"REY. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S DAY SERMON, SUN. Subject: “One Thing Lacking" Text: “One thing thou lackest.” Mark x., 3. The young man of the text was a splendid | mature. We fall in love with him at the | first glance, He was amiable and frank and | earnest and educated and refined and re. | pectable and moral, and yot he was not a Christian. And so Christ addresses him in | the words that 1 have read to you, “One | thing thou lackest.” 1 suppose that that text | ‘was no more applicable to the young man of ‘whom I have spoken than it is appropriate | 10 a large multitude of people in this audi. ence, There are many things in which you | are lacking. For instance, you are not lack- | ing ina good home. It is parhipe no more | than an hour ago that you closed the door, returning to see whether it was well fastened, of one of the best homes of this city, The younger children of the housealready asleep, the older ones, hearing your returning foot- steps, will rush to the door to meet you, And | in these long evenings the children at the stand with their games, the wife plying the needle and you reading the book or the paper, you feel that you have a good home. Neither are you lacking in the refinements and courtesies of life. You understand the | polite phraseology of invitation, regard and apology. You have an appropriate apparel I shall wear no better dres> at the wedding than when I come to the marriage of the king's son. If I am well clothed on other occasions I will be so in a religious audience, | However reckless I may be about my per- | sonal appearance at other times, when | ome into a consecrated assemblage [ shall have on the best dress | have, Weall under stand the proprieties of every-day life and the proprieties of Sabbath life, Neither are you lacking in worldly sue cess. You have not made as much money as you would like to make, but you have an income, While others are false when they say they have no income, or are making no money, you have never told that falsehood You have had a livelihood, or you have fallen upon old resources, which is just the sane thing, for God is just as good to us when He takes care of us by a surplus of the past as by present success! While there are thousands of men with hunger tearing at the throat with the strength of a tigers paw not one of youis huogry. Neither aret Jacking in pleasant friendshi y } real good friends should come know very well who w up with the sic one, § K 1 in th culiar grip which means “I'li and, after the life is fled from the | take you by the arm and lead you next room, and while wood they would sta aside the garments and the playt might bring to your mind too severely great Friends? You all have friends Neithe m lacking in your admira- tion of ristian religion There is nothing that makes you so angry as to have a man malign C You get red in the face, and you say, "Sir, I want you to under. stand though I am not myself a Christian, | don't like su®h things said as that in my store.” and the man goes off, giving you a mrting salutation, but you hardly answer fim You are provoked beyond all bounds Many of you have been supporters of or and have given more to the can than some who profess His faith noth ald please vou more than to 3 standing vows of the irs reli ae | {ttle hard on you, and might ritatedt fora l oh wagh t ends, Flies physical nd; : ie 1 have ever who have been nptiom, or stung with neu with the slow fire of some hapy ~ tion +} Re tons man in my first ion of body eried wget all my pain in Jesus Christ can't ] I think was illumined this house who would to show that there is no hag [ Christ, while there is great There are young men Christians more than six sil stand up to-night, if | snd say in those six months y and satisfaction than r frivol ty an H dissipa { that gin shop to ng of young men wr they are happy ot. and they jes vody has any idea ’ of menan fom m ail upon the aged men in this give testimony, There are aged who (ried the world, and they tried and they are willing to test our side It was not long ago that an man arose in a praying circle and said “Brethren, l lost my son just as he graduated from college, and it broce my heart: but | em glad now he is gone. He is at rest, es capped from ali sorrow and from all trouble And then, in 15857, 1 lost all my property, and you seo | am getting old, and it is rather hard upon me; but Lam sure God will not Jot me suffer. He has not taken care of me for seventy-five years now to let me drop out of His hands” I went into the room of an aged man—his eyesight nearly gone, his hearing neariy gone and what do you suppose he was talking | ehout? The goodness of God and the joys of religion, He said “1 would