Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 10, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 July 1895 — Page 6

TALMAGE'S 8EKM0N. The Unpardonable Sin Against the Holy Gboet. What It Is and ths Possibility of Caas■kitting It la This A«e-Slas Which May bo Fardoaod. B«t Which Arc Practically Irrocoeable.

Rer. T. DeWitt Talmage, who isstill sojourning in the west, selects the following seruion on **The Unpardonable 8in” for publication this week. It is based on the texts: “All manner or sin {and blasphemy shall be fortiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto nen. And whosoever spealteth a word against the Son of man. it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost. It shall not be forgiven him. neither in this world, neither In the world to come. "—Matthew sit. SI. 32. ° “He found no place of repentance, though he nought it carefully with tears."—Hebrews xit- 17. As sometimes you gather the whole familjr around the evening stand to hear some book read, so now we gather—a great Christian family group —ito study this text; and now may one and the same lamp cast its glbw on all the circlet You see from the first passage that I read that there is a sin against the Holy Ghost for which a man Us never pardoned. Once having committed it, be is bound hand and foot for the dungeons of despair. Sermons may be preached to him. songs may be sung to him, prayers may he offered in his behalf; but all to no purpose. He is a captive for this world, and a captive for the world that is to come. Do j'ou suppose that there is any one here who has committed that sin? All sius arc against the Holy Ghost; but my text speaks of one especially. It is very clear to my own mind that the ain against the Holy Ghost was the ascribing of the works of the spirit to the agency of the devil in the time of the apbstles. Indeed, the Bible distinctly tells us that. In other words, if a man had sight given to him, or if another was raised from the dead, and someone there should say: “This man got his sight by satanic power; the Holy Spirit did not do this; Beelzebub accomplished it;*’ Or, “This man raised from the dead, was raised by eatanic influence,” the man whp said that dropped down under the curse of the text, and had committed the fatal sin against the Holy Ghost. Now, I don’t think it is 'possible in this day to commit that sin. I think it was possible only in apostolic times. But it is a very terrible thing ever to say anything against the Holy Ghost, and it is a marked fact that our race has been marvelously kept back from profanity. You hear a man swear by the name of the Eternal God. and by the name of Jesus Christ, but you never heard a man swear by the name of the Holy Ghost. There are those here today who fear they are guilty of the unpardonable siu. Have you sueh anxiety? Then I have to tell you positively that you have not committed that sin, because the very anxiety is the result of the movement of the gracious Spirit, and your auxiety is proof positive, as certainly as anything that can can? be demonstrated in mathematics, that you have not committed the sin that I have been speaking of. I can look off upou this audience and feel that there is salvation for all. It is not like when they put out with those lifeboats from the “Loch Earn” for the Ville du Havre. They knew there was not room for all the passengers, but they were going to do as well as they could. But to-day we man the lifeboat of the Gospel, and we cry out over the sea: “Room for all!” Oh. that the Lord Jesus Christ wcyild, this hour, bring you all out of the flood of sin, and plant you on the deck of the glorious old Gospel craft! « But while I have said I do not think It is possible for us to commit the particular sin spoken of in the first text, I have by reason of the second text to call your attention to the fact that there are sins which, though they may be pardoned, are in some respects irrevocable; and you can find no place for repentance, though you seek it carefully with tears. Esau had a birthright given him. In olden times it meant not only teipporal but spiritual blessing. One day Esau took this birthright and traded it off for something to eat. Oh, the folly! But let us not be too severe upon him, for some of us have committed the same folly. After he had made the trade, he wanted to get it back. Just as though you to-morrow morning should take all your notes and bonds and government securities, and should go into a restaurant, and in a fit of recklessness ami hunger throw all those securities on the coun

