The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-09-19
THE DAY IS AT HAND.

THE DAY IS AT HAND.
Or. Talmage, Having Returned from
a Trip, Delivers q Sermon from
His Own Pulpit.
BRooKLYN, N. X, Special: The Rev. 7. De
Witt Talmage, D. D., was welcomed home
Sunday BY an Overlooking congregation, At
the opening Of the service the hymn begin.
ming
aWelcome, sweet day Of rest
That saw the Lord arise"
was sung with fine effect. DR.. Talmage,s
subject wal "The Sunrise" and his text
1.-THE day is at hand" Romans, xiii, IL. He
said:
Back from the mountains and the seaside
and the springs and the farmhouse, your
cheek bronzed and yonr spirits lighted, !
hail you home again with the words OF
Gehazi to the Shunam mite: rs it well
with thee7 La it well with thy husband? Is
it well with the child?" On some faces ] see
the mark of recent grief, but all along the
track OF tears I see the story of resurrection
and reunion when all tears are done; the
deep blowing Of the keel followed by the flash
of the phosphoresence.
Now that I have asked you in regard to
your welfare you naturally ask how I am.
Very well thank you. Whether it was the
bracing air of the Colorado mountains,
IL, 900 feet above the level ofthe sea, or the
tonic atmosphere of the Pacific coast, OF q
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 q new appreciation of the good
ness Ut God, l con not tell. ! simply know l
am grandly and gloriously and inexpressibly
happy. 1t was said rhat John Moffatt, the
great Methodist preacher, occasionally got
fast in his sermon.and to extricate himself
he would cry III ailelujahl" I am in no such
predicament to-day, but I am full Of the
rhapsodic ejaculation. Starting out
this morning on q new ecclesiastic year /
want to give you the keynote of my next
twelve months ministry. / wait to set it
the tune of Antioch, Ariel, and Corona
ton. Some time ago we had q new stop put
in this. organ-a new trumpet stop-and I
VoAAe w PuU0 . VAVAAPOo oSOP AAuo AJ
sermons. r
The first ray Of the dawn I see in the grad
ual substitution of diplomatic skill for human
butchery. Within the last twenty-five years
there have been international differences
which would have brought q shock Of arms
in any other day, but which were peacefully
adjusted, the pen taking the place of the
sword ' 8
That Alabama question in any other age
of the world would have caused war between
the United States and England. How was
it settled? By m~en-of.war off the Narrows,
or off the Mersey? By the gulf stream Of the
ocean crossed by q guilt stream of human
blood? By the pathway of nations incarna-
dined? No. A few wise men go into O quiet
room at Geneva, talk the matter over, and
telegraph to Washington and to London:
pays to the United States the a~mountaward-
really more than she ought to have
paid. But still all thatlAlabama broil is set
forever. Arbitration instead of
"s
So the quarrel eight or nine years ago
aboutthe Canadian fisheries in any other age
would have caused war between the United
me for the invasion ofmy Canadian fisheries"
The United States said: 81 will not pay any
Well, the two nations say: 'siguess
had better leave the whole matter to q
commission" The commission is appointed,
and the commission examines the affair, and
tho commission reports, and pay we ought,
pay We must, pay We do. Not q pound OF
burned, not a cartridge bitten off,
no one hurt SO much as by the scratch of q
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
settled. Arbitration instead of battle.
l find another roy of the dawn in the CON-
PRESTON of the worlds distances. What a
snall-like, almost impossible thing
would have been the worlds rectifcation
with $4,000 oo, 600 of population and no
Facile means OF communication; but now,
through telegraphy for the eye and telephon-
intimacy for the ear, and through ste am
and ~railroading, the %. 1000 miles of
the worlds circumference are shriveling UP
into Insignificant brevity. Hong Kong is
to New York than q few years ago
New Haven was; Bombay, Moscow, Madras,
Melbourne within speaking distance. Pur-
chase a telegraphic chart and by the blue
the red lines the cables under the ocean. You
sec what opportunity this is going to give
Tor the final movement OF christianity. A
fortress may be months OF years in building,
but after it is constructed it may do all it's
york IN twenty minutes, Christianity has
been planting it's batteries for nineteen CEN
turies, and may go on In the work through
other centuries, but when those bat
|ortrssses are fully built, they. may
iii do their work in twenty-four hours. The
world sometimes derides the church for slow
ness of movement, Is science any quicker?
Did it not take science $3.50 years to find
SO simple q thing as the circulation of
the human blood? With the earth and the
ky full ofelectricity, sciencetook s 800 years
it even guessed that there was any
use that might bemade of this sub
lie and mighty element. Whom good men
take possession Of oil these scientific forces,
and oil these agencies Of invention, / do not
know that the redemption of the world will
be more than the work of half q day. Do we
not read the queen Isl speech at the p~roroguing
Of parliament in LondOn2 If that be SO,
it anything marvellous to believe that in
t~wentyfour hours a divine Communication
IAN reach the whole earth? Suppose Christ
should descend IN the nations-many expect
chat Christ will come among the nations per-
sonaly-suppose thattomorrow morningthe
Son of Gody from o lowering cloud, should
descend upon these cities. Would
not that fact be known all the
world over in t~wenty-four hours?
he should present his gospel in few
words, saying: u am the Son Of God; I came
~ pdTuOu Dill YOUR Bills AuU I'd u0Al iii your
to prove that I am q supernatural
being ! have just descended from the clouds
do you believe me, and do you believe me
now?" Why, all the telegraph stations ofthe
earth would be crowded as none OF them
ever crowded just after q shipwfeck. I
tell you all these things to show you it snot
among the impossibilities or even the i'm
that Christ will conquer the
whole earth and do it ~instanter when the
fine comes. There are foretokenings in the