The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-10-02
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
FHB NOTED DEvINE's SUNDAY
SERMON.


Back from the mountains and the seaside.
ana the springs, and the farmhouse, your
cheeks bronzed and your spirits lighted, l
hail you homo again with tho words OF
Gehazi to the Shunammite: as 1t we'll with
theep Is it we'll with thy husband2 Is II
the mark OF recent grief, but all along the
track Of tears see the story of resurrection
and reunion when all tears are done: the
deep plowing OF the keel. followed by the
Hash of the phosphorescence. Now that l
have aske3 you in regard to your welfare.
you naturally ask how l am. Worry well,
thank you. Whether 1t was the tracing air
OF the mountains, or bath in the surf Of
Long Island beach, or whether 1t is tho Joy
OF standing in this great group of warm
hearted friends or whether 1t is new mp
probation OF the goodness of God, can not
tell. simply know am happy.
1t was said that John MofTatt, the great
Methodist preacher occasionally got fast in
- ms sermon. and to eStricatc himself would
cry "Haliclujah." am in no such predica-
ment to-day. but am full OF tho same rhap-
sooic ejacuiaHon. Starting out this morn
Ing on new ecclesiastical year, I want to
give you the Keynote of my next tweve-
months ministry: l want to set it to the
tunes OF Antioch" "Arie," aud Corona
tion." l want to put u new trumpet stop
into my sermons. We.do wrong il we allow
our personal sorrows to Interfere with the
glorious fact that tho Kingdom is coming.
we are wicked IL we allow apprehension OF
National disaster to put down our faith in
God and the mission of our American peo-
pie. The God who hath been on the side of
this Nation since tn" 4th of July, TIC, will
see to 1t that this Nation shall not commit
suicide on November 3, 1896. by the time
the unparalleled harvests OF this summer get
down to the sea-board, we shall bo standing
In sunburst or National prosperity that will
Paralyze tho pessimis.s, who by their evil
prophesics are disappearing tho God who
hath blest this Nation as He hath blest no
other
In all our Christian work YOU and want
more of the element of gladness. No man
had right to say that Christ never laughed
DO you suppose that He was glum ut the
wedding in Cana OF Galilee? Do you sup
pose that Christ was unresponsive when the
children c'ambered over His kueo and
shoulder at His own invitation? Do YOU
suppose that the Evangelist meant nothing
when he said OF Christ: "He rejoiced in
spirit?' Do you believe that tho Divine
rocks at Nernal Falls. Yosemite. does not
believe in the sparkle and gallop and tumul-
tuous Joy and rushing raptures of human
lie? L believe not only that tho morning
laughs. and that tho mountains laugh, and
that the seas laugh. and that the cascades
laugh, but that Christ laughed. Moreover.
the outlook OF tho world ought to stir us to
Sladness
Astronomers disturbedmnny people by tell
ing them that there was danger OF stellar
collision. We were told by these astrono.
mers that there are worlds coming very near
together. and that we shall have plaques and
wars and tumults and perhaps the worlds
destruction. Do not be scared. II you have
ever stood ut q railroad centre. where ten or
twenty or thirty rail tracks cross each other,
and seen that by the movement OF the wit ch
one or two inches, the train shoots this way
and that, without coliding, then you may
understand how ilfiy worlds may come with
in an inch of disaster, and that inch be
rs Gooa as million miles. If
human Sw;tch-tendcr can shoot the trains
this way and that without harm. cannot the
hand that for thousands Of years ha, upheld
the universe, keep our little world ont of
hnrI way? Christian gcologists tell us
AUorld was millions of years in
odfseinG. >Welir@Ev. --t think God
would take millions OF years to build house
which was to last only six thousand wears
There is nothing in tho world or outside tho
world. terrestrial or ASTRONOMICAL to ey-
cite dismay. l wish that some stout
Gospel breeze might scatter ali the mala-i:.
oil human iOreoOlinC.
The sun rose this morning Mt about G
O'Clock. and thin; that is Just about tho
hour in tho worlds history. "rEc day is at
hand" The first raw OF the dawn [ see in
the gradual substitution of diplomatic skill
Ior human bntchery. Withinthe last twenty
1--WE years there have been international diff
ferences which would have brought shock
o. arms in any other day, bu: which were
peacefully adjusted. the pen taking the place
OF the sword. The Venezuelan controversy
in any other age OF tho world would huyo
brought shock Of arms, but now is being SO
quietly adjusted thut no one knows Just how
II is being settled.
The Alabama question in any other age OF
tho world would have caused war between
the United states and England. How was
1t settled? BY men-of-war oil tho Narrows
or of the Mers"y? No. A few wise men got
into quiet room at Geneva, talked tho
matter over and tclei; aphod to Washington
md do. 4
England pays to the United States tn,
amount awaricd-pays really more than sho
ought to nave paid But still, all that Ala.
bama broil is sctt!ed-setticd for forever
Arbitration instead OF battle.
So the quarrel about the Canadian fish
cries in any other ago would have caused
war between the United States and England.
80 the Samoan controversy in any other ago
would have brought Germany and the
United States into bloody collision But
all Is settled. Arbitration instead OF battle.
Fra will never again. think. through
the peccadillo of an Ambassador, bring on Il
battle with other Nations. Shn snrS thar
GOD, in punishment ut Sedan, blottci out
the French Empire, and the only aspiraht
for that throne who had any right OF cx-
pectation les in a war that has not even the
dignity Of heing respectable. What is tho
leaf that England would like - tear out
of her history? The Zulu war. Down with
the sword and w with the treaty.
We i'll this country might better have SGT
tied cur sectional difficulties by arbil ration
than by the trial Of the sword Philan-
thropy said 10 the North: Pay down II GER
tain amount OF money for tho purchase OF
the slaves. and let all thosn born after IL GER
tain time no born free" Philanthropy said
to the South: You sell your slaves and get
rid OF this great National contest and trou-
ble." The North replied II won't pay IL
cent Tho South replied: II won't sell. "
War War! A million dead men, and a Ma
tional debt which might have ground this
Nation to powder. Why did We not let
William II. Seward, OF New York, and Alex