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DR. TALMAGE'S
SERRMON.
Unoccupied Fields.
“lot 1 should buijld on
dation.” <Rom. 15:20.
STIRRING reports come from all parts
of America, showing what a great work
the churches of God are doing, and I
congratulate them and their pastors,
Misapprehensions have been going the
sounds of the religious papers concern-
ing this church. $781.316.24 have been
pad, cash down, in this church for re-
tigious uses and Christian work during
the nineteen years of my ministry here,
This church was built by all denomina-
tions of Christians and by many sec-
tions of this land, other lands, and
that obl.gation has led up to raise
money for many objects not connected
with our denomination, and this ac-
zounts for the fact that we have not
vegularly contributed to the Boards of
our denomination, Subscription papers
for all good objects, Christian, human-
ttarian, collegiate and missionary are
as common in thus church as the day-
tight, and no church in Christen-
dom has been more continuous in its
charities than this church, Besides
that, I am grateful that we have re-
ceived during the year, by confession of
faith Christ, seven Iundred and
twenty-eight souls, which fact I men-
in
iii
our chu. ch, showing it has been neither
idle nor inefficient, and I ask the secular
press to set us right. Most of our
cessions bave been from the
world. so that, taking the idea of
text, we have been building
other people's foundations.
ac-
my
not on
v tour, Paul souagnut out towns and
cities which had not yet been preached.
to, lle goes to Corinth, a city men-
tioned for splendor and vice, and Jeru-
salen, where the priesthood and the
were ready to leap with
t
i
t}
wi
Sanhedrim
both feet upon the Christian religion.
He feels he has
IAL W
~P'F( ORK TO DO,
neansto do it, What was the
[he grandest life of usefulness
man ever lived. We modern
n workers are not apt to imitate
We build on other people's
me, If we erect a chi
prefer to have it filled with families all
of wl have been Do we
gather a Sabbath-school class, we want
good boys and 1s, hair combed,
washed, attractive, a
churc! 1y is apt to be bailt out
ol Some
Spend al
3
ire
foundati
ih pious,
ori faces
NO
minisiers
£3 roy 4 .
fishing in other
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people’s ponds, and they throw the line
into that chur id and jerk ou
Methodist, and throw the
other church
Presby terian
in J
whole sct
pond, anid all in with
sweep of th wat is
Absolutely nothing r the
Christ,
h-po1 a
live into an
nd and bring out a |
, or there is a religious row
church, and a |
ALC,
SOU
one
grained?
WIAT STRENGTHENS AN ARMY
ruits,
that
iS DOW TE
desired ix,
to those cou
build our church
churches, but out of
bailt on another man’s
The fa 3. this isa big world, When,
in our schoolboy days we learned the
diameter and cireumference of thi
planet, we did not learn half, It is the
latitude and longitude and diameter
and circumference of want and woe and
no figures can calculate. This
1] continent of wretchedness
ss all zones, and if 1 were
its |
say it
What I have alw
while we are cou
from other flocks, we
not of
the world, lest we
foundation.
:
rteou
ing
out other
0
5
Sin :
ini i i
Fealin Cl
$A oF
give
alle
ary, I w
north
the great
geographical
uld is bounded
| south and east and
beart of God's
Inve. {hh
bound-
on ti
wast bs
SYmpaty and
IS A GREAT WORLD.
