BEV. OR. TALMAGE, THE EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY DISCOURSE, Bubjeot: Lay Hold ef OhristeThe Help. fulness of Religion In Fighting Life's Battie—Bo Hold For the Right and Trust in the Son of God, (Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 180.1 Wasnivarox, D, O.—Iathisdiscourse Dr. Talmage employs a very bold figure of the Bible to bring out the helpfulness of re- liglon for all those in any kind of strugiie, The text is Isaiah xxv., 11, **He shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands.” In the summer season multitudes of peo- ple wade into the ponds and lakes and rivers and seas to dive or float or swim. In 8 world the most of which is water all men and women should learn to swim, Some of you have learned the side stroke intro- duced by George Pewters in 1830, each stroke of that kind carrying the swimmer a distance of six feet, and some of you may use the overhand stroke invented by Gar- dener, the expert who by it won the 500 yard champiopship in Manchester in 1862, be swimmer by that stroke carrying his arm in tte air for a more lengthened reach, and some of you may tread the water as though you had been made to walk the sea, but most of you usually take what {s call- ed the breast stroke, placing the hands with the backs upward, about five inches ander the water, the inside of the wrists touching the breast, then pushing the arms forward coincident with the stroke of the feet strack out to the greatest width possible, and you thus unconsciously illus- trate the meauing of my text, “He shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his bands to swim.” The fisherman seeks out unfrequented nooks. You stand all day on the bank of & river in the broiling sun and fling out your line and eateh nothing, while an ex- pert angler breaks through the jungle and goes by the shadow of the solitary rock and, in a place where no flsherman has been for ten years, throws out his line and comes home at night, his face sbining and his basket full. I do not know why we ministers of the gospel need always be fishing in the same stream and preaching from the same texts that other peopie preach from. I cannot understand the oliecy of the minister who in Blackfriars, ondon, Engiand, every week for thirty ears preached from the Epistie to the ebrews, It Is an exhilaration to me when I come across a theme which I feel Bo one else has treated, and my text is one of that kind. There are paths in God's feat. When men want to quote Seripture, has heard, When they waut a chapter people have been reading, so that church to-day ls ignorant of three-fourths of the Bible, You go into the Louvre at Paris. Yon opulent gallery of paintiogs. out your friend says to you, “Did you see that Rembrandt?” ‘No. that Rubens?" ‘'No.” Titian?’ “No.” asi?” “No.” “Well” “then you did not see the Louvre.” Now, confine ourselves to one of the great corri- dors of Seripture truth, and so much so that there is not one person out of a mil. lion who bas ever noticed the all sugees- tive and powerful pleture in the words of my text, swimmer, strikiug out to push down iniq- uity and save the souls of men, spread forth his hands in the midst them, as he that swimmeth spreadath forth his hands to swim.” The figure is bold and many sided, swim. BScme of you learned it in the city father’s house; some of you since you cama to manhood or womanhood, mering on the beach of the sea. for yourself, but because you will after awhile perhaps have to help others, I do not know anything more stirring or sublime than to see some man like Norman McKenzie leaping from the ship Madras had dropped trying to loosen the sail, bringing him back to the deck amid the huzzas of the passen- gers and erew. If a man bas not enthusi. asm enough to cheer in such the deep, Any one who has such a dead of daring has all the partica- lars of that bravery recorded in a publie record and on his breasts medal done in blues and gold and bronze, anchor and moa- ogram and faseription, telling to future generations the bravery of the man save a body from the deep I ask you if it is not a worthier thing to save ap immortal soul. Aad you shall see this hour the Bon of God step forth for this achievement. “He shall spread forth bis hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim.” In order to understand the full fores of this figure, you need to realize that our race is in a sinking condition You some. times hear people talking of what they consider the most beautiful words in ail our language. One man says it is “home,” another says it {s the word “mother.” an- other says it the word “Jesus” but I tell you the bitterest word in all our lnnguage, the word most angry and baleful, the word saturated with the most trouble, the word that secounts for all the loatbsomeneas and the pang and the outrage and the har- rowing, and that word is “sin.” You spell it with three letters, and yet those three letters describe the circumference and pierce the diameter of everythifig bad in the universe, Sin is a sibilant word, You cannot pronounce it without giving the siss of the flame or the hiss of the serpent, Sin! And then if you add three letters to that word it deseribes every one of us by patare—sinner. We have outraked the law of God, not occasionally, or now and then, but perpetually. The Bible declares ft. Hark! It thunders two claps: “The heart is deceitful above all things and des. erately wicked.” “Toe soulthat sinneth, t shall die,” What the Bible says our own conscience affirms, After Judge Morgan bad sentenced Lady Jane Grey to death his conscience troubled tim so much for the deed that he became insane, and all through his {osanity he kept saying: “Take her away from me! Lady Jane Grey! Take her away! Lady Jane