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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
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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
. ’
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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:
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iy SeL Ale
it x » 4 the
2EN%
ut the
we make of
BHOYAL FAMILY
Now, if 1 sive ld asx,
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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
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sinner!
for the
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could any
a pravel
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start on the
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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
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A “Peacemaker” Not Incladed in
Fe aeiTIg.
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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,