Nn HET IR TAGE. The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun. day Sermon. Subject: “Standing on the Plain with Christ.” Text: “And He came down with them and stood in the plan.” —Luke vi., 17. Christ on the mountains is a frequent study, We have seen Him on the Mount of Olives, Mount of Beatitudes, Mount Moriah, Mount Calvary, Mount of Ascension, and it is giorious to study Him on these great nat. ural elevations. But how is it that never be fore have we noticed Him on the plan? Amid the rocks, high uo on the mountain, Christ bad passed the night, but now, at ear- iy dawn, He is coming down with some es. pecial Iriends, stepping from shelving to shelving, here and there a loosened stone rolling down the steep sides ahead of Him, until He gets in a leval place, so that He can be approached without climbing from all sides, Heis on the level. My text says ie came down with them and stood in the ain.” Now that is what the world wants to-day more than anything else—a Christ oa the level, easy to get at, scending, approachable from all sides— Christ on the plain. The question among all consecrated people to-day is, What matter with the ministers’ Many of them are engaged in picking holes in the Bible and apologizing for this and apologizing for that. In an age when the whole tendency is to pay too little reverencs to the Bible, they are fighting against Bibliolatry, or too much reverence for the Bible. They are buildinz a fence on the wrong side of the road: not on the side where the precipice is and off which multitudes are falling, but on the upper side of the road. so that people wiil not fall up hill, of which there 1s no danger. There is no more danger of Bibliolatry, or too much reverence for the Scriptures, than there is that astrology will take tae place of astronomy, or a caemy the place of chemis try, or the canal boat the place of the hm. ited express rail train. What a theolozical farce it is; ministers fightinz arainst too much reverence for the SBeriptures; ministors making apology for the Scriptures; ministers pretending to be friends of the Biple, blatant infidels on all the earth. The trouble is our theologians are un in ths monatain which they do not understand. Come down on the plain and stand besides Christ, who never preached a technicality or a didacti- cismi. What do vou, O wise headed ec lesi- astic, know about the decrees of Col* Who cares a fiz about your sublavsananism or your supraiaparianism’ naticn to-day —committees trying to patch up an old creed made two or three hundred years ago, so that it will fit on the Nine teenth century. Why do not our millinery establishments take out of the garrets the coal scuttle hats which your great-gran wothers wore and try to fit them on the head of the modern maiden® You cannot fix uu a three-hundred-year-old creed so as to fit our ime. Prioceton will ssw on a little piece, and Union seminary will sew on a lit tle piece, and Alleghany seminary and Dan- ville seminary will sew on other pisces, and the time the creed is done it will be as varie- gated as Joseph's coat of many colors Think of having to change an old creed to make it clear that all infants dying go to heaven! Iam so glad that the committees are going to let the babies in. Thank you, So many of thera are already in that all the bills of heaven look like a Suaday-school an- piversary. Now what is the uss of fixing up a creed which left any doubt on that sub. ject? No man ever doubted that all infants dying go to heaven, unless he be a Herod or a Charies Guiteau. 1 wasoppossl to over. hauling the old creed at all, but now that it bas been lifted up and its imperfections set up in the sizht of the world, I say, Over board with it and make a new creed, There are to-day in our denomination five hundred men who conld make a betts I could make a Lotter one myself, As are now in proc caangwug ta and no one Knows what we are e believe, or will two or three expected to believe, | ¢ I bave made a creed of tend to observe the it down in my men mooths ago, and it reads as follows creed: The glorious Lord, fo trust Him, love Him and obey Him i= all that is re quired. To that creed | invite all mankind i. De Witt Talmage The reason Christianity has more rapid advance is becanse are asked to believe too many things. are, I believe, to-day millions of good ¢ tians who have never joined the church and are not counted among the Lord's friends bec use they cannot believe sll the things that they are required to believe, Ouaehall the things a man ix expected to believe in order to enter the church and reach heaven have no more to do with his salvation than the question. How many voleano x are there in the moon? or, How tar apart from eaca other are the rings of Saturn? or, How many teeth there were in the jawbone with which Sampson smote the Philwtines? [ be. Heve ten thousand things, but none of them have anything to do wita my salvation ex cept these two—I am a sinner and Christ Came to save me Musicians tell us that the octav? consists omy of five tones and two semitones, and ali the Handels and Haydns and Mozarts and Wagners and Schumenns of all ages must do their work within the range of those five tones and two semitones. So [ bhava to tall you that all the theology that will bao! practical nse in our world is made oat of the two facts of buman siofalnes: and divine atonement. Within that octave swin “The Bong of Moses and the Lamb” the Christmas chant above Bethlehem