Connecticut western news., 1891-01-07
A NEW YEARS SERMON.
PREACHED BY DR TALMAGE, SUN
 DAY, JAN. 4, 1891.

DAY, JAN. 4, 1891.
 He Describes a. Forward Movement-The
 Conflict Between Right and Wrong.
 Christians Should Not Lose Courage,
 but Should Press on to Victory.
 BROOKLYN, Jan. 4.-Dr. Talmage's New Years sermon is a ringing battle cry to ministers and Christians every where, calling upon them to join in combined charge on the intrenchlnents of sin and Satan. It made deep i'm pression on the vast crowds who heard it in this city this morning. and at The Christian Herald service tonight in New York The enthusiasm at the lat ter service was increased by the effect. i've aid rendered by large voluntees choir which has been organized from the audiences, who sung with volume and fervor seldom equaled. After the singing of the hymn commencing,
 Come. Holy Spirit, heavenly dove.
 With all thy quickening powers,
 Dr. Tallnage preached the following sermon from the text Luke xxiv. 49, ''Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem un- til ye be endued with power from on high:'
 For few months. in the providence of God. have two pulpits, one in Brook lyn and the other in New York, and through the kindness of the printing press an ever widening opportunity. To all such hearers and readers ] come with an especial message. The time has arrived for forward movement such as the church and the world have never seen. That there is need for such 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 overthrow right eousness and make the Ten Command lnents obsolete and the whole Bible a derision Meanwhile alcoholism is talk ing down it's victims by the hundreds of thousands, and the political parties get down on their knees. practically saying 70 thou almighty rum jug we bow down before thee Give us the offices. city. state and national. Oh. give us the offices and we will worship thee for ever and ever, Amen"
 The Christian Sabbath meanwhile, appointed for physical. mental and spiritual rest, is being secularized and abolished. As If the bad publishing houses of our own country had ex hausted 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 infalny in all our cities. open and unmolested of the law, to invoke the omnipotent wrath which buried Sodom under a deluge of birthstone. The pandelno niac world, think, has nassed it's troops, and they are this moment ply ing 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 CHRISTIAN SIDE OF THE FIGHT That Is one side of the conflict now raging. On the other side we have the most magnificent gospel machinery that the world ever saw or heaven ever in vented. In the first place, there are in this country more than so. GOO ministers of religion. and, take them as class, l more consecrated, holier. more consist l ent, more self denying, more faithful men never lived know them by the l thousands have met them in every l city. am told, not by them, but by people outside our profession, people engaged in Christian and reforlnatory work. that the clergy of America are | at the head of all good enterprises, and whoever else fail they may be depend ed on. The truth of this is delnonstrat- ed by the fact that when a minister of | religion does fail, it is SO exceptional that the newspapers report it as some thing startling while hundred men in other callings may go down without the matter being considered as espe- cially worth mentioning.
 In addition to their equipment in moral character the clergy of this country have all that the schools can give. All archaeological. rhetorical. scientific, scholastic, literary attain ment. So much for the Christian min, istry of all denominations In the next 1 place, on our side of the conflict we have the grandest churches of all time, and higher style of membership and more of them, and a host without nun Der of splendid men and women who are doinr their best to have this world purified, elevated, gospelized. But we all feel that something is wanting
 Enough hearty songs have been sung and enough earnest sermons preached
 within the last six months to save al the cities of America; and saving the cities you save the world, for they over
 flow all the land either with their re
 ligion or their infamy.
 SOME STARTLING FACTS.
 But look at some of the startling
 facts. 1t is nearly nineteen hundred years since Jesus Christ came by the
 way of Bethlehem 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 ii
 on the first Christmas night the beast:
 of the stall. amid the bleatings of theil
 own young, had not heard the bleatine | of the aIOh thof wac tn ha Sl,ip Orr,