'tillS DAILY Uu:aLP; PLATOliWrn, HCUttMSli A, MON PAY, J LINE 25. 1888.
TALMAGR IN KANSAS.
HE PREACHES TO A LARGE AUDI
ENCE AT WINFIELD.
"Th ConatlUtlon of thm Iletlemd.M
II U Kut.Joct ClirLtUo Workfn Shall
Helen forever and Eer We blifall
Ckooae Our Asaoelatea In Heaven.
Wixfikld, Kan., Juno 24. Un
counted multitudes were present today
nt a great outdoor inciting held in this
place, whero the Itev. T. Do Witt Tal
luage, I). I)., was the preacher. Not
only thut Lut adjoining tatep were repre
sented in the congregation, and the oc-
ctsion will be long remembered. Tho
text was: "They that turn many to
rightcousncw shall thine an the btars for
4 ver and ever" Daniel xii, 3; and tho
subject: "The Constellations of the llo-
doenifd. " Dr. Talmace said:
Every man ha? a thousand roota and
a thousand branches. His roots reach
Jown through all the earth; his branches
Fpread through all tho heavens, lie
ppoalis with voice, with eye, with hand.
with foot. 1 1 is silence often Is thunder.
and hi life is an anthem or a doxology
There h no such thing as negative inllu
cneo. We are all jKwitive in tho place
we occupy, making tho world better or
making it worwe, on tho Lord's 6idc or
on the devil's, making up reasons for our
blessedness or banishment; and wo have
already dune a mighty work in peopling
heaven or hell. I hear people tell of
v hat they are going to do. A man who
has burned down a city might as well
talk of some evU that he expects tc do,
or a man who has 6aved an empire might
os well talk of some good that ho expects
to do. Dy the force of your evil influ
ence you have already consumed infinite
values, or you have, by the power of a
right influence, won whole kingdoms for
Cod.
It would Ijo absurd for me to stand
heio and. by elaborate argument, prove
. that the world Is oil the track. You
might as well stand at the foot of an
eru hai i k men t, amid the wreck of a cap
sized rail train, proving by elaborate ar-
iniment that something is out of order.
Adam tumbled over the' emlankiuent
sisty centuries ago, and the wholo race.
in one long train, has gone on tumbling
in the same direction. Crash I crash!
The only question now 19, by what lever
ago can the crushed thing be lifted? By
what hammer may the fragments be re
constructed? 1 want to show you how we may turn
many to righteousness, and what will be
our future uy for eo doing.
first We may turn them by the charm
of a ripht example. A child, coming
from a filthy home, was taught at school
to wa-sh its face. It went home so much
improved in appearance that its mothei
washed her face. And when the fathei
of iui household came home, and saw the
improvement in domestic appearance, he
washed his face. The neighbors happen
ing in. 6aw tha change, and tried the
same exp-eriment until all that street was
purified, and the next 6lreet copied its
example, and the whole city felt the re
sult of one schoolboy washing his face.
That U a fable, by which we set forth
that tho best way to get the world washed
cf it? sina and pollution ia to have our
own heart and Life cleansed and purified.