ter and ask for a plate of food, making that exchange. This was the one Esau made. He sold his birthright tor a mess of pottage, and he was very sorry about it afterward; but "he found no place for repentance, though lie sought it carefully with tears.” There is an impression in almost everv man’s mind that somewhere in the future there will be a chance where he can correct all his mistakes. Live as we may, if we only repent in time, God will forgive us, and theu all will be as well as tlipugh we had never committed sin. My discourse shall come in collision with that theory. I shall show you, my friends, as God will help me, that there is such a thing as unsuccessful repentance, that there are things done wrong that always stay wrong, and for them you may seek some place of repentance, and seek it carofully, but never find it. Belonging to this class of irrevocable mistakes is the folly of a misspent youth. We may look back to our college days, and think how we neglected chemistry, or geology, or botany, or mathematics. We may be sorry about it all our days. Cau we ever get the discipline or the advantage that we would have had had we attended to those duties in early life'; A man wakes up at forty years of age and finds that his vouth has been

*«*ted, and Iqe strives to get back bis earl r advantages. IDom be get them back—the days o£ his boyhood, the days in col lege, the days under his father’s roof? “Ob.” he says, “if I could only get those times back again, how I would improve them!" My brother, you will never get them back. They are gone. gone. You may be very sorry about h, and God! may forgive you, so that you may at last reach Heaven; j but you;will never get over some of the mishaps that have come to j your soul as a result of your neglect j of early duty. You may try to undo ; it; you can not undo it When you j had a boy’s arms, and a boy's eyes, and a boy's heart you ought to have attended to these things. A man says, at fifty years of age: “I do wish I could get over these habits of indo* lence.” When did j^ou get them? At twenty or twenty-five years. You can not shake, them off. They will hang to you to the very day of your death. If a young man, through a long course of evil conduct, undermines his physical health, and then repents of it in after-life, the Lord may pardoa him; j but that does noli bring back good physical condition. I said to a minis- j ter of the Gospel one Sabbath at the j close of his sermon:: “Where are you j preaching now?” “Oh,” he says, “1 am not preaching. I am suffering from the physical effects of early sin. I can’t preach now; I am sick.” A j consecrated man he now is, and he mourns bitterly over early sin; but j that does not arrest their bodily ef

fects. In this same category of irrevocable mistakes I put all parental meglect. We begin the education of our children too late, lly the time they get to be ten or fifteen we wake up to our mistakes, and try to eradicate this bad habit, and change that; but it is too late. That parent who omits, in the first teu years of the child’s life, to make au eternal impression for Christ, never makes it. The child will probably go on with all the disadvantages which might have been avoided by parental faithfulness. Now you see what a mistake that father or mother makes who puts off too late life adherence to Christ. Here is a man who at fifty years of age says to you: “I must be a Christian;” and he yields his heart to God, and sits in the place of prayer to-day a Christian., None of us can doubt it He goes home, and he says: ‘‘Here at fifty years of age I have given my heart to the Saviour. Now I must establish a family altar.” j What? Where are your children now? I One in Boston: another in Cincinnati, another in New Orleans; and you, my brother, at your fiftieth year going to establsh your family altar? Very well;! better late than never; but alas, alas that you did not doit twenty-five years j ago! > When 1 was iu_Chamouni, Switzerland, I saw in the windows of one of the shops a picture that impressed mv mind very much. It was a picture of an accident that occurred on one of the Swiss mountains. A company of; travelers, ] with guides, went up some very steep places—places which but few travelers attempted to go up. They were, as all travelers are there, fastened together with cords at the waist, so that if one slipped, the rope would; hold him—the rope fastened to the others Passing along the most dangerous point, one of the guides slipped, and they all started down the precipice; but after awhile one. muscular than the rest, stuck his heels into the ice and stopped; but the rope broke, and down, hundreds and thousands of feet, the rest went. And so I see whole families bound together by the ties of affection, and in many cases walking on slippery places of worldliness and sin. The father knows it, and the mother knows it, and they are all bound together. After awhile they begin to slide down steeper and steeper, and the father becomes alarmed, and he stops, planting his feet on the “Rock of Ages.” He stops, but the rope breaks, and those who were once .tied fast to him by moral and spiritual influences, go over the precipice. Ofy, there ,is such a thing as coining to Christ soon enough to save ourselves, but not so«>n enough to save others! How many parents wake up in the latter part of his life to find out the mistake! The parent says: “I have been too lenient,” or “I have -been too severe in the discipline of my children^, If I had the little ones around me again, how different I would dol” You will | never have them around again. The work is done, the bent to the character is given, the eternity is decided. XI say this to young parents—those who are twenty-five or thirty years of age—have the family altar .to-niglit.

