.-it overthrows secta'-iani-m m 
 ',he Vouiis^ Men'- (.'hristian A--ociatioii. in the Ihhle Society, in the '1 nit 
 S.K-iety. in the I'oreii,Mi Mi-iniiary Society -houhler to ^houlder. all de- 
 uominatious. 
 
 Perhaps I iui,t,'lu ir.ore f..rcihly I'Ui-tr.ate this truth hy calling your 
 .•■Itentioii to an uickIciu winch lo.ik place f.>ur or live or -i\ years atjo. 
 (hie Moudav nio.ninu a! alKHU iwo .,'cl.tck. while licv iime hundreil 
 li;i.^sen<,'er- \'.ere -Mund a--!eep in her hcriliN drc.'iniiiii:; of home, the 
 reamer Athm'ic ci.a-hed into Mar- lle.id. I'i\e nuiulred -ouN in ten 
 minutes l.iiideil in cternil) 1 Oh. what n -ccne! \.i;oiii/cd men ami 
 women runnint; uji and down the !.;an.i,'w,iv-. and dutchint; for the rit;- 
 L,'ing. and (he i.lunf^e of die liolpIes> -teanier. and the claiiiiini,' ><( the 
 hands of tic merciles- -ca over the drownins; and the de.'id. threw two 
 continents into terror. I'ut -rc ihi> hr.ue (ni:iiterm;i-ter piishiny out 
 with the lifeline until he I'.e'-^ '" ''"■ ^'■'^'^' •""' -'''' '''^'~^*' H'-Iiemien 
 
SKIJ.MUNS AND LKC'll l.'KS 
 
 4.");] 
 
 gatlicniiK 111) tl'*-' >liil)u recked, and takii'g them intu t!ie cabins, and wrap- 
 I)ing thc-ni in tlie llannel> smig and warm; and set that minister of the 
 (lospel. witii tiirec other men, getting into a hfe-lwat and pusliing out fur 
 le wreck, pulhng away across the surf, and pnlling away until they 
 
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 getting l)ack with li 
 
 th 
 
 s.iveil one uiore man. ai 
 those men ever forget that night? And can they ever forget tlieir com- 
 panionship in peril, companionship in struggle, ci^mpanionship in awful 
 cuastroplie and re-cue? Never! Never! In uiiatevcr jKirt of the earth 
 they meet, they will he friends when they men;ion the story of that awful 
 mglit when the Atlantic -truck Mars Head. 
 
 Well, my irieiuN. mir world h.i> gone inn. a worse shipwreck. Sin 
 drove it oil the rock-. The old shi[) l;a- iurcheil and tossed in the 
 tempests of six thousand \e;ir.v Out with the life-line! 1 do not care 
 wh.it den.>miiiaiion canlc^ it, int with the lifc-hojit! 1 do not care 
 iiat (ieiiomiiiaiioii rows u. Side hy side, in the iiu-niory of common 
 hanWiips, and common iriaN. and ci.mnion prayer>. .md common tears, 
 let Us he brother- foroxcr We mu-i lie. W'e nui-t be. 
 
 "( >ur arm; i >i the In iiig ( iml. 
 I o whose Command we how : 
 I'art of the host lia\e cri>ssei' the tiood, 
 AikI part .are crossing now." 
 
 .\iid 1 expeci l'< >ee the day when all .IcnoiHniaiioiis ,if Chnstians 
 -hal! join h;ind- ;iidiind the cro-- (.f riirist .ind nciie the creed: ■■{ be- 
 lic\e in (i<Ml the h'athci .\lmighty. .M,iker ..f he.iven and earth, and in 
 jesii- C'hri-i, and in the commiiuion of .Saint-, .iiid i:i the life everlast- 
 ing." May (lod in-iiire ii- all with the l;irge-t -hearted ( hristiau clurity. 
 
 In th 
 
 THE WITNESS-STAND. 
 
 e day- of (ieoige Stephcn-on. the perfecler of the locomotive 
 
 engine, the -ciciitist- poNcd couclu-is ely ihai a i.ulwav tnim could nevei 
 lie ilii\eii l'\ -team [xiwei siicccssfull} , and without peril; but the rush 
 
 
454 
 
 SKKMILNS AND IJUTl'l.'KS 
 
 M'. 
 
