DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject : Speak For the Rlcht— Diabolic*] Agencies Active—Silence la Not Cold" en lVhlle There Are Evils Be Ready IVlien Christianity is Assailed. [Copyright 1901.1 WASHINGTON, 1). C. —ln this discourse Dr. Talmage calls for a more demonstra tive religion and a hearty speaking out on the right side of everything; text, Mark ix, 25, "Thou dumb and deaf spirit, 1 charge thee, come out of him." Here was a case of great domestic an guish. The son of the household was pos sessed of an evil spirit, which among other things paralyzed his tongue and made him speechless. When the influence was on the patient he could not say a word —ar- ticulation was impossible. The spirit that captured this member of the household was a dumb spirit—so called by Christ—a spirit abroad to-day and as lively and po tent as in New Testament times. Yet, in all the realms of sermonoJogy I cannot find a discourse concerning this devil which Christ charged upon in my text, saving, "Come out of him." There has been much destructive super stition abroad in the world concerning possession of evil spirits. Under the form of belief in witchcraft this delusion swept the continents. Persons were supposed to be possessed with some evil spirit which made them able to destroy others. In the sixteenth century in Geneva 1500 persons were burned to death as witches. Under one judge, in Lorraine. 900 persons were burned to death as witches. In one neigh borhood of France 1000 persons were burned. In two centuries 200.000 persons were slain as witches. So mighty was the delusion that it included among its vic tims some of the greatest intellects of all time, such as Chief Justice Matthew Hale and Sir Edward Coke, and such renowned ministers of religion as Cotton Mather, one of whose books Benjamin Franklin said shaped his life —and Richard Baxter and Archbishop Cranmer and Martin Luther, and among writers and philoso phers Lord Bacon. That belief which has become the laughing stock of all sensible people counted its disciples among the wisest and best people of Sweden, Ger many, England, France, Spain and New England. But while we reject witchcraft, any man who believes the Bible must be lieve that there are diabolical agencies abroad in the world. While there are ministering spirits to bless there are in fernal spirits to hinder, to poison and to destroy. Christ was speaking to a spirit ual existence when standing before the afflicted one of the text He said. "Thou dumb and deaf spirit, come oui of him." Against this dumb devil of the text I put you on your guard. Do not think that this agent of evil has put his blight on those who by omission of the vocal or gans hive had the golden gates of speech bolted and barred. Among those who have never spoken a word are the most cracic is and lovely and talented souls that were ever incarnated. The chaplains of the asylums for the dumb can tell yon enchanting stories of those who never called the name of father or mother or child, and many of the most devout and prayerful souls will never in this world speak the name of God or Christ. Many a deaf mute have I seen with the engel of intelligence seated at the window of the eye. who never came forth from the door of the mouth. What a miracle of loveliness and knowledge was Laura Bridg man. of New Hampshire, not oi.ly without faculty of speech, but without hearing and without sight, all these faculties re moved by sickness when two years of age, vet becoming a wonder at needlework, at the Tiiano, at the sewing machine and an intelligent student of the Scriptures and confounding philosophers who came from all parts of the world to studv the phe nomenon. Thanks to Christianity for what it has done for the amelioration of the condition of the deaf and the dumb. Back in the ages they were put to death as having no right, with such paucity of equipment, to live, and for centuries they were classed among the idiotic and unsafe. But in the sixteenth century came Pedro Ponce, the Spanish monk, and in the sev enteenth century came Juan Pablo Bonet. another Spanish monk, with dactylologv. or the finger alphabet, and in our own icenturv we have had John Braidwood and Drs. Mitchell and Ackerlv and Peet and Gallaudet, who have given to uncounted thousands of those whose tongues were forever silent the power to spell out on the air by a manual alphabet their thouzhts about this world and their hopes for the next. We rejoice in the brilliant inventions in behalf of those who were borti dumb. One of the most impressive audiences I ever addressed was in the Far West, an audience of about 600 persons, who had never heard a sound or spoken a word, an interpreter standing beside me while I addressed them. I congratulated that au dience on two advantages they had over the most of u.;—the one that they escaped hearing a great many disagreeable