The Russellville Democrat., 1889-09-19
THE SUNRISE. z
Roy. T. Dewitt Talmage's Return
 to His Brooklyn Flock.
His Opening Discourse One Full of Prom. iscs of Good Things--An Era of Ca- lamftios to 10 Succeeded by
 Joys Without Number.
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 The Brooklyn pastor returned to his flock hlied with enthusiasm born of his Western tour IIis opening discourse text being.
 The day is at hand Romans Kilt, is Il
 Back from the mountains and the sea- ! side, and the springs, aud the farm house, your cheek bronzed and your spirits lighted. l hail you home again with the words of Gehnzi to tlfe Shupaul- mite; "Is 1t we'll with theeg Is'itwell with thy husbandp Is 1t we'll with the childyn On some faces I see the mark of recent grief, but all along the track of tears see the story of resurrection and reunion, when all tears arc done;s the deep blowing of the keel. followed by the flash of the phosphorescence.
 Now that have asked you in reg ard to your welfare. you naturally ask how am. Very well, thank you. Whether it was the bracing air of the Colorado mountains twelve thousand feet above the level of the sea, or the tonic atmos- phere of the Pacific coast, or a bath in the surf of Long Island beach, or wheth- CT it Is the joy of standing m this igreat group of warm -hearted friends, or whether 1t is a new appreciation of the goodness of God, gan not tell simply know am grandly and gloriously and inexpressibly happy it was said.~that John Moffat, the great Methodist preach, CT, occasionally got fast in his sermon, and to extricate himself would cry: "Hallelujahw l am in no such predioa- ment to-day, but am full of the same rhapsodic ejaculation. Starting out this morning on new ecclesiastical year, I want to give you the keynote of my next twelve months ministry. l want to set it to the tune of Antioch. Ariel and Coronation. Some time ago we had a new stop put in this organ-a new trumpet stop-and l want to put new trumpet stop into my sermons.
 In all our Christian work you and l want more of the element of gladness. That man has no right to say that Christ never laughed. Do you suppose that He was glum at the wedding in Cana of Gall ileeY Do you suppose that Christ was unresponsive when tue children clam bered over His knee and shoulder at His own invitatiouy Do you suppose the evangelist meant nothing when he said of Christ: He rejoiced in spirity" Do you believe that the divine Christ who pours all the water over the rocks at Vernal falls, Yosemite, does not believe in the sparkle and gallop aud tumultu- ous joy and rushing raptures of human lifeg l believe not only that the morning laughs, and that the mountains laugh, and that the seas laugh, and that the cascades laugh, but that Christ laughed.
 Moreover, take laugh and tear into su alembic, and assay then and test them, and analyze them, and you will often find as much of the pure gold of re- ligion ia a laugh as Ill a tear. Deep spiritual joy always shows itself in facial illumination. John Wesley said he was sure of good religious impression being produced because of what he calls the great laughter he saw among the people. Goddess merriment is biasphemy any where, but expression of Christian joy is appropriate everywhere. 1t I
 Moreover, the outlook of the world ought 10 stir Us 10 giOdness. Astrono- mers recently disturbed many people by telling them that ther6 isdanger Of stel- lar collision. Wehave been told through the papers by these astronomers that there are worlds coming very near to- gether. and that we shall have plaques, and wars, and tumults, and perhaps the worlds destruction. Do not be scared. If you have ever stood at a railroad cen- ter, where ten, or twenty, or thirty rail tracks cross each other, and seen that by the movement of the switch by one or two inches the train shoots this way and that without collid- ing, then you may understand how fifty worlds may come within an inch of dis aster, and that inch be as good as million miles. If a human switch h-teader can shoot the trains this way and that without harm, can not the Hand that for thousands of years has upheld the uni verse keep our little world out of harms ways Christian geologists tell us that this world was millions of years in build- ing. We'll, now, do not think God would take millions Of years 10 build house which was to last only six thousand years. There is nothing in the world or outside the world, terrestrial or astro- nomical, to excite dismay. I wish that some stout Gospel breeze might scatter all the malaria of human toreboding. The sun rose this morning at about half past five o'clock, and l think that is just about the hour in the worlds history. "The day is at hand"
 
 gradual substitution of diplomatic skill for human hutchery. Within the last twenty five years there have been inter- national differences which would have brought shock af arms in any other day, but which were peacefully adjusted, the peu taking the place of the sword
 That Alabama question in any other age Of the world would have caused war between the United States and England. How wss 1t setTledg By Ensn-of war off the Narrows, or of the Merseys By the Gulf stream of the ocean crossed by a gulf stream of human hloodt By the pathway of nations incarnaiiueds No. A few wise men go into quiet room al Genera, talk the matter over aud tele- graph to Washington and to London: "All settled.' Peace Peace. Eagland pays to the United States the amount awarded-lays re ally more than she ought 10 have paid. But still. all that Alabama broa IS seisled-settled forever. Arbitration instead Of battle.
 So the quarrel eight or nine years ago about the Canadian fisheries in any other age would have caused war between the United States aRd Elg.aad. England said; Pay lae for the invasion of my Canadian fisheries" The Uaited States said; Il will not pay any thiag," Wen. the two nations say: T guess we. had better leave the whole matter tO q coE- mission" The commission is appointed, and the commission examines fhe affair, and the. couuais sion reports, aad pay we ought pay NC must pay we do. Not a pound of powder burned not a cartridge { bitten c1. no one hurt 60 much as by the scratch ot a pin. Arbitration instead os battle
 So the Samoan controversy in any eth. CT age would have hreRght Ger yulauy and the United States intosblaody collision. But all is settled Arbitration instead at battle. France will never again. l think. through peccadilo or ambassador. bring on battle with other natienS.s She sees that God in punishment of Sedan. blot scd ovt the French Empire, ana sAe ohly aspirant for that throne wso had any right of expectation dies h a war that sh. lfe.. n