Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-09-17
JOYS OF RELIGION.
DR.. TALhIAGE FINDS INFINITE PLEAS
URE IN CHR!ST'S SERVICE.

BRooKLYE, Sept. 16.--Rev. Dr.. Tai
mage, who is still absent on his round
the world tour, has selected as the sub
sect Of his sermon through the press for
today ''HCly Compulsion," the text
being Luke xiv, %, ''And compel them
to come in. -
The pIainest people in our day have
luz,uries which the kings and queens Of
oldan times never imagined. walked
up and down the stairs Of Holyrood pal
ece-a palace that was considered one
of the wonders Of the world-and I
said, ''Can it be possible that this is all
3here was Of this reputed wonderful
place." And this is the case in many
other instances There are fruits III
Westohester county and on Long Island
farms far better than the pomegranates
and apricots Of Bible times Through
all the ages there have been scenes Of
festivity, and the wealthy man of my
text plans q great entertainment and
invites his friends. If one builds beau
tifuI home, he wants his acquaintance
to come and enjoy it. If one buys an
exquisite picture, he wants his friends
to come and appreciate it, and it was q
laudable thing when the wealthy man
OF my text, happy himself, wanted to
make other people happy. And SO the
invitations went out, but something
Went very much wrong. You can i'm
agine the embarrassment Of any one
who has provided a grand feast when
he finds out that the guests invited do
intend +0 TTboTa ic T1o+HiT7cy
that 50 provoke5 the master Of the feast
as that.
Well, these people invited to this
grea5 banquet Of the text made most
frivolous excuses. The fact was, I sup
pose, that some Of them were offended
that this man had succeeded SO much
better in the world than they had.
There are people in all occupations and
professions who consider it q wrong TO
them that anybody else is advanced.
suppose these people invited to the feast
said among themselves: eve are not
going to administer to that mans van
ity. He is proud enough now. We
won Z 80. Besides that we could all give
parties if We made our money the way
that man makes his. "
So when the messengers went out
with the invitations there was q Unan-
imous refusal. One man said, ooh, I
have bought q farm, and / must go and
look at it. - He was land Spectator
and had 10 business to buy land until
he knew abOut Ii. 4 frivolous excuse.
Another man said, IT have bought five
yoke Of oxen. - The probability is that
he was q SPECTATOR in live stock. He
ought to have known about the oxen
before he bought them. Besides that, if
he had been very anxious to get to the
feast, he could have hooked them up and
driven them on the road there. Another
frivolous excuse. Another man said,
ooh, have married wife, and can't
come % when If he had said to his wife,
81 have al invitation to splendid din
ner. It is highly complimentary to me.
I should very much like to go. VIII you
go along with ne?" she would have
said ITO be sure, l viii go" Another
frivolous excuse. The fact was that they
did not want to so.
>/Is-ina In the Lovgly.
''Noyv, " said the great man Of the
feast, - viii rot be defeated in this
matt6r. : have with an honest purpose
provided q banquet, and there are scores
OF people who would like to come il
they were only invited. Here, my man,
here; you 90 Out, and when you find @
blind man give him your arm and fetch
him IL, and when you find q lame man
give him a crutch and fetch him in, and
when you find q Door man tell him that
there is plate for him in my mansion,
and when you find some one who is SO
ragged and vretched that he has never
been invited anywhere then by the kind
est tenderness and the most loving in
vir;.tion any one ever had compel him
to come il.
Oh, my friends, it requires no acute
ness Oh my part or on your part to see
in ali this affair that religion is q ban
quet The table was set in Palestine q
good many years ago. and the disciples
gathered around it, and they thought
they would have q good time all by
themselves, but while they sat by this
table the leaves began to grow and
spread, and one leaf went to the east
and another leaf went TO the west until
the whole earth was covered up with
them, and the clusters from the heaven
" vineyard were piled up on the board,
and the trunpets and harps of eternity
made up the orchestra, and as this wine
Of God IS pressed to the lips Of sin
ming, bleeding, suffering, dying, groan-
ing world . voice breaks from the heav-
ems, saying: Drink, o friends Yea,
drink, O belOvedr' O blessed Lord
Jesus, the best friend 7 ever had, the
best friend any man ever had, was
there ever such d table? Was there ever
Luch banquet?
From the cross uplifted high.
Where the Saviour deigns to die,
What llelOdious sounds hear
Bursting on the ravished ear!