THE CE NTRE DEMOC RAT, B EL L E FON NTE, PA, THURSDAY, FE BRUARY 6, 1806, R —— THE CASTLE OF SIN. A AS 1, OT 5 WS 500 It May be Onpiared by Ohristian Example. ¥hs Best Sermon Ever Preached 1s a Holy Life Men's Speech and Actions In This World Will Follow Them Through Eternity. The Rev. Dr. Talmage in his latest sermon urged his hearers to do some- thing for Christ and selected as his text Judges ix., 48: “And Abimelech took an ax in his hand and eut down a bough from the trees, and (laid it on his 'the people that were with him, What iye have seen me do, make haste and ido as I have done. And all likewise cut down every bough.” Abimelech is a name Bible history, and vet ble suggestion. Buoys mnecomely, but ] are. The snake’ it gives time ly azza of my night, I saw a | away, not placed but to tell mariners to that dangerous point, bound coast of moral ds with Saul, and Herod, and and Jezebel, and Abim people ¢ in the B ‘only as but because there were sometimes flashes of in their of sometimes drives a with a very poor The city of Shechem had to be taken, and Abimelech and his men ft. 1 see the dust ng up from their excited march. I hear the shouting of the captains and the the be- slegers. The clack sharply on the parrying shields, and the vocifera- tion of two armies in death grapple is horrible The on all day; and as the sun is setting Abimel ery: ‘‘Sur- render!” to the And, un- able longer to resist, the city of She- chem falls; and there are pools of Mood, and dissevered limbs, and glazed eyes looking up beggingly for mercy hat war never shows, and dying sol- with their the lap of mother, who have come { kind- and took it shoulder and said unto 8 ratt warn night ighthouse 15 n adornment, stand off from the there fox 9 all . 0 Bil iron- rked ‘e mentioned not warnings, good conduct imitation, God straight nail lives worthy hammer, were to do roi wal} yell of swords to hear, battle goes ech and his army beaten foe. head wife, or for the on or sister, out last offices of mess and affection; and a groan rolls across the city, stopping not, because there is no spot for it to rest, so full isthe place of other groans. A city wounded! A city dying! A city dead! Wail for Shee Hom, all ye who know the horrors of a sacked town! As I look over the city, I can find enly one building standing, and that is the temple of the god Berith. Some soldiers outside of the city in a tower, finding that they can no longer defend Bhechem, now begin to look out for their own safety and they fly to this temple of Berith. They go within the door, shut it, and they say: “Now are Abimelech taken the whole city, but he temple of Berith under the Berith, these them. for then and his Beritl tified? Nay. With band re against lech in Z hews we safe, has cannot take this Here we shi on of the all be protect gods.” © ves, pity that ] then he BRAID commas who = is full of ling ax unti of a tre but ha Abime men The r they army The at © wWors flame of the fla me | ’ of the 3113101 ti they ol Inrid pa under tl wild and the ‘Fire! “Fire!” announces the and the the of the Schehemites, and the complete overthrow of the temple of the god Berith. Then there went up a shout, long and loud, from the stout lungs and swarthy chests of Abimelech and his men, as they stood amid the ashes and the dust crying: “Victory! Vie tory.” Now I learn first from this subject, the folly of depending upon any one form of tactics in anything we have to do for this world for God. Look over the weaponry of olden times—javelins, battle-axes, habergeons, and show me a single weapon with which Abimelech and his men could have gained such complete triumph. It is no easy thing to take a temple thus armed. I have seen nn house where, during revolution. ary times, a man and his wife kept ~~ a whole regiment hour after hour, they were inside the house, the assaulting soldiers were out- the house. Yet here Abimelech ani Bs army come up, they surround asp their nigh t ales within, and { ut 4 rulation, and { that | AY, terror, | doom | the temple, and they eapture it without the loss of a single man on the part of Abimelech, although I suppose some of the Isralitish heroes told Abim- elech: ‘You are only going up there to be cut to pieces.” Yet you are willing to testify to-day that by no other mode-—eertainly not by ordinary wodes—could that temple so easily, so thoroughly, have been taken, Fathers and mothers, brethren and sisters in Jesus Christ, what the church most wants to learn this day is that any plan is right is lawful is best, which helps to overthrow the temple of sin and capture this world for God. We apt to stick te the old modes e put on the old-styl up with the sharp, steel spear of argu- that way to take have a thous ten. And Oh, my this warld saber or sarcasm, by are of A} ery attack, W W o ‘4 xpecting in the castle; but e cont of mail 1 keon, come ering ment, ¢ and sO Li friend, they we have stands, capture God by any keen spears where castle of sin we will never for glittering lances of sapping and mi disquisition, by any gunpowdery e plosions 5 f ng of any rhetorie, by any ning of profound Xe of indignation, by sharp-shoot- wit, by howitz ngth to by cavalry | med pawin attempt tical foot stre nit t caparis | 8 all the s on the part of grenadiers, 8, 1 propos { tactics. Let each one gi forest of God's pron and hew down a bran he a his shoulder, and let us all come ar ini nities kindled by and the we will these obstinate vith this pile, holy zeal erated life, What steel announce myself in f fla: nes burn ont 1 And ] any plan any hem cannot do, of religious attack that succeeds plan of religious attack, cal, however odd, however wever radi unpopular, convention however the alities of church and state. of prayer does not do the work, let us try another style. If the chu of to-day does not get the victory, then let us make the assault with a back- woods chorus. If a prayer meeting half-past 7 in the succeed let us have one as es morning as when the wrestling Jacob too much a sermon with the three aut! z heads does not do the work, then letus have a sermon with twenty heads, or no heads at all. We want more heart in our song, more heart in our alms- giving, more heart