A on "REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. DAY SERMON, Subject: tians, “Opportunities for Chris ' (Preached at Madi son, Wis) Text: “Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this? «= Bsther iv, 14. Esther the Beautiful was the wife of Ahasuerus the Abominable, The time bad coma for her to present a petition to her in- famotis husband in behalf of the Israelitish nation, to which she had once belonged. She wasairaid to undertake the work lest she should lose her own life; but her uncle, Mor- decal, who had brought her up, encouraged her with the suggestion that probably she had been raised up of God for that peculiar mission. ‘Whe knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this® Esther bad her God-appointed work; you and | have ours. It is my business to tell you what style of people we ought to be in order that we may meet the demand of the age in which God has cast our lot. If you have come expecting to hear abstractions discussed or dry technicalities of religion lorified, you have coms to the wrong place; ut if you really would like to know what this age has a right to expect of you as Christian men and women, then I am ready in the Lord's name to look you in the face, When two armies have rushed into battle the officers of either army do not want phil osophical discussions about the chemical properties ol human blood or the nature of gunpowder. They want some one to man the batteries and swab out the guns And now, when all the forces of light and dark- ness, of heaven and hell, have plunged into the fight, it is no time to give ourselves to the definitions and formulas and technicali- ties and conventionalities of religion. What we want is practical, earnest, concentrated, enthusiastic and triumphant help, What we need in the East you in Wisconsin need In the first place, in order to meet the special demand of this age, you need to be an unmistakably aggressive Christian, Of balf and half Christians we do nt want any more. The church of Jesus Christ will be better without ten thousand of them. They are the chief to the church's ad- vancement. I am speaking of another kind of Christian. All the appliances for your becoming an earnest Christian are at your band, and there is a straight path for you in- to the broad daylight of God's forgiveness, You may bave come here to-day the bonds men of the world, and yet before you go out of these doors you may become the princes of the Lord God Almighty. You know what excitement there is in this country when a foreign prince comes to our shores. Why? Because it is expected that some day he will tit upon a throne. But what is all that honor compared with the honor to which God calls you—to be sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty; yea, to be queens and kings unto God! “They shall reign with Him forever and forever.” But, my friends, you need not be aggres- give Christians, and not like those persons who spend their lives in hugging their Chris tian graces and wondering why they do not make any progress. How much robustness of health would a man have if he hid hin sell in a dark closet? A great deal of piety of the day is too exclusive. It hides itself It needs more fresh air, more outdoor exe cise, There are many obstacle Christians who iving their entire life to sof examination hey are feeling their pulses to see what the condition of their spiritual health. How long would a man have robust physical health i he kept all the davsand weeks and months and years of his I.fe fee ing his palse instead of going out Into active, earnest, everyday work’ I was once amid the wonder{ul, bewitch ing cactus growths of North Carolina. | pever was more bewildered with the beauty of flowers, and yet when I would take up oue of these cactuses and pull the leaves apart, the beauty was all gone. You could kardly tell that it had ever been a Hower And there are a great many Christian poo- jo in this day just pulling apart their Jhristian experiences to see what there is fn them, and there is nothing attractive left. This style of self examination is a damage instead of an alvantage to their Christian character I remember when | was a boy | used to have a small piece in the garden that | my own, and | planted corn there, and every few days | would pull it up 0 see how fast it was rowing. Now, there ar» a great many Christian people in this day whose x smination merely amounts to the palling up of that which they oaly yesterday or the day before pants Oh, my friends! if you want to havea stalwart Christian character, plant it right out of doors in the great fleld of