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FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE, D.D.
Pastor of Jefferson Park Presby*
teri&n Church, ChicaL^o
J.os Angelos, Cal.. Feb. 14.—In deal
ing‘with those mysteries of religion
that are beyond human understanding
and which many find a stumbling block
to belief the ]>n acher in
urges their ncci ptanee by
first essential > 'P toward elucidation.
The text Is I Timothy iii. 10. "Great is
the mystery of godliness."
Ignorance is a stunted scoffer. As a
dwarf si;.' will ridicule the helping
hand of knowledge, which she is too
stior': of stature to reach. As an icon
oclastic waif of the street she will hurl
derisive missiles at the big square win
dows of the temple of wisdom, whose
walls she is too puny to topple down.
‘•Come," said an aristocratic but very
ignorant woman of London to her
.guest—“come into the front room. I
want to show you a poor, crazy, delud
ed and yet harmless old man. lie seems
to have an intelligent face, but there
he sits in the house just aci*ss the
street hour*after hour, day after day
and week after week as a little child,
with a clay pipe, blowing soap bub
bles.” WTc was the frivolous hostess
who was pa ronizingly asking her guest
to laugh at the old man who seemed to
find enjoyment in blowing a few soap
bubbles in Leicester square, London.'
Not one person of this generation ever
heard of her name. Who was the poor,
silly old man of intelligent face, with
a penny clay pipe, blowing soap bub
bles? He was Isaac Newton, whose
skull incased the greatest brain of his
'time. He was Isaac Newton, laborious
ly, Intensely, unremittingly studying
the laws of the refraction of light, for
which investigations and discoveries
be was to be honored by scientific so
cieties all around the world. It is
never safe to take public opinion as a
guide in estimating men or things.
Shallow critics often assume a sapient
mien and in supercilious tone deride
the wisdom they cannot comprehend.
A stuffed owl with spectacles on nose
may pose in a museum as an em
blem of wisdom, but the winged den
izen of the forest hooting in the dark
ness is no feathered oracle.
Foot]>rlntH of Truth.
How often have the pure white gar
ments of wisdom been bespattered and
befouled by blatant, bombastic igno
rance! How often has the philosopher
and the truth seeker been taunted with
bis failure to solve the problems of
the universe! He does not know every
thing; no man more conscious of the
fact than he. But should lie o# that
| account desert the fountain of wisdom
and refrain altogether from drinking
at the Pierian spring? Should the sci
entific student be so discouraged at bis
limitations as to destroy the telescope
because it does not reach the limits of
space? Should he throw away his mi
croscope because it does not magnify
enough? Is he to burn out with sense
less passion eyes that are not omnis
cient and wreck his eardrums because
./ <Hey fail to detect remote harmonies?
Isaac Newton, himself the greatest
philosopher of his time, was one of
the humblest of men. At the end of
bis life be said: “I know not how I
may appear to others. As for myself, |
I seem to be like a schoolboy playing
at the foot of the sand dunes, gather
ing here a white shell and a smoother
stone than ordinary, while the great
sea of knowledge lies all unexplored
before me.” Because a man does not
know everything, that is no reason
why he should despise the “temple of
wisdom.” Because here and there a |
veil or a mist cannot be penetrated,
that is no reason ■'vlij* lie should be
come a ground mole and not try to fol- j
low In the self revealed footprints of
truth.
MyHterit'N of (lie (•OHitel.
There are two purposes for this ser
mon. The first is to talk about some
of the great mysteries of the gospel. '
I would show you that about every
church altar there are great Appala- ;
Chian ranges, great towering tnoun- !
tain peaks of mysteries. So high they
are that tin* mind of man cannot attain
to them, yet each hears the mark of
divine certitude, the mark of the cross
is stamped upon them as the Mount
of the Holy Cross in Colorado bears
the sign of the cross. To this sign we
bow and believe, even though we can
not understand. Peter could not under- j
stand; John of the Apocalypse could
not understand, and Paul, beholding
them, exclaimed, “Great is the mys- ;
tery of godliness!” What those
mighty intellects could not grasp must
be a mystery to us until it is fully ex
plained beyond the grave.
The second pun*ose of the sermon is
the practical side. It is to remind you
that, though we now “know only In
part,” that part is sufficient for all the
great purposes of salvation and re
demption. It is to prove, ns E. H.
