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pathetic MYwhboth as to time
there is nonhuman lathe city
mniany people go or where so
libel: eagerness to secure admission is dis-
playeilé Thy usual immense audience was
more this afternoon to hear the famous
preacher. Dr. .Taimsge’s subject was ”New
Ground" and his text Romans xv. 20,
“Last I should build upon another man's
foundation."
After. with the help of others, I had
built three churches in the same city, and
not feeling called upon to undertake the
superhuman toll of building a fourth
church Providence seemed to point to this
place as the field in which I could enlarge
my work, and I feel a sense of relief
amounting to excitation. Whereunto this
work will grow I cannot prophesy. It is
inviting and promising beyond anything I
have ever touched. The churches are the
grandest institutions this World ever saw,
and their pastors have no superiors this
side of heaven, but there is a work which
must be done outside the churches, and to
that work I join myself for awhile, “Last
I build on another man's foundation."
The church is a fortress divinely built
Now, a fortress is for defense and for drill
and for storing ammunition, but an army
must sometimes be on the march for out-
side tbe fertress. In the campaign of con-
quering this world for Christ the time has
come for an advance movement, for a
“general engagement," for massing the
troops, for an invasion of the enemies’
country. Confident that the forts are Well
manned by the ablest ministry that ever
blast the church, I propose, with others,
for awhile to join the cavalry and move
out and on for service in the open field.
New Recruits.
In layingont the plan for his missionary
tour Paul, with more brain than any of
his contemporaries or predecessors or suc-
oessora, sought out towns and cities which
had not yet been preached to. He goes to
Corinth, a city mentioned for spiendornnd
vice, and Jerusalem, where the priesthood
and sonhedrin ware randy to leap with
both feet upon the Christian religion. He
feels he has a special wark to‘do, and he
means to do it. W hat was the result? The
grandest life of usefulness that man ever
lived. We modern Christian workers are
not apt to imitate Paul. We build on
other people's foundations. If we erect a
church, We prefer to have it filled with
families all of whom have been pious. Do
we gather a Sunday school class, we want
good boys and girls, hair combed, faces
washed, manners attractive. So a church
in this day is apt to be built out of other
churches. Some ministers spend all their
time in' fishing in other people's
they throw the line into that c
'and jerk out a Methodist, n
line into another church p d and bring
out a Presbyterian. or the ‘is a religious
row in some neighbor! arch, and the
whole school of fish
u. . , ‘1 our all in with one
Weep of the not. What is gained? Ab
soluteiy nothing for the general cause of
Christ. It is only as in an army, when a
regiment is transferred from no division
to another or from the Four nth regi-
ment to the Sixty-ninth rcgim no. What
strengthens the army is now rails.
The fact is, this ion his: World. When in
our schoolboy days we learned the diame-
ter and circumference of this planet. We
did not learn half. It is the latitude and
longitude and diameter and circumference
of want and woo and sin that no figures
can calculate. This one spiritual conti-
nent of wroichminosn roaches across all
cones, and if l were cullul to give its goo-
nrnphlcal boundary I would say it is
bounded on the north and south and cast
and west ivy lho grunt lii‘ltl‘h of God's sym-
pathy and lore. fill. it is n grout world!
Since 8 o'clock this morning at least ii“,-
000 have been born, and oil these multi>
plied populations are to he reached of the
normal. In England or in oxuitorn Ameri~
can cities we onV luring much crowded, and
an acre of ground is of grunt value, but
out west 500 norm in a small form, and
20,000 acres is no unusual possession.
(lioaay Sinners.
There is a vast ill-id hero and everywhere
unoccupied, plcni y of room more, not
building on anothor men's foundation.