A man with grace in his heart, and
f Christian cheerfulness in his face, and
holy consistency in his behavior, is a
ierc'lual 6ermon; and the sermon differs
from others in that it lias but one head,
and the longer it runs'the better. There
aro honest men who" walk down Wall
street, making tho teeth of iniquity
chatter. There aro happy men who
go 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 pgent of good on parth 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 Pible illustrated. Courage is
lieautifui to read about: but rather would
I 6ee a man with all the world against
lam confident as though all the world
were for him. Patience is beautiful to
read about; but rather would I see a
buffeted 6oul calmly waiting for the
time of deliverance. Faith 13 beautiful,
to read about; but rather would I find a
man in the midnight walking straight on
as though be saw everything, ph, how
many souls have been turned to God by
the charm of a bright example I
When, in the Mexican war, the troops
were wavering, a general rose in his stir
rups and dashed into the enemy's lines,
6houting. "Men. follow!" They, seeing
his courage" and disposition, dashed on
after him and gained the victory. What
men want to rally them for God is an ex
ample to lead them. Ail your com
inauds to others to advance amount to
nothing 6C long as you stay behind. Tp
nilect them aright, you need to start for
Leaven yourself, looking back only to giro
th6tirring cry of "Men, follow I'
Again: We 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 tha telegraphic opera
tor, by touching tjia nstrnmer5t
liere. may dart a message under the
-Tea to another continent; nor can we,
with our snrall intellect, understand how
the touch of a Christian's prayer shall
instantly strike a soul on the other side
of tle earth. You take ship and go to
gome other country, and get there at 11
o'clock in tho morning. You telegraph
tc New York, and the message get3 here
at C o'clock in tho same morning. Jn
other words, it seems to arrive here five
""Loure tcforo it started. Like that is
prayer. God says: Before they call I
will hear." To overtako a loved ono ca
the road, you may spur up a lathered
steed until he shall outrace the one that
brought the news to Ghent; but a prayer
f-hall catch it at one gallop. A boy run
ning away from borne mar take the mid
right tmin from tho country village Rnd
. reach tho seaport in timo to gain
the ship that sai!3 on tho morrow; but a
mother's prayer will be on the deck to
meet him. and in the hammock before
lie swings into it. and at the capstan bo
fore ho winds the rope around iC and on
the sea, against tho sky, as tho vessel
pi res on toward It. There is a mighU
ncsif In prayer. George Muller proved a
company or poor hoys together, und then
ho prayed up an asylum in which they
might bo sheltered. He turned his face
upon Edinburgh and prayed, and there
camo a thousand pound-. He turned his
face toward London and prayed, and
there came a thousand jounds. He
turned his face toward Dublin and
prayed. and there camo a thousand rounds.
Tho breath of Elijah's prayer blew oil the
clouds olf the sky, and it was dry
weather. 1 he breath of Lhjah s prayer
blew all the clouds together, and it waa
wet weather, l'rayer, in Daniel's time.
walked the cave as a liun tamer. It
reached tip, and took tho sun by its
golden bit, and stopted it. ehave all
yet to try the full power of prayer,
The time will come when the
American church will pray with its face
toward tho west, arid all the prairies and
inland chief will surrender to God; and
will pray with face toward the sea, and
all the islands and ships will become
Christian. Parents who liave wayward
sons will get down on their knees and
say: "Lord, send my boy homo," and
the boy in Canton shall get right up from
the gambling table, aud go down to the
wharf to find out which ship starts first
for America.
Not one of us yet knows how to pray.
All wo have done as 3-et has only been
pottering, and guessing, and experiment
ing. A boy 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 tho childhood of
our Christian faith, wo make but
poor work with tho weapons of prayer,
but when wo come to the stature
of men in Christ Jesus, then, under these
implements, the temple of God will rise,
and the world's redemption will bo
launched. God cares not for the length
of our prayers, or the number of our
prayers, or the beauty of our prayers, or
the place of our prayers; but it is the
faith in them that tells. Believing
prayer soars higher than the lark ever
sang; plunges deeper tlian diving bell
ever sank; darts quicker than lightning
ever flashed. Though we have used only
the back of this weapon instead of tho
edge, what m.'irvejs have been wrought I
If saved, we are all tho captives of some
earnest prayer. Would God that, in de
sire lor the rescue of souls, wo might in
prayer lay hold of the resources of the
Lord Omnipotent.
We may turn many to righteousness
by Christian admonition. Do not wait
until you can make a formal speech.
