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Alert Daalneaa Ilea Who Ara LArtrda In Aflalra of tha Boal Mora Common Seaaa Needed In Choreh Ball diss and Xn Building 17 p the Christian Character. .. - -t Copyright, 1897. by American Press Asso : elation. WAsnEfGToy, Dec 5. Dr. Talma go in this discourse advocates more prac Tical wisdom In efforts at doing good 'did assails somo of tho absurdities in church architecture and management The text is Luke xvi, 8, "The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. ' That is another way of saying that Christians are not so skillful in the manipulation , of spiritual affairs , as worldlings are skillful in the manage ment of temporalities. I see all around me people who are alert, earnest, con centrated and skillful in monetary mat ters, who in the affairs of the soul are laggards, inane, inert. The great want of the world is more common sense in matters of religion. If one-half of the skill and forcefulness employed in finan cial affairs was employed in disseminat ing the truths of Christ and trying to make tho world better, within ten years the last Juggernaut would fall, the last throne of oppression upset, the last in iquity tumble and the anthem that was chanted over Bethlehem on Christmas night would he echoed" and re-echoed from all nations and kindred and peo ple, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men." Somo years ago, on a train going to ward the southwest, as the porter of tho sleeping car1 Was making up tho berths at tho evening tide,. I saw a man kneel down to pray. Worldly people looked on as much as to say, "What does this mean?" I suppose tho most of the peo ple in the car thought that tho man was either insane or that he was a fanatic. but he disturbed no one when . he knelt and ho disturbed no one when he arose. In afUr conversation with him I found out that he was a znetaher of a church in a northern city, that he was a seaf ar lug man, and thai he was on his way to New Orleans to take command of a ves sel. I thought, then, as I think now, that ten such men men with such cour ago for God as that man had ten such men would bring the whole city to Christ. A "thousand such men would bring this whole land to God. Ten thou sand such men, in a short time, wotild bring tho whole earth into the kingdom of Jesus. That he was successful in worldly affairs, I found out That he was skillful in spiritual affairs, you are well persuaded. If men had the courage, tho pluck, the alertness, tho acumen, tho industry, the common senso in mat ters of the soul, that they have in mat ters of the world, this would be a very different kind of earth in which to live. More Common Senso In Church Building. In tho first place, my-friend3, we want more common sense in, the build ing and conduct of churches. The idea of adaptiveness is always paramount in anv other kind cf structure. If bankers meet together and they resolvo upon putting up a bank, the bank Is especial ly adapted to banking purposes. If a manufacturing company puts up a build ing, it is to bo adapted to manufacturing purposes. But adaptiveness is not always the question in the rearing of churches. In many of our churches we want more light, moro room, more ventilation, more comfort Vast sums of money are expended on ecclesiastical structures, and men sit down in them, and. you ask a man how he likes the church. Ho says, I like it very well, but I can't hear." As though a shawl factory were good for everything hut making shawls ! The voice of the preacher dashes against the pillars. Men sit down under the shadows of tho Gothic arches and shiver and feel they must be getting religion or some thing else they feel so uncomfortable. Oh, my friends, we want more com- . at V 1 mon sense , in tne rearing 01 cnurcnesi There is no excuse for lack of light when tho heavens are full cf it, no qx- m . . mm I I IL. cuse lor lacs ci xresn air wnen me world swims in It It ought to be-an expression not only of our spiritual hap piness, but of our physical comfort, when we say: "How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord God of hosts I A day in thy courts is better than a thou sand." Again, I remark we want more com mon sense in the obtaining of religious hope, All men understand that in-order to " succeed, in worldly directions they must concentrate. They think on tbat cue - object, on that one subject, until their mind takes fire with the velocity of their own thoughts. All their acu: men, an tneir strategy, ait meir wis dom, all their common sense they put in that one direction, and they succeed. But how seldom it Is truo in the matter of seeking after God. While no man expects to accomplish anything for this world without concentration and enthu siasm -trow many there . are .expecting after awhile to get Into the kingdom of God without the use of any such means. Tta Mxmntain of Go4a Lore. A miller in Calif ornia jmany years . . 