We need an clmrriws to stop bombarding
the old ironclad sinner» that have been
proof against liliycnrn of (‘hristiun assault
and aim (or the salvation of those wholmvo
never yet had nno warm hearted and point
blank invimilnn. There are churclws
whose buildings might be worth $200,000
who are not averaging five new concerto a
year and doing loss nomi than many a log
cabin mooring flilllMi with tsllow candle
stuck in wooden socket and to minister
who haa moor sot-n nmlicge or known the
difference between (Brook and Choctaw.
We need churchea in get into sympathy
with the great oulnhlo world and lot them
know that none are so broke-n hearted or
hardly beatead that they will not be wel‘
copied. "No," says more fastidious fibrin
tian. “l don'tlikc tobecrowdedin church.
Don’t put any one in my pow.” My
brother. what will you do in heaven!
When a great multitude that no man can
number assembles, they will put so in
your pew. What are the select few today
“tabled in the Christian churches corn-
pared with the mightier millions outside
of them? At least 8,000,000 people in this
cluster at seaboard cities, and not more
than 800,000 in the churches. many of the
churches are like a hospital that should
advertise that its patients must have oath»
is: worse than toothache or “run
seconds," but no broken buds, no crush-
ed antics, no fractured thighs Give us
for treatment moderate sinners, Velvet
seated sinners sad sinners with anions on.
Itisasihoeghs msnhadafarmofli,”
I a ' 1‘
my»
“Coma"orth'wouldlongsooha
in the kingdom. Hy friends million
either a sham oratrexnsudousraality.
it be asham. let us cease to harass
to do with Christian it be
areallty, than great populstlm are on
their way to the bar of God undtfsd for
the ordeal, and what are we doing!
Justification banned.
In order to reach the multitude of out-
aidors we must drop all technicalities out
of our religion. When we talk to people
about the by a union and‘ French
eneyoiopedianismx and ersstisnisin and
oomplutensiaaism, we are as impolltie
and little understood as if a physician
should talk to an ordinary patient about
the pericardium and intercostal muscle
and soorbutic symptoms. Many of‘ us
come out of the theological seminarics so
loaded up that we take the first ten years
to show our people how much we know
and the next ten years get our people to
know as much as we know, and at the
end find that neither of us knows anything
as we ought to know. Here are hundreds
of thousands of cloning, struggling and
dying people who need to realize just one
thing—that Jesus Christ came to save
them and will save them now.
But we go into a profound and elaborate
definition of what justification is, and aft~
or all the Work there are not, outside of
the learned professions, 6, 000 people in the
United States who can tell what justifies-
tion is. I will read you the definition:
“Justification is purely a forensic not, the
act of a judge sitting in the forum, in
which the Supreme Ruler and Judge, who
is accountable to none, and who alone
knows the manner in which the ends of
his universal government can best be at-
tained, reckons that which was done by
the substitute, and not on account of any-
thing done by them, but purely upon ac-
count of this gracious method of reckon-
ing, grants them the full remission of
their sins.”
Now, what is Justification? I will tell
you what justification is. When a sinner
believes, God lets him on. One summer,
in Connecticut, I went to a large factory,
and I saw over the door written the words,
“No admittance.” I entered and saw
over the next door, “So admittance." Of
course I entered. I got inside and found
it a pin factory, and they were making
pins, very serviceable. fine and useful pins.
So the spiritof exclusivencss has practical-
ly written ot'cr tho (llliilllltl door of many a
church, “No admittance." And if the
stranger enter he finds practically written
over tho second door, "No admittance,"
and if he cousin over all the pew doors
seems written, “No admittance," while
the minister stands in the pulpit hmnnwr- .
log out his little nineties of belief, pound—
ing out the technicalities of religion—look» 5
ing pins. lo the most practical. common J
sense way, and laying aside the nonmm-n-
tinls and the hard definitions of mllziun,
go out on the God given mission, telling
the people what they need and when and :
how they can get it.
Saved In One Interview.
Comparativoly little effort as yet has
been made to sure that large class of per
sons in our midst called skeptics, and he
who goes to work here will not be build—
ing upon another man’s foundation.
