PLATTriMO 0 Til WEEivL.1 xtiltx, xiTUKSDAY JUNK IIS, 1S8. TALMAGE IN KANSAS. HE PREACHES .TO A LARGE AUDI ENCE AT WINRELD. "The Constellation or the lledeemed," Ills Subject Christian Workers Shull Reign Forever and Ever AVe Mmll Chooso Our AmocIuIcb In Hoaven. "Win-field, Kan., Juno 21. Un counted multitudes Mcro present today at a great outdoor meeting held in this place, where the Rev. T. Do Witt Tal mago, D. D., was the preacher. Not only this but adjoining states were repre sented in the congregation, and the oc casion will be long remembered. The text was: "They that turn many to righteousnesf shall shine as the stars for ever and ever" Daniel xii, 3; arid the subject: "The Constellations of the lio deemed." Dr. Talmage said: Every man has a thousand roots and a thousand branches. His roots reach Jown through all the earth; his branched spread through all tho heavens, lie speaks with voice, with eye, with hand, with foot. His silence often is thunder, and his life is an anthem or a doxology. There is no such thing as negative influ ence. Wo arc all positive in tho place we occupy, making tho world better or making it worse, on tho Lord's side or on the devil's, making up reasons for our blessedness or banishment; and we have already done a mighty work in jeopling heaven or he!L I hear people tell of what they are going to do. A man who has burned down a city might as well talk of some evil thf.t ho expects tc do, or a man who has saved an empire might as well talk of some good that he expects to do. l!y the force of your evil influ ence you have already connumed infinite values, or you have, by tho power of a right influence, won whole kingdoms for CScxL It would bo absurd for ino to stand lieio and, by elaborate argument, prove that the world is off tho track. You might as well 6tand at the foot of an embankment, amid tho wreck of a cap sized rail train, proving by elaborate ar gument that something is out of order. Adam tumbled over the" embankment t-.isty centuries ago, and tho whole race, in one long train, has gone on tumbling in the sauie direction. Crash I crash! The only question now is, by what lever age can the crushed thing be lifted? tty what hammer may tho fragments be re constructed? 1 want to show you how we may turn many to righteousness, and what will be our future pay for so doing. First We may turn them by the charm of a right example. A child, coming from a filthy home, was taught at school to wash its face. It went horneso much improved in appearance that its mothei washed her face. And when the fathei of the household came home, and saw the improvement in domestic appearance, he washed his face. The neighbors happen ing in, saw the change, and tried the same experiment until all that street was purified, and the next Etreet copied its example, and the whole city felt the re sult of one schoolboy washing his face. That is a fable, by which we set forth that the best way to get tho world washed of its sins and pollution is to have our own heart and life cleansed and purified. A man with grace in his heart, and Christian cheerfulness in his face, and holy consistency in his behavior, is a jer.etual sermon; and the sermon differs from others in that it has but one head, and the longer it runsthe better. There are honest men who walk down Wall street, making the teeth of iniquity chatter. There are happy men who Ko into a sick room, and, by a look, help the broken bone to knit, and the excited nerves drop to calm beating. There are pure men whose presence silences the tongue of uncleanness. The mightiest apent of good on earth is a consistent Christian. I like the Bible folded between lids of cloth, of calfskin, or morocco, but I like it better when, in the shape of a man, it goes out into the world a Bible illustrated- Courage is beautiful to read about; but rather w ould I see a man with all tho world against him confident a3 though all the world were for him. Patience is beautiful to read about; but rather would I see a buffeted 6onl calmly waiting for the time of deliverance. Faith is beautiful to read about; but rather would I find a man in the midnight walking straight on as though he saw everything. Oh, how many souls have been turned to God by the charm of a bright example ! When, in the Mexican war, the troops were wavering, a general rose in his stir rups and dashed into the enemy's lines, shouting, "Men, follow 1" They, seeing his courage and disposition, dashed on after liim and gained the victory. What men want to rally them for God is an ex ample to lead them. All your com mands to others to advance amount to notliing 60 long as you stay behind. To affect them aright, you need to start for heaven yourself, looking back only to give the stirring cry of 'Men, follow 1' Again: Wo may turn many to right eousness by prayer. There is no such detective as prayer, for no one can hide away from it. It puts its hand on the shoulder of a man ten thousand miles off. It alights on a ship mid Atlantic. The little child