REV. DR. TALNAGE The Eminzeat Brooklyn Diviue's Sun. day Sermon. Sakhisot: “The Sunshine of Religion.” 3+ VHer ways are ways of pleasant- viess."— Proverbs fil, 17. You have all heard of God's only bagotten Son, Have you heard of God's daughter? She was born in heaven, She cams dowa over the hills of our world, She had quesnly step. On her brow was celestial ra fiance, Her voice was music. Her name is Religion, My text introduces her, “der ways are waye of vleasantness, and ull her paths are peace.” B alint is religion? Tae theo og cal study has had a different effect upon me from the eff el sometimes pro- duced, Every vear I tear out another leaf from toy theology until I have only three or four leaves left—in other words a very brief and plain statement of Christain belief, An aged Christian minister sail: “When I was a young man, I knew everything: whea I got to be thirty-five yoars of age, in my ministry ! had oniy a huadred doctrines of religion; when 1 got to be forty years of age, I had only fifty doctrines of religion; when 1 got to be sixty yearsof age, 1 had only ten doctrines of raligion, aninow I am iying at seventy-five years of age, and there is only one thing I know, and that is that Christ Jesus came into the world to savas ginners.” And so 1 have noticed in the study of God's word and in my contemplation of the charac er of God and of world that 1 is necessary for me to drop this part of iny belief and that part of my belief as being nonessential, while I cling to the one great docirine that man is a sioner, and Christ is bis Aimighty and Divine Saviour, Now | take these three or four leaves of my theology, and [ find that, in place, and domipant avove all otuers, ix ths sunshine of region. I have a passion for throwing open dil the shutters, ‘thats waat | want to do this morning. We areapt to throw so much of the sepu chral into our ralig.os and to close the shutters ant to pull down ths blinds that it is only through here and there a cre- vice that the lizht streams. The religion o ord Jesus Christ is a religion of joy in- sscribable and unutterable. Wherever | can find a bell I mean to ring it, ng woo are disposed to hold on to their melancholy and gloom, let them now denars: st and the most ra lant being of all the 1niverse comes io. God's Bon has eft our world, but God's dangher is hers, Give her room, Hail, princess ol peaven! Hail, laughter of woe Lord God Almigaty! Come in and make this house thy throaeroom s tung forta this idea theory of religion is suoshine, | sardly Know where to begin, for there are fF thoughts taat rasa upon my son: , er saw her little catld seated on the In one « “ily “Uh hand. Soe said, you doing there “I'm gett dariingz, what reaned the ehild, spooniul of this sunshine.” Would Go iat to-day | might preseat you with a chalice of this glorious, sveriasting Gospel sunshine First of al, 1 tind & great aeal of in Caristian soo Know of t OnAMD rs of th: worl the Charles Lambe, of the world toe ms i* 5 t+ ma * SLY. do nov th anything more dolelu { the mere Fbomas Hoods, the (hs Mattuews Wire Huaness —iiye ries Ml WHOSE Fase oliers Aug bit i grap nw sown ia their ny DIOTrAphOY soul toes wid find that a terrilic dis- jaietuas Laughter is no signa of happiness, Lhe maunic nuh, I he con among the ib iruansard azainst tae you wang fhe hyena i Aroniac<s auga anter agus Lis de ng i% ¢ Iaiways reer, and | aver In of hr f repartee | or: 1 hike their amusement Foey Curistian people, | sometim « 1i¥e on when by all natural law they sugat to save died, tinued in thea said they ought to have been dead Every day of their existence was a defiance of the laws of anatomy au i physiology, bu they had this supernatural vivacity of toe Gospel in their soul, and that kept then alive, side of the Crossed netr suogny reason | have viety. I liket sLvie bet ler iva LHC existences room for Christian conversation will from 8 to 10 o'clock hear more ing glee, see more bright strokes of wit, and find more tion thin in any Now, woen | say a aul meray wordly party. worldly p ty" I mean that to wn ch you ars iovited, because un der all the circumstances of the case it is the best for you to be lavited, and to which you go becanse noder all circumstancis of the case it is better that von go, and jeaviug the shawls on the second floor you go w ths parior to give formal ant! the hostess, and then move sion of the weather, ani io apology tor of and the corners of pleasure, the going around tion is served, and then after the collation is served goiog back again into ths parior to resume the waather, and then at the close hostess and assuring them that vou have had a most delightful evening, an | then pass ing down off the front steps, the sian of tus door the only satisfaction of the evening, On, young man, come from the country te spend your days in city life, where you going to spend vour evening? Lot me tell you, while there are many paces of in- nocent worldly amusement, it 18 most wigs for you to throw your bo ly, mind aul soul into Christian society, Come t5 me at