Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 41, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 February 1895 — Page 6

TALM AGE’S SERMON The Gospel the Greatest Novelty .. • of Our Time. (laU It Bm« Olm Opportunity Tltm (Vonl.t Hit* Bom No Nm4 of f«l' pit orKortnnu; It Would Hot* Spokoo Kor Itself. Eer. T. DeWitt Taltnage delivered Uh following discourse in the Acad--enjy of music, New York eity, on t%e subject: “The Glorious Gospel.” basing it on the text: According to the glorious gospel of the etiessed God. which was committed to niy Sntst —L Timothy, i., 11. 4 The greatest novelty of our time is the Gospel. It is so old that it is new. As potters and artists are now attempting to fashion pitchers and cups, and curious ware like those of nine- j teen hundred years tgo recently j brought up from buried Pompeii, and I cuch cups and pitchers and curious j ware are universally admired, so any- | one who can unshovel the real Gospel j from the mountains of stuff under which it has been buried, will be able j >to present something that will attract j 'Die gaze, and admiration, and adoption j of all the people. It is amazing what substitutes have been presented for what my text calls “The Glorious Cospel.” There has been an hernia-1 pheric apostasy. There are many peo-1 pie in this and all other large assent- | Wages who have no more idea of what the G<.ispel really is than they hare of what is contained in the fourteenth -chapter of Zend-Avesta, the Bible of the Hindoo, the first copy of which I ever saw I purchased in Calcutta, In- j dia, last September. The old Gospel is fifty feet under, and the work has been done by the shovels of those who bave been trying to contrive the philosophy of religion. There is no philosophy about it. It is a plain matter of Bible statement and of childlike faith. Some of the theological seminaries have been hotbeds of infidelity, because they have tried to teach the “Philosophy of Religion.” By the time that many a young theological student gets half through his preparatory course he is so tilled with doubts ;

a lx nit plenary inspiration, and the Divinity of Christ, and * questions of j eternal destiny, that he is more fit for the lowest.bench in the infant class of a Sunday-school than to become a teacher and leader of the people. The ablest theological professor is a Christian mother, w ho out of her own expeth nee ean tell the four-year-old how beautiful Christ was oh earth, and how beautiful lie is in Heaven, and how dearly He loves littlfi folks, and ihen she kneels down and puts one j irm around the boy, and with her somewhat faded cheek against the j roseate cheek of'the little one, consecrates him for time and eternity to Him who said: “Suffer them to come I anti Me.” What an awful work Paul! made with the D. D.s, and the LL.I).s, and the F. R. S.s, when he cleared the i decks of the old Gospel ship by saying: j "Not many wise men, uot many noble, > arc called, but God hath .chosen the*, weak things of the world to confound the mighty.” There sits the dear old theologian j with his table piled up with the great j books on Inspiration, and Exegesis, and Apologetics for the Almighty, and writing out his own elaborate work on’ the Philosophy of Religion, and his little grandchild coming up to him for a good-night kiss, he accidentally vknoeks off the biggest book from the table, and it tails on the he%d of the child, of whom Christ hiufeelf said: 4<C'ut of the mouths of babes and sucklirgs thou hast perfected praise.” Ah, say friends, the Bible wants no apologetics. The throne of the last judgment wants ho apologetics. Eternity wants no apologetics. ’Scientists may tell us that natural light is the propagation of unadulations in an elastic medium, -and thus set in vibratory motion by the action of luminous bodies.” ^^JJut no one knows wnat Gospel light is until his own blind eyes by the touch of the Divine Spirit have opened to , see the noonday of pardon and peace. Scientists may tell us that natural sound is “the effect of an impression made on the organs of hearing by an impulse of the air, caused by a collision of bodies, or by other means.” Rut those only know what the Gospel sound is who have hear<L the voice of Christ directly, saying: ^Thy sins are forgiven thee; go in peace.” The theological dude unrolls upon the plush of the exquisitely-carved pulpit a learned discourse showing that the Carden of Eden was an allegory, aad Solomon's song a rather in

