Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-04-12
AT THE TABERNACLE
"sTRANeERs IN TOWN" WAS REV.
DR.. TALMAeE,s SUBJECT. :

"STRANeERs IN TOWN" WAS REV.
DR.. TALMAeE's SUBJECT.
It Was From the Text, 'T Was . Stranger,
and Ye Took Me In'.-where the Stranger
should and should Not Go-;Exploring
City's Iniquities.
BRooKLYN, April s.-Before no audi
.ence in the world could such sermon as
Rev. DR.. Talmage preached today be so
appropriate as in tho Brooklyn Tabernacle,
where it is estimated thnt $50, 900 stran-
gers attend every year. It was sermon
that had for them a special interest. The
text selected was Matthew XIV, IS, "I was
q stranger, and ye took me In"
1t is q moral disaster that jocosity has
despoiled so many passages of Scripture,
and my text ts one that has suffered from
irreverent and misapplied quotation. 1t
shows great poverty of wit and humor when
people take tho sword Of divine truth for
a game at fencing or chip of from the
Kohinoor diamond Of inspiration spar
kle to decorate FOOLS cap. Ny text Is the
salutation In the last Judgment to be CIV
en- to those who have shown hospitality
and kindness and Christian helpfulness
to strangers.
BY railroad and steamboat the popula-
tion Of the earth are all the time In mo-
tion, and from one years end to another
our cities are crowded with visitors.
Every morning on the tracks OF the
Hudson river, the Pennsylvania, the Erie,
the Long Island railroads, there come pas
senger trains more than can number, so
that all the depots and the wharves are
a-rumble and a-elang with the coming In
of great immigration OF strangers Some
of them come for purposes Of barter, some
for mechanism, some for artistic gratifica-
tion, some for sightseeing. A great many
of them 20 out on the evening trains, and
consequently the city makes but little i'm
preston upon them, but there are multi
tudes who, in the hotels and boarding
houses, make temporary residence They
tarry here for three or four days, or az
many weeks. They spend the days in the
stores and the evenings In sightseeing.
Their temporary stay will make or break
them not only financially, but morally,
for this world and the world that Is to
come. Multitudes of them come into our
morning and evening services. am con-
scious that stand in the presence of many
this moment desire more especially to
speak to them. May God give me the right
word and help me to utter 1t In the right
way.
MORE AWFUL THAN wIETRY MIDNIGHT.
There have glided into this house those
unknown to others, whose history, II told
u hn
tragedy, more exciting than PATHS song
more bright than a spring morning, mort
awful than wintry midnight II they
could stand up here and tell the story o.
their escapes, and their temptations ant
their bereavements, and their disasters
and their victories, and their defeats, Their
would be in this house such commin
Cling Of groans and acclamations as woul'
make the place unendurable.
There is man who, in infancy, lay in
cradle satin lined Out yonder is NAL
who was picked up, foundling, on Bos
ton common. Here Is q man who is COOL,
observing this religious service, expecting
no advantage and caring for no advantag
for himself, while yonder Is man VIII
has been for 10 years In an awful confia
grafton of evil habits, and he is mere Gin
der of destroyed nature and he is won
dering If there shall be in this service an
escape or help for his immortal soul. Meet
ing you only once perhaps face to face,
strike hands with you in an earnest tai
about your present condition and your ete1
nal well being. st. Paul's ship at Melit
went to pieces where two seas meet, at W
stand today at point where thousan
seas converge, and eternity alone can te
the issue of the hour.
The hotels of this country for beaut
and elegance are not surpassed by the he
tells In any other land, but those that al
most celebrated for brilliancy Of tapestr
and mirror cannot give to the guest an
costly apartment unless he can afford
parlor in addition to his lodging. Th
stranger, therefore, will generally find q:
signed to him room without any picture
and perhaps any rocking chair. He will fin
box Of matches on bureau, and an ol
newspaper left by the previous occupan
and that will be about all the ornaments
tion At o'clock in the evening, aftt
having taken his repast he will look ovt
his memorandum book of the days worl
he will write letter to his home, an
then desperation will seize upon hil
to get out. You hear tho great city thu
dering under your windows, and you sa.
~ must join that procession" and in
minutes you have joined 1T. Where q;
you going2 "Oh," you say, II haven
made UP my mind yetp' Better make U
your mind before you start. Perhaps ii
very way you go now you will always g
Twenty years ago there were two your
men who came down the Astor Hou