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DAMERJW DELAY.
Dr. Talmage on the Folly of Postponing
the Acceptance of the Gospel.
Sympathy for tbe Skeptics ? The Time ta
Be Religious.
Washington, D. C.-In thc following
discourse, prepared hy Dr. Talmage before
his illness, the lolly and danger of post?
poning the acceptance of the gospel invi?
tation are exposed on the text, Luke xiv,
18, "And they all with one consent began
to make excuse."
After the invitations to a levee are
6ent out the regrets come in. One man
apologizes for non-attendance on one
ground, another on another ground. The
most of the regrets are founded on prior
engagements. So in my text a great ban?
quet was spread, the invitations were cir?
culated, and now the regrets come in.
The one gives an agricultural reason, the
other a stock dealers reason, the other a
domestic reason. All poor reasons. The
fact was, they did not want to go. "And
they all with one consent began to make
excuse."
So now God spreads a great banquet.
It is the gospel feast, and the table reaches
across the hemispheres, and the invita?
tions go out, and multitudes come and
sit down and drink out of the chalices of
God's love, while other multitudes decline
coming, the one giving this apology, and
the other giving that apology, "and they
all with one consent begin to make ex?
cuse." I propose, so far as God may help
me. to examine the apologies which men
make for not entering the Christian life.
Apology the first: I am not sure there
is anything valuable in the Christian re?
ligion. It is pleaded that there are so
many impositions in this day; so many
things that seem to be real are sham. A
gilded outside may have a hollow inside.
There is so much quackery in physics, in
ethics, in politics, that men come to the
habit of incredulity, and after awhile they
allow that incredulity to collide with our
holy religion. But, my friends, I think
religion has made a pretty good record in
the world. How many wounds it has
salved! How many pillars of fire it has
lifted in the midnight wilderness! How
many simoom struck deserts it hath turned
into the gardens of the Lord! How it
hath .stilled the chopped sea! What rosy
light it hath sent streaming through the
rift of the storm-cloud! What pools ol
cool water it hath gathered for thirsty
Hagar and Ishmael! What manna whiter
than coriander seed it hath dropped all
around the camp of hardy bested pilgrims!
What promises it hath sent out like holy
watchers to keep the lamps burning around
deathbeds, through the darkness that
lowers into the sepulcher! What flashes
of resurrection morn!
Besides that, this religion ha3 made so
manv heroes. It brought Summerfield, the
Methodist, across the Atlantic ocean with
his silver trumpet to blow the acceptable
year of the Lord until it seemed as if al]
our American cities would take the king;
dom of heaven by violence. It sent Jehndi
Ashman into Africa alone, in a continent
of naked barbarians, to lift the standard
of civilization and Christianity. It made
John Milton among poets, Raphael anions
painters. Christopher Wren among archi?
tects, Thorwaldsen among sculptors, Han?
del among musicians. Dupont among Illili
tary commanders, and to give new wings
to the imagination and better balance tc
the judgment and more determination tc
the will and greater usefulness to the life
and grander nobility to the soul there is
nothing in all the earth like our^Christian
religion. Nothing in religion? Why, then,
all those Christians were deceived when
in their dying moment they thought they
saw the castles of the blessed, and your
child, that with unutterable agony you
put away into the grave, you will never
see him again or near his sweet voice
nor feel the throb of his young heart.
There is nothing in religion? Sickness
will come upon you. Roll and turn on
vour pillow; no relief. The medicine may
be bitter, the night may be dark, the pain
may be sharp; no relief. Christ never
comes to the sick-room. Let the pain
stab; let the fever burn; curse it and die.
There is nothing in religion? After awhile
death will come. You will hear the paw?
ing of the pale horse on the threshold.
The spirit will be breaking away from the
body, and it will take flight?whither,
whither? There is no God, no minister?
ing angels to conduct, no Christ, no
heaven, no home. Nothing in religion?
Oh, you are not willing to adopt such a
dismal theory!
And jet the world is full of skeptics.
And let. mc say there is no class of peo?
ple for whom t have a warmer sympathy
than for skeptics. We do not know how
to treat them. We deride them, we carica?
ture them. We. instead of taking them
by the soft hand of Christian love, clutch
them with the iron pinchers of ecclesias?
ticism. Oh, if you knew how those men
had fallen away from Christianity and be?
come skeptics you would not be so rough
on them! Some were brought up in homes
where religion was overdone. The most
wretched day in the week was Sunday.
