REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY DISCOURSE, ———— Subject: The Nest of All BookswThe Bible's Divine Origin UpheldewFul- filled Prophecies of the Old Testament Prove Its Emanation From God, {Copyright 1800.) Wasmiyaron, D. C.—In the great con- flict now raging iu Europe, as in this coun- try, between Christianity and agnosticism Pr. Talmage has taken a decided stand, and in this sermon declares his unwaver- ing belief in the divine origin of the Scrip- tures: text, Matthew wn, 16, “Do men gather grapes of thorns?" Not mi this country. Not in any coun- trv. ‘lhorns stick, thorns lacerate, bat all the thorns put together never yielded one cluster of Catawba or Isabella grapes. Christ, who was the master of apt and po- tent illustration, is thus setting forth what vou and 1 well know-—that you cannot get that which is pleasant and healthiul and good from that which is bad. If you find a round, large, beautiful cluster of grapes, you know that it vas produced by a good grapevine, and not from a tangle of Can- ada thistle. Now, if I can show you that and all the arguments of the against it when he tries to show it is a book, will gO overb ard. Do men gather grapes of thoins? a ved took yield good results? Skept with great vehemence declare that the Ih Lic is a cruel book. They read the story ot the extermination of the Canaanoes and oi ail the ancient wars and of the be Skeptic to the conclusion that the Bible is in fa vor of laceration and manslaughter massacre cruel result. great habit of reading the ible a vears. Have you noticed a cruelty on their part? Have heard any of cally say, “1 have been reading the story about the extermination of the Canaaunites many ever you can lay my hands gn?’ Have your friends in proportion as they become diligent Bi ble students and disci of the Bible, shown a tendency sacre and murder an that been vour observat What ha i dren of t silow ne bo ~ hold, what has children of other 1} Word of God result of readic forth with l off lies and to piano rob birds’ nests? make cruel peo it and get CAUSE time did you notice this Ho ¥ Bibl and the | thx, of Flor Howard, oi Abbot reading the toward ater? HIAas Has 1 mansiau Deen Lhe « Lf upan you # cruel vou fd VOUT house HGH is hono 2 Cru abs must p Laur in proj yt the Bible th itv? Have tied that were were this time. Ther They are binding uj fering cordials the dying, prayu its V here do They have been re i They re Ives, read it every toner arm wi Again, produ money windred million and not one the co where t the family Again, s they say I RENer- by ing y (esti un A ost hevers, siriner $ the other for ncS--one cr be believers. All who a pt Christ reaching that Lome and only those destroyed who destroy tnemselves. only those who turn their back u Christ and come to the precipice and jump off, for never pushes a man off; he jumps off. Now, in these four great doctrines all the Bible writers agree. Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, Hadyn, never wrote more harmo nious music than you will find in this per fect harmony of the Word of God, the har mony in providence and in grace. You must remember also that thors of the Bible came from Janda, from different ages and from dif ferent centuries. 'Lhey had no communica: tion with each other, they did not have an idea as to what was the chief design of the Bible, and yet their writings, got up from all these difierent ages and all these dif ferent centunies, coming together, make a perfect harmony in the opinion of the very best sonolnie of all Jands. Is snot that 8 most remarkeblde fact? Again, midis vehemently charge that the Bible i« su unscientific hook, In a former discourse J showed you that there wus no collision between soience and reve lation, and | went from point to point in the dwcussion. Dut now Jet un have au thority in this matter. Yon and 1 cannot give the forty or fiuly or sity years exclu: gively to the study of science that some men give, Let us have authority fin this oo matter, L Who says theve is a ealligion between pe and relation? Well, Herbert Ppeneer, Tyndali, Dovwin. They say there is a discord between science and revels. tion. But I will bring you names of men 0 have found o perfeet aecsord between seience and revelation, men as much high in intellectual character above those I have mentioned as the Alps and Washington snd the Himalayas er than the hill back of your house, wl, Kepler, lLeibnitz, Noss, Isaac ewton. My frien’ , we arc in respecta HOY the an different t ble comuary when we halieve in the Word of God very respectable company. Now, I might, as infidels have failed to prove thot the Bible is a cruel book, that the Bible is an impure book; that the Bi ble is a contradictory book, that the Bi bie 12 an unscientific book-—1 might move a nonsuit in this case of Infidelity, the plaintiff, against Christianity, the defend- ant, but I will not take advantage of the circumstances, for when the skeptic goes on to say that we are a gullible people, when he goes on to say, as he often does, that the greater the improbability the more we like to believe it; when he goea on to say that the Bible is made up of a lot of manuscripts, one