TALMAGE SERMON

Lot AacciM. C«I- Jan. S4.-In thi. now firm to lb* world •> a aacrtd mul doty, the proarlwr obowo tb* ImInrUDCC of action as tb* criterion of a traa and practical Cbriitlan Ufa. Tb* text is Proverbs rL 13. “He winketb arllb bla ryes, be sprakrtb wltb bis fret, be taacbrtb wlib bis Dagm." Tbh la tbe last text and tb* last aeroonic caption ray father erer wrote. Wben I was snminooed to Waablnyton dorinc bla mortal lllnraa I foAd opou bis atody desk a plain abeet of paper, placed there wltb three nineteen word. i;poq It, Just ai be always wrote down bla tbeme and text before be started bla sermon. That brief memorandum . proved to me that bad be not been quickly summoned away by tbe meearayer of death tb* next sermon bs purjnerd to bare written would bare been upon “tbe lansuac* of action." There were no Indication, of tbe mantopic. bull know that tbe aubject bad been much In bla mind and that be bad been Impressed by tbe mischief that la often done by gesture* and artlooa without tbe utterance of a word. I wteb w* coaid hare bad that sermon, for the warnings be would bare uttered need to be spoken. I bars therefore thought It a Bilal duty to fulHll. as far as I am able, the Intention my father n by the Up. ii ago 1 had tbla .truth emphasised In a striking way. I was rls itiog in tbe east. Tbe Brat night while there my friend cam* to me and said. “I want yon to go and bear wbat 1 consider tbe Burst orchestral playing in tbe United States" -Ob. no," I answered, -1 cannot go. I am fagged out from travel aod work. Besides, I am (olnc to bare a bard day of preach

to be lodged as well aa by tb* words that you speak. wicked man's actions have a positive aa well aa a negative aignlflIf by the absence from all good cs a man's character rest! undark Hood, then by hi* bold and reck lea. dedaore of all tbe great moral Horace* of tb* day bla wicked life la be Judged also, it Is on* act to sin secret and, to be ashamed of your » It la a far more heinous act to publicly parade your sins and com* to depraved condition. In which you do

i of bis baton, tbe quit* ' and tossing hair, tbe * upon bis face, tbe Of bis shoulders, the nervous It of bis feet, tbe quirk lifting of bow anna, told me whether tbe orchestra was softly sighing a lullaby forth a battle call or playing a waltx

tb* evil spirits that an within him can find their outward expression before an observant .world in wbat be dora as W*U a*4b wbat be say*. Bis lifting

arma^apaat/ HU

rata HU or

which King Solomon wrote along tbe sam* Hoe: "lat thine eyes look right on and let thine eyelids look straight before the*. Ponder tbe path of thy feet, aod let ail thv way. be establish od. Turn not to the right nor to tbe left. Remove thy foot from evtt” A wicked man's evil actions an t place, by tbe

H •* proud of hi. Christian friends aa to order by way of tribute to oU of (tom. such an epitaph chiseled for “ - m laud Brook* bad Philip

Abney, who was d

re gentle, consecrate.!. Christ ~ ic Watts. That Bug k nohtrman asked tbe grant hym

as birds of c feature ItoeV toother sad boxiant. net with huxaard* and d..rw wltb doves tbe wicked man eacbrws tbe coup.'10 at the pad He feet. Jtwt as •anunfonaMc ass.. laUxig with tb. Ban feels ii..o.m(..rt*ble when In the eoenpanlon-hlp of the bad The morn Inc etood i. rillter gilded by tpe rising ana or Marken-d ly the arowl of tbe glaem. A Mott , good *e had roeupantooshti- inierpret lira rharaetev of tb*

eta -Sistlne Uaduaus and Itulwus' from the Cross” and kiuril ham and the Angels” or “Penitent Magdalen." If 1 'our library shelves among «• weH thumbed look* aneh works ..

