REY. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINIYS SUN. DAY SERMON. Subject: “Rizpah on the Rock.” Text: “And Rizpah, the daughter of Afak, took sackeloth and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of har- vest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air Lo vest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night.” —11 Bamuel xxi., 10, Tragedy that beats anything Shake spearean or Victor Hugoian. After return- ing from the Holy Land I briefly touched upon it, but I must have a whole sermon for that scene. The exploshon and flash of gun powder have driven nearly all the beasts and birds of prey from these regions, and now the shriek of the locomotive whistle which is daily heard at Jerusalem will for many miles around clear Palestine of cruel claw and beak, But in the time of the text those regions were populous with multitudes of jackals and lions, Seven sons of Saul had been crucified on a hill, Rizpah was mother to two and a relative to five of the boys. What had these boys done that they should be crucified? Nothing except to have a bad father and grandfather, But now that the boys were dead, why not take them down from the gibbets? No. They are sentenced to hang there, So Rizpah takes the sackcloth—a rough shawl with which in mourning for her dead she had wrapped herself—and spreads that sackcloth upon the rocks ner the gibbets, and acts the part of a sentinel, watching and defending the dead. Yet every other sentinel is relieved, and after being on qusrd for a few hours some one else takes iis place, But Rizpah is on guard both day and night and for balf a year. One hundred and eighty days and nights of obsequies. What nerves she must have had to stand tbat! Ah, do you not know that a mother can stand anything? Oh, if she might be allowed to hollow a place in the side of the hill and lay the dies of her children to quiet rest! If in some cavern of the mountains she might find for them Christian sepulture! Oh, it Again, the tragady of the text disnlavs the courage of woman amid great emergon- cles. What mother or sister or daughter would dare to go ont to fight the cormorant and jackal? Rizpah did it. And so would you if an emergency demanded, Woman is naturalyy timid and shrinks from exposures and depends on stronger arms for the achieve- ment of grent enterprise, And she is often troubled lest there mignt be occasions de- manding fortitude when she would fail. Not so, Home of those who are afraid to look out of the door after night-fall, and who quake in the darkness at the least uncertain sound, and who start at the slam of the door and turn pala in a thunderstorm, if the day of trial came, would be heroic and invulner- able, God has arranged it so that that woman needs the trumpet of some great contest of principle or affection to rouse up her slum- bering courage, Then sho will'stand under the crossfire of opposing hosts at Chalons to give wine to the woundel., Then shoe will carry into prison and dark lane the message of salvation. Then she will brave tho pes. tilence, Deborah goes out to sound terror into the hearts of God's enemios, Abigail throws herself between a raiding party of infuriated men and her husband's vineyards. Rizpah fights back the vultures from the rock. Among the Orkney Islands an eagle swooped and lifted a child to its eyrie far up on the mountains, With the spring of a panther the mother mounts hill after hill, erag above crag, height above height, the fire of her own eve outflashing the glare of the eagle's, and with unmailed hand stronger than the iron beak and the terrible claw she hurls the wild bird down the rocks, In the French revolution Cazatte was brought out to be executed, when his daughter threw herself on the body of her father and said; “Strike, barbarians! You cannot reagh my father but through my heart!” The crow parted, and linking arms father and daugh. ter walked out free, During the siege of Baragossa, Angustina carried refreshments to the gatas, Arrive. ing at the battery of Portillo she found that all the garison had been killed, She suatenaed a match from the hand of a dead artillery- man and fired off a twenty-six pounder, then sinner whom yon tanzht to vray, and the outeast whom voa pointed to God for shel tor, will say: “You did it to them! You did it to Me! Again, the sens of the text imoresses up~ on us the strength of maternal attachment. Not many men would have had courage or endurancs for the awful mission of Riznah. To dare the rage of wild beasts, and sit from May to Octeber unshelters I, aud to watch the corpes of unsheltered children, was a work that nothing but the maternal heart could have accomplished. It needed more strength than to stand before opened batter. fos or to walk in calmness the deck of a foundering