REV. DR. TALMAGE rms, THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN- DAY SERMON. Subject: “The Quick Feet.” TEXT: “When Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Harodias damoed before them | and pleased Herod, "—Matthew xiv., 6. It Is the anniversary of Herod's birthday, Tho palace is lighted, The highways lead- Ing thereto are all ablags with the pomp of invited guests, Lords, captains, merchant princes, the mighty men of the land, are coming to mingle in the festivities. The table is spread with all the luxuries that royal purveyors oan gather, The guest, white robed and anointed and perfumed, come in and sit at the table. Musfe! The jesta evoke roars of laughter, Riddles are propounded, Repartoe 18 indulged. Toasts are drank, The brain is befogred. The wit rolls on into uproar and blasphemy. They are not satisfied yet. Turn on more light, Pour out more wine. Music, Sound all the trumpets, Clear the floor for a daneo! Bring in Salome, the beatuiful and accomplished princess, The door opens, and in bounds the daneer. The lords are enchanted " Btand back and make room for the brill. lant gyrations! These men never saw such “poetry of motion.” Thelr soul whirls in thé reel and bounds with the bounding feet, Herod forgets crown and throne and every. thing but the faseinations of Salome. Allthe magnificence of his realm is as nothing now compared with the splendor that whirls on tiptoe before him. His body sways from side to side, corresponding with the motions or the enchantreas, His soul is thrilled with the pulsations of tha feet and bewitohed with the taking postures and sttitudes more and more amazing, Af- ter awhile he sits in enohantad silences look- ing at the flashing, leaping, bounding bean- ty, and as the dance closes and the tinkling cymbals ceaseto elap and the thunders of applause that shook the palaces begin to abate the enchanted monarch swears to the prinesly performer, “Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me I will give it thee, to the half of my kingdom.” Now, there was in prison at that time a minister of the gos- pe of the in the Baptist, and he ad been making a great deal of trou“le by preaching some very plain and honest sere mons, He bad nead the sins of the king and brought down upon him the wrath of the females of the roval ks shold, At the instigation of her mother Salome takes advantage of the extravagant promise of the king and says, “Bring me the head of John the Baptist on a dinaer plate.” Hark to the sound of feet outside the door and the eclat of swords! The execution. ers are returning from thelr awful errand. Open the door! They enter, and they pre sent the platter to Salome. What is on this platter? A new g of wins to continua the aproarious No, Something redder and costlier—the ghastly, bleeding bead of John the Baptist, the death glare still in the eye, the locks dabbled with the ore, the features distressed with the i agony, This woman, who had fully in the danee, bend den without a shudder, blood, and with as indifference as a Waiting maid mi take a tray of empty glassware out of the room after an ontar- tainment Salome carries the disgeveras 1 head of John the Baptist, while all the bangusters shout with ter and think it agood joke that in so ensy and quick a way they have Rot rid of an earnest an 1 outspoken minister of the gosne;. You will all admit, whatever yon t unk of that style of amusement and exeraise, tha from many cireles it has srow Ind out all it telligent conversation. You will also admit that it has made the condition of those who do not dance, either because they do not know how or because they have not the heaith to endure it, or beeruss through son- eetentious scruples they wist decline the ex. ercise, very uncomfortable. You will also admit, all of you, that it has passed in many cases from an amusement to a dissipation, and you are easily able to un bewilderment of the bo, standing in the there was dancing goin and the guests seer the proprietor of the house and don't you allow your servants to on? You are also willing to ad + Whatever your idea in regard to the amusement that am speaking of, and whatever be of the old fashioned square dan many of the proe nal romps An see n trative of ot all respectable circles perament and religious 4 the position taken by all those who rifled at playfulness on the part 1 who think | questions are questions of decency and morals by the position of the feet, while on the other hand, I ean see nothing but ruin poral and eternal, for those who xo ats dissipations of social Hasipations w have already des; thousand men and y women of all useful in life, oung in character and graceful art to the Daned body adjusted instrument nati measure of m yaeht name of Jo denon EE 158 merriment? still whirlad so grace. 