DR. TALMAGFS SERMON.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject! "Turned to Di.<<i>eii"-A Graphic
Word-Flctnre of a Oodles* World-
Deplorable Condition Into Which In
' fidelity Would flange the World.
TEXT: "The sun shall be turned Into dark
ness."—Acts 11., 20.
Christianity Is the rising sun of our time,
and men have tried with the uprolllng va
pors of skepticism and the smoke of their
blasphemy to turn the sun Into darkness.
Suppose the archangels of malice and hor
ror should be let loose a little while and be
allowed to extinguish and destroy the sun
in the natural heavens! They would take
the oceans from other worlds and pour
them on the luminary of the planetary sys
tem, and the waters go hissing down amid
the ravines and the caverns, and there is
explosion after explosion until there are
only a few peaks of Are left in the sun, and
these are cooling down and going out un
til the vast continents of flnme are reduced
to a small acreage of fire, and that whitens
anil cools off until there are only a fow
coals left, and these are whitening and go
ing out until there Is not a spark left in all
the mountains of ashes and the valleys of
ashes and the chasms of ashes. An extin
guished sun! A dead sun! A buried sun!
Let all worlds wall at the stupendous ob
sequies.
Of course this withdrawal of the solar
light and heat throws our earth into a uni
versal chill, and the tropics become the
temperate, and the temperate beaomes the
arctic,and there are frozen rivers and frozen
lakes and frozen oceans. From arctic to an
tarctic regions the inhabitants gather in
toward the oenter and find tht equator as
the poles. The slain forests are piled up
into a great bonfire, and around them
gather the shivering villages and cities.
The wealth of the coal mines is hastily
poured Into the furnaces and stirred into
rage of combustion, but soon the bonfires
begin to lower, and the furnaces begin to
go out, and the nations begin to die. Coto
paxi, Vesuvius, Etna, Stromboli, California
geysers, cease to smoke, and the ice of
hailstorms romains unmelted in their
crater. All the flowers have breathed their
last breath. Ships with sailors frozen at
the mast, and helmsmen frozen at the
wheel, and passengers frozen in the cabin.
All nations dying, first at the north and
then at the south. Child frosted and dead
in the cradle. Octogenarian frosted and
dead at the hearth. Workmen with frozen
hand on the hammer and frozen foot on the
shuttle. Winter from sea to sea. All con
gealing winter. Perpetual winter. Globe
of frigidity. Hemisphere shackled to hem
isphere by chains of ice. Universal Nova
Zembla. The earth an ice floe grinding
against other ice floes. The archangels of
malice and horror have done their work,
and now they may have their thrones of
glacier and look down upon the ruin they
have wrought. What the destruction of
the sun in the natural heavens would be
to our physical earth the destruction of
Christianity would be to the moral world.
The sun turned into darkness!
Infidelity In our time is considered a
great joke. There are people who rejoice
to hear Christianity caricatured and to hear
Christ assailed with quibble and quirk and
misrepresentation and badinage and harle
quinade. I propose to-day to take infidel
ity and atheism out of the realm of jocu
larity into one of tragedy and show you
what infidels propose and what, if they are
successful, they will accomplish. There
are those in all our communities who would
like to see the Christian religion over
thrown and who say the world would be
better without it. I want to show you
what is the end of this road, and what is
the terminus of this crusade, and what this
world will be when atheism and infidelity
have triumphed over It, If they can. I say,
if they can. I reiterate it, if they can.
In the first place, It will be the complete
and unutterable degradation of woman
hood. I will prove it by facts and argu
ments which no honest man will dispute.
In all communities and cities and States
and nations where the Christian religion
has been dominant woman's condition has
been ameliorated and improved, and she Is
deferred to and honored in a thousand
things, and every gentleman takes off his
hat before her. If your associations have
been good, you know that the name of
wife, mother, daughter, suggest "gracious
curroundlngs. You know there are no bet
ter schools and seminaries In this country
than the schools and seminaries for our
young ladles. You know that while wom
an may suffer injustice in England and the
United Stotes, she has more of her rights
in Christendom than she has anywhere
else.
Now-j compare this with woman's condi
tion iu lands where Christianity has made
little or no {advance—in China, in Barbay,
in Borneo, In Tartary, inlEgypt, in Hindus
tan. The Burmese sell their wives and
daughters as so many sheep. The Hindoo
Bible makes it disgraceful and an outrage
for a woman to listen to music or look out
of the window in the absence of her hus
band and gives as a lawful ground for di
vorce a woman's beginning to eat before
her husband has finished his meal. What
mean those white bundles on the ponds and
rivers in China in the morning? Infanticide
followinginfanticide. Female children de
stroyed simply because they aro females.