Address the one next to you. You will
not go home alone today. Between this
and your place of stopping you may de
cide tho 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 snuftle 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 be made to hoist the flag of redemp
tion. But is all this 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 have a borrowed
light. What makes Mars and Venus
and Jupiter so luminous? When the 6un
throws down his torch in the heavens the
stars pick up the scattered brands and
hold them in procession as the queen of
the night advances; so all Christian
workers, standing around the throne.
will shine 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, iiut let him abdicate his throne,
and go away to stay forever, the music
would 6top, the congregation disperse, the
temples of God be darkened, the rivers
of Jiglif stagnate, and every phaiipt would
become a hearse, and every bell would
toll, and there would pot be room on the
hill sides to bury tho dead of tins great
metropolis, for there would bo pestilence
111 heaven. But Jesus lives, and 60 all
(lie redeemed live with him. He shall
recognize them as his comrades in earthly
toil, and remember what they did. for
tho honor of his name and for the spread
of his kingdom. All their prayers and
tears and work win rise before him as
he looks into their faces, ancl he wU di
vide his kingdom with thero; his peace
their peace; his holiness their holiness;
his joy their joy. The glory of the cen
tral throne reflected from the surround
ing thrones, the - last spct of sin struck
from the Christian orb and the entire
nature a-tre;nblo and a-flash with hgbti
they shall shine as the stars' forever and
ever.
Again : Christian workers shall be like
the stars in the fact that they have a
light lndepengect cf each other. Look
up at the night, and see each world show
its distinct glory. It is not like the
conflagration, in which you cannot tell
where one name stops and another be
gins. Neptune, Ilerschel an4 Mercury
are as distinct as if each pne of them
were tho only star; so pur individualism
will not be lost in heaven. A great mul
titude yet each one as pbservabls, as
distinctly recognized, as greatly cele
brated, as 11 in all the space, from gate
to gate, and from lull to hill, he were tho
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 Eelf 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 be remembered by their
country, and their names be commemo
rated in poetry and in song; but go to
the graveyard in Richmond and you will
Gnd there 6.000 graves, over each pne of.
which is tho inscription, 'Unknown."
The world does not remember its heroes;
but there wC! be no unrecognized Chris
tian worker in heaven. Each one known
by all ; grandly known; known by accla
mat ion; all tho past story of work for
God gleaming in cheek, and brow, and
foot and palm. They shall shine with
distinct Lght as the 6 tars, forever and
ever.
Again: Christian workers thall Bhlnc
like the 6tars in clusters. In looking up
you find the worlds In family circles.
Brothers and sisters they take hold of
each other hands and dance in groups.
urion in a; group. 1110 I'leiaues in a
group. The solar system is only a com
any of children, with bright faces.
gathered around ono great fireplace. The
worlds do not straggle off. They go in
squadrons and fleets, sailing through im
mensity. So Cliristian workers in heaven will
dwell in neighborhoods and clusters. I
am sure that some people I will like in
heaven a great deal better than others.
Yonder is a constellation of stately
Christians. They lived on earth by
rigid rule. The never laughed. They
walked every hour anxioiu 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 fiarticular group.
Yonder is a constellation of small hearted
Christians asteroids in the eternal as
trouomy. While somo souls go up from
Christian battle, and blaze liko Mars,
these asteroids dart a feeble ray like
Vesta. Yonder is a constellation of
martyrs, of apostles, of patriarchs.
Oui souls, as they go up to heaven,
will seek out tho most congenial society.
Yonder is a constellation almost merry
with the play of light. On earth they
were full of sympathies and songs, and
tears and rapturee, and congratulations.
When they prayed theii words took
fire; when they sang, 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 aro circle of lightl constellation of
Joyl galaxy of fire I 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, as the stars forever and
ever I
Again: Christian workers will shine
like the stars in swiftness of motion. The
worlds do not stop to shine. There are
110 fixed stars save as to relative position.
The star most thoroughly fixed flies thou
sands of miles a minute. The 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 a-s
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 behind, to no land
ing place flying, flying sc these great
flocks of worlds rest not as they go
wing and wing age after age forevei
and ever. The eagle hastes to its
piey, 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 Jht
earth in such quick beat your PVIes taki
tne same vibration, uut un these things
are not swift in comparison with the mo
tion of which I speak. The moon move
hfty-four thousand niuea in a day. ion
der, Neptune flashes on eleven thousand
miles m an hour, x onder, Mercury goes
one hundred and pine thousand miles in
an hour. So like the stars the Christian
worker shalj shine in swiftness of motion.
Ycu hear now of father, or mother or
child sick one thousand miles away, and
it takes you two days to get to them.