stoamer, There is no emotion so completely unsel- flsh as maternal affection. expects the return of many kindnesses and attentions. Filial love expectsipaternal care fulness, is entirely independent of the past and the future, and is, of all emotions, the purest, The child has done nothing in the past to earn kindness, and in the future it may grow up to maltreat its parent, but still from the mother's heart there goes forth inconsumable affection. Abuse cannot offend it; neglect cannot chill 1t; time cannot efface it; death cannot destroy it. For harsh words it has gentle chiding; for the blow it has beneflosnt min. istry; for neglect it has increasing watob- fulness, It weeps at the prison door over the incarcerated prodigal, and pleads for pardon at the governor's feet, and is forced away by compassionate friends from witnessing the struggles of the gallows, Other lights go out, but this burns on without extinguish. ment, as in a gloom-atruck night you ma seo a single star, one of God's plekets, th gleaming bayonet of light guarding the out. posts of heaven. The Marchioness of Bpadara, when the sarthquake at Messina occurred, was car- ried out insensible from the falling houses, On coming to her senses she found that her infant had not been rescued. Bhe went back agd perished in the ruling. Illustration of ten thousand mothers who in as many different ways have sacrificed themselves for their children Ob, despise not a mother's love! If here- jsaped on it and vowed she would not leave it aliva, The soldiers looked in and saw her | daring and rushed up and opened another tremendous fire on ri enemy. he life of James IL of Bootland was | she might take them from the gibbet of dis. grace and carry them still farther away from the haunts of men, and thea lie besid them in the | Exhausted n ture ever and anon falls into slumber, but in a moment she breaks the snare and ¢ herself as though she bad been cruel, lea; on the rock 3 wild x glaring 2 thi and at wvuitur brooi wheeling in sky. The taril story of R AH os David and he forth so hide th The corpees had been chain The chain are nr and t sKkelet last lo sleep! at cocked t horri lank, seven boy a {ather and | is always so. me who does wrong know that he iy, as in this against two | ne, children and grandchildren, but against all the generations of coming time, | That is what makes dissipation and unclean. | ness awful, It reverberates in times, It may skip ona generation, but it is apt to come up in the third generation, as is suggested in the Ten Commandment ing the dren unto the third and ANE, SO other | fourth generation.” Mind you, it says nothing about the sec- seneration, but mentions the third and the fourth. That accounts for what you wometimes see—very good parents with very ad children Go far enough back in the ancestral line and you find the source of all the turpitude, “Visiting the iniquities of the fathers up hildren unto the third and fourth generation.” If when Sag! died the consequences of his iniquity could have died with him it would not have been so wi. no! Look on that hill a few from Jerusalem and see th burdens of those seven gibbets aud ¢ wan and wasted Rizpah watching them Go to-day through the wards an’ al houses and the reformatory instiatio where unfortunate children are kept and you | will find that nine out of ten had f pod Ww vicious parents, Yea, day by day on the itreets of our cities you find men and women wrecked of evil parentage. They are mora Sr pses. Like the seven sons of Saul, t jead, unburied! Alas for Rizpah, ) for six months, but for years and years, has watched them! She cannot Keep the vu tures and the jackals off Furthermore, this strange incident in ti Bible story shows that attractiveness person and elevation of position are no s surity againt trouble Who is this Rizpab sittint in desolation One of Saul’s favorites, Her personal at tractions had won his heart, She had been caressed of for With a mother's pri she looked on her princely children, Hut the scane changes. Behold ber in banis ment and bereavement -HRizpah on the ro Some of the worst distresses have come to scones of royalty and wealth, What por ter at the mansion’s gate has not let in champing and lathered steed bringing evi dispatch? On what tess there not stood the solem der what exquisite fres pot been enacted a tragedy aster? What curtained couch ond n the « who, une, bath heard no cry of pain? W bat harp hath never thrilled with sorrow?! What lordly nature hath | never leaned against carved pillar and made utterance of woe! Gall is not less bit when quaffed from a golden chalice than when taken from a pewter mug. Sorrow is often “attended by runfing iootmen and laced lackey: mounted behind, Queen Anne Boleyn is desolate ja the palace of Henry VIIL