Woman harnessed to the plow as an ox.
Woman veiled and barricaded and in all
styles of cruel seclusion. Her birth a mis
fortune. Her life n torture. Her death n
horror. The missionary of the cross to
day in heathen lands preaches generally to
two groups—a group of men who do as
they please and sit whero they please; the
other group, women hidden and care
fully secluded in a side apartment, where
they may hear the voice of the preachor,
but may not be seen. No refinement. No
liberty. No hope fortbls life. No hope for
the life to come. Ringed nose. Cramped
foot. Disfigured face. Embruted sou).
Now, compare those two conditions.
How far 'oward this latter condition that
I speak of would woman go if Christian in
fluences were withdrawn and Christianity
were destroyed? It is only a question of
dynamics. If an object be lifted to a cer
tain point and not fas'.ened.there and the
lifting power be withdrawn, how long be
fore that object will fall down to the
point from which it started? It
will fall down, and It will go
still farther than the point from which
It started. Christianity bos lifted woman
up from the very depths of degradation
almost to the skies. If that lifting power
be withdrawn, she falls clear back to the
depth from which she was resurrected,
not going any lower, because there Is no
lower depth, and yet notwithstanding the
fact that the salvation of woman from
degradation and woe is the Christian re
ligion—and the only influence that has
ever lifted b«r in the social scales is
Christlanlty—l have lead that there are
women who reject Christianity. I make
no remark in regard to those persons. In
the silence of your own soul muke your ob
servations. *
If infidelity triumph and Christianity be
overthrown, it means the demoralization
of society. The one idea in the Bible that
atheists and infidels most hate is the idea
of retribution. Take away the idea of re
tribution and punishment from society,
and it will begin very soon to disintegrate,
and take away from the minds of meu the
fear of bell, and there aro a great many of
them who would very soon turn this world
into a hell. The majority of those who are
Indignant against the Bible because of the
Idea of punishment are men whose lives are
bad or whose hearts nre Impure and who
hate the Bible because of the idea of fu
ture punishment, for the samo reason that
criminals hate the peniteatUry. Oh. I bave
heard this bravo talk about peoplo fearing
nothing of the consequences of sin in the
next world, and I have made up my mind
it is merely a coward's whistling to keep
bis courago up. I have seen men flaunt
their immoralities in \he face of the com
munity, and I have heard them defy the
judgment day and scoff at the idea of anj
further oonsequence of their sin, but when
they came to die they shrieked until you
could hear them for nearly two blocks, and
In the summer night the neighbors got up
to put the windows down, because thej
Could not endure the horror.
The mightiest restraints to-day against
theft, against immorality, against libertin
ism, against crime of all sorts—the
mightiest restraints are the retributions ol
eternity. Men know that they can escape
the law, but down in the offenders' soul
there is the realization of the fact that
they cannot escape God. He stands at the
end of the road of profligacy, aud He will
not clear the guilty. Take all idea of re
tribution and punishment out of the
hearts and minds of men, and it would not
be long before our cities would become
Sodoms. The only restraints against the
evil passions of the world to-day are Bible
restraints.
Suppose now these generals of atheism
nnd infidelity got the victory and suppose
they marshaled a great army made up of
the majority of the world. They are in
companies, in regiments, in brigades—the
whole army. Forward, march! ye hosts of
infidels and atheists, banners flying be
fore, banners flying behind, banners in
scribed with the w>rds: "No Godl No
Christ! No Funishmentl No Restraints!
Down With the Bible! Do as You Please!"
The sun turned into darkness!
Forward, march! ye great army of In
fidels and atheists. And first of all you
will attack the churches. Away with those
houses of worshlpl They bave been stand
ing there so long deluding the people with
consolation in their bereavements and sor
rows. All those churches ought to be ex
tirpated; they havo done so much to re
lieve the lost and bring home the wander
ing, and they have so long held up the
idea of eternal rest after the paroxysm of
this life is over. Turn the St. Peters and
St. Pauls and the temples and tabernacles
into clubhouses. Away with those churchesl
Forward, march! ye great army of in
fidels and atheists, and next of all they
scatter the Sabbath schools filled with
bright eyed, rosy cheeked little ones who
nre singing songs on Sunday afternoon
and getting instruction when they ought
to be on the street corners playing marbles
or swearing on the commons. Away with
them! Forward, march! ye great army of
infidels and atheists, and next of all they
will attack Christian asylums—the institu
tions of mercy supported by Christian
philanthropies. Never mind the blind
eyes, and the deaf ears, and the crippled
limbs, nnd the darkened intellects. Let
paralyzed old age pick up its own food,
and orphans fight their own way, and the
half reformed go back to their evil habits.
