FREE GRACE. THE GREAT UXKXOWX nTSAD QUAKTERS OF THE UNIVERSE. Heaven the Home of the Prince of This roving Doctrine Jio Frost Nor Tears Nor AchesAre There Dr. Talmae's IJrilliant Picture of the Christian's Reward. Brooklyn. October 2. The capacity for a still larger audience has been made at the Brooklyn Tabernacle. An ad joined lecture-rbom has been buift so that during the week it is used by itself, but on the 'Sabbath it is thrown into the main auditorium and filled by those sit ting or standing. Notwithstanding the enlargement the crowds that go away not able to get inside the building are greater this fall 'than ever before. To day the pastor explained appropriate passages of Scripture. Professor Browne, rendered ,upon the organ the First Sonata in D Minor Ritter. The text of the ser mon was from II Corinthians, ch. viii v. 9 : "Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor." Dr. Talmage said :. That all the worlds which on a cold winter's night make the heavens one great glitter are inhabitantless is an ab surdity. Philosophers tell us that many of these worlds are too hot or too cold or too rarefied of atmosphere for residence But, if not fit for human abode, they may be fit for beings different from and su perior to ourselves. We are told that the world, of Jupiter is changing until it is almost fit far creatures like the hu man race, and that Mars would do for the human family with a little change in the structure of the respiratory organs. But that there is a great wTorld swung somewhere, vast beyond imagination, and that it is the headquarters of the universe, and the metropolis of immen sity, and has a population in numbers vast beyond all statistics, and appoint ments of splendor beyond the capacity of canvas, or poem, or angel to describe, is as certain as the Bible is authentic. Perhaps some of the astronomers with their big telescopes have already caught a glimpse of it, not knowing what it is "We spell it with six letters and pro - nounce it Heaven. That is where Prince Jesus lived nine teen centuries ago. He was the King's eon. It was the old homestead of eter nity,and all its castles were as old as God. Not a frost had ever chilled the air. Not a tear had ever rolled down the cheek of one of its inhabitants; There had never been in it a headache, or a sideache, or a heartache. There had not been a fu neral in the memory or the olaest in habitant. There' had never in all the land been woven, a black veil, for there had never been anything to mourn over. The passage of millions of years had not wrinkled or crippled or bedimmed any of its citizens. All the people there were in a state of eternal adolescence. What floral and pomonic richness ! Gardens of perpetual bloom and orchards in perpetual bloom and unending fruitage. Had some spirit from another worm entered ana asked. What is sin? What is bereavement? What is sorrow? What is death? the bright- est of the intelligences would have failed to eive definition, though to study the question there were silence m Heaven w . ' w r i for half an hour. The Prince of whom I speak had honors, emoluments, ac clamations, such as no other prince, celestial or terrestrial, ever enjoyed. As He passed the . street the inhabitants took off from their brows garlands of nunc mica auu imew i.ut;iu in me way. He never entered any of the temples without all the worshipers rising up and v.n-r..:n i v : T 11 .1 3 i .i j I Dumiig iix uucmcutc. iu txn me pruues- raui in my lexi aia npi go iar irom nn sions of the high days He was the one who ting the mark, did he, when he said of evoked the loudest welcome. Sometimes the missionary Prince : "For vour sakes on foot, walking in loving talk with the humbjest of the land, but at other times He took chariot. Again He took the white palfrey with what prance of foot, and arch of neck, and roll of mane, and gleam of eye is only dimly suggested in the Apocalypse. He was not like other princes, waiting for the Father to die and then take the throne. When a few years ago an artist in Germany made" a picture for the Royal Gallery representing Emperor William on the throne, and the Crown Prince as having one foot on the step of the throne, Emperor William ordered the picture changed and said: "Let the prince keep his foot off the throne till I leave it. Already enthroned was the heavenly prince side by side with the Father. What a circle of dominion ! What myr- -iAn ,1 i i midons of admirers ! What unending round of glories ! All the towers chimed . O the Princes praises. Of all the inhabit- ants, from the centre of the city, on Christ have been published, but He corn over the hills and clear down to the posed His autobioeranhv i n most, mm - beach against