the ciose of five years and tell me what bas bon the result of this aavice. Bring with you the young man who raiused to tate the ad- vice and who went into sinful amusement, He will come dissipated, shabby in apparel, ind aposed to look any ons in the eyes, moral character eighty-five per cent, off, You will come with principle seitied, counteuancs frank, habits good, soul saved and sil the inhabitants of heaven, from the lowest angel up to toe archangel and cear past him to the Lord God Almighty, your coadjutors, This is not the advice of a misanthrope, There is no man in the hous to waom the world is brighter than ft is to me, It is not the advice of a dyspeptic—my digestion is perfect; it is not the advice of a man who cannot understand a joxe or who prefersa funeral: it is not the advices of a wornout man, but the advice of u man who can ses this world in all ite Drighthes and, ¢ weld Sing ZaTey, competent in judging what is cheer, [ tell the muitituies of Pi] men in this house this morning that nothing in worlily amogiations so grand and so besutiiul and so exhilarant as in 4 a great deal of talk about the self denials of the Christian. | have to teil that where tue Christian has one self denial the man of showatid has a thou- life of the worl L, pleasantness ” Again, | find a great daal of religions sun. shine in Christian and divine explanation. To a great many people lite is an inexplica. ble tangle. Things turn out differently from what was supposed, There is a useless wo- man in perfect health. There isan indus- trious and consecrated woman a complete fuvalid, Explain that. There is a bad man with £30,000 of income, Taere isa good man with #800 of income. Why is that? There is a foo & society who lives on, doing all the the damage he can, to seventy-five years of age, and here is a Christian father, faithful in every department of life, at thirty-five “Hor ways ara ways of helpless, Explain that, Ob, there is no sentence that oftensr drops from your lips than this: “lcannot understand it. Ican- vot understand it." Well, now, religion comes in just at that point with its illumination and its explana- tion. There isa business man who has lost his ent re fortune, The week his fortune there were twenty carriages that stopped at the door of his mansion, weak after he lost his fortune all the car riages you count on one finger. The week before financial trouble began p sople all took off their hats to hitn as he passad down the street, The week his financial were under discussion people just touched their hats without anywise ben ting the rim, The week that he was pron runcad insovient people just jolted their heads as they passed, Now, while the world goss away from a man when he is in fluancial distress, the re- lizgion of Christ cons to him and savas: “You are sick ani your sickness is to be moral purification; you are bereaved; God wanted in some way to take vour familly to and was most ready to go.” I do not say but 1 do say it lays down cartain principles You know business men often telegraph in ciphers. he merchant in San Fraoeisco Selographs to the merchant in New York csrtain infor. mation in ciphers which no other man in that line of business can understand, the merchant in San Francisco bas the key to the cipher, and the merchant in Now York has the kev to the cipoer, ani on that in- formation transmitted there are enterprises Now the providencss of life sometimes saem to be a ssnselass rig narole, a mysteri - ueaning, he gots enough of the meaning to understand that itis for tas best. Now is pot sunsyine in that? Is thers nit pleasure io that?! Far bayoad laughter, it is nearer the fountain of tears than Dolser- tamonstration. Hive you never cried for joy? Tuere are trars which are eternal ire in distillation, There are hundreds of people in this houses who are walking day by day ia the subline there working together for good for their soul How a man oan get alonz through this lie Are you never to get it back? Is your property goae forever® ls your soul to oe bruisel asd to pe tried forever! Have you no explanation, no Christian explanation, ani yet not a But woea you have the religion of Jesus Carist in your soul, it explains every- you WO wun ler- wk off in life, Youi down the street “I have no shoes, A man passed any saoes and said Isn't uo shoes, no shoes” until he had uo feel. You ought to thank God or wast He does, iostead of grumbling for witat He does pot, od arranges ail the reather in ¢ worid--tae sparitasi Woalooer as Wall a¢ the “What Kind of weather * sald soma ons to a larmer, it wiil be such weaihisr a 1 like ® Wha: do you mesa by that’ aileod the other. Weil” said the tarmer, it will be suco wentoer as pleases the Lord, woat pleases tue Lord pleases me.’ a, the sunshine’ the sunshine of Charis tian ex sianauon! Hore is somes one oeadiag wer tie grave of the dead, Waa is going tas consolation? Foe flowers vou w goon toe tomo? Qa, nol The ser. rend at tae grave! Oo, bo. faa chisf eoasolation on toatl grave x wast fails irom the tarone of