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: THE
DISCOURSE.
—
| Subjeot; The Responsibility of Those Who
| Are Well and Strong—Physionl Energy
Not ¥adieative of Spiritual Power
ight the Battles of the Weak,
{Copyright 180. |
Wasminorox, D, C.~Ino this discourses Dr,
Palmage sets forth the responsibility of
hose who ars strong aod well, as in a
| tormer discourse he preached to tha dis-
! abled and “the shut in,” text, Judges xiv.,
| 1, “And Samson went down to Timnath.”
| "There are two sides to the character of
3amson. ‘The one phase of his life, if fol.
lowed Into the partisulars, would adminis.
there ia A phase of his character fraught
with lessons of solomn and eternal import,
'o these graver lessons we devote our
jermon,
This giant no doubt in early lille gave
It is al.
most always so. There were two Napolsons
| —the boy Nupoleon and the maa Napoison
-but both alike; two Howards—Llhes boy
Howard and the man Howard-—but both
the man Samson-=hut both alike. This
giant was no doubt the hero of the piay-
ground, and nothing ecouid stand
his exhibition of youthful prowess,
eighteen years of age he was be trothed to
the daughter of a Philistine,
toward Timnath, a lion eame out
him. and, although this young giant
weanponless, ad the monster by the
long mane aud him as a hangry
bound shakes a March hare and made his
rack and eft him by the wayside
bleeding under the smaiting of his and
the grinding heft of
There he stands, looming up above
men. & mountain of flesh, his arms bunched
with muscle that ean lift the gatas of a city,
taking an attitude deflant of everything.
His hair had never been t, and it rolled
down seven great plaits over bis shoul
ders, adding to his bulk flerceness and ter
ror. The Phiilstines want to conquer him,
and they m find ont
the secret of his strength lies,
There is an evil woman lviag in the val
ley of Sorek by the name of Della They
appoint ber the agent in the oase The
wns
Lie sel
shook
bones ¢
fist
itis hee
therefore n
ai
ing, and then Dellianh
“Wall,”
withes
his strength hasays,
seven green such as they Insten
I should be perfectly powerless.” bo
ahe binds him with the seven green withes
Then she ciaps her hands aud says, “They
come—-the Philistines!” and he walks out
as though there were no impediment,
conxes him again and says,
the secret of this great strength, And he
replies, If you should take some rog ed that
have never been used, and tie me with
i should be just like other men.”
him with ropes, claps her hands and sh te,
*They ¢ Philistines! * He walks
out as easily as he did belore--not a slogle
obstruction. She coaxes him again, and
he says, ‘Now, if you should take these
seven long plaits of hair and by this b
joom weave them intoa web, [ could
got AWAY. 8a the loom is rolisd
ap, and the shuttl kward and for
ward, and the long pinits of halr are woven
joto a web. Then she claps her hapds and
says, “They come-the Philistines!” He
walks out as ensily 1 sre, drag
ging a part of the loom him,
But after awhile she |
teil the trath, He says
take a razor or shears and cut off this
hair, 1 i be powerless
bands of myenemies.” Ba
them
She ties
ome-—the
not
ouse
flies ba
@
»
&
as he did bel
with
ersundes
“If you
shoul
mane
wanipuiating the head to th
, instead of waking 5
they will put a man wide awnke 80
saleeg [I hear the blades of the
grinding against each and 1
cks falling off I'he shenes or raz
omplishes what green withes and
ypes and house | wild not Kad
denly she her hands apd The
Philistines | ipon t Samson He
rouses up with a struggle, but his strengtd
is nil gone. He is in the hands of Lis en-
emios
I hear the groan of the giant
take his eyes out, and thea I see him stag
geting on in his blindness, feeling his way
as he goes on toward Gaza, i yi
door is open, and the glant is thrust in
He sits down and puts his haods on the
mill erank, which, with exbausting bori-
rontal motion, goes day after day, weok
after weak, month after month--work,
work, work! The consternation the
world In captivity, his locks shorn, his
eyes punctured, grindiag corn in Gaza!
