REV. DR. TALMAGE. BUNDAY'S SERMON IN THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Subject: *‘The Gospel Ship.” Texr: “Thou shalt come into the ark, thou ani thy sons and thy wife and thy sons’ wives with thee." Genesis vi., 18, In this day of the steamships Lucania and Majestic and the Paris I will show you aship | that in some respects eclipsed them all, and which sailed out, an ocean underneath and | another ocean falling upon it, Infldel scien tists ask us to believe that in the formation of the earth there have been a half dozen de- luges, and yet they are not willing to be- lieve the Bible storv of one deluge, In what way the catastrophe came we know not-whether by the stroke of a comet, or by flashes of Hghtning, changing the air into water, or by a stroke of the hand of God, like the stroke of the ax between the horns of the ox, the earth staggered, To meet the catas- trophe God ordered a great ship built, It was to be without prow, for it was to sail to no shore, It was to be without helm, for no human hand should guide it. It was a vast structure, probably as large as two or three | modern steamers, It was the Great Eastern of olden time, The ship is done. The door is open. lizards erawl in, The cattle walk in. grasshoppers hop in, The birds fly in. The invitation goes forth to Noah, “Come thou and all thy house into the ark." Just one human family embark on the strange voy- age, and 1 hear the door slam shut, A great storm sweeps along the hills and bends the cedars until all the branches snap in the gale, There is a moan in the wind like unto the moan of a dying world. The lackness of the heavens {s shatterad by the flare of lightnings, that lool into the waters and throw a ghastline the face of themountaing, How str rit lo ! How suffocating the air t I'he drops of rain begin to plash upon the up. turned faces of those who are watching the tempest. Crash! go the rocks in convulsion Boom! go the bursting heavens, The inhabi- tants of the earth, instead of flying to ho top and mountain top, as mer ave fancied, sit down in dumb, white horror to die. For when God grinds mountains to : lets the ocean slip its cable there is no for men to fly to. See the ark pitch and tum- ble in the surf, while from {ts wind« passengers look out upon the shipwreck of race and the carcasses cf a dead world. Woe to the mountains! Woe tothe sea! Iam noala When on the Beptem been blowing esy tha simply state a Neither ar storm is ¢ deluge was hn wisest and safest safely housed that went forth to Noah “Come thou and all thy h Well, how did Noah and Into the ark? Did they elin dow, or come down through the d to the ark of God’ Christ, the door, The old must have been » We know that it was f were monster animals in the earlier and in order to get them into the and two, according to the Bible the door must have been very wide and very high. Bo the door intothe merey of God is a large door. We go in, not two and two, but by hundreds, and by thousands and by mill- fons. Yea, all the Nations of the earth may go in, 10,000,000 abreast ! ; The door of the ancient ark was in side. So now it is through tne side of Christ ~the pierced side, the wide open side, the heart side—that we enter, soldier, (hrusting his spear into the Saviour's side, expected only to f The The Ks k fe big 156 ws the 20th ree day fror ages, ark, two statement, tha Oh, what a broad gospel to preach! If a man is about to give an entertainment, he issues 200 or 300 invitations, carefully put up and diYected to the particular ‘ whon he wishes to entertain. makes a banquet door of he over land enetrates the lsh factory, an “Come, for all fs a wide taken apart, for the doorposts, world on da) King, Rowlan into heaven door. But he After havin Chapel, g keaper erie lasting ga and The dying thief went and Robert Newton wer Africa, North and go through t Ing. Ho! ranks, all people! her said truth wi ron eéarrying on from Rome carrying all the heavens, Ho gav it Go hard Baxter 1 eo, Asia 3 NAY yet ns, all that Ones Knoes nk it worth , lot him 0 Archimedes wants place his lever, an nme that power all Nati Further, it fa a 4d ways, I not know the ancient ark was hinges, but this ways. It swings A swings in toward the raptures swings in to let us in; it sw ministering ones comes out, Christ—Christians on earth heaven, One army of the living God, At His command we bow, Part of the host have crossed the flood, And part are crossing now, Bwing in, O blessed door, until all the sarth shall go in and live, Swing out until Il our [ hea w ven. It ings out to let our All are one in { saints in Ana od; it all the heavens come forth to celebrate the | victory. But, further, it is a door with fastenings The Bible says of Noah, “The Lord shut him in." A vessal without bulwarks or doors would not be a safe vessel to go In. When Noah and his family heard the fastening of the door of the ark, they were very glad, Unless these doors were fastened the first heavy sarge of the sea would have waelmed them, and they might as well have per- ished outside the ark as inside the ark. “The Lord shut him in." Oh, the per fect safety of the ark! The surf of the sea and the lightnings of the sky may be twisted into a garland of snow and fire deep to deep, storm to storm, darkness to darkness—but once in the ark all fs well "God shut him 10.” There comes upon