REV. DK TALliAGR
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's San-
day Sermon.
Subject: "Siw Crind."
Text: "Ltst I should build upon another
raan'B foundation." Romans xv., 23.
After, -with the help of others, I had built
three churches in the same city, and not
feeling called upon to undertake the su par
human toil of building a fourth church,
Providenoe seemed to point to this place as
the field in which I aould enlarge my wori,
and I feel a sense of relief amounting to ex
ultation. Whereuntp this work will grow I
cannot prophesy. It is inviting and promis- .
ing beyond anything I have ever touched.
, The churches are the grandest institutions
this world ever saw. and their pastora have
no superiors this side of heav3Q, but there is
a work which must be done outside of the
churches, and to that work I join; myself for
awhile, "Lest I build on another man'a
foundation."
The church is a fortre33 divinely built.
Now, a fortress is for defense ani for 'drill,
and for storing ammunition, but an army
taust sometimes be on the march far outside
the fortre33. In the campaign of conquering
this world for Christ thVtime has coma for
an advance movement, for a "general en
gagement' for massing the troop3, for an
" invasion of the enemies country. Confident
that the forts are well manned by the ablest
ministry that ever blessad the church, I pro
pose, with others, for awhile, to join the
cavalry and move out and on for service in
the open field.
In laying out the plan for his missionary
tour Paul, with mare brain than any of hi3
contemporaries or predecessors or succes
sors, saught out towns an 1 cities which had
not yet beau preaaae.l to. Ha goes to. Cor
nith, a city mentioned for splendor and vica,
and Jerusalem, where the priesthood and
sanhedrin were ready to leap with; bath feet
upon the Christian religion." He feals he has
a special work to do, and he means to do it.
What was the re3alt? Tile grandest life ol
usefulness that mm ever ivad. We modern
Christian workers are qot apt jto imitate
Paul. We build on other people's founda
tions. If wa erect a church, w prefer to
have it filled with families all of whom have
been pious. Do we gather a Sunday-school
clas3, wa want good boys and! girls, hair
' combed, faces washed, manners ! attractive.
So a church in this city is apt to be built out
of other chtirches. Same ministers spend all
their time in fishing in other people's ponds,
and they throw the line inta that church
pond and jerk out a Methodistj and throw
the line into another church pond ani bring
out a Preshyterian, or there is ;a religions
row in some neighboring church, and the
whole school of fish swim off from that pond,
and we take tham. all in with one sweep of
the net. What is gained? Absolutely noth
ing for tha general causa of Christ. It is only
as in . an army, when a regiment i3 trans-j
ferred from one division to anatiar, or from
the Fourteenth Regiment to tin Sixty-ninth
Regiment. What strengthen? the army is
new recruits.
.The fact is, this is a big warldJ Whan in
our sehoalbay days wa le irna l taa dianater
and circumference of this plana!;, wa did not
learn half. It is the latitude ai 1 lonsrituds
and diameter an 1 circumferaaae ol want ani
woe-and sin that na flgu:a3 can calculate.
This one spiritual continent of wretaheinas?
reaches across all zones, an 1 if I wara called
to give its geographical bouuiry I would
say it is bouniedon tha north aid south an I
fa3t and west by the graat heict of Ga l's
sympathy and lave. 0 1, it is a grai w ri 1.
Sn?e 6 o'clock this morning at iaist 8J,O03
have baea born, aal ..'1- tins) miitioiiel
pop llati oas are to b j r3 1 ;ha 1 ol t ia go? 5a'
It EaUnd or in Eisiaa AmarLai i cltie?
