BEV. DR. TALMAGE Ths Emineat Brocklyn Diviue's Sun. day Sermon. Bubject: “‘Lagsons Taught Ny Malidays.' TEXT: “In respect of a holy day.” ~Col= ossians ii, 16, What the Bible here and elsewhere calls a change of pronunciation, call holiday, But by change of spelling and accentuation we | cannot change the fact that holidays have great significance. As lonz as the world stan’s Christmas day and New Year's day and Easter day will be charged and sur. charged with solemn suggestiveness and holy mirth. Whether you take the old style of my text and call them holy days, or the modern style an? call them holidays, they or take his food from the beak of a fiithy raven, and Focrates condemned to death, so that the Calvarian mastacre was in the same old line of maltreatment. But the novelty of all the ages was the conjunction of divin. ity and humanity, Invisible deity, muscled and nerved and flashed in masculine phys. A caoild and yet a God! that night, some angel would have rushed down and pointed with his glittering scepter, Isaiah and David and Ezskiel, who foretold the coming, would have descended from their thrones and stood on the roof of the barn or in somes way desiznated the honored locality, As the finger of lizht that Dasem- ber 25 pointed to the straw cradle, now all this moment, fingers of childhood and old age, fingers of sermon and song and decoration and fes- tivity, point to the straw cradle. Am I not right in saying that the first of the three chapters of the holidays should be devoted to the illustrious birthilay? By song and prayer and solemn reflection and charities to-dav, and by gifts and trees that bear fre't in an hour after they are planted, and family gathering and hilarities sounding from collar somehow set all my nerves a-tingle and my deeper emotions into profoundest agitation. I am glad that this season we have the holi- | days completely bounded. For years, Christ mas Jay starting in the midst of one week, and New Year's day starting in the midst of another weelr, we have been perplexed to | know when the holidays began and when | they ended, and perhaps we may have begun | them too soon or continued them too long. | But this year they are bounded by two | beaches of gold—Sabbath, December 25, | 1862, and Sabbath, January 1, 1803. The | one Sabbath this year commemorates the | birth of the greatest being that ever walked | the earth: the other celebrates the virth of that which is to be one of the greatest years | of all time; the one day supernatural be- cause of an unhinged star aod angelic doxo. logy, and the c ther day natura’, but part of a procession that started with tae world's | existence and will go on until the world is burned up; both the first and last days of | these holidays coming in with NHabbatical splendor and solemnity, and girdling all the | days between with thoazhts that have all timo and all eternity in their emphasis How shall we spend them? At haphazard and without special direction, and they leav- ing, as they go away from us, physical fa- tigue and mental exhaustion, the effect late hours and recklessnsss ol diet adding another chapter to the moral and spiritual and eternal disasters which have resuited from misspent holidays? Ob, no! A and resounding no! for all the eight days, I propose that we divide this holiday sea- gm, the two Sabbaths of holiuay and the six cays between, into three chapters— the first part a chapter of illustrious birth- day; the second part a chapter of annual de cadence; the third part a chapter of chroa- ological introduction. First, then, a chapter of illustrions birth- day. Nota dayof any year but has ben marked by the nativity of some good or great soul. Among discoverers ths birthdas of Humboldt was Sept. 14 and of David Liv ingston March 10. Among astronomers the birthday of Isaac Newton was Dae, 25 and of Herschel Nov. Among orators the birthday of C.cero was Jan, 8 and of Corys- stom Jan, 1. Among prison relorm- ergs the birthiay of John Howard was Sep, 2 and of Elizabeth Fry May 1. Among painters the birthday of Raphael was March 23 and of Michael Angelo Marca 6. Among statesmen the birthday of Washington was Feb, 22, of Hamilton May 8 and of Jefferson Aprii 2. Among consecrated souls the birthday of Mrs, Hemans was Sep. 25 of Lucretia Mott Jan. 3and of Isabella Graham July 29. But what are all those birthdays compared with Dec. 25, for on or about that lay was born ons who eciipsad all the great names of