Connecticut western news., 1897-09-23
TO SHINE AS STARS.

TO SHINE AS STARS. HOW THE CHRISTIAN WORKERS WILL BE REWARDED ABOVE.
 Dr. Talmsge Breaches . Sermon Full of Hope For Discouraged Toilers In the Lords Vineyard = Christian Constella- | tions That Will Beam on Forever.
 ] WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.-This dis course flashes bright light into the life of Christian workers and offers sub- lime hope for all those who are discour aged in their attempts to do good Dr. Talmage's text is Daniel xii, 8, "They that turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and ever"
 Every man has thousand roots and Q thousand branches. His roots reach down through all the earth. His branch es spread through all the heavens. He speaks with voice, with eye, with hand, with foot. His silence often is loud as thunder and his life is dirge or a dox- ology. There is no such thing as mega tive influence. We are all positive in the place we occupy, making the world better or making it worse, on the Lords side or on the devils, making up req sons for OUT blessedness or banishment, and we have already done work in peo- bling heaven or hell. hear people tell of what they are going to do. A man who has burned down @ city might as well talk of some evil that he expects to do, or a man who has saved an empire might as well talk of some good that he expects to do. By the force of your evil influence you have already consumed Infinite values, or you have by the pow CT of right influence won whole king doms for God.
 It would be absurd for me, by elabo- rate argument, to prove that the world lts on the track. You might as we'll stand at the foot of an embankment, amid the wreck of 8 capsized rail train, proving by elaborate argument that something is out of order. Adam tum- ibled over the embankment 60 centuries ago, and the whole race, in one long train, has gone on tumbling in the same direction. Crashl Crashl The only ques- tion now is, By what leverage can the cruahed thing be lifted? By what ham, mer may the fragments be reconstruct edf want to show you how we may turn many to righteousness and what win be our future pay for so doing.
 Charm of Right Example.
 First, we may turn them by the oharm of a right example. A child oom- ing from filthy home was taught at school to wash It's face It went home so much improved in appearance that it's mother washed her face, and when the father of the household came home and saw the improvement in domestic appearance he washed his face. The neighbors, happening in, saw the change and tried the same experiment, until all that street was purified, and the next street copied it's example, and the whole city felt the result of one schoolboy washing his face. That is a fable by which we set forth that the best way to get the world washed of it's sins and pollution is to have our own heart and life cleansed and purified A man with grace in his heart and Christian cheer fulness in his face and holy consistency In his behavior is perpetual sermon, and the sermon differs from others in that it has but one head and the longer it runs the better.
 There are honest men who walk down Wall street making the teeth of iniqui- ty chatter. There are happy men who 90 into sickroom and by look help the broken bone to knit and the excited nerves drop to 8 calm beating There are pure men whose presence silences the tongue of uncleanness. The might fest agent of good on earth is consist ent Christian I like the Bible folded between lids of cloth or calfskin or morocco, but I like 1t better when, in the shape of man, it goes out into the world 8 Bible illustrated Courage is beautiful to read about, but rather would see man with all the world against him confident as though all the world were for him Patience is beau tiful to read about, but rather would I see 8 buffeted soul calmly waiting for the.time of deliverance. Faith is beau tiful to read about, but rather would I find 8 man in the midnight walking straight on as though he saw every thing. Oh, how many souls have been turned to God by the charm of bright examplel
 When, in the Mexican war, the troops were wavering, general rose in his stirrups and dashed into the enemy s lines, shouting, "Men, follow mel'' They, seeing his courage and disposi- ton, dashed on after him and gained the victory. What men want to rally them for God is an example to lead them. All your commands to others te advance amount to nothing as long as you stay behind To affect them alright you need to start for heaven yourself, looking back only to give the stirring cry of "Men, followl"
 The Power of Prayer.
 Again, we may turn many to right eoumess by prayer. There Is no sucf detective as prayer, for no one can hid' away from 1t. It puts it's hand on tn, shoulder of @ man 10, 900 miles off. I alights on 8 ship midatlantic. Tn, little child cannot understand the law of electricity or how the telegraph oper ator, by touching the instrument here may dart . message under the sea t. another continent, nor can we, witt our small intellect, understand how tn touch of Christians prayer shall in stAntly strike soul on the other sid of the earth. You take ship and go t some other country and get there at o'clock in the morning You telegraph to America and the message gets her at 6 o'clock the same morning. In othe vuorda if rooypa to a,-riva bora fiva bour
 before it started Like that is prayer God says, Before they call I vii hear" To overtake loved one on tn road you may spur up lathered stee' nntil he shall outrace the one tha