<3 plicate love ditty, and the Took of Job a drama in which satan xvas the star actor, and r that ltenan was three-quarters right about the ; miracles of Jesus, and that the Bible was gradually evoluted. Lord of ^Heaven and earth, get us out of the Ijondon fog of higher criticism! The night is dark and the way is rough, .find we have a lantern which God has ^>ut in our hands, but instead of emfdoying that lantern to show ourselves smd others the right «svay we are discussing lanterns, their shape, their jiize. their material, and which is the Jbetter light—kerosene, lamp oil or -candle; anu while we discuss it we stand all around the lantern, itsa that we shut out the light from the multitudes who are stumbling on the dark mountains of sin and death. - Twelve hundred dead birds were found one morning around Bartholdi's statue tr> New York harbor. They h 'd dashed their life out against the light house the night before. Poor things! And the great light house of the Gospel— how many high-soaring thinkers have beaten all their religious life out ^against, it, while it was intended for •only one thing, and that to show all nations the way into the harbor of God’s mercy, and <to the crystalline wharves of the heavenly city, where i immortals are waiting for new Arrivals. Dead skylarks, when they might have been flying seraphs. Here also come, covering up the old 'Gospel, some who think they can bv

law and exposure of crime tire the world, and from Portland, Me., across to San Francisco, and back again to Sew Orleans and Sarannah, many of the ministers hare gone into the detective business. Worldly reform, by all means; but unless it be also Gospel reform, it will be a dead fail are. In Kew York its chief work has been to give as a change of bosses. We had a Democratic boss, and now it is to be a Republican boss, but the quarrel is, who shall be the Republican? politics will have the cities the same day that satan evangelisea perdition- Here comes another class of people who in pulpit and outside of it cover up the Gospel with the theory that it makes no final difference what yon believe, or how you act—you are bound for Heaven, anyhow. There they sit, side by side, in Heaven; Garfield, and Guiteau, who shot him; Lincoln, and John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated him; Washington, and Thomas Psiine, who slandered him; Nana Sahib, and the missionaries, whom he dabbed to death at Cawnpore; Herod, and the children whom he massacred; Paul, and Nero, who beheaded him. As a result of the promulgation of such a mongrel and conglomerate doctrine there are millions of people 'wn Christendom who expect to go straight to Heaven from their seraglios, and their inebriation, and their suicides, when among the loudest thunders that break over the basaltic isla nd to which St. John was expatriated, was the one in which God announced that “the abominable, and the murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their place in the lake which bumeth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” I correct what I said when I declared the Gospel was buried fifty feet deep; it is buried one thousand feet deep. Had the glorious Gospel been given full opportunity, I think before this the world would have had no need of pulpit, or sermon, or prayer, or church, but thanksgiving and hosannahs would have resounded in the temple to which the mountains would have been pillars, and the blue skies the dome, and the river the baptistery, and all nations the worshipers in the auditorium of the outspread

world, lint so far from that*.as I remarked in the opening sent ence of this | sermon, the greatest novelty of our time is the Gospel. And let me say to the hundreds and thousands of educated and splendid young men about to enter the Gospel ministry from the theological, seminaries of all denominations, on this and the other side of the seas, that there is no drawing power like the glorious Gospel. “Him hath God lifted up to draw all men unto Him.” Get your souls charged and surcharged with this Gospel, and you will have large audiences, and will not have to announce in order to assemble such audiences, a . Sunday night sacred concert, with a brief address by the pastor; or the presence of “Hlaek Pattis,” or Creole minstrels, or sonic new exposure of Tammany, or a sermon accompanied by a magic lantern, or stereopticon views. The glorious Gospel of the blessed God as spoken of in my Jtext will have more drawing power, and when the Gospel gets full swing it will have a momentum and a power mightier than that of the Atlantic Ocean, when under the force of the September equinox it Strikes the Highlands of Navesink. The meaning of the word “Gospel” is “good news,” and my text says it is glorious good news, and we must tell it in Our churches and over our dry goods counters, and in our factories, and over our threshing machines, and behind our plows, and on our ship decks, and in our parlors, our nurseries, and kitchens., as though it were glorious good news, and not with a dismal drawl in our voice, and a dismal look on our faees, as though re-. ligion were a rheumatic twinge, or a dyspeptic pang, or a rpalarial chill, or an attack of nervous prostration. With nine “blesseds” or “happys,” Christ began His sermon on the mount: lilessed the poor; blessed the mourner; blessed the meek; blessed the liuugry; blessed the merciful; blessed the pure; blessed the peacemaker; blessed the persecuted; blessed the reviled; blessed, blessed, blessed; happy, happy, happy. Glorious good news for the young, as through Christ they have their coming years ennobled, and fer a lifetime all the angels of God their coadjutors and all the armies of Heaven their allies. Glorious good news for the middleaged.as through Christ they may have their perplexities, disentangled, and dheir courage rallied, and their victory over all obstacles and hindrances made forever sore. Glorious good news for the aged, as they may

