TALMAGE SERMON

ntAKK PC WITT TALMACT. P P

d and' totnrtird » to oUKure tbo ntiooal Jndpwrnt. Tho text la IlanW rl. a “Ko». o kin*, ratabllati the ir~ err*, and at«n the wrltlna. that It be Kln« Darina »aa a boot to be eaacht hi a trap. The Jealbna autr offlnTa. * ho had hwc been' pWmlnc a^lnat the jooas prim* minuter, lud at Uat foand a war In which tbcj thought tbej eonld deatroy him. “AhaT they rtiorkled. "We will make the king algn this roung npatart a death warraoh Be will not know that be to doing It We ahali play upon our royal maater’a vanity and aak him to' aend forth a,

that a brave officer lacking education, training and diplomatic tart might Involve the notion In'aertooa dlffimltlea. thcrefpre wlee In making proto ronalder the character and antecedenta of the man. The adralral'a advice waa aound. but bla letter p-.bltobed at a time when there other I| neat Iona relating to hto rvc.nl under dtortiaaion. and U created a prejudice agalnat him w hich nodored to the premature termination

f a brilliant carver.

Our political blatory fornlabca a ntlll ■ore hupr.-a.lv,• IllnatraUun. A eertea of lettrra written by a prominent

rtlj copied from

the hoalnewa fllea of the man who rereived them and were publlahcl to the world at a crtala of that atateaman'a carver. Jnat at the moment when hto rivato were Intervated In having the public pet the wont conatrortlon upon them- They were mtoeonatrued and tnlaieprracotd and reaulted. twenty yean ago. In tlie annihilation of the writer", political osplratlona. IVrtlnent llhtotratlon the third: The Impolatve letter written by tieorge WaahlngIntimate peraonal friend In the army. Colonel Jow-pb Heed, to General Cbartea Lee. That letter practically deatroyed JoarpL Itved'a whole fnturc career. My brother, with ra Ivefore yon. aak yoora afford to write any letter which will not bear the teat of wboleawle publicity. However an re yon may be of your lettrra being aafely delivered to yoor eotTvapoodent. who will rightly nnderetand them, do not forget that In the rtungea of life they may fall Into the band, of malickma and boa tile per

cl naive aource of all good. Had every anbjert making any reqneat of God or man. aave to the king only, for a period of thirty daya. Them plotten knew that Daniel waa In the habit at praying to God every day. and^tbey *o In aptte of the kins', proclamation. Be would tboa become an offender agalnat the law and would Incur the penalty, which waa to be eaat Into the dan of the Ilona. "Sow," they would

letter which cannot be rightly read by the whole world at targe, becauae you not know bow aoon the friend to ora you' bare written may become

do not ebange- They may be uard to rimflrmn the writer long year, after

they were written; aye. aft

bo once alept In the aame cradle and played in the ^ame nunery and • the anbjert. of the aame prayer. „ become ao bitter In their hatred that they will even fight a mortal eom-

1 nearly a I way a try In deatroy you the evidence of the unguarde ' ■ which you have written in

of love.

My father need bought upon me by

of an awful night which be paaaed In an ordeal of ladeocribable honor.. A very near and dear rice Ore of bta waa hto Intimate aaaodate for many yean. They were to each other aa Intimate a. brother*. They confided In each other

m. And yet the atrange fart to that ■ and women often. In the momenta L will alt

we you aeot that Important eh did yon ad" much harm wotuu have aeot it? Would you nat havt After-proper rafleci not have door exactly I win M. Stanton did unrocatloo? One day aome g went wrong In the war depart

o throw H d the example o. my friend. When yon write an riant letter, lay It a ride for a fl you hare had aa opportunity for

• who know . d If placed be fore the eye. of the world ^1 large. y thought, that I might md or a brother which

which my father had written and hand1 to the urwifiapere for The night that my father

deep!cable art. aa '

afraid

tbit In a confidentUT eorre-

uny yrara

hare written aometblng which Jn lb? eye. of the world might be Imlirodent. Ah that night be tramped the floor.

ray of daylight told that near, be went out to buy

U la vary aa.