 I 
 
 il-.' 
 
 h-M. 
 
 m- 
 
 ing express trains fmin l-ivcrpiol to Kdiiilnirgli. and Iroin luliiiburgli 
 to Loiuhm, have made all the natiuns witnesses of the splendid aclneve- 
 ments. Macliini>t> and navij,Miiir> proved conclusively that a steamer 
 could never cros^ the Alhintic Ocean; hut no sooner had they success- 
 fully proved the inipnssihility of -^mh an undertakiiij^ than the work was 
 done, and the passciij;ir-< on the I unard, and the Innian, and the Na- 
 tional, and the W hite Suu llne^ are witnes-es. Hiere went up a guffaw 
 oi wise lauj;liter at I'tiies-i'i Morse's proposition to make the lightnmf,' 
 of heaven hi> eiraiid h.>y. and it was proved ccmkIu-u ely that the thnig 
 ccHild never Ik.' done: Init n.>w all the new> of the wide world, by .\sso- 
 ciate<l Press put in \onr hands every morning and uikIh, lias made all 
 nations witnesses. 
 
 S.. in tlie mne i.f t hrist it was proved ci 'licUisively th.it it was im- 
 Ix.ssiMe f-r linn t .n-e fmni the dead. It w.i^ shown li.j^Kally that when 
 a man was dead, he was dead, and the heart and the liver and the lungs 
 liaving ceased to perform their offices, the limbs would be rigi<l l)eyond 
 all power .1 friction or arousal. They showed it to Ik.- an ai)solute ab- 
 surdity that the dead ( Inist should ever get up alive: but no sooner iiail 
 thev pr.ived this than the dea 1 Christ arose, and the disciples beheld Him, 
 heard Hi- voice, and talked with llim, and they took the witness-stand 
 to prove that t.. be true which the wiseacres of the day had proved to Ik; 
 imiHissible: the record of the e\perin.rm and til the testimony is: "Him 
 hath (i'i<i raised fr..ni ;lie dead, whereof we are witnesses." 
 
 Now. let ine play the -keptic f. .r a moment. 
 
 -There is n.. ( 1. d." s.ivs the skei)tic. ■■f.ir I have never seen Him with 
 inv phssical eyeM;,;ht. Voiir I'.ible is a pack -f c-nti adictious, 'llieic 
 ;ie\er was ;i inu;u!e. l.a/arus was n. .t r;iised from liie dead. an<l the 
 water wa- inner nuntd mto wine. ^ our religion is an imposition oil 
 tlie credulity of the :iges." 
 
 The fact is, that if tin- wrM 1^ ever brMiiglil t, . (;..d, it will not he 
 thiongh :Mgument. but through testimony. Vou might ever the wh<^e 
 earth with ajn. logics I'or (.hns.i.mit;. and Icarii'M treatises m delens-j of 
 
syinfc.ws AND LKi'Ti im:s 
 
 4: . 
 
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 1 il!iijj;i< 
 
 inc! -lii 
 
 in 
 
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 in 
 
 ;cn, 
 
 ■ ;i 
 
 "I- 
 
 religioi) — you wuul.I not -ivert a sm:!. I.( 
 tween science and rclipidii are Ix-aiitiful ni. 
 saved a soul, ami never wil! r-avc a son'. 
 man of the CInircli ajj^ainst each oiht-r, ar 
 all probability get the triumpii. T ere 
 ligion that seem illogical u< the wnii,!. ;i 
 
 Our weapon in this c.intlict is faith. .^ic 
 
 faith, not profundity; laitli. net hIk n' 
 
 order to have faith, we nni->t have testiinonv a id )i ir^c iitnid^ 
 or one thousand men, or ii\e hiiiuirtd tli. usand nun. nr '.'■ 
 men get up and tell me that ■.hey have felt ;he rcli.-ir.n .,; su 
 a joy, a comfort, a help, an aspiration, I am Umnd as a laii ::iidt(! ai, 
 to accept their testinvMiy. 
 
 We are witnesses that the ri-li,i;i..ii , h" ("jiri-t i- ahlr 1.. .-' Tt .-i -n-!. 
 Tlie (iospel may have had a lijud time ; 1 c .nqiioi ;: :a- 
 