Since o'clock this sixty
thousand eight hundred have
been born, and all L pop-
ulations are to be reached of the Gospel,
In Englaud, or in our Eastern Ameri-
can cities, we are being much crowded,
and an acre of ground is of great value,
but out West tive hundred acres is a
small farin, and twenty thousand acres
is no unusual possession. There isa
vast field here and everywhere unoc-
cupied, plenty of room more, not build-
ing on another man’s foundation,
We need as churches to stop bombard-
ng tie
OLD IRONCLAD SINNERS
I'l
SIX morning
pel SONS
hese multiplied
been proof against thirty
of Christian assault. Alas for
that church which lacks the spint of
avangelismn, spending on one chandelier
snough to light five hundred souls to
glory, and in one carved pillar enough
to have made a thousand men “pillars
in the house of our God forever,” and
doing less good than many a log cabin
meeting-house with tallow candles
gtuck in wooden sockets, and a minis-
ter who las never seen a college, or
knows the difference between Greek
and Choctaw, We need as churches to
get into sympathy with the great out-
side world, amd let them know that
none are 80 broken-hearted or hardly
bestead that will not be welcomed,
© “No!'? says some fastidious Christian,
“I don’t like to be crowded in church.
Don’t put any one in my pew.” My
brother, what will you do in heaven?
When a great multitude that no man
can number assembles they will put
fifty in your pew.
have
f
hat
years
shurches compared with the
MIGHTIER MILLIONS OUTSIDE
of them, cight hundred thousand in
Brooklyn, but less than one hundred
thousand in the churches? Many of
the churches are like a hospital that
should advertise that its patients must
have nothing worse than toothache or
“run-rounds,”” but no broken heads, no
srushed ancles, no fractured thighs.
sive us for treatment moderate sinners,
relvet-coated sinners and sinners with a
loss on, It is as though a man had &
farm of three thousand acres and put
all his work on one acre, He may ralse
never so large ears of corn, never so big
heads of wheat, he would remain poor,
The church of God has bestowed its
thief care on one acre and has raised
splendid men and wotnen in that small
snelosure, but the field is the world,
‘That means North and South America,
islands of the sea.
sand wounded and dying on the field,
and three surgeons gave all their time
to three patients under their charge.
The major-general comes in and says to
the doctors: “Come out here and look
at the nearly fifty thousand dying for
lack of surgical attendance!” ‘No,”
says the three doctors, standing there
fanning their patients, ‘‘we have three
tending to them, and when we are not
positively busy with their wounds, it
takes all our time to keep the flies off,”
In
THIS AWFUL BATTLE OF SIN
and sorrow, where millions have fallen
on millions, do not let us spend all our
time in taking care of a few people, and
when the command comes, “Go into the
world,” say practically : "No I cannot
go; I have here a few choice cases, and
I am busy keeping off the flies,”’ There
are multitudes to-day who have never
nad any Christian worker look them in
the eve, and with earnestness in the ac-
centuation, say : *‘Come |"? or they would
long ago have been in the kingdom.
My friends, religion is either a sham or
a tremendous reality, If it be a sham,
let us disband our churches and Chris-
| tian association. If it be a reality, then
| great populations are on the way to the
| bar of God unfitted for the ordeal, and
t what are we doing?
In order to reach
utsiders we must
TE(
the multitudes of
PROT" ALL HN I(
ALITIES
When we talk
the hypostatic union
velopedianism, and E
ul Complutensianism,
impolitic and little
18 if a physician should talk t«
| ordinary patient about the pericardiu
and intercos and
| Symploms, us come out of
f our religion.
y about
1
Stood {
tal muscle,
Many of
{ theological seminaries so loaded up th
| we take the first
people how much we Ki
| next ten years people to know as
{| much as we know, and at the end find that
neither of us know anything as we ought
| to know, H wdreds and thou-
sn 111 r
| f '
sands of. sinning, ¢
I's
ten vears to show out
wr “Sy 1
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or f
gel Our
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ere are hut
| people who need to realize just one thin
1
}
hi
i l save them now. Dut we
1 and elaborate «
wil
allt
i
i Tesitd
elim
HE 08 L a JUGS
in which the Supreme Ruler:
] ountabl none, and
ho
alone knows the manntr in which
government can
13 ALC 0
nds of His unis
wat be obtain
Licaily
many
114d
i
i
nicelies,
technicalit red
In the mos
Way, and :
and the hard
Out on
people
» $s 2
FACLICAL,
Ving asi
defing
wind
¥ can get it,
TREAT
the
and how the
HOW TO
Comparatively
been made to that
persons in our midst called s
he who goes to work here will not
building another man's founda
tion. Ther a great multitude of
them. They are afraid of us and our
churches, for the reason we don't know
how to treat them,
met Christ ; and hear
derness and
cess Christ dealt with him : “Thou shalt
Lord Thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with
all thy mind, and with all thy strength.
