REV, DR. TALMAGE THE EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY DISCOURSE. ul se. Religious Crecds=1A Plea For the Doing Away With the Dogmaties nnd For the Substititing of a CUreed ronnded on Faith In Chulst, Copyright UN] Wasninaroyn, DD. C.—At n time when the pid discussion of creeds is being vigorously and somewhat bitterly revived this dis. sourse of Dr. Tuimage has a special in- terest, The text is John xi, #4, ‘Loose him and let him wo.’ My Bible is, at the place of this text, written all over with lead pencil marks made at Bethany on the rales of the housa of Mary and Martha asd Lazarus, We dis- mounted from our iorses on the Way up from Jordan to the Dead Bea, Bethany was the sumer evening retreat of Jesus, After spending the day in the hot city ot Jerusalem He would come out there almost avery evening to tho house of His threes friends, I think tho eccupauts ol that house wera orphaas, for fathiar and mother are not mentioned. But the son and two daughters must have inherited property, for it must have been, judging from what I saw of the foundations and the size of the rooms, an opulent home, Laracus, the brother, was now at the head of the housahold, and his sisters depended on bim and were proud of him, for he was very popular, aud everybody liked him, and these girls were splendid girls—Martha a first rate housekeeper and Mary a spir- ituelle. somewhat dreamy, hut affectionate, aod as good a girl as conl be found in ail Palestine. Butope day | The sisters were in gone and mother gone, they fo vous lest they lose their brother al ease did its quick work, H hung over his plliovw Not mu about that house—no sleep at all, From the characteristios otherwise vetoped I judge that Martha p medicines and made taod for the poor but Mary prayed and worse gets Lazarus pounces that he ean do shriek that went up {row when the last breath had irawn the {wo sisters were be led by pathizers into the oo joining room ali t of us ean imagine who have had hearts broken But why was not here, as He 50 often had been? Fi in the country districts, preaching, other sick, how unfortunate that this potent doe + bad at mestio erisis When Jesus arrived Laza bean buried {our fssolution ha akon piace. lu t? brea jase body distin t in ours, fi ody had been overs migint 3 eomatcs: state ¢ by seme vigoro fd atime No: Fi At tl the onsite reparad dishes Parar tempting forse and josal) ang Dean the svar smnll 8 space down afte: that Ha bh Now ing an stops Peat fuiser Amid the indlinr nanny upon His lips jae home with a pati the rec 80 0 rye be an eu 3 The eyes rises and with: great 4i the surements ¢ sud hia fast, and the impediments to al ments are so great that Josux “Take off these cor Ren hindrances Unfasten these gravee Loose him and jet hin g Oh, | am raised La arus H the loosening of fant, so that be jung off of the hands, so arms io sal the bandage from arot Bis jaws, se resurrected fet are FMT ve Lhe a that he could speak fife Dave Peet row his bode? | mancad his ing. “Loose hiv The many Christis They have Hes burial of «in yet have the grave are Jike La ., HA the tomb bound and ohject af this sermon body and free their sou obey the Master se me and snes LO lgiou, “1 Many are ligious cre me as antag or ten of then ¢roed about art a erved about ervexd 18 some whether it be writien or Presbyterian hureh gbont its epeead, Home wion fn it are for Leaping it because x framed from the belief of Jolin Calvin {hog good men fa ft want revigion, 1 am with neither party. instead of revision I want substi. tution. 1 was sorry to have the question disturbed st all, The creed did not hinder us from offering the pardon and the com. fort of the Gospel to nit men, and the Weal. minster Confession has not interfered with me one winute, Bat now that the oleitrie jights have been turoed on the fmperfec. tipns of that creed--and everything thal man fashions i= imperfect int us pat the old creed respectfully aside and got a braid BOW one, It in impossible hundreds of years appropriate creed Calvin was a great died 336 years ago. [| could eall the names of twenty living Presbyterinn ministers of religion who could make a better cceed than John Calvin. boen 3 fe nhforta ir 0 Ai < tn id mini aoe him and jet hi avery and f{ baliave It agitated that people who lived ago should fashion au for our times, John the sixteenth. “But,” you say, "it Is the same old Bible, and John Calvin bad that as well as the pressnt student of the Heriptures.” Yes #0 it ix the same old sun in the heavens daguarreotypes and photographs, It is the same old water, but in our century Ml hag gone to running steam eagines, It Is the same old electricity, but to cur time it has beeome a lightning footed errand boy. He it Is the old Bible, but new applications, new uses, now interpsetations, Jame of them now mean mors an , 1 do not think that John Calvin believed, me some say Le did, In the damustion of in fants, although some