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1 V 6 making them stand still that both mo tions should be stopped only the one turning the world on its own axis. There was no reason why the halting of the earth should have jarred and disarranged the whole uniTerse. Joshua right and God right; infidelity wrong every time. I knew it would be wrong. I thank God that the time has come when Christians need not be scared at any scientific ex ploration. The fact is that relisrion and i science have struck hands in eternal friendship, and the deeper down geology can dig and the higher up astronomy can soar all the better for us. The armies of the Lord Jesus Christ have stormed the observatories of the world's science and from the highest towers have flung out the banner of the cross, and Christianity now from the observatories at Albany and Washington stretches out its hand toward the opposing scientific weapon, crying, 'There is none like that; give it me." I was reading of Herschel, who was looking at a meteor through atele acope, and when it came over the face of the telescope it was so powerful he had to avert his eyes. And it has been just so that many an astronomer has gone into an observatory and looked up into the midnight heavens, and the Lord God has through some swinging world flamed upon his vision, and the learned man cried out: "Who am I? Undone! Un clean! Have mercy, Lord God!" Temptations of the Traveler. ' 'Again, I remark that the traveling dis position of the world, which was adverse to morals and religion, is to be brought on our side. The man that went down to Jericho and fell amid thieves was a type of a great many travelers. There is many a man who is very honest at home who when he Is abroad has his honor filched and his good habits stolen. There are but very few men who can stand the stress of an expedition. Six weeks at a watering place have ruined many a man. Ia the olden times God forbade the trav eling of men for the purposes of trade be came of the corrupting influences attend ing it. A good many men now cannot stand the transition from one place to an other. Some men who seem to be very consistent here in the way of keeping the Sabbath when they get into Spain on the Lord's day always go out to see the bull fights. Plato said that no city ought to be built nearer to the sea than ten miles lest it be tempted to commerce. But this traveling disposition of the world which was adverse to that which is good is to be brought on our side. These mail trains, why, they take our Bibles; these steamships, they transport our mission aries; these sailors, rushing from city to city all around the world, are to be con verted into Christian heralds and go out and preach Christ among the heathen na tions. The gospels are infinitely multi plied in beauty and power since Robinson and Thompson and Burckhardt have corae back and talked to us about Siloam and Capernaum and Jerusalem, pointing out to us the lilies about which Jesus preached, the beach upon which Paul was shipwrecked, the fords at which Jor dan was passed, the Red sea baak on which were tossed the carcasses of the drowned Egyptians. A man said: T went to the Holy Land an infideL I came back a Christian. I could not help it." I am not shocked, as some have been, at the building of railroads in the Holy Zmiid. I wish that all the world might go anU see Golgotha and Bethlehem. How ' many who could not afford muleteers now easily buy tickets from Constantinople to Jonpa! Then let Christians travel! God speed the rail trains and guide the steam- j ships this night panting across the deep in the phosphorescent wake of the shin ing feet of him who from wave cliff to wave cliff trod be stormed Tiberius. The Japanese come across the water and see 1. .. . w . ...... " " -w tianity and go back and tell the story and y( keep that empire rocking til! Jesus shall " reign. " Where'er the tun Does bis tucceadT Journeys run. And the firearms with which the infi del .traveler brought down the Arab horseman and the jackals of the desert have been surrendered to the church, and we reach forth our hand, crying. "There is none like that; give it me!" Universality of Religion. So it has also been with the learning and eloquence of the world. People say, "Religion is very good for aged women, it is very goo! for children, but not for men. But we hare in the roll of Christ's host Mozart and Handel in music, Cano .va and Angelo in sculpture. Raphael and Reynolds in painting. Harvey and Boer haave in medicine. Cowper and Scott in V W . . 