TALMAGRE’S UR. SERMON Obscuration. g— “The sun shall be turned into darkness.” Acts 2:20, Christianity is the rising sun of our time, and men have tried with the uprolling vapors of scepticism, and the smoke of their blasphemy, to turn the sun into darkness, Suppose the arch- angels of malice and horror should be let loose a little while, and be allowed to extinguish and destroy the sun in the natural heavens! They would take the oceans from other worlds, and pour them on this luminary of the planetary system, and the waters go hissing down amid the ravines and the caverns, and there is explosion after explosion, until there are only a few peaks of fire left in the sun, and these are cooling down and going out until the vast continents of flame are reduced to a small acreage of fire, and that whitens and cools off until there are only a few coals leit, and these are whitening and going out until there is not a spark left in all the ashes, and the chasms of ashes, AN EXTINGUISHED SUN! A dead sun! A buried sun! worlds wail at the stupendous ob quiet, Of course, withdrawal the solar light and heat throws earth into a universal chill, and tropics become tie temperate, an temperate becomes the Arctic, there are frozen rivers, and lake 8, and frozen oceans, From . and Antarctic regions the inhabitants gather in toward the Equator as the poles. The forests are piled up into a great bo and around them gather the shive villages and cities. The wealth goal mines is hastily poured 1 furnaces, and stirred into rage of com- bustion, but soon the bonfires begin to lower, and the furnaces begin to go out and the nations begin to die. Cotopaxi, Vesuvius, Etna, Stromboli, Californian geysers, cease to smoke, and the ice o ha'l-storms remains unmelted in thei crater. All the flowers have breathed their last breath. Ships vith frozen at the mast, and helmsier and passengers Let 3:3 LIN he centre, gn a! the wheel, in the cabin; ALL NATIONS DYING. first at the North and then at the South. Child frosted and ! Octogenarian frosted and d hearth Workmen with frozen ti and frozen foot on Winter from sea to sea. congealing winter, Perpetual wi f frigidity. Hemisphere shackl- ed to hemisphere by chains of ice. iversal Nova Zembla., The earth jice-floe grinding against other ice-floes, The archangels of malice and horror have done their work, and now they thrones of glacier, and the ruin they have What the destruction of ti i the natural heavens would be t earth, the i dead in ti hand on shuttle. mimer aminer, Lrlobe of LI ¥ all heir HEIR upon destruction | moral A ’ DesSs. the n red a ple who re- i cavicatured iS CONS great joke, There are pe joice to hear Chri and to hear Cl ble and quirk and misre and badinage and harlequinad pose Enis mornin Atheism out of «tint w CIALLY + irist ITiSL wssailed WHAT INFIDELS PROPOSE and what, H they are successful, they w There are those in all our communities who woul t see the Christian religion anda Ww accomplish. id like to overthrown, it it. I want fo show vou what Is the end of this road, and what is the terminus of this crusade, and what this | will be when Atheism have triumphed over it, if Wor and Infis ’ 4! i fT a > i 1 . y 1 say, il they can. A $v x delity if they r . I reiterate it, v at WoM DEGRADATION OF will prove it by facts and which no honest man will dispute, In all communities and cities and states and nations where the Christian ligion bas been dominant, woman's con- dition has been ameliorated and proved, and she is deferred to and hon- AN HOOD, arguments gentlewnan takes off his hat before her, If your associations have been good, you know that the name of wife, moth- er, daughter, suggest gracious sur- roundings, You know there are no better schools and seminaries in Brook the young and seminaries for our You know that while schools ladies, and the 1/nited States, she has more of her rights in Christendom than she has anywhere else. has made little or no advance—in China Egypt, in Hindostan, The many sheep, the window in the absence of her hus. fore her husband has finished his meal, What mean those white bundles on the ponds and rivers in China in the morn- ing? Infanticide following infanticide, Female children destroyed simply be- cause they are female, Woman har- nessed to a plow as an ox. WOMAN VEILED AND BARRICADED, and in all styles of cruel seclusion. Her birth a musfortune, Her life a torture, Her