Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-05
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
NEW YEARS SERMON BY REV. Or.
TALMAGE.


BROOKLYN, Jan. 4.-Dr. Talmage's New
Years sermon is ringing battle cry to
ministers and Christians everywhere, call
ing upon them to join in combined
Charge on the intrenchments of sin and Sa-
tan 1t made u deep impression on the
vast crowds who heard it in this city this
morning, and Mt The Christian Herald ser
vice tonight in New York The enthusi-
asm at the latter service was increased by
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,
DR.. Talmage preached the following SER
mon from the text, Luke xiv, 40, "Tarry
ye in the city Of Jerusalem until We be en-
dued with power from on hight"
For a few months, in the providence Of
God have two pulpits one in Brooklyn
and the other in 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 a for
ward movement such as the church and
the world have never seen, That there is
need for such n 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.
termined effort to overthrow righteous
mess, and make the Ten Commandments
obsolete and the whole Bible a derision
Meanwhile alcoholism is taking down its
victims by the hundreds of thousands, and
the political parties get down on their
knees, practically saying; 80 thou al
mighty rum jug we bow down before
thee Give us the ofIices-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
rest is being secularized and abolished
AS if the bad publishing houses of our
own country had exhausted their literary
filth, the French and Russian sewers have
been invited to pour their scurrility 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 his myrmidons would capture
this world for darkness and woe.
THE MINISTER'S OF 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 a 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 as something startling, while hun
dred men in other callings may go down |
pecially worth mentioning
In addition TO their equipment in moral |
character the clergy of this country have |
all that the schools can give All archmo.
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
Gct we have the grandest churches of all |
time and higher style of membership and !
more of them, and 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 that
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.
Out 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
moro people are worshiping chunks Of
painted wood and carved stone than are
the living and eternal God.
Meanwhile, the most of us who are engaged
in Christian work. speak for myself as
we'll as others-are toiling up to our full
capacity of body, mind and soul, harnessed
up to the last buckle, not able to draw
pound more than we are drawing or lift
an ounce more than we are lifting.
What is the matter? My text lets out
lhe secret. We all need more of the power
rom on high. Not muscular power, not
ogical power, not scientific power, not So
,ial power, not financial power, not brain
power, but power from on high. With it
We could accomplish more in one week
han without it in n hundred years Ana
am going to get it, if in answer to prayer, ,
,arnest and long continued, God will ,
grant it me, his unworthy servant. Men
md women who know how to pray, when
'ou pray for yourself, pray for me that (
may be endued with power from on .
nigh. would rather have it than all the |
diamond fields of Golconda, and all the !
,earls of the sea, and all the gold of the {
Many of the mightiest intel |
Gets never had "A touch of it, and many of |
he less than ordinary intelects have been |
with it. And every man AMI c
woman on earth has right to aspire to 1t,