The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-09-21
MR. TALMAGE TO SBEPT7CS.
HE sPRAKs sATIRICALLY OF CULTUTL ANE
DECLARES HIS FIRM BELIEF IN
FIRACLES.

HE sPRAKs sATIRTCALLY OF CULTUTL ARE
DECLARES HIS FIRM BELIEF IN
EIRACLEs.
New York World Sept II.
In the Brooklyn Tabernacle yester-
day morning Mr.. Talmage read as the
lesson Of the day the tenth chapter of
First Kings, which contains the narra-
tive of the visit of the Queen of Sheba
to King Solomon, and he commented
upon the story as he proceeded. "And
all this story of pomp and riches and
power" he said, ''is to show the power
of Jesus Christ if it hadB't been for
that, there wouldn't have been line of
it in the Bible, and if it was not to show
that, l wouldn't have read = word Of it
here" In his opening prayer, Mr.. Tai
mage Thanked God that twice during
the past week the efficacy of prayer had
been made manifest, "first," said he,
in the improvement in tho condition
OF our wounded President, and, second,
for sending the showers to water the
earth"
The text of the sci mon consisted of
| the first, second and twentieth verses IF
/ the seventh chapter of Second sKings ::
''Then Elisha lsaid, Hear ye the word
| of the Lord. Tomorrow about this
time shall mesura Of fine -four be sold
| for shekel and two measures of barley
for q shekel in the gate of Samaria.
| Then a lord on whose hand the King
| leaned answered the man OF God and
said, Behold, if the Lord would
make windows in heaven, might this
thing be An he said, Behold, thou
shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt
not eatthereof. And so it fell out unto
him, for the people trod upon him in
the gate, and he died"
The opening sentences of the sermon
did not appear to have much connection
with the text
''Thank God for the shower of last
night began Dir. Talmage would
tiat they might spread all over the land.
Ten thousand families homeless vast
estates destroyed drought at the eiEorth,
o. VIZ SOOlIIB at hilC LAST NJ NHC ~ CoI--
was there ever such a time, in which TO
preach sermon about bread ?" Then
taking up the text he continued
Around SamaTia had been drawn the
fiery girth of Assy rian vinditiveness;
siege was laid to the city and famine
prevailed" Mr.. TalmageIcontraste the
effect of a modern bombardment of a
city and that of the dull, prosaic, starv-
ing-out process of the olden time, and
after describing the horror of the Assy-
rian siege of Samaria, he said: cit was
at this, the darkest time, that Elisha
came forth and sald. Tomorrow ends
this famine, and in these very streets
you can buy peck of fine flour for five
shillings.' Then there was a nobleman
that doubted and said, This is all nom
sense And to him Ell sha retorted,
Thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but
thou shalt not eat thereof"
Mr. Talmage next told Of the flight
of the Assyrians and the relief of the
city, and added "There was one word
from every lip, and that word was
bread All took advantage of the fall
of prices, save one man, and that was
the scepticRl nobleman, and history
says that he was caught in the rush of
the people and they ran over him and
trampled him into the dust. Let US
stop moment at the funerrl of that
man. know him." said Er. Talmage
confidently, ''you know him you can
see him in every city in America he
seems to have died and bsen resurrected. |
He was an out-and-ouG nationalist He
said, There is no sign that the Assyrian
host is going to raise the silage, and !
how can we have cheap -four :" And |
there are always such men. They be-
lieve no more of Christ or of eternity |
than they can recognize with their little |
brain, not recognizing tue fact that |
there are thousands of things that we
believe, although we don't understand |
them. All that they .believe in," oOn-
tinued Ar. Talmage satirically, "is de-
velOpment or culture, pFonOuncing it |
AS if it was spelled culchar. We are all, |
they say, decended from haboons, and |
are blood relations Of the monkey on
top of the organ. daughter The |
worst thing bout this" said Mr.. Tai |
mage mOurnfulY, lis that Christians |
cannot believe every word in the Bible, |
Go over 10 Wall street--(waving tie
cOnErcgatio" across the overland see
how ma"6 business men you can find !
that will say, I believe every word In
the Bible. You won't find oue ia f1ve."
The weakrkneed Christian, Mr., Talmage
said, tried to explain the miracles of the |
Bible and to- show that they were due /
to natural causes they had not courage |
to say that they were miraculous events. |
And in relation TO Jonah and the whale |
Mr.. Talmage shouted ttiumphantly' |
"WbO made the whale? God. Who made |
Jonah God. Then he could do what |
he would to either of them. As soon as |
you dismiss the miraculous and the |
supernatural ont of tho Bible uri ender |
it. | would prefer Esop's Fable for if |
yQn say h6 did not turn the water into |
wine, did not divide the Red Sea and |
did not do all the many wonerful works |
mentioned in the Bible, then | declare /
that the Bible i the worst fraud that |
was eyer peFpetFated In all Gods uni
verse"
4 CHILD CHE WING Il SNAKE.
Little Rock Gazette.
Mr.. Robert James, who arrived |