8 over the awful burs She gloats overthe mueh she inug erstand the ® and ol which [ “ey an ir in fan nn { the tha life wolled ng is otion soun i or ms have that Cast art to the Lacedm or started It all el ’ have adopted it In ancient times wey naa tne lestal dance, the military danee, the medlitorial dance, the bac chanalian dance, and queens and lords swayed to and fro in the gardens, and the rough backwoodsman with this exarcise awakened tho echo of the forest. There is something in the sound ot lively musie to evoke the movement of the hand and foot, whether cultured or un- cultured. Passing down the street we unconsciously keep step to the sound of the brass band, while the Christian in church with his foot beats time while his soul rises upon some great harmony. While this is so in eivilizsd lands, the red men of the forest have their scalp dances, their green corn dances, their war dances. In ancient times the exercise was so utterly and completely depraved that the church anthematized it. The old Christian fathers exprossed them. solves most vehemently against ft, St, COhrysostum says: “The feet were not given for daneing, but to walk modestly ; not to leap impudently, like camels.” One of the dogma's of the ancient church reads : “A dance fs the devil's possession, and he that entereth into a dance entersth into hig ession, 0 dancing, so many pases does he make to bei.” Elsewhere the old dogmas declared this : dance is the princess of the devil, and those usionl human voles The Ane Pollux tauent nians, But w : that answer are har clerks, and the beholders | ars his friends, and the musie is his bellows, and the fiddlers are the ministers of the devil. Yor, as when hogs are strayed, if the hogsnerd call one, all assemble together, so | when the devil ealleth one woman to sing | In the danoe, or to play on some musical in. struments, presently all the dancers gather together.” This indlsoriminate and univer. sal denunciation of the exercise came from the [net that it was utterly and completely depraved, Boclal dissipation is the abettor of pride, It is the Instigator of Jealousy, It is the sae. rificial nitar of health, It Is the defiler of the soul, It Is the avence of lust, and it is the ctirse of every town on both sides of the sea, Booial dissipation! It may be hard to draw the line and say that this Is right on the one #lde and that is wrong on thy other side, It is not necessary that we do thet, for God Las put a throne in every man’s soul, and I ap peal to that throne to-day, When a man does wrong, he knows he does wrong, and when ho does right he knows he does right, and to that throne, which Almighty God MHfted in tha heart of evory man sod woman, I appeal, As many paces as a man makes | “The woman that singeth in the | the | no As to the physical 3g wrought © dissipations of sosial Fthere ean doubt. What may we fot of peoples who work all day and daghll night? After awhile they will bo thigh on moclety ner- vous, exhausted imbdfs, Those ple who indulge in the sup and the midnight revels and them go hf in the cold un- wrapped of limbs will @ awhile be found to have been written df in God's eternal | records as suloides—aqgghoh suloides as if | they had taken their W§with a pistol or a | knife or strychnine, How many people hal | ballroom info the grave | and swift neuralgias ar | Amid many of the glitt | Ife diseases stand right and chain, The breat floats up through the pe of Death's lips bubbles I am told that in some psants who have actu eoping and gone to ho give thelr time {1limita tions, I have known known family alter fa way in one of the preaches 1. Father and moks upon all quiet gure and all the amenities of homed leading forth | their entire family ine wrong dr tion. Annihliated —wosfthan analnilated, for there are somo this nr hilation., I give you than one family when I the dissipations of soela dropped Into a lower and after awhile the sor soclety a nonsntity, ar gal daughter eloped with a 32 f ter, and after awhile theghther, got further and further in @urs, tries the wrinkles, but fails iol: atte all the arts of the belle id flirt, miserable butterfly wit! ny wing If there is anything ofearth bes me, it isan aged w | flowing back over the vy not white with frost, as white with the bl { the tree of in her wolce the tendghess of gracio memories, her face a bendiction, As gra mother passes through t room ! children pull at he falls in her weakness, Nn but eandy or cake or skind worl for th little darlings, When ab wets out of °° wagon in front of thefouse, the family rush out and §r “Grand come!” And w he § never to