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OUR GREAT ENEMY DR. CHAPMAN'S SUNDAY SERMON. Great Fre icher-Evangelist Declares That Most of Us Are Our Own Worst Enemies. New York City.?The rev. wmuu Chapman, the popular pot >r of the Fourth Presbyterian Church. wince reputation a? an evangeii^t is socvnul to none. his prcpared an interesting sermon nj ,?.i t'ne suiiject, "A Novel H.u-e." which is preached from the text, Proverbs 11: 12. "There is a way whieh scenic tli rislit unto a man; but the end thereof are the ways ot death." Some time during last summer tlie Kev. Joseph Parker, the pastor of the City Temple in llc?:on. was asked to take the editor's chair <>. the London Sun. lie was yiven full liberty to print just what he wished in the paper or to keen out of the columns what in his judgment was not conducive to make an ideal paper. One day in the place o: the racing news which the rtt- v;,,,, ),.l(] hceti accustomed to peruse he printed under the caption oi "A Novel Race Record" a description oi the race of life, and for each point made emphatic in the lives of those who frequent the race course and follow racing as a business he presented a passage of Scripture. This was. to say the least, startling, One of our New York papers, quoting from his uttering* in the London Sun, printed the following: A NOVEL RACE RECORD. London.?The Rev. Joseph Parker print; in the Sun to-day in place of the usual rac ing column what he calls a corrected race record, as follows: The Eternity Stakes. The Start?Rorn in sin. etc. Psalm LI.: 5 The Race?All gone out of the way, etc Romans III.: 12. The Finish?A tier death the judgment etc. Hc-brews IX.: 27. The Weighing Room?Thon are wcighcc in the balances and art found wanting Daniel V.: 27. Settling Day?For what shall it profit " man if he shall gain the whole world ant lose his own soi|l. Mark VI11.: 30. This outline for a scrnion has been ir my mind since first mv eyes lighted upor it, and to the great London preacher I am indebted for the suggestions of thii sermon, and yet I r.m quite free to confer that the only reason 1 have chosen tin outline, and indeed the only reason snrmon is that I liaVC a gl'Cal desire that those of you who are vunninf the race of life shouH lav hold upon eter ual life. It is a great mistake for men t< preach without giving their hearers an on portunity to confess Christ. When Mr Moody first began his public ministry ii Chicago he went through a course of ser raons on the life of Christ, and came r. last to the crucifixion, when the most pro found impression had been made. He icl as if he ought to give an invitation, bit neglected to do so. The audience was dis missed never to come together again, fo that night the great conflagration in C hi cago was upon the city, and many of hi hearers were ouickiv ushered into eternity and so while I present this novel race rec ord I present it only that you may run th< race with Christ. If I had the time in this connection might say some words concerning the bool in which the text is found. It has beei said bv some one that there is no part o the Bible which more thoroughly prove the inspiration of the Scriptures, for m mere man could have written these wisi savings; another hns suggested that th< thirty-one chapters in the hook contain ; lesson for each day of the month, and n< man would find himself failing so frequent ly if he should imbibe the wisdom of thesi sayings. Indeed, there is not a conditioi of life that is not met by the wisdom of tn writer of this book. I might also sugges the different figures which are used in th Bible which describe a human life. It i spoken of under the figure of a voyag with its days of calm and nights of storm its south winds blowing deceitfully agains us. and telling of prosperity that neve comes and its hurricane which nlmos drives us against the rock* and to death but ope of the best figures is that of a rae for no man walks whfn he races, but runs He must be desperately in earnest, and n< one reaHv makes a success of his life with out this same tiling is true of him. Ther is little place for the laggard in humai life to-day. We must run if we wouh win. aim no race is penmi ten uumiui n?n testants. In this race of human life whicl we start there are three contestants whicl strive earnestly to defeat us. The first i self?the greatest ene.ry that the most o tjs have is self. Other men fight battle and re?t when the victory is won. but m man has ever vet been able to rest in th< struggle with Himself. The Kilile is true "Greater is he that ruleth his spirit thai he that taketh a city." and many a mai has been a hero in the battlefield am made a miserable failure with his strugel with himself. The world is general!; against us. "Woe be unto you when a! men speak we'll of yon," and if no one op poses you it is well to stop and see where in you may be wrong, but possibly thi greatest adversary of all is the devil, thi third one of this trinity of contestants, fo he flatters and deceives until at last thi strongest character is made weak and th< purest soul tainted: but I am not so mucl concerned about the running of the rac< ^ ? ?:? r ,1. apostle saiu. "When 1 would do pood evil [ is present with me." 1 do not for a mo- | nient imagine that we are guilty, any of I us, of great -ins, hut the existence of little j sins will prove the existence of a sinful nature. II. The race. Romans 3: 12. "They are all gc.ae ou: of the way, they arc together 1? i conic unprofitable; there is none that doi ;h go )d, no, not one." If we object to the | iir.