Religion was driven into them with ft trip?
hammer. They had a surfeit of prayer
meetings. They were stuffed and choked
with catechisms. They were told by their
parents that they were the worst children
that ever lived because they liked to ride
down hill better than to read "Pilgrim's
Progress." They never heard their pa?
rents talk of religion but with the corners
of the -mouth drawn down and the eyes
rolled up. Others went into skepticism
through maltreatment on the part of some
who professed religion. There is a man
who says: "My partner in business was
conspicuous in prayer meeting, and he
was officious in all religious circles, but
he cheated me out of $3000. and I don't
want any of that religion." Then there
are others who get into skepticism by a
natural persistence in asking questions,
why or how? How can God be one being
in three persons? They cannot understand
it. Neither can I. How can God be a
complete sovereign and yet man a free
agent? They cannot understand it.
Neither can I. They cannot understand
why a hqjy God lets sin come into the
world. Neither can I. They sav: "Here
is a great mystery; here is a disciple of
fashion, frivolous and godless all her days;
she lives on to be an octogenarian. Here
is a Christian mother, training her chil?
dren for God and for heaven, self-sacrific?
ing, Christlike, indispensable seemingly to
that household; she gets a cancer and
dies." The skeptic says, "I can't explain
that. Neither can I.
I can see how men reason themselves
into skepticism. With burning feet I
have trodden that blistering way. I know
what it is to have a hundred nights
poured into one hour. There are men in
the arid desert of doubt who would give
their thousands of dollars if they could
get back to the old religion of their
fathers. Such men are not to be carica?
tured, but helped, and not through their
heads, but through their hearts. When
these men really do come into the king?
dom of God, they will be worth far more
to the cause of Christ than those who
never examined the evidences of Chris?
tianity. Thomas Chalmers once a skeptic,
Robert Hall once a skeptic, Christmas
Evans once a skeptic; but when they did
lay hold of the gospel chariot how thev
made it speed ahead! If, therefore. I ad?
dress men and women who have drifted
away into skepticism, I throw out no
scoff; I rather implead you by the mem?
ory of those good old times Avhen you
knelt at your mother's knee and said your
evening prayer and those other days of
fickness when she watched all night and
gave you the medicines at just the right
time and turned the pillow when it was
hot and with hand long ago turned to
dust soothed your pains and with that
voice you will never hear again unless voil
join her in the better country, told you
never mind, and by that dying cone!
where she talked so slowly, catching he: j
breath between the words?by all thost
memories I ask you to come and tak< :
the same religion, lt was good enough foi
her; it is good enough for you. Aye, J j
make a better plea: By the wounds anc
thc death throe of the Son of God, whe '
approaches you in infinite love witli
torn brow and lacerated hands ant'
whipped back, crying, "Come unto Me
all ye that labor and are heavy laden, ant
I will give you rest!"
Other persons apologize for not enter
ing the Christian life because of the in
corrigibility of their temperament. Now
we admit it is harder for some people tc
become Christians than for others, but thc
glare of God never came to a mountain
that it could not climb or to an abyss thal
it could not fathom or to a bondage, thal
?t could not break. The wildest horse thaj
ever troa Araoian sands Has Deen croker
to bit and trace.
The maddest torrent tumbling from
mountain shelving has been harnessed to
the mill wheel and the factory band MUmi
a thousand shuttles all a-buzz and a-clat
ter And the wildest, the haughtiest, the
mast ungovernable man ever created by
the grace of God may be subdued and ser.1
out on ministry of kindness, as God send?
an August thunderstorm to water the wild
flowers down in the grass. Peter with
nature tempestuous as the sea that he
once tried to walk, at one look from
Christ went out and wept bitterly. Kiel)
harvests of grace may be grown on the
summit of the jagged steep and flocks ol
Christian graces may find pasturage id
fields of bramble and rock.
Though your disposition may be all
a-bristle with fretfulness, though you
have a temper a-gleam With quick light?
nings, though vour avarice be like that ol
the horse leech, crying, "Give! though
damnable impurities have wrapped you in
all consuming fire, God can drive that
devil out of your soul, and over the chaos
and the darkness He can say, "Let thcrf
be light."
The best place for a skillful doctor is in
a neighborhood where there are all poor
doctors, the best place for an enterprising
merchant to open his store is in a place
where the bargain makers do not under
stand their business, and the best place
for you who want to become the illus?
trious and complete Christian, the best
place for you is to come right down among
us who are so incompetent and so incon?
sistent sometimes. Show us how. Give
us an example.