cannot understand the law of electricity,' or how the telegraphic opera tor, by touching tho instrument here, may dart a message under the sea to another continent; nor can we, with our small intellect, understand how the touch of a Christian's prayer shall instantly 6triko a soul on the other siue of tho earth. You take ship and go to some other country, and get there at 11 o'clock in tho morning. You telegraph to New York, and the message gets here at C o'clock in the same morning. In other words, it seems to arrive here five Lours before it started. Like that is prayer. God says: ' Before they call I will hear." To overtake a loved one oh the road, rou may spur up a lathered Eteed until ho 6hall outraco the one that brought ths news to Ghent; but a prayer shall catch it at one gallop. A boy run ning away from home may take the mid night train from tho country village and reach tho seaport in time to gain the ship that sails on the morrow; but a mother's prayer will bo on the deck to nectbiin. and in tho. hammock before he swings into it, and at the capstan bo icre ho winds the ropo around it, and on sea, against tho sky, as tho vessel plvws on toward it. There is a mighti ness in prayer. George Muller prayed a company of poor boys together, und then ho prayed up an asylum in which they rcJght be sheltered. He turned his face upon Edinburgh and prayed, and there came a thousand round. IIo turned his face toward London and prayed, and there came a thousand pounds. lie turned his face toward Dublin and prayed, and there came a thousand founds. Tho breath of Elijah's prayer blew all tho cloud off the sky, and it was dry weather. The breath of Elijah's prayer blew all the clouds together, and it was wet weather. Prayer, in Daniel's time, walked tho cavo as a lion tamer. It reached up, and took tho sun by its golden bit, and stopped it. We have all yet to try the full power of prayer. Tho tlmo will come when tho American church will pray with its face toward tho west, and all the prairies and inland cities will surrender to God; and will pray with face toward the sea, and all the islands and ships will become Christian. Parents who have wayward sons will get down on their knees and 6ay: "Lord, send my boy home," and tho boy in Canton shall get right up from tho gambling table, and go down to the wharf to find out which ship starts first for America. Not one of us yet knows how to pray. All we have done as yet lias only been pottering, and guessing, and exerimeiit ing. A loy gets hold of his father's saw and hammer, and tries to make some thing, but it is a poor affair that he makes. The father comes and takes the same saw and hammer, and builds the house or tho ship. In the childhood of our Christian faith, wo make but joor work with the weapons of prayer, but when wo como to the stature of men in Christ Jesus, then, under thebe implements, tho temple of God will rise, and the world's redemption will bo launched. God cares not for tho length of our prayers, or tho cumber of our prayers, or the beauty of our prayers, or tiio place of our prayers; but it is the faith in them that tells. Believing prayer soars higher than the lark ever sang; plunges deeper than diving lell ever sank; darts quicker than lightning ever flashed. Though we have used only the back of this weapon instead of tho edge, what marvels have leen wrought! If saved, wearoall the captives of some earnest prayer. Would God that, in de sire for tho rescue of souls, we might in prayer lay hold of tho resources of the Lord Omnipotent. We may turn many to righteousness by Christian admonition. Do not wait until you can make a formal 6peech. Address the one next to you. You will not go homo alono today. Between this and your place of stopping you may de cide the eternal destiny of an immortal spirit. Just one sentence may do the work. Just one question. Just one look. The formal talk that begins with a sigh and ends with a canting snuffle is not what is wanted, but the heartthrob of a of a man in dead earnest. There is not a soul on earth that you may not bring to God if you rightly go at it. They said Gibraltar could not be taken. It is a rock, sixteen hundred feet high and three miles long. But the English and Dutch did take it. Artillery and sappers and miners and fleets pouring out volleys of death, and thousands of men, reck less of danger, can do anything. The stoutest heart of sin, though it be rock, and surrounded by an ocean of trans gression, under Christian bombardment may bo made to hoist the flag of redemp tion. But is all tliis admonition, and prayer, and Christian work for nothing? My text promises to all the faithful eternal luster. "They that turn many to righteousness shall shine as tho stars for ever. " As stars, the redeemed liave a borrowed light. What makes Mars and Venus and Jupiter so luminous? When the sun throws down his torch in the heavens the otars pick up the scattered brands and hold them in procession as the queen of tho night advances; so all Christian