———————" wen Wo V. DR. TALMAGE. i BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. DAY SERMON. bject: “The New Tabernacle” T: “What mean ye by these stones? hua iv,, 6 e Jordan, like the Mississippi, has bluffs he one side and flats on the other. Here there a sycamore shadows it. Here and e a willow dips into it. It was only a over waist aeep in December as I waded ugh it, but in the months of April and p toe snows on Mount Lebanon thaw and down into the valley, and then the Jor ovirflows its banks. Then it is wide, p, raging and impetuous. At this season he year | hear the tramp of forty thou- You say, why do they not go up r the rise of the river at the old camel | Ah! my friends, it is because it ix not | 0 go around when the Lord tells us to head. The Israelites had been going | vd forty years, and they had enough of of do not know how it is with you, my ren, but | have aiways got into trouble | In I went around, but always got into y when [ went ahead here spreads out the Jordan, a raging nt, much of it snow water just come | n from the mountain top; and | see som» e Israelites shivering at the idea of ging in, and one soldier says to his com “Joseph, can you swim?’ And another : “If we get across the stream we will | here with wet clothes and with damaged | jor, and the Canaanites will slash us to with their swords before we get up the bank.” But itis no time to halt. The | t host marches on he priests carrying the ark go ahead, the ble follow, 1 hear the tramp of the great itude. The priests have now come with | stone's throw of the water. Yet still | is no abatement of the flood. Now they | come within four ar five feet of the | m: but there is no abatement of the Bad prospect! It seems as if these ites that crossed the desert are now go be drowned in sight of Canaan. But ard ™ is the ory The and rings hg the line of the host wwvard priests have within « © river. This time they lift the solid ground and put them de con ome ne step wir feet wn ater on the left hand side by t pmched the sen; that mira n made, stand back and and now us passage has t pe this i Kes 1 ike a ar in thunderous triumph to the sea How are they to celebrate this passage’ Bhall it be with music? 1 suppose the tr sts and cymbals were all worn out befo Shall it be with banners waving? Oh, they are all faded and torn Joshna cries out, *'1 will you how to celebrate this—build a mu bere to com rate ti ever est puts a heavy stone on b ol ut aud dr that Joints 1 place eight, in after years, AL De nument OTN Om pe ap ne to sm of the b tones Blessed be God, He did not leave p the wilderness! We have been wandering pout for yearand a Academy of Music, vy of Music, New ur h aur 1¥ . 4 » half worshiping in ana the And some Brookly: Foute and othe better go be sons of Apak in the way that ip, and before the sm wn the sky after our taberna nsumed, people sto a we piace and said: * is church rnin be built,” We e down Jordan; we looked of « waters Bome of the symputhy that was expressed jurned out to be snow water melted from the w of Lebanon, “You had bet er not go in; you will get your feet wet But we waded in, pastor and people, farther nd farther, and in some way, the Lord onl nows how, we got through; and to-night wo all around about this great house, erected by your prayers and sympathies and sacri OPS, onl pi out in the words of my text “What mean ye by these stones™ It is an outrage to build a house like this ast and so magnificent, unless there be me tremendous reasons {or doing it; and y, my friends, I pursue you to-night with | the question of text, and [ demand of hese trustees and of these elders and of all who have entributed in the bullding of this structure, ‘What mean ye by these stones” But before I got your answer to my question you interrupt me and point to the memorial wall at the side of this puly t, and say, ‘“Ex- that unusual group of memorials, ¥iat mean you by those stones™ By per- pission of the people of my beloved charge i ently visited the Holy Lands, and having mind by day and night during my ab- sence this rising house of prayer, | bethought myself, “What can I do to make that place significant and glorious” On the morning of December the 3d we were at the foot of the most sacred mount in of all the varth, Mount Calvary. There no more doubt of the locality than of | ount Washington or Mount Blane. On the | uff of this mountain, which is the shape of lhe human skull, and so called in the Bible, “The place of the skull” there is room for hree crosses There 1 saw a stone so sug. ative I rolled it down the hill and trans ported it. It lsat the top of this wall a hite stone, with crimson veins running rough tthe white typical of purity the imson suggestive of the blood that paid 0 price of our redemption. We place it at | he top of the memorial wall, for above all $n this church for all time, in sermon and | wag and prayer, shall be the sacrafice of | Rook