-i statement, which, nevertheless. <x- i perience proves to be true, we certainly j c-.nuot resist the power of the second statement, for the apostle writes that we .have all gone away from Clod. \\ hen there c.iwc a time in our lives w'nen it was po-.-iole for us :> cl:oo-o either the or the wrong we well remember that ihc ' tendency ail along ha- been to choose the v.i :i.r. or at lea-t to permit it. and when we remember that it is the wrong in His iufununt that we .are responsible for the -> - ? - message ts a solemn one mat we na\e n> ?; > with wlio taught the commandments and j made the look of lust idolatry, and the , feeling of murder against a brother mur- ! der. There are two ways in which men j : might get into heaven; one is the way that is marked with blood. "And though your 1 sins be as scarlet they shall he as white as ' snow." and the other is the keeping of the j whole law. It we could do that (lo.l will ; : accept us, but we cannot, and vc certainly j know we have not. "He that offends in ; ' one point is guilty of all," not that he has broken all. but in the single offense lie lias { ! broken away from G'od. But from tlic ' standpoint of the unregenerate man at least this statement is true, and I speak ' now in the language of the unregenerate. | - You are not lost because of Adam's sin. or an inherited tendency to evil, but j rather because you have rejected Christ i . for yourself. Txt us imagine a case. You ' have consumption, and it has conic to you , from a long line of ancestry, and I went to you and know a cure for consumption, and if yon will but take it you may be J whole again, and I recite to you the in- j stances of hundreds of people who have j been sick and row are well, but you re fuse the cure and die, not because you were ' a consumptive with nn inherited tendency j I to this disease, but because you hare re- I jeeted the euro, and men are lost because j they have rejected Christ, i III. I The finish. Hebrews fl: 27. "And a? it is apnointcd unto men once to die, but af1 ter this the judgment." 1 I never speak the word judgment that I j 1 am not startled, not for myself, and when i * I < :y that 1 do not mean to enhihit the ! * s; irlt that I am holier than thou, hat ' ? startled because of the unsaved man who I is i" danger o: the judgment, for Clod has 1 distinctly said concerning the saved. "'!*! re is therefore now no judgment to -I 4 Km ? ill I* nr.. ill ( .TfvllS." This is a > per-onal natter. No one can appear in , judgment I >r us. Wo mils': stand t here for I ourselves. and the thought of the jntlg- | 1 incut will make u< think when everything - else has been banished from our minds, j t It is a place of meeting: man will meet bis conscience, and that will he all that is t necessary. "All I know of the future judgment Or whatsoever it may be. r That to standalone with my conscience, Will be judgment enough for me." And he will meet his record. It will not ' be necessary that the book shall be ; f opened. The book of one's own record j v.ill condemn; that sin of last night which j no one knows but you and Clod is against . you; that sin in Y,ondon which no one ^ dreams of hut yourself and your Maker ? has made its record, and the things that ? we have forgotten arc standing against us. Clod pity us if wc do not make ready for p mat nay, snu wc raimui m.thc rcau? w f copt by faith in Christ and we cap meet , God. We have sinned against Him. we , ham tvamnled His love under our feet, i we liave rejected His Son. and in that day j f we shall meet Him and who shall be able i , to standi" ; iv t The weighing room. Daniel 5: 27, "Thou 1 e art weighed in the balances, and art found ) $ wanting." e There is a machine in the Bank of Eng- j land that in a very wonderful way sifts I t the sovereigns. You could hardly believe | r it. There is a whole case of sovereigns t there by the man, who. like an ordinary j i, miller at an ordinary mill takes his scoop | p and shovels up these sovereigns that incn ; i. have tumbled the one over the other to get j 9 hold of. and he puts them in his machine, j . He feeds his mill the same way as the old I f farmer feeds his threshing machine, and it ,-i? L.IJ - .t._ *1 ! i wiKt> nuiu tu me ctuiis aiiu ivms tucui. ?i ; ! weighs and poises each, throwing the light j . ones to one side, and allowing those that 3 are good and solid and tin to the mark to i flow into another receptacle. It is a mars vtlous bit of human ingenuity, but its f testing qualities are nothing beside the ; s bar of the Judgment of Clod; nothing to | 3 the final assize, when the dead, small and i P great, shall stand before (lod. You had I better put it right. The Spirit says you 1 3 are a happy man if you realize your short- j 3 comings in time and get it covered, j When that day Comes He fdiall weigh j e our motives. It is not what we have done, \ i- but the motive that prompted the doing, ] and He shall test our acts. It is not the j ,. good to others which we have aceom- ' .. p!isl>ed that shall count for us, but that j which has been for His glory; and He shall seek out our thoughts, and woe be | unto that man whose motives and acts | and thoughts are against Him. "Weighed j and found wanting." That was a solemn i scene in the Book of Daniel where Belshazzer and his guests forgot the splendor of the room in which they feasted, the brilliant lights, the beautiful women, the sweet music and see only the fingers of a J man's hands writing on the plaster of the ! wall, "Weighed and found wanting," and | a more striking scene than that shall be ! our experience ii we neglect Christ. V. The settling day. Mark S: 30. "Tor what ; shall it profit a man if he shall gain the I whole world and lose his own soul." It is ! a possible thing for one to