REV. DR. TALMAGE. The Eminent Broo day Sermon. Fubject: “The The of Departure.” ———————— TEXT: “The time of "Hy hand."-11 Timotny IV. 4 Departure! That is a worl used only twice in all the Bibla, But it 1s a word olten used iu the courtroom ani ears the desertion of one couse of pleading 1or an- other. I: is used in havigation to describe the distance between two meridians passing through the extremities of a course, It is a word § bave recently heard applied to my departure from America to Europe for a preaching tour to last until September, In a smaller and less significant sense than that implied in the text I can say, “The time of my departure is as hand.” Through the printing press I address this sermon to my readersall the world over, and when they read it | will ba in mi locean, and unless something new happens in my ma- rine experiences I will be in no condition to preach. But how unimportant the word de- parture when applied to exchange of conti- nents as when applied to exchange of worlds as when Paul wrote, “The time of my de- parture is at hand.’ Now departure implies a starting place and a place of destination. When Pau! left this world, what was the starting point? It Was a scene of great physica: distress, It was the Tulilanum, the jower dungeon of the Mamertine prison, Rome, Italy. The top dungeon was bad enocugo, it having no means of ingress or egress but through an opening m the top. Throuzh that the pris- ouer was lowered, and tbrouzh that came all the food and air and light received. It was a terrible place, tbat upper duugeon, but the Tullianum was the lower dungeon, and that was still more teched, the only light and the only air comin Zz through tne roof, and that roof the floor of the upper dungeon. That was Paud's last earthly res- idence, . 1 was in that lower dungeon in November. 1386, It is made of voleanie stone, I meas. ured it, and from wall to wall it was fifteen feet. The highest of the roo or leparture is at was seven {eet Crom the ficor and the lowest cf the roof five feet seven inches. The pening in roof through which Paul was let down was three feet wide. The dungeon has a seat of rock two and a half feet high and a shelf of rock four teet high. 1 re that Paul spent his last days on « is toere thas I see him now, int ungeon, shiver ing, blue or that old overcoat ) 7 10 Troas and which they lown, note withstanding rit, If some y into that dungeon t might find out ‘aul’s living ment. In the the old man, : At thas very time when he vat od warmt and the sunli out ix fis ankles? was fast, his feet be turned ti What are those sca Enow he was whipped getting thirty ‘ pinety-five ba made wi $ the 1, r he is shut ara those sca we Ire tag fresh al m the rs on when he nines str alae iro Was the ingeon, and if execution nan, or you ear. Hurry Paul, aiees ey say feel the w ht Our sg along.” have to travel? bres miles is a good way id man to trave after he bas been whipped and crippled with aitreatment. But they soon get to the place of execution—Acque Saivia—and be 1s lastenea to the pillar of martyrdom, It does not take any strength So Sie him last, He makes no resistance O Paul: why not now strike for your life? You have a great many triends here, With that withered band just launch tas thundertoit ot the people upon those ine famous soldiers, No! Paul was not going to interfere with wis own coronation. He was 100 giad to go. I see aim jooking up in the iace bis executioner, and, as the grim cfficial draws the sword, Paul calmiy says, "A am now ready 10 be offered, and the time of my departure is at hang, Bus 1 put tuy band over my eves | want nos 10 fee that last struggle. One snarp, keen stroke, and Paul does gn to the banquet and Paul does dine with the King. 2 What a transition it was’ From the ma. Jaria of Rome tothe finest climates in all the universe—the z of eternal beauty and health, Hisashes wore pu” in tis catacombs of Rome, but in one moment the air of heaven bathed from his sou last ache From shipwreck, ’ biting pain of the elmwood r wis, fron thas sharp sword of the headsaian, ha gos ats the most brilliant assenblaze of § MY, A king among kine, muititu les of the sain. hood rushinz out and strate ping forth by 14 of welcome, for | do really think the right hand of Goi is Christ, right hani of hrist is Paul, great in heaven, He changed kings likewise. hour of deuth and us to the last was under Nero, tae thick-necke 1, the erusk eyed, the filthyv-lippe | and scalotured fos- tures of that man brinzing down to us this very day the horrible possibilities of his nature—seited as he was among picture { marbles of Ezypt. under a roof atoraed with mother-of-pearl, in a dining-room which by machinery was kept whirling da and night with most 1 MAF S we Ok rye tha fr taat 5 ths 1% thy secon t an moment he gold. and the grounds around his palacs been bedaubed with tar and pitch and then set on fire to illumine the darkness, Tha was Paul's king. But the next moment he goes into thy Fealn of Him whost reign is love, nnd whoss courts ars paved with love, and whos throve is set ou pillars of love, ani whoss Scepter 1s adorned with jewels of love, ana whose palace is lighted with love, and whos lifetime is an eternity of Jove, When Paul was leaving so much on this side the pillar of martyrdom to gain so much on the other side, do you wonder at the cheerful valedie- tory of the text, *‘[he time of my departure is at hand” Now, why cannot al! the old people hava that aged man had? the same holy glee ns Charles I, when he was combing his hair, found a gray hair, and hs sent it to the quesn as a great joke; but old aze is reilly no joke at all. For the last forty years you have been dreading that waich ‘ought to have been an exhilaration. You say you most fear the struggle at the moment tho soul and body pat. But millions have en- dured that momeat, and may not we as t and %0 can well? through with 3a They got throug i i i i : ! last moment—not so much pain as tas pricg of a pin, the seeming signs of distress being altogether involunt ary. Bat you say, “lt is the uncortainty of the future.” "Now, child of God, do not play the inddel, After