The morning times., 1896-09-28
|W1N'T PREACH POLITICS
DR.. Talmage Refuses to Ac-
wise in This Campaign.
NOT THE PULPITs PLACE
All the Ministers In the Country Cam
not Change, q Vote by Political
He and Other Citizens of the Dis
trict Can Only Pray.

ulct Suh OuIy fray.
Rev. T De Witt Ta,mage, d. D., in his
sermon at the FIRST Presbyterian Church
| yesterday morning declared that in no
way would he turn his pulpit into a po-
| litical stump.
Lur.hg 81, Presidential elections he had
been urged to enter The political arena
but had always refused to do so. He
would not change now. All he could dc
| and all the citizens OF the district cOufti,
since they had no vote, was TO pray God To
save the nation.
DR.. Talmagc look his text from Isaiah
Inv. L. And l viii make thy windo ws
| III agatcs, and thy gates OF carbuncies.'
| He said:
THE CARBUNCLE.
perhaps because a human disease oil
most painful and ofttines fatal character
| is named after it, tile church and the
| world have never done justice to that ill.,
| tense and all-suggestive precious stone,
| the carbuncle. Tie pearl that Christ picked
| up 10 illustrate his sermon, and tile Jasper
and the sapphire and the aneth yst which
the apocalyptic vision masoned into tie
wall OF heaven have mad proper reco ignition,
| but this, in all tie ages, lis the hrst SCI
| mon on the carbuncle.
This precious STONE is found in the East
Indies, i'll color is an intense scarlet, and
held up between your eye and the sun, IT
| is burning COAL The poet puts into
rhythm as lie writes
Like to the burning coal whence cones its
name:
Among tne Greeks as Anthrax known to
fame. ;. -
God sets it high up in Bible crystaLngra-
ply. He cuts 1t with divine chisei
shapes 1t with precise geometry, and
sinules its fire into an almost supernatural
flame OF beauty Its Jaw Of symmetry,
its law of zones, its law OF parallelism,
something to excite the amazement or The
scientist, chine the cantos of the poet, and
arouse the alteration of the Christian. No
one but the infinite God could fashion
carbuncle as large as your thumb-nail,
and as IL to make all ages appreciate this
precious stone, he ordered 1t set In the first
row OF the high priests breast-plate in
olden time, and higher up than the onyx
and the emerald, and the diamond, and In
EZekiers prophecies Concering the splen-
doris Of the Tyrian court, the carbucle is
mentioned, the brilliancieS OF the walls
and of the tessellated floors suggested by
the Bible sentence, Thou hast walked
up aud down in the n.iust OF The 81 ones Of
fire!'
But in my text 1t is not a solitary speci-
men that / hand you, as the keeper II q
museum might take down from the shelf
a precious stone and allow you 10 examine
it Nor is 1t tue panel of door that you
might stand and study for it's unique
carvings or bronzed traceries, but there
is a whole gate of 1t lifted before our ad-
miriug and astounded vision, aye! two
gates Of it, aye! many gates of it: i will
make thy gates of carbuDcles' Whatgates?
Gates of the church. Gates of anything
worth possessing. Gates of successful en-
terprisc Gates OF salvation. Gates Of
national achievement.
VICARIOUS SUFFERING
what an odd thing it is. think some.
this idea of vicarious suffering or suffer-
ing for others! Not at all The world had
seen vicarious sufferings millions Of times
before Christ came and demonstrated IL on
scale that echpsed all that went before
and all that shall come after Rachel
lived only long enough after the birth
of her son to give him name In faint
whisper she said, Call him Ben-oni,' which
means son of my PAIN and all modern
travellers on the road from Jerusalem to
Bethel uncover their heads and stand rev.
erently at tue tomb Of Rachel, who died
for her boy. But 10 all ages how many
mothers die for their children, and in many
cases grown-up children, who by recreancy
stab clear through the mothers heart!
Suffering for others? Why, the world is
full of it.
Jump, said the engineer to the fire
man on the locomotive. 'One of us is
enough to die. Jump And so the engineer
died at his post, trying to save the train
When this summer the two trains crashed
into each other near Atlantic City, among
the forty seven who lost their lives, the
engineer was found dead with one hand on
the throttle of the locomotive and the
other on the brake. A YET there are hundreds
here today suffering for Others. You know
and God knows thatitis vicarious sacrifice.
what Is true in spirituals is true in
temporals. There are young men and older
men who hope. through the right settle
nient of this acrid controversy between sill
yer and gold, or the binietallc qua rrel, that
1t will become easy to make a living. That
time will never come. 1t never has been
easy to maze living The men who have
it very easy now, went through hardships
and self-denials to which most young men
would never consent. Unless they got it
by Inheritance, you cannot mention twenty
men who have come to honorable fortune
that did not fight their way inch by inch,
and against fearful odds that again and
again almost destroyed them. For some
good reason God has arranged 1t for all
the centuries that the only way for most
people to get livelihood for themselves
aud their families is with both hands and
soul to push back and push open the red
gate, the gate of carbuncle.
For the benefit Of all young men. II
had the time, l would call the roll of III Ose
who overcame obstacle. How many Of The
mighty men who went ole way on PENN
sylyania avenue aud reached the United
States Senate. or walked the other way
on Pennsylvania avenue, and reached the
White House. did not have to climb over
political obloquy? N OF one. How much
scorH and scott. and brutal attack did Horace
Mann endure between the time when he
first began to fight for better common
school system in Massachusetts,. and the
day when a statue in honor of him was
placed Gu The steps of the State house over
looking The Comnons?'
True OF THE NATION.
what is true Of individuals is true of
nations. Was it mid spring morning
when the Pilgrim Fathers landed OH Ply
mouth Rock. and did they come in a gIlded
yacht. gag streamers flying? No. II was
i'll cold December, and from q ship in
which one would rot want to cross the
Hudson or the Potomac river. Scalping
knives all ready TO receive them. they
landed their only welcome the Indian war
whoop. Red men on the beach. Red nIen
in the forest Red men oil the mountains.
Red men in the valleys. Living gates Of
red men. Gates of carbuEcle!
aboriginal hostility pushed back, surely
| now our forefathers will have nothing to
| do bot to take easy possession OF the fair
est continent under the sun. The skies SO
genial, the soil so fertile, the rivers so pop
ulous with finny life, the acreage 50 Inn
mense, there will be nothing to do but ea t,
drink, and be merry. No. The most pow
erful nation, by army and navy, sounded
its protest across three thousand miles Of
| water Then came Lexington, and B3nkcr
HILL and Mnflfunilth and Long Island bit