CH ———— nea rere ~ REY. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. DAY SERMON. Subject: “What Trouble is For” The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., shed to an overflowing congregation at ea Brooklyn Academy bf Music Before preaching he said that a mistaken motion was abroad that the insurance on his destroyed church was encugh to rebuild. The repetition of disasters left us in debt. We have practically built three churches since | oame to Brooklyn, First, the original Taber- nacle. Soon after that we made an enlarge- ment that cost almost as much as a church. A few years after it all burned. Then we put up the building recently destroyed, and reared it in a time when the whole country was in its worst financial distress It was these repsated disasters that left us ‘in debt. My congregation have done magnificsntly, but any church would be in debt after so many calamities. Now for the first time we are out of debt But we need at least one hundred thousand dollars to build a church large enough, and we call on people of all creeds and all lands to help. tefore I help dedicate a new church we must have every dollar of it paid I will never again be pastor of a church in debt It has crippled us io all our movements, and I shall never again wear the shackles. | have for the last sixteen years preached to about 5000 people sitting and stand ing, twice a Sabbath, but everybody knows that we nead a place that will hold 8000 1 shall not be surprised if some man of wealth shall say: “Here are a $100,000 if you will put up a memorial structure, and call it after the name of my departed father or child whose memory I want put before all nations and for all time.” And so it will be done Text: “God shall wipe away all tears Srom their eyes.” —Rev, vil. 17 Riding across a western flowers up to the hub of the carriage wi and while a loag distance from any shelter, there came a sudden shower, and while the rain was falling in torrents the sun was shining as brightly as I ever saw it shine and I thought, what a beautiful spectacle this is! So the tears of the Bible are not midnight storm, but rain on pansied prairies in God's sweet and golden sunlight ou remember that bottle which David labeled as containing tears, and Mary's tears, and Pauls tears and Christ's tears, and the harvest of joy that is to spring from the sowing of tears God mixes them. God rounds them. God shows them where to fall. God exhales them A cansus is taken of them, and there is a record as to the moment when they ars born, and as to the plnce of their grave. Tears of bad men are not kept, Alexander, in his sorrow had toe hair clipped from his mules, and made a grea but in all the vaws o of Alexander's tear the good. Alas! me! time. In summer growling thunde storm miles away drift of the cloud prairie, horses and wo about his usa ven there I speak of the tears of they are falling all the you hear tie and there ix a but from the HOE ANY where near vou. So, though it may be all bright around us there is a shower of trouble somewhere all the time. Tears! Tears! What is the use of them anyhow? Why not substitute laughter Why not make this a world where all the o Are eternal strangers to pain i aches is the use of have a per family is stay, or if otaer bh ily recor births, bu sometimes YOu see you know acty that it will not « PEGs td nn eastery st a nor we together must be tran sucess and bn yhilos dd bh forme Toatandl gt a lease of this lif a hundred million if there wore trouble : oRIth « toned and upholsterad and wd and ch delierad with such expense, no story of other Wworkls could enchant us. We wonld sas “Ist well enougl me. If you want to die and ha your body disintegrated is and your soul goout on a celestial ire, then you can go; this d enough for me You might as well : man who has just entered the Lou be willl but world "he would say what o [ee my going there’ There are Re Rubens and Raphaels hers looked at yet No man wants tog g out of any house, until he has a better house To cure this wish stay somehowereate s disgust mgs. How shall He do ig? to deface His horizon panel from the sunset ther from the wale pungent aroma from frag the robes of the You cannot expect a mar bis own St. Paal's cathedral or a Mich- aol Angelo to dash out his own "Last Judgruent "ora Handel to discord his “Israel In Egypt.” and you cannot expect God to #poil the architecture and music of His own world. How then are we to be made willing to leave’ Hore is where trouble comes in. After x man has had a good deal of trouble, he says: “Well, 1 am ready to go. If there is & house somewhere whose roof doesn't leak I would like to live there, If there is an at- here somewhere that does not distress the lungs, | would like to breathe it. If there fsa society somewhere »hers thers is no tittle I would like to live thers if . a circle somewhere where " m lost friend would like to go hore wl a a. the first part of the Bible chiefly. now he reads the ‘est part of the Bible chisfly. Why has ho (Hanged Genesis for Revelation? Ah! he used to be anxious chiefly to know how this world was ade, and all about ita geo logical