all the cmuries —Jesusz of Bethle. bem, Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus of Golgotha, Jesus of Olivet, Jesus of the heavenly throne? The greatest pictures have been made about scenesin His lifetime, Th» greatest sacrifices on fleld of battles or in hospital or on long march or in martyrdom have besn inspired by His self abnegation. The finest words of cloqu nea ever spoken have been uttered in the proclamation of His Gospel, The grandest ovatorios that have ever roiled from orchestras were descriptive of His life aud death. There have been other orators, but pose like Him wao ““i0ake as never man spake” Thera have boen other re- formers, but nono like Him who will not have completed His mission until the last prison is ventilated, and the last blind eye opencd, and the last deaf ear un- stopped, and the last lama foot bounds like a roe, and ths last case of dementia shall cone to its right mind There have been other discoverers, but none like Him able to fin | how man may be just with God. There have been other deliversrs, but none like Him, the rescuer of Nations. There have been other paintars, but none like Hin who put the image of God on a lost soul. No wonder we celebrate His burth, Protestant church, Catholic church, Greek church, St Isaac's of St. Petersburg, St Peter's at Rome, the Madeleine at Paris, Si. Paul's in London joining all our American cathedrals and churches and log cabin meeting houses and homes in keeping this pre-eminent birth festival. Elaborsts and prolonged efforts have bean made to show that the star that pointed to the manger in which Christ was born was not what it appearad to be, but a conjunc tion of Jupiter and Saturn. Our wise men of the west say that the wise men of the east were mistaken. Astronomara, you know, can calculate backward as well as forward, and as they can tall what will occur a bun dred years from now amoung the heavenly bodies, 0 they can accurately caleuiate backward and tell what occurred eightesn | or ninetesa hundred years ago. Ana it is | true that seven years before Christ, in | Chaldea, about three hours before day dawn, | there was a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, Standing in Jerusalem and looking over toward Bethlehem, those two stars would have seemed to hang | over that village, and it is sugzgestad by a | jearned professor that ths magi may have | had weak aves, 80 that the two stars may have looked like one. In order to take | everything supernatural out of the story we | have to blind the eyes of the magi and intro. duce a second star to help out the idea of | the one star. But | prefer the simple | story of the Bible, that a light of some kind —gtellar or masteoric~— printed from the sky to the straw cradle. When 1t is 80 easy for | God to make a world that He puts cigatesn | millions of them within one sw of the | telescope, He could certainly afford one sil- | very or fiery signal of soms kind to point the world to the of the universe le, of stout the 17. i lace where the sovereign | y incarnated and infan- | If God could afford to make an especial | earthquake at the crucifixion, the aslant rocks on Mount Calvary still showing that | there wa: a convulsion of nature at that | lar spot which was felt in none of | the surroundings, then Hs cou.d afford some- thing unusual, something brilliant, some- i thing positive, something tremendous at the | nativity. son | can have the palace | sent with awit Sispattn i 304 AnDOUnes he i gladness at gates up an empire with canonade, 1 am not surprised that at the birth of the Son of eromiah avid hounded complied to starve to garret to-morrow, kesp Christmas, As far as possible gather the children and the grandchildren, but put no estoppel on toys in shape of rail trains or trumpets or infant effigy. Let theold folks for one day at least say nothing about rheumatism, or prospect of early demise, or the degen racy of modern times, or the poison in confec- tionpery. If you cannot stand ths noise, re~ tire from it for a little while into some other room and stop your ears. Christmas for children without plenty of noise is no Christ mas at all, If children and grandchildren cannot have full swing during the holidays, when will they have it? They will be! still soon enough, and their feet will will bear them down, Houses get awfully still when the children gre gooe, While they stay let them fill the room with such resounding mirth that you can hear