The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, October 27, 1887, Image 6
AT RT 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 153 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 } ANOW, Ana 1D) or f gel Our ¥y . F151 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 “ i in the after rising ol gr reason, g 5 of the LKO u 1770. hould uake, and River, YY 1 . : y 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: iil 4 LILIES AN A Nazareth §-6 £1y all 3 exception Uk 8 narrative The “aa 1 wiMiing near a bY Lovd™s death, the early spring of Fhe place = describi Was @ the thud « amiant og % Marviag:« Mar in Rousmsania. a wl il remai kable PET ££ is il K-88 An I IARMAnS oo Wests arpatinans, § if 8 l the Apostles BS le BA, from evel of PIAL Due emblie Wil VEWesd PILES, grand i female i: CLS juisdes 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, , } wipot % tro but hh nh be i 8 | t ag ' i Ti gOes W 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, You