“REV. DR. T ALM AGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON. Subject: “Oblivion and Its Defeats. YE shall wh xxiv, 20; sting rememb Trxrs bored, * Jo be in ever LH “Oblivion and Its Dafeats” fs my subject to-day. There is ap old monster that swal- lows down everything, It erunches indi. ahah ham, in Fast Ustisirii a ual rues Mates, a tions, continents, hemisphores, worlds, Ite diet 8 made up of years, of centuries, of gos, of oyeles, of milleaniums, of eons That monster is called by Noah Webster and all the other dictionarians oblivion, It is a steep down which everything rolls, It is a eonfingration in which everything Is con- umed oy ia a dirge in whien all orchestras and a period at which everything stops, pie is the comets ry of the human roe, It is the domain of forgetfulness, Oblivion! At times it throws | a shadow over all of us, and I would not pronounce it to-day if I did not armed in the st h of the eternal your behalf to ¢ it, to rout it, to the way the families of r. For awhilethey are to- yand to ea her indis- , and then they part, some by mar- roing to establish other homes, and lenve this life, and a century is long ugh to plant a family, develop it, prosper generations van- literate it, So the n22F4 re Eee 2 5 | - EREREFOS yh 8 8 everything Are Not a day passos ehiv of that granite, wa is triump over the land, and what is A ing on at Coney Island ie going on all around the world, and the continents ar OR into the waves, and while this 4 transpiring on the out of the world the ho f the eternal fire Is Megging under the foundation ¢ and cutting its v it toward the Its ry rises uo ) ar people say they not think the rid finally be burned p, when all scientists wii tell you that it has for ages been on fire. Why, there is a crust between us and the furnaces inside raging to got out Oblivion! The world ael! will roll int it as easily as a schoolboy's india rabber ball rolls down a hill, and when our world goes ft is so interiockad by the law of gravitation with other worlds that they will go, too, and go far from having our memory perpetnated by a monument of Aberdeen granite in this world there is no world In sight of our strongest telescope that will bea sure pe ii ment for any slab of eomm moration of the fart that we ever lived or died at sll, Our fa striiok with death, anind eraml side shisel 0 f the earth suriaon a wil only The axietres of onstelistions will break and let down the population of other worlds Stellar lunar. solar mortality, Oblivi on! It oan swallow and will swallow whole galaxies of worlds as easily as a crocodile takes down a frog. Yet oblivion does not remove or swallow soything that had better not ba removed or swallowed, The old monster is weleoma to his meal. This world would long age have been oversrowdad If it had not patn for the merciful removal of Natloas and genera tions, What if all the books had lived that were over written aod printed and pab- lished? The libraries would n their im- mensity have obstructed intelligence and made all research impossible, The fat le of books was a merciful te. Many of the State and National to-day are only morgues in which dead books are waiting for some one go come and recognize them, What if sli the peoge that had been born were still alive would have been sibowed by our ancestors of ten centuries ago, and peopls who ought to have said their last would snarl at us, saying, a are you doing hore?” Ther ih hats been no room to furn around, the past generntions of mankind were Ay worth re- membering. The first useful thing that many people did wus to dis, eradle a misfortune ven boon. This world was wh, gh comfortable 40 live in before the middle of the enrtl the « ! Lethe, | healthful draft, | world in ages past is always one sided and | eannot be depended on, word 3000 years ago | {tury., Bo many things have come into the world that wers not fit to stay in, we to bo glad they were put out, the fountain of forgetfulness, The history we have of the History Is fletion a fow straggling facts, In all the Pantheon the weakest goddess is Olio, the goddess of history, and instead of belong represented by sculptors as holding a seroll might better be represontod as lHmplag on erutehes, Faithful history is the saving of a few things out of more things lost. The immor tality that comes from pomp of obseqguies, or granite shaft, or building named after its founder, or page of recognition