Christian usefulness, and though storms may come upon it; and though the hot sun of trial may try to consume it, It will thrive until it be comes 8 great trae, in which the fowls of heaven may have their habitation. [ have no patience with these Sowerpot Christians They keep themselves under shelter, and al their Christian experience ina small, excla sive circle, when they ought to plant it in the great garden of the Lord, 0 that the whole stmosphere could aromatic with their Christian usefulness. What we want in the church of God is more brawn of piety, The century plant is wonderfully sugges tive and wonderfully beautifu’, bat | never look at it without thinking of its parsimony It lets whole generations go by before it puts forth ome blossom; have really more heartfelt admiration when | ses the dewy tears in the bLiue eyes of the violets, forthey come every spring. My Christian friends, time is going by 0 ran. idiy that we cannot afford to be idle A recent stgtistician says that human life now has af verag» of only thirty-two years From these thirty-two years you must sub tract all the time you take for sleep and the taking of food and recreation; that will leave you about sixteen years, From those sixteen years you must subtract all the time you are necessarily engaged in the earning of a liveli hood; that will leave you about eight years, From those eight years you must take all the days and weeks and montho—all the length of time that is passed in childhood and sick. ness, leaving you about one year in which to work for God. Ob, my soul, wake up! How darest thou sleep in harvest time and with so fow hours in which to reap’ Ho that | state it as a wimple fact that all the time that the wast majority of you will have for the ex- clusive service of God will be jess than one year! “But,” says some man, “I liberally su the Gospel, an ithe church is open and the Gospel prosched, all the soiriteal advan ages are spread before men, and if they want to be savel let them coms anil be mved: | have discharged sll my responsi bility.” Ah! inthat thy Master's spirit? Is there not aa old Book Smewhers that com mands us to go out into the highways and hedges and compel the people to come in? What would have become of you and me if christ bad not come down off the hills of Aven. and i He had not come through the wr of the Bethlehem ocaravansary, and if had not with the crushed of the wuNfixion knosked al the iron sate of the of our spiritad deats, crying, pras come forth ™ Ob my Christian friends, this is no time are called wd bao wo rt by Re “dum and rom; our cities Is pollute | with the lan | secular, ethical, philosophical, atlantic, transatiantic. Ab, my brother, do organized the first | you want unbounded faith in gathered in tem ples of sin—tears of unutter- able woe their baptism, the blood of crushed hearts the awful wine of their sacrament blasphemies thelr litany, and the grosns of the lost world the organ dirge of their worship. Agus, if you want to be qualified to meet the duties which this age demands of you, you must on the one hand avold reckless leonoclasm, and on the other hand not stick tuo much to things because they are old, The air is fullof new plans, new projects, new theores of government, new theologies, and | 1am amazed to see how so many Christians | want only novelty in order to recommend a | thing to their confldence; and so they vacll- | late and swing to and fro, and they are use less and they are unhappy. New plans religious, cls not adopt a thing merely because it is new, Try it by the realities of a judgment day, But, on the other hand, do not adhere to anything merely becanse it is old, There is | not a single enterprise of the church or the | world but has | There was a time when men bean scoffed at, derided even Bible societies; and when a few young men met near a haystack in Massachusetts and missionary society ever organized in this country, there went laugh. ter and ridicule all around the Christian church. They said the undertaking was pre posterous, And so also the work of Jesus Christ was assailed, People cried out, “Whoever heard of such theories of ethics and government? Whoever noticed such a style of preaching ns Jesus has? Ezekiel nd talked of mys terious wings and wheels, Here came a man sometimes from Capernaum and Gennesaret, and He | drew His illastrations from the lakes, from the sand, from the ravine, from the lilies froma the cornstalks. How the Pharisees scoffed! How Herod derided! How Caiphas hissed! And this Jesus they plucked by the beard, and they spat in His face, and they called Him “this fellow ™ All the great en terprises in and out of the church have at times been scoffed at, and there have been a great multitude who have thought that the chariot of God's truth would fall to pleces if it once got out of the old rut, And so there are those who bave tience with anything like lmprovoment in church architecture or with anything lke good, hearty, earnest church singing, and they deride any form of religious discussion which goes down walking among everyday men rather than that which makes an exe cursion on rhetorical stilts. Oh, that the Church of God would wake up © an adapt- ability of work! Wa must admit the sim. ple fact that the churches of Jesu hirist in this day do not reach There are fifty thousand people in Edinburgh who never hear the Goaps Thers ars million people in London wh Gospel. There are at Jest thousand souls In the city o some NOL under the imma lial of Christ's truth, ani the Cl this day, instead being a living epistion, read and known is more like a "“Joad lettor “But.” say the peo WW Wo to be converted must be kingdoms of this world kingdoms of Christ” church of Jesus Christ pu : 1 and energy Inst sad of the chure ing the world, the world is converting church. Hereisagreat fortrosu How shall it be taken An army comes and sits around about it, cuts off the supplies and save, ‘Now we will just wait until from on and Wonks ear, pass along surrendscs throuzh exhaustion Bat, my friends, the fortressss of sin are never be taken in that way If they are taken for God it will be by storm You will have to bring up the great to the very wall and lery into line, and when ¢ of heaven shall confront the will have to give the quick o ward! Charge Ah my friends, there fo and for me to do in grand accomplishment! wd a clergyman preaches in it Y pit is the bank Your pulpit is the Your pulpit is the editorial chair pulpit is the anvil Your pulpit rouse scaffolding Your pulpit is shanic’s shop, | rany stand in this place and, through cowarlics or through seif ay keep back the word | while you, with sleeve rolled wawentiod with toil, may utils that will jar the foundation of heav wpe shout of a great victory { jay this whole audien no pa tl y n tie great DAK posto patient } oOnv exuanat starvation they will have to give up and months, and perhaps a § and finally the fortress that starvation and megs gun KH a fr apa wh Haman MM Wors order © Here the me eR ing, ought to and brow the word an with that to ® might fe that the Lord Almighty i= putting the bands of ordination. Kvery one, go forth ind preach this Gospel You bave as much “ight to preach as | have, or as any man has nly find out the pulpit where Gol will have you preach, and there preach Hedley Vicars was a wicked man in the English army. The grace of came him. He became an earnest and emisent hristian They scoffed at him and sal “You are a hypocrite; you are as bad as ver you were” Still he kept his faith In Christ, and after awhile, dade that they wall pot turn him aside by calling him a hypoorite, they said to him, (hh, you are nothing but a fanatic That did not dis tarb him. He went on performing his Chris tian duty until he had formei all his troop into a Bible class. and the whole encamp ment was shaken with the presence of God 80 Havelock went into the heathen temple in India while thr Eaglish army was there, and put a candle into the hand of each of the heathen gods that stood around in the heathen temple, and by the light of those candles, held up by the idols, General Have lock preached righteousness, temperance and judgment to come And who will say, on earth or in heaved, that Havelock had not the right to preach’ In the minister's house where | prepared for college there was a man who worked, by the name of Peter Croy He could neither road nor write, but he was a man of God Often theologians would ston in the house rave theolcgiane--and at family prayers eter Croy would be called upon to lead, and all those wise men sat around, wonderstrusk at his religious efficiency. When he prayed be reached up and seemed to take hold of the very throne of the Almighty, and he talked with God till the very heavens ware bowel down into the sitting room. Oh, If | utter up upon them LE »were dying | would rather have plain eter Croy stand by my bedside and commend my immortal spirit to God than some heart. lowss ecolesinstic arrayed in costly canon foals. Go preach this wospel. You say you are not lioensed Almighty, this morning | license oi Go preach this Gospel preach it in the Sabbath. | sohools, in the prayer-mestings, in the high ways, in the hedge. Woe be unto you if you preach it not