Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-01-09
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE NEW YEAR, WITH ALL ITS
GLORIOUS POSSIBILITIES.
Great Events That tho World Will Sec
In the Coming Twelve Months-Advlce
and encouragement for Those in
Trouble.

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| Copyright. 1902, Louis Klopsch, N. "
Washington, Jan. Sin this. DR..
| Talmage's first discourse for the new
year, he speaks words of encourage
ment to all the timid and doubting.
The text is Exodus xii, 2, This
month shall be unto you the beginning
of months; it shall be the first month
| OF the year to YOU"
The last month of the old year has
passed out of sight, and the first
month of the new year has arrived.
The midnight gate last Wednesday
| opened, and January entered. The
present year will, l think. be one of
| the greatest years of all time. 1t will
abound with blessing and disaster. Ma
tional and international controversies
| of momentous import will be settled.
Year Of coronation and dethronement,
| year that will settle Cuban and Porto
Rican and Philippine and South At
rican and Chinese destinies. The tam
est year for many decade past has
dug its millions cf graves and reared
| its millions of marriage affairs.
! We can expect greater events In
| this year than ever before, for the
worlds population has so vastly in
| creased there are so many more than
| in any other year to laugh and weep
| and triumph and perish. Would to God
that before the now opening year has
| closed the earth might cease to tremble
with the last cannonade and the
heavens cease to be lighted up with
| any more confiagrations of homesteads
| and the foundries that make swords be
turned into blacksmith shops for max
ing plowshares.
| The front door of a stupendous year
has opened. Before many of you there
will be twelve months OF opportunity
| for making the world better or worse,
| happier or more miserable. Let us
| pray that it may be year that will
indicate the speedy redemption of the
hemisphere. Would to God that this
might be the year in which the three
| great instruments now chiefly used for
secular purposes might be put to their
mightiest use in the worlds evangeli-
| zation-the telegraph, the telephone,
the monograph Electricity has such
| potent tongue, such strong arm, such
| swift wing, such lightning foot, that
| it occurs to me that it may be the angel
that st. John saw and heard in apoc.
| alyptic vision when he started back
| and cried out, Il saw another angel
| flying in the midst of heaven having
the everlasting gospel to preach unto
| them that dwell on the earth and to
every nation and kindred and tongue
| and people," They were tongues OF
| fire that sat on the heads OF the dis
ciples at the Pentecost. and why not
| the world called to God by tongue of
electric fire? Prepare your batteries.
and make ready to put upon the wires
| the worldwide message of "whomso-
ever will"
Furthermore, / notice that January
| has been honored with the nativity OF
some of the greatest among the ma
tons. Edmund Burke was born this
month, the marvel and glory of the
| legal world; Fenelon OF the religious
world; Benjamin Franklin of the phil
osophic world; William II. Prescott of
the historic world. Sir John Moore OF
the military world: Robert Burns of the
| poetic world; Polycarp OF the martyr
world; Peter the Great of the kingly
world; Chrysostom of the sacred rhet-
oric world; Daniel Webster of the
statesman world.
| In this month at Hampton court.
| 1904, a new translation of the Holy
| Bible was ordered. King James ap-
pointed commission of fifty-four men.
| afterward reduced to forty-seven.
| Those men presented the world with a
Bible that held mighty sway among
the nations for more than $50 years.
the revision Of the Bible thirty years
ago being founded on that revision.
which began under King James OF 1904
| The old translation, made more than
| two and half centuries ago. sustained
the martyrs in the fire. illumined the
homesteads of many generations. was
| embarkation of the forefathers from
Delft Haven. cheered the weary voy-
ayers on the Mayflower, comforted
them in the wilds of America, was the
| book on which the first American con-
| gress, as well as the last. took the oath
and with which all the presidents of
the United States have solemnized
their entrance into Office, is the book
that has advanced the worlds civiliza-
ton as no other influence ever could
and which now lies on the table OF
more homes than any book that was
ever printed since Johann Gutenberg
borrowed money OF Martin Brother and
| John Faust to complete the art of
printing. What January in the
worlds history-the January that gave
the ages a book like that!
| According to my text, This month
| shall be unto you the beginning of
months: ii shall be the first month of
the year to YOU" Through II make
| preparation for the other eleven
months. What you are in January
you will probably be in all the other
months OF the year. Prepare for
them neither by apprehension nor too.
sanguine anticipation. Apprehension
OF misfortune will only deplete your
body and gloom your soul and unfit
| you for any trouble that may come.
On the other hand. II you expect too
much, disappointment will be yours,
Cultivate faith in God and the feeling
that he will do for you that which is
best, and you will be ready for either
sunshine or shadow. The other
eleven months of the year 1902 will
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grief The cup that is all made up of
sweetness is insipid.
Start right. and you will be apt