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1896,
LAME ON BOTH FEET.
Dr. Talmage
Meophibosheth.
We Wilh
of the of Heaven If We
Approach God "With
Humility.
King
Compares Sinners to |
All be Welcomed in the Palace |
| But go
| come to King David's palace, he trem
| bled. The fact was that the grandfs-
{ ther of Mephibosheth had treated Da-
vid most shockingly, and now Mephi-
{ bosheth says to himself: ‘‘What
| the king want of me? Isn't it enough
| that I am lame? Is he going to destroy
| my life? 1s he going to wreak on me
{ the vengeance which he holds toward
| my grandfather Saul? It's too
to the palace Mephibosheth
does
had,”
| must, since the king has commanded
The subject of the
Washington's
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hom
latest sermon of
popular divine was the
David with Mephib-
for the sake
father, Jonathan, He’chose as
his text: II. Samuel 9: 1 and 13: Is |
there yet any that is left of the house
of Saul, that I may show him kindness
for Jonathan's sake? od So
Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem; for
he did es oc king's
table; and was foet.
Was t ever
osheth, w he honors
of his
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t the
ntinually a
lame on both his
here anything more re-
1s than the love
> At one time
up and Dav
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1d chivalro
Jonathan
1 was down.
mathan’s family
1p ar
you heard of
into battle
ave oiten
is shot
the
, And
he one
than made
i nature
nd are
netimes does
needs a little
spiint, a
ctification.
have; it
Man is
He is
salve of
and the |
have his
Man isonly half wrong,
erwrong. In whatis man's
? In hiswill, his affections,
.
«NO,
come in 184
. not all
Wrong
Bring the
ivine
pain
one foot cured
not alsoget!
nature righ
his
grace the ointment,
extract and we will
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book that
sick, and
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“The whole head is
whole heart faint ™
Mephibosheth lame in both feet. Our
belief of the fact that sin has searified
and deformed our souls increases as we
go on in years When you started life
you thought that man was a little
marred by sin, and he was about one
tenth Wrong. By the ‘time you had
gone through the early experience of
your trade, or occupation, or profes
sion, you believed that man was about
half wrong. By the time you came to
mid-life you believed that man was
three-fourths wrong, But within these
past few years since you have been so
lied about and swindled and cheated,
you have come to the conclusion that
man is altogether wrong, and now you
can say with the prayer-book and with
the Bible: “There is no health in us.”
Now you believe with the prophet,
“I'he heart is deceitful above all
things, and desperately wicked.”
Whatever you may have believed be-
fore now you believe that Mephibos-
beth is lame on both feet.
SAYS
the
| it.
and
Me-
stairs
With
helped by
phibosheth going
of the palace. I hear his staff and
crutches rattling on the tessellated
floor of the throne room. No
have these two persons confronted each
other—Mephibosheth and David, the
king-—than Mephibosheth throws him.
self flat his face before the king,
and styles himself a dead dog. In the
east when a man styles himself a dog
he utters the utmost term of self-abne-
gation, It is not a term
this country, where, if a dog has a fair
and crutches
friends, 1 nee
up the
staff
his
sooner
on
so strong in
shows more no
some human
yf: but the
as 1
chance, he sometimes
than
wot «
bility of character
that
mangy curs of the oriental cities,
by my
fete stable.
de
wt term of
specimens we
know own observation
Mephibosheth
’
eit
terly
sel mthing +
Ther
parish wi
mheth's posturing does
When a soul
st upright
es of the neck relax and
bow his head After
almost superhuman ef.
pray After
n God and
prostrate
he prays
s down to
has see seen
rows himself flat on his
eet of the King
The fact is,
1 sees us, we would
You
to overhaul other people.
d be, “God be
ust like
if we could
a as Leon
spectacie would
mereiful
And
tands for
1 for
again: Mephibosheth in my text
the human
the sake of Mephi-
ver have got into the
slace on his own account. Why did
vid ransack the realm to find that
wor man, and then bestow upon him a
great fortune, and command a farmer
by the name of Ziba to enlturs the es
tate and give to this invalid Mephi-
bosheth half the proceeds every year?
Why did King David make such a
mighty stir about a poor fellow who
disabled soul
another
Ave
.
she Would ne
t
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| would never be of any use to the throne
of Israel? It was for Jonathan's sake.
