REY. DR. TALMAGE. THE DROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. DAY SERMON, § — Subject: “The Secret Place ot Thun. der.” Texr: ‘7 answered thee in the secret 7 place of thunder Psalms Ixxxi., it is past midnight, and two o'clock in the | morning, far enough from sunset and sune rise to make the darkness very thick, and the Egyptian army in pursuit of the ascaping | Israelites are on the bottom of the Red Sea, its waters having been set up on either side in masonry of sapphire, for God ean make a wall as solid out of water as out of granite, and the trowels with which these two walls | were built were none the less powerful be- cause invisible, Such walls had never before been lifted. When [saw the waters of the Red Sea roll- ing through the Suez Canal they were blue and beautiful and flowing like other waters, but to-night, as the Egyptians look up to them built into walls, now on one side and now on the other, they must have been | frowning waters, for it was probable that the same power that lifted them up might suddenly fling them prostrate. A great lan- | tern of cloud hung over this chasm between the two walls, The door of that lantern w opened toward the Israelites ahead, giving them light, and the back of the lantern was toward the Egyptians, and it growled and rumbled and jarred with thunder, not thun. der like that which cheers the earth after a drought, promising the refeshing shower, t charged and surcharged with threats of i$ of min’, and tha horses reared and snort and would not wer to their bits, and the chariot wheels got interloc) and the chario and the Red Se confusing and answer to the pre an Egyptian and the splash as it« the shutting host. That is the n God says, ‘I a plague full diapason uel and bis ing of a lar to attack the thou thunder with throws Hosa B the shade by t horse, when h i id with thunder.” bx sx of James and J¢ v of thunder.’ crags of Mount Sinai wi this cloudy ebull / about St. Joho at | 1 thunder of and the thund triumph, ¢ he t and the thunder of eternity. But when my text say he secret plac of t nysters pi neck as’ the War, unger were to then the skies, in We harn cage it 1 ging through a domesticated, tricity to vehicles and wo and every scl learned at about atm op svievit vB IC Chee ity vas character untabis conver. vivals, but and trans at in one of the Ii f Yale, brilliant y dissolute him for his geni- ral errantry. To every Sabbath One day there was a wor<-bell of the pastor of that that young man, whelmed with implored prayer and advice, and ymplote reformation of heart tue neighbor wod was aston cat “Why was this?” His + had said nothing to him fare, OU the same church sat an «l He paid his pew rent, but was i the poor, and hana no intersst in nay anthropy Piles of money! And people said, “What a struggle he will have when he quits this life to part with his bonds and mortgages One day be wrote to his minister Plegss to call immediately, 11! have a matter of great importance about which I want to see you, When the pastor came in the man could not speak for emo tion, but after awhile he gathered self con. trol encugh to “ ‘] lived for this | world too long. want to know if you think I ean be saved, and, if so, | wish you would tell me how,” Upon his soul the light soon dawned, and the old miser, not only revolutionized in heart but in life, be gan to scatter bentlactions, and toward all the great charities of the day Le became a cheerful and bountiful almoner. What was the cause of this change! everybody asked, and no one was eapable of giving an intellls | gent answer, : In another part of the church sat, Sabbath | by Babuath, a beautiful and talented woman, who was a great society leader. She went to church because that was a respectable thing to do, and in the neighborhood where | she lived it was hardly respectable not to go. Worldly was she to the last degree, and all ber family worldly, She had at her house | the finest germans that were ever danced, | and the costliset favors that were ever given, and though she attended church she never liked to bear any story of pathos, and as to religious motion of any kind, she thought it positively vulgar, Wines, cards, theaters, rounds of costly gayety were to her highest satisfaction, ne js & neighbor sent in a visiting card, and this man Hate « nt pews, as the Every. ung FA gra th siar and not ou new him and lik red his m he oh A a wae ~All of rl Ave { and all was explained { to the gallery, heard the inquiry | persons in that church. | man or The Egyptian captains lost their presence | | preparing the breakfast, the blus edged | twice, are gathere | at the table social position, her family, her all to God and the church and usefulness, Everybody said in regard to her: “Have vou noticad the change, and what in the world