we are b3ing marx crow la 1, an I a i
aare of groan 1 is of graa: valua, bu: out
West 50) a-ra? is a su ill farm, an I 23,
003 aaras is no un.nuil rmvioa. There is
a vast field here aal evary arhere unoc
cupied, plenty of room more, not building
on another man's foundation. We. need
as churches to stop bombarding tha
Id iron cladsinuars that have been proof
against thirty yaars of Christian as3.y.ilt, and
aim for the salvation o-' tho?a wao nava
never yet ha t one warm haartel and point
blank invitation. There are churches whose
buildings might ba worth 203,033, who are
not averaging five new convarc? a year an I
doing les? good than many a log cabin meet
ing house with tallow caa lie 3tuak iu wooden
socket and a minister who ha? neversaaaa
college or known the difference batween
Greek and Choctaw. We nead churches to
get into sympathy with tha great outside
world, and let them know that nana are so
broken hearte I or hardly bestead that thej
will not be welcomed. 'No!" says soma fas
tidious Christian: "I don't like to be crowd
ed in church. Don't put any one in my
Eew." My brother, what will you do in
eaven? When, a great multitude that no
man can number assembles, they will put
fifty in your pew. What are tha select few
to-day assembled in the Christian churches
compared with the mightier millions outside
of them?
At least 3.003,033 paopla in th't3 cluster of
seaboard cities, and not more than 203,033 In
the churchas. Many of tha churchas aro
like a hospital that should a ivartisa thitit?
patients must have nothing worsa than tooth
ache or "run aroanls," but no broken head.
no crushed ankles, no fractured thighs.
Give us for treatment moderate sinners, vel
vet coated sinners and sinnars with a glois
on. It is as though a man had a farm of
3000 acres and put all his work on one acre.
He may raise never so large ears of corn,
never so big heads of wheat, he would re
j&ain poor. The church of God has bestowed
Its chief care on one acra ani . has raised
splendid men and women in that small in
closure, but the field is the world. That
means North and South; America. Europe,
Asia and Africa an 1 all tha islands of tha
sea. I . .
It is as though after a great battle there
were left 50,033 wiunded and dying on the
field and three surgeons gave all their time
to three patients juoder their charge. The
major-general comas in and says to the doc
tors, "Come out here and look at the nearly
50.000 dying for labkof surgical attendance."
"No," say tha three doctors, standing there
and fanning their! patients; "wa h3ve three
important cases here, and we are attending
them, and when we are not positively busy
with their wounds it takes all our time to
keep the flie3 offr" In this awful battle of
sin and sorrow, Where millions have fallen
on millions, do nic iet usi spaa 1 all our time
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commana comes.; "uo into me worm, saj
practically: "No;! I cannot go. I have here
a few choice cases, and I am busy keeping off
the flies." There) are multitudes to-day who
have never had any Christian worker look
them in the eye, and with earnestness in the
accentuation say "Come!" or they would
long ago have bean in the kingdom. My
friends, religion is either a sham or a tre
mendous reality. If it be 3 sham, let us cease
to have anything to do with Christian as
sociation. If itjba a reality, then great
populations are jon their way to the bar of
God unfitted for the ordeal, and what are we
doing? j
In order to teach tho multitude of outsid
ers we must dropjall technicalities out of our
religion. When yre talk to people about the
hypostatic . union jand Franch encyclopadian-
ism and erastian'ism and complaten3ianism, .
we are as impolitic and little understood aa ,
if a physician should talk to an ordinary pa
tient about the pericardium and intercostal
muscle and scorbutic symptoms. Maay of
us come out of the theological -seminaries so
loaded up that we take tha first ten years to
show our people how much wa know, and
the next ten year$ to get our people to know .
as much as we kEow, and v at tha end find
that neither of U3 knows anything as wa
ought to know. (Here are thousands of sin
ning, straggling and dying people who need
to realize just onb thing that Jesus Christ
came to save them, and will save them now.
But we go into a profound and elaborate
definition of what justification is, and after
all the work theire are not outside of the
learned professions o'OOO people in the United
States who can tell what justification is.
I will read you the definition:
"Justification is purely a forensic act, the
act of a judge sitting in the forum, in which
the Supreme Ruler and Judge who is ac
countable to none, and who alone knows the
manner in which the ends of His universal
government can1 b33t ba attained, reckons
that which was done by tha substitute, and
not on account Of anything dona' by them,
but purely upon1 account ol this gracious
method of reckoning, grants thaai tha full
remission of tha;r sins."
Now, what is justification? I will tall yoi
what justification is. Whan a slnnar ba
lieyes, God lets him) off. Ona summar in
Connecticut I went to a large factory, and I
saw over the door written the words, "No al
mittance." I entered and saw ovar the nexi
door, "No admittance." Of coarsa I enteral.
