The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, March 11, 1892, Image 7
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LEV. DE. TALMAGE.
IE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Jecf; “Heavenly Congratulations.’ 1
* l Likewise joy shall bo in heavon
one sinner that repenteth, more than
■ninety and nine just persons who need
roqpntan&e."—Luke xv., 7.
lost sheep! Nothing can be more thor-
»ly lout. I look through the window of
Ishepherd’s house at night. The candles are
[fated. The shepherd oas just placed his
^ against the mantle. He has taken off
t coat, shaken out of it the dust and hung
; up. I see by the candle light that there
s neighbors who have come in. The
tpherd. fagged out with the long tramp,
its down on a bench, and the wife and the
Children and the neighbors say to him,
f'Come, now. tell us how you found the poor
thing.” “Well.” he says, “this morning I
rent out to the yard to look at the flock.
sooner had I looked over the
fence than I saw something wrong.
is fact was they did not count right.
(Ninety* five? ninety-six, ninety-seven,
I ninety-eight, ninety-nine—only ninety-nine'
[McDonald, you know we had a hundred.
And ijwonder which one was gone, and I
[began 'again, and I counted ninety-five,
ninety-six, ninety-seven, ninety-eigut, nine
ty-nine. Well, I whistled up the dogs, and
I started on the fields and across the
bridges, and I tracked the moors, and I
leaped the gullies, but no bleating of the
poor thing did I hear. I said to myself,
•The lamb must have fallen into a ditch,
or a pack of wolves from the mountain
must nave torn it to pieces and sucked
its life out.’ But I could not give it
up. You see it was a pet lamb. It
was that one with the black spot
on the right shoulder that used to
come and lick my hand as I crossed the field,
and somehow-1 could not give it up. So 1
went on and on and on until after awhile I
heard the dogs bark, and I said, ’What’s
that? Then I hastened to the top of the
hill, and I looked down and there I saw the
poor lamb. It had fallen into the ditch
and as I came where it was and bent over
the ditch and stooped down to lift the poor
thing out, I wish you could have seen the
loving and imploring and tender way it
looked at me. I lifted it out, and it weis ail
covered with the slush and the mud. It was
an awful thing to do, but I lifted it out, and
it was so lame and so weak it could not walk
alone, so I threw it over my shoulder
and I started homeward, and the con
dition of that lamb you may judge of from
the coat which I have just huug up. But I
tramped- on and on until it is safe in
the yard, poor thing! Thank God, thank
God!” Then the shepherd’s wife spread
the table and brought out the best
fare that the cabin could afford,
and they sat • up very late that night,
and they talked, and they laughed,and they
sang, and they ate, and they drank,and they
danced, and told over and over again the
story of the lost sheep that was found.
W ith such tenderness and rusticity of
illustration does Christ represent the soul’s
f oing off Emd the soul’s coming back, when
[e says, “Likewise there is joy in heaven
among the angels of God over one sinner
that repenteth, more than over ninety and
nine just persons that need no repentance.”
To repent is to feel that you are bad, and to
be sorry about it, and to turn over a new
leaf, and to pray for forgiveness and help.
Just as soon as a man does that, they hear
right away of it in heaven.
There are no gossips in glory going
around to chatter and laugh when a man
fails, but there ore many souls in glory who
are glad to run about and tell it when a man
is saved. The news goes very quick from
gate to gate, and from north wall to south
wail, and from east wall to west wail, and in
three minutes every citizen of heaven has
heard of it, for “there is joy in heaven
among the angels of God over one sinner
that repenteth
, I can very easily understand how there
should be joy in heaven over a Pentecost
with three thousand souls saved in oue day
—no mystery about that: I can understand
how there should beJ^U in heaven over the
Parish of Schott^^^^Hfour hundred souls
) saved Mr. Living
ness on the everlasting hills when she hears
of it.
My subject also impresses me with the
idea that heaven an i earth are in close sym
pathy. People talk of heaven as though it
were a great way off. They say it is hun
dreds of thousands of miles before you
reach the first star, and then you go hun
dreds of thousands of miles before you get
to toe second star, imd then it is millions of
miles before you reach heaven. They say
heaven is the center of the universe and we
are on the rim of the universe. That Is not
the idea of my text. I think the heart of
heaven beats very close to our world. We
measure distances by the time taken to
traverse those distances. _
It used to be a long distance to San Fran
cisco. Many weeks and months were passed
before you could reach that city. Now it is
six or seven days. It used to be six weeks
before you could voyage from here to Liver
pool. Now you can go that distance is six
or seven days. And so I measure the dis
tance between earth and heaven, and I find
it is only a flash. It is one instant here and
another instant there. It is very near to
day. Do you not feel the breath of heaven
on your face? Christ says in one place it is
not twenty-four hours’ distance, when He
says to the penitent thief, “This day, this
day, shalt thou be with Me in paradise.” It
is not a day, it is not an hour, it is not a
minute, it is not a second.
Oh, how near heaven is to earth. By
oceanic cables you send a message. As it is
expensive to send a message, you compress
a great deal of meaning in a few words.
