”
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
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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
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“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.”
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The Famous
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America may weil feel proud of the inter-
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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
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French He
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thom
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is conferred upon who have
of agricu
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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.
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the past season was held under the auspices of
the Pr Expert Commission at the Gov
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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-
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pany the Grand Silver Medal of the Minister
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highest award,
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sat of their kind in the world, eovering eighty
five acres and employing 9000 people. They
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This Company is also the largest manufac.
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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
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feet wide, it would reach across the American
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This Company exhibited at the Paris Expos.
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