REV. OR. TALMAGE.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun.
w day Sermon.
anbjest: “Apologies for not Entering the
Christian Life,”
TEXT: “And they ail with one consent
began to make excuse.” —Luke xiv, 18,
After the invitations to a leves are sant ont
he regrets come in. Oae man epologizes
lor nonattendanc: on
on another ground. The most of the regrets
are founded on prior engagements. So in
my text a great banquet was spread, the in-
vitations were circuiated, and now the re-
grets come in. The one gives an agricultu.
cal reason, the other a stock dealer's reason,
the other a domestic reason—all poor rea-
sons. The agricultural reason being that
good old times when you knelt at your
mother's knee and said your svening prayer,
and those other days of sickness when she
watched all night and gave you the medi-
cines at just the right time and turned the
pillow when it was hot, and with hand long
ago turned to dust soothed your paing and
with that voice you will never hear again
unless vou join her in the better country
told you never mind—you would be better
by and by, and by that dying couch, whore
she talked so slowly, eatching her breath
between the words—by all those memories 1
{ ask you to coms and take the same relig-
fon. It was good enough for her--it is good
enough for von.
Aye, I make a better plea by the wounds
and the death throes of the Son of God, who
approaches you this morning with torn brow
{ and lacerated hands and whipped back ory-
ing: “Come unto Me all ve who are weary
and heavy laden, and I will give vou rest.”
Other persons apologize for not entering
the Christian life becanse of the incorrigi-
| bility of their temper. Now, we admit it is
| harder for some people to become Christians
than for others, but the grass of Gad never
se it. Could be not see it the next day?
The stock dealer's reason
bought five yoke of oxen, and he wanted to
go and prove them, He nad no business to
buy them until he knew what they were,
Besides that a man who can own five yoke
oxen cin command his own time. Be. |
sides that he might have yoked two of the n
together and driven them on the way to
he banquet, for locomotion was not
8 rapid thea as now,
gave the domestic
dad got married. He
iaken his wife with bim.
did not want to go. *
i
reason said he
ought to have
The fact was they
And they all with one
tonsent began to make excuse,” So now
dod spreads a great banquet; it is the gospel
‘east, and the table reacies across the heme
spheres, and the invitations go out ant mu!-
Utudes come and sit down gnd drink out of
ihe chalicss of (God's love, while other maual-
dtudes decline coming —the ous giving this
wpology and the otaer givin z that apolory.
"And they all with one consat began to
nake excuse,” | yposa this morning,
‘ar as God may help me, to examine
tpologies which men make for not ent nan
ihe Christian life,
Apology the first; I am not sure t
wything valuable in ths Christian ree
agion. It is pleaded that there are so many
mpositions in this day ==30 many thinzs
that seem to be real are sham. A gilded
wuitside may have a hollow innde. There
0 much quackery in physics, in ett
politics, that men come to the hab
wedulity, and after awhiie they allow
nereduilty to eo ur holy
igion, :
But, my friends, I think relizion ha
t pretty good record in the world
nany wounds it has salve:
ars of fire it has lifted
wilderness: how many
laras it bath turned into
ord; bow it hath
What rosy light it
80
the
10808 18
with our
ma in
How
how many pil
in the midaight
simoon struck Sa |
the gardens of the
stilie 1 thes chopped ssa!
hath sent sing
hrough the rift of the storm cloud wra 3
shat pools of ¢ water it hath gathered
lor thirsty Hagar and Ishmael: what manna
whiter than coriander it aath dr
ul around the camp of hardly beste
rims: what pr it hath
10ly watchers th
wound
that lowers into the
Hf resurrection morn,
Besides that. this religion
many heroes. It brough ha
Methodist, across the Atlantic Ocean with
8is silver trumpet to biow the aceptal
fear of the Lord, until it seemad as
wr American cities would take the ki
lom of beavan by violence. It « ant
sudi Ashman into Afric: alone nn a
sent of nake! ba FLARE, tho
lard of civilization and Christianity.