death a horror, The missionary of the cross to-day in heathen lands preaches generally to two groups—a group of men who do as they please and sit where they please; the other group, women hidden and carefully secluded in a side apartment, where they may hear the voice of the preacher, but may not be seen, No refinement, No lib- arty, No hope for this life, No hope for the life to come. Ringed nose. Uramped foot, Disfigursl face, Em- bruted soul, Now compare those two sonditions, How far toward this lat ter condition that I speak of would woman go if Christian influences were withdrawn and Christianity were de- stroyed? It is only a question of dyna- mics, If an object be lifted to a cer- tain point and not fastened there, and the lifting power be withdrawn, how long before that object will fall down to the point from which it started? It will fall down, and it will go still fur- ther than the point from which it start- ed. Christianity has lifted woman up from the very depths of degradation al- most to the skies, If that lifting power be withdrawn she falls clear back to the depth from which she was résurrect- ed, not going any lower because there is no lower depth, And yet, notwith- standing the fact that the ouly salva. tion of woman from degradation and woe is the Cliristian religion, and the only influence that has ever lifted her in the social scales is Christianity—1I that there are women who reject Christianity. 1 make no remark in regard to those persons, 1 make no remark in regard to them. In the silence of your own soul make your ob- servations, If infidelity triumph and Christianity be overthrown, it means THE DEMORALIZATION The one idea in the Bible nfidels most ha e, is the | Take away the tribution and punislnnent from and it will begin very soon grate: and take awav of men the fear of hell, and there are a great many of who would very this world into a hell, The who are indignant of the idea of O1 OCIETY. that atheists loa of re- to disinte- Fon them soon tur: against t punishment bad, or wi who hate the Bible because fut . ' ire punishnie t eriminals h Oh, I have talk about people fearing consequences world, and 1 have ma 18 mere ly a coward s whis wourage up. 1 have men gir immoralities in the face mmunity, and I have heard them defy Day, and scoff atl consequence of their r came to die, they hear them for the summer 0 Sin in Li 1 y up ny of mind y keep hi flaunt of the ling Seen wild not with five board, go down Into a watery grave, tO See 1 08 gid bution and punishment and minds of men not be long before of hearts it would Brooki York and and Charleston and Chicago became Sodoms, The only re- straints against the evil passions of the world to-day are Bible restraints, Suppose now these generals of Athe- ism and Infidelity got the victory, Boston They are in brigades regiments, For companies, in iy hin shnln « « i “Wilf WwWhoie army. flying behind, words: **No No punishment! the Bible! God! No No restraints! will attack the churches, those houses of worship! Away with reavements and sorrows, All much to relieve the lost home the wandering, and done 80 and bring life ot. nacles into club-houses, those churches! Forward, march! ye great army of infidels and atheists, and next of all is over, Away with eyed, bright-cheeked little ones who are singing songs on Sunday afternoon, and getting instruction when they ing marbles, or swearing on the com- mons, Away with them! Forward, march! ye great army of infidels and atheists, and next of all they will at- tack Christian asylums—the institu- tion of mercy supported by Christian philanthiroples. Never mind the blind eyes and the deaf ears and the crippled limbs and the weakened intellects. Let paralyzed old age pick up its own food, and orphans fight their own way, and the half reformed go back to their evil habits, Forward, march! ye great army of infidels and atheists, and with your battle axes hew down the cross and split up the manger of Bethlehem, On, ye great army of infidels and atheists, and now they come to the graveyard and the cemeteries of the earth. Pull down the sculpture above Greenwood’s grate, for it means the Resurrection, Tear away at the en trance of Laurelglill the figure of Old Mortality and theNehisel. On, ye great army of infidels an’ graveyards and ce, you see ‘Asleep in ue cab it any and where you find a marble story ol heaven, blast it, over a little child's little children to come unto Me.” sub- stitute the wonds ‘‘delusion” “sham, and where you find an angel in marble, strike off the wing, and when you come to a family vault, chisel on the door: ‘‘Dead once, dead forever.’ But on, ve great army of infidels and atheists, ! They will seale heaven, There are grave: “Suffer Of HEIGHTS BE TAKEN Pile hill on hill, and Pelion u and then they hoist the walls of heaven, On and they blow up the foundations of jasper and the gates of pearl, They charge y the steep. Now they aim for the of Him who liveth forever They whould take down Father, the “Down with with him “Down TO pon ssa 111 uj throne ever, Son, them!” “Down they Down out of He has nd they sav. forever ! ! He is not God, ight to sit there. Down ts Down with Christ I’ sav. sight A world without a k without han const Anarchy supreme, An as sassina- } t fa ainly when ho openly and out an preach } Atheism, will criminals against now criminals against God, and ichor- and gangrened ous and wvermin-covered die in the ditch, and be denied decent burial, and men will come with spades and cover up the carcass, where it falls, that it poison not the air, and the only text in all the Bible appropriate for the funeral sermon will be Jeremiah 22; 19; “He shall be buried with the burial of n ass,’ A thousand come up this morning, saying: ‘Do you think Infidelity will succeed? fanity received its death VYOIOeSs {to me really blow ¥ WILL THE BIBLE BECOME OBSOLETE?" Yes. when the smoke of the , Josephus says about the time the destruction of Jerusalem the sin was turned into darkness; but only the earth, The sun went right on. It 1% the dane sun, the same luminary as when at the beginning it shot out like an electric spark from God's finger, and today it is warming the nations, and to-day it is gilding the sea, and to-day it is filling the earth with its light. The same old san not at all worn out, though its light steps one hundred and ninety million miles. a second, though its pulsations are four hundred and fifty trillion undulations in a second. Same sun with beautiful white 1 made up of the violet and the ind. o and the blue and the greon and the red and the yellow and the orange-the seven beautiful odlors now just as when the solar spectrum first divided them, At the beginning God said: “Let there be light,” and light was, and light is, and light shall be. So Christianity is rolling on, and itis going to warm all nations, and all nations are to bask in its light, Men may shut the window- blinds so they cannot see it, or they their (ron under Lord shadowed but the y Aare vaporing; This WHITE LIGHT OF THRE GOSPEL made up of all the beautiful colors of violet plucked from grass, and the indigo own is a sun! amid the spring the skies, and the green of the foliage, southern groves, the of earth and heaven brought out by this spiritual spectrum. Britain to take all Europ Cronle The [Inited beauties Creat for Lo them All i8 going Slates are going Lod, Both of ther will take all Asia for God. “Who art thou, oh great Before Zerubbabel thou shalt The mouth of the Hallelujah, amen! nt A pe A MODERN JULIET. Lord | ith Loved Her Father's Enemy and Was Driven from Home to Die. News of a tragedy comes fron ville, a suburb of Alexand which in dramatic incident probably x produced ti} ir related by author, he name of Davis liv anything wget Vining Yes the st RLALE ( a very pretty girl. a son of ( eraiy ever, consider It appears to Join Cla Wednesday, and i probable that she wou undes circums: . t is gen- | erally thought that, Davis's home be- ing several miles away from any olher habitation, Mary, after being turned { away by her father, went (o one of the | kilns, and lying he kiln caved in i and cremated her, Young Clark, coming to the Davis house the morning after the occurrence, seeking his wife, learned of her awful ing ments, married Nese :s §¢ on itt {it, Drawing a revolver he shot i man Davis dead, the latter never offer. ing any resistance, saving as he fell: “1 deserve it Clark then fled and had remained he would probably have escaped punishment, Mrs { and Deen taken to an asylum, . A A Sicily's Famous Voleoano. But what is that pyramid of white | away off to the southwest, with clouds It is the mountain king of Italy far famous peak of Etna-—two miles higher than the Mediterranean, which | smiles out of bLlue eyes down here be { low. The