workers, standing around the throne, will slune in the light borrowed from the Sun of Righteousness Jesus in their faces, Jesus in their songs, Jesus in their triumph. Christ left heaven once for a tour of redemption on earth, yet the glorified ones knew he would come back again. But let him abdicato his throne, iiid go away to stay forever, the music would stop, the congregation disperse, the temples of God bo darkened, tho rivers of light stagnate, and every chariot would become a hearse, and every bell would toll, and there would not bo room on the hill sides to bury the dead of the great metropolis, for there would be pestilence in heaven. But Jesu3 lives, and so all the redeemed live with him. lie shall recognize them as his comrades in earthly toil, and remember what they did for the honor of his name and for the spread of liis kingdom. All their prayers and tears anil work will rise before him as he looks into their faces, and he will di vide his kingdom with them; his peace their peace; hi holiness their holiness; his joy their joy. The glory of tho cen tral throne reflected from tho surround ing thrones, tho last Epct of sin struck from tho Christian orb and the entire naturo a-tremble and a-flash with light, they shall slune as the stars forever tnd ever. Again: Christian workers shall bo like tho stars in the fact that they have a light independent of each other. Look up at the night, and see each world show its distinct glory. It is not liko the conflagration, in which you cannot tell where one flame stops and another be gins. Neptune, Herschel and Mercury are as distinct as if each ono of them were the only 6tar; so our individualism will not be lost in heaven. A great mul titude yet each one as observable, as distinctly recognized, as greatly cele-' brated, as if in all tho space, from gate to gate, and from hill to bill, he were the only inhabitant; no mixing up no mob no indiscriminate rush; each Christian worker standing out illustrious all the story of earthly achievement adhering to each one; his self denials, and pains, and services, and victories pub lished. Before men went out to the last war, the orators told them that they would all bo remembered by their country, and their names bo commemo rated in poetry and in song; but go to the graveyard in Richmond and yoa will find there 0,000 graves, over each one of which is the inscription, ."Unknown." The world does not remember its heroes; but there will be no unrecognized Cfcrfo tian worker in heaven. Each one known by all; grandly known; known by accla mation; all tho past story of work for God gleaming in check, and brow, and foot and palm. They shall shine with distinct light as tho stars, forever and ever. Again: Christian workers shall shine liko the stars in clusters. In looking up you find tho worlds in family circles. Brothers and sisters they take hold of each other '8 hands and dance in groups. Orion in a group. The Pleiades in a group. Tho solar system is only a com pany of children, with bright faces, gathered around ono great fireplace. The worlds do not straggle oil. They go in squadrons and fleets, sailing through im mensity. So Christian workers in heaven will dweil in neighlorhoods and clusters. 1 am sure that some eople I will like in heaven a great deal better than others. Yonder is a constellation of stately Christians. Tliey lived on earth by rigid rule. The never laughed. They walked every hour anxiou lest they should lose their dignity., But they loved God; and yonder they shine in brilliant constellation. Yet I shall not long to get into that particular group. Yonder is a constellation of small hearted Christians asteroids in the eternal as tronomy. While some souls go up from Christian battle, and blaze liko Mais, theso asteroids dart a feeble ray like Vesta. Yonder is a constellation of martyrs, of apostles, of patriarchs. Oui 6ouIs, as they go up to heaven, will seek out the most congenial society. Yonder Is a constellation almost merry with the play of light. On earth they were full of sympathiec and songs, and tears and raptures, and congratulations. When they prayed their words took fire; when they 6ang, the tune could not hold them; when they wept over a world's woes, they sobbed as if heart broken; when they worked for Christ, they flamed with enthusiasm. Yonder they are circlo of light! constellation of joy! galaxy of lirel Oh, that you and I, by that grace which can transform the worst into the best, might at last sail in the wake of that fleet, and wheel in that glorious group, a3 the stars forever and ever 1 Again: Christian workers will shine like the stars in swiftness of motion. The worlds do not stop to shine. There are no fixed stars 6a ve as to relative position. The star most thoroughly fixed flies thou 6ands of miles a minute. Tho astrono mer, using his telescope for an Alpine stock, leaps from world crag to world crag, and finds no star standing still The chamois hunter has to fly to catch his prey, but not sc swift is his game