1 m . 1 a agx) . piccea up a sparaue ox gom iruiu the bed cf a stream whlcn turned nis milL He held up that sparkle cf gold until it bewitched nations. Tens of thousands cf people left their homes. Thcv took their blankets and their pick axes and their pistols and went to the wilds cf California. Cities sprang up wuas. ci suddenly on the Pacific coast Mer chants put aside their elegant apparel and put on the miner's garb. All tne land was full of the talk about gold. Gold in the eyes, gold in the cars, gold in tho wake of ships, gold in the streets gold, gold, gold I Word comes to us that the mountain of God's love is full of gold; mat men have boed digging there and have brought up gold, and amethyst and and sardonyx, . . ii - - and chrysoprasus, ana au me preciuua stones out oi wnica ue waiis w. ujeartu i wfa aHdcd; J;a,fvaM who, digging In thit mine fcr cne hour, Las brought tip trt aftirts wcrtn more il over enr fcick and dying world. la it a Ixsus company that is formed? I3 it undeveloped territory? Oh, no, (he story is true! There are hundreds and thousands of people vho would be will- icg to rise and testify that they have discovered that gold and havo it ; in their possession. Notwithstanding all this, what i3 the circumstance? One would suppose that tho announcement would send people in great excitement up and down our streets, that at mid night men would knock at your door, asking how they may get theso treas ures. Instead cf that many of us put our hands behind our back and walk up and down in front of tho mine of eter nal riches and Fay, "Well, if I am to bo saved I will be saved, and if I am to bo lost-1 will bo lost, and there is noth ing to do about it " Why, my brother, do you not do tit way in business matters? Why do yon not tomorrow go to your store and sit down and fold your arms and say, "If these goods aro to be sold, they will bo sold, and if they are not to be sold they will not be sold; there is nothing for me to do frbont it." No, you dispatch your agents, you print Iyour advertise ments, jrou adorn your show windows, you push those goods, you uso the in strumentality. Oh, that men were wise in tho matter cf the soul ns they aro wise in the matter cf dollars and cents 1 ? , j Not One Conscript. This dictrino of God's sovereignty, how it is j misquoted and spoken of as though it weio on iron chain which bound us fhaud and foot for time and for eternity, when, so far from that, in every fiber of your body, in every facul ty of. yofir mind, in every passion of your soul, you are a free man a free man and it will no moro tomorrow be a matter of choice whether you shall go .to business through Pennsylvania ave nue or some other street, it will be no .moro a matter cf choice with you to imorrow whether you shall go to Phila delphia or New York or stay at home, than it is this hour a matter of freo choice whether you will accept ' Christ or reject him 1 ! In all' the army of. banners there is liot one conscript. Men are not to bo dragooned into heaven j Among all the tens cf thousands of tho Lord's soldiery there is not one man but will tell you : "I chose .Christ I wanted him. I de sired to 60 in his service. I am net a conscript I am a volunteer." Oh, that men had the same common sense, in the matters rof religion that they have in the matters of the world, tho same con centration, the same push, tho same en thusiasm in, the one case a secular en thusiasm, in the other a consecrated cnthusiafml ; Again' I remark we want more com mon scnVe in the building up and en larging of . cur Christian character. There airo men who havo for 40 yecrs been miming the Christian race, and they have not run a quarter of a mile: 2Jb business man would be willing to have his investments unaccumulative. If