The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-09
DIR. TALMAGEBACK HOME
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Christian Work - Substitution of
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BROOKLYN, Sept. S--The Rev. T. De-
Witt Talmage, d. D.. was welcomed home
to-day by an overfowing congregation. At
the opening OF the service the hymn be-
ginning,
Welcome. sweet day Of rest
That saw the Lord arise.
was sung with fine effect. DR.. Talmage's
subject was: "The Sunrise" and his text:
''The day is at hand" Romans xiii. I2.
He said:
Back from the mountains and the sea-
side. and the springs, and the farm house,
your check bronze1 and your spirits
lighted, ! hail you home again with the
words of Gehazi to the Shunammite: 'Is it
we'll with thee. is it well with thy husbands
is it we'll with the child" On some faces
see the mark of recent grief, but all along
the track Of tears | see the story of resur-
rection and reunion when all tears are
done; the deep blowing of the keel, fol-
lowed by the flash of the phosphoresence.
Now that | 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
twelve thousand feet above the level of the
sea, or the tonic atmosphere of the Pacific
coast, OF 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 1t il a new appreciation Of the
goodness Of God, cannot tell / simply
know | 9m grandly and gloriously and inex-
pressibly happy. 1t was said that John
Moifatt, the great Methodist preacher. oc-
oasionally got fast in his sermon, and to
extrcate himself would cry "Hallelujah ~
/ am in no such predicament to-day. but
am full of the same rhapsodic ejaculation.
Starting out this morning on a new eccle-
siastical year, ] want TO give you the Key
note of my next twelve months ministry.
L want to set it to the tune of Antioch,
Ariel and @ ronation. Some time ago we
had new stop put in this organ--a new
trumpet stop-and | want to put a new
trumpet stop into my sermons.
In all our christian work you aud | want
more Of the element Of glad ess That
man has no right 70 say that Christ never
laughed. Do you suppose that be wa glum
at the weddi & in Cana Of Galileel Do you
suppose Christ was unresponsiye when tho
children clambered over his knee aud shoul-
der at his own invitationi Do you SUPPOSE
that the evangelist meant nothing when he
said Of Christ, "He rejoiced in spiritp Do
you believe that the divine Christ, who
pours all the water over the rocks at
Verbal falls, Yosemite, does not believe
in the sparkle and gallop and tumultuous
Joy and rushing raptures OF human Afee
| believe not only that the morning
laughs, and that the mountains laugh, and
that the seas laugh, aud that the cascades
laugh, but that Christ laughed. Moreover.
take laugh and tear int an alembic, and
assay them, and test them, and analyzs
them, and you will often find as much Of
tao pure gold Of religion in laugh as IN q
tear. Deep spiritual joy always shows
itself in facial illumination. John Wesley
said he was sure Of good religious impress
sion bsing produced because OF what be calls
the great laughter he saw among the peo-
pie. Goddess merriment is blaspnemy any
where, but expression Of christian Joy Is
appropriate every where.
Moreover, the outlook Of the world ought
to stir us to gladness. Astronomers recently
disturbed many people by telling hem that
there is danger of stellar collision. We
have been told through tho 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.
If you have ever stood at a railroad
center, where ten or twenty or thirty
rail tracks cross each other, and seen
that by the movement Of the switch one or
two inches the train shoots this way and
that, without colliding, then you may
understand how fifty worlds may come
within an inch of disaster, and that inch
be as good as a million miles Ii human
switchtender can shoot the trains this way
and t9at without harm, cannot the hand
that for thousands of years has upheld the
universe keep our little world out of harms
way. Christian geologists tell US that this
world was millions OF years in building. Well
now, l do not think God would take
millions Of years to build house which
YVES to last only six thousand years. There
is nothing in tine world or outside the world,
terrestrial or astronomical, to excite dis
may. ] wish that some stout Gospel breeze
might scatter all the malaria Of human
foreboding. The sun rose this morning at
about half-pas 5, and | think that is just
about the hour In the worlds history.
THE day is at hand"
The first ray of the dawn l see in the
gradual substitution Of diplomatic skill for
five years there have been international
differences which would have brought o
shock of arms in any other day. but which
were peacefully adjusted, the pen taking
the place of the sword.
That Alabama question in any other age
of the world would have caused war be-
tween the United States and England. How
was IL StJblcQf Df il6u-DA-NdA OIl oAO 4feAA~
rows or off the Mersey9 BY the gulf stream
of the ocean crossed by a gulf stream OF
human blood9 By the pathway OF nations
incarnadined9 No. A few wise men go
into q quiet room at Geneva, talk the mat
ter over, aud telegraph Co Washington and
to London: 'All settled" Peace! Pescel
England pays TO the United States the
amount awarded-pays really more than
she ought to have paid. But still, all that
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 for the invasion Of my Canadian
fsheries.n The United States said: Il viii
not pay anything" Well, the two nations
say: 'I guess we had better leave the whole
matter to a commission The commission
is appointed, and the commission examines
the affair, and the commission reports, and
pay we ought, pay we must, pay we do.
Not pou.d of powder burned. not cart
ridge bitten off, no one hurt so much as by
the scratch of pin. Arbitration instead
of battle.
So the Samoan controversy, in any other
age would have brought Germany ard the
United Sta t1to bloody ollision. But all
is settled. Arbitration instead of battle.
France will never again, think, through
peccadillo or ambassador, bring on a battle
With other nations. She sees that God, in
punishment Of Sedan, blotted out she French
empire, and the only aspirant for that throne
who had any right Of expectation dies in n