Th, Women Know B*»t. ■ ment has been caused by ''w'-inlreports of the United States fll i.n governments, in which “ the evidences of the su I'""' ' , |, purity and wholesome ,,r(s he k •'■»!iii,kin* i;°rler- •, ‘ ‘1 #W the rood housewife ’ mindations of the Royal 1 Powder from scientists and ' .. S110h as these very much , , „‘g of refined goU.” Her ■tio-il experience long since taught ‘ he most convincing way the , ,,ef,.lness aml *»pe»onty of the ,i Uti.-le. A higher proof than ' ,! ,|(,es not want and cannot have. ‘ is pleasant for her to realize 11 * ... 4.. l.litilitaii V»V 111 PSA ,UIU lur uc* w facts established by these lt competitive tests, these scientific t niinpeimvu u ? “--7 ■ illations made under direction of . eminent, exactly parallel those !3J I,efore worked out in her own mil-sense practical way. i„es not appear that any baking ■. when presented in competi !;,o, the Koval, either at the Ooy ,nt tests or before World’s Fair ‘ has ever received favor or award Koval or made an equal show , purity, strength or wholesome Intent Idea* in Dregs. I(we velvet muffs will be used this •er than in a number of years and ^.oais will also be fashioned for ■ i on wear and for church. ■ ■rcat deal has been said about ■i hosiery going out of fashion, but vhl continue to bo the correct style ■ Utlie hosiery matches the gown in H IV will be an epidemic of plaids , n. the winter is over and many of ■ new designs arc very artistic. 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Stichinus^ous names *» letraii-h. the poets mdtd __F * pat Men. ■ ..!|rsJ*lh,"net and St. !*«,'.i tv/"* .NaP^le«tt, ^ «'<*'" fcssi r. me Handel, the composer: and J.V • L ——.-v.(yifflo -— PSofGQLDP'^S^ENDORpnmTv^ !"'®W,r>'wi">r“:mVe»rriw»,SMRI gliMsili IALF, **pbshh LLsTREET an,) f,,:i ru,'\ handle.) l . -ationSUCl —m • -_44 Whilst., New Yorl I. —-""‘St-, New York fej|^6-Marks BIG REVIVAL IS NEAR. ALL MANKIND IS TURNING TO WARD ISRAEL, Dr* Talma*:© Reads the Slgm of the Times In s Notable Sermon—Real Meaning: of Electricity, Steam and Other Improvements* Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 2.—Dr. Tal mage chose for the subject of his ser mon through the press to-day, the “Objections to Religious Revivals," from the text: Luke v:G, “They in closed a great multitude of fishes, and their net broke.” Simon and his comrades had experi enced the night before what fishermen call “poor luck.” Christ steps on board the fishing smack and tells the sailors to pull away from the beach, and di rects them to sink the net. Sure enough, very soon the net is full of fishes, and the sailors begin to haul in. So large a school of fish was taken, that the hardy men begin to look red in the face as they pull, and hardly have they begun to rejoice at their success when snap goes a thread of the net, and snap goes another thread, so there is danger not only of losing the fish, but of los ing the net. Without much care as to how much the bogt tilts, or how much water is splashed on deck, the fishermen rush about, gathering' up the broken meshes of the net. Out yonder is a ship danc ing on the wave, and they hail it: “Ship ahoy! bear down this way!'' The ship comes, and both boats, and fish ing smacks are filled with the floun dering treasures. “Ah!” says some one, “how much better it would have been if they had stayed on shore, and fished with a hook and line, and taken one at a time, instead of having this great ex citement, and the boat almost upset, and the net broken, and having to call for help, and getting sopping wet with the sea!” The church is the boat, the gospel is the net, society is the sea. and a great revival is a whole school brought in at one sweep of the net. I have admiration for that man who goes out with a hook and line to fish. 1 admire the way he unwinds the reel, and adjusts the bait, and drops the hook in a quiet place on a still afternoon, and here catches one and there one; but I like also a big boat, and a large crew, and a net a mile long, and swift oars, and stout sails, and a stiff breeze, and a great multitude of souls brought—so great a multitude that you have to get help to draw it ashore, straining the net to the utmost until it breaks here and there, letting a few escape, but bringing the great multitude into eternal safety. In other words, I believe in revivals. The great work of saving men began with 3,000 people joining the church in one day, and it will close with forty or a hundred million people saved in twenly-four hours, when nations shall be born in a da£. But there are ob jections to revivals. People are op posed to them because the net might get broken, and if by the pressure of souls it does not get broken, then they take their own penknives and slit the net. “They inclosed a great multitude of fishes and the net broke. ” It is sometimes opposed to revivals of religion that those who come into the church at such times do not hold out; as long as there is a gale of bless ing, they have their sails up; but as soon as strong winds stop blowing, then they drop into a dead calm. But what are the facts in the case? In all our churches, the vast majority of the useful people are those who are brought in under great awakenings, and they hold out. Whoare the prom inent men in the United States in churches, in prayer meetings, in Sab bath schools? For the most part they are the product of great awakenings. I have noticed that those who are brought into the Kingdom of God through revivals have more persistence and more determination in the Chris tian life than those who come in under a low state of religion. People born in an ice house may live, but they will never get over the cold they caught in the ice house. A cannon ball depends upon the impulse with which it starts for how far it shall go and how swiftly; and the greater the revival force with which a soul is started, the more far reaching and far-resounding will be the execution. ljut it is sometimes objected to re vivals that there is so much excitement that people mistake hysteria for re ligion. We must admit that in every revival of religion there is either a suppressed or a demonstrated