REY. DR. TALMAGE. BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. DAY SERMON. THE Taught by Holi ’ Bubject: YLessons days.’ — Text: “In respect of a holy day.” -Col ossians il, 16 What the Bible here and elsewhere calls a holy day we, by change of one letter and change of pronunciation, call holiday, But by change of spelling and accentuation we cannot change the fact that holidays have great significance As lone as the world stan 's Christmas day and New Year's day and Easter day will be cbarged and sur- charged with solemn suggestiveness and holy mirth. Whether you take the old style of my text and eall them holy days, or the modern style ani call them holidays, they ww set all mv nerves a-tingle and my r emotions into profoundest agitation. I am glad that this season we have the holi- days completely bounded. For years, Christ- mas Jay starting in the midst of one week and New Year's day starting in the midst of another week, we have been perplexed to know when the holidays began and when | they ended, and perhaps we may have begun them too soon or continued them too long But this year they are bounded by two beaches of gold==3abbath, December 25, 1802. and Sabbath, January 1, 1803, Toe one Sabbath this year commemorates the birth of the greatest being that ever walked the earth: the other celebrates the uirth of that which is to be one of the greatest years of all time: the one day supernatural cause of an unhinged star and angelic doxe logy, an 1 the cther day natural, but part of a procession that started with the world’s existence and will go on until the world | burned up; both the first and last da these holidays coming in with Sabbatic: splendor and solemuity, and girdling all the davs between with thoughts that have al time and : y in their emphasis How shall we spend them? At haphazy and without special direction, and they leav ing, as they go away from us, physical fa tigue and mental exhaustion, the ef t of late hours and recklessness wr Yo diet al another chapter to the moral and sp and eternal disasters which bave result from misspent holidays? Oh, no! A and resounding no! for all the eight day I propose that we divide this holiday gon. the two Sabbaths of the holiday the six C4 U the day; of y three ch fHlustric lay of any year Dut! the nativity some Among overers the | pt. 14 and 19 Among astro » Newton was D iT Among » was Jan. 3 and Amoag prison ay of John Howard zgabeth Fry May 1, An day of Raphael was March 1 Angelo Murch 8. Among lay of Washington was 22. of Hamilton May S and of Jeffers Among consecrated souls the Mrs. Henans was Sep. 25 of ia Mott Jan. 3aniof [sabella Graham But what are all thoss birthdays 23, for on or about that ipsad all the great al Jesu f Bett hem, Jesus \, Jesus Golgotha, Jesus o . 4 the heavenly throne? Toe greatest pi it scenes in His The greatest sacrifices on field of battle or in hospital or on long march or in martyrdom have inspired by His self abnegation [he finest words of eloquence eve spoken have bes m of His Goape uttered in clamat The grandest oratorios that have es ros from or were descriptive of His and death There have ther orator pone like Him wao “spake o There have nons like Him tod His mission unt lated, and the isc rel es nen the b h tures have been made ™ lifetime 3 lo been shostiras hea ‘ Ar never ther r wil been who 0} in is vent pened, and ped, and the last lam» foot und last to ils mir verers, ths last daa the me ther diso able to find how man may There have been otoer deliverers, but like Him, the rescuer of Nations Flier have been other paintsrs, but none like Hi who put the image of God on a lost sou N wor ate His birth, Protestan church, atho sek churel, * Isaac's of St, Pe g Bt Rome. the Madeieine at Paris, BL, Paul's London joining all our American cathwl churches and log cabin meeting homes in keeplog this pr Just with ( or we celebr 8 ors Peter's ~omiient birth ite and prolonged efforts have bean yw that the star that pointe l to in which Christ was bora was appeared to be, bul a coajune of Jupiter and Baturn, Our wise me e west say that the wise men of the eas mistaken Astronomers, You Kkaow date backwarl as well as forwar| and as they can tell what will occur a hun dred vears from now among the heavenly bodies, they oan accurately tuiat backwarl and tell what oceurred eightesn or nineteen hundred years ag And 18 is true that sev years before Christ, Chaldes, about three hours balore day dawn there wjunction of Jupite and Saturn, Standing la Jerusalem and looking ower toward Bethlehem those two stars would have seemed to hang over that