It was what Robert Burns calls for
“Auld Lang Syne.” David could not for
get what Jonathan had done for him in
other days
hins it that all this kindness on the part
father Jonathan's sake
The most important part of every
of it—"For Christ's sake.”
tle off those words as though they
were merely the finishing stroke of the
prayer.
part of the prayer. Wuen in earnest.
ness you go before God and say, “For
upon God's mind all the memories of
Bethlehem and Golgotha. When you
you hold before God's mind every
groan, every tear, every crimson drop
of his only begotten Son. If there ia
anything in all the universe that will
| tion, it Is to say, "For Christ's sako.
Ifa little ehild should kneel behind
Again, Mephibosheth in the text
stands for the disabled human soul
humbled and restored. When this in-
valid of my text got a command to
God's throne and should say, “For
Christ's sake," the great Jehovah would
turn around on his throne to look at
her and listen. No prayer ever gols
say before God “For Christ's sake” |
. | to Heaven
i
but for Christ's sake:
No soul is ever comforted but for
Christ's sake. The world will never
be redeemed but for Christ's sake. Our
| name, however illustrious it may be
| among men,
Three times this chapter |
| of David to Mephibosheth was for his |
prayer is the last three or four words |
Do not rate |
| invite Mephibosheth to come up.
They are the most important |
before God stands only
for inconsistency and sin; but there is
# name, a potent name, a blessed
name, a glorious name, an everlasting
name, that we may put upon our lips
as a sacrament and upon our forehead
as a crown, and that is the name of
Jesus, our divine Jonathan, who
stripped himself of his robe and puton
rags, and who gave up his sword and
took our broken that now,
whether we are or sick, whether
we are living or dying, if we speak
that name it moves Heaven to the cen-
ter, and God says:
come in,
reed, so
weil
“Let the poor soul
Carry him up to the throne
room of the palace. Though he may
have in though sin may
have crippled him on this side, and sor-
row may have erippled him on the
other side, he is lame in both his
feet, bring him up into the palace, for I
want to him
ness fi
been exile,
and
show kind-
everiasting
r Jonathan's sake.’
Again Me I hibo
stands for the
lifted to the King's table
it
heth my text
disabled human soul
It was more
in those times even than itis
COMI men to into a
om. The sublects m
41 get
ght
i the rail
have seen the
rht have heard
08 Saxe, 1
with the
hope
King
we must be §
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mare intro
“This Is
luced
vorid ti
That banquet
meant more to Mephibosheth than
any because he had been poor
and and
jected in
ga
an to
Ine eae
erippled, and despised,
And that
blind will
{ Heaven
had
man who
better
Heaven than we who in this world had
good hearing. And those
higher appreciation of the easy
motion of that land who in this world
were Mephiboshetha
0
man who
world is better
the lighto
this world
api
who i
And
was deaf
than wy
good eyesight
in this world
that
will appreciate 1 musie of
will have a
OOO
a magnificent gos
pel! It takes a man so low down and
raises him so «igh! What a gospel!
Come now, who wants to be banqueted
and empalaced? AS when Wilberforce
was trying to get the emancipation bill
through the British parliament, and
all the British Isles were anxious to
hear of the passage of that emancipa-
tion bill, when a vessel was coming
into port, and the eaptain of the vessel
knew that the people were so anxious
to get the tidings he stepped out on
the prow of the ship and shouted to
the people, long before he got up to
the dock, “Free!” and they erled it,
and they shouted it, antl they sang
it through the land, "Free! Free!”
80 today 1 would like to sound
the news of your present and
your eternal emancipation until the
angels of God hovering in the alr, and
watehmen on the battlements, and bell
men in the town cry it, shout it, sing
it, ring it: 1" 1 come out
my soul, what
“Free! Free!
now as the messenger of the palace to
Iam
here to-day to tell you that God has a
wealth of kindness to bestow upon youn
for His Son's sake. The doors of the
| palace are open to receive you. The
Christ's sake,” It rolls in, as it were, |
i
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move God to an act of royal benefao |
cup-bearers have already put the chal
foes on the table, and the great, loving,
tender, sympathetic heart of God bends
over you this moment, saying: “Is
there any that is yet left of the house
of Saul, that I may show him kindness
for Jonathan's sake?"
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