Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-09-13
HE Is AT HIS HOME AGAIN.
DR.. TALMAeE WELCOMED IN BROOK
LYN WITH ENTHUSIASM.

LYN WITH ENTHUSIASM.
He Speaks on ''The Sunrise" and His
Text Is from Paul's SIatsi,iess EpistIo
to the Romans, xiii, 1s-His Sermon in
Full.
BRooKLyN, Sept. s.--The Rev 7. 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.. Talmages
subject was: 1.-THE Sunrise" and his text,
1.-THE day is at hand" Romans xiii, 70. He
said.
! Back from the mountains and the seaside,
and the springs, and the farmhouse, your
cheek bronzed and your spirits lighted, I hail
you home again with the words of Gehazi to
the Shunammite: rs it well with theel is it
well with thy hushandl is it well with the
childF' On some faces l see the mark of re-
cent grief but all along the track of tears
see the story Of resurrection aad reunion
when all tears are done; the deep blowing of
the keel, followed by the flash Of the phos-
| phorescence.
Now that l have asked you in regard to
| your welfare, you naturally ask how l 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 a 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 a new
/ appreciation Of the goodness Of God, l can
not tell. l simply know am grandly and
| gloriously and inexpressibly happy. 1t was
said that John Moffatt, the great Methodist
/ preacher, occasionally got fast in his sermon,
/ and to extricate himself would cry Halle
\ lujahl" am in no such predicament today,
/ but 1 am full of the same rhapsOdic ejacula-
tion. Starting out this morning on new
ecclesiastical year, want to give you the
/ keynote of my next twelve months ministry.
want to set it to the tune of Antioch, Ariel
and Coronation. Some time ago we had
new stop put In this great organ-a new
trumpet stop-and I want to put 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 athat Christ never
laughed. Do you suppose that he was glum
at the wedding in Cana of Galileel Do you
suppose Christ was unresponsive when the
children clambered over his knee and shout
der at his own invitation Do you suppose
that the evangelist meant nothing when he
said of Christ; "He rejoiced in spiritT 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 tumultQous joy and rushing rap
lures of human life2 l believe not only that
the morning laughs, and that the mountains
laugh, and that the seas laugh, and that the
cascades laugh, but that Christ laughed.
Moreover, take a laugh and tear into an
alembic, and assay them, and test them, and
analyze them, and you will often find rs
much Of the pure gold of religion in a laugh
as in a tear. Deep spiritual joy always shows
itself in facial illumination. John Wesley
said he was sure of a 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 a 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
colliding, then you can understand how fifty
worlds may come within an inch of disaster,
and that inch be as good as million miles.
II a 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 wayl Christian biologists tell us that
this world was millions Of years in building
Well now, | do not think God would take
millions of years to build a house which was
to last only six thousand years. There is
nothing in the world or outside the world,
terrestrial or astronomical, to excite dislnay.
1 wish that some stout Gospel breeze might
scatter all the malaria of human foreboding
The sun rose this morning at about half past
5, and think that is just about the hour in
the worlds history. The day is at hand"
THE WAR PERIOD IS PASSING AWAY.
The first ray of the dawn l see in the grad
ual substitution of diplomatic skill for hui
man butchery. Within the last twenty-five
wears LueHE nave QeGu luAeIAlatloudl ullAEE-
ences which would have brought a 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 age of
the world would have caused war between
the United States and England. How was
It settleds By men-of-war off the Narrows,
or Off the Merseyl By the Gulf Stream Of
the ocean crossed by a gulf stream Of human
bloodi By the pathway of nations incar-
nadinedi No. A few wise men go into
quiet room at Geneva, talk the matter over,
and telegraph to Washington. 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 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; Il will not
pay anythingn Well, the two nations say:
81 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 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.
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 aspiraut for that throne
who had any right Of expectation dies in
war that has not the dignity Of even being
respectable. What is that blush on the cheek
of England todayi What is the leaf that
England would like to tear out of her his
toryi The Zulu war. Down with the sword
and up with the treaty.
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