TAIMAGE'S SERMON. A BRAWNY REUNION, SUN DAY'S SUBJECT. The Tendency to l’nt *lic I’onr Folk Out of the Church Condemned—A Itloiv Kt Faaliionnhlc Rctlglos—Revolu tlou !• Near ut it unit. Washington, D. C., May 1, 1S3S. This discourse of Dr. Talmage is revo lutionary for good in families and churches and natluns, and especially appropriate for these times. I ext. Acts 1*. 0: "lhese that have turned the world upside down are come hither also.” There is a wild, bellowing moa around the house of Jason, In Th;s*a lonica. What his the man done so greatly to offend the people? He has been entertaining Paul and his com rades. The tnob surround the bouse aud ery, "Bring out those turbulent preachers! They are interfering with our business; they are ruining our reli gion! They are uctually turning the world upside down!” The charge was true; for there Is nothing that so interferes with stn, there is nothing so ruinous to every form of established iniquity, thers is nothing that his such tendency to turn the world upside down, as our glorious Christianity. The fact is. that the world now is wrong side up, and it j needs to he turned upside down in ol der that it may lie right side up. The time was when mpn wrote books en titling them "Apologies for Christian ity.” I hope that day has passed. We want no more apologies for Christian ity. I*et the apologies he on the part cf those who do not believ-3 in our religion. We do not mean to make tiny compromise in the matter. We do not wish to hide the fayt that Chris tianity is revolutionary and that its tendency Is to tiirn the world upside down. Our religion has often been misrep resented as a principle of tears, and mildness, and fastidiousness; afraid of crossing .people's prejudices; afraid of making somebody read, with silken gloves, lifting the people up from the church |>ew into glory, as though they were Bohemian glass, so very delicate that with one touch It may be demol ished forever. Men speak of religion as though it were a refined imbecility; as though it were spiritual chloroform, that the people were to take until the sharp i tilting of life were over. The Bible, so far from this, represents the religion of Christ as robust and brawny —ransacking and up-, -ttlng ten thou-' sand things that now s en) to be settled on firm foundations X hear some man in the house say, ”i thought religion was peace.” That is the final result, i A man’s arm is out of place. Two men come, and with great effort put it back to the socket. It goes hack with great pain. Then it gets well. Our world is horribly disordered and out of Joint. It must come under an omnipotent surgery, beneath which there will be pain and anguish before there can come perfect health and quiet. 1 proclaim, therefore, in the name of nay L goes the homestead, and the creditor letyt It Iq at half price " Honest? when h-> loaned the money he knew that It - .would get the In ate,-lead at halt price. Honest* hut h" goes to the lusurin— office to get a lie’ll y on his life, and tells tire dec tor that h*« I > welt, when he know s th.it for tea years he h< had but one lung Ibitt* <1* though he tell* pn perty bp I he map. forgetting to ted the purchaser Uus* the gtxgftd Is alt tri al^r water, but U t* gr..ei»u» in him to do that, for b thtow* the wgltg lb to the bargain Ah* my friend* there i« tut nn standard **f th *•<*.S.rstb.g t ght and •*f the everlasting wrung *ud tha1 t* (he Itlble. and wlrts the mi» ipl* sit si I get lls pr» wmlrt . h*». *es. i hwlte** tb*M "u* h»lf «f *h *u will go over Th» tutu #U| begin it ass ead of the street, and it will . res' ' rrsiV . fasts' all the war down ’>* the .1** hs th'hat hi the n**t * r ‘ Has there been s fait in gobir oh la' "Ilea there been a net* tang* Me "Mae 1 bare been n follnr* in out**" “line there been en ogees «ngt nhbs pash *" "Mss This Is the se cret The lewd U**d hna •»< hM throne ef Judgment In *be eirhangc He lias summonfd the righteous and the wicked to come before him. What was 1837? A day of Judgment! W'hat was 1857? A day of judgment! What was the extreme depression of t>>o years ago? A day of judgment! Do you think that God is going to wait until he has burned the v.or!d up be fore he righ'ts these wrongs? I till you. Nay! Every day 13 a day of Judg ment. The fraudulent man piles up his gains, bond abore bond. United State security above United States security, emolument above emolument, until his property has become a great pyramid; and. as he stands looking at it. he thinks it can never be destroyed: but the I/artl God eo.ncs and with his little finger pushes It all over. You build a house, and you put Into It a rotten beam. A mechanic stand ing by says. "It will never do to put that beam in; it will ruin your whole building." But you put it in. The house Is completed. Soon It b'*glns to rock. You call in the mechanic and ask, "What is the matter with this door? What Is the matter with this wall? Everything seems to be