The Penn's Grove record., 1893-11-17
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S sun
DAY SERMON.
Subject. "oblivlon aud Its Defeats.


TExrs: "Es shall be no more remeq.
bered.2 Job vxiv., 20 "The righteous shaf
be in Everlasting remembrance, Psalms cxli.
6.
HObliyion and Its Defeats is my subject
To-day. There Is an old monster that swal-
| lows down everything. 1t crUnches inli-
| yiduals. families, communities. States, Ma
tiops. continents. hemisphere. worlds. Its
diet is male up OF years. Of centuries. OF
| ages, of cycles, Of millenniuns, Of cons.
That monster is called by Noah Webster and
all the other dictionarianS oblivion. Il is Il
| steep down which everything rolls. II is n
| confagration in which everything is con-
| sumed. 1t Is a dirge in which all orchestra5
| play and a period ut which everything stops.
1t is the cemetery OF the human rIce. 1t is
the domain OF forgetfulness. Oblivion At
times II throws a shadow over all OF u, AMI
[ would not pronounce it to-day If | did not
come armed in the strength OF the eternal
God on your behalf to attack it, to rout it, &c
demolish it.
Why, Just look at the way the families OF
the earth disappear. For awhilethey ARE to-
| pether. ~inseparable and TO each other indis-
| pensable. and then they part. ONE by mar
| riaya eoing to establish other homes. ant
some leave this life, and a century is long
| enough to plant a family, develop it, prosper
| it and obliterate it, So the generations van
ish.
Walk up BroalWay, Ne" lorN StiteslreGt,
Boston Chestnut street tHlaiI,paia Tue
Strand, London ;PrlncesS' lrret' LnlnnHrSh
Champs Eiysees, PariS inter dth Llhihh,
| Berlin. and YOU will meet in this year 1898
| not one person who walked 1t in 1893. What
e1gulfmenti All the ordinary effort mt per-
petultion are dead ta'lures' NAtef Scouts
''Oid Mortality may 60 funnl with ms
chisel to recent me iauel 'lhlaPI7 gu to,no-
stones, but pa OBLIVION mas Il 4uicNer gnlsgl
with which he can cut oMt Il thousand cpl
taphs while '0id MortaltS Scouting IN one
| epitaph. Whole libraries OF biographies de-
voured OF or unread Of Inc rising
generations
All the signs OF tine st9f's anu warehouses
of great firms nave chtl2el' uhIess the
%grandsons think thatlt is an WIvahEaSe 10
| keep the old sign up, oe'NI7' W. htll5 Oh
the ancestor was more r''li', "o'S nan
the name OF the desceh ialt. Inc ety Oh
Roma stands to-day, but Dig down deep
enough II you come 70 a3oth'f ROM,
buried, n go DOWN sun af"ier anu you
will find a third Rome. Jerusalem Stalusto-
day, but dig down deep enough ana you VIII
find q Jerusalem undernst'H; ana 20 on anu
deeper down a third JeruS hfh. AieNlhirli
on the top OF an Alexandria ana TIE seooui
on the top OF the tnlrd.
Many OF the ancient cities are hnrieI tnirty
! feet deep, or fifty deep, or lOj leet. n
was the matter! Any SPECIAL 'aIihltyf NO.
The winds and waves AMI SANDS I'M ASLhS
dust are all undertakes an grave dlSgerS,
and IL the world stands I9a' enough tne
present Brooklyn and New YORK ahl LohHon
VIII nave on Top OF theH u'n,F p.JJN'sns
and New Horks and Lontons' anu ohly aver
digging and boring ana bi!slInS VIII the
archRoloEist OF far distant r'htUrl57 cohs
down as lar as the hiSheSt spires an uoilei
ana turrets OF cur pfF7'h' N"'i''" ~
European cities.
Callthe ron OF tiH ARM ~ PtltMll l.!
or Of Charles Martei, Or % y .'tpoLuu5n, y
OF M!thrldates, or OF fr'h r. 'er'eN' oLo'
Cortes. and not one answer VIII YOU npn''
Stand them in lineanf eau tA1 ron OF ,oUo,-
600 men IN the army OF lleDts, ~ zoo n
answer. slant them IN llhf. inc :t11'yoV
Infantry and the z0l,O U chFalry OF tHe A.
syrian army under Minus. an eau rue foonn;
Not n answer. stand m il'e lne t'vVU'oUo
men otSssostris, tee ,2ol.ulI men o.. ArtaA-
erxes at Gnn9xa, the z'otl VoI nlei me- mnt
Xerxcs at Tn~ermopyie, ana cal Tue long
roll. Not one answer.
