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~ REV. DR. TALMAGE.
dhe Brooklyn Divine’ Sune
day Sermon.
Subject: “Crooked Things.”
raight. "Isa, xl. 4
¢ Geometry, from the time it was discove
{overflow annually obliterated the landmarks,
{and the restoration of these landmarks made
Such a sciente necessary--I say otry
over since then has been busy with lines,
straight lines, curved lines, lines in angles
and cones and spheres, but has never been
‘able to evolve any beauty from a line that
was merely crooked. The circles and the
square was always considered admirable,
Isaiah Mecognizés the circla and says, “The
Word sits upon the circle of the earth.” The
altar of the ancient tabernacle was “four
square,” and the breast plate of the priests
Ep squara,” and heaven, according to St,
John, is “four square.” But the Bible
admiration for lines that arem
Indeed my text in prophesying
complete ] a
shall be n
here
tion decle
quakes that:
rit
Opposite
equal.
than in th
financial
aCguis
gverbearing,
their million
ing an
affluent, bu
glad th
Much
world w
them, Wi
while they
ploy te
them ar
built gre
bridge tl
the th
in wh i
orn their
endowed
braris
crippled
for ther
IMUSIC
Or a steamoos
Who put the
yond wi
In eo
sum
18
od thin
The 1
it somes bh
y Net
oben r
MTs
by tox
the ro
pu’ the
I
n°
‘ . bY ol
el pl og MRE ing TOR nto ln
a whe has amassed
und a surplus wil! sa There is
erchant without any capital: I will
rn on Fulton street.” and here is
unschanic who has no means of |
nd I will put hun on a career of pros
ty" and “There Is a farmer with too
& mortgage on his land, and I will ther
w eucuubragce.” The fact is that i
be sindliness and generosity manifested |
yi syed men ard the struggls ~ during
vt fifty y increases in the sae ratio
or the vext fifty years there will be a condi
ion of society paradisiac We are going to
bay» « multiplication of William E. Dodges
sand Peter Coopers and James Lenoxes and
George Peabodys. So will come redistribu-
tion, and the crooked will be made straight.
Mind this: (God never yot undertook a fail’
ure. The old book, which is worth all other
books put together, makes it plain that God
has undertaken to regulats this world by
gospel influences, and if He has the power Ho
will do what He says He will, and no one
who amounts to anything will deny His
§orwen God bas said a hundred times “1
will” but never once bas said “I cannot™
We may with our tack hammers pound away
trying wo mend and improve and straighte:
the financial condition of the warld, and 1»
disappsinted in the resul!. because our arm
is too weak and the hammer we wield too
siall: but the most deflant difficulty wil
flatten and disappear when God with a bam.
mer made of summer thunderbolts strikes
it, saying, “The crooked shall be made
strad ht
In your business concerns there are influ
ences perplexing. Your affairs may seem
all right to outsiders, for business firms do
not advertise their private troubles; but
where one firma has Vaby teing Just as it
wants it there are a hundred firms ab thelr
wits’ end what to do with that partner wher
draws more than his share of the on
with shat stockholder who comes in just
enough to w thi or with that disap.
yearence of La which you cannot account
or, although you have suspicions you can.
not mention; or with that investonens which
cr a Tea a
Shuss thers Was 6 push
Huong or because you are going
mon month, without any
ox The trouble is putting a wrinkle
on your fotehead that ought not to
there for ten years yet, and you will be
years old when you t to be only thirty,
or sixty when yououzht to be only ay
seventy when you ought to be only \
Stop worrying: either by the dissolation of
Ir matters you will
be ely it you put your
commercial houses fail the suspen.
sion is advertised, but of the tens of thous
of men who are fay extrieated ne
is y was Sat.
nd, “Tarrant tha a he stores,
rooms
for The trast of every city God ape
3 when with
19
OW
bier
AE
rh coed Lye Son th they
I never asked God to do anviitog bu,
He did it, If it were best, and In all the cases
where my prayer has not been answered |
have found out afterward that it was best
pot to have been answered in my way. But
one of us has tested the full power of pray-
. Tt is a force very like some of the forces
pf nature that were in existence but not em-
ployed. For ages electiicity wa: thought
good for nothing but to burn barns and kill
people with one fell stroke. The lightnin
rod on thetopof houses was the spear with
which the world charged on the thunder.
storus, as much as to say: “If you dare to
poms» this way 1 will hurl you into the
groumd.” But now electricity lightens
homes and churches and cities and Christen-
mam who mentions anything as {impossible
Yo this natural energy.
