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would receive them; Jesus would weep over chords them
and would tell the angels of God to strike new
of music in praise of this greatest of blessings.
THE BEST GUEST.
INVITING RELIGION INTO THE HOUSEHOLD-
SERMON BY THE REV. DR. TALMAGE.
After Dr. Talmage had immersed several converts
and announced the continuance of the Brooklyn
Tabernacle revival services for another week he
took his text from Joshua, xxiv., 15-" As for me
and my house, we will serve the Lord." Dr. Tal-
mage in the course of his sermon presented a picture
of the Talmage family life in New Jersey as follows -
My grandfather and grandmother went from Som-
under erville the ministry of Dr. Finley. They were so
to Basking Ridge to attend revival meetings im
pressed with the meetings that when they came
back to Somerville they were seized upon by a great
desire for the salvation of them. That even-
ing my grandmother said to the children,
the children were going off to a gay "When party
and you get all ready for the entertainment come into tell
room; I have something very important to
you." my After they were all ready for the gay enter-
tainment they came into my grandmother's
and she said to them. "Go and
room a good time, but while you are
have
I want you to know I am praying
gone for and will do nothing but pray for you until
you back." They went off to the gay entertain-
you ment. get They did not enjoy it much, because they
thought all the time of the fact that grandmother The
was children returned. The next day my grandparents
praying for them. The evening passed.
heard sobbing and crying in the daughter's room,
and vation of God, and she said-her daughter Phebe the
they went in and found her praying for the sal-
said:-"I wish you would go to the barn and to
wagon house, for Jehiel and David (the brothers) grand- are
under powerful conviction of sin." My
went to the barn, and Jehiel, who afterward
became parents an eminent minister of the Gospel, was im-
knelt with him and commended his soul to Christ,
ploring the salvation of God, and then, having first
they went to the wagon house and there was David
ward became my father. The whole family was
crying for the salvation of God-David, who after-
swept into the kingdom of Jesus Christ. David could
not keep the story to himself, and he crossed
the fields to a farmhouse and told one to
whom he had been affianced the story of his own sal-
vation, and she yielded her heart to God. It was
David and Catharine, and they stood up in the village
church together a few weeks afterward. The story
of the converted household went all through the
neighborhood and in a few weeks 200 souls stood
in the plain meeting house at Somerville to
profess up faith in Christ, among them David and Catha-
rine, and afterward my parents. My mother, im-
pressed with that, in after life. when she had a large
nant with three neighbors, three mothers.
family of children gathered around her, made a cove- They
would meet once a week to pray for the salvation of
their children until all of them were converted.
They kepton in that covenant until all their families
were brought into the kingdom of God, myself that the
last, and I trace this line of converts back to
evening when my grandmother commended our
family to Chtist, the tide of influence going on until
this hour, and it will never cease.
THE DOMINION OF FASHION.
Dr. Pullman, in the Church of Our Saviour, Fifty-
seventh street and Eighth avenue, delivered a lecture
last evening on "The Dominion of Fashion." He
referred to the style of architecture noticeable
in the dwellings of many wealthy people in
this city, antl said that it was false and
meaningless. Architecture and every other art were
intended to have a meaning, but the architecture he
spoke of was due to the ignorance or love of noto.
riety on the part of owners of these residences.
Fashion was a good thing if it was followed in a
sensible manner, but it was harmful when slavishly
adhered to. There were two classes of people in
the world of fashion-the leaders and their follow-
former were the wealthy few and the latter
the ers. herd of imitators. The results of giving up to
the vagaries of fashion were manifold. In the first
place it resulted in extravagance. People spent on
costumes money that could be much better laid out
for more useful things. In many cases poverty and
even starvation at home were preferred to dressing
out of fashion. Another result was dissipation.
In this city there was a vast number of
women who
had
much
idle
time
on
their hands. They spent it all in reading
novels or thinking of dress. A third result was
moral degeneration and a fourth immorality. The
public prints were full of stories of young women
who were driven to choose between the horns of the
dilemma-death or dishonor. In his own experi-
ence there were very many of these cases, and three-
fourths of them were due to the dominion of fashion,
which made it dishonorable for a girlto do domes-
tic work. The woman of fashion was a type of
heartlessness.
SOWING AND REAPING.
Dr. Newman beingill the Rev. Mr. Correy preached
at
the Madison Avenue Congregational Church yes-
terday morning, his text being Galatians, vi., 7-
"For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also
reap." The laws of nature, he said, are the methods
of God. Nature is always honest and her fidelity is
marvellous. She may be perverge at times, but: is
never ambiguous. What is sown will be reaped-
nothing more. You may engraft, but never can in-
oculate nature. What is true in the material world
is true determine their own destiny. Every law
in the moral realm. Men create their own
character and of reward or
of punishment. Every faculty is retributive.
man's being isinvested with the power None
be so. Guilt is not transferable. It attaches
fail character only by transgression. Man cannot
to His character is self-constructive,
sir by proxy. meet and accept the consequences of
and
he
must
Sin
reproduces
itself,
and
in its reproduction has its own retribution.
his own conduct.
Every and none can escape stern justice.
man is responsible for his own reward or
punishment, Your character and your destiny are within your
control. Omnipotence cannot destroy a soul
without own its own consent, but retribution is as cer-
tain the immortality of man. The power of con-
as to the depth of the heart and penetrates
science goes human tribunal can go. It will never con-
ceal where guilt no or avert punishment. The future will for-
ever bring forth the fruits of the past.
LESSONS FOR UNBELIEVERS.
At St. Stephen's Church the Rev. Dr. McGlynn
read to his parishioners the regulations for the due
observance of the coming Passport ok,
and
im-
presso a upon them the necessi
numbent upon

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A third result was\nmoral degeneration and a fourth immorality. The\npublic prints were full of stories of young women\nwho were driven to choose between the horns of the\ndilemma-death or dishonor. In his own experi-\nence there were very many of these cases, and three-\nfourths of them were due to the dominion of fashion,\nwhich made it dishonorable for a girlto do domes-\ntic work. The woman of fashion was a type of\nheartlessness.\nSOWING AND REAPING.\nDr. Newman beingill the Rev. Mr. Correy preached\nat\nthe Madison Avenue Congregational Church yes-\nterday morning, his text being Galatians, vi., 7-\n\"For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also\nreap.\" The laws of nature, he said, are the methods\nof God. Nature is always honest and her fidelity is\nmarvellous. She may be perverge at times, but: is\nnever ambiguous. What is sown will be reaped-\nnothing more. You may engraft, but never can in-\noculate nature. 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The future will for-\never bring forth the fruits of the past.\nLESSONS FOR UNBELIEVERS.\nAt St. Stephen's Church the Rev. Dr. McGlynn\nread to his parishioners the regulations for the due\nobservance of the coming Passport ok,\nand\nim-\npresso a upon them the necessi\nnumbent upon"
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