Forward, march! ye great array of intldels
and atheists, aud with your battleaxes hew
down the cross and split up the manger of
Bethlehem.
On, ye great army of infidels and athe
ists, and now they come to the graveyards
and the cemeteries of the earth. Pulldown
the sculpture above Greenwood's gate, for
it means the resurrection. Tear away at
the entrance of La.'rel Hill the figure of
Old Mortality and the chisel. On, ye great
army of infidels and atheists, into the grave
yards and cemeteries, and whero you see
"Asleep in Jesus," cut it away, and where
you find a marble story of heaven, blast it,
and when you find over a little child's
grave, "Suffer little children to come unto
Me," substitute th« words "delusion" nnd
"sham," and where you find an angel In
marble, strike off the wing, and when you
come to u family vault, chisel on the door,
"Dead once, dead forever."
But on, ye great army of Infidels and
atheists, on! They will attempt to scale
heaven. There are heights to be taken.
Pile hill on hill, and Pelion upon Ossa, and
then they hoist the ladders against the
walls of heaven. On and on until they blow
up the foundations of jasper and the gates
of pearl. Theyjcharge up the steep. Now
tbey aim for the throne of Him who ilveth
forever and ever. They would takedown
from Their high place tho Father, the Son,
and the Holy Ghost. "Down with Them!"
they say. "Down with Them from the
throne!" they say. "Down forever! Down
out of sight! He is not God. He has no
right to sit there. Down with Himl Down
with Christl"
A world without a head, a universe with
out a king. Orphan constellations. Father
less galaxies. Anarchy supreme. A de
throned Jehovah. An " assassinated God.
Patricide, regicide, delclde. That Is what
they mean. Tnat is what thoy will have,
if they can. I say, if they can. Civiliza
tion hurled back into semibarbarlsm, aud
semibarbarism driven back into Hottentot
savagery. The wheel of progress turned
the other way aud turned toward the dark
ages. The clock of the centuries put back
2000 years. Go back, you Sandwich Isl
ands, from your schools, and from your
colleges, and from your reformed condi
tion, to what you were In 1820, whon the
missionaries first came. Call home the 500
missionaries from India and overthrow
their 2000 schools, where they are trying to
educate the heathen, and scatter the 140,-
000 little children that they have gathered
out of barbarism into civilization. Obliter
ate all the work of Dr. DufT in India, of
David Abeel in Chinu, of Dr. King in
Greece, of Judson in Burma, of David
Brainerd amid the American aborigines,
and send home the 3000 missionaries of the
cross who aro toiling In foreign lands, toll
ing for Christ's sake, toiling themselves
into the grave. Tell these 8000 men of God
that they are of no use. Send home tho
medical missionaries who aro doctoring
tho bodies as well as the souls of the dying
nations. Go home, London Missionary
society! Go home, American board of
foreign missions! Go home, ye Moravians,
nnd relinquish back into darkness and
squalor and death the nations whom yo
have begun to lift.
From such a chasm of Individual, na
tional, worldwide ruin, stand back. Oh,
young men, stand back from that chasm!
You see tho practiaal drift of my sermon.
1 want you to know where that road leads.
Stand back from that chasm of ruin. The
time is going to come fyou and I may not
llye to see it, but It will come, just as cer
tainly as there is a God, it will come) when
the infidels and the atheists who openly
and out and out and aboveboard proach
nnd practice infidelity uud uthelsm, will be
considered as criminals against society, as
they are now crimfnals against God. So
ciety will push out the leper, and the wretch
with soul gangrened and Ichorous nnd ver
min covered and rotting apart with his
bestiality will be loft to die In the ditch
and be denied decent burial, and men will
come with spades nnd cover up the car
cass where it falls, that it poison notjthe air,
and the only text In all the Bible appropriate
for the funeral sermon will be Jeremiah
xxll., 19, "He shall be barled with the
bur a! of an ass."
