REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN~- DAY SERMON. A———————— Subject: “Communion of Saints.” Text: “Then sald they unto him,.Say now shibboleth, and he said, sibboleth, for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then thoy took him and slew him at the pas- sages of Jordan."-—Judges xil., 6. Do you notice the difference of pronuncia- tion between shibboleth and sibholeth? A very small and unimportant difference, you say. And yet that difference was the diffor- ence between life and death for a great many pecple. The Lord's people, Gilead and phraim, got into a great fight, and Eph- raim was worsted, and on the retreat came to the fords of the river Jordan to cross, Or- der was given that all Ephraimites coming there be slain. But how could it be found out who were Epbraimites? They were de- tected by their pronunciation. Shibboleth was a word that stood for river, The Ephraimites had a brogus of their own, and when they tried to say ‘‘shib- boleth" always left out the sound of the “bh.” When it was asked that they say shib- boleth, they said sibboleth and were slain. “Then said they unto him, say now shib- boleth, and he said sibboleth, for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him and slew him at the passages of Jordan." A very small difference, you say, between Gilead and Ephraim, and yet how much intolerance about that small differ- erce! The Lord's tribes in our time—Dby which [ mean the different denominations of Christinns—sometimes magnifiy a very small difference, and the only difference be- tween scores of denominations to-day isthe difference between shibboleth and sibboleth, The church of God is divided into a great number of denominations, Time would fail me to tell of the Calvinists, and the Armini- ans, and the Sabbatarians, and the Baxteri- ans, and the Dunkers, and the Shakers, and the Quakers, and the Methodists, and the Baptists, and the Episcopalians, and the Lutherans, and the Congregationalists, and the Presbyterians, and the Spiritualists, and a seore of other denominations of religion- ists, some of them founded by very good men, some of them founded by very ego- tistic men, some of them founded by very bad men. But asl demand for mys sit liberty of conscience { must give that same liberty to every other man, remembering that he no more differs from me than I differ from him, I advocate the largest liberty in all religious belief and form of worship. In art, in poli- ties, in morals and in religion let there be no gag law, no moving of the previous quos- tion, no persecution, no intolerance, You know that the alr and the ter pure by constant ciremlation, and I t! there is a lency la religious discus to purifieatio “moral health, B the fourth ar the sixteent! church proposed to make aright by prohibiting discus strong censor gibbet and he make people ortho that you cannot « twisting off his he wats tween centuries the eyes, re is science which will that you threw upon it, a fire, out of the flame wil on which the martyr will In that time of whic fourth and sixteent nturies, from the house of God palling iniquity, and rig secrated altars there were tides of drunken-- ness and licentiousness such as the world pever heard of, and the very sewers ol per- dition broke loose and flooded the church, After awhile the printing press was fread. and it broke the shackigs of .the Lugen mind; THSR The s came a large number of 22 woks, and whore there was one man hostile tthe Christian religion there were twenty men ready to advocate it, so 1 have not any nervousress in regard to this battle going on between The trath will that God is stron error run if you it. Urged on scendentalist’s sg of wrath are in hot pursuit, an eagle's beak clu es out a God's vengeance will tear it to I propose 1 speak to you f sectarianism ={t8 origin, its evils and its are those who would make ) this monster, with horns and hoofs, is re- ligion. I shall it to its hiding piace and drag it out eaverns of darkness and rip off its hide. But I want to make a distinetion between bigotry and the lawiu fondness for peculiar religious beliefs an forms of worship. 