REY. Dh. TALMAGES SERMON Ihe Brooklyn Divire's Sunday Sermon. Bahjact © Christiamty " rid Witnes<es to the Truth {Preached at High ge, Ky.) Texr: “Wa ares witnesshs "Ads 11, 15% Standieg amid tha bills and groves of Kone faoky, aod Dafare this great multitude that no man oan number, moet of whom never Baw belote and never will sen again in this Jwor'd, I shoose a very practical theme, (n The days of George Stephenson, the perfactor of socomotive eugine, the esclengists grooved conclusively that a ratiroad train would never be driven by steam power sauce orms{ully wit! peril; but the rushing ex- proms trains from Liverpool © Edinburgh, and from Edinburgh to London, have mada all the nstion witnesses of the splendid achievement Machinists and navigators proved conch glvely that a steamer could never cross tas Atlantic, but no sooner had they suocessd fally proved the impossibility of such an ua« dertaking than the work was done, and the passengers on the Canard, and the Loman and the National, and the White Star Hay ara witnesses. There went up a guffaw o wise laughter at Frofess lorse’s proposi- tion to make the lightning of heaven his er< rand boy, and it was proved conclusively that the thing could never be done: but now! all the news of the wide world put in your hands every morning and night nas made alll nations witnesses go in the time © Pbusively that was | tse from the dead nat when a man ws ibe heart, and the Ing ceased to perfo the at Wr ipossible for It was shown dead hewas dead a and the lungs hav weir offices, the limbs would be r nd all power of friction; or arousal. They showed it to an ahso lute absurdity that the dead Christ should ever get up alive; but no had they proved this than the dead Christ arose, and beheld Him, heard His voice, | ith Him, and they took the wit. ness stand to prove that to be true which the Wiseacres of the v had proved to be impos. gible: the rec { the experiment and of the testim in the text: “Him hath God raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses.” Now let me 1 logics rid hes be t soonar ny is ny is oe » skeptic for a moment. hare is no vs the skeptic, “for I ba ve never sean with my physical eye- sight. Your Bible is a pack of contra tions. There nev sam Lazarus was not raised fr and the water ar religion heages” that p Herears an youd al 1 Re “a little flus at Il thr bristianity g out, this world t be through a ony. You with apologies for Christianity and learned treatises in defense’ of religion—you would not convert a soul Lacturs the harmony between science and religion are beautiful mental disc ine, but have never saved a soul and never will save a soul, Puta man of the world and a man of the church against each other, and the man of the world will, in all probability, get the triumph. There are a thousand t our religion that seem illogical t& cover the wh on ® things in the workl, and alwavrs will seem illogical, Our weapon in this conflict is fa‘th, not loge; faith, metaphysi faith, nog ofundity; faith, not scholastic exploration, ut then, in order have faith we bays testimony, and If five hundred men. o one thousand man, or five hundred thousand men, or five milli up and tell me thas they hav the i of Jesus Christ a joy, a comfort, a help, an Inepira- tion, I am bound, as a fair-minded man. to gcompt their testimony. I want to put bee fors you three propositions the truth of which I think this audience will attest wit overwhelming unanimity. The first propo- sition is: We are witnesses that the religion of Christ ir able to convert asoul, The Gos pel may have had a hard time to conquer us, we may have fought it back, we Ware vasquished. You say conversion is only an imaginary J } thing We know better. “Wes sre witnesses” There ney great a change in not os: to but was: » ur beart and lifeon any other subject as on this People la vd at the missionaries in Mad. agasear be they preached ten yearw withont one ¢ ut t Are many thousands r Madagascar to- day. Peoples laughed Dr. Judson, the Baptist missionary, he kept on preaching in Burmah five years without a single convert: but there are MAD sands of Baptista i ah to-day langhed at Dr. } China for pre: ing there seven ut a single can- vargion; but there are many thousands of fet in China to-day. People laughed at the m unaries for preaching at Tahiti for fiftesn years without a single conversion, and at the missionaries for preaching in Ben. gal seventeen years without a single conver. sion; yet in all those lands