REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON Subject: “A Hunting Scene.” Text: “Inthe mor yeu. and a’ = Genesis xtix., 27 A few nights ago 800 men encamped along the Long Island milroad so as to be ready for the next morning, which was the first “open day * for deer hunting, Between sun rise and 2 o'clock in the afternoon of that dav fifteen deer were shot, On the 20th of October out woods and forests resound with the shook of firearms and are tracked of pointers and setters because the quail are then a lawial prize for the sportsman, On a certain day in all England you can hear the crack of the. sportsman’s because grouse hunting bas begun, and every man that can afford the time and am- munition and ean draw an bead starts for the fields, Xenophon grew eloquent in regard to the art of hunting. In the far east ple, elephant mounted, chase the tiger, American Indian darts his arrow at the bul. falo until the frightened herd fall over the rocks. European nobles are often found in the fox chase and at the steg hunt, Francis I was called the father of! hunting. Moses declares of Nimrod, “He was a mighty hunter beforathe Lord,” Therefore, in all ages of the world, the Imagery of my text ought to be suggestive, whether it meal wolf after a fox or a man after a lion, Old Jacob, dying, is telling the fortunes of his children He prophesies the devour. Benjamin and his d his dim 3 sun, peo- I'he ning home, tider, and re nent was wessfully how they came a het. yat that bank Pacifio a hole in I through unoertainty SAW some Aapot uv a8 Northern ; : RX Into the enrthly tr . ] Saan res They Rais iving at the rate of $35. 006 a month, leaping vn & San Francisco whar! because he not tinue to live at the same ratio, They saw the wizen and paralytio bankers who had changed thelr souls into molten gold stam pad with the image of the earthy, earthy, They saw some great souls by svarios tan t i, and they said to themeel ves vk after higher treasure Fron lid ant they walked or rode If ( then | nor whether they or in a hat iH they dwelt ofthe Almighty yy whether the robed in French broadcloth if they had the robe of the sousnens . aor If they wer andalied moro alfekin if they wore shod with the preparation of the Gospel, Now you ses peace on thelr intenance, Now that man says “What sa fool | was to be enchanted with this world, Why, | have more satisfy. thon In five minutes in the servies of Ged than Lhad in all the first years of my life while | was gaingettiog. | lke this evening of my day a groat deal better than I did the morning. In the morniag 1 greedily de. voursd the prey, but gow it Is evening, and Iam ously dividing the spoil.” My da, this world fs a poor thing to hunt, It ts healthtal to go out in the woods and bunt, It rekindies the luster of the eye, It strikes the brown of the sutGmnal leaf is. ‘to the oheni, It gives to the rheumatio limbs the strength to lsap like a ros, Christ North's pet gun, the muckiomon'd Mag, go ng of the alnyhue in the forest had its schon the winter time in the slogquenes that rang through the university halls of Edin. bs It ts Noslthy 16 go hunting ia the fields, but 1 tall you that it is be y Boman I will » that time they sre whether walked with Head In & ihder the riat ALE On shadow Y were mes pian right orm H Baviouars with 0 OF | on a late April | stamped with a vouring you. Bo It was with So twas with Coleridge. So It was with Catherine of Russia, Henry II went out hunting *or this world, nnd its lances struck through his heart, Francis 1. aimed at the world, but the nssassin’s dagger put an end to his ambition and his life at one stroke, Mary Queen of Boots wrote cn the window of her onstle Lord Byron, From (he top of al! my trust Mishap hath laid me ln the dost, The Queen Dowager of Navarre was oTerod for her waaaing aay a costiy and beautiful pair of gloves, and she pat thew on, but they were polsonsd gloves, and theytook her life, Better a bare hand of cold privation than a warm and poisoned glove of ralnous success, “Oh,” says some young man inthe audience, “I believe shat you are preaching. I am golog to do that very thing. Inthemorning of my life I am going to devour the prey, | and in the evening I shall divide the spoils of Christian charactédr, I only want a litle while to sow my wild oats, and then I will be good.” Young man, did you ever take the census of all the old people? How many old people are there in your house