The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-10
HEAVENS LAST, BEST GIFT.
DR.. Talmage Discourses Of Woman, and
Her Influence for Good and Evil.
The First Marriage-Healthy and Unhealthy
Inquisitiyeness-Ev Not the Only One
Who Yielded to Temptation.
pecial to the 1ndianspolis journal.

BROOKLYN, N. Y, Nov. 9-At the Brooklyn
Tabernacle to-day, DR.. Talmage, after expound-
ing appropriate passages of Scripture, gave out
the hymn
HE leadeth me! Oh, blessed thought
Oh, words with heavenly comfort fraught.
Where'er CO. where'er be,
Still It's Gods hand that leadeth me-"
DR.. Tamage's text was taken from Genesis
XII, %: "Of the rib which the Lord God had
taken from man made he woman, and brought
her unto the man."
1t is the first Saturday afternoon of the worlds
existence, said DR.. Talmage. Adam has since
sunrise been watching the pageantry of wings
and scales and while taking his first lessons in
zoology and ornithology, and ichthylogy, he no
tees that the robins fly by twos, and the fish
swim by twos, and the lions walk by twos, and,
in the warm redolence of that scene, he falls off
into slumber. AS if by allegory to impress all
ages with the fact that sound and healthful
sleep is the grandest of all earthly blessings,
this paradsaical somnolence ended in woman's
arrival on the new planet
OF the mother of all the living doday dis
course, Eve, the first the fairest and the best.
make me a garden Its paths 1 inlay with
mountain moss and border it with shells from
Java. and pearls from Ceylon, and diamonds
from Golconda. Here and there are fountains
that toss in the sunlight, and ponds that glitter
with golden scales and ripple under the padding
Of swans. plant me lilies from the Amazon
and orange groves from the tropic,
and tamarinds from Goyaz. Woodbine
and honeysuckle climb over the wall,
and starred spaniels sprawl upon
the grass, Among the branches L call doves,
and larks and brown thrushes that stir the air
with infinite chirp and carol But this would
be desert full of bowling and death compared
with the bright residence Of the woman who is
the subject of my mornings story. Never
since Eve such skies looked down through such
9eaves into such waters. Never since has river
wave known such curve, sheen, or bank as
adorned Pison, Havilah Gihon and Hiddekel,
the very pebbles being bdelliurn and onyx
stone What fruits with curculio to sting
the rind What flowers, with no slug to gnaw
the root What atmosphere, with neither chill
blast to frost nor heat to consumed Sunlight on
the waters, bright colors tangled in the grass,
perfume in the air. music in the sky. Birds
MARBLE and trees hum, and waters dash. 1t was
all gladness, and life, and song.
Under these bowers of vine, and leaf, and
shrub, at an altar carpeted with flowers, was
the first marriage. Adam, as he takes the hand
of this immaculate daughter of God pronounces
the ceremonial himself when he says, Bone of
my bone and flesh of my flesh" A forbidden
tree stands in the garden Eve, strOlling out
alone one day, comes under it. She says to
herself: 'What beautiful fruit! wonder how
1t tastes Let me just put my hand upon it.
Yes; ripe and beautiful I will take it down,
but not to eat. Suppose 1 just break the rich
tinted rind; that can do no harm" After
a while she tasted. Calling to Adam, he also
came and tasted. Sin for the first time is in
side the gates of the world Let the heavens
put on gloom, and the winds sob on the bosom
of the hills; and from cavern, and from ocean
depth, and from deserts, and from sky let there
come one long, deep, Understanding howl,
''The world is lost" Beasts, before play
full and harmless, growl upon each other,
and run out claw, and tooth, and tusk. Birds
whet their beak for prey Wrathful clouds
troop in the sky Sharp thorns shootup through
soft grass. Blasting is on the leaves. The riv
ers. riled and angry, rush between torn banks.
The cords of that great harmony are snapped.
Upon the brightest home that earth ever saw
our parents turned their back and led forth on
pilgrimage of sorrow the broken-h hearted
myriads of ruined race.
See first the danger of an illegal inquisitive-
ness. Healthful curiosity has done much for
letters, art science and religion. With the geolo-
gist it has gone down into the earth and read the
first chapter Of Genesis in the book of nature,
illustrated with engravings on the rock, and
from its inspiration the antiquarian hath blown
the trumpet of resurrection over buried Pompeii
and Herculaneum until their sepulchres have
opened and shafts. and, towers and amphithea-
ters have arisen to the worlds gaze. Curiosity
hath attracted the telescope vision of the as
tronomer until distant worlds have come out of
their hiding place in the furthest heaven to
choir the praises of God, while planet is weighed
against planet and widest meteors are lassoed of
resplendent law. 1t hath found traces of the
eternal God in the polypi and star fishes in the
sea- and the majesty of the great Jehovah en-
camped under the gorgeous curtains of dahlia.
1t hath examined the spots on the sun and the
larvse hidden in leaf the light under the fire.
Ays wing and the terrible glance of the condor
pitching from Chimborazo, the myriads of ami
malculm that make the phosphorescent blaze in
ships wake, and the mighty maze Of
suns and spheres, and consultations and galax-
les that blaze on in the march of God
Curiosity has inspired the inventor until forces
that lay for ages hidden have come to wheels
and levers, and shuttes, and wings innumera-
Ble-swimming through the waters, cleaving
through the mountains, soaring through the air
until the whole earth rattles. and brushes, and
roars, and rings with strange mechanisms-and
ightnings play kite with philosophers, and ships
with nostrils of hot steam and Jokes of fire.
draw together the continents. We would not
condemn the labors of human inquisitiveness
but we hope that their LeyGen jars, and electric
batteries, and voltaic piles and magnifying
glasses might charge upon the barred castles Of
the natural world until it should surrender the
last secret Give it wider range, and let new
discovery come down from the air, and leap up
out of the waters, and rear from the earth to
crown human inquistiyeness. God be praised
FOR illogical curiosity of Professor Hitch
3 ca the geological curiosity of Professor
So! nd the chemical curiosity of Liebig
=. u ':hitectural curiosity of CHRISTOPHER