REY. DR. TALMAGE. BROOKLYN DIVIN DAY SKRMON, THE '‘S SUN. Sulyject: “Celestial Sy mpathizers” § with beaslis at XV. 3%. Text: “I have fought Ephesus" —1 Corinthians Crossing the Alps by the Mount Cenis pass or through the Mount Ceniz tunnel, you are in a few hours set down at Veronia, Italy, and in a few minutes begin examin. ng one of the grandest ruins of the world... the amphitheatre. Ths whole building sweeps around you in a circle You stand in the arena whers the combat wa fought or the race run, and on all sides the seats rise, tier above tier, until you count forty elevations or galleries, as 1 shall seo fit to call them, in which sat the senators, the kings and the twenty-five thousand ex cited spectator At the sides of the arena and under the galleries are the in which the lion and tigers are kept without food until, frenzied with hunger and thirst they are le out upon somes victim who, with his sword and a! , is condemned to meet them, | think that Paul himself onca stood in such a ace, and that it was not only figuratively Put literally that he had ‘fought with beasts at Ephesus.” Ihe gala day bas come, world the people are pouring into \ Men, women and children, orators and s tors, great men and small, thousands thousands, come, until first gallery full, and the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth—all the way up to the tweantioth, all the way up to the thirtieth, all the way up to the fortieth Every is filled, Immensity of audience sweeping the gre circie, Silence! [he time for the test has come. A Roman official leads f the victim into the arsna. Lot him sword with firm grip into his right band, The twenty- thousand sit br | watching. 1 hear the arena creak open starved lion, his and with a roar th to their feet ho rus! the combatant Do you know how will sirike when his first thrust of his Jame and bleedi side of the are: “ih EV cages rs ne From all uno ip the paces get bh the s strengt apy some! | audie; Paul ref. passe nesses: passage having favorite 1d bat now Pi nlifeas a ¥y LCaristain man has 5 is a bad temper. The bave been opemad vl fae fact is toa a lion to fight, gates of the arena 3 tiger has come ms lacerated you been thrown » strength of Go given it so many is that it will thr hroug die jet th you ¢ who has no beset t: for him have I « not fought th . it It the lion eat you up, i I'he Trojan celebration gladiators fought beasts were slain eas that wh at many a sou The life of the body; this is That was wit wild this is with the roar. His vary moment the contest goes on, where ten thousand | wild ya strugzg goes on In was for the for the life of the and was comiat Jungie of he Ink when they DIL that they otutend against an to fight ital airne the centre of an Faul had been Enoch, Noah, h, nav They stand in sympathy | citing the names of Abel, Abrabam, Sarah, Issac, Josep Barak, and then says: "Being about with so great a cloud of Belore I get through 1 will show you you fight in an arena around which oir in galleries above each other, all the kin- dling eyes and all the sympathetic hearts of the ages, and at every victory gained there comes down the thundering applause of a great multitude that no man can number, Jeing com paseed cloud of witnesses Though the tations we ine wo circle of (Gideon and comp asssd witnesses that ie, about with so great » arena be crowded with mil, with the angelic strike them do 1 the name of hod and leap on the fallen carcass! © bond ing throng of bright angelic faces and swift wings and lightoing foot! I hail you today from the dust and struggle of the arena I look again and see the unllery prophets and apostles Who are th mighty ones up yonder?! Hossa and J miah and Daniel and [minh and Paul and Peter and John and James. Thers sits Noah, waiting for ail the world to o ne into the ark; and Moses, waiting till the last Red Bea shall divide; and Jeremiah, w aiting for the Jews to return; and John, of the Apocalypse, waiting for the swearirg of the angel that lime shall be no longer, Glorious spirits] Ye were howled at: ye were stoned Ie wers apit upon! Thay have been in this ght themselves, and they are all Daniel knows all about ons Paul with beasts at BE In the ancient Et so excited that thay galleries to the m again!” “Forward! “Look out! “Fall back! Bo in that gallery, prophetic and apostolie, they cannot keep their pases, Daniel cries out, “"I'hy Gol will deliver thee from the mouth of the lions™ Davil axclaims, “He will not suffer thy foo! to pemoved ’ [salah calls out, “Fear not! [| am with thee! Be not dismayed’ Paul exclaims, “Victory through our Lord Jesus Carist?