First of ail, behold in
text that physical power isnot
index of moral power,
~the lion found it
whom he slew found
D2
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A
ri
Maps SAys
a Eo
as
in pris
of
always an
out and the 3000 men
it out; yet he was the
by low passion, [am far from
any discredit upon physical
There are those who seem tO
admiration for delicacy and
constitution. I never conld
in weak nerves or sick headache, Want.
ever effort in our day is made to make the
men and women mora robust should have
the favor of every good citizen as well as
of every Christian, Gymnastics may
positively religious,
Good people sometimes ascribe (0 a
wicked heart what they onght to ascribe
toa slow liver
such pear neighbors that they often catch
each other's diseases. Those who never
saw a sick day and who, like Hercules,
show the giant in the cradle have mors to
answer for than those who are the sab.
jeots of litelong infirmities. He who can
throwing
stamina
bave great
slekness of
ha
| have a double account to meet in the judg-
ment,
How often it is that you do not fad
physical wnergy indicative of
power!
one dizzy with perpetual vertigo, if inuscles
with the play of health (in them are worth
more than those drawn up in shrouie
passing objects is better than one with
vision dim and uncertain, then God will
require of us efficiency just in proportion
to what He has given as. Physioal energy
ought to be a type of moral power We
we have capacity to assimilate food. Our
spirftual hearing cvuglt to be us good as
our physical hearing. Our spiritual taste
| ought to be as clear as our tongue. Ham-
sons in body, we ought to be giants in moral
power,
But while you find a great many men who
| realize that they ought to use their money
| aright and use their intelligence aright,
| how few men you find aware of the fact
| that they ought to use thelr physical or-
| ganism aright! With every thump of the
sart there is something saying: “Work!
Work!” And lest we should complain that
we have no tools to work with, God gives
us our hands and feet, with every knuckle
and with every jolot and with every muscles
saying to us, “Lay hold and do something.”
ut how often it is that men with physi
onl strength do not serve Christ! They are
Hike n ship full manned and fully rigged,
capable of vast tonnage, able to endure all
stress of weather, yet swinging idly at the
doeks when these men ought to be crossing
and recrossing the great ceean of human
suffering and sin with God's supplies of
mercy, How often it is that physical
strength is used in dotag Ponitive damage
or in luxurious eass, when, with sleoves
rolled up and bronmed bosom, feariess of
the shafts of opposition, it ut to be
laying hold with all 1ts might and tugging
away to lft up this sunken wreek of a
world,
It is & most shameful fact that much of
thie business of the shurch and of the world
must be done by those comparatively inva.
1d. Richard Baxter, by reason of his «dis.
oases, all his days sitting in the door of the !
God that will endure as long as “The!
saint's Everlasting Rest;” Edward Payson |
‘never knowing a well day, yet how he |
preached and how he wrote, helping thou.
ands of dying souls like himself to swim io |
n son of glory. And Robert MeCheyne, »
walking skeleton, yet you know what he
did tn Dundes and how he shook Heotland
with zeal tor God: Philip Doddridge, ad |
vised by his friends, because of his illness
not to enter the ministry, yet you know
what he did for the “Rise and Progress ol
Religion’ in the chureh and in the world
Wilberforce was told by his doctors that
ho could not live a fortnight, yet at that
very time entering upon p iinutheoplie en.
terprises that demanded the greatest en.
durance and persistence; Robert Hall, sul.
fering exeruciations, so that often in the
pulpit while preaching he would stop and
ile down on a sofa, then getting up again
to preach about heaven until the glories ol
the celestial city dropped on the multi.
tade, doing more work, perhaps, than al
most any well man io his day.