Cavalry. Look at it. That stone was | pe of the rocks rent at the crucifixion. That | heard the ery, “It is finished” Was over ny church on carth honored with such | memorial? } Beneath it are two tables of stone which | FI had brought from Mount Sinal where the | aw was Three camels ware three Ke the bank Some sald » ¥ my iain one, Those stones marked with the words Mount Ninal” felt the earthquake that shook mountains when the law was given, The pwer stone of the wall is from Mars Hill, the ce where Paul stood when he preached t famous sermon on the brotherhood of | he human race, declaring ‘ ‘God bath made | pf one blood all nations,” Sinee Lord Elgin took the famous statuary | u the Acropolis, the hill adjoining Mara I, the Greek Government makes it irapos. bio to tragsport to other lands any antig- ities, and armed soldiers 1 not onl ho Acropolis, but Mars H That stone btained by special permission from the on of Greece, a most jous and bril- nt woman, who recsivad us as though we d been old acquaintances, and through , Tricoupis, the Prime Minister of Greece, pd Mr. Suowden, our American Minister ury, and Dr, Manats, our Amer. ter my lips shall utter in this church their last message, these lips of stone will tell of the Law, and the Sacrifice, and the Gospel. This day I present them to the church and to all who shall gaze upon them. Thus you have my answer to the question, **What man you by these stones?" But you cannot divert me from the ques tion of the text as I first put it. I have in- | terpreted these four memorials on my right hand, but there are hundreds of stones in | man is safe out of Christ? souls, My friends, do not make the blunder of the ship carpenters in Noah's time, who helped to build the ark, but did not get into it. God forbid that you who have been so generous in building this church should not got under its influences, “Come thou and all thy house into the ark.” Do you think a Not one day, not one hour, not one minute, not one second. Three or four years ago, you remember, a rail train broke down a bridge on the way to these surrounding walls and undernsath us in the foundations, and rising above us in | the towers, The quarries of this and trans atlantic countries at the call of crowbar and | chisel bave contributed toward this structure, “What mean ye by these stones’ You mean amon: other things that they shall be an earthly residence for Christ | He was here, | erying? | Where is that hard breathing! | asleep on a rock, | We aot armed men coming down to cross the | tough overcoat | Joss, | our heads, we lift our ensigus, | multitudinous acclamation | rings und the heavens listen, **O King! live | but | text { has not nilding of | buliding | salvation of the people Christ did not have much of a home when Who and where is that child It is Jesus, born in an outhouse, It is Jesus, | Who is that in the back | fishing smack, with a sailor's thrown Him? It is | the worn out voyager. ©, Jesus! is | it not time that Thou hadst a house? We give Thee this. Thou didst give it to us first, but we give it back to Thee, It is too rood for us, but not half good enough for hee, Oh! coms in and take the best seat here. Walk up and down all these aisles Speak through these organ pipes. Throw thine arm over us in these arches In the flaming of these brackets of fire speak to us saving, “I am ths light of the world" O | King! make this thine audience chamber Here proclaim righteousness and make treaties. We clap our hands, we uncover 4 we ory with until the piace part of a over forever Is it not time that He who was born ina stranger's house and buriel in a strangers grave should have an earthly house’ in, O Jesus! not the corpse of a buried Christ, aradiant and trumphant queror of earth and heaven and hell Come Jesus, con He Hives, all g He lives, my Oh, the rwee 1 know that my Hedeem Blessed His Again, if any one ask “What mean 8 We man ory to His name Jesus, still joy this be glorious the name Do you know ths on of Chris va ted this ians in Dr : Ng toward b And if ever, stand nominat Kiyn cont SOM housa? shall ternoss bet wtians blanch, Hiurgy, and in heard the same prayer brethren made Amen “Praise yo t not have to guess Lwioe When a man be comes from a give him » “Come in by comfession joniram Judson, the Baptist, and John wley, the Methodist, and Jolin Koox, the rious old Beoteh Presbyterian, are shak- : hands in heaven | church earth an afford to e communion t anise he Lord knocks at our church sacl where they we say While from. door, certificate faith a8 On i eno» ways af Christ § | Log 11 r brings then gives thea leave with you y Coarse and bh How swift the heaven Whose hearts and faith they ran Yam ATO OLS I heard a Baptist ministes » say that be thought in the millennium it would all one great Baptist church; and 1 beard a Methodist minister say that he thoug in the great millennial day it would all me great Methodist church: and I have known =o Presbyterian minister who thought that in the millennial day it would be all one great Presbyterian church Now I think they are all mistaken. 