I remark, again, that in order to be quali fled to mest your duty in Ih purtitula’ age trin ol the truth and the overthrow of wickedness How dare the Christian church aver get dis | couraged? Have you not tha Lord Almighty How long did it take Goo ot wheels of God's Gospel may seers to drag heavily, bu | hore is the promise, and yonder io the throne; and when Omisisclence hae lout ite o t and Omnip tence falls back impotsnt Jehovah is driven from His throne, thes the eturch of Jesus Christ oan be despondeat, bat never until may plan and armies may march, and Sh Songries of 1 nation mu RL | will be as good as new. In the name of the Lori | Hix own triumph, and returning trom umn: versal conquest He will sit down, the grand: est, strongest, highest throne of earth His footstool, Then shall all nations’ song ascend To Thee, our Raled, Father, Friend, THI heaven's high arch resounds again With “Peace on earth, good will to men.” I preach this sermon bocausy [ want to encourage all Christian ouible department. Hosts of the livin tod, march on! march on! His spirit wi bless you, His shisid will defend you. His sword will strike for you. March on! march onl The last despotism will fall, and [akan fs will burn its idols, and Mohammedanism will give up ite false prophet and the great walls of superstition will come down in thunder and wreck at the long, loud blast of the Gospel trampet. Marchon! Marchon! The besiegement will soon be ended, Only a fow more steps on the long way; only fow more ards blows; only a few more bat tie orien, then God will put the laurel upon your brow, and from the living fountains of heaven will bathe off the sweat and the heat and the dust of the conflict, March on! March on. For you the time for work will soon be past, and amid the outflashings of the judgment throne and the trumpeting of resurrection angels and the | upheaving of a world of graves and the hosanna of the saved and the groaning of the lost, wo shall be rewarded for our faithful ness or punished for our stupidity. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting, and let the whole earth be filled with His glory, Amen and amen. SELECT SIFTINGS. Chicago has a Culinary Alliance, New York has a deaf mute book agent. A Pennsylvania girl keeps six ruttle- snakes ns pets, In the interior of Bouth America choeo- late, cocoanuts and eges are used as cur- rency. General Grant was Searetary of War ad interim from January 14, 1868, 1867, to August yA hen killed at La- gold pin In the gizzard of a bec, Me., was found lost ten years ago A bee sting on the temple has entirely | eradicated the rbeumatis ym a Fulls- ington (Peon.) man. / One person bie 4 window fiv Mansfiel If all ¢ ely the populatior 945.760. 000, An Ohio m black save its mane, are milk white. The this freak as den sud sire of are pl sin black. The explosion of a dynamite cartridge to blow up an old ship near Mobile, Ala sent to the surface a weighed more than 2 jew fish that 0 pounds, "History says the ancient Greeks used olive leaves for ballots, and the Austral. isa voting system is a revival of the practice in Rome 2000 years ago. His tory repeats itself. Modern improve. meats are often only the revival of an ancient vogue of Will Waters, aged was drowned four miles ville, Tenn., the other day. He was en- joying a day's fishing. He had a num- ber of live fish, which he strung around his neck and attempted to swim the river. down by the live fish some sort. twenty-one yearns, above Knox. He sank on the way over, pulled An Euglish paper offers an answer to The Authors’ why the publishers n que stion oflen EpoKs n Society is asking don't cut the edges of their three-volume povels, The is simple. tenths of the public buy a book by its appearance, and * ‘Paternoster row" loves ‘*a fat book.” Now, if the edges were cut, a thicker and more expensive paper is nepded to produce the same vulk than if the edges were left uncut. answer Nine- ——————— Tired Gold Pens. “There, that pen is tired and will have to rest a month or 20." The speaker was the mortgage clerk of one of the principal savings banks in this city, and as he spoke he carefully wiped a large gold pen and put it away in a case A Post reporter, who had just entered the bank to have some back dividends entered in his book, overheard the ro- mark and smiled, “Oh, you needn't laugh,” said the clerk, *‘for it is the true buviness | am telling you. Gold pens have to rest now and then, Here I have, 1 suppose, two dozen gold pens. If I use one for sev- eral weeks or sol find it will not write to my satisfaction. Sometimes it is too soft and sometimes it Is