” AS AN EXHILARATION. Dr. Talmage Says Christianity is Uplift ing and Dispels Melancholia. The Fate of Young Men Who Go In for Sinful! Amusements. [Corpright 1801.) Wwasmxeron, I). C.—In this discourse Dr. Talmage sets forth religion as an ex hilaration, and urges all people to try its uplifting power; text, Proverbs iii, 17, “Her ways are ways of pleasantness.” You have all heard of God's only begot- ten Son. Have vou heard of God's daugh- ter? Bhe was born in heaven. She came down over the hills of our world. She had queenly step. On her brow was celestial radiance. Her voice was music. Her name is religion. My text introduces her. “Her wavs are ways of pleasantness, and all her aths are peace.” But what is religion? I'he fact is that theological study has had a different effect upon me from the effect sometimes produced. Every year I tear out another leaf from my theology until I have only three or four leaves left—in other words, a very brief and plain state ment of Christian belief. . An aged Ohristian minister said: “When I was a young man, I knew everything; when I got to be thirty-five years of age, in my creed I had only a hundred doc- trines of religion; .when I got to be forty years of age I had only fiity doctrines of religion; when I got to be sixty years of age 1 had only ten doctrines of religion, and now I am dying at seventy-five years of age, and there is only thing I know, and that is that Christ came into the world to save sinners.” noticed in the study of God's word, and in my contemplation of the character of God and of the eternal world, that it is neces- sary for me to drop this part of my belief and that part of my belief as being non- while 1 1 one and Christ Jesus essential, the doctrine th is his Almighty Now, I take of my theology, first place iominant the sunshine of i When passion for throwi That 1s what We are nic hr: 18 re{gion., mto open 1 ail ers want to do this morning. } » ae the shut! that ie thi blinds streams. TI sligion of the us Christ is a religion of joy and unutterable ‘herever 1 find a bell I mean to ring it. ing who are disposed to hold on to their melancholy and gloom, let them now de part this service before fairest and brightest and the most radiant being of all the universe comes God's Son has left our world, but God’s daughter is here. Give her room! Hail, Princess of Heaven! Hail, daughter of the Lord God Almighty! Come in and make this house thy throne- room! In setting forth this idea. the dominant theory of religion is one of sunshine, I the Lhe in. A mother saw her little child seated on the floor in the sunshine and with a spoon in her hand. She said, “My darling, what are vou doing there?’ “Oh,” replied the child, “I am getting a spoonful of this sunshine.” Would God that to-day I might present you with a gleaming cha- lice of this glorious, everlasting gospel sunshine! First of all, T find a great deal of sun- ghine in Christian society I do not know of anything more doleful than the companionship of the mere funmakers of the world Lambs, the Charles world—the men whose is to make sport. They make others laugh, but if will examine their autobiography or ography you will find that down in their soul there waa a ternhe disquietude Laughter is no sig happiness. maniac laughs. ‘the hvena laughs Joon among the Adirondacks laughs. The drunkard, dashing his decanter against the wall, laughs. There ia a terrible reaction from sinful amusement and sinful merriment Such men are cross the next day. They snap at you on exc bange or they pass you, not recognizing you Long ago I quit mere worldly society the reason it was so dull, so inane and so stupid. My of joy. 1 must have Mathewses of entire business you ot for tare 18 voracious always vailk on the sunny side of the I have #o tell yon that where the Chris tian has one self denial the man of the world has a thousand self denials, The Christian is not commanded to surrender anything that is worth keeping. But what does a man deny himao who de- nies himself the religion of Christ! He denies himself pardon for sin; he denies himself peace of conscience; he denies himself the joy of the Holy Ghost; he denies himself a comf:-table death pil- low; he denies himself the glories of heaven. Do not talk to me about the self Where there is one in the Christian life there are a thousand in tue life of the world. ‘Her ways are ways of pleasantness.” Again, 1 find "a great deal of religious sunshine in Christian and divine explana- tion. To a great many people life is an inexplicable tangle. Things turn out dif- ferently from what was supposed. There is a useless roman in perfect health, There is an industrious and consecrated woman a complete invahd, Explain that. There is a bad man with £30000 of in- come. There i8 a good man with $800 of income. Why is that? There is a foe of society who lives on, doing all the dam- age he can, to seventy-five years of age and here is a Christian father, faith uf in every department of life, at thirty-five vears of age taken away by death, his amily left helpless. Explain that. Oh, there is no sentence that oftener drops from your lips than this: “I cannet un- derstand it: I cannot understand it.” Well, now religion comes in just at explanation. There is a business man who has lost his entire fortune. The week before he lost his fortune there were twenty carriages that stopped at the door of his mansion. The week after he lost his fortune all the carriages you could count on one finger. The week before financial trouble began people all took off ti hate to him as he passed down the The week his