- EE REV. DR. TALMAGE. / AHE BROGKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON. “The Battle Ours.” Subject: ¢ Text: “And ithe children of Israel pitched fore them like two little flocks of kids," 1 Ings xx., 27. } With thirty-three kings drunk in one tent this chanter opens. They wars allies plot Ring for the overthrow of the Lord's Israel, Wou know that if a lion roar a flock of kids will shiver and huddle together, One Hon would conquer thousand kids, The battle opens. There are a great tude of Syrians under Geaeral hadad, strong as lions, The Israel ftes are fow and weak, like two little flocks of kids. Who beat? Oh, no; the kids, for it all depends whether God is on the aide of the lions or the kids, After the battle 100.000 Syrians lay dead on the fleld, and 27,000, attempting to fly, eame along by a great wall, which toppled and crushed them to death, Which was the stronger weapon--groat Goliath's sword or little David's sling? David had five smooth stones [rom the brook, He only used one in striking down Goliath, He had a surplus of ammunition, He had enough to take down four more giants if they had appeared in the way. It all depends up- on whether God is on the side of the shep- herd boy or on the side of tho giant, There have been many in our day who fave ventured the opinion that Christianiky is falling back, and that in 50 years it will be jextinot. They found their opinion on the masumead fact that the Bible is not as mash of a book as it used to be, and that portions of it are repulsive to a, Ireply by asking, Which on OR with the Are And iancial int 4 wilt alligent men "ne ant it r Seribner or Lip printed in If there are | ke, It is be nearer (o th her institution, h and To the vit » the alder buliding music, the ise? No; the rel they want music the sad oceasion they select the ‘‘Marselllaise™ hymn, “God Save the Queen,” or our own grand National alr? No, they want th hymn with which we sang thelr old Christian mG iliors to sleep, They want the Sunday school hymn that their little girl sang the ast Sabbath afternoon she was dut before she was seized with the awful sickness that broke father's heart and mother's heart. Ob, you know as well as I do--I shall not dwall on it any longer-—the church of God, instead of being a wornout institution, stands nearer the sympathies of the people than i ever did and eclipses all other institutions, But our antagonists go on and say that Christianity is falling back, in the fact that vy of churches on ha old a old infidelity is bolder now and more blatant | than it ever was, [ deny the statement, In- fidelity is not near 80 bold now as it was in the days of our fathers and grandfathers, There were times in this country when man who were openly and above board infidel and antagonistic to Christianity could be elected to high office, Now, let some man wishing high position in the State prociaim himself the foe of Christianity snd an infidel, how many States of the Union would he oarry? bow many counties? how many warde in Brooklyn? Not one, Ah, my frionds, infidelity in this day is not hall as bold as it used to be. If it comes now, it is apt to come under the disguise of rhetorie or fantastic sentimentality, I know §f a man with intelligence doot become an infidel and begins an attack on Chris tinnity it makes excitement —of course it does, and people come to the conclusion, weakminded Christians come to the conolu- sion, that sverything is going overboard be. strong intellect assalls If & man jumps overboard from 8 Cunard | steamer, he makes more sstitasnest Jian al the 500 sans passengers w us in the berths or on the decks, but does that stop the ship? Does that wreck ail the 500 pas- sengers? It makes great excitement when a man leaps platform or a pulpit into infidelity, but does that hinder our glorious Bible from taking its millions into the skies? 1 tell you infidelity is not half as bold now as it nsod to be, multi | Ben- | The ons, of course, | at Ls So the chapels and in the corridors adjoining bauchery and obsesnity were enacted such as the world had never seen. Could such a thing as that transpire now? No, sir, The police would swoop on it, whether in Paris or New York, Infidelity is not half as bold now as it used to be, “But,” say our antagonists, “Christianity 1s falling back because sclence, its chief enomy, is triumphing over it." Now, Ideny | that there is any war between sclence and | roveistion, There is not a fact in sclones | that may not be made to harmonize with the statements of the Bible, Sosald Hush Miller sald Joseph Henry ; so sald Professor Hitoheoook : so | sald Professor Mitahell, i If the scientists of the day were all agreed, | and they came up with solid front to attack sO some Impression upon it, but they are not agreed, It fs often sald that we religionists are falling in our advoeacy of Christianity because we differ in our theology. I tell you the eathedral scenes of drunkenness and de | sald Professor Bllliman ; 80 | § | Ary Christian and every philanthropist? Besides, tat, the rising generation ars bes ing saturated with gospel truth as no other generation by this international series of Sunday-school lessons, Formerly the ohil- dren were expected only to nibble at the lite tle infantile Seriptare stories, but now they are taken from Genesis to Revelation, the strongest minds of the country explaining | the lessons to the teachers, and the teachers explaining them to the classes, and we are going to have in this