constriction. Now he ix chiefly anx- fous to know how the next world was made, and how it looks, and who live there, and they dress. He reais Revelation ten times now where he reads Gens once. Tha out of we to herve, God must for our surround He canne. afford or to tear off a flery or to subtract an an lily, or to banish the the mignonette, or to morning in the mire Christopher Wren to i aon fmmi country into which he has lots al Bevela try into which he i : i ? : : : HE 3 | fool our complete dependence u fiouse. It is the ministry of trouble to make this world worth less and heaven worth more. Again, it is the use of trouble to make he od. King Alphonso said that if he had been pres ent at the creation he could have made a bet- tar world than this. What a pity he was not present! Ido not know what God will do when some men die. Men think they can do ! anything nntil God shews them they do noth. | ing at all We lay our great Flats and we like to execute them. It looks big. God comes and takes us down. Asx Prometheus | was assaulted by his enemy, when the lance struck him it opened a great swelling that had threatened his death, and he got well. So itis the arrow of trouble that lets our great swellings of pride. We never feel our dependence upon God until we get trouble, |! was riding with road, and she asked if she might drive, | said: “Certainly.” I handed over the reins to her, and I had to | admire the glee with which she drove. But after a while we met a team and we had to turnout. The road was narrow, and it was sheer down on both sides She handed the rein8 over to me, and said: “I think better take charge of the horse.” 50 we are all children: and on this road of life we like to drive. It gives one such an appearance of superiority and power. It looks big. But after a while we meet some obstacle, and we have to turn out, and the road is narrow, and it is sheer down on both sides: and then woe are willing that God should take the reinsand drive, Ah! my friends, we get up- sot 80 often because we do not hand over tl reins soon enough Can you not tell when wou pray, whether he has ever had { can. The cadence, the phraseology indicate it. Why do women pray better than men? Hecause they have had more trouble lo fore an man has had any trouble, his prayers are poetic, and he begins away up among the sun, moon and stars, and gives the Lord a great deal of astronomical information that must be highly gratifying He then comes on down gradually over beautifully table lands to ‘forever and ever, amen.” But af ter a man haz had trouble, praver with him a taking hold of the arm of God and ery ing out for help I have heard earnest pray erson two or threo oconsions that 1 bor Onee hear a ma any troub Ad remem- train the Cincinnati miles the the track. eligi font minnies on the going at forty train jumped near a chasm men who, a few swearing and express hour, and and we deen: and the before, had been blaspheming God, began to pull and jerk at the iI rope, and up on the backs ats and cried wit “0 God was another time, about ef at m a foun the lifeboat hb wood. Ti so often he perience o most beautifu makes it be it. Oh, I tell vou a man is in his stripped and naked soul + soundless bored eternity It is tr ur dopeades wera dred miles out smer, after finer than kindling Why is it iting the las i say He made raver | ever y It is the wen, s upon God wir own weskness or God's plank theres is noth the last breaks us when that wa catch unfortunate great deal He borrows on » After ma whils se WE AS nn postag and he ¢ writes hoe Dent sek unto death Come.” It ix ten ex of 10 0 clock when she gots the At the train starts, She | minutes from the depot She gots thers in time to have five minutes to spare, She wonders why a train that can go thirly miles an hour cannot go sixty miles an hour, She rushes into the hospital, She says My son, what doesall this mean?’ Why didn't vou send for me? You sent to everybody but me. You knew [| could and would help vou Is this the reward I get for my kindness to you always®™ She bundles him up, takes him home, and gets him well very soon Now, some of you treat God just ae that young man treated bis mother. When you got into a financial perplexity, you call on the mnker, you enll on the broker, you call on your creditors, you call on your lawyer for legal counsel; you call upon everybody, and when you cannot get any help, then you go to God You say: ''O Lord I come to Thee, Help me now out of my perplexity » And the amp. aying Cork Lord comes, though it is the eleventh hour He says: “Why did you not sehd for Me | before’ As one whom his mother comforteth, ‘ so will I comfort you.” It is to throw us back i upon an all comforting Cod that we have this ministry of tears Again, it is the use of trouble to capacitate us for the office of sympathy. The priests, under the old dispensation, were sot apart by ! having water sprinkled on their hands, fest and bead; and by the sprinkling of tears | people are now set apart to the offles of | sympathy. When we are in prosperity we like to have 8 great many young foaple around us, and we laugh when they laugh, | and we