nade John Miiton among Raphael
mong painters, Christos Wren among
trehitects, Thorwaldsen among
dandel among musicians, D pont among
nilitary comma and to give new
Wings to the imagination, and better bal
ince to the judgment, and nore detsrmina-
“on to the will. and greater usin
© the life, and grander nobility to
ere is nothing the
~hiristian relig
Nothing in religion! Why, them. all
ose ins were deceived when in their
lying moment they thought they sawn
asties of the bless-d; and your child,
with unatterable azoay you put away
ie grave-—you will never hin again,
sor hear His sweet voice, nor {eal the throb
of his young heart? thing in re
gion! Bic Y } I
tnd turn on your pillow
medicine may be bitter
dark, the pain may
Christ nev ITE
“ie pain stab,
str
sol
aH oped
ad pai
sent oul ike
lamps burning
OH Sas
to & a
bal
b
aes ds! Toroagh the darkness
sepaicare, waat flashes
has made
Summerfield, ¢
to litt
poets,
Jor
FAI PROT
Phe a
Vite ei
Hse Our
bristi
the
tame
into
on
be sharp,
© thes
Let the fever
pothing
ikl come,
the pale
willl
sic
there is
ile death
ear the pawing
hreshold. The
rom the bo
Ww
O
Ninsteriy
en ven,
Mm, you
meh n
ie world | of skeptics. And let
my there no class people
whom I bave a warmer symopatay than for
tkeptics,. We do not know how to traat
them, We deride them, we caricaturs
bem. We, instead of taking them by the
f(t hand of Chrictian love, clutch them
®ith the iron piace~sof ecclesiasticism, Ob,
{ you knew how those men had fallen away
‘rom Christianity and become skeptics you
would not be s0 rough on them, Some
were brought up in homes wheres religion
was overdone, The most wretched day in
the week was Sunday. Religion was driven
into them with a triphamme*. They had a
wirfeit of prayer meetings. They wers
stuffed and choked with eabechis ns. They
were told by their parents that they were
the worst children that ever lived because
they liked to ride down hill better than to
read “Pilgrim's Progress.” They never
seard their parents talk of raligion tut with
the corners of their mouths drawn down
ang the eyesrollet up.
Others went into & asticism through mal -
treatment on the part of some who Pro-
fessed religion. There is a man who saya
“My partner in businese was voluble in
prayer meeting, and be was officious in all
religions circles, but he cheated me out of
$5000, and I don't want any of that re-
ligion .”
There are others who got into skepticism
by a natural persistence in nsking questions
~why or how, How can God be one being
in tires sons? They cannot understand
it. Neit
Foor
They cannot understand wh
lets sin come into the world, Yeitber can I
say: “Here isa great m Here
is a disciple of fashion, frivolous and gol-
less ail her days—she lives on to be an ooto-
genazian, Here isa Christian mother train.
bg her children for God and for heaven,
seif-merificing, Christlike, indispensable
seemingly to that houssholl.qha dukde the
skeptic says, “l'can’t
Neither can I,
I can soe how men reason themsslves
into skepticism, With burning feet | have
trod that biistorin way. I know waat it is
ve a hu
Thers
to
And
willing
theory.
me
for
HE of
Sovereign and yet man a free agent?
HEHE
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2
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MM therefore | stand this morning before
amen and women who have drifted aw
into 1 throw out nd geoff,
imulead you bv.
jor to an abyss that it could not fathom, or
to a bondage that it could not break.
wildest horse that ever trod Arabian sands
has been broken to bit and trac: Tae mad-
torrent tumbling from mountain
has been haraessed to the mill
Tae
oat
governoable man ever craated by the graces
Gad
water
sicds
ths
ny
to
an
Auzust thunderstorm wild
Gon resolution, reformatory effort, will
not effzct the chang, It takes a mightier
arm and a mizatier hand to band evil
habits than the band that bent tha bow of
Jiysses, and it takes a stronger lasso than
ever heid the buffalo on the prairie,
cannot go forth with any human weapons
and contend succewfully agaiust
litans armed with uptorn mountaios. But
you have known men iat the
influsnes ol the gospel of Christ cama until
their disposition was entirely changed. So
it was with two merchants in New York.
