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other, and the man of the world will | | CLEARLY PROVED. Our weapoul not logic; faith, VALK OF ‘THE SKEPTICS AN- faith, not prof SWERED exp or scholast ¢ order to have | testimony, and il or one thousand men. 7 | dred thousand ine The Rey. Dr. Talmage Speaks In Christianity’s Defense. men get up ¢ Millions of Witnesses of the Power of have felt the re Christ's Word jaye a comt eee se \t on, Dam b {lan to testl acee] S lwant just now to put before 3 three truth which I think this audier Tae Gospel’s Influence on Life and the Last Hours. propositions, the “ Lats FE oe ee | test with overwhelming unani Facts Proved ie the subj et Of dis. The first proposition is: We course by the Rev. T. DeWitt Tal- pir cnuie netic vali vicn onlGhir mage, D. ay. is text is]. i : Agi : ‘ : * lis able to convert a soul. rom the 15th verse of BS ss ae The gospel may have had ah ard | “We 2 “SSES * wing is = We are witnesses.” Following is time to conquer us. we imay have | his sermon in full: In the days of the perfector of the locomotive en- fought quished. it back, but we were van -orgre Stephenson, : peone ter conversion 18 We know There You say only an imaginary thing. better. “We are never Was so great gine, the sively that a railway train could nev- scientists proved conclu- es witnesses er be driven by steam power suc- : : = 9 Lene ome: heart and life on any other subject cessfully and without peril; but the : ss A : z as on this. rushing express trains from Liver- MOCKERS PUT To SHAME pool to Edinburg, and from Edin burg to London, have made all the People laughed at the missionaries | iations witnesses of the splendid |! Madagascar because they preached achievement. Machinists and navi- | te years without one convert, but gators proved conclusively that. 2 | there are 33,000 converts in Mad steamer could never cross the Atlan | gasear to-day. Pec hed at tie ocean; but no sooner had they | Dr. Judson, the Ba ry: proved the imapossibi of such an | beeduse he kept on yi ; 28 andertaking than the work was done, | Burmah five years without a sing'e aud the passengers on the Cunard, | Convert; but there are 20,000 Bay and the TIuman, and the National, | tists in Burmah today. People and the White Star lines are witness ighed at Dr. Morvisou in China es. There went up a guftaw of wild for preaching th e1 laughter at Prof. Morse’s proposi Without a sit Ns but tion to make the lightning of the | there are 15.000 Chri in China heaven his errand boy, and it was to-day. People } the $ proved conclusively that the thing sionaries for preaching ut T: ahiti for could never be done; but now all the | fifteen years without a single con news of the wide world, by Associ- | Version, yet in all these Ian on there ated press put in your hands every | #?e multitudes of Christians to-day. morning and night, has made all na- tious witnessess. But why go so far to tind evidence of the Gospel’s power tosave a soul? “We are witnesses.” We were so NOTHING WHOLLY IMPOSSIBLE. arte war ; he : ae roud that no man could have hum- So in the time of Christ it was F bled us; we were so hard that no proved conclusively that it was im earthly power could have melted us; possible for him to rise from the lesa Thea cal logically. that angels of God were all around about 4 . t show! 1 4 pe fae hh a Lier Mba they could not overcome us; but perro Pebtigc oe one day, perhaps at a Methodist anx- 5 ious seat or at a Presbyterian cathe- the lungs having ceased to perform mhecenilechen ort 1 : : ; a a burial their offices, the limbs would be rig- eeback & soce id beyond all power of friction or arousal. They showed it to be ab- solute absurdity that the dead Christ should ever get up alive; but no sooner had they proved this than the dead Christ arose, and the disci- ples behind Him heard his voice and talked with Him, and they took the witness stand to prove that to be true which the wiseacres of the day had proved to be impossible; the record of the experiment and of the testimony isin the text: “Him hath iod raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses.” Now, let me play the skeptic for a moment. “There is no God,” says the skeptic, “for I have never seen or on seized us and made us get down and tremble and made us kneel and made us cry for mercy, and we tried to wrench our- selves away from the grasp, but we could not. It flung us flatand when we arose we were as much changed as Gourgis, the heathen, who went into a prayer-meeting with a gun anda dagger to disturb the meeting and Aescey it, but the next day was found crying: “O, my great sins! O, my great Saviour!” and for eleven years preached the Gospel of Christ to his fellow ap ee words on his dying lips bei mountaineers, O, if it was free grace SAVED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. him with my physical eyesight. There isa man who was for ten Your Bible is a pack of contradic- | Yes & hard drinker. The dreadf: tions. There never was « miracle. | @ppetite had sent down its roots Lazarus was not raised from the and the tongue dead, and the water was never turned into wine. Your religion is an im- position on the credulity of the | ™ind and soul, but he has not taken ages.” There is an aged man moy. | 22Y stimulant for two years. What ing in that pew as though he would | did that? Not temperance societie: like to respond. Here are hundreds | Not prohibition Not moral of people