in our prayers, more heart in our preaching. Oh, less of Abimelech's sword and more of Abimelech's conflagration! I had often heard. There is » fountain flied with bicod sung artistically by four birds perched on thelr Sunday roost in the gallery, until I thought of Jenny Lind, and Nilsson, and Sontag, and all the other warblers; but there came not one tear to my eye, nor one master emotion to my heart. But one night I went down to the African Methodist meeting house in Philadelphia, and at the cle service a black woman, in the ] of the audience began to sing that hymn, and all the audience joined in, and we were floated some three or four Heaven than I have I saw with my yantain filled with blood red sacrificial, redem { the erimson hostile to all If one style rch music evening does for HO mies nearer been since. that ““{ own eyes agonizing, ptive, and + i hear plash of the as we all wave went down under | {riends, it is not wr the casuisiry: consume the in, and will il apocal yplic ve. f the gospel shall igmine that into the world came to from this sub A bim- sad IOS, ac if they had, without spirit but Abim his own ax and hews with 11 further, 1 learn he power of example, If wn on the grass, bon the ¥ Wi all, or ans when and Abimelech’s Abimelech’'s shoulder, then, my text the people did the same. How natural was! What made Garibaldi and Jackson the most magnetio command of this century? They always shead. Oh, the over whebming power of example! Here is a father on the wrong road; all his boys go on the wrong road. Here isa father who enlists for Christ; his chil dren enlist. I saw in some of the picture galleries of Europe, that be- fore many of the great works of the masters-—the old masters—there would be sometimes four or five artists taking copies of the pictures. These copies they are going to carry with them, perhaps to distant lands; and I have thought that your life and character | are a masterpiece, and it is being copied and long after you sre gone it will bloom or blast in the homes of those | who knew you, and bea Gorgon or a Madonna. Look out what you say. Look out what you do. Eternity will hear the acho. The best sermon ever preached is a holy life. The best musio ever chanted is a consistent walk: If you want others to serve sorve Him yourself. If old Dog Bndid shoulder their Boiy shoulder yours Where Ablmeleok goes his troops go rm put \ aid marches on, savas, all Stonewall fers rode | Oh, start out for Heaven to-day, and your family will come after you, and your business associates will come af- ter you, and your social friends will join you. With one branch of the tree of life for a baton, marshal just as many as you can gather. Oh, the infl- nite, the semi-omnipotent power of a good or bad example! In a former charge one Sabbath 1 took into the pulpit the church rec- ords, and I laid them on the pulpit and opened them, and said: “Brethren, here are the church records, I find a great many of you whose names are off duty.” were afraid I would read the names, for at that time some were deep in the worst kind of oll stocks, and were idle as to Christian work. But if ministers of Christ to-day should bring the church the pulpit and read, oh, what a flutter there would be! There would not fans enough in church to keep the cheeks cool. I do not know thing if the bring and down here are Some records into be but it would be a good in a while should the pulpit for that is what I con church record to be the Lord's it should » is and what he is ministe the call the r once church records in roll, sider merely a and the where army; reveal doing circles, the roll i en onl military on battle, the ] a thousand m y a hun- in the regiment answe tement there would What would the colonel there would and talking capts vins, majors, Sup pose word came at these delinquents that the mn the themselves, or » and they getting their feet | usy rockics is the morning of the ground was damy were t wel, or rations riends, this God Almighty's battle! not Hear ye not all the of Heaven and all the drums of hell? Which side are you on? If you on the right side, to what valry troop, to what serv. any « { Do you see the troops? trumpets are ca artillery ice, garrison duty do you be- to what long? Inother words, in what Sabbath school do you teach? in what prayer ing do you exhort? to what peni- tentiary do you declare eternal liberty? to what almshouse do you announce the riches of Heaven? What broken bone of sorrow have you ever set? Are you doing not Is it possible that 8 man or Woman sworn to bea fol- lower of Jesus Christ is doing nothing? Then hide the horrible secret from the angels. Keep It away from the book of judgment. If you are doing noth ing, do not let the world find it out, lest they charge your religion with be- ing a false face. Do not let your cow- ardice and treason be heard among the martyrs about the throne, lest they forget the sanctity of the place and de nounce your betrayal of that cause for which they agonized and died May the action! As be asl meet hing? eternal God rouse us all to for myself, 1 feel I would Heavy how swiftly me as if power They sald us. Abin here we are hey heard the were bliske s things you have ever done ower you feel Fou are you not 1 sins all have a the tramp of _Arou n i the tov “match, The; tower; where this tower \ “If this t« a great w el at ease ywer satis hile before iti But there melech, with ruthless Death AKKAULL, on anid his forces are gathers ing around and they demand that ing, and they cla: and they t Aurrender every for their nm arms in and with their iron fists ti the and whils you trying to keep them out the of ng. and forest is a torch, and every moun tain a torch, and evey while the Alps, and Himalayas turn into a live redder and redder by the whirlwind breath of a God omnipotent, what will become of your refuge of lies? “But,” says some one, ‘‘you are en- gaged in a very mean business, driving up from tower to tower.” Oh. no! 1 want to tell you of a Gibraltar that never has been and never will be taken; of a wall that no Satanic assault can scale; of a bulwark that the judgment earthquakes cannot badge. 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