The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-06-28
LINNED TO THE Stars
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Mr.. Talmage Compares Christian
Workers to the COnStella-
tons in the Heavens.
A Beautiful Word Tribute to the
Thousands of Believers in
the Divinity.
The Address Delivered to an I'M
mense Audience at VIM
field, Kansas.

field, Kansas.
WINFIELD, KAN, June "a. - Unac-
counted m~ultitudes were present to-day
at a great outdoor meeting held in this
place, where the Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage,
D. D., was the preacher. Not only this
but adjoining States were represented in
the congregation, and the occasion will
be long remembered. The text was;
IThey that turn many to righteousness
S. = shine as the stars for ever and
ever. Daniel xii. 3; and the subject
"The Consultations Of the Redeemed"
DR.. Talmage said =
Every man has a thousand roots and a
thousand branches. His roots reach
down through all the earth; his branche,
spread through all the heavens. He
speaks with voice, with eye, with hand
with foot. His silence often is thunder,
and his life is an anthem or a ~doxology.
There is no such thing as a negative in
fuence. We are all positive in the place
we occupy, making the world better Or
making it worse, on the Lords side or on
the DEVILS, making up reasons for our
blessedness or Punishment and we have
already done a mighty work in peopling
heaven or hell. l hear people tell OF
what they are going to do. A man who
has burned down q city might as well
talk of some evil that he expects to do,
or a man who has saved an empire might
as we'll talk Of some good that he expects
to do. By the force Of your evil influence
you have already consumed infinite
values or you have, by the power of
a right influence, won whole kingdoms
for God.
It would be absurd for me to stand
here, and by elaborate argument, prove
that the world is off the track. You
might as we'll stand at the foot OF an en-
bankment, amid the wreck of a capslzed
rail-train, proving by elaborate argument
that something is out of order. Adam
tumbled over the embankment sixty
centuries ago, and the whole race, in one
/, long train, has gone on tumbling in the
same direction. Crash Crash The only
question now is, by what leverage car
the crushed thing be lifted? By what
hammer may thu fragments be recon.
| struCted? ~~
; I want to show how we may turn many
to righteousness, and what will be oul
future pay for so doing.
First-We may turn them by thu
charm of a right example. A child
coming from . filthy home, was laugh
at school to wash its face. II went HON,
. 60 much improved in appearance tina
it's mother washed her face. And whel
the father of the household came HON
= and cav the improvement In domesti
appearance, he washed his face. Tn,
\ neighbors happening saw The change ant
I tried the same experiment until all tina
| street was purified. and the next stree
4 copied its example, and the whole cit,
his face. That is q fable by which W
! set forth that best way to get the worl,
4 washed of its sins and pollution is to hav
. our own heart and life cleansed and puri
4 fed, A man with grace in his heart an
4 Christian cheerfulness in his face an
. holy consistency in his behavior is a pei
n petual sermon; and the sermon didel
X from others in that it has but M heaC
. and the longer it runs the better. Their
y are honest men who walk down Wa
~ street, making the teeth Of iniquity cha
q ter. There are happy men who go int
3 q sick room, and, by a look, help tn
n broken bone to knit, and the excite
e nerves drop to calm beating.
There are pure men whose presenC
u silence the tongue of un~cleanness. tn
r. mightiest agent Of good on earth is
N consistent Christian. l like the Bib
"a folded between lids OF cloth, Of calfskil
. or morocco, but like it better when, j
" the shape Of a man, it goes out into tn
=. world-a Bible illustrated. Courage
q beautiful to read about but ratht
n would l see a man with all the woTI
y against him confident as though all tt
y world were for him. Patience is beaut
Of full to read about; but rather would
II see a bufFeted soul calmly waiting I
II. the time of deliverance. Faith is beaut
ID n full to read about but rather would
< find a man in the midnight walkir
- straight on as though he saw %everythin
= Oh, how many souls have been turnt
> to God by the charm OF a bright e
ample
When. in the Mexican war, the troo
were wavering, a general rose in his ST
rups and dashed into the enemy's lint
1rS shouting, "Men, follow" They seeiI
his courage and disposition, dashed
after himsand gained the victory. VIII
j. men want to rally them for God is
- example to lead them. All your col
msnds to advance amount to nothing
long as you stay behind. To affect the
as. Alright you need to start for heaven you
self, looking back only to give the stirri
RS; cry Of "Men, followl" =.
Again: We may turn many to rig
- eousness by prayer. There is no su
detective az prayer, as no one can hi
away from it. 1t puts its hand on
ara. shoulder Of a man ten thousand miles
,rse II alights on q ship mid-Atlantic. 7
little child cannot understand the law
vent electricity, or how the telegraph
lrry operator, by touching the instrume
'eS here, may dart "a message under the
to another continent; nor can We, W
our small intellect, understand how t
i, touch of a Christians prayer shall
lC6, stantly strike a soul on the other side
the earth. You take ship and go to sol
first other country and get there at II o'clc
in in the morning. You telegraph to N
-. York, and the message gets here at
o'clock in the same morning. In OIL
- words, it seems to arrive here five no
before it started. Like that is pray
God says: "Before they call, will hea
To overtake a loved one On the road, y
a has may spur up a lathered steed until