 fought it kick, hut we were van(|ui>Ikd. W.u ..-y i .i,.(,', ,„ 
 
 imaginary thing. We know knter. "W e .110 \. itno-M - ^^ 
 
 was so great a change in mir he.irt and Uiv on ,m,v ..iIk- - -,ti . ,.n 
 this. People laughed at the nnv-io„aries in Mad:ii;a^ear he.aiNe :!K-y 
 preached ten years without one convert: hut there are .^,'vcx» converts 
 in Madagascar to-day. IVopIe laughed at Doctor ]u<U<,:\. the I'.aptist 
 missionary, because he kept on preachnig in lUirmali live \<,;u> without 
 a single convert; hut there are Jo,cxx> l',apti-ts in rintn.ih t >-day. 
 People laughe<l at lX>ctor Morris.m. in C liina, i" r prcaciiing there seven 
 years without a single conver-ion ; hut theia' arc 15.HH) (,lni>tians in 
 China fo-day. People Iaughe<! at the missionarie-. i, .r ]ireachn:-; at Tahiti 
 fifteen years without a single conver>ion, .and ,it the nii-si, .naric- for 
 preaching in Bengal seventeen years without a >ingir .-. unci -ion; vet 
 in all those lands there are multitudes of Christians to-da\. 
 
 Hi-.t why go S(j l"ar to fmd evidence of the (io-pcr. pMucr i,. >;uc a 
 soul? "We are witnesses." \\"c were so proud th;u no man cmiid have 
 humbled us; we were so hai.! tluu uo earthly power cuuld h;ue melted 
 
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 45() 
 
 HEiniUXS AND LECTL'UES 
 
 
 us; angels of God were all aromul alxuit us, they could not overcome 
 us; but one day, |)crhaps at a Methodist anxious seat, or at a Trohy- 
 tcrian catechetical lecture, or ai a burial, or on lior>cl)ack. a iKwer seized 
 us, and made us get down, and made us tremble, and made us kneel, and 
 made us crv for mercy, and we trieil to wrench ourselves away from the 
 grasp, but we could not. it tlung us flat, and when we arose we were 
 as much changed as Gourgis. the heathen, who went into a prayer-meet- 
 ing with a «lagger and a gun. to di^tnrb the meeting and destroy it. InU 
 the next day was found crying. •'Oh I my great >ins! Oh! my great 
 Savior!" and for eleven year> preached the (jospel of Christ lo his fellow- 
 mountaineers, the la>t words on hi> <l\ing lips being, "Free grace!" Oh. 
 it was free grace ! 
 
 Tliere i> a inun who was ("V icn y^.■ar^ ;i h.ird drnikcr. The tlreadlul 
 appetUe had sent down its routs around the palate and the tongue, and 
 on down until they were interlinked with the vitals of t«»I>, mind, ami 
 soul : but he has not taken any stimulants f.jr two years. W hat did that : 
 Not temi)erance societies. Not pii.ihibition laws. Not moral suasion. 
 Conversion did it. ■'Why." said one upon whom the great change had 
 ccme. "sir, I feel just as though 1 were somebody else." 
 
 'riiere is a sea captain who swure all tiic way from New York to lla 
 vana, and from ilir.ana to San l-'ramisco. and when he wa> in port la- 
 was worse than wiien he was on the sea. What power wa> it that wasi^cd 
 his tongue clean of profanities, and made luni :: iisahn-singer .- Con\cr 
 siun by the Hol_\ Spirit. 
 
 We are witnesses of tl'.e (io.-iiel's power i • (.'iiuon. 
 
 When a man ha- tro\il)lc. the world comes in and s;'.y- Now get 
 voiir mind off tln~; go out and breathe the ircsli ai; : p!Miii.;i- deeiter into 
 Iniiiness." What ["•"V .•uKici.-. Get youv mind ofi oi ii ' Whin iserv 
 thing is upturned with the bereaxfrnent, and i-\eiuliiiii; cninid- ou o! 
 what von have lust. (Jet \'>iH- inim! otT of it ' TIkn ni!-:,: .i- wi! aihi-c 
 vou to siop thinking. \'>u can not -t.ip tlnnknig. and \->\\ i.i!! i -t -loj. 
 thinking in that diiccW'T. Take .t u.ilk in t!;e HC .lii ! \\h\. al-ng 
 
 I* 
 
SKi;.\|()NS AM) LKCTl UKS 
 
 437 
 
 tliat very street, or iliat very road, slic once aecoinpanied \<.i\. Om of 
 that Kra>s-plat slie plucked (lowers, or into tlmt show-window she Knjkcd. 
 
 f; 
 
 iMiiialed. sayint;. •'tome see the pictures." G., deeper into business! 
 
 W 
 
 per 
 ly. she was associated with .ill your Inisiiicsx ani!)itiou. and since sii 
 
 has j^'one you have uoanihition left. 
 
