TALMAGE SERMON * Br iut. PRANK DC WITT TALMACC. D.D.. .1 JtHmmm M

loa Aocr-Iea. Cat. Fob. 14.—In dtal!q£ with tboar of religion that arp beTQDd bama and wbtcb many Bud a atnmbllna bioak to belief the preacher In tbla fernwii a tbelr acceptance by faith aeotlal step toward elod tt U I Timothy 1U. 16. -Great la

a atonted acoffer. Aa 111 rhUcnla the helping ch aba la too abort of atnture to reach. Aa an Icon oclastlc waif of the street she will bar! derisive missiles at the big square wli dows of the temple of •wisdom, whos walls she Is too puny to topple dowi -Coma.'* said an aristocratic bat ver Ignorant woman of London to her guest—-come Into the front room. 1 want to show yon a poor, crazy, deluded and yet harmless old man. He seemn to have an Intelligent face, bat there be sits. In the bouse lust screw street boar after boor, day after day ahd week after week as a little child, with a day pipe, blowing soap tiles.” Who was the frivolous be who was patronizingly asking her , to laugh at the old man who seem find enjoyment In blowing a few - bubbles In Leicester square, London: Not one person of this generation ever beard of her nans. Who was the poor. aUly old man of Intelligent face, with a penny day pipe. Mowing soap blest He was Isaac Newton, whose skull Incased the greatest brain of his time. Be was Isaac Newton, laboriously. intensely, unremittingly studying the laws of the refraction of light, for

o be honored by scientific defies all around the world. It Is never safe to take public opinion aa guide In estimating men

How often have the pure white garments of wisdom been •jefouled by blatant, bombastic Igno ranee! How often baa the philosopher and tbs truth seeker been taunted with Ms failure to solve the problems of the universe! Be does not know everya of tbe

here and there not be pen*rated, why be should be-

two purpose* for this eer rat Is to talk about some ■f tbe gospel, v you that about •

Chiu range*, great towering moan tain peak* of mysteries. So high they are that the mind of man cannot attain to them, yet each bears tbe mark of

of tbe Holy Cross in Colorado the sign of tbe cross. To this rign we bow and believe, even though we A understand. Frier could not under stand; John of the Apocalypse could

nyatery to us until It is fully d beyond the grave. Tbs second purpose of the sermon Is

»d us in that thrum e each tan say. "I shall • slU> I an? known.” The mystery of the Trinity: II< am there be three person* and o •odbesdl “Three In One and One In Three 1” That I* sn Inezplalnablr mys eey. “You-Inn*t i be very careful." wrote a dear ministerial friend t when I was preaching a scries o meets Opon the Holy Spirit -you be very careful not to convey the idea lo pour pep'.- that therv are jUstlnct «nd seji.'-ate thrones In ■ "ea.” It Is a my-Very to be reverently accepted bey Bud the power of tbe boman mind to understand, and that tt abockl be ao Is not straifg-. for God himself has declared. “As the heavens are higher than tin- earth, n. are D ybur way* and

do feel and know that, like the gra. and the Ught the Trinity of the Godhead la a great divine fact. And. furthermore. we do fed and know that as God the Father Uvea, so Christ was bora Into this world not only to save u» 'from sin. but also to prove that God the ttoator Is a God of hire. Mystery.

y! A high, i overpowering

Yet the mystery o

Holy Spirit Is a fan revealed u us. t be actrpted by faith and bringing to a who ao receive It a message of Joy an

near this Conception o? Christ, the Divine 'Son ms nitrated in Xamaa deeh. brings tbe Deity no us Jf ws did not have the maulfrctatlan

of God's love In Jesus t'brist. bow would we worship? Even tbe lowest forms of religions truths cannot exist i In the besrt of msn without some kind I

of wood and day and stone have any . divine power! Too do not believe that j those bleared eyes and that horrible grin-and that twisted tiody Is a god? You know you do not Why. I could i knock him down with my band. I could crush him with the heel of my foot." -oh. yes." answered tbe priest. ' "What you say Is true. Ws Intelligent ( leaders of tbe east do not believe those

from till* afnl and eten

ts of evil If there v would have been rblpple* and Jmt-

Idots are god* Bat tbe common |>eople cannot conceive of a spirit God as our prophet- baa revealed him to us So we give the common people a god of clay and Wood, which they can see and touch." Brother, our God has sent as Jeans Christ In tbe fiesh. He came aa a revelation of God. He came no that our finite minds might grasp the

