REV. DR. TALMAGE. SUNDAY’S SERMON IN THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Bubject: “The Dangers of Pessimism." “I sail in my haste, All men are | YeePsalm cxvi,, 11. Swindled, betrayed, persecuted David, in a paroxysm of petulance and rage, thus {n- sulted the human race. fled when he said, “All men are liars.” voked, and that he was hasty when he harled such universal denunciation, “Isaid in my thaste,” and so on. It was in himonly a mo- mentary triumph of pessimism, There is ever and anon, and never more than now, a disposition abroad to distrust everybody, and because some bank employes defraud to distrust all hank employes, and yme police o%ours have taken bribes to be Bove that all policemen take bribes, and be- wause divoreo cases are in the court te be- Lieve that most, if not all, marriage relations are unhappy. There are men who seem rapidly to adopt this creed: All men sconndrels, thieves, libertines When a case of perfidy to the surface, these people clap their hands in glee, It gives ey to their breakfast if the morning 03 A Dew exposure or a grow fat on vern iy join the d 8 in hell in jubliation « recreancy and lution, it arrested is proved cen is disaj pointment evil than g« ferring carrion. rommitiee mas soma tures, pre- 10y woul ike to be on 1ething wr . They «+8 have vented t, and sar trumpets have the hearing, a corre- might be invented for arer a malodor, ! the church, “The ma- mbers are hypocrites, ral advantage to be a , and therefore there sponding instr the nose, to br Pessimis: Jority he 1 although it is no te member of the churel 18 no temptation to hypoerisy. Pess| says that the influence of newspapers 1s « bad, and that they are corrupting the wi | the Iact is that they are the mig! rrest of erime and the sp 1 the printin ng t X Ired and nine responsible pec ple unt r ag % Are trues to their It is seldom that a! ros nalhi ity Are Loers their aith is well n pin's worth of that mas t for thoms ¢, though with skilful pen they might have enriched and built their country seats on the t the Ha i which bel INKS C nature t} well, wrong. B the familie the most of tl for each o her uf and may have occasional diffe and there a season s of IDArriage have sotion. The rences, and here of pout, but the vast ma jority of thos in the conjugal relation eh the most aporopriate eompanionship, and are happy in that relation, You hear nothing of the quictude and happiness of such a homes, though nothing but death will them | part. But makes the ears of of a hemisphere, alert, The one letter that ought never to have been written printed In & newspaper makes more talk than the millions letters that erowd the postoffices and weigh down the ons sound of marital discord of mall carriers with expressions of honestlloys, | Tolstol, the great Russian author, Is wrong when he prints a book for the depreciation of marriage, I! your observation has put you in an attitude of deploration for the marriage state, one of two things is true In regard to you. You have either been un fortunate In your acquaintanceship, or you yourself are morally rotten, The world, as rapid as we wonld Mke, but still with long strides. is on the way to the scenes of beatitude and plots The is wrong, spleen, gnllory, where Isaiah has set up the pletures of arboroscence, girdhing the world with eadar and fir and pine and boxwood and the lion led by mn child, and St, John's plotures of waters and treos, and white horse cavalry, man who eannot either in his heart a and tears wiped away, and trumpets blown | and harps struck, and nations redeemed, While there are 10,000 things I do not Mke, I have not seen any discouragem: n for the eause of God for twenty-five years The kingdom is coming. The earth is pre- ring to put on bridal array. Wen getting our anthems and grand marches ready, In our hymnology we shall have more vee for “Antioch” than for "Wind. EE —— David himself falsi- | Heo | apologizes and says he was unusually pro- | because | | really touty 4 { fort, { Obrist {in sermon, | living example I" a continent, and perhaps | not | follicity whieh the Bible de. | this | or liver or | Look at the great Bible ploture | to | ham,” for “Ariel® than for ‘Naom!l® Tet “Hark, From the Tombs a Doleful Ory ™ be submerged with “Joy to the World, the Lord is Come!" Really, if I thought the | human race wore as determined to be bad and getting worse, ns the pessimists repre- | sent, { would think it wus hardly worth | saving, Ifafter hundreds of years of gos- | pelization no improvement has been made, { lot us give it up and go at something else besides praying and preaching, My opinion is that if we had enough faith in quick results and could go forth rightly | | equipped with the gospel call the battle for | God and righteousness would end with this | nineteenth century, and the twentieth | century, only five or six yoais off, would be- gin the millennium, and Christ would | rolgn, either in person on some throne set | up between the A nity and the Rookies | or In the institutions of merey and grandeur | set up by His ransomed people. Discouraged work will meet with defeat, Expectant and | buoyant work will gain the victory. Btart out with the idea that all men are lars and | scoundrels, and that everybody is as bad as | | he ean be, and that soolety, and the church, | and the world are on the way to demolition, | and the only use you will ever be to the world will to increase the value of | lots in a cemetery, Wo need a mors | cheerful front in all our religious work, People have enough trouble already and do not want to ship another cargo of trouble 0 shape of religiosity If religion has to you a peace, a defense, an inspira- i nnd a joy, say so, by word of