 Oh, tiiis is .1 ckinisy world when it tries ti 
 I can l)uild ;i (."..rl 
 
 comfort a liroken heart. 
 
 play a Heethoveirs "I 
 
 engine. I can paint a Ivapliael's -Madonna." 1 
 
 can 
 
 '.n-ica i^Mnplmiiy," a> easily 
 
 world can com- 
 
 f'Tt a hidkcn heart. And ye! you lia\c been c.-inforted. 11 
 
 ow was it 
 
 li'Mc? Did Christ lonie t. 
 ■iM ami hrcitlic the fre^li air 
 
 you and sa\ ; "(.(.t \(.ur ni 
 
 iff tl 
 Xo. Tl 
 
 pU!nj,'e dcei'cr into lniMiies^.'" .\o. There 
 w.i> .1 nuiuiie when lie i.iine t. . y,,u— licrh.ip. ni the watches of the night. 
 pcihap- in y.v.r pi;..e of husnic-, perhaps ;■.:.. ng tlic street— ,ind He 
 Ircallu-d -iiictliint; into yc-tn- s.ml tli.it ;.; i\c peace, re-:, inliiute (luiet. 
 sj that \ou colli. I take oin the pliot..s.;r.ipli ..f the dep.irted one and look 
 into the eyc^ .md the f.ice ..| the dear . ne. and >a\ : •dt i> all right; she 
 i> better oil; I vv,,iiM ii -i call ln-r l.i.k, 1.. rd. 1 th.iiik Thee that Thou 
 hast c^ iiifoitcd ii!\ |i. •. .1 hf;iit." 
 
 There .are I hli-!i;ni [L.teia- \sli . aie nmHiiij.; \., uglily t.. the i>..wer of 
 ihiv (io-pcl In c..iiii..it. ^,.ll:• s.,i! bad juM gradiiatol loiu ^cho,,l or 
 college and wa- g-iiii; !.i;,i I.iimiu—. ;.it,l tbc l.nid \n:,k him. Or your 
 d.aughter had jii-t gra^lMat<.d fi.im ihc \-uiig !,id;i',' seminary, and von 
 th.a-.glit -lu- v,a- g^iiig t- be a rueful ■,-. t .iii.n), .md ..f long hfc; but the 
 l.-rd !.-,,k lici-. .and yii wire temptc-i !- ~,i\ . '-All ibis culture of twentv 
 }cai- (">.; imilii:!.;'" ( ), tl;,- ;;ttl,. ,;„',] ^,,:;,,. 1,,,,,,,. f,,,|„ .^^||,j,,, ^, i,|, iii^ 
 
 '■■■' "■■■' '-''^ -I 1 i '■'! "' 1 l-r '!:c -■: u:.-,.] pi.oi-r , .,■ f,,,- tl^. ^Ui\iu\ pl,v- 
 M.-Mii. and li.e !i!l\ ilild w.i^ lal.n;. ( 'i the babi u.i> lifud ..lu ,,| vour 
 •"'"' '■> '' '"^' '["'^'^ ipiduiiu-. .,ih! \..ii .-,, .1 \^,.ndv:r:n- win (,..,1 cmt 
 g.i\e y..u [hat cinid ,it ;i!!, if .-, .„ n 11^ v\.,. i,, hK^ a aw.iy. And yei 
 y.i'i ;ire not repining. y.>'. aie i;-.t fretful, u..-, .iie Hot ti;;!iting ag.iin-t 
 
 i;...i 
 
 ^'^ '"<l h- c .il. cd ;. :; !■■ 'tud ..S l!'c tl 'a! ? '■Oli." v , .ii ,n , ■• j (, „ ,1, 
 
 I 
 
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 458 
 
 SKUMONS AND LKCTLK .8 
 
 f'l 
 
 III 
 
 i 
 
 the medicine tliat God gave my sick soul. In my distress I tlirc\v myself 
 at the feet of a sympatiii/inj,' Cod; and when I was too weak to pray or 
 to look up, He hrcathcd into nic a peace that I tliink must he the foretaste 
 of that heaven where there is neither a tear, nor a farewell, nor a grave." 
 Come, all ye who have U'cn nut t.i the grave to wi-ep there — come, all ye 
 comforted souls, get nff your kim-. Is there no jxiwer in this Gospel 
 to soiithe the heart? Is there nn power in this religion to fpiiet the worst 
 paro.xysm of grief? There cnine> up an answer from comforted widow- 
 hood, and orphanage, and cliil(l!es>ness. saying, "Aye, aye, we are wit- 
 nesses." 
 
