Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-09-14
HE1S AT HIS HOME AGAIN.
DR.. TALMAGE WELCOMED IN BROOK
LYN WITH ENTHUSIASM.

He Speaks ON ssThe SUNRISE" and His
Text Is from Paurs Matchless Epistle
to the Romans, xiii. 1e-His Sermon In
Full.
BROOKLYN, Sept. S-The Rev. T. De Witt
Talmage, d. D., was welcomed home today
by an OVERLOOKING congregation AT the
opening Of the service the hymn beginning
Welcome, sweet day Of rest.
That saw the Lord arise,
was sung with fine effect DR.. TalmageIs
subject was: 1.-THE Sunriss,n and his text,
1.-THE day is at hands Romans xiii, IL He
said:
Back from the mountains and the seaside,
and the springs, and the farmhouse, your
cheek bronzed and your spirits lighted, I bail
you home again with the words Of Gehazf to
the Shunammite: SIS It well with thee, is 1t
well with thy husbandi is it well with the
childr On some faces / see the mark OF re-
cent grief, but all along the track Of tears
see the story of resurrection and reunion
when all tears are done; the deep blowing of
the keel, followed by the fash of the phos-
phorescence.
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, 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 1t Is o new
appreciation Of the goodness Of God, l can
not tell. simply know am grandly and
gloriously and inexpressibly happy. 1t was
said that John Mofatt, the great Methodist
preacher, occasionally got fast In his sermon,
and to extricate himself would cry HALLE
lujahp am in no such predicament today,
but am full Of the same rhapsodic ejacula-
ton. Starting out this morning ON new
ecclesiastical year, want to give you the
keynote Of my next twelve months ministry.
want to set 1t to the tune Of Antioch, Ariel
and Coronation. Some time ago we had q
new stop put in this great organ-a new
trumpet stop-and / want to put a new
trumpet stop into my sermons
WE NEED THE ELEMENT OF GLADNEsS
In all our Christian work you and want
more of the element of gladness. That man
had no right to say that Christ never
laughed. Do you suppose that he was glum
ut the wedding in Cana Of Galleei Do you
suppose Christ was unresponsive when the
children clambered over his knee and shout
der at his own invitationi Do you suppose
that the evangelist meant nothing when he
said Of Christ: HE rejoiced in spiritin 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 tumultuous joy and rushing rap
lures Of human Lief believe not only that
the morning laughs, and that the mountains
nd hat tha o,,A hat %ha
cascades laugh, but that Christ laughed.
Moreover, take q 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 laugh
as in tear. Deep spiritual joy always shows
itself in facial illumination. John Wesley
said he was sure of good religious impress
sion 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 appropri-
ate everywhere.
Moreover, the outlook Of the world ought
to stir us to gladness. Astronomers recently
have 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
plaques and wars and tumults and perhaps
the worlds destruction. Do not be scared.
If you have ever stood at railroad center,
where ten or twenty or thirty rail tracks
cross each other, and seen that by the move
ment of the switch one or two inches the
trains shoot this way and that, without any
colllding, then you can understand how fifty
worlds may come within an inch of disaster,
At-A l. ali,
If human switch tender can shoot the trains
this way and that without harm, cannot the
Hand that for thousands of years has upheld
the universe keep our little world out Of
harms wayi Christian geologists tell US that
this world was millions Of years in building.
Well, now. I do not think God would take
millions Of years to build house which was
to last only six thousand years. There Is
nothing in the world or outside the world,
terrestrial or astronomical, to excite dismay.
wish that some stout Gospel breeze might
scatter all the malaria of human foreboding.
The sun rose this morning at about half past
g. and l think that is just about the hour in
the worlds history. 1.-THE day is at hand"
THE WAR PERIOD Is PASSING AWAY.
The first ray of the dawn see In the grad
ual substitution OF diplomatic skill for hui
man butchery. Within the last twenty-five
years there have been international differ
ences which would have brought shock of
arms in any other day, but which we're peace
fully adjusted, the pen taking the place OF
the sword.
That Alabama question in any other ageof
the world would have caused war between
the United States and England. How was
1t settledl By men-of-war of the Narrows,
or off the Merseyl By the Gulf Stream OF
the ocean crossed by gulf stream Of human
bloodi By the pathway of nations incar-
nadinedt No. A few wise men 60 into
quiet room at Geneva, talk the matter over,
and telegraph to Washington and to London:
"An settled" Peace Peace. 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 fish
cries" The United States said: II will not
pay anything" Well, the two nations say:
II guess we had better leave the whole mat
ter to a commission" The commission is ap-
pointed, and the commission examines the
affair, and the commission reports, and pay
we ought, pay We must, pay we do. Not
pound of powder burned, not a cartridge Bit
ten off, 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
France will never again. think, through
peccadillo Of ambassador, bring on battle
with other nations She sees that God, In
punishment Of Sedan, blotted out the French
empire, and the only aspirant for that throne
who had any right Of expectation dies ina
war that has not the dignity Of even being
respectable What Is that blush IN the chaak
of England todayI What d the Leaf that
England would Hks to tear out Of her bis
toryi The Zulu war. Down with the sword
and up with the treaty.
We in this country might better have
settled our sectional difficulties By arbdtra-
ton than by the thrust Of the sword. PHI
lanthropy said to the north: 'Pay down q
certain amount OF money for the purchase Of
the slaves, and let all those born after q GER
tain time be born freen Philanthropy at
the same time said 10 the south: "You sell
the slaves and get rid Of this great national
contest and trouble" The north replied: 81
won't pay cent" The south replied: 81
won't selln Wari Wari A million dead
men, and national debt which might have
Ground fi,fa rzaf{ox, IN r,nvr1nr