_ REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON. Subject: “From Conquest to Con- quest.” Text: “Behold the dove come, xaith the reaper.’ —Amos ix., 18. Picture of a tropical clime, with a senson husbandman swinging the sickle in the thick is shoulders, the horses hitched to plow preparing for a new crop. ‘‘Behoid the days come, saith the Lord, that the plow- man shall overtake the reaper.” When is that? That is now. That is this day, when another, book ; that the Christian ebureh is on the retreat, I will here and now show that opposite of that is true, An Arab guide was leading a French in. fidel across a desert, and ever and anon the Arab guide would get down in the sand and ray to the Lord, It disgusted the French nfidel, and after awhile as the Arab got uj from one of his pravers the infidel said, the Arab guide said a man and a camel passed along our tent last night? I know it by the footprints in the sand. And you want to know how I know whether there is any God? Look at that sunset, Is that the footstep of a man?” And by the same process you and I have come to understand that this book is the footstep of w God. last year's almanac, church of God is Bull Run retreat muskets, canteens and baversacks strewing all the way. Bharon Turner. a man of vast learning and of great accuracy, not aclergyman, but an attorney as well as a historian, gives this overwhelming statistic in regard to Chris- tianity and in regard to the number of Chris- tians in the different centuries In the first century, 500.000 Christians ; in the second century, 2.000.000 Christians ; in the third century, 5,000,000 Christians ; in the fourth century, 10,000,000 Christians; in the fiith century, 15,000,000 Christians ; in the sixth century, 20,000,000 Christ centmiry, 24.000.000 Christians csnilury, 30.000.000 Christiaps : ninth century, 40,000,000 Christians tenth century, 50,000,000 the eleventh century, In the twelfth century, in the thirteenth centur: fans ; in the fourteenth ce Christians; in the fifteenth 000,000 Christians ury, 125,000,000 Christi in the teenth century, . 155,600.0 in eenth century, 200.0600.000 Christinns—a de- cadence, as you observe, in only one century and more than made up in the following cen- turies, while it is the usual compu- tation that there wiil be, when record of the nineteenth century is made uj at least 800,000,000 Christiane, Poor Christianity! What a friends! How lonesome it will take it out of the posrhouse? Christianity ! Three hundred millions in century. na few weeks of the year 188] 2,500,000 copies of the New Testament dis tributed. Why, the earth is like an old tie with twenty gates and a ready to in = in 8 ns ; in the seventh : in the eighth in the in the Christians in 008 Ch O00 000 Christians ; G00 000 Christ. £3.0 W000 centu sixteenth 11H 100. - Co BOVE in the 8 thunder down every gate. dom is being surrounded and and attacked by this all conquering gospel, At the beginning of this century there were only 150 missionaries : now there are 25.000 missionaries and native helpers and evs plists, At the this y there were only 50,000 heathen converts - now there are 1,750,000 conve from heathen- dom, There is not a seacofst on the battery of the gos to mareh on--north all know that the ol plant the batteries, to plant the batteries. and the their work in ten minute are being piante in all nations, plan them, =» n one day, © born in one dav. Christendom and during the lust ten have connected the churches as 1 churches in the tary. So Christianity Is fa Bibie, they say, is hook. Igo into a court, and wherever | find a judge's bench or a clerk's desk a Bible. Upon what book could thers be tittered the solemnily of What book is apt to be vut in t trunk of young man as he leaves for city life ible, What shall I find in nine out o ten homes in Brooklyn he Bible, In nine out of every ten homes in Christendom? The Bible. Voltaire wrote the § Bible in the nineteenth u come extinet, The century is and as there have been Hshed in the latter part of in the former part of the 3 think the Bible will become extine next six years? honeycombed NEF Ty g # soe ein g 0% 0 rts 0 ¥ ng back becoming an obs find an oath he the necy that the would be- nearit gone, Bibles ry cent more the fn the in lhe Voltaire wrote that prophecy no was crowded from floor to eeiling with Bibles from Switzeriand. Suppose the Con- gress of the United States should pass a nw in America and no more Bibles read. If there are 40,000.000 grown people in the United States, there would be 40,000,000 poo- ple in an army to put down sqeh a aw and defend their right to read the Bible. But suppose the Congress of the United States should make a law against the reading or the publieation of any other book, how many people would go out in such a crusade Could you get 400,000,000 people to go out and risk their lives in defense of Bhake. speare’s tragedies or Gladstone's tracts or Macaulay's ‘History of England?’ You know that there are 1000 men who would die in defense of this book where there is not more than one man who would die in defense of any other book. You try to in- sult my common sense by telling me the Bible is fading out from the world. It is the most popular book of the century How do I know it? I know it just as I know in regard to other books. How many vol- umes of that book are published? Well, you say, 5000, How many copies of that book are published? A hundred Which is the more popular? the one that has 100,000 circulation, this book has more copies abroad abroad as any other book, does not that planet to-day is the word of God? “Oh,” say people, “the church is a colles. tion of hypoerites, and it is losing its power, end it is fading out from the world.” A bishop of the Methodist church told me that that denomination averages two new churches every day of the year. There are America every year, Doesthat look asthough the church were fading out, as though it were a defunct institution? Which institu. tion stands nearest the heatts of thd people of America to-day? Ido not eare in what Yiiupe, or in whut city, or what neighbor. you go. Which justitution is it? Is jt the postoffice? Is it the hotei? Is it the Jeeturing hall? Ab, you know it is not. You know that the institution which stands near ost to the hearis of the American people is the Cliristign church. If you have sver seen # church burn down, you have seen thou. sands of people standing and looking at ft =people who never go tears raining down thelr sneeks. ‘The whole story is told, You may talk about tha church being a collection of hypocrites, but when the diph- theria sweeps your children off whom do you send for? The postmaster, the attorney- general, the hotel-keepor, alderman? No; sou send for a minister of this Bible region. And if you have not & room in your house for the obsequies, what bullding do you so- leit? Do you say, “Give me the finest room in the hotel?’ Do vou say, “Give me that theatre?” Deo you say, ‘Give me « place in that public building, where I can lay my dead for a little while until we say a prayer over it?" No, You say, *'Give us the house of God." And if there Ia a song to be sung at the obsequies, what do you want? What does anvbody want? ‘The Marseillnise” hymn? “God Save the Queen?’ Our own grand antionnl alr? No. They want the hymn with which they sane their old Christian mother into her last sleep, or they want sung out before ghe got that awlul sickness which broke your heart. I appeal to your common You kuow the most endearing in- tion on earth to-day is the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, The infidels say, “Infidelity shows its suc- cesses from the fact that it Is evervwhere fathers, Do you know that in the days of our public authority and they could get any vimsell antagonistic to ligion, and what city wants him for mayor, nation wants him for president or for king? Let 5 man openly proclaim himself the cannot get 4 majority of votes in any State, fu any elty, in any county, in any ward of Do you think that such a scens could be enacted now as was enacted Robesplerre, when a shameless woman was elevated as a goddess nnd was carried in a golden chair to a cathedral, whers incense before her as a divine being, she taking the in the acted worrider of that cathedral were en- scenes of drunkenness and de bauchery and obscenity as has never been Do you believe such a thing could possibly occur in Christendom to-day? No, gir! The police, whether of Paris or New York, would swoop on ft, I know infidelity makes u good deal of alk in our day. It is on the prinsipis that [ a man jump overbourd from a Canard teamer he makes more excitement than all the 500 peoplethat stay on the decks. But the fact that he jumps overboard-—does that Does that wreck the 500 pa makes great excitement when a man jumps from the lecturing plat- 1c 1 or from the puipit in fidelity, but does keep the Bible znd the Church their millions assengers such ssengers? It Fry tr from into mIrving the skies? coming religion in day. They look ough the spectacles of tha infidel scien- . and they say: k can be true, People are finding it The Bible has got go overboard, *& is going to throw it overboard lieve that the Bible account our to scientists who have fifty different theories ut the origin of lle? If they should come 1 solid phalanx, all agreeing upon one ment and one theory, pathaps Christian- ight be damaged, but thers are not so differences of! opinion inside the hh as outside the church, People used to say, “There are so many lifferent denominations of Christians—that 10ws there is nothing in religion.” many he two or three or four radieal the Christian religion. They are unanimous regard to Jesus Christ, and they are unanimous in regard to the divinity of the riptures, How is it on the other side? Il spilt up—you entinot find two of ‘hem Ob, it makes me sick to ses these jit ry fops going along with a of Dar. ¥ transfixed wn under