Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1896-10-08
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
me NOTED DEVINE's SUNDAY
SERMON.

ava rom the mountains and the seaside.
cheoI.a springs, and the farmhouse, your
Sneeks oronzed and your spirits lighted.
1aa you home again with the words ~
H = 70 the Shunammite: "Is 1t we'll with
LIT Is 1t we'll with thy husband? Is i,
We with the child2" On some faces I see
tracL Ln "a, OF recent grief, but all along the
ana reunion when all tears are done: the
neePP p,owing OF the keel. followed by the
h"An VI the phosphorescence. Now that
nor aske- you in regard to your welfare.
;uu naturaliy ask how I am. Very we'll.
tnank you. Whether 1t was the .,racinp ar
Ok the mountains, or a bath in the su7f ~
LonS Island beach, or whether it is the iov
- s.anding III this great group OF warm
uo"1.ou lrieDdS, or whether it is a new an
pleciaflon OF the goodness of God, L can not
'e,1. 1 simply know l am happy.
Ii was said that John MofYatt the vrea..
Metnodist preacher, occasionally got fast in
nIs sermon. and to extIicate himself would
CRY 'Hallelujah..' l ana in no such nredica-
ment to-day. but I am full Of the same rhap-
soulc ejaculation. Starting out this morn
niSa w d ne" ecclesiastical year, ] want to
Gl'e You the keynote Of my next twelve
months, ministry. l want to set it to the
tunes OF Antioch" "Ariel" and Corona
.lon.' l want to put a new trumpet stop
INTO my sermons. We do wrong If we allow
our personal sorrows to interfere with the
"SN thO AAlASuOW Is coming,
are wicked il we allow apprehension of
Nhtional disaster to put down our faith in
Ioo anu the mission Of our American peo-
PIE. The God who hath been on the side OF
.n1s Na.loh since the 4th Of July, 1776, will
see 20 1t that this Nation shall not commit
suicide on November 3, 1896. By the time
cue unparalleled harvests OF this summer get
uo"u 10 the sea-board, we shall be standing
IN sunburst OF National prosperity that will
para.yZe the pessimists, who by their evil
= Dr0nhpGipQ "a bloc,ba,~.-. ~ 90
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
nad a right to say that Christ never laughed.
DO you suppose that He was glum at the
wedding in Cana Of Galilee? Do you sup
pose that Christ was unresponsive when the
children c'ambered over His knee and
shoulder at His own invitation? Do you
suppose that the Evangelist meant nothing
wnen he said OF Christ: "He rejoiced in
sElrlt!' Do you believe that the Divine
Thirst who pours all the waters over the
rocks at Vernal Falls. Yosemite, does not
pelieve in the sparkle and gallop and tumul-
tnous JOY and rushing raptures Of human
Hie| L believe not only that the morning
hugns, ana that the mountains laugh. ami
that the seas laugh. and that the cascades
laugh, but that Christ laughed. Moreover.
the outlook of the world ought to stir US to
yladnesS
Astronomers disturbed'many people by tell
ing them that there was danger Of stellar
collision. We were told by these astrono-
mers that there ara worlds coming very near
together, and that we shall have plaques and
wars aud tumults and perhaps the worlds
destruction. Do not be scared. II you have
ever stood at a railroad centre, where ten or
twenty or thirty rail tracks cross each other,
and seen that by the movement OF the switch
one or two inches, the train shoots this way
and that. without co,liding. then you may
understand how ffiy worlds may come with
IN an inch of disaster, and that inch te
AS good rs u million miles. III
q human switch-tender can shoot the trains
this way and that without harm, cannot the
hand that for thousands of years has upheld
the universe, keep our little world out OF
harms way? Christian biologists tell II:
that this world was millions of years II
. building. Well, now. | do not think GOD
would take millions of years to build a hoy.
which was to last only six thousand y Is
There is nothing in the world or OUTSIDE the
world, terrestrial or astI"noinierrs 70 @ eS
, Gospl breezs nai,st Scatter all the malaric
OF hum ,,a Nebodinc.
The sun rose this morning AT about
O'Clock. and think that is just about III,
hour III the worlds history. The day is a
hand The first raw of the dawn ! see il
the gradual substitution OF diplomatic skill
for human butchery. Within the last Invent y
five years there have been international 6if
ferences which would have brought n sho"l
OF arms in any other day, hu: which wer,
peacefully adjusted the pen taking the place
of the sword. The Venezue an controver-,
inIany other age OF the world would hav
brought shock of arms. but now Is beng $
quietly adjusted that no one knows Just how
II is being settled.
The Alabama question in any other age o
the world would have caused war between
the United States and England. How wa
it settleL! BY men-of-war of the Narrows
or off the Mersey? No. A few wise men 70
into Il quiet room at Geneva. talked III
matter over. and teleg aphed to WashinStoI
and London, "All settled" Peac". Peace
Enoland paws to the United states III
amount awardea-pays really moro than 81
ought to have paid. But stll, oil THAI Ala
bama broil is settled -ssttied Tor forever
Arbitration instead OF battle.
So the quarrel about the Canadian fish
cries in any other age would have cause
war between the Unite! States and England
So the Samoan controversy IN an o'her "
would have brought GERMANY and ia
limited States into bloody collision. Eu
all &c settled. Arbitration instead Of battle
France will never again. l think. throus
the peccadillo OF an Ambassador. bring on
hattie with other Nations She sees ina
God. in punishment ut Sedan, hIotted on
the French Empire. and the only aspirar
f,r that throne who had any right OF "S
recitation dies IN a war that has not eventh
dignity OF being respectable. What Is tn
leaf that England would IKE y tear OF
Of her history? The Zulu war. Down wit
the sword and up with the treaty.
we in this country might better have 81;
tied our sectional difficulties by aroitratio
Than by the trial OF the sword. Phlia,
.hronv said TO the North: PAY DO wn a eel
tain amount of money for the purchase {
the slaves, and let all those born after a eel
tain time be born free Philanthropy sal
90 the south: You sell your slaves, aud e
rid OF this great National contest and trot
HE" The North replied: Il won't ray
cent" The South replied: Il won't sell
War, War. A million dead men. and a II
tional debt which might have ground tn
Nation to powder. Why did we no., !
William H. Seward, OF New York. and Aie'
ander H. Stephens. OF Georgia. so oui an
snend q few days under the trees on It
banks OF the Potomac and talk the matt
over and settle it. as settle II they coui
1ather than the North Jay IN cost u W
tarr billion seven hundred million dollar
and The South pay four billion seven hu
dTed and nifty million dollars, the des1roy.I
~ II rS. n 1rD had In Gu .n ar