"REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON. The Subject: *‘Recovered Families" (J 'reached at Little Rock, Ark.). Text: ‘“Then David and the people that were with him lifted up thelr voloe and wept until they had no more power to weep, * * ¢ David recovered all." —I Bamuel xxx. , 4, 19, There is intense excitement in the village of Ziklag, David and his men are bidding goodby to thelr families and are off for the wars. In that little village of Zikiag the de- fenseless ones will be safe until the warriors, flushed with victory, come home, But will the defenseless ones be sale? The soft arms of children are around the necks of the bronze warriors until they shake themselves free and start, and handkerchiefs and flags are waved and kisses thrown until the armed men vanish bevond the hills, David and his men soon get through with their campaign and start homeward. Every night on their way home no sooner does the soldier put his head on the knapsack than in hears the welcom of the ehild Oh, what long stories they w their families of how they do tleax, and then will r show the half h quick step, the men, for they ar come ap to the le lag, and they expect®n a yment to see t dwelling places of their loved ones, T look, and as they look their o} and their lip quivers, and the an untarily comes down on the hilt of sword, “Whereis Ziklag? Where homes?" they ery. Alas, the curling smoke above the ruin tells the tragedy! The Amalekites have come down sumed the village and earried the and the wives, and the children of Davi his men into captivity, The riors stand fora few moments transfi borror, Then their eyes glance other, and they burst into unoentr weeping, for when a strong warrior weeps the grief is appalling. It seems as if the emotion might tear him to pieces, They Yweopt untiithey had n re power y But soon their sorrow turns into rage, s David, swinging his sword high in air, “Pursue, for thou shalt overtake the without fail recover all.” becomes a “double quick.’ David's men stop by the | with fatigue and step fart Tt il have to tell the il up th ve With n, David and his 18 are our and econ- lah 5 Ty wed nf | grief. i panther rage, T dead E ye 400 brave 2 Very soon Davi come upor they see tl mothers, and are the offi ing a banquet. he caps are full ; tt fs roused , the danee begins, The A ish host cheer and cheerand cheer overt victory, But, without note of buzle or warn ing of trumpet, David and his 400 men burst upon the scene, David and his men look up, and one glance at their loved ones in captiv- | fty and under Amalekitish them into a very fury of oy know how men will fight when they fight or their wives and children, Ah, there are lightnings in their eye, and every finger is a guard throws 104 v determi spear, and their v sie is like the shout of the i Amid the upset tankards and | whirlwind ! gling with their wine, shrieking down into the dast—what do they want with swords now 7--and the broken families come together amid a great shoat of joy that makes the parting scene in Zikiag seam very insipid in the comparison. The rough warrior has to use somes he can get his ehil after so long an absence, but ha I flager traces the familiar wrinkle across scarred face. And then the empty tankar are set up, and th filled with the best wine from Is, and David and his ¢ the husbands, wives, the brothers, gisters, drink the overthrow Amalekites and to the rebuilding of Ziklag. Bo. O Lord, let Thine enemies perish ! Now they are coming David his men and their families—a long cession. Men, women and children, | with jewels a trophies that th up in years of conquest—everything now in be hands of David and his men, When they come by the brook Besor, the place where staid the raen slek and incompetent to travel, the jewels and the robes and all kinds of treasures are divided a gick as well as among the well, | 3 lame and exhausted ought to have some of the treasures, Here is a robe for a pale- faced warrior. Hero is a pillow for dying man, Here isa handful of the wasted {rumpeter, these men who fainted may have endured as who went into battie, lows objected to t the spoils, The old the the hil on home, the 1 sick ones having any o ject ors sald, *Thes did not fight,” David, with a magnan heart, replies, "As his part Is that goeth down to the battle so shall his part be that tarrieth by the staff.” This subject Is practically suggestive to me Thank God, in these times a man can go off on a journey and be g and come mek and see his he of incendiary and have his step to great him if by telegram he has fore told the moment of his coming. But thers are Amalekitish disasters, there are Amale- kitish diseases that sometimes comes down upon one's home, making as devastating work as the day when Ziklag took fire, There are families you represent broken up. No battering ram smote fn the door, no feonoclast crumbled the statues, no flame leaped amid the curtains, but so far as all tho joy and merriment that once belonged to that house are concerned the home has departed, Armed diseases came down upon the qui- etness of the seene—scariet fevers or pleu- risies or consamptions or undefined disor- ders came and seized upon some members of that family and carried them away, Zik- lag in nahies | 150 untouched despolled households, Ziklag in ashes! Bome of you went off from home, You counted the days of your absence, Every day seemed as long as a week, Oh, how glad you were when the time eames for you 10 go aboard the steamboat or railroad and start for home! You arrived, You went up the street where your dwelling was, and In the night you put your hand on the doorbell, and, behold! It was wrapped with the signal of bereavement, and you found that Amalakitish death, which has devas. tated a thousand other households, hada blasted yours. You go about weeping amid the desolation of your once happy ome, thinking of the bright oyos closed, and the nobis hearts stopped, and the gentle hands folded, and you weep until you have no more power to weep, Ziklag in ashes ! A gentleman went to a friend of mine in the city of Washington and asked that through him he might get a consulship to some foreign port. My friend said to him : ‘What do you want to go away from your beautiful home for info a foreign rt?’ “Oh,” he replied, “my home is gona! My six clyfidren are dead, I must get away, sir, I can't stand it in this country any longer.” Ziklag in ashes | Why these long shatows of bereavement family on the | And you go about, sometimes | weeping and sometimes enraged, wanting to | get back your loved ones as much as David | and his men wanted to reconstruct their | | ing. { him, The sslemn procession moved | beamed the me 4 his dream he | o} ¢ of the wife and the shout bat- | and | fi glad, | Now they | A hundred lights t t hil sh overlooks Zik- | | Zikl kturns pale, | invol- | the | nation, for | i | { wrinkles on their faces, { that what wers calle { trouble, | seated byt | dat me weeksand months | | week before (n hisstrength ; acrosa this audience? Why Ia it that In al- most every assemblage black ia the predom- inant eolor of the apparel? Is it because you do not like saffron or brown or violet? Oh, noo! Yousay: ‘The world is not so bright to us as onoe ft was,” and thore is a story of silent voloes, and of still foot, and of loved ones gone, and when you look over the hills expacting only beauty and loveliness you find only devastation and woe, Ziklag In ashes ! One day, in Ulster County, N. Y., the vil. lage church was decorated until the fra granos of the lowers was almost bewllder- The maidens of the village had emp- tiad the place of flowers upon one marriage altar, One of their number was afllanced to a minister of Christ, who had come to take her to his own home, With hands joined, amid a congratulatory audience, the vows wero taken, In threo days from that time one of those who stood at the altar ex. changed earth for heaven. The wedding march broke down into the funeral dirge. There were not enough flowers now for the coffin lid, because they had all been taken for tha bridal hour, The dead minister ol Christ is brought to another village, He had gone out from them now le church bewalled aro that once salvation, {idren were lifted up to look at him, he had comforted 1 that silen than a ho comes 3 1089 home lifeless, I'he hi wie till face of to look upon the some of those whom vs of sorrow, when thoy passe ade the place dreadful with the Another village emptied of It me of them put in the shapes of lize his hog put inthe 0 8Y gust from the ag in ashes! I preached this sermon want to rally you, for the to-day ns David rall very of the lovad and the to win 1} ren, but I t cougregationto go along with r at somehow I have a respons arriving at that groat eit want to join the companior mes who have gone? Ars to join thom as David and his men were to join their families? Then I am he in the I want not only of God, to say that you may and to rou how. mark, in the first place, {f yon want to vod ones In gl 1 1 Ty, t yptian beet than he pointed the way the captors saptives had gone, and David as liowad after, Bo ir Christi @ gone into another nt to reach their comp £8 the samo road 18t repent, y jut as they were ike 1 ught to be like them | Christ LOOK IS 0 to say to you that the path these captives trod was a troubl path, that David and his men ha same diffieult way. “Oh, we e 80 hungry’ arge of them sad David and his They had to Our friends have gone into glory, are 80 tired : wo are 50 sie But the men who had “Stop this crying men also found it a hard way. travel it, How our How How sometises In our child. ware a0 many did not know fest" on their ray hood we wonderad why thers We ‘arow's faces were the marks of the black Did you ever hear the 5 ov ' tand, talk early trials, the : 8, the " ny was gn 1% 1% archon i 8 ALY A necesst naver remem? was looking into the apron eame up t ory was too mu y her eyes sh for her t the olz. nabiiden tear “Who are th jusstion was asked, and the response “These are ti which aront tritulation and have washed thelr robes ana nade them white in the blood of the La: Our friends went Ly a path of tears int glory, Be not sarprised if we have to travel the same pathway I remark again, if we want to win the so clety of oar friends in heaven, we will not only have to travel a path of faith and a path | wa will also have to pos weir companionship, Dav ver wanted sharp swords, invulnerable shi 3 same out of and is, and thick breastpiates so much as they wanted them on the day when they came down upon the Amelikites If they had lost that battle, they never would have got their families baok. one glance at their loved ones in captivity hurled them into the battle with tenfold courage and energy. They sald : “Wo must win it. Everything depends upon it, Let each one take a man on point of spear or sword, Wemust win it.” And I have to tell you that between us and coming into tho | companionship of our loved ones who are | fepartad there is an Austeriitz, thers isa | War with | Gettysburg, there is a Waterloo, the world, war with the flesh, war with the devil, bles, or our troubles will conquer us, David will either slay the Amalekites, or the Amale- | kites will slay David. And yet Is not the fort to be taken worth all the pain, all the peril, all the beslagement? Look | of heaven vonder? There they are, thos who sat at your own table, the chalr now vacant, There they are, those whom you rocked in infancy in the eradle or hushed to sleep in your arms, There they are, those in whose life your life was bound up, There they are, their brow more radiant than ever befors you saw it, their lips walting for the kiss of heavenly greeting, their cheek rossate with the health of eternal summer, their hands beckoning you up the steap, the feet bounding with the mirth of heaven, The pallor of their last sickness gone out of their face, nevermors to be