giving out.” Says the mechanic, "You put a rotten beam Into that structure, and the whole thing has to come down.” Here is an estate that seems to he ail right now. it has been building a great many years. But fifteen years ago there was a dishonest transaction in that commercial house. That one dishonest transaction will keep on working ruin In the whole structure until down the estate will come in wreck and ruin about, the possessor’s ear3—one dishonest dollar In the estate demolishing all his possessions. I have seen it again and again; and so have you. Here is your money-safe. - *e man ufacturer and yourself only know how it can lie opened. You have the key. oils door swings back. Bnt let me tell you that, however firmly barred and bolted your money-safe may he, you can not keep God out. lie will come, some day, Into your counting-room, and he will demand, “Where did that note of hand come from? How did you account for this security? Where did you get that mortgage from? What does this mean?’' If It is all right, God will say, “Well done, good and faithful servant. Be prospered in this world. Be happy in the world to come.” If it Is nil wrong, he will say, "Depart, ye cursed. lie miserable for your Ini quities in this life; and theu go down and spend your eternity with thieves, and horse-jockeys and pick-pockets.” You have an old photograph of the signs on your street. Why have those signs nearly all changed within the last twenty years? Does the passing away of a generation account for It? Oh, no. Dors the fact that there arc hundreds of hoacst men who go down every year account for it? Oh, no. This is the secret: The I-ord God has been walking through the commercial streets of our great cities; and he hag been adjusting things according to the principles of eternal rectitude. The time will come when, through the revolutionary powpr of this gos pel, a falsehood. Instead of being called exaggeration, equivocation, or evasion, will be branded a lie! And stealings, that now sometimes go under the head of percentages and commissions, and bonuses, will be put into the catalogue of state prison offenses. Society will be turned inside out and upside down, and ransacked of God’s truth, until business dishoneslies shall come to an end, and all double-dealing; and God will overturn, and overturn, and over turn; and commercial men in all cities will throw up their hands, crying out, ! “These that have turned the world j upside down are come hither.” lu that future day of the reconstruct : ed Church of Christ, the church build | tng will be the most cheerful of all buildings. Instead of the light of the i sun strained through painted glass, un I til ail Intelligent auditory looks green, ' and blue, and yellow, and copper-col ! nr*vl uru will h-^un nn eil-h I hinvc Tho pure atmosphere of heaven will sweep out the fetid atmosphere that has been kept in many of our churches boxed up from Sunday to Sunday. The day of which i speak will tie a day of great revivals. There will lie sueh a time as there was In the parish of Shotts, where live hundred souls were born to God in one day; such times as were srea In this country when Edwards I gave the alarm, when Tennant preach ' ed, and Whltefleld thundered, and Ed ward 1‘ayson prayed; such times as i some of you remember in 1H57, when i the voice of prayer and praise was I heard in theater, and warehouse, and blacksmith shop, and factory and en gine house, anil the auctioneer's cry 1 of "a half, and a half, and u half." was | drowned out by the adjoining prayer i meeting, in which the people cried out, ' Men and brethren, what shall we do''' In those days of which I s::t speak I lag. the services of th • Church of God will lie more spirit* d The mot I Inters of Christ. Instead of teing anx ious shout whether they a*< going to to*** their place tu t lotr not** witt g*' in Are with th** 'hem* and pour th* i it*tug troth **f God upon an ar.u >• I : auditor)* crying out to the right** ttt It shall b# *t*tt with >ott. tft*l tu th* ‘ Wlvfcrut, * W00 In bank notes of small denomina tion, for use In the day'H business at the bank. When he picked up the satchel on leaving the ear he noticed that the lock looked strange, und a close examination revealed the fact that It was a substitute grip. When It was broken open it revealed four apples and a newspaper. Mr. Hi.ker lemembered being very much Interest ed in reading a war bulletin at Eighth anil Chestnut streets, und thinks the i hauge must have been effected during that time. Philadelphia Inquirer. Air I usual >•>■■. At u recent meeting of the Soi l, •«, Internationale ties Electrician*. M liar burst described the new underground j rubles with air Insulation employed by • he telephone administration of i*sr > j These tallies an- Insulated with pap r. j and the ln*ula»*d air t nrupony. tt passes oter rhUtflde t>f i aicialti. and Is sett! into eat h table b> mean* u( taps Thta | dried air issna a