1 think the millennial church will A composite church; and just as you may take the best warts of five or six tunes, and under the skil- an bands of Handel Mozart or Beethoven entwine them into one grand and overpower. ing symphony, so, | suppose, in latter days of the world, God will take best parts of all denominations of Christians, and weave them into one great ecclesiastical | harmony, broad as the earth and high as the | heavens, and that will be the church of the future. Or, as mosaic is made of jasper and agate and many procious stones cemented together — mosaic a thousand foot square in St. Mark's, or mosic hoisted in colossal seraphim in St. Sophia's 90 1 suppose God will make, after a while, one great blending of all eveeds, and all faiths, and all Christian sentiments, the amythest and the jasper. and | the chaleedony of all different experiences and belief, cemeted side by side io the great | mosaic of the ages: and while the nations | look upon the columns and architraves of the stupendous church of the future, and be el ht ber be the the i ery out, “What mean ye Ly these stones! there shall be innumerable volcom to re spond, **We mean the Lond God omnipotent | reigneth.” Still further, you mean by thess stones the We did not build this church for mere worldly reforms, or for | an educational institution, or as a platform on which to read essays and philosophies! | disquisitions, but a place for the tremendous work of soul saving. On, I bad rather be the means in this charch of having one soul prepared for a joyful eternity than five thousand souls prepared for mers worldly success, All churches are in two classes, all communities in two classes, all the racs in two classes believers and unbelievers, To | augment the number of theous and subtract | from the number of the other we bulit this church, and toward that supreme and eter nal ides we dedioats all our sermons, all our | yp y of His love bere until mon would feel that they bad rather die than live another hour without His sympathy and love and mercy. We want to rouse up an enthusiasm for Him greater than was felt for Nathaniel Lyon w he rode along the ranks; greater than was exhibited for Wall ington when he came back from Waterloo; groater than was expressed for Napoleon when lie stepped ashore from Biba, We really believe in this place Christ will enact the same seston that wers enacted by Him when Heo landed in, the orient, ait Jars will be such an open ind eyes and unstop- oF deat sats and casting ous of unclean testich silencing bestormed Gennes rets nsshall mae this memorable five hundred years after you and I are dead and fangsiatn, Oh, my friends. we want but one val in this church, that beginni now on to the day when the chisel of that brige down oven BL Pius and ids, house into the | again, cate it | I night we dedicate | snoramental blessing {| this | Jao make this houses to you the gate of { the piace wher { and from t { described Albany, and after the catastrophe they were looking around among the timbers of the | crushed bridge aud the fallen train and found the conductor. He was dying, and had only strength to say one thing, and that was, “Holst the flag for the next train.” Bo there | come tous to-night, from the eternal word, voloos of God, voloes of angels, volees of de parted spirits, crying: “Lift the warning. Blow the trumpet, Give the alarm, Holst | the flag for the next train.’ Oh, that to-night my Lord Jesus would sweep His arm around the froat audience and | take you all to His holy heart You will naver seo no good a time for personal COTE eration as now, “What mean ye by these stones?’ sin and death and hell by the power omnipotent gos wi) Well, the Brooklyn Tabernacle is erected We came here to-night not to dedi- That was done this morning. To ourselves, In the Epis copal and Methodist churches they have a | railing around the altar, and the people come and kneel down at that ralling and get the Waoll, my friends, it would take more than a night to gather you in circles around thisaltar, Then just bow where you are for the blessing. Aged men, is the last church that y will ever May the God who comforted Patriarch, and Paul the aged, heaven; and when, in your old days, you put on your spectacies to read the hymn or the Scripture may you get preparation for that land whers you shall no more see through a glass darkly. May the warm sunshine of heaven thaw the snow off your foreheads! Men in middle life, do you know that this is ® you are going to gel your jes rested and your sorrows appeased and your souls saved? Do you know that at tt tar vour sons and daughters will take n themselves the vows of the Christian, his place you will carry out, dead? Between t pnmuni ni dedicate, wh the lesson, fatig sa ip OTe of