Connecticut western news., 1890-04-30
SERMON BY DIR. TALMAGE.
HIS SUBJECT A MOST TIMELY ONE:
 1.-THE VOICES OF NATURE."

HIS SUBJECT A MOST TIMELY ONE:
 1.-THE VOICES OF NATURE"
 They Are Articulate and Harmonious, He
 says-The Doctors Congregations Not at
 All Affected by the Beautiful Weather
 of tho sprinstime. ,
 BROOKLYN, April 27.-The attrac- tion of the parks in their new spring time garb, which affects many con gregations at this season, does not di- minish the crowd which pours into the Academy of Music to hear the elo- quent preacher. This morning the great edifce was thronged, as usual, as soon as the doors were opened After the reading of an appropriate passage of Scripture and the singing of the hymn, 'sGlory to God on High, ," Dr. Talmage announced as his text Isa. k, IS: 'The glory of Lebanon shall come unto the thee, the fir tree, the pine tree and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary" Following is his sermon in full:
 On our way from Damascus we saw the mountains of Lebanon white with snow, and the places from which the cedars were hewn and then drawn by OK teams down to the Mediterranean sea, and then aoated in great rafts to Joppa, and then again drawn by OK teams up to Jerusalem to build Solo mons temple. Those mighty trees in my text are called the glory of Leba- non." Inanimate nature felt the effects of the first transgression. When Eve touched the forbidden tree, it seems as if the sinful contact had smitten not only that tree, but as if the air caught the pollution from the leaves, and as if the sap had carried the virus down into the very soil until the entire earth reeked with the leprosy. Under that sinful touch nature withered. The in- animate creation, as if aware of the damage done it, sent up the thorn and brier and nettle to wound and fercely oppose the human race.
 THE MILLENNIUM. Now as the physical earth felt the effects of the first transgression, so it shall also feel the effect of the Saw tours mission. As from that one tree in Paradise blight went forth 1 through the entire earth, so from one tree on Calvary another force shall l speed out to interpenetrate and check, 1 subdue and override, the evil. In the end it shall be found that the tree of Calvary has more potency than the tree of Paradise. As the nations are evangelical, think corresponding l change will be effected in the natural ! I lo1 <lo% and the birds, and the rivers, and the mans sin affected the ground, and the vegetation, and the atmosphere, shall l Christ's work be less powerful or less extensive2
 l Doubtless God will take the irregu- larity and fierceness from the ele. ments, so as to make them congenial to the race, yet to be so symmetrical and evangelical. The ground shall not be so lavish of weeds and so grudge- full of grain. Soils which now have peculiar proclivities toward certain forms of evil production will be de. ivered from their besetting sins. Steep mountains, plowed down into more gradual ascent, shall be girdled with hocks of sheep and shocks of corn. The wet marsh shall become the deer grassed meadow. Cattle shall eat un. harmed by caverns once haunted o1 wild beasts. Children will build play. houses in what was once cave of ser pents. and, as the Scripture saith, 'The 1 weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den"
 1 Oh, what harvests shall be reaped when neither drouth, nor excessive rain, nor mildew, nor infesting insects shall arrest the growth, and the ut most capacity of the fields for produc tion shall be tested by an intelligent and athletic yeomanry. Thrift ano competency characterizing the worlds inhabitants, their dwelling places shall be graceful and healthy and adorned Tree and arbor and grove around about will look as if Adam and Eve had got back to Paradise. Great cities now neglected and unwashed, shall be orderly, adorned with architectural symmetry and connected with far dis tant seaports by present modes o1 transportation carried to their greates perfection, or by new inventions ye1 to spring up out of the water or droI from the air at the beck of a Morse ol Robert Fulton belonging to future generations. Isaiah in my text seem. to look forward to the future condi ton of the physical earth as condi ton of great beauty and excellence and then prophecies that as the strong est and most ornamental timber 1T Lebanon was brought down to Jerusa lem and constructed into the ancien temple, so all that is beautiful and ex cellent in the physical earth shall ye contribute to the church now being built in the world 1.-The glory O Lebanon shall come unto thee; the fiji tree; the pine tree, and the box to gether, to beautify the place of my sanctuary MUCH OF THY PROPHECY ALREADY
 FULFILLED.
 Much of this prophecy has already been fulfilled. and proceed to som practical remarks upon the contribu tions which the natural world is mak ing to the kingdom of God, and thel draw some differences The first con tribution that nature gives to tn church is her testimony in behalf o the truth of Christianity. This is al age of profound research. Nature can not evade mems inquiries as once. Il chemists laboratory she is put to tor ture and compelled to give up he mysteries. Hidden laws have com out of their hiding place. The eartl and the heavens, since they have beel ransacked by geologist and botanis and astronomer. appear so diferen from what they once were that the, may be called ''the new heavens an the new earth"
 1 This research and discovery vii have powerful effect upon the relig lous world They must either advanc rn o unos% ~, ,,,a,, hal