Connecticut western news., 1894-04-12
STRANGERS IN TOWN.
A DISCOURSE OF INTEREST TO THE
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A DISCOURSE OF INTEREST TO THE
 TA5EHNAcLE THRONG.
 Rev. Dr. Talmage Upon Life In . Great City
 csnssnt oe Iafe-A Plea For the Sabbath
 B1ooRIYN, April s.-Before no au- dience in the world could such ser mon as Rev. Dr. Talmage preached to- day be 90 appropriate as in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, where it is estimated that 16O, 900 strangers attend every year. It was a sermon that had for them spe- cil interest. The text selected was Mat thew XIV, 35, II was stranger, and ye took me in. '
 despoiled so many passages of Scripture, and my text is one that has suffered from irreverent and misapplied quotation. It shows great poverty of wit and humor when people take the sword of divine truthAf for game at fencing or chip of from the Kohinoor diamond of inspira- tion sparkle to decorate fools cap. My text is the salutation in the last judgment to be given to those who have Rh0Wn hospitality and kindness and Christian helpfulness to strangers. By railroad and steamboat the population of the earth are all the time in motion, and from one years end to another our cities are crowded with visitors
 Every morning on the tracks of the Hndson River, the Pennsylvania, the Erie, the Long Island railroads there come passenger trains more than I can number, so that all the depots and the wharves are G. rumble and a-clang with the. coming in of great immigration of strangers. Some of them come for pur- pooes of barter, some for mechanism, some for artistic qualification, some for sightseeing. A great many of them go out on the evening trains, and conse- quently the city makes but little impress sion upon thems but there are multi tudes who in the hotels and boarding houses make temporary residence. They taxry here for three or four days or as many weeks. They spend the days in the stores and the evenings in sightsee, ing Their temporary stay will make or break them not only financially, but mor ally, 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 mnmy this momenk Idesire more espe- cialiy to speak to them. May God give me the right word and help me to utter it in the right way.
 STRANGERS WITHIN THE GATES.
 There have glided into this house those unknown to others whose history If told would be more thrilling than the deepest tragedy more exciting than Pat h's song. more bright than spring morning, more awful than a wintry midnight. If they could stand up here and tall the story of their escapes, and their temptations, and their bereaye- ments, and their disasters, and their vic- tories. and their defeats, there would be 1n this house such Q commingling of groans and acclamations as would make the place uncomfortable.
 There is man who in infancy, lay in a cradle satin lined. Out wonder is man who was picked up a foundling on Boston common. Here is man who is ooolly observing this religious service, OAkSCCbAA& uO u0S0Ab86O SAnu~ OtSl 1n8 AOA no advantage for himself, while wonder is man who has been for 10 years in an awful confagration of evil habits, and he is mere cinder of destroyed na- ture. and he is wondering if there shall be in this service any escape or help for his immortal soul Meeting you only onee perhaps face to face, strike hands will you in m earnest talk about your present condition and your eternal we'll being St Paul s ship at Melita went to pieces where two seas meet, but we stand today at point where 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 brilliancy of tap estTy and mirror cannot give to the guest any costly apartment unless he can afford a parlor in addition to his lodg ing The stranger, therefore, will gen orally find assigned to him a room with out any pictures and perhaps any rock ing chair. He will find box of matches on bureau and an old newspaper left by the previous occupant, and that will be about all the ornamentation. At 2 o'clock in the evening, after having talk on his repast, he will look over his mem- orandum book of the day's work, he will write Q letter to his home, and then @ desperation will seize upon him to get out You hear the great city laundering under your windows, and you say, "I must join that procession" and in 10 tocx hoxr ;<sv you going? ''Oh," you say, Il haven't made up my mind yet" Better make up your mind before you start. Perhaps the very way you go now you will al- ways go Twenty years ago there were two young men who came down the As tor House steps and started out in a wrong direction, where they have been going ever since
 STUDIES OF HUMAN LIFE
 Well, where are you going?' says one man. Fl am going to the academy, to hear some music. Good I would like to join you at the door. At the tap of the orchestral baton all the gates of harmony and beauty will open before your soul l congratulate you Where arc you going? Well, '' you say, 1T am going up to see some advertised pie lures Good should like to go along with you and look over the same cata- logue and study with you Kensett and Bierstadt and Church and Moran. Moth ing more elevating than good pictures Where are you going? Well, you say, .'I am going up to the Young Mems Christian association rooms. ? Good You will fnd there gymnastics to strengthen the muscles, and books to inn prove the mind, and Christian influence to save the soul wish every city in the United States had as fine palace for its Young Mems Christian association as New York has Where are you go- ing? Well" you say, ''I am going to take a long walk up Broadway and 30 turn around into the Bowery. lam go- l---- q. A