the echoes twenty yeors after they are dead. By religious esleuration to-day and by do- mestic celebration to-morrow keep Christ. As for our beloval church, we to. morrow night mean to s2t the calldren of our Sabbath-school wild with delight, and in The Christian Herald, with which I am connected, we are celebrating the holidays by sending out from two four thousand Bibles a day, and they will continous to go out hy express, by messengers and by mails ons hun good olt Book | on which Christmas is built, and which gives | the only healthful iaterpretation thesa swift flying years The second chapter of the holidays must speak of annual decadence. This ix the last | Sabbath of the year. The steps of the last | getting short, for it is old now, | When it waved the springtime blossoms the | year was voung, and when it swung the | scythe and cradle through the summer har | to of ting out of breath now, and after six more throbs of the pulse will be dead. We caunot annual decadence. Set all the , sat all the watches back, sel al hironometers back, but you time back. For the oli clock you might suppose thai bave sinl respect, and that if you took hold of thoss old hands on the facs | of that centsnarian of a timepiecs and pushed them back you might expect that | time would stop or retreat for at least a few | minutes. “No, no” says the old family ‘I. must go on, I saw vour father and mother on their wedding day. [I struck ths hour of vour nativity. 1 counted the festal hours of the day in waieh you brought home a bride. I sounded the knell at your father's deat I tolled af your mother's departure. Yes, I mus: sound your going outol life. Imust goon, I mus go on. Tick, took! Tick, tock! But there is a graat city clock high uo in the tower. There are so msny wrongs in all our cities to be rizhitad, sc many evils to ba extirpats!, so many prisons to be sanitaried —#top the city clock until all thea: things are done. Let common council and the people of the great town decree that tae city hall clock shall stop. We do not want the sios of 1882 to be handed over to 1883, Wedo not weat the young year to inherit the misfortunes of the old vear., By ladders lifted to the towar sil by strong hands takes hold and halt the city clock, “No! no says the city clock. “1 eanuot wait until you correct all evils or soothe all sorrow or drive out all sin. I have been counting the stepa of your progres: asa city. [ have seen your opportunities. [ have. deplored you neglects, but time wasted is wastad must go on. 1 must go on, Tick, tock! Tick, tock Bat in the tower of the capitols at Washiagioa and Loodon and Balin and Vienna and all the grest national capitals there are clocis. Suppose that by presidential proclama- tion and resolution of the segate and bouse | of representatives our national clock in the | Capitol turret be orderel to stop, “Stop, 0 clock, until sectional auimosities ace | cooled off, until our Sabbatos are betier kept, and druankeaneis turns to sobriety, and bribery, fraud and dissipation quit the | Inndl Btop, O clocy, in the tower of the | United States Capito: “No, no!" says the | clock. *'1 have been going on ®o long I can not afford to stop. [ sounded the birthday of American Independence. I rang out the return of peace in 1895. | have seen many presidents inaugurated. I struck the nour of Lincoln's assasdoation. I have boat time for emancipation proc- lamation, and Chicago fire, and Caarleston | earthquakes, and epidemucs of fever and cholera, Nations never stop. They march on toward salvation or demolition. And why should I stop? 1 caime for the nation- al holidays. 1 toll for the minty dead. 1 i must go on! [I must go on! Tiek, took! | Tick, tock!’ Toners may be a differencs of a tew seconds or a few minutes in the time- | pieces, but it will be a serious occasion when hour tho family clocks, and the city clocks, and the national clocks strike one! two! turee! four! five! six! seven! eight! nine! tea! eleven! twelve! Sorry am I to have 130 depart this life. It has been a god year. What bright days! What starry nights! What harvests! What religious convocatioas! What trinmphs of art and sciences and invantion and enterprise nd religion! Bul ali, how sacred it has bisen with sorrows! What pillows hot with fever that could not ba cooled! What graves opening wide enough to take down beauty and strength and usefulness! What octo genarians putting down the staff of earthly pilgrimage and taking