REV. DR. TALMAGE. The Brookiyn Divine’s Sunday Sermon. Dictating a Sermon to His Many Readers as He Embarks for the Holy Land. Tha Rev. T. De Witt Talma his embarkation at New York Tor the Holy land, by the steamer City of Paris, ad- dressed his millions of friends through the press, taking for his text Acts xx, 38: “And the accompanied him unto the ship.” His sermon is printed below in full To the more than twenty-five million peo- ple in many countries to whom my sermons come week by week, in English tongue and by translation, through the kindness of the newspaner press, I address these words, I dictate them to a stenographer on the eve of my departure for the Holy Land, Palestine. When vou read this sermon I will be mid- Atiantie. 1 go to be gone a few weeks on a religious journes I go because I want for myself and hearers and readers to see Beth- lehem, and Nazareth, and Jerusalem, and Calvary, and all the other places connected with my Saviour'slife and death, and so re-en- force myself for sermons £0 because | am writing the ‘Life of Christ,” and can ba more accurate and graphic when 1 have been &n eye witness of the sacred places. Pray for my successful journeying and my safes return I wish on tho eve of departure to pronounce a loving benediction upon all my friends in high places and low, upon congregations to whom my sermons are read in absence of pastors, upon groups gathered out on the prairies, and in mining districts, upon all sick and invalid and aged ones who 10 attend churches, but to whom |} administered through 1 page next sermon will be addressed 10 1 Rome, Italy, for I feel like Paul whe said: “So, as much as in we is, I am ready to preach the Gospel to yoa that are Rome also.’ The fact is that Paul was ever mov- ing about of land or Sea. He was an old sallor—not from occupation, but from fre- quency of travel. I think he could have taken a vessel across the Mediterranean as well as some of the ship captains. The sail- ors never scoffed at him for being a ‘land inbber.” If Paul's advice had taken, the crew would never have gone ashore at Melita. When the vessel went seudding under bare po.es Pagl was the only self-possesse] man on board, and, turning to the excited crew and despairing passengers, he exclaims, in a voice that sounds above the thunder of the temivest and the wrath of good cheer.” The men who now go to sea with maps, and charis, and modern compass, warned by buoy and lighthouse, know nothing of the perils of ncient navigation. Horace said that the man who first ventured on the sea must have bad a heart bound with oak and triple brass. People then ventured only from headland to headland, and from island to island, and not until long after spread their sail for a voyage across the sea. Before starting, the weather was watched, and the | having hauled up on the shore, the mariners plac their shoulders against the stern of the shij fT—they, at the last moment, ge, D. D., on have the printe been th the sea: “Be of i vessel been and heaved it off leaping into it. Vessels were thea chiefly ships the transit of passengers being for the world was pot then migra our day, when the first desire of a man in one place seemns to be to got into another place. The ship from which Jonah was thrown overboard, and in which Paul was curried prisoner, went out chiefly with the idea of taking a cargo. As now, su then, vessels were accustomed to carry a flag. In those times it was inscribed with the name of a heathen deity. A vessel bound for Syra- cuse had on it the inscription, “Castor and Pollux.” Theships were provided with an- chore. Anchors were of two kinds—the that were dropped into the sea, and those that were thrown up on to the rocks to hold the vessel fast. This last kind was what Paul alluded to when he said “Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that with. in the vail” That was what the sailors call a ‘‘hook anchor The rocks and sand bars, shoals and headlands not being mapped out, vessels carried a plumb line. They would drop it and find the water fifty fath and drop it again and find it fo and drop it again and find it thir athoms, thus discovering their near approach to the shore in the spring, summer and autumn the Mediterranean Sea was white with the wings of ships, but at the first wintry blast they hied aly to the harbor: al though now the world's ree prospers im January as well as in and in nid. winter all over the wide and stormy deep are at palaces of light, trampling the billows under foot and showering the sparks o: terrible fornsces on the wild wind: and the Christian passenger, tippeted and stiawled, sits under the shelter of the smoke stack, looking off upon the phosphorescent deep, on which is written in scrolls of foam and fire: “Thy way, O God, iz in the sea, and Thy path in the great waters ™ tis in those days of early navigation that I 520 a group of men, women and children on