which the ocean of im- mensity rolls its billows, the Prince was mo otnuuiYicugcu intumc. wouuer my text says that "He was rich." Set all the diamonds of the earth in one sceptre, build all the palaces of the earth in one Alhambra, gather all the pearls of the sea in one diadem, put all the vaiues oi xne ; earin in one coin, me aggregate wouia not express his affluence. Yes, Paul was right. Solomon had in gold six hundred and eighty million pounds and in silver one billion twenty-nine million three hundred and seventy-seven pounds sterling. But a greater than Solomon is here. Not the millionaire, but the quadrillionaire of Heaven. To describe bis celestial surroundings the Bible uses all colors, gathering them in rainbow over the throne and setting them as agate in the temple window, and hoistm twelve of them into a wall from stripe jasper at the base to transparent amethyst in the capstone, while between are green of emerald, and snow of pearl. and blue of sapphire, and yellow 01 topaz, gray of chrysoprasus, and name of jacinth. All the loveliness of land scape in foliage, and river, and rill, and all enchantment aquamarine, the sea of glass mingled with fire as when the sun sinks in the Mediterranean. All the thrill of music, instrumental and vocal, harps, trumpets, doxologies. There stood the Prince, surrounded by those who had under their wings the velocity of miles in a second, rich in love, ricn m aaora tion. rich in power, rich in worship, rich in holiness, rich as God. But one day there was a big disaster m a department of God's universe. A race fallen ! A world in ruins ! Our planet the scene of catastrophe ! A globe swing ing out into darkness, with mountains, and seas, and islands, an awful centrifu gal of sin seeming to overpower the beau tiful centripetal of righteousness, and from it a groan reached Heaven. Such a sound had never been heard there. Plenty of sweet sounds, but never an outcry of distress, or an echo of agony. At that one groan the Prince rose from all the blissful circumjacence, and started for the outer gate, and descended into the night of this world. Out of what a Vi:V. horhn. into TtrVmt O Trtll ffh RPJl ! a' "Stay angel, "No," with us," cried angel after and potentate after potentate, said the Prince; "I cannot I must be off for that wreck stay; of a -world. I must stop that groan. I must hush that distress. I must fathom that way. 1 must redeem those nations. Farewell, thrones and temples, com panions cherubic, seraphic, archangelic! Excuse this absence, for I will come hack ao-ain. carrviner on mv shoulder a ransomed world. Till this is done I choose earthly scoff to heavenly accla mation, and a cattle pen to a king's palace, frigid zone of earth to atmos phere of celestial radiance. I have no time to lose, for hark ye to the groan that grows mightier while I wait. Fare well! Farewell!" "Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, though He was rich, yet for your sakes lie became poor." Was there ever a contrast so overpow ering as that between the noonday of Christ's celestial departure and the mid night of his earthly arrival ? Sure enough, the angels were out that night in the sky, and especial meteor acted as es cort, but all that was from other worlds, and not from this world. The earth made no demonstration of welcome. If one of the great princes of this world steps out at a depot cheers resound, and the bands play, and the flags wave. But for the ar rival of this missionary Prince of the skies not a torch flared, not a trumpet blew, not a plume fluttered. All the music and pomp were overhead. Our world opened for Him nothing better than a barn door. The rajah of Cashmere sent to Victoria a bedstead of carved gold and a canopy that cost seven hun dred and fifty thousand dollars, but the world had for the Prince of Heaven and earth only a litter of straw. The crown jewels in the Tower of London amount to fifteen million dollars, but this mem ber of eternal royalty had nowhere to lay His head. To know how poor He was ask the camel drivers, ask the shep herdsj ask Mary, ask the three wise men of the East, who afterward came there, young Caspar and middle-aged Balhasar and old Melchior. To know how poor He was examine all the records of real estate in all that Oriental country and see what vineyard or what house, or what field He) owned. Not one. Of what mortgage tvas He the mortgagee ? Of what tenement was He the landlord ? ui what lease was lie tne lessee r Who ever paid Him rent? Not owning the boat on which He sailed, or the beast on which He rode, or the pillow on which He slept. He had so little estate that in I order to pay His tax He had to perform a I miracle, putting the amount of tne assessment