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C—~Most encouraging to all Christian workers is this discourse of Dr. Talmage while denying the accur- acy of statistics which represent Sunday audiences as diminishing; text, Hebrews x, 25, “Nor forsaking the assembling of ourselves together.” : Startling statements have been made in many of the pulpits and in some religious newspapers. It is heard over and over is in decadence. I denv the statement by presenting some hard facts. No one will dispute the fact that there are more in America than ever before, one denomination averaging two new churches every day of the year. The law of demand and supnly is as inexorable in the kingdom of God as it is in the world. More churches supplied argues more church privileges demanded. More banks, more bankers. More factories, more man- nfacturers. More ships. more importers. More churches, more attendants. In all our cities within a few vears churches have been built large enough to swallow up two or three of the old-time churches. T cannot understand with what kind of arithmetic and slate pencil a man calculates when he comes to the conclusion that church attendance in America is in decadence Take the aggregate of the number of people who enter the house of God now and compare it with the aggre- of God twenty-five vears ago, and the nresent attendance is four to one. The facts are most exhilerating instead of heing depressing. That man who presents the opposite statistics must have been most unfortunate in his church acquaint. ance, You are not to argue adversely because beré and there a church is depleted. Churches have their day. Sometimes merchandise will entirely occupy a neigh- horhood and crowd out the churches and families ordinarily attendant upon them; rE : wa strife. But there are no facts the statement that IT have regard to the increasing attend- the house of (nd N I am wdmit. as every intelligent man that there are lepleted. and it is ' a sermon be preached for the henefit young men ng the ministry and for { prosperous churches as causes decline in any chandise crowd out a church, that cannot be helped. but under all other circum. stances decadence in church attendance is the fault either of the f the pastor. enmnet “hut - ternecine tn over throw made in ance unon ready ¢ ow O will admit, mrehes hav Ls that heen high ne ol who are just enter the what cnse yepe | i gospel warning ol the mer to al hur h or oO Churches are often cleared of their diences hy the attempt to transplant modes of the past into the present modes and methods of fifiv vears ago no more appropriate for to-day than modes and methods of today will } propriate for fifty vears hence. Dr Dr. McElroy, Dr. Mason, Dr. De Dr. Vermilyea and hundreds of men just as good as they were lacked audiences, because they abreast of time in whieh People will not be interested say unless we understand the sy day in which we live, All the woet ish statistics are given by those who trying in our time to work with the warn ont machinery the past times poe never were the they lived what rit in i of Sarr gon of and substi our grand- with them to meet. organs and he old fashioned tun out of our church basements tute the foot stoves mothers used to carry ing, and throw cornets and take t fork. striking it on the knee and then ki ing it to the ear to cateh the piteh of th hymn, and might as well throw out our modern platforms and modern puipits and substitute the wineglass pulpit up which the minister used to elimb to dizzy height of Mont Blanc solitarinesa, and then go in out of sight and shut the door after hum The trouble ARDY theological seminaries. It larger provision is not made for ministers of religion, for the sick and the infirm in the service We have asyviums and soldiers’ asylums for men whe fought land and sea for our when these men have hecome crippled, and it is a shame provision not diers of Jesus themselves out ut lack of which out onr begins bark in of God on aged that or 1% Christ who have worn in battling for the Lord provision in that seminaries into hospitals for sic aged and infirm ministers When a man begins ta po down give him the title of D. D. by way of re- suscitation. If that fails, then the tend ency is to elect him to a professorate in some theological seminary. There are grand exceptions to the rule, but it = of ten the case that the professorate in a theological seminary is occupied by some minister of the gospel who, not being able to preach himself, 12 set to teacl how to preach. In more cases than the poorest sneaker in the faculty is the professor of elocution We want wideawake., more ahle bodied, able-minded men, more enthusias tic men, in our theological seminaries and in the professorates—men like Addison Alexander, who could during the week teach voung men the theory of preaching ® oe more 1 and with the thunder and lightning of Christian eloquence show them how, What would you think of a faculty of unsuneccess. ful merchants to train young merchants of unsuccessful lawyers to It is often the case that theological sem- and mold him and bore him and because he could not preach. We want less dead wood in the theologi- I declare that a man who cannot preach himself cannot teach others how to At a meeting of the General Assembly Sabbath to preach to an audience of two masses! I am told the incongruity was too much for the risibilities of many of the clergy in the audience. Now. a young man coming out from such bedwarfing in- fluences, how can he enter into the