every ua s ,.f damp. tune* the op«.aim* can tw* fneltttitftd by s'Udius a w >r*ntan to he h i< . u the spot The r ,t*blst hate {See , If I oast rstttMi a t. too ot.... Cornu. ■ ■ la! iiitrlvr vv t,«« « tast ■aikim* so Wool and ytckiua up „„ t» 1 | a lim bat* k ito r« In Use private slhst 1 t’Mfh isttstbs tsilj i it* that* u* ' | at leal pat last tisnsitlUt litHissi > i Aft#* a r»* >td tree of mark* ft>r ah* j asm* or tardus**** ft.,t nsaily • »* i«ara I a a> howl gut of Piedmont k V* (all > a sutiw nwmp* snf had to at*/ 1 [ ham* SOLDIERS IN CAMP. GLIMPSES OF LIFE AT FAR FAMED CHICKAMAUGA. ftcfolum Wlio l.rfr Their Girin Behind Them In the Northwest Are IUviu| »n Kx<-ltlng Time of It Near Chattanooga. The full regiment of Infantry was drawn up In line in "campaign outfit," and the color sergeant and his aide had brought from the colonel's quar ters the Stars and Stripes that were embroidered with victories of that reg iment In the past, and waved proudly beside the regimental flag of blue. Then the order was given to "sound off," and l>efore the last notes of the bugle* had died away the brass band broke # » A COMPANY KITCHEN. . • ' L 'j* ' ___ _ __ • / i' ' • Into ’The Girl I Left Behind Me," and the regiment was off to Mobile to wait there for further orders sending them to the front. The Second Battalion commander rode a horse that had been in Custer's last battle, hut escaped massacre. Like his rider, also an old Indian fighter, the horse was getting old and gray now, hut there was a good deal of fire in his old Lame yet, and he danred off friskily as though longing for battle once more. They had to march eight inllcs to the railroad which was to transport them from the Western post, and an order was called through the ranks for “route step,' which made every rnan fall into his own gait, and broke the straight lines Into ragged curves. The order was indicative of the difference between dress parade, when to be out of step was nothing short of a breach of regulations, and actual service, when thoughtful officers saved their men un necessary work out of action. * The girls they lefc behiud them flour ished their handkerchiefs vigorously in a noble endeavor that the final glimpse the officers had of home should not be associated with tearful women, and as the last company swung out of the post to the inspiring strains of the band, the sweethearts and wives separated to their different quarters, now so desert ed, and had It out alone. As a picture of desolation, Goldsmith's "Deserted Village" Isn't a patch on a garrison after the troops have gone! But the regiment recks not of that, but says, “It Is war,” and fakes to the field like ducks to water, though there are many youngsters in the service who have never been In camp except for practice, and not a few men who have not seen action even among thp Indians, who have been rather subdued these past years. And they are living the routine life Impatiently, waiting the orders that will make them see ac tual service and will bring more vic tories to the regiment and sustain the fame of its old record. In thte mean time they drill and police the camp and sing about their campfires as the sea soned veterans tell tales of the battles they have seen. The camp of a regiment is laid out like a little village and Is a model of neatness and order. Not a scrap of pa per or vestige of debris of any sort U seen through its length and breadth, and the men who "police," or clean, go over the field as a New England house wife picks threads from her carpet. All the work of this port In a regiment is done by Us prisoners—men who are tinder short arrest for mlsdemenaors or for some breach of military regula tions;- and, clad In brown, they go about In detachments of two or three under guard of a sentry, who bears a loaded rifle and who is responsible for the prisoners he Is in charge of. When a regiment is going Into camp the busiest and most harassed person In It Is the quartermaster. He It Is who has charge of all the camp equi page and who 1r responsible for the | transportation of it. Also he' must stand ready to supply any deficiency, j from feed for horses or mules to a coat for some private who Is suddenly ml- | nus his; and he and the commissary sergeant, his right hand man, think not of themselves until the regiment Is i -.