ey
Sev
DR. TALMAGE'S
SERMON.
Concerning Bigots.
not frame to pronounce it right. Then they
took him and slew him at the passages of Jor-
dan." —Judgoes 12: 6.
Do vou notice the difference of pro-
nunciation between shibboleth and sib-
boleth? A very small and unimportant
difference you say. And yet, that dif-
ference 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
fords of the river Jordan to cross, Or-
der was given that all Ephraimites com-
ing there be slain, But how could
Shey were
DETECTED BY THEIR
TION.
PRONUNCIA-
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
sound of the **h.”’ When it was asked
that they say shibboleth they said sib-
boleth, and were slain. **Then said
they unto him, Say now Shibboleth:
and he said Sibboleth : for he could not
frame to pronounce it right. Then
#ages of Jordan.”
about that small difference!
¢ Lord’s tribes in our time
1 I mean the
by
very small and the
scores of denomina-
difference,
difference between
sthibboleth and sibboleth,
«reat nuinber of denominations. Time
would fail me to tell of the ‘Calvini
and the Arminians and the Sabbatari-
ans and the Baxterians and the Dunk-
Qt
IS
and the Methodists and the Baptists
and the Episcopalians and the Luther-
ans and the Congregationalists and the
Presbyterians and the Spiritualists and
a score of other denominations of re-
ligionists, some of them founded by
ry good men, some of them tounded
y very egotistic men, and some of
them founded by very bad men. Bat
as |
DEMAND LIBERTY OF
CONSCIENCE
or myself I must give that same liberty
to every other man, remembering that
he no more differs from me than I differ
from him, 1 advocate the largest
berty in all religious belief and form
of worship. In art, in politics,
als and in religion let
aw, no moving of the
tion, no persecution, no i
You know that the air and th
keep pure by constant circulation
I think there is a tendency in rel
1ssion to purification and mors
health. Between the fourth an
sixteenth centuries the Chur
posed Lo mak sople thin
iti ] and
press, an
I
lead
id=
in mor-
} 1 no oat
there be no gag
previous ques-
1
volerance,
hot
US
, tried to make people orthod
18 discovered that y
an’s
belief by
by consecrated altars t
drunkenness and
hh as the world never hean
very sewers of perditi
and flooded the C
hile the printing-
id it broke the i f the
mind. Then there came a large
of bad books, but where there
man hostile to the Christian
were twenty men ready
80 I have n
{
it; not any nerv-
regard to this battle
i
auman
number
was one
religion there
to advocate it;
in
between
ONSHVSS going
US OLA
»
RUTH AND ERROR,
The truth will conquer just as cer-
at God is stronger than the
[.et Error run, if you only let
Truth run along with it, Urged on by
ptic’s shout and transcendentalist’s
jet it run, God’s angels of wrath
in hot pursuit, and quicker than
eagle's beak clutches out a hawk’s heart
God's vengeance wlll tear it to piecess,
I propose this morning to speak to
ly as ti
ot
1
and ils cures, There are those who
would make us think that this monster,
with horns and hoofs, is religion. I
shall chase it to its hiding-place, and
drag it out of the caverns of darkness,
and rip off its hide, But I want to
make a distinction between bigotry and
the lawful fondness for peculiar reli-
gious beliefs and forms of worship, I
have no admaration for a nothingarian,
In a world of such tremendows vicis-
situde and temptation, and with a soul
that must after awhile stand before a
throne of insufferable brightness, ina
day when the rocking of the mountains
and the flaming of the heavens and the
upheaval of the sea shall be among the
least of the excitements, to give account
for every thought, word, action, pre.
ference and dislike—that man is mad
who has no
RELIGIOUS PREFERENCE,
jut our early education, our physical
temperament, our mental constitution,
will very much decide our form of wor-
ship. A style of psalmody that may
please me may displease you, Some
would like to have a minister in gown
and bands and surplice, and others pre.
fer to have a minister in plain citizen's
apparel. Some are most impressed
when a little child is presented at the
altar and sprinkled of the waters of a
holy benediction, *‘In the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost ;”’ and others are more impressed
when the penitent comes up out of the
river, his garment dripping with the
waters of a baptism which signifies the
washing away of sin, Let either have
his own way, One man likes no noise
in prayer—mnot a word, not a whisper.
Another man, just as good, prefers by
exclamation to ex-
One
“Every
man fully persuaded in his own mind.”
George Whitefleld was going over a
Quaker rather roughly for some of his
religious sentiments, and the Quaker
said: **George, I am as thou art; I am
for bringing all men to the hope of the
Gospel; therefore, if thou wilt not quar-
rel with me about my broad brim, I
will not quarrel with thee about thy
black gown. George, give me thy
hand."
