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THE YOICE OF THE PULPIT. Rev. A. H. Carrier’s Farewell Sermon to His Congregation Yesterday. Evangelist, Munhall Denounces Sunday Camp--51 eetings as a Desecration of the Sab-bath-Central Christian Church. THE CIII'RCH’S MISSION. The Farewell Sermon of Ilev. A. H. Carrier, I'iiKtor of the Fourth Prewbyterlan Church. There wa,s a large audience at the Fourth Presbyterian Church yesterday morning, to hear the farewell sermon of the pastor, Rev. A. H. Carrier, who, having dissolved his pastoral relations with his congregation, will sail in a few' days for Europe, where ho goes for study and recreation. The following is the full text of Mr. Carrier’s sermon: Till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of (tni unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of tha fullness ol Christ. —Ephesians iv, 13. "This is Paul’s ideal of the aim of church and ministrv. It is to make men of full stature, perfect men in unity of faith and unity of knowledge. As “no prophecy is of private interpretation,” no church is for private aims. The, gospel of Jesus Christ makes no provision for personal ambitions. Its purpose is to bring men out of the selfishness that makes them pigmies into the stature of the fuilness of Christ. What is any religion good for that does not make right think ing and right-acting menl A reconstructed manhood is the supreme attainment of a human life. The bloom of life 13 not physical beauty that so easily arrests the eye. It is moral beauty, spiritual beauty—likeness to Jesus Christ. The church which does not attain this purpose misses the mark. The church which prepares men effectually for both worlds is by that token making its calling and election sura 1 wisß in a familiar way to go over the ground which, as pastor, I have endeavored to traverse. First, you will bear ine out in saying, that I Lave tried to preach Christ as a redeemer, Christ the crucified. I have not failed to assert continually his divinity and his expiatory life and death. I have said with continual repetition: “There is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.” If it were my latest breath I should wish still to say to any asking the question, “What must I do to be saved!” “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.” That is the radiating center of my theology. You may play all changes you please upon that theme if you keep that air running through the music. You may turn the kaleidoscope as much as you will in either direction if you have the shining facts of the atonement as ‘its contents. You will have endless combinations, all different, but all harmonious and beautiful. Gospel truths have no more sameness than has nature in its endless charm. Given certain forms arid colors and you have the wealth of beauty in the world around you. l>o not call the truth as it is in Jesus a dry theme. It is instinct with life. It touches life at every point. You say, no two facts ever occur just alike in every minute particular. Thus, life is full of incident and variety. And so the religion of Jesus Christ is full of incident and variety; for it is presented to us. not as an abstract truth, but as “drawn out in living character.” Each story of real life is a romance in itself. And each instance of applied Christianity —faith in daily life—has its special interest, rising often into a peculiar cliarm. I have, therefore, endeavored to emphasize the fact that faith rests not in certain words of confession: that Christ is not merely a name to conjure by, but that He gave himself for men that He might redeem them from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people zealous of good works. In Himself he gives the model of His intended work. He “lures to heaven and leads the way.” He makes heaven possible by the redemption through his blood, and shows in 11 is divine humanity what it is to carry heaven about in one’s own person. He is God’s representative, but He is also the consummate flower of our race. It is in this latter view that the text presents Him. I want to dwell upon that TH<£ DEVELOPMENT OF LI FES OEIiM. Os course, there cau bo no manhood without first the germ of life—without birth and childhood. And there can ho no Christian manhood •without the second birth. But, conceding that, turn to the idea, next, of this new life developed to its full results. However much you admire an infant, no parent among you would wish to have a child forever a baby. Paul recognizes the purpose of the church and ministry to be the development of those who have experienced the new birth into such high manhood as God intended for them —“Till wo all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto tbe measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ” The question, therefore, now confronts us, What is this? Let us know what it is. 1 might answer, the variety of it is as endless as the quality of it is high. For Christ illustrated life at so many points, and in such a representative way, that 1 could hardly tell where to begin and wheie to leave off. If you want points of argument, I might mention in the manliness of Christ these two things—tenderness and strength. There is something indeed divine in the way Ho blends the two —in tho way that He makes