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AX ELOQrE.XT SERVICE OP axd uorn. GLAD. Tb llnttl Oar,' Smy the Rev. Dr. TalMtc-Selene Slightly Scored Th Little Fopxaa Shata at Religion The Secular I'rei and the Pulpit. BROOKLTN, Sept. 10. This forenoon the Key. T. De Witt Talmage preached to a thronged audience In the Brooklyn tabernacle. Tha keynote of the rvlc wan one of gladness. Many of the audience had been absent during the rummer and had returned for this service. The pastor commented on passages of scripture depleting the morning of the world's deliverance. The subject of the sermon was, "The Battle Ours," the text being I Kings , 27, "And the children of Israel pitched before them like two little Hocks of kids." With thirty-three kin drunk In on tent this chapter opens. They wer alllos plotting for the overthrow of the Lord's Israel. You know that if a lion roar a flock of kids will hiver and huddle together. One Hon could conquer a thousand kids. The battle opens. There are a great multitude of Syrians under Gen. IVn-hadad. strong as lions. The Israelites are few and weak, like two little flocks of kids. Who beat? The lion, of course. Oh, no; the kids, f.r it all depends whether God Is on the side of the Hon or the kids. After the battle lM.OOO Syrians lay dead on thj field, and 27,000 attempting to fly, came a!ou3 by a great wall, which toppled and crushed them to death. Which was the stronger weapon great Ooliath"s sword or little David's sling? David had five smooth stones from tho brook. lie only ujed one In striking down Goliath. Ho had a surplus of ammunition; hj had enough to take down four more giants If thev had appeared In the way. It all depends upon whether God Is on the fide of the shepherd boy or on the side of the giant. There have been many in our day who have ventured the opinion that Christianity U filling back, and that in fifty years It will be extinct. They found their opinion on the assumed fact that the bible is not as much of & book an it used to be, and that portions of It are repulsive to the people. I reply by asking which one of the publishing houses of New York, Philadelphia. Hoston or Chicago is publishing the bible today with the omission of a single verse or chapter? Are not our publishers Intelligent men? And would they, contrary to their financial Interests, continue to publish the bible without the omission of a single chapter cr verse If It were becoming an unpopular book and the people did not want it? If Harpers or Appleton of Serlbner or Llpplneott should publish a bible with the omission of one chapter, they would not Fell ten copies In ten years. The fact that throughout Christendom there ire hundreds of printing presses printing the tvord of Clod without the omlslon of a chapter or a verse proves that the bible Is popular, and the fact that there are more being printed in this decade than any other decade proves that the bible is increasing in popularity. A Popular Hook. I go through the court-rooms of the country. Wherever I find a Judge's bench or a clerk's desk I find a bible. By what other book would they take solemn oath? What la very apt to be unions the bride's presents? The bible. What is very apt to be put In the trunk of the young man when he starts for city life? The bible. Voltaire predltced that the blb'.c during the nineteenth century would become an obsolete book. Well, we are pretty nearly through the nineteenth century: the bible is not obsolete yet. There Is not much prospect of its becoming obsolete, but I have to tell you that that room the very room In which Voltaire wrote that prediction some time ago was crowded from floor to celling with bibles for ßwitaerland. Suppose the congress of the United States should pass a law that no bibles should be printed in the United States. If there are thirty million grown men and women in the country, then there would be thirty million people armed against such a law. But suppose the congress of the United States should pass a law that Macaulay's history or Charles Read' novels should not be read. Could you get half as large an army or the fourth as large an army? In other words, there are, a3 you know and I know, a thousand men who would ale for their bibles where there are fifty men who would die for any other book. The fact that there are now more bibles being printed than ever before; that publishers find it a financial interest for them to continue the publication of the bible, proves that this book Is still the most popular book on the planet. "But," say those who are antagonistic, "Chri?tlajiity 13 falling back, from the fact that the church is not as much respected as it used to be and is not as influential." I reply to that with the statistic that one denomination the methodl.nt church according to a statistic given me by one of tholr bishops, dedicates on an average a new church every day of the year. Three hundred and sixty-five new churches in one denomination in a year, and over a thousand new churches "built every year In this country. Does that look as though the church were failing In Its power and were becoming a wornout institution? Around which Institution In our communities gather the most ardent affections? the postofilce, the hotel, the court house, the city hall or the churches? Why, when our old tabernacle was burning there were hundreds of men standing in the streets who never went to church, tears raining down their cheeks. It Is because the church of God etand3 nearer