as that which the scientist tries to shoot through the tower of observatory. Like petrels mid Atlantic, that seem to come from no shore, and be bound to no land ing place flying, flying sc these great Hock3 of worlds rest not as they go wing and wing age after age forevei and ever. The eagle hastes to its prey, but we shall in speed beat the eagles. You have noticed the velocity of the swift horse under whose feet the miles slip like a smooth ribbon, and as he passes the four hoofs strike the earth in such quick beat your pulses takt the 6ame vibration. But all these things are not swift in comparison with the mo tion of which I speak. The moon moves lif'tj'-four thousand miles in a day. Yon der, Neptune flashes on eleven thousand miles in an hour. Yonder, Mercury goes one hundred and nine thousand miles in an hour. So like the stars the Christian worker 6hall shine in swiftness of motion. You hear now of father, or mother or child sick one thousand miles away, and it take3 you two days to get to them. You hear of some case of suffering tliat demands your immediate attention, but it takes you an hour to get there. Oh, the joy when you shall, in the fulfillment of the text, take starry speed, and be equal to one hundred thou sand miles an hour. Having on earth got used to Christian work, you will not quit when death strikes you. You will only take on more velocity. There is a dying child in London, and its spirit must be taken up to God; 3 011 are there in an instant to do it. There is a young man in New York to bo arrested from going into that gate of sin; you are there in an instant to arrest him. Whether with spring of foot, or stroke of wing, 01 by the force of some new law that sh;ill hurl you to tho spot where you would go, I know not; but my text suggests velocity. All spaco open before you, with nothing to hinder you in mis sion of light, and love and joy, you shall shine in swiftness of motion as the stars forever and ever. Again: Christian workers, like the stars, shall shine in magnitude. The most illiterate man knows that these things in the sky, looking like gilt but tons, aro great masses of matter. To weigh them, one would think that it would require scales with a pillar hundreds of thousands of miles high, and chains hun dreds of thousands of miles long, and at the bottoms of the chains basins on either side hundreds of thousands of miles wide, and that then omnipotence alone could put the mountains into the scales and tho hills into the balance. But puny man has been equal to the undertaking, and has set a little balance on his geometry, and weighed world against world. Yea, he ha3 pulled out his measuring line, and announced thai Herschel is thirty-sis thousand miles in diameter, Saturn seventy-nine thousand miles in diameter and Jupiter eighty nino thousand miles in diameter, and that tho smallest pearl on tho beach of heaven is immense beyond all imagina tion. So all they who have toiled for Christ on earth shall rise up to a magni tude of privilege, and a magnitude of of strengtli, and a ruagnitudo of holiness, and a magnitude of joy; and the weakest saint in glory becomes greater than all that we can now imagine of an archangel. Brethren, it doth not yet appear what wo shall be. Wisdom that 6hall know everything; wealth that shall possess everything; strength that shall do every thing; glory that shall circumscribe everything! We 6hall not belike a taper set in a sick man's window, or a bundle of sticks kindled on the beach to warm a shivering crew; but you must taks the diameter and tho circumference of the world if you would get any idea of the greatness of cur estate when we shall shino as the stars forever and ever. Lastly and coming to this point rev mind almost breaks down under the cou- 1 f tcmpkUion liko tho stars, all Christian workers shall shine in duration. The samo stare that look down uon us looked down upon tho Chaldean shepherds. The meteor that I h.iw flashing across tho sky tho other night, I wonder if it was not the samo ono that pointed down to where Jesus lay in the manger, and if, having jointed out his birthplace, it has ever since leon wandering through the heavens, watching to 6ee how the world would treat him. When Adam awoke in tho garden in the cool of the day ho saw coming out through the dusk of the evening the saint worlds that greeted u on our way to church to night. In Independence hail is an old cracked U'll that 6oumled tho signature of the Declaration of Independence. You can not ring it now; but this great chime of silver bells that strike in the donio of night ring out with as sweet a tone as when God swung thein at the creation. Ixok up at night, and know that the white lilies that bloom in all the hanging gardens of our King are century plants not blooming once in a hundred years, but through all tho centuries. Tho stars at which the mariner looks to-night was the light by which tho ships of Tarshish were guided across the Medi terranean, and the Venetian flotilla found its way