Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-03-12
TALMAGE
SERMON
BY Rev.
FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE. DID,.
Pastor Of Jeifsrsen Park Presby-
tartan Church. Chicago

Los Angeles, Cal, March 6.-ln this
sermon the preacher discusses the
psychological phenomena OF mlnd IN
fuenclng mind and shows how the
soul may be elevated and energized by
divine influence. The text Is Acts 4
II. And he saw heaven opened and a
certain vessel descending"
Theory is often little more than the
fine art of guessing. 1t Is sometimes
the way OF concealing the fact that
you do not know thing, by using
scientific language. 1t Is the verDai
means we have OF dressing up specula-
ton to make 1t look plausible. But
! there are certain causations Impossible
TO analyze, and learned answers only
make the phenomena the more mysteri-
Gus.
What Is specific gravity? THAT Is
tho physical law" you answer, "which
Isaac Newton discovered. Sitting one
day under an overarching tree branch
I'm his orchard, he felt pun OF WIND
unon his cheek. The oyerhanglng
branch swayed, and a fall pippin, ike
q lump of gold, dropped into his lap.
Then the English sage began to won
der why that apple came down to earth
instead of flying away, as though IL
had the wings of bird, toward the
stars. As a result of these ponderings
Newton generalized all the causes OF
cohesion and gravitation which Dind
this earth into a compact mass ana
called them specific gravity But
nv friend. with your learned answer
you have not explained to me any
thing. In reference to the laws OF
physical cohesion you have only given
TO me two big words to express whs'
I did not know before and what l DC
not know now. What Is lifeT once
asked school professor. what is
the definition Of life? Here Is body
weighing 100 pounds. A bullet Is nreo
out of an assassin's gun. One moment
that body is alive; the next 1t Is dead
It weighed 100 pounds before the hear
ceased to beat; II weighed 100 pounds
after the breath had left the nostrii
Give me a definition Of life.' why
life" answered the professor, "is noth
ing more or less than the juxtaposl
tion of the protoplasmatic molecules
His learned answer left the subject a.
great a mystery as ever.
Spiritual Phenomens.
As in the material world, so In tn
: mental and spiritual world there ar
facts and phenomena which we know
to. be certainly trae, tho1eSs ne farns
explain them. We must recognize n
tional results as such, although we can
not tell the why's and the where
fores" nor the causes which produces
these results. For instance, we ar
nearly all ready to grant the powe
of human telepathy, or the influence 0
one human mind upon another huma
mind even at a distance. Sitting l
public meeting some night you exel
else the power Of will upon q persol
and soon he will turn round and 100
at you, although that person could CIV
no rational reason why he turned an
looked Indeed, so powerful sometime
- ia this influence of one human min
over another that many students
crIminology have come to the belle
that some murderers who WELD IL
dagger or aim the pistol may be mer
ly the helpless and plant instrumen
, of unknown criminals who have IL
pslled them to commit their murdero'
deeds. Mesmerlsm, hypnotism, b
witchery, enchantment, are mere
long names defining this mysterio'
! power. which almost everywhere
| the intellectual world Is beginning
! be recognized, and men are askii
/ whether 1t may not sometimes q
\ throne the supremacy OF the indiVldu
will. George Du Maurier In his famo
- book deals with the hypnotic pow
one human mind may have over
other mind. In that book the Engll
~ writer makes Svengali, a Polish Je
and a musical genius, by hypnous
transform a French laundress into
prima donna. He lays oil Paris at D
feet. although in her normal condlti
that young womans voice was we
and her ear could not recognize mus
or al harmony from discord.
y, Gospel TeIepathy.
AS one human mind has an ln1uer
over another human mind, we a
know that there is a spiritual telepatl
subtle, mysterious influence VIII
the other world exerts upon our o'
yisional messages as direct and unn
taxable as that which came to re
I upon the house top Of Simon's house
Joppa may also come to us. we
be unable to explain how the DIV
manifestations come to the nun
mind. God will speak to us now IL
will only let him, as surely as ne sp'
y in many cases to his servants OF
II we look to God continually for 81
ance. to US, too, shall the promise
fulfilled, "Thine ears shall hear W
DO behind thee saying, This is the W
. walk We in It," The purpose OF
sermon Is not to analyze the causes
divine telepathy so much as to sugi
ways In which God may be speak
70 his children in these days.
Gospel telepathy, in the first pl.
comes to Gods children as it did
Peter upon Simon's house top, In br
ing daylight. By that l do not mean
ave II necessarily comes to us as II
~ peter at the sixth hour or when
sun is highest in the meridian, but
mean this: When God speaks to
he speaks to him when he is ratio
when he is wide awake, when
NE senses are on the alert, not when b