THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT. BELI LEFONTE, 'A,, DECEMBER \ THE LORD'S “SHUT IN" | Compensations of Sickness as Seen | by Dr. Talmage. A Bermon for Invalids from the Story | and the Ark-—God's Designs for Our Het- of Noal terment, (Washington, Dec. 11. Copyright, 1808.) This discourse of Dr, Talmuge, which is helpful to all who find life a struggle, is especially addressed to a class of per- sons probably in a sermon. 11 “The Lord shut Cosmogony ha chapter thaw tl that catastrophe mwersion of our the first ship « vations who never flood stony y Grecian flood st was the Nos New Zealand story, An of whioh sion of mine, and with and w ornith though ast had drowned, All of the shin on & mu "Test all thee tions of t lieve } great {; Great 1 The == erysts heave: never before addressed e text is Genesis vii, 16, thur for a one three enc! ft count sa door be and 1 do not and his fam tells us 1} I particular floor on which Noal was closed aft Jord shut him in." 8B people now in the thoroughly shut in, some by old age, some by special That not ellow them to go some surrounded by deluges of misfor tune and trouble, and for them I often receive messmpges and this which I hope may do good to ¢ more especially intended day I address the sl! shut him in." Notice first of all who sc that tl did not Ham, nor dic the four ma shipboard scoffed at bad They } and teil ¥ t of the er he had entered there are Y world who are as some by aickness ntlies fort} will they could go i sire! that anak Id mayw right away: mistakes buoyancy gion, What He hos never re does he know abo it" But when reports to been tried” and morning or one goes out that he called to see you and found you, after being kept in your room for two months, cheerful and hopeful, and that yon had not one word of complaint and asked all about everybody and rejoiced In the sucress of your business friends, although your own business had almost come 10 a standstill through your abe sence from store or offies or shop, and that you sent your love to all your old friends and told them that if you did not meet them again in this world yon hoped to meet them in dominions weraphic, with a quiet word of advice from you to the man who carried the message nbout the Importance of hia pot neglecting his own ronl, but through Christ seeking something bet- ter than this world could give him why. all the business men in the count. ing room ray: “Good! Now, that is re- NHglon.” And the elerks get hold of the wlory and talk fv ever sn that the R——— the that to bus world Lis wav [een whut It is a good thing te preach on a Nur the pet abie uttire and sent ple assem . i soft cus the preacher standin nently by person No doubt, while on ths snd his three sons and all anteiuy of the bright hill dies of the an th yught green fields where they and of the homes where they ! na had many years of expe h waa 600 years ! at af nature walk the mo your f fo hers ever d reaches in k of ten miles which red and jumped long and after in jeour shuut-ina! competition, a "a YO d as the morning? Ok you Thank God for a vivid mem. ory of the times when you were free as the chamois on the rocks, as the eagle going straight for the sun. When the min pounded the roof of the ark the eight voyagers on that eraft did not forget the time when it gayly pat. tered In & summer shower, and when the door of the ark shut to keep out the tempest they did not forget the time when the door of their home In An menia was closed to keep oul thespring rains whic” came to fill the cups of lly and honeysuckle and make all the trees of the wood clap their hands Again, notice that during that 40 daya of storm which rocked that ship on that undver:al oconn of Noah's time the door which whut the captain of the whip Inside the eraft kept him from many outside perile, How those wrath. ful seas wonld lke to have pot their wet hands an Noah and pulled Bim ant and | mengers put ! | plank came | sunk him! And do all of you of ho) great army of the shut-in realize, though you have special temptations | where you are now, how much of the GRAHAM ANSWERS QUAY. | Peclnres He Has desioe of the Documeninry Nenntor's Galle, outsidestyle of temptation you escape? | Dao the saickroom, realize that every hour of you the merchant incarcerated in| the day you spend jooking out of thal window or gazing at the particular fig ure on the wall paper or listening to the 1 choek's ticks mer | are being wrecke the allurements and nunecerts business |] arked reaching the Armenian cl been stranded rd forded that height of Ararat when the eight pas- their feet on it. And sooner had the last one, the invalided wife of Japhcth, been helped down the upon the rock than the other apartments of the ship were opened, apd such a dash of bird music never filled the air as when the entire or- cheatra of robin redbreast, and morn- ing lark, and chaffinch, and mocking bird, and house swallow took wing into the bright sky, while the cattle began to low and the sheep to bleat and the horses to neigh for the pasture, which from the awful submergence had nw begun to grow green and aromatic. I tell you plainly nothing interests me more in that tragedy from the first to the last act than ths “exit” and the “exeunt,” than the fact that the “shut ins” became the “ And I now cheer with this story all the inmates ef sickrooms and hospitals, and those prisons where men and women are unjustly endungeoned, and all the thou- sands who are bounded on the north and south and east and west by floods, by deluges of misfortune and disaster, The ark of your trouble, if it does not land on some earthly height of vindl- cation and rescue, will land om the heighin celestial, th procession descer No other wharf felt so so alttractiveness such an no go ouls 4 id or af- ranahan, of Pi Harrisburg from Rom¢ n its way to this Father thanahan is at present rector of the Roman Cat} y h of Mather of Borrows, and is superintendent of the the archdiocese country oll Chur this city parochial schools of Media. Dec, 18 FF the giruction of the barn of Frank PP. Wil jetta rd, Thureday night, In 6 dalry cows perished, two more in this vicimi which stock barn on the William Middletown, was de horses and a quan and harness. The barn of Marshall Register, in Upper Providence, a aille distant, was also destroyed. Eighteen cows and one horse were burned to a crisp, besides many tone of hay. straw and farming imple. ments, There ja little doubt that the barn burnings were the work of an in- condiary, (nur olllowing de in Conco which barns last night burned Moore stroyed, with tity of hay destroyed in both of The estaly were was in two riraw RAILROAD SCHEDULES HAILROAD H Jos. HorNE & Co. ju AFTER THE HOLIDAYS. r y re (84 p TE i 1 { 14 TOIIAYN fer Ire . rior { fi ’ } 4 L i 4 y "PITTSBURG, PA. | AAAAANANANAA A B. & B. -_ ww FOR NICE WAISTS AND GIRLS PRETTY DRESSES. Files M gi " Lock Haver 50c YARD. -_ SENS nl Yuu hn Booos & Buhl Department X. ALLEGHENY.FPA. Kr M a Cedar Ar. Lv. a.m BEECH CREEK R. BR.) Jersey Shore n. p.m "Wu NEW YORK 4 (Via Phila.) 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