have the sympathy of Him of whom St. John wrote: “His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow,” and the defense of the everlasting arms. Glorious good news for the dying, as they may have ministering spirits to escort them, and opening gates to receive them, and a sweep of eternal glories to encircle them, and the welcome of a loving God to embosom them. Oh, my text is right when it speaks of the glorious Gospel. It is an invitation from the most radiant being that ever trod the eavtli, or ascended the heavens, to you and me to come and be made happy, and then take after that a royal castle for everlasting residence, the a ngels of God our cup-bearers. The price was paid for alii of this on the cliff of limestone about as high as this house, about seven minutes' walk from the wall of Jerusalem, where with an agony that with one hand tore down the roeks, and with the other drew a midnight blackness over the heavens, our ; Lord set vis forever free. Making no apology for any one of the million sins of our life, but confessing all of them, we can point to that cliff of limestone and say: “There was paid our indebtedness, and God never collects a bill twice. ’ Glad am 1 that all the Christian poets have exerted their pen id extolling the matchless one of this Gospel. Isaac Watts, how do you feef concerning Him? And he writes: “L am not ashamed to own ray Lord.” Newton, what do you think of j «

this Gospel? And he writes: “Amaii.ng grace, how sweet the sound.” Cowper, what do you think of Him? And the answer comes: ‘There U a fountain filled with blood.” Charles Wesley. ~ what do you think of Him? And he answers: “Jesus, lover of my soul.” Mora tins Bonar, what do you think of ffim? And he responds: “I lay my sins on Jesus." Ray Palmer, what do you think of Him? And he writes: “My faith looks up to Thee." Fannie Crosby, what do you think of Him? And she writes: “Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine." But I take higher testimony; Solomen, what do yon think of H un? And the answer is: “Lily of the valley. ” Ezekiel, what do you think of Him? And the answer is: “Plant [of renown.'1 David, . what do yon think of Him? And the ! answer is: “My shepherd.” St. John, what do yon tlink of Him? Aud the answer is: “Bright and morning star." St. Paul.what do you think of Hint? And the answer comes, “Christ is all in all.” Do yon think as well of Him, O man, O woman of the ; blood-bought immortal spirit? Yes, Paul was right when he styled it “The j glorious Gospel.” And then as a druggist, while you^aire waiting for Him to make np the woetor's presciption. put into a bottle so many grains of this., and so many grains of that, and so many drops of this, and so many drops of that, and the intermixture taken, though sour or bitter, restores to health, so Christ, the Divine physician, prepares this trouble of our lifetime, and that disappointment, and this persecution, and that hardship, and that tear, and we must take the intermixture, yet though it is a bitter draught, under the Divine prescription it administers to our, restoration and spiritual health, “all things working together for good.” Glorious Gospel! And then the Royal Castle into which we step out of this life, without so much as soiling our foot with the upturned earth of the grave. “They shall reign forever and Cver.” Does not that mean that you are all saved to be kings and queens, and do not kings and queens have eastles? But th<; one that you are offered was