the d man a deluge of financial trouble. He his thousands to lend. Now he cannot borrow a dollar, He once owned a store in New York and had branch houses {n Boston, Philadelphia and New Orleans. He owned four horses and empioyed a man to keep thi dust off his conch, phaston, carriage and our. ricle: now he has hard work to get shoes in which to walk. The great deep of sommercinl disaster was broken up, and fore and aft and across the hurricane deck the waves struck bim. But he was safely sheltered from the storm. “The Lord shut him in!” A flood of domestio troubles fell on him." Bickness and bereavement came. The rain pelted; the winds blew, The heavens are aflame, All the ens of earthly delight are washed away, ipousnias of joy are buried iif teen cubits But, stand Smpty orib and in the desolated in doleful hall, once a-ring et the blood out, but | -“haopened the way to let all the world in! | voles, he orled, “(ie taken away ; Lord, “The now silent forevar, ord gave, the Lord hath blessed be the name of the Lord shut him in." overthrow, The broken vows, the dis- honored Sabbaths, the outrageous profani ties, the misdemeanors of twenty years, reached up their hands to the door of the Ark to pull him out. The boundless ocean of his sin surrounded his soul, howling like a simoom, raving like an euroclydon, But, { looking out of the window, he saw his sin { sink like lead into the depths of the sea. The dove of heaven brought an olive branch to {the ark. The wrath of the billow only rushed him toward heaven, “The Lord shut him in!" ¢ The same door fastenings that kept Noah in keep the troubles out, I am glad to know that when a man reaches hoaven ull earthly troubles are done with him. Here he may { have had hard work to get bread for his | family; there he will never hunger any more, Here he may fave wapt bitterly; | there ‘the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne will lead him to living fountains of water, and God will wipeaway all tears from his eyes.” Here he may have hard work to get a house; but in my Father's house are many mansions, and rent day never comes Here there are deathbeds and ecofMins and | graves; there no sickness, no weary watching, no choking cough, no copsuming fever, no chattering chill, no tolling bell, no grave. The sorrows of life shall come up and knock at the door, but no admittance. The per- plexities of life shall come up and knock on the door, but no admittance, Safe forever! All the agony of earth in one wave dashing agninst the bulwarks of the ship of celestial light shall not break them down. yo winds, and rage, ye “the Lord ehut him in!" Oh, what a grand old easily swung both wavs ar with such sare fastenings. No burglar's key can pick that lock. No swarthy arm of hell can shove back that bolt. I rej that I do not ask you to come aboard craft with leak- hulk and broken helm and unfastened , but an ark fifty cubits wide an long and a door so large that with grazing the | Seas! y he I. rd door! 80 wide, earth, wowled ir w, if the ark } well that the N igh, when the n shut ing their heads, they saying: “Le Let me did not years vited, in! they w in, 1 Just m open, They antediluvians theses flelds: f of sheep we must be and herds wo wil untii we get a littie ol newith t walt until er. They y: “Youcannot ex 1 of my attainments and of my on to surren: yeelf just now But ore the storm com I wiligoin., Yes, I know what I am about, Trust me After awhile, one night chout 12 o'clock, go- ing he J soaffolding tas a gust trikes and a plank falls Dead, and outside the ark! Or, riding in the park, a vehicle ermshes int l and his horses become i its, “Whoa, whoa!” another twist in the reins and plants his feet against the dashboard and pulls back. But no use. It is not 80 much down avenue that he flies as on the way to eternity. rintos, reckless - he sho Aha, the Roman | Out of the wreek of the crash his body is | seemed extremely poor, | drawn, but his soul is not picked up. It fled behind sswifter courser into the great fu- | ture, Dead, and outside the ark! } night he wakes up with s distress that mentarily increases until he shrieks out with pain. VY give man is I 1s kept out by The young man asks him- iid they say at the st And so thers are hundre fear of derision “What Morrow mor tian? When they will shout, ‘| tian. Suppo dec with the self: re toe this | ir dying pill In the day « N AWAY. | Come “The By in the 5 { But do you to bring in the ark The text It says, not come alone your family. and thy sons and thy wife." You Irive them in. If N had tried t the pigeons and the doves into the would only have scattered Some pe | ents are not wise about these things, The make fron rules about Sabbaths, and they | fores the eateehism down the throat as they | would hold the child's nose and foree down | a dose of rhubarb and ealomel, You | not drive your childrea into the ark, You | ean draw your children to Christ, bat you | eannot coerce them, The cross was lifted | not to drive, but to draw, “If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto Me," | draws up the drops of the morning dew so | the san of righteousness exhales the tears of | repentence, {| Be sure that you bring your husband and wife with you, How would Noah have felt | If, when he heard the rain pattoring on the | roof of the ark, hie knew that his wife was { outside in