Chapin puts it, that “although we see
through a glass darkly we do see
something,*’ and that that “some
thing” is sufficient If we welcome It as
a gospel handmaid to lead us into per
fect peace and to lead us to that throne
of God where each can say, “I shall
know even ns also I am known."
The mystery of the Trinity: How
can .there he three persons and one
Godhead? “Three in One and One in
Three?” That is an Inexplainnble mys-
tpry. “You must be very careful,**
wrote a dear ministerial friend to me
when 1 was preaching a series of ser
mons upon the Holy Spirit "you must
he very careful not to convey the false
Idea to your people that there are thres
distinct and separate thrones In heav
en." Tt Is a mystery to he reverently
accepted beyond the poweMof the hu
man mind to understand, riu] that It
should he- so is noi strange, for God
himself has declared, “As the heavens
are higher than the earth, so are my
ways higher than your ways and my
thoughts than your thoughts.” We
cannot explain the personality of God
any more than you can tell why the
grass grows or the, sun shines. But we
do foci and know that, like the grass
and the light, the Trinity of the God
head is a great divine fact. And, fur-
F'ermoro, we do feel and know that as
God the Father lives, so Christ was
born into this world not only to save us
from sin, but also to prove that God
the Creator is a God of love. Mystery,
mystery, mystery! A high, deep, im-
this sermon
faith as the penetrable^ and overpowering mystery!
Yet the mystery of the Father, Son and
Holy Spirit is a fact revealed to us, to
be accepted by faith and bringing to all
who so receive it a message of joy and
peace.
A Mystery Kssejitlal to Peace.
Consider how near this conception of
Christ, the Divine Son manifested in
human flesh, brings the Deity to us.
If we did not have the manifestation
of God’s love in Jesus Christ, how
would we worship? Even the lowest
forms of religious truths cannot exist
in the heart of man without some kind
of an incarnation. I said some years
ago in India to a Buddhist priest: “You
do not believe that these hideous idols
of wood and clay and stone have any
divine power? You do not believe that
those bleared eyes and that horrible
grin and that twisted body is a god?
You know you do not. Why, I could
knock him down with my hand. I
could crush him with the heel of my
foot.” “Oh, yes,” answered the priest.
“What you say is true. We intelligent
leaders of the east do not believe those
idols are gods. But the common peo
ple cannot conceive of a spirit God as
our prophet has revealed him to us.
So we give the common people a god
of clay and wood, which they can see
and touch.” Brother, our God has sent
us Jesus Christ in the flesh. He came
as a revelation of God. He came so
that our finite minds might grasp the
infinite. He came to show us that God
could suffer as we suffer and be tempt
ed as we are tempted, yet be without
sin. He came as a God of never end
ing love. Mystery! Mystery! The
Trinity is an inexplainable mystery.
Yet it is a mystery we all need, a mys
tery we should all accept. It is a mys
tery essential to our peace.
Mystery of the Trinity.
Thus the mystery of the Trinity
means simply this: God the Father
comes to us and says: “To explain to
you all things, my child, would be to
set before you what you could not com
prehend. Your mind is too weak to
grasp it, any more than a little child in
ids father’s laboratory can understand
or grasp the chemical principle of the
adhesion of the basic elements. But if
you see the Godhead veiled by a hu
man form, if you see the Spirit of God
animating a being like yourself, if you
come in contact with the divine perfec
tions, active in human environment,
you will then have a glimpse of the
glory of the Godhead and realize some
thing of the supernal mystery of Fa
ther, Son and Holy Spirit. All this I
will show to prove that I am God, the
Loving Father, and ye are my chil
dren.” Today we find the Trinity a
mystery. But, though a mystery, deep
and high and overpowering, it is a
mystery so simple that a little child
can reverence the majesty of the Fa
ther, can realize the love of the Son and
can yield to the influence of the Holy
Spirit. Great and yet beautiful and
simple is the mystery of godliness in
Jesus Christ.
The conflicting doctrines of God’s
omnipotence and man’s free agency are
an inexplainable mystery. Yes, we
know that God is infinitely greater than
man. We know that the Creator, who
holds the seas in the palm of his hand
and at whose touch the volcanoes
smoke and the earth trembles and
whose voice is the voice of the storm,
lias supreme control over the creatures
he has made. He can say to man, “Go.
and he goeth; conic, and he cometh; do
this, and he doeth it.” But, though
God the Omnipotent is truly all pow
erful, I know 1 can resist his will. I
know, as a free agent, I can raise my
hand or lower it. I know that I can
clinch my fist with hate or have the
open palm of love. I know I can walk
across this pulpit to the right or to the
left. I know I can choose between
right and wrong. Free, free! Free
•am I, gloriously free! A mystery—a
j great ^unfathomable mystery! With
God tin* omnipotent I am still man, the
| free agent.