great volcano of Sicily, and the ‘highest of Europe, is thirty miles away, but it is so clear, so distinet, so perfect in its details and outlines, that fi looks as if we might walk to the summit in an hour. As we look the sun goes down almost behind it, tinge- ing the vapor with yellow and red and making the grand old snow coated mountain look as if it were waving a streamer of fire, With the ald of science even the de. sert of the Sahara is becoming Inhabl- table, and colonization is encouraged. The Lower Sahara is an immense basin of artesian waters, and the French are forming fresh oases with skill and success, 50 that the number of cultiva. ted tracts is increasing rapidly. After u period of thirty years forty-three onses have 13,000 inhabitants, 120,000 trees between 1 and 7 years old, and 100,000 fruit trees SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, Boxpay, June 3, 1888, Jesus Crucified. LESSON TEXT. Matt, 27: 8.50. Memory vers Beda) LESSON PLAN. Toric or THE QUARTER; King in Zwn. Jesus the GOLDEN TEXT FOR THE QUARTER: | little lower than the angels, even Je . esl J L¥ Forsaken Fathe ¥. oN Toric: ( 1. Natled 10 the Cross, va. 45-35, { 2. Reviled by the Va, B44. { 8. Forsaken by the Father, va of KE} z $6.50, GoLpeEN TEXT: death of t/ie Cros 9% I. The Place A pla The br The Crucifixion : 1 i The Suporscription : i II. The Priests and Scribes wis {Luke 9 : 22). 111. The Crucified Thieves: The robl the same reproach (44). He LTOSSOTS They that were crucified with him re- proached him (Mark 15 : 32), (One of the malefactors whi h were hanged railed on him (Luke 23 : 39). | Save thyself and us (Luke 23 : 39). WR ASO numbered with trans- 19 dale « WAS 1 A PNA, OW 1. “They that passed by milad on him.” 1} Ignorant of his dignity; 23 Glorying in his fall; (3) Regard- less of his sufferings; (4) Rel lious against his claims, - “If thou art the Son of (sl, come down from the (1) hypothesis stated; (2) The demon stration demanded, (1) An exalt. ed sufferer; (2) An impious de- mand, 3. “Let him now come down. ...and ! we will believe,” Man's condi- tions of faith; (1) Based on spiri- tual ignorance; (2) Shaped by per- | sonal prejudice; (5) Refused in di- | vine wisdom, 11, VORSAKEN DY Darkness: There was darkness over all the land (45). I will cause the sun to go down at noon {Amos 8 : 9), There was darkness over the land (Mark 15 : 33). This is your hour, and the power of darkness (Luke 22 : 53). A darkness came,....the sun's light failing (Luke 28 : M4), fl. Solitude: My God, why hast thou forsaken me! (46). My God, my God, why hast thou for- saken me? (Psa, 22:1.) 1 looked for some to take pity, but there was none (Psa. 69 : 20), 1 have trodden the winepress alone ' Wie | cross,’ The i THE FATHER. IL whole (Tan A: 8) Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me (John 16: 32), IHL Death: Jesus eried Lis spirit (50), Jesus uttered the a loud + (Mark 15 : orbit pi Hou ather’s ZT v £ g i parat o'clock { uni Wal \ far th WV ALWEr VIS, and Jesu day was April 7, 3 Paralle Hue The Man in the The moon’ myth about great we know not, A Russian story is told about a man which there his abode is of in was no death, He took up in the moon. The Jews have a story that Jacol a ible in the moon, Northern mythology giant who inhabits supposed to cause the ebb he tide, Another tale told in Swabia relates about a manikin who stole wood, and is still to be seen 1n the moon. In China the old man of the moon Is about a moon, and is and flow of fall VES thin Lut In Africa the man in the moon is the sun, and is in punishment carved A well-known German story tells about the man who cut sticks on the up in the to this day. A Duteh household myth accused the man in the moon of stealing cabbage on Christmas eve; the neighbors caught him just as ho was walking off with a good supply, and they “‘wished'’ him up in the moon. He stands there to this day, bearing his load of cabbages. ssn AAP ISOS A Pittsburg mechanical engineer has invented a novel movable dam, by the use of which he claims a boating stage of water may be obtained in shallow rivers at all seasons of the year. The invention has been examined by old river men and pronounced practicable, The Inventor is $2 years old. Judicious thinning of tree fruits Is a very fine and profitable thing whenever it can be conveniently practiced,
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