The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-18
RETURNED FROM HIS TRIP.
TALMAeE IN HIS OWN PULPIT AGAIN.
A Timely Discourse On the Subject OF 1.-THE
SUNRISE" From the Text ''The Day Is
At Hand"-The World Being
Gradually Christianized.
The Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, D. D., was


the service the hymn beginning
Welcome, sweet day Of rest
That saw the Lord arise"
Was sung with tine effect. DR.. Talmage's
subject was ''The Sunrise" and his text
"The day is at hand" Romans. xiii II.
he said:
Back from the mountains and the sea-
side and the springs and the farmhouse,
YOUR cheek bronzed and your spirits
lighted, hail YOU home again with the
words of Gehazi to the Shunammite: 'ls
it well with thee? Is it well with thy
husband? Is it we'll with the child? On
some faces I see the mark of recent grief,
but all along the track of tears l see the
story OF resurrection and reunion when
all tears are done; the deep piowing OF
the keel followed by the flash of the phos-
phorescence.
Now that I have asked you in regard to
your welfare, you naturally ask how | am.
Very well, thank you. Whether it was
the bracing air of the Colorado mountains,
1900 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 a new appreciation OF the
goodness OF God, l cannot tell. ! simply
know l am grandly and gloriously and in
expressibly happy. 1t was said that John
NofTatt, the great methodist preacher,
occasionally got fast in his sermon, and
I. oil
lujahl" I am in no such predicament to-
day, but ! am full of the same rhapsOdic
ejaculation. Starting out this morning on
new ecclesiastical year, 1 want to give
YOU the KEYNOTE of my next twelve
months ministry. | want to set it to the
tunes of Antioch, Ariel and Coronation.
Some time ago we had a new stop put in
this organ-a new trumpet stop-and |
want to put a new trumpet stop into my
sermons.
The first ray of the dawn I see in the
gradual substitution of diplomatic skill
fer human butcherv. Within the last
twenty-five years there have been inter
national differences which would have
brought a shock OF arms in any other day,
but which were peacefully adjusted, the
pen taking the place of the sword.
mat AIdDaud question III any OJlcT
age OF the world would have caused war
between the United States and England
How was it settled? BY men-of-war off
the Narrows or off the Mersey? BY the
gulf stream OF the ocean crossed by a gulf
stream of blOOd2 BY the pathway of
nations incarnadined? No. A few wise
men 90 into quiet room in Geneva. talk
the matter over, and telegraph to Wash
iDgton and to London: "All settled.
Peace. Peace. England pays to the
United States the amount awarded-pays
really more than she ought to have paid.
But stu all thai Alabama broil is settled
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 and England. England
said: ''Pay me Tor the invasion of nv Ca
madam fisheries" The United States said
Il viii not pay anything" Well, the two
nations say: Il guess we had better leave
the whole matter to a commission" The
commission is appointed, and the commits
sion examines the affair, and the commits
sion reports, and pay we ought, pay we
must, pay we do. Not pound OF powder
burned, not cartridge bitten of, no one
hurt so much as by the scratch of a pin.
Arbitration instead of battle.
SO the Samoan controversy in any other
age would have brought Germany and the
United States into bloody collision But
all is settled. Arbitration instead of
battle.
! find another ray of the dawn in the
compression OF the worlds distance.
What a slow, snail-like, almost impossible
thing would have been the worlds recti-
fcation with l,400, 100000 OF population
and no facile means OF communication;
but now, through telegraphy for the eye
and telephone intimacy for the ear, and
through steamboating and railroading, the
$4,000 miles OF the worlds circumference
are shrivellng upintO Insignificant brevity.
Hong Kong is nearer to New York than a
few years ago New Haven was Bombay,
Moscow, Madras, Melbourne within speak
ing distance. Purchase a Geographic chart
and by the blue lines see the telegraphs of
the land and by the red lines the cables
= under the ocean. You see what op-
pOrtunity this is going to give for the
final movements of Christianity. A fortress
may be months or years in building, but
after it is constructed it may do all
It's work in twenty minutes Christianity
has been planting it's batteries for nine
teen centuries, and may 90 on in the
those batteries are thoroughly planted
those fortresses are fully built, they may
all do their work in twenty-four hours
The world sometimes derides the church
Tor slOwness of movement. Is science
any quicker? Did it not take science
1852 years to find out so simple thing as
the circulation OF the human blood? With
the earth and the sky full OF electricity.
science took $500 years before it even
guessed that there was any practical use
that might be made of this subtle and
mighty element When good men take
possession of all these scientific forces.
and all these agencies of invention,
] 10 not know that the redemption
Of the world will be more than the
work of half a day. Do we not
read the queens speech at the proroguing
OF parliament the day before in London !?
If that be so, is it anything marvellous to
believe that in twenty-four hours a divine
communication can reach the whole
earth Suppose Christ should descend on
the nations-Inany expect that Christ will
come among the nations personally-sup-
pose that tomorrow morning, the Son Of
God, from a lowering cloud, should de-
scend upon these cities. Would not that
fact be known all the world over in TWEEN
ty-four hours? Suppose He should pre-
sent His gospel in a few words. saying:
81 am the Son of God; came to pardon
all your sins and to heal all your sorrow
to prove that j am a supernatural being