Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-10
rALmAGE,s TABERNACLE.

over FOrty.Five Hundred Members
 One Hundred and Twenty-FOur Re.
 ceived Last Sunday-The Church Still
 Too Small Though Seating Six Thou
 Aged Women.
 A letter recently received from lady, former resident in this city, but who has been living in Brooklyn, N. Y., for several years past and who is connected with Dr. Talmages church, gives glowing description of the great work now being done in the Tabernacle in the many conversions under Dr. Talmage's preaching, etc. She writes: "Last Sunday, the 4th inst, 124 united with the church, making their present membership A. ,524. At the revival services hundreds arise for pray CTS, and although large addition was built on the church edifce awhile ago, making room for the accommodation of over six thousand persons, there is not room enough yet for those anxious to hear Dr. Talmage's eloquent discourses. Every seat is taken and the aisles are packed at each meeting.n
 ssThe sermon of Dr. Talmage February 26 was 8 eulogy on 'Grandmothsrs.' The dis course was based on the text found in Tim. ii, 1, 5: The unfeigned faith that is in thee which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois. The doctor said: In this love letter which Paul, the old minister, is writing to Timothy, the young minister, the family record is brought out. Paul practically says 'Timo- thy, what good grandmother you had! You ought to be better than most folks, because not only was your mother good but your grandmother. Two preceding generations ot piety ought to give you mighty push in the | right direction The fact was that Timothy needed encouragement. He was in ! poor health, having a weak stomach, and was ' rorxaCrihsd far him ! tonic-'a little wine for thy stomach's l sake'-not much wine, but little wine | and only as medicine, and if the wine then I had been as much adulterated with lOgwood | and strychnine as our modern wines Paul | would not have prescribed any. In speaking of the influence excited and felt by the grand ! mothers, Dr. Talmage said Do not let the grandmothers any longer think that they are
 retired and set clear back cut of sight from the world, feeling that they have no relation to it. The influence oi l the mothers of the last century ii 1 to-day felt in the senates, the parliaments l the palaces, the pulpits, the banking ! the almshouses, the company of nidnigh
 brigands, the cellars, the ditehes of th' country. You have been thinking abou
 the importance of having the right influence upon our nursery. You have been thinking
 of your child's destiny for the next eight! years if it should pass on to be an octogena
 rian. That is well, but my subject sweeps
 thousand years. cannot stop at one era dle. T am looking at the cradles that reacl all around the world and across al I time. am not talking t
 Mother Eunice, I am talking o
 Grandmother Lois.
 "Among our first questions in heaven vii
 be: Where is grandmother They vii
 point her out, for we would hardly know he
 on earth-so bent over with years once, ant
 now so straight. so dim of eyes through tn
 binding of earthly tears, and now her eye
 so clear and bright so full from aches an
 pains once, and now so agile with celestia
 health; the wrinkles blooming into carnatio
 roses, and her step like roe on the noun
 tain.
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