you invest a dollar, you expect that dollar to come home bringing another dollar an its back. What would you think cfja man who should invest $10, 000 in a monetary institution, then go off for five years, make no inquiry in rc gard to ihe investment then come back, step up to the cashier of the institution and ray,: "Have you kept that $10,000 safely that i lodged with you?" but ask ing no tjucsticn about interest or about dividend? Why, you say, "That is no common sense." Neither is it, but that is tho way we act in matters of the soul. We make a far, moro important invest ment than $10,000. We invest our soul. Is it accumulative? Aro we growing in. grace? Are we getting better? Are we getting worse? God declares many divi dends, but we do net 'collect them ; we do not ask about them; we do not want them. ,Oh, that in this matter of ac cumulation we wero as wise in the mat ters of the soul as we iare in the matters of the world 1 The Purposa cf the Bible. How littleromrnon sense in the read ing -oiTthe Scriptures I We get any other book, and we open it, and we say: "Now. what does' this book mean to teach me? It is a book on astronomy; it will teach mo astroiiomy. It is a book on political ,eccnciiiy; it will teach. me political economy."' Taking up this Bi ble, do wo ask ourselves what it means to teach? It means to do just cne thing get tho world converted and get us all d to heaven. That is what it proposes to do. Bxit instead cf that we go into the Bible as botanists jo pick flowers, cr we go as pugilists to get something to f ght other Christians with, or we go as logicians trying to sharpen our men tal faculties for a better argument, and we do not like this about the Bible, and we do not like that, and we do not like the other thing. What would you think of a man lost on the mountains?" Night has come down, he cannot find his way j home, and no sees a lignt in a moun tain cabin. He goes to it. He knocks at the door. " The mountaineer comes cut and finds the traveler and says: "Well, here I have a lantern. You can take it and it will guide you on the way home.". And suppose that traveler should jsay : "I don't liko that lantern. 1 don't like the handlo of it. There aro 10 cr 15 things about it I den't like. It you can't give me a better lantern than that I wen't have any?" Now, God says this Bible is to be a Jamp to our feet and a lantern to cur path, to guide us through the midnight cf this:world to the gates of the celes tial citjf. We stop and say we do not like this about it,! and wo do not like that and we do not like the other thing. Oh, how much wiser we would be if by it3 holy-light we found our way to our everlasting home I Thenwe do net read the Bible as we read ether bocks. We read it perhaps four cr five minutes just before ve retire at night- We are weary and sleepy, so somnolent . we hardly 1 .V.;l f t'-.i I w-w" V i a nrt Wft wiuw "" . " ' ; s.iuy vi - 1 Eomson and the faxes, or upon scxao Cencalogical .table, impdtant Iar its ; place, Lut stirring no more religious , emotion than the announcement that ; somebody begat somebody else, and he begat somebody else, instead of open ing the book and Eavinxr. 'Xow I must read fcr my immortal life; ;my eternity j is involved In this book.' Common Sense In Prajer. How little we use common sense in prayer I We say, "O Lord, give me this," and "O Lord, give me that," and "O Lord, give me something else," and We do not exnect to ret it or. ret tine j it, we do not know .we have it We j have no anxiety about it We do not j watch and wait for its coming. As a I merchant you telegraph or you write to i some other city for a bill of goods. You say, "Send me by such express or by such a steamer or by such a! rail train. " The day arrives. You send your wagon to the depot or to the wharf. The goods :'wat is the matter with thoso i aije $5,000. but that on Tuesday per goods? Wo haven't received them. Send ; baps you might make it. hut; there them, right away , We want them now ; wonld nc be positiveness about it, or we don't want thexn at all." And vj you keep writing, and you keep tele- graphing and keep sending iyour wason tb the depot or to the express office totho.wharf until you get the goods. In matters of religion we are not so wise as that W'e ask certain things to be sent from heaven. We do not know as whether