The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-12-26
LA WEEKLY BAZOO. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26 1882.
A Talmage Talk.
Chicago Times

A Talmage Talk.
Chicago Times
The first lecture in the course of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
union was given by Rev. I. DE Witt
Talhage. i'm Farwell hall. to an au-
dience that filled every seat The sub
iect announced was "Is the world
growing better or worse?" MIR. Tall
mage was introduced by Bishop Fall
lows, who expressed his pleasure in
presenting a gentleman who preached
the pure gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ.
At the start Mr.. Talmage said God
made the world, but every man has
made it over again for himself.
Show the speaker the spec,acles man
wears and he would show The world in
which that man lives TO the man
with the blue spectacles it is blue
world, with green spectacles green
world. with yellow spec,acles jsun-
diced world and to the man with
transparent speciacles a grand, glori-
Gus and beautiful world, as CD
made it. There are. of course, somber
shades in it, but they pertain to the
individual. Solomon said some things
that were sad, but he was groaning
over his own experience. 1t WAS al
together probable that his 700 wives
almost pestered the life out of him.
If mans heart is right and his liver
is RI ht he is alright. Tell the speak
er what a man eats and he would tell
that mans disposition, and then what
Kind of world he lives in. Too much
nastry always makes a man crusty.
Laughter. The man who cannet see
the infinite beauty in the dandelion,
for whom The sunshine has DO warmth,
and the marvellous world around him
no cheer, should be given a bottle %:
some ones dyspeptic bitters and left
alone. The speaker believed in saying
ali the cheerful and helpful things We
can. He would give $40 to hear Jen-
nv Lind sing, but not a cent to hea'
a man groan.
Coming directly to his subject, Mr..
Talmage pronounced the query
whether the world is growing better
or worse. In answering it, he said,
referring indirectly to a brother minis
ter in ChicsgO, he would endeavor to
have everything bis own. Illustrating
this, Mr. Talmage, IN his inimitable
way, told the story of the English
minister's patchwork sermon. As the
quotations the minister had stolen were
uttered, a wag in the audience called
out the name of the author. Finally
the preacher grew Impatient and shout
ed: "5hut up, you old fool."
That" replied the wag. sis your
own"
Recurring to his subject, Mr.. Tai
mage said we all have MOI had means
to graduate at Yale Harvard, but we
all have graduated from the college of
Hard Knocks, where misfortune, ia
tigue and disasters were the professors /;
kicking, cuffs and blows the curricu
lum.
1t is the person full Of faults, Mr..
Talmage said. who is the most mer-
CHESS in the criticism of others the
imperfect n of other poor, weak NOR
tails kill us; all the vessels on the seas
are in poor trim except ours. The
speaker believes that there are very
few people bad in this world that is.
people who want to be bad. started
out to be bad, and prefer to be bad.
The vast majority o. people who turn
out badly, he thought, are the victims
of circumstances. A contradiction is
found occasionally, but it only proves
the rule. The fact that God seems
kinder to us than to others should
make ne charitable. But the tendency
is to forget this. No where is this
shown more strongly than in The his
tory of literature. Voltaire hated
Rousseau; Lamb disliked Co!sridse.
the eBmity of Plato and Nenophon is
is immortal as their works Cerneiie's
contempt for Racine was supreme. In
Westminster abbey lie poets and I'll, Sc
who said they We're not poets. Side
by side lie Pope and John Dennis, his
implacabie enemy; Dryden and Shad-
we'll, his lifelong foe. 1t illustrates
the fact that never in fact has man
tried to do his duty TO God and the
church that he was not ,,ursued and
bounded. 1t is the old story of the
three crosses. with him who suffered
for his enemies on the center one.
Better than ault-fnding. said Mr..
i'almage, is it. like the sun, to tind
light wherever we look. Some miu-
listers are so awf.:lly dull that load