for thirty-tfhree years an abandoned castle, though now gloriously inhabited. Though an abandoned eastle while Christ was here achieving your redemption is again occupied by the “chief among ten thousand,” and * some of your own kindred who have gone up, and are waiting for you are leaning from the balcony. The windows of that castle look off on the King's gardens, where immortals walk linked in eternal friendship; and the banqueting hall of that castle has princes, and princesses at the table; and the wine is “the new wine of the kingdom,” and the supper is the marriage supper of the Lamb; and there are fountains into which no tear ever fell, and there is music that trembles with no grief, and the light that falls upon that scehe is never beclouded, and there is the kiss of those reunited after long separation. More nerve will we have there than now, or we would swoon away under the raptures. Stronger vision will we have there than now, or oar eyesight would be blinded by the brilliance. Stronger ear will we have than now, or under the roll of that minstrelsy, and the clapping of that acclamation, and the boom of that hallelujah we would be deafened. Glorious Gospel! You thought religion was a strait-jacket, that it put you on the limits, that thereafter you must go cowed down. No, no, no. It is to be castellated. By the cleansing powerof the shed }>lood of Golgatha set your faces toward the shining pinnacles. Oh, it does not matter much what becomes of usdiere—for at the longest our stay is short—i| we can only land there. You see there are so many 1 do want to meet there. Joshua, my favorite, prophet; and John among the evangelists; and Paul among the apostles; and Wyeliffe among the martyrs; and Bourdaloue among the preachers; and Dante among the poets; and Havelock among the heroes; and our beloved ones whom we have so much missed since they left us, so many darlipgs of the heart, their ' absence sometimes -utmost unendurable; and, mentioned in this sentence last of all because I want the thought climatic, our blessed Lord without whom we could never reaeh the old castle at all. He took our place. He purchased our ransom. He wept our woes. He suffered our stripes. He died our death. He assured our resurrection. Blessed be His glorious name forever! Surging in His ear be all the anthems! Facing Him be all the thrones!

Oh, I want to see it, and I will see it—the day of this coronation.. On a throne already; methinks the day will come when in some great hall of eter* nity all the nations of earth whom He has conquered 'by His grace w ill assemble .Regain to crown Him. Wide and high and immense and upholstered as with the sunrise and sunset of a thousand years, great audience room of Heaven. Like the leaves of an Adirondack forest the ransomed multitudes, and Christ standing On a high place surrounded by worshipers and subjects. They shall come out of the farthest past led on by the prophets; they shall come out of the early Gospel days led out by the apostles; they shall come out oi the centuries still ahead of us, led on by champions of the truth, heroes and heroines yet to be born. And then from that vastest audience ever assembled in all the universe there will go up the shout: “Crown Him! Crown Him!Crown Him!” and the Father who long age prom iised this His only forgotten Son: “1 givev thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession” shall set the crown upon the forehead yet scarred with crucifixion bramble, and all the hosts of Heaven, down on the levels, and up in the galleries, will drop on their . knees crying: “Hail King of earth! King of Heaven! King of saints! King of seraphs! Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, a ad to Thy dominions there shall be end! Amen and Amen! Amen and Amen!”

ISISLEAUtNG THE FARMERS. Jmnth Distort Facta to If jar* tha Administration. That the distinctively republican par pers should endeavor to mislead the tanners Is bod enough; but it is to be expected became it is their regular pnbc'tke to mislead voters of every class. That agricultural newspapers, published ostensibly for the enlightenment of tiie farmers, should either intentionally or ignorantly mislead them Is altogether wrong and inexcusable. It is certainly inexcusable if they do It intentionally; nobody will question that It is equally so if they do it through ignorance, for it is their botmden duty to inform themselves as to the facts concerning which they assume to teach the agricultural community. This conclusion is drawn from an article in the Michigan Farmer, in which that journal undertakes to criticise the president’s financial message. So far us the article Is merely critical, we have no quarrel with it, though the partisan bias is clearly apparent. We shall not even qua rrel w ith inferences, which, while they seem to be ill-founded, are to some extent matters of opinion. Such, for instance, is the Fanner’s statement that “to demand the payment of duties on imports in gold would at once add to the value of that metal, and place it at a premium, and as a corollary depreciate the

