DR. TALMAGffS SERMON.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE Br THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Bnbject: Nations Are Jndged—God Re
ward* and PonlsHe* Them on Karth—
God'a Judgment* Likened to the Swift
Sweep of » Ituzor.
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WASHINGTON, D. C.—Dr. Talmage, in
liis journey westward through Europe, has
recently visited scenes of thrilling his
toric events. He sends this sermon, in
which he shows that nations are judged
in this world, and that God rewards them
for their virtues and punishes them for
their crimes. The text is Isaiah vii. 20,
"In the same day shall the Lord shave
with a razor that is hired, namely, by
them bevond the river, by the king of
Assyria.
The Bible is the oldest book ever writ
ten. There are no similitudes in Ossian
or the Iliad or the Odyssey so daring. Its
imagery sometimes seems on the verge of
the reckless, but only seems so. The fact
is that God would startle and arouse and
propel men and nations, A tame and
limping similitude would Jail to accom
plish the object. While there are times
when He employs in the Bible the gentle
dew, and the morning cloud, and the dove
and the daybreak in the presentation of
l truth, we otten find the iron chariot, the
lightning, the earthquake, the spray, the
sword and in my text the razor. This
keen bladed instrument has advanced in
usefulness with the ages. In Bible times
and lands the beard remained uncut save
in the seasons of mourning and humilia
tion, but the razor was always a sugges
tive symbol. David said of Doeg, his an
tagonist, "Thy tongue is a sharp razor
working deceitfully —that is, it pretends
to clear the face, but is really used for
deadly incision.
In this striking text this weapon of the
toilet appears under the following cir
cumstances: Judea needed to have some
of its prosperities cut off. and God sends
against it three Assyrian kings—first Sen
nacherib, then Esarhaddon and afterward
Nebuchadnezzar. These three sharp inva
sions that cut down the glory of Judea
are compared to so many sweeps of the
razor across the face of the land. And
these devastations were called a hired
razor because God took the kings of As
syria, with whom He had no sympathy, to
do the work, and paid them in palaces
and spoils and annexations. These kings
were hired to execute the divine behests.
And now th~ text, which on its first read
ing may have seemed trivial or inapt, is
charged with momentous import, "In the
same day shall the Lord shave with a razor
that is 1 lired, namely, by them beyond
the river, by the king of Assyria."
Well, if God's judgments are razors,
we had better be careful how we use
them on other people. In careful sheath
these domestic weapons are put away,
where no one by accident may touch them
and where the hands of children may not
reach them, Such instruments must be
carefully handled or not handled at all.
But how recklessly some people wield the
judgment of God! If a man meets with
business misfortune, how many there are
ready to cry gut: "That it a judgment of
God upon him because he was unscrupu
lous or arrogant or over-reaching or mis
erly. I thought he would get cut down!
What a clean sweep of everything! His
city house and country house gone. His
stables emptied of all the fine bays and
sorrels and grays that used to prance by
his door. All his resources overthrown,
and all that he prided himself on tumbled
into demolition. Good for him!" Stop,
iny brother. Don't slinp around too freely
the judgments of God, tor they are razors.
Some of the most wicked business men
succeed, and they live and die in pros
perity, and some of the most honest and
conscientious are driven into bankruptcy.
Perhaps the unsuccessful man's manner
was unfortunate and he was not really as
proud as he looked to be. Some of those
who carry their heads erect and look im
perial are humble as a child, while many
a man in seedy coat and slouch hat and
unblackcned shoes is as proud as Lucifer.
