Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-08-11
DR.. TALMAUE'S TOUR.
a BUSY WEEK IN SCOTLAND AND
NORTHERN ENGLAND.

and Terrible rs an Army with Ban
ners',-Thc Glorious March.
LoNpoN, Aug. THE week, like Others
that have preceded it since the beginning
of Rev. DR.. ralmage's foreign preaching
tour, has been very busy one. Indeed
since July q, when he preached in the
English and American church in Berlin,
while en- route from Russia to Scotland,
Dr. Talmage can scarcely be said to have
had a moments leisure Services have
been held at Edinburgh, Inverness, Aber-
Lecu, Dundee, Glasgow, Newcastle and
Sunderland The sermon for this week is
entitled THE Glorious March" the text
being from Solomon's Song vi, 10, Fair as
the moon, clear as the sun and terrible as
un army with banners"
The fragrance of spikenard, the flash of
jewels, the frutfuluess of orchards, the
luXuriance Of gardens, the beauty of ITesh-
bon fish pools, the dew of the night and
the spleudor of the moruing--all contrib
ute to the richness of Solomon's style
when he comes to speak of the glory of the
church. In contrast with his eulogium Of
the church, look at the denunciatory
things that are said in our day in regard
TO it. II one stakeholder become cheat.
does that destroy the whole companyg If
Ouc SplIltI NC u GONtIu, UOeS NndJ con-
denim the whole army? And yet there are
many in this day so unphilosophic, so illog-
seal. SO dishonest and so unfair as to de
nounce the entire church of God because
there are here and there bad men belonging
TO it.
There are those who say that the church
of God is not up to the spirit of the day in
which we live, but have to tell you that
Notwithstanding all the swift wheels and
the flying shuttles and the lightning COM
municatious, the world has never yet been
able to keep up with the church. As high
| rs God is above man. 50 high is the church
of God-higher than all human institu-
tons. From her lamp the best discoveries
pt the world have been lighted. The best
ri our inventors have believed in the Chris
fian religion-the Fultons, the Morses the
Whitueys, the Perrys and the Living
stones. She has owned the best of the tel
escapes and Leyden jars, and while intdel-
lily and atheism have gone blindfolded
unouc the most startling discoveries that
We're about to be developed the earth, and
the air, and the sea have made quick and
! TGgnihcent responses to Christian philos-
| ppners.
CRTIsT's STANDARD.
The world will not be up to the church
of Christ until the day when all merchan-
disc has become honest merchandise, and
all governments have become free govern
mcnts. and all nations evangelical ma
lions and the last deaf ear of spiritual
death shall be broken open by the million
voiced shout of nations born in Il day. The
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