REV. DR. TALMAGE. | AHE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON. Subject: “Light in the Evening.” Trxr: “Af evening time if shall be light" weZechariah xiv, 7. While ‘‘night” in all languages is the symbol for gloom and suficring, it is often really cheerful, bright and impressive, I speak not of such nights as come down with no star pouring light from above or silvered wave tossing up light from beneath-—-murky, hurtling, portentous—but such as you often see when the pomp and magnificence of | heaven turn out on night parades, and ft poems as though the song which the morn- ing stars began so long ago were chiming among the constellations and the sons of God were shouting for joy, Such nights the sailor blesses from the forecastle, and the trapper on the vast prairie, and the belated traveler by the road. glide, and the soldier from the tent, earthly hosts gazing upon heavenly, and shepherds guarding their flocks afleld, while angel hands above them set the silver bells a-ring- fog, *Gloryto God in the highest and on earth peace; good will toward men.” What a solemn and glorious thing is night in the wilderness! Night among the moun tains! Night on the ocean! Fragrant night among tropleal groves! Flashing night amid arctic severities ! Calm night on Roman campagna! Awful night among the core dilleras! Glorious night ‘mid sea after a tempest! Thank God for the night! The moon and the stars which rule it are light- houses on the coast toward which, I hope, we are all sailing, and blind mariners aro we if with 80 many beaming, burning, flaming glories to guide us we cannot find our way into the harbor. My text may well suggest that as the natural evening if often luminous go it shall be light in the evening of our sor- rows—of old age—of the world’s history —of the Christian life, *‘At eventime it shall be light.” This prophecy will be fulfilled in the even- ing of Christian sorrow. For a long time it is broad daylight. The sun rid« numerable activities go a thou- sand feet and work with a thousand arms, and the pickax struck a mine, and the liscovery, the inv ont In- ahead ith rupled in value, and the sudden hoisted to high position, and children raised, and friends without nu nto the famil | gl on the table of God's sup table? Did 2 vault they mpty money and treasures are gone grave of their dead saying: “There will be a resurrection 7 Did they bemoan their thwarted say, “The stocks are down-—w were dead?” Did the night of come upon them moonless stark howling, smothering and choking their lives out? No! No! No! At eventime it was Hght. The swift promises overtook ther, The eternal constellations from the circuit about God's throne pogred down an infinite luster, 'nder their shining the billows of trouble took on crests and plumes of gold and jaspar and amethyst and fame. All the trees of life rustied in the midsummer air of God's lova, The night blooming assurances of Christ's sympathy filled all “he atm phere with heaven. The soul at every step seemed to start up from its feet bright winged joys warbling heavenward, “It is good that I have been afMioted.™ eries David, “The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away,” exclaims Job, “‘Sorrow- ful, yet always rejoicing,” says St. Paul “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” exclaims John in apocalyptic vision. At eventime it was light. Light from the cross! Right from promises ! Light from the throne! Streaming, joyous, outgushing, everlasting light ! The text shall also find fuifiliment in the time of oldage., It is a grand thing t young ~to have the sight clear and the hear. ing acute and the step elastic and all our | paises marching on to the drumming of & stout heart, Midlife and old age will be de nied many of us, but youth-—-we all know what that fs, Those wrinkles were not al- ways on your brow. That snow was not ale ways on your bead. That buwzy muscls | did not always bunch your arm (on have not always worn spactacies. Grave and dig- nified aa you now are, you once went const. ing down the hillside, or threw off your hat for the race, or sent the ball flying sky high. Bat youth will not always last. It stays only long enough to give us exuberant spir- ta, and broad shoulders for burden earry- ing, and an arm with which to battle our way through difficulties, Life's path if you fellow it long enough will come under frown. ing erag and across trembling causeway, Blessed old age if you let it come naturally, You cannot hide it. You may try to cover the wrinkles, but you cannot cover the wrinkles. Ifthe time has come for you to be old, be not ashamed to The grandest things in all the universe are old, Old mountaing, old rivers, old seas, stars and an old eternity. Then do not be ashamed to be old unless vou are older than the mountains and older than the stars How men and women will lle! They say 40, but they are 60, They say they they are 30. They say they are D, but they are 80, How some people will Glorious old age if found in the wamo! righteousness! How beautiful the old age of Jacob, leaning on the top of his staf, John Kia ww Adams falling with the harness on, of Washington leving #itting pen In hand amid the scenes hitwel! had made classioal, of John Angell James to the last proclaiming the Gospol to the masses of Birmingham, of Theodore Frelinghuysen down to feeblanosa and emaciation devoting his lustrious faculties to the kingdom of God. At even. tide it was Nght ! Heo that you do honor to the aged, A phtiosoptier stood at the corner of the street day after day saying to the passers by: “Touwllibean old man. You will be an old man.” “Yeu will be an old woman. You will be an old woman.” People thought he was crazy. I do not think that he w Bmooth the way for that mother's feet they have not many more steps to take, Steady those tottering limbs-they will soon be at rest, Plow not up that face with any more wrinkles, Trouble and care have marked ft Il enough, Thrast no thorn into that old , It will soon ceases to beat, “Thess that mocketh its (anther aud refuseth to its mother, the ravens of the plans aad | God | lisaater dark and the be be old old of | Clarkson's 2 1 City. ! the last it out, and the young eagles The bright morning and Ife have passed with many, 5 o'clock! 