There is a [treat multitudn of them. Tin-y
are afraid of us and our churches. for the
reason we do not lmow how to front them.
One of this class rnvt Christ, and hour with
what tenderness and pathos and hvuufy
and success Christ dunlt with him: "Thou
shalt love the Lord thy (Sod with all thy i
heart, and with all thy soul. and with all :
thy mind. and with all thy strength. This ‘
is the first mnmmndmvnt, and the sworn! i
is like to this-mummy, thou shalt low thy
neighbor as thyself. There is no u: iu-r i
cmmnumlmont gn-ursrr than this." And 1
the scribe sold to him: "Wt-ll, .‘lilhli‘l‘,
thou hast said the truth, for there is one
God. and to love him with all the bran,
and all the umivrstunding, and all the
soul, nnd oil the strength, is more than
whole lmrntoiYi-rlnps and sacrifices." Ami
wlwn Jesus now that lll‘flIlSWt'I’l'll dist-rovi-
ly ho said unto him. "Thou art not for
from tho kinmiom of (ind. ” So a iiki‘plin
was saved in Mm interview. lint few
Christin" poopin- front the skeptic in that
way. instead of taking hold of him with
the public hand of love, We are apt to take
him with the iron pincln-rs of ecclesiasti‘
clsm.
You would hot be mmugh on that man
if you know by whnt process he had lost
his fniih in i‘hrisllnnlty. 1 how known
mun skeptical from tho fact that they arrow
up in houses whom religion was owninnc.
Sunday Was ilu- must awful day of tho
wot-ls. They had religion driven into them
with a trip hammer. They were surii-iml
with prayer nu'vtinus. They worn Muilmi
and choked with catechism. Tin-y worn
often told they were the worst lmyn the
person: ever know. inwanm they liked to
ride down hill better than to road Bun!
you'll "Pilgrim's Progress." Whenever
father and mother tnlkml of religion, they
drew down the corners of their mouth and
rolled up their eyes. If any one thing
will send a boy or girl to ruin minor than
another, that is it. If Iliad hnd such a
father and mother, I four I should have
been an infidel. When I was a boy in Sun-
day school, at one time we had a teacher
who. when we were not attentive, struck
an over the head with a New Testament,
and there is a way of being even the Bible
so so to mate it offensive.
Trim If. by m m
Others were tripped up of siisptielsm
from being .rievonaiy wronged by some
men who pmfcsaed to be a Christian.
They had a partner in business who turn-
ed out to he s first class mandrel, though
a pmlcsscd Christian. many years ago
they lost all faith bywhat happened in an
oil nonpsny which was formed amid the
petroleum excitement. The mmpsny
owned no land, or if they did there was
no sign of oil produced. but the primitives
of the umpany was s Presbyterian older.
and the treasurer was an ltplseopsi Vestry»
manned one director was silethedist
clans leader and the other dimers pro-i-
mmature of Bench» and CW
tinsel churches. misdemeanors-sent
telling what fabulous WWII lis-
thls company. Inseam hen M
women who fled a little
’ ill W . _
mam "- ....
fitment-mountain Ibowfor their
' mutant was a beautifully morn-ates
to iiomevlmes that man, looking
,pvsvhisoid papers. mamas-sear-
tc. and it is so suggestive that he
he wants none or the religion that
psasideMs and tmtees and directors
of that oil company pmiesaed. Of course
their rejection of religion on such grounds
was nnphilosophical and unwise. I am
told that many of the Unlted,.8tstes army
desert every year, and there are thousands
of court martinis every year. Is that any-
thing against the United States govern
ment that swore than lot And if a sol~
dies of Jesus Christ desert, is that our
thing agal not the Christianity which he
swore to support and defend! How do you
judge of the currency of a eonntryl By a
counterfeit bill! on, you must have psv
. tlenco with those who have been swindled
by religious pretenders. Live in the pres»
once of others a frank, honest. earnest
Christian life, that they may be attracted
to the some Saviour upon whom your
hopes depend.
lit-member skepticism always has some
reason. good or had. for existing. Goethe’s
irreligion started when the news more to
Gcrmnny of the earthquake at Idsbon. Nov.