Harmonizing Creed*.
These two conflicting facts are true,
but who can reconcile them? Thcre-
! fore, after we have once accepted this
mystery we can harmonize all Chris
tian creeds at the foot of the cross.
With it we can take down the bars of
sectarianism and call all members of
the different Protestant churches our
brothers and our sisters. “How can
you do that?” says some one to me.
Simply enough. After this mystery—
lids great fundamental mystery—Is
once granted the question of the man
ner of your sendee and the church in
which you w»Il worship is determined
by the aspect from which you view
your relation to God. If I begin to
argue from God down to man, I be
come a Calvinist. If I say to myself,
"I know God is omnipotent; I know he
can foresee all things; he can save
me if he will, I know,” then I natu
rally go Into the 1’resbyterlan church.
But If I say to myself, “I know I am a
free agent: I know I can accept or re
ject my Heavenly Father,” I go Into
the Methodist church. Then, Instead of
arguing from God down to man, I
argue from man up to God. It Is sim
ply the difference of putting the em
phasis of my creed upon God’s om
nipotence or mnn’p free agency. Yet,
though I was born a Calvinist and
have been baptized In n CnlvlnJstle
1 church and have received my thoo-
: logical education in a Oalvinistie semi-
; nary, yet today I feel just as much at
homo In the Methodist church ns I do
j in the Presbyterian. 1 could just as
; logically be a member of a Methodist
conference as I am now a member of a
Calvinistic presbytery.
A IJIlllenH Task.
The harmonizing of tlu- two doctrines
—God’s omnipotence and man's free
agency—is a task that many have at
tempted In vain. But it is a glorious
mystery that should make of believers
af the different Protestant churches
brothers and sisters at the foot of the
cross. Therefore, my Christian broth
er, if you are living In a small country
town do not make the mistake of try
ing to run in that village live or six
different churches when there are only
enough inhabitants to support one. Do
not try to run a Congregational church
and a Methodist church and a Lu
theran church and a Baptist church
and an Episcopalian church and a Unit
ed Presbyterian church. Do not keep
on continually talking about “my
church.” All Christian churches ought j
to belong to you and you to them. The |
difference of Protestant creeds is mere-;
ly that of extra emphasis upon some
one of God’s great attributes, llemem- j
her hereafter that you ought to be able
to worship God just as devoutly and
earnestly before a Methodist altar as
at an Episcopalian chancel or as In a
Presbyterian pew. God 1ms many gos
pel sheepfolds. These sheep arc all fed
by the same Divine Shepherd, although
at times they are separated from each
other by the sectarian fences built by
man’s creed and by Infinite ignorance.
“Othe^ sheep have I which are not of
tnis fold” applies as much to the
Protestant church across the street as
to your own chapel.
The mystery of why God ever let sin
come into the world: It is an inex
plicable mystery. It is a mystery the
more inexplicable because, from a hu
man standpoint, if there had been no
sin then there would have been no
need of a place of future punishment.
But, after we have once accepted the
belief that a loving God has allowed
sin to come into this world for a pur
pose which we cannot, fathom or ana
lyze, thou we find that some of the
most beautiful sacrifices of Christian
heroes and heroines have been inspired
from this source to overcome the aw
ful and eternal effects of evil. If there
had been no sin there would have been
no Moffatts and Whipples and Jud-
sons, no Careys and Taylors, no Wil
sons and Brainerds, no Batons and El
liotts in the missionary fields trying
to save the ignorant, brutal and canni
balistic savages from the awful degra
dation of their lives. If there had been
no sin thero would have been no Cath
erine Booths ns “angels of light” la
boring among the London slums, no
Howards among the prisons, no Wil
liamses to reach out rescuing hands
from the Young Men’s Christian asso
ciations. If there were no sin there
would be no such saving work for us
to do for Christ as we can one and all
now perform in his name.
Neoil of ChrlMt’s Love.