Sometimes in two words you can put vast
meaning. And it seems to me tnat the
augels'of God who carry news from earth
to. heaven need to taKe up this hour in re
gard to your soul, only two words in order
to kindle with gladness all the redeemed
before the throne, onlv two words, “Father
saved,” “mother saved,” “son saved,”
“daughter saved.” And “there is joy in
heaven among the angels of God over one
sinner that repenteth.”
My subject also impresses me with the
fact that the salvation of the soul is of vast
importance. If you should make $200,000
this year, do you suppose that news would
be carried to heaven? It would not be of
enough importance or significance to be car
ried heavenward. If at the next quadren
nial election you are made President of the
United States, do you suppose that news
would be carried to'heaven? Do you sup
pose that the news of a revolution in France
or Spain would be carried to heaven? These
things are not of enough importance, but
there is one item that is sure to be carried.
It is the salvation of your soul. It is your
repentance before God.
The flying hoofs of God’s couriers clash
through the gates ani the news goes from
gate to mansion, and from mansion to tem
ple, and from temple to throne, and “there
is joy in heaven” among the angels of (rod
over one sinner forgiven. It must be of vast
importance to be of any moment in heaven,
ycur salvation in that land where gladnesses
are the every day occurrence, in that land
where the common stones of the field are
jasper and emerald and chrysoprasus and
carbuncle and sardonyx. And yet the news
of your salvation makes ‘ joy before the
throne of God.
Having found in my own experience that
this religion is a comfort and a joy, 1 stand
here to commend it to you. In the days of
mv infancy I was carried by Christian pa
rents to the house of God, and consecrated in
baptism to the Father, and the Son, and the
Holy Ghost: but that did not save me. In
after time I was taught to kneel at the
Christian family altar with father and
mother and brothers and sisters, the most of
them now in glory; but that did not save
me.
In after time I read Doddridge’s "Rise
and Progress” and Baxter’s “Call to the
Unconverted,” and sdl the religious books
arouud my father’s household, but that did
not save me. But one day the voice of
Christ came into my heart saying, “Repent,
repent; believe, baUeve,” and I accepted the
offer of mercy, tmd though no doubt there
was joy in heaven over the conversion of
other souls because of their far-reaching in
fluence, I verily believe when I gave my
heart to God there were some spirit* in
heaven the gladder for the deed. “There is
joy in heaven among the angels of God over
one sinner that repenteth.” Turn this day to
the Lord who bought you. Let this whole
audience surrender themselves to Jesus
Christ, jf for ten, twentyJifgLxe*«»
have not prayed. bej-Luu ~~
TEMPERANCE.
we're for temperance.
We hope that you do not suppose, dearest
friends.
That our very long silence on temperance,
portends
A lazy or wearisome shirking:
In this great, busy world we’ve a great deal
to do.
But we stand as a band, to our pledge, brave
and true.
No cowaras among us are lurking.
We love our cold water in springtime’s soft
showers;
We love it. when brightening the summer’s
sweet flowers;
In autumn its pleasures are chosen;
When winter comes on with its days cold
and bright.
It is water supplier with unbounded delight.
Oh' I tell you it is glorious when frozen.
So it we are silent you must never suppose
That our juvenile army is lost, drowned, or
froze.
In this land where these dangers abound;
For when swimming, or boating, or coasting
we’ll steer
So far from the dram-shops you need have
no fear;
We’re for temperance all the year ’round.
—Mrs. 8. Irwin, in Temperance Banner.
DIED OS A BEER-KEG.
One of the recent pathetic incidents con
nected with intemperance in New York City
was the death of an old man in tattered gar
ments, with one of his feet bare, and wearing
neither hat nor coat. He was found on a
recent cold morning, dead, sitting on a beer-
keg. Many had passed him sitting in that
position, when a policeman tried to arouse
the unconscious figure and discovered that
he was dead. What a pitiable end, indeed,
for an old nan to come to, brought to it
through the degrading agency of strong
drink. How different, indeed, would have
been his life and death could he have been
pledged in early youth to total abstinence
from intoxicants.
WHISKY DOESN’T WARD OFF DISEASE.
Much has been claimed for whisky as a
valuable agent to ward off disease in many
forms. Asked recently by a representative
of the New York World as to its value arfc
preventative of the prevailing grip, Dr.
George F. Shrady, an eminent medical au
thority of this city, is reported as saying:
“Whisky is never good to ward off any
thing. feood food is the best means with
which to ward off disease. To dose with
whisky is like adding shavings to the fire.-
There is no physical, mental, or moral ex
cuse for a man’s drinking whisky as a pre
ventative of disease.” Dr. Shrady’s em
phatic and timely testimony should be
influential in helping to dispel the popular
but mischievous whisky delusion.—National
Advocate.
THE RUM CURSE IN AFRICA.