in a fish's mouth and having it hauled ashore. And after His death the world rushed in to take an Inventory of Mis goods, and the entire aggregate was the garments He had worn. sleepinsr i .1 V ? i . . .. A iu mem uy mgni ana traveling m inem by day, bearing on them the dust of the highway and the saturation of the sea. T 1 i J r J . r m i He became poor ?" The world could have treated Him better if it had chosen. It had all the means for making His earthlv condition comfortable. Only a few years before when Pompey, the general, arrived at Brindisi he was greeted with arches and a costlv column which celebrated thp. twelve million people whom he had killed or conquered, and he was allowed -to wear his triumphal robe in the Senate The world had applause for imperial butchers, but buffeting for the Prince of I'eace. Plenty of golden chalices for the favored to drink out of, but our prince must put his lips to the, bucket of the well by the roadside after He had begged for a drink. Poor? Born in another s man's barn and eating at 1 . anomer mans table, ana cruising the lake in another man's fishin? smack. 1 J - ...w V w w A U U-AtU soleum. Four inspired authors wrote of His biofrranhv. and innnmprnhU livpa nf messed wav. Hr aairl "T ho tiWMor, the wme-press alone." Poor in the esti mauon 01 neany an tne -prosperous classes. They called Him Sabbath- breaker, wine-bibber, traitor, hi asnhpmpr and ransacked the diction arv nf rm' brium f rom lid to lid to express their de- testation. I can think now of onlv two well-to-do men who espoused His cause. Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea. His friends for the most part were people who, in that climate where ophthalmy or inflammation of the- eyeball sweeps ever and anon as a scourge, had Decome Diina, sick people wno were I anxious to get well, and troubled people in whose family there was some one dead or dying. If He had a purse at all it was empty, or we should have heard what was done with the contents at the post mortem. Poor ? The pigeon in the dove cote, the rabbit in its burrow, the silk worm in its cocoon, the bee in its hive is better provided for, better off, better sheltered. Aye, the brute creation has a home on earth, which Christ has not. If on windy days the raven Gambol like a dancing skiff, Not the less he loves his haven On the bosom of the cliff. If almost with eagle pinion O'er the Alps the chamois" roam. Yet he has some small dominion Which no doubt he calls his home. ' But the Crown Prince of all heavenly dominion has less than the raven, less than the chamois, for He was homeless. Aye, in the history of the universe there is no other instance of such coming down. Who can count the miles from the top of the throne to the bottom of the cross? Cleopatra, giving a banquet to Antony, took a pearl worth a hun dred thousand dollars and dissolved it in vinegar and swallowed it. But when our Prince, according to the evangelist, in His last hours took the vinegar, in it had been dissolved all the pearls of His heavenly royalty. Down until there was no other depth for Him to touch, troubled until there was no other harassment to suffer, poor until there was no other pau perism to torture. Billions of dollars spent in wars to destroy men, who will furnish the statistics of the value of that precious blood that was shed to save us? "Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor." Only those who study this text in two places can fully reach its power, the Holy Land of Asia Minor and the holy land of Heaven. How I should like some day to take a drink out of Jacob's well, and take a sail on Galilee, and read the Sermon on the Mount while standing on unvet, ana see tne wnaerness where Christ was tempted, and be some afternoon on Calvary at about three o'clock, the ; hour at which closed the crucifixion, and sit under the sycamores and by the side of brooks, and think and dream and pray about the poverty of Him who came our souls to save ! But you and 1 will prob- ably be denied that, and so here, in an other continent and another hemisphere, and in scenes as different as possible, we. recount as well we may how poor our heavenly Prince became. And in the other holy land above we may all study the riches that He left be-, hind when he started for earthly ex pedition. Come, let us bargain to meet each other at the door of the Father's mansion, or on the bank of the river just where it rolls from under the throne, or at the outside gate. Jesus got the con trast by exchanging that world for this; we will get it by exchanging this world for that. There and then you will un derstand more of the wonders of the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, "though He was