HAGAR AND ISHMAEL.
Dr. Talmage Draws Some Usoful
Lessons from ‘Li eir Story.
Wien the Fature 1coks Dark an Angel of
Laht Can Ne en by the Eye of
Falth— Comfort for the
Despondent,
In the following sermon the popular
Nashington divine urges his hearers
o first find the sphere that God in-
wnded them for and then stay in it
His text is Genesis 21:19: “And God
opened her eyes, and she saw a well of
water: and she went and filled the bot
tle with water and gave the lad drink.”
Morning breaks upon Deersheba.
There is an early stir in the house of
old Abraham. There has been trouble
among the domestics. Hagar, an as
sistant in the household, and her son,
a brisk Jad of 18 years, have become
impudent and and
the mistress of the household, puts her
foot down very hard and says that they
will have to leave the premises. They
are packing up now, Abraham, know-
ing that the journey before his servant
and her son will be very long and across
insolent, Sarah,
desolate places,
heart sets about putting up some bread
in it.
water t
braham
and a bottle with
plain luneh t
but I warr
have been en
very hat pro
vides,
their )
said old Abral
to Hag
tO Dow sh
Nhe
es off
und
t. and beg tO we unt
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ert seems
s clear thro gh ne bY
and her ery
ens: and
on & cloud,
upon
Hagar,
"n 1
IKE UD ana
niieth
to a well of water
where she Hs the
Thank God! Thank God!
I learn from sCene,
the first what a sad thing it is
when people do not know their place,
and get too proud for their business!
Hagar was an assistant in that house-
hold, but wanted to rule there.
She ridiculed and jeered until her son,
Ishmael, got the same tricks. She
dashed ont her own happiness, and
threw Sarah into ss great fret; and if
she had stayed much longer in that
household she would have upset calm
Abraham's equilibrium. My frighds,
one-half of the trouble in the world to-
day comes from the fact that people do
not know their plave, or, finding their
place, will not stay in it. When we
come into the world there is always a
place ready for us. A place for Abra
ham. A place far Sarah. A place for
Hagar. A place for Ishmael. A place
for you and a place for me.
Our first duty is to find our sphere;
our second is to keep it. We may be
born in a sphere far off from the one
for which God finally intends us. Sixtus
V. was born on the low ground, and was
» swineherd; God called him up to
wave a scepter. Ferguson spent his
early days in looking after sheep; God
called him up to look after stars, and
be p shepherd watching the flocks of
Hight on the
hillsides hp Ho
garth began engra pewter pots;
God raised
chanted realm of a
to stand in the en
s bench hel
this oriental
mn
place
she
ter. The shoe-
Bloomfield for a
in the kindness of his |
It is a |
| many
little hi
| tended them!
appalling |
sees the |
bottle for the lad. |
| added to it
| been the suggestion of a single trouble,
business, for Cod had dec! 1
Hawley was to be one of the grout
astronomers of England,
On the other hand, we may be born
in a sphere a litle higher than that for
which God intends us. We may Le
bora in a castle, and play in a co tly
conservatory, and feed high-bred point-
ers, and angle for goldfish in artiucial
ponds, and be familiar with princes:
yet God may better have fitted us for
a carpentor’'s shop, or dentist's forceps,
or weaver's shuttle, or a blacksmith's
The great thing is to find just
the sphere for which God intended us,
and then to occupy that sphere, and
occupy it forever. Here is a man God
fashioned to make a constitution. The
man who makes the plow is just as
honorable as the man who makes the
oonstitution. There is a woman who
was made to fashion a robe, and yonder
is one intended to be a queen and wear
it. It seems tome that in the one case,
as in the other, God appoints the sphere,
forge.
and the needlo is just as respectable in
I do not know
would
his sight as the scepter.
but that the
have been saved if some of the
world long ago
men out
of the ministry were in it, and some of
those who are in it were out of it. 1
really think that one-half the world
be divided two quarters
who found their
and those who, having found
How
for a position a
may into
those have not out
sphere,
it, are not willing to stay there.
are struggling
rher than that for which God
The bondswoman want
Wn
» mis Hagar keeps or i-
nall wheel of a wats
beanti t treading
IWAY wants to be thet
ill Y wen
ft a
ir)
wil
and the Sparrow w
because
wving the beauty of Christina
Whatever
it win
rod CRIA YO
hissing or
o walk under triumphal arch
huzza;
mt of the ditch; whether
on a Pentecost or tel
the
of the Ct
hrist of Mary Magda
wanderer of street of
i"
*w+ | nnd helifts it bleeding and pain-struck?
in~- |
| the
| mys
the |
hether it be to weave a garland |
»
ng child on a spring
May
on morn
Jn or Lo
ing i all ha m
ing and call her a Jueen,
comb out tl}
the
What a great
Hagar! There
Abraham's house
doubt. Nov
sands of
0 her happines
music in t
ome at the «
Ho cannot
Mipated &
gr | ' t
tall ghts of that
HE
be he desert
Cid Harsh Woras » ar
I'he high } that shone
marrage
M
out
OTH
sitar while the
ring was being se
the
faded with
and there she
thinking of
. and the vows given,
and benedict
nil
mi pronounced, have
the orange blossoms,
is to-day broken-hearted,
past joys and present deso
ation and coming anguish. Hagar in
the
wilderness!