the sympathies of the American people than any other Institution. Men may caricature the church and call It a collection of hypocrites, but when their children are swept off with diphtheria, for whom do they send? To the postmaster, to the attorney-general, to the alderman or to the pastors of the churches? And if there be not room for the obsequies In the private house, what building do they solicit? The academy of music, the hotel, public hall, courthouse? No; the churches. And If they want music on the fad occasion, do they select the "Marseillaise." hymn, or "God Save the Queen," or our own grand national air? No; they want the old hymn with which we sang their old Christian mother to sleep. They want the Sunday-school hymn that their little girl sang the last- Sabbath afternoon she was out before she was seized with the awful sickness that broke father's heart and mother's heart. Oh, you know as well as I do I shall not dwell on It any longer the church of God, instead of being a wornout institution, stands nearer th? sympathies of the people than It ever did and eclipses all other Institutions. But our antagonists go on and eay that Christianity is falling back. In the fact that infidelity is bolder now and more blatant . than It ever was. I deny the statement Infidelity is not near so bold now as It was in the days of our fathers and grandfathers. There were times in this country when men who were openly and above board Infidel and antagonistic to Christianity could be elected to high office. Now let some man wishing high position in the state proclaim himself the foe of Christianity and aa Infidel,

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1 Jt: W CLjL FALSE ytu an mutation, be c on csinta tt how many states of the Union will he carry; how many counties; how many wards In Brooklyn? Not one. From Christianity- to Infidelity. Ah. my friends, Infidelity In this day Is not half as bold aa It used to be. If It comes now. It Is apt to come under the disguise of rhetorlo or fantastic sentimentality. I know if a man with great Intelligence does become an Infidel and begins an attack on Christianity It makes great excitement of course ft doea and people come to the conclusion weak-minded Christians coma to the conclusion that everything Is going overboard because some man of strong intellect avails Christianity. If a man jumps overboard from a Cunard steamer he makes more excitement than all the l)0 sane passengers who continue In the berths or on the decks, but does that stop the ship? Does that wreck all the 500 passengrs? It makes great excitement when a man leaps from a platform or a pulpit Into Infidelity, but does that hinder our glorious bible from taking Us millions into the skies. I tell you Infidelity la not half as bold now as it used to be. Do you suppte such thlnas could be enacted now as were enacted in the days of Robespierre, when a shameless woman was elected to be goddess, and she wm carried on a golden chair to a cathedral, and the people boved down to her as a divine being and burnod incense before her she to take the place of the bible, and of Christianity, and of the Lord Almighty? And while that ceremony was going on the cathedral, in the chapels and In the corridors adjoining the cathedral scenes of drunkenness and debauchery and obscenity were enacted such as the world had never seen. Could such a thing as that transpire now? No, sir. The police would swoop on It, whether In Paris or New York. Infidelity Is not half as bold now as it used to be. "But." say our antngonlsta'Chrlstlanity is falling back becauso science, its chief enemy, is triumphing over It." Now. I deny that there Is any war between science and revelation. There In not a fact In science that may not be made to harmonize with the statements of the bible. Ho said Hugh Miller; so said Joseph Henry; so said Frof. Hitchcock: so said I'rof. Silllman; so said Prof. Mitchell. Joseph Htnry, the leading scientist of America, better known and honored in the royal societies transatlantic than any other American, lived and died a believer In the religion rf Jesus Christ. Joseph Henry knew all the facts of geology and yet believed the book of Genesis. He knew all the trtm of nstronomy and yet believed thn book of Joshua. the sun and moon standing r till. Joseph Henry knew all the anatomy of man and fish and yet believed the book of Jonah. If the scientists of the day were nil agreed, and they came up with solid front to attack our Christlnnlty. perhaps they might make some impression upon it. but they are not agreed. It 1 often said that we religionists are falling la our advocacy of Christianity becauso we differ In our theology. I tell you wo do not differ inside the church in theology half as much as they differ outside the church in science. If they reject our religion because we differ on some minor points, we might just as well reject science because the scientists differ. But as far as I can tell the war of inlldel science ngainst Christianity is not so severe as it used to be, because these men are antagonistic to each other, and as far as I can tell it Is going to be a war between telescope and telescope, Leyden Jar and Leyden Jar, chemical apparatus and chemical apparatus. They do not agree on anything. Do you suppose that this Bible theory about the origin of life Is going to be overthrown by men who have different theories fifty different theories about the origin of life? And when Agassis comes out and puts