St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-29
TALMACE'S SERMON.
The Eloquent Brooklyn Di-
vine Roasts Modern Skep-
ticiSm.
An Immense Audience List
ems to His Preach
ing.
Rev. w. j. Lhamon on the
Personality Of Re-
ligion.
Hansen, the Mad Cat Vie
tim, Will Go to
Paris.

Vi people COllgreSdGeu Wltlllu ltS Walls
as on yesterday morning. Rev. DIR.
De Witt Talmage, the eminent Brooklyn
Presbyterian divine, preached a sermon
there, and he surely must have felt flat
tered at the reception accorded him.
The church was filled from auditorium
to gallery long before the appointed
time-1O:3O-for the services to begin.
At 10 o'clock there was jam outside,
and the people were pouring into the
three entrances as fast as it was posi-
bic. The sidewalks were crowded, and
many people stood in the streets, pa
tiently waiting for their turn. The
church has seating capacity OF 1000
people, and there were men, women and
children crushed and packed into
all the aisles and side rooms.
At II o'clock DR.. Talmage began his
sermon. He is remarkable preacher,
and held his audience spell-bound for
over an hour and half. Every word
he made carried weight with it, and
many a handkerchief was vigorously
applied to the eyes before he had fin
ished. A great actor, too, is Dr.. Tai
mage. Each movement of his arms,
the expression OH his face and in his
eyes, and the infection of his voice, all
carried with them dramatic tinge-all,
however. unStudied and unconscious.
He took his text from David, xix Psalm
Sth verse. 1.-The statutes of the land
are right" During his discourse he
said:
TIE SERMON.
"Old books go out of date. They are
laid away and OfttimeS forgotten.
When they were written they dealt
with things that have long since ceased
to be of interest, or advocated Things
that are now no more No matter what
kind of books they were-poetry, ethics
or history-they are in time laid away
Oh the forgotten shelf. What do the
masses of the people now care for the
gracefulness of Pullman, or the pathos
of some one else? Most of the big
libraries of the world are seas of dead
books. Books are human; they have
time to be born; time to grow and
gain strength, and then old age and
death. Once in while an old book,
with, a time and weather beaten
cover comes to us by an unknown
author, and seems to say in his pathetic
way: Would that | could die" Stat
ues are built to authors; would that one
the tens of thousands of churches in the
world stand tens of thousand ministers,
with their hand placed OH this grand
old English Bible. That is the book
that never grows old and never dies.
But its mission has not yet been accom-
plished until it mas been sent across the
walls Of China and the desert plains of
Africa. There are hundreds of people
who, in court of justice, will kiss the
Bible in ansirreverent manner, and there
ale hundreds in this audience who will
kiss it with everlasting love. When my
parents died my only legacy was the
family Bible By it was consecrated
their marriage. age, their Whole
life. / love that book, and may
my name be foreYermOre accursed if l
ever forget to revere and love my
mothers Bible. | want to show that
the Bible is right; right i'll authenticity:
right in style; and right in everything.
If there is proof that Waiter Scott wrote
"Marmion," Tennyson The Charge of
the Six Hundred" Milton paradise
Lost" so sure is there proof that the
Bible was written by God. through the
instrumentality of the evangelists and
apostles. That dear old book came very
near being destroyed during the crusade
against it, there remaining but 200
copies. Now there are millions and
millions of copies.
"Supposing a medicine was found
that cured everybody and everything.
Would YOU take the evidence of those
who We're cured, or that of others? Here Here
comes this divine medicine in the form
of the Bible, which has cured and given
Joy to millions of Christians. Would
you not take such evidence as true, or
would you take the evidence of skep-
ticS?"
The speaker then described many of
the stories told in the Bible, that appear
improbable, and showed that they were
true despite the refutation of unbe-
levers.
II am glad" continued he, that when
God made the Bible He also made the
commentary. The statutes of the Lord
are right. Show me the men who are
skeptics and In their all-wise way refute
the Bible, and | will show you just such
great men in revelation and science who
will OF have stood up for the truth of it.
There are George Washington, Joseph
Henry, Daniel Webster and William
Armstrong. Daniel Webster, who, after
a post norton examination, was shown
to have been possessed of the greatest
brain in the world, said on his dying
bed, My only hope is in Christ The
time will come when all the brain of
the universe will be ON the side
of Christianity. The young sprigs of
science who walk about with book on
DarWinism under one arm and a box
of transfXed graSShOpperS under the
me sick. They wonder how the world
would get along without them and how
God would get along without them if
they were dead"
1.-THE meanest thing a man can do in
the world is to try and destroy the
Bible, the lighthouse of the soul. Walk
down a street 1900 miles long until you
come to stairway leading down 1000
miles. Walk down that and you will
come to a precipice 10000 feet deep.
Jump off and you will come to the bot
tom of all this meanness. To learn
to appreciate the Bible it must be
studied Systematically. 1t is like
everything else. There is a door to
come in and a door to go out. Read
the first novel in the world, by digging
in here and there. and what sense is
there to it. Ii you were to read the
finest line on the first page one day, and
the last line on the last page the next
day, how much good would you get out
of it? That is the way a great many
people read the Bible"
''All the fine literature in the world
is only the Bible diluted. Shakespeare's
Macbeth is Jezebel, and Thomas Car
lyle is only magnificent distortion OF
EzekiaI. But you can take the whole
Bible and sum it up in the one little
word mercy What word is that.
How sweet, how tender, and what a
world of meaning it conveys. Educate
only a mans head and you have an
infidel. Educate only mans heart
and you have a fanatic. but educate
both together and you have something
grand and sublime"
RSONALITY IN RELIGION.
To Discard 1t Would Be to De-
stroy Religion.
Rev. W. ]. Lhamon preached yester-
day morning at the Church of Christ
upon personally in Religion" Text,
The Lords Prayer. Where there is not
narSonaIitv there NAV he vepptatioD