village, and it is suggested learned professor that the mag! may had weak eves, 80 that the two stars have oked lke In order to takes everytl natural out of the story we the mag: and ink the idea the simp ger "0 eal on we ih 4 by a have may ue ing ype have to blind the duce a second stas star But | ! the Bible ot a light of some kind Ar or met w33inted from the raw lie When it sso smay | { thas He puts «sights one sweep of evoe 0 help out One prefer L 3 ors "wor om wuld « ww fery signal © rid to the place Ww } universes Ay iw LE within th rtainly afford one » kind to ths » and Sun» yrs wroate | point vere : ina i id afford to makes an espcia quake at the erucifixon, ths asiant rocks on Mount Calvary still showing that there was a emvaision of natures at that particular spot which wa f+it in Boas o the surroundings, then Ha oou 4 afford some. thing uawsual somstning brilliant, same thing positiy +, something tramendoas at the pativity, I a sing as the birth of a son oan have the patacs illumined and couriers sent with swift dlsoaton to announces the gladness at the gates and wake tp an empiro with canonads, | wm not surprise] that at the birth of the Moa of GA thers Was celestial agitation, anil my only won ler | Is that, instead of one siar or one meteor ! giving signal, all worlds did pot make demonsteation, Why not other worlds take interest in the event when Christ came [rom another works snd another world was ph | the souls that would Le saved by this cele. tin! desomt? It would have been » stellar disgrace, an astronomical scandal, if, when the Go lead lay compresses | ia the form of an infan’, something from above had not ! Woted dows, as mush as to say: fo sl look, all esrth heaven! | Look, all time and all eternity Y ou we, the birth at Bethlohem must have been mo,» novel and startling to the heavens | than tue erucifixion on Calvary, It was ex. wore] that Christ would be maitreats |, be world always ha | maltreated its good and great friends. Joseph hurled lato the | t, Shairach put into the fire, Jeremiah | owerel Into a dungem, Divid hounded | from the thrones, Biijah cumpelio] to starve | that night, some angel {| the coming, | prosoect of early — or take hit food from the beak of a filthy raven, and Socrates condemned to death, so that the Calvarian massacre was in the same old line of maltreatment, But the novelty of all the ages was the conjunction of divin- ity and humanity, Invisible deity, muscled and nerved and flashed in masculine phys ne, A child and yet a God! Why, if the meteor had not pointel down would have rushed down and pointed with his glittering scepter, feaiah and David and Ezskiel, who foretold would have descended from their thrones and stool on the roof of the barn or in some way designated the honored locality, As the finger of light that Daem ber 25 pointed to the straw eradle, now all the fingers of Christendem this mom fingers of childhood and old age, fing: sermon and and decoration and tivity, point to the straw cradle Am right in saying that the first of the ONE “- I not three chapters of the holidays should be devoted | | to | prayer and solemn reflection and charities the illustrious birth lay? By song and to-day. and by gifts and trees that bear frait in an hour after they are planted, and family gathering and hilarities sounding from cellar to garret to-morrow, keep Christ As far as possible gather the grandchildren, but put wppel on racket, whether of laughter or swift feet or toys ia shape of rail trains or trumpets ot infant effigy. Let theold folks for one day at least say nothing about rheumatism, demise, or the degen racy of modern times, or the poison nfec tionery. If you cannot stand the noise, re tire from it for a little w room and your childrea without plenty ol mas at all, If children and grandehilir cannot have full swing during the holidays, will they have it? They will be SOON enoug and their feet woken their paces, and jthe bur lens of life will own. Houses got still when the children ire While they stay let them fill the ro 1 resounding mirth that you ws twenty yesrs alter th on to-day YW LIAN no est or in © yinto s ne other stop Christmas for bear them awfully gone, yu with vy are dead and by do. s» Christian Herald, with whi stad, we are celebrating the wat from two to | a day, and they wi conti )Y 8, by messengers and | wa have distributed at Joast nsand copies good and wh wa Uh ation i th ristmas is it, Whe } it w saved the mr was Young, we and eradie thr vest fields the year v inz ous of breath bs of the pulse + and when it izh the su + strong, bu , an) alter be dead, yp this an $e hack that if P ym the (ace pecial respect ani hold of | hands tha: centecarian of a timopisce pushe | them back you might expect time would stop or retreat for at least a minutes, **N no™ the old fami lock. “Imustgo on, I saw ¥ and mother on their wadding day the hour of vour nativity of the day in which you festal hours ne a brides. 