one arm and a ease of tutterfiies under the other ff =) ¢ of the fit- doetrines of "ODY grasshoppers and t telling about and Haxlevy's tier hypothesis, he fact is that some naturalists just as is they find out the ¢ between orns of a beetle , nightly, wille Agas. us Agassiz, who never made any ns to being a Ch puis bo i the *‘s pro the and tifferen 4 feelers of A Wasp ana in patro the A oi tae doctrine of eve ““f see that many of the naturalists « are adopting facts which do GEearvation or have not passed i'hese men lay under Warring against i warring awainst La. he, Wallace warring against Cope, even denouncing Ferrusos Go not agre boat anything, They gree on do not agree species, What cree on? Herschel writes a whole pler on the errors astronomy. fa pee declares that the moon was not “put it the right place, He saves that if it had been put lour times farcher from the earth than it i* now there would be more harmony in the universe, but Lionville comes up just in time to prove that the moon was put in the right piace, . rDarwin emLryYoIORY, iy r § on of the do How many colors woven into the light? ven, says Isane Newton, Three, says David Brewster. How high is the aurora borealis? Two and a half miles, sayy Lins, One bundred and sixty-eight miles, says Fwining. How far is the sua from the earth? Sawentysix million miles, says Lacalle, Eighty-two million miles, says Humboldt, Ninety million miles, saves Henderson. One hundred and four million miles, says Mayer ~only a little difference of 28,000,000 miles ! All split up among themselves —not agreeing on auything. They come and say that the ds great doctrines, All united they are, In tures. While they come up and propose to on that verdict, “Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed on a verdict?” asks the court or the clerk of the jary as they come in after having spent the whole night in deliberating, “Yes, we have agreed.” the verdiot RVs, ia says, “I think the man was guilty of mur. der, mausisughter in the second degree” and and bringin 's verdiet, Agrees on something, That is no verdiet,” Here these infidel scientists have impan- aled themselves as a jury to decide this trial net ween infidelity, the plaintiff, and Chris tianity. the defendant, and after being out for centuries they come in to render their verdict, Gentlemen of the jury, have you agresd on a verdict? No, no. ‘I'nhen go back for another 500 years dnd deliberate and agree on something, There is not a poor, row that could be condemned by a jury that pect us to give up our glorious Christianity 10 please these men who cannot agree on anythiag, Ah, my friends, the church of Jesus Christ Instead of falling back, is on the advance! I am certain it is on the advance, O Lord God, take Thy sword from Thy thigh and ride forth to the victory! I am mightily sucouraged because I find smong other things that while this Chris. tianity has bean bombarded for centuries in- fidelity has not destroyed one ahurch, or erippled ons minister, or uprooted one verses of one chapter of all the Bible, The church all the time getting the victory, and the shot and shell of its snamies nearly exhausted, 1 have been examining their ammunition intely., I have looked ail through their eariridge boxes, They have not in the last the battle against the church and against the Beriptures, while the sword of the Lord Almighty fs as keen as it aver was, We are just getting our troops into line, They are coming up in companies, and in regiments, and in brigades, and you will hear a shout after awhile that will make the earth quake and the heavens ring with “Alleluia” It will be this, “Forward, the whole line !” And then I find another most encouraging thought in the fact that the seenlar piinting press and pulpit seem harnessed in the same team for the proclamation of the gospel, Fvery Wall street banker to-morrow in New York, every State street banker to-morrow in Boston, every Third street banker to-mor- row. in Philadelphia, every banker in the United States, and every merchant will have in his pocket a treatise on Christinnity, a enll to repentence, ten, twenty or thirty passages of Scripture in the reports ot ses. sion preached throughout these cities and throughout the land to-day. It will be so in Chicago, so in New Orleans, so in Charles ton, so in Boston, so in Philadelphia, so everywhere, I know the tract societies are doings grand and glorious work, but I tell you there is no power on earth to-day equal to the fact that the American printing press is take ing up the sermons which are preached to a on Manday morning and Monday evening, in the morning and evening papers, scattering that truth to the millions, What a thoueht itis! What an encouragement for eveky Christian man! Besides that, have you noticed that during Bible came the secular press? under discussion in Do you not remember United Bates had an editorial on the sub ishmeut?" It was the strangest thing that there should be a discussion in the secular the United States and in were small but I know there made sport of the discussion, not sn intelligent man result of that discussion, the question, “What is going to be my there was did not ask bimssif eter. About twelve years ago, you remember, the secular papers discussed that, aud with earnestness as the religious papers, and thers was not a man in Christen. dom who did not ask himself the question: “Is there anything in prayer? creature impress the Creator? Jb, what a mighty fact, what a glorious fact.