value of other currency. It does not seem to us possible that this could be the result, unless the act which declares it to be the policy of the government to maintain gold and silver at a parity in the currency should be repealed; but so long as it is in any degree a matter of opinion we cheerfully concede to the Farmer its right to its own opinion, ridiculous as it may appear' to us. - We accord the same respect to its opinion that “to retire the greenback, as redeemed, would eat down the currency to such an extent as to embarrass business.” The p resident s recommendation covers ah increase in the national bank notes which, with the releasing of the s*old now . held for the redemption o:: the greenbacks, would, in our judgment, go very far to overbalance any contraction which the gradual redemption of the greenbacks as proposed could occasion. The contraction is, however, a theoretic possibility; and we are quite willing to concede that the Farmer believiss what it says in that behalf. There are two statements in the article how ever, which can only be explained on the score of dense ignorance or a willful intent to mislead the farmers. One of them is the statement that the greenbacks “are as sound as the government, and cost nothing, while the people will have to pay interest on the bonds.” No one who read the president’s message intelligently can be ignorant of the fact that the greenbacks, instead of costing the people nothing, have cost them a great deal, and will continue to do so as long as they are kept outstanding with the obligation upon the government of maintaining a gold reserve to redeem them. Speaking on this point in his message, the president said: > “Objection has been made to the issuance of Interest-bearing obligations for tbe purpose of retiring the non-iuterest bearing legal tender notes. In point of fact, however, these notes have burdened us with a large load of interest. and it is still accumulating.; The aggregate interest on the original issue of bonds, the proceeds of which in gold constituted the reserve for the ,payment of these notes, amounted to $T0,826,:5O on January 1,1895; and the annual charge for interest on these bonds and those issued for the same purpose during the last year, will be 19,145,(^0. dating from January 1. 189a ” This is a sufficient answer to the Farmer’s statement that the greenbacks “cost nothing;’’ but it does n ot tell the whole story. Figures carefully compiled by the New York Times show that the actual cost of the greenback to the country—in spite of its non-interest bearing character—was, from March lo, 1862, when it was first issued, to June 30, 1SS9, $1,838,807,452. Anil, notwithstanding this enormous cost, $346,000,000 of them are still outstanding to be redeemed and reissued— unless existing laws are changed—at constantly increasing cost. The other misleading statement of the Farmer whieh we have in mind relates to the rate of interest on the bonds sold by President Cleveland’s administration to maintain the reserve. It is in these words: “The $100,000,000 in bonds already issued bear 5 per cent, interest. They are payable in twenty years, and will then have cost $100,000,000 in interest.”' Now, while it is quite true that the bonds referred to are nominally 5 ]>er cent, bonds—congress having refused to authorize the issue of bonds at a lower rate of interest—it is a wellknown fact that they were sold at a price which makes the rate of interest the government has to pay only 3 per cent. The cost to the government, therefore, in the twenty years will be only $60,000,000, instead of $100,000,000, as Idle Farmer puts it. In other words, it is $40,000,000 out of the way in its sta tement.—Detroit Free Press.

-The contention of some of the more organic republican journals that the prosperity of the country can be secured and the treasury replenished by the simple expedient of restoring McKinley duties lacks a basis of fact and experience. There were too many panics and long periods of hard times under the high tariffs to sustain the paradox of taxing a nation into prosperity. Besides, the national revenues fell off forty million dollars under the McKinley tariff, as they would fall now under increased duties. It is not forgotten, furthermore, that the tieasury went rapidly from a handsome surplus to an impending deficit under the law which the people twice condemned.—N. Y, World. -There is no longer any question of receiving help from congress. The administration is the only factor le :“t in the equation. Fortunately we are not tortured by any doubt as to what the president can and will do in such an emergency. He has again made it unmistakably clear that he intends to vindicate the national credit at all costs and by every means at his diaposaL—Washington Post. <■

REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY. Furtte Arpium tgiltt <she fi iiMwfl The repu blican lenders pretend to believe that the cause oi' the present treasury tremble lies in the deficiency of the revenues. Said Ton Seed he his speech on the finance bill tile other day: "If the revenues equaled the expenditures,, whenever a greenback was redeemed it would remain fas the treasury. It was the fact of the ntceahy of its reissmance to meet current obligations that caused the trouble." If Mr. Reed doesn't know batter than that he is not clear headed enough to be president of the United States, or even president of a cross-roads grocery. Whenever a greenback dollar is redeemed in gold a gold dollar is gone out of the treasury. The greenback comes in, the gold goes out. The treasury has neither more nor less than it had bef ore, except that in place of a solid gold dollar it now has only its own promise to pay a dollar. Since by Mr. Reed's supposition the receipts and expenditures are exactly equal the treasury must now pay out the greenback dollar to meet current obligations because it has already paid out the gold dollar. If the greenback remains in the treasury the current obligations must be paid out of a reserve held in the treasury, and it must be paid in something besides a greenback. There is

