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The Yale Expositor. J. A. Mkkmks, rubliaher. YALE, MICH TALMAGE'S SERMON. TIMELY DISCOURSE ON RELIG IOUS DOCTRINES. A seventh English steamer has left Flume with a load of Hungarian horse3 for the British In South Africa, The 4,500 animals thus shipped are under stood to he fat and tender. People who talk anxiously concern ing the danger from automobiles should remember that a great deal al ways depends upon the man In charge of the machinery, and that an Incom petent Individual with a team of skit tish horses can do quite as much dam age as the man who does not know how to work the levers of an automobile. Arbor day is the only holiday which speaks for the future; all others cele brate the past. Yet even Arbor day be gins to have a past. Eighteen years ago, during the first forestry congress It Would Free Ilomaally From tho CJ raved ul lies of Old lioileslastlcal Dog uma Faith la CbrUt tho Test of True Lhrlitlanlty. Copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch. Text is John xi, 44: "Loose him and let him go." My Bible Is at the piace of thi3 text written all over with lead pencil marks made at Bethany on the ruins of the house of Mary and Martha and Lazarus. We dismounted from our horses on the way up from Jordan to the Dead sea. Bethany was the sum mer evening retreat of Jesus. After spending the day in the hot city of Jerusalem he would come out there al most every evening to the house cf hl3 three friends. I think the occu pants of that hou3a were orphans, for the father and mother are not men tioned. But the son and two daugh ters must have inherited property, for In this country, the children of Cincin nati marched to Eden Park and planted it must have been, Judging from what a voune tree for each President. Wash- 1 1 saw of the foundations and the siz lngton would be prouder of his Cincin nati oak than of his mythical cherry tree; and Jackson would find his hick ory harder to break down than was the United States Bank. Among the most distinguished young men of foreign birth who are now studying in the United States are T. and Y. Sung, the grandsons of LI Hung Chang.the grand old maa of China. The two young men are 21 and 18 years old us got sick of the rooms, an opulent home. Laza rus, the brother, was now at the head of the household, and hl3 sisters de pended on him and were proud of him, for he was very popular, and every body liked him. and these girls were splendid girls Martha a fust rate housekeeper and Mary a spirituelle, somewhat dreamy, but affectionate and as good a girl as could be found in all Palestine. But ons day Lazar- The sisters were in con- respeetlvely, and are said to differ from their illustrious grandfather in political faith. They are fully in sympathy with the Chinese reform movement, and will study Western civilization with a view of applying the lessons they learn when they return to China, The project for building a new fa cade to the cathedral of Milan, which has been at the point of execution for fourteen years, is receiving so much opposition that it Is not impossible that it may be abandoned. The old facade struck a discordant note, but many ol its details were fine. As the bequest which was to largely pay the cost of the construction of the facade was to revert to the great hospital at Milan if the construction was not begun within a certain time, it Is probable that the Milanese public will not regard the loss of a new facade a serious matter. A recent editorial on "Child Thrift in France" has elicited the pleasing fact that in several American cities the school children are systematically en couraged to save their pennies. Eight years ago a plan of saving, promote-1 by the Grand Rapids savings bank, was Introduced experimentally into four schools. After twelve weeks success ful trial, it was taken up in all the schools. Now the savings bank has several thousand child depositors, whose savings aggregate more than seventeen thousand dollars. There are now more than five hundred schools in the country In which there is a similar system of saving. The state of health of one of our two surviving ex-Prcsldcnts was the sub ject of numerous newspaper para graphs a few weeks ago. Neither of the two has yet reached the average number of years attained by ex-Presl-dtnts from Washington to Arthur. Washington's brief life after he left the presidency was longer than that of Polk or of Arthur, for in the June fol lowing the close of hl3 chief magis tracy Polk was dead, and Arthur sur vived his retirement less than two' years. John Adams lived twenty-five years as ex-President, and his son, John Quincy Adams, showed for near ly nineteen years how Importantly a former chief magistrate may serve his country. Van Buren and Fillmore sur vived the presidency twenty-one years; Madison, nineteen years; Jefferson and Tyler, seventeen years; Pierce, twelve years, and Hayes nearly as long. The Kansas Supreme court In the case of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company against I. P. Campbell has handed down a de cision holding the act of the legisla ture requiring railroads to furnish free