almost win the j world. We can have its music and its art j and its honor and its pleasure, and in a I sense its wealth, but what shall it profit us. j 1 In one ol lolstoi s books there is .in jtluss? tration of that part of Russia where it is said in the story a Russian peasant can have all the territory he can measure out * fiom sunrise to sunset, and 'l'olstoi tells ' of a peasant who started in the morning " at the break of day and ran with all speed to mark out his possessions. He sees the "waving trees in the distance and de<erj mines they shall , a his. and the lake ber yond him. and he says that shall be mine, and the splendid plain, and runs to take it > in, and lifts his eyes to find that the siin - is beyond the meridian. Then he bends i every energy to reach the starting point. ! and iust as the sun goes down lie reaches ! it, falls upon his face from sheer weakness, > and the land is all his. but Tolstoi says ihey stooped down to pick him up and he r is dead. He has gained it all and lost his t soul. This is a picture of many a man i striving for honor and for pleasure and for . power. What shall it all profit in that ; great day? _ jusi ai mis imiv &s uitr I'rvji.u.i,iuu i?r ur end. The text is A striking one. "Then is a way which seemeth right unto a man hut the end thereof are the ways o death." "There is a way that scemetl right." I take it *hat none of us have de termined deliberately to be lost. Ou mother's memory is too sacred and ou: father's example too powerful to permit u deliberately to choose death instead of life '.Ye are merely procrastinating. We ban chosen a little more of the world's pleas ure. falsely so-called, and determine t< have & little more of the world's honor and the way seemeth right, for some daj we may be saved, and yet no one has certain prospect of salvation if he neglect Christ to-day. for, he has made no provi sion for the morrow. The end halfles de cn.wpwvsu. iiinv -> ?>" and gnashing of teeth, and I present thi: outline in order that wc may know tha we cannot afford to run the race alone. I. The start. Psalm 51: 5, "Behold. I w* shapen in iniquity, and in sin did m5 mother conceive me." This is a Bible statement, but e\perieno< proves the truth of it and history cmpha sizes it in every particular. However mei may rebel against the doctrine of origina sin, and speak of it as an injustice and a! of that, nevertheless, this we know to b< true that we are born with a bias to sin and also that if we were to speak honestly we would say that from the very first il has been easier for us to do wrong than tc do right. We have been in a great com p'any in this exjftrience, for even the aical 1 fcDVICE GIVEN BY SCOTCH PARSON Minister Set Twenty Prinks a Day as the Limit erf Moderation. A Scotch parson once preached a long sermon against dram drinking, p a vice very prevalent in bis pariah, and from which report said ha was not himself wholly exempt. "Whatever ye do, brethren." said he, I "do it in moderation, and. aboon all, * be moderate in dram-drinking. When ? you get up. indeed, ye may t*ik a dram. and anither just b< fore breakfast, and perhaps anither after; but dinr.a be always dram-drinking. J "If ye are out in the morn, ye I may just brace ye;self up with anither * dram, snd perhaps take anither be- ? fore luncheon, and soine, I fear, tak \ ane after, which is no so very blam- J able, but dlnna be always dram-dram- i ing away. ! t "Naebody can scruple for one just c afore dinner, and when the desert is ? brought in, an' after it's ta'en away; j I and, perhaps ane, or it may be twa, in ! the course of the afternoon, just to ! keep ye fra' drowsing and snoezling; but dinna be always dram-dram-dram ing. I "Afore tea, and after tea. and be tween tea and supper, and before and after supper, Is no more than right ? and good; but let me caution ye, * brethren, not to be always drain-dram- ! ing. i "Just when ye start fcr bed, and 1 when ye're ready to pop into't, and perhaps when you wake in the night, t to take a dram or twa Is no more than j a unrisuan man may lawiuuy i but, brethren, let me caution you not i to drink more than I've mentioned, or may be ye may pass the bounds of moderation!"?Mirror. ITovt Jorko Carried Off the Jam. A sweet little story concerning a pet monkey and a pot of jam is vouched for by a Johns Hopkins University i man. Il was la the country and all on a summer's day the family monkey was seen scudding homeward literally' drenched in raspberry jam. He was : pursued by an irate neighbor with uplifted broom, but once safe on the home : plate he swung himself lightly into the nearest tree and peacefully listened to [ her tale of wrong. It seems the neighbor had some \ hours before been making jam, a great bowl of which sat cooling on a table i beneath the trees. This the monkey spied, but had scarcely started liber- ; ally helping himself to it when he was ; discovered. With loud outcry and the broom the lady started toward him, when the mischievous beast, knowing his minutes wore numbered, hastily overturned the bowl on the table. Then rolling himself Joyously In it several times from head to heels he scampered beyond her reach. During the recital of her woe and in fact for the remainder of the day, the monkey sat. scooping the sweetmeat from his body and licking his paws with glee.?Baltimore Sun. If the body is God's temple the fires of passion may burn on His altar to His glory. | HEADACHE ? I "curedCflflli | J? 4 Is" Fevcrishnees, Sick Headache ?} Nervous Headache etc. IS, 2 j and gj SOc. At Drue Stores. r S ' SOtliiiSi KSiiKXeKeSliXB *? Genuine stamped C C C. 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