mouth, by pen in your hund, by face {lla mined with a divine satisfaction If this world is ever to be taken for God, it will not by groans, but by halleluiahs, It wo resent the Christian religion is, In its true tiveness, all the uid aocept it, and accept it right sitios, the nations would ery that, give It to us in all hts mag and gracious power! Put that salve on our wounds! Throw back the shutters for that morning light, Knock off these chains with that sliver hammer! Give us Christ—His pardon, His peace, His com His heaven! Give us Christ in song, Christ in book, Christ in be f he ould ns It attra peopio Ww AWAY, holy of actles religion has never [ progress, As a tech more than it irradiates, As is an awful fallure, jut as a forcement, as a transfigura thing that ever touched the As a systoen gained nicality it bofogs a dogmatism i one mightiest y heave! it in life of oa , and n i na 1 lays w 1 senate at t} “MM At wher { the ‘) 100 at the tal $10 the | zone up to look we she archant who has been in business | should say forty or fifty years, During an old-fashioned revival o religion in boyhood he gave his heart to God. He did not make the ghastly and in finite and everlasting mistakes of sowing | “wild oats,” with the expectation of sowing good wheat later on {oe realized the fact | that the most of those who sow ‘wild oats’ never reap any other crop, He started right | and has kept right. He went down In 1857, | when the banks failed, but he talled honestly and never lost his faith in God, Ups and | downsa--he sometir Innughs over them but whether losing or gaining he was grow. ing better all the time, Heo has been In many business ventures, but he never ventured the | experiment of gaining the world and los ing his soul, His name was a power both In the ehureh and In the business world, He has drawn mores checks for contri butions to asylums and churches and sehoois | than any one, excopt God, knows. He has | kept many a business man from falling by | lending his name on the back of a note till the crisis was past, All heaven knows about him, for the poor woman whose rent he paid | in her last days, and the man with consump. tion in the hospital to whom he sent flowers | and the cordials just before aseention, and | the people he encouraged in many ways, af | tor they entered heaven kept talking about | it, for the Immortals are neither dea! nor | dumb, Well, it Is about time for the old | merchant himself to quit earthly residences, As It Is toward evening, he shuts the sale, puts the roll of newspapers in his pocket, | thinking that the family may like to read them after ho gots home, He folds up a #8 bill and gives it to the boy to carry to one | of the oar men who got his leg broken and | cigars, lace, ote, and then the false may be in need of a little money; puts a stamp on a ‘letter to his grandson at college, br letter with good advice, and an Inclostire to make the holidays bappy, then looks | around tha store or offles and says to the clerks, ‘‘Good evening," and starts for home, stopping on the way at a door to ask how his old friend, n descon in the same church, is getting on since his last bad ate tack of vertigo, He enters his own home, and that Is his last evening on earth, He does not say much, No last words are necessary, His whola HD has heen mn testimony for God and righteou ness, More people would lke to attend his obsequies than any house or church would hold, The oMeiating clergyman be- kins his romarks by quoting from the psalm. ist, “Help, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth, for the faithful fall from among the children of men." Every hour in heaven for all the million years of eternity that old merchant will see the result of his earthly benefleencs and fidelity, while on the street wheres he did business, nnd in the orphan asylum in which he was a director, and in the church of which he was an officer, whenever his gen- Inlity and bensfiocence and goodness ars re- ferred to, bank director will say to bank di- rector, and merchant to merchant, and neighbor to neighbor, and COhristisn to Jhristinn : “That is religion, Yes, that ie religion." There ila an man seated or standing very near you, Do not look at him, for it might be unnecessary embarrassment Only a few minutes ago he camo down off the steps of as happy a homo as there is In this orany olty, Fifteen years by reason of lissipated habits, hishome was a horror to y and ehlldren, What that woman went ugh with io order to preserve respect bility and hide her hus tragedy whish It w poare or Victor Hug \ ofte ter t nev t was #8, he saw a sign 1 Men's Chri sing Fer Men : ou went in 1d sat world, it for the a I do tt tha Have — " Invented the Artificial Leg. 600 Mar street, Philadelphia, lives Frank Des although over seventy vears ol 1, has beon inventing fe. Mr. Deschamps is of twenty In a quaint old house shall 0 at namps, who ' iy lives ail models and econtriv ywn meals, acts as his wn housekeeper, and is as the dav is long. Mr. Descha an of artificial It was over fifty years ago when Mr. Deschamps, then an apprenti was asked by his master to see what he could do for a foppish Frenchman who had lost a leg, At that time only wooden legs known, and the Frenchman was dissatisfied with this by no means elegant substitute, In two days young Deschamps had fin. ished a complete model of an artificial leg, with every movement of the na- tural limb duplioated. His master had it patented, and it yielded him » fortune. *‘I got fifty cents out of it," Isughingly remarked Deschamps, “The Frenchman gave me that and told me to go over to Smith's Island and enjoy myself, And I thought I was in great luck." 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