The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-24
TALMAGE AT TEE ACADEMY.

Tho Grace or God the Great Neces.-
sity-Not . Religion that Sits Three
Hours ON . Gravestone-Tho Gospel
the Great Event OF Science-Sermon.
by Mr. Talmage.
Mr.. Talmage dscoursed to very large congre--
CATION yesterday morning on the grace Of God,
using as teXt-"Salt is good" o smile en-
ployed by Christ when on the personation OF one
OF His sermons He picked up crystal and held
1t up to His hearers as an illustration of divine
grace. In the first place, Mr.. Talmage said that
grace was like salt in Its beauty salt was beauti
full to the naked eye, but under the glass you saw
the stars and the diamonds ana the white treo
branches and the fire the SUMS rays fell on It..
1t would take all the time, with an infringement
upon eternity, for an Angel Of God to tell one
half the glores in salt crystal So with the grace
Of God-it Is perfectly beautiful have
seen 1t make an aged man feel almost
young again. have seen 1t lit the
STOPPING shoulders and put sparkle in the duh
eye 1t helps to purify people, and instead Of put
ting man in philosophical hospital to be cxper-
imented upon by prayer, it keeps him so well that
he does not need TO be prayed for as an invalid.
am speaking now of q healthy religion, not OF that
morbid
RELIGION THAT SITS FOR THREE HOURS ON GRAVE
STONE
reading Hervey's fluctuations Among the
Tombs''-a religion that pr0spers in q bad state OF
the liver.
Grace Is like salt, aso in the fact that it is o
cessity Of life. Man and beast perish without salt.
Chemists and physicians tell us that salt is q ne
cessity. SO with the grace of God; you must have
as mere adornnent, sort or shOuderstrap
adjoining the soldier or irotMng dess.
the banquet of lie is over, or a medicine to be
! taken after calomel and mustard plasters have
Jailed to do their work, but ordinarily mere su-
Inn Z
cessity. It is food which we must take
young woman who sits before me and
laughs must have It or die. Those who have it
salt in abundance. 1t is for all lands and ages and
conditions; pardon for the worst SIM comfort for
millions Of our race Should now cry ont to God for
HIS mercy there would be enough for all for those
| iarthest gone In Sin, for the murderer
| STANDING ON THE DROP OF THE GALLOws
| for RoZensweig and Stokes and Foster. remark
again that the grace Of God is like the salt In it's,
preservative quality. You know that salt Is the
| great antiputrelactic OF the world, and men will
admit that as preventative ''salt is good" 1
great presorvative. But for that grace the earth.
| would have been stale carcass long before this.
Just SO soon as government loses this salt Of
1t perishes The philosophy OF this day, just 80 far
as it is anagonistc to this religion is patreiac.
schools OF learning and our institutions OF sciences
to day is not more Leyden jars, not more spectre
| scopes, DuI hioIc Vi thLI SidoC WniCh " IA souCih
our men OF science that the God OF the universe
the God OF the Bible. Ny subject is one Of great
| cOngratulation to those who have within their
souls this salt OF divine grace. That will preserve
them from the sorrows and temptations OF life and
through all the ages OF eternity. ! don't mean to
say you will have smooth time because you are O
Christian; on the contrary, If you do your whole
duty will promise youa rough time. You march
through an enemy's country; the war you wage
Will not be with toy arrows but swords plunged to-
the hilt. But 1 believe God OmnipOtent will seq
you through. think he Will. But why dol
TALK LIKE AN ATHEIST
when ought to say, know He 'willG As one OF
the Lords surgeons l must bind two OF three
wounds Il have been told there Is nothing hk O.,
salt to stop the bleeding OF a wound; and SO take
the salt OF Chrst's Gospel and put 1t on the
wounded soul. Ii smarts little at first but SEQ
the bleeding stop, and, lo the flesh comes again as
tie flesh Of little child. ''Salt Is gOod.n