1 , a tv poetry, urouus ana Burse in statesman- - ship, Boyle and Leibnitx in philosophy. Thomas Chalmers and John Mason in theology. The most brilliant writings of ' a worldly nature are all aglow with Scrip tural allusions. Through senatorial speech and through essayist's discourse - Sinai thunders and Calvary speaks and Siloam -sparkles. Samuel L. Southard was mighty in the courtroom and in the senate chamber, but he reserved his strongest eloquence for that day when he stood before the lit erary societies at Princeton commence- ment and pleaded for the grandeur of our T:V! Tim mi a! WaTirfai mnn rift flia hipf garlands while responding to Hayne nor - when he opened the batteries of his eio ' quence on Bunker Hill, that rocking Sinai ' - of the American Revolution, but on that ' day when in the famous Girard will case he showed his affection for the Christian religion and eulogized the Bible. The elo quence and the learning that have been on the other side come over to our side. Captured for God! "There ia none like that; give it rne." So also has it been with the picture making of the world. We are very anx ious on this day to have the printing press and the platform on the side of Christianity, but we overlook the engrav- er's knife and the painter's pencil. The antiquarian goes and looks at pictured .ruins or examines the chiseled pillars of . . Thebes and Nineveh and Pompeii and --then comes back to tell ns of the beastli- W'AsniNGTOjr, May 5. In this dis course Dr. Talmage calls the roll of influ ences once antagonistic but now friendly to the gospel and encourages Christian workers; text, I Samuel xxi, 9, "There is none like that; give it me." David fled from his pursuers. The world runs very fast when it is chasing a good man. The country is trying to catch David and to slay him. David him for a sword or spear with which to defend himself. The priest, not being ac customed to use deadly weapons, tells David that he cannot supply him, but suddenly the priest thinks of an old sword that had beea carefully wrapped up and laid away the very sword that Goliath formerly used and he takes down that sword, and while he is unwrapping the sharp, glittering, memorable blade it flashes upon David's mind that this is the very sword that was used against himself when he was in the fight with Goliath, and David can hardly keep his hand off it until the priest has unwound it. Da vid stretches out his hand toward that old sword and says, "There is none like that; give it me." In other words, "I want in my own hand the sword which has been used against me and against the cause of God." So it was given him. Well, my friends, that is not the first or the last sword once used by giant and Philistine iniquity which is to come into the possession of Jesus Christ and of his glorious church. I want, as well as God may help me, to show you that many a weapon which has been used against the armies of God is yet to be captured and used on our side, and I only imitate Da vid when I stretch out my hand toward that blade of the Philistine and cry. "There is none like that: give it me!" I remark first that this is true in regard to all scientific exploration. You know that the first discoveries in astronomy and geology and chronology were ush! to battle Christianity. Worldly philosophy came out of its laboratory and out of its observatory and saM. "Now. we will prove by the very st:-:n-ture of the earth and by the nur.::.int of the heavenly bodies that the Ii i a lie and that Christianity as we have it among men is a positive imposition." Good men trem bled. The ttlesfope. the Leyden jars, the electric batteries, all in the hands of the Philistines. But one day Christianity, looking about for some weapon with which to defend itself, happened to see the very old sword that these atheistic Philistines had been using against the truth and cried out, "There is none like that; give it me!" And Copernicus and Galilei and Kepler and Isaac Newton and Herschel and O. M. Mitchell came forth and told the world that in their ran sacking ef the earth and heavens they had found overwhelming presence of the God whom we worship, and this old Bi ble began to shake itself from the Koran and Shaster and Zendavesta with which it had been covered up and lay on the desk of the scholar and in the laboratory of the chemist and in the lap of the Chris tian unharmed and unanswered, while the tower of the midnight heavens struck a silvery chime in its praise. The Eternal Muster. Worldly philosophy said: "Matter is eternal. The world always was. God did not make it." Christian philosophy plunges Its crowbar into rocks and finds that the world was gradually made, and if gradually made there must have been some point at which the process started. Then who started it? And so that ob jection was overcome, and in the first three words of the Bible we find that Moses stated a magnificent truth when he said. "In the beginning." Worldly philosophy said:- "Your Bible Is a most inaccurate book. AH that story in the Old Testament, again and again told, about the army of the locusts it is preposterous. There is nothing in the coming of the locusts like an army. An army walks: locusts fly. An army goes in order anil procession, locusts without or der." "Wait." said Christian philosophy. and in 1SG3 in the southwestern part of this country Christian men went out to examine the march of the locusts. There are men right before me who must have noticed In that very part of the country the coming up of the locusts like an army, and it was found that all the news papers unwittingly spoke of