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GOD'S WAY OF WORK.
IT IS NOT MAN'S WAY. BUT
THE BEST WAY.
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Rev. Dr,
Christian Strategem
Battle as a Lesson
Telmage's Eloguent Plea or
He Uses
Pointed
Gideon's
Questions
For Men and Women,
New YORK, Sept. 20. —In his sermon
for today Rev. Dr. Talmage discusses a
subject which is of special interest
Sunday school teachers and sch
the present time, being Gideon's batt
with the Midianites near Mount (Gill
The text chosen was Judges vii, 20, 21
“And the three comj blew the
trumpets, and brake the
held the lamps in their
the trumpets in theirrig
withal. And they stood
his place round about
the host ran and cried and fled.”
That rang |
fought |
down
anies
every man in
the camp, and all
is the st attle «
(rod
reclamation 18 made
1e troops who are cov
to
scampered aw
men. But G
large yet, and so he orders
remaining to march
stream and commands Gide
in what manner these m
wr as they pass through it. If
and drink, then
y go, and 22,000 of the
ay, leavi
1 says ti
go home
g only
army 18 100
theso 10,000
through a |
n to notice
the |
they
down
n drink of
get down on all fours
they are to be pronounced lazy and in
competent for the campaign, but in
passing through the stream, they scoop
up the water in the palm of their hand
and drink and pass on they are to be
the men selected for the battle.
Well, the 10,000 men marched down
in the stream, and the of them
come down on all fours and plange their
mouths like a horse or an ox into the
water and drink, but there are 300 men
who, instead of stooping, just dip
palm of their hands in the water and
bring it to their lips, ‘‘lapping it as a
dog lappeth.’’ Those 300 brisk, rapid,
enthusiastic men are chosen for the
campaign. They are each to take a
trumpet in the right hand, and a pi
in the left hand, and a lamp inside
pitcher, and then at a given signal they
are to blow the trumpets, and throw
down the pitchers, and hold up the
lamps. So it was done.
It is night. I see a great host of Mid-
ianites sound asleep in the valley of
Jezreel. (Gideon comes up with his 800
picked men, and when everything is
ready the signal is given, and they blow
the trumpets, and they throw down the |
pitchers, und hold up the lamps, and
the great host of Midianites, waking
out of a sound sleep, take the crash of |
the crockery and the glare of the lamps |
for the coming on of an overwhelming |
foe, and they run and cut themselves
to pieces and horribly perish.
The lessons of this subject are very
spirited and impressive. This
. amp of
re gold in it. The smallest dewdrop |
on the meadow at night has a star
sleeping in its bosom, and the most in-
significant passage of Sor ha
it a shining truth. God's mint coin
small change
11]
Ject the
gem
greatest victon
ington or Nag
the fact t
if
ii,
most
he
N fae”
way they were
falling back
times breaking
times crossin
rafts, all
forces
be done
3 in mil
is higl
f Kn
itary affairs Now I think it
time we had this art sanctified and spir
itnalized. In the
about to mak
send word to the
we expect tt
we hay
me, how many troops
w many rounds of shot,
and whether we will © with artil
lery, infantry or cavalry, and of course
we are defeated. There th
of men who might be surprised into the
kingdom of God. We need more tact
and ingenuity in Christian work. It is
in spiritual affairs as in military, that
success depends in attacking that part
of the castle which is not armed and
intrenched.
me
nsands
are
Draw the Bolt,
instance, here is a man all armed
on of election. All his
troops of argument and prejudice are at
that particular gate. You may batter
away at that side of the castle for 50
years, and you will not take it, but just
wheel your troops to the side gate of
the heart's affections, and in five min-
utes you capture him. I never knew a
man to be saved throngh a brilliant ar-
gument. You cannot he men into tl
kingdom of God by the h of adi
lemma. There is no grace in syllogisms
Here is a p
perseveranocy of the saints. He does not
believe in it. Attack him at that
and he will persevere to the very last in |
not believing it. Here is
0) t of bapt mm
IN sprinkiing or
discussion of
will not I remember when
I was a bor that with other Ix vs I went
into the river on a summer day to bathe
and we used to dash water on each oth
er, but never got any resu pt that
our eyes blinded, this
splashing of water Japtists
and Pedobaptists never results in any
thing but the blurring of y
eyesight. In other words,
eapture a man's soul at the point at
which he is especially intrenched. Bat
there is in every man's heart a bolt that
can bo easily shoved. A little child 4
yoars old may touch that bolt, and is
will spring back, and the door will
swing open, and Christ will come in.