the crown of heavenly reward! What children, as in Bible time crying: “My head, my head! And they oarri him to his mother, and he sat on her knees until noon and then died.” Tails year went the chief poet of Kagland and the oaiel poet of Amerion. Oar John G. Whittier — reat io literature and simple as a child-- ‘or did not spend an afternoon with him in a barn in the Adirondacks, and in the even- ing we played blindman's buff, he tying over my eyes the handkerchiel while the hotel rang with the merrymaking? And Tennyson, this year gone—ie who for year wrote: Ring out, wild Sila, to the wi d sky, flying clond, the fromy light, The ind in the night, Lp in, and je: him die | What mingling of emotions in this closing year! What ora blossoms for the mar- riage altar, and what myrtle for the tombs of the dead! Hossnnas and lamentations in | eollidion. Anthem ant dead march mount. | ing from the same ivory keys, Before this year utes leaves Shedatili et Is iar our re. tance for opporiun at can never Darn, Kind words spoken too late or not spoken at all. Means of getting 4 ot do. ed stop this cannot family | FRO od urs py . Clog Ow when our last Deo. 81 spod a enter a blissful eternity? Tae whelmingly solemn week of all the last week of . But on this subject, “In Péapach of a holy ua 88m SEES pute it, oF 4 i most over the year is 1 advisad that you divide this season into three chapters--the first a chaoter of {llus~ trious birthday, the second an chapter of an- nual decadence and the thirl a chapter of chronological introduction—and this last chapter we have reached. In olden times there was n style of closing an old year and opening a naw one that was very suggestive, The family would sit up until o'clock at night, and when the the family would all go to the fronc door of the house, take down the bar and turn back the lock and swing the door wide open to let the old year out and new year in, And that ix what we are going todo, With the same measurad step that time has kept since it started it will come to our door in the clos ing night of this week. With what spirit shall we let the new year in? | have already clock vears of all chronology, “'Why¥®' you ask. “Have vou any forebodings or wpremoni- tions?’ No. ‘‘Are you expecting the millen- nium this year.” No! “Why, then, say become mors and more eventliul, Compare the Nineteenth century with the Eighteenth century. Compara the first hall of this eentury with the last half, The surges of this ocean of time ars rolling higher and higher, forces of right and wrong are rapidly mul tiply ing, and their struggles must be inten - sited. Itisa chronological fact that we are all the time coming nearer to the world's edenization first and then to its in- ecineration, to its redemption and its deuoli- tion. And so I expect that 1803 will be a greater year than 1802, Its wedding bells will be merrier. Its obsequies will be sad- der, Its fant, Its properties more significant, Its opening more grand, lta termination more stupendous, Look out for 1803! Let printers have im their cases of type plenty of exclamation points to set up a sudden paragraph. Let the conservatories have profusion of flowers that can be twisted into garlands, Let churches have plenty of room for increased assemblages, Let men and women have more religion to moet the mands and the rapture: and the woes of In what mood shall we With faith, triumphant His grace wili be sufficient if you trust Him, Yq cau go to Him at any time and led sym pathy. My little child g buoyant faith, yt hurt ons morning: dur. ing her mother's absen We looked alter the cass as well a ! Toward night ber mother returnsd, and for the tHrst time the child eriad ana eried vociferonsly, Rome one said to her: “What you cry for You did not ery all day.” Her reply was, “There was no one to cry to, And so you sometimes sUDDress your trouble Bech tie there is no ull resource of earthly pathy. But i rejcize to tell you that in God you always have some vias 10 to, He will condole and Lelp in every cris Cane, pow, let me unsirap that RKospsack of cars from niders, Come prosperity o wedding orf burial, « so § We cou! Ro BY ne sioknose, ternity ali'e 3 i Keep your hears it and all else will right, Men and men have given nnd nsical directions ia regard to sasil dons with their hearts after death. Hob- art Bras» ordere! his heart to be sant to the Land for burial. The fof Ls Ho ire or ” 34 Comn 1 iy, ail’s well be somtimes strange