St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-11-14
UNIVERSAL PEACE.
Rev. DR.. Talmage Draws a Picture
OF the Millennium.

AoPc for the Dawn OF the Day OF Uut
vcrsal Arbitration, When Principles
of Peace and Christtanify
Shall Govern AL
ihe following discourse of Rev. T
Dewitt Talmage was delivered bcfor.
ms Washington congregation, bein,
based on the text:
Inc day is at hand.-Romans xiii, L.
Back from the mountains aud tn.
seaside, and the springs, and the farm
house, your checks bronzed and your
spirits lighted, l hail you home agaiI
with the words of Gehazi to the Shu
nammite: ''Is it well with thee? is il
well with thy husband? is it well will
the child?" On some faces l see the
mark of recent griS1,-but all along
the track of tears / see the story oi
resurrection and reunion when al
tears are done; the deep blowing OF
the keel, followed by the flash of the
phosphoresccnce. Now that l have
asked You in regard to your welfare
you naturally ask how l am. Very
well, thank you. Whether it was the
bracing air of the mountains, or a
bath in the surf of Long Island beach
or whether it is the joy of standing In
this group of warm-hearted friends, or
whether it is a new appreciation OF
the goodness of God, / can not
tell. simply know l am
happy. It was said that John
Moffatt, the great Methodist preach
er. occasionally got fast in his sermon,
and to extricate himself would. cry
'Halleluiah.- l am in no such prcdica-
ment te-aay, but i am full of the same
rhapsodic ejaculation. Starting out
this morning on a new ecclesiastical
year, l want 10 give you the keynote
of my next IL months ministry. !
want to set it to the tunes of An
tioch, Ariel" and Coronation"
want to put a new trumpet stop into
my sermons. We do wrong if we al
low our personal sorrows to interfere
with the glorious fact that the king
dom is coming. We are wicked if we
allow apprehension of national disas-
ter to put down our faith in God and
and the mission Of our American peo-
pie. The God who hath been ON the
side of this nation since the 4th OF
July, 1776, win see to it that this ma
tion shall not commit suicide on No
vember 3. 1896. BY the time the un-
paralleled harvests of this summer
get down to the seaboard we shall be
standing in a sunburst of national
prosperity that will paralyzc the pes
sinists who by their evil prophecies
are blaspheming the God who hath
bleststhis nation as He hath blest no
other.
In all our Christon work you and
want more of the element of gladEess.
No man had a right to say that Christ
never laughed. Do you suppose that
He was glum at the wedding in Cana
of Galilee? Do you suppose that Christ
vas unresponsive when the children
over His knee and shoulder
Mt His own invitation? Do you sup
pose that the evangelist meant
when he said of Christ: ''He
in spirit?" Do you believe
that the divine Christ who pours all
the waters over the rocks at
Vernal Falls, Yosemite, does not
believe in the sparkle and gallop
and tumultuous JOY and rushing
raptures of human life? l believe not
only that the morning laughs. and that
the mountains laugh, and that the
seas laugh, and that the cascades
laugh, but that Christ laughed. More
- In int
and assay them. and test them,
and analyze them, and you will often
find as much of the pure gold of re-
ligion in a laugh as in tear. Deep
spiritual JOY always shows itself in
facial illumination. John Wesley said
he was sure of good religious impress
sion being produced because of what
he calls the great gladness he saw
among the people. Goddess merriment
is blasphemy anywhere, but express
sion of Christian JOY is appropriate
Moreover, the outlook of the world
ought to stir us to gladness. Astrono-
mers disturbed many people by telling
them that there was danger of stellar
collision. We were told by these as.
tronomers that there are worlds COM
ing very near together. AMI that we |
shall have plaques and wars and tu-
nults and perhaps the worlds destruc-
lion. Do not be scared. If you have |
ever stood at a railroad center, where |
ten or 90 or 80 rail tracks cross each |
,thcr, and seen by the movement Of |
,he switch one or two inches, the train
shoots this way and that. without
then you may understand
low so worlds may come within an
nch of disaster. and that inch be as
rood as a million miles. If hu-
nan switch-tender can shoot the trains
his way and that without harm. can
not the hand that for thousands of
years has upheld the universe, keep
our little world out of harms way?
Christian &c ologists tell us that this
world was millions of years in build
ng. Well, now, l do not think God
would take millions of years to build
! house which was to last only six
thousand years. There is nothing in
he world or outside the world, ter
-estial or Astronomical. to excite dis.
may. l wish that some stout Gospel
,reeze might scatter all the malaria
# human foreboding. The sun rose
his morning at about o'clock, and |
hink that is just about the hour in
he worlds history. ''The day is at
land"
The first ray Of the dawn I see in
he gradual substitution of diplomatic
kill for human butchery. Within the
ast Is years there have been interna-
ional differences which. would have
brought a shock of arms in any other
lay, but which were peacefully ad.
usted, the pen taking the place Of the
word. The Venezuelan controversy
n any other age of the world would
ave brought shock of arms, but now
S being SO quietly adjusted that no
me knows just how it is beng set
led.
The Alabama question in any other
lge Of the world would have caused
var between the United States and
England. How was it settled? By
OF the narrows, or off the