1, 1775. That 60,001) people should have
perished in that earthquake and in theaftr
er rising of the Togas so stirred his symv
pathles that he threw up his belief in the
goodness of God. ‘
A Dark land.
Others have gone into skepticism from
a natural persistence in asking the reason
why. The have been fearfully stabbed
of the int rogniion point. There arose
many things they cannot get explained.
They cannot understand the Trinity or
how God can be sovereign and yet man a
free agent. Neither can I. They say, “I
don't understand why a good God should
have let sin come into the world."
Neither do I. You say, “Why wm that
child started in life with such disadvan-
tages, while others have all physical and
mental cqnipmentl" Iconnot tell. They
go out of church on Easter morning and
say, “That doetrine of the resurrection
confounded me.” So it is to me a mystery
beyond unrnvclment. I understand all the
processes by which men get into the dark.
I know them all. I have crawled with
burning feet that bilstcn‘d way. The first
wordwhlch most children learn to utter
is “Papa," or"Mammn.” but I think the
first Word I ever uttered was “Why?" I
know what it is to have n hundred midv
nights pour their darkness into one hour.
Such men are not to imscofl’mi, but helped.
Turn your back upon a drowning man
when you have the ropcwith which to pull
him ashore and lot that Woman in the
third story of a house perish in the (lorries
when you how a lmhivr with which in
help luvr out and in-lp lu'i' down. rutiu r
than turn your hark sroiilngly on a shop-
ilf‘, \riunu soul is in morn p-‘i'li than the
- b:"i(ll(':i of [Lily-ii liilii‘f‘ i‘mlnliprri-li onus {ms-
siliiy can in».
land.
Uh, skipzirmu is ndnrk
’f'lnrc urn mm in this human who
. would piw n (lilriir‘llliil world-g if lhvy pus»
lif‘hu'l‘ll than, to not back to Ilil‘lilfli.lll faith
of tin ir fathers and mutiwrs, :imi it is our
place to help them. and We may llt‘lp
them, never through their brads. hot air
way: through their hn-nrts. leso skep-
rim. when brought toJesus, will in: might
ily cfi'cctlw. for more so than tlmsu who
never examined the evidences of Chris
tinnify.
’l‘humns Chalmers was once a skeptic.
Rillll‘l'l; Hall is okoptir, Robert Newton a
skeptic. ('lif’lrlllllls‘ limos a skeptic lint
whun rim-o, with ril’mig hand, they took
hold of iliorhnrlnl of tho gospel they‘rollcd
it on with win! limmcnmm.’ If I address
such men nnd wunn-n today, I throw out
no scotI. I impivml tlwm by the rm-mory
of the good old days wiwn at their moth-
er's knee fin-y mid, "Now I lay Illf‘fluWn
tn sloop.“ flllil Ly Vim-u days and nights of
scarlet fever in which .~iw wurvhul you.
giving you the nu-dlciim nt jlz-t the right
limi- nnd turning your pillow win-u if was
hot. and with Iillllil‘l that many years :ign
turnml loilust mviilrd away your pain,
and with l‘lllf‘i‘ that you will nm‘vr hour
mruin. unlws you join lwrin tho lottrr
moutry. will you in m-wr mind, for you
Would furl “111“! by and ly. and by that
dying: (mu-H. v. lil‘l’i' slu- l'lil‘ni'fl so pain and
luillml so you 25‘. cinching ln-r liri'nili lw
twu n :in- \nrrzh. moi you felt. on {lil‘flll
lulu inn-n ruining ni‘lr your soul—My oil
that. i in: you in «mm fowl. and who the
iiiillm r: liglwli it um good enough fur
hrr. it is glunlrnmmii for you. Say. I
have n lwilrr pin-u than limit. I plrznl by
oil the Wounds and h-nrs and blood and
groans nmi nuunim and fli'llfli tlirovs of the
Sun of find. who approaches you this mn-
mvnt with turn iiruw uml lm-vruiisd hand
and whipped hurl; and saying. "('ouw unto
me, all yowim Mu tummy and heavy laden.
and I will give you rust."
