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REV. DR. TALMAGE. I .. v ✓ THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUNDAY SERMON Text: "And these are they which ye shall ham tfn abomination among the fowls: the • owl , the vulture and the bat. These a 1 so shall be unclean to you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the chame lon and the snail. ”—Leviticus xi., 13-30. The Bible offers every possible variety of theme, of argument, and of illustration. We care not muon in what kind of a pitcher the water of life is brousht, if it is only the clear, pure water. God gave the ancients a list of the animals they might eat, and a list of animals that they might not eat. These people lived in a hot climate, and certain forms of animal food corrupted their blood, and disposed them to scrofu lous disorders, depraved their appetites, and bemeaned their souls. A man's food, when he has the means and opitortunity of select ing it, suggests his moral nature. The rea son the wild Indian is as cruel as the lion is because he has food that gives him the blood of the lion. A missionary among the Indians says that, by changing his style of food to correspond with theirs, his temperament was entirely changed. There are certain forms of food that have a tend ency to affect the moral nature. Many a Christian is trying to do by prayer that which cannot be done except through j corrected diet. For instance, ho who uses swine's flesh for constant diet will be dis eased in body and polluted of soul—all his liturgies and catechisms notwithstanding. The Gadarene swine were possessed of the devil and ran down a steep place into the sea, and all the swine ever since seem to have been similarly possessed. In Leviticus, God struck this meat off the table of His people, and placed before them a bill of fare at once healthful, nutritious and generous. But, higher than this physical reason,there was a spiritual reason why God chose certain forms of food for the ancients. God gave a peculiar diet to his people, not only because he wanted them to be distinguished from the surrounding nations, but because cer tain birds and animals, by reason of their habits, have always been suggestive of moral qualities. By the list of things from which they were to abstain. God wished to prejudice their minds against cer- i tain evils; and in the list of lawful things given, be wished to suggest certain forms of good. When God solemnly forbade His peo ple to eat the owl, the vulture, the bat, ! the chameleon, and the snail, He meant to drive out of His people all the sins that were thus emblemized. I take the suggestion of the text, and say that one of the first unclean things tiie Christian needs to drive out of his soul is the •wl. The owl is the melancholy bird of night. It hatches out whole broods of superstitions. It is doleful and hideous. When it sings, it sings through its ■oea It loves the gloom of night better than the brightness of the day. Who has not slept in the cabin near the woods, and been awakened in the night by the dismal “too-hoo” of the owl? Melancholy is the owl that is perched in many a Christian soul. It is an unclean bird, and needs to be driven'away. A man whose sins are pardoned, and who is on the road to heaven, has no right to be gloomy. He says: “1 have so many doubts," iTiat is because ‘‘you are lazy. Go actively to work in Christ’s cause, and your doubts will vanish. *ou say: “I have lost ray property, but I reply: “You have infinite treasures laid up in Heaven." You say: “I am weak and sickly, and going to die.” Then be congratulated that you are so near eternal health and perpetual gladness. Catch a few morning larks for your soul, and stone this owl off your premises. Asa little girl was eating, the sun dashed upon her spoon, and she cried: “O, mam ma, I have swallowed a spoonful of sun shine!” Would God that we might all in dulge in the same beverage! Cheerfulness; it makes the homeliest face handsome: it makes the hardest mattress soft; it runs the loom that weaves but hrciips, and rainbows, and auroras. God made the grass bUck? No; that would be too sombre. God made the grass red? No, that would be too gaudy. God made the grass green, that by this parable all the world might be led to a subdued cheerful ness. Read your Bible in the sunshine. Remember that your physical health is closely allied to your spiritual. The heart and the liver are only a few inches apart,and wbat affects one affects the other. A histor rian records that by the sounds «of great laughter in' Rome, Hannibal's assaulting army was frightened away in retreat. And there is in the great outbursting joy of a Christian soul that which can drive back any infernal besiegement. Rats love dark closets, and Ha tan loves to burrow in a gloomy soul. “Rejoice in the Ixird, O ye righteous! and again I say, rejoice! ’ Hoist the window of your soul in this the .twelve o'clock of your spiritual night. Put the gun to your shoulder, and aim at the