. REY. DR. TALMAGE. BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. DAY SERMON, THE Subject: *Straining at Gnats and swallowing Camels.” Tex: gnal, Xi, , M4. $Y blind gn ied and swallow «a A proverb is compact wisdom, in chunks, a library in a seatenc tricity of many clouds discharged in « a river put through sities Wh qu nes the pre verb of th t He in sot forth the ladior "bo havio who make a g 3 small and baveno appreci ) ff great one In my text a quadruped are brought guat and a camel, on the desert seen the ! ward, sprawling creatur stories high and st and a unmrl a lew ognize it textis in its very small inhabits the water and ught to read "s My text tencies formed he i at grandpar ses pours fo say text the | need wo ng aying, 0 ye : that fox Matthe wv Heur nen taries first io the | jicatel w “ mmer con t ‘ Bun they aged man hers wi Frogres reading | , ed an Chrysostom, George Her yan's writi are of saving i George Whitel ywiand Hill, Nettleton av and all the men of the greatly advanced the kingdom ‘ ted their wit and their humo cause of Christ, Ho it has been in all the ages, anl I sy these young theologioal stu jeuts, who elu ter in these services Sabbath by Nahbat) sharpen your wits as keen as sol miter: and and then take them into the holy war, It is a very short brk ig between a smile and a tear, a suspension bridge fron eve ts lip, and it is soon or over, and a smile is sometimes jast as sacred as a tear There Is as much religic ym, ad | think a little more in a spring morning than In a stariess mid night, Leligious work without any humor or wit init sa banquet with a side of beef, ane d that raw, and no sondiments and no dessert succeeding. People will not sit down at such a banquet, By oll means remove all frivoity and ali pathos and all VHghtoess and all vai rity=-strain them out through the sieve of oly discrimination: but, on the other hand, beware of that monster which oversbadows the Christian church to- lay, conventionally, coming up from the Great Mahara Desert of wan | Koclesiasticism, having on its back a hump | of sanctimonious gloom--ani vehemently re. | fuse to swallow that camel, Ob, how particular a great many people | are about thy infinitesima’s quite reckless about the | whils thay did Christ say? Did | i nitudes. What not excorats the ma Heo people in His time who were so caraful to | wash thelr hands before wash their hearts! | unclean hands an unclean a meal, but did not have ple there anxious that it is 0 worse thing to heart, How many pe are in our time who are very ter their death thoy shall be buried with their fee! toward the oust, and pot at all anxious that « g their whole life they ould face ix 12 right direction so that y nl © @ up in the fon of the just whichever way they How tiny there are chief anxi min fina of esurTrec buriad ous that n rOspel sh o in the on, t carving hoe mes from v Judas hey hav intl it In uh ject pho ut of small ' I to magnitfcen A merchant yearefal that he would no wih y will find many Or 8 spool aout paving ) ould wn and sand i id dis- } Ww 1 Ww and uns gw urth ward |) yoral in ustnd goat 1 hal in the hs ars very alarmed abou? all falta of otis and hava n abut thelr own grad transZras There are in ymmvanity an | ¢ ohare: watchdogs who “esl calls | to keep thelr eyms on others and Fray are full of simicions, They wot Jer if that man is not Jishon ast, if that man is not unclean, if thers is not somsthing wrong ab ut thy oth w man Thay ars al wavs the first to hear of anylhing wrong Vultures are always the firs’ to snsll oar rion. They are seif appointed detectives | jay this down as a rule without any excep tian that those people who bhava the most faults themse ves are most merciloss in thels watching of o'hers From stalp of head 0 sole of foot they ars full of jeslousies and hy wereritioisme bey spend their life In hunting for musk rats and mud turtles instead of busting for Rocky Mountain eagles; always for some thing mean instead of something grand They look at their neighbors’ imperfections through a ierusoopt and look at their ow. | imperfections through a telescope down, Twenty faulte ef their own do not mua ayy ara | It is n bad thing to have ! upside | hurt them half =o much asone fault o | body eise, Their neighbor's {mperfections aro like gnats, and they strain them out; thelr own imperfections are Lk and they swallow them Put lest any might serutiny of the taxt, { some camels, think they escape the I have to tell vou we all comes under the divine satire when we make the questions of time more prominent than the questions of eternity, Come now, lot us all go into ional, Are not all tempted to make the question, Vhere shall I live now rreate: than the question, Where hall I live forever? How shall 1 here? greater than tion wll I Iny up treasure un hea v pay the conle y dollars the qu How shall 1 than the the question, » the world W hall 1 ¢ ! nature the with the What § ol Defeated Each Other's Intentio \ Very « jusntities, the wis of work, y pronounced determining tion, worry itself, y not to permit in yw to enter into his life, and the the three graces, charity, philosophy, =5¢ entific vation of pat coe, and Amer.on ——— An Armored Train The Midland railroad of Iadia has had «6 armored train built which can be used either as a means of defense or attack, ot for the repair of the railroad teacks and the telegraphs, The experiments with | the train have yielded results so satis. factory that similar trains may be cobs structed for the sole purpose of the de feuse of the country Evideatly mili. tary armaments will never be finished, pew means and weapons of war being javented continually, ~Chioage Times. | The Austrisn War Minister is about to establish a school to tessh practical bal. !loonlng for army uses in time of war, Habits of the Moose. J. G. Lockhart says that generally le with the tail trusting to their senses of smelling, which are warn them of approaching danger from that their them danger to they are moos windward, hearing and remarkably scute, to quarter, using ove to warn from leeward, thie motion, sleeping © ewing their ears are in On forward, the other backward alternately, Mr. Lockhart has the r short perpetual also claims that the moose habit of ieeping Deo emarkable making turn and of their sah falling thereon and to be he get within track, so tha sure aril ors 100tin 5 Promising Situation. A Lest Lake Jacobs il AFTER 22 YEARS. Newton, lil., Ma Kennedy's MedicalDiscovery| Takes hold in this order: Bowels, Liver, nevs Inside Skin, Outside Skin, You know whether you need It or not. 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