Infinite. He came to show us could sutler as we sutler and

cd aa we are tempted, yet be without

rrtne Booths ■* -angel* of light - Imrlng among the Loudon slums Howards among tbe priaona. no from the Young jfen'a Cbrlatian I elation* If there were no aln t would It no »iH-b saving work fo

have been Inspired fully understand them In this life. Oh. overcome tbe aw man. If you are not ready to accept

sotuf facta about Chriat and aalvatlon you cannot understand then you like a foolish man trying to encotni tbe Atlantic ocean wltb a sewing g thimble or like a little child peevishly sulking tiecauac you cannot understand the laws of gravity. Hod ts too big for your finite mind to compass. Hear. study to take apart and put together again aa a little girl might play with

her doll bouse.

n his ■

hrl*t. Beyond that there a. and we do not deny It. 1 very mysteries there amt as Impregnable as

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lour" mean? It mean* a rescuer physical sense It mean* the * limner who breasts tbe wave*

a God of u

Mystery! Mystery! Tbe Trinity Is an Inezplnlnable mystery. Yet It Is a mystery we all fired, a mystery we should all accept. It Is a mys tery essential to our peace SI raters of the Trtaltr. Thus tbe mystery of the Trinity mean* simply tbls: God tbe Father comes to u* and says: "To explain yon all things, my child, would be set before you what you could not co prebend. Your mind la too weak grasp It any more than a little child In Ms father s laboratory can understand or grasp tbe chemical principle of the adhesion of the basic element*. B you see tbe Godhead veiled by i man form. If you are tbe Spirit of God animating a bring like yourself. If come In contact with the divine perfect tioua. active In human enrtrom you will then have a glimpse of tbe glory of the Godhead sad realize something of tbe suitemsl mystery of Father. hoti and Holy Spirit. All this I will show to prove that I am God. the Loving Father, and ye are my ch dren." Today we find tbe Trinity mystery. Bnt. though a mystery, deep land high and overpowering, tt Is a mystery so simple that s Utils rblld can reverence tbe majesty of the Ft tber. can realize tbe lose of tbe Son and can yield to tbe Influence of tbe Holy Spirit. Great and -yet brautlfal ami almple Is the mystery of gudllnrsa li

Jesus Christ.

The conflicting doctrine* of God'i omnipotence and man's free agency are an Inexplalnable mystery. Ye*, know that (tod Is Infinitely greater than man. We know that tbe Creator, who bolds tbe eras In tbe palm of his hsnd touch tbe volcanoes

be baa made. He can say to man. "C and be gorth: come, and he cometh: thia. and be dortb It." Bnt. though God the Omnipotent la truly all pot erful. I know I can resist Ms will know, aa a free agent. I ran raise n band or tower It. I know that 1 re clinch my fl*t wltb bate or have tl open palm of love. 1 know 1 can wa acroaa this pulpit to tbe right or to tl left. 1 know I can rboore bet we. right and wrong. Free, free! Fr am L gloriously free! A mysterygreat unfathomable mystery! With God the Omnipotent 1 am still man. the JTbesc two conflicting facts are true, but si-bp can reconcile them? There fore, foer we bare once accepted tbls mystery we can harmonize all Chris tlan creeds at tbe foot of tbe craaa With it we can take down tbe bars of sectarianism and call all members o tbe different Protestant rhutvhes ou brothers and cur stater* “How cl you do lhair says some one to m« Simply enough After this mysterythis great fundamental mystery-1 once granted the question of the mar ncr of your service and the church 1: which yon will worship Is determined by tbe aspect from which you view your relation to God. if I begin to argue from God down to man. I become a Calvinist. If I say to myself, ”1 know God Is omnipotent; I know be can foresee all things; be can sare me If he will. I know.” then 1 natu rally go Into the I’rcahylertan church But If 1 aay to myself. “I know 1 am a free agent: I know I cun accept or reject my Heavenly Father." I go Into tbe Method!*! church. Then. Instead of arguing from God down to man. argue from msn np to (tod. It ts si ply the difference of putting the e phasts of my creed upon God's o nlpoteoee or man's free agency. Yet. though I was born a Calvinist and bare been baptized In a CalvInlaUc church and bare received my theological education In a CalvInlaUc nary, yet today I feel Just as mu borne In tbe Method 1st church si In the Presbyterian. I could just as logically be a member of s Methodist conference as I am now a member of a CalvInlaUc presbytery. A DISIrail 1 Tbe harmonizing of tbe two doctrines —God's omnipotence and agency—la a task that many bar* attempted In rain. But It la mystery that should make of believer* of tbe different Protestant chnrrhe* brother* and sisters at tbe foot of tbe er. If y.