excitement. In deed, if a man can go out of a state of condemnation into a state of accept ance with God, or see others go, with out any agitation of soul, lie is in an unhealthy, morbid state, and is as re pulsive and absured as as a man who should boast he saw a child snatched out from under a horse's hoofs, and felt no agitation, or saw a man rescued from the fourth story of a house on fire, and felt no acceleration of the pulse. Salvation from sin and death and hell into life and peace and heaven forever, is such a tremeudous thing that if a man tells me lie can look on it without any agitation I doubt his Christianity. The fact Is, that some times excitement is the most impor tant possible thing. In case of resusic tation from drowning or freezing the one idea is to excite animation. Ue fore conversion we are dead. It is the business of the church to revive, arouse, awaken, resuscitate, startle into life. Excitement is bad or good according to what it makes us do. If it makes us do that which is bad, it is bad excitement; but if it make us agi tated about our eternal welfare, if it make us pray, if it make us attend upon Christian service, if it make us cry unto God for jercy, then it is a good excitement. It is sometimes said that during re rivals of religion great multitudes of children and young people are brought into the chureh, and they do not know what they are about. It has been my observation that the earlier people come into the kingdom of God the more useful they are. Rabert Hall, the prince of Raptist preachers, was converted at 12 years of age. It is supposed he knew what he was about. .Matthew Henry, the commentator, who did more than any man of his e**ntury for increasing the interest in the study of the scriptures, was converted at 11 years of age; Isabella Graham, immortal in the Christian church, was converted at 10 years of age; Dr. Watts, whose hymns will be sung all down the< ages', was converted at 9 years of age;' Jonathan Edwards, perhaps the mightiest intel lect that the American pulpit ever produced, was converted at 7 years of age; and that father and mother take an awful responsibility when they tell their child at 7 years of age, “You are too young to be a Christian,” or “You are too young to connect yourself with the church.” That is a mistake us long as eternity. ii during a revival two persons pre sent themselves as candidates for thd church, and the one is ten years of agej and the other is 40 years of age, I will have more confidence in the profession of religion of the one 10 years of age than the one 40 years of age. Why? The one who professes at 40 years of age has forty years of impulse in the wrong direction to correct, the child has only ten years in the wrong di rection to correct. Four times ten are forty. Four times the religious pros pect for the lad that comes into the kingdom of God, and into the church at 10 years of age than the man at 40. 1 am very apt to look upon revivals as connected with certain men who fostered them. People who in this day do not Jike revivals, never theless have not words to express their admiration for the re vivalists of tlie past, for they were revivalists—Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, George Whitfield, Fletcher. Grittin, Davies, Osborn, Knapp, Nettle ton, and many others whose names come te my mind. The strength of their intellect and the holiness of their lives make me think they would not have anything to do with that which was ephemeral. Oh! it is easy to talk against revivals. A man said to Mr. Dawson: “I like your sermons very much, but the after meetings I despise. When the prayer meetings begin I always go up into the gallery and look down, and I am dis gusted.” “Well,” said Mr. Dawson, “the reason is you go on the top of your neighbor's house and look down his chimney to examine his fire, and of course you only get smoke in your eyes. Why don't you come in the door and sit down and warm?” Oh! I am afraid to say anything against revivals of religion, or against anything that looks like them, be eaus£ 1 think jt may be a sin against the Holy Ghost, and you know the Bible says that a sin against the Holy Ghost shall never be forgiven, neither in this world nor the world to come. Now, if you are a painter, and I speak against your pictures, do I not speak against you? If you are an architect, and I speak against a building you put up, do I not speak against you? If a revival be the work of the Holy Ghost, and I speak against that revival, do I not speak against the Holy Ghost. And whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, says the Bible, he shall never be forgiven, neither in this world nor in the world to come. I think sometimes people have made a fatal mistake in this direction. Many of you know the history of Aaron Burr. He was one of the most brilliant men of his day. 1 suppose this country never produced a stronger intellect He was capable of doing anything good and great for his coun try, or for the Church of God had he been rightly disposed; but his name is associated with treason against the United States government which he tried to overthrow, and with libertin ism and public immorality. Do you know where Aaron Burr started on the downward road. It was when he was in college, and he became anxious about his soul, and was about to put himself under the influences of a revival, and a minister of religion said: Don't go there Aaron, don't go there; that's a place of wildfire and great excitement; no religion about that; don’t go there.” He tarried away. His serious impressions departed. He started on the downward road. And who is responsible for his ruin? Was it the minister who warned him against that revival? When I am speaking of excitement in revivals, of course I do not mean temporary derangement of the nerves; I do not mean the absurd things of which we have read as transpiring sometime in the church of Christ, but l mean an intelligent, intense, all absorbing agitation of body, mind and soul in the work of spiritual escape and spiritual rescue. The difficulty is that when a revival begins in a church it begins at