“REV. DR. TALMAGE. BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON, Subject: “ Ontwitted by the World." (Preached at Livingston, Montana. THE Po —————— Texr: “The children of this world aren their generation wiser than the children of Hoht ¥—8¢, Luke xvi, 8, That is another way of saying that Chris | tians are not so skillful spiritual aff iirs as wo the management of temporalities, in the manipulation of I som all around me people who are alert. enrne t, con- | contrated and skillful in my who, in the affairs of the sou inane, mert itary matters, I, are Inggards, The great want of this world is moro com- | If one-half | forcefulness employed in | + were employed in disseminat- | ing the truths of Christ, and trying to make | mon sense in matters of religion. of the skill and financial effaix the world better, within ten years the last Juggernaut would fall, the last throne of op pression upset, the last iniguity tumble, and the anthem that was chanted over Bethis hem on Christmas night would be echoed and re echoed from all nations snd kindred and | people: “Glory to God in the highest, and | by . | on earth peace, good will to men.” Some years ago, on a train the southwest, as the portor of the car was making up the | tide, | saw a man kneel down Worldly people in the car looked on, asto say: “What does this mean” I sup- pose the most of the people in the car th it that man was either insane or that he was a fanatic; but he disturbed no one whi un he knelt, and he disturbed no one when he arose In after conversation with him J found out that he was a member of a « hurch in my own city, that he was a seafearing man, and that he was on his way to New Or leans to take command of a vessel I thought then, as I think n yw, that ten such men-—-men with such courage for God as that | man hal uld bring the whole city to Christ; a thousand such men would bring this whole land to God: ten thousand such men, in a short time, would bring the whole earth | into the kingdom of Jesus. That he w as suc cessful in w i urs, I found out, Ti he was skillful in spiritual affair, yo well persuaded. If men had the couras pluck, the alertness the acumen, the indo | try, the common sense in matters of the tl that they have in earthly » atters, this be a very different kind of world to live in In the first plas we more sense in the building a somduct of The idea of t mount in any bankers mest tog putting adapted facturing e be adag to pray, wold want common you ask SAYS As though everything of the pre Men sit « Gothic arches be getting feel so uncom O my friends, we in the rearing cuse for lack of full of it Ss 3 when the world A expression not no air 3 to be | ouly of our spiritual hap. Piness, but of our physi al comfort, when we | say: “How amiable are Thy tabernacles, O | Lord God of Hosts! A day in Thy courts is | better than a thousand Again I remark: We want sense in the obtaining of 1 men unde and that worldly di They nk mind takes fire wi thoughts. Allt all their wisdom ut in that how id seoking after Ge accomplish anvthing for oonventirat there are expe the kingd any such more common | in orde th 47] mean homes pickaxes and wilds of Calif denly on the Pacific const ferchants pu aside their elegant apparel and put on the miner's garb. All the land was full of the | talk about gold. Gold in the eves gold in the ears, guid in the wake of ships, gold in the streets—gold, gold, gold. Word comes ] to usthat the mountain of God's love is full of bright treasure: that men have been dig- ging there, and have brought up gold, and amethyst, and carbuncle, and Jasper, and sardonyx, and chrysoprasus, and all the pre cous stones out of which the walls of hea were builded Word cones of «a man who digging in that mine for hour brought up treasures worth more all the stars that keep wizil over sick and dying world Is it a company that is formed Is it veloped territory? Oh no, the story There are thousands who would be they have dis than our bogus | unde is true { people in this audience | willing to rise and testify that | overe! that gold, and have it in their possession. N withstanding all this, | what is the circumstance? One would sup- | pose that the announcement Id send peo | ple in great excitement up and down oar streets That at m duight men would | knock at your. or, asking how they may get those treasures In stead of that any of us put our hands be hind our back and walk up and down in front | of the mine of eternal rleles, and say: “Wall, | i Iam to be saved, | will