1 have no admiration & nothingarian. In a world « and temptatic after awhile stand sufferable brightness, rocking of the mout the heavens and th gball be among the least of the « to give account every action, preference and dislike, t mad who has no religious prei« our early education, our physi mers, our mes sonstitation, much decide o rm of worshiy A style of psal y that may displease y He w a minister in gown and bands and and others prejer to have a minister in plain eitizen's apparel. Some are most impressed when a little child is presented at the altar and sprinkled of the waters of diction “‘in the name of the Father, an 1 the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,” and others are more impressed when the penitent comes up out of the river, his garments dripping with the waters of a baptism which signifies the washing away of sin. [ot either have his own way. One man Hikes no noise in prayer, not a word, not a whisper. Another man, just as good, prefers by gesti ulation and exclamation 10 express his devotional aspirations, One la just as goo i as the other, “Every man fully persua led in his own mind.” George Whitefleld was going over A Quaker rather roughly for some of his re- ligious sentiments, and the Quaker sald “iGGeorge, I nm ns thou art, I am for bring fng all men to the hope of the gospel. There. fore, if thou will not quarrel with me about my broad brim, 1 will not quarrel with thee about thy black gown, George, give mo thy band.” : In tracing out the religion of sectarianism or bigotry 1 find that a great deal of it comes from wrong education in tha home circle, There are parents who do not think it wrong to caricature and jeer the peculiar forms ot peligion in the world and denounce other pects and other denominations, It is very often the case that that kind of eduoation acts jast opposite to what was expected, and the obildren grow up, and after awhile go and seo for themselves, and looking in those churches and finding that the people are thers, and they love God and keep His commandments, by natural reaction they go and join those very churches. 1 could men- tion the names of prominent ministers of the pel who spent their whole lite bombard. other denominations, and who lived to geo their children preach the gospel in those denominations, But itis often the caso that bigotry starts in a household, and that the rubject of it never recovers. There are sens of thousands of bigots ten years old. I think sectarianism and bigotry algo rise from too great prominence ol any one denomination in a community denominations are wron nation Is right because the most wealthy, or the most po the most influentinl, and it is “four ¢HIATH and Your’ religious organization, and ‘four cholr, and “our” minister, and the man tosses his head and wants other denomina~ tions to know thelr places, It is a great deal Pottor in any community tid tia y skeptics « let it run, God’ 1 quieke hawk's pleces I . cures, us think that ‘hase it the of betore a throne ol a day whet for nperi- will very please me + . 1 uld like to have surpiice, a holy bene- of when the great denoaiinations of Christians are about equal in power, marching ssle by side for the world's conquest, Mere outalda prosperity, mere worldly power, {8 no ovi- dence that the church is acceptable to God, Better a barn with Christ in the manger than a eathedral with magnificent harmo- nies rolling through the long drawn aisle and an angel from heaven in the pulpit If there be no Christ in the chancel aud no | Christ in the robes. Jigotry is often the ohild of Ignorance, You seldom find a man with large intellect who is a bigot, It is the man who thinks he knows a great deal, but does not, That man is almost always a bigot, The whole ten. dency of education and elvilization 18 to bring a man out of that kind of state of mind and heart, There was In the far east a great obelisk, and one side of the obelisk was white, another side of the obelisk was green, avother side of the obelisk was blues, and travelers went and looked at that obelisk, but they did not walk around it, One man looked at one side, another at another side, and they came home each one looking at only one side, and they happened to meet, the story says, and they got into a rank quarrel about the color of that obelisk. One man sald it was white, another man sald it wag groen, another man sald it was blue, and when they were in the very heat of the goutroversy a more intelligent traveler came and sald: ‘Gentlemen, have seen that obelisk, and you are all right, and you are all wrong. Why didn’t you walk all around the obelisk?" Look out for the man who only sess one side of a religious truth, Look out for the man who never walks around about these great theories of God and eternity and the dead. He will be a bigot Inevitably—the man who only secs one side, ‘I'here 1s no man more to be pitied than he who has in his head just one idea—no more, no less, More light, less sectarianism. There is noth- ing that will so soon kill bigotry as sunshine -God's sunshine, Bo I have set before you what I consider to be the cause of bigotry. I have set before you the origin of this great evil, What are some of the baleful effects? First of all, it sripples