You cannot tell by a man's look. Per
haps he was not unscrupulous in business,
for there are two sides to every story, and
everybody that accomplishes anything for
himself or others gets industriously lied
about. Perhaps his business misfortune
was not a punishment, but the fatherly
discipline lo prepare him for heaven, and
God may love him far more than He loves
you, who can pay dollar for dollar and are
put down in the commercial catalogue as
"Al." Whom the Lord loveth He gives
and lets die on embroidered pil
lows? No; whom the Lord loveth He
cliastcneth. Better keep your hand off
the Lord's razors lest they cut and wound
people that do not deserve it. If you
want to shave off some of the bristling
pride of your own heart, do so, but be
very caretul how you put the sharp edge
on others. How I do dislike the behavior
of those persons who, when people are
unfortunate, say, "I told you so; getting
punished; served him right." If those I
told you so's got their desert they would
long ago have been pitched over the bat
tlements. The mote in their neighbor's
eyes, so small that it takes a microscope
to find it, gives them more trouble than
the beam which obscures their own optics.
With air sometimes supercilious and some
times Pharisaical and always blasphemous
they take the razor of divine judgment and
sharpen it on the bone of their own hard
hearts, and then goto work on men
sprawled out at full length under disaster,
cutting mercilessly. They begin by soft
expressions of sympathy and pity, and
half praise and lather the victim all over
before they put on the sharp edge.
Let us be careful how we shoot at oth
ers, lest we take down the wronsr one,
remembering the servant of King William
Rufus who shot at a deer, but the arrow
glanced against a tree and killed the king.
Instead of going out with shafts to pierce
and razors to cut, we had better imitate
the friend of ltichard Coeur de Lion.
Richard, in the war of the Crusades, was
caplured and imprisoned, but none of his
friends knew where, so his loyal friend
went around the land from stronghold to
stronghold and sang at each window a
snatch of a song that ltichard Couur de
Lion had taught him in other days. And
one day coming before a jail where he
suspected his king might be incarcer
| ated, he sang two lines of song and imme-
I diately King Kichard responded from his
cell with the other two lines, and so his
whereabouts were discovered, and a suc
cessful liiQyoment was at once made for
his liberation. So let us go up and down
the world with the music of kind words
and sympathetic hearts, serenading the
unfortunate and trying to get out of
trouble men who had noble natures, but
by unforeseen circumstances have been
: incarcerated, thin liberating kings. More
' hymn-book and le«s razor.
Especially ought we to be apologetic
j and merciful toward those who while they
i have great faults have also great virtues.
Home people are barren of virtues; no
weeds verily, but no flower*. I must not
be too much enraged at a nettle along the
fence if it be in a field containing forty
acres of ripe Michigan wheat. Some time
ago naturalists told us there was on the
sun a spot 20,000 miles long, but from the
brightness and warmth I concluded it was
a good deal of a sun still. The sun can
afford to have a very large spot upon it,
though it be 20,1100 miles long, and ] am
very apologetic for those men who have
great faults while at the same time they
have magnificent virtues.
Again, when I read in my text that the
Lord shaves with the hired razor of As*y
ria the land of Judea I think myself of
the precision of God'* providence. A ra
(or swung the tenth part of an inch mit
of the riirlit line mean* either failure or
laceration, but God's dealing* never •lip,
and they do not mis* by the thousandth
part of an inch the right direction. Peo
ple talk as though things in this world
were at loose ends. Cholera sweeps aerosi
Marseilles and Madrid and Palermo, and
we watch anxiously. Will the epidemic
sweep Europe and America? People say:
"That will entirely depend on whether
the inoculation is a successful experiment;
that will depend entirely on quarantine
regulation: that will depend on the early
or late appearance of frost; that epidemic
is pitched into the world, and it goes blun
dering across the continents, and it is all
guesswork and all appalling perhaps." I
think perhaps that God had something to
do with it and that His mercy may f.ave
in some way protected us, that He may
have done as much for us as the quaran
tine and the health officers. It was right
and a necessity that all caution should be
used, but there have come enough maca
roni from Italy and enough grapes from
the south of France and enough rags from
tatterdermalions and hidden in these arti
cles of transportation enough choleraic
germs to have left by thin time all the
cities mourning in the cemeteries. I
thank all the doctors and quarantine:, but
more than all and first of all and last of
all and all the time I thank God. In all
the 6000 years of the world's existence
there has not one thing merely "happened
so." God is not an anarchist, but a King,
a Father.
