REV. DR TALHAGE
fhe Eminent Washington
Sunday Sermon.
Divine's
Subject: “A Mighty Warfare,
our banners ~Panims xx... b.
I hate war. inourbovhood we may have
read the biography of Alexander or of some
beat high and we
ing down a Hessinn Forrusty swords hung
houses in whieh they were lodged during the
great strifo we had unbounded admiration,
or on some publie day, elothed in our grand-
father's soldierly nccouterments, we «it as
brave us Garibaldi or Miltindles,
wiser now, for we
between the poetry and the prose of war,
The roll of drums, and the eall
and the champing of steeds foaming
pawing for the
muskets glittering among the danel
plumes, “God the King" waving
from clarinets and trumpets and rung back
from deep deflles or the arches of a pr
city, distant eapitais of
at the tidings, generals
der flaming arches
anths and the sh
pPosry.
Chilled : half blanketed,
with
of bugles,
battle
Nave
returning home un-
and shov ng ar
ut of empires--that
lying on
march
he
ine
aud
nation fe
insulted,
climes
been offered t«
or kir
On
when
n
biepn
+ fact that
hus it
anions or
bond
siract)
nave
nt God ev
rid than this. Itis magnifios
'. Lot us stop talking so much ag
the world. God pronounced it very go ¥
the beginning. Tho wandering child
God, 1 in great Father's
lineaments, Though t drives
i
the of 6000
.
of Hoan it
Ved
=e brass
the re
BOS
coming int
she shall be
kingdoms,
we
SYR wtinats
passion, harn
ship, hypoe
this Chris
sion he wou
Orning stars
{Go
contend,
8 Of
against
fa'se prof
i From oppres-
sion he wou From pride he
would rend off the | From revenge he
would exorcise the devil. While Christ loved
the world so much he disdto gave it, he hates
sin so woll that to eradicate the last trace of
its pollution he will utterly consume |
the continents and the oceans, Af the gate |
of Eden the declaration of perpetual enmity
was made againat the serpent. The tumult |
roundabout Meunt Sinai was only the roar
and flash of God's artillery of wrath against
sin. Bodom on fire waz only one of God's |
flaming bulletins announcing hostility.
Nineveh and Tyre and Jerusalem in awful
ruin weark the track of Jehovah's sfivance- |
ment, They show that God was terribly in
earnest when he announced himself abhor |
rent of all intquity. They make us believe {
that, though nations belligerent and revenge. |
ful may sign articles of peace and come to an |
amicable adjustment, thers shall be no cessa- |
tion of hostilities between the foroes of light
and the forces of darkoess until the king-
doms of this world have hecome the king- |
doms of our Lord. Affrighted by no opposi- |
tion, discouraged by no temporary defeats, i
shrinking from no exposure, every man to |
his position, whils from the tops of our |
schoolhouses aud ehiurches and seminaries |
and asylums “in the name of God we will sot
up cur banners,"’
Thers are nonprolessors who have a very
correct idea of what Christians ought to be.
You have seen members of the church who
were as proud as Abab and lied as badly as
Ananias and who were as {onl hypocrites as
Judas. You abhoralithat, You say follow.
ors of Christ ought to be honorable, humble
and self denying and charitable and patient
~ud forgiving. Amen Bo they ought. Come
to the kingdom of Christ, my hearer, and
we Just that glorious Christian that you bave
described, Every church bas enough stingy
men in it to arrest its charities, no
ud men in it to grieve away the Holy
8
lames,
host, and spcagh lazy men in it to hang on
( behind till {ta wheels, like Pharaoh's char.