. Bo. Uj the -huiguaj*

of art Ion." w hen I find a man ktoglug to be In tbe bouse pf (Sod on tbe Bah bath day . when I a»e that man. week after seek, sitting In a coniplcucu. place at Hie midseek prayer meeting wben I find him eontlnually seeking tbe gwst ewllgioua gallierings which every little while lake plan. In a large clly; when I Bud him. dally aod week ly and yearly, assodatlug wllh then and women mrtiv] -for their Cbriatlan Integriiy. I nta com|ielled to belteve that that man want* to lie good aod to live a pure life. On Hie other hand, when I ace a man conspicuous for bla absence from all good affiliation* hi* actions Inform me as plainly at his word* could do that his charset ex U Just tbe opposite of what It ought to

Tb* fattier of a grant KngUtb prracber taught this tessoo to his sou. Borne after bis sou. tben a very young was married hU father vialbd After hr had passed through and examlu.d Hie dllfemit room, of the house he said: “My ton. there U one ike about your home. I ore ootbu the furniture, in picture* upon the woll* or bosk, utwo the table to me. If 1 was a stranger to tbla , to Judge whether you belonged id or to tbe devil. Id every room aod upon every wall you .should always have something to prove to your a that you are a child of tiod. A

XXI subsvipiHiib s hi* h you made tor aunpnlga |H»i.wea! How about that tit her grai.iaai donatral by your party friends'; Are all those uiaioeys In(emled for circulars aid s|.-jk. r. and itglliiuslc eniupulgn expense*; If they keep yoor li|ra sealed and baie your lieutenauts tirils* tbe voter* at tbe polls you an- dishonest. Vciur “lao guagv nf set!■>*” proves It. “Oh,“ ssy s . tbe mevrliaut. “I am an booest iuan

beatd me break my.

word." Ho yux

n tbe furniture of bla h

t that Christian parent aatd In ref r to a man's domestic life Is esarnHally true la reference to bla outhutnan affllUtion*. A wicked • Inner character can neorty always he Judged by bis conspicuous a voids nee of noble aoaorUteu. By your

your Is*Id example they may be 1

tiro because, even In tbe lowest forms Itward rice, by tbe "language of action" the wicked man nearly always a to appear a little better than be r la. Theodore Roosevelt, who ha* a student of hearts and btrda and

appear better than they at* I* Dot alwaya true of ail tb* In ha blunts of tbe natural world as It la of men. Once, wben visiting NaabvlU*. Tenn.. be beard a mocking bird, whose repnta Uuo for the moat part reota purely upon bla ability for mimicry, fill a whole night wllh tweet eat mnilr. Upon the live Just outside bla opened window tbe president sow and beard

outpour of music. Then be op softly from twig to twig until tbe lowrot limb was reached. be would rise fluttering and leap lag through tb* branches, bla song Dug for an tostant. until br be am milk, of the free and launched Into tbe warm, scent laden air. Boating In spital* wftb ootatr.-lch.vt wings, until, aa If spent, be aank gently the tree and down through tb* branebe*. while bla aoog tear lots an ecstasy of ardor and paaaion ” That midnight aotig seems to have given tbe a higher appreciation of the powers of tbe marking bird •The antigriding In tbe darlne*. and *1 letter of tbe nlgbt. showed that It bad noaiy aod melody In It* bring

of human brings It la tbrlr better nature that they abow an dev otiservathUi It I* wben they think that tbrlr frieod. 4 not are or hear theta that tbrlr went characteristic! are displayed Many a man whose life when under abas tv itkm la Irreproacb able abowa. wlien tbe restraints of pole lie spin loti are removed a capacity for betnou. and bestial sin

Aa a wicked pens* Is nesrtv always worse than be arrma. I put tbla blunt question to you: “Oh. sinner, with fro ward lip*, bow dare yon desecrate God'* holy Kabhatbt How dare you. wttbont a blu*h upon your cheek, be osen entering tb* saloon or be known to pas* your evening* In a disreputable haunt, where tbe name of Christ Is sneered at and ridiculed! How dare

wbl.-b I dare not speak In pubdet Do you not know fhat by yoor “language of art loo” you at* not only destroying your*.-If, but otkero aian! Take tbe ad