transportation to shippers of live stock to be unconstitutional. The court was unanimous and its decision reverses both the Appellate court and the Sedgwick county district court The court says: "This is a depriva tion of property without due process ol law and denial of the equal protection of the laws, and is, therefore, uncon stitutional and void under the four teenth amendment to the constitu tion." The railroads have furnished shippers of one car load fre transpor tation to market, the shippers paying their fare home. For two car loads or more the shipper Is carried free both -ways. Thin Is the rule which has been observed for years and is now in force. The populist legislature of 1897 passed the law declared unconstitutional. Ii provided that shippers of one car loaa should be carried free both ways. Senator Depcw estimates that "fully one-half of all charitable efforts are productive of more harm than good. They increase pauperism, and encour age paupers to remain pauprs. The worst form that charity can take is when it pauperizes the recipient." The estimate of one-half of all charity being evil may seem startling; possi bly it is exaggerated. If true it is still no argument against a continuance of charitable effort,. No" less benevolence, but more discretion In manifesting it, is the rule suggested. The charity that encourages self-help 13 alwy food. sternation. Father gone, and mother gone, they feel very nervous lest they lose their brother also. Disease did its quick work. How the girls hung over his pillow! Not much sleep about that house no sleep at all. From the characteristics otherwise developed, I Judge that Martha pre pared the medicines and made tempt ing dishes of food for the poor appe tite of the sufferer, but Mary prayed and sobbed. Worse and worse gets Lazarus until the doctor announces that he can do no more. The shriek that went up from that household when the last breath had been drawn and the two sisters were being led by sympathizers into the adjoining room all those of us can imagine who have had our own hearts broken. But why was not Jesus there as he so often had been? Far away in the country dis tricts, preaching, healing other sick, how unfortunate that this omnipotent Doctor had not been at that domestic crisis in Bethany. When at last Jesus arrived in Bethany, Lazarus had been buried four days and dissolution had taken place. In that elimate the breathless body disintegrates more rapidly than in ours. If, Immediately after decease, Hie body had been awakened into life, unbelievers might have said he was only in a comatose state or in a sort of trance and by some vigorous manipulation or power ful stimulant vitality had been re newed. No! Four days dead. Tb Stputcher of Christ. At the door of the sepulcher is a crowd of people, but the three most memorable are Jesus, who was the family friend, and the two bereft sis ters. We went into the traditional tomb one December day, and it is deep down and dark, and with torches vo explored it. We found it all quiet that afternoon of our visit, but tho day spoken of in the Bible there wa3 pres ent' an excited multitude. I wonder what Jesus will do? He orders the door of the grave removed, and then he be gins to descend the steps, Mary and Martha close after him, and the crowd after them. Deeper down into the shadows and deeper! The hot tears of Jesus roll over his cheeks and splash upon the back of his bands. Were ever so many sorrows com pressed Into so small a space as In that group pressing on down after Christ, all the time bemoaning that he had not come before? Now all tho( whispering and all the crying and all' the sounds of shuffling feet are stopped. It Is the silence of expectancy. Death had conquered, but now the vanquisher of death confront ed the scene. Amid the awful hu3h of the tomb, the familiar name which Christ had often had upon his Hps In the hospitalities of the villago home came back to hla tongue, and with a pathos and an almlghtinesa of which the resurrection of the last day shall only be an echo he cries, "Lazarus, come forth!" The eyes of the slum berer open, and he rises and comes to the foot of the steps and with great difficulty begins to ascend, for the cerements of the tomb are yet on him, and his feet arc fast and his hands are fast and the impediments to all his movements are so great that Jesus commands: "Take off theso cere ments! Remove these hindrances! Unfasten these graveclothes! L0030 him, and let hlra go!" Oh, I am so glad that after the Lord raised Lazarus he went on and com manded the loosenlDg of the cords that bound his feet so that he could walk and the breaking off of the cerement that bound his hand3 so that he could stretch out his arms in salutation and the tearing off of the bandage from around his Jaws so that he could speak. What would resurrected llfo have been to Lazarus If he had not been freed from all those crlpplementa of his body? I am glad that Christ com manded his complete emancipation, saying, "Loose him, and let him go." Only Half liberated. The unfortunate thing now is that so many Christians are only half liber ated. They have been raised from tne death and