be saved. and if I | am to be dammed, I will be damned, and thers In nothing to do about it Why, my broth er, do you not do that way in businoss mat ters? Why do you not to-morrow go to your store and sit down and fold vour arms and say: “If thew goods are to be sold. they will be sold, and if they are not to be | sold, they will not be sold: thers Is 1 thvin for me todo about | No, yon dispatoh | Jour agenis, you print your advertissments, You adorn your show windows, you push those goods, you we the instrumentality Oh that men w a8 Wise in the matter of the soul as they are wise in the matter of dollars and “conts! This doctrine of i God's sovercigoty, how it fs misquoted | and spoken of as though it wero an | fron chain which bound us hand and | foot for time and for eternity, when, #0 far from that, in every fiber of your | body, in every faculty of your mind, in! avery + of your soul, yom are al free man and it is no more a matte: of free choice whether you will to-morrow go or stay at home, than it is this moment a matter of frie cholte w on will scoept Christ er mject Him, n all the army of banners there is not one . Men are not to be deagooned into heaven. Ameng all the tens of the Lord's soldisr will or I werd : oh, that meo had 4 In the matters of re + 2 another dollar on its back. you think of a man who should iousand dollars in a monetary then go off for five years, make no inquiry in regard to the investment, thén come back, step up to the! cashier of the institution and say: “Have you kept those ten thousand dollars safel® that I lodged with you? but asking no qgestion ubout interest or about dividend. "hy, you say, “That is not com. mon sense,” | Neither {s'it, but that is the way we acd in matters of the’ soul, make n far more important ment than ton thousand dollars invest our soul, Is it Are we growing n grace? home brin What woul invest ten institution, Hings are skillful in | | want them, mulation we are as wise in the matters of the ! | the Scriptures! wa open it and we say: ‘Now, what does this | { Next day we may and we may not It is | will | {1% one thing: get the world converted and get | | do ing toward | sleeping | werths at the evening | as much | | has { tern; you can take it and on the way home { 1t in sharp critict | deprecate that | minutes just before we | ;8 that | they Instead of + o'clock | talked with the shepherd witer ! Are we gotting worse? (lod de clares many dividends, but we do not collect them, we do not ask about them, we do not Oh that in this matter of accu- soul as we are in the niutters of the world! How little common sense in the reading of We get any other book and book mean to teach me? It fs a book on as tronomy; it will teach me astronomy, a book on litical economy; it teach me political economy,” Taking up the Bible, do wo ask ourselves what means to teach? It means to do just us all to heaven. That is what it proposes to pugilists to get something to fight to sharpen our mental faculties for a better argument, and we do not lke this about the | Bible, and we do not like that, and we do not like the other thing. What would you think of a man lost on the mountains Night come «down; he cannot find his way home and he soos a light in a mountain cabin; he goes to it, he knocks at the do the mountaineer comes out and finds the traveler and says: “Well, here I have a lan. it will guide you and suppose that man should say: “I don't like that lantern, I don't litte the handle of it, there are ten or fiftesn anv.’ Now, God says this Bible is to be a lamp to our feet and a lantern to our us through the gates of t city. We take hold of and deprecats this, and Oh, how much wiser by its holy light we found he celestial would be if our | way to our everlasting home! Then we do not read the Bible as we road other books. Wo read it perhaps four or five retire at aight e weary and sleepy, so somnolent v which end of the bx nr oY " a) peraaps on and the | IXO8, OF upor genealogical tale! w, DUl sGirring no more ANBOUN somebody « ivy else, : saying: “Now 1 al life. My eternal >» Anx ] and walt for As a mer t, you telegraph or you ty for a bill of goods "Send me by such express, or by such a teamer, or by sacha raflitrain.” The day ar- vi You send v wagon to the dey it or The goods do not come. Y munediately telegraph: “What is the matte with those p ods? We haven't received t Send them right away, Wo want them now. or we don't want them at all And you keep writing and you keep telographing, and you kesp sending