I. In tracing out the religion of
sectarianism, or bigotry, I find that a
COMES FROM WRONG EDUCATION
wrong to carica-
ture and jeer the peculiar forms of re-
ligion in the world, and denounce other
sects and other denominations. It is
very often the case that that kind of |
education acts just opposite to what
was expected, and the children grow
up, and after awhile go and see for |
and looking in those |
ymmandments, by natural re- |
action go and join those very
churches. I could mention the names |
of prominent ministers of the Gespel
who spent their whole lives bombard-
ing other denominations, and who lived |
they
‘8
in those very denominations, jut it is
often the case that bigotry
household, and that the
There
starts
Hever recovers,
thousands of
BIGOTS TEN YI
1 think sectarianism
any one denomination in a community.
1 1
his denomination is the most wealthy
3
innfita
inua-
and it is ‘our’ church,
religious organization, and *‘our™
minister, and the
and other
—
“aur”
man tosses his head,
denominations to know their places,
It is a great deal better in
munity when the great denominations
‘hristians are about equal in, power,
for world’s
outside prosperity,
wants
any com-
side by side the
Mere
nere wordly power,
ie church 18 acceptable to God,
sr a barn with Christ
than a cathedral wi
s +}
is no evidence that
Det
i
v}
nies rolling throug ]
and an angel from hea
¥
i
1
Y
if there be n
aud no Christ in ti
rotry is often
+
¥ LAT east
sgreal
ISK Was
s 3 ’ 0 #1
3 HOARE UL
ent traveler came
. I have
all right, an
Why didn’
h id:
he obelisk?"
SE
around t Look
he man who sees only one side of a re-
gious truth, Look out for the
ho never walks around about
reat theories of God and eternity
he dead, Ie will be a bigot
man
these
and
inevit-
There is no man more to be pitied than
jess, More
There is
O88
th #
Liat
no more, no light,
sectarianism. nothin
will so soon kill bigotry as God’
8 sun-
1I. Sol have set before you what
consider to be the causes of bigotry.
have set before you the origin of
Ol his
What are some of
evil
THE BALEFUL EFFE( ?
of all it erpples investigation,
You are wrong, and I am right, and
No taste for exploration, |
From the |
TS
which an archangel might fly from |
limit, the man shuts himself out and |
dies, a blind mole under a cornshock.|
It stops all investigation.
While each denomination of Chris-||
tians is to present all the truths of the}
Bible, it seems to me that God has giv-|
en to each denomination an especial||
mission to give particular emphasis to)
some one doctrine, and so the Calvin |
istic churches must present the sover- |
eignty of God, and the Armenian
churches must present man’s free
agency, and the Episcopal churches
must present the importance of order,
and solemn ceremony, and the Baptist
churches must present the necessity of
ordinances, and the Congregational
Church must present the responsibility
of the individual member, and the
Methodist Church must show what
holy enthusiasm hearty congregational
singing can accomplish. While each
denomination of Christians must set
forth all the doctrines of the Bible, I
feel it especially incumbent upon each
denomination te put particular empha-
sis on some one doctrine,
Another great damage done by the
sectarianism and bigotry of the Church
is that,
IT DISGUSTS PEOPLE
with the Christian religion. Now, my
friends, the Church of God was never
intended for a war barrack. People are
afraid of a riot, You go down the
street and you see an excitement, and
missiles flying through the air, and you
hear the shock of firearms. Po you,
the peaceful and industrious citizens. go
through that street? Oh, no! Yon
will say, *I’ll go around the block.”
Now, men come and look upon this nar-
row 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
rough, and there is so much sharp
shooting on the narrow road, I guess
I'11 try the broad road.”’
Francis I. so hated
is
the
drop of Lutheran blood in his veins, he
out. Just as long as there i8 so much
hostility between denomination and de-
Christian
and say, “‘If that religion, I want
do
Again, bigotry and sectarianism
great damage, in the fact that they hin-
the triumph of the Gospel, Oh,
WASTES
men
IT AMMUNITION,
how many of splendid intellect
+
ves to contro-
their life to something practical, they
might have been useful! Sup
this morning, I speak,
Were 4 cominon enemy coming up
bay, h the Narrows, and
forts New York began
her YOu
suicide
vastly
pose while there
through
around
each ot would
AWaHY
that against the cominor
Hiatt (°
ptist
an and tirade
strovedd the C
disciple lef
of aston it
Those who sygipathized
them were confined, 1 when a peti
fo«<day a
were hurled out
Lines,
anda
t}
it were In
stopy the
half the
dicted,
Baptist
men
wl
lion
HON
wit down anything.
In England a law was made against
the Jew. England thrust back the
Jew, and thrust down the Jew, and de-
clared that no Jew should hold official
position. What came of it?