They were very antagonistic They had
done all they could to injure each
They wera in the same line of business
the merchants was convertai to God
Wace spirit
other
of
toward
Was 1m
his duty
how to bar himself
that business antagonist and he
pressed with the (act that it w
whea a customer askad for a ©
goxis which he had not, bat whics he koew
his opponent bad, to recommend him to go
to that store, [suppose that is about the
hardest thing the man could do, but bring
: rhly conver: ihe
to teach him
si to (yo l
ao that very thing, and being asked
certain kind of goods which he had
said [ou go to such and such a store and
will get it.” Alter awhile merchant
No. 2 found customers coming
, and be found also that merchant No, 1
1 brought to God, and he souziat the
Now thay are good
good neighbors, the grace of
changing their disposition.
" says some me, “ll have a rot
jagged, impelgoas natura, and relivion can't
fo sauything for me Do you know that
Martin Inther and Robert Newton and
Richard Baxter wer: impetuous, all
suming natures we grace ol God turned
them Into chilies neain La,
how many who have bees pagnacious and
hard to please and irascible aad mors both -
ersd about the mote in their nsighbor’s eye
than about the beam like ship timber in
their own eye have been entirely changed
by grace of God and have found out
that "godliness fa profitable for ¢
now is as well as for the
Sorou
thing
God en-
«8 Un
ay
the
in Se
3
waka
come
Pater, with
that he one
went ou
natura te Mia the sen
walk, at o look
and wept bitterly. Ries
may grow on the tiptop of
flocks of Christian
Tied a
s tried So 10 of
Caria
Bris
harvests of grac
the jagged steep, and
ble and rock nou
be all a-brisde with fretfulog
have a temper a-gleam with 1
nings, though your avarios ba lice thst
th BOrEs jos ervine, taough
fh Four disposition may
rive!
al consuming fire, Gol can drive devil
out of your soul, and aver the «
darkness Heo can say, * Lat tasers be lizht
’ A
thal
from the d.
the hand of the assisin and
from the burgiar, and in the pestiferon
lanes of ¢
the city mst the daughter of sin
unde
ind her guilt with the words
are forgiven go and sin uo more.”
riot sin 8 scariet atoaemant,
r persons apologize for
ristion life because of the inconsisten-
vie who profess religion. Thera ars
Thsy do not
thousands of poor fa:
know ths nature of soil nor the pe IP rota.
tion o 2 Their corn is
stalk and smaller in the sar. Taev have ten
jess bushels to the acre than their neighbors
Bat who declines being a» far
thers are so many poor {armers
Luere zis thonstnds of
caants. They buy at the wrong time. They
get casated ia the sale of their goods, Every
bale of goods is to them disaster,
after a waile and go out of business, But
who declines to b> a merchant because
there are so many incompetent merchants?
here are thousands of poor lawyers. They
cannot draw a declaration tha. will stand
the test, They cannot recover just dam-
ages. They cannot help a defencent sscape
from the injustics of his persecutors. They
are the worst svidence against any case in
which they are retained, Bat who declines
to be a lawyer because thore ars so many
Yet there are fons
of thousands of people who decline being re-
ligious because thers are so many unworthy
Curistians, Now, I say it is illogical, Poor
lawyers are nothing against jurisprudence,
| poor physicians are nothing against medi.
cine, poor farmers are nothing against agri.
culture, and mean, Sontemptibis 1 professors
, of religion are noting agsinst our glorious
| Christianity.
{ Sometimes you have been riding along on
| A eummer night by aswamp, ani you have
| seer: lights that kindled over decayed vego-
| taticn~lights which are called jack-o'-an-
{ tern or willwo'-the-wisp, These lights are
| meray poisonous miasmata. My friends, on
| your way to heaven you will want a better
| light than the will-o'-the-wisps which dance
| on the rotten character of dead Christians,
i Exudations from poisonous trees in our
| neighbor's garden will make a very poor
| balm for our wounds,
Sickness will come, ani we will be pushed
| out toward the Rod Bea which divides this
For
by bursting mountains and the
( unkes, and suns will fly before
feet of God like sparks from the anvil, and
10,00 burning worlds shall blaz» like ban
ners inthe track of God omnipotent. Ob,
then we will Sup aud my, “Toere was a
sned the arm of the mechanic, or soattered
the briafe of the lawyer, or interrupted the
sales of the merchant, They bolt their store
trowels and with ‘yard sticke and ory,
“Awav with your relizion from our store,
our office, our factory
They do not understand that religion in
this workaday world will help you to do
anvthing you ought to do. It canlay a
keel, it can sail a ship, it can buy a cargo, it
can work a pulley, it can pave a street, it
can fit a wristband, it can write a constity-
tion, it can marshal a host, Iv isnas appro-
priate to the astronomer as his telescope, to
the chemist as his laboratory, to the mason
as his olumbline, to the earpenter ns his
plane, to the child ax his marbles, to the
grandfather as his staff,
No time to be religious here: You have
no time not to be religiove, You might as
well have no clerks in vot.s store, no books
in your library, no compass on your ship,
no rifla in the battle, no hat for your
head, no coat for your back, no shoes for
your feet, Better travel on towa-d et aronity
mre headed and bare footad, and houseloss
anil homeless, and friesdless, than go
through life without religion,
Did religion make Raleigh any less of a
riatesman, or Havelock any less of a sol
dier, or Grinnell any less of a merchant, or
West any less of a painter’ Roligion is the
security in every bargain, it ix the
swoalest note in every song, it is the bright.