there are muiti- tudes of Christians to-day. But why go so far to find evidences of the Gospels power to save a soul? “We are wit. nesses.” We ware so proud that no man could have humbled us; we were so hard that no earthly power could have malted us, Angels of God were all around about us; they oould not overcome us; but one day, perhaps at a Methodist anxious ssat or at a Presby- tarian catechetical lecture or at a burial or on horseback, a power seized us and made as et down and made us tremble and made us neel and made us ory for mercy, and wa tried to wrench ourselves away from the grasp, but we could not. It flung us fat, and when we arose we were as much changed as Gourgls, the heathen, who went into a prayer meeting with a dagger and a gun, to disturb the meeting and destroy it, but the next day was found crying: "Oh, my grout sins! Oh, my great Saviour” and for eloven years preached the Gospel of Christ to his fellow mountaineers, the last words on his dying lips being "Free grace” Oh, it was free grace! There is a man who was for ten years a hard drinker. The dreadful appetite had sant down ita roots around the palate and the tongue, and on down until they were interlinked with the vitals of the body, mind and soul, but he has not taken any stimo- lants for two years. What did that? Not temperance societies. Not prohibition laws, Not moral suasion. Conversion did it, “Why.” said one upon whom the great change had come, "sir, I feel Inst as thongh I wers somebody else.” There is a sen cap tain who swore all the way from New York to Havana, and from Havana to San Fran. oleeo, and when he was in port he was worsa than when he was on sea. What power was it that washed his tongue clean of pro fanities and made him a psalm singer? Cone version by the Holy Spirit. There are thou. sands of people here to-day who are no more what they once were than a water lily is a mightshade, or a morning lark is a vulture, or day is night. Now, if | should demand that all those peaple here present who have felt the con verting power of religion should rise, so far from being ashamed they would spring to their feet with far more wity than y ever sprang to the dance, the tears mingling with their exhilaration as they sried, “Wa are witheses™ And if they tried to Fe a are second line: Ashamod of Jesus, that dear friend $n vatm mi hopos of havin we i hers because Nol When be this my That | no more revers His name. J remark that “ws are of 's power to comfort. ‘than has the world ays: “Pow get your titad off and breathe the frost air; plunge deeper In. » business.” What poor advices! és your { with tha bereavement, and everything re- minds vou of what vou have lost, Get your mint off it! They might as well alviss vou ta stop thinking, and you eannot stop think. Ing in that direction, Take a walk m the fresh air! Way, along that very stroes, that very road, ance accompanisd you. Out of that grass plot she plucked flowars, or into that show window she | naded, saying, '‘Come, ses the pictures.” Go { deeper fuse business! Why, she was asso- ciated with all yo business ambitions, and wip On, this is a clumsy world when it tries to comfort a broken heart! I can balld a Corliss engine, T ean Raphael's “Madonna,” [ can play a ven's symohony as easily as this vomfort a broken heart. And yet you have been comforted. How was it done? Christ come to you and say: “Get your miad off this. Go out and breathe the fresh sir, Plunge deeper into business? No, There was ¢ minute when He came to you—per: haps in the watches of the night, perbaps in your place of business, perhaps along the | street —and He breathed something into yeur soul that gave peace, rest, Infinite quiet, so int a the darkness of thy soul canst thon see bright light beaming on thee! “Whore w ean I find 87" Look v the line of the Crom of the Rog of Do you not see it trembling with ail tenderness and beaming with all hope, I$ is the Bitar of Bethlehem. Deep horror then my vitals frome, Deatbwirnck | cessed the tide to stem, When suddenly & star arose IL waa the Sar of Dethiobew Oh, hearers, got your eye on it. It is casier for you now to become Christians than it iy to stay away Irom Christ and heaven, When the departed one and look into the eyssand the face of the dear one and say: “It is all ht. She Is better off. [I would not eail wer back, Lord, I thank Thee that Thou has somforted my poor heart.” There are Christian parents here who ars willing to testily to the power of this Gospel