things and on the other fact that they escaped saying things they were sorry for after ward. Yet after all the alleviations of a jhackled tongue is an appalling limitation, out we are not this morning speaking of 'ongenial mutes. We mean those who are 'jorn with all the faculties of vocalization ind yet have been struck by the evil one •nentioned in the text—the dumb devil to whom Christ called when He said. 'Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge :hee, come out of him." There has been apoth?osizat;on of si ence. Some one has said silence is gold n, and sometimes the greatest triumph s to keep your mouth siiut. But some imes silence is a crime, and the direct e»ult of the baleful influence of the dumb levil of our text. There is hardly a man >r woman who has not been present on ome occasion when the Christian religion lecaine u target for raillery. Perhaps it vas over in the store some dav when there ■vus not much going on and the clerks vere in a group, or it was in the factory it the noon spell, or it was out on the arm under the tries while you were resi ns, or it was in the clubroom. or it was n a social circle, or it w is in the street on he way home from business, or it was on ome occasion which you remember with ■uf my describing it. Some one got the augh on the Bible and caricatured the >rofe*aion of religion as hypocrisv or n&rte a nun out of something that Christ aid The laugh started, and vou joined n. and not one word of protest did you tier. What kept you silent? Modes'tv* »<| Incapacity to answer'' \o. Lack of pportunitjr? No. It was a blow on both our lips by the wing of the d umh devil. I 112 some one should malign your father or .miner or wife or husband "r dnld. you t'ouid flush up quick and either with an ndigmmt word or doubled up list make capons# A |,( l >e< here is our ' hristian el Won. which has done to much for you nd soi much for the world that it will ike all eternity to ctle'.rat.- it.and vet hen it was attacked you did not so much s 1 differ 1 object. I ani sorry to cur you sav that. There i» another aide j this." You Christian people ought in uch tunes as these go armed, not with irthly weapons, but nith the sword of lie Spirit You ought to have four or tiw i uesltons with whi'li viu ould coufound •iv man who attacks Christianity A man ibety years old was telling me how to ut to flight 4 scoffer Mv aged friend ■id to the skeptic, • |lid )ou *»er read n« history of Joseph in the Hible* ' • «s." «aid the man."it la a line stun j »d as interesting i atory aa I aver read Well, now," said luv old friend, '"»ui> »e that account of .losaph stopped half *»'•" "Oh," aaid the man "then It l,4<b ttal b. UltuUUlitiS. ' "WW liu* said my friend, "we have in this world only half of everything,, and do you not think that when we near the last half things may be consistent and that then we mav find that God was right?" Oh, "friends, better load up with a few interrogation points. You cannot afford to be silent when God and the Bible and the things of eternity are assailed. Your si lence gives consent to the bombardment of vour Father's house. You allow a slur to be cast on your mother's dying pillow. In behalf of the Christ, who for you went through the agonies of assassination on the rocky bluff back of Jerusalem, you dared not face a sickly joke. Better load up with a few questions, so that next time you will be ready. Say to the scoffer, "My dear sir, will you tell me what makes the difference between the conditions of woman in China and the United States? What do vou think of the sermon on the mount? flow do you like the golden rule laid down in the Scriptures? Are you in favor of the Ten Commandments? In your large and extensive reading have you come across a lovelier character than Jesus Christ? Will vou please to name the triu-nphant deatnbeds of infidels and athe ists ." "How do you account for the fact that among the out-and-out believers in Chris tianity were such persons as Benjamin Franklin, John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, Babington Macaulav William I'enn, Wal ter Scott, Charles Ringsley. Horace Bush nell, James A. Garfield. Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson. Admiral Foote, Ad m ral Farrapit, Ulysses S. Grant, John Milton, William Siiakespeare, Chief Jus tice Marshall. John Adams, Daniel Webs ter, George Washington? How do you account for their fondness for the Chris tian religion? "Among the innumerable colleges and universities of the earth will you name me three started by infidels and now sup ported by infidels? Down in your heart are you really happy in the position you occupy antagonistic to the Christian reli gion .' Go at him with a few such nnestions, and he wiil get so red in the face as to suggest apoplexy, and he will look at his I watch and say he has an engagement and must go. You will put him in a sweat that will