caused it?’ gud no one could make satisfactory explana. jon, In the course of two years, though there was no general awakening in that church many such isolated cases of such unexpected and unaccountable conversions toole place, | The very peopls whom no one would be affected by such considerations were converted, y of the church were on | solution of this lookout for the phenomenon, the religious “Where is it,” they said, “and who is itand | what is it!” At last the discovery was made A poor old Christian woman standing in the vestibule of church one Sunday morning, trying to get her breath again before she went up stairs and told the secret, concentrating all her prayers for particular She would see some rome woman present, and, though she might not know the person's name, she would pray for that person until he or she was converted to God, All her prayers wero for that one person--just that one, She waited and waited for communion days to see when the candidates for membership stood up whether her prayers bad been effect- ual. old woman's prayers as she satin the gallery jabbath by Sabbath boot and wizsned and poor and unnoticel, oud af consecrated the That th Ther unknown, mysterious all the moral and religions power onstrated, Not ose out of a mitfion ne out { ten million—prayers a human eax ( public occas . i the suppli humanity was the 3 18 80ine of of tha SONres n ns ation all the not his wo kept for isa baantiful ane, { ud : ond persecution, or n Ml of poverty a cloud ment ra vl pert How glad I am that you t That is exactly the to which mv text refers It was from Israel the cloud it through the Rad Sea light to the Israelites and It was from a thut God made jou that was the 50 you cannot get away asolation of my text by talking | that way Let all the people under a cloud hear it. “I answered thee in the secret place of thunder “that vork in my « at in a : » ge. OF AB cines 1 | 3 i if berea ve prace : a cloud that G | answered var the n Mam « ua t larkness loud, a tremen reply. It was place of thunder from the « the ci secret me to explain some things vou have not understood about men | and women, aud there are multitudes of them, and the multitude is multiplying by | the minute, Many of them have not a superabundance of education. If you had their brain in a post-mortern examination, This subject hslps and you could weigh it, it would not weigh § any heavier than the average. They have not anything especially imptessive in per. sonal appearar Thay are not very fluent of tongue, They pretend to nothing unusual | in mental facuity or social influences, but you feel their power; you are elevated in their presence; you are a better man or a better woman, having confronted them You know that in intellectual endowment you are their superior, while in the matte of moral and religious influence they are vastly your superior, Why is this? To find she revelation of this secret yon must go back thirty or forty or perhaps sixty yours to the homestead where this man was brought up. It is a winter morning, and the tallow candle is lighted and the fires are kindled, sometimes the shavings hardly enough to start the wood, The mother fs dishes are on the table, and the lid of the kettle on the hearth begins to rattle with the steam, and the shadow of the in lustrious woman by the flickering flame on the haarth is moved up and down the wall. The father is at the barn feeding the s'ock-the oats thrown into the horses’ bin and the cgitie eraunching the corn, The children, earlier than they would like and after being called The blessing of God is asked on the food, and, the meal over, the family Bible is put upon the white tablecloth and a chapter is read and a prayer made, which Includes all the interests for this world and the next, The children pay not much attention to the prayer, for it is about the same thing day after day, but (t puts upon them an impre. sion that tan thousand years will only make more vivid and tremendous, As loug as the old folks live their prayer is for thelr ohil- dren and their cuildren's children, Day in and day out, month in and month yoar in and year out, decade in and out the mons and daughters of that family are know it, and thay feel it, and they cannot get away from it, Two funerals after awhile—not more than two years apart, for it is seldom that thers is more than that lapse of time between father's going and mother's golng-—two funerals put out of sight the old folks. But where are the children? 