THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., AU OUR TROUBLES. Rev. Dr. Talmage Compares Them tec Sharp Rocks. Many People Have to Climb Over Some That Are Vecullarly Their Own They Are Urged to Get Up Into the Sunlight yor and Consolation. of God's Fa The following sermon contains much encouragement those who are struggling agai of accumulated is 1. Samuel “There wi sharp rock on the one side, und a s! rock on the other side.” The cruel of the must be taken scattered, is just one man, accompanied by his bodyguard, to do that thing Jona- than is the hero of the scene. 1 know that David cracked the skull of giant with a few pebbles well slung, and that three hundred Gideonites scattered ten thousand Amalekites by the crash of broken crockery, but here is a more wonderful conflict. Yonder are the Philistines on the rocks, Here is Jonathan with his bodyguard in the valley. On the the rock called Bozez; on the other side is a rock called hese were as famous ern times Gibraltar. They scalable, and two rocks ascent. for victims The text adversity misfortunes army Philistines and [here = ane side 1s Seneh two are rec etween text can go thr Lis energies, point, and by his own na goes through it. But the trouble to the ble to the left of Did either trouble might endure it, but two disasters, two overshad fortunes, are pity him! “There is a sharp the one a sharp the other a In this crisis of the text whose fortune and healt] the same time. XNine-tenths merchants capsize they come There is = circles, seems name learns oht igh him, two Bozex ana oS and rock ta ™ ie bus a 11 all his hat BeeIns as some amour shelf it 1s WO | if burned evers tance It wrecked HOE 11 he learns of a sudde When tl awful and he tell go to the 3 daolorous view er as if he never time passes, a not fam an ha Well ng ooks around ily is left, and he rallies comes to his eves, and the face two makes chapter in a to hig hear aver and Ye courage ite calamity the f new era of prosperity He met that one trouble He sat d the grim maquerad it, wn ttle while ra in of nd tinder Bozez hadow the rock 7: ike Jonae often yet he soon began, than, to that physical \ financial embarr fortune failed it His nerves elim} rw iment sent! When the broke the man's spirit were shattered His brain hun- for was stunned I ean sho dreds of in tue and health failed at They came prematurely y the stafy Their hand trembled with incipient paralysis. They never saw a well day since the hour when they called their creditors together lor a compromise, If such men are impatient, and pecu- liar, and irritable, excuse them. They had two troubles, either one of whieh they could have if, when the health went, the fortune bad been retained, It would not have been so bad. The man could have bought the very best medical advice, and he eould have had the very best attend- men our Om the time met successfally, Eh — ance, and long lines of carriages wonld have stopped at the front door to in- quire as to his welfare. But poverty on the one side and sickness on the other are Bozez and Seneh, and they interlock their drop them upon the poor God help him! “There is a sharp rock on the one side, and a other side.” shadows, and nan's way sharp rock on the such a man to do? In the name of Almighty God, 1 will tell him what to do. Do Jona did climb: climb up into the sunlight of God's favor I can go through the churches, and show yon men who lost fortune and healtM at and vet who day and dream of Heaven If vou have any idea that sou Now, what is than and consolation the same time, tion, and steady nerves, and cle 1 pien ike sight, and good } and friends, are necessary to 1 happy, you have miscalculated pose that overhanging ro only made Jonathe harder and the y get up and out into and this bined shadow of invalidism and finan cial embarrassment often sent a man up the quicker into the sunlight of God's favor and the noonday of His glorious promises It is a difficult this { a feel his dependence has ten thousand dollars in and fifty ment 1 sup Ks the these an scramble faster t« the sunlight; com- has ‘ man 19 upon God when he the doll: n govern of st man si bank thousand securitie res and three s} to himself, “it ips. ‘Give me when my from st } the mies into hell, de jected, of perdition' far forgot hi to his theological trem roasted And Martin meelf as to say, in regard pponents Put whatever sauce you pleas rr stewed ng or fried, or baked, hashed, they are noth Ah