DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Hunting for Souls.
“He was a mighty hunter before the Lord.”
Gen, 10: 9,
IN our day, hunting is a sport; but in
the lands and the times infested with
wild beasts, it was a matter of life or
death with the people, It was very
different from going out on a sunshiny
afternoon with a patent breech-loader,
to shoot reed-birds on the flats, when
Pollux and Achilles and Diomedes went
out
TO CLEAR THE LAND OF LIONS
and tigers and bears. My text sets
forth Nimrod as a hero when it pre-
sents him with broad shoulders and
shaggy apparel and sun-browned face,
and arm bunched with muscle—*'a
mighty hunter before the Lord.” 1
think he used the bow and the arrow
with great success practicing archery.
I have thought if itis sucha grand
thing and such a brave thing to clear
wild beasts out of a country if it is not
a better and braver thing to hunt down
that are stalking the land with fierce
eve and bloody paw aud sharp tusk and
quick spring. 1 have wondered if there
is not such a thing as
GOSPEL HUNTING,
by whi those who have been flying
from the truth, may be captured for
God and heaven, he Lord
His sermon used the art of anglin
stration when He said, **I will
i¢ vou fishers And sol
[ have authority for using hunt-
Gospel ir
e
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of men."
ng as an illustrat ith;
and I pray God that
a man in this congi
begin to study Gospel a
IL may, after a while,
a mighty hunter before the Lord.’
How much awkward Chr
irl
are 18 done In Lhe
stian work
world! How many
rit
(rive Sun
briz
are wio 1i8
rine
Ig
1 people there
' f
away from Christ instead of
wm to Him!
RELIGIOUS
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upset more Lan
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068 ev are
TOPs
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HOULD DO
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tand erect and firm, his left
le in advance of
th his left hand he must
bow the middle,
the three fingers and
smb of his right hand, he should lay
the arrow and affix it te
precise was the direction
how clumsy we are about
How little skill and
care we exercise! How often our ar
rows miss the mark! Oh, that we
might learn the art of doing good, and
become ‘‘mighty hunters before
Lord!"
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work!
resigious
n the first place, if you want to
broke, there are old corselets which
show that the arrow of the English
used to go through the breast-plate,
through the body of the warrior, and
out through the back-plate. What
A SYMBOL
of that Giospel which is sharper than a
ing asunder of soul and body, and of
the joints and marrow!
we had more faith in that Gospel!
enough faith in him, could brinz a
hundred souls to Jesus—perhaps five
hundred. Just in proportion as this
age seems to believe less and less in it,
I believe more and more in it. What
are men about that they will not accept
their own deliverance? There is nothing
proposed by men that can do anything
like this Gospel. The religion of Ralph
Waldo Emerson is the philosophy of
icicles: the religion of Theodore Parker
is the romance of believing
¥
is merely a pedestal on which human
1, looking up to the stars, offer-
and groan at the base, Tell me
Gospel for another, who is thoroughly
and contented
ped
to-morrow and ride five hundred
to see hi
The
the Gospel has not
vSportsinan throws
will thi
round
world flying from its orbit and bring it
of Chri i
and it will pardon every si
WOl kx. C1 every
slave,
Istian
(rospel after
back to the heart
full swing,
heal every
emanc
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and
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preaching
and
OrK, as you
sta-~
Lhe
lay
entiaries,
3 feel
la weapon,
rthining has no
0 weft.
net;
AVE NO power;
y tor
Hh
fs
he omnipotent
muc
got to put aside
d-gloves, and put
have been
we gown and the k
unde
Alia
r the shadow of the church that
the fish know us, and they avoid the
bank, while yonder is
i pper
the first swing of the Gospel net would
Very
SURE OF YOUR WEAPON.
about the archery of olden times,
haps you do not know what they could
do with the bow and arrow.
chief battles fought by the English
Plantagenets were with the long bow,
They would take the arrow of polished
wood, and feather it with the plume of
a bird, and then it would fly from the
bow-string of plaited silk. The broad
fields of Agincourt, and Solway Moss,
and Neville’'s Cross, heard the
thrum of the archer’s bow-string. Now,
There is
OUTSIDE WORK TG BE DONE,
The hunters have made a
clearing and camped out, What
|
ier weapon than that, It is the arrow
of the Gospel; it is a sharp arrow; it is
for a pillow, or for the northeast storm?
If a moose in the darkness steps into
away. If aloon cry in the midnight,
they hear it.
We have got
to camp out and rough it.
seventy thousand people of Brooklyn
What
the wing of the dove of God’s Spirit; it
of the cross, As far as I can estimate
or calculate, it has brought down four
hundred million souls, Paul knew how
to bring the notch of that arrow on to
that bow-string, and ‘its whirr was
heard through the Corinthian theatres,
and through the Pv ieon until He
knees of Felix knocked together, It
was that arrow that stuck in Luther's
heart when he cried oat, **Oh, my sins!
