The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-12
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
sv THE REV. FRANK DE WITT TALMAeE. D. c.
os ANGELES, CAL, November 5,
 In thia sermon the virtue of

In this sermon the virtue of
 1 self-sacrifiee and generous recog- nition of the rights of others is clearly set forth and issshown to be one of the chief essentials of a noble character. Tho text Is Matthew V, fl, "Whosoever shall compel thee to go with him one mile. go with him twain.
 What Sir Walter Scott was to the moors and glens of old Scotland, romantic with their legends and folklore, and what Charles Dickens was to the quaint yer nacular of the London streets, and what Fenimore Cooper was to the North Amer ican Indian, with his wigwam and his camphres, his hates and his loves, Fred eric Remington, the great American fig- ure and animal painter, has been to the habits and customs, the comedies and tragedies of the western cowboy, now all most a relic of the past. Future students of our past history reading Theodore Roosevelts Winning of the West" will gain a clearer idea of the scenes and the people there described If those four vol umes are illustrated with Remingtons famous pictures-"The Last Stand, The Crooked Trail" The Frontier Sketches and "A Dash For the Timber" But above all the pictures that Frederic Remington has sketched 1 do not believe there are any more powerful than those in which he depicts the daring exploits of the mes sengers of the pony expresses. Now the east and the west have been married by the wedding ring of the iron rail and the swift locomotive dashes across the conti- nent. but in former times the gold fields of California would have been cut off from communication with the busy east if 1t had not been for the useful system of the pony relays.
 Every thirty or forty miles there was a station. The chain or stations stretched clear across the continent Then between these stations every day a cowboy would ride Alone upon his horse he rode forth with the mail and with his saddlebags often loaded down with gold and precious stones. He rode straight out into the deserts and over the praries; he rode forth In defiance of Indian murderers and white skinned highwaymen and fe- rocious wild beast; he rode with his life depending not so much upon the sureness of his aim and the steadiness of his gun as upon the swiftness of the four-footed beast he bestrode. There in some of Fred eric Remingtons Frontier Sketches you can see the messenger of the pony express" riding with a score of red skinned savages on his trail You can al- most hear the paintings of his exhausted horse and the whizzing of the rifle balls as they fly past the cowboys ears. There he is digging In the spurs in his race with death or, rather, in his race for life. Now. in order to get clear grasp of my text we should take some of Rem ingtons Frontier Sketches in reference to the pony express and give the man ori- ental coloring and put them among the Palestine hills of 100O-aye, of over 2000- years ago.
 Albert Barnes tells us that the word "compep' of my text Is of Persian origin. It comes from the royal court of Cyrus the Great, who died in 529 B. c. There was no postal system in that day King Cyrus planned a system of pony ex- presses all over his empire. Thus by system of relays of horses, when the king wished to send a royal command to one of the governors of his provinces his could be handed from courier to courier with the greatest expedition As these couriers had to go through wild re- gions, like those travelled by the mes sengers of the pony express during the ffties and the sixties, they had a right to compel any man they met to go with them and protect them as the county sheriff today has right to compel you or me to help him arrest an offender against the law.
 A Simple illustration.
 This extensive system of pony expresses not only spread throughout Persia, but in Christ's time spread through all the Roman empire and Caesars provinces. Thus Jesus in order to show now his dis ciples should be willing to sacrifice for any right authority, used very simple a,,I To any courier shall compel thee to go with him one mile, go with him twain" That means when an authority asks you to do a certain amount of work you should be willing to do twice what he asks. Can we not today make this application of su blme gospel concession to the home and to our relations with employers. our churches and the great world at large. as well as to Caesars couriers?
 Christs command of cheerful submis- sion applies to the home. As in the United States government the executive, legislative and judicial departments have their place and their separate functions, so in the home there are coordinate pow CTS, each with It's duties and its rights. The husband and wife, the parents and children, all come under this divine in- junction of mutual concession and in full filling 1t will promote domestic happiness.
 
 service it should be cheerfully rendered. aye in doble the measure required.
 It is unwilllngness to go the twain mile in the home which causes most of the difficulties of the domestic circle. You know it by personal experience You hear angry words coming from the children's bedroom. What is the matter, girls?' hear you ask. ''Why this trouble?' oh" answers your daughter Mary, T cto nd fa'c She was playing with her dolls yesterday and she left her doll trunk out in the middle of the floor. l have stumbled over it again and again. Now l have fallen and hurt my knee. Then, mother, just look at that bed. It is a perfect sight. It is her time to make it up today. l made it yesterday" Then you say, Daughter. why did you not put the trunk away and make up the bed yourself?" With that Many angrily losses her head as she an swers: q simply will not do Jennie's work. l am ready to do my own work, but am not willing to do hers' Why are the girls quarreling? They are both standing upon their rights They are not forbearing to each other. They are not willing to carry each others burdens. They are not willing to go the twain mile. They are willing to do what they have to do, but they are not willing to do what they do not have to do for each other.
 Domestic Difficulties.
 What is true about the difficulties be- tween the children of home is also true fin reference to most of the difficulties be- tween husbands and wives. Instead of some men and women looking upon the marriage altar as an opportunity for pro- noting the happiness of their marital partners. they look upon it as stepping stone to a throne, where they can make