not try to r and a Methodist church and « Lutheran church and a Baptist church and an Episcopalian church and a Cultad Presbyterian church. Do not keep on coutlmutUy JaIking abont “my church - All Chriskau cburcbeo ought *- *"’■— ' you and you to them. Tbe

you ought to Iff able' to worship God Juat as devoutly and earnestly la-fore s Methodist altar a* at an Episcopalian chancel or aa Itr a Presbyterian pew. God baa many gospel sheepfold. Tbeac sheep are all fed by tbe same Divine Shepherd, although at times they are separated from each other by the sectarian fences built by man's creed sod by Infinite Ignorance. “Other sheep have I which are not of this fold" applies ss much to the Protestant church across the street ss to your own chapel Tbe mystery of why God ever let sin come Into tbe world: It Is an Inexplicable mystery. It Is a mystery tbe more Inexplicable because, from s' bn mto standpoint. If there bad been do sin thru there would bare been do need of a place of future punishment. But. after we bare once accepted tbe belief that a. loving God ha* allowed

recognizable ulre in tbe >!

you bear and recogless, though you can-

ir them

woman and rarrle* them to aafety Just before the erooked wall* totter and fall. It birana. In a physical sen*.-, a Henry M. Stanley plunging Into tbe African t'aptsln Schley heading hi* *hl|>s mirth-

ward to safe a Creel If there I* no dnngei

d look

d UJnmay *a> ■* ref eternal-

And because

the eternal results of sin are so grezl. therefore, tbe divine love of t'brist'* sacrifice la hronght forth In the brighter contrast. We are not marveling today why I lie human craft wa* allowed to be strand**! upon tbe jwk* of sin. but wc ore proclaiming the fart that on account of our Impending eternal ship wreck the go*pcl life line Is Hung out and tbe gospel lifeboat la bring pushed through the raging, surging, stormy We cannot explain why sin ws* ever allowed to come Into tbe world. Bui

nal danger.

With tbe sainted Gotthold

tiefore the flan

death; "For my own part my soul Is like a hungry and thirsty child, and I need Christ's tore and consolation for my refreshment. I am a wandering and toot abeep. and I need him a* a good and faithful shepherd. My aoul la like a frightened dove pursued by a hawk, and I need his wound* for a refuge. I am a feeble vine, and I need Ms cross to lay bold of and wind my self about I am a sinner, and I need his righteousness. I am naked and borer and I need bis holiness and In noceuce fora covering. I am In trou ble and glam, and I need Ills solace, dimple and foolish am 1. and I need tbe guidance of hi* Holy Spirit. Am I ar ralgncd by Hatan at the divine tribunal, be mint be my advne^to Am I In affliction. he roust lie ffrholi>er. Am 1 persecuted by tbe world, he mult defend me. When 1 am forsakep he musl be my *ti|>port: when dying, my life; when rooMertiiK In tire grave, my resurrection." Wby.yHu God let sin come Into tbe world! We cannot understand It. Bnt after we have accepted tbe fa*-t that the good God has allowed sin to come Into tbe world for a pnrpoae, then, on account of tbe eternal danger threatening n*. we are aa never before glorious sacrifice*, both human and divine. We ace ou account of aalva tton from aln bow Christ's bbari Dot only lift ns above tbe angels.

how. thrpugh Christ v*» may become part of God bimsrlf. A mystery! An unfathomable mystery! Yet a mystery which makes heaven blaze wltb triumphant and far reaching light.

and live. Accept •' lour and then leave

through

thank God. we .-an are enough to per reive tbe pardoning love of God In the fare of Jesii* Christ. (Capyrigt.l IS*, hr tool* Klopacb ] For years Itrv. J. K. Herman of Milford. N. H-. has been studying law. and now he has been admitted to tbe bar. "I have done all tbla stody." be srrs, "without tn any way Blighting my duties a* preacher of the gospel For Instance. Monday, instead of be devoted by me to tbe study of some branch of law. Tbe knowledge of law la helpful to all professions and as much to tbe ministry as any other. Is not your congregation tbe Jury and will not a convincing argument ■ weight In matters religious aa in

ter* of taw?"

EUGENIfS JEWELS.

Tbe story of the Rem lan Jewels n recall to tbe ex .Empress Eugenie own eztierletwe* when tbe wave* began to dash ala.ut her throne, determined to sell the greater part of her Jewel* In liope to do something save tbe dynasty. Publicity bad to avoided, and a market was not to found In Euro|>e. newly thrilled by t horrors of Redan. The empress looked to tbe east for a market. 'An English

day. A telegram a

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•Mug them the Jewels.

lUt “

fie queen' the protec tin medial*

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inallty.”

