# DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON, Disabled Hunters. “*Phe lame take the proy.' Isa. 3 : 23. THE utter demolition of the Assyrian frost was here predicted. Not only ro- twist men should go forth and gather the spoils of conquest, but even men crippled of arm and crippled of foot should go out and capture much that was valuable. Their physical disad- vantages should not hinder their great enrichment. So it has been in the past, se it is now, so it will be in the future, &o itis in all departments. Men labor under seemingly great disadvantages, and amid the most unfavorable circum- stances, yet making grand achieve- ments, getting great blessing for them- salves, great blessing for the world, great blessing for the church, and so “the lame take the prey.” BLIND POETS, Do you know that the three great | poets of the world were totally bhind? | $lomer, Ossian, John Milton. Do you know that Mr. Prescott, who wrote that enchanting book, “The Conquest of Mexico,” never saw Mexico, couid not even see the paper on which he was wit A frame-work across the | sheet, between which, up and down, went the pen immortal. Do you know that G t ulptor, could not see the marble | i which he cut it nee? ing: LINDASSIO, He 3 wfore him, or the ch into shapes be- | 11 1 will last he English language, iN inya id tha he | ID every moining in as | sa poems sewed Was iu yrder to stand on his feet at al did much of the shadow had been Do you almost supe to con painter, derful work under dungeon, where he imprisoned for debt? that Demosthenes, by first had juer his own speech he semblages with his eloquence? Bacon struggled all Lirated 1 exertion, before con- | quered IO v¢ throu sick nesses, that Lord Byron and Sir Walter wel i on clubfoot their life, and that many of the poets and painters and orators and his torians and heroes of the world ha something k, and pull them down, and impede their way, and cripple their physical or their in ual n it they push- | axl uj spoils of | worldly success, and huzza of natio; pe and i lame took the prey?” Y ols K) these 1 age ol to keep them ba 3] 3 vement, and yet Lh ntil they reached Lie 1 113 § than anid the Ge Fergu the s one; Ww 308 soe thie bust frames and I have noticed class those who have Bible, among th the gre: ige of NTIMACY WITII JESUS wve the most glowing e ) truth, who have had the most arkable answers to prayer, and who hh wse most exhilarant anticipations of | Heaven. The temptations which weary | us who are in robust health they sonquered, They have divided amoug them the spoils of the conquest. Many who are alert and athletic and swarthy foiter in the way. are the.lame that take the prey. Robert Hall, an invalid, Edward Payson, an pvalid, | Richard Baxter, an invalid, Samuel Rutherford, an invalid. This morning, when you want to call to mind those who are most Christlike, you think of some darkened room in your father’s twuse from which there went forth an | nfluence potent for eternity. \ step farther: Through raised Jet- | res the art of printing has been brouglit to attention of the blind. You take | a ¢ Dible for the blind, and you Your eyes, and you run your fing- ver the raised letters, and you say: | “Why I never could get any mmforma- t u this way. way of reading! God help the Blind.” Amd vet I find among that vlass of persons, among the blind, the | . deaf and the dumb, the most thorough acquaintance with God’s word. Shut | out from all other sources of Informa. | tien. no sooner does their hand touch | the raised letter than they gather a Without eyes, they look off | upenn the Kingdoms of God's love, Wituout hearing they catch the min | stielsy of the skies, Dumb, yet with | pencil, or with irradiated countenance, they declare the glory of God, A large audience assembled in New York atthe anniversary of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and ene of the visi- tors with chalk on the blackboard wrote this question to the pupils: “Do you nob find it very hard to be deaf anu dub?” And one of the pupils took the 1aaik and wrote on the blackboard ris SUBLIME SENTENCE in owaswer: “Whe the song of the an- gels shall burst upon our enraptured ear, we will scare regret that our ears were never marred with earthly sounds” OL! ths brightest c¢yes in Heaven will be those that never saw on earth, The enis most alert in Heaven will be those that in this