Adolphus wept in German castles over the hypoerisy of friends, Padro I. among Brazilian diamonds shivered with fear of massacre, Stephen of Epgland sat on a | rocking throne, And every mast of pride has been bemt in the storm, and the highest | mountains of honor and fame are covered | with perpetual snow, HNickness will frost the rosiest cheek, wrinkle the smoothest brow and stiffen the sprightiiest step. Rizpah quits the courtly circle and sits on the rook, Perhaps you look back upon scenes differ. ent from those in which now from day to day you mingle, You have exchanged the tv and luxuriancs of your father's house or privation and trial known toGod and your own heart, The morning of life was flushed with promise, Troops of ealamition since then have made desperate charge upon you, Darkness has come, Sorrows have swooped like carrier birds from the sky and barked like jackals from the thicket. You stand I'l our slain anguished and woe struck. Ie, on the roc, ry has been in all ages. Vasht! must dof! the spangled robes of the Persian court and go forth blasted from the palace gate. Hagar exciang oriental enmfort for the wilierness of Beersheba, Mary, queen of Boots, must pass out from tery and pomp to suffer ignominious death in the ows A of Fotheringay. The wheel of fortune keeps turning, and mansions and huts exe change, and he who rode the chariot pushes the rrow, and instead of the glare of festal lights is the simmering of the peat fire, and in place of Baus palace is the rock==the cold rock, the desslate rook, Put that is the place to which God comes. Jacob, with his head on a stone, saw the shining ladder, Lirael in the desert the marshaling of the flery baton, John on barrens Patmos hear! trumpeting, and the cla g of wings, and the a of sera fingers on golden harps, and nothing on heavenly stren 2th nerved Rizoah for her appalling mise on amid the soream of rrp the stealthy tread of hungry mon Most PApturous eX eriences of Jove, rales triumphs of grace un the betrayed, and the crushed, ng down {Fi Leaven 0 comlort Rizpah on iniquities of the | ¢ | men who have gazad on the great sacrifice, | and the fires went out, and though the sails | were hoisted fore and aft she went speeding | house was a girl of gentle spirit and comely sreatened. Poets have sung those tim and able pans have lingered upon the story of manly endurance, but how few to tell the Catharine Douglas one of th queen's maids, who ran to bolt the door, but und the bar had bean taken away so as to ¢ ontrancs of the assassin! BS her arm into the sts The mur rs rushing Ye ) werfully Joanna ol walked to th tle of Mura, at arlessly Mme, Grimaldi listene sondemnation, and how Charlotte day smiled upon the { yb sued her to the guillo be no end to the rec fo {« {rar would t ital if I attomsg to present all the historical incidents whaiol show that woman's courage would rouse it- sel great emergency. But need not go so far. You have known some one who was considered a mere putterfly in society. Her hand had known toll. Her eye had wept no tear over visfortunas, She moved among obsequi reless as an insect ina 0 yming buckwheat, But in 1867 fis cial tempest struck the husband's e Before he had time to reef sail and t the ship capsize! and lown. Enemies cheered at the mislortane and wondered what would become of the butterfly. Gool men pitied and said would die of a broken heart “She will not work,” say they, “and she is too proud to beg.” But the prophecies have failed, Disaster has transformed th shining sluggard into a practical worker as a princess, though compelled to sleep and spread hes table and answer the riaging of bs Her arm hal been muscled against misfortunes, hunger poverty and want, and all the other skals Rizpah scares from the rock. y ate home, Her mer. pawned even From honor f for hings snug she bappy : wash her owa child ren own doorbell, e conflict M2 IN A des {less companion had hlidren's shoes for ram. | ancestry she had come down to this, ruse of oil was empty and the last eand wat. Her faded [rock was patched with sata of antique silk that she had worn bright marriage day. Confident in wid she had a strong heart, to which hes children ran when they trambled at the weeering step and gquailed under a father’s | ree. Toough the heavens were filled with » wings and the thickets gnashel with e. Rizpah watchel faithfully day after and year alter year, and wolf and com ant by her God strengthened arm were hurled down the roeks You pass day by day along streets where there are heroines greater than Joan of Are Upon that osllar floor thers are conflicts as flerce as Sedan, and heaven and hell min Ae in the fight, Lifted in that garret there gl are tribunals where more fortitude is de. gone is | mandel than was exhibited by Lady Jane | Grey or