Rom “all I‘m.
Armin. there is u in ill of usei'ulm-ss but
little touched. oomph-d by thaw who am 1
astrny in tin-ll: lml its. All nurliwrn no-
tions», like thus.» of North America and
England and Smilmnimtimt in, in the
i‘liltltil‘l‘lllllllii'iiwlil‘u(li‘t‘lmllliril by alcohol.
ism. Thu-y ruin» ihn'iirvlo imp up the
warmth. In muthrrn commune,
Arnbia and Spain, the blond is so warm
they are not. tompml to fiery liquid». The
meat liunum armies non-r drunk any»
thing atrium" than water tiiiui'li with
vinegar, but under our nortlwm rllmnte
the temptation to hunting stinininntsls
moat mighty, and millions sticcumh.
When a nion'a habits go wrong, the church
drops him. the mini f‘ll‘l‘ll! drops him,
send influence drop» him. we all drop
him. or all the men who not of! trains.
but few ever get on again.
Near my summer rcnldcnm there isa
life saving station on the lunch. There
are all the mpes and entrain, the imais. the
machinery for getting people off Phlp'
wrecks. One summer! saw there leer
20 men who were Milkfflllflnfl' elm hav-
ing just escaped with their lives and both.
in; more. lip and down our crusts an
built those awful structures. and the mar-
iners know it,.sn:i they laid flint if they
are driven lure the breakers there will he
apt from shore to comers rescue. The
churches of (led ought in he no ninny life
saving stations, not so lunch to help those
who In in tmmifli Illfi‘r‘l. but firm who
have been shipwn l‘lal‘il. (Janus, let on ma
not the lifelmaisi And who will man
them! We «in not prom-h enough to such
men. We here not enough faith in their
release. Aloe. if when they come to hear
no we are laboriously trying to show the
dilemma between mill-mariachi and
snprsiepsnissism, whilethey hares their
and time of mas and deaprllr coiling
mound and hiring their immortal splrltsi
The church is not chiefly for mull-h sort
of also where miieiusssre all rim.
like I 00'
bemoan, the destitute children of .
the streets offer a field of wash/compare-
tivsly unoccupied. The uncured forohil-
:lren min the malarityln master our
cities. Thairoonditicn was well illustrat'
ed bywhataboy lnthlseityaaid when he
was found under a art gnawing a bone;
sndsorneonesald tohirn, "thrsdoyon
liv ” and he answered. "Don't live no
where, sir!” Seventytboneand of the chil-
dren of New York city can neither read
our write. When they grow up. if unre-
formed, they will entrees your children,
and they will govern your children. The
whisky ring will hatch out other whisky
rings, anti gmgshops will kill with their
horrid stench public sobriety. unless the
church of Gad rises up with outstretched
arms and unfolds this dying population in
her bosom. Public schools cannot do it
Art galleries cannot do it. Blackwell’s is.
land cannot do .. Almshouses cannot do
it New York ombs cannot do it. Sing
Sing cannot do it. People of (ind, wake
up to your magnificent mission! You can
do it. Get smoowhoro, somehow, to work.
The Prussian mvolry mount by putting
their right foot into the stirrup, while the
American cavalry mount by putting their
left foot into the stirrup. I don’t care
how you mount {our war charger if you
only get into th bottle for God and get
there 5mm, right stirrup, or left stirrup,
or no stirrup at all. The unoccupied fields
are all around us, and why should we
build on another man’s foundation?