world heard weiter volee of friend, nor thrum of harp, nor carol of bird, nor doxvlogy ov eongregations, A lad who had been blind fromm in. fancy was cured. The oculist operated apon the lad, and then put a very heavy bandage over the eyes, und after u few HAVE | , "hese BIN On ; brous praver, removed, and the mother said to her child: “Willie, can you see?” lle said: “Oh! mamma, is this Heaven?” The contrast between the darkness before and the brightness afterward was over- whelming, And I tell you the glories of Heaven will be a thousandfold brighter for those who never saw any- thing on earth, While many with good vision closed their eyes in night, and many who had a good, artistic, and cultured ear went down into discord, these afflicted ones cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and He made thelr sorrows advantage, and so *‘the lame took the prey.” In the seventh century there was A LEGEND OF MODOBERT. s57T, It was sald that his mother was blind, and one day while looking at hismother he felt so sympathetic for her blindness that he rushed forward and kissed her blind eyes, and, the legend says, her vision came immediately, That was only a legend, but it is a truth, a glori- ous truth, that a Kiss of God's eternal love has brought to many a blind eye eternal illumination, A step further: There are those in all communities who toil mightily for a livelihood. They have scant wages, Perhaps they are diseased, or have phy- infirmities, so they are hindered y doing a continuous day's work, city missionary up the lark alley, with no fire, with thin cloth- with very coarse bread, They rer ride in the t-car; they ci not afford the tive I'hey never see any pictures save those in the show- window on the stree which they jostle at by som say in the look: loing here 1! finds them Sti cents, t, often { looked who seems what e you picts transiigur- ation, thei u table Ile who b the brea I. n of the i tim his world has no charm nirances then I'hey talk oft them, but heaven They often with forlorn at their door ! st of the night-wind, as LOT spirit, divi wretch SOM tor f g 3 night, at al who sald: *'1 was hungry an * No cohort of Heaven will to transport them, A uls 2y ildY¥e Vv { Ags hey jt BDOLIS, i i ¥iv iy men | do not ut evers ryt rial me, Lawe awfully {f tem t mu and : mnastersd ¥i y lame: frills ne LUilY ialne, took the LOOK Li ¢ A step furt rommunities . ’ " yah] 1 wer: There are MANY ORPHANS, and my father i war.” Have you ever noticed] fear you have those children have turned out? 11 ad vs 21 Bea in Jae $ i - 1 10% OW Wel $ + Lars orphan asylum could do for their father would lived. The sk the light o writing a leter shooter's bullet ended t never folded, never posted, and never read. Those ch ldren dunder great dmsadvantage. to fight their way for them. there was in the old family yellow letter pasted fast, hem what have done had rmisher sat fagots, in the swamp, me, when a one / ah ne came up No &T aps how he suffered in the hospital; but to the story of fatheriess, aml widow's portion, and they soon took They came on up, and many of them State, While who suffered nothing had out into lives of indolence and vaga- bondage, these who started under so many disadvantages, because they were 80 early bereft, these are the lame who took the prey, A step further: There are those who would like to do good, They say: “OH! IF I HAD WEALTH, or, if 1 had eloquence, or if I had high tocial position, bow much 1 would ac complish for God and the church! | stand here to-day to tell you that you have great opportunities for usefulness, Who buit the Pyramias? The king who ordered them built? No; the plain workmen who added stone after stone and stone after stone. Who built the dikes of Holland? The government that erdered the enterprise? No; the plain workmen who carried the earth and rung their trowel on the wall, Who are those who have bLullt these vast cities? The capitalists? the carpenters, the masons, the | “ the plasterers, the tuners, th. 4 dependent on a day's wages for .. lie hood, And so in the great wo ld of ns positions in church and many of* those . weeks had gone by, the bandage was suaging human suffering and enlighit- ening human ignorance and halting human inquity. In that great work, the chief part is to be done by ordinary men, with ordinary speech, in an ordi- nary manner, and by ordinary means, The