to comfort. Your son had just graduated from school or ¢ aud was rusiness, and the Lord took him, Or your inughter had t graduated from the young adies’ seminary, and you thought going to be a useiul woman and of long life, sat the Lord took her, and you were temgtad © say, ‘‘All this culture of twinty yrars for wthingl® Or little child came homs irom school with the hot fever that stoppea aot for the agonizad prayer or for the sil’ - . and the little child was taken lifted out of your arms by ¢, and you stood wonder. gave you that child at all o take it away. And yot ng, you are not fretial you are no. fighting against God. Wha abled you to stand all the trial? “Oh,” you say, “I took the medicine that p In my distress I rig Hao niege sho ti tua some quick eg ing woy God if 80 soon He was you are not repi aver hie sod EAave 1 *k soul, shrew myself at the feet of a sympathizsing aod; and when I was too weak to pray or to ook up He breat into me a peace that I must be foretaste of that heaven wither a tear nor a farewell Come, all yo who have been re to weap there—come, vil ve st up off your knees, Ia Gospal 0 soothe the denrt? wer in this religion to juiet the wor roxysm Thers I ANS from comforted widow. wod and orphanage and childlessness, say- ng, “Ay, ay, we are witness Again, 1 remark that of the fact that religion has power to give somposures in the last moment. [ shall sever forgot the first time 1 confronted feath. We went across the cornfields in the wuntry, I was led my father's hand, house where the be- wo saw the crowd X thera was ous mrTing ; v attracted my boyish \ttention, and it had black plumes. 1 said: “What's that? what's that? Why those Slack tassels at the top?” And after it was plained to me I was lifted up to look upon he bright face of an aged Christian woman, who three days before had departed in tri- mph. The whole scons made an impression { never forge In our serm ve are very apt, wi Sink mus somfo there no of griel? W0mes 7 we are witnomes is and our lay exhortations when we want to bring il. nstrations of dying triumph, to go back Ww yme distinguished personage—to a John Lnox or a Harriet Newell. Bus I want you or witnesses, [| want to know ff you have wer seen auvthing to make vou belisve that he religion of Christ can give compuesurs In he final Now, in the courts, attorney, ury and judge will nover admit mers here ay. They demand that the witness mast lave sean with Wn eves heard with ywn ears, and so | am eritical in my ox wn of you now, and I want to know or heard anything at the religion of tha final hoar, saw my father and wt differ. eg by the the other, re the one the othasr ~ go aloag t w i nis or iis uninatd fer] act? Were i they take both hands as though iva it up? “Oh, oo” iher #s though it were tostarday: tus all ind there wers a few mameantoas distributad hildren, and then she told gs bow t be to our father in his lonell she kissed ns goodby and went na oradie” What made urage? mong th tind we nm tame, and then sleep asa child § war so composed? Natural « "No," you say: “mother was very nerv. ms: when the carriage inclined to the side if the road would ery out; she was dways father weakly.” What gave her wmposure? Was it becanse she did not eare nuch for you, and the pang of parting was wt great? "OL" you say, “she showered tpon us a wealth of affection; no mother wer loved her children more than mother ved us; she showed it by the way she pursed us when we were sick, and she toiled lor us until her strength gave out” What, then, was it that gave her com ars in the mst hour? Do not hide it » frank and Bt me know. "Oh" you say. "it waa be. muse shoe was so good: she made the Lord ber portion, and she had faith that she would go straight to glory, and that we thoald all meet her at last at the foot of the trons.” Here are people whe say, “I saw a Chris tian brother die, and he trinmphed.” And wre one else, I saw a Christian sister dia, snd she triumphed.” Bome one elses will say, “l saw a Christian daughter die, and irinmphed.” Come, all yo who have ssen the last moment of a Christian, and give tes Hmony in this cause on trial. Uzosover your heads, put your hands on the old family Bible, In which they used tv read ths promises, and promise in the p of »'gh hoaven that you will tell the truth, the waunle truth and nothing but the truth, With what you have seen with your own syes and what you have heard with your wn ears, is thers power in this Gospel to give caloinese and triumph in the lest