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t ' 5 ! f (:: A" ' 'V ... , DR. CHAPMAN'S SERMON USUUDAY DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED PASTOR-EVANutLloT. Subjects Av Novel Itace Self the Greatest Xmuj of Moit Men Two 3V ays Into Jleaven Wealth and Power Will Not Avail the Sinner , on Judgment Hay. New York City. The Rev. J. Wilbur f Chapman, the popular pastor of the : JJourtn " Presbytiirian Church, whose reputation as "an evangelist is second to none, has pre pared an interesting sernion upon the sub ject, "A Novel V-ice," . which is preached the text Proverbs. 14: 12 -Theref A way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of Some time during last summer the Kev. -Joseph Parker, the pastor of the City "Temple in Boston, was asked to take the editor's chair of the London Sun. He was ivea full liberty to print gust what he tn'shed in the paper or to keep )ut of the ri,af in his ludjrment was not ondneive to make an ideal paper. One day in the place of the racing news wnicn me TCaders.of the Sun had been accustomed to pernse he printed under the caption ot -"A Novel Race Record" a description of i.he race of life, and for each, point made -emphatic in the lives of those who fre . qnent the race course and follow racing as a business he presented a passage of benp-ttire- This was, to say the least; startling. One of our New York papers, quoting rom his utterings in the Xiondon bun, printed the following: x A NOVEL RACE RECORD. Xondon. The Rev. Joseph Parker prints in the Snn to-day in place of the usual rac ing column what he calls a corrected race xecord, as follows: The Eternity Stakes. The Start Born in sin, etc. Psalm LI.: 5. The Race All gone out of the way,; etc. Romans HI.: 12. The Finish After death the judgment, etc. Hebrews IX.: 27. The Weighing Room Thou are weighed ' in the balances and art found wanting. Daniel V.: 27. ' . Settling Day For what shall it profit a Ttuin if he shall gain the whole world and - lose, his own soill. Mark VIII.: 36. This outline for. a sermon has been in -my mind since first my eyes lighted upon it, and to the great London preacher I am indebted for the suggestions of this sermon, and yet I am quite free to confess $hat the only reason I have chosen the taotlirte. and indeed the only reason I preach the sermon is that I have a great desire. that those of you who are running the race of life should lay hold upon eter tsal life. It is a great mistake for men to preach without 'giving their hearers an op- Tportumty to confess Unrist. Wnen JMr. jaloody first began his public ministry in CSucazD he went through a course of ser mons on the Jife' of Christ, and came at 2ast to the crucifixion, when the most pro Jfoond impression had been made. He felt .as if he oueht to give an invitation, but Taezleeted to do so. The audience was dis- Tmissed never to come together again, for that night the great conflagration in Chi- eago was upon the city, and many of his ftearers were quickly ushered into eternity, auid so while 1 present this novel race rec ord I present it only that you may run the 223ce with Christ. "If I had the time in this connection 1 mlht say some words concerning the book mi which the text is found. It has been jsatd by some one that there is no part of eae Uibie which more thoroughly proves ithe inspiration of the Scriptures, for no xaere man couia nave written these wise sayings; another has suggested that the idbirty-one chapters in the book contain a lesson for each day of the month, and no xaan would find himself failing so freauent- 1& he should imbibe the wisdom of these asayings. Indeed, there is not a condition sff life that is not met by the. wisdom of the ilier of this book. I might also suggest -t&e different figures which are used in the riSSbTe which describe a human life. It is arpoken of under' the figure of a voyage arilh its days of calm and nights of storm, onth winds blowing deceitfully against -ras'and telling of prosperity that never csomea and its hurricane which almost viives ns against ".'the rocks and to death, Xisrtt one of the best figures is that of a race no man walks when he races, but runs. He rnnst be desperately in earnest, and no ne xeally makes a success of his life with- rat this same thing is true of jiim. Jherfi iw Cttle plaee for Jhe laggard in human ISpe to-day. We must "run if we would joan, 3Qad no race is permitted without con fiteliants. In this race of human life which rcsss itcrt there are three contestants which dssclve earnestly to defeat us The firaf. the -greatest eneit.y -that the most of rasaave is sen. uther men fight battles othI aest when the victory is won, but no -sraan lias ever yet been able to rest in the sraggle with himself. The Bible is true, -Tter is he that ruleth