Here is
a beautiful home. You ean
of anything that can Iw
For years there has not
not think
and fill the
Books
Lounges
Cup of domestic joy full
and running over. Dark night drops.
Pillow hot. Pulses flutter. Eyes close.
And the foot whose well-known steps
on the doorsill brought the whole
household at eventide crying,
“Father's coming!” will never sound
on the doorsill again. A long, deep
grief plowed through all that bright-
nes of domestic life. Paradise lost.
Widowhood. Hagar in the wilderness!
You say: “That isn't an unusual
scene, a mother leading her child by
the hand.” Who is it that she is lead-
ing. Ishmael, you say. Who is Ishmael?
A great nation is to be founded-—a pa-
tion so strong that it is to stand for
thousands of years against all the
armies of the world. Egypt and Assyria
thunder against it, but in vain. Gaulus
brings up his army, and his army is
smitten. Alexander decides upon a
campaign, brings up his hosts, and
dies. For a long while that nation
monopolises the learning of the world,
It is the nation of the Arabs. Who
founded it? Ishmael, the lad that
Hagar led into the wilderness. She
had no iden rhe was leading forth such
destinies. Neither does any mother,
You along the street and seo and
a who will yet make
the earth a
uske with their
Who is Pool, Ply-
Bright happy children
house with laughter and song.
to read. Pletures to look at.
to rest on.
out
ht fooy 4 Sutton
mou
down fnto the slush and slime Pu]
bare foot comes upon a 'plece of glass
bf
{ of the old well-aweep, and you know |
| draw on that gospel well-aweep, and I |
That wound in the foot decides that he
be sedentary in his life, decides that he
be a student. That wound by the glass
in the foot decides that he shall be John
Kitto, who shall provide the best relig-
ious encyclopaedia the world has ever
had provided, and with his other writ-
ings as well, throwing a light upon the
Word of God such as has come from no
other man in this century. O mother,
mother, that little hand that wanders
over youy face may yet be lifted to
hurl thunderbolts of war or drop bene-
dictions!
pheme God in the grogshops or ery
“Forward!” to the Lord's hosts as they
go out for their last victory. My mind
this morning leaps 80 years ahead, and
I see a merchant prince of New York.
One stroke of his pen brings a ship out
ef Canton. Another stroke of his pen
brings a ship into Madras. He is
mighty in all the money markets of
the world. Who is he? He sits on Sab
baths beside you in church.
My mind 80 years forward
leaps
That little voice may blas- |
from this time and I find myself in a |
relief association.
A great multitude |
of Christian women have met together |
There is one
}
who
for a generous purpose.
woman in that
have the confidence of all the
and they all
counsel and
she?
crowd
seems
others,
her
i 1. +
OOK up vO
for her prayers.
This afternoon you will find her
Her teach.
in the Sabbath school, while
yf that
fi thie
er Wiis her « irist who ¢
naked, and hung
LY
healed the sick.
ward thirty year
iin an Afric
sn mis
— ati
141! no 5
1 Change
back again to youth. (
was disappointed
But
fut
everiasting
he found
not the elixir here 1 tell you of
the elixir of life
foisry sh
irom 1]
bursting
that
never
¢ “Rock of Ages” and
water
oked
north,
haven's
KAY. I have
nave i
west, and |
Why
OM edd
Aare
tal
every desert
g Over anv au
and
otice 8 8 Of mourning
Have you f a
bereft,
ation? Oh.
bereft,
mand oon
Oh, = have
after
man nan
you found consolation Hearse
We step {ror
to smother
: :
ave hillock
We fallow
like them,
hearse none gr
grave hillock
Yes soon to be
:
Rg SOT
3
corpses, oursel
The world
Eve rs
is in mou ts dead.
heart has bee We sep
ner
} :
But to
Ring ye
ry wi ww has a weil in it:
come to that well today, and 1
i water for vou from that
well.
if you have lived in the country you
have sometimes taken hold of the rope
how the bucket came up, dripping with
bright, cool water. And I lay hold of
the rope of God's merey and I begin to
see the buckets coming up. Thirsty
soul! Here is one bucket of life! Come
and drink of it
freely.” I pull away again at the rope,
and another bucket comes up. It is
this promise: “Weeping may endure for
a night, but joy cometh in the morn-
ing.”
tiful, and cool. Here is the promise:
“Come unto me, all ye who are weary |
and heavy laden, and I will give you |
“
rest.
A converted Hindoo was dying, and
his heathen coowades came around
him and tried to comfort him by read-
ing some of the.pages of their theology:
but he waved his hand, as much as to
say: “Idon't want to hear it.” Then
they called in a heathen priest, and he
said: “If you will only recite the
Numtra, it will deliver you from hell.”
He waived his hand as much as to say:
“I don't want to hear that.” Then they
said: “Call on Juggernaut.” He shook
his head, as much as to say: “Il ean’t
do thas.” Then they thought perhaps
he was too weary to speak, aud they
sald: “Now, if you can’t say *
naut,’ think of him.” He shook
head again, as much as to say:
no, no!” Then they bent down # Als
pillow, and they said: “In what will
you trusty” His face lighted up with
the very glories of the sphere,
o
to
for her |
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“Whosoever will, let |
him come and take of the water of life |
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