in some on lopedia is an immortality LER UT Hinst rated by unworthy of iu Willi OBasT and ms no um nortality at all, Oblivion! A hundred vears, But while I recognize this universal submergence of things earthly who wants to be forgotten? Not one of us, Absent for a few weeks or months from home, it cheers us to know that we are r membered there, It is a phrase we have al pronounced, “I hops you missed me." Meat Ing some friends from whom we have beon parted many years, wo inquire, ‘Did you ever soe me bafore and they say, You, and eall us by name, and we feel a delight ful sensation thrilling through their } into our hand, and running up from elt to shoulder, and then parting, the one ropt delight ascending to the the other descending to f rous ind round in conce every nerve and musel and mind and Hght A few « bhovh EE TET soul od, Anos We OF LOSI DE way ii ever the wr insanity v strumentality « sky We teach a Sabbath tian tract in tify for Christ in a prayer a sermon, and go § thing had } i character | terial that no frost { the eenturies oan There i= no sublin architecture With ws, OF [ a passerby tho hand iliding with a or sarthquaks or rolling iam bring dower ar art in the world than pencil and rule and con pass the architect sits down alone and in of lence, and evolves from Misown brain a oa thodral, or a National capitol, or a massive home before he leaves that table, and then he goes out and unrolls his plans, and ealls ear penters and masons and artisans of all sorta to execute his design, and when it is Onished he walks around the vast strocture and soos the completion of the work with high satis faction, and on aston=s at some corner of the building the architect's name may be chiseled, Bat the storms do their work, and time, that ma ARO OF gakos dowe everything, will yet take down | that structure until thers shall not be one stone left upon another, Bat there is a soul in heaven, Through your instramentality it was put there, Un. der God's grass you are the architect of its | sternal happiness, Your name is written, not on one corner of its nature, but inwrought into its every fiber and ennrgy. Will the | storms of winter wash out the story of what you have wrought upon that spiritual strue- | ture? No, There are no storms in that land, and there ix no winter, Will time wear out the inscription which shows your fidelity? No. Time I= past, and it Is an evorinsting | now, Ballt into the foundation of that fm per. iwhable structure, bullt into is pillars, built into fis capstone, is your pams-sither the name you have on earth or the name by which eelestiala shall call you. 1 know the Bible says in ono please that us God, but that Bo the aw the pleture a toy anita he your ought | The waters of | are al { ohild accomplished! jealous of a Joshun, never was jealous of n Paul, never was jonlous of a Frances Haver gal, who foars nnd nhine not Ht burde while all ls of gating utteranca unto us, ut souls sell and save grace, and your will be, ‘Not unto Thy rd, give glor yon shall # heavenly satisfaction In every thing you did on earth, and if leono borne from beneath, should break ugh the gates of heaven and efface ond our sarthly fidelity, methinks would take one of the naiis of His own er and write somewhere on the erys tal, or the amethyst, or the jacioth, or the chrysoprasus, your name and just under if the mseription of text, “The righteous shall be hel 4 in everlasting remembrance.” Oh, tl sharacter bullding! You and} are svery moment busy In that tremendous pation, You are making me hetter or rsa, and I am making you better or wie ra shall through all sternity bear the { this benediction or blasting thers have the thrones of heaven » who have more mightily wrought for and the trith-but it will be igh for von and me if ever and anon we meet some radiant sou! on the boulevards of i shall say “You helped neouraged me when I was I did not know that 1 hisshining place | a wil and ns ’ Christ "a my PRN heavy ano savemy really re ber that wi ‘hristian ir Wh y at iia w rn take al pod all the ntains of this palace it id ofall the hills and hang it In hands and all the pearis of ail the sas and all the diamonds of all the Belds, snd with them arch the doorways f that palace, and then invite into it all the glories that Esther aver saw at a Persian banquet, or Daniel ever walked among in Babylonian or J h ever witnessed in Pharaoh's m. WN ad then yourseil enter