REV. DR. TALMAGE. Sermon. Sunjoct: “The Baptism of Fire," Text: “None of these things move me." Acts xx, 24, The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D, preached at the Brooklyn Academy of Mu. sie, his first sermon after the destruction of the Brooklyn Tabernacle by fire. His au- dience was of vast size, and public interest was extraordinary. The opening hymn was: God moves In a mysterious way His wonders to perform. He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm Dr, Talmage's subject was “The Baptism of Mire,” sud he said: jut, Paul, have you not enough affliction to move you! Are you not an exile from your native land? With the most genial and free for missionary journeys, given yourself to celibacy? Have you not turned away from the magnificent worldly successes that would have crowned your illustrious genius? Have vou not endured the sharp and stinging neuralgiasg, like a thorn in the flesh? Have you not bean mobbed on the land, and ship- wrecked on the sea: the sanhedriol against you, the Roman Government against you, all the world and all hell against you? “What of that? says Paul these things wove me!’ It was not because he was a bard nature. Gentlest woman was never more easily dissoived into tears. He could not even bear to see anybody ery, for in the midst of his sermon when he saw some one weeping her sobs aloud, “What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for Iam ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jiusalemn for the name of ord Jesus.” hat then did Paul mean when he said, “None of these things move me?’ He meant, “1 will not be diverted from the work to which I have been called by any and all the adversities and calamities.” 1 think this morning [express not only my own feelings but that of every man, woman and little child belonging to the Brooklyn Tabernacle or that was converted there or comforted there, or blessed there, when I look toward the blackened ruins of the dear and consecrated spot and with an aroused faith in a loving God, cry out: things move me.’ When I say that, I do not meau that we have no feeling about it. Instead of stand- ing here to-day in this brilliant auditorium, it would be more consonant with my fleelings to sit down among the ruins and weep at the words of David: “If I forget thee, O Jerusa- lem, lot my right hand forget her cunning.” Why, let me say to the strangers here to-day in explanation of the deep emotion of my flock, we had there in that building sixteen years of religious revival. I believe that a hundred thousand souls were born there They came from all parts of the earth and we shall never see them again until the books are opened. Why, sirs! our children were there baptized, and at those altars our young men and maidens took the marriage vow, and out of those gates we carried our dead When from the roof of my house last Sun- day morning at 3 o'clock I saw our church in flames, | said: “That is the last of the build- ing from which we buried our De Witt on that cold December day when it seemed all Brooklyn wept with my household’ And it was just as hard for you to give up your loved ones as for us to give up ours, Why, like the beautiful vines that still cover some of the fallen walls our affections are clambering all over the ruins, and I could kiss the ashes that mark the place where it once stood. Why, now that I think of it, 1 cannot think of it as an inanimate le, but as a soul, a mighty soul an indestructible soul. I am sure that majestic organ had a soul, for we have often heard it speak and sing and shout and wail, and when the soul of that organ entered heaven I think Handel, and Haydn, and Mozart, and Men delssohn, and Beethoven were at the gates to welcome it. So I do not use the words of my taxt in a heartless way, but in the sense that we must not and will not be diverted from our work by the appalling disasters which have befallen us. Wo will not turn aside one inch from our determination to do all we can for the present and everlasting happiness of all the people whom we may be able to meet “None of these things move me. None of these things move you.” When 1 looked out through the dismal rain from the roof of my house and saw the church crumbling brick by brick and timber by timber, I said to myself: '‘Does this mean that my work in Brooklyn is ended’ Does this terminate my association with this city, where | have been more than twenty years glad in all its prosperities, and sad in all its misfortunes™ And a still small voice came to me, a voioo that is no longer still or small but most emphatic and commanding, through ¢ of hand, and newspaper column, snd and letter, and contributions say- mg “Go forward” have made and I now make appeal to all Christendom to help us. Wa want all Chris- tendom to help, and I will acknowledge the receipt of every contribution, great or small, with my own band. We want to build larger and better. We want it a national church, in which people of all creeds and all uations may find a home. The contributions dy sept in make a small hearted church vrever impossible. Would not I be a sorry gpectacle for angels and men if, in a church built by Israslites and Catholics, as well as all the styles of people commonly called evan- ical, 1 should, instead of the sig! the ord God Almighty, raise a flutterin of small sectarianism? If we had three hundred thousand dollars we would put them all in one great monument to the mercy of God, People ask on all sides about what we shall bal I answer, it all depends on the contri- butions sent in from here and from the ends of the earth. I say now to all the Baptists, that we shall havein it a ba all Episco as her “None of #3 3 (SEL ‘ None of these ns, we shall have in our services ore at our communion table por- I say to the Catholics t and probably on the tower. say tot etho- dists, we mean to sing there like the voices of mighty thunderings. [say to all denomi- nations, we mean to pr a religion as wide as heaven and ns good as 4 have said we had A total loss. But there was ® that fact as typical that we are to be in communion with sll Christendom. I be ¢ in the communion of saints ™ I think, if all the Brooklyn firemen and all rance com should search among i £ i : | § i § f “1% EE: - hi RE § { te : i i Hk HL phan ike i i i a2 ik i f our Father and best Friend, and this thought gives us confidence. We are also reinforced by the increased consolation that comes from fraternity of sorrow. The people who, during the last six- toot yours, sat on the other side of the aisle, whose faces were familiar to you, but to whom you had never spoken—you greeted them this week with smiles and tears as you wld: Well, the old place is gone.” ou did not want to seam to ery, and so you swept tho sleave near the corner of the eye, and pretonded it was the sharp wind nade { your eyes weak. Ah! there was noth {ing the matter with your eyes; it | was your soul bubbling over. | it is impossible to sit for years around the | same church fireside and not have sympa | thies in common, Homebow you feel that | you would like those people on the other side of the aisle, about whom you know but little, { prospered and pardoned and blessed and | saved. You fool as if you were in the same | boat, and you want to glide up the same har | bor and want to disembark at the same wharf, conglome last Sabbaii's fire and finer natures, into one. It scens as if { we all had our hands on a wire connscted | with an eleciric battery. and when this whole circle, and we all felt the shock oldest man and the youngest child hands in this misfortune. Grandfather said: “1 expected from those altars to be buried.” and one of the children last Sabbath cried: “Grandpa, that place was next to our own hivuse y or, we are supported and fldent in this timo by the cross of Christ That is used to the fire Con. above, and the flames of hell dashed against it from beneath | ful, tender, blessad cross still stands. On it down all ous to ma Vithin sigist he has it hard? bol, who can be sins; the rest olf om of such a sacrifice, who can feel In the sight of such a sym. discouraged, waver great the darkness that may come « 1 upon him? Jesus lives! The loving, patient, sympathiz- ing, mighty Jesus! It shall not be told on earth. or in hell, or in heaven, that three He brew children had the Bon God beside them in the fire, and that a whole church was forsaken by the Lord when they through a furnace about two hundred feet wide, O Lord Jesus! shall take out of Thy hand the flowers and the fruits and the brightoess and the joys, and then turn away because Thou dost give us one cup of bitter- ness to drink? Oh, no, Jesus! we will drink it dry. But how it is changed! Blessed Jo sus, what hax Thou put into the cup to sweeten it? Why, it has become the wine of veaven, and our souls grow str I come yw, and place both of my feet into the blackensd ashes of our church, and 1 cry out with an exhilaration that I never felt since the day of my soul's emancipation, ‘Victory! victory! through our Lord Jesus Christ!” Your harps, ve trembling saints, Down from ihe willows take, Loud to the pralse of Jove divine Pid every string awake We are also re-enforced by the olicity that