Furthermore, If there were no sin
there would be no “Saviour” as we pic
ture him. What does the word “Sav
iour” mean? It means a rescuer. In
a physical sense it means the strong
swimmer who breasts the waves and
goes out beyond the life lines to bring
how, through Christ, we may become
part of God himself. A mystery! An
unfathomable mystery! Yet a mys
tery which makes heaven blaze with
triumphant and far reaching light.
M>s(ery of (lie ReNurrection.
> Mystery of the resurrection: How is
the transformation between earth and
heaven to take place? We know not.
We cannot explain. The more we
study it the deeper becomes the mys
tery. But though the resurrection is a
mystery, though we cannot by human
reason understand how these poor
bodies of ours can be so transformed
that they will live forever, we* can
when reason halts proceed under the
higher guidance of faith and accept
the assurance of the Scriptures, that
“tin's mortal shall put on Immortality,”
and that "if our earthly house of this
tabernacle be dissolved we have a
building of God. a house not made
with hands, eternal In the heavens.”
How can this body which we lay in
the grave, giving it over to corruption,
ever be revived? We do not know
bow, but we believe God and exclaim
In triumph with the patriarch. “I know
that my Redeemer liveth, and at last
he shall stand upon the earth, and aft
er my skin, oven this body. Is destroy
ed, then withou’ my flesh shall 1 see
God.” Nor are we left exclusively tp
faith, for nature herself gives us a hint
of a transformation so significant as to
be encouraging. The other day my little
girl brought to me a paper box, in
which she had confined a caterpillar.
This caterpillar had wrapped Itself
up in a cocoon. The cocoon looked ex
actly like a shroud. After awhile the
caterpillar will emerge* from that co
coon transformed into a beautiful but
terfly. You cannot explain that trans
formation. Neither can I. Shall we
witness the wonderful process of the
caterpillar’s metamorphosis from worm
to butterfly and yet refuse to believe
that God can, if he will, transform the
physical body into a heavenly body?
Mnrvelotift Tranaformatlonti.
We see marvelous transformations in
the natural world taking place all
round us. We cannot explain them.
Shall we therefore refuse to believe
them? Pick up iu your hand, if you
will, a common chestnut It has with
in its simple shell a soft substance*
which looks for all the world like a
lump of hard flour pressed together.
Yet in that simple substance in minia
ture is every known part of the chest
nut tree. Within that shell is the root,
the bark, the branch, the leaf. If that
simple nut can change into the
branches of the wide spreading tree,
may not we believe that our physical
bodies, under the divine chemistry,
may undergo an equally wondrous
change which we cannot comprehend
any more than wo can tell how or when
the transformation is to take place? A
mystery, a mystery! How do we go
down mortal and come up immortal; go
down corrupt and come up incorrupt?
It is a mystery we cannot explain.
Yet it is a mystery which has its anal
ogies in the natural world. It is a
mystery which promises each one of
us a personality and an individuality
in the eternal mansions. Grand, g®-
rious, hopeful and blessed is the mys-
i tery of the resurrection.
I have preached this sermon on mys
teries because I want young people,
and especially young men, to fully
realize that there are some statements
found in the Bible that they should
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•«*»»Aw
in the drowning brother. It means the | accept in faith, though they may never
fireman who climbs the ladder and
amid the breathless silence of the on- j
lookers plunges into the flames and !
brings out the unconscious man and
woman and carries them to safety just
before the crooked walls totter and fall.
It means, in a physical sense, a Henry
M. Stanley plunging into the African
forests to save an Emin Pasha or a
Captain Schley heading his ships north
ward to save a Greely and a Melville.
If there is no danger, then there can
be no Saviour or rescuer. And because
the eternal results of sin are so great,
therefore, the divine love of Christ’s
sacrifice is brought forth in the brighter
contrast. We are not marveling today
why the human craft was allowed to be
stranded upon the rocks of sin, but we
are proclaiming the fact that on ac
count of our impending eternal ship
wreck the gospel life line is flung out
and the gospel lifeboat is being pushed
through the raging, surging, stormy
seas.
We cannot explain why sin was ever
allowed to come into the world. But
after we accept its advent as a fact,
then the cross, on account of our eter
nal danger, can become our all in all.
With the sainted Gotthold we may say
before the flaming fires of eternal
death: “For my own part my soul is
like a hungry and thirsty child, and I
need Christ’s love and consolation for
my refreshment. I am a wandering
and lost sheep, and I need him as a
good and faithful shepherd. My soul
is like a frightened dove pursued by a
hawk, and I need his wounds for a
refuge. I am a feeble vine, and I need
ills cross to lay hold of and wind my
self about. I am a sinner, and I need
his righteousness. I am naked and
bare, and I need his holiness and in
nocence for a covering. I am in trou
ble and alarm, and I need his solace.
