REV. DR. TALMAGE DISCOURSE. ~ Bubfect; “Brilliant Bitterness Attila the : lun Used as a Horrible Exampleis He a Type of the Wormwood Men- tioned in Revelation? “Thera fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters, andthe name of the star {8s called Wormwood."—Revela- tion x., 11. Patrick and Lowth, Thomas Scott, Mat- thew Hanry, Albert Barnes and some other commentators say that the star Wormwood of my text was a type of Attila, king of the Huns. He was so callod because he was brilliant as a star, and, like wormwood, he fmbitterad everything he touched, Wa bave studied the Star of Bethlehem, and the Morning Star of Revelation and the Star of Peace, but my subject calls us to gaze at the star Worm woed. and my theme might be called “Brilliant Bitterness." A more extraordinary character history does not furnish than this man Attila, the king of the Huns, The story goes that one day a wounded heifer came limping along through the flelds, and a herdsman fol- Jowed its bloody track on the grass to see where the heifer was wounded. and went on back, farther and farther, until he came to asword fast in the earth, the point down- ward, as thoughit hdd dropped from the heavens, and awxainst the edges of this sword the heifer had been cut, The herds. man pulled up that sword and presented it to Attila. Attila said that sword must have dropped from the heavens from the grasp of the god Mars, and its being given to him meant that Attila should sonquer and govern the whole earth. Other mighty men have been dalighted at being called liberators or the Meraiful or the Good, but Attila called himself and demanded that others call him “the Seonrgeof God.” At the head of 700,000 troops, mountad on Capopadocian horses, ha swapt every. thing, from the Adriatic to the Black Sea. He put his iron hee! on Macedonia and Greece and Thrace, He made Milan and Pavia and Padua and Verona beg for merev, which ha bestowed not. The By. gantine castles, to meet his ruinous levy, put up at auction massive asflver tables and vases of solid gold. When a city was captured by bim, the inhabitants were brought out and put into three classes. The first class, those who could bear arms, must immediately enlist under Attila or | be butchered; the second class, the beauti- | ful women, were made captives to the | Huns; the third elass, the aged men and! women, were robbed of everything and Jet go back to the city to pav a heavy tax. It was a common saying that the grass never grew where the hoof of Attila’s horse had trod. His armies reddened the waters of the Reine and the Moselle and the Rhine with carnage and fought on the Catalonian plains the flarcest battle since the world stood —300,000 dead left on the field, On and on until all those who eould not op. pose him with arms lay prostrate on their faces in prayer, then a cloud or dust was geen in the distance, and a bishop eried, It is the ald of God.” and all the people took up the crv. *“Itis the aid of God.” As tha cloud of dust was blown nside the banners of re-enforeing armies marebad in to help against Attila. “The Scourge of | God.” The most unimportant ocourrences | he used as asupernatural resource, After | three months of failure to captures the elite of Aquileia, when his army had given up the siege, the flight of a stork acd Le: young from the tower of the sity was taken | by bim as a sign that ho was to eanture the | eity, and bis army, insoired with the same occurence, resumed the siege and took the walls at a point from which | the stork had emerged. So brilliant was the congueror in attire that his enemies conld pot look at him, Sut shaded their eves or turned their heads. Slain on the evening of his marriage by his bride, Ildico, who was hired for the as. | sassination, his followers bewalled him, pot with tears, but with blood, cutting | themesives with knives and lances, He | was put into three cofias, the first of iron, the second of silver and the third of gold. He was buried by night, and into his | grave was poured the most valuable coins and precious stones, mounting to the wealth of a kingdom. The gravediggers and all those who assisted at the burial wore massacred, so that it wonld naver be | known where so much wealth was en- | tombed, i The Boman ampire conquered the world, but Attila conquered the Roman empire. | He was right in calling himsell a scourge, but instead of being ‘the scourge of God” he was the scourge of hell, Because of his brillianey and bitterness, the commentators might well have sup. posed bim to be the star Wormwood of the | text. As the regions he devastated were ports most opulent with fountains and | streams and rivers, vou see how graphie | my text is: “There fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it | fell upon the third part of the rivers, and! upon the fountains of waters, and the name of the star is called Wormwood." Have you ever thought how many smbit- tered lives there are all