black jungle from which the hooting comes,, pull the trigger, and drop that croaking, loathsome, hideous owl of religious melan choly into the bushes. Again: taking the suggestion of the text, drive out the vulture from your soul. God would not allow the Jews to eat it. It lives on carcasses; it fattens among the dead; with leaden wing it circles about battle fields. Wilson, the American ornithologist, counted two hundred and thirty seven vultures around one carcass. If crossing the desert when there is no sign of wing in the air, a camel perish out of the caravan, immediately the air begins to darken with vultures. There are many professed Chris tians who have a vulture in tneir souls. They prey upon the character and feelings of others. A doubtful reputation is a banquet for them. Home rival in trade or Kfession falls, and the vulture pats out his d. Thesa. people revel in the details of a man’s ruin. They say: “I told you so.” They rush into some store, and sny: “Have you beard the news? Just as 1 expectedt Our neighbor has gone all to pieces! Good for hiip!'’ That professedly Christian woman, having heard of the wrong-doing of some sister iu the church, instead of hiding the sin with a mantle of charity, peddles it all along the ■treats. Hhe takes the afterno<>n to make her long - neglected calls. Rhe tells the story ten tirnf** before sun down, and every time tells it larger. 'She rushes into the parlors to tell it. and into the nursery to teU it, and into the kitchen to tell . It. Hhe says: “Would you have thought I It? Well, I alwavs said then* was something wrong about her. Why, I should not speak to her if 1 saw her in the street Is it not horrible? But better not my any thing about It, liecaiise there may be some mistake. Ido not want my name involved in the matter. I fuses I will just go over end ask them at No. *B3 whether they have beard it. Guess it most be so, for Mary Ann says that her hus band saw a man who heard from his business i partner that his blind old grandmotlter had •sen something that looked very suspicions!” The most loathsome, miserable, t ««xi for saken wretch on earth is a go«ip. I can tall **er on the street, though I have never seen her before, Hhe walks fast, and has her bonnet-strings loose, for she has not had time !• tie them since she heard that last scandal. ! She looks both ways as she passes honing to , me new evidences of depravity in the windows. I think that when Helen has a job so in- l finitely mean that In all tin pit ho cannot find a devil mean enough to do It. and all bribss and threats have failed to get one willing for the informal crusade, he says to [ one of his sergeants: “Go up to Brooklyn.ami In such a street, on such a corner, get that gossiping woman, and she will be glad to do It.” And sure eno-i*’!, like a Hungry ; fish, she takes tli« book in her mouth, and miss slackens the line, and |*»»s her run out farther end farther, until after ewhile he mys: “It Is time to ha d in that line.” and with a few strhng polls he brings her to me beach of fire. What do voti say? That she was a member of the church? I ma not halp that When Satan goes a fish ing, he does not care what school the fish be long to, whether it is a Presbyterian mack erel or an Episcopalian'salmon. Amidst the thunder crash of Sinai. God said: “Thou ■halt not bear false witness agafngt thy neigh bor.” And in Leviticus he says: “Thou shalt not go up and down ns a tale-bearer.” Take not into vour ear that scum of hell that people coll tittle-tattle. Whosoever willingly listens to a slander is equally guilty with the one who tells it. and an old writer says they ought both to be hung, the one by the tongue and the other by the ear. Do not smile upon such a spaniel, lest,, like a pleased dog, he put his dirty paw upon you. Throw back the shutter of your soul, oh, Christian men and women, and see if there be within you a vulture with filthy talons and cruel beak. Let not this unclean thing roost in your soul, for my text says: “Ye shall hold in abomination among the fowls, the vulture.” Again: taking the suggestion of the text, drive out the bat from your soul. No wonder God set this bird among the unclean. It is an offense to every one. Let it fIV into the window of a summer night, and all the hands, young and old, are against it. It is half bird and half mouse. It seems made partly to walk and partly to fly, and does neither well; and becomes an emblem of those Christians who try to cling to earth and heaven at the same time. They want to walk on earth in worldliness, and vet fly to ward heaven in spirituality: and their soul, between feet and wings, is perplexed. Oh. my brethren, t>e one thing or the other! Choose the world, if you prefer it; and see how manv dollars you can win. and how much applause you can gain, and how large a business you can establish, and how grand a house you can build, and how fast a span of horses you can drive You may l»e prospered until you can fail for five hundred thousand