lke ts go over and join my wife on the other side of the and [ am waiting until the Lord ealls , 1 am happy now, [I shall be happy there,” What ix it that gave that aged man #0 much satisfaction and po "nysioal exuberance? No, it has al He cannot see it. The voloss of friends? He cannot hear them, It is the grace of God, men her religion, iy on aged sweeter than music. and find that all the strings are broken ho does not try to play upon wi aged If a harpist takes a | §EFEE jn H i] ; fs H { than million | the weary step, alley, but he wants immortal bread. You take a pound of candles to that dark shanty. They want the light that springs from the throne of God, and you cannot take it be cause you have it not in your own heart. You know that the flight of an arrow de- pends very much upon the strength of the ow, and 1 have to tell you that the best bow that was ever made was made out of the cross of Christ; and when religion takes a soul and puts it on that, and pulls it back and lots it fly, every time it brings down a Saul or Goliath There are people hereof high social posi tion, and large means, and cultured oly who, if they would come into the kingdom of God, would set the city on fire with relig- ious awakening. Oh, hear you not the more voices of those in theses two cities who are unconverted! Voices of those who in these two cities are dying in their sing? They want light, They want bread. They want Christ, They want heaven, Oh, that the Lord would make you a flaming | evangel! As for myself, I have sworn before high heavén that I will preach this gospel as well as I oan, in all its fullness, until every fiber of my body, and every faculty of my mind, and every expression of my soul is ex hausted. But we all have work to do, | cannot do your work, nor can you do my | God points us out the places where | work, we are to serve, and yot are ther: no people in this house who are thirty, forty, fifty and sixty years of age, and yet have not begun the great work for which they were created? With every worldly equipment, One thing thou lackest.” Again, you lack the element of personal safely. Where are those people we BYSO clated with you twenty years ago? Whare are those people that fifteen years ago used | to cross South ferry or Fulton ferry with you to New York?! Walk down the street where you were in business fifteen years ago and see how all the signs have changed Where are the people gone! How many of | them are landed in eternity | cannot say, but | many, many. 1 went to the village of my boyhood. The houses were all changed, 1 passed one house in which once resided a man who had lived an earnest, useful life, and he is in glory now, In the next houses a mises lived. He devoured widows’ houses, and spent his whole life in trying make the world worse and worse And he is gone-the good man and the miser 1 gone to the same place Ah, did they go to the same place? It is an infinite absurdity to supg them Loth fu the same place. If the 1 had a harp, what tune did he play on it Oh, my friends, I commend you to this re ligion as the only personal satety! Whe you die, where are you g When we leave all th ies, upon what s nes will we enter? When we ard, and all felt that wem bott was I right i wonder if ¥ wo wn t ght ing that who neve “ wk question a hot {lot twenty-fl hundred {eet soul vast as eternity SHS nan or w standing in som these aisles should drop down, where wou you go to? Which is your destiny? man 1 prepared for the future {ifference does it y him goes to his home to or gos Only this difference—If he dies he oft Where be bad one have a million in heav small here he sphere sixty, fifty dollars sured, an SUANDCE at your y WB every day and siways My} feop n all security TOAD hy YN Suppo world whet n what LL or nto glory is Deter he has 1 make ny n earth will When he sphers there or one jecense. hut n wpe in Christ is no | | it Of Asan n I hav heart su rong way hes ard.” When I was in | * | wf 3 > vard 111 nothing in auntiet or halberd as the armor ) His dear children a! You wk out for that man if the Lord God with him wdenn tin horsemen used to ride into battle with lifted lances, and the enemy fled field, The Lord y the white horse of victor and with lifted lances of strength rides into the battle, and down g the sp tual foe. while the viet its the triumph through the Lord Jesus Christ As a matter sal saloty my dear friends you must have th re I apply my i to several people before me First. to that titude of young people in this b of these young men are in boarding They wave but few social advantages think that ne ne oares for their souls Many of them are ll salaries, and they are cramped and bothered perpetually, and sometimes their he falls them { oung