—-the secu. lar printing press and the pulpit of the church of Jesus Christ harnessed inthe same team ! Then look at the international series of Sunday-school lessons. Do you know that every Sabbath, between 3 and 5 o'clock, there are 5,000,000 children studying the same les. a lesson prepared by the leading minds of the country and printed in the papers— and then these subjects are discussed and given over to the teachers, who give them overto thechildren? 8o, whereas, once, and the children nibbled here and there at a story in the Bible, now they are taken through from Genesis to Re velation, and we shall have 5,000,000 My scal is 1 feel as if 1 sould shout I will shout, “Allsluia, the Lord God om- nipotent reigneth I Then you notices a more significant Inet, if you have talked with people on the subject, that they are getting discatisfied with philosophy and science matter of comfort. They say it d amount to anything when you have a dead child in the house, They will tell you, when they were siek and the door of the future seemed opening, the only comtort they could find was in the Gospel. People are baving demonstmated all over the land that science memory, ebil- 8s a eR Dot and woes of the world, and they want some other religion, and they are taking Chris tianity, the only sympathetic religion that ever came into the world Now, there are some men who have never seen Christ crowned in the and they do not is & group of men who have never heard the voles of Christ bave never heard the voles of God, They do not believe it ever transpired or was ever heard-that anything like jt ev occurred, 1 point to 20.000.000 or 1.000.000 people Who say, Christ was crowaed io hearts’ affe tions ; we have seen Him and felt Him in our souls, and we have heard His voice ; we have heard it in storm a we have heard it again and again Whose testimony will you take men Who say they bays pot heard the voles, have not seen the soronation, or will you take the thousands and millions of Christians who testify ol what they saw with thelr own eyes and heard with their own ears Yonder is an aged Christian after fifty years’ experience of the power of godliness in his soul, Ask this man whether, when he buried his dead. the religion of Jesus Christ was not a consolation. Ask him if through the long years of his pilgrimage the Lord ever forsook him. Ask him if, when he looks forward to the foture, il he has not a peace and a joy, and & consolation the world can- not take away. Put this testimony of what he has seen and what he has felt opposite to the testimony of a man who says he has not seen anything on the subject or felt anything on the subject. Will you take the testimony of people who have not seen or people who have seen / You say morphia puts ons to sleep. You say in time o! sickness it is very useful. I deny it. Morphia never puts anybody to sleep ; it never alleviates pain. You ask why 1 say that have never it. I never took it I deny that morphia is any soothing to the nerves or any qaiet intime of sickness. I deny that morphia ever put anvbody to sleep, but here are twenty persons who say they have all felt the soothing effects of a Whose hose who took say they heart, say they they er n Ar ness Thess ing taken the medicine? Here is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, an anodyne for all trouble, the mightiest medicine that ever came down to earth, Here Is a man who says: “I don't believe in it. There is no power in it." “Wo have ywer and know its soothing as cured ue,” Whose testi. found out its medicine, I feel that I have convinced every man in Gospel of Jesus Christ in their own heart and fife, Wo have tens of thousands of wit- neases, I believes you are ready to take their Young man, do not be ashamed to be a friend of the Bibie. Do not put your thumb In your vest, as young men sometimes do, and swagger about talking of the glori- ous light of the niusteenth century and of thers being no need of a Bible, They have the light of nature in Indiaand China and in all the dark places on earth, Did you ever hear that the light of nature gave them eom- fort for their trouble? They have lanoets to out and juggernauls to orush, but no come fort. Ah, my friends, you had better stop your skepticism, Suppose you are put in this erisis : Oh, father, your chiid is dying. What are you going to say to her? Colonel Ethan Allen was a famous infidel in his day. His wife was a very consecrated woman. The mother