The United States Consul at Sierra Leone,
Hon. B. Bowser, in a recent letter to a citi
zen of Hartford, Conn., referring to the
ravages of the liquor traffic in Africa,
writes:
I am not a missionary, nor the son of one,
but I judge the present from the past. The
'Christian nations of the earth must set a
better example than flooding this country
with rum and gin. tnid landing it on the
Sabbath day at tne wharf, within fifty
yards of th& church. I stood on the wharf
last Sabbath, and saw steamers come into
the httrbor from Germany and England, and
they commenced to land rum and gin. There
were over one hundred men employed all
day, and the customs officers had to be on
duty. The native kings are petitioning the
Government to stop the liquor traffic. It is
mining their people. One king says if they
continue it will cause him to leave his coun
try, and go where the white man’s rum
can’t reach his people.
GENERAL. SCOTT AND TEMPERANCE.
General Scott was in command at Rock
Island when the cholera broke out there,
and, after various injunctions in this order
as to sobriety and cleanliness, he added this
curious paragraph, which was recently
printed in. the Magazine ofAmeri
LAMES’ VEPiRT$lEXT.
THE BAHT BffGADE.
The Baby Brigade ilthe latest form
of missionary ' work. ' The object of
the Baby Brigade if to get poor
mothers to go to chui’ch by keeping
the babies awa>\ The brigade is
formed of young 'bdief not averse to
babies, who go oit the homes of
the mothers and card for the little
ones on Sunday ulr.g or evening
with the mos^^Bmeiid&ble zeal, for
there is no ^H[of romance about
tending theseT^f# of not overcleau,
teething humanity.—.pnee A Week.
ADVICE 10 MATRONS.
If of a matronly j‘ge, wear your
" tnngs tied upder the chin or
to the left. Fastn piece velvet
strings on either sid'VNfith bonnet pins
just under the chcks; have them
longer and pin higl ijp near the bon
net, or cross them litier the chin and
pin them together i['p 0 back.
No matter how are arranged
they seem intended 0 s a kind of a
throat protector, o^lgrhaps, wrinkle
concealer, as a wjnan shows age
around her throat ail down the sides
of her neck first, am these merciful
bonnet strings thus ide many blem
ishes.— [N. Y. World!
SEASON FO RED.
Such a season as ii is for red, not
dull claret, mahogan or wind shades,
but the warm, rich 11 of the cardin-
alis flower and the g’> bright scarlet
that the soldiers we.-A Some obser-
vayt soul with a nm^^memory has
noted that scarlet ah'^H| the popu
lar color in every lea^^^And what
is the analogy? Doe ^^^wnau who
means to propose she is
more irresistible in cosy
color that most men think
she will thus charm :^^^^^^kwoos
a favorable const^^^^^^khcr
proposal? in^^^^^^Khc
dons the dauger color
she will not sue for
has a chance? Or is
takes four years to
other colors, and tl
green and blue havi
day, the reds come
ing to the law of
Louis Republic.
I
THE NEI
The new pot
and quaint in
sarily it will ta^
to become used tl
appeared upon th<
but it shows now i
or theatre, and
acceptance of a position, or sending
the children to school. ‘I must first
ask my wife.’ If an Indian woman
makes and sells a pair of moccasins
the money is hers, and she uses it as
she sees fit.” In some things the In
dians might teach a lesson to the more
civilized race.—["Women's Journal.
AN EMPRESS'S MANTLE.
One of ths handsomest silver-wed
ding presents received by the Em-
press-of Russia is an ermine mantle,
that cost over $50,000. It was pre.
seated to the Czarnia by the nobility
of the province of Kherson, but was
made np in Paris, as the making-up
of furs has been for years and re
mains still a pre-eminently Parisian
art. Parisian furriers are almost al
ways intrusted with the manufacture
of the splendid fur garments that be
come heirlooms in the greatest
families of Europe. Ermine, be
sides being the emblem of royalty,
is also that of purity and stainless
ness; but it is, nevertheless, so delicate
a fabric that no white fur gets so
easily soiled. Very few people know
how to clean white furs, and it may
therefore be of interest to New York
elegantes to learn the method recom
mended to me a few years ago by the
famous St. Petersburg furrier, Paul
Cubaeus.
The furs must first be washed with
tallow soap and lukewarm water, and
then rinsed with a weak solution of
crystals of soda, all the soapsuds be
ing removed from the fur with a hard
brush. Should there bo dark stains,
such as are made by carriage grease
or other fat substances, on the fur, it
will be necessary to rub them with
benzine a few hours before washing
it. It sometimes happens that in
spite of this treatment the furs retain
a yellowish hue; this can, however,
be removed by bleaching them in the
following manner: whilst still damp,
the articles must be immersed in very
cold water, in which four pounds of
sulphuric acid of natron have been
diluted. After an hour’s soaking,
four pounds of salic acid are added to
he mixture, which must be well
irred. Whilst the furs are in the
Jd, the vessel containing them
pld be tightly covered, so as to ex-
the action of the air on the
Lastly the furs must be rinsed
times with pure cold water.—
’s Bazar.
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^e coming season,
rel boxes are luxurious-
lith perforated silver or-
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Every fruit that la known to sue-'
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front all parts of the globe. Over*
300 acres in actual nursery stools*
Some of the specialties are the Ketm
Beys, Japan, Baton and Satsumm
Plums. The Lucy Duke Pear and
all the new fruits, as well sts the old*
Evergreens, Shade Trees, Roses and
everything usually kept in a.
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Rose growing a