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In Your Large and Extensive Readings Have You Come Across a Lovelier Character Than Jesus Christ ? [Copyright 19801. WasHinGgTOoN, D. C.—~In this discourse Dr. Talmage calls for a more demonstra- tive religion and a hearty speaking out on the right side of everything: text, “Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come ont of him.” : Here was a case of great domestic en- guish. The son of the household was pos- sessed of an evil spirit, which among other things paralyzed his tongue and made him speechless. When the influence was on the patient he could not sav a word-ar- ticula* ‘on was impossible. The spixi¢ that eaptured this member of the household was a dumb spirit—so ealled by Christ—a spirit abroad to-day and as lively and po- tent as in New Testament times. Yet, in all the realms of sermonology I cannot find a discourse concerning this devil which Christ charged upon in my text, saving, “Come out of him. There has been much destructive super- stition abroad in the wotld concerning possession of evil spirits. Under the form of beligf in witcheraft this delusion kwept the continents. Persons were supposed to be possessed with some evil spirit which made them able to destroy others. In the sixteenth century in Geneva 1500 persons were burted to death as witches. Under one judge, in Lorraine, 900 persons were burned to death as witches. In one neigh- borhood of France 1000 persons were burned. In two centuries 200.000 persons were slain as witches. So mighty was the delusion that it included among its vie- time some of the greatest intellects of all time. such as Chief Justice Matthew Hale and Sir Edward Coke, and such renowned ministers of religion as Cotton Mather, one of whose books Benjamin Franklin said shaped his life—and Richard Baxter and Archbishop Cranmer and Martin Luther, and among writers and philoso That belief which has come the laughing stock of all sensible people counted its disciples among the wisest and best people of Sweden, Ger many, Englana, France, Spain England any man who believes the Bible lieve that there are diabolical abroad in the world While ministering spirits to bless f al to hinder, to poison and troy ras speaking to a sp existence when standing before ed the text He said. '“1 dumb and deaf spirit, come out of him Against put you on your this agent of evil has put his blight those who by omission of the vocal gans have had the golden gates of boited aad barred Am have never ken a wo gracious ar lovely and that were ever in of the asviu: must there there are spirits Christ one of the of Do not thir this aevy wmrd Ens ng those arnated ne for the dum! enchanting stories called the i John } Har kerly and who have given to those wh the power to by a manual we tongues {forever the ; silent air for the next. We rejoice in the inventions in behalf of tu born dumb. One of the most impressive audiences ever addressed was in the Far West. audience of about 800 persons, who never heard a sonnd or spoken a word, interpreter standing beside me while addressed them. I congratulated that au. dience on two advantages they had over the most of us—the one that they escaped hearing a great many disagreeable things and on the other fact that ther escaped ward. Yet after all the alleviations of a shackled tongue is an appalling limitation But we are not this morning speaking of congenial mutes. We mean those who are born with all the faculties of vocalization and yet have been struck by the evil one mentioned in the text—the dumb devil to whom Christ called when He said, » thee, come out of him.’ There has been apotheosization of si lence. Some one has said silence is gold- en, and sometimes the greatest triumph is to keep your mouth shut. But some timea silence is a crime, and the direct result of the baleful influence of the dumb devil of our text. There is hardly a man or woman who has not been present on some occasion when the Christian religion became a target for raillery. Perhaps it was over in the stars some car w hen there was not much going on and the elerks Were in a group. or it was in the fact wy at the noon spell, or it was out on the farm under the trees while you were rest. ing, or it was in the clubroom. or it was in a social circle, or it was in the street on the way home from business, or it was on Some one got the laugh on the Bible and ecaricatured tho profession of religion as hypocrisy or made a pun out cf something that Christ said. The laugh started. and you joined in, and not one word of protest did you f What kept you silent? Modesty? No. Incapacity to answer? No. Lack of It was a blow on both f some one should malign your father or response. And vet here is our Christian religion, which has done so much for you and so much for the world that it will take all eternity to celebrate it, and yet when it waa attacked vou did not so much as say: “I differ. I object, 1 am sorry to hear you wy that. There is another wide to this.” You Christian people ought in sich times as these go armed, not with earthly weapons, but with the sword of the Spirit. You ought to have four or five questions with which you conld confound any man who attacks Christianity. A man ninety years old was telling me how he put to flight a scoffer. My aged friend said to the skeptic, “Did yon ever read the history of Joseph in the Bible?” “Yes,” maid the man, “it is a fine storr and as interesting a story as I ever read.” “Well, now,” said my old friend, ap. pose that account of Joseph stoposd ha av!" “Oh” said the wan, “then it would not be entertaining.” “Well, pow,” said my friend, “we have in this world only half of everything, and do vou not think that when we hear the last hall things may be consistent and that then we may find that God wax right? Oh, friends, better load up with a few interrogation points. You cannot afford to be silent when God and the Bible and the thingd of eternity are assailed. Your si- lence gives consent to the hombardment of your Father's bonse, You allow a