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AT THE TABERNACLE.
DR.. TALMAGE DRAWS LESSONS FROM
THE WEDDING FEAST.


cry Proper Relation In Life.
BROOKLYN, April 16.-Rev. DR.. Talmage
IN his sermon in the Brooklyn Tabernacle
this forenoon spread before the great audi
ence in eloquent words the beauty and at
Effectiveness of the gospel feast, the text
rhoscn being from Luke xiv, Is, "And they
all with one consent began to make excuse"
After the invitations to levee are sent
out the regrets come in. One man apollo
gizcs for nonattendance on one ground, an
other on another ground. The most of the
regrets are founded on prior engagements.
SO in my text great banquet was spread,
the invitations were circulated, and now
The regrets come in.
The one gives an agricultural reason, the
other a stock dealers reason, the other
domestic reason-all poor reasons. The
agricultural reason being that the man had
bought farm and wanted to see it. Could
be not see it the next day? The stock deal
ers reason being that he had bought five
yoke 81 oxen and he wanted to go and
prove them. He had no business to buy
Them until he knew what they were. Be
hides that a man who can own five yoke of
oxen can command his own time. Besides
that, he might have yoked two Of them to-
gether and driven them on the way to the
banquet, for locOmoton was not as rapid
then as now. The man who gave the do
nestle reason said he had got married. He
ought to have taken his wife with him.
The fact was, they did not want to go.
And they all with one consent began to
make excuse" So now God spreads n
great banquet. 1t is the gospel feast, and
the table reaches across the hemispheres,
and the invitations 90 out, and mutitudes
come and sit down and drink out of the chal-
ices of Gods love, while other multitudes
decline coming--the one giving this apollo
gy and the other giving that apology. And
they all with one consent began to make
excuse" propose this morning, so far az
God may help me, to examine the apollo
gies which men make for not entering the
Christian life.
RELIGION HAS MADE RECORD.
Apology the First-I am not sure there is
anything valuable in the Christian reli-
Eion. 1t is pleaded that there are SO many
impositions in this day-so many things
that seem to be real are sham. A glded
outside may have Il hollow inside. There
is SO much quackery in physics, in ethics,
in politics, that men come to the habit of
incrcdulity, and after awhile they allow
that incredulity to collide with our holy
religion.
made a pretty good record in the world.
How many wounds it has salved how
many pillars of fire it has lifted in the mid
night wilderness; how many simeon struck
Saharas it hath turned into the gardens of
the Lord; how it hath stilled the chopped
sea, what rosy light it hath sent streaming
through the rift of the storm cloud wrack;
what pools OF cool water it hath gathered
for thirsty Hagar and Ishmael; what man
ma whittier than coriander seed it hath
dropped all around the camp of hardly be-
stead pilgrims; what promises it hath sent
out like holy watchers to keep the lamps
burning around deathbeds through the
darkness that lowers into the sepulcher,
what flashes of resurrection mOrn
Besides that this religion has made so
many heroes. 1t brought Summerfeld, the
Methodist, across the Atlantic ocean with
his silver trumpet to blow the acceptable
year Of the Lord until it seemed as if all
our American cities would take the king
dom Of heaven by violence 1t sent Jehudi
Aslman into Africa alone, in a continent
of naked barbarians, to lift the standard of
civilization and Christianity, 1t made John
Milton among poets, Raphael among paint
Prs, Christopher Wren among architects
ThOrWaldseu among sculptOrs, Handel
among musicians, Dupont among military
commentaries. AND t f,i1-. ,e,,. v.i,r,s 70 h N
in1,,(iration and hattsr baIancetnfh a i,,dl,'
r,n,'r a,,I ,,r, Observation-Disclosures ~ tI,o Iii
and ,rI.antnr u.nf,,Ins.s ~ tbo lifo onI
,,,ondor nnIitit,tn tLe sonl thora ie ro r''i,
inu in I'll ,,o,l, Ill, ON. C,iri.ti, r,ii
,,iG,
wrpr THY All Drcr1vrn9
Nothing in rclirion, WHY then oil
those Christians were deceived when in
their diving moment they thought they
saw the castles of the blessed, and YOUR
child, that with mutterable agony you put
away into the grave YOU will never see him
again nor hear his sweet voice nor feel the
throb of his young heart? There is moth
ing in religion! Sickness will come upon
you Roll and turn on your pillow. No
relief. The medicine may be bitter, the
night may be dark the pain may be sharp.
No relief Christ never comes to the sick
room. Let the pain stab. Let the fever
burn. Curse it and die. There is nothing
in religion!
After awhile death will come Won will