16 daughters are in homes where they are incarnations of thought ne | another a mechanie, I'he pastor and the officers | | these may have he the | | eidental circumstances? | halts, | lage graveyard andsee the tombstones of the | she could.” It turne | out that thess marvelous in- | stances of conversion were the result of that | | road a little rough, for the spring she consecrated her in earnest prayer, and good sense, Industry and piety. The sons, perhaps one a farmer, another a merchant, another a minister of the Gospel, useful, consigtent, admired, honored. What a wer for good thosd seven sons and daughters! Where did they get the power? ths schools, and the seminaries, and the colleges? Oh, no, though wed, From thelr superior mental endowment? No, I do not think they had unusval mental caliber, From ac- No, they had noth - inz of what is calle! astounding goo! luck. I think wo will take a train and ride to the je From - > : | der Ot LN BK 7) 3 © oy eT ITs For years she had been in the habit of | pol Hearest to the homestend from which those men and women started, The train Let us stop a few minutes at tha vil parents. Yes, the one was seventy-four years of age and the other was seventy-two, and the epitaph says that *‘after a useful life thoy died a Christian death,” How appro priately ths Beripture passage cut on the mother's tombstone, “She hath done what And how beautiful the passage cut on the father's tombstone, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, for they rest from their labors and their works do follow h s 1 ride—the weathor once down in a rut it is hard to ge again with out breaking the But at last we come to the lane in front of the farmhouse Let me get out of the wagon and open the gate while you drive through Here is the ATIC AES Te Ou over the country road wo settiod, and + wheels out 15.) not quits shafts v. for the Yonder is to thrash th before they wwe they There is t 1 to 'y had mow wi! or ar fou have =n re sympatiet pareatal un r time in read ways to i Da the thunder wn! Boom! But all that will find us una - us undismayveld if we |mve m rist our confidences, and August ak when the have been an unlimbered nad ing the earth, flelds are mo [reen, and the and the waters are more the thunders the last day w make the trees of life appar wu perald, and the carbuncie of the wall more erimson, and the sapphire sens the more shimmering, and the sunrise of eternal gladness the more em purpled The thunders of dissolving nature will be followad by a celestial psaimody the sound of which St. John on Patmos de seribed, when he sald, “I heard a voice like the voice of mighty thundering™ Amen! ywer wi the sunrise is the m of nme » Escaped a Cloud Burst, Cab Lee, of the Amargosa Valley, tells of sleeping near the mouth of Far. nace Creek canon one night years ago with a bug hunter, as the desert-tramp- ing scientists are called in camp, It was so hot that the huuter could not sleep. About midoight he heard a roar. ing noise up the capon, which, #s it in- creased In volume, caused him to look up that way, To his surprise he saw, as bug | ho supposed, the siky that appeared bg- tween the canon walls grow suddenly white, At that moment Lee rolled over and the bug hunter asked him what ailed the sky. Lee gave one glance, and then yelled: “Cloud burst! Climb!" They scrambled up the steep wall just in time to save their lives, Lee thinks that the foaming wall of water that had whitened the cky was not less than 100 feet high. —Goldthwaite's Geographical Magazine, Prohibiting Marriage. The provisional diet of Styria in Aus. trian has taken a very curious step back. ward in the direction of wedioval legisla tion by the passage of a law prohibiting indigent people to marty without a license to be issued by the authorities, which means that no licenses shall be graoted to the poor, «Chicago Herald, i estecn i A SELECT SIFTINGS. There are said to be 20,000 butterflies. A gorilla is 80 rare in captivity that one brings £20,000, Granite is the lowest rock in ti crust, It is the bed rock of th A North Carolina woman only to write after she had passed the eighty-two, No chemical black ink has made which will write black immediately on exposure, Patsy Sears, of Howard County, Ind. aged 108 years, has been a church m ber a hundred years. Except in cooking their scanty the poor Italians scldom have a fire even in the severest winter weather, A gentleman in Fort Smith, Ark., has hanged eighty persons to death by the United States court. sentenced Cornell University has opened a d | school, where cheese and butter u breeds and feeding study. are the subj The agricultural society perimenting in the ma clouds to preserve plants of frost, Wax twelfth oo came ir tury, an luxury litt! ————————————— Quaint and Curious Epitaphs. | i ¥ 1 Was and of townsmen thie { HN POsers re. } thanks from their ghted feliow ard lies the body victim of a stage coach accident with his epitaph on the tombstone: + Western churchs r, stranger, for the father spilled From a stage coach and thereby killed, His name, J. 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