his sPirit than ' toe that -talreth a city," and many a man fcass been & hero in the battlefield and - xcae a miserable failure with his struggle vrsth himself. The world ' is generally n-rcimst ns. ''Woe be unto you when all mxsit speak well of yoii' and if no one op- rjses you it is well to- stop and see where- ijk ron may be wrong, but possibly the Etira.aQversar,y ot all is the .devil, the fcfeird one -of this trinity of contestants, for Jae raitters and deceives until 'at last the .strongest character is made weak and the , r&rzrest onl tainted; but I am not so much "vumriieu aooui. xne running oi the rac ; jctffit at this time as the preparation for th eml. JL-he text is a striking one. "There -laea-way which seejneth right unto a man: oua; the end thereof are - the ways of wfctli." "There is a way that seemeth :sit' I take it that none of us have de- irmined deliberately to be lost. Oar xrrvuner s memory is vtoo sacred and our afJoer'& example too nowerful to nprmif. 11a fcliberately to choose death instead of life. Fie.are merely procrastinating. We have xeacasen ..iittie more , of the world s pleas JiaKeiy so-called and determine to rfia.e sl little more of the world's honor, :sso3'.iij -way eemeth risht. for -srstTnay be saved, ahd yet no one has a rs'ai prospect of salvation if he neglects CbahiAt to-day, for he has made no provi . aiora for Ihe morrow. The end bafiles de ' acaSs,L'. . Tnere is weeping. and wailing vmrfl -gnashing bf teeth, and I present this B&3Isne .in - order that we may know that irotTcannoi anarxl.ro run the race alone. I. . . "me start. Tsalm 51: 5, "Behold. I was .'sfKacjven ." in iniquity, and in sin did my rmoiUsor conceive me." ' T T&is is a Bible statement, but experience -pjrtre the truth of it and history empha- oiica u.an every uai -neuiar. ' nowever tkipti xnasr rebel against the doctrine of original iw, -and speak of it- as an injustice and - all pi. l&a t, nevertheless, this we know to.be trrja that we are born with a hina-fn sin ;. ante also that if we were to speak hone tlv i'SEtv that ronv the vpw firaf 'Vf ' tasfcrbeen easier for us to do wrong than to !' jght. - We have been in a great cora- ... . 4 apostle said,'When I would do good evil nraf wifVi me." I do not for a mo ment imagine that we are :guilty, kny of but the existence of little sins will prove the existence of aj. sinful nature. , A - . 11. , " ' tu ra.o Pnmnns a 12. "Thev are all gone out of the way. they are together be- come unprontaDie; inere is boub uwc- ood, no, not one." If we object ;to tne ref efafmenf which nevertheless, ex- perience proves to be true, we certainly cannot resist the : power of the f (second statement, for the apostle writes that -we have all - gone away ' from God. When there came a time in our lives when it was possible for us to choose either th right or the wrong we well remember that the tendency all along has Deen-to cnoose ine wrong, or at least to .permit it, and when we rememher that it is the wrong an His judgment that we are responsible i for the message is a solemn one tnat we nave tu m with who taught the commanqmepis auu made the look of lust - idolatry, and the feeling' of murder against a brothej mur derl There are two. whys 'in whicp men might get into heaven; one is the way that i'a Tnflrlrerl with blond. "And though VOlir sins'be'as scarlet they shall be as Vrfiite as snow, and the other is the iceepmgjot tne whole law. "If we could do that Kjpd will accept us, but we cannot, and we certainly know we have not. VHe that offends m one point is guilty of all not that he has broken all, but in the single offense he has broken away from Uod. JLut irom tne standpoint of the ; unregencrate man at least this statement is" true, and I'( 'speak-now- in the language of the unregenerate. You-are not lost because of Adanfs sin, or an inherited tendency to evil, but rather because you . have rejected 'Christ for yourself. Let U3 imagine a. case xou have consumption, and it has come; jto you from a lpng line of ancestrjr, and I went to you and know a cure for consumption, and if you aviII but take- it you may be whole again, and I recite to tou ! the in stances of hundreds of people wh6 have been sick and now are well, but you re fuse the cure and die, not because yoji were a consumptive with an inherited tendency to this disease, but because you have re jected the cure, and men are lost because they have rejected Christ. ! j HI. -i The finish. Hebrews 9: 27, "Arid as it is appointed unto men once to die,; but af ter this the judgment. ! . I never speak the word judgment jthat I am not startled, not for myself, and when I say that 1 do not mean to exhibit the spirit that I am holier than thou, but startled because of the unsaved man who is in danger of the judgment, for God has distinctly said concerning the ! saved, "There is therefore now no -judgment "to them that are in Christ Jesus."