fnemon REV. DR. TALMAGE. THR EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY $ DISCOURSE. — Bubjeets Victory in Retreat-The Tri. umph of the Wicked Is ShorteFloe From Temptation=Calamity May Be Averted by Rauning Away From Evil. {Copyright 19a.) Waseisarox, DD. C.—~From an old time battle scons Dr, Talmage in this discourse makes some startling suggestions as to the best styles of Christian work and points out the reason of so many pious failures; text, Joshua viil., 7, “Then shall yo rise up from the ambusiy and seize upon the city.” One Sabbath evening, with my family around me, we were tulking over the scene of the text, In tho wide open eyes and the quick iaterrogations and the bianched cliveks 1 realized what a thrilling drama it was, There is the old eity, shorter by name than any other city in the ages, spelled with two letters, A, I, Al. Joshua and bis men want to take it. How to do it is the question. On a former occasion, iu a strightforward, face to face (ight, they had been defeated, bit now they are goiug to take it by ambuscade, General Joshua has two divisions in his army. The one division the battle-worn commander will lead himself, the other division be sends off to encamp in an ambush on the west pide of the oity of Al. No torches, neo lanterns, no sound of heavy battalions, but 30,000 swarthy warriors moving in silence, speaking only in a whisper; no elieking of swords against shields, lest the watchmen of Al discover it, and the strata- gem be a fatlure. If the roistering soldier in the lsrasiitish army forgets hilmsell, all along the line the word is ** Hash!" Joshua takes the division, the one with which Le is to march, and puls it on she north side of other the city of Al and then spend the night in reconnoitering {on the valley. There he is, thinking over the for. tunes of the coming day with something of the feelings of Welllugton the night before Waterloo or of Meads and Lee the night hetore Gettysburg, There hestands ia the night and to himself: “Yonder is the division in ambush on the west side of Al, Here is the division I have uader my espec- ful command on thenorth side of Al, There is the old city slumbering ir its sin, To. morrow will be the battle.” Looki The morning already begins to tip the hills, The military officers of Al look out in the morn- ing very early, and, while they do not see the division in am behold the other division { Joshua, and the ery “To armel To arms’ 1 through gireets of town, and every sword, whether hael | beut or newly weldeo is brought « all the inhabitants ¢ the eity of r through the gates, inf ! t, and their ery Is, “Come, we'll make quiek work with Joshua and his troops!” No sooner his n people of Al out against th roops of Joshua Joshua gave gave—"Full believe their own sar age failing Lim? and the Israelites blankets and ¢ this worse ought to he eheer and The men | their visio that they upon the city. spear, glittering int doom, and ints it when the 3p yonder # with hawklike swoop they drop a J and without stroke of sword or stab spear take the city and put it to the torels, #0 much for the division that was in ambush, How about the under Joshua's eo wand? No does Joshua stop in the flight than ail his men stop with Lim, and as he wheels they wheel, for in a voice of thander he cried “Halt!” one strong arm driving back a torrent of fiyiag troops. And then, as he points his spear through the golden light toward that fated city, his troops Know that they are to start for it, What a scene it was when the division in ambush which bad taken the city marched down against the men of Al on the one side, and the troops under Joshua doubled enomies from the other side, and of Al were caught between these two hurri- canes of Israelitish courage, thrust belore and behind, stabbed in breast and back ground between the npper the nether millstonas of God's indiguation! Woe ts the city of Al! Cheer for Israel! Lesson the first: There is sueh a thing as victor 8 rotreal. shua's falling baek was tho first chapter in his sacecessiul be- degemaent. And there are times (n your lite when the best thing do is te run. You were onco the victim ot irink, The demijohn and the decanter were your They came down upon you with greater fury than the men o Al upon the men of Joshua, Your only safety is to get away from them. Your dissipating companions will rome around you for your overthrow. Run for your iffel Fall back! Fail back from the drink ing saloon! Fall back from the wine party! Your Right is your advance; your retreat is your victory, Theres is a saloon down on the next stroot that has almost been the ruin of your soul Then wby do you go along that street? Why do you not pass through some other street ratherthan by