now ao you suppose iamer leu i as he leaned over the couch of his dying child, and the expiring son said jto him: ‘‘Father, yon have been very good to me. You have £iven me a fiue education, and you have placed me in a tine social position; you have done every thing for mein a worldly sense; but, father, you never told me how to die. Now I am dying, and I am afraid.” In this category of irrevocable mistakes I place, also, the unkindnesses done the departed. When I was a boy, my mother used to say to me some times: “De Witt, you will be sorry for that when I am gone.” And I remember just how shelooked,sitting there, with cap and spectacles, and the old Bible in her lap and she^erer said a truer thing than that, tor I have often been sorry since. While we have our friends with us, we say unguarded things that wound the feelings of those to whom we ought to give nothing but kindness. Perhaps the parent, without inquiring into the matter, lwxes the child’s ears. The little one, who has fallen in the street, comes in covered with dust, and, as though the first disaster were not enough, Jihe whips. After awhile the child is taken, or the parent is taken, or the companion is taken, and those who are left say: “Oh, if we could only got back those unkind words, those unkind deeds; if we could only recall them!” But you can not get them back. You might bow down over the grave of that loved one, and

cry and cry—the white lips would make no answer. The stars shall be plucked oat of their sockets, bat these influences shall not be torn away. The world shall die, but there are some wroujrs immortal. The moral of which is, take care of your friends while you hare them; spare the scolding; be economical of the satire; $hut up in a dark cave, from which they shall never swarm forth, all the words that have a sting in them. You will wish you had some day—very soon you will have—perhaps to-morrow. Oh, yes. While with a firm hand you administer parental discipline, also administer it very gently, lest some day there be a little slab in the cemetery, and on it christened “Our Willie,** or “Our Charlie;*’ and though you bow down prone in the grave and seek a place of repentance, and seek it carefully with tears, you can not find it.

l nere is another am that i place m the class of irrevocable mistakes, and that is lost opportunities of getting good. I never come to a Saturday night bat I can see during that week that I have missed opportunities of getting good. I never come to my birthday but I can see I have wasted many chances of | getting .better. I never go home on Sabbath from the discussion of a religious theme without feeling that I might have done it in a ’more successful way. How is it with you? If you take a certain number of bushels of wheat and scatter them over a certain .number of acres of land'you expect a harvest in proportion to the amount of wheat scattered. And I ask irou now, have the sheaves of moral and spiritual harvest corresponded with the advantages given? How has it been with you? You may make resolutions for the future, but past opportunities are gone. Iu the long procession of future years all those past moments will march; but the archangel's trumpet that wakes the dead will not awake up for you one of these privileges. Esau has sold his birthright, and, there is not wealth enough in the treasure houses of Heaven to buy it back again. What does that mean? It means that if you are going to get any advantages out of this Sabbath day, you will have to get it before the hand wheels around on the clock to twelve to-night. It means that every moment of our life has two wrings, and that it does not By, like a hawk, in circles, but in a straight line from eternity to eternity. It means that though other chariots may break down, or drag heavily, this one never drops the brake, and never ceases to run.: It < means that while at other feasts the cup may be passed to us and we may reject it, and yet after awhile take it, the cup-bearers to this feast never give ns but one chance at the chalice, and, rejecting that, we shall “God no place for repentance, though we seek it carefully with tears.” „»» There is one class more of sins that I put in this category of irrevocable sins, and that is lost opportunities of usefulness. Your business partner is a proud man. In ordinary circumstances, say to him: “Believe in Christ,“ and he will say: “Yon mind your business, and 1*11 mind mine.” But there has been affliction in the household. His heart is tender. He is looking around for sympathy and solace- Now is your time. Speak, speak, or forever hold your peace. There is a time in farm life when you plant the corn and when you sow the seed. Let that go by, and the farmer will wring his hands while other husbandmen are gathering the sheaves. You are in a religious meeting, and there is an opportunity for you to speak a word for Christ. You say: “I. will do it:” Your cheek flushes with embarrassment. You rise half way, but you cower before men whose breath is in their nostrils, land you sag back, and ^he opportunity is gone, and all eternity will feel the effect of your silence. Try to get back that opportunity! You can not Gnd it. You might as well try to Gnd the fleece that Gideon watched, or take in your hand the dew that came down on the locks of the Bethlehem shepherds, or to find the plume of the first robin that went across paradise. It is gone;