rich, yet for your sakes became poor." Yes, grace, free grace, sovereign grace, omnipotent grace. Among the thou sands of words in the language there -is no more queenly word. It means free and unmerited kindness. My text has no monopoly of the word. One thou sand and twenty-nine times does the Bible eulogize grace. It is a door swung wide open to let into the pardon of God all the millions who choose to enter it. John Newton sang of it when he wrote : Amazing grace, how sweet the sound That .saved a wretch like me 1 Phillip Doddridge put it' into all hymn ology when he wrote : Grace, 'tis a charming sound, Harmonious to the ear ; Heaven with tlue echo shall resound, And all the world shall hear. One of John Bunyan's great books is entitled "Abounding Grace." "It is all of grace that I am saved, "has been on the lips of hundreds of dying Christians, The boy Sammy was right when, being examined for admission into church mem bership, he was asked : "Whose work was your salvation ?" and he answered : "Part mine and part God's." Then the examiner asked : "What part did you do, Sammy?" and the answer was; "I op posed God all I could, and he did the rest I" O, the height of it, the depth of it, the length of it, the breadth of it, the grace of God 1 Mr. Fletcher having writ ten a pamphlet that pleased the King, the King offered to compensate him, and Fletcher answered : "There is only one thing I want and that is more grace." les, my Dlood-Dought hearers, grace to live by and grace to die by. Grace that saved the publican, that saved Lydia, that saved the dying . thief, that saved the jailer, that saved me. But the riches of that grace will not be fully understood until Heaven breaks in upon the soul. ' An old bcotchman, who had been a soldier in one of the European wars, was sick and dying in one of our American hospitals. His one desire was to see Scotland and his old home, and once again walk the heather or the Highlands, and hear the bagpipes of the Scotch regiments. The night that the old Scotch soldier died, a young man, somewhat reckless but kind hearted, got a company of musicians to come and play under the old soldier's window, and among the instruments there was a bagpipe. The. instant that, the musician began the dying old man in de lirium said : 4What's that, what's that ? Why it's the regiment coming home lhat s the tune, es, that s the tune. Thank God, I have got home once more !" "Bonny Scotland and Bonny Doon," were the last words he uttered as he passed up to the Highlands of the better country. And there are here to-day hun dreds homesick for Heaven, some because you have so j many bereavements, some because you have so many temptations, some because you have so many ailments, homesick, verv homesick, for the father land of Heaven, and the music that you want to hear now is the song of free grace, and the music you want to hear when you die is free grace, and forever before the throne of God you will sing oi the "grace of our Lord Jesus Christ who, though He was rich, for your sakes Decame poor I Yes, yes ; for your sakes ! It was no on pleasure excursion that He came, for St. -11 . T . ' . lb was au pain, was noi on astro nomical exploration, for He knew this world as well before He alighted as afterward. It was not because He was compelled to come, for He volunteerea. It was not because it was easy, for He knew that it would be thorn, and spike, end hunger, and thirst, and vociferaUon Of angry mobs. For your sakes ! Wipe away your tears. To forgive your wrong doing, to companionship ypur loneliness, to soothe your sorrows) to sit with you by the new-made grave, to bind up your wounds in the ugly battle with the world and bring you home at last, kindling up the mists that fall on your dying vision with the sun light of a glorious morn. For vour sakes! No; I will change that. Paul will not care, and Christ will not care if I change it, for I must get into the bless-' edness of the text myself, and so I say: "For our sakes !"" For we all have our temptations, and bereavements, and con flicts. For our sakes ! We who deserve for our sins to be expatriated into a world as much poorer than this than this earth was poorer than Heaven. For our sakes! But what a fruitful coming down to take us gloriously up ! When Artaxerxes was hunting. Tirebazus, who was attend ing him, showed the King a rent in his garment. The King said: "How shall I mend it?" "By giving it to me," said Tirebazus. Then the King gave him the robe, but commanded him never to wear it, as it would be inappropri ate. See the startling and com forting fact, while our Prince throws off the habit he not only allows us to wear it, but commands us to wear it, and it will become us