AT the opening OF our eiVu "tF tno Iieh
the Northern AMI southefh ae'alts wet9 1 I"ii
that II they iell IN patrie lhf'F MINUS mouLt
never be forgotten by tnelt r'Iolry. Vut u
the million men VINO ieii Ia n@ll1 OF II u
military hosptalS, You c!Ll'' ''l y n'nt.
VI App'f AN 49, ~ t.-.--I
oil lU0, nor me names OF nay
Are the feet OF the dancers VINO were AZ u
ball OF the Duchess OF HIrh'n'hI at bTussei7
the night BEFORE Waterlopa at SUM an ntni'
Are all ths ears that heart tl7 Euh7 y Du III.
ker Till All ueat! All dehl' A'T I1o ~ ? no
saw the coronation OF SeotSe ~, at 1onrs
All closed. OBLIVION A huhureu seSts
earth that knew we ever lVei' u,ora,nt
In some old family record a descendant
studying up the ancestral lhe may sPeii o ot
our name, ana from tMf "5HiiS ~ y 81
with great effort, ma that SUM Pol ION
our name was born somewhere pat"oeH =,
and lS9o, nut they VIII know no. lnoho ohiISH;s
us h a we know ABOUT the eo!Tr OIL q D.
eyes born iast IN u r,,' -,rr ,raat-
COMA. Tel me sonlethlhg hpout Sout VIZ
grandfather. What were his ieatureSE Mhat
did ne doE what year was ne poin. ,-onJ-
year did ne dleI Ana your stont-S ~
motner. VIII you descrl9e III a'Jnd vonr
mai sue wore, ana now uiu II ~.
grea~t-Srandiatner ger on N a maotber or
compantonsmpf was 1t M"''u
s,r,o ro,Is owe,
OBLIVION! nlat mountain $3.50 = dving
everything. Even the pyramid5 afe uyNs ~
NOT Il aay passes put tnere - ~ trjI,mnbinc
chip Of mat granite. Inc sca . a TnnaS
over theland, and what Is gong N ~ So 10y
Island IS gong on all around tue W., "'
eeontihenis are cruaioinS -, tba outsi5e
ana whiie tnis Is tfahsPirlnS On IN ator0ai ire
OF the world the hot ehlsol OF tne e \ .ba Earth
is digging Under the iouAlati9u DO u a1rfacs
and cutting Its way out toWarI t"o tbay d.
II surprises me TO netr PeoPtI s" 'bHrned
not think the world viii many pe tSat II
up, when all scientists wiz suh Soa 10 oniv
mas lot ages neen on hfe. WY; nacas inside
a crust petWeen US ana tho i""
raging 70 get u ILL ali ;pto
oblivion h world 1seiL Nm r,bber hall
1t as easily as a schoolooy lnui" rorJJ goes
rolls down a hill, and when our woatj itafion
1t is SO lnterlocked blythe law 9' .nn and
with other worlds that they WIN ~, yTt
so lar rom having our memory FL in this
by a monumen OF Aberdeen s laItto ~ onr
world there is no world IN Ssnt nedi-
strongest telescope that VIII pea II the
ment Tor any slab OF commemorate III 0nT
iact that we ever llVed or uITt us at-ea nj
EARN Is strnck with death' Ans In+ down
the consultations Will break anI "t ctaIior
the population OF other owMT 3riD If can
Iunals soar m0rtahny' OI rolaxies Of
sWai,ow anu VIII swaiioM nSiie taxes down
WORLDS as easily az u cro0'
q lFos, or swallow
let oonvloh does n9e Lo nt be removed or
ahytnlhg that naa pslter ~ 10 "a ,valcons to
swallowed. Inc OLD mohsi5' ior" 400 have
ms meal. ms woria wouiu u Ian Tor Inc
| been ON~6fcrOWueu IL II udl "