The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-19


(EGA the time fixed for open
NG0TSV ing the services. Rev.
CNQ y DR.. Talmage took for his
(99R Z subject. 'Srhe Glorious
10 Gospel" the text chosen
being: According to the
glorious gospel of the blessed God
which was committed to my trust. -
Tim, Iii
The greatest novelty of our time is
the gospel It is so old that it is new.
AS potters and artists are now attempt
ing to fashion pitchers and cups and
curious ware like those of 1900 years
ago recently brought up from buried
Pompeii, and such cups and pitchers
and curious ware are universally ad-
mired, so anyone who can unshovel
the real gospel from the mountains of
stuff under which it has been buried,
will be able to present something that
will attract the gaze and admiration
and adoption of all the people. It is
amazing what substitutes have been
presented for what my text calls 1.-THE
Glorious Gospel" There has been an
hemisphere apostasy. There are many
/ people in this and all other large as
semblageS who have no more idea or
what the gospel really is than they
have of what is contained in the four
teenth chapter of Zend-Avesta, the BIZ
BILE of the Hindoo, the first copy Of
which I ever saw I purchased in Cal
cutta, India, last September. The old
gospel is fifty feet under and the work
has been done by the shovels of those
| who have been trying to contrive the
! philosophy of religion. There is no phil
| oSophy about it. It is a plain matter OF
| bible statement and of child-liI1e faith.
| Some of the theological seminaries have
/ been hotbeds Of infidelity, because they
| have tried to teach the philosophy of
religion By the time that many
| young theological student gets half
| through his preparatory course he is
so filled with doubts about plenary in
spiration and the divinity of Christ and
| the questions of eternal destiny that
| he is more fit for the lowest branch in
the infant class of a Sunday school
than to become a teacher and leader of
the people. The ablest theological pro-
lessor is a Christian mother, who out
of her own experience can tell the four
year-old how beautiful Christ was on
earth and how beautiful he is in heaven
and how dearly he loves little folks and
| then she kneels down and puts one arm
around the boy and with her somewhat
! faded cheek against the roseate cheek
| of the little one, cOnsecrateS him for
time and eternity to him who said, "Suf-
| fer them to come unto me-" What an
awful work Paul made with the D. D. s
and the LII. D. s and the T. R. SIS when
he cleared the decks of the old gospel
ship by saying: mot many wise men.
not many noble, are called, but God
hath chosen the weak things of the
world to confound the mighty
There sits the dear old theoIog ian
with his table piled up with all the
great books on inspiration and exegesis
and apologetics for the Almighty and
writing out his own elaborate work on
the philosophy of religion, and his little
grandchild coming up to him for good
night kiss, he accidentally knocks off
the biggest book from the table and it
fails on the head of the child of whom
Christ himself said: "Out of the mouths
of babes and stockings thou hast per-
fected praise" All! my friends the
bible wants no apologetics. The throne
of the last judgment wants no apollo
getics. Eternity wants no apologetics
Scientists may tell US that natural light
is the ''propa cation of fluctuations in
an elastic medium and thus set in vi
bratory motion by the action of lumin-
Gus bodieS;" but no one knows what
gospel light is until his own blind eyes
by the touch of the Divine Spirit have
opened to see the monday of pardon
and peace. Scientists may tell US thai
natural sound is 'tl1e effect of an i'm.
preston MADE on the organs OF hearing
by an impulse of the air, caused by
collision of bodies or by other means; >
but those only know what the gospe
sound is who have heard the voice O.
Christ directly saying: '"Thy sins ar,
forgiven thee; go in peace" The thee
logical dude unrolls upon the plush o
the exquisitely carved pulpit a Learned
discourse showing that the garden O
Eden was an allegory and Solomon
song a rather indelicate love ditty ant
the book of Job a drama in which satan
was the star actor and that Renan wa
three-quarters right about the miracle
! Of Jesus and that the bible was gradu
1 ally evoluted and the best thought O
| the different ages. Moses and David an
Paul doing the best they could unde
the circumstances and therefore to b
encouraged. Lord of heaven and earth
get us out of the London fog of highe
= criticismI
The night is dark and the way
rough and we have lantern which Go
has put in our hands; but instead Q
employing that lantern to show ou1
selves and others the right way we ar
discussing lanterns, their shape, thei
size, their material and which is tn
better Hght-kerosene, lamp oil or car
die; and while we discuss it we stan
all around the lantern so that we shr
out the light from the multitudes VIII
are stumbling on the dark mountain
of sin and death. Twelve hundred dea
birds were found one morning aroun