 We are witnesses of the f.ict that religion h.i> jxjwer to give com- 
 |K>sure in the last moment. I never >liall forget the fust time I confronted 
 death. We went acro^^ tlic oinUie!(!> in the cmiiUiy. I was led hy my 
 father's h.md. and we c.inie l^ ilie I'-iniihuu-e where the I)ereavement had 
 come, and we saw the crowd i>f \\,iL;..n^ and carriages; hut there was 
 one carriage that e-<i)ei iall_\ .ittiacie.i !u_\ Iiti\i>li atiiiuiciu. and it had 
 black plumes. I said. "Wliat^ ih.it ; wl;ai'- that? Why thuse hlack tas- 
 sels at the top?" and .it'ter it wa^ explaiiud t" nie. I was lifted up to loi:>k 
 upon the hright face "i .ni aged ( iiri->tian wi>nian who three days Ix'fore 
 had departed iti triuinpli. Tlie \\\hi\<j scene ni.ide an impression 1 never 
 forgot. 
 
 I want t.i kuiiw ii vnu lia\e ever >een aiiyihuig to make you hclieve 
 that the rehgiou i>f ( Ini-t can gi\e c ini]H i-.ure in the linal hour. Now, 
 in the cnurts, attnnuN. jiuy .iiul jrid;.;c will iie\er ;idmit mere hearsay. 
 Tliey demand that the w ittu^s imi-t lia\e -ecu with his own eyes, or heard 
 with his iiwn eat-, ,md m. I .un ciitical ui my ex.imin.ilinn of you now; 
 and I watU tn ktrnw wlietlier yn haxc ^ecn i ir he.ird .inyiiiing that makes 
 you l)elieve that the rt'igiiii oi (. iiii-.i give-, conqn isnie in tlie final hour. 
 
 "O!;. ye>," \cn s.i\. •! -.-.w my father and nv'tlur depart. There 
 was ; great difference in their dciih 'icds. St.inding hv the one we felt 
 more \eneration. By tiic other tliere wa^ nn re Icnilerness." Before the 
 
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 SKHMONS ANO LKCTIIKKS 
 
 line y<iit Ix.wcH iicrliaps. in awe. In the otlicr case ymi felt as if you 
 would like to j,'(> almif; x\itli her. 
 
 iloxs dill they fctl in that last hour? How did they seem to act? 
 Were they very nuich friKhteiied? Did they take hold of this world 
 with Ixith hands, as tlmufjli they did not want to give it up? "Oh, no," 
 yc'ii say, 'iio, I renieinher. as though it w - vestcrday ; she had a kind 
 word for us all. and there were a few nieuieiii<.> distributed among the 
 children, and then she told ns how kind we must lie to our father in his 
 loneliness, and then she kissed us good-liyc and w • asleep as calmly 
 as ,1 iliiid in a cradle." 
 
 What ni.ide her su onnposed? Natural courage? "No. u say. 
 "mother wa-. very nervous; when the carriage inclined to the side of 
 the mad. she wnuld cry out ; >lie was always rather weakly." What, then, 
 gave her cinposiire? Was it liccause she did not care much for . lU, and 
 the pang of parting was not great ? "Oh." you say. "she showered ujjon 
 us a wealth of affection; im mother ever Lived her children more than 
 mother lovixl us; she showed it by the way she nursed us when we were 
 sick, and siie toiled for us until her strength i;ave out." What, then, 
 was it that g.ive her cnipusure in the last hourr Do not hide it. Be 
 frank, and ki me k\u>\\. ■■()h." you say, "it was In aise she was so 
 g.Hid; >lie made tiie b>nl Irt portion, ami she h.id faith lliat she would 
 go straight t. -inry. aiul tiiat we should all meet her at last at the foot 
 of the thrMiif." 
 
 Here are iiojile who say, "I saw a Christian hrother die, and he 
 triumiihed." Amj some one else. "I saw a Christian sister die. and she 
 trimnphe.l," .-^ome one else will say, "I saw a Christian daughter die, 
 aiul she triumphed." t ..me. all ye who have seen the last moments of 
 a ninstian. ;m.l .i;ive testim..ny in this cause on trial. Uncover your 
 hea.ls. put your hand ..n the old family Bible from which they used to 
 rc.i.l the pr.,iiiisis, ;md promise in the presence of high heaven that you 
 will tell the truth, the wli..!e truth, and n. .thing but the truth. With what 
 \..u have seen with yom ..wn exes, .uid ii..ni what you have heard with 
 
 ■ 
 
W) 
 
 SKUMONS AND LKCTLUKS 
 
 XKiir uwii cars, is there power in this (iosiH.-! to give calmness ami Iriiimiili 
 111 the la>i exij^i-iuv? The rc^iHUise cclnH•^ finm all siilcs, from young, 
 .aiil old, ami middle .ij;i'il ; "We are witne^^e^!" 
 
 fej; 
 
 ik: 
 
 PAUL IN A BASKET. 
 