God, sSanshione, glor: ous sunstne, Heaurrection sunsaioe. Again, I find a great aeal of tone sunshine 3 this Bible and our religion ia tas limacteric joys that are to cone. A man gets up and goss out from a con right after the opening voiuatary has beea payed, snd before the prima jonna mags, or befors the orcossira have shoes; man who ple De LOo~IAY ner regiied, WO Oe sire vite here ave only toe lirst note of the eternal We stall In that world Bave the joy of aiscovery. We wiil ia five minutes ists, tae sxentises, tae paliosophers of all We can afford to adjourn astropomy and geology and many of toe sciences (0 the next worid, because we soall thers gave Deter ap- paratus and oetisr opportunity. I mnust study these scwncas =o far as to hep me in my work, but beyond that i and savin ¢ the souls of otaers, Reowing that in one flash of eternity we wid catoa it all, On. what an observatory in whit to study telescope, Dut bY superoatural vision: and if thers be somettilog doadtiat 10,000,000 miles away, by one stroke ol th: wing you you are baci again, and all in les time than catching 18 ail mm one flasa of And geology! What a place that will be to study geology, when the world is being picked to pecs as easily as a schoolgirl in botanioal lessons pulis the leaf from the corolla! What a place to stady architecture, amid tne torones and tie palaces and the cathedrale-—3t. Mark's and St. Pauls roox- eries in comparison, Hometimes you wish you could make the others have gooe, but you have not the time; you have pot the means. You will make that tour yet during one musical use in the eternal antaem. [say these things for the comfort of those people Wao are abridged in toeir opportunities—thoss people to whom life ix a humdrum, who toll and work, and toil mand work, and aspire after know edge, but bave no time to get it, and say: “If 1 bad the vities which other peo- ple have, how I woud fill my mind and soul with grand thoughts!” Be not discouraged, my trends. You are golug to the university vei. Death will only matriculate you into What a sublime tolog ft was that Dr, Thornwel', of South Caroline, uttersd in his last aying momants! As he looked ap he sid, “It opens; it expands; it exoands” Or as Mr. Topiaay, the autnor of “Rock of Ages,” in his last moment, or during his last hours, looked up and said, as though he saw something superoatural, “Light!” and then as be came on nearer the dying moment, his countenance more luminous, he cried, “Light I" and at the very moment of his de- parture litted both ban ws, something su ser « patnral in his countenance as he oriel, Yight Only anotaer name for sunshine, Besides that wo saall nave all the of association, has coms back, and the crutch has been | thrown away, and he is so changed you hard | ly know him. You say, “Why, I neversaw | Jou look so wall,” He says: “I couldn't | olp but be well, [ have been sailing thess | rivers and climbing these mountains and | that's how [ got this elasticity. I never was | #0 well.” ! Oh, my friends, your departal loved ones ar: only away for their health in a better climate, aud when you meet thom thay will be so changed you will hardly know them — thoy will be mo very much chanzel, and | aftr awhile, when you are assursl that | they are your friends, your departed friends, “Why, whare is that cough? Whera is that paralysis? Where is that Where is that consumption?” And he will say: “Ob, I am entirely wall! have been ranging these hills, and hence this elasticity, I have been hers now twenty | Aut thon [ stand at the gate o! the csles- tial city ro see the procession come out, and I see a long procession of little children with their arms full of flow.rs, and then | see a procossion of kings and priests moving pageantry--a long procession, grony, and I say: *‘dow strauge it is! Vhers is your Greenwood? whers is your And thay shall cry, *‘'lhers are And then listen for tha tolling of the old belfries of heaven, the old belfries of eternity. [listen to hear them toll for the dead, but they toll not for the dead. {hey only strike up a silvery chimes, towar to tower, east gate to wast gat: as they ring out, “They shall hunger ne more, neither is in the midst of the throns saall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wips away all tears from their eyes.” i 03, unglova your band and give it to ms | I fesl asit halleiniah! ever oom his is by» | I would shout. 