I have already referred to are In the Academy today, not because we have mo other place to go Last Sab bath morning at § o'clock we had but one church; now we have about thirty, all ur disposal. Their pastors and their trusteds say: “You may take our main yt, pilgrimage we Cath- We rooms, you may take our church pariors you may baptize iu our beptisteriés and «it on our ansions seats” Oh! if there be any larger hearted ministers or larger hearted where they are, that I may go and see them before I die il Pie keep wondering when it is coming. It has come. The lion and the lamb lie down together, andl the tiger eats straw like an ox I should lke to have seen two of the old time bigots, with their swords, fight ing through that great fire on Scher. merhorn street last Sablath I am sure the swords would have melted, and they who wielded them have learned war no more I can never say a word against any other de pomination of Christisnse. 1 thank God I ever have been tempted to do it. 1 cannot be a sectarian. I have been told | be. and I have tried to be, but 1 have not enough material in me to structure. Every time I got the thing most done, there comes a fire, or something else, and all is gone. The angels of God =b on this air, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on sarth peace, good will toward men.” 1 do not know but [ see on the horizon the firsi gleam of the morning which shall unite all denominations in ons organisation, dis tinguished only by the locality as in apostolic | times. It was then the Church of Thyatira, | and the Church of Thoesslonica, and the Church of Antioch, and the Chureh of Laodi- een. So I do not know but that in the future history, and not {ar off either, it may be sim- ply a distinetion of locality, and not of creed, as the Church of New York, the Church of Brooklyn, the Church of Boston, the Church America | My dear brethren, we cannot afford to be severely divided. Standing in front of the great want to put on the whols armor of God and march down in solid column, shoulder to shoulder ! one commander ! one triumph! The trumpet gives a martial strain © larael’ gird thee from Use Nght] Arise, the combat 16 malin iain; Arise, and put thy foes to Sight | We also feel reinforced by the thought | that we are on the way to a heaven that can | never burn down. | other cities—but [ am glad to know that the | New Jerusalem is fireproof. There will be | no engines rushing through those streets; | thers will be no temples consumed in that city Poming to the doors of that Church, we will find open, resonent with songs, and not cries of fire. and sister! if this short lane of life comes up so soon to that blessed place, what is the use of our wo ? I have felt a many times this last week like Father aylor, the sailor preacher. He | long sentence while he was preaching one | day, and lost himself, and 1 not find his way oat of the sentence. He stopped and said: ‘Brethren, I have lost the nominative of this sentence, and hinge are fonerally mixed up, but 1 am bound for the kingdom amy nd during this last week, when I saw the rushing to and fro and the excitement, I said to myself: “I do not know just where we shall start again but I am bound for the ¥ingdom anyhow.” [ do not want to § yet 1 want to be pastor of this until I am about eighty nine Joana age, bat I have sometimes thought that there are such glories ahead that I may be persuaded # little sarlior—for instance, at Sghty think that, it we God bas i EreERalit Etta E £ iy bave #et that light there in the window.” No: guess again, Jesus set it there; and Hoe will keep it burning until the day we put our fluger on the latch of the door and go In to be at home forever. Oh! when my sight gets black in death, put on my eyelids that sweet oint- ment. When in the last weariness I cannot take another step, {on help me put my foot on that doorsill,. When my ear pod no more the voices of wife and chiid, let me go right in, to have my deafness cured by the ie anthems of the freo, Hedven never burns down! The fires of the last day, that are already kindled in the fires will after a while break through the crust, and the plains, and the mountains and the seas will be consumed, and the flames will fling their long arms into the skies; but all the terrors of a burning world will do no more harm to that heavenly temple than the fires of the setting sun which kindle up the Oh, blessed land! But 1 do not want 0 go there until I ses the Brooklyn Tabernacle re- built. You say, “Will it be?” You might as well ask me if the sun will rise to-morrow its head, lands on You and I may