REV. DR. TALMAGE. ————— wo— si The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun. day Sermon. Buhlect: saw Recruits.” Text: “Put on the whole armor of God." —Ephesians vi, 11, There is in this text a great rattle of shields and helmets and swords. Soldiers are getting ready for battle, We have had recently in this church new enlistments, and I shall address myself to those in this and other churches who are putting on the armor of God, and who may feel themselves to be ns yet only raw recruits ‘“‘Masterly re- treat” is a term often usslin military cir. cles, but in religion there is no such thing. It is either glorious advance or disgraceful sud ignominious falling back, It would be a strange thing if all our anxiety about men ceased the moment they were converted, You would almost doubt the sanity of that farmer who, having planted the corn and seen it just sprout above ground, should say: “My work is all done, I have no more anxiety for the fleld.” No. There is work for the plow and the hoe, and there must be a careful keeping up of the fencas, and there must be a frightening away of the birds that would pillage the fleld, And tay the entrance upon Christian lite is oniy the implantation of gracain the heart. T'here is earnest, hard work yet to bs done and perbaps many years of anxiety before there shall be heard the glorious shout of “Harvest home.” * The beginning to ba a Christian is only putting cown the foundation: bat after that there aro years of hammering, polishing, sarving, lifting, before tha structure is com- pleted. lt takes five years tomake a Chris- tian character, it takes twenty years, it lakes forty years, it takes seventy vears, if a man shall live so long. In other words, a man dying after half a century of Christian experience feels that he has oniy learned toe “AB Cs" of the glorious alphabet, Tha aext year will decide a great deal in your aistory, young Christian man. It will de- side woether you are to be a burning and shining light @f the church, or a spark of grace covered up in a barrel of ashes. It will decide whether you are to be a strong mae in Christ Jesus, with gigantic blows striking the iroa mail of darkness, or 8 bedwarled, whinning, grumbling soldier, that ought to be drummed out of the Lord's amp with the * ‘Rox March.” You have »uly just been lau the voyage is to be nade. Earth d heaven ani hell are watching to see how fast you will sail, how well you will weather toe temptest. and whether at last, amid the shouting of angels, you shall come into the right harbor, May God help me this morning to give you thres or four words of Christian counsel, as I al dress myself more especially to those who tave just now entered the Curistian life. My first word of counsel is, hold befors four soula very high model. Do not say, “I wish I could pray like that man, or speak ike this man, or have the consecration of shis one.” “Here is the Lord Jesus Christ, a perfect pattern. By that I mean, with God's grace, to shape all my life. In sther words, you will never be any more a Christian than you strivo to be. If you build a foundation twenty by thirty feet you will only have a small house. If you build a foundation one bundred by one hundred feet you will bave a large house. If vou re- solve to be only a middling Christian you will only be a middling Christian. If you save no high aspiration ina worldly direc tion you will never succeed in business. If you have no high aspiration in religious things you will never succeed in religion. You have a right to aspire to the very highest style ‘ristian character, From your feet there reaches out a path of Christian attainment which you may take, and I deliberately say that you may be a better man than was Paul or David or Bummerficld or je—a better woman than Hanuah More Charlotte Elizabeth Why not? Did ; nonopoly of Christian gra have a privata key to God's mercy? Does Go from the gladoess and they were introdu have just tue s tame Christ, just just ths same offer asting love, they were—ave, the point wh go beyond it—it is not bec: Chirist has shut you on from any ual eleva- tion, but because y take it, Iadmitt a Christian like that with what do you get without fightir The fortresses of darkness areto t storm, You may by acute strategy the hosts of temptation, but there are temp tations, there are eviis in the way that you will bave to me2t face to face, and it wili be shot for shot, gun for gun, grip for grip, slaughter for siauzhtor, The apostle Paul over and over again represents the Christian life as a combat, When the war vessel of Christ's