8 o'clock! The shadows fall Jonger and thicker and faster, Seven o'clock! go'clook! The sun has dipped below the horizon. The warmth has gone out of the air. Nine o'clock! 10 o'clock! The heavy dues are falling, The activities of Ife's day are all hushed, It is time to go to bed, Eleven o'cloak ! 12 o'clock! The patriarch sleeps the blessod sleep, the cool sleepy the long sleep, Heaven's messengers of light have kindled bonfires of victory all over the heavens, At eventide it is Hght light ! My text shall also find fulfillment in the latter days of the church. Oaly a fow mis. Monaries, a few churches, a few good men, compared with the fostitutions leprous and putrefied, It is early yet in the history of everything good, Civilization and Christianity are just getting out of the cradle, The light of martyr stakes flashing all up and down the sky is but the flaming of the morning, but when the evening of the world shall come, glory to God's conquering truth, it shal be Hght, Wars sword clanging back in the intemperance buried under 10,000 broken decanters ; the world's impurity turning its brow heavenward for tho benediction, ‘Blessed are the pure in heart" the last vestige of selfishness submerged in heaven answe and de voles of Jesus, “Wao were wrved to die, “The password,” They wanderers from God but we heard the VI Aya aye,” sald the gatekeeper, ‘that is the pass. word! Lift up your heads, yo everlasting gates, and lot these people come in." They go in and serround the throne, jubilant for. “yer, Ah! do you wonder that the last hours of the Christian on earth are luminsted by thoughts of the coming glory? Light in the evening. The medicines may be bitter. The ain may be sharp, The parting may be rely Yet light in the evening, As all the stars of night sink their anchors of | pearl iA lake and river and sea, so the waves {| of Jordan shall be Hluminated with the down flashing of the glory to The dying soul looks up at the constellations, “The come, | i | | soabbord ; descending charities ; all China worshiping | Dr. Abeel's Saviour; all India believing in Henry Martyn's Bible ; human bondage delivered through Christianity ; vagranoy back from its pollution at the call of Ellzabet} Fry's ledeemer; the mountains coming down ; the valleys going up “holiness” in seribed on horse's boll and silkworm's thread and Brown THrafMars Wing and shell's tinge and manufacturer's shuttle and chemist's laboratory and king's scepter and Nation's Magna Charts, Nota l no wounds ;: n« orphans ; not a prison, for criminals ; not an alo for there are no paupers ; not a tear, for there are no sor rows? The long dirge of earth's lamentation has ended in the triumphal march of re. deemed empires, tho forest harping it on ches, the water chanting among the gorges, the thunde rumming it among the hills, the ocean with its organs, trade keys and surociydon's f 1 want to sce . prisoner is refor Nightingale wl stopped hurtis Penn when the I fzod. I want to see. flame of persecution has been extinguls I want to see John Bunyan after the pilgrim has come to the gate of the Cele Above all, 1 t to saint has his throne ging hallelujah ! You have ry of the eve the ti« i fos it thera are Ouse, winds soe Jesu and be war is ning come from ing with an though the sun in deg shut the gate after it and leaf swims in the a star the w oath ng, ora ky, heaven ber on han t Bilenes MIO : » Nght our girdle, wi } though other ligt what do we want of glory swing open before and myriad v myriad harps, a myriad thrones, a myriad palaces, there dash upon us, “Hosanna! Hosanna “Throw back the shutters and let the sun come in.” sald dying Scoville MeCollum, ons of my Sablathechool boys You can ses Paul putting on robes and wings of ascension as he exclaims : “I have fought the fight, I have finished my ran, 1 kept the faith.” Huagh MeKall wont to one side of the scaffold of martyrdom and eried “Farewell sun, moon and stars! Farewell all earthly delights | side of the soaffold and eried God and Father! Walcome, Christ, the Mediator of the covenant | come death! Welcome glory © tad us from eR. a Ko spital, for therears | an asylum, for there are no | no | aboriginal supersii. | | tion acknowledging David Brainerd's : Lord is my light and my salvation ; whom shall I fear?” “The Lamb which 8 in the midst of the throne shall lead them to Hving fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” Closs the eyes of the departed one ; earth would seem tame to its enchanted vision. Fold the hands ; life's work is ended, Vell the face; it has been transfigured., Mr. | Toplady In Nis dying hour sald, “Light.” Coming nearer the expiring moment, he ex. inimed, with illuminated countenance “Light.” In the last instances of his breath. ing he lifted up his bands and eried: “Light! Light!" Thank God for light in