This is the first commandment, and the
second is like to this, namely: thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,
There is no other commandment greater
than this.” And the seribe said to
Fim : Well, Master, thou hast said the
truth, there 8 one God, and to love
Him with all the heart, and all the un-
derstanding, and all the soul and all the
| strength, is more than whole burnt of-
| ferings and sacrifices.” And when
Jesus saw that he answered discreetly,
{ He said unto hin, Thou art not far from
{the kingdom of God.”? So a sceptic
| was saved in one interview. But few
t Christian people treat the sceptic in that
way. Instead of taking hold of him
with the gentle hand of love, we are apt
to take him with the pincers of eccles-
i jasticism.
You would not be so rough on that
man if you knew
HOW HE LOST HIS FAITH
in Christianity. I have known men
sceptical from the fact that they grew
up in houses where religion was over-
{ done, Sunday was the most awful
| day in the week, They had religion
driven into them with a trip-hammer.:
They were surfeited with prayer meet-
| ings, They were stuffed and choked with
catechisms, They were often told they
were the worst boys the parents ever
knew, because they liked to ride down
hill better than to read Bunyan's Pil-
grims’s Progress, Whenever father ind
mother talked of religion they drew
down the corners of their mouth and
rolled up their eyes. If any one thing
will send ou boy or girl to perdition soon-
ar another, that is it. If I had
“ve large ¢l
eptics
upon
¢ is
class
ten-
this
what
One of
with
§
such a father and mother I fear I should
have been an infidel.
INCONSISTENT CHRISTIANS,
Others were tripped up of scepticism
from being grievously wronged by some
man who professed to be a Christian,
They had a partner in business who
turned out to be a first-class scoundrel,
though a professed Christian. Twenty
years ago they lost all faith by what
happened in an oil company which was
formed amid the petroleum excitement.
The company owned no land, or if they
did there was no sign of oil produced ;
but the president of the company was
a Presbyterian elder, and the treasurer
was an Episcopal vestryman, and one
director was a Methodist class-leader,
and the other directors prominent mem-
bers of Baptist and Congregational
churches, Circulars were gotten out,
telling what fabulous prospects opened
before this company. Innocent men
and woman, who bad a little money to
| invest, and that little their all, said: *'I
{ don’t know anything about this eom-
| pany, but so many
GOOD MEN ARE AT THE AEAD
of it that it must be excellent, and tak-
ing stock in it must be almost as good
as joining the church.” So they bought
the stock, and perhaps received one div-
idend 80 as to keep them still, but after
awhile they found that the company
had reorganized, and had a different
{ president and different
different directors. Other engagements
or ill-health had caused the former of-
ficers of the company, with many re-
grets, to resign,
| SCI ibers of that
| their investment
| namented
stock had to show fi
Was a
Sometimes
1
beautifully or-
certificate, that
wer his old papers, comes
cate, and it is
he wants nor
¥ idont
president
&y Sou
y SU
and tn
18 of the
1
ISLS
1 ” ur
1 company
AIWHAWVR
. for existin
started when
OTN
(xoethe’
news came Germany
Jui at Lisbon, November 1,
That sixty t of Pex
have perished in that earths
y
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in the after rising ol gr
reason, g
5
of the
LKO
u 1770.
hould
uake, and
River,
YY
1
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l housand pie 8
the Tag
tirred his sympathies that
8 Bi
3
! ¢
up his belief in the goodnes
fF Tres "
Others have gong
hey can
how Geil «
"hesn
id Iw
than
evidenoes
IS. W
affected, not 0
who never examined the
of Christianity, Thomas Chalmers was
once a Robert Hall a sceptic,
Robert a sCepti
Evans y But when with
strong hands they took held of the char-
htily
sLY
ih.
hose
i
seeptic,
Newton
A Sceplice, once
what momentum !