When little Tad, the son of President
Lincoln, died, all America sympathised
with the sorrow in the White House. He
used to rush into the room where the
Cabinet was in session and while the most
eminent men of the land were discussing
the questions of national existence. But
the child had no care about those ques
tions. No. God the Father and God the
Son and God the Holy Ghost are in per
petual session in regard to this world
and kindred worlds. Shall you. His child,
rush into criticise or arraign or condemn
the divine government? No. The cab
inet of the eternal three can govern and
will govern in the wisest and best way,
and there never will be a mistake and,
like razor skillfully swung, shall cut that
which ought to be avoided. Precision to
the very hairbreadth. Earthly time
pieces may go out of order and strike
wrong, saying it is 1 o'clock when it is 2
or 2 when it is 3. God's clock is always
right, and when it is 1 it strikes 1, and
when it is 12 it strikes 12, and the second
hand is as accurate as the minute hand.
Further, ray text tells us that God
sometimes shaves nations: "In the same
day shall the Lord shave with a razor
that is hired." With one sharp sweep
He went across Judea, and down went its
pride and its power. In 1861 God shaved
the American nation. We had allowed to
grow Sabbath desecration and oppression
and blasphemy and fraud and impurity
and all sorts of turpitude. The Soutn had
its sins and the Jvorth had its sins and
the East its sins and the West its sins.
We had been warned again and again, and
we did not heed. At length the sword of
war cut from the St. Lawrence to the Gulf
and from Atlantic seaooard to Pacific sea
board. The pride of the land, not the
cowards, but the heroes, on both sides
went down. And that which we took for
the sword of war was the Lord razor. In
1862 again it went across the land; in
1863 again: in 1804 again. Then the sharp
instrument was incased and put away.
One would think that our national sym
bol of the eagle might sometimes suggest
another eagle, that which ancient Rome
carried. In the talons of that eagle were
clutched at one time Britain,
Spain, Italy, Dalmatia, Rhaetia, Noricum,
Pannonia, Moesia, Dacia, Thrace, Mace
donia. Greece, Asia Minor, Syria, Phoeni
cia. Palestine, Egypt and all northern
Africa and all the islands of the Mediter
ranean —indeed all the world that was
worth having; 120,000,000 of people under
the wings of that one eagle! Where is
she now? Ask Gibbon, the historian, in
liis prose poem, the "Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire." Ask her gigantic
ruins, bemoaning their sadness through
the ageß, the screech owl at windows out
of which worldwide conquerers looked.
Ask the day of judgment, when her
crowned debauchees, Commodus and Per
tinax and Caligula and Diocletian, shall
answer for their infamy. As man and as
nations let us repent and have our trust
in a pardoning God rather than depend
on former successes for immunity. Out
of thirteen of the greatest battles of the
world Napoleon had lost but one before
Waterloo. Pride and destruction often
rode in the same saddle.
But notice once more and more than
all in my text that God is so kind and
loving that when it is necessary for Him
to cut He has togo to others fur the
sharp edged weapon. "In the same day
shall tho Lord shave with a razor that is
hired." God is love. God is pity. God
is help. God is shelter. God is rescue.
There are no sharp edges about Him, no
thrusting points, no instruments of lacera
tion. If you want balm for wounds, He
lias that. If you want divine salve for
eyesight, He has that. But if there is
sharp and cutting work to do which re
quires a razor, that He hires. God has
nothing about Him that hurts save when
dire necessity demands, and then He has
togo clear off to some one else to get the
instrument. This divine clemency will be
no novelty to those who have pondered
the Calvarean massacre, where God sub
merged Himself in human tears and crim
soned Himself from punctured arteries
and let the terrestrial and infernal worlds
maul Him until the chandeliers of the
sky had to be turned out because the uni
verse could not endure the outrage. Illus
trious for love He must have been to take
all that as our substitute, paying out of
His own heart tho price of our admission
at the gates of heaven.
