Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-01-08
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
NEW YEARS SERMON BY REV. DR..
TALMAGE.

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That Comes from On High.
RRooEIyN. Jan. 4-Dr. Talmage's Ne"
Years sermon is a ringing battle cry 70
ministers and Christians everywhere, cali
ing upon them to join in combined
eaarge on the Entertainments OF sin ana pa
tan. II made deep impression on tne
vast crowds who heard it in this city TINS
morning, and at The Christian Herald ser
vice tonight in New York. The enthusi-
asm at the latter service was Increased oy
the effective aid rendered by large vol.
unteer choir which has been ORGANIZED
from the audiences, who sung with vol
ume and fervor seldom equaled. After the
singing of the hymn commencing
Come, Holy Spirit. heavenly dove.
With all thy quickening powers.
Or. Talmage preached the following ser
mon from the text, Luke xiv, 40, "farry
We in the city of Jerusalem until ye be en-
dued with power from on high:'
For few MONTHS in the providence OF
God. | have two pulpits, one in Brooklyn
md the other 10 New York, and through
the kindness OF the printing press an ever
widening opportunity. To all such hear
ers and readers | come with an especial
message The time has arrived for for
ward movement such as the church and
the world have never seen. That there IS
d need for such a religious movement Is
| evident from the fact that never since our
world was swung out among the planets
| has there been such an organized and de
rermined effort TO overthrow righteous
ness. and make the Ten Commandments
obsolete and the whole Bible derision.
Meanwhile alcoholism Is taking down It's
victims By the hundreds of thousands, and
the political parties ,sct down on their
knees, practically saying 70 thou al
mighty rum jug; we bow down before
ihce' Give MS the ofices-city. state and
national Oh give us the Offices, and we
will worship thee for ever and ever,
| Amen
The Christian Sabbath meanwhile, ap
pointed for physical. mental and spiritual
1 rest is being secularized aud abolished.
! As il the bad publishing houses OF our
own country had exhausted their literary
/ filth, the French and Russian sewers nave
been invited to pour their scurr:lity and
moral slush into the trough where our
| American swine are now wallowing.
| Meanwhile there are enough houses OF in
| fanny in all our cities, open and unmolested
of the law, To invoke the omnipotent
wrath which buried Sodom under a deluge
of birthstone The pandemoniac world,
think has massed its troops, and they are
at this moment plying their batteries upon
family circles, church circles. social circles,
political circles and national circles.
| Apollyon is in the saddle. and riding at
the head OF bis myrmidons would capture
this world for darkness and woe.
THE MINISTER'S Or THE UNITED STATES
That is one side of the conflict now rag
ing. On the other side we have the most
magnificent gospel machinery that the
world ever saw or heaven ever invented. In
the first place there are in this country more
than eighty thousand ministers Of religion
and, take them as class, more conse-
Grated holier, more consistent, more self
denying. more faithful men never lived.
| know them by the thousands. have met
them in every city. | am told, not by them,
but by people outside our profession, peo
| pie engaged in Christian and reformatory
work. that the clergy Of America are at the
head OF all good enterprises, and whoever
else fail they may be depended on. The
truth of this Is demonstrated by the fact
that when minister of religion does fall,
it is so exceptional that the newspapers re
port it rs something startling, while hun
bred men in other callings may go down
without the matter being considered as es
pecially worth mentioning.
In addition to their equipment in moral
character the clergy of this country have
all that the schools can give. All archRo
logical, rhetorical scientific, scholastic,
literary attainment So much for the
Christian ministry of all denominations.
In the next place on our side of the con-
dict we have the grandest churches Of all
time and higher style OF membership and
more Of them. and a host without number
Of splendid men and women who are doing
their best to have this world purified, ele-
waited, gospelized But we all feel thai
something is wanting. Enough hearty
songs have been sung and enough earnest
sermons preached within the last six
months to save all the cities of America,
and saving the cities you save the world,
for they overflow all the land either with
their religion or their infamy.
CHRISTIANITY HAS YET MUCH TO WIN.
But look at some of the startling facts
1t is nearly nineteen hundred years since
Jesus Christ came by the way of Bethle.
hem caravansary to save this world, yet
the most of the world has been no more
touched by this most stupendous fact OF
all eternity than if on the first Christmas
night the beasts of the stall, amid the bleat,
ings OF their own young, had not heard the
bleating of the Lamb that was to be slain
Ont Of the eighteen hundred million of the
human race fourteen hundred million are
without God and without hope in the
world, the camel driver of Arabia, Ma
homet, with his nine wives, having half as
many disciples as our blessed Christ, and
more people are worshiping chunks of
painted wood and carved stone than are
worShiping the living and eternal God
Meanwhile, the most Of us who are engaged
in Christian work. speak for myself as
well as others--are toiling up to our full
capacity OF body, mind aud soul, harnessed
up to the lest buckle. not able TO draw
pound more than we are drawing OF lift
an ounce more than we are lifting
What is the matters My text lets out
the secret. We all need more of the power
from on high. Not muscular power, not
logical power, not scientific power. not so
cial power, not financial power. not brain
power. but power from on high. With it