this of archangell mstruction, and see yor a palace it | npared with the or palace that » of you have already i in the heart of a loving and pardoning and into which all the isi and all prayers, sn i all the naldern of thiz day are trying to iniroduce you +h the Blood of the slain iam! where js oblivion now? From the and overshadowing word that it seemed when 1 began, it has becos something which no man or woman or child who loves the Lord nead ever fear, Oblivion defeated Oblivion dead. Oblivion sepulcherad. But I must not be so hard on that devouring monster, for into ts grave go all our sins when ths Lord for Christ's sake has forgiven them. Just blow a resurrection trampet over them when ones obilvion has sonphal them down. Not one of them rises, Blow again, Not a stir amid all the pardoned in- iquition of a lifetime. Blow again. Not on» of them moves in the deep grave trenches, Put to this powerless resurrection trumpet a volo responds, ball human, hall divine, and it must be part man and part God, say- ing, “Their sins an | their lnlquities will I re member no more,’ Thank God for this blessad oblivion! So fou son 1 did not Invite you down into & onl ar, but upon a throne ; not into the grave. ard to which wll materialism is destined, fat into a garden all abloom with everlasting remembrance, The frown of my first text has becom tha kiss of the second text. An nihiiation has become coronation, The wring ing hands of a great agony hase become the clapping hands of a hippo ¥: The requiem with which we began me the grand march with which oy close, The tear of sadness that rolled down our cheek his struck the Hip on which sits the laughter of sternal triumph, os EE — ——— Gold in quantitios was duced by Taines last your, the n into Let him : n fers nstlon ae sormonio Oh, dark ne And God never was [ never was jealous of a man or woman | tried to heal wounds and wipe away | unto name, | niways on | SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON NOVEMBER 24, Lesson Text: “The Christian Home,’ Col, HL, 12.25 Golden Text: Psalm ci, 2 Come mentary. 12. holy ness, Put on thoref and beloved, | humblensss of len | ore as the OWels elect of God, kind- mind, moeekness, long suffering.” Bocause of the fullness that aweils In Onrist nnd because all this is ours we ought to manifest it in our lives in the power and graces of the Holy Spirit (Gal, v 22, 243 We are the elect or chosen &Y God to be holy In our Hye WULE Wo made holy in Christ (Eph, 1. 4). 18, ""Forbearing one another and forgiy ing one another, if any man have a quarrel MEAINst ANY even As hrist forgs also do ve A fall o ound in Math voubd ‘ of mercies, 2 De have been answer is, 1HC head 111 heaith all the control of the 14. “And abo charity (or lov foot 1 omm Ihe VErSe nr sirit 1) pirit 1} a 4 in reistion WAYS Those Thing We are ¢ sacrifice. bh | 4 may i a3 , wo prowe we San from heaven 11-18 he begin 10 serve ich unbe jndgment xiii, 5 wo sdement sant of amined ia cwn reward aoe Bom, xiv... 10: 11 Cor All that has been done fie all lan and the willing shall stand unt : sini pr me we 25. "But he that dosth wrong shall receive ww the we whioh he hath 4 und thers is no respect of persons A oarefal read ing of 1 Cor, iil, 11-15, will show the possi bility of a Christian's works proving 10 be only wood, hay and stubble and consequent iy burned up in the day of the trial, leaving such a Christian saved az by fire, Jesus will prove a righteous judge there fa no unright« eousness in Him, He shall not judge after the sight of His eves, neither reprove after the hearing of His ears, but with righteous. ness shall He judge (Isa, xi, 3, 4)-Losson Helpor, f mg se N II—— An BXIraorainary Saictde, An extraordinary case of suicide was re. nd from a Somerset village near Bristol, A young man named James Rob. erin ved Lig with his wife, and In hee plnssise ho placed a dynamite cartridge in Is mouth, calmly lighted a thirty second fuse, and walked into the backyard, A ter rible explosion followed, and the man's head was blown to pleces, An Old Man's I Luck, A onsbiser peventy-four years old, was condemned last year ‘nn Deesdon on the charge that his books showed a shortage of | #1000, A recent second revision of the pooks has proved that the aos, ol man has oan misaly imprisoned n wh ole year, I ——- it 1s reported that the Danna oro will be very Inte this season. 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