God has filled the Bibte til it can hold no more with stories o. the gool things ahead, better not talk about uncartainties, I remark again, ail those ought to feel this jov of the text who have a holy curios ItV to know what 18 peyvond this earthly ter minus. And who has not any curiosity about it? Paul, I suppose, had the most sat- isfactory view of heaven, and he says It doth not yet appear what we shall be.” ix like looking throuzh a broken telescope, **Now we ses throuzh a glass darkly.” Can you tell me anything about that heavenly place? You ask me a thousand questions about it that I cannot answer, thousand questions about it that you cannot apswer, And do you wonder that Pau! was #0 glad when martyrdom gave him a chance to go over and make discoveries th that blessed country? I hope some day, by the grace of God, to go over and see for myself, but not now, No well man, no prossered man, 1 think, wants (0 go now, pus toe time will come, I think, when 1 shall go over, I want to see whist they do there and I waut to ses how they doit, I do not want to be looking through the gates ajar forever. I want them to swing wide open. There ars tea thousand things I want explained--about vou, about mysslf, about the governmentof this world, about God, about everything, Columbus risked his life to find this con- tinent, and shali we snudder to go out on a vovage of discovery which shall reveal a vaster and more brilliant country? John Franklin risked his life to fln{ a passage between icabergs, and shall we dread to find a passage to eternal summer? Men in Switzerland travel up the heights of the Matterhorn with alpenstock ana guides and rockets and ropes, and getting hail wav up stumble and fall down in a horrible mas sacre. They just wanted to say they had been on the tops of those high peaks, Aud shall we fear to go out for the ascent of the eternal hills which start a thousand miles beyond where stop the highest peaks of the Alps when in that ascent 5 no peri y A man doomed to die stepped on the scaffold and said in joy, "Now in tea min- utes I will know the zreat secret.” Une minute after the vital functions ceased th» little child that died last nignt knew more than Jonatuan Edwards or 5t. Paul himself Datars hs die Friends, the exit from thi, world, or call it, &« the Christian is “Xpianation it den lilumioation, 18 pening of all to Lechism thera is 1% a m. In + ladder ier and | ¥ taien nony anith maven. | say that admiration as He uttered the finished until the stors bre pat dow; y the Divige Narrat story is done, and thes at tap baton, the eternal sstra will rons up finger ou string of harp, and to the mouth of trampet, there shall roll forth the oratorio of the Messiah, “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive blessing and riches and honor and glory and power, world without end ™ WY hat He endared, oh, who can tell, To save our soqus from desth and hell! When there was between Paul and that magnificent Personage only the thinoess of the sharp edge of the sword of the execu toner, do you wonder toat he wanted to go? Oh! my Lord Jesus, let wave of that glory roll over us! Hark! [ hear the wei ding bells of heaven ringing now. The marriage of the Lamb has come, and the Dbride hath made herself ready. And now for a little while good by. I have no morbid feeling about the future. But if anything should happen that we never mest again in this world, let us meet whers there are nc partiogs. Our friendships have been delight ful on earth, but they will be more delightful in heaven. And now I commend you to Go and the word of His grace, which is able t¢ build us up and give an inheritance among all them that are sanctified. eves fixed « until the the of the OF lipe one Di fliourt Many idioms gEuUage “man, of the possess a striking esque significance, English lan- and pictur. which from long ind constant use is often lost sight Occasionally, however, unusual association brings it out with clears nes< and force. Two women were discussing a Young man of their acquaintance, whose father had been a distinguished member of the bar, and a useful member of society. “For my part.” said ¥ $f. aw confident he will sucered.” “Yes,” replied the other, “he undoubtedly a worthy young man. but 1 don't think he has head enough to till his father's shoes.” IIS A Her Ignorance. Mrs. Cumso-—I'm glad it's a t'n wedding we are invited to next week and not a silver wedding, Silver presents are so frightfully expensive. Cumsi—-My dear, you are evident ly unacquainted with the fact that we are expected to take a present made of American tin. ct i An Urgent Case, . Poor Patient—+1 sent for you, doe. tor, because 1 know you are a noted physician, but I feel it my duty to in- form you that I haven't over 825 wo my name.” Dr. Biggteo—' Very well, en, we must cure you up as quie as sible.”—New York Weekly. pou: She Surprised Them. | Presence of mind has turned defeat | Into victory for generals on the bat- ftlefleld, for statesmen in the Senate hamber, and for lawyers in the court oom. It 4 rare gift, but a very | young woman who lis in the little town of Hawthorne, in the pine woods of Florida, possesses it to an inusual degree. The Sunday school { to which she belongs recently gave a | sunday-school concert, and though she is hardly O years old, she showed such willingness to contribute to the suc- ress of the occasion that fn. trusted by her teacher with the reci- tation of a verse. She applied herself to the task, and at the preliminary rehearsal acquitted herself to the delight of her teacher and the envy of her classmates. The Sunday ofternoon came at last. The church was crowded, and the ex- ercises began. The little girl was in a flutter. At last the long-awaited moment arrived, and the superintend- ont announced her name. She tod- dled bravely up the aisle, and with the help of his hand mounted the steps and stood on the platform facing is shie was the people. | wh. f what a lot of al me!’ she thought. In fact, like many an in a similar situation, the could think of knew well faving it in her s think of at all. 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