thus anew ideal. A man's courage —a woman’s tears —these, as some thing incompatible, have been the commonplace terms to show the difference between the sexes. Savages sing defiant death songs while their savage captors torture them, and this is thought by them the height of manliness; a tear or groan would be a disgrace. Stoicism tried to get rid of the play of the emotions, to any large extent, as unworthy of a fully perfected man. Hut Jesus did no such thing. He united, and thaught that it was the highest manliness to unite, on fit occasions, a man’s courage with the tenderness of tears Jesus wept. Tho highest style of man is not the one who gets rid of his feelings, but who has them developed to the finest and fittest exercise. You will see this re finement in Christ's nature. You see there the combination and compatibility of strength and tenderness. Have you not seen iu strong natures often an element of womanly gentleness? Perfect humanity should have masculine strength and feminine sweetness. And Christ, in fact, embodied both. Therefore it is our fit aim to possess and unite the two. Developed Christianity should make strong men tender, and tender women strong. You see it in such natures as John Howard’s—in such ns Florence Nightingale's. The strong man goes to the sickbed like a gentle nurse. The tender woman goes to the battle-field like a resolute hero. True religion refines out coarseness and puts in pity and sweetness. True religion adds to softness of manners a virtuous strength, for if you study life and history you will see that softness of manners has of tv n been allied to cruelty of sentimer t. Selfishness is often fastidiously refined. Voluptuous elegance is often exceedingly heartless. Napoleon once gratified au elegant woman’s selfish whim, who wished to see a battle, by ordering a wholly useless skirmish in which many men were killed. Florence Nightingale goes to the Crimea to take np tenderly the shattered bodies of men to heal them. The sanitary and Christian commissions followed in tho red footsteps of battle to alleviate the terrible work of the hard fought field. Christianity has not yet availed to do away with all the frightful evils that are curses of the race; but where it can, it does the healing work, if. some timss with a surgeon's sharpness, vet with a Christly impulse to save. To a novice the Burgeon’s work at. the tents iu the rear might seem not unlike, except in a certain deliberateness of method, tho slashing of swords at the front; but to one knowing all the case it means help and life. Thus Jesus combined utmost, fidelity with utmost kindness. He was too true not to seem sometimes severe. Happy for the subjects of it when His severity became their Bafety. If you see Jesus only at sorno given moment you might say: “Hero is weakness.” You see him at the next you say: “What majesty of strength! For instance, look at Him in the Garden of Getbseniane—lie is in an agony of prayer and of sighs. Is lie unmanned? Is He cowardly? Look at Him then directly after—an armed throng are upon Him; He has only to turn His eyes upon them— this lion of the tribe of Judah—and they go backward and fall to the rround. Ho has had His tears, but see Him next iay going forth with ilia cross, followed by a

weeping company of women to whom He turns and says, “Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and your children.” Ts Jesus less to you for that capacity of tears in Gethsemane? I think I read in that the meaning of certain reassuring words: “We have not an high priest that cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities.” I can be glad that Christ's example gives to aching hearts the warrant for tears; thatHedoes not crush emotion, but, as one who knows what is in man, counts that manful which gives to every feeling its right expression. "VS eep with them that weep. In our day are found these who would rather praise something else than Christ and Christianity; and so, forsooth, they make a pet ot Buddha and Buddhism. Now the philosophy of Buddhism, even more than of stoicism, demands of you that yon shall come to a state of indifference about all pleasure and pain; and when you have reached perfection, or Nirvana, you care for nothiner in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in tho waters under the earth. Thank God this is not the siyle of Christianity. That intensifies life; it quickens sensibilities: it gives keener zest to every right enjoyment. “I am come,” said its author, “that men might have life, and have it more abundantly."’ Christianity’s work and its workers. You will find Christian men doing all kinds oT work—the great and the small enterprises of the world. What a statesman Gladstone has been for more than half a century? From the beginning he has been a most earnest Christian. Many jurists abroad and at home are devoted Christians; many lawyers are eminent in the church. Soldiers, genera’s, like Hancock and Gordon, of Chinese and Egyptian fame, show how that which seems most incongruous with Christianity can bo done in Christian spirit. All sorts of business, except distinctly wicked business, may be found in the hands of Christian men. Men of nerve, like Cromwell, and Gustavus Adolphus, and Washington, have been among them. All varieties of disposition, temperament and nurture belong to the household of faith. For never make the silly mistake that ouly those a little sad, or sour, or weak are fit to be made Christians of. God lias not leveled men down to some gloomy monotone. Christian men are not by that token negative, spiritless men, not Christian women negative, spiritless women. The keenest, brightest, wittiest men and women in preseut life or in history you will find in considerable numbers among the Christian disciples. Christianity does not take out the spirit from man or woman. It trains it in new directions. Paul showed what Christianity does for a man when ho turned from his bigoted rage to a gentleness like that of Christ. You can see still that he has a fiery nature; but it takes fire in other ways than once. He is as intensely earnest after his conversion as before. He spent his energy before persecuting men and women. lie spent his energy after in saving them. To strike back used to he thought manly in old time—an eye for an eye. a tooth for a tooth. Ho was tho hero who could avenge himself. Now moral stature rises far’above physical. He is a man of highest manhood, not who can smite his enemies hip and thigh, or bear aw’av on his shoulders the gates of Gaza, but who, like Jesus, can bear and forbear, going about doing good. A foolish and wicked code of honor once demanded blood for what chanced to be thought an insult. The law of retaliation is very old. What wonder that against such a code Jesus took extreme ground in protest “If one smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.” This’• not what the world likes. It is easier to strike hack than to suffer with meekness. It is often called tameness and meanness of spirit when in some sense this law 01 Christ is followed. But there is tenfold more bravery in it than in the other every time that it is done in self restraint for Christ’s sake. Said a highspirited man whom I knew, on one occasion, when grievously provoked- a man whose nature was all force and fire, and who once could never have brooked an insult from such an assailant — “I should knock you down hut for the grace of God.” Similar was the reply of James Haldane, an English officer of high courage, when insulted by one who meanly presumed upon the fact of Haldane’s recent conversion to do what he would have not dared do otherwise. But men such as Haldane and Havelock, and Christian officers in the Crimea —bravest of the brave—would sooner die than avenge au insult according to the duelist’s code. Yet in face of the opinions that prevail in camp such self restraint becomes heroic. He that so rulos his spirit is greater than he that taketh a city. The old selfishness clamors to have its own way though tho heavens fall. Christ’s law r says: Resist not evil. Look not upon your own things, but also ou the things of others. In honor preferring one another. Therefore, slowly Christianity wins its way. It is like the tide which you have seen advancing up a very broad beach; just a ripple at a tune, even then drawing back, but it moves next time a little further onward, for it is bound to come—the whole ocean is hack of it, and the sun and moon in their courses aro urging it on. So thepporerw r er of the endless life of Jesus is felt in the circle of His followers; but oh, not enough. Christians too often exalt their personal interests above tbe everlasting verities. Religion is treated as if good for all fair weather occasions, but n<?t for storms. It is easy to be good when there is no temptation to tho contrary. Men mistake the purpose of their Christianity if it is followed when agreeable to their prepossessions, but discountenanced wheu it collides with personal feeling. Now it depends upon each true man, each true woman to make Christianity what it shall be in tho world. You cannot treat religion as something separate from daily life. You cannot set religion upon a pedestal, like a statue of a god, and say “There it is, look at it —let us worship it.” Those who eulogise it without corresponding practice try to do this. There is no religion in this abstract sense. Religion is a man’s conduct ou Christ’s pattern. The praises on the pages of a whole library would not alone be worth ns much as one homely instance of Christian life. I well know that the ideal which it is easy to see is hard enough to folly. You have seen art of speech, or song, which had reached what is deemed its perfection, the skill to conceal all traces of art. How easy it seemed for the consummate orator to talk! How easy for the matchless vocalist to sing! How easy for the fingers of the musical artist to play with the keys or the strings! Somehow it appeared a thing of nature, done as one would bretho, but try to imitate them; try to talk in public with the ease of the trained orator; how the words will not come: and thoughts will not fashion themselves! Trji to sing like the vocalist who seems spontaneous as a bird. What an ignoble falling short. What, cleaving of the voice to the roof of the mouth! Yet the very ease of the trained and perfected speaker or singer is suggestive of the possibility of doing yourself, that thing which seems so spontaneous. Experience has taught you better —experience or advice. Try it, if you must. You realize the difficulty, for the simplicity of the best style of speech is highly deceptive its to its facility. To some favored few it may be a natural gift Os the pre-eminent orator, as of tho poet, it may be said, “he is born not made.’’ Now in spiritual supremacy never but one has been born to this pre-eminence. Think of imitation of Jesus. How natural He seems; how true to every situation! What simplicity and directness in His words! How fit His conduct always. 80 you judge. You talk of imitating Him. It sounds well. You try; you find it not so very easy as it seems. It is easy, or would be easy, you say, if only you were not annoyed or pro yoked, to be like Him. But lie was annoyed and provoked. You see Jesus under every variety of circumstances. Though He was reviled He reviled not again. You may see Him, if you choose to look, among friends or among enemies; in the loving household of Bethany, or at the center of a terribly hostile 1110 b; in Mary’s house at Nazareth; a weary traveler at the well side in Samaria; on the mount where He gave His wonderful sermon of the beatitudes; or uttering woes .against Pharisees, hypocrites, or scourging insolent traders out of the temple. You see gentleness or severity as the case may be. but always fidelity to what is true, and just, and pure, and honest, and lovely, and of good report. Jesus is a lion and a lamb. He can use God’s thunderbolts, as He did “the live thunder,” peal on peal, against pharasaic false ness. He can look and speak the very incarnation of pity, as He did always to the penitent. Now' thoee are things to be interpreted into our owu dialect of service, to bo adapted to our cir cuinstances, which, though never the same as anotbers, will have clear points of resemblance. CHARACTERISTIC? OF THE OHIRSTI AN. Wisely no doubt certain incidents are chosen out of tho multitude in the life of Christ, that might fill tho many books which John said might

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have been written. But too many details confuse us. So the great outlines are made to stand out By certain tokens you see what is the fullness of His stature. It is said that the original idea of telling beads, as the Roman Catholic votary does it. was for the purpose of recalling, as by a method of mnemonics, incidents in the life of Jesus; each bead, as it passes through the fingers, standing for some fact or word. The ignorant, no doubt, may miss the meaning. But the idea was not without its force ami beauty. A constant catalogue of the Divine Man’s deeds and words should make—it ought to make —an impression that should fashion the votary’s heart. But what can forms do without the spirit? Now God’s purpose is to make, through the power of Christ's life —to make, through him, as the quickening spirit— Christly men and women in His church. The church should prove itself to be made of those who will do what Christ, under like circumstances, would do. You are to ask yourselves seriously the question, What would Jesus Christ do in my place? You may be perplexed, sometimes, with difficulties, because circumstances are never twice precisely alike. But the guiding principle is ever the same. The mind of Christ, lying hack of action, can and will make the conduct always Christly. And the law of Christ’s life comes to every one of you. just as if you alono were to be the Christly man or woman. On a desert island or in a crowded city the claim to be and to do the best, under the circumstances, is just the same. Y r our own self-respect, your instinct of right should keep you in any place from any baseness. You should honor your own soul and body too much to be untrue to yourself even if you were alono in the world. But with the presence of others new claims come. No one can crowd upon another's rights without hurting two parties, him self and the other—and which the most, it is not easy to say. But clearly it is better to suffer wrong than to inflict wrong. It is this carefulness towards others’ rights which, most signally of all things in common life, interprets the Christian. When Saul, the first appointed King of Israel, had the eyes of the people turned on him, as he stood unpretentiously among them, it was seen that he was head and shoulders above them all, and the people spontaneously raised a shout, “God save the King.” Frederick of Prussia, father of Frederick the Great, laid the foundation for tho rare military career of his famous son. Ho gathered together and trained an army of athletes. Wherever in the kingdom he heard of a man of unusual size and strength he got him if ho could into his royal guard where none less than men of six feet high were taken. Now Christians should stand six feet high, if this be the full stature of a man; and whatever more may answer to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. Set men in a row on a moral plane and you should be able to pick out the followers of -Jesus Christ at a glance. They should stand head and shoulders above all who have had no such birth and training as the household of faith is supposed to givy. You can pick out every time those that have honored their birth and training. And you will find that often where is least pretension there is most of the Christly stature, if you run your eye along the line of historic men you