- ■" " ■ 1 ' Installed under cover. Kaeh officer car ries his own camp outfit—tent, blank I ets and megs chest—and sees to It be j fore he leaves garrison. There his re . sponslbllity practically ceases and fulls i upon the shoulder of his ‘stryker’' — not a socialist, but a servant provided an officer by array regulations. The | stryker is a sort of general factotum, i and is usually a man from the officer s | own company or troop. He is a Jack j of all trades, and good at them, too; ' GRUB IN THE FIELD. and when the regiment reaches camp he makes at once for his own particu lar officer and looks after him. It is the Stryker who pitches the tent and unpacks what luggage his superior may GEN. BROOKS’ HEADQUARTERS, CHATTANOOGA. | have after he has first extracted it from j the pile of regimental impedimenta, j He fetches water and puts the towels I by the hand basin, and sometimes he T MR rAITAIK A Si* MttMAK THAT WttMH WITH iTtfTMM even builds a bed, and not a bad one, either, if his chief has not where to lay his head except upon the ground. He gets an empty barrel, from heav en knows where, sometimes, and pro ceeds to knock it to pieces, when he carefully extracts all old nails, not. caring to play practical jokes upon a superior officer, however much he may upon his comrades. Then the stryker forages further for two long beams, and If they are not forthcoming he cuts down a couple of young trees, or In default of those his genius produces something which answers the purpose, and laying these two on the ground side by side, but the length of the bar rel staves apart, he nails the staves on them, curves downward, with about eight Inches between. Behold the slatted bed, which Is springier than the ground and drier, and Is raised on short, rough legs! The writer of thlB has slept on a barrel bed, and it was more comfortable than some which looked better. In the meantime, while the officers' tents are going up, those for the com panies are being pitched with perfect order, and In an Incredibly short time are taut and fast. They are laid out in sets of two lines on what are called the "company streets," and day and night are pntrolled by sentries who have two hours on and four off alter nately. Near the company street are the kitchens—the tents where the "grub” Is cooked for the men, and for the officers as well, who have theirs served In the "mess tent," where two or three have gathered together to be' served as one set Instead of eating sep arately. Not only do the officers thus have one another's society, but club bing together cuts down expenses, for whatever an officer has In mess outside of the commissary provision he pays for them from his own pocket. There are always several "mosses” (the word strikes civilian cars most k unpleasantly) through the regiment, ^ and those officers who are known to bo bons vlveurB under all conditions are eagerly besought to take Into theirs those who are not so expert in provid ing the goods of life even when they have the money and Inclination. The officers' “line" Is always a little away from the men's tents, which are under the Immediate charge of the first sergeant and corporals of each com pany. and at the top of the •'line'’ Is headquarters." where the colonel and his staff are established. The men In camp usually smuggle In some kind of a pet or "mascot,” which Is not always left behind when the or der comes to move, unless It may ho into action. One of the men who la now with his regiment In Mobile car ried with him from the northwest a sma I black cat, which was hidden In 18 kRaPRack when an inquiring officer was about, or played in the car to the great delight of the soldiers all the way down. Her owner's one anxiety Is what to do with her when they go to Cuba—for the rank and nie says when, not “If.” He doesn’t wish to leave her homeless behind, and yet to kill the company mascot on the eve of battle, as it were, is too much like defying fate, and he's much more bothered by that than by his own pros pective fate. In the meantime kitty goes purring and playing around camp with an air of domesticity that con vulses visitors and gives an Insight Into the character of the soldier Jio More Kelubow Toggery. A young woman friend of the Post says and she is noted for her store of information on these matter.—that the summer bicycle girl is going to wear easy titling, tun Oxford ties, and very thin, vuri-eulored hose, drop stiteh or otherwise, almost exclusively this year She announces also that the divided bicycle skirt is to be the swagger kink this coming season, basing her state mem upon the fact that several scores of her bosom bicycle pals are now en gaged In the constitution of them, skirts. She prophesies, furthermore 'hat lam o' hunters, alpine* derbies and all of ihe other varieties of hlryclo headgear are to give way Jur.ng ,he coining summer to the pim„ ,a„„r h for the girl awheel. Klnally, .he • hat the girts of Washington , to Inaugurate a crusade against the bicycle man who dings to the hivcl, jrhaueleon-ralnbuw toggery for riding' and that they are u, mahe a stand for ‘ Ll", ***** *h" l"*'o dark kr. i, kerbs., ker. and black ho** uarn-l ed - Wasbingt on |*« mi|. Me..I • eudUrvhu. »l Ike t »1» Ihe Kngiu...rla< Mining I out uni, not oat, eiupH.«4., tkn great total Value, but at*, ih* IB, meae. variety of ,h„ m,ae.4, " tun. ef the railed Utat-e N,,i ,* ihe » ailed aisle* ,h. i.raM, Of Iron sad eleel .pp*„. Is*4 ,»4 **r, *“4 ^ hut aimo., eral and m*t*t knuan i« .««,ntus i* fouad nil bln our kstrder* and la Mined |w»t>4r««t ft* iui«