dollars, instead of having the disgrace of failing for only ten thousand as some unenterprising people do. It is quite a reward to be able for ten or twenty years to be called one of the solid men of Brooklyn or Boston; and then, to make your fortune last as long as possible, we will give you a splendid funeral, and you shall have twenty-five carriages fol lowing you, with somebody in the most of them, and your coffin shall have silver handles on the sides, and ws will mourn for you in splendid pocket handkerchiefs bound with crape, and bom bazine twenty full yards long, trailing half across the parlor, so that all the company may stand upon it, and we will write our letters for the next six months on paper edged with black. But my friends, your worldly forturtes will not last. I will buy out now all that you will be worth in worldly estati seventy-five years from now. 1 have the money m my pocket with which to do it. Here it is! Two cents! It is a large sum to offer for ail you will possess at the close of seventy-five years. Choose t|ie world, if you want to; but, if not, then choose heaven. That estate lies partly on this side of the river, but mostly on the other, it is ever accumulating. The pros- I pect of it makes one independent of earthly misfortunes, so that Rogers, the martyr, slept so soundly the night before his burning, they violently shook him in order to get him awake in time for the execution: ami Raul exults at the thought of the “joy unspeakable and full of glory.” Oil, choose earth or Heaven! Make up your mind whether you will walk in earthly joys, or fly with heavenly ex pectations. Be not a bat, fit neither to walk nor 11}’. having just enough of heaven te spoil the world, ami so much of the world as to spoil heaven. Christ says that your present condition nauseates him to positive sickness: “Because thou art neither ‘ cold nor hot, I will soew thee out of my mouth!” In the ruins of Rotnpeii there was found a petrified woman, who, instead of trying to fly from the destroyed city, had spent her time in gathering up her jewels. Hhe saved neither her life nor her jewels. There are multitudes Niakin.g the same mistake. In trying to get earth and heaven they lose both. “Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.” Be one thing or the other. Tread the earth like a lion, or mount the air like the eagle; for my text says: “Ye shall have in abomination among the fowls, the bat.” Again: taking the suggestion of the text, drive out the chameleon from your soul. \ There is some difference among good men as Ito the name of this creeping thing which God pronounced unclean, but I shall take the opinion which seems best suited jto my purpose. The chameleon is a reptile, chiefly known by its changeableness of color, taking the color of the thing next to it, some times brown, sometimes red, and sometimes gray, but always the color 3f its surroundings, a fcyp* of that class of Christians who are now one thing in re igious faith, and now another, just to sulk circumstances, always taking their color of religious l*elief - from the man they are talk ing to. They go to one place, and are first rate Unitarians. “Jesus wus a good man, but nothing more.” They go to Princeton, and they are Trinitarians, almost willing to die for the divinity of Jesus. Among the lJni\ersalists they refuse the idea of future punishment: and going among those of opposite l*ehef, announce that there is a hell with a gusto that makes you ) think they are glad of it. Drive out that unclean chameleon from your soul. Do not be ever changing the color of your faith. My friends, liberal Christianity,falsely so-called, believes in nothing. God is* anything sou want to make Him. The Jible to lie believed in so far as'jrou like it Heaven a grand mixing up of Niros and Pauls. The man who dies by suicide in his right mind in IXBB, beating into glory by ten years the Christian man who dies a Christian death in 18WS; the suicide proving himself wiser than the Christian. Oh, my friends, let us try to talieve in something. An infidel was called to the bedside of his daughter. The daughter said: “Father, which shall I believe, you or mother? Mother took the religion of Christ, and died in its embrace. You say that religion is a humbug. Now 1 am going to die, and I am very much perplexed; shall I believe you, or take the I Lelief of my mother;” The father said: i “Choose yourself.” Hhe said: “No; I am too I weak to choose for myself; I want you to \ choose for me.” “Well,” said the father, i after much hesitation and embarrassment: I “Mary, I think you had letter take the ■ religion of your mother." The time will come ; when hb shall have to believe something. We i can not afford to be on the fence in religion, i Truth and error* are set opposite to eaeff 1 other. The one is infinitely right, and the j other infinitely wrong. On the judgment ! day we must give an account of what we | believed as well as for what we acted. | The difference tietween believing truth j and lielieviug error is the difference between paradise and perdition. 