exig- mey? The response comes from all sides, from young and old and middie aged, “We are witnesses I” You see, my friends, I have not put before ou any abstraction or a chimeras, or ye ing like guess work. I present you affida. vits of the best men and women, living and | fend, Two witnesses in court will establish Afact. Here ars not two witnesses, but millions of witnesses on earth and in heaven bestifying that there is power in this religion to convert the soul, to give comfort in trouble and to afford composure in the last hour, If ton men should come to you when y wre sick with appalling sickness and say they same sickness and took a certain medicine and it cured them, you would probably take it. Now, suppose ten other men should come up and say: “We don't be sho | there is anything in it.” Of course you dis : testimony. The skeptic may ! some and say: “There Is no power in your 4 to decline through her Years passed on, and ono day Bentag, in her glory, was riffing dissipation Mme. sald: hora, “Come hers, my Who is that vou are leading And the Httie child replied: * my mother, that's Amelia Steininger, the at's Bhs on voice, and she orfed so much about it hat she lost her eyesight.” her,” sald Mme, Sontag, “and tall her an iid acquaintance will call on her this after- won.” The next week in Berlin a vast assemblages gathered at a benefit for that poor bind that night as she had never sung bafors. killed oculist, who in vain ive eyesight to the poor bllad woman Jntil the day of Amelia Steinin- gor's death Madam Sontag took cars of her ind her daughter after her. That was what he queen of song did for her enemy Bat th, hear a more thrilling story stil Blind, mmortal, poor and lost; thou who, when tne world and Christ were rivals for thy heart didst hiss thy Lord sway-—Christ omes now to give thee sight, to give thee t home, to give thos heaven, than a Bontag's generosity, He comes now to wet your need. With mors than a Sontag's music, He comes to plead for thy deMver- The Morphine Craze. The use of morphine has taken on a new form m Paris, where the of the powerful drug is carried ly The use abuse on open of the small drag rug to it as a great blessing all The growmg u o the fact that in the near future some- thing will have to be done to restrict the beyond the reach of all those who y abuse emaslves with i tabiiskments, or hav» they whieh As called, opened, greatly resemble opium joints, 1 Are luxuriousiy nt he rooms furnished with books, pictures, newspsj and in this of the drug can re- seive injections of morphine st pleasure Ihe price is $1.00 for the first one, mad half that price for every succeeding one, Nearly all the visitors to the place are young men and women, often pretty and of good birth. It is only another form of this terrible craze which has seized » debauched public, and unless something » done to check such public dispensation of the drug, the habit will increase rap- diy Many young, innocent people would risit such places for the noveity of the ing, and probably allow themselves to se brought under the powerful spell of ie drug. In this country no such pnb. igh, TS, place, the victims wt the t th Persons iety are becoming oN. raamng their end, destroy This extensive been more of a to | DUIADILY , — wer alm n all ranks of soc daved by the fatal sealéh, and witerly, ng their mental p nisuse of the d same purpose. passion, in the IWers has surse than a ankes Blade. ac——— Kentuckian Bargoo. explained Colonel agton, to a Cincinn ner cial one of th ucky have. nows who first made ‘burgoo,’ iny one know where or how it got fuser name, “* ‘Bargoo’ an out-of-doors and pots of ‘burgoo’ have simmered rver a hot fire in the sun at every big solitical ng in the Btate since Henry Clay was a boy, and years before hat, 00. *“It is not only en extremely palatable lish, if you can call it that, but it's very ‘Burgoo' is a cross between It is always made n the open air. The ‘burgoo’ the Blades at ‘iin e " ® Teparser, 3 : No nor dishes we one oes its is crea. aon y gatheri “How was it made? Well, I took a natoes and corn: chickens, then put in half a #8 many more I'd have added some readiness the cal. “When everything is in It must be lowed to simmer slowly for six hours, ind must be stirrred constantiy with a dickory stick. “A hickory stick is best and is always sed, but another might do as well, When itis nearly done it may be fla. rored to suit the taste. It is ‘done’ when the meats are thoroughly shred. ded, not