your wagon to the ¢ pot, or t the express o it to the wharf, until get the goods In matters of religion we are not = wim ve Whar! oe We do heaven tr not from cote anxiety x vhether they come or not We may m and may not get them i kK In the morning that blessing asking ‘Ha “Have got ek noond that blessing at 7 o'clock ing saying: “Have I receive Bn petting it Rng 3 J begging, b 1 get. Now, my brothr mn, vi sense? If we ask a thing » has sworn by His eternal throne will do that which we ask, ie it nn that we should wat until we got it I remark = of Ww in dedn ta from tie We want m How many peopl h want to good and yol are #! Why is it? They do not ex. ¢ sme tact, the same ingenuity, the agem, the same common sense in in ra oom g good ' do Woe invest. | Wa | accumulative? | Are wo getting | But instead of that, we go into the | Bible as botanists to pick flowers, or wo go as | other | Christians with, or we go as logicians trying | { things about it I don't like; if you can't give ! me a better lantern than that I won't have | ho is done with the picture path, to guide | night of this world to the | | dreds { ting wo | | that ple Wel instead | write | You | ii 0 wr | 1 | foot ¢ 1 | heart ing, | a0 { the ( FOR] | and save | proposes | off! | equal of Raphael | touch that picture and bring ou | who made the picturs | ment ent. Now, what is the common senso thing for us to do in view of these three facts’ You will all agree with me to ogi sin, take Christ and take Him now, BRppose some business man in whose skill you bad perfect confidence should tell you ‘that to-morrow (Monday) morning between 11 and 12 o'clock you could by a certain financial trans action make five thousand dollars, but that on Tuesday perhaps you make it, but there would not be any posi- tiveness about it, and on Wednesday there would not be so much, and Thursday less, Friday less, and so on, less and less—when would you attend to the matter? Why, your common sense would dictate: “Immediately: I will attend to that matter between 11 and 12 o'clock to-morrow (Monday) morn for then 1 can surely fu mplish it, but on Tuesday may not, and on Wednesday there is loss wospect. I will attend to 4 tomorrow.” Now let us bring our common sense in this matter of religion. Here ware the hopes of We may got them now. To Morrow me may got them and we may not, 1 The prospect less and less and less and less The only sure time now--now. I would not talk to you in this way if I did not know that Christ wasable to save all the people, thousands as easily as ane, would not go into a hospital and tear off the bandages from the wounds if I had no balm to apply, I would have the face to tell a man he is a sinner unless I had at the same time the authority of saying ha may be saved Su pose in Venice thereis a Raphael, a taded picture, great in its time, bearing some marks of its greatness. History describes that picture. It Is nearly faded away. You say: “Oh, what gave not | a pity that so wonderfula picture by Haphae! should be nearly defaced I? After awhile a mai comes up, very unskiliful in art, and he to retouch it, You say: "Stand I would rather have it just as it is: you make After & while an who was the SAYS “I will re all its orig mifldence in hi WOrs artist He will only it there « Ones $ inal power You have full « ability He touches it here and thers Feature after feature comes forth, and when it is complete in Now God im race, but for hun years, got Hore comes I can restore power in heaven equal of the Ouse image of the One who drow the image of G noursoul. He touches this sin and it we, that trans sand itd ial] the { vanishes sin abounded all its original power pressed His image on ow that image has been defaced and for thonsands of fainter and up a aivine Raphael ture.” in earth and « He is i. gre de Frac abound t after ¥. & shriek I wish today and of Chris { the fire buy flame. wrned | foxy ! healed We ask certain things to be sent | not know whether | We have not any special | Agriealtare in Nebraska, Paddock, @Ornon nN hairm An of Christ that they do in worldly | # gs. Otherwise they would sucosed in Girection as well as they succeed the other Thete are many men have an arrogant way with them, although they may not fesl are want 'r they have a patrosizing way '& man of the world in a manner which seems to say: “Don’t you wish you were as good as lam? Why I bave to look clear down before I can ses you, you are so far beneath me” That manner always dis gusts, always drives men away from the kingdom