Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-12-09
ADVICE TO CHURCH.GOERS.
THE REV. Or. TALMAGE DISCUS.
SEES AN INTERESTING TOPIC.
Plenty of Places Of Worship for
All and Quarrels Over Sects
Unfortunate, Particularly
in the Family.
All Denominations Leading One Way
Duty of the Married Christian
Defined.
Anything to Secure Salvation Christ the
One Great Center For All.
Special to he Kansas CGiy Times.

Special TO The Kansas Guy Times.
BROOKLYN, y. Y, Nov. 2s.-1he Rev I.
Dewitt Talmage, ID. d., preached in the
Brooklyn tabernacle this morning on the sub
iect in Matters Of Church Attendance,
Should the Wife Go with the Husband or the
Husband Go with the Wfef' The tabernacle
still retained the decorations Of Thanksgiving
day, being specimens of American products
from the north, south, east and west A vast
congregation sang the opening hymn, begin
ming
Come, let US Join our friends above.
Who have obtained the prize;
And on the eagle wings OF love
TO joys celestial rise.
For the greater part the hymns used ID Or.
Talmage's church are old and familiar, and
when the whole audience rises TO sing, led by
Prof. All the cornetist, and Prof. Henry Eyre
Browne the organlst, the effect is grand
DIR. Talmage's text was from the thirteenth
chapter of Genisis, and parts of the eighth and
ninth verses: Let there be no strife, pray
thee, between me and thee, and between my
herdmen and thy herdmen. Is not the whole
land before theer Dr. Talmage said:
Uncle and nephew, Abram and Lot, both
pious, both millonares, and with such large
locks of bleating sheep and lowing cattle that
their herdmen got into fight, perhaps about
| the best pasture, or about the best water priv
| ilegc, or because the COW Of one got hooked by
| the horns OF the other
DIVIDING Up THE LAND.
Not their poverty Of opportunity, but their
wealth, was the cause of controversy between
these two men. To Abram, the glorious old
| Bcuouin sheis, such controversy seemed alb
| surd. 1t was like two ships quarreling for
| sea room in the middle of the Atlantic
| ocean. There was a vast reach of country
cornields, vineyards, harvests and plenty of
room, in illlmitable acreage, "Now," says
Abram, "let us agree to differ. Here are the
mountain districts, swept by the tonic sea
breeze, and with wide reaching prospect, or
there is the plain of the Jordan, with tropical
luxuriance. You may have either" Lot, who
was not as rich as Abram, and might have
| been expected to take the second choice made
| the first selection, and with modesty that
must have made Abram smile, said to him:
| You may have the rocks and the fine pros
| pect; will take the valley Of the Jordan, with
all its luxurance of corntelds, and the river
to water the fiOcks, and the genial climate
and the wealth immeasurablen So the con
| troversy was forever settled, and great -souled
Abram carried out the suggestion of the text:
| Let there be no strife, pray thee, between
! me and thee and between my herdmen and
| thy herdmen. Is not the whole land before
thee"
PLENTY OF CHURCHES FOR ALL.
Well, in this, the last quarter OF the nine
teenth century and in this beautiful land
which was called America after Americas
| Nespucci, but ought TO have been called
| Columbia after its discoverer, Columbus, we
have wealth of religious privileges and OPP
portunity that IS positively bewildering.
Churches of all styles Of creeds and of all
styles of government, and all styles of wor-
ship, and all styles Of architecture What
| opulence OF ecclesiastical opportunity Now,
while in desolate regions there may be only
| one church, and 1t must be that or nothing In
| the opulent districts of this country there Is
such profusion that there ought to be no
| difficulty in making selection. No fight
| about vestmeDts, or between liturgical or
non liturgical adherents, or as to baptismal
modes, Or handful of water as compared
| with river full As Abram prefers to dwell In
the heights, where he can only get sprlnk-
| ling from the clouds, let him consent that Lot
| have all the Jordan in which to immense him
self. Let there be no strife, | pray the, be-
tween thee and me, and between thy herdmen
and my herdmen, Is not the whole land be-
fore theef'
QUARRELs OVER THE sECTs.