I got inside and ! found it a pin factory, and
. thav were making pfns, vary serviceable, fine
and usetul pins.i So tha spirit of exclu?iva
ness ha3 practically written ovar the outside
doo- of many a church, "No admittance."
And if the stranger enter ha finds practically
written ovar the sacond door, "No udmit
tauca," and if ha goas in ovar all the paw
doors seems written, "No admittance," while
tha minister stands in the pulpit, hammering
out his little niceties of balief, pounding out
tha technicalities of religion, making pins.
Inthamo?t practical, common sen3a way,
ai l laying asida tha nona33antiaLs and the
hard definition? iof religion, go out on tha
'G o I given mission, tailing tha people what
' they need and whan and how they can gat it.
Comparatively little effort a3 yet has been
made, to save that large class of persons in
our midst called skeptics, and he who goe3
to work hera jwill not ba building upon
another man's foundation. Thare is a great
mu'titude of thm. Thay are afraid of u?
an I our churchas, for the raa30n wa do not
kn)w how. to treat them. Ona of this cla?3
met Chri3t, and j hear with what tenderness
ail pathos anlj bamty fan I succas? Christ
daalt with him: i "Thou shalt love tha Lord
thy God with all th3r haart, an iwith all thy
soul, and with 'all thy mind, ani with all thy
strength. This is tha firs: commandment,
and the saconi is like to this namely, thou
shalt love thy neighbor a? thysalf. Thara is
' no other commandmant greater than this."
Ani taa scriba jsald to Htm, "JVelf, Ma?ter,
Taou has; said! tha truth, fez thare i3 one
Gol, aad to love Him with all tha heart,
and all tha understanding, and all tha soul,
and all the strength, is mora than whole
burnt offerings jaad sacrifices." And when
Jasa? saw that! he an3warad discreetly He
said unto him, j"Taou art not far from tha
kinlon of God." So a skaotic was saved
in ona Intarvievy. Bat few Ciristian paople
traa: tha skaptid in that way. In?tead of tak
ing hold of him' with tha gaatlehaadof love,
wa are apt to taka him with tha iron pihclhars
of ecclesiasticisii. j
You would not ba so rough on thai man if
yoa kn-iwbywhat procjH ha hai-lost his
faith in Christianity. I have known man
skeptical from the fact that thay grawjoo in
housa? where religion was overdona,' Sun
day wa? the mo3t awful day of the week.
Thay hai religion driven into them with a
triphammer. They were surfeited with
prayer meetings. They ware stuffed and
ehokai with catechism?. Thay ware often
t old thay werej the worst boys the parents
evar kaaw. becshi?a they likai to ride dowa
hilt better thatoread Banyan's "Pilgrim's
Progress." Whenever father and mother
talke i of religion, they drew dowa the cor
ners of their mouth ani rolled up their eyes.
ff anronethinz will seal a bor or gird to
rain sooner than another, that is it. It I
had such a father and mother, I fear I should
hava baan an infidel. When I wa? a boy in
Sunlay-3chool. at one tima we had a teacher
who, when we ware not attentive, straak u
over the head with a New Testament, ani
there is a way of using even the Bible so as
to make it offensive.
Others were tripped u? of skepticism from -
being grievously wrongai oy soma man wn?
professed to be a Christian. Tney had a
partner in bu3lne?3 who turned out to b3 a
first-class scoundrel, though a profe3sai
Christian.' Many yaars ago they l03t ail faith
by what happened in an oil company which
wa? formed amid the patrolaum excitement.
The comoany ownad no land, or if they did
there wa3 no sign of oil produced, but the
President of the comoany was a Presbyterian
elder, ani tha treasurer wa? an Episcopal
vestryman, an I one diractor was a Methodist
cla?? leader, and tha other directors promi
nent members of Baptist and Congregational
churches. Circulars were gotten out telling
what fabulous prospacts opened before this
eompany. Innocaat men and women
who' had a little monay to invast, and that
little their all, said, "I don't know anything
about this company, but " so many good men
are at the head of it that it miist ba excellent,
and taking stock in it mu3t bealmo3t as
good a3 joining th9 church."