Jesus Christ instead of bringing them inn When | was = lad | was ane day in a village store, and there was a large group « fall of rollicking and fun, and a Christian man came in, and without any introduction of the subject, and while there wer: hilarity, said to one of them is the first step of wisdom? up and said business.” Well it was a very rough answer, but it was provoked Religion had been buried in there as though it were a bomb shell. Wo must be adroit in the presenta o "Creorge, what Goorge looked | tion of religion to the world Do you suppose that Mary in her conver sation with Christ Jost her simplicity? or that Paul thundering from Mars Hill, took the pulpit tone® Why is is people cannot talk as naturally in prayer meoting and on religions subjects as they do in worldly circies’ For no one ever suoceeds in nny kind of Christian work unless he works naturally Jeowus Christ, who plucked a poem from the grass of the fleld We all want tw imitate Him who talked with farmers about the man who went forth to sow, and talked with the fisher men about the dm | fish bh the woman about the whale lump, and about the lost sheep jfthet oven the stars of the like forget. . We must of the yeast that lea ven! Uh, we might sky and tw They talk | of young men there ! in great | “Every man to mind his own | If we have days and ds ¢ day weath ground in condition to has disappeared as if by magic the sand of the third soil has nisspls the Then The crops continue ; iH of clear Work sorbed water comes cause the sand, ike 5 » moisture an as a total crop failur Nebraska.” gives if known i cc———— — The Original Deed for Manhattan Island While engaged®in examining the pub lic archives at The Hague, Gene ral Jam Grant Wilson met with a letter nddre to the States General of the United Netherlands by P. Schagen, dated Amsterdam, November 17. 1626. nouncing the purchase of the Island of LEH "of Manhattan by the Dutch West India Company for the sum of 824 Two dave later he found the had lain unknown for 263 original deed, which Years among {the papers of an ancient Dutch family, Wo want to imitate the Lord | : | General Wilson hopes to be able to pur The discovery was made in the course of researches concerning Mrs. Wilson's Bayard ancestors, came to America in 1647 with the Inst the Dutch er Btuyvesant Chicago Herald, chase the deed. who of Governors, Pet The House That Washington Built. The only house over built by George | | Washington at the | nation is still capital standing in city. brick, but when the street added, making it a five-story building, which is now used for u hotel. Some of the rooms are pretty much in the same condition as they were when oecu by Washi min 1792, A few old pieces of farniture are said to be still secreted about the house. -— Chisago Herald. drntiataml———— ct Suffering Prolonged hy Cuarlosity, A British officer was some time ealled to account for shooting Dacoit in Bormah, India, without might | ~ SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL L (84 ON AUGUST 11. Text: “Samucl's i Address,” IT Sam. xil., 1-15 Golden Text: I Sam, xii, 24 — Commentary, Lesson city of the | Washington | It was originally three-story | on which it | stands, was graded two more stores wero | After the servant passed on leaving Banl and Famuel alone, Bamusl took a vial of oil i and annointed Saul captain over the Lord's inheritances, at tho same time telling him of | $everal events which would buppen to him as ho returned hom : all of which Mgns came to him that day, Soon after that Say] was pub- | Hely elected and ordained as king, the Lord | ordering the lot. In the instruction of Sar. uel to Baul that memorable day there is one sentence whieh I believe it is the privilege of every true follower of Jesus to appropriate { and enjoy, and yet I find but few have noticed it; it is in chapter x., 7: “Do ns oocasion serve thee, for God is with thee” It is a helpful precept, and I find great comfort in i. May every reader appropriate it 1. “And Samuel said unto all Israel” The place of today's lesson is Gilgnl, the first camping ground of lerael in the promised land, after they crossed the Jordan, where the twelve stones from Jordan were set up, | the people circumcised and the reproach of Egypt rolled away, the passover kept, and Joshua's he adquarters from which he set out and to which he returned as he subdeed the land; where, also, thoy had Just pow best offering sacrifices and renewing the kingdom, Chap. xi, 14, 15.) : And now, behold, the king