investigation. You are wrong and [ am right, and that settles it. No taste for sxploration, no spirit of investigation. From the glorious realm of God's truth, over which an archangel might fly from eternity to eternity and not reach the limit, the man shuts himself cut and dies, a blind mole un- der a cornshock, It stops all investigation, Another great damage done by the sectar- lanism and bigotry of the « h is that it lisgusts people from the Chr religion, Now, my friends, the chure God was aever intended for a war barrak., People are afraid of a riot, You go down the street and you see an excitement and missiles fly- ing through the air and you hear the sho« f firearms, Do you, ful go lustrious citizen, aay reas the peace “Oh, no,” you will block.” Now, narrow path to he the ecclesiastic ad road, Th : sharpshooting on the narrow road ("ll try the broad road! Francis 1 so hated the . the AKS TLE Il be disgusted with the Cl : } 1 ralig 1 say, ‘lf that Is religion, [ want none of Azain, bigotry and sects a in the fact of the gospel, Aamm sndid intellect have g o controversial dis: ~ ven their life to so: might have been vastly while I speak, there were no iy re or would ery out: *‘National suicide ! 3 don't those forts blaze away in onadireation, and that against the common enemy “ And wos soo fn the church of the irist a strange golag on shureh, mb r against ienomina- rt, Or the roasted inition, Suppose, MNMONn enemy 36t through the would not have to-day Japtists were hurled " Those who were imprisoned, so offerod asking © the men who signed it ntolerance stopped The last statistics 95.000 churches ani3 Intolerance never put down anything. in England a law was made against the thrust back the Jew and lenis Jew should sition. eame of it? Were the Jows ¥ Was their religion overthrowne No! Who be eame prime minister of England? Who was next t5 the throne? Who was higher than the thr because he was counselor and adviser? Disraeli, a Jew. Jat were we colobrating in all our churches as well as synagogues only & few years ago’ The one hundredth birthday aoniversary of Monte fiore, tho great Jewish § In- tolerance never yet put d But now, my friends, having shown you the origin of bigotry or sectarianism, ai 1 having shown you the damage it does, i want briefly to show you how we are to War against this terrible evil, and I think we omght to began our war by realizing our own weakness and our imperfections. If we make 80 many mistakes in the common af fairs of life, is it not possible that we may make mistakes in regard to our re {gious affairs? Shall we take a man by the throat or by the collar because he cannot son re. gious truths just as wo de In the light of eternity it will be | hold pe toast roved? ne {lanthropist wa anything. und out, I think, there was something wrong in all our cree is and something right in all our ¢ioeds, jut since wo may make mistakes In regar ito things of the world do not let us be so agotistic and so puffed up as to have an idea that we can not make any mistake in regard to roiigious theories, And then, I think, we will doa great deal to overthrow the geciarian from our heart and the sectarianism irom the world by chiefly enlarging in those things in which wo agree rather than those fn whioh wo differ, Perhaps I might torcefully illustrate this truth by ealling your attention to an inol- dent which took piace about twenty yours ago. One Monday morning at about 2 o'elock, while her 000 passengers wore sound asleep in her berths dreaming of home, the steamer Atlantis crashed into Mars Head, Five hundred souls in ten minutes ianded in eternity! Oh, what a scene! Agonized men and women running up and down the gang- way and clutehing for the rigging, and the plunge of the helpless steamer and the clap ping of the hands of the merciless sea Over the drowning and the dead threw two conti nents into terror. But soo the brave quartermaster pushing out with the lifeline until he gots tothe rock, and seo these fishermen ins and wrapping them in the fisnnels snug and warm, and see that minister of the gos 1, with three other men, getting into a {feboat and pushing out for the wreok, ing away seross the sur! and pulling away until they saved one more man, and then getting back with him to the shore. Can those men ever forget that night, and oan they ever forget thelr eorapanionship in yoril, companionship in struggle, compan [onan in awfnl eatastrophe and rescue? Never! Never | In whatever part of the earth they meet they will be friends when they mention the story of that night when the At. lantio struck Mars Head, Well, my friends, our world has gone into a worse shipwreck. BABAR 4 SBA 0 Why gathering up the | shipwrecked