both feet on the doctrine of evolution and says in regard to many scientists, "I notice that these young naturalists are adopting as the theories in science things which have not passed under observation." Agasslz saw what we all see that there are men who talk very wisely who know but very little, and that Just as soon as a young scientist finds out the difference between the feelers of a wasp and the horns of a beetle he begins to patronize the Almighty and go about talking about culture as though it were spelled c-u-1-c-h-a-r culchar! X Exaot Seleneea. It makes me sick to see these literary fops going down the street with a copy of Darwin under one arm and a case of transfixed grasshoppers and butterflies under the other arm, talking about the "Survival of the Fittest" and Huxley's "Protoplasm," and the "Nebular Hypothesis," and talking to us common men as though wo were fools! If they agreed In their theories and came up with solid front against Christianity, I say perhaps they might make some impression, but they do not agree. Darwin charges upon Iamarck, Wallace upon Cope. Herschel even charged upon Ferguson. They do not agree upon the gradation of the species; they do not agree upon embryology. What do they agree about? Herschel wrote a whole chapter on what lie calls "Errors in Astronomy." La Place says that the moon was not put in the right place; that If it had been put four times the distance from our world there would have been more harmony in the universe. But Llonvllle comes up Just In time to prove that the Lord was wise and put the moon In the right place. How riany colors woven into te light? Seven, says Newton. Three, says David Brewster. How high Is the aurora borealls? Two and a half miles high, says Lias. One hundred and sixtyfive miles, says Twinlg. How far is the sun from the earth? Seventy-six million miles, says Lacaille; 82.000.0W miles, sayg Humboldt; 80,000.000 miles, says Henderson; 104,000,000 miles, says Mayer. Only a little difference of 23.000,000 miles! These men say we do not agree In religion. Do rhey agree In science? Have they come up with solid front to assault our glorious Christianity? Even mathematicians do not agree. Taylor's logarithms are found to have faults In them. The French metris system ha3 wtong calculations. Talk about exact sciences! They are Inexact. As far as with my little knowledge I have been able to explore the only exact science is Christianity. There is nothing under which you can bo appropriately write, "Quad erat demonstrandum." "Gentlemen of the Jury, have you agreed upon your verdict?" the court or the clerk says to the jury, having been out all night, on coming in. "Have you agreed on your verdict?" If they say yes, the verdict Is taken and recorded. If they say, "No, we have not agreed." they are sent back to the Jury room. If one Juryman should say, "I think, the man is guilty of murder," and another Juryman should say, "I think he Is guilty of manslaughter." and another Juryman should say, "I think he Is guilty of assault and battery with Intent to kill the judge would lose his patience

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leavs the case in her hands. end by using t. fact is, every argument as to rearline Is never peddled, if yonr grower sends JAMES I'YLE, New York and say: Go back to your room now and make up a verdict Agree on soraotblng." Well, my friends, there has been a great trial Rolng on for centuries and for ages between Bktptlclam, the plaintiff, versus Christianity, the defendant. The scientists have been Impaneled and sworn on the Jury. They have been gone for centuries, gome of them, and they come back, and we say, "Oentlemen of the Jury, have you agreed upon a verdict?" They say, "No, we have not agreed." Then we say, "Go back for a few more centuries and then come in and see if you can agree, see If you can render some verdict." Now, there Is not the meanest prisoner In the Tombs court wfio would be condemned by a Jury that could not agree, and yet you expect us to renounce our glorious ChrlsUanlty for such a miserable verdict as these men have rendered, they themselves not having been able to agree. Eucournvlnir Thoughts. But my subject shall no longer be defensive it must be aggressive. I must show you that Instead of Christianity falling back It is on the march and that the coming rollglon of the world Is to bo the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ 10.000 times intensified. It is to take possession of everything of all laws, all manners, all customs, all cities, all notions. It Is going to be so mighty as compared with what it ha been so much more mighty that It will seem almost like a new religion. I adopt this theory because Christianity has gone on straight ahead notwithstanding all the bombardment and infidelity has not destroyed a church or crippled a minister or rooted out one verse of tho bible, and now their ammunition seems to bo pretty much exhausted. They can not get anything new against Christianity, and if Christianity has gone on under the bombardment of centuries and still continues to advance may we not conclude that, as tho powder and shot of tho other side seem to be exhausted. ChrlsUanlty is going on with more rapid stride? I Und an encouraging fact in the thought that tho secular press in this day and tho pulpit seem harnessed In the same team for tho proclamation of the gospel. Tomorrow there will not be a banker on Wall-st. or State-st. or Thlrd-at., who will not have