Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-09-19
THE DAY Is AT HAND.
eEv. DIR. TALMAGe breaches UPON A
RAPTuRoUS OUTLOOK.

sEv. DR.. TALMAGE breaches UPON A
RAPTURoUS OUTLOOK.
He says II should stir the World to
G,adnrss Arbitration Is Better Than
Battle Rays of Dawn In the Day of
Progress.
WASHINGTON, Sept 20.-If the clarion
note Of this sermon delivered at the ma
tional capital could sound through Chris
tcndom ii would give everything good a
now start. DR. Talmngc's text was Ro-
mnns xiii. IL. THE day is at hand. =
Back from the mountains, and the sea
side. and the springs, and the farmhouse,
your checks bronzed and your spirits light
ed. hail you home again with the words
81 Gehnzi 10 TIE Shunammite: is 1t well
with thecs Is IL well with thy husbands
l. IL well with the childy' On some faces
see the mark of recent grief, but all along
the track of tears ! sec the story Of resur
rection and reunion when all tears arc
done. the deep blowing Of tho keel, fol
lowed by the flash Of the phOsphorcscencc.
Now that have asked you in regard TO
your welfare. yon naturally ask how
am. Very well, thank you. Whether IL
was tho bracing air ~ the mountains, or
hath in the surf Of Long Island beach,
or whether IL is the joy of standing in this
great group 81 warm hearted friends, or
whether IL Is new appreciation Of the
goodness Of God. cannot tell. simply
know am happy. II was said that John
Moffatt, the great Methodist preacher, oc-
casionally got fast in his sermon, and to
extricate himself would cry, "Halleluiah"
am in no such predicamcnt today, but
am full Of the same rhapsodic ejaculation.
Starting ont this morning on new &C
clesiastical year, | want To give you the
keynote of my next IL months ministry.
| want 20 set il to the tunes OF Antioch.
e. Ariel and Coronation" l want 10
put new trumpet stop into my sermons
We do wrong II we allow orr personal sor-
rows to interfere with the glorious fact
that the kingdom Is coming. We arc wick
cd IL we allow apprehension Of national
disaster TO put down our faith In God and
in the mission Of our American people.
The God who hath been on the side Of this
nation since the Fourth OF July, 1870, will
see to IL that this nation shall not commit
suicide on Nov. 3, 1895. BY the time the
unparalleled harvests OF this summer get
down To the scaboard we shall he stand
ing In sunburst Of national prosperity
that will raralyzc the pessimists who by
their evil prophecies are disappearing the
God who hath blessed this nation as he
hath blessed no other.
Notes of Gladness.
In all our Christian work you and /
want more of the element Of gladness. No
man had right tn say that Christ never
laughed DO you suppose that he was
glum at the wedding in Cana Of Galilees
DO you suppose that Christ was unrcspon-
sive when the children clambcred over his
knee and shoulder Mt his own invitation
DO you suppose that the evangelist meant
nothing when he said of Christ, He re-
joiced in spirit.' Do you believe that the
divine Christ who pours all the waters
over the rocks mt Ncrnal Falls, Yosemite,
does not believe In the sparkle and gallon
and tumultuous joy and rushing raptures
OF human lifcg believe not only that the
morning laughs, and that the mountains
laugh, and that the seas laugh, and that
the cascades laugh, hut that Christ laugh
ed. Moreover, take n laugh and tear In
10 an alcmbic and assay them, and test
them. and analyzc them, and you will Of
ten find as much of the pure gold of reli-
gion I'm n laugh rs In "a tear. Deep spiritual
joy always shows itself in facial illumina-
ton. John Wesley said he was sure Of
good religious impression being produced
because of what he calls the great glad
ness he saw among the people. Goddess
mcrrimcnt is blasphemy anywhere, but
expression Of Christian joy Is appropriate
everywhere.
Moreover. the outlook of the world
ought to stir us to gladness Astronomers
disturbed many people by telling them
that there was danger of stellar collision.
We were told by these astronomers that
there are worlds coming very near togeth-
or, and that We shall have plaques and
wars and tumults ard perhaps the worlds
destruction. DO not De scared. II you
have ever stood nj railroad center where
10 or - or 80 rail tracks cross each other
and seen that by the movement OF the
switch one or two inches the train shoots
this way ard that without colliding then
you may understand how 80 worlds may
Genre within an inch Of disaster and that
inch bc as good as million miles. IL 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 MS that this world was millions Of
years in building Well. now, do not
think God would take millions of years to
build house which was To last only 5000
Years There is nothing in the world or
outside the world, terrestrial or astronom-
ical, To excite di~may. wish that some
stout gosICi breeze might scatter all the
malaria OF human forcboding. The sun
rose this morning at about 6 o'clock, and
think that is just about the hour in the
worlds history. The day is Mt hand "