romp when they romp, and we sing when they sing; but when we have trouble we like plenty of old folks around. Why They know how to talk. Take an aged mother, seventy years of age, and she is al most omnipotent in comfort. Why! She has been through it all. A$ 7 o'elock in the morning sie goes over to comfort a young mother who has just lost her babe. Grandmother knows all about that trou. ble. Fifty years ago she felt it. At 12 o'clock of t day she goss over to comfort a widowed soul, knows all about that, She has boon walking in that dark valley twenty yours. At 4 o'clock in the aficrnoon some one knocks at the dour wanting Bhe knows all about that | semi-blank verse: but God knoe my little child along the | i out that 1 cannot comfort people except as I yon had | | God will | glory.” {| am ill | and 1 wil p posing to chan although you may have been men and women thirty, forty, fifty vears of age, you lay on the coffin lid and sobbed as though you were only five or ten years of age, © man, praise God if you have in your memory the A when of an honest. sympathetic, kind, self sacrifio- ing, Christ-like mother, Oh, it takes these peo ple who have had trouble to comfort others in trouble. Where did Paul get the ink with which to write his comforting epistle? ‘Where did David get the ink to write his comforting Psalms? Where did John get the ink write his comforting Revelation? They got it out of their own tears, When a man has gone through the curriculum, and has taken a course of dungeons and imprisonments and shipwrecks, he is qualified the work of sympathy When I began to preach, my sermons on the subject of trouble were all pase and fr od the blank verse out of me long ago, sand 1 have found myself have been troubled. God the son of consolation to the people, rather be the means of sox turbed spirit to-day, than to play a tune that vould set all the sons of mirth reeling in the dance. Tam a herb doctor. 1 put into the aldron the Root out of dry ground without wm or Then 1 put in the Hose of Sharon and the Lily if the Valley, Th | put nto the caldron some of the leg % from the make me I would thing ons per- comeliness, Treo of Life and the Branch that was thrown into i » the wilderness Marah tears of SJethany and thom up. Then kindle fire made of the wood of frop of that potd poss that Then I pou Golgotha ¥ under the ca the shall rece The ous shall d Martha tomb dark: Wiha You becomes 1 fod yout [ot the talile now on the chalice cup bearers « ven! Oh" “the Bibi again and » in heaven how is any away® wom a chile the next AW the tear know on aw marning in the sullen vipe never ut and laughing Inughing ¥ And perhay 1 stopped her in very midst « Or Iv sumed gles, Aye fears hink, after the hesven Jon Lamy # death from w rence between y port. Es : Hix eh de of Jum “ta : of 8 Christ If you stand gidde of that they go. If you vither ide of he river you Oh, the difference rvinai : " in { when w the river % mourn stand on the rejoice that they ooTne hetweeu a funeral on earth and a jubilee in heaven-—betwoen requiem here and triumphial march there wirting here and reurndon thers, Together! ve vou thought of it? They are together Not one of your departed friends in one land and another in another land; but together in different rooms of the same he th house of many mansions, Together! I mover appreciated that thought so much as when we Inkd away in her last slumber my sister Barah. Standing there in the vil lage comotery, I looked around and said “There is father, there js mother, there is grandfather, there is grandmother, thers are whole clsies of kindred” and 1 thought to myself: “Together in the grave together in I am so improssod with the thought that I do not think itis any fanatictam when Hite ve | some one is going from this work to the next if you make them the bearer of dis | patches to your friends who are gone, say - ing: "Give my love to my parents, give my love to my children, give my love 10 my old comrades who are in glory, and tell them I to fight the good fight of faith, join them after awhile” I baliove the message will be deliverad ; and I believe it will morease the gladness of those who are before the throne. Together are | they, all their tears gone, No tron 3 putting wd society for them. All Kin Ine, ‘vinces, and Princesses. In 1751 there was a bill offered in the English parliament pro. the almanac so that the 1st of March should come immediately aftor the 15th of February. But, ob, what a glorious change in the calendar when all the years of your earthly existence are swallowed up in the eternal year of God! sol cheer home take this bereavement that 1 to | | INTERNATIONAL short they would be routed forever. There | sno power on earth or in hell that could | stand before three such volleys of halle ujih, i ooh this balsam on the wounds of your heart. Haojoloe at the thought of what your doparted friends have got rid of, and that you have a prospect of so soon making your own escape. Bear cheerfully the ministry of tears, and exult at the thought that soon it is to be ended, There we wll march up the heavenly street, And grows our arms at Jesus's foot — —————— a