man. to-night at your bedroom door on the third floor you will hear a knock, It will be the hand of Jesus Christ, the ¥ ang man's friend, saying, “Oh, young man, let Me come in: I will help thee, I will comfort thee, | will deliver thee.” Take the Bible out of tw trunk if it has been hidden away. If you have not the conrage to lay it on the shelf or table. take the Bilis that was given to vou by some loved one, take It out of the trunk and lay it down on the bottom of the chair. then kneel down beside it, and res and pray and pray and read until all your disturoance is gone and vou feel that pen which neither sarth nor hell ean rob you of Thy father's God, thy mother's God, waits for thee, O voung man, “Escape for thy Iife™ Escape now! One thing thou lack wut Hut [ apply tals subject to the age b—not many here-—not many in any sassmblage People do not live to get old. That i= the general rule. Hore and thers an aged man in the house. 1 tell you the truth. You bave lived long enough ln this world to know that it cannot satisfy an inunortal usture I must I saw there ti Vill and Ed ore & reg ur [oes | the strosgth ax the tha r ah i pers yn Classes of great mon Pe hon Hae ns a Ars | talk to vou more reverentially than I do to these other people, while at the same time | | speak with great plainness, Ok, father of Oh, mother bent under the ailments of life, has thy God ever | gone. Sunshine! | ¢ waken thee! Through all these years who | has bosn your best friend? Seventy years of | mercies! Beventy years of food and clothing! | thatis brighter than sunshine and that Is | On how many bright mornings! How many | glorious evening hours you have seen! Oh, i father, mother, God has ben very good | you, Do you feel it? Some of you have children and grandchildren; the former cheered your young life, the latter twine your gray looks in their tiny fingers, all the goodness that God has been making before you producsd no change in your selings, and must it be mid of you, not withstanding all this, “One thing thou Inokent Oh, if you could only feel the hand of Christ smoothing the cares out of wrinkled faces! Ob Jou soniid only feel the warm arm ot Chris oat tow! ft my the deafness | but the overseer of the poor? { to you a poor man's Christ, | have in the winter blankets enough to cover down | Has | any intimation that he had chosen Jesus, It is a very hard thing for an old man to be come a Christian, I know it is, It is so hard a thing that it cannot be done by any human work; but God Almighty oan do it by His omnipotent grace; He can bring you at the eleventh hour--at half-past eleven--at one peace and the joys of the glorious gospel, I must make application of this subject al- 80 to those who are Pr wl. Have you, my friends, found that dollars and cents are no permanent consolation to the soul? You have large worldly resources, but have you no treasures, no heaven?! Is anembroidered {llow all that you want to put poor dying wad on? You bave heard people all last woek talk about earthly values, Hear a» plain man talk about the heavenly. Do you not know it will be worse for you, O pros pered man, if you reject Christ, and reject Him finally~that it will be worse for you than those who had it hard in this world, be cause the contrast will make the discom- fiture 0 much more appalling? As the hart bounds for the water ow as the roe speeds down the hilldde, speed thou to Christ. “Escape for thy life, look not be. hind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain lest thou be con sumed!” I must make my application to another class of persons—tha poor, When you can- not pay your rent when it is due, have you nobody but the landlord to talk to? When the flour has gone out of the barrel, and you have not ten cents with which to go tw the baker, and your children are tugging at your | dress for something to eat, have you nothing | but the world's charities to sppeal to? When winter comes, and there are no coals, and the ash barrels have po more cinders, who takes care of you?! Have vou nobody But I preach If you do not you in the night, I want to tell you of Him who had not where to lay His head. If you { leon the bare floor, I want to tell you of Him who had for a pillows hard cross, and whose foot bath was the streaming blood of His own heart Oh, you poor man! Oh, your poor woman ! Jesus understands your case altogether Talk it right out to Him to-night. Get down on your floor and say: “Lord Jesus Christ, Thou wast poor and | am poor. Help me hou art rich now, and bring me up to Thy riches™ Do you think God would cast you 7 Will He? You might as well think that a mother would take the child that feeds on her breast and dash its life out, as to think that God would put