Ho the power of
rather a frightful if is
power, was
it will be used in all
, and there will be a
fr
Ww
1
1 the qu
setinn
Wi he w vowed in that prayer
WAS A st the door, and a map
your paint
the
1 and sai
‘Ang
tha
Has it been
Wm Ie
ted:
gh?”
more
ur hun
ware
i
is
Yours ago an evan
mt-door meeting
Ae Many thou
‘ i open air, and
heavy storm clouds began to gather. There
wore no shelter to which the multitude could
ret~emt. The rain had already reached the
niug fields when John Easter eried out,
“Brethren, be still while I call upon God &
stay the storm till the Gospel is preached
this multitude.” Then he knelt and prayed
that the audience might be spared from the
rain, and that after they had gone to theit
homes thers might come refreshing showers,
Behold, the clouds parted as thoy came near
and passed to sither side of the crowd and
then closed again, leaving the place dry
where the audience had assembled, and the
next day the postponed showers came upon
the ground that had been the day before
omitted.
Do you say it only happened so? 1 cannon
soe what you keet for
the
wi jo
rour Bibles and the
God sou worship 1s not my God. Your Go
is an autocrat snd he is so far off and «
far up that the world cannot touch him. and
hia throne is an «tf eraal jcelw My God is
a father, here and now, an father will
ive his child what be asks
fn to have it. Fray about everything that
concerns you, secularitios as well as spiritual
jtien. Take to Oud all your annoyances and
perplexities. The crooked shall made
straight. Some people talk as though God
comtrolled things in general but not
ticular: that He started evervthing under
certain laws and then let it take care of it
salf, as an engineer might start his lsoomo
tive on an fron railroad track and then jugp
off. What would happen to such a locoilio
or
1
wry
i
to our world If God had started it and alter
ward allowed it to look out for itself
dence. It is a particular providence
has no general care for a forest,
of every cullof every leaf and root in that
forest. God has no general care of the ocean,
It is a care of every drop of water in the
mitude. God no general care
the human race. It ls a care of every in
and North and South Carolina and Virginia
and Pennsylvania, and I have shaken han
with tens of thousands of people and talke
with men of all sections and degrees, and I
have to tell you it is all peace, and in all the
States of the Union you could not now mar.
shall a military company of ons hundred sol-
diers to fight against the United States Gov-
ernm mt unless you got your men out of the
peniténtiary. Di
politioal partie do this work of rectification
and pacification? No! It was by divine in-
straight,
On the 24 of December, 1851, Louis Na
poleon Bonaparte rode down the Champs
Elysee of Paris, and under the hoofs of his
horse a republic was trampled as the rier
went to take g throne t was the outre _»
of the century. For nineteen long years the
wrong triumphed. The will .! one man
who wanted to remain Emperor kept down
But Sep-
tember, 1870, arrived, and Sedan unrolled its
crimson scroll, The Emperor surrenders
with 83,000 troops, 419 fleld guns, 6000
rses and 00,000 muskets From that day
he ballot box was up and the throne was
lown., Free institutions ha sti
tad for an infamous mon Thank
{| The crooked has been 1 6 straight,
1¥ 20 80 far to find { ment of my
are croozed
go and
rch v
In many adomestic
and somo
ries
Hs
bwin
wrch
teain
and
y hoon
# been
xy Ww
er to hav
t in sentiment, 1 norta pole
y pole n
Cuno
finan
will
nade straight .
But to those wy sil
are v % the same
thought comes ia good cheer Not long
separated! Tradition says that two bells
were molded and sent from Spain for a dis
tant land to chime in a church tower, But
while in a storm at ses
¥ united
nee hing
mrated
on aria tut
ne of these bells was
wrecked and only one reached the shore asd
was hung in the church tower And some
people thought that, when standing the
for worship
of in a wedding peal they could « the same
time bear from the sea the lost bell ringing
as if in response. Some of our friends —
kindred have crossed the stormy sea and are
in & per of God on high But we are
gtill in Jie tempest, and sotetimes the surges
beat over us but our souls are still in accord
with those who are gone, and they ring down
to as and we ring up to them, and there ia
sympathy baiween us that cannot die
THOR" says some one, crook in my
lot you have not mentioned, and 1 #4 clear
outs®e of all the consolations you have
offered.” Well, [ will take alter you with
Gospel comfort and reach you before | close
Do you think your wound is so deep the Di-
vine Surgeon cannot treat it? Hav: youa
trouble that svermastors God? Is your an-
noyanoce of such nature that you must sup-
pross i6? Ah that is what is killing you.
rouble must be told, or it stings to deat’) the
one who carries it. If there is no man or
woman that you can trust with the secret
you oan trast God.