King Henry 11. of England crowned his
son as king, and on the day of coronation
put on a servant's garb and waited, he,
the king, at the son's table, to the aston
ishment of all the princes. But we know
of a more wondrous scene, the King of
heaven and earth offering to put on you,
His child, the crown of life and in the
form of a servant waiting on you with
blessing. Extol that love, all painting, all
sculpture, all music, all architecture, all
worship! In Drcsdcnian gallery let Ra
phael hold Him up as a child, and in Ant
werp cathedral let Rubens hand Him
down from the cross as a martyr and Han
del make all his oratorio vibrate around
that one chord —"He was wounded for our
transgressions, bruised for our iniquities."
But not until all the redeemed get home
and from the countenances in all the gal
leries of the ransomed shall be revealed
the wonders of redemption shall either
man or seraph or archangel know the
height and depth and breadth of the love
of God.
At our national capital a monument in
honor of him who did more than any one
to achieve our American independence
was for scores of years in building, and
most of us were discouraged and said it
never would be completed. And how glad
we all were when in the presence of the
highest officials of the nation the work
done! But will the monument to Him
who died for the eternal liberation of the
human lace ever be completed? _ For ages
the work lias been going up. Evangelists
and apostles and martyrs nave been add
ing to the heavenly pile, and every one of
the millions of redeemed going up from
earth has made to it contribution of glad
ness, and weight of glory is swung to thu
top of other weight of glory, higher and
higher as the whole millenniums roll, sap
phire on the top of jasper, sardonyx on
the top of chalcedony ana chrjsoj'rssus
above topaz, until far beneath snail be the
walls and towers and domes of our earth
ly capitol, a monument forever and for
ever rising and yet never done; "Unto
Him who has loved us and washed ua
from our fin* ill His own blood and mada
us kings und priests forever." Alleluia,
iuuen.
THE GREAT DESTROYER.
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
The Liquor Saloon Ecllpae* All Other
Evil* In the Widespread Disaster
Which It Brings to Suclety— Hardly a
Hamlet Where It!■ Not Entrenched.
"The curse of the United States to-day
is the saloon," says a writer in the Ap
peal to Reason. "Other evils, monstrous
and perplexing, like the vampire, suck the
life-blood of society, but they are all
eclipsed, in the widespread disaster they
bring, by the liquor saloon. It dots the
hillsides and the plains of nearly every
State in the Union. There is hardly a
hamlet where it is not entrenched. Our
great cities marshal their saloons by the
thousands. To what extent is 'the saloon
as such' responsible for the incalculable
disaster—crime, poverty, disgrace, dis
ense an J death—that intemperance, like a
mighty flood, night and aay, year after
year, leaves in its path? Is the appetite
for alcoholic stimulants, hereditary or ac
quired, the cause of all the intemperance
tnat prevails? Suppose that liquor drink
ing should be shorn of all the artificial and
attractive trappings that now attend it;
Buppose that the business of supplying
those who desire alcoholic stimulants
should be rid of all the glitter that gilds
it, and should suffer the elimination of
the factor of avarice—what would be the
result? "It would lessen intemperance
one-half.' Stand as 1 did the other day
in the bar-room of a great hotel a half
hour, and note what transpires. Occa
sionally a man comes in alone—makes di
rectly for the counter —orders his glass—
drinks it —pays for it and goes out. More
frequently men go in by twos or threes
and drink together. Does each pay for
his own liquor? Never. One treats the
other.
"See that man walking straight past the
bar evidently with no thought of drink
ing. xv man standing at the counter who
has ordered drinks for himself and two
friends, espies him, stops him. introduces
him to the two others, asks him what he
will take, and then the four drink to
gether.
"A friend meets another on the street.
From a mistaken notion of politeness he
invites him to take a drink in a near-by
saloon. The invitation is accepted from
the same mistaken idea of good breeding.
Neither are thirsty; neither would have
drunk had he been alone, but both drink
in accordance with the abominable treat
ing custom. Abolish treating, and you
will do away with one-quarter of the
drinking done in bar-rooms. Abolish sa
loons and you abolish treating."
The Liquor Habit Urowing.