it is pone xorever. vv nen an opportunity for personal repentance or of doing pood passes away, you may hunt for it; .you can not find it. You may fish for it; it will not take the hook. You may dip for it; you can not brinp it up. ltemeuiber that there are wrongs and sius that can never be corrected; that our privileges fly not in circles, but in a j. straight line; that the liphtninps have not as swift feet as our privileges when they are gone, and I'Ct an opportunity of salvation go by us an inch, the one-hun-dredth part of an inch, the thousandth part of au inch, the millionth part of an inch, and not mao can overtake it. Fire-winged scraphin can not come up with it. The eternal God himself can not catch it. 1 stand before those who have a glorious birthright. Esau's was not so rich as yours, bell it once, and you sell it forever. I remember the story of the lad on the Arctic some years ago— the lad Stewart Holland. A vessel crashed into the Arctic in the time of a fog, and it was found that the ship must go *ldwn. Some of the passengers got off in the lifeboats, some got off on rafts;’ but three hundred went to the bottom. During all those hours of calamity, Stewart Holland stood at the signal gun, and it sounded across the sea, boom! boom! The helmsman forsook his place. the engineer was gone, and some fainted, and some prayed, aud some blasphemed, and the powder was gone, and they could no more set oif the signal gun. The lad broke in the magaziue aud brought out : more powder,and again the gun boomed over the sea Oh, my friends, tossed on the rough seas of life, some have taken the warning, have gone off in the lifeboat, and they are safe; but others are not making any attempt to escape. So 1 stand at this signal gun of the Gospel, sounding the alarm. Beware!,beware! “Now is the accepteded time; now is the day of salvation.** Hear it that your soul may livei

NICARAGUAN CANAL. A rmrablt Report m th*ProfoM4 Route to bo Ma4( bj the United State* CommU■*on—Tb« Work Can bn Coaplcted fat Henna Tear*. HMt«UI Cad Mom than tbn SMtmaten-Tbn rorater Monaco moot SoW»ly CrtUciMd. Ctscixsati, July lt-A special to the Post from Greytown, Nicaragua, says that a favorable report on the Nicaraguan canal will be made by the United States commission which has been in the country for some weeks and has carefully examined the proposed canal route and the terminal harbors on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The commissioners are now at work upon their report, which will be of an exhaustive character. They will state their unanimous conclusion that the Colorado bar, which has caused ao much trouble at the entrance to Greytown harbor, can be partially removed by dredging, and that a permanent opening through it ean be maintained by building and maintaining a sea wall of piling to the southward of the harbor, so ah to break the ocean cur- | rent which washes up the sand on the i The commissioners think that the ; work of constructing the canal can | be completed within a term of six or ; seven years, but that the total cost ' will exceed the limit set by the proi jeetors, and that SI 10,000,800 will not ; be an excessive figure. The commission will ventilate its opinion of the former management of the«canal enterprise,and will present a number of severe criticisms in this connection. The commission consists of Col. Wm. Ludlow, of the army; Civil Engineer M. T. Endieott, of the navy: Alfred Noble, of Chicago, civilian. All are ! appointed by the president. All | are on the cruiser Montgomery and are due at Key West, Fla., to-day.