 " ThiiMiuli ;i unidMU in a lia^ket was I let dMwii li\ tin- wall," 
 
 < Ml what a slender lenure |,;iiat results li.iii),; The rope maker who 
 twi>led that o.rd fastened to that loweiiii^; h.isket iie\er knew how 
 liuieh wnnid depend on iJa- .streiij^th oi it. Ih.u it" it had hi n hroken 
 and the aiiosilo's life had hn-n dashed .nit' \\ liai would have heeoiiie of 
 !lie t Inistiaii ( IiiiitIi;- Ml that inai^nirueiit inis.n.narv work in \'.i\\\ 
 l>hilia. CappailMCia. • lalatia. M.ued. Mn.i. wi>uld iie\er have heeii aeeotii- 
 phslied. All his wuim;,'s ih.ii inake iiji s, , indispfiisahlc and enehaiitiii}; 
 a part of the N'ew le^tameiit wmild iR\er have heen written. The 
 -it(jiy of ri-siirreetii'ii wi'uld iu'ver have heen si, Ljliiiion^lv tolil as lie 
 t"ld it. I lu- example ..f lui.iie aiid tiiitnipli.iiit eiiihi! aiiei- at I'hilippi, 
 in il'e .Mediterranean enroilvdoii, under llaj,^'llatii hi and at his l)ehea<l- 
 iii},'. w.iiild not havi- kindlid the o.nr.ii^e ni ten thousand martvnlom.s. 
 lUil that ri'pi'. hnldini.; hisket h^w nuicli depeiKled on it? So a^jaiii and 
 ai^aiii, threat riMilts havt liiuii; iii what soenied blender eirctimstanees. 
 
 I)id ever sliip ,,|' maiiv tlh.nsand i.^iis irMs>inj^r ii,i. ^ca have such 
 imiii'rtant iia-scnt^e'- a^ had .•lue a li<.al ■■( leaves from taffrail to stern, 
 onlv three nr f-nr I'eet, the vc--il m.ide watevprnoi h\ a cuat nf hitumen, 
 and llcatin,!:; Ill llie .\ile with llu- infant law i;i\ernf the lew s , m Imard ? 
 What if s,,n,e eiiit'iilile s]i,,n',i ,niiuli it r What if s.inie ><\ the cattle 
 wadiii^^ in fcr a ilimk -l.^nld -aik it? \e>sels ,.f war s,,nieliiiies carrv 
 fort) >,Miiis Icokinj; tlir iij;h the p. Tt Imles. re.idy to i.pen hatlle. lint 
 that tinv iiaft '>n tin \ilc sccnis i., he armed with all the j^mis ..f thmi 
 Hei that U'liihaidtd ."sin.ii ,il llielavv j;i\ iiii;, (Irili,,,, fi ai;ile cr.ift saile,'. 
 h"'W mill h 'I III !■ ■! Kal imp' 'ilaiiie I 
 
SKK'MON'S AM) I.HCTl'FfKS 
 
 4(11 
 
 Tfip par^iniiM^rc at |•.|,^^M^tll. HnRbml. i. ,„, fire in the niKlit. an.l 
 
 llic fatlier nivlu-.l tlinniKli the hallway for the rf-oie 
 Seen children arr cut an<I >af*- nn tl 
 i'iii>.nminj,' Iniililiny;. Tliat 
 tlie Imildinjj I'ntinhlinp, niii 
 
 -f 
 
 'ii> c 
 
 hildrcn. 
 
 If Kr""n<I lint one remains in il 
 
 le 
 
 a ladder nf their Iwiili 
 
 •tie wakes, ami lindin^ Iiis lied ■ .n (Irr. and 
 ■I'nu's to the wiiidiiw. and iwn iK'a-arU'^ make 
 "ne peasant standmj,' nn the shmilder ..l' the 
 
 •Ini W 
 
 esk-\ . 
 
 ef Ml" pt-asarns, a^l, li 
 
 other, and dcwn the Innnan ladder the 1..' df 
 
 V'Mi w.mld kn.iw ln.w mini* depended nn tiiai ]add 
 
 niilli.^ns ,,t .Mrt!„„l,\ts ,,„ 1„,-|, ,i,li., ,,| iIk- ,(..,. A^k their misM..n sta 
 
 ti<ins all an.nn,! the unrl.l. \>k ilieir hnndreds ,,| th-nsaiids aheadv 
 
 ascended t.. i>nu llieir futi,i,!ri. uhi. u..,,),! l,a\^. perished hnt I'-r the 
 
 livins: 'Stairs ..f peasant-' s|i, Gilders. 
 