about us, misan- throple, morbid, acrid, satarnine? The European plant from wbich wormwood is extracted, Artemisia nhsinthium, is a per ennial plant, and all the year round ft is ready to exude its oil. And in many hu- man lives there is a perennial distiliation of acrid experiences, Yen, there are some whose whole work Is to shed a baleful in- fluences over others. There are Attilas of the home, Attiins of the social circle, At. tilas of the church, Attias of the State, and one-third of the waters of all the world are | poisoned by the falling of the star Worm- wood. Iti= not complimentary to human nature that most nen, as soon as they get great power, become overbearing, The more power men have the better, if their power be used for good, The less power men have the better, if they use it for evil. But are any of you the star Wormwood? Do you scold and growl from the thrones paternal or maternal? Are your children everlastingly pecked at? Are you always erving “Hush!” to the merry voices and swift feet, and to the laughter, whieh oscasionally trickles through at wrong times, and is suppressed by them untii they can hold it no longer, and all the ‘barriers burst into unlimited guffaw and eachinnation, as in high weather the water has trickled through a slight open- ing fa the milldam, but afterward makes wider and wider breach until ft carries all before it with irresistible freshet? Do not be too much offended at the noise your ehiliren now make, It will be still enough when one of them is dead. Then you would give your right band to hear one shout from the silent voles, or one step from the still foot, You will not any of you have to wait very long before your houses is stiller than you want it. Alas that there are so many homes not known to the Soelety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ‘where children are whacked and cuffed and ear pulled, and senselessly called to order, and answered sharply and suppressed, un- til it is a wonder that under such procvesss they do not all turn out Nana Sahibs! © Bat I will Shange this and sup you diy Proapasity. hen you jaige op} nity. You ean encour by buying his pleture, You ean fmprove the fi , the stables, the by introducing higher style of horse and cow and sheep, or a Peter Cooper ors William PE. Dodm did whi'a living or is doing now that he i dead, There is not a city, town or neigh Lorhood that has not glorious speeimens ¢f consecrated wenlth, k But suppose you grind the face of the poor, Suppose. when a man's wnges are due, you make him wait for them because he eannoot help himself, Suppose that, be causes his family f= sick and he has had ex. tra expanses, he should politely ask von ta raise his wages for this year, and von roughly tell him if he wants a better place to go and get it. Sunpose, by your man- per, act as thoueh Le were pothing and you were savervthing, Suppose you are anlfish and overbearing and arrogant. Your first name ought to ba Attila and your last name Attila, becauss vou are the star Wormwood and von have imbittered one-third, {I not three-thirds of the waters that roll past vour employes and opera- tives and dependents and associates, and the long line of earringes which the under. taker orders for your funeral in order to make the oceasion respectable will ba filled with twice nas many dry, tearless eyes, as there are persons ocenpving them, Yon will be in the world but a few minutes, As comparad with eternity, the stay of the longest life on earth {8 not more than a minute. What are we doing with that minute? What is true of individunis i= trne of nations. God sets them up to revolve as stars, but they may fall wormwood Tyre-. the atmosphere of the desert, fragrant splees coming in caravans to her fairs: all sens eleft into foam by the keels of her laden merchantimen: her markets rich with horses ard camels from Toearmah: the bazaar filled with upholstery from Dedan, with emerald and coral and aecate from Syria, with mines from Helbon, with embroidered work from Ashur and Chile mad, Where now the gleam of her towers, where the roar of her chariots, where the masts of her ships? Let the fishermen who dry their nets wheres once she stood, let the sea that rushes npon the barrenness where ones she challenged the admiration of all nations, let the barbarians who set get their rude tents whera ance her palaens glittered, answer the questions, She was a star, but by her own sin turned to worm- wood and has fallen, Hundred gated Thebes forail time to be thestudy of antiquarian and hieroglyphist, Her stupendous ruins spread over twenty. seven miles, her sculptures presenting in figure of warrior and shariot the vietories with which the now forgotien kings of Egvpt shook tha nations; her obelisks and i columns: Karnak and Luxor, the stupend. ous temples of her pride! Who ean imagine the greatness of Thebes inthore dave, when the hippodrome rang with her sports and foreign rovaity bowed at her