THE OHIO RIVER. OM«nl Plan for Improving It* Navigation —DUBcoltle* In the WayWashington, July IS.—The general plan for improving the navigation of the Ohio river is treated in the annual report of Col. Amos Stickney, corps of engineers, United States army, with reference to the work accomplished during the .year ended June 3Qi 1595. The plan has for its object to secure additional depth at islands and bars by the construction of low dams across chutes and by the building of dikes where the river is wide and shallow so as to confine the flow to a smaller cross section and by dredging. A radical improvement of the upper part of the river has been commenced by the construction of a lock and | movable dam at Davis island, five I miles below Pittsburgh and work on | another lock and dam No. 6, has been commenced just below Beaver. Surveys have also been made for sites for movable dams Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the series. A snag boat and two dredges belonging to the United States are constantly employed when funds are available and the stage of the river permits, in taking out snags and wrecks and in dredging away gravel and rock obstructions that cannot otherwise be removed. The work of improvement has been continued ail along the river to Mound City. 111.. 259 miles below Pittsburgh, where dikes are being erected. Speaking generally of the project Col. Stickney says that it is impossible to determine in advance just where and how much work will be needed for making good navigation upon the en- | tire upper length of the river, and I therefore it is impossible to submit i estimates for complete improvement I The work, he says, must be pro- | gressive and tentative, and owI ing to the varied interests f and covering nearly 1,000 miles j of river, the locations of works I must be at considerable distances | apart, so that no one reach of river j can be taken on hand and iraprovei ment completed in advance of other t parts of the river, unless large amounts of money are provided. Continuing, he says: “The great and growing commerce of this river, its | numerous cities, and the rapid in- ! crease of the already large population j of the valley should appeal in strong ! terms for adequate appropriations for l such betterment of the navigation as | it is certain can be obtained by wellj known methods.”

A JEALOUS WIFE [ TrlM to Kill Her Child and Hemelf- | Mother Lore Conquers and Hoth are ! Saved. I Grand Rapids, Mich.. July 13.—It developed yesterday morning' that Mrs. John Lewis, living in the southern part of this city, made a sensational attempt at suicide and murder Thursday. She took a large dose of strychnine and then gave a dose of the deadly drug to her 5-year-old daughter, Bessie. Not satisfied with this she then tried to strangle the little girl I with a towel. The suffering of the little one aroused the pity of the erased mother who sent for a physician. The woman told him the whole story, and the mother and child were saved by hard work. It is understood that Mrs. Lewis, who is *8 years of age, was jealous of two young ladies who-are residents of the same house. She has also been considered slightly off on the subject of spiritualism. Timber Reserve Tre»p»*eer« to be Crtm* Inellv Prosecuted. Washington, July 13.—The secretary of the interior has requested the attorney general of the United States to direct the United States district attorney in California and Oregon to bring criminal suit against timber trespassers in those states. Cattlemen have been running stock in government timber reserves, trampling down the brush and small timber. Heretofore they have been simply ejected by force, bnt recently a law was discovered under which they could be prosecuted.

. USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. —Creamed Potatoes—Melt one tablespoonful of batter and add one table* spoonful flour. Then a4<i, in small portions* half a pint of milk, stirring constantly. Season and stir in cold sliced potatoes.—Chicago Record. Vegetable Salad —Use any remnants of vegetables from yesterday’s dinner —green peas or beans, boiled potatoes, slices of beets, green onions or celery; cat small and heap together on leaves of fresh lettuce; a mayonnaise dressing.—Prairie Farmer. Potato Puffs—Boil three large potatoes, mash while hot, add pepper and salt, a little onion juice, a bit of butter, and an egg. When‘very light, drop by large spoonfuls on to a layer of crumbs and °roll into balls or croquettes, frying in hot fat.—X. Y. Ledger. ^ —Ginger Cooktes.—One cup of butter. one cup of sugar, one cup of molasses. one egg, one tablespoon soda, one tablespoon ginger; mix not very stiff; sprinkle .nth sugar before baking. These cookies took the premium at a state fair.—Mrs. U. M. West, in Western Record.

