Milford chronicle., 1905-11-03
Calrnage
Sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmage. DID.

lives mere are process of develop
ment and that the divine cure ana pro
lection surround an who trust in COD
is the theme of the preacher in this ser
mon, The text is Psalm a, II, "The
Lord thinketh upon me"
Spritualistie mediums perperate
many frauds. But the greatest OF tleir
absUrdities is not found in the raDplues
ana gr0anings 10y which they applreut-
iy summon the dead to their dark pam
eiel rooms and compel them TO speak
10 their insane victims. lit is found in
the ridiculous photography in which
the dupes of spiriuuaiisuc mediums
have their pictures taken, surrounded,
as they ara led to believe, by the spirit
faces of their loved ones who are near
to yet not of this earth. Have you
ever seen any Of these fictitious pic
lures. Within a few blocks OF nay old
eastern home was a little stationery
store which had its show windows I'LL
ed with them. Raphael painted his
"Sistne Madonna" surrounded by /
clouds of angel faces Those de-
ceitful phOtogral DIS that / saw in that
window showed believers in spiritual
ism surrounded by the faces of their
departed kindred ana dear ones ana
friends. There hey We're in those pic
lures, the living with the dead side by
side Could any fraud be moro bold,
more cruel and more corrupt than that
which declares that such pictures are
genuine! And YET as 1 would stop and .
study these pictures on my way home s
during the winter afternoons l often Q
said TO myself, "Absurd those pictures I
are i'm reality, but how true they are q
fsuradvely.h A man is never a true q
man unless he always has many faces t.
about him. You may think he is alone, a.
but he is not alone. These faces. these II
many unseen faces, hover over him in ei
benediction. They smile at him when a
he smiles. They go with him to places d
of evil resort and rebuke him while he III
is there. They joke with him. They III
plead with him. They pray with him. p(
They come and sit by his bed when he IN
IS about to fail asleep. They greet him hl
he moment when he aWakens In the an
morning. Some of these faces are old. th
some are young. Some are just bud We
ling into young womanhood. Some th
ne middle aged. But these faces are ma
lways about us. They are about you. Dir
hey are about me. VIC
They are about us when we are at
ONE; they are about us when we are
way from home, We may be travel ea'
x in railroad train a thousand miles gal
way from our own firesides 1t is lac
.e evening hour. We are tired of ing
aiding the book. We throw it down ges
ld rest our heads upon our hands est
nd look out of the window and begin are
see many faces Yes" we saw to in
rselyes. this is the evening hour run
II wives are putting the babies to bea
d. People may say we are alone in in
railroad train, but we are not. We grei
home. l tell you we are home. of
e feel the baby boy climb up into hou
r lap and beg US to tell him story: witt
see our little girls sitting by the taci
Die studying their lessons. After the ava
lyers have been said and the bed any
I'm lights turned out and the last soon
ney TO The crib has been taken. mus
-h its drinking water and the good all
.ht kiss, we see our Wife 90 and spec
the darning bag filed with lot of tiyel
children's stockings. She sits down bit &
our side. Then she looks up with a be hi
set smile and says. "AIy dear LET MS must
e a good talk" As we talk she endu
IS the big holes the boys have made tiers
heir stockings when they slid down of re
cellar door, which is their favorite Ever
)ggan. There she sits in the rail- per;
l train cOnyersing. While we are most
king Of our absent dear ones. bv bird
telepathy Of love we know they are deser
king of us. They are constantly not il
our side. 1t is because they are easy
present with us in Thought that true,
try to be just as good and pure and tende
as if we could kiss their lips and we
TO them in the flesh as well as in moral
spirit flower
It are the faces of a father, a moth but Il
wife, a child, the only ones that crocu'
ever present with us, because they Der Ii
llways thinking of us as we are of Ting
? Oh, no. David, the sweet singer whose
srael, says there is another face but
II we must place over and above Canst
human faces lowering about us. the w
is the face Of God He is think the Sc
about us. He is planning for us. lhe sV
S pleading with us 1 want to i'm uesire
; on your minds the fact that the
s face is ever present with us
that he is continually thinking Trou
t US. upon
The Fathers Care. Ties.
/ plans for us as A developine physie
1. He is like a true parent who But tn
child given into his care bv the BRAY
angel. The true father does not countr
into the face Of child and say: should
l have a child / will shield how b
l will always keep him by my Yicts
$ n belpless child oh. no. That mounts
the true fathers way. No soon upon /
he little child born into the home duty o
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