instructed the daughe ter in the ruthe of Christianity. The he tor sickened and was about to die, and she said to her father: “Father, stall I take your instruction, or shall I take mother's in- struction? Iam going to dle now. 1 must have this matter decided.” man who had been loud in his infidelity, sald to bis dying daughter, “My dear, you had better » your mother's religion." My advice fs the same to you-oh, Joune man, you had better take your mother's religion. You know how R comforted her, Yon ksow what she sald to you when she was dying. You had better take your mother's religion. dn AAI The sprinx, or bundle of reed pi is the prototype of the bagpipe. e IN A DOG NURSERY. A QUEER BUT THRIVING BUSI- NESS IN CHICAGO. How Canines are Cared for While Their Owners Go Shopping-~ Manicure. Day nurseried for dogg are recent innovations. knows, until fashion prescribed pugs and poodlés for street and parlor ornamentation. nue near Hubbard Court there is the single word ''‘Dogs.’” It is L. F. Whitman's dog nursery. pleasant morning carriages down the avenue and stop at the door. From eachan elegantly dressed lady alights with a dog in her arms. Bometimes it is dressed in the height of with a blanket and bells, and wears only a silver collar, fashion, sometimes it pet in of the little wire which occupy one side of the room, Mrs. Wi ises four or five times that it w When the lady ha an affectionate on downtown to . No cheeks are give Mrs. Whitman memory tell instantly if bef g one CHEER ill be farewell] has rknble for dogs she ire or wrinkles in a pug much a disting f ns is t he COIOr Ol Yes In Indy drive H has Fido all a rind salu ta for the cho ceria flimaost There are ma nursery i Care. hives, 1 Mr. Whi the dog's oy nr “ver i On ge Much as men, because how they ar they'd all they wern't afraid they’ WOrk The nursery is aleo a hair-cutting and manicuring establishment, and Mrs. Whitman has a complete dog bath house in the rear of the nursery. The ladies’ pugs don’t run around much. that they seratech themselves, and Mre. Whitman has to trim and polish them off. It is a neat job and re- quires no little skill. The poodles are clipped as regularly as a man gets his hair cut. The dog is set up on a Chair, and his shaggy hairis trimmed away. He usually enjoys it first- rate. After the job is finished he is treated to a genuine shampoo and he comes out feeling like a new dog. Some ladies have their poodles treated to a bath every week, and it costs ex- actly the same as a bath for a man, Most of the dogs object seriously to being soaped and scrubbed off, and it sometimes makes a lively fracas in the bathrooms. Mrs. Whitman sometimes gives a Tarkish bath, but she says she doesn’t believe much in it She thinks the effect is enervat- ng. One of the commonest and most ludicrously pitiful sights at the nurs. ery is a dog with the toothache, Usn- ally one eye is swelled to a perpetual wink, and the little fellow howls dis- mally with the pain. The doctor gets out his forceps and turns dog dentist. It is not an easy operation, but when the instrument is once firmly fastened to the tooth something comes. Obicago Record, Visual Telegraphy. An inventor of this city is ling with the problem of visual tele. graphy, Mr. N. 8. Amstutz, of this city is contident that with a series of small mirrors, arranged with proper appliances, one cannot only hear the person to whom he is taik- ing over the telephone wire, but can receive a transmitted reflection of his face. drawing by telegraph leads his friends to hope that he muy be successful in his new attempt. Mr. Amstutz does not claim that he will be able to lieves he has found a line ment which will enable at sume time, do Leader. Ww ere ts Found a $500,000 Treasure Box. A few weeks ago 8 Spaniard Francisco Perez arrived at Mexico, from Spain. He had with him documents and drawings showing location of hidden treasure to §]1.500,000 gecreted a century or more ago by a band of brigands, all of whom were aft=rward killed or driven out the country. Perez received exclusive permission to acquire might find, and has cess, an iron box flled and y having The vaiue of the contents is placea at $500,000, the Ol whatever naaq gold gol aireaqdy Ble. : witl coin unearthed. owelry f the box A Big Nugget of Silver. Supt. Read sent down from the Diamond Company's mine last Mon: of ore weighing 2, 28( pounds, which was shipped Wednes- day the Midwinter Fair in San Francisco, and which is to represent Eureka County. The nugget is 3 feet day a nugget 10 10 inches long, inches thick. It assays 82 per cent in sliver per ton, and 15 per cent. in lead. The nugget when quarried out in the mine was about double its present size, LUl was 00 jarge UW baul up the shaft, and had tw be broken. Eureka (Nev.) Sentinel Montenegrin Priests, Montenegro was one of the few couatries where until recently clergy- men wore the national costume and { bore weapons. 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