church comes inco glory bringing ita crew and ita yassengers it will not come in like a North Uiver yacht, beautifully painted and a forned, swinging into the boathouse after a pleasure excursion. Ob, no; it will be like a vessel coming with a heavy cargo from China or India, the marks of the wave and the hurri- cane upon it--sails rent, rigiing spliced, pumps all working to keep her afloat, bul. warks knocked away. 1 see such a vessel coming and get out my small boas and pusb toward her, and 1 shout: “Ahoy, captain What are you going to do with those shiv ered timbers? That was a beautiful ship rwhen you went out, but you have ruined Kt” “Ob.” says the captain, “[bave a fine cargo on board, and by this round trip | 1 have made ten fortunes.” i So I believe it will be when the Christian soul at last comes into the harbor of heaven, It will come bearing upon it the marks of great stress of weatner, You can see by the very looks of that soul agit comes into glory that it was driven by a storm and dashed in the hurricane, but by so much as the vov- age is rough, will the harbor be blewe ], “If ye suffer »d with Him onearth, ye shal b glorifie | with Him in heaven.” Aim bog Do not be satisfied to be like the Christiane all around you. Be more than they have ever been for Christ, Say ‘ Of and if yo ome up to . have recently entzr=2 upon Christian life is, Abstain {rom all pernicious associations, and take only those taat arensful and benefl. cent, Stay out of all associations that would damage your Curistian character, Take only those associations that will heip you. A learned man said, “If 1 stay witn that man Fenelon any longer I shall get to be a Christian in soite of myssif.” In other words therais a mighty power in Christian wwociations, Now what kind of assoc.a- wons shall we, as young Christiane, seek sfter? Ithink weouzht to get into com )auny better than ourssive:, never going nto company worse than ourselves, if we get into company a little setter than ourselves and thera ire ten people in that company, tea chances wone we will be betterad, If we get int) sompany a little worse than ourselves, ari thers be ten people in that company, ten thances to one we Will by made worse than we w Be do not prateni to point out any evil in. fluences, but are thers not soms surround. ing influences that ars niclons to your growth in grace? Stand back from that fur- nace in which so many young Christians nave been destroyed. In this church there is a large company of young men and younz women consecrated 6 Curist, I know of no better than they Are. Young convert, I invite you into their friendabip. Contact with them will elevate . All ball, young followers of Jesus Shrist, my joy and 4 pride! heart thrills at every step your advancement. that hour when you from sin, and now I re- thing on the armor of a i will give you present and everlasting victory. Stanloff from all evil associations. A man is no better than the company he keeps. Go among thosa | who are better than you are and you will be | made better, Go among those who are worse | than you are and you will bs made worse, My next word of counsel is that you be | actively employed. I see a great many { Christians with doubts and perplexities, ant seem to cultivats that spiritual despondency, when I will undertake to say that in nine judgment of God upon idleness. Who are busy people. Show me the man who professes first prescription that I give to a man when I lad bim full of doubts and fears about his eternal interest is to go to work for God. Ten thousan | voices are lifted up asking for Go and help, 1 have another word of counsel to give be faithful in prayer. You all that day—you might as well abstain strong physically, as to be strong withou’ prayer. The only way to get any strength into the soul is bv prayer, and the only difference between that Christian that is worth anything and that who is worth nothing is the fact thatthe last doss not pray and the other does, And the only differencs between this Christian, who is getting along very fast in the holy life, and this, who is only getting along tolerably, is that the first prays more than the last. You can graduate a mau's progress in religion by the amount of wrayer; not by the number of hours, pers pra: But by the earnest supplication that he puts up to God. There is no exception to the rule. Show me a Christian man who neglects this kind of duty, and I will show you one who is inconsistent, Bhow me a man who prays, and his streagth and bis power cannot be exaggerated. Why, just give to a man this power of prayer and