Exudations from poisonous trees in our
neighbor's garden will make a very poor
balm for our wounds.
Sickness will come, and we will be
pushed out toward the Red Sea which di
vides this world from the next, and not
the inconsistency of Christians, but the
rod of'jfaith, will wave back the waters
as a commander wheels his host. The
judgment will come, with its thunder
shod solemnities. Oh, then we will not
stop and say, "There was a mean Chris?
tian: there was an impure Christian."
In that day as now, "If thou be wise, thou
shalt be wise for thyself, but if thou
scornest thou alone shall bear it." Why,
my brother, the inconsistency of Chris?
tians, so far from being an argument to
keep you away from God, ought to be an
argument to drive you to Him.
No time to be religious here! You
have no time not to be religious. You
might as well have no clerks in your
store, no books rn your library, no com?
pass "on your ship, no rifle in the battle,
no hat on your head, no coat for your
back, no fihoes for your feet.
Better travel on toward eternity bare?
headed and barefooted and houseless and
homeless and friendless than to go through
life without religion.
Did religion make Raleigh any less of a
statesman or Havelock any less of a
soldier or Grinnell any less of a merchant
or West any less of a painter?
Why, my friends, religion is the best
security in every bargain; it is the sweet?
est note in every song; it is tfte brightest
gem in very coronet. No time to be re?
ligious? Why, you will have to take time
to be sick, to be troubled, to die. Our
world is only the wharf from which Ave
are to embark for heaven.
No time to secure the friendship of
Christ? No time to buy a lamp and trim
it for that walk through the darkness
which otherwise will be illumined only
by the whiteness of the tombstones? No
time to educate the eye for heavenly splen?
dors or the hand for choral harps or the
ear for everlasting songs or the 6011I for
honor, glory and immortality? One would
think we had time for nothing else.
Other persons apologize for not cater?
ing the Christian life because it is time
enough yet. That is very like those per?
sons who send regrets and say, "I will
come in perhaps at ll or 12 o'clock; I
will not bc there at the opening of the
banquet, but I will be there at the close."
Not yet! Not yet! Now, I do not give
any doleful view of this life. There is
nothing in my nature, nothing in the
grace of God, that tends toward a doleful
view of human life.
I have not much sympathy with Ad?
dison's description of the "Vision of
Mirza," where he represents human life
as being a bridge of a hundred arches and
both ends of the bridge covered with
clouds and, the race coming on, the most
of them falling down through the first
span and all of them falling down through
the last span.
It is a very dismal picture. I have not
much sympathy with the Spanish proverb
which says, "The sky is good and the earth
ia good; that which is bad is between the
earth and the sky."
But, while Ave as Christian men are
bound to take a cheerful vieAv of life, Ave
must also confess that life is a great un?
certainty and that man Avho says, "1
can't become a Christian because there is
time enough yet," ia running a risk in?
finite.
You do not perhaps realize the fact that
this descending grade of sin gets steeper
and steeper and that you are gathering
up a rush and velocity Avhich after awhile
may not answer to the brakes.
Be not among those who give their
Avhole life to the Avorld and then give their
corpse to God. It does not seem fair that
Avhile our pulses are in full play of health
Ave serve ourselves and serve the Avorld
and then make God at last the present of
a coffin. It does not seem right that Ave
run our ship from coast to coast carrying
cargoes for ourselves and then, Avhen the
ship is crushed in the rocks, give to God
the shivered timbers. It is a great thing
!for a man on his dying pillow to repent?
better that than neA*er at all; but hoAV
much better, how much more generous, it
Avould have been if he had repented fifty
years before! My friends, you Avill never
get over these procrastinations.
We have started on a march from which
there is no retreat. The shadoAvs of
eternity gather on our pathway. Hoav
insignificant is time compared with the
vast eternity! As I was thinking of this
one day Avhile coming down over the Aile
ghany Mountains at noon, by that Avon
derful pass Avhich you all have heard de?
scribed as the Horseshoe?a depression in
it he side of the mountain where the train
almost turns back again upon itself, and
you see how appropriate is the name of
the Horseshoe?and thinking on this very
[theme and preparing this very sermon, it
seemed to me as ir the great courser of
eternity speeding along had just struck
the mountain with oue hoof and gonp on
into illimitable space. So short is time,
so insignificant is earth, compared Avith
the vast eternity! This moment \'oices roll
doAA'n the sky and all the ivorlds of light
are ready to rejoice at your disenthrall
ment. Rush not into the presence of the
King ragged Avith Rin when you may haA'e
this robe of righteousness. Dash not your
foot pieces against the throne of a cruci?
fied Christ. Throw not your croAA'n of life
'off the battlements. All the scribes of
|God are at this hour ready with volumes
;of living light to record the neivs of your
soul emancipated.
