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;
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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
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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!
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“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-
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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,
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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
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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
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terriblens
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LESSON DING.
BIBLE REA
LANY
Of Jacob (Gen
Of Jos ph
Hf Moses
WORDE,
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(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