If I address such men and woman to-
day, I throw off no scoff. 1 nae al
them by the memory of the wi old
days when at their mother’s knee they
said : “Now I lay me down to sleep,’
and bw those days and nights of scarlet
fever
vou the medicine in jst the right time,
and turning your pillow when it was
hot, and with hands that many years ago
turned to dust, soothed away your pain,
and with voice that you will never hear
again, unless you join her in the better
country, told you to never mind, for you
| would feel better by and by, and by that
or
rw
in
in
i
i between the words, and you felt an aw-
| ful loneliness coming over your soul
| by all that, I beg you to come back and
| take the same religion. It was good
{ enough for her, It is good for enough
| for you. Nay, I have a better plea than
{ that, I plead by all the wounds and
| tears and blood and groans and agonies
| aud death-throes of the son of God, who
| approaches you this moment with torn
| brow, and lacerated hand, and whipped
back, and saying: “Come unto me, all
ye who are weary and heavy laden, and
I will give you rest, ’
Again, there isa field of usefulness
but little touched, occupied by those
who are astray in their habits, All
northern nations, like those of North
America, and England and Scotland,
‘hat is, in the colder climates, are
DEVASTABED BY ALCONOLISM.
They take the fire to keep up the
warmth, In southern countries, like
Arabia and Spain, the blood is so they
are not tempted to fiery liquids, The
great Roman armies never drank any-
thing stronger than water tinged with
vinegar, bi under our northern climate
the temptation of heating stimulants is
most mighty, and millions succumb,
When a man’s habits go wrong the
church drops him. the social efrele drovs
!
|
i
i
him, good influences drop him, we all
drop him. Of all the men who get
off track, but few ever get on again,
Near my summer residence there is a
life-saving station on the beach, There
are all the ropes and rockets, the boats,
the machinery, for getting people off
shipwrecks, Summer before last I saw
breakfasting, after having just escaped
with their lives and nothing more. Up
and down our coasts are built these use-
ful structures, and the mariners know
it, and they feel that if they are driven
into the breakers there will be apt from
shore to come a rescue. The churches
of God ought to be 80 many
LIFE-SAVING STATIONS,
not so much to help those who are in
smooth waters, but those who have been
shipwrecked, Come, let us run out the
life-boats | And who will man them?
We donot preach enough to such men ;
we have not enough faith in their re-
lease, Alas, if when they come to hear
us, we are labortomsly trying to show
the difference between Sublapsartanism
and Supralapsaréanism while they have
immortal
chiefly for
The church
sort of
BpPIrits, i8 not
goodish
go to heaven praying and singing in
their own homes It
help the drowning.
0 take hold of.
big sinner as well as a
and when a man calis
He
Cal Save a
r to (rod for help He will
If its
come dowr
or tl
KH
CLVED BUCH 4 one,
ry God would
4a
followed b
ww all
the
aA { Get one hit
SWOras, rL Oh }
in you
ie
in Brook-
When they
will yy $
Wilt OU
govern
Wil
¥ IDO
nto the
svalry
of 00 Lhe 3
oan’
zet into 0
soon, right
constant GUring «
devils in hel mean to saatch from
vour dominion other multitudes, if God
I have heard of what was
hundering legion It was
oar
eR
Celaomsl, dark nes
called the **t
which some ( istians belonged
their prayers
by thunder
tempest, which overthrew
army amd the
would to God that 1
#0 mighty in hraver and werk
would become a thundering legion, b
fore which the forces of the sun
the gates of hell
that the autumn
Aan
ar
empire,
his chureh
gavel
Now
paired and enlarged, it is time to launch
voyage. Heave
Shake out the reefs in
Come, OO heavenly
and fill the canvas { Jesus aboard
assure our safety, Jesus the
Jesus on
now, lads!