walketh be. fore you When Rumuel says in the first verso that he had hearkened unto thelr volos and made them a king he was peaking as God's representative, for in vers 18 he save “The Lord hath set n King over you:" i whatever Bamual did he did a nnd as in His sight; if the new k likewise all might yet be wel "1 have walked before you from my child. hood until this day There are two sides to vour lifoand mine as well as to that of Sam. Bed, that which is seen of men and that which is woen yoy God, The outward words and a an tives back of all: happy the man wi frst thought always is * What does God think of this™ and governs himself acoordis 3. “Witness against me before the Lord» Vith all his life from his vouth up lived be. fore the people, he now asks them to testify they have known him to defrand. or press or take a bribe; be places himself be. re the | H i ar Te to make may say has boot God's ser Lg woul Ee ir ever rows ready 3 . a ans “ BZRinst you sel’s faith vines was his faithfulness tos. their ace was their Tleonsness: i well, and to re rainet self, an did Christ (Lake vi a oand confess ourselves BON ir that woint 4 odd advanced (ap I Aaron, and that wought of the land of Egypt” Bamuvel would not keep them face to face with God and remind them of His love Ww them and His gracioos dealings with hem, as when Poul tells us in Acts xvii HA-08, that it fs God who giveth to all life an breath, and all things, snd that in Him we live and move and have our ix Ing: or as when Daniel sald to Delsbazsar: “The God in wi i thy breath is, and whose are all thy bast thou not glorified (Dan we har stand still, that I may re the Lord of all the » Lod ™ Or as in verse wat things He hath 4 refore fear the Lord with ir heart the Lord Mar oy ® and then pel re ery from i Ieliverwd them the land of Canaan aeliverance from cruel bondage a land flowing with milk and tar have been igh to bind such a deliverer in the most 1 grateful service, but alas for hu » and are not Clhiristians to. Just as bad, when so many who profess pave received the forgivencss of sins and deliverance from the bondage of Satan seem *o ungraioful that, instend of serving the Lord constantly and wholly, they do not Vey seem to acknowledge Him as their Lord, or think their deliverance worth mentioning S11 "They forgat the Lord their God; * they erfed unto the Jord: * #= » the Lord sent and delivered.” This covers the history of the nation for about 450 years, or from the first of the judges until Samuel {Acts xiii, 200, when, notwithstanding their oft repeated transgressions, forsakings and idolatry, as soon as they truly repented and oried unto the Lord, fle sent t who delivered them and caused them 16 dwell in mfety. How sad that they should forsake, forget and grieve such a gracious God, but how wonderful that He should again and again forgive them and shower His mercies upon them behold the king cried enrd the nd en 12, 18. “Now, therefore, whom yo have chosen, whom yo have de sired.” God had given thom the desire of their hearts and they now had a king like other nations, but it was on their part a des parture from a sole reliance upon God, and A putting of a man in His place. The same win is manifest now when the people of God in any way lean on an arm of Sesh rather than on the almighty arm of the unseess but ever present Lord Jesus Christ 4, 15 God” Although thoy have sinned. and God bins given them their desire, yet hore is a way of 1 ded still loft to them. If they and their king will fear the Lord as Samuel did, and serve Him and obay His voice, and not rebel against iim, theo the hand of the Lord will stil) be upon them for good; but if not, His hand will be against them as in the days | of the judges. 1 esson Helper, A -— Ax illustration of how mnch our country is enriched by Evropean immi- steamer recently took tventy-eight Italians back to Italy, each carrying from $3,000 to £15,000 earned in this country, but taken back to be enjoyed in the old country. Probably each one of the twenty-eight had voted, or been voted, a dozen timos in this conn- try, and so helped to decide our great questions of political economy, On the whole, the Chinese are no worse on the point of carrying off their earnings “than are Buropouns, FOR | Farowell | “Continue following the Lord your | : i gration is seen from the fact that one Xeueves ana cures HEADACHE, REEUMATIBM, | Tocthache, Sprains, NEURALGIA, BRUISES, Sciatica, Lumbage, | Burns and Secalds. 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