REV. DR. TALMAGE. ————————————— The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun. day Sermon. Subject: “Unhorsed.” Trxr: “And as he journeyed he came near Damascus, and swidenly there shined round about kim a light from heaven, and he fell to the earth and heard a voice saving unto Ran, Saul, Saul, why pevseculesl thou Me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord saved, I am Jesus whom thou peraes oulest." Acts ix,, 3-5. The Damascus of Bible times still stands, with a population of 135,000, It was a gay eity of white and glistening architecture, its minarets and orescents and domes playing with the light of the morning sun: embow- ered in groves of olive and eitron and orange and pomegranate; a famous river plunging its brightness into the scene; a city by the ancients styled “a pear! surrounded by ems eraide. A group of horseman are advancing upon that city, Let the ( istians of the piace hide, for that eavaload omine over the hills is made up r leader smo and nosttrae ote, 48 leaders sometimes 1 per. BON the and Pir. Archibald Alexian there is something very in! this man of the text, nnd the horss he rides is Inthered with the foam « travel of 145 miles, He for th Chrstinns mus . and wit tiema Welling jut ent In the eave of a long and quick res on his stesd, tired and that religion of Cross be sition must 1ddendy the horses shy off riders are pre ipitated riders, tl from x horses bh AWay, u Know of an eclips: like a superna became yery uneont ri been kindled jot avens, put r out ginre of the orl with BiOries £ i ney i wri i - wo it iooked out from nn cioud, and the spe was insufferat Or a1 the the wonder the horses sprang and the equestrians dropped. rust covered and br . Baulattempisto Fel Up, shading his eves with fhe send nis han is from severe lusderot the heavens, but unsucess fully. tor he oar, "Who art the sweared him ; chasing He Re0 gw “hd Damascens Christians whips and seourges M+ It is not their back that i= ble is Mine It is not thei jug: itis Mine, 1 por teat is struck ston Lord? m the one blind us he Jesus Cries aud an you have heen that w nd ps Ye have been al sit servants of Worth anything spiritusily unt hey who graduate with the highest hono mn the sel of a Jie muddy pay slash of an anery wave, or the Sirav tear, or the brown scores of = euting fire. in 000 RO IDOrs or sg has been the so have [rr » asew out of 1000 thers |§ ritual elevation until thers t thorough worldly upsetting Again, | learn from the subject rejigion of Chret is thing Feaple in this « Heve that C1} Gf small caliber, lor wo for children in t not for { the text ¢ religion that that mast have a logician ; 3 ristiant “ 3 nen with n the i yet by : apacity Ent $C renson., einay under six yours of wen. Lo not think ture such a power in #7 He was metaphysician ; be was an all uering orator; he was a poet of the highest type, He had a nature that could swamp the lead- ing men of his own day, and hurled szainst the sanhedrin he made it tremble, He learned all that he eouid school of his native village ; then be gone 10 a higher school and there mastersd the Greek and the Hebrew and perfected himsalf in belles lettres, until in after years he astonished the Cretuns, and the ( tans, and the Athenians by quotations from their own authors. I have never found snys thing in Cariyle or Goosth or Herbert Spencer that could compare in strength or with Paul's epistles, 1 do not think thers is $ stalware af this Do vou that th ¢ man as sOme he was a On get in the ¥ rinth- fhton that shows such mental discipline as you find in Paul's argument about jastifieg- tion aud the resurrection anything in Milton finer in the way of imag. drawn from the amphitheater, Theres was nothing in Robert Emmet plead. feg for his Jile, or in Edmund Burke ar ralgning Warren Hastings in Hall, that compared with the scene in the courtroom when, before robed oficiales, Paul bowed and began his speech, saying, I think myself happy. King Agrippa, because | shall answer for inyseif this day.” 1 repeat that a religion that can eupture a man like that must have some power in it. It is time you stopped talking ss though all the brain of the world were opposed to Christianity, Where Paul leads, we ean afford to follow, I am glad to know that Christ bas in the different ages of the world had in His disci leship a Mozart and a Handel in music, a phael and a Reynolds in painting, an An. gelo and a Canova in sculpture, a Rosh and a Ha in medicine, a Grotios and a Wash. ington in stutémandip » a Blackstone, a Marshall and a Kent in . And the time will come when the religion of Christ will conquer all the observatories and universi- ties, and philosophy will through her tele behold the morning star of Jesas, and eden - a a' yn This wots or , and bh her hammer discover the ‘Rock of Agen.” Oh, instead of sowefing_ahd sh when the skeptic stands before you talks of religion as though it were a pusillant mous thing--instead of that take your New Testament from Joust pocket show him the picture of the eot ages unl t of all the prostrated on the inl panto oll the while his horse ix flying wildly away, Then ask your skeptic what it was that frightened the one and threw the other, Oh, no, it ie no weak gospel, It is a glorious gospel, It is an all conquering gospel, It is an omni. potent gospel, It is the power of God and the wisdom of God unto salvation, Again, 1 learn from the text a man cannot hecomo a Christian antl he is unhorsed, The trouble Is, we want to ride into the King dom of God just asthe knigit role into castle gate op palirey, beautifully eaparisoped. We want to come into the kingdom ol God la flue Myie. No kneeling down at the altar, no sitting on ‘*soxious seate,”’ no crying over sin, no begging at the door of mercy, Clear the road and let us coms in all prance ing in the pride of our soul, No, we will never get into heaven that way. We must dismount. There 1s no knight errantry in religion, no [ringed trappings of repentance, but an utter prosteation before Gold, a going down tn the dust, with the