so many points, that while you have doused one anxious soul with a pail of cold water, there are 500 other anxious souls on fire. Oh! how much better it would be to lay hold of the chariot of Christ's gospel and help pull it on rather than to fling ourselves in front of the wheels, trying to block their progress. We will not stop the chariot, but we ourselves will be ground to powder. Did you ever hear that there was a convention once held among the ice-, bergs in the Arctic? It seems that the summer was coming on and the sun was getting hotter and hotter, and: there was danger that the whole ice field would break up and flow away; so the tallest, and the coldest, and the broadest of all the icebergs, the very1 king of the Arctics, stood at the head1 of the convention, and with a gavel of lco smote on a table of ice calling the convention to order, lint the tun kept growing in intensity of heat, and the south wind blow stronger and stronger, and soon all the ice field be gan to flow away. The first resolution passed by the convention was: “lie solved, That we abolish the sun.” But the sun would not be abolished. The hent of the sun grew greater and greater until after awhile the very king of the icebergs began to perspire under the glow, and the smaller ice bergs fell over, and the cry was: “Too much excitement! order! order!” Then the wbolo body, the whole field of ice, began to flow out, and a thousand voices began to ask: “Where are we going to now? Where are wo floating to? We will all break to pieces.” By this time the icebergs had reached the gulf stream; and they were melted into the bosom of the Atlantic ocean. The warm sun is the eternal spirit. Tito icebergs are frigid Christians. The warm gulf stream is a great revival. The ocean into whicli everything melt ed is the great, wide heart of the par doning and sympathizing God. But 1 think, after all, the greatest obstacle to revivals throughout Christ endom to-day is an unconverted min istry. Wo must believe that the vast majority of those who officiate at sacred altars are regenerated; but 1 suppose there may float into the min istry of ull the denominations of Chris tians men whose hearts have never been changed by the grace of God. Of course they are all antagonistic to re vivals. .Suppose by some extra prolongation of human life, at the next fifty years you should walk around the world, you would not in all that walk find one person that you recognize. Why .’ All dead, or so changed you would not know them. In other words, if you postpone the redemption of this world for fifty years, you admit that the ma jority of the two \*holc generations shall go off the stage unblessed and unsaved. 1 tell you the church of Jesus Christ can not consent to it. We must pray and toil and have the re vival spirit, and we must struggle to have the whole world saved before tin men and women now in middle life pass off. "Oh!” you say, “it is too vast on e terprise to be conducted in so shot time.” Do you know how long it would take to save the whole world if each man would bring another? It would take ten years, liy a calcula tion in compound interest, each man bringing another and that one an other, and that one another, in ten years the whole world would be saved. If the world is not saved in the next ten years, it will be the fault of the Church of Christ. It seems to me as if God is preparing the world for some quick and universal movement. A celebrated electrician gave me a telegraph chart of the world. On that chart the wires crossing the continents and the cables under the sea looked like veins read with blood. On that chart 1 see that the headquar ters of the lightnings are in Great ^Britain and the United State.s. I® London and New York the lightnings are stabled, waiting to be harnessed for some quick dispatch. That shows you that the telegraph is in possession of Christianity. It is a significant fact that the man who invented the telegraph was an old fashioned Christian—Prof. Morse, and that the man who put the tele graph under the sea was an old fashioned Christian—Cyrus W. Field; and that the president of the most famous of the telegraph companies of country was an old fashioned Chris tian—William Orton, going straight to his home in heaven. What does all that mean? i uu aui suppose mat me teiegrapn ■was invented merely to let us know whether flour is up or down, or which filly won the race at the Derby, or which marksman beat at Dollymount. I supposed the telegraph was invented and built to eall the world to God. in some of the attributes of the Lord we seem to share on a small scale. For instance, in his love and in his kindness, But until of late, fore knowledge, omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence, seem to have been ex clusively God’s possession. God desir ing to make the race like himself, gives us a species of foreknowledge in the weather probabilities, gives us a species of omniscience in telegraphy, gives us a species of omnipresence in the telephone, gives us a species of omnipotence in the steam power. Dis coveries and inventions all around about us, people are asking what next? 1 will tell you what next. Next, a stupendous religious movement. Next, the end of war. Next, the crash of despotisms. Next, the world’s expur gation. Next, the Christlike domin ion. Next, the judgment. What be comes of the world after I care not. It will have suffered and achieved enough for one world. Lay it up in the dry docks of eternity, like an old man-of war gone out of service. Or, fit it up like a ship of relief to carry bread to some other suffering planet. Or, let it be demolished. Farewell, dear old world, that began with paradise and ended with judgment conflagration. Distressed Young Mother, traveling with a crying infant—Dear me! I don’t know what to do with the baby! Thoughtful Bachelor, in the next seat —Shall I open the window for you? “Is it really true, as Miss Old Girl says, that she never married because her lover was lost at sea?” “Yes; another girl cut her out of his affec tions on a trip across the Atlantic." 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