REV. DR TALMAGE The Eminent Washington Divine Sunday Sermon. Subject: *‘A Shattered KFalth.,” TEXT: “And some on broken pieces of the ship." —Aets xxvil,, 44, Never off Goodwin sands or the Skorries or Caps Hatteras was ashipin worse predien. ann wih was the grain ship on whieh passengers were driven on the coast of Malta, five miles from the metropolis of that isian i, Citta Vecchia, After a two weeks’ tempest, when the was entirely disabled and captain and crew had become eo nplately demoralized, an old missionary took command of the vessel, He was small, crooked-backai a sore-oved, accord. ing to tradition. unseared mana of a Eurociydon ship He was no more afraid g the Mediterranean san, now upto the gates of heaven and now sinking it to the gates of , than he was afruid of a kitten playing with a string. orderad first asking for them a .bles % I'l insured all their lives, t would ba rescued, and, 8 their heads, they w their hair as you oe of the seissors—nay, whether iv were grav with youth, *‘There from the head of any of vou hat they can never they mal he sea ae wn he thoy ’ thread o nage not a not not with asl sand or golden \nowing t get tot sired port, tcenth night black that when the Arike so heavily, reek and in their e forit. And so tl} the two paddies t! hos and hoistad the mais come with up on thet rtunate bill There she goes, tumbling toward now prow foremos ) rolling ever to th the larboard; no the deck. and it ha 2 forey nth irown overt sO si © driven higl ¢ . 8 the ro D6 Paul's cries “All is all those that went the pr off the mast, seas rushed throu Again, wall, vessel, She 1 thousand frac the waves Boma o Joha Calvi i sieve in Armin n th a the hirist is saved, : accept hin deer is lost I believe in both the Hei lelberg and West. minster catechis . and I wish u all did, but you may believe in nothing tt *xcept the one idea, ti Bave sinners, and that ye and you are inst come in on rather have get abo only figd a prece of w man body, «r a spread human arms piece of or thousands « out of Kingd earaot belfeve ave [amy Ik his ootain I Are $l "ga intiy reseed, tha the grund you piece the a, Fens of the ng wit 3 has inte who Healy tray New England and passed the g have no admiration. Bat the Bible does no, say, "Bolleve in perdition and be saved.’ Because all are saved, according to your theory, that ought not to keep vou from lov- ing and serving Christ. Do not refuse to come ashore because all the others, accord. ing to your theory, are going to get shore, | You may have a different theory about chem- istry, about astronomy,about the atmosphers from that which others adopt, but you are | not therefore hindered from action. Bocause your theory of Hght ts different from others do not refuse to open your eyes, | Because your theory of air is different wou not refuse to breathe, Because your | theory about the stellar system is different you do not refuse to acknowledge the north star. Why should the fast that your theolo- { gical theories nre different hinder you from acting upon whut you know? If vou have { Bot a whole ship fastensd in the theological { drydocks to bring you to wharfage, vou have at least a plank, “Some on broken of the ship,” “Bat I don't believe revivals!" Then »to your room, and all alon with your door locke I, give your heart to God, and join where the thermometer i do pieces in | ® I o, i church never gets higher than fifty in the shade. “But Ido not believe in baptism!” Come without it and settle that matter after- ward, “But there are many in- consistent Christinns” Then come in and show them by a good example | how prof should net. “But I don't elleve in Old Testament!” Then ome in on the New, “Bat I don't like the book of Romans.” Then come in Mat. or Luke, Rafusing to comes to Christ, 1 you admit to be the Sa the ‘Aus you cannot admit other thiogs, you s like a mau out thera in that Meditor- ranean te und to«ssl in the Melita ikers, refusing to o until he an mend the plec { tho broken ship. I hear him say: * on any of these until I what part of b When I ean Some {in 80 BELO rs the on viour tf viour of 0 road ni past hors SOUR. rel il alls sat #8, and that untaugied, iw, An i and ro | wim a st shiverad rox veriasting rolled f hail I0T rage) Thers re isa genial ral he sur! ; w how ex} he radesmed prodigals of new waite u Are, heaven are « e3 to clothe roken pleces of th My sympathiss more becaise lisposad this life ror of being séa than any arancan break. and I was sor nes the anaoyaace r theoio i a #3 po a8 2G I knew Christ was the Savion: nat I was a sinner, nod I got aa minuios ints oft heology rest my the of eT a JOKER'S BUD lests and Yarns by Funny Men of the Press. 