 An rCn^ihsIi ship stnppod at I'itcairn Mand an.l ri,,dil in tlie mi<lst 
 of snrn.iindini: cannihahsm and s,|„alMr, the passciii;,T> discnvered a 
 Christian e..I,.iiy ..f chnrehes. and srh,,,.!,. and heatititnl hdines. and 
 Inchest style <.f relii^imi and ii\ ili/atinn. I-,,r littx uar- n, , ini->i..naiv 
 and nn ( hrisiian inihien.e had lamk-d tliere. \\ Ii\ ihi, naMs ,,| li^-ht 
 ■ nnid a de-ert m" hcatlienilmn ;- Si\ty \e,irs I.,'t..rc. a -U\], had nirt 
 disaster, and ..ne ..l" the suL.r-. nnal.le t.. sasi- aiivthmt; el-e. went t.. 
 his trnnk an.l t.H.k .,nt a I'-ihle wiii.li hi> ni..tlier ha.l plaee.l there, an.l 
 -w.am ashnre, the I'.il.Ie heM in his t,-,ii,. ll,,. i;,„,i^ ,,.„ re;,.| ..n all 
 -i.les, nntit tlie r..ni;li .-.nd \ici..ns p..j,nl,iti. .n were e\ .uij^eli/ed. .and :i 
 (liiirch was vtaite.I, .in. I an enli-hti-ne.l <nnun..n\\Lalth esi.ihlishcd. and 
 the w.irl.l's liiM.iry has vn ni..re hrilhant p.iL;<' ili.iii (hat whi.-h i<;is ,,| 
 the lran-l..rniati..n ..| a nati..n I.y .mc I,.:,.k, It .li.l imi srem ..f ninrh 
 iin|)..rt;iiue whetlu-r the -ail.ir c^ntinne.l tn ImM the hn,.k in his teeth 
 nr let it fall in the hrcakers. hut iip..n what Mnall circninstance de|ien.le.l 
 wh.at mijjiity results! 
 
 idiere arc n,. insii;niticaiues in ..nr live-,, 'jlic iinmitt-t tliiujj j^ 
 I.art nt'a ma},'intn.le Iniiniiv is nia.le iip..i inhMiteMinal- ( ,reat tliin;,'* 
 .•m aj,>-u'ie-;ati..n ..f Mnall thint,'- Helhlchnii ni:in.-;-er i.nllint,' ..n ;i star 
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 zation of a multitude. One boat of papyrus on the Nile freighted with 
 events for all ages. The f.ites of Christendom in a basket let down 
 from a window on the wall. What you do, do well. If you make a rope 
 make it strong and true, for you know not how much may depend on 
 your workmanship. 
 
 If you fashion a boat let it be water-proof, for you know not wlio 
 may sail in it. If you put a Bible in the trunk of your boy as he goes 
 from home, let it be heard in your prayers, for it may liave a mission 
 as far-reaching as tlie book which the sailor carried in his teeth to the 
 Pitcairn beach. Tlie plainest man's life is an island between two eter- 
 nities — eternity past rippling against his shoulders, eternity to come 
 touching his brow. The casual, the accidental, that whicli merely hap- 
 pened so are parts of a great plan, and tlie rope that lets the fugitive 
 apostle from the Damascus wall is the cable t' at holds to its mooring 
 the ship of the Church in the northeast storm of the centuries. 
 
 Again, notice unrecognized and unrecorded ser\iccs. Who spun 
 that rope? Who tied it to the basket? Who steadied the illustrious 
 preacher as he stepped into it? Who relaxed not a muscle of the arm 
 or dismissed an anxious look from liis face until the ])askct touched the 
 ground and discharged its magnificent cargo? \ot one of their names 
 has come to us, but there was no work done that day in Damascus or 
 in all the earth compared with the importance of their work. What if 
 they had in the agitation tied a knot that could slip? What if the sound 
 of the mob at the door bad led them to say: 'Taul must take care of 
 himself, and we will take care of oursehcs." Xo. no! Tlic\ held the 
 rope, ami in doing so did more for the Christian Church than any thou- 
 sand of us will ever accomplish. Hut God knows and has made eternal 
 record oT »beir risky undertaking. And tliev know. 
 
