Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-28
The Subject Of Talmage's Sermon
at Brooklyn Yesterday.
The Cause of Those Violent EruptiOns
Explained and Their Cure Made
known to All Men.
A Few Unsightly Carbuncles on the Flesh o
Christianity That Good Men Fear to Doc
tor in the Proper Manner.
Special to the Gazette.

BROOKLYN, n. Y, Dec. 23.-At the
Tabernacle to-day the Rev. Dewitt Tai
mage, d. D., read and expounded a
and fishes. The opening hymn was:
The morning light is breaking.
The darkness disappears.
DR.. Talmage took as the subject of his
sermon, GA Bad Boil Cured. - The text
was: 81 have heard thy prayer; behold,
1 will heal thee. And Isaiah said: Take
lump of figs. And they took and laid
it on the boil, and he recovered. III
Kings, Xxx, 81.
Luxurious living is not healthy. The
second generation of kings and queens
and lords and princes is apt to be BRAIN
less and invalid. The second crop of
grass is almost always short. Royal
blood is generally scrOfulous. You will
not be surprised, then, to hear that
King Hezekiah had disorders which broke
out in carbuncle, virulent
and beautiful. The Lord told him he
must die; he did not want to die. He
turned his face to the wall, so that his
prayer would not be interrupted, and
cried TO God for his life. God heard the
prayer and answered it, saving: BE
| hold, l will heal thee - But there was
human fundamentally to be employed.
| This carbuncle needed a "catapiasm. -
That is tough word we use to show how
much we know. If i'll the pulpit we al
ways used words the people understood,
we never should have any reputation for
| learning. Well, this carbuncle needed
cataplasm, which is q poultice. Your
| 81. 4IN,, do, how, nhE1
dren in the time when physicians were
not as plenty as they are now, will
tell you that the very best poultice is q
fig, and that was what was used upon the
carbuncle of King Hezekiah. The power
| of God accompanied by this human in
! strumentality cured the king.
In this age of discovery when men know
| so much it almost kills them, and write
so wisely it almost kills us, it has been
found out that prayer to God is Il dead
failure. All things are arranged accord
ing to memorable law. There is no use in
praying to God for rain in time of drouth
The weather probabilities i'll the morn
ing papers will decide the question, rain
| or no rain, and
THE WHOLE NATION IN PRAYER
| before God would not bring down Il single
drop. am not now speaking of an i'm
! aginary theory, but of that which is be-
lieved by ten thousand times ten thousand
men.
If sickness comes to your household, it
| depends entirely upon ventilation, good
! diet and the skill of the doctors as to
whether your child gets well. The father
might pray all day and the mother might
pray all night 1T would not have any effect
upon the case. If squills, belladonna,
paregoric and cruel do the work, your
| child will get well; if not, not. There is
Il ast-irOn God seated at the head of the
universe, holding in the cold grasp of His
metal fingers a band of law from which
nothing can break away.
Men and women of God, at this point
the great battle of Christianity is to be
fought. The great foe of Christianity
! to-day is rationalism, that comes out
from our schools, and universities, and
| magazines and newspapers, to scott at
Bible truth and caricature the old religion
of Jesus. 1t says Jesus is not God for it
is impossible to explain how He can be
| divine and human ut the same time.
The Bible is not inspired, for there are
things in it that they don
| like. Regeneration is farce;
there is good enough in us, and the only
thing is to bring it out. Development is
the word-development. The Gar
den of Eden is fairy
story, and no more to be believed than
the Arabian Nights or CULVER IS Travels,
or Robinson CruSOe. We all started as
balloons, and are blood relations to that
monkey squirming about on the top of
that hand organ. Lazarus was not dead
when Christ pretended to raise him; he
was only playing dead. The water way
not changed into wine at the wedding g
but Christ brought in some wine that he
had found elsewhere to make up the de-
ficiency. Christ did not walk on thessea,
but on the shore; so near that it seeAed
as if he really were on the water. n
What is still more alarming is fat
Christians men dare not meet this ridicuHsL
There is not one Christian man in fiTs
that can, unblanched, stand in the pres-V
ence of all this raillery, saying: 81 be-
iieve in the whole Bible, and in every
single statement that it makes -
Christian men try to soften the Bible
down a.
TO SUIT THE SKEPTICs. ~
The skeptics sheer at the dividifSgsSof the
Red Sea; and the Christian gsIs to ex-
planning that the wind AS2g asfsirricane
from one direction a goaS kszae until all
the water piled up; andsHesides, that it
was low water hob,isand SO the Is
raelites went HkuGass without any
trouble. Why nos Ia4ik and say: 81
believe the Lord SoHeflmighty came to
the brink. of the Red Sea and with his
right arm ssppg sock the pillows on the
fright sideSaHA with his left arm swung
BACK the HHlQiFs~as the left side, and the
abaslfed waaerst5od up hundreds of feet
high, while hMugh their CLASSY wall the
sea monstersSszed with affrighted eyes
on the passing 1sraelites. - The ration
alist comes to you saying: Chow about
Jonah and the whale? Do you really be-
lieFe,fhat fish story?' There were never
so msays Nantucket fishermen after one
whale as there have been rationalists
AingEg harpoops at the Mediterranean
Sea monster, and. from that one whale
ss4heyEnave got enough oil to light 10 900
esoulsNo perdition. "a skeptic tells you
processssf swallaAng, and that he could
not, anyfsf5tS7aTe lived three days in
such close quarters, but would have been
smothered by the poor ventilation. How
the good Christians Immediately go to
work and try to explain the whole thing
by natural laws, so as to please the
rationalists, and say that whale is an
air-breathing fish; that every little while