5 4
on wey
tin
shore will welcome us into harbor,
———————
The Most High Charch in Europe,
The very highest church in Earope is
the pligrimage chapel of St. Maria de
Ziteit, above Salux, in the canton of
Graubunden. It lies 2.454 meters above
8,000 feet high
above the forest, near the limits of per-
petual snow. It is only open during
the folks thereabouts reckon, from St.
John the Baptist’s Day to St. Michael's
Day--and is used only by the Alp herds,
who remain there through the summer
with their cows and goats, and oc-
casionally by hunters in search of the
chamois and marmot. All the inhabit.
ants of Salux climb up thither on Mid-
summer Day to assist at the first mass
and hear the first sermon of the year,
and there is also a crowded congrega-
tion on Michaelmas Day, at the last
service of the year, From time to time
a few stray pilgrims from the Grau-
bunden Oberland and the Tyrol find
their way there, The second highest
church probably in Europe, that of
Monstein, also open only in the sume
mer, belongs to Graubunden., At our
visit the hale oll preacher had five
foreign tourists for his congregation,
seems ——————
White clover, as a sumamer pasturage
for hogs, 18 highly esteemed in Iowa,
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
The Harvest and the Laborers,
LESSON TEXT.
(Matt, 9: 55.3% 10: 1.8,
Memory verses, 30.94.)
LESSON PLAN.
Toric oF THE QUARTER :
King tn Zion.
GoLpEN TEXT FOR THE QUARTER:
Thine, O Lord, 1s the greatness, and the
power, and the glory, and the victory,
Jesus the
the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalled
as head above all.—1 Chron, 29 : 11.
Lesson Toric; The King's Author-
ity over Duty.
(L. The Duty of Praying, va 85.348
Brig <% The Duties of Discipieship, ve, 1-4
© * {i Tne Duty of Laboring, vs. § &
GoLpEN Text: Freely ye have re-
ceived freely give.—Matt, 10 : E,
%
HoxMy READINGS:
Matt. 9 : 35-38: 10 : 1-8.
King’s authority over duty.
T.—Matt. 10 ;: 9-31. Duty
Pou
Dairy
M.
The
LESSON ANALYSIS,
I. THE DUTY OF PRA)
ns {1 Kix Le,
They were scattered
no shepherd (Ezek
Mm
ME
sheph
I. A Saddening Fact:
harvest
ie few
reth fon
truly
Acts 16 : 9).
Ii. A Potent Remeed y
T :
Pra
that hx
Pray
ut
Mats
Praving fc
unto ws a d
Brethret
Pray for
DETTES
I. The Honored Twelve
@ nalnes apost
Power Against Evil:
His i
To hay
{ Mark 3
He
clean sprigs
They that we
re healed
WU
16
them authorily ov
Mark 6:7
: 1
PME
“
gave
i wan
with und
spi 18),
He wer and authority
over all den i uke 9: 1.
ML Power for Good
fe
heal all
I
LS Wy Luke 6:
Pa 4
Rave
AYE
nany thas wer
Mark 6: 13).
11 lay hands on the sick,
all recover (Mark 16 : 18),
gave them power. ...10 cure «
Luke 9: 1).
prayer of faith shall save him
is sick (Jas, 5: 15).
1. “He called unto him his twelve
disciples.” (1) Whew he called ;
Whither he called; (3) Why
called, 1} The Lord; (2)
twelve : (3) The eall,
3, “Gave them antherity.”’
authority ;: (1) Its
SCOPE | {3} Its uses,
1 “To cast then out, and to heal.
