, 1877-11-03
Pi0US FIN.
REMARKABLE STORIES THAT WERE TOLL
N DIR. TALMAGES CHURCH.

REMARKABLE STORIES THAT WERE TOLL
II DIR. TALMAGES CHURCH.
The late Sunday School Convention in
Talmages tabernacle was marked by more
fun than any religious assemblage ever
known in Brooklyn. The merriment was
introduced by Talmage, who told of the
amazing happiness of the quotations made
from Scripture by those whose convers-
ions come late in life.
He knew Of one man who, in doleful
strain, told a congregation at prayer-meet'
ing how great Il sinner he WAS. Il was
an awful sinner" said he; "a great sill
her. ! was the chief among ten Thousand
and the one altogether lovely"
Some men never learn how to phrase {
prayer. 4 spirited horse was running
away with man, and every minute prom.
ised to be his last. lie grabbed hold Of
the sides of the wagon rs it bounded
along after the runaway, and as he could
not think of any other prayer, he said
"Oh, Lord make us thankful ;or the mcr'
cies We are about to receive.
There was a firing sameness in the ex,
pressions OF those who have experiences
to relate. A young man got up once and
said "I am on the ship Of Zion. and VT
are sailing up the heavenly harbor soon
well reach the golden gates. :" Another
man said: - |, too, am on the ship OF
Zion, and we are sailing with good
breeze. guess we are going as fast As
thirty knots an hour. Every man is at
his post. Soon We Il come up to the pearly
gates. Another arose and said, " too,
am on the ship of Zion. It's a steamship
a four hundred boss power. We are
going up the heavenly hal Dor, We are 60
ing faster II any other ship, We're bound
IL glory" An old and feeble woman
arose and said, 'Im seventy years old,
and for fifty years I've been Oh tie road
to heaven, but I've been going afoot, and
| expect to keep going afoot until | get
there; and it seems to me if you folks
that S going on the steamship don't take
care, you'll burst your biiers" When
this story was told the congregation rock
ed and surged with laughter
A delegate to the Convention from the
Tabernacle Baptist Church amused every
one except himself by repeatedly speaking
of the "pertinacious" Literature Of which
Sunday School libraries are composed
As he blurted the expression out the third
time his clerical brethren roared with a
laughter he could not account for.
The Rev. Alfred Taylor who was as
signed to speak on the qualifications of a
Sunday School Superintendent, appeared
on the platform and gathered up the ends
OF two twine strings, which had been
hanging all day on two sides of the great
organ. At the proper time in his speech
he ran out to the edge OF the platform,
drawing on these strings. Two long let
tered strips OF canvas climbed the organ
IN response. One contained an acrostic
showing what a superintendent should be,
and to each letter there were three de-
scriptive adjeciives. With spirit, Mr.. A.
Taylor turned The whole audience into a
class to recite after HIM the words describ-
ing good and bad superintendent, and
the effect was amusing and exciting.
The Rev. j. Hyatt Smith said that he
was once trying to illustrate the difference
between Christ JOY at the conversion of
sinner and the joy the converted one
exI Ierienced. He didn't know how he was
going to get through, when suddenly a
story crept into bis mind. His brother
Natty, when child, was blind. A cloudy
tiin had spread over his eyes, cutting off
his sight. One day he and his brother
We're playing on the nursery floor, using
large onion for a ball. They rolled and
tossed 1t back and forth until it became
bruised and juicy. Natty, in handling it
got his fingers wet with the juice, and
when he rubbed his eyes with his hand
he uttered a sharp cry of pain Then he
Jnmped to his feet, and, screaming with
JOY, exclaimed, "Oh, see, | see!' The
delicate surgery of the onion had cut
through and removed the film that blind
ed him. He leaped into his mothers
arms, quivering with delight, while she
ciasped him 10 her breast and uttered
words of joy. The happiness of the child
Was one, and the happiness Of the mother
was the another. When | returned
home attsr church that Sunday" said Mr..
Smith, my little blue eyes climbed into
my lap and said, Hyatt-she has 10 re-
speet TOR the cloth, it's her mothers
.ralnlns-Hyatt, she said, was that story
about the onion true story! Yes my pet |
SAID. Oh, she sad, thought you were
MY preaching"
The teacher of the infant class of the
'ort Green Presbyterian Church. Sunday |
ehool told of the perennial fun of the
hree-years-olds who were in his care.
Children, said he one day, "Who built
he ark Il know" said a bright little
10Y. ''Well who!' The Government,
7as his answer {Tbs story has been
oIng the rounds OF newspapers for at
EAST year, He was trying one day t.e
,ided, 10 give his class an object lesson.
lie took cut his watch, and holding 1t up,
Now look al my wa-chL 'Tain't Jour
-a.ch, sad one, 1t your wife watch.