Again the charge is made publicly that
the vice of inebriety is largely increasing
among women of good social position. It
has been made repeatedly in New York
by the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, and at the annual convention of
the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of
America, held the other day in Philadel
phia, one of the vice-presidents, Mrs. M.
L. Lake, of St. Louis, said: "With the
virtues, purity, patience and endurance of
local women drowned in the punch bowl
and wine glass of wealth and the beer
can of poverty, God pity our children,
our homes and our country!"
She also said, among other things:
"Why, treatment for the drink habit
among the 400 is now almost as common
among physicians as treatment for coughs
and colds. Dr. H. A. Gillette says that
many women acquire the taste for alcohol
from cologne, which they drink constant
ly, and which contains ninety-six per cent,
of alcohol. They drink all the essences
which are for toilet use —compound tinc
ture of lavender for one thine. One New
York woman of whom I know drinks
eight ounces of lavender tincture every
day. Thev also drink the essence of cin
namon and cloves. A well-known physi
cian has written us that this habit is
growing to an alarming extent among
women. '—Detroit Free Press.
Weight of Precedent*
There is a story reported as having
been told by Colonel Fred N. Dow, ol
Portland, Me., which shows well how cus
tomary usage "broadens down from pre
cedent to nrecedent." And no less plain
ly does it show the weight of the excep
tional precedent.
Colonel Dow once visited friends at
Quebec, and while seeing the sights of the
city and its surroundings, he took a pub
lic carriage to visit the Falls of Montmor
ency. At a hiilf-way house on the road
the driver pulled up his horses and re
marked, "The carriage always stops here."
"For what purpose?" asked the colonel.
"For the passengers to treat," was the
reply.
"But none of us drink, and we do not
intend to treat."
The driver had dismounted, and was
waiting by the roadside. Drawing himself
dp to his full height, he said, impressively,
"I have driven this carriage now moro
than thirty years, and this has happened
once before. Some time ago I had for a
fare a crank from Portland, Me., by the
name of Neal Dow, who said he wouldn't
drink, and what was more to the point,
he said he wouldn't pay for anybody else
to drink."
The son found himself occupying the
same ground as that on which liis father
had stood.
The Luck of Kaniai.
In answering the question, "What has
prohibition done for Kansas?" the Kan
sas State Temperance Union says:"lt
has reduced the annual consumption of
intoxicants from above fifteen gallons per
capita, the average throughout the United
States, to less than one gallon per capita
in Kansas. It saved an average of over
$0,000,000 in liquor sales which otherwise
tvould goto the saloon. It has reduced
the internal revenue collections from
above $1.25 per capita, the average
throughout the United States, to less than
twenty cents in Kansas. Last, but not
least, it saves annually more than 1200
souls from druukards' graves."
A Temperance Revival.
The Illinois Citizenship League has put
to test a new method of anti-license work
in saloon towns, and found it very success
ful in creating sentiment. It is called a
"Temperance Revival," and consists of a
series of meetings, at least four, and a
children's meeting. At these meeting the
people ore asked to come forward and
sign a pledge to the effect that, they will
do all in their power to prevent the wile
of intoxicating and malt liquor in their
own town, except for medicinal and me
chanical purposes. On each signer a bit
of red ribbon is pinned; also on the chil
dren at their meeting when they promise
to help.
The Crusade In llrlef.
Gcrmanv, the land of beer and "person
al liberty ' in beer drinking, is about to
try legislation an a remedy for drunken
ness.
You owe it as a duty to yourself and to
the cause of temperance to know as much
as possible about the history, develop
ment und meaning of the temperance
movement.
Bishop Thohurn, writing to the Indianu
Witness concerning the Philippines says:
"Every alternate place of business seems
to tie a liquor shop of some kind, and the
soldier ha* temptation before lus eyes
whichever way he may tutu."
iTtmpotUlK a 818 Armj.