I to aay: "1 wtoh I could aae that man. 1 wtoh I eonld girt

e galhered together upon the *et at the pea’# tooefa. Then be abae away to the poet office iy» a epeclil delivery atamp. onda it upon the envelope with a >w that aounda like a foundry In U blaat Then he gora home, aayiag hlmaelf: "There. I have relieved myIf of that matter. 1 have told that in Juet what I think of him and hto

action. If be abould ever repeat the

dren and to the poblie at Row. my friend. In otx

gentle mge of Concord. <-orr.*q«md.-d; the letter* of Kuliert I^iul. Slevenran to hto frienda. aiattered all over the world; the letter, of Cicero and of the younger I’liny, letter* of Jtilliw-Owat to the Emperor Con* tan tine and letter, of Sldonln* Apolllrmrie -tbe»e letter, are the more faxluatlng becauae. like the mountain atrvama. they aiurkle

under tlie ovvrtumglng even the affection. . Tb.-y were Ing for the moat part Into th

only one nightingale and moiatenlng

the throat of hut one aongatcr

Many have attkllev! the effect of letter writing In a political aoiae. W know tlie jaiwer of Samuel Adami pen In fomenting Itevoluttonary atrtfi We know tlwt Alexander llnmllton'npeti. by Hie power of public letter writing., defeated Aaron Burr for the gubernatorial chair of Sew York atate and ratnveri him to challenge Hamilton to a dindly duel. We know bow George Wanbtngtne *>y letter wriilug after hto rvtlretm-nt from the prenlden liar chair practically directed national legtelatlon. Wc know how the farnou. "Letter* of Junlua." written again*! the Itritt.b mlnlatry. mightily changed the reading upon the Jiagiw of Engll.h blatory- And If we are able to aturiy tlie Influence of letter writing In a llt-

ed the n-aterial a

Let ua find am- the aplritunl Influence of letter writing In your own life strange to aay. you do not remember much about your mot her'a life. I mean aa you alt there you have forgotten exactly bow ahf looked and the tone of her voice. She baa been di-ad many yean. Then you have forgotten to a great extent her word, of advice In the home, but you have never forgotten .her letter. Somehow, after you left

t word, which ahe wrote to a far greater Impreaaiou than

the word, which ahe afiokr. If I abould go Into your home ai-d aak for your moat valuable collection of paper* you would In all probability abow me a collection of old yellow tetten. They

written by her hand. Yon have

read them over and over again. Some of tboae Irttera are atalned aa though the children had apattered water upon

They are atalned with your in well aa perhapa with bera.

The goapel advice In tboae letter, which you were able to read In the

'lit' [quietude o! your own room la today

I BKe aweeteat Irwaon that your mother ever taught What baa been true reference to your life to alao true mine. The grratrat leaaon that my tber taught me waa not by the lip. 1 with the pen. Though I had IP with him for eighteen year, he ne ao overwhelmingly affected me aa the day I left for college. He placed

In my hand a letter. He read It In the train. In tbb

■ne half abort of paper, be wrote three

worda: "In college yon wir

group.: Group the Aral. boy. who go to college becanae their father, arnd them there. Hoya who drink and .moke and whe cheat at their elamina Ilona. Eailnre. Group the second, boy. who go to college to prepare for life’s struggle; boya who study hard and go to church and the prayer meettag. especially the prayer meeting. Snc-

