The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-09-23
BROOKLYN CHURCHES.
TALMAGE's TABERNACLE.


Picture OF Heaven and Hell-The Des-
tfnics or Believers and Unbelievers-A
Warning.
Mr. Talmage always earnest and ELOQUENT in his
discourses, was more than usually 80 yesterday
morning. The Tabernacle was crowded. In his
prayer previous to the sermon he expressed the
hope that any person who had como there TO carl.
cature the preacher or for the purpose of whiting
away the Sabbath morning would repent his sin at
once.
Mr. Talmage's text was from st. Mark, xvi, 10
'Ie that believeth and Is baptlsed shall be saved;
but he that believeth not shall be damnedn
The-preacher said that 1t had been question he
had often asked himself during the last three
weeks why 1t was that God has brought him face to
face with death on the Atlantic and yet broughr
him back to his people alive He had no trouble in
answering that question. God led him through that
process in order that he might come with more
earnest, intense, consecrated and Chrstike minis
try to this people, and might God forbid that that
process should not have Its proper effect upon his
soul. The text was plain statement OF two great
mOment0us, Infinite, truthful facts, and while ne
read 1t 1t seemed though he heard two gates ajar
shut-the gate OF the blessed and the gate Of the
lost. You see that the text divides all the people
in this Tabernacle into two classes-believers and
unbelievers. He said that his hearers need not sit
back in their seats, thinking he was going to give
them dry definition as to what faith was. He
had no
BASKET OF THEOLOGICAL CHIPS
to carry to them. Faith was reliance upon the
Lord Jesus Christ; 1t was feeling Of ~ can't
save myself, but Christ will do 1t, has done it.
put my whole weight on His mercy. Throwing
away all my sins, my doubts and my fears, accept
for me personally" Faith was sometimes an in
Simultaneous act OF the soul Between everlasting
aSsFn d waa n tex a %as tS
promise, "WhosOever cometh unto me will in no
wise cast out" Throw yourselves fiat upon that
ever, to follow, and that was baptism. Baptism
was public recognition and acknowledgement Of
be a Christian without publicly announcing my
faith In Him. "He that believeth in baptism'
would not be saved from the physical consequences
OF sin. soul might escape and be pardOned In
this world, but in this world the body could not
escape The text had reference to the future world.
another, "Why, the last time saw you you were
IN A GAMBLING SALOON IN BOSTON
or In Q low place in New York. What are you doing
the past The believer spoken OF In the text would
also be saved from toll Some Of our lives was one
we arose in the morning no more rested than han
long enough for us to get the wrinkles lies
there would be q terminus Of 1t! There would be
there would be no going out early and coming back
late; there would be no manufacturer, no en-
ployer thrusting his thumb through the work OF
THE OvERBURDENED SEWING GIRL;
no drudgery, but rest. Heaven must seem differ
ent place to Americans from what 1t did to other
people. There was in this land such rushing,
jOStlng and treadtng one upon another. There
were some people whom, Mr.. Talmadge said, he
could not imagine in heaven except rushing up
arq @ IN the crying Get out Of my way
If you asked philosopher what o tear was he
in the lachrymai gland; but Mr. Talmage would
say that 1t was sOrrow-the language of the worlds
woe. It was planet Of weeping that we lived on;
the earth was gashed deep with grief AS at the
close OF the war sometimes we saw regiment OF
$50 men, the fragment Of the 1000 men who went
out so he could out realize that his people were
the fragments representing thousands OF regiments
OF joyful associations that had been broken up for
he aS
have some other business there. In the Summer
time our cities had
that were frightful sometimes IN New York
thousand In a week, sometimes 1t had been two
thousand in LOndOn-but In that heavenly City
there would not be a single case of sickness or
death, not one dress OF mourning, but plenty
of white robes of joy. But when the clock Of Chris
tlan suffering had run down 1t would never be
wound up again, and II would be hypocrisy and
cowardice in him to tell them one-half Of the text
there was Just as certainly He'll The text said
that "ne that believeth not shall be damned"
Those who were cast away under that sentence
lovely being in the universe The gulf between
would be vast and there would be no bridge
an overwhelming thought that some who now
stood together in the tenderest ties Of affection
would, unless they repented-or the Bible was
lie-paSs their eternity In
TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS
so what you had TO say, say now one moment after
rise on his throne and ali the strength Of his ex-
isence could not change your destiny or hinder the
separation. .Oh, there would be parting at the
md
wives and husbands, would part to meet no morel'
They who were cast away would go into the COM
out from this earth. There were only two worlds
heaven and hell-and the believer would go to hea-
compromise; it was one thing or the other He
thought there would be one vast community of suf-
ferng and crime. Most OF Sodom would be there
and the worst slums of earth would empty their
population into that place. Itwould be
THE PENITENTIARY OF THE UNIVERSE.
There would be Infinite pain. The English Ian.
guage. was full of words expressive of suffering,
wretchedness, torment, CONFUSION, agony, woe.
words-each word a rung-and let it down into this
place and see II he could measure the depth OF sor-
He let down The ladder but didn't touch
He listened to hear when 1t struck the bottom. No
echo no. echo; bottomess bottomlessl After
millions of ages of suffering some soul would say,
"lsn't 1t most endeda can't longer endure it,''
and
A FINGER OF LIGHTNING
would write on the sky 'Foreverr' and the thun-
der following echo, amid the crags of death, '.For.
ever" Oh, those fire bells would never stop ring
ing, because the connagratlon would never cease.
In conclusion the preacher said :-"Upon one or
the other Of these worlds l. De Witt Talmage, must
soon enter, and you Also Which shall 1t beY am
deciding 1t for myself this morning. You will have
to decide 1t for yourselves. Mark this If you are
lost it is your own fault lie that heleveth end y
baptized shall be saYed.' e. Mark IL down wheh
Won Sc nome. nant up the passage for yourselves
ST. Mark xvi, 49,"
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