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ANDARD PAINT ; De | over He says to tue, **[ eaun THE in this life the des iny is {rrevo iy think there will another opportunity répestance after death,” lsay to hug brother, what has that to do with Don’t you realigs that the man waits for another caenes alter prop its them lor fixed hirty seconds, I would rather in a mud scow try to | weather the worst oycione that ever swept you? | up from the Cari than risk my immor. bbean, or 4 i 3 who | tal scul in useless and perilous discussions : (death 8ST Pamphlet, ~8 Asbenion Roofing, Building Ves, Steam Packing, Feiler Coverls wn, ¥ Asbestos Non. onducting avd Hicctrienl [sen ting Materials, H.W. JOHNS MANTUFA CTURIN. CO B7 Maiden ane, New rk. PHILADELPHIA 5 oe STRUCT! ngeestions for Exterior ration ani ple and Pe rey “3 1 i in ; of my death 5 when he has a good chance belo £ Axe is 8 stark fool? Had not you b the plank that is thrown to + yi and head for shore rather than wait fe piank that may by invisible hands be to you yy Doasy but as for mysel?, pardon [ sins offered mo n all the je f and eternity now, I instantly take them, rather than ran the risk of other chance as wise men t off or twist Seriptare passage that his for afl the ( iristian ecnturies been interpreted another way." ¥ do not like Prine theology, Haven theology, or Andover theology. not ask you on board f : men-of-war, their great siege guns of Idonsk you to take the one p'ack of the gospel that you do believe in and strike out for the pear! strung beach of heaven," Bays some other man, “I woul! attend religion i I was quite sure abou. the doc trine of election and mixes ms all ap bother me, but | re tar now + after v sre dead? with w . A and offered me ir ve yi sush ’ out of a “ton or New I do these great either o irtholea 11} fro I'hose things used to HAYe no more perplexity about them, for I say to myself, “It [ Jove Christ and live a good, honest, useful jife, I I am elected to ba saved, and it I do not love Christ and live a bad life I wiil be damned, and all the theological sem. inaries of the universe cannot make ft any different.” | flouudered a long while in the sen of sin and doubt, and it was as rough as the Mediterransan on the four- teenth night, when they threw the grain overboard, but I saw thers was merey for a sinner, and that plank I took, and I have been warmiag myssit by the bright fire on the shore ever since, While I am taiking to another man about his soul he tells me, “I do not a Christian because [ do not believe there is any hell at all.” Ah, don’t you? Do all the people of all beliefs and no belief at all, of geod morals and bad morals Ko straight to a happy heaven? Do the holy and the de- baached have the samo destination? At mid- night, in a hallway, the owner of a house snd a burglar meet, They both fire, and both are wounded, but the su dies in five minutes, and the owner of the house lives a week after. Will the burglar be at the gate of heaven, waiting, When the house owner comes in? Wil the a and the libertine go right in among the lumilies of heaven? wonder if Herod is playing on the banks of the river life with the children be massacrsd, 1 onder if Charles Guiteau and John Wilkes do an. . it, although I not now controvert ti must 8ay that for such sm miserable hesven I duiging. They remind me of a of salors standing on the AIR. "head, from which the Hfeboats are usually launched, aad eo lifferent ex of oarl 1 ¥ ¢ pate pis sty ocks and how ya b ne 3 ¢ ADS iurricane is is feamers crowded with passengers going to An old tar, the musales King with nervous excitement, “This is no time to discuss such Man the lifebos Who will volun Uut with her into the sur! Pull, my pul for the wreck! Ha, ha' Now We bave them. if them in and lay them | down on the bottom of the boat. Jack, you {try to bring them to. Put these flannels ound their heads and feet, and I wili pull { for the shore. God help me! There! Landed! { Huzza!" When thers are eo many struggling | in the waves of sin and sorrow and wretch | edness, lot ali else gn but salvatiofi for time | and salvation forever { Youn mit you are all broken up, one de- your life gone by, two decades, three oon ing. {lew sade of iecades, four decades, a half « entury, perhaps | three-quarters of a century, gone. The hour hand and the minute hand of your { clock of fe are almost parallel, and soon ft | will be 12 and your day ended, Clear aise j couraged, are you? I admit it 1s a sad thing | 10 give ail of our lives that are worth any. {thing to sin and the devil and then at [Inst make God a present of a first rate { eorpse, But the past you cannot recover, Get on board that old ship you never will, Have you only one more year loft, one more month, one more week, one mors day, ona more hour-—coms in on that Perhaps it you get to heaven God may let you go out on some great misdion to some other world, where you ean atons for your lack of ser. vice in this, From many a deathbed I have roan the hands thrown up in deploration something like this: “My life has been wasted, I had good mental fasultfes and fine social position and great oppor. tunity, but through worldliness and neg- leet all has gone to waste save these few remaining hours. I now ascept of Christ and shall enter heaven through His mercy, but alas, sins, that when I might Javé sutéred the haven of oy Tout with A full eargo, and been greet Way. ing bands ofa multitude in whose salvation 1 had borne a blessed part, I must confess BOW enter the harbor of heaven om broken pieces of the ship,” a The United States d Vesuvius ran the of on Bunoe's \ (8. C.) Harbor by Admiral ng oe of the stance 10 | Aa “a | Perry Pot Wilbeclorce sweelly Mr. as handsome all i ams Mics W oak THE CAT CAME BA« had been bad Loy bad not Kindly geatieman nein =a The ©: I fier 1 { been particulary atten ive And after many ye said the kind Vs old gentleman, Enoch Arfen returned to hus home “iho exciaimed the bad boy. sud. { denly waking up to tue fact that some. thing came back | never knew the fame of that eal belore.” tory. but tiie be manner of his Kind nr ars, Hin DOEADFUL REVENGE. 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