The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-02
UNIVERSAL PEACE.
Few. DR.. Talmage Draws a Picture
of the Millennium.
Hope for tho Dawn OF the Day OF uni
versaI Arbitration, When Principles
of Peace and Christianity
Shall Govern All.

The following discourse of Rev 7
Dewitt Talmage was delivered befor
his Washington congregation, bein
based on the text:
The day is OF hand.-Romans xiii, u.
Back from the mountains and tn
seaside, and the springs, and the farr
house, your cheeks bronzed and Won
spirits lighted, hail you home agail
with the words of Gehazi to the Shu
I nammite: us it well with thee? is /
we'll with thy husband? is it well will
the child?" On some faces | see tn
mark of recent grief, but all alon.
the track of tears see the story o
resurrection and reunion when al
tears are done; the deep blowing O
the keel, followed by the flash of tn,
phosphorescence. Now that | have
asked You in regard to your welfare
you naturally ask how l am. Yer,
we'll, thank you. Whether it was the
bracing air of the mountains, or &
bath in the surf of Long Island beach
or whether it is the joy of standing In
this group of warm hearted friends, OF
whether it is new appreciation OF
the goodness of God, l can not
tell. l simply know L am
happy. 1t was said that John
Moffatt, the great Methodist preach
er. occasionally got fast in his serm on,
and to extricate himself would cry
"Hallelujah!' am in no such predica-
ment to-day, but j am full of the same
rhapsodic ejaculation. Starting out
this morning on a new ecclesiastical
year, want to give you the keynote
Of my next ~ months ministry. l
want to set it to the tunes of AN
toch," Ariel" and CORONATION. 1
want to put 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 faitll in God and
and the missiQl Of our American peo-
pie. The God Who hath been on the
side of this nation since the 4th of
July, 17T6, will see to it that this ma
ton shall not commit suicide on No
vember 8, 1896. BY the time the un-
paralleled harvests OF this summer
get down to the seaboard we shall be
standing in sunburst of national
prosperity that will paralyze the pes
smists who by their evil prophecies
are disappearing the God who hath
blest this nation as He hath blest no
other
In all our Christon work you and l |
want more of the element of gladness.
mo man had 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
was unresponsive when the children
clambered over His knee and shoulder
at His own invitation? Do you sup
pose that the evangelist meant
nothing when he said of Christ: "He
rejoiced 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
md tumultuous joy and rushing
'aptures of human life? / believe not
'nly that the morning laughs, and that
he mountains laugh, and that the
ea9 laugh, and that the cascades
auRA, but that Christ laughed. More
'ver, take a laugh and a tear into an
iembic, and assay them, and test them,
nd analyze them, and you will often
md as much of the pure gold of re- +,
gion in a laugh as in a tear. Deep
piritual joy always shows itself in
acal illumination. John Wesley said
e was sure of good religious impress
ION being produced because of what
e calls the. great gladness he saw :
nong the people. Goddess merriment !
I blasphemy anywhere, but express
ION OF Christian joy is appropriate 7
verywhere. t
Moreover, the outlook of the world t
lght to stir us to gladness. Astrono- il
ers disturbed many people by telling t
lem that there was danger of stellar o
'llision. We were told by these as n
onomers that there are worlds COM n
g very near together, and that we Z
'all have plaques and wars and tu- r.
ults and perhaps the worlds destruc- a
On Do not be scared. If you have n
er stood at railroad center, where
n or 20 or 80 rail tracks cross each CO
her, and seen by the movement of v
e switch one or two inches, the train 81
cots this way and that, without re
hiding, then you may understand la
w so worlds may come within an nj
Gu of disaster, and that inch be as fc
cd as a million miles. If a hui fc
In switch-tender can shoot the trains al
Is way and that without harm, can I'll
! the hand that for thousands of ell
ars has upheld the universe, keep Fl
T little world out of harms way? Y
rlstian biologists tell us that this VI