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A GREAT REFRESHNENT.
Dr. Talmage Says God is a Fountain of
Joy That is Unappreciated.
An Everlasting Well of Gladness -~ Water
for the Thirsty.
[Copyright 1901.1
Wasnixgron, D. C—In this discourse
Dr. Talmage represents religion 8s »
at refreshment and invites all the world
Ee and receive it; text, Genesis xxix,
8, “We cannot until all the flocks be gath-
ered together and till they roll the stone
from the well’s mouth; then we water the
sheep.”
A scene in Mesopotamia, beautifully
pastoral. A well of water of great value
in that region. The fields around about
it white with three flocks of sheep lying
down waiting for the watering. ICAr
their bleating coming on the bright air
and the laughter of young men and maid-
ens indulging in rustic repartee. 1 look
off, and 1 see other flocks of sheep com-
ing. Meanwhile Jacob, a stranger, on an
interesting errand of looking for a wife,
comes to the well. A beautiful shepherd-
eas comes to the same well. I see her ap-
proaching followed by her father's flock
of sheep. It was a memorable meeting.
Jacob married that shepherdess. The
Bible account of it is, “Jacob kissed Rach-
el and lifted up his voice and wept.” It
has always been a mystery to me what he
found to cry about. But before that scene
occurred Jacob accosts the shepherds and
asks them why they postpone the slaking
of the thirst of these sheep and why they
did not immediately proceed
them. The shepherds reply to the effect:
“We are all good neighbors, and as a mat-
ter of courtesy we wait until all the sheep
of the neighborhood come up.
that, this stone on the wells
to
mouth 1s
the sheep are satisfred.
mouth; then we water the sheep.
Oh, this is a thirsty world!
the head and blistering for the feet and
parching for the tongue. The world's
at want is a cool, refreshing, satisfying
a. We wander around, and we find
the cistern empty. Long and tedipus
drought has dried up the world’s fountain,
but centuries ago a shepherd, with crook
in the shape of a cross and feet cut to
the bleeding, explored the desert passages
of this world, and one day came across a
well a thousand feet deep, bubbling and
bright and opalescent, and looked to the
north and the south and the east and the
west and cried out with a voice strong and
musical that rang through the ages, “Ho,
every one that thirsteth, come ye to the
waters!” :
Now, a great flock of
gather around this gospel
are a great many thirsty souls
why the flocks of all nations do not
er—why so many stay thirsty—and
I am wondering about it my text
forth in the explanation, saying,
not until all the ks be gathered
gether and till they roll the stone from
the well's mouth; then we water the
sheep.”
If a herd of swine come to a well they
angrily jostle each hi
dence: if a drove of
ocks
other for the prece
cattle come to a well
they hook each other back from the
water, but when a flock of sheep come,
though a hundred of them shall be disap-
pointed, they only express it by )
ng, they come t ther
want a great multitude
the gospel well. |
who do not like a crowd:
crowd is vulgar. If they oppressed
for room in church, it makes them posi
tively impatient and belligerent. We }
bad people permanently leave church
CAUSE 80 MANY peoj tot,
did these Oriental shepherds. They s
ed until all the flocks were gathered
the more flocks that
liked it. And #0 we o
that all the people sh
into the highways t dges and
compel them to co n; go to the ric
and tell them they
the gost lof
them
to the blind and
that gives ete :
lame and
make t}
Gather a
none 20
nong
ted. Why not gather a great
this city in a flock: all New
flock: all London in a flock: all
in a flock.
This wel the gospel is deep eno
to put out burning
1,600.000,000 of the race.
church by a spirit of exclusiveness keen
the world out. Let down all the bars.
swing open all the gates, scatter all the
invitations, “Whosoever will let him
come.” Come, white and black: Come.
red men of the forest. Come, Laplander
out of the snow. Come. Patagonian, out
of the south. Come in furs. Come pant
ing under palm leaves. Come one. Come
all. Come now. As at this well of Meso
potamia Jacob and Rachel were betrothed,
#0 this morning at this well of salvation
Christ, our Shepherd, will meet vou com
ing up with your long flocks of cares and
anxieties, and He wil stretch out His
hand in pledge of His affection while all
the heaven will cry out: “Behold the
bridegroom cometh! Go ye out to meet
Him.’
You notice that this well of Mesopota-
mia bad a stone on it, which must be re
moved before the sheep could be watered,
and I find on the well of salvation to-day
impediments and obstacles which must be
removed in order that you may obtain
the refreshment and life of this gospel
dn your case the impediment is pride of
eart. You cannot bear to come to so
democratic a fountain. You do not want
to come with so many others. It is aw
though you were thirsty and you were in
vited to slake your thirst at the town
pump instead of sitting in a parlor sip-
ping out of a chased chalice which has
Just been lifted from a silver salver. Not
#0 many publicans and sinners You
want to get to heaven, but vou must be
in a special car, with your feet on a Turk-
ish ottoman and a band of music on board
the train. Yon do not want to be in com-
Pu with rustic Jacob and Rachel and to
¢ drinking out of the fountain where 10,-
000 sh ave been drinking before you.