shrines. and her avenues roarad with the wheels of pro- cessions inthe wake of returning ronqurora? What spirit of deatrgetion spread the alr of wild beats in her royal sepulechers and taught the miserable cottagars to-day to build huts in the courts of her temples and sent desolation and rin skulking be. hind the ohelisks, and dodging among the sarcophagi, and leaning against the col- umns, and stooping amon the arches, and weapiog in the waters which go mourns. fully by, a= though they wera carrying the tears of all the ages? let the mummies break their long silence and come up to shiver in the desolation and point to fallen gates and shattered statues and defaced | senlpture, responding: “Thebes huilit not | one temple to God, Thebes hated right. | and loved sin. Thebes wane a | star, bat she turned to worm wood and has fallen.” Babyion, with her 250 towers and her brazen gates and her embattied walle, the aplendor of the earth gathered within her gates, her hanging gardens by Ns. buchadnezzar to pleasa his bride. Amytis, who had been brought up ina mo ous country and tO i not sn fare t of built n ir at | These hanging gardens buflt terrace above terrace i helght of 400 fest WOH waving and fountains slaving, the verdurs, | the foliage, the glory, looking as if a mon tain ware on the wing, On theres were aR e at birds | drinking | his white, (een amon owe statuss, snowy ® uy brought from an out of tankards of solid gold or off | over rivers and "kes upon nations subdaad “Is not this great distant looking Babvlon which What batterd What plowshare upturned What army shalterad the brazen gates? long, flerce blast of storm put out Haht which flluminated the world? What crash of discord drove down the mu- sic that poured from palace window and ealied the banqueters to thelr revel and the dancer to thelr foal? 1 walk upon the scene of desolation to find an answer and piek up pieces of bitumen pottery, the remains I hear the wild waves saying: proud. Babylon was im. sabylon was & star, but by sin she turned to wormwood and has fallen.” From the persecutions of the pligrim fathers and the Huguenots in other lands God set upon these shores a nation. The smote the walls? the gardens? £ mam the greater light of a [rea government, The sound of the warwhoon was exchanged for the thousand wheels of enterprise and pro- gress, The mild winters, the frulttul sam. mers, the bheaithiul skies, charmed {rom other lands a race of bardy men, who loved God and wanted to be free. Before the woodman’s ax forests fell and rose again into ships” masts and eohurobhes’ pillars, Cities on the banks of lakes be. gan to rival eities by the sea. The land quakes with the rush of the rail ear, and the waters are churned white with the steamer’'s wheel Fabulous bushels of Western wheat meet on the way fabulous bushels of Eastern coal. Fars from the North pass on the rivers fruits from the South. And trading in the same market are Maine lumbermen and South Carolina rice merchant and Ohio farmer and Alaska fur dealer, And churches and sehools and asylums seatter light and love and marcy and salvation upon 70,000,000 of people. I pray that our nation may not copy the erimes of nations that have perished; that our cup of blessing turn sot to wormwood and we go down. Iam by nature and by grace an optimist, and I expeot that this country will continue to advance until the world shall resch the millenial era. Our only safety is in righteousness toward God and justice toward man. If we forget the goodness of the Lord to this land and break his Sabbaths, and improve not by the dire disasters thet have again snd again come to us as a people, and we learn saving lesson neither from civil war nor raging epidemie. nor drought, nor mildew, nor scourge of locust and grasshopper; il the political corrap- tion which has poisoned the foundations of public virtue and limed the high plnces of authority, makiog free govern- ment at times a hissing and a byword in all the earth; if the drunkenness and J. ecentiousnoss that stagger and blasphems in the streets of our great cities, as though they were reaching after the fame of a Cor. inth and a Bodom, are not repented of, we will yet see the smoke of our nation’s ruin. The pillars of our national and State eapi- tos will fall more disastronsly than when Hampson pulled down the Dragon, and future historians will record upon the page bedewed with genorous tears the story that the frees nation of the west arose in splendor which made the world stare, it had magnificent possibilities; it forgot God; it hated justioe; it hugged its erimes ft halted on its high mared; ft under the blow of calam it fell, and as it was going down ail the despotisms of earth from the of bloody thrones to shout: Bo would we have it!” while stra les looked IT GUSTS YO! NOTHING ut a postal to find out you are paying double our prices vn Furniture, Carpets, Rugs. 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