'jots, drag heavily, and enough worldly men
{ to exhaust the patience of the very eleoct,and
enough snarly men to make appropriate tho
Bible warning, “Beware of dogs," If any
: of you men on the outside of the kingdom
axpect to make such Christians as that, we
do not want you to coms, for the church has
already 1 million members too many of just
that kind, We do not want our rapks
crowded with serfs when we oan have them
| fillad with zouaves,
There are men now, as in Christ's time,
| possessnd of seven devila, In some instances
it seems as though at conversion only six of
these evil spirits were cast out, while there
romains still one in the heart—the devil of
avarice, the devil of lust or the devil of
pride, Men of the world, if you would be
trapsforried and elevated by the power of
the gosp |, now is the time It is
no mean nsign I lift this It is a
od flag. It
to some,
hour,
battle,
humiliation from Bethlehem to Calvary,
Rent by hell's onslaught, the spears of a
maddened soldiery and the hands of men
ensign in His bleading
senled the heights of oursin, With this He
mounted the walls of perdition, und amid its
very smoke and flame and blasphemy He
waved His triumph, while demons howled
MLvaen
Ihronged His chariot wheels
And bore Him to His throne,
Then swept thelr golden harps and sang.
The glorious work is douse,
Again, when a grand vietory has been won,
iti stomary to announces it by flags float-
ing from public buildings and from trees and
ships. They are the sig-
rejoleing and festivity.
church holsts is a
There was n time when
was not considered ree
i sing
IR rning
and
which
ry.
{ Chris
ft ensign tha
of viet
and position
ronments ansthema-
a Christian was
rk the differ
priios thelr
| ill immediate
and drive back the
have
tha
r batter:
Ww >
they a about ready
great Captain wave the sige
feniostial weaponry shatl qual
wa of hell and sound uj
of heaven. Pagodas and tempi
i» under the shock and besotted |
nations ly from their idols and supers |
stitions, shouting like the confounded |
worshipers of Baal *The Lord, He is the |
' The Lord, Ha is the God!
Wa go not alone to the fleld. We have in-
vinoible alijes in the damb elements of na-
ture, As Job said, we are in league with the
very stones of the Geld. The sun by day and |
the moon by night, directly or indirectly, |
shall favor Christianity. Tne stars in their i
cotiraes are marshalled for ug, as they fought |
the thes
shall
as certainly acting in favor of Christ as in
reformation times the Invincible armada in
its pride approached the coast of Eogland,
As that proud navy directed its guns against
the friends of Christ and religious liberty,
God said unto his winds, ‘‘Beize hold of
them. and to the sea, “Swallow them. ™
The Lord, with his tempests, deshed their
valor lay crushed among the waves of the
seabench, All are ours, Aye, God the
Father, God the Son and God the Hoty Ghost
are our allies!
The Mohammedans, in their struggle to
subjugate the world, had passages from the
Koran inseribed an the blades of their scimis
tore, and we have nothing to fear if, ap-
proaching the infidelity and malice that op-
pose the kingdom of Christ, we sball have
glittering on our swords the words of David
to the giant, “I come to thee in the name of
the Lord of Hosts, the God of the armies of
Israsl, whom thou hast defied.”
Now the church goes forth beating pre
elous seed, but after awhile it will be the
sheaf binding, and reaper angels shall shout
the harvest home, Now it is tents and march
ing and exposure, but then, in the ranks of
strate juiquiny and on the walls of
vet, name of God we will set up
our banners,”
The earth sends up its long. dp groan of
pain and elanks the great chains of its bonds
ago and cries by the voles of sea and land
the water that the daughter of Lir was
transformed into a bird of the alr and that
the arrival of
at the stroke
river and lake until
tianity and that
first cathedral bell her spirit was freed.
Unocounted millions of our race by the
power of sin and antan have been transformed
into a state of wretchedness, and they wan-
der like the poor daugkter of Lir, but they
shall after awhile he released, When the
great church ef Christ shiall fn those dark-
ened lands from ite tower ring out the glad
tidings of the gospel, then millions of wan-
dering souls shall find rest in a SBaviour's
pity and a Saviour's love, transported from
the kingdom of satan {nto the kingdom of
(tod's dear Son.
By and by you would hardly know the
earth If you saw it. The world as a whole
ot
heart by conversion, Fraud, leaving its
trickery, will go to work foran honest living.