burial of sin into spiritual life, but they yet have the graveclcthea on them. They are, like Lazarus, hob bling up the stairs of the tomb bound hand and foot, and the object of this sermon is to help freo their body and free their souls, and I shall try to obey th Master's command that comes to me and comes to every minister of re ligion, "Loose him, and let him go!" Many are bound hand and foot by religious creeds. Let no man misinter pret me as antagonizing creeds. I have eight or ten of them a creed about religion, a creed about art, a creed about social life, a creed about govern ment, and so on. A creed is something that a man believes, whether it be written or unwritten. The Presbyteri an church Is now agitated about its creed. Some good men in it are for keeping it because It was framed from the belief of John Calvin. Other good men in it want revision. I am with neither party. Instead of revision I want substitution. I was sorry to have the question disturbed at all. The creed did not hinder us from offering the pardon and the comfort cf the gos pel to all men, and the Westminster Confession has not interfered with me one minute. But now that the elec tric lights have been turned on the imperfections of that creed and everything that man fashions i3 im perfect let us put the old creed re- Fpoctfully aside and get a brand new one. It i3 impossible that people who lived hundreds of ycar3 ago should fashion an appropriate creed for our times. John Calvin was a great and good man, but he died 333 years ago. The best centuries of Bible study have come since then, and explorers have done their work, and you might J3 well have the world go back and stick to what Robert Fulton knew about steamboats and reject the subsequent improvements in navigation, and go back to John Cutenbers, ths inventor of the art of printing, and reject all modern newspaper presses, and go back to the time when telegraphy was the elevating of signals or tho burning of bonfires on tho hilltops and reject the magnetic wire which Is tho tongue of nations as to ignore all the exegates and the philologists and the theo logians of the last 330 years and put your head under tho sleeve of the gown cf a sixteenth century doctor. I could call the name3 of twenty living Presbyterian ministers of religion who could make a better creed than John Calvin. The nineteenth century ought not to be called to sit at the feet of the sixteenth. Chance In Condition. "But," you say, "it is the same old Bible, and John Calvin had that as well as the present student of the Scriptures." Yes; so it is the same old sun in the heavens, but in our time it has gone to making daguerreotypes and photographs. It is the same old water; but in our century It has gone to running steam engines. It Is tin same old electricity; but in our time It has become a lightning footed er rand boy. So It is the old Bible, but new applications, new uses, new in terpretations. You must remember that during the last 300 years words have changed their meaning, and some of them now mean more and some less. I do not think that John Calvin be lieved, as some say ho did, in the dam nation cf infants, although some of the recent hot disputes would seem to im ply that there Is Eiich a thing as the damnation of Infants. A man who be lieves in the damnation of infants him self deserves to lose heaven. I do not think any good man could admit such a possibility. What Christ will do with all the babies in the next world I con clude from what he did with the babies in Palestine when he hugged them and kissed them. When some of you grown people go out of this world, your doubtful destiny will be an em barrassment to ministers officiating at your obsequies, who will have to be cautious so as not to hurt surviving friends. But when the darling children go there are no "If j" or "buts" or guesses. We must remember that good John Calvin was a logician and a metaphysi cian, and by the proclivities of his na ture put some thlug3 In an unfortun ate way. Logic has it3 use and meta physics has its use, but they are not good at making creeds. A gardener hands you a blooming rose, dewy. fresh, but a severe botanist comes to you with a rose and says, "I will show you the structure of this rose," and he proceeds to take it apart and pulls off the leavea and he says, "There are the petals," and he takes out the anthers, and he says, "Just look at tho wonder ful structure of theso floral pillars!" and then he cuts the stem to show you the Juices of the plant. So logic or metaphysics takes the aromatic ro3e of the Christian religion and says, "I will Just show you how this rose of religion was fashioned," and it pulls off of It a piece and says, "That Is the human will," and another piece and says, "This is God's will," and another piece and says, "This is sovereignity," and another piece and says, "This is free agency," this is this, and that is that. And while I stand looking at the fragments of the rose pulled apart, one whom the Marys took for a gardener comes in and presents me with a crim son rose, red as blood, and says, "In hale the sweetness of this; wear it on your heart, and wear It forever." I