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THE EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY DISCOURSE. | Buhject: The Coming Sermon—Tnepiration { For the Future Heliglous Exhortation | » Will Be Drawn From the Living Clirist =Theology Must Take a Back Seal. i {Copyright, Louis Xlopsoh, 1809.1 | Wasmmxarox, D.C.—In this discourse Dr. | Talmage addresses all Christian workers | nnd desoribes what he thinks will be the { modes of preaching the gospel in the future; | text, Romans xii, 7, “Or ministry, let us walt on nur ministering.” While I was seated on a plazza of a hotel at Lexington, Ky., one summer evening a { of the coming sermon?’ supposed he was asking me in regard tosome new discsourss of Dr. Cumming of London, who some- | times preached startling sermons, and 1 | replied, ‘1 hava not seen ft." | out afterward that he meant to ask what | the coming sermon of the world, the ser. i mons of the future, the word “Cuming” as a noun pronounced the same as the word “coming” as an adjective, But my mistake suggested to me a very important and practical theme, “The Coming Ser. mon,” Belore tha world Is converted the style of religious discourse will have to be cone verted. You might as well go into the modern Sedan or Gettysburg with bows and arrows, instead of rifles and bombshelis and parks of artillery, as to expect to con. quer this world for God by the old styles of exhortation and sermonology. Jona- i than Edwards preached the sermons most adapted to the age in which be lived, but if those sermons were preached now they would divide an nudiones into two classes ~-thoss sound asleep and those wantiog to go home, But there is a discourse of the future, dea. In which denomination of Christians it will be delivered I sannot guess. That discourse of exhortation may be born in : the country meeting house on the banks of the St. Lawrenceorthe Oregon or the Ollo or the Tombighes or the Alabama. The person who shall deliver it may this mo- ment be in a cradle under the shadow of | the Slerra Nevadas or in a New England farmhouse or amid the riceflalds of South- ern savannas, or this moment thers may be gome young man in ono of our theologienl seminaries, in the junior or middie or sen- for class, shaping that weapon of power, or there may be coming some new baptism of the Holy Ghost on the ehurches, so that some of us who now stand in the wate. towers of Zion, waking to a realization of our present efficiency, may preach it cor. selves, That coming disecurse may not he fifty years ofl. And Jet us pray God that ita arrival may be hastensad while I an. nounees to you what I'think will be the ahist characteristics of that discourse or exuor. tation when it does airive, and I wast to make my remarks approprinte and sug gestive to all classes of Christian workers, First of ail, I remark that that fature re. liglous discourse will be fall of a livieg Obrist in coniradistinetion to didastie technicalities, A disconrse may be full of Christ though bardly mentioning His name, and a sermon may be crupty of Christ while every sentences is repetitious of His titles, The world wants a liviag Christ, not a Christ standing at the head of a formal sys. tem of theology, but a Christ who means pardon and sympathy and condolence and protherhood and lile and beaven, a poor man's Christ, a rich man’s Christ, an over. worked man’s Christ, an insvalid’s Clirist, a farmer's Christ, a merchant's Christ, an ar: tisan’s Christ, an every man's Christ, A symmetrical and fine worded system of theology is well anough for the theologieal ciamses, but it has no more business in» pulpit than have the technfoal phrases oi an anatomist or 8 peychologist or a physi. olan in the siekroom of a patient, The world wants help, immediate and world | uplifting, aad it will come through a dis. course in whieh Christ shall walk right down into the immortal soul and takes svar. lasting possession of it, filling it as full of light us 1s this noonday Hrmament That sermon of exhortation of the future wili not deal with men In the threadbare Hustrations of Jesus Christ. In that com- ing address thers will be fostances ol vicarious suffering taken right out of evaryday life, for there is not a day when somebody is not dying for others—as the hysiclan saving bis dipbtheritie patient y saerifleing his own life; as the ship cap- tain going down with his vessel while he is getting Lis passengers into the lifebont; as the freeman eonsaming in the burning bulldieg while he is taking a ehild oat of a fourth story window; as in summer the strong swimmer at East Hampton or Long Braneh or Cape May or Lake George him. sol! perished trying to reseue the drown. ing; as the newsiaper boy one summer, supporting his mother for some years, his invalid mother, when offered by a geutia. man fifty cents to get some special paper, and ho got it and rushed up in his anxiety to deliver it and was erushed under the wheels of the train and lay on the grass with only strength enough to say, “Oh, what will become of my poor, siak mother now?" Viearions suffering the world is fullof ft. An engineer sald to mas on a locomotive in Dakota: “We men seem be coming to a better appreciation than we used to. other day of an engineer who to save his prasengers stack te his post, and when he | was found dead In the losomotive which was upside down, he was found still smil- ing, bils hand on the alr-brake?”’ And as the engineer said it to me he put his hand on the alr-brake to llinstrate his meaning, mud looked at me and thought: “You would be just as much a hero in the same crisis.” Ob, in that religious disconrse of the future thers will be Mviog {lustrations mind the ghastlier sacrifice of Him, who in | gle and died our death, A German seaip- his little obiid, two years old, who it was, nod she sald, "That must be soms very great man.” The sculptor was displeasod of marble and ehissled away on It two or | three Jour, and thea he brought ia his little child, four or five years of age, and said to her, “Who do you think that fa?” fhe sald, “That must be the One wha took | little ebildren in His arms and blessed them.” Then the sealptor was satisfied, Oh, my friends, what the worid wants is | Ohrist, pot a severely magisterial Christ, arms of sympathy to press the whole world . to His loving heart, ‘ But I remark ngain that the religious discourse of the future will have to be ghort, Condensation is demanded by the ‘age in which we live, No more need of | long Introductions and long applications and so many divisions to a discourse that it may bo said to be hydra-headed, In other days men got all their information | from the pulpit. Theres were fow books, | and thers were no newspapers, and there was little travel from fitien to plage, and ple would sit and jisten two and a half ours to a religions discourses, and ‘seven. toenthly” would find them fresh and chip. er. Io thoss days there was enough time or & man to take an hour to warm himsalt up to the sabjest and an hour to eool off, But what was a necessity then Is a super. fluity now. Con ons are full of knowledges from , from newspapers, from rapid and continuous intercommuni. eation and long disquisitions of what they know already will not be abided. If a re. ligions teacher eannot S0mpross what ba wishes to sa ja the beanie nthe space of Jorty-fivg tes, ter "Fhe trouble s we pronoh audiences Into a Christian frame, and then wo preach them out of It, We forget that every aud- ftor has so much capacity of attention, and when that is exhausted He is restless, That accident on the Long Island railroad years ago came from the fact that the brakes wore out of order, and when they wanted to stop the tralia they could not stop, and hence the casualty was terrifle, In all re. liglous discourse we want locomotive power and propulsion, We want at the same time stout brakes to let down at the rightin- stant, Itis a dismal thing, after a hearer has comprehended the whole subject, to hear a man say, “Now to recapitulate, and "A few words by way ol applieation” and “Once more,” and ‘‘Finally” “Now to conelude.” window and broke his neck, gay, “Good for him.” AYinpardesie; Hike Paul, #na resuscitate im. molence in church, Eutychus was wrong ia until midnight, He ought to have stopped at 11 o'clock, and there would have b no accident. to too great length, lot all those of us who are now preaching the gospel remember that there is a Hmit to religious discourse, ‘or ought to be, and that {fo our time we have no aposteiio power of miracles, Na. poleon in an address of seven minutes thrilled his army and thrilled Europe, Christ's sermon on the mount, the model sermon, was less than eighteen miontes long at ordinary mods of delivery. It is not eleatricity scattered all over the sky that strikes, t electricity gathered thunderbolt and hurled, and it is not relig- fous truth seattered over and spread out over a vast reach of time, but religious truth projecied in compact form that flashes light upon the soul aud rives its indifference, When the religious discon of the future arrives In this land and In”. the Christian chureh, the disconrse which is to aroass the world and startle the nations and usher in the kingdom, 1t will be a brief dissourse, Hear it, all theological students, all ve just entering upon religions work, all ye men and women who fu Babbath schools and other departments are toiling for Christ and the salvation of immortals brevity, brevity! But 1 rewmnsrk also that the religious discourse of the