1 will shout Dear Lord, forgive me that | if all brotherhood? Take the | crape off the doorbell. Your loved ones are only away for their health in a land am- sosial, Come, Lowell Mason; coms, Isaac Watts, and give us your best hymn about joy celestial, What is the use of postpoiniag our heaven auy longer? Lot it begin now, and woaoso- over hata a harp lot her thru u it, and who sosver hath a tramoet lot hi sn blow it, aad whosoevar hath an organ let him give us a They crowd down the air, spirits blesssd, moving in cavaleate of tri heir chariot waesis wairl in the Sabbath susiight. They comz Half, ar. miss of God! Halt until we ars ready to neve aie Oh, ray friends, it would take a sermon as coming to ns. [ just set open the sulsainy Come in, all ye disciples the world who have found the world a mockery Come in, all ye disciples of the dances, ani see the bouniing feet of tails heavenly glad Cone in, ye of woridly amusement, and ses the stage waers Kings Ars the actors, and burning worlds the fo gnats, and thronss ths spac.acaiar, Arise, vo dead in sin, for this is 1 ing of resurrection, The joys of heaven submerge our soul, | pull out ths Tam stop. Inthy presencs thers is a fuliness « joy: at toy rigut hand there ars pleasure {orever more. 1 alscipies tas morn pot Bisssed are thr saints beloved of God Washed sre ther robe ia Jovas’s bowl; Frighier than anges. Io Laer suine, 5 Favir glories splendid aud sublime My soa] anticipates the day Wonid streios fer wing sud sA8r awn To aig the song. the pain 1 bear And bow the ciel of sinners thes Oh, the sunshine, tae glorious sunshine the everlasting sunsh'ne EE ———a— Trades That Effect £ $03 the Terth Quicksilver miners iw the unhealthy trade in the world, The fumes of the mereury produce tion and the system becomes ¢ : 5 : 3 §» with the metal, the teelli Of LGe un consiant ea permeated {orto Va nate men drop out, they lose their ap yme emaciated, and, as a rule, longer than two Years Chloride of lime, employed by bleachers, frequently destroys Ithe enamel and den tine of the teeth, But phosphorus, used are of lucifer matches, affects a very large number of persons, women, girls aod children greatly preponderating. People wh work in soda factories are affected by tite, box iA seldom live they break off close to the yums. Doctcr count of the flour entering the mouth during work, collecting on and around the teeth, where it decomposes and gen erates an acid destructive to the dentine —— EN ————————— Had a Long Beard and Hated Doctors. Matthew Robinson {Lord Rokeby), a | prominent but eccentric Eaglishman of the last ceotury, became famous for his long beard and his pronounced hatred of | In regard to the His dislike for physicians was carried to his will which was to the effect that a favorite nephew was to be disinberited | should he (the nephew) in the Inst illness | of the lord let his sympathies cause him | to send for a doctor. This having been | made known to the nephew when hing neediess to add he allowed that person's | spirit to take its fight without calling io | any of the surgical fraternity. —5t. Louis | Republic. ' The Peculiar Death of a Workman, | James Bordley, of Chester, lost his life in a stmnge manner at the Wellman Iron and Steel Works. The company has an appliance for loading coal into cars th chutes, Boriley was on top of a 40U-ton pile of coal, and when the chute was opened he was sucked into the chute and seventy tons of coal cov. ered him over. Twenty men worked for au hour to move the coal pile, but when Bordley’s body was recovered lite was extinct, — Philadelphia Times, The Age of Turtles. The age of turtles, like the age of some excellent women, will never be known. In many Jara of the country boys cut their initials on the shell of the tortoise, with the date, and then watch for them in later years. At Hatboro, in Pennsvivania, one was found with IL. W., 1833, cut on the shell, Mr. Len Walton, who cut the lettering, is still living, but the slow going turtle will probably outdo him in the race of life. wMeehaos's Monthly. Mow a Snake Swallows a Frog. The method of swallowing is a very simple one, although, if the frog be large, more than half an hour may be consumed in the process. The two bones of the lower jaw are separate and the reptile loosens it hold upon one side of its jaw, and, pushing tbat side for- ward as far as possible, it drives the teeth in again, and then draws the jaw back to its original position. The re- sult is that the prey is drawn down by the movement, The process is then re- victim inward, enormously, inevitably forcing the The snake's skia stretches and the jaw is, of but the extensible ligaments hold the bones together. The disproportion be tween the diameter of the frog and the serpent’s slender neck is indeed marvels been observed to COuUVae, and snakes have Ous, | i i Alter peraaps contortious ambitious a mokthful, half an bour of laborious al! that isseen of the poor frog is a great swelling that the contracting muscles are rapidly forcing down the reptile’ If one liberates the captured (rog the wretched animal * neck. before it is too late, oiten seems so overcome by fear, or per. baps stupeficd by the serpents saliva, that it will not leap, bt crawls in a painful manner. We must pot ourselves to be duped into a mistaken sympathy, however, for such the poetic justice of the case. Large frogs esteem small snakes a particular delicacy, — Popular Science Monthly. allow is inane oI Hors: fl: sh For Food. Tn Europe, where the horse is every year more used as human food, the ani mais are not allowed to become a mass of skin and jagged boner, as old horses of. ten do here. 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