Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-08-03
TALMAGE
SERMON
BY Rev.
FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE. DID,.
Pastor Of Jefferson PARA Presby-
terrain Church. ChieAgo

Chicago. Aug. 2.-In this sermon the
preacher pays n fitting tribute TO the
consecrated mothers and daughters OF
America and pleads for a wider and
more practical recognition Of their serv-
Ices In church and religious work. The
text Is Philippians Nv, 3. Help those
women who labored with me in the Cos
pei"
The conspicuous places In the church
have always been filed by men. The
effective. personal work Of the church,
however. has to a large extent been
done by women. Opening the scroll OF
gospel triumphs. the names Of the
greatest preachers and organizers have
been men; but in the ordinary walks
OF religious life the consecrated female
workers have always outnumbered the
consecrated male workers. In the his
tory of the Christian church the women
members, as a class, have rarely failed
Christ in hours of need.
Not she with traitorous kiss her Master
gtung;
Not she denied him with unfaithful
tongue.
She when apostles fed could dangers
brave,
First at his cradle knelt. last at his grave
The part woman has in the gospel
campaign Is that eulogized by military
historians and poets as that Of the
man behind the gun" They declare
II was not the great leaders like Robert
4. Lee and Stonewall Jackson or U. s.
me- md w IT Ghnrrnar vphn hnr
the chief brunt Of the civil war. 1t
was the common soldier in the ranks.
II was the artilleryman who lived In
the trenches day in and day out. 1t
was the sentinel doing picket duty.
They declare that Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt had but little TO do with the
capture OF San Juan hill. 1t was the
common soldier. who broke into a run
and swept up to the Spanish block
house. And IT," said Colonel Roose-
welt, II had not charged the enemy at
a dead run l would have been run
down by my own men. who were run
ming after me-" Ii was the IMAM be-
hind the gun" who captured San Juan
hill. and he should have his share of
the glory. which belongs not to Theo-
dore Roosevelt or any other officer
alone.
The Woman Behind the Gospel Gun.
But, though in military parlance we
may talk about the IMAM behind the
gun" we cannot in the church mill
tant 1t Is the woman behind the Cos
pei gun" who for centuries upon CEN
turtles has borne the greatest brunt OK
religious strife. 1t is the woman be-
hind the gospel gun" in the home, in
the church. on the street, in the coun-
try, In the city and in the foreign
missions who has carried the name Of
Jesus Christ all around the world. 1t
Is the woman behind the gospel gun"
who has won the greatest gospel vic
tories for our churches in the past.
Therefore the purpose of this sermon
Is to make a manly plea to the fathers
and husbands, brothers and sons, of
the families of our churches to take
their positions in religious work beside
their mothers and wives, sisters and
daughters.
Nearly every man in my audience
today is a believer in Jesus Christ. II
is so with other churches. Infdels and
ngnostics are still numerous. unhap
PLY, but they are not in our churches
and the voice from the pulpit does not
reach their ears. My ministry so far
as preaching to infidels and atheists
and agnostics is concerned is practical
ly ended. Theodore Cuyler, the grand
old man Of the Brooklyn pulpit, lately
declared that in a ministry Of over
sixty years he had never yet preached
a sermon upon the divine authenticity
OF the Scriptures. He believed tina
almost every person with whom hi
work came in contact was not only ,
believer in the Bible. but also in tn,
divinity OF Jesus Christ. believe tina
Or. Cuyler is right. believe that ev
cry man in church today is not only
believer in Jesus Christ. but that h
also expects some day to receive Chris
as his Saviour and TO be redeemet
from sin by the atonement Of the cross
Christi. Saving Power.
You show the fact involuntarily, a
most automatically. l can prove
you in very few words that you are
believer in the saving power of a divin
Christ. How do you act? What do yo
say in a crisisf Supposing you wer
swept or the deck OF a TRANSPLANT
steamer Ike Captain Courageous
Rudyard Kipling's story? What woul
be the first cry which would involur
tarily come TO your lips? Would yo
not call out at the top OF your voic
-My God. helpT Supposing you WEI
caught in a blizzard upon the wester
prairie. After you had for hours bee
noundering around and around in Il
ever deepening snow. would you no
with your benumbed faculties. moai
20 Christ. save me! o Christ SAY
mer' When we were climbing ov,
the Johnstown ruins a few days aft
the awful Conemaugh food. Rev. d
Beale told me that during the pand
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