I think that the finest of all the fine
arts is the art of doing good, and yet |
this art is the least cultured. We have
For
tha d
ioctrine
10
ms
4
wan armed on the subject of
nt,
a man armed
He believes
mim
ocelesiansti sl hy
change him
It oxox
wero and all
between
the spiritual
yon can never
pall .
quartz has ©
| school,
of God
tho whole
killful menenvi
in the kingdom
troops
Christ if we only had
ing. I would rather bave the 4
and pitchers of Christi;
than 100,000 drawn sword
to conquer
tn strat
and ecolesi cal combat
Hopo In nn Few,
I learn fron
small
have to do all
eon's an
y this sul t
the
tho
part « {
82,000 mu
there were
was bira
only 30(
the Christ
to do the }
bership of
that
member
50
] the urch
You know that the
drones th
it is. Iw
men of Gide
host. How many (
standi ] ]
think it ‘
to ride over them,
does it the quicker
Do
have to
work.
he has called y
ratneri
n than the !
ng In tHe way
is the duty
not w
do more t
You had better th:
u to be one
men rather than to belong to the h
of stragglers. Would not you rat!
one of the 300 that fight than the 22,
000 that ran? I suppose those cowardly
Gideonites who went off
han your
congratulated
themselves
How
battle cost
all’ they got none
of the vi After the
0 men went down and took
the wealth of the Midianites, and out
of the cups and platters of their enemies
they feasted. And the time will
my dear brethren, when
darkness will be routed,
say to his troops: ‘Well
men, Go up and
more than conquerors forever And in
that day all deserters will be shot
Again, I learn from this
different fr
fighting,
did not we?
That
Come,
the h
take
subject that
m man's, but
is always the If we ha
f that battle, we wi
we
(God's way |
1 the
uld have
2,000 men that or
army, and
planning «
taken
belonged
have drilled
up and down
month, and we
equipped witl
ing to the w
and then we w
down in solid e¢
But that is not
the army, and takes
weapons, and gives thom a lamp, and a
to the
them and
ry the
the way. God
away all their
today enough
ot » 1
earth for |
They said: **We got rid of |
|
winter! 1 shall have no more trouble |
Summer weather will come, and
L' But
A0W,
the garden will be very beautiful
the gardener comes w uts the vii
hie ree ah Hoel WY knif 1
tw
BOR
day tl
lis, v
and t}
stay on wi
ofl Wl
when UG
them?
generat
men n
thy
nissaries, build
forge thy chains, but
fall
thy temples and
know
greater than
be when th
int
thor
have
that the
ant thy
earth the song
““Halleluiah
tent reigneth!
doms of tl
ng arms to defend tl
let no slumbering foeman dream of
PreEtr= din Srna An tet Them ee
to go down and drive out the Midian
| ites. 1 suppose some wiseacres were
“That is not militar
f
there who said
man has his
his Ezekiel,
un. the war
logician his
which now
I can lift in my hand—instead of the
Bible the child can carry to Sanday
instead of the
sai put mn his jacket when he
goes to sea~if it had been left to men
to write it would have been a thousand
volumes, judging from the amount of
ntr
little
1 ¥v
OT Can
ecclesiastical of which
arisen. God's way is different
man's, but it is best,
No Cross, No Crown,
So it is in regard to the
life.
Christian's
VEIRY
infinitely best
life, we uld have said:
*“Let bim have 80 years of sunshine, a |
Lot his surround
Let him have
chill shiver
pain his
his soul’ 1
of others so much 1
man
ind
fine house to live in
ings all be agreeable
sound health Let no
through his limbs, ro
brow or trouble
enjoy the prosperity
would let
money as
children’s and
gladness glancing in their
in
eyes Hat it
3
acne
shadow
much
for his
fountains of
large round
nt Cron 8 ay It
man must cut and hit and
pounded just in proportion as he is use
ful. His child }
window and has its life dashed out
most confident investment
every have
he
cheeks
ns
I OSes
peoms as if
urd story
His
tumbles him
into bankruptey. His friends, on whom
he depended, aid the natural force of
gravitation in taking him down. His
life isn Bull Run defeat. Instead of
82,000 advantages he has only 10,000
Aye, only 300-aye, none at all. How
many good people there are at their
wits’ end about their livelihood, about
their reputation? Bat they will find ont
it is the best way after awhile, God
will show them that ho depletes their
advantages just for the game reason he
depleted the army of Gideon~that they
may be induced to throw themselves on
his mercy.