of the recent hot dis % some thers 1 infrnts, A mun who belleves in the damnation of infants himeelif deserves to lose heaven, eould admit What Christ will do with all the babies in the next world I eon- bables In Palestine when He hogged them and Kissed When some of you grown people go out ol this world, your doubtful destiny will bo an embarrassment to ministers officiating at your obsequies, who will have te be cautious so as not to hurt surviviog friends. But when the darling ehiidren go there are no “ifs” or ''buts’’ or guesses, We must remember that good John Cal. vin was a logician aad a metaphysiciay and by the proelivities of his nature put some things in an unfortunate way, Logie hes its use, and metaphysics hus its use, but they aro not good at making creeds, What a time we have had with tho dogmatics, the apologetics and the her- meneutios The defect in soms of the creeds [s that they try to tell us all about Now, the only human that s«ubject wus Paul, and he would not have been competent had he pot heen in aspired. I believe in the sovereignty of God, and I believe fn man's free agency, but no one can harmonize the two, It is not necessary that we harmonize them, Every sermon that 1 have ever heard that attempt ed such harwonization was to me 8s clear as a London fog, as clear as mud. My brother of the nineteenth cen. tury, my brother of the sixtesnth century, give Paul's statemont and leave your own. Better one ckapter of Paal on that sub. ject than all of Calvin's Institutes, able and honest and mighty as they are. Do not try to measure either the throne of God or the thuuderbolits of God with your little steel pen. What d You ea eler us out know about the decrees? of the door of God's You cannot explait Ss government now, an the much five mysteries lesa the wy of His government hondred quintiilion ye ars ago. w But 1 that the old creeds put ander publie rutiny somaotl t be done, Some would spl iid carve them, somes would el ame would abbreviate mo in t i hindranee. Lauzarus is red with the old grave. [ you want une giorious ¢ arch, unincumbered, take off 16 care ot old eceolesiastical vocabulary. hier, aud let ber go! Again, my text has good advice conenrn- any Christian hampered sud bothered bound hy fe dissolution. it speaks of { death were all bo The Laan radi CARI I 3, w- them BOM veant gent resant shape they are a but ham pe ! sligD fissol regarding ¥ thousand per ent. belter itest, most jul on earth and « hour, and that our would fast duy, a gloom, a h with the poo : it 1SRYSnD » its first HE fed yenpress th h_- RL. B they have had in was built or first song oar Oh,” vou say, may a true am so sairaid eof crossing ir this world to the paxt, and | Tear the snapping of the cord between soul and body,” Well and physicians and sot gal that over 1il the surgeons antists parting of the body and soul, restlessness at the siosiug ir and 0 fistrese at sil. 3 say, ll fear to x a0 full of mystery.” will tell ¥ WW thes 1 Phe mystegios | ny o treat Ho I have boar ard i next world, ret Bn At ! the papers avd reserve rid may decision ars study all the mysteries ta better advantage, for the jight and my facallies siropger, the Christian philosophers, io advantages of help me, and 1 mitted myroll hombiy to ask ro will be only one Fos bi fn FOr Ps 0 nysiery, und so antil the nest ww them. [I ean ti will better wii ask have had ali t anturies, 1a who heaven for mny ba por. the Lord yatery loft r an suraptured plage part of the journey | :0 to Palestine that I really dread ed was the landiag at Joppa. bat i= the port of entrages for the Holy Labd, and thers are many rocks, nod io rough weath- er people eannot Inud at all. The boats taking the peopie from the steamer to the locks mast rup between reefs that looked to me to be about fifty fest apart, and one misstroke of An oarsman or an unexpected wave has sometimes been fatal, and pandrods have perished along those reals, Pesides that, as we Jeft Port Bald the evening before, an old! trav. oler said: “The wind is just right to give you a rough landing at Joppa; indeed I think you will not be able to land at ail.” The fact was thal when our Mediterranean steamer dropped anchor near Joppa and we put out for shore In the small boat, the water was as still as though it had been wound asleep a hundred years, and we tanded as easily as | eatered this pulpit, Well, your fears have plotured for you an appailing arrival at the end of your voyage of lite, and they say that the seas will run high nod that the breakers will awallow you up, or that if yon reach Canaan at all it will be a very rough Innding. The very opposite will be true if you bave the eternal Col for four portion, Your dlsembarkation for the promised land will be as smooth as was ours at Palestine. Ohrist will meet you far out at sen nnd pilot you Into complete safety, and you will land with a hosanna on one side of you and u allelainh on the other. “Land ahead!” Its