No time to ba
ligious! Why, you will have to take time
ba sic, to be troubled, to die, Our
world is only the wharf from which we are
No time to secure
the friendship of Christ, No time to buva
inmp and trim it for that walk through the
darkness waich otherwise will be illumined
of the tombstones,
eve for heavenly
choral harps, or
rite
No time to eiucate ths
splendors, or the hand fo
honor, glory and immortality. One would
think wa had tim» for nothing sles
Other persons avologizs for not entering
Christian life because it is time enough
yet. That is very like the Persons wino
send their regrets and » will come in
k. [I will not be
the banquet. but 1
n Not yet! Not
i.
tof
ocd
Lhe Close
Now, I do not give any doleful view of
There i« notelag in ny nature,
nothing in the grace o Goad, that wands
humen life. 1 have
not much sviapathy with Addison's des .
vision of Mirza,” where he rep-
resents human lifeas being a bridge of a
Oth ends of the ori igo
ciouds, and the race coming
the most of them falling down throuen
first span, and all of them falling down
through the last soan. It is a very dismal
picture. Ihave not much sympathy with
the Spanish proverb which say “he sky
14
i
re
»
covered with
th
'
good and the earth which
¢ bad is betwaon the earth and the sky.
But while we woe are bound
itfe we must also
a great uncertainty, and
says, “lI can't become a
gn yet
You do not per
this descending
and steeper, and
ion rush and veloo.
which after awialie may nol answer
the Lrakex Oh, my fricuds, not among
thos who give their wholes the world
and gE. va their God, It
far pulses are in
full play health SETYEe Our
srives and serve the word thes make
It do
from
is good-wihint
t)
th
Christian
of
ynfess that life is
that
man wao
tha
gota
reise iact that
grade of sin
0 are
10
bat
file 1
then Corpses Fe
while our
that we
ant
offic
our
of
4
not seem right that we run sip
on the
it
crushed
timbers,
and then waen ths ship i»
low to repsat-betior than never at all but
how much better, how much mbre generous,
it wouid have been if be had repented fifty
years before! My friends, you will never
gel over these provrastinations
Hore is a delusion think, "1 can
y on in sin and woridiiness, but after awhile
will repent, and then It will be as though
bad come at ths very start’ That is a
No ons ever gets fully over pro
evastination. If you give your soul to God,
some other time than this, vou will enter
beaven with only hall the capacity for en
jyyment and knowledzas yo might have
There will bs heighos Lived ress
you might have attained you will never
rea thrones ol glory on whies
wach J
We wil never get
crastination, neither ia tim»
nity. Wo have started on a
w hie thers is no retreat. The shad.
OW4 eternity gather om our path
wavy, How insiguiflcan tme compared
wilh the vast efernity! 1 was think: ig of
this while coming down o the Alleghany
Mountains at noon, by that wonderful place
wiich you have all heard described as the
depression in the side tha
mountain whare tha train almost [turns backs
FPaonile
you might
: will never
ver pro
nos in eter.
inarch from
af
mw
ver
§ of
ate is ths description of the Horsshos
and thinking on this very theme and prepare
mg this very sermon it ssemied to me as if
the great courser of eternity speading along
with one hoof
Ho shirt is
time, so insignificant isearih, © spare i with
This morning voices roll down the sky,
juice at your dissnthraliment., Rush not
into the presence of the King ragged with
sin whea you may have this robe of right.
eousness. Dash not your foot to pieces
against the throne of a crucified Christ
Throw not your crown of life off the battle
ments, Al the seribes of Gol are this mo
ment ready with volumes of living light to
record the news of your soul emanc ipated,
a III 05110 NA, i
Transfusion of Blood Not New.