the beach of the Mediterrzoean. Paul is about to leave the congregation to whom he had preached, and they are come down to seshimoff. It isa solemn thing to part There are 20 many traps that wait for a man's feet. The solid ground may break through, and the sea—how many dark mys teries it hides in its bosom! A few counsels, a hasty good-by, a last look, and the ropes rattle, and the sails are hoisted, and the planks are hauled in, and Paul isgone lex pect to sail over some of the same waters | over which Paul sailed, but before going 1 want to urge you all to embark for heaven. The church is the dry dock where souls are 10 be filled out for heaven. In making a ves. sel for this voyage, the first need is sound the timber. es floor timbers ought to be of solid stuff. For the want of it, vessels that looked able to run their jibboomas into the eye of any tempest, when caught ina storm have been crushed like a wafer. The truths of God's Word are what [ mean by floor timbers, Away with your lighter materials. Nothing but saks, hewn in the forest of divine truth, are stanch enough for this craft, You must have love for a helm, to guide and turn the craft. Neither pride, nor ame bition, nor avarice will do for a rudder. love, not only in the heart, but flashing in the aye and tingling tn the hand-—love mar. ried to work, which many look Shan as 80 homely a bride—love, not like brooks which foam and rattle yet do nothing, but love like & river that runs up the » of mill wheels aod works in the harness of factory bands love that will not pass by on the other side, bus visita the man who fell am Jets Jericho, not merely saying: ‘Poor fel. ow! good Samaritan, pours in pays his board at the tavern. There must also be a prow, arranged to cut and override the billow, That is Christian perseverance. There are threes mountain surges that rometimes dash against a soul in a minute tive world, the flesh and the devil—-and that is a woll built prow that esn bound over them. For lack of this, many have put back and never started again. It is the broadside g the except tory, as in wr a nearest wave the hatoites, but that w is harmisw., Meat troubles courageously and you surmount them. Stand on the prow; ; “None of t must © Know of bulry ran fun Ef i i : ¢ : 1 w anchor. y » Wh i AY Shissupos syle : : l sail and other canvas, Faith Is our canvas, Hoist it and the winds of heaven will drive vou ahead. Bails made out of any other can- vas than faith will be slit to tatters by the first northeaster, Btrong faith never lost a battle. It will erush foes, blast rocks, quench lightunings, thresh mountains, It isa shield to the warrior, a crank to the most ponderous wheel a lover to pry up pyramids, a drum whose beat gives strength to the step of the heavenly soldiery, and sails to waft ships laden with priceless pearls from the But you are not yot equipped. You must Without these the We have Unless you By pulling on these ropes you whither, The prow of courage will not cut One more arrangement and you will be You must have a compass «which is the Bible. Look at it every day, and always sail by it, as its needles points to- ward the Star of Bethlehem. Through fog and darkness and storm it works faithfully “Hox the compass.” Let me give you two or three rules for the voyage. Allow your appetites and passions only an under deck passage Do allow tham ever to come up on the promenade deck not Never allow your lower nature any- teerage passage Lat % a8 an armed sen wn with great promptooss g like a mutiny of riotous appetites, of the forecastie for odd Christians floating The frigid pro Steer clear of icebergs all the voyage-—an wWomany furlongs you make a ’ keeps a day book as ht to know every year, how things are watchfulness walk the dec tinel, and shoot d anything je sure to look o These 1 POR essors will sin i Keep a lo ring well as a ledg night as wall as going. When ti depot yo : the wi r rail train ound, as we than a oss sped towar ia great ef ought we not often to try the work of examination? Be sure to keep your colors up! tho England, Russia, Spain by the ensigns they carry. ships of are bound wristinn” be written on the very front, with a figure of a cross, a crown and a dove; and from the masthead let float the sire if Immanuel. Then the pirate vessels of temptation will pass you unharmed as they say: "There goes a Chris tian, bound for the port of heaven. We will aboard.” Run up y: ‘I am not ashame for it is the P God unt flag on this 1 ley of + Gospel « i the wisd Saliva i i r under great stro ® bird in all to make nest on the how | wish thatas I em Land in the East all to r tongue type would em- 1 all most nood is Some of you I are going have had a sickness or Light after light has y dark that vy Can ving left. May tha : idow of Nain, with His gent! sympathy wipe away your tears * When David X r i Prarsue i 14 Ow very bard {re in troubie. with you ith pov ¥, OF