them as an army. Why? Tliey seem to have a commander. They march like a host. They halt like a host. No arrow ever went in straighter flight than the locusts come, not even turning aside for the wind. If the wind rises, the locusts drop and then rise again after it has gone down, taking the same line of march, not varying a foot. The old . Bible is right every time when it speaks of locusts coming like an army: worldly philosophy wrong. Worldly philosophy said, "All that sto ry about the liht 'turned as clay to the seal' is skuply an absurdity." Old time worldly philosophy said. "The light Comes straight." Christian philosophy says. "Wait a little while," and It goes on and makes discoveries and finds that the atmosphere curves and bends the rays of light around the earth, literally "as the clay to the seal." The Bible right again; worldly philosophy wrong again. "Ah." says worldly philosophy, "all that allreion in Job about the foun dations of the arth is simply an absurd ity. "Where wast thou.' says God, when I set the foundations of the earth? The rarth has no foundation." Christian phi losophy comes and finds that the word as translated "foundations" may be better translated "sockets." So now see how it will read if it is translated right, "Where wast thou when I set the sockets of the earth?". Where is the socket? It is the hollow of God's hand a socket large enough for any world to turn in. Worldly philosophy said: "What an ab surd story about Joshua making the sun and moon staad still! If the world had stopped cn instant, the whole uni verse would have been out of gear." "Stop, said Christian philosophy; "not quite so quick." The world has two mo . tions one on Its own axis and the other around the sun. It was not necessary ia 'ness of ancient art, and it is a fact now that many of the finest specimens mere ly artistically considered of sculpture 'and painting that are to be found amid those ruins are not fit to be looked at, and they are locked up. How Paul must have felt when, standing amid those im parities that stared on him from the walls and pavements and bazaars of Cor- intn, ne preacned or tne pure and holy Jesus. The art of the world on the side of obscenity and crime and death. Much of the art of the world has been In the possession of the vicious. What to nn clean Henry VIII was a beautiful pic ture of the Madonna? What to Lord Jef freys, the unjust judge, the picture of the "Last Judgment?" What to Nero, the unwashed, a picture of the baptism in the Jordan? The art of the world on the wrong side. But that is being changed Bow. The Christian artist goes over to Rome, looks at the pictures and brings back to his American studio much of the power of these old masters. The Chris tian minister goes over to Veaice, looks at the "Crucifixion of Christ" and comes back to the American pulpit to taJk as never before of the sufferings of the SaT ieur. The private tourist goes to Rome and looks at Raphael's picture of the "Last Judgment." The tears start, and he goes back to his room in the hotel and prays God for preparation for that day when Sbrlrelicg like a parched scroll. The flaming heavens together roll. Our Sunday school newspapers and walls are adorned with pictures of Joseph in the court, Daniel in the den, Shadrach in the fire, Paul in the shipwreck, Christ on the cross. Oh. that we might in our families think more of the power of Christian pictures! One little sketch of Samuel kneeling in prayer will mean more to your children than 20 sermons on devotion. One patient face of Christ by the hand of the artist will be more to your child than 50 sermons on forbear ance, lhe art of the world is to be taken for Christ. What has become of Thor- waldsen's chisel and Ghirlandajo's cray on? Captured for the truth. "There is none like that; give it me." Christ's Social Position. So I remark it is with business acu men and tact. When Christ was upon earth, the people that followed him for the most part had no social position. There was but one man naturally bril- lant in all the apostleship. Joseph of Arimathea. the rich man, risked nothing when he offered a hole in the rock for the dead Christ. How many of the mer chants in Asia Minor befriended Jesus? I think of only one Lydia. How many of the castles on the beach at Galilee en tertained Christ? Not one. When Peter came to Joppa, he stopped with oae Si mon, a tanner. What power had Christ s name on the Roman exchange or in the bazaars of Corinth? None. The prom inent men of the day did not want to risk their reputation for sanity by pretending to be one of his followena. Now that is all changed. Among the mightiest men in our great cities today are the Christian merchants and the Christian bankers, and if tomorrow at the board of trade any man should get up and malign the name of Jesus he would be quickly si lenced or put out. In the front rank of all our Christian workers today are the Christian merchants, and the enterprises of the world are coming on the right side. There was a farm willed away some years ago, all the proceeds of that farm to