The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16
DIVINE CHIKuGRAPHY.
Few. Or. Talmage Discourses on
Heavens Record.
b Your Name Written in tho Roon =,
Of Lifef-The Chirography OF Earth
Ii Uncertain. But the Celes-
tiaIHand Is Not Changed.

The following discourse on "D;v;n.
Chirography' WIS delivered by Rev. T
Dewitt Talmage before his WASHING
ton congregation, being based on the
text:
Rejoice because your names are written :,
Heaven.-Luke K. 20 =
Chirography, or the art of hand.
writing, like the science of acoustics.
Is in very unsatisfactory state.
While constructing church, and told
by some architects that the voice
would not be heard in BUILDING
shaped like that proposed, I came in
much anxiety to this city and con
suited with Prof. Joseph Henry. of
the Smithsonian Institution about the
law of acoustics He said: go ahead
and build your church in the shape
proposed, and | think it will be all
right / have studied the laws of
sound perhaps more than any man of
my time, and l have come SO far as
this: Two auditoriums may seem to
S be exactly alike, and in one the acous-
tics may be good and in the other
bad" In the same unsatisfactory
stage is chirography, although many
declare they have reduced It
to science. There are those who saw
they can read character by handwrit-
Ing 1t is said that the way one writes
L the letter Il" decides his egotism or
modesty, and the way one writes the
letter "O' decides the height and depth
Of his emotion. It is declared a |
cramped hand means cramped ma
ture. and an easy, flowing hand a facile
and liberal spirit; but ii there be. any,
thing in this science, there must be
some rules not yet announced, for
some of the boldest and most aggres-
sive men have a delicateR Id small
penmanship, while some III the most
timid sign their names with the height
and width and scope of the name
Of John Hancock on the immor-
tai document. Some of the clean
est in person and thought present
their blotted and spattered page, and
some OF the toughest put before us an {
immaculate chirgsfsbhy. Not our
character, but the copy plate set be- {
fore us in our schoolboy day, decides /
the general style of our handwriting.
10 also there is fashion in penman- '
ship, and for one decade the letters !
are exaggerated, and the next mini t
fed; now erect and now aslant. now h
heavy and now fine. An autograph q
album is always surprise, and YOU b
fnd the penmanship contradicts the a
character of the writer's. But while n
the chirography OF the earth is uncer- t
tain, our blessed Lord in our text pre- o
sents the chirography celestial. When t.
addressing the 10 disciples standing fl
before Him, He said: Rejoice be- it
s!s ause your names are written in CT
Heaven" la
OF course the Bible, for the most h,
part, when speaking of the heavenly st
World, speaks figuratively while talk III
ng about books and about trumpets m
md about wings and about gates and 70
bout golden pavements and about Sc
richards with twelve crops of fruit ca
zone crop each month-and about the w
Fhite horses of Heavens cavalry; but VIC
70 do well to follow out these in WI
pred metaphors and reap from them ra
oarage and sublime expectation and
onsPtation and victory. We are told in
aatH'the heavenly library there is tn
book of Life. Perhaps there wi
10 many volumes in it. When ma
9 say book, we mean all sic
rltten by the author on that su bject. tire
can not tellshow large those heaven DO
volumes are, nor the splendor of Ma
oir pinolng, nor the number OF their fiel
'Res. nor whether they are pictorial cal
ed with some exciting scenes of this me
orld. only know that the words an,
we not been impressed by type, but fol
ritten out by some hand, and that put
those who, like the 70 disciples to vet
'om the text was spoken, repent and his
lst the Lord for their eternal saliva of
N, surely have their names writ wo,
in Heaven. 1t may not be toll.
same name that we carried alw
earth. We may, through was
inconsiderateness of parents, have Cha
lame that Is uncouth, or that was his
erward dishonored by one after can
ON we were called. do not know NOR
y the 20 entrances of the names of said
70 disciples correspond with the roll
ORD In the genealogical table. 1t one
y not be the name by which we wro
y caied on earth, but it will be Ire
name by which Heaven will know The
and we will have it announced to way
IS we pass in, and we will know it Is q
certainly that we will not have to com
called twice by 1t. as in the Bible rams
es the Lord called some people is w
&c BY name, SAUL SAUL" "Sam- II h
!, oamuelf' Martial MsrthaP' al
men you come up and look for him.
: name in the mighty tome of eter- in Il
and you are 30 happy as to find it to d