You hear of some case of suffering that
demands your immediate attention, but
it takes you an hour to get there.
Oh, the qy heh you 6hall,
in the fulfillment of the text, take starrj
speed, and be equal to one hundred thou
sand miles an hour. Having on earth
got used to Christian work, you wj pot
quit when death strjkfa you. You will
only take on niore velocity. There is a
dying child in London, and its spirit
must bo taken up to God; you arp there
in an instant to do it. There is a young
man in New York to be arrested from
going into tliat gate of sin ; you are there
in an instant to arrest him. Whether
with spring of foot, or stroke of wing, or
by the force of some new law that shall
hurl you to the spot whcr.9 you 'would
go; 1 know not; but piy text suggests
velocity. All 6pace open before you,
with nothing to hinder you in mis
sion of light, and love and joy, you 6hall
shine in swiftness of motion a3 the stars
forever and ever.
Again: Cliristian workers, like the
stars, shall shine hi magnituMd. The
most illiterate man knows that these
things in tho siy, looking like gilt but
tons, are great masses of matter. To
weigh them, one would thialf that it would
requiro scales, with pillar hundreds of
thousands cf 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 oninipotenpe alone
could put the mountains into the
scales aud, iu "hills" into the balance.
But puny man has been equal to the
undertaking, and has set a little balance
on his geometry, and weighed orld
against world. Yea, ha. ha pulled out
his nieasu.ri.ng line," and announced that
Kersohei is thirty-sis thousand miles in
diameter, Saturn seventy-nine thousand
miles in diameter and Jupiter eighty
nine thousand miles in danicter, " and
that the em llast pearl on ' the beach of
heaven is immense beyond all imagina
tion. Bo all they who have toiled for
Christ on earth shall rise up fc a magni
tude of privilege, and a magnitude of
"of srrengtli, and a magnitude of holiress,
and a magnitude pf joy; and the weakest
saint in glory becomes greater than all
that we can, now baiaginepf an archangel.
prethren, it doth not yet appear what
we sliall be. Wisdom that shall know
everything; wealth that shall possess
everything; strength that shall- do every
thing; glory that shall eireuniscribe
everything I We shall not belike a taper
Eet in a 6ick man's window, or a bundle
cf sticks kindled on the beach to warm a
shivering crew ; but you must take the
diameter and the circumference of the
world if you would get any idea of the
greatness of our estate when wv shall
shine as the stars forever and ever.
Lastly and coming to this point my
mind almost breaks down under the coii-
templation liko the stars, all Christian
workers shall thine in duration. The
sumo start that look down upon us looked
down upon tho Chaldean shepherds.
The meteor that I saw flashing across
the sky the other night, I wonder if it
was not tho sumo ono that pointed down
to where Jesus lay in the manger, and
if, having ointed out his birthplace, it
has ever since been wandering through
tho heavens, watching to see how tho
world would treat hiru. When Adam
awoke in tho garden in the cool of the
day ho saw coining out through the
dusk of the evening the same worlds
that greeted us 011 our way to chinch to
night. In Independence hall is an old cracked
lell that sounded the signature of the
Declaration of Indejiendence. You can
not ring it now; but this great chime of
silver bells tliat strike in the dome of
night ring out with as sweet a tone as
when Cod swung them at the creation.
IX)k up at night, and know that the
white lilies that bloom in all the hanging
gardens of our King aro century plants
not blooming once in a hundred years,
but through all the centuries.
The stars at which the mariner looks
to-night was the light by. which tho ships
of Turshish were guided across tho Medi
terranean, and the Venetian flotilla found
its way into IiPpanto. Their armor is
as bright to-night ns when, in ancient
battle, tho stars in their courses fought
against Sisera. To the ancients the stars
were tho symbols of eternity.