slur to he cast on your mother's dying pillow. In behalf of the Christ, who for von went througn the agonies of assassination on the rocky bluff back of Jerusalem, you dared not face a sickly joke. Better load up with a few questions, so that next time vou will be ready. Say to the scoffer, ‘My dear sir, will you tell me what makes the difference between the _conditions of woman in China and the United States? What do vou think of the sermon on the mount? How do you like the galden rule laid down in the Scriptures? Are you in favor of the Ten Commandments? In your large and extensive reading have you come across a lovelier character than Jesus Christ? Will you please to name the triumphant deathbeds of infidels and athe- sts? : ; “How do vou account for the fact ti nt among the out-and-out believers in Chris tianity were such persons as Benjamin Franklin, John Ruskin. Thomas Carlyle, Babington Macaulay William Penn, W al- ter Scott, Charles Kingsley. Horace Bush- nell, James A. Garfield, Robert lee, Stonewall Jackson. Admiral Foote, Ad- miral Farragut, Ulysses 8. Grant, John Milton, William Shakespeare. Chief Jus. tice Marshall, John Adams, Daniel] Webs. ter, George Washington? How do you account for their fondness for the Chris tian religion? : “Among the innumerable and universities of the earth will you name me three started by infidels and now sup- ported by infidels Down ir your heart are you really happy ir the position you occupy antagonistic to the Christian reli gion? : Go at him with a few such questions, and he will get so red in the face as to suggest apoplexy, and he will look at his watch and say he has an engag ment and must go You will put him 1m a sweat that will beat a Turkish bath You will put. him on a rout compared with which our troops at Bull Run made no time at all, Arm voursell, not interrogation points, victory. Ehall such colleges with arguments, but and 1 promise you a man as you, shall such a woman as you. surrender to one of the meanest spirits that ever smoked up irom the pit—the dumb devil spoken of in ext? then the : wh th But when Lhus eX0Ore ined Cagions there spins wholesale « audience ie never of him" takes people In the most responsive religi vou noticed how many peoj sing at all? They have a be and they have a voice, and they know how to read any of the tanes and vet are while the raptures of music Among those who sing not one a hundred loud enough to Youre We, #ilent great sings lo Isa ar £5198 on earth do not see how Th Y are t het 3 tual refrigera- Religion kept on ice How many of the god Opportunity made the hair fall de the statue so ar to and there were wings to the fest. The scuiptor lad wn ovel 3 4 comnietiely cover the sculptor answered, “The face of the statue is thus covered up because we do not recognize Opportunity when it comes, and the wings of the feet show thet Op portunity is swiitly gone.” But do not let the world deride the church because of all this, for the dumb devil is just as conspicuous in the worid The great political parties assemble at the proper time to build platforms for the candidates to stand on. A committee of each party is appointed to make the piat- form. After proper deliberation the com- mittees come in with a ringing report, “whereas” and “whereas” and “whereas.” Pronunciamentos all shaped with the one idea of getting the most votes. All ex. pression in regard to the great moral evils of the country ignored. No expression in behalf of temperate living, for that would lose the vote of the liquor traffic. No ex pression in regard to the universal attempt at the demolition of the Lord's day. No recognition of God in the history of na tions, for that would lose the vote of atheists. But “whereas” and “whereas and ‘‘whereas.” Nine cheers will be given for the platform. The dumb devil o TL and the other wing over the other piat- form. Those t conventions are opened with prayer by their chaplaine. If they avoided platitudes and told the honest truth in their prayers they would say: “0 Lord, we want to be postmasters and consuls and foreign ministers and United States district attorneys. For that we are here and for that we will etrive till the clect.on next November. Give us office or we die, Forever and ever. Amen.” The world, to say the least, iz no bet ter than the church on this subject of si- lence at the wrong time. In other words, is it not time for Christianity to become ronounced and aggressive as never be. ore? Take sides for God and sobriety and righteousness. “If the Lord be God, follow Him: if Baal, then follo'r him.” Have you oppor: tunity of rebuking a sin? ebuks it. fave you a chance to cheer a disheartencd poutl? Cheer it. Have you a useful word to speak? Spesk it, Be out and out, up and down for right. cousness. If your ship is afloat on the Pacific Ocean of God's mercy, hang out your colary from fie masthead. passport if you have one. not smug. gle your soul into the harbor of hoy k out for God! Close up the chapter of lost riunities, and oven a new chapter. Before you get to the door on your way out hab ¢ hands with some one, and ask him to join you on the road to heaven. Do not drive up to heaven in & two-wheeled “sulky” with room only for one, and that yourself, but get the big. gent £orpel wagon you ean find, and pile Tt ull of friends and neighbors, and shout till they hear you all up and down tho skies, “Come with us. and we will do youn good, for the Lord hath promised good concornivg Teruel” Hinance, “Gimme a 10-cent seegar,” said the tough young man to the tobacconist "Aw, take it back,” he continued, af ter carefully inspecting the weed “Gimme a couple boxes o' sweetcaps.” “"Hoid on, you haven't paid for them,” yelled the cigar man, as the cus- tomer moved toward the door, “Haven't paid for ‘em? you the seegar for the cigarettes.” “Well, but you didn't pay for cigar.” “Well,” demanded the man with great disdain, “1 it, did 1.” the tough voung didn’t take ; 5 Safest, surest cure for Dr.Bull’s iia Cough Syrup it. 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