before. When it is done —~Um!" ind Colonel Orr's eyes fairly sparkled at the prospect. AA ———— Lodgings in Colorado Desert. “There are many queer experiences to de met with in traveling through the ODolorado Desert,” said a railroad man who spent some time at a survey in that sountry to a reporter of the St. Louis Globe: Democrat. “While camping out pear Lone Palm I was awakened one nights by a sick feeling in the stomach, When I arose, to my surprise the ten waa filled with gna, and under my pillow I discovered a hot spring, that had evis dently just sprung up during the night. The country is dangerous about Voleano Springs, There are four springs there, which seem to be filled with boiling mud. Some parts of it are as cool as ioe. Then you may walk on parts of it as if on firm ground, It would not be safe to venture vit on 34 for it may sink in at any mo. ment throw one into beiling mud 1 bad a narrow escape on ons day, and shall Two Dog Stories, | Eugene Jepson, the actor, has a big, | shaggy dog of Newfoundland {collie ancestry, which has {ly exhibited unsuspected traits have led his master to there may be something in the theory of metempsychosis after all, The recent that #1 Abi~ which role Mr. Jep- Crreteh is a very mestic and emotional creature, He is usually allowed to sit in the dining room of Mr. Jepron's home at Fort Lee while the family eat. He tive in “Fedora,” | Son one assumed, do- Al ter a little while his absence was noted for him. Mr Jepson found the dog in the vard sobbing like a child, with He resused to be comforted, and be persuaded to enter the dining room that evening. He brooded over the fancied slight for days. One Bunday morning he was sent after the paper. After an absence of fifteen minutes, Gretch, with a pecu- several har cunning expression in his eyes re- turned without the treasured He wagged his tail i and trie shook he usually re shown up. ie i he along t patl { newsman changed Sunday saln ations, irch On the WAS AgRin foll sent came b i howeve ACK geen tot man ana t wan't want ready to take him Neath the who has b ii d w : (:rocer had He % nit Hg hty ¥ y geen rreatls 11 her number « gi the d g' 4 opens well As Mr OOK to relieve hing of his new 1 took a few of the neig kens, it a tin willingly and handsomely paid, he became a general favorite Sporty, in an e {0 cag & pn one of his with a sho owner hasty snorty home and as he onls bor's chi ne the grocer AYOr not ture sEVeTY ot eondu priety. got the bett days ago, grace. T a barbed wire fence, he badly flesh of f his st been to see his had muscles and one « legs. He had n friends Ince gince thes mended ated jaw, but he brought hi f 8 gamo to them before it was done g bleed- ing They gave him their best and he came as frequently former occasion {0 receive having his dressed petite satisfied he in Jess than bringing with atiention, ws s an it. After and his ap- disappeared, but hour he returned, him a fine broiler, which he laid carefully on door mat, and then informed his friends of his gratitude for what they had done for him | the front door in the dog manner of running backward and forward until his purpose was accomplished. The ladies picked up the chicken, tied it firmly about Sporty's since He seeps of sham and despair be effectually cured. Treat Them Like Gentlemen, It is the wisest thing in the world all the men she meets as gentlemen, and to display the presence of that conviction in her mind directly she is approached by them in any way. A cad will usually take great pains to avoid he finds taken for a gentleman. than peril your evident good opinion of him. Men have a beautifal regard for womankind in the abstract. They articular woman dependent upon hem, but they all of them are just full Roman they meet on and depots. Also they are likely to treat with every consideraiion the upon them for protection. A ———— “Is there anything brilliant about Prozer’s writings?" ‘You ~the stars between the para- AH Ind. - wh aoe [ or Fog ives tenn ga) SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, EUNDAY, JULY 25. 