But here the figure of my text breaks
down not in defeat, but in the tnajes-
m: 01 ins? jimiwrr. I :m'
not shine forever. Tho Bihle sava they
shall fall like autumnal leaves. It is
almost impossible for a man to take in a
coursei going a milo in three minutes.
hut God shall take in the worlds, flvinc
a hundred thousand miles an hour, bv
one pull of his little finger. As, when
the factory band blit3 at nijrhtfall from
the main wheel, all the smaller wheels
Mucken their speed, and with slower
and slower motion they turn until thev
come to a full ston. so this rre.it
machinery o the universe, wheel within
wheel, making revolution of annulli'mr
sjeed, shall by the touch of God's hand
slip the band of present law and slacken
and stop. That is what will lie the mat
ter with the mountains. The chariots in
which they ride shall hah so suddenly
that the kings shall he 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 nil up and down the hurhwavs
of space there shall In? mourning, mourn
mg. mourning, because the worlds are
lead. But the Christian workers shall
never quit their thrones llv-y shall
reign forevei and evti. f by some in
vasion from hell, the attempt were trxidc
tc carry them off into captivity from
heaven, the souls they have saved would
rally for their defense, and all the ant-els
)f God wen Id strike with their scooters
and the redeemed, on white horses of
victory, would ride down the foe, and fill
the steep of the sky would resound with
the crash of the overvyhhiicd cohorts
tumbled headlong ui of heaven.
An Armless Artist In. Europe.
When 1 was in Antwern 1 met with n
poi son who intt-rested me very much. I
was in ttie picture gallery there, and had
walked through a long line of rooms to
to the end apartment. There I saw ujon
an case a picture nearly finished, which
was a copy of a very fine painting ujion
the wall. I was attracted by the beauty
of this copy, which seemed to me as well
painted as the original closo by it; and 1
was going away when 1 saw a tali, cl
iei ly man come into the vaotn, and tako
his seat upon a StP.pl in front of the easel.
He wore largo, looso slippers, and, toniy
astonWnnent, tho first thing he did was
to kick them oil. Then I noticed that
ins stockings were cut of? a little Lelow
the instep, leaving his toes exiKiscd.
Leaning back; on his stool, he lifted up
hia two long and active legs and took up
his palette aud maul stick with hU left
foot, putting his great toe through the
hole in the palette, just as an ordinary
artist would use his thumb. . Then ho
took a brush lietween the first and sec
ond toes of his right foot, and touching
it to tho paint on the palette, ho began
to work upon tho painting upon the easel.
This artist had. o ayuis, having been
born without them, and he had painted
the beautiful picture on tho easel with
his toes. U wu9 astonishing to see him
leaning back" with upraised legs and put
ting the delicate light3 and shades into
the eyes of the portrait on hi3 canvas
with a brush held between lus toea He
has long been known aa 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 we can each think out for our--selves,
St. Nicholas.
In the Distant Northwest.
A syndicate of American capitalists has
employed an engineer toexploro thor
oughly the provinces of Athabasca, Al
berta and, British Columbia, and then to
tak a look at Alaska, all with the pur
pose of ascertaining tho feasibility of
building a railway line from sorao point
on the Northern Pacific railway, in Da
kota, toCalgaryt on the Canadian Pacific,
thence through Alberta to Edmonton,
the heart of a wheat district richer tlan
Dakota in its fertility. Thence the pro
posed road is to run . acrosa the rich
plains and through the enormous forests,
of Athabasca, rounding tho northern
limit of the Rocky mountains, and hav
ing its northwestern tevffdnus at or near
Fort Wrangle, Alaska, and having close
connection by steamer with Sitka and
Yukon. The countcy 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 tho world. The foothills cf the Rocky
mountains in the region are rich in coal
and iron, and along the Athabasca, Liard.
and Peace rivers there is gold in large
quantities, Frank Leslie's.
Strength of the Y. BI. C. A.
The new Year Book of the Young
Men's Christian association gives the
number of associations throughout the
world as 3,804, of which 1,240 are in the
United States and Canada. Tho Ameri
can associations own real estate to the
value of $0,708,230, an increase of nearly
$1,100,000 during the previous year.
The association was never so strong and
prosperous as it ia now. New York
Tribune. ' - .
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Tke Year 1888
Will lie one during which the subjects of
national interest anl importance will he
strongly agitated and the election of a
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