Mary, Queen of Boots, Now I ask, if mere natural courage oan lo so much, what may we not expect of wo and who are urged forward by all the voloes f grace that sound from the Bible and all the notes of victory that speak from the sky? Many years ago the Forfarshire steamer started from Hull bound for Dundee. After the vessel had been out a little while the winds bogan to rave and billows rise until a tempest was upon them, The vessel leaked, toward the breakers. HShe struck with her | bows foremost on the rock, The vessel parted, Amid the whirlwind and the dark- ness all were lost but nine, These clung to | ths wreck on the beach. Sleeping that night in Longstone light. countenance, As the morning dawns I see that girl standing amid the spray and “um- ult of contending elements looking through a glass upon the wreck and the nine wretch od sufferers, She proposes to her father to take boat and put out across the wild sea to roscue them, The father says: “It cannot be done! Just look at the tumbling surf ™ | But she persisted, and with her father bounds into the boat, Though never accus- tomed to plying the oar, she takes one and ber father the other, Steady now! Pull away! Pull away! The sea tossed up the boat as though It were & bubble, but amid the foam and the wrath of the sea the wreck was reached, the sxhausted people picked up and saved. Humane societies tendered their thanks, Wealth poured into the lap of the girl. Visitors from all lands came to on her sweet facs, and when soon after she Jnuncaed forth on a dark sea, and Death was the oarsman, duces and duchesses and mighty men sat down in tears in Alnwick castle to think they never again might see the face of Graos Darling. No such deeds of daring will probably be asked of you, but hear you not the how! of that awful storm of trouble and sin that hath tossed ten thousand shivered hulks into the breakers! Know vou not that the whole arth is strewn with the stipwreoked—that there are wounds to be healed and broken hearts to be bound and drowning souls to be resound? Ho ne have gone down, and you come too late, but others are clinging to the wreck, are shivering with the cold, are strangling in the wive, are crying to you for deliverance. Will you not, oar in hand, put out to-day from the lighthous:? When the last ship's timver shall have been rent, and the last Longstons Beacon shall have been thunders ! down in ths harri- cane, and the lac. tempest shall have folded ite wings, aod the sea itself shall have bean up by the tongues of all consuming fire, the crowns of eteroal reward shall be | knew not bh { has many | fifteen years you ran to her with | understands | valocities | do more for | and sympathizing spirits | walk as to be worthy of the supernal cham- | plonships, and if t> any of us life on earth is | a hard grind, lot us uoderstand that it we | scientific tolors you have been negligent of such a one, and you have still opportunity for mration, make haste, It you could only ot Jook in for an hour's visit to her, you would rouse up in the aged one a whole rid of blissful memories, What if she foes sit without talking much?! She watched you for many months when you yw to talk at all, What if she ailments to tall about?! Daring every lit. toctored sha doct a surgeon tech and bruise, and ittle finger as carefully as ind ths worst fra childish ture now: I w ro for you. t from the weird 108 the rushing in upot y soul a thought verpowers me, This watching by vii was an alter death watching oder if now there is an after death watoh- I think there is. There are Rizpahs ) have passed death and are still watoh- They look down from their supernal ifled state upon us, and is not that death watching? | cannot believe who before their death were in- 1 in us have since their death become ferent as to what happens to us, t one hour of the six months i Rizpsh watched, seated upon , was she more alert or diligent or ned for us than our mother, if glorified, alert and diligent and armed for us. It not now Rizpah on a rock, but Rizpah on How long has your mother been Do you think she has been dead long h to forget you?! My mother has been twenty-nine years, I believe she more about me pow than she did on [ stood in her presence, and 1 am no ritualist either The Bibla says Are ¢ all ministering spirits seat forth to therm that stall bo heirs of sal text of the marnl fr I RileT t thoes dur »} - ¥ mw ung man, better look out what you do and where you go, for your glorified mother looking at you You sometimes say to vourself, “What would mother say if knew this? Sbe dos know You m her once, but you cannot cheat her Does it embarrass ns to think she wa all about us now? If she had to put #0 much when she was here, surely of excusalory she cheat BOW ka ip with she will not be the