and taking them into the oab- | pull- | Bin drove it on the rocks, The old ship has lurched and tossed in the tempest of 6000 yoars, Out with the lifeline! do not care what denomination earries it. Out with the lifeboat! I do not cars what denomination rows it, Side by side, in the memory of common hardships, and common trials, and common prayers, and common tears, lot us be brothers forever, Wao must be, And I expect to see the day when all de- nominations of Christians shall join hands around the cross of Christ and recite the creed : “I believe in God, the Father Al- | mighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and Jesus Christ, and in the communion of saints, and in life everlasting. Amen!” SABBATH SCHOOL SEPTEMBER 23, ——————— Lesson Text: “Danlel’s Abstinence,” Daniel §,, 8-20. -Golden Text Daniel §., 8 -Commen- tary. Once morawae have the choles ofa tempers ance or a missionary lesson, and, as usual, I choose without hesitation the missionary | firmly believing that to give the 208 { pel to every creature lesson, 8 speoadlly an possible | is the great desire of our Lord, and when a majority of believers get as full of the Spirit | as the drunkard gets full of strong drink everything will to them seem very trifling | when compared with the importance of the | Baviour's nmand, and his friends at Babylon were aim and | purpose, 1. “And of the stem of Jess out of his roots.” is that whether it Daniel men of one thera shall come forth a rod out », and a branch shall grow How very Interesting it 0 fa temperance or a mis- | to the everiasting I's glory (Isa, xivl,, » exalted Is the Prince | David's throne y , Go on and establish 6,7). The Ri up to David and will be a prosperous King, executing judgment an ‘0 in the earth in the days when Judah shall be saved and Israel xxiil,, 5, 6). ord shall rest and under and might, ithe fear } , in all , or, as in raised Fog in ust} shall dwell sal re h righteousness shall He judges reprove with equity for the meek of the earth, and He shallsss-~wike RSLS “BF HEIR TINT Ho alay the wicked.” The wholes story of “the suffer. | ings of Christ and tim glory that shall fol jow™ (I Pet, 1, 11 single passa all His tha 1» with 0 and shall stated in ok for the also shall be ! of 3 ftanlf There is no nesd to maka it mean that wmsts shall become and harmless as a application of it may But as to its interpreta. t no one separate it from its context, which ia clearly of Israel (voraes 11, 12), and the time of the kingdom ] id, and though when the urn from the far country ws i, 21). And the cow and the bear shall feed, Their young ones shall lis down together, and the lion shall sat straw like the ox.” Asin the garden of Eden, so shall it be in some measure during the thousand years and periectly in the new earth, is a story of earth with God delighting in it and in its inhabitants, Thus it begins and thus it ends, while the thousands of intervening years bet ween the fall and the restoesation are filled up with the record of such as walk with God during the waiting time and make Him known to others, or of those who rebal | against H and must share doom of His | enemies, The Bible is given to us that we mAy know God and make Him known to others, He works by His Spirit through His | word. | RB. ““And the sucking child shall play on the | hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall | put his hand on the cockatrice’s den.” The | author of all poison being bound in the pit, | his evil infinence shall not be felt those | thousand years, The venomous things shall be the playthings of children, and ‘the stroots of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing io the streets thereof” (Zoeh, vill, 5). 9. “They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.” As thoroughly ae water covers whatever it ean reach, so thoroughly shall the knowledge of the glory of the Lord cover the whole earth, Compare Num, xiv., 21, and Hab, 1i., 14, and see the prayer of David in Ps, Ixxii, 18, 19. Firs shall all Israel be saved at the coming of the Lord in His glory, when they look on Him whom they have plerced (Jer, xxxi., 83, 34, Isa. Ix., 21; Zeoh, xii, 10; xiii, 1), and then shall nations be blessed through them (Isa. xxvil., 6;1x., 8). The sooner the gospel is sreached to every creature will the church be completed and caught to meet the Lord fn the alr, which must take place before He ean come to the earth to reign, Before He can come in His glory many things must 00 eur, but before He comes to the air for His church wo know of nothing that must neces. aarily occur except the evangelization of the world sufllclently to complete His ohureh. Therefore let us with all possible speed