fruits aps waving O'er the bill of tadeless grpon And the liviog waters Iavin stores where heavenly fofms are soon, ihe years a only Hoeks and storms I'l fear do more When on that sternal shoe, Drop the anchor, farl the s§lil 1 wm sufe witnin the vell! KEYSTONE STATE. | LATEST NEWS GLEANED FROM VARI ! O's ARTS OUTRAGE BY MASKED MEN. Hub and Beat a Smithyille Saloen-Keeper, then Fire His House Saved by His Neigh | bors Vietim Was Found Securely Bound i and Almost Suffoented by Smoke of Burn. ing Dwelling. Masked burglars at an early hour broks into Michael Brown's saloon, st Smithville. fter assaulting him they tied him hand and toot and robbed him of #200 he had in his possession, Hrown fought desperately with severs beating. Over thelr faces the men aore handkerchiefs, and in their hands they warried lighted torches, Two of the burg "ars took care of Brown, while the other two ransacked the house, their blazing torches Ming the building with light and smoke, I'he men who remained with Brown de manded his money, He told them all he had was $5, which was in the poekets of his They declared that he had more, and to compel him to tell them where It was beat him with hard pleces of rubber hose two feet long, which had been ent from the alr-brakes of railroad cars. He was gtruck on the head with the butt end of that bled bers had ransa trousers, } ¥ 1DOuL a revolver, receiving o painful cut When the rol ked house and ha cured the cash, a gold and a shot and feet with t and wire 6 the bed t togehing the after they bs hh, 8 new pair OUsArs they tied Br h they fon 1 6 close wiire by a neigl antry Che He was wi Hos ved that he w & Teel, and fist taken 1 1% 00 Mex it is est are idle gt Sharon suit of the sh sf the trust compan initely when they will thouga itis intinated ihe die placts iron Amer ieee] NS) are wed by the Hey Ho : av, Americal VIA Hamme Mr Faxes Charies ng the resi banket { was sentened rinr the Eastern was Penitentiary tried ae accomplion ane Ww. 8 Miller jrigade of the State Guard, and Adjutant Atherton, Lieutenant Merciam and Quarters master Vaudiing, of the staff of Colonel Wa. tres, of the Thirteenth Rogiment, inspected Company 1, of Eadton, and presented medals to thé marksmen, The third annual banquet of Ephrata fodge, No. 400, 1.0. 0, F., was beld at Hotel Cocalleo with over one hundred and fifty members presents The banquet was given in honor of the thirte-nth anniversary of the fnstitution of the lodge. A. Harvey Vasey, aged about 60 years, or nanesctor of the Third in Buekingham Township, I ad bests well-to-do farmer, Lut for a year or more had been in poor health, Temperance Union of Reading, a letter was rend from Congresstuan Green, promisthg quest from the union, $0500. There was no insurances, was lojured. Lb III 555 NI 530 Saw Children Burn to Death, No one solored, aged respectively five and two years and six wore burned taan 100 persons, who were po resona them. The mother of the ehiidren as Not Prepared. Aun eccentric Maine preacher cently driving slong a country rou and his overtaking a young mun trampling WHY on him to his sleigh After hie Wii seated the the of hig yes vigor of hig cap and sald lones: to die wWoeary fool, invited a seat in rolled up under the in septichral omfortubly preacher whites “Young man, are a Beream the back With an ear-piercing and a back somersanit of the sleigh the dense fen in Over WOOUR has been those and parts never since Disgusting! Skin eruptions, whieh keep yon scratching, aud look raw and sore. It is unrefined in either sex; and gives the impression of uncleanness, Don’t you want to get rid of it? Get a 0c. box of Tetterine from vour druggist, or send stamps to J. T. Shuptrive, Savaunah, Ga. all skin diseases. Give it a trial, Dewey's Chineve Bervant Admiral Dewey's body servant, who moved with him from the flagship Olympia to his new home presented to him last autumn in Washington, is Ah Maw, the Chinese boy. Ah Maw is an interesting character, and about as bright and shrewd NAMAD As mess, a Ch one He is an enlisted sailor In and with the over the Uinited States navy is tem detailed for duty ad He speaks markable clearness and fluency, Is 41 POYari:y miral, English with re- BOG natured to an unus wal degree, and is perfectly devoted to his gallanl mas Ah Maw Dewey's LAS sole ter wardrobe to be worn each morning he admira rOuUsSersg pr ot Ask Yar Dealer For Allen's Fool Fase, J der 10 shake nto | Cures t i More, Hot, Cali ingrowing pies OF Light sh 1 3 § “ba halls Rue wists and shoe stores FEEE. Adr's Aller hg Useinl are ands are d in France gardens { res The Makers of Carter's Ink Sav: “We rant make any beetle 1 than we do: we don't know how podirer ink, but y best. Fiem ko we won't aris g Ink is the ¥Fren Canndians me-grown tobe Teo Cure a Cold “ake fazamive dl re tant GROVES signa 52 000 bank aba 4000 wis sere are , Assessed] at #5 Pounds “DEARMRS. 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