Connecticut western news., 1892-08-11
A GLORIOUS MARCH.
THE SUBJECT OF DR. TAilMAGE'S
 SUNDAY SERMON.

SUNDAY SERMON.
 .'Fair as the Moon Clear as the Sun ners',-The Doctor Passes Busy Week in Scotland.
 LONDON, Aug. 7.-The week, like others that have preceded it since the beginning of Rev. Dr. Talmage's foreign preaching tour, has been very busy one. Indeed since July "A, 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, Aberdeen, Dun- dee, Glasgow, Newcastle and Sunder- land. The sermon for this week is en- titled "The Glorious March," the text being from Solomon's Song vi, 10, "Fair as the moon, clear as the sun and terrible as an army with banners"
 The fragrance of spikenard, the flash of jewels, the fruitfulness of orchards, the luxuriance of gardens, the beauty of Heshbon fish pools, the dew of the night and the splendor of the morning-all contribute 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. If one stockholder become cheat, does that destroy the whole company? If one soldier be coward, does that condemn the whole army? And yet there are many in this day so unphilosophic, so illogical, so dishonest and so unfair as to denounce 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 communications, the world has never yet been able to keep up with the church. As high as God is above man, so high is the church of God higher than all human institutions. From her lamp the best discoveries of the world have been lighted. The best of our inventors have believed in the Christian religion-the Fultons, the Morses, the Whitneys, the Perrys and the Livingstones. She has owned the best of the telescopes and Leyden jars, and while infdelity and atheism have gone blindfolded among the most star tling discoveries that were about to be developed the earth, and the air, and the sea have made quick and magnificent responses to Christian philosophers.
 The world will not be up to the church of Christ until the day when all mer- chandise has become honest merchan- disc, and all governments have become free governments, and all nations evan gelized nations, and the last deaf ear of spiritual death shall be broken open by the million voiced shout of nations born in day. The church that Nebuchad- nezzar tried to burn in the furnace, and Darius to tear to pieces with the lions, and Lord Claverhouse to cut with the sword, has gone on, wading the floods and en- during the fire, until the deepest barbar- ism, and the fercest cruelties, and the blackest superstitions have been com pelled to look to the east, crying, ..Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, ASsAA Skc bAAO AIlOOu, SiCol do bIlC SuIl ttilO terrible as an army with banners?'
 ASHAMED OF HONOR.
 Yet there are people who are ashamed to belong to the church of Christ, and If you ask them whether they are il, such associations they say, "Yes, some times attend the church, instead of re- alizing the fact that there is no honor compared with the honor of being a member of the church of God. look back with joy to the most honored mo- ment of my life, when in the old coun- try meeting house the minister of Christ announced my name as follower of the Lord.
 You who are floating about in the world, seeking for better associations, why do you not join yourself to some of the churches? An old sea captain was riding in the cars toward Philadelphia, and 8 young man sat down beside him. He said, "Young man, where are you going~ '1 am going to Philadelphia to five," replied the young man. Have you letters of introduction" asked the old captain. "Yes," said the young man, and he pulled some of them out. "Well," I" said the old sea captain, "haven't you a church certifcater' "Oh, yes," replied the young man; .I didn't suppose you would want to look at that" "Yes," said the sea captain, "I want to see that. As soon as you get to Philadelphia pre- sent 1t to some Christian church. I am m old sailor, and I have been up and down in the world, and it's my rule as soon as I get into port to fasten my ship fore and aft to the wharf, although it may cost little wharfage, rather than have my ship out in the stream floating hither and thither with the tide"
 Oh, men and women, by the tides of frivolity and worldliness swept this way and swept that way, seeking for associa- Hons and for satisfactions for the i'm mortal soul, come into the church of Jesus Christ. Lash fast to her. She is the pillar and the ground of truth. propose to speak of the threefold glory of the church as it is described in the text:
 First-"Fair as the moon." God, who has determined that everything shall be beautiful in it's season, has not left the night without charm. The moon rules the night. The stars are only set as gems in her tiara. Sometimes, before the sun has gone down, the moon mounts her throne, but it is after nightfall that she sways her undisputed scepter ove, island and continent, river and sea- Under her shining the plainest maple leaves become shivering silver, the lakes from shore to shore look like shining mirrors, and the ocean, under her glance with great tides comes up painting upor the beach, mingling, as it were, foam and fire.
 Under the witchery of the moon tn. awful steeps lose their ruggedness and