the storm? No; she went with him, And yet some of you are on the ship “outward bound” for heaven. But your companion is unsheitered., You remember the day when Nothing has yet been able to break it. Siek- ness ome, and the finger shrank, but the ring staid on, the child's grave, and the dark mouth of the tomb swallowed up a thousand hopes, but the ring dropped not into the open grave. | Days of poverty came and the hand | many a fi the work against the ring only made it shine brighter, Shall that ring ever be lost? Will the fron elang sf the sepuleher gate crush it forever? I been married on earth may be together in heaven. Oh, by the quiet bliss of your earthly home, by the babe's oradle, I the vows of that day when you started life together, 1 an them. the ark. Come in, and bring your wife or your hus- band with you-not by fretting about relig- fon or dingdonging them about religion, but by a consistent lifeand by a Sothplithg prayer that shall bring the throne of God down into your room. Go home and take up the Bible and read it together, and then*kneel down and commend your souls to Him who has watched you all these years, and before you All the sins of a lifetime clamored for his | Howl on, | i 300 1 1 the | r | to die? i ir | unmanageable, | and takes | the | Or some | 10 be very poor, sir.” mo- | the man, ‘Sf there's 8 poorer man than me As the sun | the marriage ring was set, | The twain stood alone above | did | ard day's work, but the rubbing of | ray God that you who have | beg you to see tn it that you both get into | . ni wings over “Behold, rise there will ben fluttering | your head, angel crying to angel, they pray!” But this does not include all your family, Bring the children too. God bless the dear | ehildren! What would our homes be with- | out them? We may have done much for { them, They have dona more for us, What a salve for a wounded heart there is in the soft palm of a child's band! Did harp or | flute ever have sgch music as there is ina | child's “good night:” From our coarse, | rough life the angels of God are often driven back, But who comes into the nursery with- out feeling that angels are hovering around, They who die in infancy go straight into glory, but you are expecting your children | to grow up in this world, Is it not a ques | tion, then, that rings through all the ecorrl- dors and windings and heights and depths of your soul, what is to become of your sons | and daughters for time and for eternity? “Oh,” you say, “I mean to see that they have good manners.” Very well, “I mean to dress them well, If I have myself to go shabby." Very good, “I shall give them an educa | tion: I shall leave them a fortune,” Very | well, Butis that all? Don't vou mean to take them into the ark? Dont you know that the storm is coming, and that out of Christ there is no safety, no pardon, no hope, no heaven? How to get them in? Go in urself! If Noah had staid out, do you not suppose that his sons—Shem, Ham and Japheth—would have staid out? Your sons and daughters will be apt to do on do. Reject Christ e¢ probability i your children will reject Him, An account was taken of condition of families in a « In the families of plous parents | the children were Christians, In the families where the parents were ungodly | twelfth of the were Christians Which way will you take your children? Out into the deluge or into the ark? Have you de one earnest prayer for their im- What will you in the wnt when God asks, “Where 1s George nry or Frank or Mary or Anns? Where hose precious whi interests I nmitted into your hands?” son said to his father, (““Father, ] n and good manners ile the religious district, ritalin children ) _. souls? say souls wv MW U RAVE me an aducati { h Life | great hereafter furlongs th nending iow 8 side ¢ is the ith the ages, thy thy all the 18 destiny, sit and « Rona 1 may never ether beach at Hos | return to his {athe Never give hin hear thy prayer only to « too late, In 8t. Paul's, London, | ing gallery. A voloe x one side of the gallery is heard distinotly at | the side, a great distance off. So rd of earnest prayer goes all around and makes heaven a whispering Go into the ark--not to sit down, the door and « anti! all the family come in. Aged Noah, where is Japh. i? David, where is Absa Hannah, | where is Samuel? On one of the lake steamers there were 8 father and two daughters journeying. They A benevolent gen | tlemen stepped up to the poor man to prof. fer some form of relief and sald, “You seem “Poor, sir,” replied '} > #ite | every w | the earth | gallery, but to stand in ie a-troublin the world, God pity both of na! “I will take one of your children and adopt : id be a grea y in Chris 15, And it blast that you and patient G hear, d that addresses you, house, 4 into the Lord shut nl the is 15 IAL COTTON CLOTH. Substitute Made From Wood Palp In Belgium, shington, A DOW pr artif which ha product | i tton and possessing most of Ihe basis Is wo into pure celul then woven into nary cotton, but is not a product, It weaves an be dyed as well otton parafline and passing it « glass a beauti- ful brillaney may be given to it. Much greater strength can be imparted by parche- mentizing when it acquires a semi-transpar ency, its is qualities, orks well ating it with ver oan- | TO CALL PACES BY ELECTRICITY. 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