country 5,000,000 youth forestalled for Christianity, Hear it! t ' Besides that, you must have noticed, if you have talked on these great themes, that they are finding out that while selence is grand | ID SOURIAT GIrections, tHey CoMmavs Keve wg | comfort to a soul in trouble, our Christianity, perhaps they might make | alae," wi do not differ inside the church in theol- | ogy half as much as they differ outside the church in science. If they reject our relig- fon because we differ in some minor points, we might just as well reject science because the selentists differ, but as far as I can tell the war of infidel science against Christi unity is not $0 severe as it used to ba, be cause these men are antagonistio to ea other, and as far as I can tell it is going to i he a war between telescope and telescope, Leyden jar and Leyden jar, ciiemical appar atus and chemical apparatus, They do not | agree on anything, Do you suppoaethat this Bible theory about Talking with rad] cars, comfort of the gospel. They say, HRomehow buman science doesn't comfort me when I have any trouble, and I must try something And they are trying the gespel, Take your scientific consolation to the mother who has just lost her child, Apply the doctrine of the “survival of the Attest.” Tell her that her child died because its was not worth as much asthe life of one that Hy Try that if youdare, Goto the dying man with your transcendental phraesology and tell him he ought to have confidence in the great “to be," and the averlasting ‘‘now," and the eternal “what is it?" and go on with your o« nsolation sad sea {f he is comforted. Go to that woman who has lost her hus. men on steamboats and in | band and tell her it was a geological neces | the origin of life is going to be overthrown | by men who have different theorles-50 dif- ferent theories—about the origin life? And when Agassiz comes out and puts both feet on the doctrine of evolution and says in regard to many solentists “I notice thal these young naturalists are adopting as ti ories in selence things which have not p under observation.” Agassiz saw what we that there are who talk very wisely who know but ve little, and that just as sOOn AS A YO t finds out the difference between of nsaad all see 2 of a beetle he ehty and go yagh it were 1 i8 the aaron LEA make agren ana 1 of the world is to be the rell of the | rd Jesus Christ 10 000 Umes It is to take pe wm of of all laws, all manners, all custo nations, It is going to be so mighty aso pared with what it has been, so much mighty that it will seem almost lke a now religion. I adopt this theory because Christianity has gone on straight ahead notwithstanding all the bombardment, and infidelity has not desiroyed a church, or arippiod a minister, or rooted out one verse of the Bible, and now thelr ssumunition seems to be preity much exhausted, They cannot get anything new against Christianity, and if Christianity has gone om under the bombardment of cen. turies and still continues to advance, may we not conelude that, as the powder and shot of the other side seem to be exhausted, Chris | tianity is going on with more rapid stride? I And an encouraging fact in the thought that the secular press in this day and the pulpit seem harnessed in the same team for the proclamation of the gospel, a nsifled, reaoaal To-morrow | there will not be a banker on Wall street or | State street or Third street who will not bave in his pocket Christianity, ealls to re ture passages, 20 or ports of the Christian churches of this city and other cities have been impossible a few years ago. on Monday morning and Monday evening ntance and Serip- or on his table treatises on | of them, wn the re- | sity that that man passed ut of existence, just ns the megatherium disappeared in or der to make room for a higher style of ation, and go on with your consolation and toll her that there is a possibility that 10. 000,000 years from now wa Oursaives may geological specimens on the geological shelf, petrified specimens extinot human race, And after yo your consolat not utterly ore. be of the m have got n, if the p ol i i, I will nex church and ti out and with or reading be staid, Tax ost Christian from my half hour of prayer Seriy ' anda the y ALK sxepdl ficken in conan 5555 “ The Pole’s Attraction, aitraction for other cb- sides the magnetic needle has, y the present time, been at best erfootly understood, owing to the nletoness of the data furnished Y i ake such matters a bjects possess a however, there It is a well: of soft iron § 4 oles 5 RT least doubt fact that if a bar be suspended sufficiently long in the air, say at a height of from one to four feet above the surface, it will be- come magnetized, and no oddsin what position it was originally placed, it will if so balanced as to bo free to move), eventually assame a north and south direction. It is also claimed by experimenters that a living human body, stretched rigidly pon a hoard perfectly pivoted, will quickly “line up” in a north and south direction, the head pointing to- ward the pole. This faculty is not present in a corpse, and it occurs to the writer that if there is really any- thing in it, it would be = splendid “deuth test.” Another polarity’ proof is this: Place one end of a demagnetized bar of iron upon the ground, inclined so stint the end in your hand points to- known | ward the pole star, strike it one sharp Why, that thing would | Now | the secular press spreads abroad more re. | | iglous truth than all