or bereavy wns fe dungeon wer gay eves There is 1 barn it. 1 had it their own nsejoss chesrful ple who have always The y are proud, dis unhappy. If you want £ go among th who have been pur I by fire After Rossini had rendered “William Tell” the five hundredth time, a company of musicians came under his window in Paris and sere naded him They put upon his brow a golden crown of laura] leaves But amidat all the applause and enthusiasm Rossini turned to a friend and said: “I would give all this brilliant soene for a few days of wouth and love.” Contrast the melancholy fooling of Rossini, who had everything that this world could give him, to the joyful ex. perience of Isaac Watts, whose misfortunes were innumerable, when he says; ¥ mitented, to find oo o the The Kill of Zion yiekls A thousand sacred sweets, efore we reach the heavenly fells Or walk the golden streets Then let cur songs shound, And every tear be dry; We're marching through Immanuel's ground To fairer worlds on high. It is prosperity that kills and trouble that saves While the lsraelites were on the march, amidst great privations and hard. shitps, they behaved well. After a while, they prayed for meat, and the sky darkened with a large flock of quails, and these quails fell in great multitudes all about them; and the Is raelites ate and ate, and stulfed themselves until they died. Oh! my friends it is not hardship, or trial, or starvation that injures but abundant supply. It is not the vulture of trouble that eats up the Christian's life; it is the quails! it is the quails! I cannot leave you until once more I con- fess my faith in the Saviour whom I have preached. He is my all in all } to the grace of God than most men. With this it tam verament, if T had gous over. board 1 would fave gone to the very depths, You know 1 can do nothing by halves, O to grace how great a deblor Dafly I'm constrained to be | 1 think all will be wall. Do not be worried about me. I know that my Redeemer livet and if any fatality should befall me, : | i srry to think that any one of my friends bad been as unworthy a Christian as myself, But God has helped » front many through, and I hope He will help me througn. It is a Jong account of shorteomings, but if He is going to rub any af it out, I think He will rab it all out. And now give us (for [ go not allows) your benediction. When you send letters to a via such a city, or via suca a steamer, you send you good wishos to ua send them via the of God. We shall not travel out of Sha reach of your prayers, Hers (aK eokna waisrs spirits dwell, Wars friend hols lnterootrse with friends Though son lersd (ar, by Iaith we meet Around one commIn Meney seal. bo lies and upon your souls, Aown your Dn and y t and Ll yolir fats ory and your Four triends! ousiness and in dil a Way! And aviow from the any of us way it oniy hasten by Him! 1 utter not the word farawell; 1t 1s too sad, too formal a word for me to ppuoak or write. But, considering that I have your hand tightly Slasped in both of mine, I utter a kind, an affectionate and a cheerful good. by! ————————— “Breathin' on the Stairs.” “Breathin’ on the stairs! That's what twas, You needn't tell me? I never had no higher eddicaticn, as you call it, but I never did no breathin on the stairs, neither, nor a host of redie’lous things that poor, misguided woman ust to do and think it was dretful smart; not that I've got a single word to say | agin her as is gone over into the king- | dom and the power and the glory, for { she was one of the saints of the airth if { there ever was one, for all she was sich nfool, I was goin’ to say, and I dunno { on the hull why I shouldn't, seein’ as its the blessed truth. and mebbe now she'll | git a better kind of higher eddication than she ever did in this world, and one that's better wath the name.’ | “I suppose I am stapid, Aunt Melin- fda,” I managed at last to get a chance | to say, “*but I've no more idea what" | “You know Mis' Chittenden died last | night, don't you?" “Yes.” “And left a husband and three ehild- i ren?” i “You “And the young ones are all a poor | lot, not a reel healthy one { that's breathin’ on the You needn't tell me! i oldest, she’ I We ak eyes | gittin’ lar old and | next one, and, well, 1 make of Be H, she's mother used years old 8 ne needn't tell and a = | eryin’ and a havin’ to be k | nine and Angeling wine, and what A nc the next one, her FINE Was Mary, she died; never had no strength to live | on, anyhow. And baby, of all the puny, pindlin babies I ever see, and it's all breathin’ on the sinirs, You needn't tell me “taint,” “‘But, Aunt Melinda,” ting a second ] to the mean by ‘breathin’ on the stal “Why, I s'posed you knew all that, seel was } to the Chit 5, but knowed M nden wonl tell no on hh a thing i nor do it among Stairs, I BAY, fourteen, she's and and sl ill hams d over, Jest like a reg Bess, that's the dunno DErvous, to say. Nervous 1 tate