in his pocket or on his table treatises on Christianity, calls to repentance and scripture passages, twenty or thirty of them, in the report of the Christian churches of this city nnd other cities. Why. that thing would have been Impossible a few years ago. Now, on Monday morning and Monday evening, the secular press spreads abroad more religious truth than all the tract societies of the country spread in the other six days. Blessed be the tract societies! We hall them and we hail these others. I say It would have been Impossible a few years ago. Hundreds of letters would have come to the secular newspaper oiflces: "Stop my paper. We have religion on Sunday. Don't give us any through the week. Stop my paper." But I have been told that many of the secular newspaper. have their largest circulation on Monday morning and the whole population of this country are becoming sermon readers. Besides that, have you not noticed that papers proclaiming themselves secular almost every week have religious discussions In them? Go back a few years, when there was not a decent paper in the United States that had not a discussion on tho doctrine of eternal punishment. Small wits made merry, I know, but there was not an Intelligent man in the United States that, as a result of controversy In regard to eternal punishment, did not ask himself the question, "What is to be my eternal destiny?" And so some years ago, when Tyndall offered his prayer guage, there was not a secular paper in tho United States that did not discuss the question: "Does God ever answer prayer? May the creature Impress the Creator." Are not all these facts encouraging to every Christian and every philanthropist? Besides that, the rising generation are being saturated with gospel truth as no other generation by this International series of Sunday-school lessons. Formerly the children were expected only to nibble at the little infantile scripture stories, but now they are taken from Genesis to lievelatlon, the strongest minds of the country explaining the lessons to the teachers, and tho teachers explaining them to the classes, and we are going to have in this country 6,000,000 youth Installed for Christianity. Hear it! Hear it! Besides that, you must have noticed If you have talked on these great themes that they are finding out that while science Is grand in secular directions, they cannot give any comfort to a soul in trouble. Talking with men on steamboats and In rail cars, I find they are coming back to the comfort of the gospel. They say, "Somehow human science doesn't comfort me when I have any trouble, and I must try something else.". And they are trying the gospel. Take your scientific consolation to that mother who has Just lost her child. Apply the doctrine of the "Survival of the Fittest;" tell her that her child died because its life was not worth as much as the life of one that lived. Try that. If you dare. Go to that dying man with your transcendental phraseology and tell him he ought to have confidence In the great "to be," and the everlasUng "now," and the eternal "what is It?" Cut this out and send to THE Sent by Postoffica County

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'Phone 164. A rOLITICIAX WHO I'RAYS. Samuel Moore of Like to Be Xew Jersey Would m. roilmiilcr. L VMBERTVILLE. N. J., Sept. 10. It Is not often that politicians offer prayer to God that they may be successful. This place, however, has a man who has done this. There is a lively figrht for the postmasiership and tht-re are lifteen men in the field who would like to serve the government for the amount which is pall for looking after the local mails. Among these is Samuel Moore. 8amuel has been a republican from his first vote. LaM fall he decided he had been doing wrang and changed his politics. Whether he had a premonition of the result cr not he dos not Inform the people. He thinks h s change influenced many others to vote for the successful candidates and on this ground he bases his claim for the postmatership. In a recent letter to President Cleveland In which he states his change of political affiliation, he tells the chief magistrate that he would make a good postmaster and that for weeks he has been offering up prayers nightly for the health of the president and that God might R-uide the president in his acts, r.-d that Mr. Cleveland might be inspired ..o appoint the writer. So sure Is he that his prayers will be answered that he is making preparations to assume charge cf the office. A HYSTERICUS MURDER. Richard Wheeler Found Dead Strange Coincidence. HATFIELD. Mass., Sept :0.-Selectman Warner was called on today by a colored man named Wheeler, who said "Dick Is dead; come down and se him When acked what caused death, Vhee!r said he did not know. Warner went tc a hut where two negro brothers namei Wheeler lived with a sister and an uncle named Jared Remington, and found Richard Wheeler lying dead. Medical Examiner Seymour was summoned and fouu the top of the man's head mashed to a Jriiy An autopsy showed that death was cauad by concusrilon of the brain and that Wheeler had been dead twenty-four hours. The injuries had b-en Inflicted with a blunt Instrument. The men and the woman were under the influence of liquor and no facts could be learned. A bar was found covered with blood. The uncle, who had quarreled with him was arrested. A curious fact in connection with lhe case Is that the mother of Rlchaivl Wheeler was murdered In the same but jut lxtea yeara ago.