troubls is that in the army of Christ, WE ALL WANT TO BE CAPTAINS and colonels and brigadier-generals, We are not willing to march with the rank and file and to do duty private soldier, We want to belong to feet upon an ottoman, we sagging back into an arm-chair, As you go down the street, you see an excavation and four or five men are working, and per- haps twenty or thirty leaning on the rail looking over at them, That is the way it is in the church of God to-day: where you find one Christian hard at work, there are fifty men watching the job. Oh! my friends, why do you not go to work and preach this Gospel? You say: *‘I have no pulpit,” You have. It may be the carpenter’s bench, it may be the mason’s wall. The robe In which you are to proclaim this Gospel may be a shoemaker’s apron, But woe unto you if you preach not this (rospel somewhere, somehow! ever brought to Christ, it will through the unanimous and long-con- tinued efforts of men who, waiting for NO SPE i1AL 1 NDOWMENT, they people talents, whiie have. in the (x what Among the most le world are men ten LILA TRY with only two t ] ing a take of never ue consecrate Lo abs with talents, Breal the a ole ne ousands have i Hu Warrin Men Ck le uri vast estate’ that at all frie: % 1§ $ iy SeL Ale it x » 4 the 2EN% ut the we make of BHOYAL FAMILY Now, if 1 sive ld asx, } . W GOD HAS A sroval families of history vou would say, “House of Hapsburg, House of Stuarts, House of Dourbons.! in palaces, and had grea jut who are the Lond's Rome of them may serve Hved t roval family? vou in the househ wilk this afternoon down the street, their arm a basket of broken food; some of them are in and i rejected On the almshomse, despised met; yel in the Jast will be found that us who fared sumptuoun<ly are hurled back into disc will 0 of fiture , there are the lame that the prey, Oue step further: There are a great many people discouraged about getting to Heaven You are brought up in good families, you had Christian parentage; but you frankly tell me that you are a thousand miles away from the right track. My brother, you are the one | want wo preach to this morning, 1 have been looking for you. I will tell you, HOW YOU GOT ASTRAY. It was not maliciousness on your part, It was perhaps through the geniality and sociality of your nature that you : 3 fell into sin. You wandered away from your duty, you unconsciously lefl the house of God; you admit the Gospel to be true, and yet you have 80 grievously and =o prolongedly wandered, you say rescue is impossible. It would take a week to count up the nam of those in Heaven who were on earth worse than you tell me vou are, They went the whole round of inlanity. they Aan nN disgraced themselves, they disgraced their household, they despaired of return because their reputation was gone, their property was gone, everything was but in some. hour Jike this heard the voice of God, and themselves on the divine and they rose up And I tell vou there is the same chance for you, This reason why I like to preach this Gospel, so free a Gospel, so tremendous It takes a man all wrong gone, they threw 18 Ole fn Crospel, In a former settlement where 1 ie i quitted the house of God, quitted pectable circle, went nto all 8 Yies of sin, and was slain of his iniquity, The day for his burial came, and his body was brought to the house of God, Bome of were overheard along the street, on the way to the burial, saying: “Come, let go and hear Talmage damn this old Ol! I had nothing but te dead, and I had invitations for the living. not do otherwise, Jesus came to seek and si » Christ In ‘Father, forgive Was 131 4 HE sinner! for the Ars could any a pravel ' vt mn 1} start on the Oh! I am safe within a — General Arthur's Greatest Service. Ti a New “The most Arthur 1 § nv SAYS Mr. # 5 358 wi wii NTL YR to hie i HPO; rendered that of sprinkling foreign i America. kindle HNDOCeSSAry asting i seeing how time has cooled expen ce backward, and the Lad blood of that and settled without the 2 dollar on our part, and how friendly feelings uave taken of hate and fear by neo other effort than taking our hands out of other people's affairs, we cannot fail to appreciate Ms Arthur's service in that crisis." i ——————— BREVITIES, the old Tne Christian Kingdom Society has been established m Eugland to promote on Earth and Good Will to Rev, Alex Smith, A. M., is the srganizer Tie 27th