go for spreading infidel books. Somehow matters have changed, and now all the proceeds of that farm go toward the missionary cause. One of the finest printing presses ever built was built for the express purpose of publishing infidel tracts and books. Now it does nothing but print Holy Bibles. I believe that the time will come when in commercial circles the voice of Christ will be the mightiest of all voices and the ships of Tarshish will bring presents and the queen of Sheba her glory and the wise men of the east their myrrh and frankin cense. I look off upon the business men of 'this land and rejoice at the prospect that their tact and ingenuity and talent are being brought into the service of Christ. It is one of the mightiest ot weapons, "mere is none use, mat; give It me." Now, if what I have said be true, away with all downheartedness! If science is to be on the right side and the traveling disposition of the world on the right side and the learning of the world on the right side and the picture making on the right side and the business acumen and tact of the world on the right side, thine, O Lord, is the kingdom! Oh. fall into line, all ye people! It is a grand thing to be in such an army and led by such a com mander and on the way to such a victory. If what I have said is true, then Christ is going to gather up for himself out of this world everything that is worth any thing, and there will be nothing but the scum left. We have been rebels, but a proclamation of amnesty goes forth now from the throne of God saying, "Whoso ever will, let him come." However long you may have wandered, however great your crimes may have been, "whosoever will. let him come." Oh. that this hour I could marshal all the world on the side of Christ! He is the best friend a man ever bad. He is so kind, he so loving, so sympathetic! I cannot see how you can stav awav from him. Come now and ac cept his merry. Behold him as he stretch es out the arms of his salvation, saying. "Look unto me. all ye ends of the earth. and be ve saved, for I am God." Make final choice now. Yon will either be ri!- lows planted by the water courses or the chaff which the wind dnveth away. Copyright. 1001. by Louis Klopsch. N. Y. Artist of Like Mind. Edward Chalfant of Chicago, in speak ing of modern art and modern artists, told the following- story: "Of the great liTins painters James Abbott MacNeill Whistler, the anglicized American, and Anders Zorn unquestionably rank at the very fore. I am not sufficiently up in the technique of art to attempt a comparison of their work, but in one respect they cer tainly greatly resemble each other, and that is that each man's bump of conceit is mastodonic in its proportions. Each man feels himself to be a great artist and therefore sees no reason for denial when any one intimates that he is. "Every one remembers Whistler's fa mous snub to an admirer who had just informed him that he regarded him (Whistler) as the greatest artist the world had produced, with the possible exception of Velasquez. Why drag in Velasquez r drawled Whistler languidly. Somewhat similar was Zora's reply to an inquiry re cently put him. Tor. Zorn, who is the greatest etcher since Rembrandt? was the question, and 'I am' was the laconic and all saffident response that it called fortV A Chronic Congressional Contestant. Washington. May 2. The testimony in the contested election case of Walker vs. Rhea, of the Ninth congressional district of Virginia, was opened today in the office cf the clerk of the house of representatives In the presence of General Walker, the contestant, and Alexander McDowell, the clerk of the house. The testimony was sent to the gov ernment printing office to be printed. General Walker contested Represen tative Rhea's Feat In the last congress and elections committee No. 1, in the closing hours of the session, reported In favor of Representative Rhea. This makes the third contest filed by Gen eral Walker during the past six years. Stockholders Behind with Their Busi ness. ..ew York. May 2. A petition to the governors of the New York stock ex change was circulated amongst mem bers of the board today to close the exchange on Saturday in order to en able members to catch up with their belated business owing to the great press of the recent very active market. A special meeting of the governing board would have to be called to con sider the petition, as there Is no regu lar meeting between now and Satur day. Arsenals Abolished. Washington, May 2. Secretary Root today issued an order abolishing the following arsenals: Kenebec, Au gusta.Maine; Fort Monroe.Fort Monroe. Va.; Allegheny, Pittsburg.Pa.; Indian apolis, Indianapolis, Ind.; Columbia, Columbia, Tenn. The property at these arsenals will be disposed of by the several staff de partments and the men serving at them will be assigned to duty elsewhere. It Is stated at the department that with the increased transportation facilities in the country a large number of ar senals are not needed. The Morgan Leyland Contract. 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