not do two legs nor on a thousand legs How did the Israelites got through the Red I suppose somebody may have come and said There is no need of trying; you will get your feet wet, you will spoil your Jothes: vou will drown yourselves, Who How Did they K to the right? the loft? No the strength « did go they back? get No Did wont through Did they No they go to They forward in of the Lord Almighty; and that “0 Hea, “lt By going forward. But we should build a large: RYE SOE One church, would » fill it” Why, out for the last ur voloe t I have been wearing myself sixtosn years in tr gto Give me room wh i of Christ and the keep my voics in. can preach the glories grandsurs of heaven Forward! We have to march on, breaking down all bridges behind us, making impossible. Thr away your kn impedes your march. Keep your sword arm free. Strike for rist and | kingdom while you may {0 people ever had a better mission than you are sent on Prove your- retreat spsack if it selves worthy i 1 not fit wu be your leader, set me aside on earth that i & country parsonage amidst the Bat I am not afraid to lead a dollars; they are at your wd physical health; it is Ita sta. 1 have enthusiasm [ will not keep it back from your have some faith in God, and 1 toward the rebuilding of our } then. 1 will Is Come on, yo aged men, n Give us onem s¢ vet panenav aver lift before you go re harness all your bu is Ww = i 3 1 crate their porsuasiveness and persistence this causs, and they wil dictions for their dving b rewards: and if Satan really Tabarnacie down, as som he will find it the poorest w took Good-by, old Tabernacle i to my hips and throw church In the last ment the so there offered Good-by, old a kiss day, may we be able and the sermons there preached HAR where falt the Gospel peace, and heard the last message ers they flad away into the skies Good-by, Brookivn Tabernacle of 1873! walcomne our new chur i t as plain as though it gatos wider, ¥ your ingather: of the ashes an furst on our resurrection’ By vour a 'tars m pared for the hour when the fire SYery mar work of what sort it ©» some, Brooklyn Taberna cie of 1500 others wae gre £, 0 soul # bee pire ¥ Ww e —— THINGS WORTH KNOWING, Banana Culture, The ¢ dible banan Andaman i # 4 ¢ the may be, is universally grown from stickers Itivation in the West Indies has vastly FCT eas d daring the past fifteen years, owing to the demands of the United States for wholesome and luscious fruit. 400 or 500 trees are planted to the acre, and the plantations are called “banana walks.” ia cane-fisld, where the ground was most easily prepared for the new crop. experience and competition have anting, and the best place for a Fmana alk is now considered a valley The nd the expense of bananas, delivered at the sea cost, need have cost its owner no more than four or five cents, while it may be sold for four times as much. There are risks attending banana cultivation, however, for the thievish negroes often As soon as sun in its youth; and when the bananas cease to be profitable, which is at the end of three or four years, almon trees or other frui} trees are often set in their places, while a new “‘walk” is laid out elsewhere. Women's Life Insurance. 1 wonder how many people know that it is only within a short time, compara- tively speaking, that it has been pos- sible for any woman to have her life insured. And even now there are many companies who refuse to insure them, while other companies charge them a much higher roentage than they charge men. This seems strange, in view of the fact that the average age of women is longer than that of men. Statistics have proved this, so there can be no doubt of it. Men run more risks too than women. They are constantly going about on trains, travelling over the country, so that they are liable to all kinds of accidents, while a woman lives more quietly, runs fewer risks, and, in spite of her more delicate or ganization, lives longer. There is in this city a life insurance company com- posed entirely of women, which was or- ganized by women, for women, in order that they might obtain the same bene- fits that men do. Most women who work have some one dent npon them, and surely they feel the need of insuring their lives quite as much as men do. An insurance agent says it is quite a common th for women to have their lives insured. He attributes it to their increasing intelli- qengm Household Art. WRITTEN BY MARGARET PERCY, There is very little excuse in these days for bare and cheerless roomsin the homes of those who are above the con- dition of penury and wont. We shonld make our homes as attractive