wants and the woes and the sympathies of peo- mle who want on the Lord's day a practi cal gospel that will help them all week and help them forever? You ministers are told they must preach Christ and Him crucified. Yes. but not as an abstraction. Many a minister has preached Christ and Him crucified in sich a way that he preached to an an dience of down to 200 and from 200 to 100 and from 100 to fifty and from fifty to twenty and on down until there was but little left mave the sexton, who was paid to stay until the service was over and lock up! There is a great deal of cant about Christ and Him crucified. It is not tion Gnd Him rucifed 1a pat as an omnipotent sym ape plied to all the wants and woes of % immortal natur®, a Christ who will he! us in every domestic, social, financial, political, national struggle, a Christ for the parlor, a Christ for the nureere, a Christ for the kitchen, a Christ for the barn, a Christ for the street, a Christ for the store, a Christ for the banking house, a Christ for the factory, a Christ for the Congressional assembly. a Christ for the court room, a Christ for every trial and every emergency and every perturbation, Oh, my brethren in the Christian minis- try. we must somehow get our shoulder under the burden of the people on the Lord's day and give them a good stout hit, and we ean do it. We have it all our own way. It is a great pity if, with the floor clear and no interruption. we can- not during the course of an hour get our hymn and our prayer or our sermon un- der such momentum as we can. by the heln of God, lift the people, body, mind and soul. clear out of their sins, tempta- tions and troubles I think that ministerial! lazinese often empties the caurch of auditors. Hearers who are intelligent through reading news- papers and by active association in busi nee circles will not on the Sabbath sit and listen to platitudes. Hearers will not come to sermons which have in them no important facts, no information. no stir ring power. no adantation, no fire. The pew will not listen to the pulpit unless at least on the subject that day under dis- cussion. the puinit knows more than the pew. Ministerial laziness has cleared out many churches. Buch ministers saunter around from parlor to narlor under the name of pastoral visitation and go gad- ding about through the village or the city on errands of complete nothingness and wran their brains around a cigar and smoke them un and then on Saturday af- ternoon nut a few crude thoughts together and on Sunday morning wonder that the theme of Christ and Him crucified does not brine a large audience, and on Mon- dav sit down and write jeremiads for the religious newspapers about the decadence of church attendance People will not go to church merely as a matter of duty. There will not next Sabbath be a thousand people in anv city who will get up in the morning and sav “The Bible says I must go to chureh, Jt is my duty to go te church; therefore I will zo to church.” The vast multitude of people who ea to church eo to church be eause thev like it, and the mnititude people who stav away from church stay away because they do not like it. 1 am not speaking about the wav the world ought to be: I am speaking about the way the world is. Taking things are they are, wo must make the of the church mightier than the centri centripetal fn gal We must make nur churches magnets to draw ¢ at a man will to church the people the feel unesey if } ‘ ot “1 wish had gone 11 1 can't dress vet and It s« 1} is half past saving this morning I wonder time singing. 1 nreaching i be home to te been going on When our churches by social and hy } the mast sttractive places want now, not get there they are kre wil what has 1: » the folks in ww they wonder when ! us what WAL sa firmed that ty I be m | arth. then nu ] and then the eo the impression he mugs, fy © we will twice as many hes ve hase twice am large they will half There! a if vou and | in " x yin religions iinetration Bible, 1 want t ORs to Talking to the about the come enirgily of “The world A city that neo; Te Christian example, He said: ing at i isset on a bh While He was speaking nf Mf God's ¢ $ i id, “"Behais g down { season fer Lhe Oh, mv } is lo vy careful be hid we divine care past He hen, look at ravens the valley flowers, into fNvey , all with He said tlies.” brother Christ an work FONE AWAS f history or y get an llustrs the earth and the heavy Lae Cure use of ony oart « tion when workers What is the in the Christian classics tlingtration of the vietorio when my personal a few vears ago grandeur as Oh, Christian we have oh . £ freshen up use of our goang hark 18 deathbed as imperial Payson ® Is it ans to you because | met fore in front of Tris Chureh. Broad. ay. and 1 said: "Cookman, vou look as if you were working too hard? Wher inn all the classics is there such a story as that of Cookman ered: “1 am jess an r weeks be when in his last moment he sweeping workers and Oh, fellow ( the use of % and evidences of Ge Ancient ance to freshen u ge, freshen ug our brethren no have to to church i und ve got ir sor freshen up in consecration my more if we €O dao § and sisters pe vid CORX if jie ne than ths torn on tt you would have to eat oats you Yes, we must {freshen schools and in our prayer our pulpits CORY the throw tip i It 12 high time th the chureh of Gad stopped writing apologies for the chureh. Jat the men who are on the outside. who despise religion, write the apologies. If any people do not want the church. they need not have it t is a free country. If any man does not want the gospel, he need not have it. It is a free country But you go out, oh, people of God. and give the gospel to the millions of America who do want it It is high time we stop skicnsishing and bring on a general engagement. 