give the gospel to every creature, — Lesson Helpon I This Year's Salmon COatoh. The bark Harvester has brought good news of the salmon run, Last year the cateh resulted in about 800,000 anses, and this year | it will amount to nearly at mach. If there is a heavy demand from England the price will advance, 21). his verse and y act Hike wild © as A pia i although that y be made, ntle ki i the restoration go i "one (Lake in he Bible IA portrait of Emily Bronte, the only ope known, has been recently discov- ced, Mary Frost Ormsby has for the fasrth time been appointed by the Aperican Peace Society a delegate to the peace congress. It meets in Ant- | vip. At a recent civil service competition far the position of sorter in the Eng- lith postofiice with a maximum pay of 29a week, thero were 608 female can- didates to fill ten vacancies, Sarah Grand, whose name by mar- ripge ig Mrs. C. BR. McFall, resides at Kensington, the London suburb, It igisnid that sho received only 8984 for the manuscript of “The Heavenly Twins,” Women with red or anburn hair, ble eyes and a bright color, should, says an artist, wear cream, white, blue- green, black, olive-green, pale yellow, gmay-green, bottle-green, and amber. A kind of interwoven with gilt or silver threads is frequently nsed as a lining for netor lace dresses, This is rather wiry of texture, but is vary firm, though semi-transparent, af- fording a very satisfactory foundation, stone-gray new ganze Miss Millicent Fawcett, the brilliant senior wrangler of 1800, is bégin a career engineer, her o« part in Miss Anise Do Barr, w daly neer. about to business as a civil | Chicago has accredited and practicing Some people in England are asking why Jean Ingel Pe ot laurent Sie Id fashion: I ndon, haire i YOATS. Mrs. Th lin En yw could not be the Living Ken and woman of The has been « Adrien Demont, better painter than her hus! is a danghter of thusgentitied by 11 rhit of an mriist, iusband. iles Breton, and is birth to be aie Mista Jog winter wear are flan consists usnally of a pinked ruille o the same. These skirts are made nen iy hike a dre ak lating » little tdlely i or ¥ } ron 14 and wh Tey re M Miri. 4 \ Miss Murt has ment of Agrienl Misa Eleanor He married danghter o has been roadmaster at J., where their sted, for several good one she has b S44 w r { country home years, and . $00 lias bes ele on road makin n wibuted to a New YX cently by Miss Hewitt, A soft gray or skirt well cut, and coat or bo lice sim ply made, accor ling to taste or re- quirement, can be hands mely trimmed with piece or ribbon ve lvet, moire, or bengaline, severally, accor ling to the selected style, and the result be stylish and Iadylike costume fit for any ordinary occasion. rk wos kly re- brown alpaca with n gociety ladies consult as- trologers, either to kill time or be- cause they have faith in the events foretold. Mrs. Dunlap Hopkins, of New York, quite frequently has her horoscope cast, paying for privilege about 810, She does not consult an ordinary seeress, but one who visits New York twice a year, Many made It is A novel French corset is silk net with elastic gores, low front, the lacing passing around small but very strong hooks instead of throngh metal rimmed eyelets, It is claimed that this corset can be laced to fit very snugly and with less discom- fort than with the old style of lacing. French women students do not seem to take to medicine, lectures, just made in Paris, of 155 on the list of the medical faculty only the 164 on the list of the faculty of under that of law, A fad with some of the fashlonable women is to have a dress album. This ponsists of a large blank book into gvery gown bought by the owner. The data recorded are the date of the pur- chase and its first wearing. As an offset opposite theso entries are the no less interesting ones of the cost price and the dressmaker’s bill for the same. this | of | out and rather short, and is laced in | In the enroll | ment of women attending university | sixteen wero of French birth, while of | letters 141 were French ; seven studied | under the faculty of science and three | which is pasted a two-inch square of | HE U. S. Government Chemists have reported, after an examination of the different brands, that the ROYAL Bak- ing Powder is absolutely pure, greatest in strength, and superior to all others. ROYAL BAKING POWDER COMPANY, 106 WALL 67, MEE AS ye ng ape J As “rw mr oe or Ll Ela fy No (y INE NLL SIAN o)D, Cruel Theit of Eider Down, ‘“Eider-down comfortables and soft | ( pillows are very nice things to have in | piness which some wise one’s house,” said D. L, Limbreck, of | lately disc | Batavia, N. 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