(1) Antagonizing the evil ; (2) Pro-
moting the good.
ill, THE DUTY ou¥
. Going Forth:
These twelve Jesus sent forth'(5).
tes sick,
healed them
and
lis
Cases
that
he
The
A post mic
source: (2) Its
Low
LADORING,
wolves (Matt, 10 : 16),
Go ye into all the world (Mark 16:
He sent them forth {Luke 8: 2).
The Lord sent them two and two
before his face (Luke 10: 1).
11. Preaching Constantly :
And as ye go, preach (7).
They went out, and preached (Mark
6: 12).
They went forth, and preached every-
where (Mark 16 : 20),
They proclaimed the word of God inthe
synagogues (Acts 13 : 5).
Ho preached Jesus and the resurrec-
tion (Aots 17 : 18).
IIL Giving Freely:
gd ye have received, freely give
15).
He urged him to take it ; but he refused
(2 Kings 5 : 16),
Thou hast thought to obtain the gift of
God with money (Anta 8 : 20),
|
I preached to you the gospel of God
nought (2 Cor, 11:7).
I will give. ...of the water of life, free.
ly (Rev. 21 : 6).
1. ““These twelve Jesus sent fort!
The mission of the apostles ; (1) Its
founder ; (2) Its constituency ; (
Its objects,
‘*As ye go preach.”
for Jesus; (2)
wayside,
“Freely ye received, freely give,’
(1) Give ; (2) Give freely ; (3) Give
freely as ye have received, —(1) God
a free giver ; (2) God a true model,
for
(1) Going (
Preaching at the
—
LESSON BIBLE READINT,
THE APOSTLER,
1. Thelr Appointment:
Of God (1Cor. 1:1;12:28:Gal. 1:1
Of Christ (Matt, 10 : 1: Rom. 1 : 5).
Of the Holy Ghost (Acts 13 : 2, 3).
Ordained by Christ (Mark 3: 13. 14;
John 15 : 16).
Received their ti
8 : 13).
2. Their Duties:
Je
le from Chri
4
+
24 : 47).
To go to all nations (
Mark 16 : 15).
minister |
Matt, 20 : 2
} witness
{Acis 1 :;
To
8:1]. is 2:
Their Experiences
se from
LESSON SURROU
ne WiiO acoept 8
vel
rd al
Mark 6:
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On the Bains every
marriageabie
tines tetil, in
'
are expects
whose ean pan
who are eligible.
best
hermit who lives }
lonely spot. The mark of 1} ial i
not a ring. bat a beautifully embroider
eddandkerchief, The I thal in
Hany cases prea ranged, the cere-
mony must gone throug with all
the same. the market
knowing beforehand that an admirer
will be there to claim her, so. much the
better for ber. Still she must take her
dowry and occupy her tent and place
herself in view like the rest,
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How Convicts Will be Treated if
Things Keep on as at Present
Widow, ‘Is that the man whe mur.
dered my husband?"
Philanthropist. “Yes, be
like the brussels carpet in his cell and
we are removing him to the nexi one
which has a mice soft velvet carpet,
doesn’t
slat.
inviting. Most of the paintings,
uary and bric-a-brac have just been
“So that is the man who gouged my
“Yes, but don't worry over this poor
The court has decided
to allow him to die by electricity,
Some night when be is asleep in that
patent bedstead, an electric button will
be touched and he will never know
what hurt nm."
“1 want that ring he hason, It's my
dead husband's ring and be chopped his
finger off to get it."
“Madam, you ought to be ashamed
of yourself, He is very fond of that
ring, as you might see, and you actuals
ly wish to deprive him of it.”
“Indeed 1 do.”
“Be kind enough to withdraw,
are positively brutal.”
Lack of desire is the greatest riches,
~Josh Evans has reconstructed his
stable, He now has the horses placed
oun the second foor, and the Orst floor
is used exclusively for carriages,
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