will find that those who were least eager to exalt themselves and most regardful of others stand easily the highest. You rind it so always. Lately the diary of that unique man, General Gordon, of Khartoum, has been published, and it exalts the man even to their view who had set him highest. A brief review says: “Nowhere does ho pose for effect in the least degree, or seem to care how what lie says may impress others concerning himself, although he foresaw that his writings might be published. But everywhere his words reveal distinctly the real and noble character which lie possessed. No one can read them without feeling himself in the presence of a Christian and a hero. General Gordon’s directness, illustrated in both speech and action, has made him famous. In spite of some eccentricities and faults, Gordon is likely to go down in history as the most knightly character of the age, and it is because he literally cared for nothing else in comparison with the doing of his full duty to God and man.” Yes, I think that is it which makes the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. For, as Jesus Christ stands in His confessed greatness before men, hear what He says: “1 came not to do mine owu will, but the will of Him that sent me.” “I must work the works of Him that sentme while it is day: the night cometh wherein no man can work.” This blending of love and duty will fulfil the ideal. You need not trouble yourself about what men say if you keep a conscience void of offense before God and man. You may trust your good name to Him who knows how to keep it. It may give you pain if sometimes motives are misconstrued and friendships alienated. While we see through a glass darkly —and not with open vision, eye to eye and heart to heart—we are subject to misconceptions. It has been so all through the history of the church. Paul aud Barnabas stood apart for a time. Paul and the church of Galatia. But let us think less of what is due to us and more of what is due to others and to Christ. Self forgetfulness is a charming virtue. Let us have more of it. “Even Christ,” cries Paul, “pleased not Himself, but made Himself of no reputation: He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. “Wherefore,” mark the force of that con junction: “wherefore, God Jiath highly exalted Him and given Him a name which is above every name.” Did not Christ say, “He that exalteth himself shall bo abased, but he that humbleth himself shall be exalted?” Look, then, at the ideal. Turn not your eyes from Jesus Christ. Behold the man! .Imitate Him. This is the final aim of church and ministry. I have tried thus to teach. I have wished to present every man perfect before God. Nooneeanbe more conscious than myself of my limitations and shortcomings. But I have carried this church on my heart, aud its spiritual good has been tome higher than all temporizing or temporary good. And now, as I close, I think of that measure aud undertone as if of the eternal music in tho earlier words of the text, “Till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God.” “Home, sweet home” sounds in the words. “Till we come, all come*’—not in diversity of feeling but in unity; not in imperfect understanding, but in the knowledge of the Son of God. Is not this the sort of music to which to march? Is not this an inspiring joy set before us? “Oh what sweet company We there shall hear and see, 111 Zion where His name is sung.” What hopes will be fulfilled when you shall both behold and help to constitute that great company who have reached the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ! Think of it and take courage! Think of it mothers ot households, who perhaps despomiingly say, “I have no sphere of service to make me full-stafared.” Yes. surely you have. And some of you stand head and shoulders above many brethren. Some of you have trained and are training children into these proportions: some of them you nave already given over to glory. No work can be grander than that. Think of your high-cal lie.-, young men and mridens; what a clear, high aim to be mustered as if into the body guard of Jesus Christ. If true and faithful you shall follow Him whose name is “faithful and true” in that great cavalcade which John pictures in heaven. Some of you here are business men, and you are to do business on such heavenly principles that your bank account —whatever chance or change como here —shall be in heaven. Be rich towards God. No one can diminish aught of wealth which lias come through the unsearchable riches of Christ Littlo children, come into the field of vision. Since Christ took them into His arms and said; “Os such is the kingdom of heaven,” I see generations of them still coining near to His side, growing into His likeness, and now more than I can number stand beside Hitn on the golden pavement and strike to Him harps of gold Such are tho issues of practical goodness. Here is the school and the camping-ground, and the field of Mars, where men <ind women are exercised unto godliness, that they may stand, by and by, in those orderly ranks where everyone is not less than the stature of a man. and everyone has not less than the air of a king. Heirs of God, joint heirs with Jesus Christ. I have preached and do preach a gospel of hope, and endeavor, aud attainment. It is an inspiring gospel. It looks to hopes fulfilled. It points from Paradise, lost of the dim past, to paradise regained of the near future. It aims to set reconstructed man, without wrinkle, or spot, or any such thing, amidst the clear light of heaven. And, therefore, I have tried to think lessof what might be for the passing hour. An arrow shot to that height which tho utmost force of the twanging bow-string can give it comes back soon again to the ground. I have tried to say: “Shoot higher. Set jour affections on tningo above not on things on the earth. Think less of what men say. Think everything of what God should

