The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-10-07
MODERN IMPURITIES.
DIR. TALMAGES SHRMON PREACHED
IN BROOKLYN LAST SUNDAY.

DIR. TALMAaEs SERMON PREACHED
IN BROOKLYN LAST SUNDAY.
The Alarming Growth Of the Liquor
Traffie.-A Battle Cry for the Church of
Great immortality Of the Large Cities Of
tho Country.
Specially Reported for The Sentinel.
BRookLIN, n. z. OCT 4-Fhs opening
hymn at the Tabernacle this morning begins:
Arm Of tho Lord. awake, awakoI
Put on thy strength, the nations shake.
laying e1pounded the account OF Paul's
conversion given in Acts xii, the Rev.
T. De Witt Talmazo, D. D., took for his text
Psalms xviii, l: Let God arise, let His enc
mics DO scattered" from which he preached
the following sermon:
A procession was formed to carry the Ark
or sacred box which, though only three feet
nine inches in height and depth, was the
symbol Of Gods presence. As tho leaders
Of the procession lifted this ornamented and
brilliant box by two golden poles run through
four golden rings, and started for Mount
Zion, all the people chanted the battle hymn
Of my text: "Lst God arise, let His enemies
be scattered
The Cameronians Of Scotland, outraged by
James l, who forced upon them religious
forms that were offensive, and by the ter
rible persecution Of Drummond, Dalziol and
Turner and by the oppressive laws of Charles
and Charles II, wore driven to proclaim
war against tyrants aud went forth to fight
for religious liberty; and the mountain
heather became red with carnage and at
Boutwell, bridge and Ards moss and Drum
clog tbs battle hymn and the battle shout Of
those glorious old Scotchmen was the text I
have chosen: Lot God arise, let His enemies
be scattered" 49, sr1E-a
What whirlwind Of power was Oliver
Cromwell, and how With his soldiers nan1e,
1.-THE Ironsides,H he went from victory to vic
tory! Opposing armies melted as he looked
at them. He dismissed parliament az easily
as a sehoolmaster at school He pointed his
finger at Berkeley castle, and 1t was taken
He ordered Lord Hopton, the general, to dis
mount, and he dismounted. See Cromwell
marching with his army, and hear the
battle cry of "the Ironsides," loud as q storm
and solemn as q death knell, standards reol-
ing before it, and cavalry horses going back
ON their launches, and armies flying at
Marston moor, at Wincepy field, at NAseby,
at Bridgewater and Dartmouth-"Let God
arise let His enemies be scattered"
So you see my text is not like q cempu-
mentary and tasseled sword that you some
times see hung up in parlor, sword that
was never in battle, and only to be used on
general training day; but more like soma
weapon carefully hung up In your home. tell
ing its story Of Chepultepec, Cerro Gordo, and
Cherubusco, and Thatcher's run, and Malvern
hill, for my text hangs in tho Scripture arm
Dry, telling of the holy wars Of 5000 years in
which it had been carried, but as keen and
mighty as when David first unsheathed it. 1t
seems to what in the church of God, and
in all styles Of reformatory work, we most
need now is a battle cry. We raise our little
standard and put on 1t the name Of some man
who only a few years ago began TO live, and
in few years will cease to live We go into
contest against the armies of iniquity depend
ing too much on human agencies. We use for
battle cry the name of some brave Chris
tian reformer, but after while that reformer
dies, or gets old, or loses his courage, and then
we take another battle cry, and this time per-
haps we put the name Of some one who plays
Arnold and sells out to the enemy. What we
want for battle cry Is the name of some
leader who will never betray US, and viii
never surrender. and viii never die
All respect have for brave men and wo-
men, but if we are going to get the victory
all along the line we must put God first We
must take the hint Of the Gideonite5, who
wiped out the Bedouin Arabs commonly
called Midianitea These Gideonites had a
glorious Leader In Gideon, but what was tho
battle cry with which they flung their ene-
mics into the worst defeat into which any
army tumbled! 1t was 1.-THE sword
Of the Lord and of Gideon Put God first,
whoever you put second. If the army Of the
American revolution are to free America, it
must be ''the sword Of the Lord and Of Wash
1ngton." If the Germans want to win the
day at Sedan, 1t must be 1ths sword Of the
Lord and Won Moltke." Waterloo was
won for the English because not only
the armed mon at the front but tho wor-
shippers in the cathedrals at the rear were
crying, "The sword of the Lord and Wei
lington.7 The Metnodists have gone In tri
! umph across nation after nation with the cry,
1.-THE sword Of the Lord and of Wesley"
The Presby terians have gone from victory to
victory with the cry, THE sword Of the Lord
| and Of John KNOX, The Baptists have con-
quered millions after millions for Christ with
the cry, "Ths sword Of the Lord and Of Jud-
SON" The American Episcopalians have won
their mighty way with the cry, "The sword
Of the Lord and of Bishop McIlYaine." The
victory is to those who put God first. But as
! we want battle cry suited to all sects OF re-
| ligionists, and to all lands, nominate as the
| battlecry Of Christendom In the approaching
| Armageddon the words of my text, sounded
! before the ark as it was carried to Mount
! Zion: 1Iet God arise, let His enemies be scat
| tered"
| As far as our finite mind can Judge, it
seems about time for God to RISE Does it not
seem to you that the denominations Of this
earth have gone far enougha Was there ever
| a time when sin was 50 defiant? Were there
ever before SO many fists lifted toward God.
| telling Him to come on if He daref Look at
the blaspheny abroad What towering pro
family! " ould 1t be possible for any one to
| calculate the numbers of times that the name
OF Almighty God, and Of Jesus Christ, are
every day taken irreverently on the Lips Sc
common has blaspheny become that the pub
lie mind, and public ear, have got used to it.
and blasphemer goes up and down this
country in his lectures defying the plain Law
against blasphemy, and there is not mayor
in America that has backbone enough to In
terfere with him save one and that the mayor
Of Toronto. Profane swearing is as much
forbidden by the law as theft, or arson, o,
murder; yet who executes it, Profanity il