You will have to remove the obstacle of
pride, or never find your way to the well,
You will bave to come as we came, will:
ing to take the water of eternal life in
any way and at any hand and in any kind
of pitcher, erymg out: “0 Lord Jesus, |
am dying of thirst! Give me the water of
eternal tfe, whether in trough or goblet.
Give me the water of life. care not in
what it comes to me.’ Away with all
your hindrances of pride from the wells
mouth!
Here in another man who is kept back
from this water of life by the stone of an
obdurate heart, which lies over the mouth
of the well. You have no more feeling
upon this subject than if God had yet to
Jo you the first Rindness or you had to do
God the first wrong. Seated on His la
all these years, His everlasting arma shel.
tering you, where is your gratitude?
your morning and evening pray-
er? are your consecrated lives?
1 say to you, as Dan'el said to Belshassar,
“The God in whose hand thy breath is
d all thy way thou hast not glorified.”
3 you trea anybody as as you
treated God, you would have m
~= yea, your whole life w
have an apology. imes
have been seated
’
He come
and
came the better they
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ne ro out
Jesus :
the
20
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the world
ign
the
the
thirst
Do not
of
:
iet
ve
hae appropriately appareled you. Your
health from Him, your companion from |
Him, your children from Him, your home |
from Him, all ihe bright surroundings of
our life from Him. :
y Oh, man, what dost thou with that hard
heart? Canst thou not feel one throb of
gratitude toward the God that made you
and the Christ who came to redeem you
and the Holy Ghost who has all these
rears been importuning you?
y If 1 could PO ar all the griefs of all
sorts from these crowded streets and could
put them in one scroll, neither man nor |
angel could endure the recitation. Well, |
what do you want? Would you like te
have your property back again? “No,” |
you say as a Christian man, “I was be-
coming arrogant, and I think that is why
the Lord took it away. 1 don’t want to |
have my property back.” Well, would |
you have your departed friends back '
again? “No,” you say, “I couldnt take |
the responsibility of bringing them from |
a tearless realm to a realm of tears. I |
couldn't do it.” Well, then, what do you |
want? A thousand voices in the audience
ery out: “Comiort! Give us comfort!”
For that reason 1 have rolled away the |
stone from the well’s mouth. Come, all
ve wounded of the flock, pursued of the
wolves, come to the fountain where the
Lord's sick and bereft ones have come. |
“Ah,” says some one, “you are not old |
enough to understand my sorrows. You
have not been in the world as long as I |
misfortunes in the time of old age.’ Well,
I may not have lived as long as you, but 1
have been a great deal among old people,
and I know how they feel about their fail
ing health and about their departed |
friends and about the loneliness that some
times strikes through their souls. After
two persons have lived together for forty
or fifty years, and one them is taken
away. what desolation! i
I shall not rget the ery of Dr. De
Witt, of New York, when he stood by the
open grave of his beloved wife, and after
the obsequies had ended he looked down
into the open place and said: “Farewell,
my honored, faithful and beloved wife.
The bond that bound us is severed. Thou
t in glory, and I am here on earth, We
meet again. Farewell! Farewell!”
To lean on a prop for fifty years and
then have it break under you! There were
only two vears' difference between the
death of my father and mother. After my
decease my father used to go
around as though looking for something
He would often get up from one room
without any seeming reason and go to an-
other room, and then he would take his
cane and start out, and some one would
say, “Father, where are you going?’ And
he would answer, “l don't know exactly
where I am going.” Always looking for
something. Though he was a tender
hearted man 1 never saw him cry but
once, and that at the burial of my
mother. After sixty years’ hiving together
And there are aged
; o are feeling just such a
that. I want to tell them there is
enchantment in the promises of
, and I come to them a offer
arm, or 1 take their arm and I
bring them i re 3! ]
i wel
father or
ol
84
was
it art
was hard to p
people to-day wh
pang as
Nit down,
own ee it there
You anvis
for the aged p
Wn id
hairs will
¢
to «
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and failing
t And Inihing
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ittie worried
will come to
ar ich
i grand
Et #harp
o use to God
Lord
Knows
fee or not
Cod
in a
the shepherds to drive
bs and sheep np to the
“Behold, 12 the
i correcteth.” “Though He
f, yet will He have compassion.”
“Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
the Lord delivereth him out of them
“Weeping may endure for a night,
I am
out of
ai
hariny
happy
st
ut
etermined that no one shall
his house uncomforted.
So I come to your timid and shrinking
soul to-day and cdmpel you te come out
in the presence of the Divine Physician
He will not hurt you. He hss been heal
ing wounds for many vears, anu He will
give you gentle and omnipotent medica
ment.
Jut people. when they have trouble, go
anywhere rather than to God. De Quin-
cey took opium to get rid of his Ph
Charles Lamb took to punch, Theodore
Hook took to something stronger, Edwin
Forrest took to theatrical dissipation, and
men have run all around the earth, hop
ing in the quick transit to get away from
their misfortunes. It has been a dead
failure. There is only one well that can
slake the thiret of an afflicted spirit, and
go
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of the country over the volume of cur
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what hesitation is observed in general
trade is chiefly due to the uncertainty
as to the duration of the labor troubles
in the manufacture. Collections
continue good. better weather has help
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easy, and stocks of merchandise car
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Sa
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the gospel.