and the Hallelujah of all the choirs standing on seas of glass, Is there not some mode of getting >ut of the way of these nonessentials, these su er. flyities, these divergencies from the main jssue? Is thers not some way of bringing the church down out of the mountain of con troversy and conventionalismn and to put it on the plain where Christ stands? The pres ent attitude of things ix like this: Ina famine struck district a table has been provi led and is loaded with food enough for ali. The odors of the meats fil! the air. Everything is ready. The plattersare full. The chalice are full. The basket: of (ruitare fall, Why not let the people in? The door isupen. Yes, but there is a cluster of wise men biocaing up the door, discussing the contents of the caster standing midtable, They are shaking their fists at each other, ! One says there is too much vinegar in that T One we id ’ eo sand a OL reed tiki not walt, an my whica | rest of my life, iv orandum book some six I own not made the people I'here ise oil, and another says there is not the propes of red pepper. say, ‘Get out of the yay and let the hungry people coma in.” Now our blessed Lord has vided a eat supper, and the oxen and the fatlings ve beens killed and fraits from ali ths vine. and orchards of heaven crowa the The world has been invited to come, and they look in, and they ars hungry, ana the people woula pour in by ths mitlious w this world wide table, but the door is blocsed up by controversies, and men with whole lioraries on their backs are disputing as to what proportion of sweet oil and cafenns should make up the creed, ery, * out of the way and let the hungry world come in.” The Christian church will ave to change on Sunday morning, averaging one person to a pew or one person to a half dozsn pews, and leaving the minister at night to sweat through a sermon with bere and there a lone traveler, unless, by a Bunday evening sacred concert, he can get out an audience of re. spectable sige, The vast majority of the church member. ship around the world put forth no direct effors for the salvation of men. Did | say there would have to be a change?! I corrset that and say, there will be a change, If there be fifteen million persons added every year to the world's population, then there ; will be thirty million adued to the church, { and forty million and fifty million and sixty million. How will it be done? [t will be done when the church will meet Christ on the plain. Come down out of the mountain of exciusiveness, Come down out of the mountain of pride. Come down out of the mountain of formalism. Come down out of | the mountain of freezing and indifference, Old Dr. Stephen H. Tyng, great on earth and in heaven, once said to me: “lamin favor of a change. Ido not know what is the best way of doing things in toe churches, but | know the way we are doing now is not | the best way, or the world would be nearer | its salvation than it seems to ba” Ho I feel: Iso we all feel, that there needs to be an { change, The point at which we all come | short is presenting Crist on the plain, Christ | on the level with all the world's woes and | wants and necassities, { The full change will have to come from We now in the fleld We are lumberel We have too many concordances and dictionaries ani encyelo- | pedias and systems of theviogy on our head | to get down on the plain. Our vocabulary i is too frosted, We are too muca under the domination of customs regznant for many centuries. Come on, young men of the | ministry. Take this pulpit. take all the | pulpits, and in the street, and the marset | place, and the family circle preach Christ | on the plain, | As soon as the church says by its attitude, | not necessarily by its words, “My one mis { sion is to help for this lite aud help for the i lite to come all the people,” | sarnestness in the matter, people on foot and ion horseback and In wagoos and in car- j riages will coms to the conurches in such | numbers that they will have to be met at the {door by usaers, saying: "You were hers { last Sunday; you caunot come to-day Gentlemen and ladies, you must take your { turn.” i the rising ministry, { are too set in our ways, | up with technicalities, And it will be as in the Johnstown freshet { ond disaster, whon a government station t was opened for tha supply of bread, and it i k the officers of the law to keep the suf | ferers in line beacause of the great rash for | food. When this taming struck world real- promptly He came to that man with impedi- the tongue so that he could speak with ease, and, piitieg His fingers into the ears, re- tuned the tympanum, [Is there a lack of tive muscles of a patient who had lost the use of hand and arm, by saying, ‘‘Stretch forth thy hand!” and the veins and nerves and muscles resumed their officas, ani thougn in doing so the joints may have cracked from long disuse, and thers may finger tip, he stretched it forth! And noth. ing is the matter with you, bat you may ap- peal to a sympathetic Christ, And if yon feel yoursalf to be a great sinnsr, hear wnat He said to that repanting Magdalen, while with a scalding sarcasm He dashed her hy- poeritical pursuers, And ses how He made an immortal liturgy out of the publican’s cry, "God be merciful to me a sinper,” a prayer so short that the most overwhelmed off snder can utter it, and vet long enough to win celestial dominions. it was well put by a man who had bases con- verted, and who remembered that in his dissolute