- which In ninety-nine cai bundn-d It Isn’t—but you ,

Jerted to the Ignominious glaucre of ; ‘ r folk* n* a foreigner who give *“ poor French cab driver* bad money, s you take the bit of lend and give a good Of course the cabman has changed the coin. You gave him a perfectly good three franc piece at the atari, which be ha* in hi. pocket, and he ha. bluffed you into giving him anoUjer 3 franra In exchange for a naele** bit of

vial tor* to Part, let thto be a

has been observed Hint If the tamed dog to taken back to the wiki atate be lose* hto voice. Three "aonndIng voices" are produced In the animal throat In a way similar to human language. but are not “volcre" proper nor ’language* ' proper, and yet they are ull of pay cbokigkw! expression and rereal Hie anlmar a pay chic atate*. If we tickle a chimpanzee In Hie armpit, the touch produce* a grin on the fare almltn that of a man under like rlrcumncre. Be also emits taughterllke aounda. The same la the ease with the ouung. The gorilla knlta the brow when angry, just like men. often observe In apes a complete re In the facial muscles when something to going to happen, be It agreeable or disagreeable' It to ao alao with the child. In ape* there to evidently the same connection between the facial muscle* and vocal muacire aa

Charaecsr Bslldlss-

frel any kinder or more gentle to the great world at targe! Have yon made n a batter man? Have you made ureelf a better man alao? In fart, ninety-nine rases out of a hundred ea not such a letter damage your neighbor and alao do more damage to rttder than It doe* to the man to d the letter 1. sent? I oore read i eastern tyrant who wanted to Off an enemy. He Invited this eoto sup with him. While they rat sat he had tha waiter bring In two

more than any spoken word* my father

ever altered, burned tbemaelve*

my Innermost being. That letter of hto Illustrated the power of a spiritual pen.

wielded In a Christian home.

But why dreumacribe thto thought within the four walls of a home? Th* spiritual power of go*|«-l letter writing la aeen everywhere that It has been tried. ToVbat could Maltblr Babcock's wonderful apirttual influence be mostly attributed > Ur was without

one of the most successful mlnta the A Inert,-* n pulpit at the

time of hto death. To hi* marvelous and yet almple eloquence, which Sunday after Sunday crowded the famous Brick ebureta of New York city to the door*’ No, not rtriefly. To hto ewrrt and wtnaome personality In peraonal contact? No. not principally. The greats*! part at hto tefluenre was wo* by the power of peraonal letter writing. One of hto old claasroate* and moat Intimate frienda told me that Dr. Babcock never let a member of hto congregation get out of hto reach. He

book flllcd with dale*. On the

birthday, of hto boy* at college be would drop them each a abort letter, telling them to Improve their opportunltlre and how much their parents and pastor were thinking and praying for them. Cm the aad anniversary of the death of children he would drop a aympalbctk note to the broken hearted i parents, telling them how thankful ' they ought to be that tbelr little one* hare now been able to spend one or two yarns In heaven, telling them how happy they ought to he that the partings would cot now be very long. When the anniversary of a young girl's advent Into the church nunc, he would drop her a letter. Imping that her year of faith In Christ had hern a happy year. In thto way Dr. Babcock reached out everywhere and hound hto people to him with llnka of steel. By thto system of simple giwpol letter writing the late pastor of the Brick church was

to make hto Chriattan Influence ill over A merle*. My brother and r. you and I have wasted many a

glorious opportunity for gospel letter writing. Will you not here and now consecrate your pen to do for Josua what you can? Will you n*<4 eonaecratr the pen a* well as the vote# and the arnar of touch? Ketnember. I’aUl'a epistle* wore only Paul'i gospel letters, written to hi* absent friend*. Wi '

the power of gospel letter writing •reompltoh do a an* Her scale what

tired traveling mtoatonary by Yds pen

to hi* guest a cup be (Har king! n-, toy mistake took and drank the patI cup. like the king, to It not always the rase when a man writes a purely revenge'*] letter that he to hurt In the aeudlog than the enemy to In Hie tvcrtrhig? Did not the officers of stats prepare tbelr own death warrant when they prreuadsd Dariiia to tend forth the public decree by which they Ittfa-d to dqstnff the prime mln-

tatrr?