 How exultant tlKy must have felt when they reafi his letters to the 
 Romans, to the Corinthians, to the Cialatians, to the Ephesians. to the 
 Philippians, to the Colossians, to the Tliessalonians, to Timothy, to 
 Titus, to Philemon, to tiie Hebrews, and when they heard how he 
 
 
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 vvalkcl out of i^rison with the cr.rtli,,t,akc unlocking the door for him 
 and took connnand of tlie Alexandrian corn-ship when the sailors were 
 nearly scared to death, and preache.l a sermon that nearly shook Felix 
 off h,s .uulgnient seat. I hear the tnen and women who helped him down 
 throitgh the window and over the wall talking in private over the mat- 
 ter, and saymg: "How glad I ani that we effected that rescue' In 
 com.nj. tmies others ma, get the glory of Paul's work, but no one shall 
 rob us of the satisfactinn nf knowing that we held the rope." 
 
 I here are said to he al.-m .ixty th.-usand ministers of religion in 
 th,s cotnury. .About fifty tl,o„san<l I warrant canie from earlv homes 
 wh.h had ,0 struggle f„r the necessaries of life. The sons' of rich 
 bankers an.l merchan.ts generally bee .me bankers and merchants The 
 rrK,st of those who ben>n,e ,n„,i.,ters are the sons of those who Itad ter- 
 rific struggle to get their everv-dny bread. The cnllegiate an.l theological 
 educat.on .,f that s„n tn„k every 1...:.. fnnn the parental table for eight 
 years. The other children were more scamilv appareled 
 _ The son at college every little while g,t a bundle from hotue. In 
 .t were the .socks that tnothe.- ha.l knit, sitting up late at night, her 
 s.ght not as good a. , nee it was. .\„d there, also, were some delicacies 
 fronyhe sister's b.and for the vnraci.us appetite of a hungry student. 
 The father swung the heavy cradle thmugh the wheat, the sweat rolling 
 from h,s clnn brewing every step of tb.e way, and then sitting down 
 under the cherry tree at nn,.n ,!,ink,ng to hu„self : "I .,„, fearfully tired 
 but ,t wdl pay if 1 can once see that boy through college, and if J can 
 k-now that he w,ll be preaching the Cospel after I am dea.l " The 
 younger chddren wa,U tn kn„u uhy they can', have this and that as 
 otlters do. and the n,..ther says: -p.e patient, ,ny children, until y'o„r 
 brother graduates, and then y„n shall have ,n„re luxuries, but we must 
 see that boy thnnigh." 
 
 -n.e years go by. and the son has been ordained, and is preaching 
 tlie glor,ous Cospel. and a grc,-., revival co„,es. and souls bv scores and 
 bundrcls accept the Cospel fn.n the hps of that vo„ng p'reacher and 
 
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 father aiv.l motlier, (|uite old iinw, arc visiting tlie son at the villaj^c 
 parsonage, and at the close i-f a Sahhath of mighty hlcssing. father and 
 mother rctuc to their room, the son lighting the way and asking them 
 if he can do an\thing to make them more comfortable, saying if they 
 want anything in the night jnst tn knock nn the wall. And then, all 
 alone, father and ni'ithcr talk over the gracious influences of the day, 
 and sav: "VN'ell. il was \vi>rtli all we went thmugli td educate that 
 hov. It w.is a hard juill. Init we held on till the work was done. The 
 world mav not ki>.>\v it. hut. mother, wc held the rojic. didn't we?"" .\nd 
 the voice, ircnuimus with j<iyful cmniion. rcsjionds : . "^ es, father, we 
 held the rojic. I feel my work is done. Xnw, Lord, Icttest Thou Thy 
 servant dejiart in ])eacc, for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation," 
 "Pshaw I"' s.ivs the father, "1 never felt so much like living in my life 
 as now. 1 want to see what that fellow is going on to do, ne has begun 
 so well." 
 
 O men and women, ynu hrag sometimes how you have fought your 
 way in the worl<!. l-.ut I th.irk there have l)een helpful influences tl.at 
 you have never fully acknowledged. Has there not been some intlucncc 
 in ycur earlv or jiresent home that the world can not ^eei' Does there 
 not reach to you from .unong the Xew England hills, or from Western 
 ])rairie. or from Southern ])lantation. <ir from English, or Scottish, or 
 Irish home, a cord of influence that has kept you right when you would 
 have gone astrav, hut which, after you had made a crooked track, recalled 
 you? The rope mav he as long as thirty years, or five hundred miles 
 long, or three thousand milc> long, hut hands that went out of mortal 
 sight long ago. svill hold the rojje."' 
 
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