they come or: not We have not any special anxiety as to whether they come or not We may get them and may not get them. Instead of. at 7 o'clock in the morning saying, "Have I got that blessing?" at 12 o'clock noonday asking, "Have I got that blessing?"lat 7 o'clock iu the evening saying;v"Have I received j that blessing?" and not getting it," plead- ing? pleading, begging, begging, asking, asking until you get it. Now, my breth ren, is not that common sense? If we ask a thing from God, who has sworn by his eternal throne; that! he will do that which we ask, is it not common sense that we should watch and wait until we get it? ' -f, ,j . .But I remark, again, we want more common sense in doing good. Ohr-how many people there are who! want to do good, and they are dead failures.; Why is it? They do not exercise the same tact, the same ingenuity, the same strat agem, the same common sense inj tho : work of Christ that they do in wofldly things; otherwise thfey would succeed in this direction as wfill as they succeed ; in the other. There are many menjwho have an arrogant way with them, al ! though they may noifeel; arrogant ''in. i their soul, or they hive; a patronizing way. They talk to a jman of the world in a manner which seems to say : "Don't you wish you wera as good,- as I am? Why, I have to look cilear down before I can see you, you are so far beneath me. " That manner always- disgusts, always drives men away from th0 kingdom of Jesus Christ instead of bringing them in. Working Naturally For the Gospel. - - . s . When I was a lad, I was one day . in a village stcrei and there was a large group of young men there full of rollick ing and fun, and a Christian man, came in, a very good Christian; man, and without any introduction of the subject and while they were; in grat hiharity said to one of them, "George, what is the first step of wisdom?" George look ed' up and said, "Every man to mind his own business. " Well, it; was a very rough answer, but it was provoked. Re ligion .had been hurled in there as though it were a bombshelL: We must bo natural in the presentation of religion to the world. Do you suppose that Mary in her conversations with Christ lost her simplicity or that Paul, thun dering from Mars hill, took the pulpit tone? Why is it people Cannot talk as naturally in prayer meetings, and on re ligious subjects as they do jin worldly circles? For no one ever succeed snTany kind of Christian work unleslhe works naturally. We want teimi bate the Lord Jesus Christ, whd'plucked a poem from the crass cf the field. We all want to imitate him who talked with farmers about the man who went forth to sow and talked with tho fishermen about the drawn net that, brought in fish of all sorts, and talked with the vine' dresser about the idler in ! the vine yard, and talked with those newly affi anced about the marriage supper, and talked with the man cramped in money matters about-the two debtors, and.talk edwith the woman about the yeast that leavened the whole lump, ! and talked with the shepherd about the lost sheep. Oh, we might gather even the stars cf tho sky and twist them like f orget menota in; the garland' of - Jesus I . We must bring everything to him the wealth of language, tho tenderness of sentiment, the delicacy of morning dew, the saffron of Coating cloud, the tangled surf of the tossing sea, the ; bursting thunder guns of. the storm's; bombard ment Yes, every star must point down to him, every heliotrope must breathe his praise, every drop in the summer shower must flash his glory, all the tree branches of the forest' must thrum their music in the grand march which shall celebrate a world redeemed, i i Now, all this being so, what Is the common sense thing for you and forme to do? What we do, I think, will depend upon three facts three great facts : The Only Sure' Time. . The first fact, that sin has ruined us. It has blasted body, mind and soul. We want no Efble to prove that we are sin ners. Any man who is . not willing to acknowledge himself an imperfect and a sinful being is simply a fool and not to be argued with. We all feel that sin has disorganized our entire nature. That is one fact Another fact i3 that Christ came, to reconstruct to restore, to revise, to correct, to redeem. That Is a second fact The third fact is that the only time we are sure Christ will par don us is the present Nw, what is the common sense thjng for us to do in view cf these three facts? You will all agree with me to quit sin, take Christ and take him now. ; ; ; t Suppose some business man in whose skill yen had perfect confidence Ehould tell you that tomorrow, Monday mom- KEEP YOUR EYES OPEl!! : Surely if the word REGULATOR is not on a package it Nothing else is the same. been put up by And it -can be easily told THE.RED FOR SALE BY pR. ing, between II and 12 o'clock, you u . .,. rrl- .. ! .Tr;- "V X-1 TTSAa "u less, and so on less and less when --J ti jh' "Immediately I will attend to that mat- ter, between 11 and 12 o'clock tomor row, Monday morning, for then I can surely accomplish it, but on Tuesday I .may not, and on Wednesday there) is less prospect and less and less. I will attend to it tomorrow. " Now let us bring our common sense in this matter of religion. Here are the hopes of the gospeL We may get them now. Tomorrow, we may get them and wo may not. Next day wo may and we may not, the prospect less and less and less and lees, tho only sure time now now. I would not talk to you in this way if I did' not know that Christ was able to save all the peo pie. I would not go into a hospital and tear off the bandages from the wounds if I had no balm to apply. I would-not have the face to tell , a man he is a sin ner unless I had at the same tinio the authority for saying ho may bo saved. . The Divine Raphael. , Suppose in Venice there is a Raphael, a faded picture, great in its time, bear ing some marks of its greatness. , History describes that. picture. It is nearly faded away. . You say, "Oh, what a pity that so wonderful a picture by Raphael' should be nearly defaced P'j After awhile a man comes up, very unskillful in art, and he proposes to retouch it You say : 'Stand off. I would rather have it just as it is. You will only make it worse." After awhile there comes an artist who was the equal of Raphael. He says, "I will retouch that, picture and bf ing out all its original power. " You have full confidence in his ability. He; touches it here and there. Feature ? , ... ,, . . n If. ?ifi is done with tho picture it is complete ; in all its original power. ., ;J j after feature comes forth, and when ho Now, God impresses his imago onocrESrrow cnanuei. now was no - uj race, but that imago has beratfleTaedj know that currents, tides, winds and for hundreds and for thousands bf J-cars, iveather ' were very treacherous getting fainter and fain ter. Here comes whero only a clear sky ond.a eniil up.a divine Raphael I shall call him a ;ntr Water trreeteil him I It is an old divine Raphael. He says, "I can restore mat picture. " no nas u power ib neav- - en and on earth. He is the eual of . t " 1 . the one who made the picture, fho equal of the one who drew tho image of God in our soul. Ho touches this sin and it is gone, 'that transgression and it is gone, and all the defacement disappears, and ""where sin abounded grace doth much more abound. " Will you have the de facement, or will you have-the restora tion? I am well : pejsuaaed that if I could by a touch Of li eavenly pathos in two minutosput before you what has been4onoTO save your soul there would an emotional tido overwhelming. "Mamma." said a little child to her mother when she was being put to bed at night, "mamma, what makes your hand so scarred and twisted and unlike j ether peoples nanas wen, saiai: a th flr my Ian((,a nn(i pursued the mother "my child; vvhenwere j victorJou QT ra0Uljtaini, younger than you are now, years ago, l , , . ... . . one night after I hadPut you to bed,-1 iland plains. After conquering many heard a cry, a shriek, up stairs. T came ji tribes, Yamato Dako turned his face un ana iouna tne Dea was on nre, ana . you were cn fire, and I took hold of you, j and I tore off the burning garments, and while I was tearing thetti off and i trying to get you away I burned my hand, an it basbeen scarred and twkt-, Cv CYC1 exiled ci-iu iuai v! "v liko a hand, but' I got that,, my child, in trying to save you." O man, O woman, I wish today I could show you the. burned hand of Christ burned in plucking you out of the fire, burned m snatching you awav "from the flame. Ave also tho burned fodt, and the burned brow, and the burned h cart burned for you. By hia stripes ye are benkd. " , f ; The' Won-' Tho house oi Berlin electriciar out Germany i. Wansee." It is r-.t Wansee, Dr. Siemens, the , i. known through 'the wonder of Ittetl fromroof to ity. The dining cellar with oleclr room, kitchen, and wine cellar are all connected by means of a minia ture electric railway. In Order to convey things from one room to an other the article required has .only to bo placed on a little car, a button pressed, and the car is almost in stantly whero it ought to bo. A cit izen of Brooklyn has th e largef-t known collection of bills of fare. There are over 4,000 in tbo col lection, embracing everything from the cracked slate of a mining camp dugout to the extended entrees wjth which Queen Victoria fattened her subjects on jubilee day and the czar gorged his starving thousands. During the last 50 years the in crease of population has een: In France, 18 per cent ; Austria, 45 ; Italy, 48; United Kingdom 63; Ger many, 75; Russia, 92; British colo nies, 510; United States. (?26. is not Vra.OuEGKILATQR. It cannot be and never has any one except by their Trade Mark-- W., W. CRICC3 & SON, THE' RAM STONEVALL. It rfow itt-lonys Xa Japan anl. Wears ' Itoniavle Name. ' 1 . jln looking over h history of our civil war a few days ago 1 chanctxl upon the uamo of that tcc rani, sinco sold to the Japanese govern, ment, the Stonewall. And ns I nt and read the lines faded away,' mul in their places camo an cxjuiuho of ' Bhiuimeiing water, dotted with jiinks, .sa in Iran's aml'liaher boats, while) to tho north nhd west wero long rows of blue tiled and alruw thatched hoiiFCS, tho old town of Kanngawa and the new villago of Ilomura. Beyond. Misslssipid and Treaty points nro substintial go downs of stono, tw.o hntobal break tho placid waters of. tho -njichorago ahd near x to them lies n low vessel w'ith a long rani, over which ripples tho breach. Tho city 'of .stone is Yokobaiua and tho water is the hay of Jeddo ; the vessel is tho old Stouo- wall, now of the . Japanese navy, known as Adzunia, ti namo dear to hll1eoploof the Sunrise Kingdom; u eynonyhi of love and wifely deva tion. .And thereby hangfl n tnhv ' Down through tho nges, hack t t ho year A. I). 110, tho Ainos, up pped to ho tho "original Jsettlers" of Japan, were cauving somo trouhla for -the Emperor Ktiko am finally broke out into open revolt., j So ho sent his sou, Yamato Dako, to sub dao them.; After' traversing - tho southern shores oLtho island of Nip pon and in each instance being vic torious over the fractious savages, Ya mo to found himself nt tho en trance to the bay of Jeddq, whero Commodore Perry made his lirnt anchorage. Here ho embarked with '" v to , l i' ft3 arn,y a,,1 attempted, to cross tho JaI)anesQ proverb that "a sea voy . an incJj f . jigokuM (bell) ull(l uf nnlnin c 11 hn j f . made a slighting remark agaihst the sea, whereat tho sea god becamo, very angry and proceeded to iriak,o tho proverb good. Tho storm in creased as Iho army gained tho cen ter of tho strait and death seemed inevitable. Soon tho samurai began to murmur that perchance 'n human eacrilico would appoaso tho wrath jful god. These vhispcrs 'rcnchodl. tho keen ears of Tachibana Hime, -wifeof Yamato. Without a word sho sprang into tho hungry sea and dis atioeared. and. tho sea cod being ap- peage(r all becamo quiet onco more, mw.iru xviuiu. u iuo "u"iui of Usui Togo, after climbing mile up precipitous roads," bo caught sight' of the distant waters of tho bay of Jeddo shimmering in the light othQ flU ana aH the memory of i the sacrifice camo hack to him ho cried, "Adzuma, , adzumal" (My wife, my wife!) - Since that time tho plain of Tokyo is 'spoken of in song anl story as Adzuma, and at tho head of Tokyo bay is a shrine erected to tho. mem ory of Tachibana Hime, in which in her comb, that floated ashore ut that rjlace.-Dcnver Post. According to tho deductions or a well known astronomer, we receivo as much light from tho sun as could ha em j t tod b v CftO. 000 full rnoo" J CURES TO STAY CURED. Thousa nds of volun tary certificates re-, ceived during the past fifteen year?, certify with no uncertain iound, thut -Botanic Blood Balm. (IL B 15.) vill curt to stay cured. Rheumatism. 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The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Dec. 10, 1897, edition 1
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