of 5 and wonk lungs, { i WOInan | her ! Twelve 843 his en’ upon qui- ’ Te clinnce te ¥en 18 LOW Yin in , ‘cept the time papers 0 could get en £8 a k ni partic straight to suit her, to ledge; and about my sartsin she was jest 80 every mortal, trig, and lookin’ «if she'd Some ont of a bandbox, and stoopin’ over that way 0 va in ber class at Culminate College; and 1've jest told her time and agin; I says to her, says I, ‘Mis’ Chit. ot of helpless babies,’ and it's becanse ishin’ body that they're sich a measley, mise ble set, without no lungs and eon. stitution, and when it’s too late 1 says to her, you'll think mebbe there's some thing better'n for a woman that's got a husband and three children to do for ‘em than make shiny stairs for 'em to be a-walkin® over her flesh and blood. You needn't tell me. And she'd jest mother taught her to be thorough, and she felt "sif her house was asort of trust, | and she said she must be faithful to it for the sake of her family, and the sor. vant couldn't doeverything, and I didn’t have no patience, for I knew the family needed something more than them shi- | ny stairs all iled, and you could most {wee your face in ‘em; and now she's | gone, and the fam'ly ean’t live on tie | stairs, and they won't shine much long- i er, anyhow, and you needn’t tell me. I | haint nothing on airth agin a woman | gittin' all the idees into her head she | possibly ean; the more the better; but | there's something besides the botiny | and the algebry and the scientifics and | painted teacups and shiny honsekeepin', { and they'd orter have some notion of ! their poor, Joist bodies asd those they bring inter the world, for they'd jorter know how to be wives before ghey ie them, and how to be mothers of : thy children, and how to be house keepers that don't give up all comfort {and length of days to r-atarched, done-up, pinned-down, parlor back, 4 breaking lace window curtains, and | black walnut stairs iled and polished | with three rags; and thea on till they're jest shiny enough to show the faces of them little orphans she's left behind her; and I know "twant nothing but what I’ve said to her time and time agin—breathin’ on them stairs. You needn't tell mef—c. pn. Le now, in Phre- nological Journal, ————— Show Your Hand, Edwin Ellis! I have been twenty years at the study of padmistry or chirognomy, and dur- ing that time have not been able to dis cover any philosophic reason for beliey ing that the lines of the hand and its | shape indicate character. The want of a connecting theory frequently causes | me to lose all hope and belief in the in- vestigation; but practice restores confi- i dence. even a few | hands every month for years together | without being driven to conclusion that they really do contain a guide to much that is to be found in the natureof their owners. As an actual fact, however, 1 find that the leading lines of the hand | are never eccentrically deformed, bro ken, or deficient in pers not some gaps queer characters, to long, clear, re i, i n sand ial tips and not best sort of nature ma In the case No one ean look at who have | places in their | If the lines are | or match it « 3, few in number, shown in a that has fingers 100 i ME Td the “rs 18 ney “1 1 i ented the * twice or even 13 § ine oj is calle wre, and om belo usually starts fin- ger When it is joined at the base to the curved line round the thamb an in- dependence of feeling, out of propor- will-strength o i the rest of the character, is {f the line called that of vases the hand wl, Bre ttie to seem 1 t-fingered pe discernment, in matters, indulgence to shallow weakness, patience with anger and folly, they are either entire ly nterested If large d blun pie show deli- cate self-nbne gFation uni or have al a price, Centurion his freedom. How When a student of the hand such qualities before them, volumes that have been written on the subject, and when he has also discover. at their predic ferent authors by gnessing ir adding up all the conflicting forces suggested by its balance of lines and segments that he can at once tell how | to classify the owner and what to expect of ham, yet the greatest of all difficulties will remain to be surmounted. This hard hill to elimb is nothing less than to describe a character in such terms | that the owner of the same must confess | his portrait, and say, “Yes, it is true; am like that.” — Universal Review, —_— LL . sin The Czar's New Tran, A new imperial train has just been built for the Emperor of Russia, The saloons are covered with iron outside, and then come eight inches of cork, instead of the steel plates with which the carri of the old train was pro- tected. All the saloons (which com- munionte by a covered passage) are exactly the same inontward appearance, so that no ontsider may be able to dis- cover in which oar the Czar ia traveling. During the Emperor's jous. ney last antamn he passed most of his time in a carriage which, from the ont- side, looks like a luggage van, London Truth, Lorrie disputes belore marriage are great ones after it; as northerly winds, which are warm in summer, blow keen and cold in winter. Hoyn men are contented and others are indolent, but it 1s frequently haed to tell whisk is which. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, BuspAay Novesnen 17, 1358 David's Last Words, LESSON TEXT. 2 Bam. 23 : 1-17. Memory verses, 0, 4 LESSON PLAN. Toric oF THE (QUARTER : and Adversity. Prosperity Gorpex Texr vou ine Quanter: A+ long as he sought the Lard, (God madi 2M + F 2 Chron, 2 D, Liesnox Tori Tu onaclalions of Dy ing Faith, fiod's Words ing Balers 00's Word ing Enemies He hath yrds Text: GoLbeN a tre - am. oo Dany Home BrADINGS © ESSON ANALYSIS, 8 WORDS BY 1 David's Words as Kin David, he man who 's Words as Psi } 2 . Davia 11. What Cood Rulers Are Like: He shall be as the light of the morn- th IE AE re { Prov + £5 judgmen # are as the mo light (Hos, 3 Lda 111. How Cod Treats Good Rulers : He hath made with me an everlasting covenant (D Thine house and thy kingdom made sure (2 Sam. 7 : 16) My covenant shall stand fast with him { Pua, 89 : 28) An covenant, gure mercies of David (Isa. 1 8). Then may also my covenant be broken with David (Jer. 33 : 21) 1. “He shall be as the light of the morning.” (1) He ililnminates; (2 He invigorates | (3) He comforts, “He hath made with me lasting covenant il) of the covenant: (2) The recipient Jeven Dr everlasting the covenant; (4) The the covenant. “It is nll my salvation, and all my desire.” Gods covenant (1) As a source of blessing; (2) As an object of desire, fi. GOD'S WORDE CONCERNING RENEMIRS, i. Equipped for Evil: The ungodly shall be all of them as thorns (6). They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent (Pea. 140 : 3), Their feet run to evil (Prov. 1 : 16). One sinner destroyeth much good (Eccl. 9:18). The poison of asps is under their lips -{Rom. 8 : 18). ii. Overcome by Power: The man that toncheth them must be armed with fron (7). The Lord shall have them in derision (Psa. 2:4) He secth that his day is coming (Psa. 37 : 18). He it is that shall tread down our ad- versarios {Pas 60 : 12), He came forth conquering. and to con- quer (Rev. 6 : 2). 111. Doomed to Destrustion: They shall be utterly burned with fire (7). The of the wicked shail perish Pe : 6). In smoke shall (Pun. 87 : 20). The chaff he will burn up (Matt, 3 ; 12). Whe shall suffer (2 Thess. 1 : 9). 1. “Ihe ungodly shall be all of them as thorns to be thrust away The ungodly (2) Intricsically harmful ; (2) Universally doomed 13 Full (2) Appointed to de- they consume awsy eternal destruction of virnlence; struction. “Armed with iron a spear.” (1) Man's equipment for extirpating thorns; i’ ] ment for extirpating rebels “They sliall be burned wi fire mw The end the wicked: (1 te o § $ ig comnictones i hy 1 and the staff of i dy 100 utterly plac It terriblens —-—-——— LESSON DING. BIBLE REA LANY Of Jacob (Gen Of Jos ph Hf Moses WORDE, 19 (3¢ in, f (Deut, 33 on —— LESSON SURROUNDINGS. prefix No sensib Lhe no called ““strong- i,” takin rd in its present and generally accepted definition. For, speaking, when a woman is “strong minded” it is meant that he is eccentric almost to insanity, re gardless of publie opinion, and that no one need be surprised at anything she Jed and Woman dJdes 8 0 3 : g the we HainG generally wmiied ® It nay be argued that the opinion of per- value. Very true it is of no for, truthfully speaking, a wo- man who is strong minded is not eccen- trie, nor regardless of public opinion, to do anything shocking. A strong minded woman is, first of a woman of sense; she has convie tions, and the courage to express them. she is clever, and nearly always talent; ed, If she does not comform to all the frivolities and small conventionalities of fashionable life, it is becanse ber mind make her life what she chooses to make it, the same right that men have had from time une memorial, She works for money if she wishes to do so, or for the love of work, and the refined, the cultured, the peo- sle of broad minds and liberal views of fire respect her and admire her. She is not the masculine woman, Heaven for bid! Rather should the masculine wo- man Le called weak minded, in that she has the weakness 10 be ashamed of be- ing a woman and to emulate a man in manner and dress — Mise Jalfrey in New York Star, In putting down if care is ex- ercised 1m thoroughly drying the floors beforehand, the moths will not be so liable to lother in the house, Maxy a man wearies his life out “tak. ing «ars of things” which are of no earthly use to him or his, “1 say, conductah, bow ¢ mes it that we've reached our destination half a mine late ¥** ‘ “Frout end of train's on time, Rear en's alius late,” Huis a fool that himeelf and he ia o madman a ill of
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