Year: 1874

con1o ma taken Mr. Talmage satd We learned
from this subject the folly OF depending upon any
one form of attack in anything we have 10 90 iof
this world or for God. Look over the weapons
OF the olden times, javelins battle axes ana
habergeons, and show me single weapon VIII
which Abimelech and his men could nave game"
such complete triumph. 1t is no easy thing 10
take temple with such armament saw houso
yesterday where during the Revolutionary times'
man and hts wife kept back whole regiment OF
men hour alter hour because they were
inside the house and the soldiers were
outside. I read that Abmelech and his army
came up, surrounded this temple and captureu IL
without the loss OF o single man. Atnougn, sup
pose, the old Israelitish heroes told ADlmelecn,
iou are only going up there TO be cut In pieces,
other mOde-certainly not by any ordinary mode
could that temple have been so easily captured.
and mothers brothers anu ssters t III
to-day Is that any plan Is right-any plan Is lawiui


OVERTHROW THE TEMPLE OF SIN


ana captures this world for God. We are very apt
to stick to the old modes OF attack. We put on the
old style coat OF mail we up with the sharp.
way TO capture the castle; but they have thou
ae oss of s sud is
viii never capture this world OF sin
glitterinR CLEANS OF rhetoric. by any sapping and
mining OF profound disquistiOns. by any gun
powder explosions OF Indignation. by sharp shoot





TO swing shell five miles, by cavalry horses gor-
geousy equipped, paving the air. In nne all
attempts on the part OI these ecclesiastical foot
soldiers, light horsemen and grenadiers are use.
less My friends, propose this morning differ.
stye M o. saca Ley US one 60 70 the
down o brancn and put 1T on our shoulder, and
let US all come around these obstinate iniIuities.
and then this pile kndled by the fires Of holy
zeal and the names of q consecrated lie,
will burn them out What steel cannot do 1re
may. Aud this morning announce myself In ia
vor OF any plan OF religious attack that succeeds;
any plan OF religious attack, however radical,
tile to all the conventionaities OF the church and
State. II one style OF prayer does not do the work
aS MOT Get he vy ee @ 81
the assault with the Dackwoods chorus. II
prayer meeting at half-past seven in the evening
does not succeed let us have one as early as the
morning. Ii a sermon with the three authorized
heads does not DO the work. then let US have q
sermon with twenty heads, or no head at all.


WE WANT MORE HEART


In our song. more heart in our almsgiving, moro
lor less Of G 'Abimelsch's steel and more IL
Abimelech's conhagrations! had often heard


There is fountain filed with blood


sung artisucally by four birds percbed on their
Jenny Lind and Nilsson and SOntag and all the
other warblers, but there came not one tear to my
night went down to the African Methodist meeting
house In Philadelphia and at the close OF the SER
wee black woman IN the midst or the congrega-
audience joined in. and we were noated three or
TOUR miles nearer heaven than have ever been
since l saw with my eyes that ''iountain filed
with blood" red, agonlzing sacr1fclal redemp-
ton. / heard the crimson piash OF the wave as we
all went down under It,


For sinners plunged beneath that GOOD,


Lose all their guilty stains


The reverend gentleman SAID he further learned
from this subject the power or example. II Abim-
eech hau sat down upon the grass and told his
soldiers to and get the boughs and go out to the
battle they would never have gone at all. What
made Garibaldi, Stonewall Jackson and sheridan
the most magnetic commanders 1t was
because they always rode ahead. father
on the wrong road was apt to lead his children
wrong, while a father on the right road would lead
them to Christ He also learned from this subjecs
the advantage OF a concert of action, and under
this head he spoke OF the necessity OF all working
together In the cause OF Christ. 1t seemed to HIM
tnat this was not done, and as II there were ten
drones IN every hive to one busy bee. While there
are great many toiling for God there are some
who too lazy 70 brush the flies of their heavy
eyelids. They have lain SO long in one place that
the ants and caterpillars are beginning to crawl
over them, and he would not wonder II some or
these church brothers should wake up In hell.