- This is a personal matter. No one can appear in judgment for us. We must stand tjicre for ourselves, and the thought ot the judg ment will make us think when everything else has beep banished from ouri tninds. It is a place of meeting; man will meet his conscience, and that will be all that is necessary. -. ; "All I know of the future judgment Or whatsoever it may be, ! That to standalone with my consicience, , Will be judgment enough for me." And he will meet his record. It will not be necessary that the book shall be opened. The book of one's own record will condemn; that sin of lastfnightf which no. One OOWg hut vnil nnri linii ia ftcrninet - - - - - t. r you; that sin m London which po one dreams of but yourself and vour ; IMaker i i i , . . . " . . . ( nas maae its recora, ana the things that we have forgotten are standing against us. God pity us-if we do not make ready for tnat day, and we" cannot make ready ex cept by faith in Christ and we can meet Godv We have sinned against Him, we have trampled His love under our feet, we have rejected His Son, and in that day we shall meet Him . and who shall, be able to stand? . u IV. , . If ' The weiffhine room. D.iniel 97 'Thni art weighed in the balances, .and art found wanting." ; j ihere is a maclwne m the Bank of England-that in a very wonderful way sifts the sovereigns. You could hardly believe it. There is a whole case of sovereigns there by the man. who. like an orrlinnrv miller at an ordinary mill takes his scoop and shovels up these sovereigns that men nave tumbled the one over the other to get t - i "" puts luem in xi is macmne . v.x uuvi tUUI. X b weighs and poises each, throAving the light ones to one .side, and allowing those that are good and solid and up to the mark tc flow into another receptacle. It is i mar velous bit of human ingenuity, but its testing qualities are nothing beside the bar of the judgment of God;s nnthSi nor fro the final assize, when the xlead. small and great, shall stand before God. Ydu had better put it right. The Spirit says you are a happy man if you realize your";short comings in time and get it covered.. When that day comes He shall weigh Our motives. It is not what we hav Hnne but the motive that prompted the jdoing, "u uc eudu lcsl our acts, ac is not tne good to others which we have ! accom plished that shall count for us, but that which has been for His clorv? arid TTe shall seek out-our thoughts, and Woe be unto that man whose motives arid acts and thoughts are against Him. "Weighed and found wanting." That, was a solemn scene m the Hook of Daniel where Bel shazzer and his guests forgot the splendor of the room in which thev feasted, the brilliant lights, the beautiful womeji, the sweet music and see only the fingers of a man's hands writing on the plaster of the wan, weighed and found wanting' and a more striking scene than that shall be our experience if we neglect Christ. ! ? V. ' - The settlincr dav. MarTr R 5 "V wViof . -o , - - I , .it v Shall it nfofit a man if lie oVinll (rain -V. whole world and lose' his "own soul." I It is a possible thing for one to almost win the . :v.vi uac its music auu its art and its - honor an H its nlpacnm nnri in sense its wealtlr; but what shall it profit us. In one of Tolstoi's VinnVa tVioro on tration of that part of Russia where it is aaiu m me story a xuissian peasant can have all the territory he can measure out iium Bunnse Xo sunset, and Tolstoi tells of a peasant whov started in the mbrning at the break of day and ran with all; speed to mark ont his nnaspasinna "H waving trees in the distance and 'deter- ; i.1 . i Ttv t . . . . lumes mey snau pe nis, and tne lake be yond him,;and he says that shall be! mine, and the splendid plain; and runs to take it in, and lifts his eyes to find that the sun is beyond the meridian. Then he Abends every energy to reach the starting point, and - just as the sun goes down he reaches it, falls upon his faee from 'sheer weakness and the land is all his. but 'Tolstoi says they stooped down to pick him up and he is dead. He has gained it all . and lost his souf. This is a picture of - many a man striving for honor nnfl fnr rJo power What shall it all profit id that - Movlran l readily overcoine Loss of Hate , , if leXICan Diseased Hoofs and Scratches in hor JflUStang Linimeht ses mules and cattle, Farmers try it. A toad under a harrow Buffers no more than tho faithful horse that "i3 tortured with Spavins, Swinney, Harness Sores, Sprains, etc. Most horse owners know this and apply the kind of sympathy that heals, known far and wide as , - -i Mustang ' Lninilmeinil.' Never fails not even in tho most aggravated cases.. Curc3 