Grey!” It was the voice of conselence, And no man ever does anything wrong, however great or small, but the consclence brings that maliter before him, and at every step of his misbehavior it says, “Wrong, wrong!” Bin Is a leprosy; sin is a puraiysie; #in is a consumption, sin is poliu- on; sin Is death, Olive it a fair chance and it will swamp you and me, body, mind and soul, forever. In this world it only ves a falot {otimation of its virulence, on see a patient In the first stages of ty- hold fever, The cheek is somewhat Rushed the hands somewhat hot, preceded a slight chlil, “Why,” you say, “ty- phold fever does not seem to be mueh of a disease.” Put walt untli the patient bas been six weeks under it, and all his energies bave been wrung out, and he i= too wenk to lift his Hitle finger, and his intellect gone, then you see the full havoe of the disease, Now, sin in this world is an aliment which is ouly in its first stuges, but let it get undor full sway, and it is an all consuming typhoid. Oh, if we could gee our unpard sins as God sess them, our teath would snd one knase would knock together, and our respiration would be choked, and our heart would break. If your sins are unforgiven, they are bearing down on you, and you are sinking—sinking away from happiness, sinking away from God, sinking away {rom everything tnt Is good and blessed. Then what do we want? A swimmer—a strong swimmer, a swift swimmer! And, blessed be God, in my text we have him announced. ‘‘He shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth stretoheth forth his hands to swim.” You have noticed that when a swimmer goes to rescue any one he puts off his heavy apparel, He must not have any such impediment about him if he is going to do this great deed. And when Christ stepped forth to save us he shook off the sandals of heaven, and his feet were free, and then he stepped down into the wave of our transgressions, and it eame up over his wounded feet, and it came above thic apear stab In his side-—aye, It dashed to the lacerated temple, the high water mark of anguish, Then, rising above the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spread. eth forth his bands toswim."” If you have ever watched a swimmer, into play. The arms are flexed, the hands drive the water back, the knees are active, the head is thrown back to escape strangu- lation, the wliole body is in propulsion. And when Christ spraag into the deep to save us He threw His entire nature into ft ness, His love, His heart, eyes, hands, feet. We were far out short of an entire God could save us, Christ leaped out for our rescue, saving, surges of human and satanic hate beat from the gates of heaven feared He would go down under the waves and instead of saving others would Himself perish; bat, ag the surf from His locks, and on until He is now within the reach of every one here, eye omniscient, infinite, arm omnipotent, mighty to save, even uuto the uttermost, down bellowing Gennesaret; it was not a quarter of a God that mastered the de. God that lifted up Lazarus Into the arms of his overjoyed sisters; it was not a frag- ment of a God who offered pardon and peace to all the race. No. swimmer threw his grandeur, his glory, his might, his wisdom, his und his eternity into this one act. both hands of God to save us—both feet, How do I prove it? On the cross were not both hands On the cross wore not both feed spiked? His patare iovoivad in our redemption! If you have lived much by the water, you notice also that if any one is going out to the rescues of the drowning he must be independent, self-reliant, able to go alone, There may be a time when be must spring 7 palled? boat, and if he goes out and has not strength enough to bear bimselt up and sprang out into the sea to deliver us, He His Fatber did not help Alone io the wine press, alone inthe alone on the shall have all the eredit, for ‘there was none to help,” no oar, no wing, no indder! When Nathaniel Lyon fell in the charge in {ront of his troops, be had a whole army to chear him. When Marshal Russian Policemen. A good story Is being told in St. Pe- tereburg of the The Russinn police, which the papers pronounce to be ex- ceedingly characteristic, A new ernpor was sent to a certain town in the Interior, and the [nhabitants nat once began to complain that the police were badly organized, since however much they were wanted they never would come when they were sent for. The governor determined to test this for himself, so one night he set out for the barracks, where the police and the fire brigade were quartered. He costed the sentry: “Do you know me?’ “Yeg, your excelleney.” “If a man was being murdered close by would you quit your post?’ “Never, your excel leney.” “Good,” sald the governor, know your duty. Well, what you do?’ “I should blow my guard.” “Good. gov- age. “you would dered here, Whistle.” The soldier blew, but not a soul answered, He blew again and again, but the same si “That will “you have whis- fins lence prevailed. do,” sald the governor, at last, tled your utmost, and come, but, at any rate, your conscience 1 3! wl v is tranquil, now you can go to sleep. man could have been murdered It Is unneces- io appear to The czar should it wake who sary to overdo hy frying comrades, sleep the dead. your off, « would Gngratu he the governor went i ing himself that no one «to accuse his police of having in the midnight murders of London (lobe, Rides to the Hounds at Eighty-Eight. Old age, virility, ldom coexist in and Sport se a mere striking Witty Pa. from from 1} is perhaps 80 n mie nayette Springs, ritos place les Pittsburg amd of General Braddoct of from the re Nevossity, two miles sil arave Willie vod is the site I forves retreated after Braddock's at Washinton and Braddock : ; Bal onustract jong the Along } rocd the Not from ral Jack Daniel Web , linm Henry Harrison General Zach bg Ty alone! help." was pot “Of the people thers was none to “All forsook him and fled.” Ob, it a fSotilla that salied down and It was not a cluster of gondola that came over the wave. It was one per. and alone, “‘spreadiog His hands among 4s as a swimmes spreadeth forth his hands to swim.’ Behold, then, the spectacie of a drown. ing soul and Christ theswimmer! I believe it was in 1%43 whea there were six Eaglish soldiers of the Filth fusileers who eapsised boat—a boat that upset by a squall three miles It was in the night, but one man swam mightily for the beach, guided Heo came to the beach, with him and save the other men, and they It was some time before they after awhile they heard thelr ory, “Help, help!” and they boge down to them, and they saved them and brought them to shore, know very well that when one Is f. peril help must come very quickly, or it will be of no use, One minute may decide every- thing. Immediate help the man wants or no beip at ali. Now, that is just the kind of relief we want. The case is argent, imminent, instantaneous. Heo that soul sinking! Son of God, lay hold of him. understood how urgent There was a man this gospel fle, in the navy at sea who had been severely whipped for bad behavior, and he was maddened by it and leaped into the sea and no sooner had he leaped into the sea than, quick as lightning, an albatross swooped upon him. The drowning man, brought to his senses, seized hold of the albatross and held on, The Quttering of the bird kept him on the wave uatil relief could comes. Would now ing and savigg spirits might flash from the ing hold of its potent wing, might live and live forever, The world has had stroag swimmers be. sides the one of the text, perhaps the greatest among them Matthew Webb, of thy British mercantile ma¥ine service, He leaped from the deck of the Hassia, the Cun- ard steamer, to save the life of a sailor who had falien overboard, No wonder the passengers subseribed for him a Iarge re. ward and the Royal Humane Society of London decorated him with honors, A mighty swimmer was he, by the strength of his own arm and foot pushing through the waters from Blackwall pler to Graves. end pier, eighteen miles, and from Dover to Calais, 39 miles, where he crossed, yet ne was drowned at Inet in our Niagara's whirlpool. Ba‘ the strong swimmer of my text put out alone to swim a wrathler sea and jor vaster distance, even from worid to world, to save us who were swamped in guilt and woe, and brought us to the shore of safety, although He at lsst »ant down into the whirlpool of human sad sataule rage. “He descended into heli!” New modes have been (invented for res. ouing a drowning body, but there has been no new invention for rescuing a drowning soul, In 1788 Lionel Lukin, a Loadon coach bullder, fitted up a Norway yaw as a lifebost and called it the Insubmergible, and that has been improved upon until from all the coasts of the round world per. fect lifeboats are ready to put out for the relief of marine disasters. [a sixtesn years the French Society For Saving Life From Shipwreck saved 2120 lives, The Ger. man Association For the Rescue of Lite From Shipwreck, the Royal Na- tion Lifeboat {nstitution and our United States life saving service have done a work beyond the power of statistics to commemorate, What rocket lines and sling Ife buoys aod tally boards and mortars and hammooks and cork mat. trossos aud Hie saving stations filled with maehinary for saving the bodies of the drowain But let me hore and now make it plain that there has beén no new way in. vented for the moral nnd eternal rescue of a st ling soul, Five hundred attempts at such contrivance have been made, but all of them dead Ialiures, Hear it! pL, bb DOS nies whareby we — be saved” than the nama of Jasas. 3 The World's Coldest Place. Verchoinusk it coldest is considered world smal ollection of native ' fa, In planted near The streg i river. +r call el. extends on either si IrTOW armed Yann. frozen ‘ i or driving place for sleds, sheet of water, a kind o wi | the forms a by the autumn overfiow of and which winter promenade It iz a dreary place enough mer lasts only four month, and during t eight of the year it iz bitterly in The sum. he other cold; the dicates 86 degrees below zero and legrees until April Sd LE = thermometer sometimes dom goes above HO adnh, orn grow in this desolate will not Barley and been fo there Onis nye ie Of vegeinbiles, : the frosts the turnip, perhaps, an occasional and very the early are only radish and Cabbages rarely precarious crop of potatoes all run to leaf. The ground Most of the dwellings are ra- with mud to keep out the cold, The Common Brick. The earliest bricks were rudely shap- ed, evidently made without a mould, and had their upper faces arched, each brick being marked by way of stamp with the impress of the maker's thumb. These, which were found In some quantity in the very lowest strata ex. cavated at Telloh and Nippur, are considerably more than eight the usand years old. Next to these came the bricks made for the city of Sirpula, bearing the ancient cognizance of that city, an eagle with a lion's head. And #0 we go through the stamped and dat. ed bricks of Kings like Eanuadu, who reigned In Babylonia some four thou. sand years before our era, to the bean tifully painted and glazed ones found by Lavard on the site of ancient Baby- lon, (ih one respect, says Nature, the Mad. ras University is ahead of English uni. versitios, since it requires students of history to possess some knowledge of ethnology and comparative philology, which Is not the case in the British universities. 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