A grapevine says in the early spring:
"How glad I am to get through the
falls from a tl
Bible the
has
from
Christian's |
If we bad had the planning of a |
spearmen
Crash go the pitchers!
tha +» ven
Hopeless
Fighters,
pallor of
m he had
oppressed
But the
WAYS ( mirth dashed higher on reefs
of coral and pearl. The days and the
nights went merrily. No sick child
dared pull that silver doorbell. No beg
gar dared sit on that marble No
voice of prayer floated amid that ta-
pestry. No shadow of a judgment day
darkened that fresco. No tear of human
gympathy dropped upon that npholstery
Pomp strutted the hall, and dissipation
filled her cup, and all seemed safe as
the Midianites in the valley of Jezreel
Jut God Calamity smote the
money market. The partridge left
egrs unhatched., Crash went all
porcelain pitchers! Rain, rout,
and woe in the valley of Jezreel!
Alas for those who fight against God!
Only two sides. Man immortal, which
Woman im
which side are yon on? D
to the 8¢ going
or to the great host of Mi ni a p
in the valley, only to be up in
tion and ruin? Sud the
1 of life will be broken and
blown that our
day of the Lord
night and as
the
Xk up
day when trampoet
never been blown shall
ll call of the dead, and the
earth, dashing against a lost
have its mountains scattered to the
stars and oceans emptied in the air?
Oh, then, what will become of you?
What will become of me? :
If those Midianites had only ¢
their swords the day before the t
all would have been well, and if yon
will now surrender the ging with which
yon have been fighting agnivst God yon
will be safe. Oh, make peace with him
now, through Jesus Christ the Lord!
With the clutch of a drowning man
sige the cross, Oh, surrender! Sarren
dor! Christ, with his hand on his pierced
side, nek you to,
step,
came,
its
the
side are you on?
0 that are
. "
Will startie
armed
Ha! (
the foul
glee tf
for
which hath
¥peak the 1
coura the
moteor,
ven up
3 fay
disarls
HANDLING BOA CONSTRICTORS, |
;
The Trick by Which the Serpents Are
Managed Without Danger.
Snake dealers in South America have
a fine contempt for their squirming and
venomous wares, though it is sometimes
difficult induce ship captains to
carry them as freight,
The snake
to
handle the boa con
ptrictor wi This ser.
pent bite: not veno-
mous, so that the chief danger to the
handler IR IFINON Ae
ly powerful have
learned that the ih. tO really nn.
worous
dealers
the
shape of he
may coil his
fulecram, Ki
dr p a soft hat
may neither se
h him so
dropped a
the creatures
lows, and
dropped it
thing lool
waiting
was tu
He negle
yell yanked a great
with its fangs fixed in
daring to let
he began whirling tl
bead, meanwhile da:
the deck.
The snakeman
the reptile
somebody
rash deck
OWINeT Answered
“What, hi
think of my
of that mug!
14 vel
managed
ALMO
As Bocouraging Test on the Day Follow
ing the Drowning of a Bey.
The Cl
Heffron's
was mad
Louis Fi
drown:
ternoon
Dr. Whitney,
Wilson avenue, claims that h
was drowned at one period of his life,
abd after being dead more than an hour
animation was, by
stored. Dr. Whitr
desired to put th
test, but
opportunity
ry is that
provi
and
r some time
another
ver availed himself of the
| His theo-
od,
ne
a corpse can be
: Are 10 inter:
the entire body. except the
mouth, 4
heated to a constant temperature of 110 |
degrees Falhirenheit, and leaving it there
ter.
nal injuri
A Nese for News,
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answered, as | sat down
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what else?’ he replied
“They think think
reach us this year
“Dod rot
nuthin’ mire
“Perhaps you h heard
great coal mine disaster in
asked,
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wanter know why owner of
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pe,
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Topica.
makes rou hate Van
raged to
Bill, of Arlingto
raft down t
handrel mall
steering it throu s Prios
tilla rapids, waters in i
raft managed by esporien
has gone to pieces. Sh
woman to take the perilons
Mrs, C
ly rode a big
river for a
njuries, |
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