At the beginning God said, "Let there be
light," and light was, and light Is, and
light shall be. So Christianity Is rolling
on, and it Is going to warm all nations, and
all nations are to bask in Its light. Men
may shut the window blinds so tbey can
not see it, or they C.ay smoke the pipe of
speculation until they are shadowed under
their own vaporing, but tho Lord God Is a
sunl This wh lte light of the gospel made
up of ail the beautiful colors of earth and
heaven—violet plucked from amid tho
spring grass, and the indigo of tho south
ern jungles, und the blue of tho skies, and
tho greon of the foliage, and the yellow of
the autumnal woods, and the orange of the
southern groves, and tho red of the sun
sets. All the beauties of earth and heaven
brought out by this spiritual spectrum.
Great Britain is going to take all Europe
for God. The United Stntes are going to
take America for God. Both of them to
gether will take all Asia for God. All
three of thein will take Africa for God.
"Who art thou, O great mountain? Before
Zerrubbabel thou shalt beoame a plain."
"The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it."
Hallelujah, amen!
The dissenting free churches Lmve a
iargermemjershlp and a stronger powerin
the United Kingdom that kM the estab
lished church. ...
A. TEMPERANCE COLUMN. 1
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THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS.
the Sweetest Mu«lo—Three-fourth* of the
Deaths of Europeans in Africa Doe to
fr Drunkenness—Sober, Earnest Workers
Stand the Climate All Right.
[ was lounging, one night, in the lobby
Of our beautiful new hotel;
A mingling of varied musio
On my sensitive bearing fell;
A guest, who wns tired and homesick,
Was strumming a reverie
On the keys of the grand piano
In the foyer, over me.
From the poolroom there came through
the doorway
The clack of the cue and the ball;
From the barroom the clinking of glasses,
Bearing trouble enough for all;
The humming of conversation
'Mid the traveling men about,
Gave tenor and bass to the chorus-
Sweet musio beyond a doubt.
Near by—l could see 'neath my hat rim-
Stood a lad of the drummer stamp;
It needed no close inspection
To see he was new in the camp.
He was voung, even boyish; wns lonely;
Far from home, and 'twas Saturday
night—
Dead ripe for the voice of the tempter,
And needing the courage to flgbt.
Just then a ebance acquaintance
With a laughing and jesting throng;
As they passed toward the barroom, one
whispered:
"Say, pardner,come! won't you go 'long?'
So eager was I, I leaned forward
To catch all his answer low;
And my heart sang a hymn as my drummei
Said: "No, thank you, friends, I can't go."
The piano still sang in the foyer;
Still clattered the oue and the ball;
The glasses still clinked in the barroom,
Luring many a man to his fall;
Tbe hum of the trav'lers continued
As they chattered in accents low;
But sweetest of all the music,
To me, was that young man's "No."
—S. W. Oilman, in the Lever.
Wlilsky in Africa.
The white men at Lagos, West Africa,
are so indignant over the assortion of Bish
op Tugwell that three-fourths of the
deaths of Europeans on the coast is due to
drunkenness, that they threaten to make
him suffer for his language if they cnn find
a remedy in the courts. The Bishop would
probably plead that he told the truth.
Many men who are temperate in all things
undoubtedly meet an untimely end on the
African coasts, and those who deal with
vital statistics should carefully refrain
from remarks that may seem to reflect un
justly upon their memories. But the very
fact that seasoned imbibers on the Guinea
coast, the Congo and elsewhere are prone
to inculcate the pernicious Idea that "after
all, tnere is nothing like whisky to cure
African fever," makes it all the more com
mendable to emphasize the undoubted
truth that whisky claims a great many vic
tims in Africa.
When Mr. Stanley wrote about a clas3 of
persons whom he "called "gin and whisky
topers on the Niger and the Congo," their
immunity from fever, he said, was not due
to their devotion to whisky, but to their
expertness in the art of doing nothing. "A
few hours' hard work or marching in the
interior would lay tbe lazy lion as low as a
dead donkey." The mischief thoy do grows
out of the assurance they persistently give
to youthful enthusiasts, newly arrived from
Europe, that whisky is the best remedy for
nil African ills. Bishop Tugwell Is only one
of many men who have found it necessary
to combat suoh pernicious and semi-maud
lin advice.