1 beg you, in the | light of the Bible, and on your knees be fore God, to form your religious opin ion and then stick to it, though business com- IMUiions scoff, and wits caricature, and the ! *air crackles with the fires of martyrdom. \ Surely truths in behalf of which Christ j died, and angels M God trooped forth, and 1 the whole universe fs marshaled, are worth ' living for and worth dying for. Amidst the ’ most unclean things is this everchanging chameleon of religious theory. Away with the reptile! God it with an all-con suming abhorrence. Once more: take the suggestion of the text, and drive out the snail from your soul. God has declared it unclean. It is an unimal to lie found everywhere tietween the coldest north and the hottest south. There are fifteen hundred species of the snail. They t have no t)acl:bone, and they are so slow that I their movement is almost ini percept ihta. You j see asnail in one place today; go to-morrow and you will find it has advanced only a few ; j inches. It ijecomes an emblem of that large ; class of Christian people who go to work i with a slowness and sluggishness that is won ; uerful. They are stopp'd by every little ob ! stacie, because, like the snail, they have no Imcklione. < )thers mount up on eagle’s wings J but they go at a snail’s pace, i O. child of God. arouse! We have I apotheosized Prudence an I Caution long ! enough. Prulrnce is a heantiful grace, but of all the family of Christum graces I like her the least, for site has lawn married so often to lazim-ss, and Moth, and Stupidity. We have a million idlers in the \/ard a vineyard who pride themselves on tbeir prodsaca. “Be prudent,” said the disciples to Christ, “and stay away from Jerusalem;” but He went. “Be prudent,” said Paul’s friends, “and look out for what you say to Felix,” but he thundered away until the ruler’s knees knocked together. In the eyes of the world, the most imprudent men that ever lived were Martin Luther, and John 01dcastle,and Wesley, and Knox. My opinion is that the most imprudent and reckless thing is to stand still. It is well to hear our Commander’s voice when He says “Halt!” but quite as important to hear it when he says “Forward!” This Gospel ship made to plow the sea at fifteen knots an hour is not making ihree. Ho me times it is most prudent to ride vour horse slowly and pick out the way for his feet, and not strike him with the spurs; but when a baud of Shoshonee In dians are after you in full tilt, the mo9t prudent thing for you to do is to plunge in the rowels and put your horse to a full run, shouting: “Go fiong!” until the Rocky Mountains echo it. The foes of God are pursuing us. The world, the flesh, and the devil are after us; and our wisest course is to go ahead at swiftest speed. When the Church of God gets to advanc ing too fast, it will be time enough to use caution. No need of putting on the brakes while going up hill. Do not let us sit down waiting for something “to turn up,” but go ahead in the name of God, and turn it up. The great danger to the church now is not sensation, but stagnation. Oh that the Lord God would send a host of aroused and i consecrated men to set the Church on fire, and to turn the world upside down. Let us go to work and catch the laßt snail in our souls. With Divine vehemence let us stamp its life out; for my text declares: “These also shall be unclean to you among the creeping things that creep upon the eartb; the chameleon and the snail.’’ I have thus tried to prejudice those Christian men and women against gloominess, and slander, and half-and-naif experiences, and change abieneas, and sloth. Our opportunities for getting better are l>eing rapidly swallowed up in the remorseless past. This golden Sabbath is about to drop out of the calendar. This moment we may drive out all the unclean things from our souls—the vulture, and the bat, and the owl, and the chame leon. and the snail; and in place thereof bring in the Lamb of God, and the Dove of the Spirit! The case is urgent. Arouse! be fore it be eternally too late! “Whatsoever thy hand findeth ’to do, do it!” An Eight Thousand Mile Fence. James Watson, one of the largest land owners of Victoria, Australia, having over thirty thousand acres under fence, has arrived at San Francisco. He says jack rabbits are so formidable that the Australian Government is building a fence of wire netting eight thousand miles long to divide New Mouth Wales from Queensland and bar the pests out. They have not yet got into Queensland, and the government is moving heaven and earth to get this check on them. Prior to this hundreds of methods have been tried. Apples impregnated with arsenic have been cut and scattered over the country. In this way the increase in some portions has been stopped, but it is not radical enough. Resides, the cost is too great. It takes ten bushels of ap ples for every six hundred rabbits. There are millions and