The Penn's Grove record., 1891-01-16
REV. DR.. TALMAGE
The Brooklyn INv1ne's srrday
Sermon
Subject; "A Rel g'ons Movement IN
1901"

So
1901
TEXT: "TdrTy De IN the c!ty Of Jerusalem
Until ne be endued ,vith potosr from on
high"-Luke xiv, 80.
For a few months, in the providencs O.
God, | have two pulpits. one in BROOKLYN
and the other in New York, and through tx
kindness OF the printing press an ever
widening opportunity. To all such hearers
and readers l leone with an especial message,
The time has arrived for a forward move.
ment such as the church and the world have
never seen. That thsrs is a need for such 8
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 determined effort to over
throw righteousness, and maSe thu Ten
commandments obsolete and the whole Bible
a derision. Asauvhile alcoholism 10 taking
down its victims by the hundreds OF thou.
sands, aud the political parties get down on
their knees, practically saying: 30 thou al.
mighty rum Jug We bow down before thee
Slve us the orhces-city. State AMI national.
Oh, give US the Offices. and we will worship
thee Tor ever and eyer: Amen"
The Christian Sabbath meanwhile, ap.
pointed for physical, mental and spiritua'
rest, is being secalariEsd and abolished. Al
II the bad publishing houses of our own oouu
~ y N@uNhGtcA bhttE AteI2EY MIN. INT
and Russian sewers nave beeu invited
10 pour their scurrilitv and moral slush int
the trough where u American swine art
nov ~wallowing. Meanwhile there are enough
houses or MANY in all our cities, open and
unmolested of the law. to invoke the omuipo
tent wrath which buried So5on under a de-
OF birthstone. The p~andemoniac world
] think, has massea its troops, and they ara
et TINS moment plying their batteries upoI
IAn1tlV ri lNlQu nhstY4nla afr-Nl.. -. -
p2nticoI circles and naticlal cir sles. Apollyon
Is in the saddle, and riding at toe hesd Of nj,
would capture this world fol-
q woe.
That Is one side Of the conflict now raging,
On tne other side wa havs the most masniE.
cent gospel machinery that the world ever
saw or heaven ever invented. In thu first
place tners are in this country mora than
eigoty thousand ministers OF religion and,
!RSe Them as a clesS, more colsscrar ID,
hoiler, more consistent, more self denying,
more faithful men nsver lived. ] know them
py the thousands. / have met them IL ever
CITY. l am told, not by than, but by peouis
outside OF our profess on, people ~snsageiin
and reformat3Ty work, mat ths
clergy Of America are at the head of all good
enterprises, and whoever else fail they may
be depended on. Tho truth of this is demon.
stratet by the fact that when a minister Of
does fall, it is so exceptional that ths
newspapers report it SIS something startling,
while o hundred men in other callings may
down without the mater being considsreJ
rs especially worth mentioning.
In addition to their equipment IN moral
the clergy Of this country have all
he schools can give. All archaeology
cal, rhetorical, scientific, scholastic, literary
attainment. So much for the Christian
ministry OF all denominations. In tbs next
place on u side of tho conflict we hays ths
erandest clutches OF ell time eni higher
style Of membership aud more OF thsr1, an |
= host without number OF splendid men and
who are doing thsir best to have mis-
purified, elevated. gospaiizs1. But
all feel that something is wanting,
Enough hearty songs have been sung an1
enough earnest ssraIons preacnei within the
last SIX months to save all the cities Of Amer.
and saving the cities you save ths world,
or they overflow all the land eigA1r With
their religion or their infamy.