days he found it hard to get occupation, because he could not present a certificate for good character, In commending Christ to the people ha said, “Bless God, I bave found out that Jesus will take a man without a character ™ Christ on a level with suffering humanity, My text says, “He came down with them and swod in the plain.” No elimbing up through attributes you cannot understand No ascending of the heights ol beautiful i No straining after eie- No hunting for But going right looking into His face cannot reach, Him and the level. When during the an officer had com- manded a private soldier to stand on the wall exposed to toe enemy and receive the Carist on the officer, the enemy's guns, upon the wall to help stool in a place sheltered from General Gordon leaped and commanded the set up by the government of the universs to provide the brea | of etaraai life for all the people, the rush will br unprecadented and | unimaginable Astronomers have been busy worlds, and they have toll us the circumference o! this great until they have weighed our planet and found its weight to be six ssxtillion tons. Bat no science has the weigat of this tyounie been weighed, Now, Christ stand ing on the level of our humanity stands in ‘sympathy with every trouble, There ars so many aching beads: His ached un ier the thorns. There are »o many weary feet: His were worn with the long journey up and down the land that recived dios not. here are so many persecuted souls. Every bour of Hix lite was under human outrage. The world had no better place to receive Him than a cattle pen, and its farswoll was a slap on His cheek and a spear in His side. Bo in tensely human was He that there has not been in all our race a grief or infirmity or exhaustion or pang thar did not touca Him once and that doses not touch Him now The lepers, the paraivtics, ths imbecile, the manic, the courtesan, the recestant brigand—which one did He turnoff, which one did He not pity, which one dia He not heip? The universal trouble of the world i« bereavement, One may escape all the other troubles, but that uo soul escapes, Out of that bitter cup every ons must take a dring For instance, in order that all might know how He sympathise who have ost a dau rhier, wiies to the house Jarius. Thera is suci a big crowd around vor He and His disc pies have to push ir WAY in From the sarong of people 1 that t ¢ Zirl mast have been very Nhe was i Oso eaiifire: measuring how great is world ana how by with (hose tos eoncinde one of n everyoody likes, er Larist got in the 1 houss thers was i a loud weeping that the ordinsry tone poe Could nat br heard Toe dead daugote* was . itis about the hap lives Very Httle childrer tu justices becauss they are chilir childbood is not a desirable part of ex stonce~they gol Whacie ion at twelve vears of age thy cauld golf assarid nd is apt to make her richis twelve veurs of age the cars and angistios of I think, pent of She furaisaed for them the the harmiess mischief, and roused the guilaw that often ranz through that happy some. But now she is dead, and the grief at her departure is as vio'eat as her presence had been vivac.ous and inspiriting Ol, the bereavement was so» sharp, =) overs whelming! How could they g.ve ner up! i suspect that they blamel themseives for this or for taat. Oh, of they had had some other dogtor, or taken some other madicine, i do not won twelve years tim» in suff 0 wany ani aan Bat ans « into set on Known. And toen, too early for : his girl was, $ the househ ‘ minuery ane the merru they had not given ber that reproof some | time when she had not really deserved it. If | they had been more patisnt with her hilar - participatad in it? You know thers are so many things that parents themselves for at such times Oaly twelve yearsof age! Ho fair, so promising, > ‘ull of lit: a few days ago, and now so sull! room is full of foiks, buc yonder is tee room where the young sleeper is. Tae crowd can rot go in there, Only six persons enter, five besides Christ-—three friends, and, of course, the father and mother They have the firs right to go fn. The heaviest part of the grief was theirs, Ail eyes in that room are on the face of tals girl, | finely shapen, bat it was not lifted in greet. ing to any of the group. Christ steppad for- ward and took hold of that hand and said, unto thee, arise” deiny she arose, her eyes wide open, her cheeks turning from winte lily to red rose: and the parents ory | and in the next room they take up the soun, “dhe lives! She lives™ and the throng i» i front of tae doorway reps i'r, “Sne Jives! Nhe lives” Will not atl hose who have lost a daughter Teel that such a Chrmt. as tha’ can sympatiiz * Christ on toe plain. | cars not from what side you approaca Him, you ean toucn Him | mind got His help, Is it mental depressi on { vou suffer? Remamber Him who said, * My | God, My Uod, way hast Thou forsaken Me?’ . Isit a struggle for bread? Remember Him | who ted the Gv thousan 1 with two minnows and five biscuit, peither of the biscuits larger than your rst. ls it earonic ailment? Remember the woman who for eighteen years was bent almost double and He Hfted , her faces until she could look jute the nlue sky. Are you asaflor and spend your jife batiling with the tempests? Rememoer Him | who flung the tempat of Ganesarsta flat on | the crystal pavement of a quiet sea, That Christ is in sympatay wita all who have trouble with their eyer, and that is be its tack or it will run on the rocks of demo- | coming an almost universal trouble through lition. The world’s population annually ine | much reading fn rail oars, and toe overpros- creases fifteen millions. No ons pretends | eure of the study in the schools wheres ohil- that half that number of peopls are con: | dren are expected to be plillosophers at teu, verted to God, There ere more than twice boys and giris at fourteen wita spectacles. as many Buddhists as Protestants; move | [ way with all such trouble Christ is 11 sym. than twice as many Buddhists us Roman | pathy. Witness blind Bartimens Witness Catholics. Protestants, 135,000,000; Catho- | the two blind men in the nous. Witness Jios, 196,000,000; Buddhists, 400,000,0%. | the two bilnd men near cericso, Witness There ave 135,000,000 Mobammedans and | ths man bor blind, Did He not turn their ; unl midnight into minor, tit thay the words, “Never order a man to do any- thing that you are afraid to do yoursed.” Glory be to God, the Captain of our salva as Himself gone through all the ex- whicn He commands us 0 be He hins been througa it all, and now offers his sympathy in similar straggle. One of the » of England one nizbt in disguise walking the streets of London, and not giving ace of himself, was arrested and putin & miserable pron, When re- leassd and getting baci to the palace, he ordered thirty tons of coal and a large supply of foud for the night prisosers of London. Out o his exprriences that night he did this. And our Lord the King aforstime sadungeons! and sick and hun- gry and persecuted and slam, out of Hisowa and pardon all, and cownfort all, and rescue al Oh, join Him in the plain As long as you stay up n the mountain of your pride you will get no help Toat is the reason so They high up on the Mont Blane of their opinionativensss and they have their opinion avout Gold, and their odinion about the soul and their opinion about eternity. Have you anv kiea that your opinion will nave Any © Toot uson the two tremendous fact that you a sinner, and that Christ is rem. y al HE eRrpest raver to save y at Ia the final day of soccunts how much will you opinion be: worth Your opinion will rot be of much imosortanc: befors the biast of the archangel's trumpet When the life of this planet shall be thrashed out with the flail of thunderonita nobody will ask about your opinions Come down out of the moun tain of opinionativenes: and meet Christ on Lhe pl gin, wheres you must mest Him, or never mest Hin I, except 8% yon meet Him on the i A Christ easy aden te ve serutiniz: The pane: responses, lmmediat Througs what »f & pardoa £ {#4 posu res In Ril. ail own to «<i what pe death na in the ins ats r at aid and es. them and # prssE Was madal brlore and then the ~ gates tus wim Mae LYE wh nusha nud, was waxenal to hear the same plea Commutation o. salen was granted, but the ofl} who had started with the death warrant, and would sae be too late to wve fife of her hus. band? By four relays of horse, and stop ping not a moment for fod, 3» reached the city of Milan as her husband was on the way he scaffaid. Just in time to save him, pot a manate Lo spare, sie Cams up You see there were two difficulties in the wav The one was to get the pardon signed, nud the other to bring it to the right place in time. Glory be to God, we need go tarough no such exigency. No long road to travel, No pitiless beating at a palace gate. Pardon Pardon now Pardon for assing. Pardon for ever. A Baviour easy to get at. A Christ on the pisin! # tid she over.1ke the » tot and sil cI. A Big Sea Baws. on the noon ferry. one of the trusk ss— A large crowd and queer fish that was extended along the frame of the truck. To every ap- pearagce the fish belonged to the trout size. One of the curious lookers-on measured the length of the monster and found it to be nearly seven feet, while the greatest breadth about the body was three and a half feet. The scales ap- peared very much hike pieces of abalone ductile and semi trans. parent. By-and-by the inevitable know-all came along dnd be explained the won- The sea levistha Its weight was It was captured off the Cataline lands, snd the powerful fastened through mouth attested its prodigious strength, It was learned that smaller specimens of this fish are brought up from the Santa Barbara and sold to wholesale dealers, whodin turn retail them to restaurants. The restaurants, by a process of season ing and hammering out the flesh, are enabled to serve the fish to their patrons under a dozen different names, —San Francisco Chronicle. EE Penn Used to Shake This Chestnut Tree There is a giant chestnut tree growing at Center Rvige, Buck County, Penn., near the Delaware River. The trunk measures nineteen feet in circumference, and the treo still yields an annual crop of chestouts, It is said that in primev:l days the Indians would gather under its branches on a hot summer's day to enjoy n cool breeze from the Delaware hard by. It is also related that William Penn once gathered chestouts from it, New Or 000,000 Braumans, | perpet Meanwhile, many of the churches are only | van up and down cinpping hands and religious clubhiouser, where a few people gu saying, “les! | spel” ; -» , COPYRIGHT IL Arrected In scrofulous affection of the -a blood taint— and, as in every other form of serofula, Dr, Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is a certain remedy. But it must be taken in timé—and now is the ume to take it. 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