SABBATH SCHOOL. LESSON NOVEMBER 3, YOR Rebellious Goldon Lesson Text “David's Son,” I Sam, xv. 1-12 Text: Ex. xx., 12--Com- mentary. After th David co r geeorded in « vii), wa pes subduing al reigning ovi and ju Thor by wh y t mies ord to blasp hone : followed | he record of son gin an iis deat) 3 4 hands broth A bsnl on King nant made with his the father and his this, that nd horses y m t run before him, The after ti $ r to the events i preceding, If and en were to do honor, or show the King, it would iral; but that they Hon against and in. ng father seems al h was the cas to pass after nary up early, and stood 10." The gate of an of public resort and for the adminis noe for Kings “Rose up g gros Lies and dis be: then as to ita Dner 1t God, ¢ wa he out em uty have had cut him, Go in Res Believing him to be sincere he gives him a father's blowing and bids him go in sacs: but there was no peace in that foul heart. covered by so fair an exterior and h pans bis words for “There is no peace, I the Lord, to the wicked” (Jean. Ivil, 21). Absalom g in Hebron" No he leave his father's presence ing said unto rneth sootier does with that father's last words to him as words | sends spies through all Is of pence, than he rasi who at a given signal are to ory: “Absa- jom reizneth in Hebron,” which was virtually saving: “1 hereby rebel against my father and drive him from his throne” so David understood it, for he said unto all his ser vanis: “Arise and jot me flee, for we shall not else escape from Absalom,” and the ser vants ssid Behold thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the King shall ap- polot” (verse 14, 15. Contrast the conduct of Yhe RInEW SOI STL METRY OF DRVITS servants, and the oomduct of tial, a stranger and exile (verses 18-21), and does it not re gave He John i, many as received Him, to them i pee to become the sons of God.” 1 13) 11. “They went in their simplicity and { of the two hundred men out of Jerusalem | who went with Absalom, | Jow Jesus in this nor desiring anything but His will, BE THY 08 or teatro An blindly is sure I aay like Absalom 12. “The people increased Absalom.” How i aE HH E ¥ If we would fol. | dish spirit, simply trusting, not | fy froth one spoonful buiier, one cup sugar, d pponle wo wouki be and what | HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. SHOULDER OF LAME. A shoulder of lamb cooked as follows fs a very cheap and excellent dinner: fave thy butcher cut out the shoulder ade, and the first length and half the pecond of the foreleg, taking care not to mangle the meat. Stuff with a force- neat made of bread crumbs with one boiled and mashed ouion, seasoned with salt, pepper and sage. Truss it up some- thing in the shape of a duck and sew shut, Lay in a dripping pan on a few sliced vegetables, pour over a gill of hot water, and bake twenty minutes to the pound, Garnish with new, CRY ~ rots, onions and new potatoes, strain and and small tiiicken the gravy, pour it over all serve HINTS FOR HOME DHEESSMAKING. No facings are used on the bottoms of hem, underneat) below on everything the old-style fit If for turn, ¢ and the knead and let and ther ingredients; ind one hour; roll units, lay two inches apart, let stand till then bake. Cake For one and one-half teacupfuls cut into bis light, Molasses teacupfuls of of sugar, one teacupful of molasses, one tea. cupful of butter, five eggs, half a tea. spoonful (level) of soda, half a pound of raising or the sugar and butter, add the egg yolks, and beat until light, then add the molasses, Beat the whites to a stiff froth and stir in al- ternately with the flour and fruit, Dis. solve the soda in a tablespoonful of water and sdd last Flavor with lemon or mixed sploes. Bake as a Jarge cake, or in snowball pans, Cottage Pudding flour, currants Lieam One cup of sugar, RD a hat at the conduct of | one spoonful butter, one cup of milk, one m you ) those of whom it is written: “He came unto His | own and His own received Him not, but as | pint of flour, ten eggs, one teaspoonful baking powder. Beat the butter, eggs | and sugar to a froth, then add the milk, | and lastly the flour in which the baking | powder has been | they knew not anything." This is written | thoroughly mixed. Flavor with lemon end bake in a shallow or tin half an hour. Serve with lemon sauce made as follows: Beat to a one spoonful cornstarch and two eggs. Wien very smooth and light add one cup of boiling water. Set the basin into boil. ing water and stir five minutes. Season with lemon. Soup Stock--Take all the bones of joints, ete., that ars available, bones of poultry and game that are sweet, chop io convenient iceman put them into a saucepan together any scraps of ment, cooked or tnowoked, resulting Hid LH : | PS AAA A HN 1 OM EE SE SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL Peat fiber is coming into considerable ase in the manufacture of brown paper, being shout fifty per cent. cheaper than wool pulp. According to Dr. Ozeretsiofski, hys- teria exists among Russian soldiers, and presents as various diversities of form as it does among women. 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