One, two or none? How many in » vast assemblage like this? Only here and thero a gray head, like the pafelies of snow here and there in the flelds day. The fact Is that the tides of the years are so strong that down under them before they getto be before they get to be fifty, before they be forty, before they get to be thirty you, my young brother, resolve now that will spend the morning of your days in de vouring the pray the probability is that will never divide the spoils in the « : He who postpones until old « Of Jesus VNnst px nes it ore sro the men wi thirty years tians in old timber of The ralir explosion, or Indder, « tp failing And the sald To-night gayety of God strack the wore de irl prey, but 1 saw als in the food of tears. and in the kindling raptures elt brow, and ia their exhilarant and transport. ng utterance, that they were dividing the yf thelr srel that whe they spe : If you have been in this bulldi Mahts are struck sf pight, you with one tou { slectricity the blazed I would to God that the ness night bs broken ug that by overwhelming netanta neous ingtion You might be brought into th and the Hberty of the sons of God You see that religion 8 a different thing from what » 1 people suppose thought It was a decadenes You 1 religion was maceration You though was highway roblery that It struck down and left him half dead ; that it § out the eyes | that it plucked out the | ame of the souls that # broke the wing » crushed the at it ene clawing with | black talons through the sir. No, that = no religion What is religion? It i» dividing the spoil It is taking a defonaclons soul and panoply ing It for sternal conquest, It isthe distribu. tion of prizes by the king's band, every medal soronstion, It is an exhilar ation, expansion, It is imparadisation. It i= enthronemen! Religion makes a man master of earth, of desth and hell, Jt goes forth to gather the medals of victory won by Prines Emanael, and the diadems of heaven, and the glory of realms terrestrial and oles. tial, and then, after ranging all worlds for everything that is resplendent, it divides the . v What was it that James Turner, the fa. mous English ovangelist, was doing when in his dying moments he sald Christ is all! Christ Is all?” Why, he was entering into light, Ma was rounding the Cape of Good Hope, Me was dividing the spoil. What was the i Christian -Quakeress doing when at y years of age she arose in the meeting one day and sald i “The time of my ¢ ure In come, My. ve olothes are nlling off?" Ris wan pid ing the spoil. 7 Bhe Longe! away And mix Bi Md Ad py What is Daniel now doing, the lion tamer, the Baming Oh { your son fe quick flash me ik chains made kings vistime of flood fire and wreek and guile jotine—whore are they? Dividing the spoil, EE | tian! | the distribution will not be sompleted to all { etornity. | Christian chara | wonkness, thoug | forall the doad “is fin lehed, ab 1s finished, Their fight with death saul sin. Life nigh your golden gates And let the victors io Oh, what n grand thing it isto be a Chris We begin now to divide the spoil, bat There Is n poverty struck soul, there is a business despolled soul, there is a ain struck soul, there is a bereaved soul why do you not come and get the spoils of tor, the comfort, the joy, the peace, the salvation that I nm sent to offer you in my Muster hough your § DAI ku inock together in hand tremble in fear, though your eyes rain tears of uncon. trollable weeping—come and get the spoil Rest for all the weary, Pardon for all the guilty, Resenoe for all the bestorms 5 Life I verily believe that there me who have come in here downoast them, and bos against who your ore 8G because the world is against muse they feel God is will go away saying: Loeame 10 Jesus as {Ww " Weary and worn # ad I found in Him a resting place, And He has made ine glad them, Though you came in children ofthe world, you may go away heirs f heaven, Though this very autumnal morning you were dee youring the prey, now, all worlds witness. lng, you may divide the spoil. I SELECT SIFTINGS. Portugal's erown is worth RG, 500, 000, roval An Arctic owl was recently captured n Freeport. Me, A man in Norway, Me., raised nine large pumpkins from one seed. A Philadelphia hat least profit is in sellin dealer says his g silk hats, On an average a locomotive engineer travels 20,000 miles in Year HAVA Savage Precautions Against Polson. : [a Madagascar ing all wr mation country