aside roughly those who have fled to Him for pity and compassion. Yea, the prophet says, “A we may for ret her su child, that she would not ion on the son of her womb, but snd t} ou man ~o owt there ares so t seo a single sail wight the is y near then the trumpet, cies loudly ACTO Whither bound? you and I m the sea of ne and we go, B oe of us have mw met before us will never meet again, But 1 you across the sea, and with reference to Inst great day, and with reference to the two great world is. I ery » water Whither bound? whither in the ove, vos] yery oOo We wer life MOD. hail th tin YOTORE bonnd¥ | know what service that craft was made for. but hast tt thrown overboard the come Is there holm to guide 1t* Is the ip at the of the tempest? Is there gun distress booming through the rm? With pri wires with treas res aboard worth more than all the Indies wilt thou never y out of the trough OO Lord ny hold of that of God, if 1 wort ever noaded i art { hors There y bw pard / at " whois tre tne uj (ond, th #ls a O wd The Big Trees of California The lid rivals ‘ he world. the effect will have i taist i s in tt Comparison « sew hore in §% I ‘hink mo one can f of saticipate monarchs y has read that a coach and on trees another is thirty. , and that wned with a ems to brush upon him 1 six can drive ee of the that § its vast cr night be prepare | s tower one hundred feet in circum. and even four hundred feet high, | plain But this another affair, individual, and has a No man can stand in the one of these giants without a new of the age of the world and the insignificant span of one human life; but he is also overpowered by a sense of some gigantic personality. it does not relieve him to think of this as the Methuselah of or to call it by the name of some great poet or cap- tain. The awe the tree inspires is of it- ell. As one lies and looks up st the enormous bulk, it seems not so much the bulk, so lightly is it eacried, as toe spirit of the tree, the elastic vigor, the pa- the endurance of storm and change, the confident might, and the soaring, almost contemptuous pride, that that overwhelm the puny spectator. It in just because man can measure himself, his littleness, his brevity of existence, with this growth out of the earth, that he is mors personally impressed by it than he might be by the mere variation in the eonsour of the globe which mw called 8 mountain, The imagination wakes a plausible effort to comprehend it, and is foiled. No, clearly it is not mere size that impresses one; it is the dignity, the chamcter in the tree, the au- | thority and power of antiquity. Side by side of these venerable forms are young sequols, great trees Shemseves, that have only just begun their millen- nial oareer—trees that will, if spared, | perpetuate to remote ages this race of giants, and in two to four thousand years from now take ihe of their | great dfathers, who are sinking under weight of gears, aud one by one measuring their length on the earth, we Harper's Magagine, nee, standing upon a eve living growth is Fac an person al character, quite pire In ’ of presence sense trees, thom LN minute of twelve He can bring you to the | | The ancient Gauls used a reaping ma- chine, John Milton 1s sometimes called the Homer of Britain. The daily surplus of births over deaths in the United Kingdom is 1500, An Oroville (Cal.) man keeps thieves | from his orange trees by tying cow-bells | to them. While a farmer at Shipbach, Penn., was attending church his horse froze to death outside. Carlyle is given the credit of first hav- ing called the newspaper press fourth estate.” New green corn was served to guests of the Alcazar, at Bt. Augustine, Fla., on New Year's Day. India takes the palm for free postage. | Postal cards cost half a cent each, and a | letter goes for one cent, A teacher of mathematics says that the | simple tearing up or cutting of paper is | a great relief to the mind after mental labor. A tourmaline ledge, recently discov | ered on a farm near Auburn, Me. , is said | to have already yielded $7500 worth of gems, During the last 100 years 885,000 nat. | ents have been by the United States. There have been 600,000 appli- issued | cations, There are twenty-six monarchies and | twenty-five in the civilized Sixteen republics are in republics world to-day. South America The In Cow Killer 80 named dian chief called in derision the Red Jacket. Brant allusion to his lack of was in paysicai « Iw make szors at snnot than that contained in the We ne 3 present iy, but we « make glee] Da mascus swords and knives which the an thousand cients usd several All the mechanical the lever, pulley, in and powers, the screw wedge, the an- ife. 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