as our means will reasonably permit. The refining influence of an attractive home in beyond estimating. If more atten- tion was paid to this matter, there would be less of desire on the part of the boys and girls in many families to seek en- joymentand recreation away from home. There is an innate sense of the beauti- ful in the human breast, The humblest and even the most barbarian classes of mankind, are not insensible to the charm which attaches to beautiful objects Some ornamentation is needed to give an air of cosiness and cheeriness such as is seen and felt ina true home. Much may be done with simple means, and that, which there may be no money to buy, the hands of love can make, A bracket, however pretty, 14 render ed much prettier by a dainty scarf One may be made from a square China or pongee silk or from a silk handkerchief of a pretty pattern. Bew small silk tassels or balls across erent lengths a bow of ribbon, and drape the scarf over one corner of your bracket. This A very d id pretty cov ushion consists of a small silk, which is first sroidered witha desig i gn of primroses d buttercups, 3 in of soft, creamy pink Ty i linen erash which neLuarter of ply and Kn end, each Gost AS UC As « and vet you will ne vervh } ba abl i at A handsome box for holding OOdie is made thus, Take a round as gentlemen's collars come in, blue line with silk of a pale yellow tint, placing a layer of perfumed cotton un- lining, Cover and line A box for cuffs to match may be made in the same way, sclecting 8 somewhat deeper box than is nsed for the collars A novel and pretty catchall may be made of celluloid; cut a piece twelve inches square and line with pale pink surah silk. Now turn three corners to- edges together with pink silk cord through holes pierced for the purpose. som or a head of pink clover, suspending the eatchall. A very pretty ornament is made of pine cones, ent lengths, with a bow of broad ribbon making one long loop on which sew a thermometer. Hang in the hall. A palette, neatly covered with plush or velvet and hung to the wall with large bows of ribbon, is useful for dis- playing small photos and little orna- ments, A handsome sofa cushion made of eretonne with a large flowered design. Outline the largest leaves and flowers with gola tinsel cord, and work the centers in French knots A very useful article is a receptacle for soiled clothes. One may be made trom a common wooden pail, with a cover. Paint it white, blue or any color desired, and gild the ears, hoops and bail. Soap-Bubbles That Will Last. To make soap-bubbles that will last for several hours is easy enongh if the following liquid be used: Dissolve one pant by woight of Mar- seilles soap, cnt into thin slices, in fort parts of distilled water, and filter. Call the filtered liquid A, and mix two of pure glycerine with one part of the solution A, in a temperature of sixty- six” Fahr., and, after shaking them to- gether long and violently, leave them to rest for some days. A clear liquid will settle, with a turbid one above. The lower to be sucked out from be- neath the upper with a siphon, taking the utmost oare not to carry down aly of the latter to mix with the clear flu ¢ A bubble blown wh his or several even Or the mixed liquid, after twenty-four hours, may be filtered. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. BumpAy NOVEMBER 3, 1333, David's Rebellious Son. © Sam. 15: 1-12. Memory verses, 4, 6.3 LESB( IN PLAN. Toric or THE QUARTER ; and Adversily. Prosperity Gores Text vor Tue Quarter: As long as he sought the Lord, God made him to prosper.—2 Chron, 26: b. T.essox Toric The DBasenecss of Filial Ingratitude. 1. ft Exalt@ Self, vs 1.8 i 9 £ » % fh is LEssos OUTLINE: Z * Fosters‘ Deception, Parents, Gorpes Text: Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may Le long Exod. 20 : 12. Dany Home READINGS | AM. of filial ingratitude, T.—2 Sam. 14 }-20, Absalom in exile, Ww. 14 for Absalom T..2 Sam. 15 : 1B flicht before Absalom y . 16 : 1-14 A 5 . 1 28am. 15: 1-12 2 Bam, H Ey i JOLIN d. NALYSI T*ALTS SF i LESSON A + 173% i. Worldly Display : Absalom pre a PDAre onable Popularity: 1 DOWRY 1. IT POSTERS DECEPTION. i. A Hypocoritical Request Let and pay my wi Hebron (7 : He ATOR aid 1 (3 Hebe n Absalom sen 2 Sam me go yw in Bat 10 15; 9, 10 ¥ me, vi hy Hebron (2 Sam. 15 Why tempt (Matt, 22 By their and fair speech beguile (Rom. 16: 18) 11. A Spurious Piety: Then 1 will serve the Lord (8). Absalom sent for Aluthopel offered the sacrilices With their mouth and with their do honour me { 29: 13). With their mouth they shew much love (Ezek. 35: 3 ¥ pocrites? 