return, there {hh shadow table, and a shadow onthe h shadow on the topped from the 1¥ Consumptions so on thelr track, g soones of social i loft and balance f tho sopulcher ma. and the froth n the champagne, 16 oities thore are given up house ing that thoy may to social dissipa- ih enses, I have y blasted In that oitles whers I her turning thelr Ofr mpt, YRRO TY thing vway from nu 1A, | spirit There Is no m than when 1 age, own of g talons Bat if to see an o u Applian sos she fs ¢ I laugh even In « manity. And ifthe life of a w | Lae life of a disciple given to the world, is sad thacloseof sucha life kgimply a trage ¥. Let me tell you that the dssip ations of soolal life are despoiling the usfuiness of a vast muititude of people. What do t eare about the fact that thete are whole na- tions in sorrow and suffering and ag ny when they have for consideration the more important question about He size of a glove or the tie of a cravate? Whi ever bound up the wounds of the hospital? Whish one of them weat out to sare for the poor? Whie r y you find ia the baunts of sin distri ng tracts? Toey live on themselves, and it is very POOT pasture, Sybaris was a great oity, and it once sent out 500 in battle, They had a hose people sh one of them yar 3 » ” horsemen | minstrel who had ta La the horses of tho | ATIYY 8 rent tric, and when the ony min. strel piayed a certain tune the horses would rear aad with their front feet seemed to boat time to the musie, Vell, the old minstrel was offend wilh his comuntiry he went D 4 he ens the nr troop ean other minstre at the horsem , the horses reas musio with their for grace and rou friends, I | minstrels qf 1 pation, the have defeat est figh Jost the : Oh, what a belittling process mind this everiasting question alot this discussion of fasulo this group, looking a non wondering with an inf ity how that last geranium leal does look, this shriveling of man's moral dignity until it is not observable to the naked eye, this Span- ish inquisition of a tight up of an fmm ing off of an Ir when God created it for fog uplifting! With maay UI a masquerade at such entertainments at the lass, ot rial soul io a rafils, this piteh- rant and everiast a is as geatiemen and ladies put on the gard of kings and queens | or mountebanks or elowrs, nul at the closes put off the disguises, so a great many pass their whole life in a mask, taking off the mask at death. While the masquerade ball of life goes on they trip merrily over the floor, gemmed hand 1s stretched to the gemmed band, and gles gleaming brow, On wi and rustle and laught merrymaking | But after awhile the comes on the limbs and Lights lower, Floor he echo, Music satdeneo lower. Now the the dim HNeht, the dance | o! immeasuribie languor of lars the eyesigh Ww with sepulebra’ 1 into a wall, Maskers are Now the fragrance of the flowars is like the sickening odor that comes | from garlands that have lain long in the vaalts of cemateries, Lights lower. gather in the room. GHassos shake as thou quaked by sullen thunder, the curtain, of beauty Bear! drops from the shioalder a shroud Lignts lower, Jealousien, envies, rovenges, lust, and death, Stench the lamp wicks almost extinguished. Torn garments will not halt cover the ulearated feet, Choking damps, Chiliiness. Foot still, Hands closed. hushed, Eyes shut. Lights out. Oh, how many of you have float from God through social lissipations, and it Is time you turned, for | remember thet thers weretwo vessels on the sea in a storm, It was very, vary dark, and the two vossols were going straight for sash other, and the captains know it not, But after awhile the man on the lookout saw the approaching ship, and ho shouted, “Hard a-larvoard I* and from the other vessel the ory went up, “Hard a-larboard I” and they turned Just enough to glance by and pasesd in safety to their harbors, Some of you are In the storm of temptation, and you are driving on and coming toward feartul colilslons unless you change your course, Hard a-larboard | Turn yo, turn ye, for “why will ye die, O hous: of [sraol?" od far away A ——— The Chestnut Crop. Although no tosh of frost has appears] In New Jorsoy as yot this season, the now erop of chestnuts is being gathered. The burrs are open, only waiting the touch of frost to releass the nat, The orop ls smaller than those of many previous years, and much of it has been destroyed by worms, The worms attack the nuts immadiately upon the opening of the burrs aad befors thoy fall to the grows L SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR OCTOBER 14. Lesson Text: “The Draught of Fishes,” Luke v., 1-11—Golden Text: Mark 1., 17—-Com-~ mentary, 1. “And it same to pass that, as the people ressed upon Him to