Especially is 1t unfortunate when families
allow, at the breakfast or dining or tea table,
| angry discussions as to which Is the best
church or denomination one at one end of the
| doctrines of Presbyterianism, one at the other
! end responding that she could never stand the
| forms of EpiscOpacy, and one at one side of
the table saying he did not understand how
anybody could bear the noise In the Method
| list church, and another declaring all the Bap-
| lists bigots. There are hundreds of families
hopelessly split on ecclasiasticism, and In the
middle of every discussion on such subjects
there is a kindllng Of indignation, and it
needs some old father Abram to come and put
| = IN he lad fin haf ho yfIl
ion takes place, and say: Let there be no
strife pray thee, between me and thee, and
between my herdmen and thy herdmen. Is
not the whole land before theer'
undertake a subject never before under
taken in any pulpit for IL is a delicate subject,
and If not rightly handled might give serious
otfense, but approach ii without the slight
est trepidatlon, for am sure have the divine
direction in the matters ! propose to present
II is a tremendous question, asked all over
Christendom, often asked with tears, and sobs,
and heartbrcaks, and involving the peace of
families, the eternal happiness of many souls.
In matters of church attendance should the
wife go with the husband, or the husband go
with the wifet
ALL LEADING ONE WAY
| First, remember that all the evangelical
churches have enough truth in them TO save
the soul and prepare us for happiness on
earth and In heaven. / will 20 with you into
any well selected theological library and /
denominations that set forth man as sinner
and Christ as a deliverer from SIN and sorrow.
That is the whole gospel Get that into your
soul and you are fitted for the here and the
hereafter. The world has twenty-six letters
In its alphabet and there are only two letters
IN the Gospel alphabet-S and c.; s standing
for our sin, c standing for Christ our rescue
blessed be His glorious name foreverl In any
church where you can thoroughly learn these
two letters, and all they stand for, you ought
| IN no nIt md hat,v
ences, we admit, and some denominations we
like better than Others. But suppose three Of
four OF us make solemn agreement to NEE
each other week from now III Chicago OF
impol tant business, and one goes by the New
York Central railroad, another by the Fri,
railroad, another by the Pennsylvania rail
road, another by the Baltimore and Obi,
railroad. One goes this way because tn,
mountains are grander; another takes thi
because the cars are more luxurious; anothe
that because the speed is greater; anothe
takes the other because he has long been &C
customed to that roat and all the employe
are familiar. So far as our engagement Il
meet is concerned 1t makes no difference 1
Vulnerable evangelical denominations, If yol
practice its teachings although some Of thei
trains run on a broad gauge, and some on
, narrow gauge-will bring you out at the cit
Of the New Jerusalem
DUTY OF THE MARRIED CHRISTIAN.
II being evident that you will be safe In an
of the evangelical denominations, procee
to remark, first, II one OF the married coupl
be a Christian and the other not, the one
Christian is bound TO go anywhere to churc
where the unconverted companion is willn
to go, If he or she will go to no other. You O
the connubial partnership, are q Christian
You are safe for the skies. Then 1t Is you
first duty to secure the eternal safety of you
lifetime associate. is not the everlasting wei
fare Of your wife impenitent, or your husban
. impenitent of more Importance than you
church relationship. Is not the residence G
your companion for the next quadrillon O
J years Il mightier consideration to you tha
the qualification OF your ecclesiastical taste fo
forty or fifty years. A man or a woman tina
would stop half minute TO weigh preference
as to whether be or she had better 70 with tn
unconverted companion to this or that churc
or denomination, has no religion at all an
, never has had, and ] fear never will have
You are loaded up with what you suppose I
be religion, but you are like Captain Frobishei
who brought back from his voyage OF discoy
cry shipload Of what he supposed valuabl
minerals, yet, instead of being silver and gold
|, we're nothing but common stones OF the fiel
, TO be hurled out finally as useless. Might
God. In all thy realm Is there man or We