the place of your calamity? A spoon. ful of brandy taken for medicinal pur oses by a man who twenly years before ad been reformed from drankentess hurled into laebrioty and the grave one of the best friends 1 ever had, Retreat is victory! Hara is a converted Infidel. He is so strong now in bis faith in the Gospel he says he ean read anything. What are you reading? Bolingbroke? Andrew Jackson Davis's tracts? Tyndall's Glssgow Ual- versity address? Drop them and run. You will be an infidel belore you die unless you quit that. These men of Ai will be too much for you, Turn your back on the rank and file of unbelief, Fiy before they cut you with thelr swords and ‘trassfix you with their javeline, fo, also, there is victorious retreat in the religious world, Thousands of times the kingdom of Chzist has seemed to fall back. When the blood of the Scoteh Covenanters ave a deeper dye to the heather of the Rigtlands, when the Vaudois of France ghowe extermination rather than make an unchristian surrender, when on 8t, Bartho- jomew's day mounted nssAssios rode through the streets of Paris, eryiog “Kili Bloodletting is goed in August! Kd Death to the Huguenots! dH” when Lady Jape Grey's head rolled from the exeoutioner's block, when Calvin was im. ned in the castle, when John Knox led for the truth, when John Bunyan lay potting in Bedlord jail, saying, “It God will help me and my pbysieal life con. tinnes, I will stay hers until the moss grows on wy eyebrows rather than give up my faith,” the days of retreat for the church were days of victory. SAVS baal 4 ash, 18Y oes Hil Silt back! , they could Joshua's eour- is beaten, tarowing itraal Lying, ¥ ie Sun toward the in td 3 0en ’ of Yivial ¥» Vision S00ner up the men an yOu can fierce foes, other side of tho sen to Plymouth Boek but now are marshaling a continent for the Obhristianization of the world, Church of Christ falling back from Pied mont, falllog back from Rae Bt, Jacques, falling back from St. Denis, tailing back from Wurtemberg castles, falling bmok from the Brussels market place, yet all the time triumphing., Notwithstanding all the reverses which the Obareh of Ohrist sul. fors, what do we wes to-day? Twelve thou sand missionaries of the eros on heathen rounds; eighty thousand ministers ol wsus Ubirist fo this land; at least four Linn Fr miliions of Christians on Lhe oarth, Falling back, yet advancing until the oid Wesleyan hymn will prove true: The Han of Judah shall break the ehaln And give us the victory again and again! Bat there is a more marked Hustration yietoricus reireat in the Jie of oul an, the Jesus of First fall from an sight to Ara to torrestrial valloys, from throne to mane gor: vet that did not seem to suffice Hin as ue a retreat, Falling back still farther from Bethlehem to Nacareth, from Naz- to Golgotha, back from Golgotha to the mausoleum in the roek, back the preciplees of perdition npiil He walked and drank of the wine of the wrath of Jezebels and tho Delshazzars, Oh, men of the pulpit and men of the pew, Christ's descent from heaven to earth does measure half the distance! It was glory to perdition, Ha descended hell, Al the records of earthly retreat ars as nothing compared with this falling back, Santa Anna, with the fragments of his army flying over the plateaus of Mexico, and Napoleon and his mimy retreating from Moscow {nto the awlful snows of Rusala are pot worthy to bo mentioned with this retreat, when all the powers of darkness seamed to bs pursuing Christ ns He fell back until the body of Him who loss and stripped, Methinks that the eity of Al was not so emptied of its inhabitants when they went to pursue Joshua as pers dition was emptied of devils when started for the pursuit of Christ, and He feil back und back, down lower, lower, chasm below chasm, pit below pit, until He seemed to strike the bottom of ob- jurgation and scorn and torture, Oh, the long, loud, jubilant shout of hell at the do. fout of the Lord God Almighty! Lusson the second: The triumph of the wicked is short. Did you ever see an army fo ao panle? Therais nothing so ynoons trollable, If yon had stood at Long Bridge, Washington, during the opening of our sad Civil War, you would know what it is to see an army run. And when those men of Al looked out and saw those men of Joshua in a stampede they expected easy work, They would seatter them as the squinox the leaves, Oh, the gleeful and jubilant descent of the men of At upon the men of Joshua! But thelr exhilaration was brief, for the tide of battle turned, anil these gunondam conquerors left their miser- able carcasses in the wilderness of Betha- ven, So it always is, The triumph of the wickad ts short. You make #20.000 at the gambling table. Do you expect to keep it? You