The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-11
"Weuld Not Detain Them as They Fly
Those Hours Of foil and
Danger"
"rhe Kings Business Requires
Haste" Quoted DR.. Talmage
for His Text.
"e0ms Unto NE, All Ys That Labor ana
Are Heavy Laden. ana 4 Will
Give You Rest"
BHooLxE. Jan. 4.-Dr. Talmage preached
this morning in the Brooklyn Tabernacle on
the subject, "Acceleration." The opening

hymn was:
my days are gliding swiftly by.
And l. . pilgrim stranger,
would not detain them a. they ny.
Those days Of toll and danger"
Before the sermon DIR. Talmage read pal
sage Q of Scripture, contrasting ancient Ion
gsvity with the brevity of modern human
life. The text was I. Samuel xxi, 8: "rh,
Kings business required haste" The fol
lowing is the sermon In full:
The cradle OF 1885 rocked on the grave o
1884. All intelligent people. whether Chris
tian or unchristisn, thoughtful about tn
closing OF one volume of time and opening
of another. The striking Of . clock lie Away
suggestive, but the most tremendous strck,
the clock ever gives is when on the night o
the 3lst Of December Ii strikes twelve.
think all of as. VINO ave anything to do
feel that we must swiften our pace. Accei
eratjopi In my text David appears before
Abimelech without sword or food, or usuaI
attendants, and gives - his reason for thi,
unseemly appearance, that be was on urgent
imperial business, and had no time to prop
erly ccouter or equip himself. 1.-The King'i
business required haste"
Ny friends, We are all intrusted with
some part of the Kings business; and onl
great need Is to have our speed accelerated,
God seems to be . Being of infinite leisure
He sometimes takes $500 years to do one
thing; though In six days he put on the
world the final touches that made il
inhabitable for man. Biologists tell
rs that ~uncounted ages passed be
tween the laying of the corner
tone of the earth and Its final completion
God took this unimsginable reach of time
for work that be could have done in three
months. He has plenty Of time for every
thing. With On eternity behind Him and
IN eternity before Him, there lie no furry
no precipitation, no haste. But 30 far as we
are concerned, what We do must be done in
brie fest time and in quickest way. THE
Kings business requires haste"
ogRIsr OUR INGpoN.
Christ is our King-King of Glory, Kipe
of Zion. King OF Saints, King over all the
earth, King over Heaven. He IL Q KinR thai
shall never die. Where is Louis XIV
Dead. Where is Richard III Dead
Where 10 Ferdinand? Dead Where is Peter
thu Great? Dead. At the door of the grave
lies . whole shesf of sceptres. Death sits IN
the palace of the sepulchre and the Poten
tates of earth are his cupbearers; and. q
the old blind monarch staggers around hi
new fallen coronet. They set ar
Charlemsgne In his grave ana put q crowr
on his pulseless temples aud . sceptre In hi
~lifeless hand; yet that could not bring bac.
hs Kingdom. But our Emperor lives. HI
existed before the world was made III,
shall continue after 1t II burned up. KIM
Immortali
The French Government thought itsel
rich in having 90 many palaces-S st CLIQUE
aud the Fuileries and the Versailles and III,
Palais Roy al and the Luxembourg; but Gu
King has the whole earth for his palace
the mountains its picture gallery, the ocear
Its fountain, the sun its chandelier. the mid
night heavens its candelsbra, illimitable for
ests its park, the glofies OF the sunrise an(
sunset the tapestry about the windows. the
storms the lightning hoofed coursers dash.
ing mp and down the heavens. oil the glorie
OF the land and sea and sky His wardrobe
all the flowers of the field His COZ servatory
all the fish Of the sea His aquarium, all tn
birds of the spring msrning His orchestra
people on earth aud of His saints in HEAVIER
Are the palaces In which He delights to reigI
King universal
Like other Kings He has His army an,
navy. Fighting on His side are the hurri
canes OF the crest deep-as in the breakin
of the Spanish Armada; the volcanoes Q
the earth-ss in the burial of infamous Hel
ouianeum; the 6re-as when Sodom Va
deirged with c,nfsgratioD; the rocks
when they crashed their terrors about tn
cruci6x'on. The Psalmist counted the 10 Z
ing artillery OF Heaven. as il came rushin
down the sky, and cried: "rhe chariots {
God aretsenty thousand Eiijsh'sservsn'
caught . glimpse Of them among the noun
sins-a cavalcade II fame. The cherubir
on His side; the serapbim on His side; %
WRAPPED IN QUE WELFARE.
Our King 10 wrapped up In the welfare I
He subjects The sultan of Turkey had
rule that when riding out On horseback an
OF his subjects might approach him and stat
their wrongs and sufferings. and the poop
pressed 90 close mp to the stirrup s that it W,
sometimes impossible for the Soltan to pr,
coed But We have Q more merciful Kinl
We do not nave to wait for public occasion
Any hour of the day or night. without il
PRODUCTION. We may press into his Palac
tell our want snd secure his help. Goin
before other Kings we must have . cou
dress, rightly cut and rightly adorned; bl
beggArs may come before this King in the
rags; and the prodigsl, filthy from the swine
herd. 10 Immediately ushered in. A pardon
Ing Kinei A condescending KING A me
ciful Kingl o Jesus, 1--we foreveri
lt 10 on the business If such q King thi
Ne 80 all sent IL 10 the business of brinl
Ing be- word to God Comparsd with it, Z
oehoe ooainoss n holiday and SPORT II
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