billions of the pests, and there are not apples enough to feed to them. Phosphate of oats succeeds for a while, but the phosphate soon loses its effect. Australia is paying no le*e than $125,- 000 per year to keep the rabbits down on what is known as crown lands. The government pays ten cents a pair for all that are killed, and expert men make from S3O to S4O per week at it. The government still keeps standing its offer of SIOO,OOO to any man who will hit on something to effectually eradicate the pests. Lands out in the rabbit districts have greatly deteriorated in price. Many places where three or four years ago land was worth SSO an acre won’t bring five. Watson says he started a cannery, killing aud canning rabbits and sending them to England. The first rabbits were taken over from England only ten years ago and were introduced for sporting pur poses. nobody having any idea they would spread so rapidly. A man from South America a couple of months ago brought two dozen skunks that he thought would settle the rabbits, but people are dubious about them, for skunks increase very rapidly too, and if allowed to gain a foothold probably the la«t state will be worse than the first. The Australians are anxiously look ing for some invention or remedy that will put a quietus on rabbits. It must come soon or many of the great in dustries in the colony will be paralyzed. The eight thousand mile fence which is being made to keep the rabbits out of Queensland is the greatest enterprise of the kind ever begun in the world. Its construction is attended to with great cost, but it is deemed wiser to undergo this expense than let the pests override the entire country. —New York Herald. A Uniquely Patched Pictnre. A New York picture dealer has a very handsomely framed photogroph of the Mosque of Ht. Sophia, in Constantinople. Outside of its value as a picture, it is worth much o$ a curiosity, as it was taken in live sections and put together so neatly that the places where it ia joined are indistinguishable. The dealer said that the phot* graph was taken by a gentleman who had just returned from a tour through Turkey. He was in Constantinople, and he thought that such a picture would be a great curiosity in New York. The mosque was originally built as a Christian church by Justinian, between 531 and 538 It was afterward converted into a mosque by Mohammed iu 1453. The building is in the shape of a Greek cross, 20« feet in length and 134 feet broad. It is «urmounted by a flattened dome 180 feet in height and by minor cupolas and four minarets. The photograph on exhibition in this citv shows the rich interior decorations, and it is a handsome picture, indeed. New York World. An Equalizing Betting System. Four clerks in an office in the jewelry district of New York decided in October, 1880, to keep a record of a system of betting for drinks of coffee which they had established. They matched coins each morning and the loser had to foot the bills for the day. The result, as shown in the following table, affords abundant room for thought: a. b. c. n. 1880 35 4‘.l 31 44 1881 ft* 53 50 58 188*2 50 60 73 60 IHB3 67 70 00 48 1884 83 07 70 77 1886 04 57 77 100 1880 m 78 03 78 1887 72 80 7V OS 1888... 50 71 m ret Total... ....Ml 581 687 688 An 1888 Bladcd Knife George Littlewood, the pedestrian, and his friend, Jake Hy&ms, the pugil ist, are good story tellers. Littlowood’s relatives are the proprietors of many public houses in Sheffield, England, and more they are noted throughout the countryside for their sporting proclivi ties The latter, however, do not so thoroughly engage their thoughts as to make them indifferent to the manufac turing industries of their native place. Littlewood was commenting on these industries in the presence of a group of friends, and after he had refreshed him self thoroughly he said: “Roys, if you ever come to Sheffield I’ll show a knife to you in which there are 1888 blades, a blade for each year. Next year another blade will be put in.” “And I can show a scissors so slender that you can run it through an ordinary pipe stem.” There wasn’t a murmur from the crowd. - New York Sun. Curt* of Pneumonia. Hess Road, Niagara Co.,N. Y. I March 24,1880.* ) About a year ago 1 was taken 7 itli a se vere pain in both lungs. J was first attacked with a violent chill, then n dreadful pain and then a cough accompanied by considerable fever. It looked very much like a bad at tack of pneumonia. A friend of mine pro cured live allcock’s Plasters. One he put under each arm, one under each shoul der blade, and one on my chest close around my throat. In a few hours the cough ceased, the pain gradually abated and I broke out in a profuse perspiration. I fell into a pro found sleep, am l the next day was almost well. I wore the Plasters eight da vs after wards, and have never had any trouble since. William A. Saw yer. 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Dec. 15, 1888, edition 1
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