So thay bought tha stock and parhap3 re
ceived ona dividend so as to keep them still,
but after awhile they found that the com
pany had reorganized aad . had a different
president and diff arent treasurer and differ
ent directors. Other engagements or ill
health had cai3ad tha former officers of the
company, with - many - regrets, to resign. -And'all
that tha subscribers of that stock had .
to show for their, investm ant wa3 a beauti
fully ornaminted - certificate. Sometimes
nhat man looking over his old papers comas
across that certificate, .and it is so suggastiv3
that he vois ha wants nana of the religion
that tha presidents aad irustaas and dirac
. tors of that oil company professed. Of
course their , rejection of religion on such,
grounds was unphilosophical and unwise. ; I
am told that many ol ths United States army
desert every year, and thare are thousands
of court martial? every year. 13 that
anything against tha United States Gov
ernment that swore them in? And
if a soldier of Je3us Christ desert, is that
anything against the Christianity which
he swore to support and defend? How do
you judge of the currency of a country? By
a counterfeit bill? Oh, you must have pa
tienca with those who have been swindled by
religious pretenders.' Live in the presence of
others a frank, honest, earnest Christian life,
that they may be attracted to the same Sav
iour upon whom your hope3 depend.
Remember skepticism always has some
reason, good or bad, for existing. Goethe's
irreligion . started whan the news came to
Germany of the earthquake at Lisbon, Nov.
1, 1775. Tnat 60,00) people should have
perisfeed in tha; earthquake and in the after
rising of tha Tagus so stirred his sympathies
that he threw uo his belie: in the gooines3of
God. - .
Others have gono into skepticism from a
natural persistence in asiing taa reason wnv.
They have been fearfully stabbed of the in
terrogation point. There are so many things'
they cannot get explained. They cannot un
derstand tha" Trinity or how God can ba sov
ereign and yet a man a free agent. Neither .
can I. They say: ''1 don't understand why
a good God should have letsin come into the
world. ; Neither do I. You say: "Way was
that child started in life with such disadvan
tages, while others have all physical and
rhantal equipment?" I cannot tell. They go
out of church on Easter morning and say:
"That doctrine of the resurrection con
founded ma." So it is to ma a mystery be
yond uuravslment. I understand all the pro
cesses by which men get into the dark. I
know them all. I have traveled with burning
feet that blistered way. The first word which
most children learn to utter is: "Papa," or
"Mamma," but I think'the firsi word I ever
uttered wa3: "Why?" 1 know wnat it is to
have a hundred midnights pour thair
darkness into one hour. Such men are not
to be scoffed, but helped. Tarn your back
upon a drowning man when you have the
rope with which to pull him ashore, and let
that woman in the third story of a house
perish in the flames when you have a ladder
with which to heip her out and help her
down, rather than turn your back scoffingly
on a skeptic whose soul is in more peril than
the bodies of thosn other endangered ones
possibly can be. Oh, skepticism is a dark
land. Thare are men in this house who
would give a thousand worlds if they pos
sessed them to get back to the placid faith of
their fathers and mothers, and it is our place
to help them, and we may help them, never
through their heads, but always through
their hearts. These skeptics, when brought
to Jesus, will ba mightily effective, far more
1&0 than those who naver examinad the evi-'
dences of Christianity.
Thomas Chalmar? wa? oaca a skeotis
Robert Hill a skeptic, Rob art Newcon a skep
tic, Christmas Evans a skeptic. But when
once with strong hand thay took hold of the
chariot of the gospel they rolled it on with
what momentum! If I address such men
and women to-day, I throw out no scoff. I
implead them by the memory of the good
old days, whan at thair mother's knaa they
said, "Now I lay me down te sleep," and by
tho3a days and nights scarlet fever in
which sha watched you, giving you the
medicin9t just the right tima ani turning
your pillow when it wa? hot, and with hands
that many years ago turned to du?t soothed
away your pain, and with voica that yoa will
never hear again, unless you join ha-in the
batter country, tol i you to never mini, for
you would feal battar by an I by, and by that
dying coach, wherashe lookel so paia and
talked so slowly, catching her breath batween
tne words, and you felt an awful loneliness
coming over your sou! by all that I bag you
to come back and take tha same religion. It
wa3 good enough for her. It is good enough
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