ery, “Unclean, un- viean V'-—a bewalling of the soul, like David from the belly of hella down in the Gods going as He Nfied IP © Ob, proud hearted hearer, you must get off that horse! May a light from the throne of Gold brighter than the throw you! ( down. into the dust nnd ery for par ion and life and heaven, Asain, I learo from this the text that the grace of Gol can overcome the per. Christ and Paul were boys at time in different villages, Pauls antipathy to Christ was ine . He hated evervthing a it Christ, He was go down then with Kets Christ & diseipie sun Ome seens of the SAM reasing down 10 arrest ti wanted i anid eolash aad Ob, and oping steeds ou th “ think ths ir in 1 £ ares WN 3 Phere ap ON Wh ever Le "a voles ir inder Hierine tw suine as che first | i with more ome phasis, so t have ita man , aid 80 GO that the pu { esguost ring many BROW tag was saved, a wis n by His grace, of no de slit mani!” hat i hes [Ora sile any persscutor I'ne : days o 10 bave TOT Nupoison I. prie Keer snd jet ancient mere curiosities Coliseum, where up the life of the watched and Lol adoraments wort SON POON ing her bands as the sian the paw and the tooth of lion-=that (Cole Iseum is a rain Smithfield fires | Hre an the ro! 2 wredoel yut, The dungeons a o~day The y suek martyrs while the emperor 8 Panlina sat with sosernld } OK (MM clap Hed under for the 1.4 wild beasts f than $ | But has Are 3 gone by EN] N¢ your religion? (rd and BATYEe BOT some irne hat womat get in the EY or of the tex He hrist from the heave Hele looks out rraee make a Henan | i a Tyndall Robtert Newt y JERUS AT derisive indi jttle “Out ft the san Lord Jesu hegves Christian re gilttering genera Late John San Again, | i= hope for why perse ticularly gone to Damas Christ had the story and irae a ¢ f his Kindness " : SRE ati th dstory, as it is now Nis Ove thie Jesus had only thee these vere places Jerusalem mast bave Eire wr Jemus hat bad been dey by the Bavi Pau just how Jess how the the tort fill the heavens unre He heard that recited who wore acqus fife ances, and yet in the scene he gv 1 impatient at the time [eres bat riding with Oh, he was the of modesty when he said that, mirderer. He stood by and helped in the exe mao, When the rabble in their work of wanted to take off dare to lay them down they Paul said, “I'll take care of the coe they put them down at the feet of Pau’, and he watched the coats, and he watehed the horrid managing of glorious Stephen, Is it a wonder that “hen he fell from the hore he did not break bis neck that his foot did not catch somewhere in the trappings of saddle, and be was not drageed and kicked to death? He deserved to die miserably, wretchediy and forever, notwithatanding ail his metaphysios, and his eloquence, and his logis, He was the chief of sinners, He said what was true when he said that, And ye! the grace of God saved him, and so it will you. if there is any man in tois house who thinks he is too bad to be saved and says, 'I have wandered very grievously from God: Ide Ooms rein aster chiel ol sinners when Stepl Ich wanted te ited ¢ deste their jens ind brought to Jesus Christ in spite of his sins and opposition. There may be some here was, There may be some here who are eap- tive of their sins as much 80 as the young man who said in regard to his dissipating habits : “‘1 will keep on with them. know Iam breaking my mother's heart, and | know | am killing myself, and I know that when I die I shall go to heil, but it ® now too late to flop." The stead 68 which you ride may be swifter and stronger and higher mottled than that on which the Cilician persecutor rode, hut Christ can eateh it by the bridle and hurl it buck and hurl it down. There is * for you who say you are too bad to be nd You say you have put off the matter so long : Paul had neglected it a great while, You say that the sin you have committed has been among the most aggravating cironm. stances ; that was #0 with Paul's, You say you have ex od Christ rad conxed r own ruin; so did Paul, And he sits to-day on one of the highest of he heavenly thrones, and there i» m for you, a flood days for you, and ad ness for you, if you will only take the same Christ which first threw him down and then raised him up. It seems to me as if 1 oun son Paul to-day rising up from the highway to Damascus, and brushing off the dast from his cloak, and wiping the sweat of excite ment from Wis brow, us he turns to us and all the ages, saving, “This is a faithful sav. ing, nud worthy of ail aceaptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, ol whom I am chief.’ Onee more, I learn from this subject that there is a tremendous reality io religion, If it had been a mere optical delusion on the rond to Damaseus, wax not Paul just the man to find it ow? Ifit had been an sham and pretense, would be not have pricked the bubble? He was a man of tacts and argu. ments, of the most gigantic intellectual na ture, nnd pot a man of bhallurinations, Auld when I see him fall from the saddle, blinded and overwhelmed, 1 say thera must have been something in it, And, my dear brother, yon will find that ther 18 vonething 1o re- ligion somewhere, The only Where? There was a man who rode from Stam. ford to London, ninety.five miles, ju five hours ou horseanck Very swift, There wae a woman of Newmarket who rode on horseback a thousand miles in a thousan hours, Yery swift ut there are here——aye, all of us are speeding on At ten. fold that velocity, at an fold that rate, toward eternity Mav Aimighiy God, from the opening heavens, ial hour the gasstion of your question is, t hoses thousand fi upon ye soul this J festiny, and ob, that Jos u with His is here with the overcome Vi wilh bleeding. witt with the ns sh heart ti 1G it no DICASTERS AND CASUALTIES Beariet fever is epidemic at Montreal Ey n Montana, ins Bergstrom and children were snow-silde at Glendale, two ml, Mrs, and a babe Bergstrom were ot daughter, 18 the woods at Five City, Ye Mrs. Hussel and ber eldest frozen to death In three miles from their bo Minn. 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