with faces a little flushed | 8uasion. Conversiondidit. “W hy, at these announcements, and all } Said one upon whom the great change through this house there is a sup had come, “sir, I feel just as though pressed feeling which would like to | I were somebody else.” speak out in behalf of the truth of | There isa great sea captain who our glorious Christianity, as in the | SWore all the way from New York to days of the text crying out, “We| Havana and from Havana to San are witnesses!” Francisco, and when he was in port he was worse than when the sea. around the palate and on down until linked with the vitals they were inter of the body, laws. he was on What power was it that washec 3 tong “les se ever brought to God, it will not be arn ag a 2 mi es ‘hrough argument, but through tes- Conversion by the Holy ‘Ss virit timony. You might cover the whole Mie arc thoarends of pAb ze arth with apologies for Christianity | ¢n3. house Teen o aii = . = and learned treatises in defense of what they once were re A &: A : teligion—you would not convert a lily is night shade ee : ania ce soul. Leetures on the harmony be- a sulbere ie day is nicht tween science and religion are beau- Now. if I sho iL a0 an i hat all tiful mental discipline, but have ney- | k ae Civil See ape r saved a soul, and never will save | ; sce aa aon ENR ave Put a man of the world and » man of the church ag ABSOLUTE TESTIMONY NEEDED. The fact is, that if this world is ry r rer of elici elt the converting power of religion adic ashamed, they w s soul. from t each | @ to their feet with more n all probability get the tri unyph. ee 2 , ev rang to the the tears here is a thousand things in our re. | < ST Shaq” ‘a | thas 7 nungling ie thei rathon all -| wi a change in our | 1ouse who have | being | y | went withe * of the Gospel the world comes it your mind off this: go out and | breathe the fresh leeper j into business.” What poor advice. Get your mind offofit! when every | thing is upturned with re bereave- | it and everythi u of you have lost. fit! They mi; Get your as well advise | off nd you can- } you to stop thinki not stop thinking in that direction. Take a walk in the fresh air!) Why. | along that very street. or that very | ro: 1, she once mpanied you. | Out of that grass plot she plucked flowers, or into that show window she looked, fascinated. saying: | “Come, see the pictures.” Go dee; jer into business Why. she sociated with all your | biti Was as- business ai und since she has gone we no ambition left Oh, this is a clumsy world \ tries to comfort broken orliss engine, *Mando can build a C paint a Raphael's | play a Beethoven's {as easily as this world ¢ | broken heart And | been c« i. How w ; Did Christ come to you | “Get your mind of into business No. There was a when He aps in the * to vou of the wate of business, nd He perhaps in your 7 perhaps ale the street breathed something into soul that gave your peace, rest, infinite so that you could take out the quiet pho- call her back. Lord, I thank Thee that Thou hast comforted my heart.” poor THE LORD'S WILL BE DUNE. There are Christian parents here willing to testify to the power of this gospel to comfort. Your son had just graduated from school or college and was going into | business, and the Lord tookhim. Or your daughter had just graduated from the young ladies’ seminary, and you thought she was going to be a useful woman and of long life; but the Lord took her, and you were “All this culture of nothing!” Or the little child came home from with the hot fever that stopped not who are tempted to s twenty years for for the agonized prayer or for the inn, and the u little child Mv the babe was lifted out of your arms by some quick epi der skillful — was taken. wondering and you stood why dagen ever gave you that child at | all, if so away. soon He take it And yet you are not repining, you are not fretful. you are not fight- ing against God. Wi the trial? “Oh.” was to 5 you si soul. In my distress I threw myself +} at the feet of a sympathizing God, ; and when I was too weak to pray or to look up He breathed into me a! peace that I think must be a fore- taste of that heaven where there is neither a tear, nor a farewell. nor a grave.” Come, all ye who have been out to the grave to weep there—come, all ye comforted souls, get up off your knees. Is there no power in | this gospel to soothe the heart? Is there no power in this religion to quiet the worst paroxysm of grief? There comes up an answer from the comforted widowhood and orphan- age and childlessness, l aye. we j saying: are witnesses!” E LAST HOURS i ' ral? x - ; Again. : that we nesses of the fact that 1 i power t& ve composure in moment. J shall nev } first the ¢ eC ountry . and ar ‘Te Witnesses!’ gud iij where ike vertay ements Lad come! jag tie , | they take school | | json aph of the departed one and look into the eyes and the face of | the dear one, and say: “It is all| right; she is better off; I would not Vy |: iat has enabled you to stand ail | ss took ' the medicine that God gave my sick } | | young. haw go back to some dis- personage—to a John Kuox or a Harriet Newell. But I resses. I vif you have ever seen Want to t you tor wit: anything mutke you believe that the religion of Christ can give composure in the hour. ow, in the courts, at- torney, jury and judge will never They that the witness must have seen with a SH mere heresay. demand Lis own eyes or heard with his own ears, and so T am ¢ al in my ex- amination of you now; and I want to ow whether you have seen or heard you believe gives al hour. “0, “T saw my father and lepart. There in their de com} ure in th yes.” you say, was a we By the other ther teuderness Before the one you bowed perhaps in awe In the other Y GOD'S GRACE How did they feel in that last hou How did th Were y seem to act they much frightened? Did hold of this world with | both hands as though they did want to give it up! “O, no,” not you say. “no, Lremember as though it were yeste y; she had a kind word | for us all, and there were a few me- jmentoes distributed among "the children, and then she told us how kind we must be to our father in his and then she kissed us good-bye and went asleep as a child ina cradle.” What made her so composed! Natural courage? “No,” | you say, “mother was very nervous; | when the carriage inclined to the side of the road she would cry out; she was always rather weakly.” What ‘then gave her composure? Was it because she did not care much for loneliness, you and the pang of parting was not great? “O,” you say, “she showered upon us #2 wealth of af- fection; no mother ever loved her children more than mother loved us; she showed it by the way she nursed us when we were sick, and she toiled for us until her strength out.” What. then, composure hide it iO: she } Was so good; she made the Lord her portion, and she had faith that she would go straight to glory, and that we should all meet her at last at the foot of the throne.” gave was it that gave her in the last hour? Do not Be frank and let me know. you say, “it was because Here are people who say: “I saw a Christian brother die, and he tri- else: SS die, and umphed.” And some one i Christian sister she jtcummphed.” Some one else will a Christian daughter die, and she triumphed.” j Saw | Say: =I saw WITNESSES BY MILLIONS. } Come, all ye who have seen the last moments of a Christian, and give testimony in this cause on trial. Uncover your heads, put your hand on the old family Bible from which they used to read the promises, and promise in the presence of high heaven that you will tell the truth and nothing but the truth. With what you have seen with your own and from what you have heard with your own ears, is there power in this gospel to give calmness and triumph in the last exigency? The response comes from all sides, from and old, middle-aged: are witnesses!” friends, eyes, and I have put before you an abstraction or a chimera or anything like guesswork. not You see, my i I present you affidavits of the best women, g and dead. will establ. sses in €or Here are with Tsay they had th ud took a certai ij and it cured them, you would prot- suppose ten take it Now, Teome up and say ve there “We tried it?” but I vything in it.” their me and say ever never tried it, don't beheve OF course The There yourreligion.” Have t “No, no.” “Then avaunt!” Let me take the testimony of the that been converted to God and comfort last testimony there is ar testimony } vou discredit i skeptic may fis no power i you ever triedit? have millions of souls ed in triai and So0.aced in the We will tike their We are THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM. : Prof. Washington, disce rvered a new hour. as they ery: Witnesses” Some time Henry. of star, and the tidings sped by submarine observatories that looking: out telegraph, and all the watehing for rs of Europe we new star. Oh, hes darkness of thy light beam you say, Look along by the line of the evoss of the Son of God. Do trembling with all through the soul, canst thou see a bright ing o: the? “Win “where? How ean F tind it?” you not see it tenderness and Lt is the ster beaming with all hope’, of Bethlehem. y Vitals froze Dea di the m, w a star arose It wast tar of Bethichem O, hearer. get your eye on it. It is easier for you now to become Christians than it is to stay away fron: Christ and heaven. When Madame Sontag began her musical career she was hissed off the stage at Vienna by friends of her Amelia Steiuinger, who had already rival, begun to decline through her dissi- pation. Years day Madame Sontag, in allher glory, was riding through the streets of Berlin, when she saw a little child leading a blind woman, and she said: passed on, and one “Come here, my little child, come here. Who is that you are leading by the hand?” And§the little child replied: ‘That's my mother; that's Amelia Steininger. She used to be but she lost her voice, and she cried so much about it that a great sing she lost her eyesight. \3-Give my love to her,” said Madame Sontag, “and tell her an old acquaintance will call on her this afternoon.” The next week in Berlin a vast assemblage gathered at a benefit for that poor blind woman, it was said that Madame & that night as she never sang§$before. And she took a oculist, who in vain tmed to eyesight to the poor blind womn. Until the day of Amelia Steininger’s death Madame Sontag took eare daughter after her. and Sontag sa skille give and her That was what the queen of song did for her ene- of her, my. But, oh, hear a more thrilling story still. Blind, immorta!, poor and lost. thou who, when the world and Christ were rivals for thy heart, didst hiss thy Lord away—Christ comes now to give thee sight, to give thee a home, to give thee heaven. With more than a Sontag’s generosity He comes now to meet your need. 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