™ hat throng of prophets and apostias onnnot ke B LAEY mais the weiki ny wi shouting and hallaluiahs, a Tyg is I look again and | ses the gallery of the martyre, Who is that! Hugh Latimer, sure enough! He would not apologies for the truth preached, aad so he died the night before swinging from the bedpost in perfect glee at the thought of emancipation. Who are that army of six thousand six hundred and sixty-six? They are the Theban legion who died for the faith, Here is a larger host in magnificent array-—eight hundred and bty-lour thousand-<who arfshed for Christ in the persecutions of Dincletian. Yonder is a family group, Felicitas, of Rome, and her children, Whils they ware dying for the faith she stood encouraging them, Ons son was whippsl to death by thorns, another war fluag from a rock, an. other was boheade!l, At last the mosher belp, Mar with us, fought showin nitheatre the people would shout from the in the arena: **At it “One mors stroke !™ I Husza! Huszsa™ OCCA A martyr, ‘there thay are togethor ~a family group in heaven. Yonder i« John Bradford, who said in the fire, “We shall have a merry supper with the Lord to-night!” Yonder is Henry Voos, who exe claimed as he died, “If [ hat ten heads thoy should all fall off for Christ!” Ihe great throng of the martyrs! They had bot lead poured down their throats; horses were fastene! to their hands, and other horses to their feet, aud thus they were pulled apart; they had their tongues out by red hot pinears; they were 1 up in the skins of animais and then wn to the dogs: thay wera daubsil with Hn stibles and then set on fire! If all the martyrs’ stakes that havs been kindled could be set at proper distances they w ald make t midnight all the world over as bright as noonday. And now they sit yon ler ir allery, For them the fires have gone out, The and the mob hushed, Now they watch hs with an all observing sympathy. They know all the pain, all the hardships, all the anguish, all the injustice, all the privation, Chey cannot keep still, They ery: “Cour age! The fire will not consume, The floods cannot drown, The lions cannot devour! Courage! down there in the arena.’ they all looking? This wok the salutation thay sons and daught srs of and ses another gall Christian Wha the mixing in co np hose who on earth could not agree Ibert Barnes, and around him I y who tried him for heterodoxy! Lyma and the ¢ lenoanes nim! Sirange in and James Ar y thouzht Ha pun the martyrs persecution are sheathed of swords the ! ’ ia 8) than nine t that wera is John Ci Who would uid sit woot ne Wesle Ye lsaac \ If had would md no music t have started saven 1p, thoy rigines evange mm, whose Pr All rena Ig own faithfu A CTOWT P Alse, Overw y of the scene! angels! Gallery « Gallery of martyrs Gallery of friends and ’ I. 4 Ign with ¢ (raliery taliery o i A tien aints ! na jest) Tarongs gnze beaming on us! sympathy for ) again! How Age | again! ATTAIN al HH » Ana Throngs! How of the universes! Myriads of How sha How us fare to and « give up the figh who didst die to wings are shelter us N ye prophets and aposties, we warnings startie us N ye loved ones, whose arms are oultatrets wo will never surrend we God ye Angels, NOt i whose spread wh he f 1 would reign- ye endura the p Word “ Thy alo, this glorions war thoueh (hey die ymnh from afar aelr eye 18 day shall rise, es shine through the skies, be Thine ast ric a Ar f viet glory sha : we die In friends in the gal Through Carist we may come off more than conquerors A soldier dying in the hospital ros up in bed the last moment and wind, ‘Hore! Hore! His attendants put him back on his pillow and asked him why ha shouted “Here th, | heard the rol call of heaven and I was only amwering to my name.” 1 wonder whether, after this battle of life is over, our name will be called in the muster role of the putdanad and giori fiad, and with the joy of heaven breaking upon our souls, ve ory, “Here! Here!” —-— ss " ENGLAND, Spain and ltaly are sald to have entered into an arrangement for partitioning Morocco among themselves. Of course no objections to the process which Morocco herself may raise will receive attention. No interests of hers will be considered, But France, Russia and Germany may one ¢ all have some remonstrances to present, some Interests to urge against the scheme. 1f so, the ob jections will Lo heeded. Possibly the long-expectod general war in Europe may como by way of Africa. My hearer, shall rise join ir Ricuanp Bevery, of Buena Vista, Va., Is not one of the pam pered and overpaid officials of the PostoMice Department. He walks 30 miles every day in the year except Sunday, carrying the mail to and from Pleasant View, in Amherst County, and gets $350 a year for the Job. u } is | Fi us are a mode. Belts are w 1 in al! shapes, Purses come in heart shapes, High heels are not fashionable, Sleeve becoming elaborate. $0 much are Suede gloves are not worn. 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