A summary of the official report
made by the British admiralty, show
ing the name, tonnage and speed of
»very vessel employed to convey
troops, horses and mules to the Trans
vaal between July 1, 1898, and March
81, 1900, shows that the various trans
ports made 215 voyages from England
and the Mediterranean, in which they
carried C6G3 officers, 170,185 men and
80,101 horses. Of the horses 1543 were
lost in transit In forty-nine voyages
from India the transports carried 417
officers, 10,392 men, 2882 followers,
7344 horses ftnd 1156 mules; of the
latter niuety-elght horses and three
mules were lost on the voyage. The
colonial contingent was taken to the
Cape in transports, making twenty
aine voyages and carrying 486 officers,
$630 men and 7732 horses. In addi
tion to the above, thirty-three voyages
were made by vessels employed solely
In taking mules to South Africa. These
ships conveyed 31,503 mules, of which
only 671 were lost en voyage, and other
vessels made twenty-four voyages in
conveying horses and cobs from Aus
tralia and Argentina. These carried
13,896 animals, of which only 148 were
lost.
A Freak Invention.
A device belonging to the class of
freak inventions has recently been pat
ented in the United States patent office
by a German inventor. It provides a
way for transporting passengers from
and onto moving cars. This is accom
plished by providing a rotable plat
form upon the car, and having remov
able cabs arranged upon the ends of
the platform. Suitable station plat
forms are arranged to receive these
cabs at the different stations along the
line. In operating the contrivance the
persons who intend to alight from the
train seat themselves within the cab.
The platform is then rotated by suit
able mechanism attached to the car
wheels to project the cab upon one
side of the car. As the car passes the
station the cab is caught upon suit
able rails arranged upon the station
platform, and it is then only necessary
for the passengers to alight. Passen
gers who wish to embark upon the
train are treated in a directly opposite
menner, and seat themselves in the
?ab arranged at the station, which, in
turn, is picked up by the platform of
the moving car and is swung around
onto the same.
Orlgli a' Meaning of "Tankard."
The word tankard was originally ap
plied to a heavy and large vessel of
wood banded with metal. In which to
carry water. Smaller wooden drink
ing tankards were substantially made
and used throughout Europe, and
were occasionally brought here by the
colonists. A plainly shaped wood
tankard, made of staves and hoops,
is contained in a collection at Peer
fleld Memorial Hall. It was found in
the house of Rev. Ell Moody.
A* II I* In Clilna.
The question of domestic service in
China is by far an easier problem
than in many other countries. In
China a rich man gets as many serv
ants as he wants, and yet he pays
them no wages, while the common
people have to pay them well. Even
then they are hard to get, for the rea
son that the employe of the rich man
can make more than triple the ordi
nary wages In perquisites.
Weigh* Grain by the Ton.
One of the huge grain houses on the
flocks at Liverpool has lately installed
I a grain-weighing machine which is a
marvel of accuracy and rapidity. As
the grain passes through the hopper
It is weighed and discharged, the ca
pacity of the machine being 150 tons
per hour.
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country. Horticulture Is a favorite
pursuit and fruit trees are grown In
great variety. Sweet barley, maize
and millet and other cereals, with pens
and beans are chiefly cultivated In the
southern provinces, and opium Is a
crop of considerable importance. Tea
is cultivated In the west and south.
The culture of silk is equal in impor
tance to that of tea. The mulberry
tree grows everywhere. There are cot
ton mills at Shanghai and silk is
wound from cocoons in Shanghai, Can
ton and elsewhere. All of the eighteen
provinces contain coal and China may
be regarded as one of the first coal
countries of the world. Iron ores are
abundant, and copper is plentiful In
certain districts. The commercial in
tercourse of China is quite considera
ble, trade being carried on with the
principal countries of the world, in
cluding the United Kingdom, Germany,
France, Russia and the United States.
The great source of revenue for the
province Is the duty on goods coming
overland from the adjacent provinces.
—Scientific American.
A Seven to Ten Ear-Wringing.
Thieves are having a merry time of
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station, Haripur. A lady of a respect
able family was sleeping on the roof
of her house. Some culprit at night
took away seven out of ten earrings
from one of her ears. The injury
caused to the ear may be imagined.—
Lahore (India) Tribune.
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