Mystery of tbe resurrection: How Is tbe transformation between earth and heaven to take place? We know not We cannot explain. The more we study It the deeper becomes the mystery. Bnt though the resurrection Is a mystery, though we cannot by human reason understand bow these poor bodies of our* can be so transformed that they will live forever, we can when reason halts proceed under tbe higher guidance of faith and accept tbe assurance of the Scrimurea. that

"this mortal ahall put ou IffluK and that -If our earthly

tabernacle be dissolved we bave a buHdlng of God. a bouse not made wltb bands, eternal In tbe heavens' How- can this body which we lay lb the grave, giving It over to corruption ever be revived? We do not know bow. but we believe God and exclaim In triumph wltb tbe patriarch. "I know that my Hrderturr llteth’ and at last be ahall stand upon tbe earth, and aft er my skin, even this body. Is destroy ed. then without my fiesh shall I see God." Nor are we left exctoslvely ti faith, for nature besself gives us a him of a transformation so significant as h he encouraging Tbe other day my little girl brought to me a paper box. lr which she had confined s caterpillar This caterpillar bad wrapped Hart: up In a cocoon. The cocoon looked ex aetly like a abroad After awhile tb. caterpillar wIII emerge from that co. ' coon transformed Into a beautiful b«M terfly. Yqq cannot explain that Iran* formation. Neither ran I. Rball w< witness tbe wonderful process of tb caterpillar'* mrtamorplKMl* from worn to butterfly and yet refuse to bellev. that God can. If he will, transform tb physical body Into a heavenly body?

■entoved from their

of their holding and bring worn around the waist of their bearer In a belt of soft leather. Tbe Englishman the belt, armed blmaelf wltb a trusty revolver, engaged a trusty set forth on his mission. For three month* be wandered over road.

■ofdl

■■very.

cessful Tbe Jewels were aold tc prince Who esteemed them tbe m for that they were the property o

been trouble no doubt bad tbe matter been known at the India office, but man who discharged tbe undertaking afforded sn example of courage aa solid worth In trying conditions wl merit a plaee tn the story of comu rial Integrity and disregard of personal danger. Far leas exciting enterprise* have served to make popular g before now.—8t. James Gazette.

We are u

is transformatiou* d taking place ■

Shall we therefore

them? Pick up In your hand. If you will, a common eb-stuut. It has with In Its simple shell a soft auhstamv which looks for all tbs work! like a lump of hard flour prsreed together. Yet In that almple substance In minis lure la every known part of the chest out tree. Within that shell la the r(gu the bark, tbe branch, the leaf If that simple nut ran change Into the brand*-* „f the aide spreading tree.

r believe that o

r ptiysli

bodies, under the divine chemistry, may -undergo an equally wundrou* change which wr cannot comprehend the trarofonualiou la to take place? A mystery, a mystery! How do we go down mortal and come np Immcmal. go down corrupt ahd come up lococrupt? It la a mystery we cannot explain. Yet It ts a mystery which has Its analogies In the j.iatural world. It la a mystery which p/omlae* each on^ of na a personality and an individuality In the eternal mansions. Grand, glorious. hofa-ful and blessed to tbe mys

lety of lie- resurrection.

I have prcarlrad this sermon on mys

and especially young realize ttiat lhrir are ■ fooud to the Bible that they should accept in faith, though the; ou; never

I am Inclined to think that Stcrrm was a better man than you. Henley, be was assuredly. a greater artist. Taken even at your own notlmatr. J overtops yon In character aa well i In literature. He gave to more tin yon will ever give greater pleaaut and the world drilgbtrtb to honor bl who gives lo It delights. He lacked that bile which canoed yon at tl* to defeat your own prayer that— Enjangled till Ih* end Beside that stubborn, stolid pride of yours, that fixity of adherence t "larger convention" ■ you thought you had established, bis mind waa open at*! progressive. The thing you could ool forgive him waa that be outgrew youi turbulent philosophy, lit* contribution

- and flab a 1km:

la about tbe only k bad. Tbe native* a: seldom eat meat of i

peculiar to the country. In tbe grain district* they hare bread. It 1* a two meal a day country. Tbe rich people

nr live on rlre and vegetables.

Mr*. Lakeside I* .be tickle? Mrs. lav Salle It seems not. Rbe baa been married to the same man three Vme* to succession. — Philadelphia

A PINCH OF SALT.

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