the tract societies of ! the sountry spread in the other six days, Blessed be the tract societies | We hall them, and we hail these others, | 1 say it would have been impossible a tow | years ago. Hundreds of letters would have | ome to the secular newspaper offices, say- ing, “Stop my paper; we have religion on Handny n't give us any through the wook, Stop my Joper. But 1 have been told that many of the secular papers have their largest circulation on Monday morning, and the whole population of this country are becoming sermon readers, Besides that, have you not noticed the papers proclaiming themanlves sacular almost avery week have religious discussions in them? Go back a few vec:s when there was not a decent paper in the United States that had not a dise on the doctrine of eternal nishment, now, but thers was not an Intell t man in the United States that as a result of that controversy In regard to eteronl punishment did not ask himsoir the question, ‘What is to bo my eternal destiny?’ And some yoars when Tyndall offered hie Jr HATE 10t A seowlar United did not pdm the ovor Small wits made merry, I] blow with a heavy hammer and it will immediately soquire ‘‘polarity” and will be found to exhibit all the well marked qualities of a magnet. —8t Louis Republic. ———— Bullet Waves, One of the interesting results of the recent experiments in England in photographing flying bullets has been to show that the disturbance in the air travels faster than the bullet it self. The ph aphs exhibit air waves in advance of the bullets, even when the latter are moving faster than the veloeity of sound, In one cass where the bullet was moving considerable faster than sound travels in the sir it was preceded by an atmospheric disturbance whieh, at the moment the was taken, wes half an | in advance of the int of the bullet. Even when the wore fravaling fou timen as fast as sound the disturbance kopt ahead of them, Egan REY Hear find they are coming back to the I life ! | Golden Text (Rom. xiv, SABBATH SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL LESKON FOR BEPTEMBER 24, Lesson Text: Quarterly Review, Acts xvi-xxvill Romans x., Commentary, Golden Text: 17 v= Lessox xvi, 6 15) HO L—=Paul called to Golden Text (Math, xxviil, 19), therelore, and taach wil and of the Bon, and of the Holy Ghost,” This quarter's studies might be summed up | n the phrase, “God glorified in Paul” (Gal, , 24), for wherever ho went and whatever + did his ambition was that Christ should ¢ magnified in his body (Phil, 1, 20). This particular lesson fllustratos the words, ‘Ladd by the spirit of God,” “Do as occasion serve thee, for God is with thee," "My word shall not return unto me void” (Bom, vill, 14:1 8am, x., 7:Isa lv., 11). Lyssox 11 Paul at Philippi (Acts xvi, 3). Golden Text (Acts xvi, 81), ''Be- on the Lord Christ, and thou na ved, As wi How Paul from £0 Lo place, let us remen his words, ‘Not 1, but Christ “The life nf Jesus manifest in our mortal flesh™ (Gal, ., 20 II Cor. iv., 11 He has grace to praise God, even though his back urged, his feet in oust into prison, He takes ure in reprosches and persecutions (11 . 10) for Chr #8 sake, He has no h the magistrates, hn i and & househ i i H i in med a stocks and he : they hrough the ture and wm feninn t . r and Drasil tem peranoe Luswox . A532 hirist the pow (vd After tw or at Casares ir § dod unt gover Agri} cusation t Lussox X Pau 30-44 OG 3 for. desires hi pa, that he f : i ue sha in us feel trout Paul : are higher th verse 24 « rr that Cosar, but God , WAYS and we jearn in it was God's purpose t Cassar. Nothing oan frustrate poses (Ps, xxxiil,, 11; Isa. xiv, man's vain imaginings will always come 10 naught, Satan bad many times sought to kill Paul, and thie storm is probably another attempt of his, but the Lord delivers, and satan is confounded, What Jesus sald cons ourning His church js true also of every member of it (Math, xvi, 19; John x. 28), Lassox XI. «Paul at Rome (Acts xxvill,, 20.81% Golden Text (Rom, i, 1€), “I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ,” The purpose of God has thus far been accome plished, and Pan! iv at last in Home, still a prisoner, it is true, but free to receive all who come to him and to preach to them the kingdom of God and the things eoncerning the Lord Jesus Christ (verses 30, 81) This fs almost the last we hear of Paul, and we find kim still expounding Seripture, and from Moses and the prophets preaching Jee sus (verse 28). May the last heard of us be on the same line, Lussox XII «Personal Responsibility (Rom, xiv., 12-23). (A Temperance lesson. ) 21), “It is good neither to ent flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbieth,” hinge 245, while | 1 would emphasize in this lesson just the | thought of the whole quartor that these | bodies of ours are for Christ, not for our | salves; that se ‘‘even Christ pleased not Himself” (Rom. xv., 8), so we are to lve not unto ourselves, but unto Fim whe died for us and rose again (JI Cor, v., 185), the kingdom of God and righteousness being always first with us (verse 17 and Math, vi, 83) and everyt ested by ‘How will it n at the sont of Christ (verse 10; IY Cor. v. i0)}—Tomon Helper. Tur American Indians at the World's Fair are quite disappointing from a dime novel standpoint. None of the squaws, so far as our observa. tion goes, wears warhoops. —————— cmm———— Enmox tells a Chicago reporter that rubles can be manufactured for & a pound. 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