Him all about it. Lock your door and tell
Him aloud, and if you do not get relief you
will be the first soul
ars of the world's existoncs and the only
on
$5
“the
maf race, who ever called on God for
brooding and commence praying.
1 bless my God in that, while there are
make them straighter. Divine help comes
straight t~ thoss who will have i, She angels
of mercy fly straight when shat a
rescues, The hour of your fi deliverance
a a arn hud of
the carpenter puts ruleon a
timber! wd whh bis a0 bows morn develo
i and irregular
wo when dod the last great Sy
down His unfailing measuring role
that event which seetned the most twisted fn
our lives or in the world, it will be found
that the last
om sso. 4
A Canine Birthday Party,
A canine party doesn’t begin to cost
ns mu. 658 6 lady's afternoon recep.
tion, wh is ever so much jollier,
Wi ited terrier has a birthday,
eh 1 il out to every lady cn his
“iting list who keeps a
wr ber heart for a favorite
;o, and the replies are
te dog's name Gifts are
whether the invitation is
or regretted. If doggie
i any maid, or if he is too
Ch be trusted to strange "ands
accompanies him to the
La person.
og ago Mrs,
York,
wn the
ii 3
che
LGR or
£ Ah
[erative
'
wiamma’’
NO Eugene Clark, of
whose douse have never
{ prize,
will serve ag a model
I'he host,
born in
Hnire, w
irable
months to com
HH EON
most sagacious little anima
if far HAWAaY Japanese 18
in receiving his «¢ i
1tkes on the Ege Shells,
al i ®
the British
next apPeared at St,
ame
3 »
Minister.
Petersburg,
£1 mpion,
then
at Constantinople. Finally he became a
jo st and member of Parliament
fou Southampton,
rnagl
Some of the Yanderbilts,
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt walks
ever in a lane of bowing heads. Tobe
sure she stands for a fortune of & hun-
lions more in the family behind her,
all this she
Ree her moving
jut above and bevond
charming personally.
with a cordial greeting for every one.
She #3 small of figure, though dignified
withal.
fail of
charmingly.
expression. She dresses
Vanderbilt. She is taller and heavier,
She dresses rather
Vanderbilt.
necklace of
Among her jewels is a
magnificent diamonds
A similar vecklace
was among the wedding presents of
of Wales, but
neither royalty nor American billion-
airesses, can buy such baubles reckless.
ly, for the waste incurred in simply
as to string
them represents a handsome fortune,
mei —————
Well Paid Evangelists,
“The pay evangelists,” says Evan.
bered how exhausting and responsible
their work is. 1 mean the ordinary
evangelist—the man who fs without a
National reputation. Ihave preached
in a Missourl town for a week and
crowded the church four times a day,
receiving only $60 at the end of my
work. Of vourse, the evangelists
whose fame is spread over the whole
Sountry Hake ) more Hegey than this,
ut even r pay is nothing like
what it is made by extravag popu
lar stories. Rate, ant preach.
er, is Always in demand, and
#10 a day for his services, w he
18 worth Abont $00,000, Moohy mak
is abont $60,000.
PAPEL Ta WR ¥
much better than
SUNDAY #CHOOL LESSON.
BUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1800.
Parabel of the Vineyard,
weap
LESSON TEXT.
(Luke 20 : 9.19. Memory verses: 13.16.
LESSON PLAN,
Torro ov AR QUARTER:
Saviour of Men,
Jesus the
Gomoex Texr von Tar QuaAnrTER:
Though he were a Non, yet learned he
obedeince by the things which lh suf-
Jered, —Heh, b : 8,
Liessox Tovic: The Son's Mission
Reject.
Servants,
ESSON BIBLE READING.
REJECTED BERVAN1T
« The
Amn
out (9.
He planted it with the choice
(Isa. 5 : 2).
et a hedge
tower { Matt "
Digged a pit 1 r the wineg
let it out (Mark 12 : 1
I am the vine,
(John 15 : 5
ment:
Owner's Arrangen
fed 8 vind
G1 Ian
Bil Pall
Yard, and
about it,
91
“l
ITORS,
are the branches
il. The Sarvants’ Errand:
Heo sent that they should give him
fruit (10
hear
I 1 ¥
him ( Mat fa
This Son,
him ke 3: 30)
Freely bestowed on us in the
i (Eph. 1:6),
{1L. The Wicked Plot:
| Let as kill him (14).