—Who has not felt annoyance and disgust at the smudgy- appearance of her doors after a well-meaning maid has polished the knobs and hells to a glistening state of brilliancy and daubed the woodwork in so doing? Pieces of cardboard cut to fit over the knobs and protect the surrounding woodwork dnring the polishing, are valuable accessories in cleaning time ; Pressed Veal.—Select a bony piece of i real, boil it until very soft, remove the | meat and chop fine, season with salt i and pepper and return it to the broth. Hare sufficient broth to make it quite moist, bring it to a boil. Then place a layer of meat in a long narrow tin, nest a layer of hard boiled eggs; cover with the rest of the meat and set it away. When used it slices cold and is an attractive relish for tea.—Orange Judd Farmer. —Hominy Cakes.—Boil a cupful of hominy in milk until tender and the milk is absorbed; this will take some hoars, as hominy requires slow cooking Whcti cooked, add an ounce of butter and remove it from the tire until slightly cool. Then stir in gradually three ounces of flour, with which is mixed a teaspoonful of baking powder and two well-beaten eggs. Place the mixture in buntius, and bake in a quick oven for fifteen or twenty minutes.—Lieed’s Mercury. —Coffee Jelly.—For coffee jelly use two cupfuls of clear strong coffee, one cupful of sugar, one cupful of boiling water, one and a half cupfuls of cold water and one-half box of gelatine. Let the gelatine soak for one-half hour in the cold water, stir the sugar into it and pour over it the boiling water and coffee; strain it into a mold. When it hus beebme cold turn it into a glass dish; let it get perfectly cold and serve with whipped cream. A nice hot weather dessert—Farm, Field and Fireside. —Jellied Tongue.—Put into a basin one teacupful ofibrowned meat gravy, one pint of the liquor in which the tongue was boiled, one tablespoonful of sugar, three of vinegar and one of burnt sugar dissolved in water. Add two ounces of gelatine dissolved in half a pint of water. Heat all together and strain through a flannel bag. Cut the tongue in slices. Let the jelly cool and thicken a little. Then pour a little into a mold, alternating layers of slieed tongue and jelly until the mold is full. To turn out, dip the mold into hot water for an instant. Cut perpendicularly with a sharp knife.— Chicago Record. Peasant Frocks for Children. Seldom has there been anything more comfortable and becoming for little girls than peasant costumes, but, however nice these fancy dresses look for children at home, they should always be discarded for scboolwear, or at the age when a child is supposed to go regularly to school. They are made of light red flannel, or fine cloth, the loose skirt being fulled on a heartshaped cretonne or flowered yoke,with red ground. The skirt reaches to the ankle and has a broad band of cretonne stitched on roupd the bottom. The full sleeves are made with several rows of smocking or gathering, and set into flowered wristband to match the plain collar. The frock is hooked behind. In case a red cloth trimming is chosen it should be edged with the flowered material and the yoke collar and wristband of the ground of the same. A dark green or blue flannel frock trimmed with red is a very pretty variation of the same style.—St Louis Republic.

Treatment for iniMBia. The hydropathic treatment which has been recommended for cold in the head is as follows:' After rising' in the morning and before retiring at night wash the feet and legs as high up as the knees in cold water. Rub them afterward with a rough towel and massage them till the skin is red and glowing. In addition snuff tepid water up the nose frequently during the day and sip with a teaspoon a glassful as hot as can be borne an hour before each meal and at bedtime. For simple cases this treatment will cure the cold in a few days, and obstinate cases are said to yield if the treatment is prolonged. Medicine is not required. Serious diseases are often prevented by treating a cold in its first stages — Troy Times._ Capes for Sommer. Among the dainty things for summer are very short silk capes with lace re vers and collarettes; white silk parasols with Dresden figures in chine effects and white handles; silk waists with Wide velvet straps down the front, and from shoulder to belt, these straps studded with jet or cut steel buttons; large-Leghorn hats simply laden with white or pink or pink ostrich tips, plaited chiffon rosettes, full blown roses, and foliage sprays; snow-white mull costumes simply but elegantly trimmed with rows of lace insertion, with short full shoulder-rape to match trimmed with insertion and chiffon.— N Y. Post.

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