Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-03
AWAY FROM HOME.
.crus WHICH BEsET THE
Dawes "sTRANGERs IN TOWN."

.vcrRs WHICH BEsET THE
pA'' "sTRANGERs IN TOWN.
sunday In spent I'm the Great
~" yU.tropolix-A Man Cannot Afford
>. Freak the sabbath-Enects Of
summing
prooklyn, N. T., Special.-Before no
audience in the world could such
.srmon rs Rev. DR.. Talmage preached
,odoy be so appropriate as in the
p,ooklyn Tabernacle, where it is esti-
.,,te,l that 10000 strangers attend
every year, 1t was sermon that had
nr them a special interest. The text
.spcted was Matthew XIV, 35, Il was
stranger and We took me in"
Il Is a moral disaster that jocosity
has despoiled SO many passages of
S~inture, and my text is one that has
inferred from irreSerent and mtsapplied
notation. 1t shows great poverty of
rit and humor when people
t,Ec the sword of divine truth
mr game at fencing, or chip
If from the K0hinoor diamond
If inspiration a sparkle to decorate a
md's cap. My text is the salutation
IN ME last Judgment to be given to
those who have shown hospitality, and
Hndness and Christian helpfulness to
Strangers. By railroad and steamboat
ihp population Of the earth are all the
lime in motion, and from one years
and to another, our cities are crowded
with visitors. Every morning on the
racks of the Hudson River, the Penn
ylyania, the Erie, the Long Island
rilroads there come passenger trains
more than I can number, so that all
he depots and the wharves are a.
mmble and a-clang with the coming
IN of great immigration of strangers.
Some of them come for purposes of bar
ter, some for mechanism, some for
artistic qualification, some of the sight
seeing. A, great many of them go out
On the evening trains, and consequently
1.-The city makes but little impression
pon them; but there are multitudes
Who in the hotels and boarding houses,
make temporary residence. They tarry
here for three or four days, or as 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 conscious 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 it in the
right way.
There have glided into this house
those unknown to- others, whose his
tCly, if told, would be more thrilling
han the deepest tragedy, moe exciting
han PATHS song, more bright than IL
pring morning, more awful than a
wintry midnight. If they could stand
up here and tell the story Of their
escapes, and their temptations, and
their bereavements, and their disasters,
+ and their victories, and their defeats,
there would be IN this house such 4
commingling of groans and acclama-
|iois as would make the place unendur-
able.
There is a man, who. in infancy,
| law in a cradle satin-hned. Out yonder
| IS a man who was picked up, a found
| ling on Boston Common. Here is a
man who is coolly observing this relig-
ous service, expecting no advantage
! and caring for no advantage himself;
while yonder is a man who has been
for ten years i'll an awful confagratlon
/ If evil habits, and he is mere Gin
/ der of a destroyed nature, and he is
wondering if there shall be in this
service any escape or help for his i'm
mortal soul. Meeting you only once,
perhaps, face to face. l strike hands
! with YOU in earnest talk about your
,our present condition, and your eternal
we'll being ST. Paurs ship at Mellta
went to pieces where two seas met;
but we stand to day at point where
| a thousand seas converge. and eternity
alone can tell the issue of the hour.
The hotels Of this country, for beauty
and elegance, are not surpassed by the
hotels in any other land; but those
that are most celebrated for brilliarcy
t IF tapestry and mirror cannot give to
the guest any costly apartment, unless
he can afford parlor in addition to
/ his lodging. The stranger, therefore,
will generally find assigned to him
room without any pictures, and perhaps
any rockingham. He will find "a box
Of matches on a bureau, and an old
newspaper left by the previous occu-
pant, and that will be about all the
Onamentation. At Z O'Clock in the
evening, after having taken his repast,
he will look over his morandum
book of the days work; he will write
a letter to his home, and then desper-
alton will seize upon him to get out.
You hear the great city laundering
under your windows, and you say:
Il must. join that procession" and in
len minutes you have Joined it. Where
are you going? s"Oh," you say, Il have
not made up my mind yet" Better
make up you mind before you start.
Perhaps the very way you go now you
will always go. Twenty years ago
here We're two young men who came
Town the Astor house steps. and start
ed out in q wrong direction. where
they have been going ever since.
We'll, where are you going?' says
one man. Il am going to the Academy
% hear some music Good. 1 would
IKE to join you at the door. At the
zap OF the orchestral baton all the gates
harmony and beauty will omen be-