But some one in the andience says,
“Notwithstanding all vou have said this
morning. I find no alleviation for my trou
bles.” Well, I am not through yet
have left the most potent consideration
for the last. 1 am going to soothe you
with tie thought of heaven. However
talkative we may be, there will come a |
time when the stoutest and most em-
phatic interrogation will evoke from ua |
ro answer. As soon as we have closed
our lips for the final silence no power on
earth can break that taciturnity. But
where, O Christian, will be your spirit?
In a scene of infinite gladness: the spring
morning of heaven wawing its blossoms in
the bright air; victors fresh from battle
showing their sears; the rain of earthly
sorrow struck through with the rainbow
of eternal jov: in one group God and an- |
gels and the redeemed—Paul and Rilas
Latimer and Rid'vy, Teainh and Jeremials.,
Payson and John Milton, Gabriel and
Michael, the archangel: lone line of choris- |
ters reaching across the hills; seas of joy
dashing to the white beach: conquerors |
marching from gate to gate, vou among .
them. what a great flock God wil
gather around the celestial well! No stone
on the wells mouth while the shepherd
waters the sheep. There Jacob will ree |
ognize Rachel, the shepherdess. And
¥anding on one side of the well of eternal
rapture vour children and standing on the
other side of eternal rapture your Chris |
tian ancestry, you will be bounded on all
sides by a Joy #0 keen and grand that no |
other world has ever been permitted to
experience it. Out of that one deep well
of heaven the Shepherd will
berea weal
for the ved, th
health for the sick, for He voor,
And then all the rh LB Be
will Je Sawn J the green hasturgs, an
worl thou we
Tord that on this surtier Sabluth mor:
story
Jacob and Rachel at the well
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Sheep
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“Corn exports for the week aggre-
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Fort Worth has 40 unions.
There are 45.000 union merchants,
Philadelphia is to have a labor tem-
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Fort Worth has a Woman's Label
League. : .
Brooklyn bricklayers’ laborers get $3
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Louisville carpenters get $230 for
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PURE FOOD
Interesting Facts Concerning the Roasting
of Coffee Brought Out by Scientific
Lxnertieresence of Bacteria,
TorLepo, August 10th—The jury
Judge Meck’s court in this city
found James White, a local grocer,
guilty of selling adulterated coffee,
The prosecution wag based on a pack-
age of Ariosa coffee.
The State of Ohlo, through the Pure
Food Commission, prosccuted White.
The case was trial for nearly a
month, and attracted atten-
tion, Ww wae es .»
The manufacturers of Arioga coffec
conducted the defense for
White, Attorneys of
were retained to
but after a short consuliation
of guilty returned by
The State hilo considers
tory. re Food C
Biackburn hae been wazing
on spurious food
partment
The complaint of
was that Ariosa coffe
a guns!
» coffee and m
The 8
azing was a fas
in
bus
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uational
wr ware “A
Grocer
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him
1 a verdict
the
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{
vie mInissio:
a warfare
article t
and the
has been successinal,
the State of Oh
» Wag conted wit)
which conc
pele
tate cis
for the propagation of
Prof. G. A. Kirchimal
a well-known cl
cipal
tified th:
aminations
rehased
Withegs
it he
of
fre
of a00n
further ifled aat othe
fees he examined ecoetained f
ia or nons at all He declared
the glazed cof was not a wi
tos!
ter
or
food produ.
Chemist Sehmwgt,
roborated 1
of Cin
be timony O
Kirchmalier. The State di
furthes
The
the
BCientis
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fo give testimer
H. WW. Wier,
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ad CF
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Professor Vauzlin,
algo a withess
1
hie
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Professor Blelle,
defonre,
number
ofee he
the test
of lively Lact
examined
axed coflee surely a noi
medinm for the propagation
than unziazed
Pure Food Commissioner Blac
says: “The Stat
over its vic tory
was
bacier:a coffee,
sburn
h elated
der
is Yory mud
We ar
of informing every
hat it is
laws to
file
BOW cob
grocer in th Ohilo 1
an infraction ! ue
Ariosa, and at
warniug to cousnmers
in
gel
give
-
Count
®AM0
isat the
adulterated food article
verdict of the
pational mpc
yreat many other lisye pure
food laws like that of Qlilo. znd it
is natural to suppose that similar ne.
tion will be taken by other Pore Food
Commissioners to prevent the sale of
glazed coffees.
an
he
KR OL
jury in this case
ance beeause a
i
Slates
Averaging 1t Up.
“Last
in front
of watermelons
teen different
year, sh
of the grocery to gas
“last year I be ug
watermelons
wot one of them was ripe.”
“Yee, 1 know,” replied the grocer,
“And this year"
“This year, madam, you will buy six
teen oihiers of me, and not one will be
green. That's the way it goes, you
know. Last year was an off year, while
this one 1s all right. 1H send down that
large speckled fellow with a hump to
it”
of you,
Expressive,
Mrs. Gowanus—What is your father
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Litile Herbert—<He wants to find
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