the evening. In Asia women are voked with oxen. The Princess of Wales is ve 100,000 women Over in ! : | sre working for wages, it | | wi | have { Then went to the other | “Walcome, | sweet Jesus | Wel | | A minister of Christ In Philadelphia, dying, nents ; » into the light They did not go down doubting and fearing and vering, but their battiecry rang through all the caverns of the sepul chre and was echoad back from all the thrones of heaven sting? O grave! where Is Sing, my soul, of joys lo come. I saw a beautiful being wandering up and down the earth. She touched the aged, and they became young. She touched the poor, and they became rich, [I said, beautiful belng, wandering up and down the earth?” They told me that her name was Death, What a strange thrill of joy when the palsied Christian begins to use his arm again! When the blind Christian begins to soo again! When the deal Christian begins to hear again! Whoa the poor pligrnm puts sald in his last m ani thy victory?" | his feet on such pavement aud joins in such “0 death! where is thy | | able feats, “Whe f= this | Mrs. Levi P. Morton imports near! all her wardrobe from Paris Stylish suits for women ar white duck, made in Eton style W. Drexel, of hin, has s« fine emerald Mrs. delp Bamboo tle wy is eviden :. 2% Sallor Crowns Fewer parr It is said of lumes that their who The wears them Infanta Queen Margherita, : { her silve cst} 34 cCasion o ved am ver 22,00 ring | Mrs. Th dictorian for the first grade ing class of the Xork Law School The wealthy dam a fan worth 8500 of pale amber tortoise shell, mounted with Venetian point lace and spangled with diamonds, with most likely a slender monogram—on the outside stick. Mrs. Judson, the widow of ‘Ned Juntline,” a onee popular author, is an inmate of an New York State alms- house. The poor old lady is a paralytic, and so far superior to her surround- ngs that her life there is doubly lard. 1€ y Sutro was the gra University of New e sometimes carrion wil Of fifteen physicians recently ex- amined in Baltimore by the State Board of Medical Examiners, in which is vested the authority to practice, Miss Ida Pollock took the highest rank, making an average of 924. y grant licenses The Queen Regent of Spain is a fine swimmer. Every day in the season at Ban Sebastian the seashore is thronged with spectators to witness her remark- She is always accompanied by two men in a boat, who watch her closely for fear of accident. Miss in the Peoria, cessful business woman, Mary E. Culver, senior partner firm of Culver & Edwards, IL, is a well-known and sae- For the last | ten years she has been in business for company and has a free seat in such a graat | temple ! Hungry men no more to hunger; men no more Lo thirst to weep ; dying men no mors to die. Gather up all sweet words, all jubllant expressions, all rapturous exclamations., Pring them to me, and I will pour them upon this stupend. ous theme of the soul's disenthraliment | Oh, the joy of the spirit as it shall mount up toward the throne of God shouting: Free! Fron! Your eye has gased upon the garni. ture of earth and heaven, but tho eye hath not seen it, Your eye has esught harmonios nncounied and indesoribabieenught them from harps trill and fall's dash and ¢ bath not heard it, How did those blessad ones got up inte, the Baht? What hammer knocked chains? What loom wove their robes of Hght? Who gave them wings? Ah, eternicy is not long enough to tell it , seraphim have not capacity enough to realize it-the mar vels of redeeming love! Let the palms wave, iot the crowns glitter | lot the anthems as ecend, lot the trees of Lebanon clap weir hands ~they ecxunot tell the hall of it, Archangel before the throne, thou fallest' Hing on, praise on, yo hosts of the glorified, And If with your woopters you eannot reach It and with your songs you cannot express it, then let all the myriads of the saved unite in the exclamation, “Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!” There will be a password at the gate of heaven, A great multitude come up and kuook at the gate, The gatekeeper says, “The password,” They say: “We have no password, Wo wore great on earth, and we come up to be great in heaven,” A voles from within answers, “I never knew you.” Another group come up to the gate of heaven and knook, The gatekoopor says, “The password," They cay: “We have no password, We did a great many noble things on earth, We endowed collages and took oare of the poor.” A voice from within says, “I nover knew you," Another group come up to the gate of knook. The gatekeoper says, thirsty bkeaven and herself. For fifteen years she has | been a Notary Public. weeping men no more | | Wrd's carol and water. | conn's doxology, but the ear | off their | Mrs. H H. A. Beach, of Boston, who composed a jubilate for the Co- lumbian celebration, is authority for the statement that between the years 1615 and 1885 women composed 153 musical words, including fifty-five serious operas, six cantatas and fifty. three comic operas. The Queen of England in recent years has found the singing of the yellow-coated birds too strenuous, and at present her canaries have given place to a bullfinch and a linnet, These follow her everywhere, there being special provision for their com. fort in the royal train, just as there is for the throe pet dogs. Russian ladies are going in for bi eycling at St. Peterdburg. This smusemnent is now decidedly fashion able. Fair riders may be met in all the streets of Bt. Petersburg. 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