financial prospects were under discussion people hed their hats without anywise he rim. The week that he was insolvent people just jolted as they passed, not tipping at all, and the week the out all his friends were store windows as they him. their street world goes away from in wial distress, ymes to him and and your sickness ation ‘ou are be ed way to take to heaven, znd He must be- sre, and He took the one wt beautiful and was ready to do not say that rehgion exnlains everything in this life, but 1 do say it lays down certain principles which are ndly latory. You know business men often telegraph in cipher. The mer chant in San ancisco telegrachs to the merchant y York certain informa- tion in cipher which no other man in that line of business can understand, but the merchant in San Francisco has the key to the cipher, and the merchant in New York has the key to the cipher, and on that information transmitted there are enterprises involving hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now, the provi- dences of hfe sometimes seem to be sense- less rigmarole, a mysterious cipher, but 1 hrist ¢ sick, arin t in some 80 CONnSH Christian a key to that cipher, and though he may hardly be able to spell out the meaning he gets enough of the mean- ing to understand that it is for the best, Oh, what an observatory in which to study astronomy heaven will be, not by power of telescope, but by supernatural vision, and, if there be somethang doubt ful 10,000,000 miles away, by one stroke of the wing you are there, by another stroke f the wing you are back again, and all in of And geology! What a place that will be to study geology when the world is be. ing picked to pieces as easily as a school girl in botanical lessons pulls the leaf from the corolla! What a place to study amid the thrones and the and the cathedrale—St. Mark's Paul's rookeries in comparison Sometimes you wish you could make the tour of the whole earth, going around others have gone, but vou have not You palaces cal pause in the eternal anthem. 1 say these things for the comfort of those peo- society. 1 like their better 1 hike their f amusement better. They Christian people, I sometimes no , live on when 5 all natural law they ought to have died. I have known per ho have continued in their ex doctor said they ought to have been dead ten years. Every day their existence was a defiance of the laws of anatomy and physiology, but they had this supernatural vivacity of the gos- pel in their soul, and that kept them alive. Put ten or twelve Christian people in a room for Christian conversation, and vou will from eight to ten o'clock hear more resounding glee, see more bright strokes of wit and find more thought and profound satisfaction than in any merely worldly party. Now, when I say a “worldly party,” | mean tnat to which you are in- vited because under all the circum stance: of the case it is better that you go, and, leaving the shawls on the second floor, vou go to the parlor to give formal salutation to the host and the hostess and then move around, spending the whole evening in the discussion of the weather and mm apology for treading on long trains and in effort to keep the corners of the mouth up to the sign of pl asure and going around with an idiotic 1e-he about nothing until the collation is and then, after the collation is served, going back again into the parlor to resume the weather and then at the close going at a very late hour to the host and hostess and assuring them that you have had a most delightful evening and then passing down off the front steps, the slam of the door the only satisfaction of the evening. 0 young man come from the country to epend your days in oty life, where are vou going to spend your evenings? Let me tell you, while there are manv places of innocent worldly amusement, it is most wise for yon to throw your y, mind and soul into Christian society, Come to me at the close of five years and tell me what has been the result of this advice. Bring with you the young man who re fused to take the advice, and who went into sinful amusement. He will come dis- gipated, shabby in apparel, indisposed to look any one in the eyes, moral character eighty-five per cent. off. You will come with principle settled, countenance frank, habits good, soul saved, and all the in habitants of heaven, from the lowest angel up to the archangel and clear past him to the Lord God Almighty, your co- adjutors. is is not the advice of a misanthrope. There ix no man in the house to whom the world is brighter than it is to me. It is not the advice of a dyspeptic—my di- gestion is perfect; it is not the advice of a man who cannot understand a joke or who prefers a funeral; it is not the advice of a worn-out man, but the advice of a man who ean see this world in all its brightness, and considering myself com. tent in judging what is good cheer 1 Il the multitudes of young men that there is nothing in worldly associations #0 grand and so beautiful and so exhilar- ristian socie unt in Ch ty. 1 is t deal of talk RI re DB yl Nig into Christian reparte Hye SONS 1 istence when 3 the served ties—those people to whom life 1s hum- drum, who toil and work tod and and aspire after Age, bu tO get 1t and say, ' if I had which other people how . would fill my rsind and soul with great thoughts!” Be not discour aged, my friends. You are going to the versity vet. Death will only matricu- late you into the royal college of the uni Verse What a sublime thing it was that Dr. Thornwell, of South Carolina, uttered in his last dying moments! As he looked up he said, It opens; it