Never write a -letter without realising that In It you liare the mightiest opportunities of le.t,tying for Jr**s Chris' We hare all studied the farreaching effect In a literary sense of letter writing The private corre aome of the hrigfc toot and tbs most Interesting book, of literature. . The love letter, of Kllxabeth Barren and Roitfrt Browning, the tendar t

Oh. the Infinite Influence of _ e»! Infinite In reference

(tome of ua have see* the A "Syrian historic* written upon the slabs of

brick by pros tboinmnds upon iBouaand* of year* ago. We taava

leave* of greaa ujion which the Greeks

used to engrave tbelr laws, and

*houlder_bladr* of a dead sheep's skel-

eton nyrnn which the one

used to write poetry. The sides of the

Egyptian obelisk* are covered btorogtyphles of the ancient.

Brat pen wielded by man waa a chisel.

- But. though such writings may hundred,, and thousand* of year*, yet they will not last a. king a* the

■I pen. Korb worda

r (Utaaed cycle, of

ONE MAN'S CAREER.

nation. But the sacred pen of gospel.letter wriHng may !*■! oore, Iwr even greater In It* farreacblng result*. , nbthlss • Week. It may t*- the mean, for the liberation ! ^ (rowl to , h( . |. , moral ot Immortal souls from aim for tbelrJ t#ut ., l| bJ . of William AM.-n coronation In the Iwnvenly redemption ] 8m||ll of Muul g,n. He had aav.d a

nttld linpre

nyoo

Influence of

May you learn to use for God

ranted a ptoi-c

' study BtaekstODC. This

- - .. . . _ He tlmngbt Brat of Chicago and even artglit that pen which aa a schoolboy ■ ent ^ f>r ,, |0 co , n d you once held In yoor chubby finger* (or , oau ,. ^ ln tll e ,-t« ...1 of V.lker A I lex ter. But It «.

ic summer, and the head, were all of town, and he ended by return

n It would *1

to squirm out of your hands,

lit that pen by * ' ' '

o record Hie s»

,e old. o

lo you In tlie ]

spida. Here be aclected f Burch Jk Montgom«Ty. ■ted thto before, but they

J make use of them quite In You take a two franc fiacre | when you reach your hotel r generosity of your heart j r Ju*t got within the veatl |

c a|«,logixe*. but the co -u him 1* had. You loot ■ twd. (t to nothing b

n In your mind

mod oaturedly a»iu!

Only n

t Atlantic liner

r or the

Character to the wool of be which a coat of mall can he w the awiftest arrow of ahum keenest knife of dtorepuh

pierce. Every thought that entcra our

iWedb and every word . a link to the golden

chain of character. The strength of a engine can be estimated to wlthounce of Its limit, hot It to tonic to eatlmatg the force of a noble character. The hardest hearts are softened and the moat repulsive dispo-

sitions become fascinating. Oar fall- j atr^mirr D

tr saccesses help to form a rontnir j „

reputation that may be destroyed by I Everett Hal, an external force, but the destruction g positive *t

character can only be effected by | waM IK1

doe On the third day there was no noticeable advance In the rate charged property shipped U!*m Jt. but on the fourth day. when anxiety as to boUt th* passenger* and Hie property on board had Increased. It was ominously announced from Lloyd'* that the mb’of insurance upon that particular rtssel had been advanced to $10 In $-V0. This waa on Tuesday. On Wednesday, when no further news had" lioen heard, the rate had Jumped to $T. In the $Vio. On Thursday It reached $30. and l>y Friday the enormous sum of $100 In $340 was declared to lie the rate In any and all manner of Insurance upon the missing vessel. It to needle** to aay how horribly these announcement* eon finned the anxlou* fear, of tboae ino.t deeply concerned In tlie arrival of the vessel, for all the work! know* that If there to any hope it will be longest found at fJoyd'H. It to also needle** to aay that' when the great liner In que*Hon finally readied her dork In New York nowhere was there greater rejoicing at the announcement than In the room where It wa* tolled out by the bell of tic Lutlne and read by Hie crier to the assembled crowd at Lloyd's.—Chalthera Bobcrts in World'*

Work.

a popular

lief. Edward

* Internal force.—Our Boys' Maga- !