see within you. Set off the “far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory” against whatever rnav be the trouble and affliction of the moment. Words grateful to the heart have come to me from many, especially grateful when they say: “You have eiveu us help, eomfort, upward longings.” lam deeply thankful if to anyone, by any word of mine, earth has been made more definitely a school of grace; if heaven has seemed a little clearer and dearer as the home of glory. For every soul of this congregation, and for every one who now hears me,. I ask God's most gracious benediction, that all of us may at last come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God to that delightful consummation—a perfect manhood —tho measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. DESECRATION OF THE SAISBATIT. Evangelist Mnnhall Denounces Sunday CampMeetings and All Kinds of Sunday Labor. Lea W. Munhall preached at Robert’s Park 51. E. Church yesterday morning and evening. His morning topic was “The Observance of the Sabbath,” his text being taken from the twentieth chapter of Exodus, “Remember tho Sabbath day and keep it holy,” etc., beginning with the eighth verso and including the succeeding verses bearing upon the subject; and the second chapter of Mark, 27th verse, “The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.” Mr. Munhall spoke of the two phases of the Sabbath question presented in the two texts; the first indicating that the seventh day was set apart by God in which man should do no work, and was to rest and cease from secular pursuits. He said it wa.3 not for him to enter at length upon why we don't observe the seventh day aud do now observe the first day of the w eek. It is enough for us to know that throughout all the world among the Christians of every land the first day is observed as the Sabbath of the Lord, and since tho day is established he does not see how it- is possible for us to observe any other day. The second text calls to attention tho reason why this day should be observed. Man requires one day in seven as a day of rest. He is built upon that plan. Many things go to show this. A man bought an eight day clock. He was proud of it and fearing it might run down, whenever 110 thought about it—every day or two —he would wind it up. It soon got out of order and he took it to a jeweler. As soon as he looked at it be knew what was the matter. It had been wound up out of season. It was built on the eight day plan. There are six days for a man to labor and one day for relaxation, for rest from business cares and worldly thoughts, a day to give to communion with God. It is not a day for idleness and sleep. The Lord would get nothing by that sort of thing. Tho rest that man is to take is a change of employment. Ho is to be occupied with tho Lord’s affairs, aud when so occupied he will find greater rest than in swinging all day in a hammock drinking lemonade. “1 knew a business man on South Meridian street,” Mr. Munhall said, “a man of great mental endowments and great physical endurance. He worked early and| late every week-day at his business and would be there also on Sunday. It was not a great while until he was taken to the hospital for the insane, and lie soon died there. That man would have been alive to-day had he regarded God’s law. We know of others who give this same attention to business and defy the law of God. 1 have uo hesitation in saying that half the men who are in the asylums to-day would not be there had they kept the Sabbath. There are preachers who do not keep this law, who prepare their sermons on’Sunday, and do more work on that day than on the entire seven days of the week. This is not the way to do God's work. "Whatever you do on the Lord's day or cause your servants or the beasts in your barn to do must bring evil consequences.” There is a law on the statute books of the State predicated upon this divine law, which is for the good of the people. This statute calls upon the people to turn aside on the first day of the week from their secular pursuits for that one day. so he that violates tho divine "law violates the law of the land also. There is no man or woman here professing to be a Christian who can refuse to observe these things. The observance of this law is required by tbe Methodist church, by the statutes of the State, by the word of God. Sunday is instituted that he may come to the house of God and hear His word. Perhaps some of you professing Christians send over to the butcher on Sunday for a piece of beef, to the baker for bread. or get milk of the milkman. By doing so you are violating the law of tho land, and by your patronage