of each month adopted at the saggestion World's Advance Thought. Portland, Oregon, as a day for united prayer throughout the world for the establish- ment of universal peace. Ture State Doard of Arbitration of Massachusetts, has recently decided several important labor cases in Ply- mouth Foundry, the Weymouth hand- sewers shoe trade, and J. W, Ingalls & Son, shoe manufacturers, Lynn, Tue Philadelphia Record says after the Superintendent had inspected and rormally accepted a six inch steel gun, a Daltimore, mechanic discovered a flaw io the powder chamber that proved the gun useless, although it cost $5 Grex. HArNEY, of the Unlle States army, is the oldest man on the register. Ile became a soldier in 1818, and participated in every war in which ‘he country has engaged since tha! ime. He 13 86 years of age and very rich. has been of The SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, Buxpay, June 17, 1438, The Great Commission LESSON TEXT, (Matt. 28: 16.20, Memory verses, 15.20) PLAN. ARTER LESSON Toric ov THE Qi King in Zion, Jesus the GOLDEN TEXT FOR THE QUARTER: Dut we behold him wu ho hath Leen made a Jesus, because of the suflering of death crowned fleb, 2 little lower than the angels, even ‘ J. Lesson Toric: ng Nover« nly. C1. In Hind The King Frercis- isims, ve, 16.15, . In His Commands, ve, 19 in His Assurances, v. 99, | GOLDEN TEXT: The Lord gate the Y Home READINGS: Matt, 26 «+ 16-20, Exerc ignty. Mark 16 xercised, Yer 14-20, Son 14: 2 Worthy to be Warshiped : fie hipped him {17 WV Lil wen Acts 8 To Baptize: to teach (Acts d : 42). Thes AS No 1 : 28). mmand and teach (1 HO YE make disciples Uhristian mi n 1s] (2 To At what aimed, of the Father and of of the folyv Ghost! name: (2) The ati lv whom carried: (3 2. “The NO ns," pel name and The one triple sonality, “Teaching them 3: (2) The pupils; (4 SON i Of "ersonal Fellowship: 20). " IN HIS ASSURAN( I's Lo, 1 am with you Fear thou not, for 1 am with thee (Isa, 41 : 10). I will not leave you desolate; I come unto you {John 14 : 18), fut the Lord stood by me (2 Tim. 4 : 17). I will come in to him, and will sup with him Rev. 3 : 20), . Of Constant Fellowship: I am with you r ways (20). We will....make our abode with him {John 14 : 23). That Christ may dwell in your hearts (Eph, 3:17). Christ in you (Col. 1 : 27). Our fellowship is with... . his Son Jesus Christ (1 John 1 : 3). HL. Of Eternal Fellowship. I am with you,....even unto the end of the world (20). Where [ am, there ye may be aso (John 14 : 3). So thill we ever be with the Lord (1 Thess. 4 : 17). Neither will I in any wise forsake thee (Heb, 13 : 5). He shall go out thence no more : “). (Hev, 3 1. “Lo, I am with you prising revelation; (2 ing revelation;(3) An as lation. “Allway -~ margi avs.” (1) Davs Davs of adversity: (4) Daves of | earth; (5) Days in of repose > A “Peacemaker” Not Incladed in Fe aeiTIg. The . ¢ suriace ar fron : at that ad bed ie reid CAITeq in i. A sr Yogk § ¢ FOO DOL Tear a man-ol Yi not checked by net » Ad mn lease Lhe torpedoes, which will imm diately become attached A few rev takes the boat to 1 the ix those on i she has been att LOOT. SCTIew A marvelous lads that 5 g $a of Lis st thon Can anything more nears infernal mechanism be i . Pros] de a Christian nation « of destruction invenlea? 1180 n ail 13 inonsier Against name it have this elect its use for buil ger boat of this chisracter, ' t was $1355, 000, $ 3% Ss i AIA 555 of Defence Solomon's System no | MARZ 10 “Do you think it woul I be we me to learn the noble of self«<de- fence?" a religiously inclined youth in- q fred of his pastor, “Certainly not,” answered the min. ister. ‘1 Jearned it in youth myseif, and I have found il of great value dur- ing my life,” “Indead, sir! Did you English system, or Suilivau’s system? “Neither, 1 learned Solomon's sys. tem,” replied the minister, ‘solomon’s system?" “Yes, You will find it laid down in the first vers: of the fifteenth chap. ter of Proverbs: ‘A soft answer turneth away wrath, It is the best system of self-defence of which 1 have any knowledge.” earn the old Hs 1 Trust that the effo.ts for abitra- tion wy pave the way for a higher order of eivilization and Christianity; a state in which exercise of brate foroe for the settlement of disputes will be relegated to a sphere oulside of the humax family, -FINLRY ACKER,
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