well, and for the poverties of our spiritual state we may put on the splendors of heavenly regale ment. For our sakes! O, the personality of this religion! Not an abstraction, not an arch under which we walk to be hold elaborate masonry, not an ice-castle like that which Empress Elizabeth of Russia over a hundred years ago ordered constructed,winter with its trowel of crys tal cementing the huge blocks that had been quarried from the frozen rivers of the North, but a father's house with a wide hearth crackling a hearty welcome. A religion of warmth and inspiration, and light, and cheer, something we can ake into our hearts, and homes, and business, recreations, ana joys ana sor rows. iNot an unmanageable gnei like he galley' presented to Ptolemy, which required four thousand men to row, and its draught of water was so great that it could not come near the shore, but some thing you can run up any stream of an noyance, however shallow. Enrichment now, enrichment forever ! liight about face I lor you are going n the wrong direction. While you are in a favorable mood for it enter into life. Here and just now decide everything that makes for peace and Heaven. Agas- siz says that he has stood at one place, in he Alps where he could throw a chip into the water in one direction, and it would roll on into the German ocean, or he could throw a chip into the water in another direction, and it would reach the .Black sea by the JJanuoe, or he could throw a chip in another direction, and it would enter the Medi terranean by the Rhone. How far apart the Mediterranean, ana the lilac k. sea. and the German ocean ! Standing to-day on this Alps of Gospel privilege, you can project your soul into right currents, and it will roll on into the ocean of life, or project it in the wrong direction, and it will roll into the sea of death. But how far apart the two distances ! May God help us to appreciate more and more the momentous meaning of our text! The seven wise men of Greece were chiefly known each for one apothegm ; bolon for the saying : "Know thyself ; " Peri- ander for the saying : "Nothing is im possible to industry; " Chilo for the say ing : "Consider the end ; " Thales for the saying : "Suretyship is the precursor of ruin. And Paul, distinguished for a thousand utterances, might well afford to be memorable for the saving : "You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich." TAR-II EEL SQUIRRELS. How a Shrewd West Vlrelnla ; Farmer Guarded His Corn-fields.' A farmer named Corner, of Rome county, W. Va , has invented a new plan to catch squirrels which has proven a great success. He has a large corn-field which borders on the woods, and which the squirrels have almost devastated during the last season. Having hit upon a plan he first watched the animals, ana iouna that when they made a raid and retired they retreated to the woods almost invariably along one particular line of fence. Having learned this fact, Corner covered the top rail of that line of fence with tar, putting on a heavy coat. This he did in the evening, and in the morning. when he went to the field he saw a long line of squir rels running along the fence ' toward the woods. They succeeded in clearing the fence, but when they struck the woods the leaves and sticks stuck to their feet so badly that they could not climb the trees nor run very iar, even on tne leaves, lhehrst cap ture amounted to twenty-seven squirrels, and within a week Corner had killed and captured over 100 squirrels by his unique aevice. unmixan Advocate. GRIMALDP8 FATHER. T He Tests the Affection of His Two Sons by Feigning Death., Joe Grimaldi was scarcely eight years old when his father died. Not long before the eccentric Giuseppe had feigned death in order to test the affection of his two sons. One day he instructed the servant to tell the boys as soon vas they came home from re hearsal that h$- hacl suddenly expired, but first of all they were to be brought into the aarKenea room wnere he lay stretched out oeneatn a sneet, so tnat ne might hear how they took the news. Joe. susnectintr trirV began to roar lustily, but his, brother danced and sang with delight at the prospoct of be ing released from their tormentor. Up sprang the sham and infuriated corpse, and oh, the thrashing that unhappv junior re ceived for his want of filial aflection ! while the more artful Joseph was caressed and re warded. uenlleman. Magazine. Young Woman (to amateur actor I hear you acquitted yourself admirably on the stage the other night. Are you a lover of tne sock and buskin ? Amateur Actor Well, to tell you the truth, I don't know much DIRECTORY; Some of the Leading TtaslneM IIon( . AW. 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