into Iepanto. Their armor is as bright to-night as when, in ancient battle, the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. To the ancients the stars were the sy hiIh1s of eternity. But here the figure of my text breaks down not in defeat, but in the majes ties of tli3 judgment. Tho stars shall not shino forever. Tho Bible says they shall fall liko autumnal leaves. It is almost impossible for a man to take in a courser going a mile in three minutes, hut God shall take in the worlds, flying a hundred thousand miles an hour, by one pull of his little finger. As, when the factory band slips at nightfall from the main wheel, all tho smaller wheels slacken their speed, and with slower and slower motion they turn until they come to a full stop, so this great machinery of the universe, wheel within wheel, making revolution of appalling speed, shall by the touch of God's hand slip the band of present law and slacken and stop. That is what will bo the mat tur with the mountains. The chariots in which they ride shall halt so suddenly that the kings shall Ix? thrown out. Star after star shall be carried out to burial amid funeral torches and burning worlds. Constellations shall throw ashes on their heads, and all up and down the highways of gpacc there shall be mourning, mourn ing, mourning, because the worlds are lead. But the Cliristian workers shall never quit their thrones they shall reign forevei and evei. If by some in vasion from hell, the attempt were made tc carry them off into captivity from heaven, the souls they have saved would rally for their defense, and all the angels of God would 6trike with their scepters, md the redeemed, on white horses of victory, would ride down tho foe, and all the steep of the sky would resound with the crash of the overwhelmed cohorts tumbled headlong out of heaven. Ad Armless Artist in Europe. When I was in Antwerp I met with a person who interested me very much. I was in the picture gallery there, and had walked through a long line of rooms to to the end apartment. There I saw upon an easel a picture nearly finished, which was a copy of a very fine painting upon the wall. I was attracted by the beauty of this cop-, which seemed to me as w ell painted as the original close by it; and 1 was going away when I saw a tall, el lerly man come into the room, and take his seat upon a stool in front of the easel, lie wore large, loose slippers, and, to my astonishment, the first thing he did was to kick them off. Then I noticed that his stockings were cut off a little below the instep, leaving his toes exposed. Leaning back on his stool, he lifted up his two long and active legs and took up his palette and maid stick with his left foot, putting his great too through the hole in the palette, just as an ordinary artist would use his thumb. Then he took a brush between the first and sec ond toes of his right foot, and touching it to the paint on the palette, he began to work upon the painting upon the easel. This artist had no arms, having been born without them, and he had painted the leautiful picture on the easel with his toes. It w-as astonishing to see him leaning back with upraised legs and put ting the delicate lights and shades into the eyes of the portrait on his canvas with a brush held between his toes. lie has long been known as a most skillful and successful painter in certain branches, and his beautiful work is not only inter esting in itself, but it points a moral which wo can each think out for our selves. St. Nicholas. In tho Distant Northwest. A syndicate of American capitalists has employed an engineer to explore thor oughly the provinces of Athabasca, Al berta and British Columbia, end then to take a look at Alaska, all with the pur pose of ascertaining the feasibility of building a railway line from some point ou the Northern Pacific railway, in Da kota, to Calgary, on the Canadian Pacific, thence through Alberta to Edmonton, the heart of a wheat district richer than Dakota in its fertility. Thence the pro posed road is to run across tho rich plains and through the enormous forests of Athabasca, rounding the northern limit of the Rocky mountains, and hav ing its northwestern terminus at or near Fort Wrangle, Alaska, and having close connection by steamer with Sitka and Yukon. The country through which it is proposed to run the road is all open, except here and there a patch of woods, and the finest farming and grazing lands in the world. The foothills of the Rocky mountains in the region are rich in coal and iron, and along the Athabasca, Liard and Peace river3 there is gold in large quantities. Frank Leslie's. Strength of tho V. SI. C. A. The new Year Book of the Young Men's Christian association give3 the number of associations throughout the world as 3.S0-1, of which 1,240 aro in the United States and Canada. The Ameri can associations own real estate to the value of f 0,708,230, an increase cf nearly $1,100,000 during the previous year. 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