But lcok at some Of the startling facts.
lt Is nearly nineteen hundred vears siucs
lesus Christ came by tue way of Bethlehem
to save this world, yet the
most Of the world bias been no mora
by this most stupanious fact OF
Ill eternity than If on the first Christmas
night the beasts Of the stall, amid the b!sat-
Ings OF their own young, had not heard the
plesting Of the Lamb that was to b. slain,
.ut Of the eighteen hundred million OF the
human race fourteen hundred million ara
God and without hope in the world,
he camel driver of Arabia, Mahonet, vita
bis nine wives. having half as many discipleS
our blessed Christ, and more people ard
xorshiping chuuss Of painted wool and
'arved stons than are worshiping the living
md eternal God. Meanwhile. ths most OF
Is who are engaged in Christian work-C
speak for myself as well as others-ars toll
ng up to our full capacity Of body, mind and
ioul, barnessed up 10 the last buckle, not
to draw a pound more than we Gre
or lit an Guinea more than we ara
iting.
What Is the natterf My text lets out tia
ecret. We all need more Of the power from
IN high. Not muscular power, not Logical
,ower, not scientific power, not social power.
lot financial power, not brain power, but
from N high With it we could ac-
,ompiisn more in one week than without It
n g hundred years. And1 am going to get
I, If in answer TO prayer. earnest and long
Continued, Sod viii grant ID to me, His I'm.
servant. Men and women who know
low to pray, when you pray for yourself,
ray for re that may be endust With power
on high. I would rather havs iI thar
II the diamond falds o. G~olconia, and all sho
fearls OF the sea, L ell the gold Of tho
mountains. Many OF the mightie:s inteiacts
had a touch Of it, and many OF the less
han ordinary intellscts have bseu surcharged
With II. And every man and woman OF earth
les right TO aspire TO it. e right to pray for
end, proper y persistent, viii obtain 1t.
Power from on t1s leve! is q COOL thing,
ucn power as l may give you, or you may
i've NE. by encouras iny words aud G~otions,
over from on the level when we stand by
ach other in any Christian undertaking.
'ower from on the lsvel when other puluits
re in accord with ours. Power from on tla
svel when tie religious and secular press
onward our Christian undertakings, But
from on the level Is not sGflcienc.
from on high 10 what we nsel to ta,;a
Of US. Power straight from Col.
power, omnipotent power, all
cIquering power. Not more tdaa one out
a thousand OF the m nisters has 10 con.
Iruousiy. Not more t n out OF ten
Christians has it all the tins. Given
abundance, these last tel years CT the
inetsenth century would accomplish more
God, and the church, and ths world thar
previous Ninety yssrs OF this century.
A few ms1 and women IN each age OF tbs
ORD have possessed it. Caroline Fry, the
immortal Q1aEeress. had It, and three han,
red of the depraved and suffering of New
ate prison, under her e~xhortatton, repecteG
nd believed. jonathan Edwards had It, and
meeting house heard the ous |
CrSt OF religious emotion as hs s7s;a ol
and judgment 10 come. Samuel
tie Christian merchant, had It, an
Is beastsctions sboweEei the world. tohu
ewton had IL. Bishop Latiu1sr hEd it. Isa,
Graham had it andrew Fuller had it. |
lie great ey1pgelists Daaiel Baker aul D..
aud Truman Osb7ra and Charles
. kIuuey had il. In nay eoytood / saw Tru-
an Osborn HiSs 70 preach in td7 village |
at SorGerv,!le, n. j., end before be
"a gwen out MS text or rttsral q word
.oP!e in the audience so5hed aloul WITH TO
zlaIs emotion. 1t was ths ra--r
Alta greater or loss degree may lava
Once get 1t and nothing can steui before
%. Salan goes down. Caricatlrs goes
Iuldeiity goes down. Wo-! iiusss
yes down. AL opposition goes down.
times in the history OF the eaurch
ID the world has this power from on hixl
en- demonstrates. In the seventeenth
injury, alter a great season OF moral Do
this power from on higa cane
'wn upon John Tllotson and Owen aa
avel and Baxter and Bunyan, and there
de1r-a Of mercv hizher than thu tops
: the highest mountains Of sin. IN tbs
ghteenth century. in England and America,
iligion was at 9 low water mark. william
owpas, writing o. the clergy Of taess days,
Except q few With Eiis s,iri. b,-1s.
Hophni and PnInsss may describe lie rest
infiel writings Of Shaftssblry ana
obb.s and Cbuoo haa done sasir work.