Jews destroyed? Was their religion
overthrown? No. Whobecame Prime
Minister of England years ago?
was next to the throne? Who was
counsellor and advisor?
ant of a Jew! What were we celebrat-
ing in all our churches as well as syna-
gogues a few years ago? The one hun-
fiore, the Jewish philanthropist. Intol-
erance never yet put down anything,
111. But now, my friends, having
shown you the origin of bigotry, or sec-
tarianism, and having shown you the
damage it does, I want briefly to show
you how we are to
WAR AGAINST THIS TERRIBLE EVIL,
and I think we ought to begin our war
by realizing our own weakness and our
own imperfections. If we make so
many mistakes in the common affairs of
life, is it not possible that we may make
mistakes in regard to our religious af-
fairs? Shall we take a man by the
throat, or by the collar, because he can-
not see religious truths just as we do?
In the light of eternity it will be found
out, I think, there was something wrong
in all our creeds ; and something right
in all our creeds, But since we may
make mistakes in regard to things of
the world, do not let us be egotistic
and so puffed up as vo have an idea that
we cannot make any mistake in regard
to religions theories, And then, I
think, we will do a great deal to over-
throw the sectarianism from our heart,
and the sectarianism from the world, by
chiefly enlarging upon those things in
which we agree rather than those on
which we differ. Now, here is
A GREAT SOSPEL PLATFORM,
A man comes up on this side the plat-
form and says, ** 1 don’t believe in baby
sprinkling,’’ Shall 1 shove him off?
Here i8 a man coming up on this side
don’t be- |
No; I will say,
vou believe in the lord Jesus
as your Saviour? Do you trust him |
for time and for eternity?’ le says
“Yes,” Do you take Christ for time |
for eternity?’ “Yes.’”” 1 say, |
on, brother, in time and
brother
Blessed be God for a Gospel
one
forever,’
|
iYe i
Christ may stand on it! |
I think we may overthrow the severe |
and in the Church also, by realizing that |
noble institutions and noble |
There is nothing that so stiys my |
as this thought. One denomina- |
nen,
soul
niram Judson ; another yielded a Lati- |
mer and a Melville ; another yielded |
John Wesley and the blessed Summer-
while
own denomination
and the Alex
world was not wort
field; our
vielded John Knox ander
whom the
$y . If we
FAIR
nen of
honest and
ale
MINDED MEN,
ve Come up
churches and such
} rl
} 1 Y ¥ ¥
hough they may be differen
{i God
Forward, ti
Ve may overt
Geman
the leaner
Head }
worl
out
i i y
aries it.
Side by side, In
ommon hardships and com-
and common prayers
common tears, let be brothers fo
We must be. We must be,
trials,
118
ever,
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
Boxpay, Burr. 4 1557,
Trust in Our Heavenly Father.
LESSON TEXT.
(Matt, 6: 24.34. Memory verses, 31-04,
LESSON PLAN.
Toric o¥ THE QUARTER :
King tn Zion.
GOLDEN TEXT ¥OR THE QUARTER:
Yet have 1 set my king upon my holy hill
of Zion,—Psa, 2: 0.
Jesus the
L.essox Toric:
of Trust.
Teason
Cutline
The Itoyal Measure
(1. Human Inability, vi. 24, 27.29,
. <2. Divine Sufficiency, v#, 26, 30,
* 48. Filial Trust, vs. 25, 31-44.
GOLDEN TEXT: Casting all
HOUur
Pet. bh: 17.
Day HoME READINGS:
M.—Matt, 6 : 24-34,
measure of trust,
, Luke 12 : 22-40,
The
royal
A 1 Y Y
A 1088011 O16
9)
A life of trust,
or
Hig
for
[LESSON ANALYSIS,
I. HUMAN INABILITY.
I. To Serve Two Masters:
'
II. To Control Bodily Conditions:
WW hick x + add
: LAY
iil. To Secure External Comforts :
+ hon
Lien
Adorning the Fields:
God doth
«1
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8 Cl Tif
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I will give grass in thy
tle (Deut. 11 : 15).
The hills are girded with
1 )
Who
mot
al 3
maket
} £
il
Alns
ETASS 10
Psa. 147
gTOW
=
11
in
“One ariny of the living God,
To whose command we bow ;
Part of the host have crossed the floc
And part are crossing now.”
And I expect
denominations of Christians shall join
“I believe in God, the
Almighty, Maker of Heaven
and Earth. and in Jesus Christ, and in
Life Everlasting.’
all with the
———— -
Some Gypsy Proverbs.
“ After misfortune comes fortune,’
“Better a donkey that lets you ride
than a fine horse which throws you off.”
fall back from the line into the water.”
“It is not good to choose women or
cloth by candle light.”