Oh, my sins!” If it strike a wan in
the head, it kills his skepticism; if it
strike’ him in the heel, it will turn his
step; if it strike him in the heart, he
throws up his hands, as did one of old
when wounded in the battle, crying,
“Oh, Galilean, Thou hast conquered,’
In the Army of the Earl of Pem-
i
Are they sinless, that they
need no pardon?
their houses, that they need no com-
fort? Arethey cut off from God, to
go into eternity no wing to bear them,
no light to cheer them, no welcome to
greet them? I hear to-day surging up
from the lower depths of Brooklyn a
groan that comes through our Christian
assemblages and shrough our Christian
churches; and it blots out all this scene
from my eyes to-day, as by the mists of
a great Niagara, for the dash and the
plunge of these geeat torrents of life
dropping down isto the fathomless and
thundering abyss of suffering and woe,
I sometimes think that just as God
blotted out the Church of Thyatira and
Corinth and Laodicea, because of thelr
sloth and stolidity. He will blot out
American and English Christianity,
and raise on the ruins a stalwart, wide.
awake, missionary Church, that can
take the full meaning of that command:
“(10 into all the world, and preach the
Gospel to every creature. He that be-
and he that believeth not shall be
11. I remark, further, if you want
HAVE COURAGE,
stand wih
that
MUST
hunter
or shoulder
If the
hand,
trembling
flinches with
W hat would
become of the Greenlander if, when out
hunting for the bear, he should stand
shivering with terror on an iceberg?
W hat would have become of Du Chaillu
and Livingstone in the African thicket,
with a faint heart and
When a panther comes within twenty
and has squatted for the fearful spring,
“Steady there.’
Courage, © ye spiritual hunters!
the com-
he strength
prowling all around about
munity. Shall we
Ol God forth
not mn
go and combat
back-boue.
that it should fear to
% There is the
the eve
Beng
look in
any
transgression al
NKENNESS
stead
I'GeER
prowls
DI
and in
many
that arou
how
r the church j§
{ [here 18
ww or the «
would
taff are |
rds
maine,
for
wixla
ith
Mream
in the
$
If you go out nmortal
ot only bring them down undex
arrow of the Gospel, but bring
them into the Church of God, the grand
home and encampment we have pitched
this side the skies, Fetch them in, do
them lie out in the open field.
4 Lining for v
WO hunt ior u
wile
ASO1IS,
the
Lil
Church of God—help. ©
only br
game, but bring it in.
If Mithridates liked hunting so well
that for saven years he never went in-
doors, what enthusiasm ought we to
have who are hunting for immortal
souls,
ye hunters
the fingers outstretched, and then the
King could shoot
what
DRILL AND PRACTICE
ought not we to subject ourselves in
“mighty hunters before the Lord I But
beside the foot, elevated the other end,
battle with confidence. let me say
that your power to project good in the
world will correspond exactly to your
own spiritual stature. In other words,
the first thing, in preparation for
Christian work; is personal consecra-
tion,
“Oh | for a closer walk with God,
A calm and heavenly frame,
A lght to shine upon the road
That leads me to the Lamb.”
I am sure that there are some here
who. at some time, have been hit bv the
Gospel arrow. You felt the wound of
the world deeper; just as the stag, when
ESCAPE,
to«lay,
but In
impenitent man ! not in wrath,
mercy, Oh, ye chased
here the stream of
God’s mercy and salvation, where you
may cool your thirst,
of sin to-day. By the red fountain that
leaped from the heart of my lord, I
There is mercy for you
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everlasting mercy. Is there in
house anyone who can refuse the offer
that comes from the heart of the dyi
Son of God?
104
There is in a forest
THE “DEER LEAP.’
eighteen yards apart,
“Deer Leap,’’ because «
was on the track
one of these crags;
of a deer: it
of the
hunter, and in utter despair it gatl
np-
ted to jump
wus
beneath,
HCTONS,
dashed on the
Here is a path t«
s plain; it is safe,
very man to
a man who says :
Timber Without Wood,
The inventive Yankee has discovered,
not how to make bricks without
but how to make
At the forthcoming
imber from straw,
American Exhibi-
| This house is an American suburban
high, covering a space of 42x50 feet.
| factured from
| timber, flooring,
everything, in
straw,
sheathing,
fact,
roofing
including the
{as well as water-proof. The
| finish will be in imitation rosewood,
mahogany, walnut, maple, ash, ebony
| any desired wood. The straw villa will
| adelphia’s commercial, financial
industrial interests by means of large
| banks, msurance buildings, factories,
mills, schools, &e. A number of other
leading American cities will also make
novel exhibits of their municipal re-
| sources, = London Public Uginfon,
Jan, 28.