picked up here and another there. and another from some other place, and that the whole thing is an imposition on the credulity of the hu man race, I must reply to that charge, The Bible is made up of the Old Testa- ment and the New Potariont, Let us the New Testament first. Why do | helieve it? Why do I take it to my heart? I+ is because it can be traced bae': to the divine heart just as easily as that aisle can be traced to that door and that aisle to that itn @ door Jerome and Eusebius in the first century and Origen in the second century. and other writers the third and fourth cen tories gave a list of the New Testamen writers exactly corresponding wing that the same New we have they haa in the rv, and the third century and century and the first century i they get the New got it from Irenaeus aeus get it? He got it from Poly apg did Polyearp get it’ He got John, who was the personal us the Lord 1st My r gave a book to my father, my I give it to mv chua. | re any difficulty in tracing this ine? On communion day 1 will start the chia: that end of the and the cha il pass along to the other end of th Will it be diffienlt to trace the holy chalice? No dithiculty at all » will sav, “I gave it to that one,’ “1 gave it to that not be so long a line ax New Testament It is fact B vas handed 1 ay, who Knows bu ster? How can vou Phey died for Men never rinmphantly ru I hey that Testa Jesus ( ie at isle, this one wi But it wal to trace the t the it ght they take tl thie Lied in tru New Testament ¢ one, “now 1 I hey will not find SCrIpts easly YOEUD When the fires of will umn | Genesis toward Revelation, and { burn on this side, from 1 Genomis, their a single chapter Hace that =» & hire last day are kin this sade, fron others wi tied, SOME on Hevelation tow ind mn all they will Corse way } tite Bible { What will be the use of the book descriptive of how the when the world is destrove of the prophecies when they { are all fulfilled? What will be the use of i the evangelistic or Panne description of { Jesus Unrest when we sie Him face to face! ut 1 do not think we will give up the { Bible even at that time. 1 think we will want the Dible in heaven. 1 really think { the fires of the last day will not consume i the last copy, for when you and 1 get our dead children out of the dust we want to show them just the passages, just the promises, which comforted us here in the dark day of interment, and we will want to talk over with Christians who have had trials and struggles, and we will want to show them the promises that especially re. freshed us. I think we shall bave the Di ble in heaven, Oh, I want to hear David with hie own voice read, “The Lord js my shepherd.” I want to hear Paal with his own voice vead, “Thanks be unto God (hat giveth us the victory;” 1 want to hear the archangel play Paul's march of the resurrection with the same trumpet with which he awoke the dead! ©O blessed book, good enough for earth, good enough for heaven, Dear old book book bespattered with the blood of martyrs who died for its de. fense, book sprinkled all over with the tears of those who by it were comforted! Put it in the bands of your children on their birthday: put it on the table in the siting room when you begin to keep house; put it under your head when you die. Dear old book! I press it to my heart: I press it to my hips. i “Where shall I go?” said a dying Hindoo to the Brabmitic priest to whom he had given money io pray for his salvation, “Where shall 1 go after 1 die? The Prahmitic priest said, "You will first of al go into a holy quadruped.” But,” said the dying Hindoo, “where shall 1 go then?” “Then you shall go into a singing bird.” “But,” said the dying Hindoo, “where then shali 1 go?” “Then,” said the Brah- matic, “vou will go ‘to a beautiful fJow. er.” The dying Hind © threw up his arms in an agony of solicitation ax he said, “Buy where shall I go last of all?’ Thank God this Bible tells the Hindoo, tells you, tells me, not where 1 shall go to-day, not whers I shall go to-morrow, not where 1 shall go next year, but where I shall go last of all! LATEST NEWS GLEANED FROM VAIL. OUS PARTS. Bipece the Flald Was Struck There— Running Home to Escape Storm Geo. Yery fitting was the one hundredth ann) versary of Butler County celebrated, Con servative estimates place the people participating at 25000, With th closing of the exercises there were expres tions of satisfaction wih the three days. of a bundred years ago, drawn by four borses and fellowed by an automobile, marked the progress of the century, Ml business having made Butler county Producers’ aud Refuers’ I'ipe Line Compa. ey, in a masterly address amazed the people with the statement that since oll was dis rovered in Butler county it has preduced barrels, Fliled into barrels pinced end to end they would twice encircle the world, Daring the past twenty years county has furnished one-twentieth of the ofl used to Hluminate the earth, Ex. United States Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, Tested Strength of Six Men. It required the united efforts of six strong men to strap a crazy man to a board, ir order to remove him to the Insane Hospital Joseph Demarco, of West