Koavery shall begin to make righteous
bargains, Passion shall answer to the eon-
trol of reason. Beoffers shall be changed izto
worshipers and skeptics into Bible lovers
Christ shall begin His reign on earth
Whether He shall descend on to the
earth In person and establish a govern-
ment at Jerusalem, I cannot say, but
it will be an ern of more than Augustan
splendor, That is enough. Knowing this, we
can never despair. But as we see the church
of Christ putting on her beautiful garments
with the
ymwell, who standing
famine-stricken soldiers
the sun rising out of the
mist and, pointing to it with
sword, uttered prayer which hurled
his men upon the fos like a sky
{ thunderbolts GArise! O God!
ba rel With
the
his fl
crushed
thine
f faith I
Inttar day
sheath thy sword and
In the name
enemies
the ear o
gio ¥. eh
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battle!
untain,
he piandits
' Will et ip
An
defents, shail gathor
¥
r one last terrible asaay
God § and t
battles ory, ¥ spread out «
square and
r their cause
th
qaare
fn, w in
Bpir its ©
in and darks
by the
plunder and
BOMNe
Jogi
¢ :
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larknows
straggie
Hoattered binuts
i sin and
As t
tha
satani f
sf the
TON
ar
eres nil Ww
wall listen
of heaven
in the presenes « 3
amie
defeat
aon of V
n
Joanie and
and the
the
crown of
acelnma-
ip in the image
rown of victory
the wy
the
amid
the chureh
ir Lord, an
hes d
in her SAN in
up her bas
‘ me M sant
sel ¢
and t
of fp af
nama
the
iii if re
ne of the Almighty.
h shall
thin
wh
ation to
i again fo the
it
sar
will stand in the way of thy
the sweep of thy wing?
A CREAT WAGON TRAIN.
Sixty Horses Hauling It to the De La Mar
Mines in Utah.
P. B. McKeon left Milford, Utah, for De
fa Mar the other day with the heavi-
est toam train ever undertaken under like
condition of roads.
of very muddy roads he is attempting to
neavy machinery loaded on thres wagons.
This outfit is acoompanied by other outfits,
and as the train pulled out over the hills to
tha wost it looked not unlike some circus at-
tempting to invade the western country.
four-horse teams busy hauling water,
henniest-loaded wagons will drag the ground.
This machinery is for the De La Mar mines,
machinery, near!
road between Mitford and the mine,
——— a a
NEW
iss
ARMY POLICY.
The Public No Louger to He Allowed fo
Visit Forte,
General Miles, commanding the United
States army, has issued a general order pro-
hibiting. in the strictest terms, the admission
of any person, ex officers of the Navy
pr Government employes, to any lake or sea
const defences without a permit from the
commandant of the place, Moreover, such
permits are to be given only for true mili-
under no conditions are
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
TEMS OF TIMELY INTEREST TO THI
FARMER,
Thinning Fruit—-Starting Plants in Sods~
Re-enforcing Stable Manure — Chick.
ens Reared on Milk.
STABLE MANURE,
table manure is lying in heap
to add to
While
good plan the pilie
with
He manure
ym the chamber, together
German pot
. 4
cularly valuable for
} y
s they will
off
unite with the
fer
ven the
hy
the seed. The
2OW about weeks belo
gafe to
ground The hardening off
fnuring to outdoor conditions
8ix
piace the plants open
km d §
that is
ig a very
important part of spring plant manage-
ment Two weeks the time
finally transpiant the plants
in a shallow ont of
doers, having boards
high enough secure head
room for the plants. The taken
from the trench should banked
around the rim. A tight board cover-
ing at night will protect from frost,
and such a cover may be cheaply made
by taking goods boxe. cleating
gides and top and bottom, so they will
not fall to pieces, and sewing them off
close to each end. This will give six
covers which will serve for a cold
frame twenty-eight inches wide and
gixteen to twenty Jeet long, according
to the size of the box, and a box will
before
place
trench
rim of
io
a
tO
soil
be
dry
in nights when there is no probability
of frost. the covers may be left off.