hear the word of God, 10 stood by the lake of Genaesareth.” After He was expelled from Nazareth, as we saw in last week's lesson, He for a time made Capernaum His contre (Math, fy., 18) that prophecy might be fulfilled, About that time Andrew and Peter, James and John received a eall to follow Him and did so (Math, fv, 18-22), Among the manv siek and suf. fering whom Ha healed In Capernaum were the man in the synagogue with an unclean and tha mother of Bimon's wife, Throughout all Galilee He healed all man- ner of disease and proached the gospel of the kingdom, so that His fame spread avery- where (Math, fv. 28.28) In the midst of this popularity to-day's lesson finds Him preaching to the people hungering for the wor | { Galllea's sea, From in fifteen Bible held in as many different cities and J I me m 2000 to 85000 ink tf weather, I nll preachers and still hunger for the y should there be a fam- nos vill,, 11, 12). “And saw two ships standing by the it the fishermen were gone out of | wore washing their nets,” This is H{fferent incident from that in Math, for therethe men were in theships, ) ing a net ‘and two mending teresting it is that all we seen and noted, and the Spirit thinks it while to record whether these men washing or mending or easting their If we would live always as under the ' of the Lord, what a difference it might on the shore o sont experience ole yO he Wi ed into one of the ships, on's, and prayed him that he And out of must always a vessel, consider y one it 1 lait Ha unch out into a casting would surely vd bear fruit to th NE anil the op draft.” He net for Become for r nats ) the bean using { bert ! A (I Cor, xv., 8 6 “And hosed net br WAYS ac i workemth therow not ! wonld ike or wish, | what H leases, He ntrols i and fishes mare sasliyfthan men, for they not resist Him. In the LEU TPeclion foeidont the Ber a0 not Break TTONA xi, beckoned anto their part. 11}. Consider wiry. 1. they fn the other ship that they And t ways be aven oF oR shoe, this bind ng | zortal nature over the rooks ! bail, and | ing brow bends to | Flush | death i Lights only seen in Mists | gh | Sigh eaught in | Over | the slippery boards in dance of death glides | despair | Volos | ble inflaitesimals, | earnestness | if ourselves, we in order to have all wn and be ow that in no good yd all that »f the fishes All their night's nothing, but now, net, both boats are What an {lines loo "The Lless- rich, and toll If wo would only under His control, nplish through us | , and there is nothing ng thereto I” aiwass and wholl ich He might ae * is wonder. r Hin s alan Jax oth note es and John, the re partners with i unto Simon Fear slorth thou shalt eateh partnerships are belplul four were, but we ivold all partnerships with the IT Cor 14.18 Esteom above things the paninership with this ry same in our lesson 80 blessos these men, for He condescends to Jet us be laborers with Him (I Cor. 11, 9). 11, “And when they had brought their ships to and they forsook all and followed Hin On previous occasion it is written that they left thelr nets and followed Him tmaio, Iv, 20), but now they torsook all, Yet, after the resurrection, we find some of them, at Peter's suggestion, tolling at their nets again, but fraltiessly, It was on that ocension that Jesus sald to Bimon, “Lovest thou Me mor« than these?” (John xxi. 8, 15.) Lesson Helper which w Nn *lin a Esrthis in the Lord, as these 4 men," if oddly Jesus, who Te Revival in the South. A Chattanooga (Tenn) bank President, who is sald by his corrmpondent In New York City tive bank ofMoers and best in the Bouth, writing of the business oat look, sald: “The outlook for business in thisseotion Is good. Money is searce and Is now in falr demand; but erops are magnificent, and the people are probebly nearer out of debt than In thirty years, Re- covery in confidence and fooling 1s ‘ow, but is growing.” pe Wheat Dispiacing Oats, The high prise of corn and the low pries of wheat bave eaused no little experiments tion In the use of wheat as a ration for horses, In the big stables of Armour & Co,, Chieago, a mixtare of hall wheat, halt corn was tried some weeks ago, and It fs ro. ported that the sxperiment has given com- plete satisfaction, Feed men are quoted as saying that not half the livary stables in Chicago ars using oats now, but are feeding wheat or mixtures instead, : udges of eradit 10 be one of the most conserva | SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL, By a new process wood is rendered | fireproof, Baoteria can exist in all fluids, acids | and alkalies, | The electrio light has been intro- | duced into the large villages of far-off Afghanistan. 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