causing others to do so, and to violate the law of God. Drug stores keep open to sell cigars to church members. None of these places would keep open if the Christian people did not patronize them. Your violation of law brings other serious consequences with it. It breeds a lax observance of the Sabbath. Your son will go to the Sunday base ball game or to the theater, if it is open, and he will break your heart and bring your gray hairs in sorrow to the grave. Your little account of the Sabbath will be tho cause of this, and you will reap what you have sowed. No matter what a Supreme Court has said in the matter of a cigar being a necessity, the law of the land says differently, and you violate the law when you enter a drug store on Sunday to buy a cigar. You ride upon the street cars on Sunday without thought of the poor drivers whom you make work seven days in the week, sixteen hours a day for their bread and butter, nor of the mule that is entitled to one day’s rest in seven. If church members would not patronize the cars on Sunday, they would not run; if they did not buy the Sunday papers they would not be published. Christian people are the newspaper buying people in tlr country, and the Sunday newspaper is doing more harm than all other things together. The selling of these, papers is in violation of the law of the Stato. The Sunday newspaper brings business and the feverish things of the week into the Sabbath, projecting the secular things into -the holiday*l The government lends itself to the violation of its own laws iu opening the postoffice, on Sunday. Men go to the postoffice to get their business letters, and answer them, instead of going to church. You say these are little things. 80 they are, but it is tho little foxes that spoil the vines. The fathers have eaten sour grapes and tho teet,h of the children are on edge. The man who lives in open violation of the law is not a Christian at all. lie must forsake his sins, cotne away from these things, and become an obedient child of God, else he cannot enter into salvation. The campmeeting of to-day is not the campmeeting of years gone by. They are not so much for the salvation of souls as for recreation; you go to attend a lecture-course mingled with some religious exercises. The idea of getting anybody saved seems to be far from the thought of those who manage them. When they got to running Sunday trains. I insisted that it was against the law of the State as well as against the law of God. But they got ten cents from each ticket sold by the railroad, and they took the money and became particeps criminis. At the outcry made against the Sunday trains to Acton they stopped them two years. That shows the camp-meeting folks can stop them. But they were resumed, and the reason they are not stopped is because they want that ten cents. It is a money making scheme. The trustees of Acton camp meeting ground voted to receive no money from Sunday trains, but when the business report came in, there was a gift from the railroad, and it corresponded with the number of ten cent pieces received for Sunday fares. They have stretched out the meeting at Acton until it covers three Sundays, and they make so much more money. At Loveland they whip tho devil around tho stump. They charge ten cents admission at the gate. The Acton meeting charges ten cents on Sunday, and that is in violation of State law, and should bo prosecuted. They say that is in place of a collection, and try to make it appear that there is no difference between this gate-money and a free will offering to God. It is fur reasons that I do not go to campmeeting. The preachers who take part in theso campmeetings have nothing to say on the question of Sabbath \ iolatlon. We must uphold the preservation of the Sabbath. If we do not, iu less than fifty years this country will suffer for it, and go down as France is going down. Mr. Munhall called attention to the fact that to catch the approval of the law-breakingclasses, the scandalous spectacle had been pre*ntod of the Uoveruor of the State aud the State officers

going out of their way to thank a police comrflissioner (Mr. Frenzel), upon presenting his resignation, for the manner.in which he had done his duly, when the fact was notorious that he had been the friend of those who violated the law. and stood by them, giving his akl and countenance in its violation. At Central Christian Church. Tho services at the Central Christian Chureh yesterday were conducted by the Rev. E. J. Gantz, of Ohio. In the evening he addressed a moderate summer night audience on tho circumstances that operate against a full religious life. His remarks were very interesting, and had it not been for the intense heat would no doubt have been heard by a large congregation. His address was suggested by the parable of the sowers. He said that all failure in Christian life is chargeable to man himself. He is under the control of seltish and oTil desires, and these must be eliminated before the fulness of Christ's promises can be realized. Christ was tempted on all sides, and tiki not sin; we are tempted in the same way, but sin readily. The cares of life, riches and pleasure, are the strong forces that keep men away from living religiously. By this the church suffers. If the church is to prosper