Transfusion of blood as practiced in
surgery is by no means a recent develop.
ment in science. Medical records show
it to have been known to the Egyptians,
Syrians and Persians. The Pittsburg
Dispatch regards it as even possible that
the ancients were more successful than
the physicians of recent periods. In the
Seventeenth Century so many attempts
were made in Fraoce, accompanied by
to many failures and fatalities, that the
Parliament of Paris declared against its
legality. The experiments continued,
however, call’s blood being substituted
for the human, The results were not
encouraging, the physicians not being
aware that the blood of animals injected
into the veins of another beloaging to a
different species acted as a poison, For
200 years the experiments were discon. |
tinued, and then one day, some years
ago, the story of the death of « young |
medical student named Romain le Goff, |
while trying to save the life of a friend
with his own blood, created a great sen.
sation. A street in Paris, named after
le Goff, commemorates his brave act.
By this time the medical men had
that to be successful the blood
ust neither be allowed to
The Mysterious Loss,
Mr. J. E. Emerson, a California
“forty-niner,” relates'a curious story
in the Scientific American. Gold,
while its melting point is over 2,016
degrees, will evaporate at a much
lower heat. In 1863.4 the Govern.
ment Inspector visited the (then) new
mint at San Francisco, to “take
stock,” and found a deficiency of
£160,000. Tremendous excitement
ensued,
the famous “Vigilance Committee,”
Wholesale arrests were threatened,
until some cool head suggested that
evaporation was the thief-—that the
ney. dure enough, examination
when it
The slates
caused it to be deposited
‘ame out of the chimney.
0 powder, and much of the gald re
overed. So also was the furnace and
himoey brick, and, after all was
saved that could be profitably by the
methods in use in San Francisco, the
dust was nt in |
fi¢ iphia Hero ad
more « iy, and
sold to Frencl
it to Laris and
there,
More than one-half of t
as well
¥ranciseo
various p
"
$i
over
chemists,
worked
he 8160, 04
48 the good name
yticial, was saved
lmpros
any
of
TOTORSPN,
U8 now prevent rec
SUCH mmyslerious losses,
sn —
At Minorca the fisherman simply «
to a depth of seventy feet with a
i we
in one band to carry him
the other hand he p
pearl oysters as he can «
them up to the boat.
Cks up
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ings comfort and improvement an
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tiv 1 . The many, who live
an others and en ie mw
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dapting the world's best
the needs of pl
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laxative
»
int to the taste,
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Cin iiing «
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asocept any suet
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Not a Fallure,
Johnny Gibbs i8 a youthrul philos |
opher. He believes that life would |
be simplified if people would be con |
tent to do one thing at a time.
The other day Johnny was hard at
work with paper and pencil. His
mother looked over his shoulder.
“Why, Johnny,” she exclaimed,
“your spelling Is perfectly dreadful!
Look at that—‘siting in a chare.’ In
ashamed of you!”
“But, mamma,” said the little boy,
“this isn't a spelling
lesson, It's a composition.”
— ——— si sows
Pasteur, the zreat French epecial st,
is a short, thick-set man, with round
shoulders. He walks lame, as the result
of paralysis, and his cyesizhs is poor.
——
Verdi married young,
charming Itelisn girl, who
bome ideally perfect.
winning a
3 made nis !
The thought that he canbe woll off with
ttle, never outers the worldling's head
One of the bed of housekeopers is (he
Home shepherds pay the most stiention to
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If your Back Aches, or you are all worn ont,
good for nothing, it js general debility.
Brown's Iron Bitters wiil cure you, make you
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Appetite tunes Lhe nerves
Love is the unkuow shies,
A wonderful stomach corre
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Lor Bevoham's
£10 ol jie 5 ents 5 box,
i
i Can be flient keep gilent,
Mala.
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CURE
Bronchitis and other
cases of the Throat
Cure for Consumption.
It Is now a “Nestrom.™
though st first it was com
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by a regular physician, with
no idea that it would ever
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tary medicine. Bat after
and