less patient Gow Oh, this tremmndons thought of my text —this after death watching! What an up- ting consideration, and what a comfort thought! Young mother, you who have just lost your babe, and who feel that wi of a nearer solace than that which ynes from ordinary sympathy, your ws all about it. You cannot run in and talk it all over with her as you would other ko | if sho were «till a terrestial resident, but It you some, 1 think-—yea, it will , w 1 deal —to know that she all You that the of the heavenly conditions are =o wild not take ber a half will comfort comfort you a g ROD great that it » | soon to come to your bereft heart mothers in heaven! They can 1s now than before they went between this world and Oh, these away. The bridge | the next is not broken down, They approach | the bridge from both ways, departing spire its and coming spirits, disimprisonad spirits Ani wo let us watch faithially and trust fully our blessed Lord there will be a correspon ling reward in the land of peacy, ani that Rizpah, who once wept on A rock, DOW reigus on n throne, Westminster Abbey's Only Mechanie. George Graham, the only mechanic buried in Westminster Abbey, was the son of William Graham, of Blackstone, in the County of Cumberland, England. At the age of thirteen he went to Lon. | don and apprenticed himself to Thomas Tompion, & noted clock and watch maker, and later was taken into partner. ship, and became famous for the excel. leuce of his work. It was, however, his investigations that gave him great prominence. He corrected the variations of the pendulum doe to the changes of temperature, by inventing the mercurial bob, The great clock at Greenwich which regulates the time of the world, was made by him in 1727, and, although it has done duty for near- ly a century and three-quarters, it is still in use and now could scarcely be au in its mechanical excellence. It is said, notwithstanding the long in. terval since it was made, that it does not require attention oftener than once ayear., The mural arch at Greenwich used by the Eaglish Government for the testing of quadrants and other instro. ments, was the work of his hands, 8 great was his reputation that when the French Government despatched Mauper- tive to the polar circle to ascertain the exnot figure of the earth, the instruments the navigator used during that vo wore made by George Graham, died in 1751, aged seventy-six, and it was not until four years thereafter that his remains were interred in Westminster store, The grandest visions of the come to the tried, and tie hard thy rocks. Abbey. —=Boston Teaoseript, Conjugal love or is helped by the memory of past watch. | But the strength of a mother’s love | and eat all 1 | order i Cconvin | egRs on Fruit for Food, Fruit culture should be quite ns closely associated with family use as with market, I have eaten apples all my life, but never learned how to make (he best use of them till last winter; it is worth living half a century to find out the real value of the fruit. Now we eat apples half an hour before our meals in- stead of afterward, We eat all we want before breakfast and before diuner, | The result has been so decidedly in favor | of the fruit diet that we have very largely dropped ment, The action of the acid is then admirable in aiding diges. tion, while if eaten after meals the apple is likely to prove a burden. We follow the same line in using grapes, pears, cherries and ye rries, If disturbed by a headache or dys- pepsia in summer, I climb a cherry tre can reach and relish, In to have cherries cover a dozen trees with mosquito netting keep off the birds. and gooseberries | find very wholesome eaten all summer | 10 Currants raw from the bushes before going to the | dining table. Nutvre has of food already for all demands Our Kits lam by no means or but 1 ced that we have not yet measured the val of with one prepare a & cooked, of the Sooxking large amount exactly firted buman system. hen never Cqunis ns ure’ A vegetarian a fruitarian, am fruit as a diet | vegetables, Some being fruit ular strength, told that s h would not give a pointed “Yet thes Garden workman muse to his adviser's oxen, saving, oxen eat no meat,” American Si (ts Deserted Vil “is Tale enerosity,”™ ‘Ir. of Man of a Disab Soldier.” “The Azim, milk, | + } “Fricodship” and the “Genius of Love.” [Tn the center of the card there was a | perfect pieture of Ottery Church, all of the shades and lines being formed of purts of the writing, As a kind of tail- piece he added the anthem of “God Bave the Queen,” embellished it with seventy-two stare, fifty-one crescents and nineteen cronses, finishing the whole by driwing a picture of a serpent which in closed the whole of the miraculous pro. duction. 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