Oh, how often Is it that men
physioal endurance are not as great io
moral and spiritual stature! While thers
are achievements for those who are bent
all their days with sickness —achisvements
of patience, achievements of Christian en.
durance-—I call upon men of health, mes
of muscle, mon of nerve, men of physical
power, to devote themselves to the Lord
Behold also, in the story of my text, il.
lustration of the fact of the damage that
strength ean do it it be misguided. It
this man spent a great
with great
of my text, To pay a bet which he had
people. He was not only
shiof, and a type of those men in all ages
of the world who, powerfal in body or mind
used thelr strength for
ROS,
iniquiteus
puarp
It is not the small, weak men of the day
who do the damage. These small men who
go swearing and loafing about your stores
aud shops and banking houses, assalling
Christ and the Bible aod the chureh-—they
do not do the damage "hey have no {on
flusncs, They are vermis that you erush
with your foot. Jat it is the giants of the
day, the misguided giants, giants in §
fenl power, Or giants in mental a
or giants in social position,
wealth, who do the da
men with sharp pens th stab re.
ligion and throw poison all through
yur literature, the men who use the power
of wesitt to sanction lpiquity and bribs
make truth and ho bow to
scapter Misguided giants
} : gut for them! In the middie and iat.
tar part of the last century no lvubl t
wers thousands of men in Paris and Edin
! and Loondon who hated God and
blasphemed the name of the Almighty,
y Jdid t little they ware
jon, insignificant Yot there
ware giants io those days, Who can eal.
1inte 1 havoe ©
on With =»’ very
y, with fiery
ail t im
Or
bys
umen,
giants
R Phe
re
justices an
fen
yp
ing
but
bu mischief
the s
enthasinsm
imagination
pulsive nature
Hume, wi
6
David
Te
wel
ut si. Xen
itaire, t1
marsh
fey Lent
#10 Sra;
# most isarned
® >
of his day, » great host ol
fos and i
afldelity?
aut in the dary
whos wind
against religios
most fas
WOU,
i 8
master
+t ahall stand
and mw
royal r
t may be sl
pe trails
n the temple
A WOIMAD
res that pull
»ortit 0's ears,
of giantz have gon
through the
% to me that
platform
Hams
e down t
same [ascina
it is high time
and printing
impurities
aodern society. Fastidiousnsss and prud
ery say, ‘Better not speak; you will rouse
dverse criticism; you will make wore
what you want to make better; better deal
in glittering generalities; the su
sate for polite ears.” Dat thereco
2 volee from heaven overpowering
mincing santimeniaiities of t
ing, “Cry nioud, ef it
ike a tramp,
transg rossi
sins
eit
the of
biect is to
ject is t
Gel nes
ths
ie day. say
are pot, Ht upihy v ae
and show My people their
sas and the house of Jacob thelt
The trouble is that when people write 6
speak upon this theme theyare apt to cove
it up with the graces of belles jellires, so
that the erlime is made attractive jonstead
if repulsive, Lord Byron, in Don Juan
adorns this crime until itsmiles like a May
queen. Michelet, the great French writer
pvers it up with bewitching rhetoric until
it glows ike the rising sun, when it coght
to ba mad» loathsome as a =malipox hos.
There ars to-day inflasnces abroad
which, if unresisted by the pulpit and the
fit only for
storm of fire and brimstone thal
whalmed the cities of the plain,
If, then, we are to bs compailad to go
go tot
This body and soul must soon part, What
dust to dust,
tiny
But what shall
of the latter?
be the des.
Shall it rise into the
tias slain, or will It go down
out of both? Blessed be God!
He ia so styled in
He is ceady to fight ali
our battles from the first to the last |
“Who is this that cometh up from Edom |
with dyed garments from Bozrah, mighty
to save?’
In the light of this subject I want to eali
fous attention to a fact which mAy not
ave been rightly considered, and that is
the fact that we must be brought into
judgment tor the employment of uz post i
eal organism, Shoulder, brain, hand, foot
wa must answer in judgment ..r the use
we have made of them. Have they been
usad for the elovation of society or for its
depression? In proportion as our arm ia |
strong and our step elastic will our aceount
ut Inst be Intensified, Thousands of ser.
mons are preached to invalids. [I preach
this sermon to stout men and healthful
women. We must give to God an account
for the right use of this physical organism,
These invalids bave comparatively little to
account for perhaps. T or eould not lft
twenty pounds. They eould not walk hail
a mile without sitting down to rest, Yet
how mueh many of them aceompiished!