too hand, or the ink does not seem to flow well. “For a long time | could not find out what the matter was, but at last | went to a jeweler, who, after examining my pens, said, ‘Give them a rest and they en He then explained that the constant use of the pen had the same effect on the metal as is the case when a msor is used with great frequency. “Same sort of the electro-magnetic ac | tion takes places in the metal, which has a tendency to bring into parallel lines all the particles, and in that condition mor cannot be made to hold edge, and a pen is equally refractory. “If the razor Is Imad aside for a time the particles of metal gradually resume a more or less confused arrangement razor takes on and retains a keen edge. “It is the same way with agold pen. Now, if when one of my pens gets to acting bad I lay it aside for a month or #0 it will be all right again. That's why I said that pen was tired and wanted @ rest, "San Francisco ost, A French royalist journal gives number of dukes in France, workers in every | | cently. | vited, but the toasts were all given by NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN, All sleeves are still very high, A new trimming is aspic lace, Yellow appears to be the ruling eolor, White cloth costumes grow in favor, | creases, dozen cats, once more manifest, an anti-slang society. The fashionable accumulation at pres- ent is souvenir spoons. free kindergartens in San Francisco. | real destination of a wedding journey, There are sewing women in Boston who get only fifteen cents for making a shirt, A quite recent fad is to have one's { feet photographed in various shoes slippers. and Governor Fifer, of Illinois, has signed the bill enabling women to vote for all school officers. Two-thirds of the divorces obtained in this country are granted on the applica tion of wives. Women of slender figures will accept {| with pleasure the latest revival——dresses laced at the back. A woman, Miss Ormerod, is C ing Etymologist of the Royal Agricultural Society, ysl. British Red comes again to the fore_as a fa vorite color for country and will be worn all summer. costumes, Bixteen French young ladies are about to start for Cope snd the There to match the ¢ - fet otherwise with Flufly hair, every girl that did not pos is no need f lor of the sun shade which was the y given piace 0 glossy, The absence o cept they be util the way of stra An odd little imp canary-colored tulle, sparkling with gold and bent into the shape f a huge terfly The Iatest fad from bride to back some huge tree an but. Eaglan i up ag graph. The World's Fair Committee, of Chi. oago, has chosen Miss Mary Schiller, a grand niece of the poet, as Commissioner to South America. One of the sights at Springleld, Mass. is a handsomely dressed woman who ot least nine dogs. The establishment of the Miller Magazine Company, the dross reform periodical, is {a the hands of Sherifl of New York. A pretty sailor hat of gray chip is Jenness. he ue | trimmed with gray ribbon, velvet and a large bow of silk, which is intermixed { with dandelions and ox-eyes. boots are che gear. They are Inoed foot Yellow leather latest dictum in | mot pretty, but Paris announces that they | are chic, and accordingly stylish. A housemaid declined to engage with a Newport (R. I.) family the other day until she had been informed whether a party would be given for the help. A Polish Countess has been graduated from the Geneva University a full-fledged doctor. What makes her case more than commonly interesting is that she intends to treat the poor of her own country gratuitously. A woman in the Corea has not even aname of herown. In youth she is known as “the daugther of so and 80.” After marriage she becomes *‘the wife of so and so" or, if she has children, “the mother of so and »0." Three young Englishwoman, the Misses Shenatt, Selby and Johns, were awarded | the degree of M. A., with honor, at the recent Commencement of the University of London. They distanced all their male competitors for the degrees. There were 250 women painters and sculptors present at the tenth anniversary of the French Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, held in Paris re- A few gentlemen had been mn women. There are two young women students in the law department of the National University of Chili, at Santiago, but as such independence and progressiveness in women is looked upon with disfavor there the position of the senoritas is not en tirely enviable. trimmed, ten cents; beach shoes stained, that is pasted across a mirror in a Gothaw beauty shop. 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