Africa, like all regions newly opened to
enterprise, attraots its full share of what
Mr. Noble, in his book on African missions,
calls "the moral scum of civilization," and
the best authorities on tropical hygiene say
that these men of irregular habits are easy
victims as a rule to the diseases peculiar
to warm climates. This h»s been notori
ously the case In Africa. Military com
manders, and the companies owning manv
trading posts along the coasts, have
learned to know the great difference, in
their efficiency and chances of living, be
tween the habitual Imbiber and the sober,
earnest worker. E. G. Ravensteln, who has
written as strongly as any one about Africa
as "the white man's grnve," admits that
"the climate is too often blamed for a mor
tality that is in a large measure due to a
dissolute life." Stanley wrote that "on
the Congo the very atmosphere seems
fatally hostile to men who pin their faith
to whisky, gin and brandy." Recent writers
on health conditions in Africa, such as Fel
kin and others, advise white men to ob
serve the strictest temperance and drop all
thoughts of tonics.
Bishop Tugwell has slandered neither
the dead nor the living in calling attention
to the fact that the evil effects o! intemper
ance are far more potent and deadly it.
Africa than in the temperate zones.—New
Xork Sun.
Rnglaml a Drinking Nation.
It will bo somewhat of a revelation to
ream that England is the most drunken
nation in the world.
A recent official statement got up by the
English Government has opened the eyes
of the people of the island to the fact that
a greut deal of missionary work Is needed
at home. The figures collected show that
of beer England drinks 30.31 gallons pel
head per annum, America 12.20, Germany
25.50, France 5.10. In the drinking of
wines, England falls a little to the rear, hei
consumption being .30 gallons per head per
annum, America .44, Germany 1.34 and
France 21.80. But it is when wo come tc
spirits that England forges ahead once
more, with a record of 1.02 gallons pel
head, America .84 and Germany and France
both 1.89.
The grand total shows that England
stands far ahead as the leading drinking
nation. England's total consumption Is
81.72 gallons, America's 13.48, Germany's
28.73, France's 28.70. While the drinking
of wine in England is constantly decreas
ing, the drinking of spirits and beer in
creases in eaual proportion.
A gratifying feature of these figures is
the development that the United States
stands last in this unsavory procession, her
consumption of liquor being less than one
half of that of Europe's most temperate
nations.
Hardens the Heart.
A little girl, in writiug an account of an
address she had heard on the physical ef
fects of alcohol, wrote that "Alcohol hard
ens the heart." We may smile at the mis
apprehension of the child as to what tha
lecturer had taught, but there is no doubt
she wrote a moral if not a physical truth
when she said "Alcohol hardens the heart."
There is not another agent that more ef
fectually hardens the heart of men who in
sober moments are tender and loving par
ents, than indulgence in alcoholic liquors.
Notes Abont the Ram Evil.
Edward Everett Hale says his church
alone could care for all the dependent peo
ple in Boston who were not made so by
drink.
A ruling by the State Treasurer of North
Carolina, that dispensaries can sell liquor
only on prescription, practically nullifies
the many legislative acts creating dis
pensaries.
"I figured out years ago," said a pros
perous farmer, "that with very moderate
drinking, I'd drink an acre of good land
every year. So I quit." Hero is a temper
ance lecture, done up in a small parcel
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The Dm of Ziae.
The largest consumers of eino are
the manufacturers of galvanized iron
work. Then come the brass founders,
for zinc is an important element in
brass alloys, and large quantities are
used in the sheet form and as an ele
ment in galvanic batteries. Zinc is
put under stoves and is used to line
bathtubs.
Great quantities of the ore are used
also to make zinc white, or zinc oxide,
for paint, but this is made direct from
the ores and is not materially affected
by the present rise of values, the zinc
oxide having gone up only about half
a cent a pound in price. Of this the
United States imported at one time
about 30,000 barrels a year. Now we
can export it as we do the metal and
ore. Our exports of the ore were
only 48,000 pounds in 1895, but last
year rose to 21,040,000 pounds, while
our exports of pig rose in the same
period from about 3,000,000 pounds
to 21,000,000. —New York Sun.
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The following story—for the truth
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vouch—is told of the Empress Fred
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England she purchased a quantity of
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Great Britain is flourishing. The
sure test is the marriage record shown
in the Registrar General's annual re
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that the rate is higher than it has been
in twenty-one years. The Registrar
points out that a marriage rate usual
ly keeps in close touch with the value
of British exports and imports, and
the price of wheat. Up goes trade,
and up goes the marriage rate! Not
exactly romantic, but eminently prac
tical. It seems that widowers have
been in greater demand than widows,
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Nearly half of the bachelors and
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widowers was between 35 and 40. In
one out of every 100 of the marriages,
husband and wife could neither read
nor -write, and signed the certificate
with their mark.—New York Press.
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