no other way. Bat m case of a ran the reserve may be exhausted, and then the greenbacks redeemed in (fold coin mast be paid oat to meet current obligations, as above stated, precisely as though there had been no reserve. In the language of the street, the government must “shin it;” it can only pay an old debt by making a new one of the same amount. And if no gold comes into the treasury, which is very likely to be the case when there is a ran on the treasury for gold, that metal will soon disappear from the treasury entirely, and the government must either go into the market and borrow gold or suspend payments. » - President Cleveland doesn’t propose to suspend if he can help it, nor does he propose to wait till the last dollar of gold is gone before borrowing, tie has asked congress for authority tc borrow on the most advantageous terms, and such partisans as Reed refuse to grant it. lie asks such authority as will enable him to borrow at three per cent, or less. Their answer is: “No:; you shall not have it. You must borrow on “coin’ bonds and pay three and a half per cent.” And they offer as an excuse their assumption that tho senate would not authorize a gold bond if the house should. They propose that the house shall offer a bad measure because they think the senate will noti concur in a good one. The case is a plain one. Mr. Reed and other republican leaders want to embarrass the administration to, the utmost, and yet they would like to make it appear that they are willing to relieve the treasury. Their inadequate proposals and puerile arguments make their hypocrisy apparent to every man of fair intelligence. Now that they have exposed themselves the president will go on and protect the public credit to the best of his ability in spite of their attempts to increase the difficulties with which he is beset.—Chicago Herald. REPUBLICAN ROT. Sentimental Twaddle of Contemptible Scandal Blodj&era. The republican journals which have any thing to say about Hawaii and say it without attempting to make some very small and contemptible party capital at the expense of, our own system of government, or without such ridiculous passion that they do not subject themselves to the suspicion of implication in a scandalous speculative job, are very few. That stalwart republican veteran, the Chicago Evening Journal, is one of the few, however, and thus shames its party as&ciates: “Nine-tenths pf the printed stuff that has been called forth by the recent display of rowdyism in Honolulu is..upon the face of it. the merest sensational twaddle. “The United States can and will protect Its own ci tizens in Hawaii, as elsewhere, and will likewise see that no foreign power sets a foothold on this strategic point and valuable coaling station. But the cry that we are bound to sustain the hands of the present govera- ! ment of the islands against insurrect .on Is as preposterous as that we should protect President tLippoiyte. of Hayti, from voodoo spells. Besides, it appears to ce more than able to sustain itself against the royalist rabble. “ “If the Dole administration cannot take care of itself with ail the machinery of the government at its disposal, it must be a weak and unrepresentative minority, and does not deserve to stand. ” If the star-spangled banner does not blanch as white as a sheet at such treasonable uttterances as this, it is because the star-spangled banner is a very different thing from those patriots who seek -to use it for partisan and private pocket purposes.—Louisville Courier-Journal.

COMMENTS OF THE PRESS. -The republicans and populists have the senate now and they must take the consequences. —Chicago Her* aid. -Those who are looking- after the finances of the nation see daylight ahead, and are in a very comfortable frame of mind.—Detroit Free Press. -Tom Reed’s financial, measure looks like another qne of those “miserable makeshifts” for which the republican party is famous and infamous.— St. Louis Republic. -Senator Allison told an important truth to remember when he said that the way to meet the expeuses of a government is out of its revenues. It is certainly very hard to meet them out of the deficit inherited from the • Harrison ! administration.—N. Y. World. I -The president again proves his determination to protect the credit of the government and the money of the people despite the incompetency, imbecility and impctency of the national legislature. In this manner the president has again justified the confidence of the people, as congress has again clinched its claims on the country** condemnation and contempt.—Louis•ilk Courier- Journal.

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