{ The rulers take counsel
against the Lord (Psa. 2: 2
{ That they might take Jesus by subtil-
ity, and kill him (Matt. 26: 4).
| Go hence: for Herod would faih kill
thee (Luke 13: 31)
t
i
hear
iB ny
Beloved
together,
him to death (John 11: 53).
il. The Cruel Murder:
| They cast lum forth,
him (15).
They took him,
(Matt, 21: 39),
| There they erucified him (Luke 23: 33).
| Ye by the hand of lawless men did
crucify and slay (Acts 2: 93).
| Jesus, whom
| a tree (Acts b: 2M,
1 “I will send my beloved son.” (1)
A serious emergency: (2) A hope-
ful expedient; (3) A sad failure, —
(1) God’s claim; (2) Man's refusal
(3) Christ's intercession.
and killed him
(2) What men plot against Jesus, —
(1) Recognition; (2) Cons iracy.
8, “They cast him forth, and
killed him.” Jesus (1) Without
the city; (2) On the cross; (3) In
the tomb.
ill. THE DESERVED PENALTY.
I. Destroyed:
He will come and destroy these hus
bandmen (16).
All the wicked will he destroy (Pea.
145: 20).
Fear him which is able to destroy both
eoul and body (Matt, 10: 28),
He will miserably destroy those miser-
ae men (as pa a
¢ sent arm ostroyed
those murderers (Matt. 22: 7),
IL. Disinherited:
He... will give the vineyard unto
wither hv
others (16). o
vineyard un
They that ¢ i iy
He _.. wll let out
Ni sans
Shai:
the
111, Soptterea: 4 5
3
5
!
i
i
:
!
!
3
:
Make them like the whirling dust (Pes.
83; 12).
.... brake tiem in pieces (Dan
2:8
As the chaff thet is driven with the
whirlwind (Hos. 13: 8).
1. “He will come and roy these
husbandmen,” (1) Certainty of
the Lord's coming; (2) Purposes of
the Lord's coming; (3) Fenaltier
at the Lord's coming.
2. ‘The same was made the head of
the corner.” (1) The stone reject-
ed; (2) The stone oxalted 1 in
disfavor with th» worldling; (2) Ip
honor with God.
8. ‘They feared the jeople.” (1)
Jesus’ popularity witl, the masses;
The rulers’ apprehension of the
tnnsses, —( 1) Jesus Likes: (2) The
people feared,
ANALYSIS
(2
“J
WESSON
TEY REJECTION OF Justus
da pr
J: Mark 11
long series
u ers cl
the parable
25-32). Th
temple at Jerusalem,
wrt of the Israelites;
must be placed in the
A
Napt'al Multiple of Three.
& 5 sed ex
WIVES a 1
imporiance
} i 8 nag
in private Ii i imited by
his lity support
them, but the number of wives which
the King may have is limited by
modest number of 3,338,
be usually does not
far exceed this limit.
Atany rate, be must have more wives
than any of his subjects, or his respes fa
bility will suffer. 1 was told by thd
American consular agent at wa
that the present king actually has th
wives, and
ife may have is |
.
t
ab 0 purchase and
AW we
that he has 600 chil-
ad eta)
All the king has to do to geta wife
is to choose any female he pleases, no
matter how young she may be. Girls
are often cho‘en when less than ten
years old, and in such cases they are
left with their mothers until of mature
age, at which time they are taken te
join the rest of the 3,858.
No man is ever allowed to see any
of the king's wives, and should he even
is death. These wives, during the
working season attend to the King's
plantations, hut the rest of the time
they live at Coomsie, the Ashantee
Elr eels.
When they go out for a walk ins
body, as is =fian the cas. they are
preceded by a number of ennuchs, who
herald their coming, that all men may
disappear and avoid looking upon
them. When this is impossible they
must fall upon their faces to the
ground.
If a white man happens to be there,
and understands not the law, the
eunuchs turn his face away from the
advancing women.
A Dog's Wonderful Instinet,
About four weeks ago Bill Webb, of
Iron Mountain, traded his bulidog
Jack for an irish setter belonging to
Prof. Williams, a travelling showman,
Williams took Jack with him to St.
Panl, Minn, This morning