ee —
Spiders on Telegraph Wires,
to telegraphers in Japan, Filling the
trees along the lines, these insects spin
their webs between the earth, the wires,
the post, the insulators, and the trees,
When the webs becomes wet with dew,
they constitute a good conductor; and
the lines are found to be in connection
with the earth. The only method of
obviating this inconvenience is by em-
ploying brooms of bamboo to brush
away the webs, But, as the spiders are
more active than the workmen em floyed
in this work, the di ity is not tha less
“ed ous,
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
Buspar, JuLy 17, 1887,
John the Baptist,
LESSON TEXT.
Matt, 3: 1-12).
LESSON PLAN.
Toric o¥ THE QUARTER !
King tn Zion.
GOLDEN TEXT FOR THE QUARTER:
Vet have I set my king upon my holy hill
of Zion.— Psa, 2:0.
Jesus the
Lesson Toric:
(1. The Herald, va. 1
Susan ‘4. Tue Henrers, va \
(5. The Heralded, vs. 11, 17
Text: Bring forth there.
Matt,
~4,
(GOLDEN
DALY HoME READINGS:
M.—Matt, 2: 1-12, The King her-
alded,
T.—Mal. The
herald
LESSON
I Ii
His Message
iderness (J }
His App
§ {
‘Mmranoe
Matt. 23
Ye a
RB: 44).
111. Hearers Warned :
Even no the
root of
{ He shall suddenly broken, and
that without remedy{ Prov, 20:1
Then will I profess unto them, 1 never
| knew you (Matt, 7:
Cut it down: why doth it also cumber
the ground? (Luke 13: 7.)
He js cast forth as a branch, and is
withered (John 15: 6).
1. “Then went out unto him Jeru-
salem.” (1) The preacher; (2) The
hearers: (3) The theme; (4) The
results. —(1) Many to hear; (2) Few
to profit.
2. “He saw many of
and the Sadducees coming.” (1)
Various comers; Various
motives: (3) Various results,
3. “Bring forth....fruit worthy
repentance.’”’ (1) Genuine
tance;(2) Worthy fruity(3) Essential
fruitfulness,
111. THE HERALDED,
1. A Mighty One:
He that cometh after me is mightier
i than I (11)
| The latehet of whose shoes 1 am not
worthy to. ...unloose (Mark. 1: 7).
| There cometh he that is mightier than
| I {Luke 3:16).
| Te that cometh after me
| before me (John 1:15).
| Te must increase, but I must decrease
{John 3: 30).
IL. A Benefactor:
He shall baptize you with the Holy
Ghost (11).
I will pour my spirit upon thy seed (Isa.
44: 3),
The Comforter.... whom I will send
{John 15: 26),
They were all filled with the Holy Spirit
(Acts 2: 4).
Ye received the
8: 156).
11 A Judge.
He will thoroughly cleanse his thresh-
ing-floor (12).
Who may abide the day of his coming
(Mal 3:2)
axe laid
10).
WwW IS
Le Trees
be
23).
{e)
is become
spirit of adoption (Rom,
Before him shall be
nations (Matt, 25: 1
The judgement-sea
10).
Christ Jesus, who &
and the deal (2
1. “Mightie: ti
(2) In deed
achievements
. “He will
The wheat;
The garner
g The chaff
The chaff;
The burning
aathie
Bi
B
HERALD OF
LESSON
I'i
- oo
nladylike Ladies
a manner as to ke I
quarter GO
edge of 0
iid be lady-
inch to make
I saw a woman
s» on the extreme
not one of them WwW
an
seat, aod
like enough to move
ter in a Broad street store yester-
glanced at
Would
to another man? No;
He would restore the package
a cour
ui
indeed.
See how a large woman
unter when she wanis
msm IIA A AAS
To Keep Away Creditors.
Creditors are a species of parasite, in.
festing the human race, usually brought
Persons who
Take water instead of beer; toss
instead of turtle soup; if needs be clean
own clothes, Employ time pro-
Never borrow, seldom lend.
Keep reg-
tion from day to day, determining to
eat nothing that is unpaid for, nor to
that the garments you wear are noi your
own. By this process you will soon get
rid of the annoyance. and your mental
and bodily health wonderfully improve,
sate ———
The transition resistance supposed by
Poggendor(l to exist in electrolytic cells
petween the surface of the electrode
and that of the electrolyte In contact
with it has lately been investigated
with great care by Prof. J. Gordon
Macgregor in solutions of very pure
zine, we conclusion srrived at was
that such a transition resistance, it it
exists at all is less than 0.0125 of an
ohm.