will die in the poorbouse, You make a fortaua by iniquitous trafic. Do i 6X. pect to keep it? Your money will scatter, or it will stay long enough to curse your children after you are dead. Call over the roll of bad men who pr pered and sos how short was their prosper. For awhile, like the men of Al, they went from conquest to conquest, but alter awhile disaster rolled back upon them, and ay were divided into three parts. Mis- yrtune took their property, the grave took their body and the lost world took their I am always interested in the bull i- { palaces of dissipation. I like to have if the best granite and have the ys made large and to have the plilars God is going to conquer y will be turoed into asviums ries and churches, 1g will it take your boys to It gotten gains? The wicked at half thelr days, Forawhile y swagger and strut and make a great the newspapers, but after awhile lown into a brief paragraph: April 8, 1900, at thirty-five Relatives and friends of the vited to attend the funeral on loek trom his resi- Interment at of them ity. sie Dank gat pinsi in enly, in inte : 3 ) ar the if them iam, AKO “ora \ hijs clates® Where are James Fi tine, and ail the The wicked do not live oat half their dave, Disen gue, OO world of darkness! Come Hildebrand and Henry 11 and ' and with blistering and bl sug and ashen 3 o of kod is short Lesson the thind: How may be aoe complished by iying in ambash for oppor. tunities, Are you hiypereritieal of Joshua's manenver? Do you savy that it was ing for him to take that city by an ende? Was ft wrong for Washington to kiadie camplires on Jersey heights, giving the impression to the opposing foree that a great army aeamped there ther» w ] 1 the HU other aunnte? % 3 here uf . sijieree 11s iw sphem- vi i HPS, iriumpi the wi rt ma Diss 8 Dd glut, stralagen He br ambuscano Oh, that we all kos buah for opp bast of our surface, oS stratagen, Christian may take aimost any Christ C 10 towap! ular besiogament of will be defeated, but just door of their hearts Is set aj off their guard, or their santion is away from home, and then drop in on them from a Christian ambuscade There bas 1 many & man up to his ehin in scientifle portloiios whieh proved thers was no Christ and no divioe revela- tion, his pen a seimeter flang into heart of theological opponents, who nevers theless has been discomilted nnd captored for God by som» little t who has got up and put her snowy arms around bis sinewy neck and asked some simple questi wn about God, Oh, make a flank movement' marsh on the devil! Cheat that man igto heaven! A #5 treatise that will stand all the iaws of homiletics may fall to do that srlanities TO serve portunitios but soe retod, fy pe Argus FOVure on the may acoomplish, Oh, for mors Christians in ambuseade- not lyiog in idiensss, but walilag for a quick spring, waiting until just tho right time comes! Do not talk to nn man about the vanity of this world on the day when hoe has bdught somethiag at ‘12 and Ia gong to sell it at "i5.” Het talk to him about the vanity of the world on the day when he bas bo. "bt something at 15" and i# compelled 1, sell it at “12.” Lesson the fourth: The importance of taking good alm. There is Joshua, but how are those people im ambush up yonder to know when they are to drop ou the city, nnd how are they men around Joshaa to know when they are to stop their Aght and advance? There must be some sigaal ~# signal to stop the ons division and to start the other, Joshua, with a spear on which were ordinarily hung the colors of battle, points toward the eity. He stands in such a coms ieaous position, nad there is mo muah of the morsing light dripping from the spear tip, that all a the horizon they see it. It was as much as to say: “There Is the olty. Take it!” God knows and wé know that a great deal of Cliristing attack amounts to noths fog gimpl because we do not take good nim. Nobody knows and we do not know ourselves which point we want to take when we ought to makeup our minds what God will have us to do and point our spear in that direction and then burt our body, mind, soul, time, eternity at that one tar wet, In our pulpits’ and pews and Sanday. schools aod prayer meetings we want to get a reputation for saying pretty things, and #0 we point our spear toward the flowers, or we want a reputation for saying sublime things, and we point oar spear toward the stare, or we want to get 8 reputation for hitstorienl knowledge, and we poioat our ppent toward the past, or we want to got a reputation for great liberality, so weswing our spear all around, while there is the old world, prond, revellioas and nrmed against all righteonnness, and instead of runniog any fartheg away from its parsult we ought to tars around, plant