Middletown transcript., 1893-05-13
DR.. TALMAGE
breaches AN ORDINATION SER
MON IN WILMINGTON.
THOUSANDS TURNED AWAY
Unable to Get Inside the Church,, but
are Given a Short Address by the
Eminent Divine-BrIef Synopsis of
the Doctors Sermon With the Text.

The New Castle Presbytery met in West
Presbyterian Church Wednesday afternoon
and accepted the examinations of Chandler
A. Oakes and Albert Edwin Keigwin, and
the ordination sermons followed in the
evening. Rev. DIR. Talmage of the Brook
| lvn Tabernacle, delivered the ordination
sermon, previous to which he addressed
about 1000 people who could not get ad-
mission from the front steps of the church.
This sermon was taken from Daniel
xi. 32-"The people that do know their
God shall be strong and do exploits We
briefly quote this eminent divine as follows:
An exploit I define to be noble achieve
ment, great act, noble deed. Some peo-
pie say if they have chance they will do
exploits. Thank God, the guns will soon
be spiked and the probabilities are thatyou
will never be Napoleon or Wellington.
In the line of inventions and literature you
will probably have no opportunity to do
exploits. You still have three things left
| to do. You do a good deed to save
woman, or man or child.
There is sometime in mans life when he
meets an exigency; it may be social, politi-
cal or domestic If a young man charged
with a crime be created like an old criminal
he will go on getting blacker and blacker
every decade. Why does not lawyer take
this boy and tell him he has done wrong
and give him another chance?
In the court the judge looks around and
asks if any lawyer will take the case,
Dead silence There is no fee in the case
After while lawyer comes up who never
had good case, and never will have, and
takes the case. His advocacy would be
hard on an innocent man. It is case of
weakness helping despair. Why was there
not rush of lawyers to take the case?
What would have been the pleasure to that
young man through all his life?
FORCE OF CIRCUMSTANCES.
think there are few people in the world |
who are bad Intentionally and all the time
Most people are the victims of circum-
stances. One man says; II would not have |
fallen" You old hypocrite, you would |
have been the first to fall
A young man goes into the clothing bust |
ness and fails His stock is sold out and |
swallowed up by an older merchant His |
home is broken up and he drinks to drown |
his cares. Another young man goes into |
business and gets into tight place. An old |
merchant comes in and helps him over the |
difficulty. The young man comes to the |
older merchant in after years and tells him |
of his prosperity and says: "You have |
saved man." The old man is welcomed |
into Heaven, for the news of his having
saved man has gone before him.
INA woMAN's LIFE.
Sometimes an exigency arises in
woman's life. She applies for work in a
factory and the proprietor tells her there
is no place for her, he doesnt believe in
woman anyhow. Perhaps he spoke to
her in way that if he said it to your
daughter or sister you would kill him on
the spot. There are men who advertise
for governesses in families whose actions
show that they are fit for no other place
than hell.
1t is great thing to save man, but a
greater TO save woman. Poor thing; She
was held by a thread and the thread broke. |
The Church does not seem to be engaged in
that kind of work. OF all the bruised souls
that might stretch across the continent every
one can be saved to God, and home and
Heaven.
Man never finds how great woman is
until some crisis If | am wrong about
the nobility of good womanhood 1 hope
the illusion will neve- be broken. You
will have an opportunity to save woman.
If she is in financial difficulty, help her,
If she is living as if there is no Heaven
point her to Jesus.
THE SPIRIT OF MERCY.
We need the spirit of mercy How much
mercy is there in the world? A man does
wrong in the bank or in the church. The
world sends him ont No one wants to be
seen going down the estreet with him.. What
is Gods mercy? No matter how far wrong
he goes God says: Come back.
1t it is hard for man to get back how
much harder it is for a woman? She re
pents; no mercy. She attemps to swim
ashore; you stone her back. She almost
reaches the shore and is about to put her
fingers on the rock, when you crush her
fingers with your heel. Gods mercy is
different. When the people wanted to kill
that woman, Christ said: LET him among
you who is without sin cast the first stone
at her."
TO SAVE A CHILD.
1t is an exploit to save child. A child
does not seem to amount to much. First
year, cannot talk year and half cannot
walk much ten years, cannot earn its own
anything. And then they are so many.
Laughter.
| am glad there are some who think they
are worth something Think what posi-
bilities are in those little hands. 1t is
good thing to save child. If something
is not done for the children of the street
when they become older they will send the
country into anarchy and political dam
nation.
DR.. Talmaee told the story of the engi-
neer who stood on the COW catcher and
caught child from in front of his engine,
There are long trains of disasters going
toward soul, and you can save that soul.
No soul goes to Heaven alone, no soul goes
to ruin alone. 1t is by the power of God
that they may be saved
WHITE FOR THE HARVEST.
The fields ore white for the harvest. More
people go to church EoW than ever did be-
fore. The people Want. Oh .1st. They want
help. The mightiest pnlpits are yet to be
built, the grandest sermons are yet to be
preached, ffoudest ais are jet te
to be raised, These young men will be
banning evangels. / have heard of the
work of one OF thee young men. The
other has assisted me in the work.
DR.. Talmage referred to the ordination of
bis son IN Phiadellpfia and congratulated
Mr Kaigvin upon haEing his son enter the
ministry
He closed with percrotion of the bright.
ness the future:
THAT song OF love now low and far
Fer long snail swell from star to star
That light the breaking day which tips
The golden-sptred Apocalypse"
The charge was delivered by Rev. W,4H. |
Logan, Of Princess Anne;
shipping Tags.