book. “Age of Reason." be took tbe manuscript to Benjamin I'ranklln to ask for bla critlrbun. After KranUia commended Its Uterary qualities. The® be aald: 'Thomas ' 1 never print that book. a that manuscript Into tbe Bra. If the human rare la ao tin greatly magnified those me If tb* bulwarks of Christianity are taken away. By that wort you will not only destroy others. He that aplta against tbe wind spits in hit own face." Like Thom.• Paine, by the language of mv* *vtl Ochoa." a man not ooly trays himself, but others- Inavl ly the world suopset* that a man s 'T life la even won* than lu out ward egpri aolnn. era have not the’enorago to commit the crime* they desire, bat by their actions Indie ~ them: but Ood and •an table tog the

at*. Aa ft goaded by tbe

.■ Beckrt. connived at hie mnrder and wal punlalied and bumniated aa aevetely a* If be bad commlried It with bla own band*. *0 (bora who ora other d prsAt by their etlax

w* J.aboth'a vineyard, be dor* not slay wltb hia own bands (be Jearerilte. hut. like Ahab.be abut* bla «ysa and alios a another to commit the crime be bun self U too cowardly to d« “He wink

lollar Mick lo Uty bands which did Dot bonrlly h»i«T* to me I ne' er ajaakc ■B BBtrotfe In my Ilfs." Ax* you bom tat,-my brother! Hon about that *10,-

rlild jour clerk* to make . -uicnla lu reference tb your I - ji.ii we that your adver- I la print within the right 1 of exaggeration! If you

safe and a etoanaln* r-l-l HI* "h gmige of a.lloo” wa* rtglit n|«.n t lempeTanev- c|uesHon. right upon 1

Bahlrath quentlna. right won], right U|«.b tin' Ki i;<«l and tbe hrotlwrticaid not only pveaefieel (M ■

but be tiloi lived that In hla dally life. My brother my slaler. always let your InAm-tice I-- .art u|»n (he safe aide of every vM-vtahle moral ‘location.

"“ r ’^V r .f nyehriHe

• for

<> lao.la Kiopsch 1

"1 am an honest man. I qa.nelhlr for what my agent ie rrnta my Imusc for llirgtt

not drcravvl H ganhcl aa c-i

d-as If hr ■mate pan*

ulahivl. not mine." Yea, my t latlc friend, you are nwponalM* for a hat your ogrm docs. The same dog* j that llciovi Jexcla-I a blood licktvl Ahah'a blond. Bln of allowing other. ,

ty be Juai ,

tcvl the c Your “hin Every n

le aa though * - wltb our own of actlou" prove

la tv*|h>i

father lu rive to hla hoy wl trial. After Hie crora raamining isw yer bad In vatn tried to break down the Ini'* leallmony he at last turned and aald. “Your father hat been (riling you bos to testify, baa be not!" “Yea.” answered Walter, “he lot*” “'Mien my boy. U-II u* how your father told you to testify." "Wpll." sakl Wallri “father aald that tbe lawyer* would trj lo tangle me. but If I would Jurt take my time and he careful and tell tbe truth I could tell the anine tblug Though Hut father wa.

paper* of today, f.c. pirn tty 1 puna. From the Issue of S. Hie following paragraphs and there are many more of

Inra:

(•rats-lnl la arrived In England. No doubt a lie will contrive to make lii-r operatic hay while the aun i “I sidy Pin re ha* left off her weed* i and I* no longer . Iair-«b*cure." I ".The Pondcnn visit lo the Dutch province* la certainly suspended. He

by bla “buigiiagr id action" tbe father spoke wben Hie l»y *|*.ke. That, my brother, by Hie tame law we are re■pooslhlr fur what oar dependents and representative* do In our name A wicked mans evil sot kina are again manifested In hi* unwillingness to pub llcly protest against evil whenever he may tee It. Silence Itralf ran some time* make a man a parly to a crime, all bough jieraoualty he may In no way he benefited by that crime. For loatance. a few week* ago Hie three not ed Chicago bandits. Van Dine and Nledenueier and Itoeskl. fled to Indiana and lived there In a dugout. While refugees from Justice those three men