Thrifty growth, frequent transplant.
ing, and careful but thorough harden-
ing are the gscrets of strong, early,
tough vegetable plants,
desirable to put in plenty of seed, as
they seem to come up much better than
when sown thinly, A certain amount of
|
i
cracking the goil, just as
ut the ralsing of a bullding
for all The
growers
but
flat
Bo thors
many hands
makes Hight
work advanced
plant
the
in
do not wiler upon
surface have a shallow tank
which the box fol
the
ot
This
the
preve) DUKing
surface
and steamed makes an
for laving hens if mixed
food
Have ome early and allow
PIRS «
run with the
corn they will eat until weaned
old sows for raising strong pigs
10 BOWS,
Trees for the home are a great orna-
ment and comfort, But too
to the dwelling they become a menace
to health by encouraging dampness
wnt close
it" will pay you to breed your farm
mares this year, if they are good ones
If they are not, keep selling and trad:
ing until you get god ones A EODG
team tells a good farmer.
Don’t forget to soak your seed pola
toes ten hours in a solution composed
of 1 part corrosive sublimate to 1,001
paris of water, and vou will have a
| crop of smooth potatoes this year.
| Usually barn yard manure posesses
| too much nitrogen for a well balanced
| fertilizer. and the use of acid phos
| phate and posash salts in addition i
| needful. Good wood ashes with the
manure will be beneficial
When an animal does not thrive |
js not always necessary to resort u
medicines. [tt may happen that salt &
needed. or that linseed meal will prove
| & remedy. The cause should be con
~
3
ANIMAL EXTINCTION,
dow Sport and Fashion are Devastating
the Animal Kingdom,
and rapid are the
in the fauna of the
perhaps, be generally
after race of animals
ohe through
ural but
for the destrac-
How
changes oCCurring
orid
extensive
may
iilzed
not,
Hace
W
re
§ 3 1
i { tne gi
i
i
ope CRAIROR,
hel
Lion mus
ne « POTS
door of man.
auk, or
Bea
At LI
the great
1
!
be placed
extinction {
pengu
i
i Ne
ryviina, or arctic
I
date;
Jers
hs
ree
Jas
{hit
and the
Ten
in
came into
offered
searce
were abundant
goods
eee were
and in five years
he»
Death By a Mask.
come (O08 happy
13 me
at
little
$4
18s
Penn just be a
Margaret Colley,
ideous in the
use Jt
ex-
She
They
to
with
an
d Margaret
dancing into
t. where he
were romping with
i » two-vear-old
Wal-
Priest
fing his face
in another
ns and froth-
off
(1 T'eassure
utterly
were summoned
All night long little Walter shrieked
in his delirium Next morning he was
y 40 anyihing but lie in his
sob convulsively At
New York World,
tore her mask
the
Two
CATESE an
little one She failed
J. YRICIANDS
Pye ans
¥
ie
too weak
tiny crib and
noon the baby died.
Cure for Corpulency,
A physician who makes a specialty
of physical culture and the reduction of
obesity tells a rather amusing story of
a sidewalk peddiar who came to him
for some remedy to check his growing
corpulency. The man was a dealer in
toy balloons, and the most promineut
portion of his frame was his abnormal:
ly large abdomen. The physician pre-
scribed no drugs, but advised the man
to change his line of goods, and to
offer for sale some mechanical toy that
would be displayed on the sidewalk.
The new prescription obliged the pa-
tient to stoop over two or three hun-
dred times a day, and the doctor de-
elares it 10 be a fact that in three
month’ time this exercise, without diet
or medicine, had reduced the man's
girth eleven inches Harper's Bazar.
AR as ambien;
For the year ending June 30, 1
the net earnings of the 172,368 miles of
railways in the United States were
$368 675.047. ot