it must be through individaai work, uninfluenced by the opposing causes named. The new military company will meet this evening in room Xo. 57. Court-house, and will select a name. All members are requested to be present. Young men wishing to join may do so at this meeting. SENSATIONAL, SARAH BERNHARDT. She Will Go to Australia Next Season—Her Tricks and Iler Manners. Lucy Hooper in Philadelphia Telegraph. Sarah Bernhardt is definitely not to go to the United States next season. She has accepted an engagement for South America and Australia. Grave fears are expressed by those who know her well as to the effects of so long a sea voyage upon her health. She suffers agonies from sea sickness, even in the calmest weather, and sometimes breaks down utterly and cries like a child with the intensity of her misery. Now, such a state of affairs is bad enough when the voyage lasts ten days only, but it takes from fifty to sixty-five days to reach Australia from England on a good steamer, and tho captain of the Austral told a friend of mine last season that he had known, during his voyages to Australia, three cases of lady passengers who had died of the exhaustion produced by prolonged and increasing sea-sickness. During the brief period that elapsed between tho closing of the Porte St. Martin and the commencement of the provincial tour of Theodora, Mme. Sarah Bernhardt resumed her occupation as a sculptor, rind modeled the bust of an Austrian Princess who came daily to sit to her. Her health is good, and one hears no more of the hemorrhages from the throat or stomach that used to interrupt her performances from time to time. Apropos of these attacks, a funny story is told relative to an engagement that she once played at, Genoa. The piece was La Dame aux (.'amelias, and the Genoese public, indignant at the high prices charged for the tickets, witnessed the perform ance in sulky silence and forbore to applaud. Suddenly, in the scene with “M. Duval” in the third act, Sarah stopped short, put her handkerchief to her lips, fal tered, tottered, and fell to the floor, with blood gushing from her mouth. Tho curtain was instantly lowered, and, after a long pause, the manager came forward and requested the indulgence of the audience for Mine. Bernhardt, “who, though suffering greatly,” he said, “was anxious to finish the piece, so as not to disappoint the public.” The curtain was then raised and the play proceeded, the actress being greeted with thunders of applause as soon as she reappeared, and at every available point throughout the remainder of the performance. A few days later someone was expressing to Sarah Bernhardt great surprise at her powers of endurance on that occasion. “It was a very simple affair,” remarked tho great actress. “I found that the audience was in a bad humor and would not applaud me, so I concealed a little bladder full of blood in my handkerchief and when wiping my lir>s I contrived to slip it into my mouth, and 1 had oulv to close my teeth upon it to produce the desired effect.” O Sarah, Sarah! The queen of humbugs no less thau the queen of actresses! What a strange combination —Ilachel lined with a Bavnum! The Salvation Army in Camp. Oli Orchard, Me., July 19.—The Salvation Army opened its camp-meeting here to day, with the “knee” drill at 7 o’clock, followed by a hallelujah march. The salvation meeting at 10 o’clock was led by Captain Shirley. Tho array consists of twenty-two officers and sixty-fivo soldiers. About 2,000 persons are in attendance. A praise meeting was held this afternoon, and a salvation meeting this evening. This is tho first camp meeting ever held by tho army. ANNOUNCEMENTS. DR. J. T. BOYD HAS RETULINED-RESIDENCE, 180 North Illinois st.; office, 1-1 West Ohio st. FOR SALE. IT'OR SALE-ONLY ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR, . the Weekly Indiana State Journal. Send for it. 1' m>rTsale office ~op receiver' of Fletcher & Sharpe, No. 10 Fletcher & Sharpe’s Block. In pursuance of an order of the Superior Court of Marion county, the receiver of Fletcher & Sharpe will, on an 1 after Wednesday, the 29th day of July, A. D. 1885. offer for sale any of the real estate belonging to said trust, at not less than the appraisement, and stock of the Indianapolis National Bank at not loss than par, and will receive in payment claims against said trust to the amount of 25 per cent, of their face. Claimants offering to buy said stock in a larger amount than 25 per cent, of these claims will pay for such excess cash in hand, and for real estate so in excess of said 25 per cent, oue third of such excess cash in hand and the balance in nine and eighteen mouths, with interest. WILLIAM WALLACE, receiver of Fletcher & Sharpe. WANTED. XXT ANTED— I THE CHEAPEST NEWSPAPER IN if the West, the Weekly Indiana State Journal. One doliar per year. \\T ANTKD—A PARTNER Wlt7T~*2so IN Tv well-established business, paying .$250 per month: no competition; investigate. Address M. TANARUS., Journal office, Indianapolis, Ind. TI?ANTED-AGENTS FOR OUR UNIVERSAL Tv cooking and preserving crock; best thing out for canning fruit; selts itself; big profits. FOREST CITY SPECIALTY CO., 381 Bond st.. Cleveland, O. 1 1 ■m■■ ■ in ■■■■ ■'■■Fun™ ——*———a ____ HELP WANTED. 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