“What is the use of a kiss unless
there be two to divide it?”
“Who has got luck need only to sit
at home with his mouth open.”
“Who wants to steal potatoes must
not forget the sack."
“Two hard stones
small,”
“Polite
much.”
“Who flatters you has either cheated
you or wants to cheat.”
“Who waits till another ealls him to
suprer often remains hungry.”
“If you have lost your horse, then
you can throw away your saddle and
bridle as well."’
———— UD FD————
In sick rooms where there 1s diphtheria
measles, scarlet fever, ete., the air
should be im ted with the odor of
equal parts of turpentine and earbolie
acid. Half a teaspconful in a kettle of
boiling water from time to time will be
sufficient. It will be found to relieve
the sufferer and prevent the spread of
the malady.
do not grind
words cost little and do
A
not much more clothe you?
They that seek the Lord shall not want
any good thing (Psa, 34: 10).
No good thing will he w
them that walk igl
upri
11).
1 Ye i ¥
ithhold from
1x
iy
tly (Psa.
i
ings work
Oe
“ .
Lord is
together for good (Rom, 8B:
With good courage we say, the
my helper (Heb, 13: 6).
1. “Your heavenly Father feedeth
them.?’ (1) many benefi-
ciaries ; (2) God's abundant bounty.
2. ‘Are ye not of much more value
than they?’ (1) Man's superior
value: (2) Man's superior safety
(3) Man's superior obligation ; (4)
Man's superior destiny.
9. “Shall he not much more clothe
you?” (1) The clothing of the
God's
(3) The clothing of the believer.
Jil. FILIAL TRUST.
1. For Life:
I say unto you, be not anxious for
your life (25).
He is in thine hand ; only spare his life
(Job 2: 8).
The Lord is the strength of my life
(Psa. 27: 1).
He that loseth his life for my sake shall
find it (Matt, 10:39),
I hold not my life of any account, as
dear unto myself (Acts 20 : 24).
11. For Maintenance :
Be not....anxious, saving,
shall we eat?. .. . drink? (31).
Consider the ravens: ...God feedeth
them (Luke 12: 24).
Your Father knoweth that ye have
need of these things (Luke 12 : 30).
Having food and covering we shall be
therewith content (1 Tim. 6: 8),
Casting all your anxiety upon him, be-
cause he careth for you (1 Pet. 5: 7).
IIL For the Morrow!
What
Be not therefore anxious for the mor.
row (34).
walk through the vaHey...
I will fear no evil (Psa. 25: 4).
Trust also to him, and he shall bring
it to pass (Psa, 37 :
When thou passest through the waters,
I will be with thee (Isa, 43: 2),
Be not ...the Holy 8
teach you (Luke 12: 11,
1. “Be not anxious for you
Man's
(2) Man’s his
2. “Your heavenlh
that have
knowledge
Di,
an
anxious
h aobeat
Ig nest
ve
as
knowledge as a
knowing Fathe
child
iis kingdom,” (1)
ject of heman pur-
sing ot
revert
momens
sams ——
LESSON BIBLE READING.
ST IN GOD,
Psa, 3
Commanded
Bd
A —
Jenkins Trouble,
his face as he
%- “3 3
KEK, and
he was earthqu
1a
laugh, and the query fro:
ed
int
WER
7 «
JAA
vou take «
—————————
He had to be Civil
Detroi at
Las hanging in his drawing room
a large and hideous daub in oils, which
Shanghai dealer mn Paris induced
He is very fond of taking
A
wealth
wortain v
ceriain KT
4 n
to buy.
i
he canvas and saying:
“(reat picture that, By Macarom di
Paid $2000 for it
in Paris and got a great bargain.
paming an eminent American
who ssmetimes visits Detroit
artist
says it's
A few days since this gentleman was
|
Someone said:
old Cantpercent says that you
have appraised that frightful nightmare
Is it true?
The artist answered smilingly: “I
will tell you how that happened. He
ht
usual story. Then
“How much is that painting worth?"
“ ‘Why Mr. Centpercent,” said I, ‘I
upon it,
“Well, I'll put it differently,’ said
ne. ‘How much would you charge for
such a picture?’
“+1 don’t mind saying,’ I answered,
‘that I would not paint such a picture
for $10,000.
“1 had to be civil, you know."
A French paper describes the ‘auto.
graphometer,” an apparatus intended
to record the topography of roads by an
automatic apparatus, which is set in
operation by the movement over the
road to be examined of a small carriage
containing the apparatus, and is oon
trolled in such a way by the movement
of the car as to register all vaneties of
levels and changes in directions, The
mechanism employed is quite simple,
The wheels of the carrisge set in mo-
tion drums, on which are wound strips
of paper and on these strips the record
\ is made,