Mansyunk, was @ court. He gave conflicting evidenee, and itis sald it se preyed upon his mind that he jost bis reason, He seized a little girl and threw her down With he afterward r in front of a raliroad train, threatening to throw if off the tracks, He was taken oto custody and brought to Norristown, where a com mission in adjudged insane, While the hearing was io progress Demareo broke the handeufla as if po and ienoe, flendish glee sshed iupacy him speasod wi Be leaped bh He was badly cut After bis capture he was strapped to a snd removed to the Insane hospital, IAL Ciatmed the Corpse. The fansral of Patrick Wrenn, who dled Hospital, Norristown, from in. by being buried beneath a wall on the premises of B. F. Murphy at Rquare, cocurred Thursday. By off the g val of the merest chance thi 1ostead of receiving a corpae nearly went int be State Anatomical Bo SAIDE burial kilo as the ghiipped, having al ready Leen loaded on the dead wagon taken to the train, the Lody was ciain relatives from Philadelphia, Lightning Kills Boy. During a violent thunderstorm at Cham 8 Disert, of East Market street, was instantly The boy. with some others, bad been in swimming, Noticing the storm coming they ran for home, avd while crossing » vacant lot the boy was struck Ly lightning Several other boys were burried to the ground, but got up asd ran home ticiag that young Disert had been struck. After the storm two boys crossing the ot found young Disert's dead body. Went Over Embankment. George Berndt is fn Charity Hospital Norristown, with a broken jeg, as the result of & driving sccidest on the River Road Upper Merion. The acehlent happened In close proximity to where Willlam Poth near iy lost his life by the wrecking of his auto Berndt was seated in a cart driviog being en route from Philadeiphia to Reading. The animal became frightcned and in backing went over the steep embank- ment, The horse, aver and over in the decent, killed, mobile, The horse was Thief Ties Up Trolley Lina Thisves carted away about 1500 feet of trolley wire from along the Brthlehoms and The thieves had a Detective John gon is on the track of the well-dressed stran gers who were riding continually over the The com pa- Oleo Salesman Fined, Hunter Kaylor, who testified that he rep. yesented the Vermont Mantfactaering Com- y, was convicted of selling oleogargarin and sentenced to pay a fine of #300 and He sold ""olec” to a number To Red nce Price of Steel. The Beam Pool, or combine of structural steel manufacturers, met in New York and the decline in the cost of raw material THE NATIONAL CAME, The Cincinnatis bats, Forty-cight pitchers have worked in the League this year. Pitcher Cogan has been released by the Chicago team to New York. Nine erroriess games have been played by the Brookiyns this season. Boston js playing the best all-round game just pow of any of the League teams, Chicago's new firet baseman Gangell, is a splendid fielder and very good batsman, Jerry Denny has reicased Mike Tier nan irom the Derby Club of the Con- necticut League, Garvin, of Chicago, hag a more var. fed assortment of curves than perhaps any other pitcher in the League. Three old League umpires—Johin W, Gaffney, Tom Connolly and W. J, Smith—are officiating in college games, The plan to restore the double ume pire system has been dropped Ly the magnates, because of the extra ox- pense, The Cincinnat team Is very weak In batting and almost apy pitcher can keep Hs geore down to a very low figure, Flynn, of the Indianapolis team, has played in no less than four different positions so far this season and his fielding average Is over DOO, are using black been "THE JOKERS BUDGET, To 3 No Chance for Misunderstanding, Bhe gives her folks a wrench By writing all her letters home In nerve-disturbing French, jut as the months roll onward, And she needs cash to fling, No doubt, to find Her native tongue the thing, Record. she'll for checks, ask Chicago More Important. He—~Before 1 proposed to any girl 1 should want to feel of myself, 4 _ 1 She-—Better be sure of the girl. —Li “re All Entitled to Their Opinions. 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But didn’t go so far as to break our en —— young woman answered the ot } er with much ie we Use of a Stammer. He'll never ask her to him, He stammers so awfully, Joes—1 suppose the thought of he's doing paralyzes his tongue, Tess—No, it fsn't that, He stammers naturally, and whenever he impulsive ly starts to ask her his halting speech gives him time to cool off and think what he's doing. Toss marry what Not a Practical Proposition. “My dear.” sald Mrs, Blanks to her husband, “don’t you think it would be a good idea to get your life lusfired?” “No, 1 don't,” he gruffiy replied. “Ir 1 were to do that it would just be my fool luck to live forever.” “Oh, well,” meekly answered Mrs B, “then 1 wouldn't think of doing it.” Quite Agreeable, The engagement had just been ane pounced and the girl in blue plgued, “1 wouldn't marry for money,” she one on the prospective bride, shoulders, : “Nelther would 1-if I could get it any other way,” she answered.-Chl cago Post, Kinghalese Children. 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