whal De tar of the fied at B rikampstead, 0 Tewkesbury Cathe iral, Windsor, dying in a foreign land, oroe osel in lead ani sent t | in the chapel of Brade vow what shall we decrees for our lu Toast it be the Lord's, and then it mas diff srence what else becomes of it. Living and dying, may it ail be His Thus in three chaplers | that the holidays be gr interfere with their felicities be fond pleasant reminiscence further on. You kuvow that after awhile the old homestead will be broken up. For years and years the children come h spend the bolldays, and the house is romamaged from garret to oeliar, and the sc sues of childhood are ud we jauzh till the tears come aver some boyish or girlish fre ory some old troubles ended; but the heart swings back again to mirth, for It does not take hail a second for a tear of the eye to strike the Foo a lew years the grand children make the holidays merry. One of the many ness of grandchildren 8 to kesp the oid folks younz, Then alter a few years the aunus! gathering at the old homestand is half broken up, for father or mother is Jone, About two vears after lor there are gon. erally about two years between the time of their going) the other ball of the holiday is troken up. Then the old bouse goes into the possession of strangers, and Lave uped, #9 sent that they will Hae to regears ns wn li ovet They plant their own Christmas trees and hang up their owa chil dren's stockings, and twine their own holly and mistletoe, and have their own good Iaey will perhaps be riding out on some of those holidays either in sleigh ov along the places where we siumber the last sleep, end may we have been s> considerate them now that they will then say one to an- ever wished their children a merry Meanwhile we, their parents and grand- parents, will, 1 bope, through the atone. ment of our blessad Lora, be keeping holi days livelier and higher up: in th: presence Caristmas commemorates, and of the “Ancient of Days” who saw the first year companionship with the ever-widening circle of beavenly kindred, many already of Escuol, and redden “with the new wine of the kingdom,” and glow with *iwelve manner of fruits” from the tre:s of life, and the gilts of those holidays will be mansions and thrones and crowas of glory that never fade away, days of earth may nit us for those mors de ligotiul holidays of heaven! i TIN 5.5.555 Treasures in an Antigae Desk, ssp friend of mine in Philadelphia that has proved its own age,” sid 8. G. Hayden, of Richmond, Va., at the Palmer House, *‘I was visiting him the other day when he wis examining the desk and made an important alscovery. The thing has a great number of little apartments for papers, but apparently did not contain as much space as it should, We were examining it together when we notivd a hidden spring, and what seemed (0 be a panel proved to be another drawer, which he opened and found to his amazement and gratification that it contained an autobiography of Thomas Chalkley, published as tho title showed, by ‘B. Franklin’ in 1749. drawer also contained an amount of Continental greenbacks. The antiquity of the desk was not only proved bul the other valuable relics were found.” Chicago Herald, A lake captain at Chicago, who wat wrecked on the lake shore five years a40, dud “aquatied ve the duty 1s How i day, as we moderns write and pronounce by land created by dumplag fa that is worth $300,000 THREE TROUBLES. 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Savage man, who has been first in contact with anfmals, 1} a hunter, and at object of dislike to the other hunting animals, and of dread to the hunted 4 al y usually therefore tread and beef, is not 1 hunter, and It just conceivable that he might be content to leave th animals in a newly and DECOSRATILY is dines unmolested, condescend, whet t better employed, ¢ tude toward himself The ER impossible Islas Family Robins the animals spheres were fest half deal flit BAPE plac unfortun islands sel ©W La secie versed game generally been CO th man have punts of th Hakinvt ZIV BAYH Two Burvaro strikers first stole a giaie several mis As t er all it doubliess ngine and then own thie ts hey track occure ad just been to hay His them the er s3ord mens nap; ould have locomotive and my #® i i y #ult In Chinn, A wonderful example of patience in the Chinese is afforded by a consu lar Report dealing with the manufac ture of salt in Central China. 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