caked udder in cows quicker than any known remedy. Hardly a disease peculiar to muscle, skin or joints tuau cuuuuu uu cui uu uy 11. iVTpvir5ltl is tho best remedy on th market for . w . K . Wind Galls, Sprains and Skin Lumps. irlUStang Llnimpnt Itkeepshorsesandmulesincondition. f hsvt ttned Rlpsas Tatrales with to muoa sstls faction tbat I can cheerfoUj recommend thenar Bare been troubled for about three yean with what I called bUloue attack! coming on regularly once a week. Was told by different physicians that It was caused by bad teeth, of Ohlch I bad MTeraL I had the teeth extracted, but the at tacks continued. I bad seen adrertUements of Rlpans Tabules In all the papers but had no faith in them, but about six weeks since a friend in duced me to try them. Hare taken bnt two of the mall fr-cent boxes of the Tabules and have bad no recurrence of the attacks. Hare never given a testimonial for anything before, but the great amount of good which I beUere has been done me by EUpana Tabulae induces me to add mine to the many testimonials yon doubtless hare In you possession now. . T. DxWrrr. I want to Inform you, ta words of highest praise, of the benefit I hare derlTed from Slpans Tabules. X am a professional nurse and in this profession a clear head Is always needed. 1 Rlpans Tabules does It. after one of my cases I found my self completely ran down. Acting on the adrlce of Mr. Geo. Bow er, Ph. CL, 583 Newark re., Jersey City, X took Rlpans Tabulee with grand results. Hiss Bxssix WXSBKAa. X hare been a great sufferer from eonstlpatloa for over lite years. Nothing gave me any ?eUet My feet and legs and abdomen were bloated so I could not wear shoes on my feet and only a loose) dress. I saw Rlpans Tabules advertised In our dally paper, bought some and took them as direct ed. Have taken them about three weeks and there ts such a change t I am not constipated any more and I dwe lt all to Rlpans Tabules. lam thirty seven years old, have no occupation, only my household duties and nursing my sick' husband, He has had the dropsy end I am trying Rlpans Tabules for him. He feels some better but It will take some time, he has been sick so long. Toe may use my letter and name as you IlkW : ; . . , Mrs. Mast Goutui Clbxsi I have been suffering j from headaches ever since I was a little girL I could never ride In a car or go InV) a crowded place without getting a headache and sick at my stomach. I heard about Rlpans Tabules from an jaunt of mine who was taking them for catarrh of the stomach. She had found such , relief from their use she advised me to take them too, and! have been doing so sinoe last October, and will say they have complete, ly cured my headaches. I am twenty-nine years old. Tou are welcome to use this testimonial MrsJ. Bnooxjxraa, Mother was troubled with heartburn and ileeplessness, caused by Indigestion, for a good many years. One day she saw. a testimonial in the paper indorsing Rlpans Tabules. She determined to give them a trial, was greatly reiieved ty their use and now takes the Tabules regularly. She keeps a few cartons Rlpans Tabules In tha house and says she will not be with-' out them. The heartburn and sleeplessness have disappeared with the Indigestion which was formerly so great a burden for her. Our whole family take the Tabules regularly, especially after a hearty meaL My mother is fifty years of age and is enjoying the best of health and spirits ; also cats hearty meals, an Impossibility before she took Rlpans Tabules. antoh H. Blaukis. R-I-P-A-NS The modern stand ard Family Medi cine: Cures the common every-day ill of humanity. TRAOt VJV MARK J HyseTtt'year-old boy suffered with pains la his head, constipation and complained of his stomach. He could not eat like thlldren of his age do and what he dkl eat did not agree frith him. He was this and of a saffron color. testimonials In favor of Rlpans Tabules not Reading some of the Ripans Tabules, X tried them. only relieved but aotnally cured my youngster, tne neadaChes have disappeared, bowels are la good condition and he never complains of bis stomach. He is now a red, chubby-faced boy. Thlb wonderful change I attribute to Rlpans Tabules. I am satisfied that they will benefit any one (from the cradle to old age) If taken according to direc tions, j E. W. Fsxca. A new style packet containing m bxpaws tavoxjss packed In a paper carton (wfthovS glass) Is now for sale Ot tome drug stores fob cts cxxts. This low-priced sort Is Intended for the poor and the economical.' Ons dosen of the five-cent cartons (120 tabules) can be had by mail by .sending forty-eight cents to the Rxpaxs CHxafXCiX. Coxpant, No. to Spruce Street. New York or a single carton (ten tabttlks) will be sent for five eenta. 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