slek, nevermore to cough, nevermo,s to Hmp, nevermore to be old, nevermore to weap, They are walehing from those heights to see If through Christ you can take that fort, and whether you will rush in upon them--victors, They know that upon this battle depends whether you will ever join their soclety, Up! Strike harder! Charge more bravely! nmbor that every Inch you gain puts you so much farther on toward that heavealy reunion. If this morning while I speak you could hear the cannonade of a foreign enemy which was to despoll your oity, and if they really should succeed in carrying your | bruised, and it is through much tribulation that we | the costly viands crushed underfoot, the | are to enter into the kingdom. wounded Amalokites le, thelr blood min- | loved ones used to have to struggle! I! for | their old hearts ached! merey No sooner do David and his men | they had a tussle for bread! win the victory than they throw their swords | | followed by a splash | | At the neck the suppose that | i | the body was about as large as an or- We have either to conquer our tron. | place he started for the bank, and 1 Who are they oa the bright hills | families away from you, how long would we take bhofore we resolved to go after them? Every weapon, whether fresh from the armory or old and rasty in the garret, would be brought out, and we would urge on, and coming in front of the foe we would look at them and then look at our families, and the ery would be, “Vietory or death I" and when the ammunition was gone we would take the enptors on the point of the bayonet or under the broech of the gun, If you would make such a struggle tor tho getting back of your earthly friends, will you not make ns much struggle for the gain. ing of the eternal companionship of your heavenly friends? Oh, yes, wo must join thera! We must sit in their holy soclety, We must sing with them the song, Wo must celebrate with them the triumph, Let it nover be told on earth or in heaven that David and his men pushed out with braver hearts for the getting back of thelr earthly friends for a fow vears on earth than we to got our departed ! You say that all this {implies that our de- parted Christian friends are alive, Why, had yon any idea they were dead? only moved, lived and find him gone, you would not think that he was dead, You would inquire next door whore he had moved Our de- parted Christian friends have only taken ane other house. The secret {8 that they ars richer than they once were and oan afford a better residence. They once drank earthenware, They King's to no other i: near P po ort Hall is as "from tre east you hearted wom wr! men brook Bes A shed jerd He says: “1 : music out of this instrument, so I wil just finds tha beeak ft, and I will throw this reed sway. | Then I will get another rood, and I will play | music on that,” Bat God says He will not past you off buenuse sil the masie sat of your soul, “The bralsad reed He will not Hroak As faras I oan the diag. sis of your want divine nurs tell Soames, YOu of Es naginative who for of quiet home yn the banks of mnecticut River, said a few days ago: ‘I was near the bridge, a little over a week ago, when I heard what seemed to me like a grant foll into of ti ity years fo has resided in his f the Co looked he river, and, not five feet away, 1 saw a big snake. “Its head was out of water, and its body raised some six or seven feet, snake was about lnrge as a man's leg at the thigh, and dinary stovepipe. His eyes were as large as those of a horse, and his mouth, which was open, was nearly a foot across, was black, and a white stripe around his mouth extended down to his paunch. I followed the snake, trying to keep alongside of him, At one started away from it. His power of locomotion was so strong that he had | no trouble in keeping still in the river against the enrrent. When he got alongside a boathouse where some boys were hammering, he heard the noise and raised himself about ten feet into the air and then fell ba¢k in- to the water and disappeared.” Mr. Rice's reputation for veracity among his neighbors and sequaint- ances is good, — Boston Herald, smi ————— Celebrated Christmas 180 Times, Golour MeCrain, who died on the Isle of Jura, one of the Hebrides, in the reign of Charles L, is said to have celebrated 180 Christmases during his lifetime, There were records in the McCrain family which proved that the old man was past 180 yenrs of on the day of his death, which would make his lease of life at least thirteen Jente greater than any other man who # lived during the last 2000 years, — St. Louis Republic, They have | It you should go on the 24 of | May to a house where one of your friends | out of | ] decay. i serentific cook of bas gone | more than twenty- | a | PIERC] The color of his body Hard Tack the Remedy, The dentists of the period, who are nothing if not scientific, raise a note of alarm about the growing tendency to decay of the teeth of the present and the coming generations. Dental caries is said to be increasing in an “extraordinary and alarming” man- ner. Fach succeeding generation shows a poorer quality of teeth. This a writer for The Hospital confirms to some oxtent by the experience of four . ——— Fa ——— rT y a —— SIDE from the fact that the cheap baking powders contain alum, which causes indigestion and + generations of his own family. At one extreme was a grandfather at eighty six, who died less than a score of years | ago, with a month full of absolutely perfect teeth. At the other great-gragd-daughter of that old gen- tleracn, who, at ten years of age, re- | quires six of her teeth ‘‘filled” at th present moment. What be cause of thisvery unpleasant and even alarming condition of things? Th dentists tell ns that ‘‘dental caries marches hand in hand with eciviliza- tion.” If that be so, voutly wish that civilization find a more encouraging and con able companion, But why zation ist de teeth? 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