■a for

nlent that Daniel Webdrunkard. He cite* a ne with the eminent orm Intimacy which pernow much of hto habit*

Dr. Forter had re^wnded h

milted hi

' and desires. _ 1 Mr. Hale shatter* cvmetnwlvely all the ,, evidence of Intemperance with which ( the life of Welaiter wa* Impugned. I,j However, he dors admit that tbe'statesman tasted ay occasional glaaa.

little boy. who had "a very had cold. The doctor took one look at Hie ch

and turned to the mother.

your boy to coming ! J""* »’■*'’ *““* down with mromlrar be asked *e- drrealng a political meeting. Daniel verely. | Wclater enter,-d a small Inn. The "Ye*, doctor. I knew he was." said I***'" *»• <*•»/• an ' 1 • >»'«•* '' roRd >e woman. ] gntliered about an Inert stove. The Tbep whax In the world did you ! landlord wa* delighted at having ao lean by writing me be had 'a very bad distinguished a man a* a guest. Handcoldr " asked the doctor. i InB Mr. Webster a gin., of whlaky. be The woman hewltated for a moment; ' aaM graciou.lj: 'Take It. air. It will then, looking at her husband, she said, warm yon up."

"Thank you.* said Wetwter. He tasted the liquor, made a wry face, pondered a moment and then opened the stove’s door, throwing the whisky Into the fire, saying aa he did so. "This atove needs the heat more than 1 do.”

with * alien frankness, "Neither him

aslcs."

Patience—Why. *1k- geve the brat repwiitation of Ophelia I ever aaw.

Patrice—Indeed

"Yea. Y’>u know Ophelia to supposed

to hr mad?"

’Well, there wa* a party In one of the boxes, and they talked loud enough be bean! all over the theater, and f was Hie mad,l<-*t Ophelia I ever aaw tot my lifer—Yon'

c heard of U?

Why. It's the talk of the oelghhuriicxid. Bubhubs—Yea, but my wife to away n a visit.

id the note* of a binl ever move you?” a*kcd the iwetk- girt. "Yew." refilled the young man. ”1 used to call on n young tody, and every time the cuckoo attuounnd the bum of 10 I

Wife-1f | were to die. PbU. what would you do? litil I'd tie moat ernxy. Wife Would you marry again? I Till No; I wouldn't he that craxy.— Kansas City Indcpciidcp!.

Teas Jar* prop-awd Uat night an invpted him. Jeaa-Uld you. dear? By the w lou t alleuqit to etit gla*a with t UamotaL aa I dkl. or you'll make nkit In the atone.

. lit

n old

tie the bill at night, ao Holt they might riac about 3 o'clock tn the morning and ride a good way before breakfast and He tiy In Hie heat of the day. Dr. Thrall, art trig as spokesman of Hie party. said to the old farmerr after supper: "We are a company of Methodist preacher* going to conference. If you will get the family together, we will have prayer* with you." After pray Cl* one by on* settled’Yttt blB. Dr Thrall’* turn ram,-, and be asked for hi* hill. The old farmer replied, "Well pa’aoit. I charged the real -.*■ cent*, but. tirin' as you prayed for u* ao good 1 won’t charge you tint 3i cent. " The brethren had the laugh on Dr. Thrall.

A French toivmtlgator ha. been experimenting with the electric current to prodbrr a tin-.tin-ida. After duly fortifying hlmaelf with a number of exteriinruto til*in animal, he extended hto mearcln-s to Hie human body, experimenting at first upon himartf. He flnda by applyiug a rorrotit. the exact character of which I. not stated, to the body through- mol.tcaed electrode* placed one on tiit> .forehead and the other over the amall of the bark that with a voltage of fifty rnmplet* Inhibition lake# place Tin- fai-tHJy of speech to Brat loat. followed finally by the-Inhi-bition of the funrtlona of Hie

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