expands, it ex- pands Or as Mr. Toplady, the suthor of “Rock of Ages.” in his last moment or and then as he came on nearer the dying moment, his countenance more luminous, he cried, “Light!” and at the very moment of lus departure lifted both hands, something supernatural in his countenance as he eried “Light!” Only another name for sunshine. Besides that, we shail have all the pleasures of association. We will go right up in the front of God without any fright. All our sims gone, there will be nothing to be frightened about. There our old Christian friends will troop around us. Just as now one of your sic friends goes away to Florida, the land of flowers, or to the south of France, and you do not see him for a long while, and after awhile you meet nim, and lows under the eyes are all filled, and the appetite has come back, and the erutch has been thrown away, and he is so changed you hardly know him. You say, “Why, 1 never saw you look so well.” He says: “I couldn't help but be well. I have been sailing these rivers and cuimb- ing these mountains, and that's how I ot this elasticity. 1 never was so well.” )h, my friends, your departed loved ones are only away for their health in a bet- ter climate, and when you meet them they will be so changed you will hard! knpw them, they will be so much changed, and after awhile, when you are assure that they are your friends, your depart- ed friends, Io will say: “Why, where is that cough? Where is that paralysis? Where is that pneumonia? Where is that consumption?’ And he will say: “Oh, am entirely welll There ia no sick ones in Shin, Sountry. 1 have been rangin these hills and hence this elasticity. § have been here now twenty years, and not one sick one have I seen. We are all well in this climate.” And then I stand at the gate of the ce lestial city to see the ens out, and I see a long procession of little children with their arms full of flowers and then I see a procession of kings and prieats moving in celestial try-—a ong procession, but no black tasseled vehicle, no moving, p—and [ say: “How strange it is! re our (ireen- tr i Arr m : “Shere are no graves here o a id bell heaven, the old belf , Hv hear then listen for the tolli the o fries of ries of t 1 them 2858 ae doen rn vour father dress “But do you think that is wise mar’ “Why not?” “1 thought I “You must ask , 1 , Iam would order it first.” Cold Days In Brette—I Boston, Sie understand now why you said that Boston girl wa Foot Lighte~Why so? “When 1 1ias sed the parlor door 1 no ticed your 0 cold lips were frozen to hers.” DEERING AT PARIS IN 1900, The Famous Company Chicago Received More Before Accorded nan American positions. America may weil feel proud of the inter- est which her citizens took in the Paris Expo- ina manner not excelled by any other country I'hose of Harvesting Machinery in particula: were most complete and interesting, Deering Harvester Company, of Chicago of goods, was accorded the position of honor, of the art of harvesting than any other manu- facturer, living or dead, and with a greate: than any other company in the world Visitors to the Exposition were prompt t« secord the Deering exhibits supreme bh { and it only remained for official ratify the popular verdict, which wae done in nanner as substantial as it was well-merit Fach one of the seven Deering exhibits se high award in is class In addition « high decorations Deering Harvester Company received twes ¢ awards, or twenty-nine in all, as follow Decoration of Officer of the Jegion of H Decoration of Chevalier of the Legion r. Two Decor j unre forse ious French He Decoratio £ or of but slightly thom § iy | MER IN pOTrisang is conferred upon who have of agricu ial Certificate of Honor Deering Retrospe Cli the improvements ir in hinery during the past century, and « the highest praise of the French Government Officials who bad entrusted to the Deering Harvester Company the preparation of this most important exhibit, By special request this exhibit has been presented to the National Museum of Arts and Reiences at Paris, where it has become a permanent future of that worid-famed institution The Deering Twine Exhibit and Corn Har voster Exhibit, both of which received the highest awards, have by request of the French Government been presented to the National Agricultural College of France There was no field trial, either official or otherwise, in connection with the Paris Expo. sition, but the most important foreign contest the past season was held under the auspices of the Pr Expert Commission at the Gov ernmental Farm of Tomek, Siberia, August 14th to 18th, All the leading American and European machines participated snd were subjected to the most difficult testa by the Government Agricultarist. The Expert Com- mission awarded the Deering Harvister Com pany the Grand Silver Medal of the Minister of Agriculture and Domain, which was the highest award, The Deering Harvester Works are tho larg sat of their kind in the world, eovering eighty five acres and employing 9000 people. They sre equipped with modern satomatic ma- hines, many of which rform the labor of from five to fifteen sl This Company is also the largest manufac. tarer of Binder Twine in the world, having first to produce single-strand binder twine, such as is in general use today, making ever a third of the produet of the entire world, The output of its factory for a single dar would tie a band sround the earth at the equator, with several thousand miles to spare The annual production would fill a freight train twenty miles long. 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