must confess that I prefer the rose In full bloom to the rose pulled apart. Oura Not tho Only World. Backed up by the teachings of your Bible, Just look through the telescope some bright night and see how mtny worlds there are and reflect that all you have seen, compared with the number of worlds In existence, are less than the fingers of your right hand as compared with all the fingers of the human race. How foolish, then, for ua to think that ours is the only world fit for us to stay In. I think that all the stars are inhabited and by beings like the human race In feelings and sentiments, and the differences in lung respiration and heart beat and physical conformation,' their physical conformation fit for the climate of their world and our physical confor mation fit for the cllmato of our world. So we shall feel at home in any of the stellar neighborhoods, our physical limitations having ceased. One of our first realizations In get ting out of this world, I think, will be that In this world we were very much pent up and had cramped apartments and were kept on tho limits. The most even of our small world, 13 water, and the water says to the human race. "Don't come here or you will drown." A few thousand feet up the atmos phere is uninhabitable, and the atmos phere says to tho human race, "Don't come up here or you cannot breathe." A few miles down the earth is a fur nace of fire, and the fire says, "Don't come here or you will burn." The caverns of the mountains are full of poisonou3 gases, and the gaes siy. 'Don't come here or you will bo as phyxiated." And, crossing a track, you must look out or you mill be crushed. And, standing by a steam boiler, you must look out or you will bo blown up. And pneumonias and pleurisies and consumptions and apoplexies go across thi3 earth in flocks, in droves, in herds, and it is a world of equinoxes and cyclones and graves. Yet we are under the delusion that It Is the only place fit to stay In. We want to stick to the wet plank In mldocean while the great ship, the City of God, of the Ce lestial line, goes sailing past and would gladly take us up in a lifeboat. My Christian friends, let rno tear off your despondencies and frights about dissolution. My Ird commands me regarding you, saying, "Loose him, and let him go!" Celling Into the. Light. "But," you say, "I fear to go becauso the future is so full of mystery." Well, I will tell you how to treat the mys teries. The mysteries have ceased bothering me, for I do a3 the Judges of your courts often do. They hear all the arguments in the case and they say, "I will take these papers and give you my decision next week." So I have heard all the arguments in regard to the next world, and some things aro uncertain and full of mystery, and so I fold up the papers and reserve until the next world my decision about them. I can there study all the mys teries to better advantage, for the light will be better and my faculties strong er, and I will ask the Christian philos ophers, who have had all the advan tages of heaven for centuries, to help me, and I may be per mitted myself humbly to ask the Lord, and I think there will be only one mystery left; that will be how one so unworthy as myself got Into such an enraptured place. Come up out of tho sepulchral shadows. If you are not Christians by faith in Christ, come up into the light; and if you are already like Lazarus, reanimated, but still have your grave clothes on, get rid of them. The command is, "Loose him, and let him go." The only part of the Journey I made years ago to Palestine that I really dreaded wa3 the landing at Joppa. That is tho port of entrance for the Holy Land, and there are many rocks and in rough weather people cannot land at all. The boat3 taking the peo ple from the steamer to the docks must run between reefs that looked to me to be about CO feet apart, and one mlstroko of an oarsman or an unex pected wave has sometimes been fatal ani hundreds have perished along those reef3. Besides that, as we left Port Said the evening before, an old traveler said: "The wind is just right to give you a rough landing at Joppa; indeed I think you will not be able to land at all." The fact wa3 that when our Mediterranean steamer dropped anchor near Joppa and we put out for shore in the small boat, the water was as still as though it had been sound asleep a hundred years, and we landed as easily as I entered this pulpit. Well, your fears have pictured for you an appalling arrival at the end of your voyage of life, and they say that the seas will run high and that the break ers will swallow you up, or that if you reach Canaan at all, it will be a very rough landXig. The very opposite will be true if you have the eternal God for your portion. Your disembarkation for the promised land will be as smooth as was ours at Palestine Christ will meet you far out at sea and pilot you Into complete safety, and you w'ill land with a hosanna on one side of you and a hallelujah on the other. "Lani nftead!" Its fruits are waving O'er the hill of fadeless green And the living waters laving Shores where neaveniy rorms are seen. 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