18 \ $4 smooth they (2 Sam. 19 ravening wolves { Matt. 7: 15). 111. A Deceived Father: The king said unto him, Go in peace s0 he blessed him (Gen. 27: 23) Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces (Gen 87: 38). David said Lot us flee; for else none of us shail escape (2 Sam 15: 14). Deliver my soul, O Lord from a de- 1. “I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow.” (1) Absalom's appeal; (2) Absalom’s intent.—(1) The treach- erous son; (2) The indulgent father; (3) The hypocritical pretext. 9 “Then I will serve the Lord.” (1) The service promised; (2) The eon- dition fixed.—(1) Absalom’s prop- osition; (2) Jehovah's clemency; (3) Absalom’s deceit. 8 “Go in peace.” confidence; (2) The father's assent; (8) The father’s betrayal. 111. IT DISHONORS PARENTS. 1. Seizing His Father's Throne: Ye shall say, Absalom is king in Heb- ron (10). The Lord forbid .. seeing be is the Lorn’s annointed (1 Sam. 24: 6). Hushai said unto Absalom, God save the king (2 Sam. 16: 16). Touch not mine annointed ones (1 Chron. 16: 22). Honour the king (1 Pet, 2: 17). 11. Misleading His Father's Subjects: With Absalom went two hundred men 11). hon shalt not follow a multitude to do ovil (Exod. 23: 2). 1f sinners entice thee, consent thou not (Prov. 1: 10) : Walk not in the way of evil men (Prov. 4: 14). 1f the ind guide the bli both shall fall into a pit (Matt. 15: 14). ii. Perverting Hig Rather's Counay~ Absalom sent for Ahithophel.... pt {TT ! Sos oa se Set AN Tf Ahithophel 1s smong the conspirators with Absalom (2 Bam. 15; 81). O Lord... .turn the counsel of Ahitho- phel into foolishness (28am. 15: 31). Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed (2 Sam. 17: 25). Mine own familiar friend up his heel { Pana. 41; 93, 1. “Absalom is king of Hebron.” (1) The newly-chosen capital; (2) The newly-proclaimed king; The newly-developed tresson.-A wicked son: (2) A scheming politician; an ungodly usurper; (4) A doomed man, 2. “They were invited, and went in their simplicity.” (1) Allurement; (2) Bimplieity; (3) Transgression a. “The conspiracy Whe strong. {1 Against the Lord's sunointed: (2) For the base usurper; (3) With the pliant crowd. hath lifted i% 52 £53 aos A LESSON BIBLE READING, UNDUTIPUL CHILDREN, Know not God (1 Sam Obey not parents Tum. 3 : 1, 2). ’ Wy 2% - ‘urse parents (Prov. 3 10). iis arepro abidiz eA — BRRBOUNDINGES I Fire <AITANIOA 8 sroclaimed king in Hebr Ahithophel he cons onuger, and Absal s 1n number, OUNCE a NO ee Se ae A = + - 7 po ms OF INTEREST TO WOMEN. The Way to Pour Tea. There 3s to be learned about pouring tea and coffee than most peo- ple are willing to believe. If those de- made at the table, which is far the best way, they require experi ence, judgment and exactness. If they are brought on the table ready made, it still requires judgment so to apportion them that they shall prove suflicient in quantity for the family, and that the older members shall have the stronger cups. Often persons pour out tea, who, not being at all aware that the grows stronger as they proceed, bestow the poorest cup upon the greatest stranger, and give the stronger to a very young member of the family, who wonld be better without any. Where several cups of equal strength are want. ed, you shonld pour a little into each, and then go back, inverting the order as you fill them, and the strength will be apportioned properly. An earthen pot is by far the best for brewing: the tea may then be poured in- ton silver pot, if desired. Heat the pot and pour the water out before put- ting in the tea required, filling up at once with boiling water; set from the more coctions are ten - a The Feast of Roses. It is almost impossible fitly to de- scribe the beauty and splendor of the Princess of Wales appearance at the Feast of Roses in Regent's Park. Her victorin was covered, body, wheels, spokes, and tires, with yellow roses and yellow Marguerites. eo whip was a wand of yellow, and yellow Marguer- ites outlined every Arapof the harness, Both footman and man wore buft liveries with yellow aster cockades in their hats. Princess's dress was ot fawn-colored corded silk, bordered with velvet of n and gold, and ber bon. net was of golden gauge with a decors tion of suricula bloom. Behind her was a tambril of York and Lancaster roses, whieh 1n turn was followed by a go-cart of pink carnations drawn by two golden op batdes, and a rose boat on wheels with daisy oars manhed Dy Yny sailors with blouses covered with rag. ged sailor blossoms. Turner is no more n vie tude in this Whig og Th to flatter another,
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