you give him almost omnipotenc?, This afternoon you will see two Sabbath school teachers, That one does not gain the atteation of her class, This one does, Woat is tne difference between them, their intel. lects being about equal, The first thought only of her own apparel, The other came from great prostration before God in earnest supplication, asking that God's mercy might come upon tae school and tin th ty ic i sin thn five or six her. The or her class, The ot Lord God Another word o ou ave t le careful in Bib 1 tooks are read nail » give eat many We cane © research WwW coming At ex 2 of them, ristian prin nat perbaap Christ some bs aliow ture to take Word, and that 3ibile reading as th t How with yo own Just « 8 your minds bow mu ligious literature you have real during year and then how large a j word of Gol vou have reat, trast the two and answer soul whether you are to ff man « Now, you g the mineral waters that the wat 14 » ~ Fy Fes) ing or heaithfin ex perien se rion givie Were writin by ae DOOKs that ! iw that tO the druz s but ars ars not aE Wher walers at Sarators m rigut where rock, And 1 have notic nen now ara ’ Wnt wv OG. warring against What do vou think of nean and will prove it the meanest thing tiat veers done in all the centuries There iz a siaip at ses and in trouble. Tha Mptain and the crew are at their wits end You are on board. You are an old seaman You come up and give some good couns which is Kinily taken Tost is all But suppose, instead of doing that, in midst of all the trouble, you pics us the only ompass that 1= on board and pitea it over hetaffrali? Oh, you say, that is dastardly, But is it as mean asthis? Here is the vesssl i the world going on with sixteen hundred nillions of passengers, towel and driven in she tempest, and at the time we want help the infidel cones and he takes noid of the miy compass and be tries to pitch it over. voard. It is contemptible beyond everything shat is contemptible. Have vou any better dght? Bring it on if you have, Have you Bring it on if you have. Have you any better hope? Bring it on if you have, and then you may have this Bible and 1 susil never want i$ agrin, Bat I can think of a meaner thing than thar, and that is an old man going siong on the mouctains with a staff in one haad and i lantern in the other. Darkness has coms an suddenly, He is very old, just able to pick bis way out amid the rocss and preci. gices, leaning on his staff wita ons hand and raiding himself with the izht in tae other. (ou come up and say: ‘‘Fatuer, you seem to be iost. You are a long way irom home.” And thea you take him by the hand and lead him nome. That fa But suppose instead of hae you should snatch the stall from his road's tuetn I wil IAS ever think it is HOVE IL 18 rigas the That would be It you have g If you have a better light, give it to him. When God has out the staff of the Gospel of God's Word to to clutch the Word of God from my grasp, Cling to your Bible! If this Bibie should be destroyed, if all the Bibles that have ever been printed should be destroyed, we could make up a Bible right out of this andience, From that Christian man's experience I take one cluster of promises, and from that old Christian man's experience another, 1 put them all together, and I think [ would have a Bible. You ree, my friends. 1 have not tried of you who have entered the Christian Jife, Do not be discouraged. Press on toward the pris; God beside you and heaven before you. Keep your courage up, Look in thirty years from no x upon this church, Another man in the pulpit, Other faces in the pews Another man lenling the sonz. carrying around the alme boxes of the church. All changed. Thirty years have gone and 1 look into the faces of the people, and Isay: “Why, it seomnto me | have seen thess peoples somewhere, but | esnnot exactly say where. OU, you now I begin to Thess were ths converts fn 1572 and 18%), Why, how you have chanzei!” “Oh, yes they say, “of course we have changed. Thirty years makes a great I say “How many wrinkles there “Ou, yer,” they say, ‘Have you kept the faith?’ “Yes, “Where ars those people who used to sit in the pew with yon¥' “All “Then I say, “Well, I feel lonely: 1802, on Any of you know toe old hum it. Yes that's it, Now, altogstaer, let us sinz, jase tune? Som» one that's it, * There is a fountain filled with blngd, Drawn from Immanuel’s veins; And sinners piange ! begeatts tha: flood Lo#e all their guilty stalos. “ The dying thie! rejoice! to ses Thaw: fountain lu bis day Aud toere may I though vis Wasi all my sions away.” as he, DO YOU WEAR FALSE HAIR? This Wil Tell How it Is Obtained, The best hair commas fe France, where it Is by gramme at prices which vary accord- ing to quality and color, says the New York Herald. The most pensive false hair is the silves-white variety, which isin great demand and very difficult to find, "Cais is due to the fact that men grow b Id jority Letom reaches the silver-white women, whether bald or no dispose ad to sell fiilse smn KOlg eX. mi hair and ina their stage, Of CISOS th white They need it women ETOwWIig white hair t aavane Cir any themsel ~~ Laid price, ilowance hem. niatier have i t i annual ¢ ¥ about (1 hair, for which they afterward and it is the considerably over The cleaning of this an operation which attention freed hair, mir 1,000,000 francs SAI nar is arefu been refuse 1 jure ~ After the hair has from the dust and dirt and mud and other unpleasant things with which it has come in contact in gut. ters and slop-buckets, it is ru! in sawdust until it shines once more with its pristine gloss, hen the process of sorting is hegun In the first place skillful hands fix the indi. vidual hairs in frames with the roots all pointing the same way, and then they are arranged according to color. Finally, when a sufficient number of hairs of one color have been ob tained- this number ime. mense as is generally supposed-—~theg are made into the beautiful braids which are shown so seductively in the windows of fashionable coiffeurs f, as the Good Book says, wisdom goes with the hair, she who places on her head one of the conglomerate braids might be said to receive a portion of the wisdom of hundreds or thousands of other women who had worn those halrs before her, It is said that the cutters in France have plied their trade so » dustrious. ly that at present it is hardly possible in the whole Republic to find a wo. man who will sell her hair. The business has been done to death, ana now the enterprising dealers in false hair are sending their representatives through Switzerland, Belgium and Norway, canvassing for unsophisti- cated lasses who will allow them selves to be robbed of their hair, which is half their beauty, for a few healtis wf sllvac. bed and t nor is &y No Wonder He Was Happy. Stranger (addressing native) What's the matter with that oid gray-headed man? Is he drunk? Native—~Oh, no; he was never drank in his life. “Well, why does he kick up his ficels that way?” “He's happy.” « “Lottery prize?” “Oh, no. His grandfather wrote an article for oa magazine and it has just been published.” Texas Siftings. # | FOR THE CHILDREN, WELL BRED, little boy had sought the pump From which the sparkling water burst, That kindly quenched his raging thirst, T'hen gracefully he touched his cap “I thank you, Mr. Pump,” he said, “For this nice drink you've given me” (‘This little boy had ‘been well bred.) New York Advertiser, r RO WHY TO IT, fond of his aunt there are Freddie is very ghe of him but imes w Freddie must It hap pend « not long ago and Freddie's feelings hurt. “Don’t vou love me pered : “Yen yy ny not¢ ’ HHRoecause wh Hen be suppre wwe] wert auntict .e.il Ad i Freddie, but vou f “Yes, but Vii game,” he insi to lovin time Pre AROUND THE HOUSE, off Paste a OF IrnkK or cio Wi $4 dow Nn then the list Iw tom ones Cone FWAY good each on soup it at in, with the the name 18 hi when will Ix Then each added written on package it 18 an cusy thing to find any needed article, KillsA Woman a Panther, Numbers of been making ferocious panthers have themselves troublesome among the Hemet Valley Hemet Valley lies at the elevated position of 5,000 feet in the San Jacinto Moun tains. It is heavily timbered aud the forests in the surrounding hills and val. leve offer a safe retreat for various wild animale, Their numbers are limited, however, and only occasionally a bear or mountain lion is caught preying upon the large herds pastured iu the Hemet Valley, Deer are occasionally shot in this high altitude, but their numbers are becoming fewer each year. Wild cats and panthers are still very numerous and do much damage among poultry, ete, One day, Mrs. D. M. Wilkinson who lives on a ranch near the Hemet dam, heard a long continued squealing among her drove of pigs, and, suspecting some depredator, hurried out with a shotgun, She was just in time to detain a huge panther with a prompt salute of her shot. gun as he was in the act of making off with a pig. Mrs. Wilkinson, being throu ghey inured to the ways of moun: tain life, is a good shot, and she succeed ed in dispatching the ferocious creature without delay. 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