Ising up in judgment, standing beside the
men and women who had only little physi.
onl energy and yot consumed that energy
fn a conflagration of religious enthusiasm,
bow will we feel abashed! © men of the
strong arm and the stout heart, what use
are on waking of your jysical foroes?
Will you beable to stand the test of that
day when we must answer for the use of
every talent, whether it where a physieal
Sheds 48 « mental acumen or a spiritual
oe
KEYSTONE STATE.
LATEST NEWS GLEANED FROM VARL
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CLOUDED MIND CLEARED.
Frederick Barto Has Lived Five Days
With ¥ront of Cranium Torn Away
Physicians Puzeled -Wus Melancholy
Before Aceldent —Seranton Man Prefers
Life Imprisonment to Signing a Deed.
The case of Frederick Barto, an aged oft-
{zen of Bomerville, who has lived for five
days with the front of his skull worn away
and a fracture at the base of his brain, con-
tHnues to excite the wonder of the physicians,
Barto's temperature has remained normal
ever since he recvived kis terrible Injuries,
gently at ali times, A strange feature
Barto's case is that his
was a paralytic, with a melancholy disposi
tion aud a clouded mird h nd now isn nal
condition is greatly improved,
ago Barto returned from a Newark hospital
where he had under treatment for a
year. He moved around wit eruteh and
a cane, Last Saturday night he was on the
New Street when an eastbound
frefght train bi. Heat
tempted to jump out of the way, but owing
to his crippled condition he fell just as be
cleared the track.
reach of the pliot of the engine,
footstep at the side «
in his skull, and
aged 150 foot,
bafore
Leen
crossing
bore down on
The sharp
ried jtsel!
ho was
There was an aperture
in length and :
when
3 the pate In
in this position
dr
BX inche two fnohes wide in
ii
who
ked up.
he was
1 Wagoner,
{ that ie considered DBarto's
arkalide oun word h
in; and weakened
a
@ the nocldent there wis Row
chances of his re
yery.
Iudefinite Tovrm in Jail,
who for six years has
BL Bb
wed as directs
Dennis Gorman,
~ ipied a cel
because he
ranlor
gstody of a
ineral »
Fell 250 Feet to Death,
35 Feel Uy
Swam
.
aplared in
al Norristows
Mantel] was
erford
Hospital Overerowded.
H, C. Orth, superintend
ane Hospital, Harrisburg,
vererowd-
ations for
on Lo He #
on
but 927 were crowded
and the removal of
county homes, but temporarily
the congestion, Daring the year
205 patients were dis hargoed
mine
Freight Conductor Killed.
While drilling cars at Bridgeport Oondue
tor Jerry Jacoby, who lives in the vicisity of
['wentieth and Brown sires Philadelphia
received injuries from which he died five
minutes after being received at Charity How.
ie was run into by a
th legs were cut off near the atslomen
Ylour Warehouse Collnpsed.
Three floors of 8. L. Brown & Company s
big wholesale warehouse building, at Wilkes
Barre, collapsed utider the we
500 barrels of flour. The buliding is four
stories, and the collapsed portion was over a
one-story arch under which a railroad track
ran. ae
dollars,
ight of about
in Brief.
pre. Julia W. Conner, of San Francisco,
Cal, the granddaughter of the poset, Samuel
Woodworth, who wrola “The Old Oaken
Jacket,” is visiting in Bethlehem, and is the
guest of Mra, 8, J. Pottinos,
The Northampton Club, Bouth Bethlehem 's
leading social organization, has purchased
the handsome building on West Fourth
street, near Broadway.
The borough of South Willlamsport has
brought suit against the Amerioat Telephone
claim of over $3,000. The
company refused to pay the locnse tax of 80
cents on each pole,
George F. Finley, aged 86 years, and a
member of the Pennsylvania Legislature
Colonel Charles D, Gold, one of the wealth.
aged 55 years,
Julius Benirer, an employes of Byram's
mill, Chester, caught his left arm in the
machinery, badly lacerating it. Hoe was taken
to the Chester Hospital, whers the arm was
amputated above the elbow,
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