The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-09-25
THE DAY Is AT HAND.
es9mon by Rev. T. De Witt Tai
mage, D. D.
Tho World About to See the Dawn of
Better Times-The Sunrise OF Nor
ality - Arbitration Taking the
Place of War, and Civil
izatiOn the Place of
Barbarisms


Talmage was welcomed by an overlooking
congregation in the Brooklyn Tabernacle.
The subject of his discourse was: 1.-THE
Sunrise" and his text: 1.-THE day is at
hand" Following is the sermon:
Back from the mountains and the seaside,
md the spring, and the farmhouse your
cheek bronzed and your spirit lighted, hail
you home again with the words Of Gehazi
to the Shunamite: SIS it well with theea
is it well with thy husbands is it well with
the child" On some faces l see the mark
If recent grief, but all along the track OF
tears see the story Of resurrection and re-
anton when all tears are done; the deep
blowing of the keel, followed by the fash of
the phosphoresence.
Now that have asked you in regard to
your welfare, you naturally ask how l 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 atmosphere of the Pacific
Coast, or bath in the surf of Long Island
beach, or whether it is the joy Of standing
in this great group of warm hearted friends,
or whether it is new appreciation Of the
goodness of God can not tell simply know
I am grandly and glOriously and inexpressi-
bly, happy. 1t was said that John Moffat,
the great Methodist preacher, occasionally
got fast in his sermon, and to extricate him
self would cry "Halleluiah!" am in no
such predicament today, but am full Of
the same rhapsodic ejaculation. Starting
out this morning on new ecclesiastical
year, want to give you the key note OF my
next twelve months ministry. want to
set it the tune of Antioch, Ariel and Coro-
nation. Some time ago we had new stop
put in this organ-a new trumpet stOp-and
want to put new trumpet stop into my
sermons.
In all our Christian work you and want
more of the element Of gladness That
man has no right to say that Christ never
laughed. Do you suppose thas he was glum
at the wedding in Cana of Galilees Do you
suppose Christ was unresponsive when
the children clambered over His knee and
shoulder at His own invitations Do you
suppose that the evangelist meant nothing
when he said of Christ: HE reioiced in
spirit!" 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 and tumul.
tuous Joy and rushing raptures Of human
life? 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 an alembic, and
assay them, and test them, and analyze
them, and you will often find as much OF
the pure gold of religion in q laugh as in
tear. Deep spiritual Joy always shows
itself in facial illumination. John Wesley
said he was suke Of good religious i'm.
preston being produced because Of what he
calls the great laughter he saw among the
people. Goddess merriment is blasphemy
anywhere, but expression OF Christian Joy
is appropriate everywhere.
Moreover, the outlook Of the world ought
to stir US to gladness. Astronomers recent
ly disturbed many people by telling them
that there is danger of stellar collision. We
have been told through the papers by these
astronomers that there are worlds coming
very near together, and that we shall have
plaques and wars and tumults and perhaps
the worlds destruction. Do not be scared
II you have ever stood at railroad center
where ten or twenty or thirty rail tracks
cross each other, and seen that by thu
movement of the switch one or two inches
the train shoots this way and that, withou
colliding, then you may understand how
fifty worlds may come within an inch O.
disaster, and that inch be as good as
million miles. If human switchtendel
shoot the trains this way and that withou
harm, can not the hand that for thousands
Of years has upheld the universe keep ou
little world out Of harms way9 Christian
biologists tell US that this world wa
millions Of years in building. Well now,
do not think God would take millions o
years to build house which was to las
only 5000 years. There is nothing in tn
world or outside the world. terrestrial O
astronomical, to excite dismay. Iwish tina
some stout gospel breeze might scatter al
the malaria of human foreboding. The sui
rose this morning at about half past five
and think that is just about the hour il
the worlds history. "The day is at hand.
The first ray of the dawn I see in tn
gradual substitution of diplomatic skill TO
human butchery. Within the last twenty
five years there have been internationa
differences which would have brought
shock of arms in any other day, but whic
were peacefully adjusted, the pen takin
the place of the sword.
That Alabama question in any other az
Of the world would have caused war be
tween the United States and England. Ho,
was IL settled! By men-of-war off the MAI
~ off 70 ~ H.,
Stream Of the ocean crossed by gul
stream Of human bloodl By the pathway @
nations incarnadined! No. A few wise me
go into quiet room at Geneva, talk tn
matter over, and telegraph to Washingto
and to London: "All settled" Peace
Peace. England pays to the United State
the amount awarded-pays really more tina
she ought to have paid. But still, all ths
| Alabama broil is settled-settled forever
Arbitration instead of battle.
Sothequarrel eightor nine years ago abou
the Canadian fisheries in any other az
would have caused war between the Unite
States and England. England said "Pa
me for the invasion of my Canadian fish
cries" The United States said ~ will ne
pay anything" Well, the two nations said
II guess we had better leave the whole ma
ter to commission. The commission is a,
pointed, and the commission examines tn
affair, and the commission reports, and pa
we ought, paw we must, and pay we do. NJ
pound of powder burned, not a cartridg
bitten of, no one hurt so much as by tn
scratch Of q pin. Arbitration instead {
battle.
So the Samoan controversy in any otht
age would have brought Germany and tn
United States into bloody collision. But a
IL settled. Arbitration instead of battle.
France will never again, 1 think, throug
peccadillo Of ambassador, bring on bait
with other nations. She sees that God.
punishment Of Sedan, blotted out the FrenC
empire, and the only aspirsnt for tn,
| 4hroue xrho had INV right Of axp.orfafic