future of which 1 speak will be a popular discourse. There those in these times who speak of a pop sermon as though thers must be some! wrong aboat it, As these erities are dail themselves, the world gets the impression that a sermon is good in proportion as it is stupid. Christ was the most popular preacher the world ever saw sidering the small number world's population, had the |} disnce aver pgatherad, He neve anywhere without making great sensation. People rushed out in the wild. erness to hear Him reckless ¢ hair phys. foal pocessities. Bo great r apxio. ty to hear Christ that, taking no food with them, they wonld have fainted and starved bad not Christ performed a miracle and fod them. Why did so many people take the truth at Christ's hands? Because they ell understood it. He Hivstrated His sub- jeeot by n hen and her chickens, by a bushel mensuse, by a handful of salt, by a bird's Right and by a Hiy's aroma. All the people knew what He meant, and they flocked to Him. And when the religious discourse of the future appears it will not bs Prince. tonian, not Bochesterian, pot Andoverian, pot Middietonian, but Olivetic--plain, practical, unique, earnest, comprehensive of all the woes, wants, sins and sorrows of an auditory. Bat when that exhortation or discourse doas soe there will bo a thousand gleam. ing seimiters to chargeon ft. Thera are in so many theological seminaries professors telling young men Low to preach, them. selves not knowing how, and | am told that if a young man in some of our theol sominaries says snything quaint or thrill. ing or unique {acuity and students fly at him and set him right and straighten him out and smooth him down and ~hop bim off until be says everything just as every. body else says it, Ob, when the future re- lgious discourse of the Christian ehurchar. vives all the churches of Christ in cur great cities will be thronged! The world wants spiritual help. All who have bared their dead want eomfort., All know (hemseives to be morial and to be immortal, and they want to hear about the great future, 1 tell you, my friends, {f the peoples of cur greal eities who have had trouble only thought they eouid get prastical and sympathetie beip in the Christian church, there would not be a street in Washington or New York or any other e¢ity which would be passable on the Sabbath day if there were a church ren Are ilar fot ®gioag that asyium of merey, that great house of somfort and consolation, eame to the god Siva and asked to have her ehild restored to life, said to her, “You go and got a handful of mustasd seed from a house In which thers has been no sorrow and in which there has been no death, and I will ahifld to Jile,” Bo the mother went out, and she went from bouse to house and there had been no death, none, sald: “My mission is a fallare. baven't brought the mustard seed. [ ean't row asd no death.” Siva. “Understand, your sorrows are no worse than the sorrows of others, breaks.” “Laugh, and the world laughs with you, Wasp. and you weep alone; For the sad old earth mist borrow fits mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.” Wo hear a great deal of discussion now all over the land about why people do not go to church. Bome say It is The reason is because our sermons and ex. : eal and helpful. truth on this subject, and so I will tell It. : The religious dissourse of the future, the | nations and lift people out of darkness, i will be a popular sermon, just for the sim. plo reason that it will meet the woes and the wants and the anxieties of the people. There are in all our denominations oe- | elesiastioal mummies sitting around to {| frown upon the fresh young puipits of Amerion to try to awe them down, to ery out: "Tut, tut, tut! Sensationnil” They stand to-day preaching Ia eohurches that hold a thousand people, and thers are a hundred per:ons present, and if they can. not have the world saved In their way it Susu ae if they do not want it eaved at atl, 1 do not know but the old way of makiog ministers of the gospel is better-a col. leginte education and an apprenticeship under the oars and home attention of some earnest, aged Christian minister, the young man getting the patriareh’s spirit and as. sisting him in his religious service, The printing press is to be tho great agoenoy of g proclamation. It Is high time that men, tostead of denouncing the press, employ it to scatter forth the Rospel of Jesus Christ, The vast majority of people in our cities do not come to ehurch and nothlog but the ted sormon can reach them and eall lem to pardon and life and peace and heaven. The time will come when all tha viliage, town and | reproduce elty nowspa wil SE J on around the SHE WAS A BRAVE GIRL. 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