are di are g latest infor he fth Malagnesy oh Resident affairs are kept pense and anxiety on mental and physical Primes Minister, known that condition of Rainilaiarivony E I who is the | Ranava is the great African isian i. i to be some nsort In this man, NATAL Prince ( politics f the is alleged, by Mr, Kingdon, & supposed British political agent, Rainilaiarivony bias jived in perpei dread poisone i. He is an old man, extremes ly TY of be shrewd. and he is taking extraordinary precautions against his enemies day, morning snd evening, there may from the palace to the market place a a strange group composed of Radilfera, a son of the Premier ; Ratiloferor, his grandson and heir presumptive; Ra kotomeus, s nephew of the Queen, and some other naar relatives On the passing of these high personages, amid of “Tanila! Tanila!" (“get out the way, everybody makes room and uncovers respectfully, They carry beneath their lambes, or long, shirt-like vestments, the pigeons and the milk which are now the daily food of the Prime Minister Rainilaisrivony himself places the pigeons under the bedstead, and if no suspicious disorder attacks them withe in forty ‘eight hours he cooks and eats them As to the milk, it is tasted the cries of | daily by twelve persons, and not until | the following day, when he has seen | again these persons in good health, does the Premier drink it. He spends bis days in playing with toys, and is represented as having fallen into see- oad childhood. Sisto business is sus- pended, and merchants experience groat delays in securing the necessary permits for the transportation of their goods from one point of the island to another, — New York Tribune, - — Deer Hunting On a Bleyele, An Oregon man claims to be the first person to go deer hunting on s bioy- elo. The inflated tire on his wheel al- lowed of his traveling swiftly and noiselessly over the ground strewn with pine needles and before he peddied many los he stu u ua a ng qm wi of him, He Yitted the animal abd returned lo the hoial with ii siuny | over his ing | ; i Every { persevering ni be seen passing along the road leading | SABBATH SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL LESSON DECEMBER 10, FOIL Lesson Text: “The Heavenly heritanece,’”” 1 Peter |, 1-12 Fext: Col. 1, 13 Commentary, Golden 1. "Peter, nn {he strangers npostio of Jesus Christ, to wtteared throughout Pontus, Galstin, Cappadocia sin and Bithyania he writer the episties know but master they are elther servants or of Jesus Christ and being controlled by the Spirit they glorify Him (Math xxill., 8 fohn xvi., 14 Their aim Is to fellow strangers to be holy in thelr ull of good works that God may be hapter §1,, 11, 1% 2. "Elect according to the of God the Father, through the spirit, unto obed the hiood of wid peace be tion is the oh thesn chosen one npost les help their lives snd glorified rest that they spacial servi I he axoceedis pence is give may be un vosived Hin 1 have not 1 Dan. §..2 y soma to be the sense not any oareless reading r fcial study, rather a day m1 meditation as in Ps, | gn prayerin ring paring of Beriptumn Seripture in absolute and Hanes upon the Holy Spirit 11. “Searching what or what manner the Bpirit of Christ whic h was in them did super 1 night and with ree onstant depe ndence tims { signify when it testified beforehand the suf ferings of Christ and the glory that should follow.” Here is the fact stated that the Bpirit of Christ was in the prophets and may give some light upon chap ter Il 18.30, for the Spirit of Christ was in Noah “The tes. timony of Jesus is the spirit t prophesy” { Rev, xix. , 10) Here is also the fact that the burden of prophecy is the sufferings of Christ and the glory yet to be revealed, See this lasteated fully in Ps. xxil, and Isa Hil, as specimen chapters iy His suffering wo ars now redeemed, but we wait for the glory to be reveaied 12, "Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us, thay did min. fster the things which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven, which things the angels desire to look into.’ tering unto others, toring spirits, Even the not to be ministersd unto, but #pirit it will be our delight to nels of blessing to others, Some things we, Hike the phets, way have to puta on to others without fully comprehending them, the fall unaerstanding heink only for millen~ nial or later days. 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