beat a Turkish bath. You will put him on a rout compared with which our troops at Bull Run made no time at all. Arm yourself, not with argumente, but interrogation points, and I promise you victory. Shall such a man as you, shall such a woman as you. surrender to one of the meanest spirits that ever smoked up from the pit—the dumb devil spoken of in the text? But then there are occasions when this particular spirit thrt Christ exorcised when He said, "I charge thee to come out of him" takes people by the wholesale. In the most responsive religipus audience have you noticed how many people never sing at all? They have a book, and they have a voice, and they know how to read. They know many of the tunes and yet are silent while the great raptures of music pass by. Among those who sing not one out of a huhdred sings loud enough to hear hi 9 own voice. They hum it. They give a sort of religious grunt. They make the lips go, but it is inaudible. With a voice strong enough to stop a street car one block away, all they can afford in the praise of God is about half a whisper. With enough sopranos, enough altos, enough bassos to make a small heaven be- I tween the four walls, they let the oppor- i tunity go by unimproved." The volume of ! voice tnat ascends from thi largest au dience that ever assembled ought to Vie multiplied two thousandfold. But the minister rises and gives out the hymn, the organ begins, the choir or preceptor leads, the audience are standing so that the lungs may have full expansion, and a mighty harmony is about to ascend when the evil spirit spoken of in my text—the dumb devil—spreads hi 3 two "wings over the lins of one-half the audience, and the otuer wing over the lips of the other half of the audience, and the voices roll back into the throats from which they started, and only here and there anything 19 heard, and nine-tenths of the holv power is destroyed, and the dumb devil, as he flies awav, say 3, "I could not keep Isaac Watts from writing that hymn, and I could not keep Lowell Mason from com posing the tune to which it is set. but I smote into silence or half silence the lips from which it would have spread abroad to bless neighborhoods ana cities and then mount the wide open heavens." Give the long meter doxology the full support of Chr3tcndom and those four lines would take the whole earth for God. This is the way I account for the fact that the stupidest places on earth are some prayer meetings. I do not 6ee how a man keeps any grace if he regularly at tends them. Thtv are spiritual refrigera tors. Religion kept 011 ice. How many of us have lost occasions of usefulness! In a sculptor s studio stood a figure of the god Opportunity. The sculptor had made the hair fall down over the face of the statue so as to completely cover it, and there were wings to the feet. When asked why he so represented Opportunity the sculptor answered, "The face of the statue is thus covered up because we do not recognize Opportunity when it comes, and the wings 01 the feet show that Op portunity is swiftly gone." But do not let the world deride the ( church because of all this, for the dumb devil is just as conspicuous in the world, i he great political parties assemble at the proper time to lnuld platforms for the candidates to stand on. A committee of each party is appointed to make the plat form. After proper deliberation the com mittees come iri with a ringing report, "whereas ' and "whereas" and "whereas." l'ronunciamentos all shaped with the one idea of getting the most votes. All ex pression in regurd to the great moral evils tne country ignored. No expression in behalf 01 temperate living, for that would lose the vote of the liquor traffic. No ex pression in regard to the universal attempt at the demolition of the Lord's day. No recognition of God in the history of na tions, for that would lose the vote of atheists. But "whereas" and "whereas" and 'whereas " Nine eheeis will be given for the p.atiorm. The dumb devil of the text puts one wing over the one platform and the other wing over the other plat form. I hone great conventions ar*- opened w > P. ra )'* r by their chaplains. It thev avoided platitudes and told the honest '•/it "J prayers they would say: <• Lord, we want to be postmasters and consuis anu foreign ministers and United States district attorneys. For that we are here and tor that we will strive till the < lection next November. Give us office or we die. Forever and ever. Amen " The world, to say the least, is no bet ter than the church on this subject of si lence at the wrong tune. In other words, it it not time for Christianity to become pronounced and aggressive as never be fore.' lake sides for God and sobriety and righteousness. 11. V A T follow Him; if final, then follow him." Have vou oppor tunity of rebuking a sin? Ileluikv it. 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