you, ¥ ptismal font an iso iil have some of y tenderest of xl bless you, old and young and he money ¥ have lay will ba, 1 tment 3 have © ur precious t n table y ife's ax (; " given to the host ver u ireh to hoy nancial inve ‘ ur woridly invests the 1 lividends long ' A he stars are spark fro dead. | } ~ i ave gon tten anvil an The Zuni Game of the Kicked Stick All 1 adv; id } Old priest i each ride r has rid ) sprinkle § sacred mi starters kick the wildest excitement } each racer home mouth two shell beads ind pass can NO XD ne nt 1 nen promi part. tha soutaem hills, eas north to the mesas, follow these west for ther to th and back agsin to the point. The nearly twenty-five miles, e southern hills, starting distance traversed is miles and they pass over it in about two hours. Racing is indulged in by the ex- cited horsemen as they approach the goal, and it is not unusual to see a pony irop over dead from exhaustion as they ear the village Popular Scsence Month y- i — . Submarine Telegraphy. he submarine telegraph system of the world is one of the wonders of modern It holds the globe ina nctwork of cables, and has made its re- motest distances responsive %o the influ. ences of civilization. There are 20 less than 120,070 nautical miles of cable soaking to-day in salt water and trans mitting intelligence under the bellies of ocean fishes, Government administra. tions own 12.524 miles, while 107.546 are the property of private companies, The cost of these cables approximates §200,000,000, No less than eleven cables are soused in North Atlantic brine, and all laid since 1870, the total length of cables, including coast connections, being more than 30,000 miles. The Eastern Telegraph Company covers the ground from England to India, and comprises 21,860 miles of cable, to which is an Eastern extension that exploits 12. 058 miles more. West African cables have been laid from Cadiz to Cape Town, and the Dark Continent is in telegmphic touch with the centers of elvilization. No less than 17,000 miles of cable were necessary to make this connection that gives the trader In Africa a daily notice of the markets of the world and keeps the colonists on the Orange River posted on the events transpiring along the Ganges, the Thames and the Mississippi. The benefits of this world.encirclin system cannot be easily overstated, and it is » magnificent tribute to the service achlevements, and progress of electric science. San Francisco Eraminer, mic ———— Musk From Conl DIL. “1 have invented a process for distill. ing musk from coal oil,” mid a visitor to the Patent Office in Washington, ‘It 1 a hundred timo more powerful than the natural emence. Let me show you''-e and he uncorked a little bottle and sprinkled its contents over the desks. This was a woek ago, and the Patent Office clerks have smelling like muskrats ever since, The whole build. sug is scented, and no amount of airing has #0 far had much effact the over. powering smell." New York Recorder, | SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Heating by electricity is promised. Compressed air signals are successful, A petroleum bicycle makes forty-nine miles an hour Wire-wound guns are the latest ac. quisition of the United Blates Navy. lamp for use on an incandescent circuit has been designed. The electrical underground railway in Yondon has proved that a speed of twenty-four miles an hour is practicable, We mean vour redemption from | of an of vapor arising from the actual boiling or vaporization of the solid ends of the | separated conductors. To secure uniformity in the painting and varnishing of theif passenger and freighs cars some railroads employ ex pert chemists to analy Ze the paints an i oils used, A double hulled ship has been devised by Captain Meacon, of Chelsea, Mass. , which is said to be absolutely unsinkable His plan has received indorsement in the highest quarters. A new electric appliance structed that in rallway train it is impossible to give a clear signal be- fore the delivery gf intended for the approaching 18 BO CON-~ signalhing oraers train, wv 3 y " » | I'he only onyx polishing works in thas 1 in Rut removed to Missouri land, ¥i., and country, locate will be engage in pre paring for market the vast quantities of onyx mined in Cr rd and Pulaski counties the creature School of Medicis smined At appetites were Vv \ delicacies given Lhem beetles were taken with son The mice dex the mynah ate ined to ta Wasps gre readily took often Sng, th WAS it vf seeming A yy the t refused, and only cider meh was eaten | Bas wynah for took it in the dearth « enti peds were given to but a long time as well as the earth-worm, finally, A and the of our few insects, sh ¢ mice mynah, were never eaten. thougt the mice, in one case, eagerly seized and Killed a large specimen. Spring Medicine Is so important that everybody knows its ne- cessity and value. 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