eur foot in the strength of the eternal God, Jt the old gross and poigt Ldn the direction of the world's conquest ill, Lhe redsamod of earth, marahiug up from ons side and the glorifled of heaven marehing dowd from the other side, the last Battlemont of win 1s compelled to swing out the stesamers of Kmnousl, © chureh of Ged, take alo and eonquerl ORANGE FREE STATE CAPITAL. Scotsmen Are in the Ascendaat at Bloem- fontein. The capital of the Free State is one those happy little where It is always afternoon, ig no bustle about the streets, in highway OWLS There 110 COI only exelt- idyllic its iit has more ing than the morning market or the quarterly nachtmaal. One hears a deal of Euglish in the Probably it Ix the native lan guage of pearly one-half of the white population, pre ponderance of for are in the Bloemfontein, Many Volksraad are of BEreets, ue fotices fn orice, iniso pure Boots Neotsimen ascendant i members of the Scottish descent, names Maclin testify such frequently recurring HE Fraser, Macfarlane, tosh, and abundantly The alk House there ig a braw Rtaart, Innes in the Parl in Duteh, but abont tment twang mach of it which sug gests that it has been acquired on the banks of the Tweed or thereabouts, The Bloemfontein fonr-squared appearance of i i#= owing to the fact that, dy all Dutch ald out in rectanguing Nn cotmnon wilh neal fowls, I BPACces, streets equi«disu bordere pius another, and inevitable eucaly one where in the uplands of So ttle fort on kopje, ! couple of bly at the The public tein are The Raadzan is an important which at Maxime front one tine These to-day. buildings fgiite ng imposing 11 dural pretension, tower, and looks tween a gorgeous a palatial mu SO50, 000), and wis the most houses of Toll Churches are preva os Voy ah t | 3 AMOS AT every corn is one of fontein cal towns in which and churches canteens, London Mail, Sagacity Shown by Deer. iit Wife somewhat tw Animal “1, ack, o% of bam ng would thos aN intention It inimal was s tlogs ire 1s at from of lo } traps. tops of te he sagacity avoiding gun gps 1 “ £3 * Fail fal y 183% when all food was scarce ff snow, was the custom ia maple free and to place cited with the tree, in soch vinld the he t fot be sun ide “Tr { and pressing the line so ax to discharge the result that he would get shot. This experiment, be gays, he iried. at sixty times, sveceeded in killing the deer until he substituted a linen he had first nsed, and then he had no difficulty in killing her Hass Ww 1 Po free LENGE gun with the least but never back a —— The Nature of Saske Venom. Spake venom, in its most virulent is only modified saliva, doubt- lesa converted by nature into a speci fie poison, as much for the purpose of enabling the animal to procure food as for a weapon of defence, The fact fhat the blood of the reptile Is impreg it to safely devour its poisoned prey seems to render this supposition prob able, Another remarkable gift which nature seems to have bestowed upot certain varieties of snakes is the pow er of fascinating or mesmerizing theh victimes, Although this may appear a rather fanciful idea, some very dis tinguished scientists of the present day are Inclined to admit that there is some truth in it, and there are cases upon record which can scarcely be ex plained In any other way. A NSA 4 - The Welsh Double L. A teacher who has just died in Wales distinguished himself by helping o bishop to make good a boast that he would be able to preach a sermon in Welsh within three months of his con secration, The pronunciation of the double “II” was a gerions hindrance, and the teach. er gave counsel which proved effective’ “Place the top of your right reverend tongue upon the roof of your episcopal month and hiss Hke a goose.” The bishop made such progress thal promised period in what was desertbed as excellent Welsh O'CONNELL'S COOLNESS Saved Many Lives Ones in an gency, Daniel O'Connell, agitator and orator, for physical danger. easion, as his only surviving son ha recently narrated in neating bad been convened aud a larg rrowd assembled in a room on the fir; floor of a building in a small city | Ircland. O'Connell was about to ad dress the people when a gentleman pale with fear, made his to platform: and hoarsely whispered “Liberator, the floor is glving way The beams that shore it up are crack ing ys few the had a th wa y eT minutes O'Connell; ; addressed “Keep silent!” then, raising his voice, h the assembly: small to contain th number who desire to come in, 80 Ww niust it and hold meet! the building.” rose and went out, tained thelr the room is too leave the At this a but the majority re Then eaid: I will tell you the truth; you ar Irishmen, therefore brave men. 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