it through

—* day «

purehaae some focal A country schoolteacher taw them and recngti’xrd them by tbtlr poblUbed piefure* Had that acboolteacber not telegraphed hla IntelUgenc* to tbe Chicago police In one aer.se he would have become u party to their crimes. So. my brother. If In lie you bear tbe name of Christ Claa pbemrd. Ifxjou see young inanliond young womanhood, about to Is- degrad ed and otter no proteat: If you are ar Injustice about to be done aontljrv and lift no •warning role*. Iben.-lty your "language of action.” yon become a party to 8atan> Infamle*. As an bon rat man. sixwk when (ted bids you to apeak. As an honeat man. keep silent wben you please, provided no “tv la to be Injured by your far reaching alienee A wicked man'* evil action* are again manifested In hia willlngnem to take advantage of a helpless hrothev or slater through a technicality of tbe

law. By that I mron tb technicality be la willing

moral crinuusl, a usurer, a swindler, destroyer, a vampire. If be can onl

“floe tooth of tbe law.

rilsaia Karels LI*. nothing la falser than flgun-s am log more unjust than exact legal . thieves though they could be arraigned Wa have seen men become liara though by tbe “language of ail Ion" they could not be proved perjurer* before any legal tribunal year before Abraham Lincoln was tfom Inated at Chicago, a Mr. Lord entered the law office of Lincoln A Herndon and heard a conirraaUuu between "Uonoat Abe" and one of Ida clients Tbla cooveraalion closed In Hie following way: "Yea, we can doubtlera gain your case for you. We can art tbe whole nrlgUborbood at loggerheads We can distress a widowed mother and her *1* fatherlera rfatldnrn and tberehj get for you six hundred dollar® to which you seem to have a legal claim but which rightfully belongs. It ap and her children aa It dora to you. You mutt remember that tome thing* le gaily right are not morally right We ke your case, hot «1ll give advice, foe which we shall nothing Von seem to be a sprightly, mercytu man. We would * ar you to try your hand In making hundred dollars lu some other .“ I cannot expresr. my (bought "some things are legally right and ■orally right - belts* than by rest It with the blunt word* of one "language of action" never inutlrrarvv- to a He.

"They bare named a brand of cigars for Barker." “1 should consider that quite bd boo

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■TICE IH HEREBY OIVKK.THATTHE

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PUBUIC AUCTION To the Highest ItldOcr.on Friday, January 22,’04, IK THE COUNCIL CHAMBER,

Sam. of owner, or reputed ownsr. Usorg. gSSWLafeShSrtt A^vi sos. HrarrtaHrai.aobr — •—- ■ - Urn ss adjusted, atom. UractipviomtoDst b^r » Use Amoonl eg ST’JSXUSA'" — A ““' " Mru ab >°“' °' sisrJhSKaiE!’."— HBfoBli WAKl>-Hamoa C. heravi itxi fcw. Amount oi

x- that Mluiuiatr*. eimotdrs ami splr ItuallD-s the lives of others. In ws-rei tbe eomimii.it> amt the world wilt e better for your having lived. By your gjhriatian example you may lead others to Iw-rane v hristlana By your handshake you can arto souls for Cbrtat. Hy your welcoming aod rn couracing eye yoa ran cheer np the nd tbe downtrodden By ing Unger you can point out ith whervio tbe. aloner ran forsake bis sin and walk hand

wltb God.

My father's life demonstrated The power of -the “language of action" be rams- in his (Hildir ministry be never Bade dose ad 11st Ions with any omman or vlan of men who wet* trying to tear d..s n the great -bulwarks of tbv gnsqs-t After r anllnal Mabnlng-waa Uraid tbera word*, which hr bad apokrn Inm the rwtxds of a phonograph, were repealed si-a hubs meeting gatlaered In Isindmi for r. memorial nf bla life: "I beg* Hia I ha word of mine, written or Spoken in my life, trill be' found to irm to my fellow men when I am vkwd." If ary father was

'wTra'^ralrt'rSk'i. *■**' ’ U AmSIin“”r Ara*onTo7lCi 0 rardjSrai'iSS , ' r

Rfe. «

The above rale stands adjourned until Friday. February 6tb, 1W04, at the

aame hour and place.

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