[Copyritfht, 1902. L. Klopach.l
His Miraculous Escape.
Fox four days and four nights in the
depths of the earth, wandering in abso?
lute darkness through winding gorges,
crawling on hands and knees through
slimy passages in the jagged rocks,
halting at times on the brink of awful
precipices, growing faint from hunger
and almost crazy from hardships
which he was forced to endure?these
are a few of the experiences that befell
Capt Caleb Johnson, a Mississippi
river pilot, when he attempted recent?
ly to explore the mysteries of Dead
Man's cave at St. Genevieve, just
icross the river from Red Bud, III.
But with all of Capt. Johnson's ex?
periences the cave remains as much a
nystery as ever, for he waa without
ight for most of the way, and bas no
dea to-day ho-; far or where he wan
lered. He only knows that he entered
he cave in Simms' hollow, on the bank
)f the river, on Monday morning, and
.hat on Thursday afternoon a farmer
ound him in a sinkhole on his farm
our miles from the entrance. Nothing
vas, therefore, accomplished, save,
>erhaps, to take away the superstition
:hat no one could go Into the cave and
some out alive. .
Inquisitive American In London.
A curious American arrived in Lon?
don the other morning. Here are a feAV
of the questions he asked in the even?
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which will not shoAV dirt, while assist?
ants in boot shops wear immaculate
white aprons? "Why is footwear
"boots," while the boy Avho polishes
them is a "shoe" black? Why is there
no direct bus from London Bridge Sta?
tion to Waterloo? Why is the poste
restante in the largest city of thc world
not open all night? Why do many
women wear straw hats in the Avinter?
Why can't you get breakfast in a res?
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"sun-up?" When is "sun-up," any?
how?
Two Viewpoints.
"He's a very fast young man."
"Not at all."
"Evidently you don't kuoAv how he
spends money."
"Well, I know how he returns what
he borrows."
Tl?? I ca Kra*on.
The boy stood on the burning deck
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His name is Montezuma, and iie is a
graduate of the Carlisle Indian School.
After his schooling he Avent to Phil?
adelphia full of ambition, and musing
over the profession he Avould adopt. At
first it seemed to him that he might be
a banker, and then. Avhen no one seemed
inclined to help him along that path,
a master merchant. But he Avas begin?
ning to learn that there is royal road to
riches, and he thereupon decided that he
Avould hlack shoes.
For a few cents he bought thc regula?
tion kit, and it was not long before he
could send for Winonah, from the Rose
bug Agency, thc girl Avho had promised
to marry him. Instead of thc soap box
which Montezuma once carried for an
outfit, he now has a handsome stand,
and this descendant of a line of chiefs
is building up a more flourishing busi?
ness every day. Best of all. he lays his
success to Carlisle, for, as he says, he
learned there how to do things well, the
small as well as thc great.?Youth's
Companion.
The Sermon In the Urake.
A new railway brake has made its ap?
pearance which will save 200 feet of thc
2,000 DOW required for the stopping ot
a high-speed heavy passenger train.
Man is very thoughtful in the me?
chanics of> locomotion. Invention .of
better moans of stoppage ever keeps
some sort of pace with fresh devices for
increasing speed.
With the mechanics of his own system
the average mortal is so much less care?
ful that he may reasonably be styled
reckless. High speed in business, high
speed in study, high speed in pleasure,
high speed all along the line, Avhen heed?
ful nature signals "On brakes!"?how
many casualties the pace invites, and
what multiplication of asylums and "rest
cures!"
There is a practical sermon in the
work of the brake inventor.
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Health will come with all its blessings to those who know the way, and it is mainly a ques?
tion of right-living-, with all the term implies, hut the efforts which strengthen the system,
the games which refresh and the foods which nourish are Important, each in a way, while it is
also advantageous to have knowledge of the best methods of promoting freedom from unsani?
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medicinal agents used should be of the best quality and of known value, and thc one remedy
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cents per bottle.
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known value, hut it possesses this great advantage over all other laxatives that it acts gently
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