1 sounded the kneil those and that fow Avs might your br at og high meny #0 prim ) BN antil all thes: HOO0 ancii and of the great town decree that the k shall stop We do not wi to be handed over to want th Ing ysar t ines of the old year By the tower ai il by tn wd and halt the city the ty clock ‘A Caan all evils or soothe all in. I hava besa o Jiress aan oily, ities | have t wastad 1 must in ¢t m and LL and all "0 Are Cl residential pr the senate an santatives our national ¢ turret be orderel to stop until sectional animosit yar Sabbatas are frunkenness turas to sot fraud and dissipation quit the 0 a the tower “Xo. nol” says th ing on so long | can ande | the birthday | rang out th I have seen 1 wrongs in many avis t to b tower. Thers are yar cities to be right ad, extirpats i, many nitarisd —satop the city clock ngs are done, Let oo - peopl want hail sins of » Inherit neg, ne ndon the great CAR, 1b it ied off kept unt ani vid bribery Sto andl f the amation artbquak a holera, Nat and epidemics ns never stop a towsrd or demolition why vhould | stop? 1 chime for the nation al holidays I toll for the mighty dead, | must go on! I must go oml ox, toek r tock!” There may be a difference ew Seconds a few minutes in the t t occasion wi the sams © oily clooks {| tw salvation wa : af serious aboat 1 thus 3 AD and sirikes on sal eight! re life iny Wn iumphs Whoat b hat harvests What ts What starry mights 't ous conv at { art and sciences and ann | religion! Ba been Wilh sorrow that « ig wide an 20 | strength and geoarians pulling J pligr nage and ta ward! Woat eying: “My hea! him to ha mols a 1ati]l noon an i then diel chief post of Eng ta Jolin redid nvmtion an! enterprisv alas how sacral I What wa hot ’ 1! What on ha wit! miinot H Wye zh t us~fainem! EJ] the afl nethe fove grav auty What oto pen y bake d earthly AvYeniy tin ried rownof h irom, as in Bibie my head] And they I he sat nis your and Mm he Knew went the o's post of America OG, We. iter - (reat ia literatures ant ear a child fur did | not spend an alteraoin with him in a barn in the A fHirondscks, and in the even. ing we played blindman's buff, he tying over my eyes the hanicercilet while the notel parlors rang with the merry making! And Tennyson, this year gone ie Who for this part.oular s:ason of the year wrote: Hing ou’, wid bells, to tre wi d sup, he Bying cload, the frosty Nga The pear la dying ‘un the night, King out, wild balls, and ie him Ais, What mingling of emotions In this elomng your! What oranges blossoms for the mar riage altar, and what myrtie for the tamin of the dead! Hosannas and Inmesntations in collision, Anthen and deal march mount. ing from the same ivory keys year quite leaves the earth let it haar our Mm. pentauce opporiunitien thal can never return, 4 wards spoken too late or not spoken at all. Means of getting good or do ing good so completely gone Ly that the archangel's voles could not recall them. Can it be that this year is closing and our sins unforgiven, and we have no certainty toat the andl simp | when our last Dee. 31 has spel away we shall enter a blissful eternity! Tos most over whein, ingly solemn week of all the year is the last week of December, But on ing this subjebt, “la of a boly day.” as my text puts it, or a halls sday, as we moderos write and pronounce it, noise is no Christ | will | can hear | keep Chri t- | Before this | I advised thet vou divide thic season three chapters--the first a chanter trious birthday, the second a cl} nual decadence and the thir} chronological introduction—and this last chapter wo have reached, In olden tines there wasa style of closing an old year and opening a new one that was very su restive, The family would sit up until twelve o'clock at night, and when the clock struck twelve the family would all «92 to the front door of the house, down. the bar and turn back the ani swing door wide open to let old year out and new year in And that is what we are going todo, With the measured stgo that time has since it started it will come to our door in the clos. | ing night of this week, With what spirit shall wo let the new year in? 1 have already | indicatad that it {s to be one of the greatest all chronology, “Why? you ask. you any forebodings or premonis tions?’ No, *“‘Are you expecting the millen- | nim year.” No! “Why, then, say this about the coming vear?' For the simple | reason that I find asthe years go by they | becoma more and more eventful. Compare Nineteenth century with the Eighteenth into HHine- wpter of ans a chapter of lock the kept YOArs O “Have this the the children and | first half of this H>entury The surges of tis ocean + are rolling higher and higher, The forces of right and wrong are rapidly mul- and their struggles must be inten- Itisa chronolozical fact that we all the time coming nearer to the world's edenization first and then to its in- neration, to its redemption and ita demoli- tion And so I expect that 18508 will be a creator year than 1862, Its weddiog bells Its obsequies will ba sade scientific discoveries more brille [ts properties wore significant, Its ning more grand, Its termination tupendous, Look out for 1803! Let sre have in thelr cases of type plenty | points to up a sudden the conservatoriss have ers that can be twisted into Let churches have plenty of reased assemblages. let men to the and foe and the w » O In what mood shall we » pew year? With faith, pare the last half, Its wert ? fawn ine men have more religion wncies, Hag the prosperity burs ox ne elarnily Keep your hear and all else will be right, Men and 1 have sometimes given strange sical directions la regard to what shall ne with their hearts after death, Rob- A wdered his heart to be seat the Land for burial, The Earl of Leicester joart sent to Brackley Hospital, gator of the Earl of Pambroke, Brrkkampstead, but orderel her y Tewkesbury Cathedral, Lord foreign land, ordered load and seat to Eag- burial ia the chapel of Bradeaham, what shall we decrees for our heart? be the Lord's, and thea makes no ¢ what else become r it all be His hapters I have counseled holidays be grouped, May nothing with their felicitien, May they ba | be food for pleasant ) You koow that homestead will be broken years the children come days and the house is garret to cellar, and the rehearse]. and we ne as we talk ver reac ry but the heartasw loss not take half he aye to strike the r a low years the grand. jays merry, One of keop iildren y after a low years mestead id bh mother is or oi cous alls we Knoas, time or and Living 4 r years and woe to spend the b rommaged from are re is to ’ ter (for there are gen » betwaen the time of balf of the holiday Then the old house s into the possession of strangers, and es sons and daught f their own They plant their own isttmas trees and bang up their own chil n's stockings, ani twine ir own holy mistletoe, ani b own good They will pert s be riding « on holidays either in sieigh or YO years from now slumber the iast have been 80 considerats in r demeanor toward | then say one tO an- We leat ands of the village graveyard ity owtnetery [here rests as kind a father an | as kind a mother at ever wished their children a merry Christmas and a happy new year." Meanwhie thelr parents and grand. parents, w I hope, through t atone 1 Lord, kee r and higher up: in the Christ whose birth the and mw the year inst year of in the ever.widening kindred, many already there and many soon to come, and the tables wil purple with the grapes widen “with the new wine and glow with “swelve fr of life, and ays will mansions and erowas of glory Lat never that these delightful hole fit us for those more de of heaven! nos * it riy where w= my we, he ment of our Dieses be ping hotles pressace earthly the ays Liv f the very a on Days and will lonship with Nemorates, of who the first Ea hea VYeniy that festivity {KE Wl, and m the tres be Hie AWAY Uh, nya sarin n ligatial boll ny ny» A Treasures In an Antigne Desk, “A friend of mine in Philadelphia has a treasure io an antique writing desk that has proved its own age,” seid 8, Hayden, of Richmond, Va., at the Palmer House, other day when he was examining the desk and made an 1portant alscovery, The thing has a great number of little apartments for papers, but apparently did not contalu as much space as it should, We were examining it together when we noticed a hidden spring, and | what seemed to be a panel proved to be | another deawer, which he opened and found to his amazement and gratifieation | that it contained an autobiography of | Thomas Chalkley, published as the title page showed, by *B, Franklin’ in 1749, {The drawer also contained an amount of | Continental greenbacks, The antiquity {of the desk was not only proved but | the other valtable relics were found." | Chileago Herald, ! 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