1 want to live to see the Armageddon, all the are mies of heaven and hell in battle array, for I know our Conqueror on the white horse will gain the day. Tet the church of God be devoted to nothing else, but go right on to this conquest. When Moses with his army was trying to conquer the Ethiopians profane history says it was expected that be would go in a roundabout way and come by the banks of the river, as other armies had done, because the straight route was infested with snakes, and no army and no man had dared to ££ across this serpent infest ed region. ut Moses surprised them. He sent his men out to gather up ibises. Tae ibis 13 a bird celebrated for serpent slaying, and these ibises were gathered into crates and into baskets, and they were carried at the head of the army of Moses, and coming up to the serpent in- fested region the crates were opened and the ibises flew forth, and the way was cleared, and the army of Moses marched Jight on and came so unexpectedly on the Ethiopians that they flew in wild dismay. O church of God, you are not to march to a roundabout way, but to go straight forward, depending u winged influ. ences to clear the way, Hosts of the liv. ing , march on, march on! Church attendance, large now, is going to be brightening in d the larger yet. is every direction. 1 am gn | for boy think they may wheel of Chris and vy five years old; ok or made one revolu tion ra The world moves, {he kingdoms advances. All nations will yet Do aadaple of Jvines manuel © t apes. Amen! COMIGERCIAL. REVIEW, General Trade Conditions, New York (Special).-~R, GG. Dun & Co's "Weekly Review oi Trade” says: “In the principal manufacturing indus- gain in the num. and full Less urgency goods and premiums on the suggest that return delay. try there is a steady of mills, considered ber ie operation Hye 1s for Near, delivery of less jreey cd anticipate 4 little immediate inchnation to par f well-po men these consumers to normal activity with “Wheat Government authorities yield Lye! Though expor have fallen below in August, ments aggregated 4 flour included, against 3.676.288 last year and 3.510848 in 189g. These fig ures do iwclude Canadian wheat, which continues to go out freely “Predictions that the wield of will the smalles Rog did not prevent the markeiing 3.178 782 bushels, compared with 3,262,265 a year ago, but exorbitant prices made ox- ports from the Atlantic seaboard only 584.314 bushels, against 2.474.629 vear and 3,031,643 in 1800 “Failures for the in the United States, against 195 last and 18 in Canada, against 30 last to a lower ate as unofficial the greatest his country. ‘nited States unparalleled the week's ship 979.050 bushels, respond not i the did esting still anticipate sted in 1 s from the 1 {iC harye y t movemeont not nu corn be st nce of last week numbered 175 year, year, LATEST QUOTATIONS. ! Patent, $460: High Extra, Minnesota bakers, 00a3.10 Wheat Philadel! Grade $2 No. 2 red 23474C Mo i ey Hn Live Stock. tle~ Butchers ind Ww € Good or 10 anid feeders sterns, to prime medium 84a slow, $2221 : steady $2.3584.75: heifers strong $2.40a8.00; canners weak $1.30a 2.2%; bulls steady $3.coag.60; calves 25 to 4o0c higher $100a6.10; Texas-fed steers $S410a%.10; Texas grass steers $31.30a 400; Western steers $3.85a5.25. Hogs Market s¢ higher, active; top $6.g2'45 Mixed and butchers $5.035a6.85. Good to choice wethers $3.63a4.10; fair to choice mixed $3.30a170; Western sheep $31 25a 4.00; native lambs $3.00a4 85: Western lambe $4.00a4.83. East Liberty—Cattle steady; choice $5.6%a6 80; prime $5.45a5.60; good $5.18a s.20, Hogs—~Higher; best medium and heavy Yorkers $6.85a6.00; best heavy hogs $68sa6.00; light Yorkers $6.80a 68%: pigs $6.30a670; roughs $5.00a5 25. Sheep-~Steady ; best wethers $4.00a4.15; culls and common $1.25a2.25; yearlings $2.t0a4.285; veal calves $i.5car.as. LABOR AND INDUSTRY Siberia has large deposits, Texas cowboys are organizing. Brooklyn has 4 Japanese doctor. Siberia graphite is inexhaustible. java has 250.000 acres of quinine. North Carolina has 1604 postmasters. Arr cal wood 1s made from turf fibres, Denver may have a labor political ticket. Russia sent 300,000 geese to Saxony fast year. emia labor teh 1 OX Te i party may go into Ca State politics. RX ® XX * XARA NN 1 The Preacher's Lack, Dr. George H. 1de's eyes sparkled and the muscles his anatomy and relaxed and gathered and relaxed again. “In a from 01 church not a thousand miles Milwaukee 8 railroad conductor It was the SCC In a first time he had ever been stir. The preacher preached his ser- mon, and then, reluctant to lose the op portunity to make a lasting impression, Ruage more impressive and his discwurse out into unwarranted length, “When the service one that is, one of the -waited for the ra sting him, inquired: “ ‘How did you li “It was all right.’ ‘You enjoyed it, did you? “Yes, it was a very good sermon.’ ‘1 suppose we shall have the pleas- of seeing you at church again.’ “I don't know; I may come, There's only one trouble with that 500 yours.’ “And pray, what is that? “He doesn’t appear good terminal facilities.’ The Yeacon say.” spun ended of my deacons of the ilroader the KC 1h re of par nothing had Lots of Room. here's a r. 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