Simple and foolish am I, and I need the
guidance of Ins Holy Spirit. Am I ar
raigned by Satan at the divine tribunal,
he must be my advocate. Am I in af
fliction, he must be my helper. Am I
persecuted by the world, he must de
fend me. When I am forsaken he must
be my support; when dying, my life;
when moldering In the grave, my resur
rection.” Why did God let sin come
into the world? We cannot understand
it. But after we have accepted the fact
that the good God has allowed sin to
come into the world for a purpose,
then, on account of the eternal danger
threatening us,, we see as never before
glorious sacrifices, both human and
divine. We see on account of salva
tion from sin how Christ’s blood will
not only lift us above the angels, but
fully pnderstand them in this life. Oh,
man, if you are not ready to accept
some facts about Christ and salvation
you cannot understand then you are
like a foolish man trying to encompass
the Atlantic ocean with a sewing girl’s
thimble or like a little child peevishly
sulking because you cannot understand
the laws of gravity. God is too big
for your finite mind to compass. Heav
en is too large a place for you in your
study to bike apart and put together
again as a little girl might play with
her doll house.
Accept ChriKt.
I preach this sermon also for an in
spiration. There is in our gospel
enough of the plain and practical to
lead us to Christ. Beyond that there
fire mysteries, and we do not deny it,
but in those very mysteries there are
truths to which some sense deep with
in our nature responds with a certain
ty ci. strong and as impregnable as the
cert, inty that we derive from our
sense of sight and touch. The exist
ence and presence of Jesus are no mere
phantasy to his people. It is a living,
actual presence as real to them and as
recognizable as the presence of a wife
whose footsteps you hear and recog
nize in the darkness, though you can
not see her form. They are conscious
that he is npar them, ns you would be
conscious of the nearness of a beloved
son in your pew this morning, even if
you did not see him enter.
Brother, sister, for many years trou
bled with mysteries, wash your eyes
today in the “water of life” find look
and live. Accept Christ as your Sav
iour and then leave all the Inexplica
ble mysteries to be explained to you
in u better world. “We now see as
through a glass darkly;” yes, but,
thank God, we can see enough to per
ceive the pardoning love of God In the
face of Jesus Christ.
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At Buffalo, (School House), Saturday,
Jan. 30th.
At Allens, Monday, Feb. ist.
At Grassy Pond, Tuesday, Feb. 2nd.
During my absence at the above places
the office will be kept open by G. W.
Speer. The books will close on Febru
ary 20th and if anyone fails to make re
turn by this date the law' requires me to
add a penalty of 50 per cent, to the re
turn of 1903.
All persons are required to state in
what school district the}- live. If they
don’t know the district then they will be
required to give the names of their school
trustees. All persons having property in
Districts Nos. 9 and 10 will state how
much and make separate returns therefor.
All persons are required to make out
and return a statement of all personal
pi operty, money, credits, investments in
bonds, joint stock companies, notes,
mortgages, etc., in your possession or
under your control as husband, guardian,
agent, attorney, executor, or administra
tor on the first day of January, 1904, and
fix a value thereto. Anyone who has
sold or bought real estate since they
made their last return must make return
of same, stating who to and how much,
and if they bought, how much and who
from. AH buildings dVected during the
year must he returned aud the value. All
returns made before anyone except
me must be sworn to.
All persons liable to the income tax
are required to make return of same. *
POLL TAX.—All persons between the
ages of 21 and 60 years, except those in
capable of making a living, are liable for
poll tax. Confederate soldiers are ex
empt at 50 years/
W. D. Camp,
iw till 2-20, 04 Auditor.
Law In the Pulpit.
For years Rev. J. E. Herman of Mil
ford, N. H., has been studying law
and now he has been admitted to the
bar. “I have done all this study,” he
says, “without in any way slighting
my duties as preacher of the gospel.
For Instance, Monday, Instead of be
ing the so caljed ‘blue Monday,’ was
devoted by me to the study of some
branch of law. The knowledge of law
Is helpful to all professions and ns
much to the ministry ns any other. ‘Is
not your congregation the jury and
will not a convincing argument carry
weight in matters religious as In mat
ters of law?”
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