fr yr Martin or boiled, r ends ther could m jess elevated oppon takes axe after wor metime y alone There there is mights ockhimbanns are no gym many home n which pathy, and no happiness, and n The clamor of the . Deen heard good cheer battle outside: but nd all the ng March” orange of Wen withstand Vedd play and all blossoms, and tion the ing pas there has no ma ¢ Sar times men le of } k of the rock of domestic iweh a perae on, and on ther side of them nfelicity What a 8 the ne se Jonathan b. Get heights of God's you may look riumph upon the outside per svniid Whik good and great John Wesley was wing by name up t consiation, from whieh down in t trouble gecution home the and hav the board fences of London In doggerel, at t) very time his wife wae making him nes could though she were possessed silenced kirates, mag ing his written on wnt miserable ax she acting by devil, as I suppose she never ing him a kindness until the day ran away, so that he wrote in his diary these words: “1 did not forsske hor; I have not dismissed her; 1 will not re- ‘a the was, do phe | | | call her” Planting one foot fipon out. side persecution, and the other foot on home trouble. John Wesley climbed’ up into the heights of Christian joy, and after preaching forty thousand and traveling two hundred and seventy thousand the heights of Heaven, though in this harp Sermons, miles, reached world he had it hard enough--"a rock on the one side, and a sharp rock the other." Again, that erisis of the and a str ame t on in the ement it the tioning Ah, males woman stands text who ha beren for a livel Without from observation ure hood me men NOmes, i it is a hard thing for a wonu inn peak honest art not and ek quisite magnets jut is dead have ab irbed savings bank; now 1t! band, or RES that wan pen obsequie all was left and and wasted weeping and watching, she goes forth—a grave, a coffin behind her-—-t0 ocon- tend for her existence and the exists ence of her children. When I see such a battle as that open, 1 shudder at the Men sit ind write women's 1p more in the with a hearse, ghastliness of the gpectach with embroidered slippers the tion is heartless essave about wages: but of An bl i, and blood thar that que made tenrs thers women free here she can tele graph ses IW. An her hore need the ey ii Jere Aare y hee meanly « ) 8 to come glor ommunion of sa that passeth all into derstanding: the « ympani ship of lien Npwar Oh, then he angels. He up AAT Bb the make th day to all from financial from between tatiom pe in the Come between and Fine 1} : and yon hetween na up your invalidiam embar rasements i lestitu wasted eternity vour bereavements tion 1 life and Like Jonathan instead ir Mh ui in y» with all vo iting down t han the shadow and : rock on the mn the other In might wring your in the darkness “a zharg wk one side, and a sharp : wiche a Mile about equal Odd Name for A Burman to two English word for “mile” “to sit" and mile ix miles he length in Hormese means distance that it ne mile 45 the an man before he coneiders cessary to sit down, goes Fnormeus Sponge, A single sponge has been found on the coast of Florida with a cireumfens ence of five fee! six inches, | for that price Nine-day Excursion, For the benefit of those desiring to visit the great Ocean Grove Camp Meet. ing, the Pennspivania Railroad Company will, on August 24, sel excursion tickets to Ocean Grove, Asbury Park, or Long Branch from stations named below at the very ] Ww rales uote Bellefonte Lemont Oak Hall Linden Hall Lewisburg, oo P.M. Tickets will be good for return passage Philadelphia Arrive on regular trains until September 1, in- clusive, and will permit of stop-off at Philadelphia within limit X32 ~THE CENTRE World } of it Hes th pone year for a-week Think Foul-Smelling Catarrh. f 1} 5.5.5". Blood 4 ritalin v Patronize you. Prices Consistent and 5 Reasonable, at THE CENTRE my DEMOCRAT, 3) Bellefonte, Pa. BR RR BR RB LEGAL NOTICES SHERI } By ¥ rite fF mo {4 DEMOCRAT and the 3- | CHIE COUNTY BANKING OO Corner of High and Spring street Receive Deposits | [hecount Notes | 1) SHUGGERY Cashier BAITLROAD SCHED ULES JP ENNSYLVANIA KAILBOAD BRANCHES In ¢flect on and after May AXD IA YRONE VERTW A yw MN wk Haven fist And Sta Lose Ha Wms 5 Fu Alin Cry NEW YORK Car attached 10 aast meport at 11:3 p.m adeiphiaat 1297 a. wm W.GEFHAR]T seneral Bu tARMAN'S EMPIRE HOUSE. 28 dni s STREET, TYROXRE, PA Al. S. 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