I have heard of what was called the
"thundering legion. " It was in 179, a
part of the Roman army to which some
Christians belonged, and their prayers, it
was said, were answered by thunder and
lightning and hall and tempest, which
overthrew an invading army and saved
the empire. And I would to God that you
could be so mighty in prayer and work
that you would become a thundering lo
glen, before which the forces of sin might
be routed and the gates of hell mode to
tremble. All aboard now on the gospel
ship! If you mount be a captain or a. first
mate, be a Stoker, or a dockhnnd, or ready
at command to climb the ratiines. iii-ave
away now, lads! Shake out the reefs in
the foretupsuill Como. 0 heavenly wind,
and fill tho canvas! Jesus aboard will as-
sum our filifr‘fy. Jesus on the son will
beckon us forward, Jesus on the shining
share will welcome as into harbor. "And
so it came to pass that they all escaped
safe to land. ' '
OLSEN Ill“.
3 BiZEllE Blilllllllli.
Encouraged by our increasing trade
and hoping that we may increase our
sales for the next month, we will have
iANNUAL
January and February
SALE
to reduce our stock.
Here are a few of the good things:
40 pro. Ladim' Turn Pct. Leather Slip-
pers, worth 2 00. at I 89.
80 pro. bulim' Turn Kid Slippers,
worth 1.50. M90 ots.
20pm luriim' (l. Welt Pat. Tin Shoes,
”and E width only, worth 4.50, at
t. .
60pm. L'ldlrs' Pat. Tip Opera and
{.3111an Sense Toe Shoes, worth 2.00,
at 1.50.
180 prs. Imiiea' Kiri Common Sense
Welt Shoes, worth it 00. at 2. ill) a pair.
In our lcn's Department. we will
ofler the balance of mll’ well known 3.00
Cork Sole Shoo: at 2 50 a pair.
80 prs. lion's Cork Sole, Lace, Worth
2.00. at fills pair.
30pm. Men's Cork Sole, Lace and
Coozms,(sizes 9. IOand ll), worth
2.50. at 1.2'.
'i'll prs. Men's Grain Shoes, worth
2.00. at 1.50.
dilutes of Ifen’s Antics st 85 etc. a
pair.
85 p". Police Shoes. worth 2.00. at
.50 I Pair.
I40 pro. Men's Shoes at 8-5 cents.
iii) pm. Buyli' Grain Show, worth 1.75,
at 1.25.
Youth in the same, worth 1.85. at
s
'80 pro. Youth’s shoes at 70 cents.
so are. Boys’ Shoes at 80 cents.
An impaction of Our 61de and Our
Prices is s .‘l’sslilve Conviction that
I!!! WHITE sues 8703!
is casting the
Greatest Bargain-
of the season
this: plum?
WATER PfliVEll.
horas ii I
nmm' °~”‘M"
W. McQuhae,
58 North Main 81-. /
' 'inniending’ 7
Flavor to suit the
Taste, is Why ’
Tobacco "
is so Popular
Where a Good
Chew is desired.
WALL PAPER.
I received abl ut seven thous—
and rolls of new goods last
week. Among them a fine line
PRE88ED PIPER, hand made-
Also a large line of [Ulllflus
60098. They are beautiful par-
lor papers. Cheaper goods in an
immense variety. Glad to show
you at any time.
Palmers' Supplies. in-
isis' Materials, Glass. elc.
Competent men for all work
in our line.
E. E. Gorham,
corner Fireflies. and flow 8!.
EAST NORWALK-Q
JUST REGEIVED!
CAR LOAD"
——:0F:—
WASHBHRN’S
FLOU R,
fir»...
Three Car Loads of
ill-ill BllPPEll HITS
TenfiCsr Loads of
CHOICE MICHlGlli fill,
WHICH we; SELL in
Quantities Ti) SUIT Piliiliiillilt
BELOW
MARKET PRICE.
lllMflNll BROS
FINE Millllllllllll WORK
’A SPECIALTY AT
Mrs. Holmes’
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