1531, Christ and Nicodemus, LESSON 2d :1.Y 17 Memory vi TEXT. 14-17) Irs LESSON PLAN, Toric or ™s (JUARTER: Son af Gad, Jes the us Gon Text 7 ie are wi lieve that J OF (fod; lier ve 2) : 31, ron Tne QUARTER that might bye the Christ, the Son believing fits name, ittter 114 i iA and that ye might life through John a — Lizsson Tovic: The Son's Matchless Teachings, r 1. Essential i § Things, vs f =1 «te jo 1 y LESSON OUTLIN ial Mysteries, vs 3 Love, v# The serpent God's won- « « IOBCHOTS Eph by searching find ont God ’ in secret, and euriously wronght 130 : 15 Thou knowest doeth all (Eecel { The things of God the Bpirit of God Pea. 1 not the work of God who 11 : 5. none knoweth, save Cor. 2 : 11 II, Beyond Mere Human Compre- hension: Nicodemus answered. . these things be? (9), Flesh and blood hath not revealed it, but my Father (Matt, 16 : 17). How can a man be born when he old? (John 3 : 4), | How ean this man give us his flesh to eat? «John 6 : 52). | He eannot know them, because they are spiritually judged (1 Cor. 2 : 14). | 11. Dealing with Heavenly Things How shall ye believe, if I tell you | heavenly things? (12), .«. How oan | Ye shall sco the heaven opened (John 1:51). | He that 18 spiritual judgeth all things {i (1 Cor. 2:15). | We look at the things which are not seen (2 Cor. 4 : 18), We walk by faith, not by sight (2 Cor. 5:7) 1. “Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born anew.” The new birth a reasonable demand, in view (1) Of man's depraved estate; (2) Of man’s exalied destiny. 2. **Ye receive not our witness.” (1) The Lord's heavenly themes; (2) The Lord's clear teachings; (3) Huomanity's prevalent indifference 3. “How shall ye believe, if I tell you heavenly things?" The impedi- ments to human belief: (1) In the nature of man; 3) In the method of communieation, 11, WONDROUS LOVE. I. The Uplifted Son: Even so must the Son of man be | lifted up (14). | Moses made a serpent, coonnd sot it upon the standard (Nam. 21 : 0), When ye bave lifted up the Son of man (John 8 : 28), I,ift I be lifted np, .. will draw all men (John 12 : 22), How sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? (John 12 : 84), fl. The Loving Father: God so loved the world (16), | | .. .80 the Lord pitiet Yes (Psa. 108 : 13,. He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good (Matt. % 5). own love toward Bom. 5: ~ 1 John 4 s 55). Il. The Saved 8 Saved throng 17). I that 5: enk righteousness, tosave en, 63 1 1t 1s hie that shall save his pe ple ( Matt, } 241). While we were yet sinners, Ohrist died for us (Bom. 5: k Chr st Jesus ns nner: mighty came nto the world to BAVE SINDErs Yim. 1 : 15). : Son of man be ily To save the sin- 2) To save freely; (3) To eave so completely; (4) To save so permanently, “God so loved the world.” (1) Be sincerely; (2) Bo helptully; (3) Bo persistently. 3. "Bas edd Bey a9 “ou Balvation whom? - Balvation ys elose of Andrews 11-18. « whe icodemus, {f the san- fended Christ at w.th Joseph urial of Jesus, Moses ng of Nicode- on that Jesus ; the reply, birth; this can take nat as 0 ; Lhe gurprise comment on firmation of & baving yet 670 5¢ his lifting up of 8 type of f ui with raan ie new 1 ol iM ICrmAn men 4 p IHoises in those These iT ReYeN ut of i turquoises have been uring the pe riod, than ten thousand were gena- The imitations are described as marvelously clever One mode of t Nizhni is curious. of a fixed sum, his hand into a ome a pos which RO not more ine stones, SLL ROR A # I dos The Names of American States, The ime of Maine called in iment to the Jueen of Charles Lia who was born in the province of that name in France. Few people are un- aware that Pennsylvania is called after the great Quaker, Virginia after Queen Elizabeth, and Louisiana after Louis IV, of France. But it is less gener ally known that Florida received its pretty name from the fact thet on the Spanish Pasqua de Flores, or feast of Fowers, Ponce de Leon discovered, in 1519, this } The of Delaware was so designated after Lord De La Ware, who called therein 1610; and the name Rhode lcland was adopt. ed in 1671 from the Island of Rhodes in the Medit®&ranean. the two ands being supposed to each other, Was 80 comp ovely shore State resemble ——— And Yet She Wasn™ Tired “I'm awful tired,” Dusenberry said, as he flung himself into a chair after supper. «« What did you asked his wife “Hilled a large order, letters, went twice to the higgled with Branson until nine dollars off his hill” “And that made vou eh? Well, 1 prepared three meals, baked gix loaves of bremd, got the children veady for school, mended all your clothes, cleaned the stair rods, stoned three pounds of rasing, picked five quarts of berries, wended the flower bed, whitewashed the wselioge, avlohas- ed an impadent tramp off the promises. And I don't say that I'm tived, either I moeckly do to-day?" threes and threw wrote bank, he tired,
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