THE CENTRE DEMOCRA'l, BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 20, 1899. IN GRIP OF Dr. Talmage Draws a Lesson from the Tenacity of Eleazar. He Urges a Closer Adherence to the Gospel and Announces Thar ile W1Il Not Cense te Preach, (Washington, April & Copyright, 1899.) In the first notice concert Tal mage that Pastor Charles H. Spurgeon, of London, wrote the great English min- ister said he was glad to find a preacher that believed I'his dis- course of Dr. Talmage is in that vein, to the old ng Dr something and urges close adherence 1 © Gospel; text, II. Samuel, 23:10 “And his hand clave unto the sword.” What a glorious thing to preach the | Gospel! Some suppose that because I have resigned a fixed pastorate 1 will cease to preach! No! No! preach more than I ever have. If the Lord will, four times as much, though | I would not dare | in manifold places. to halt with such opportunity todeclare the truth through the ear to audiences and to the eye through the printing press. And here have theme put before us by the prophet A great general of K was Eleazar, the hero of the text. The Philistines opened battle against him, and his troops retreated I'he ards fled. Eleazar and three of his com- mades into tl} batt] o the battle ar the field we a stirring ng David cCow- went i swept for four men w ion their side arestronger than a with God against them 1 shouted the comn tine army I'he ery ra: ‘Fall back!” field, rest, but the muscles hand ha hilt of the sword E eazar hav throws himself or 1 beer bedded in the fle the hilt had broken of the palm of his } not drop this sword gallantly wielded to the sword.” * nificent Israel. And I propose to show y« took hold of t sword hold of Eleazar wewant no took Eleazar’s hand, and I come to the con- clusion that he tc the sword with a very tight grip Is who fled had r swords no trouble in dre r As they fly over the rocks | hear their swords cl rection pping anging in every t is easy enough for them to it Eleazar's hand Int} drop their swords. Dh clave unto the sword s Christian conflict we want a tighter grip of the Gospel weapons, a tighter grasp of the two-edged sword of the truth. It makes me sick people who hold only a part of the truth, and Jet the rest of the truth go. so that the to see these Christian loosened grasp away Philistines, seeing the wrench the them. The only safe thing for us todo is to put our thumb on the book of Genesis and sweep our hand around the book until the tips of the fingers clutch at whole sword from “In the beginning God ere- Ilike better than I do the words: ated the Heavens and the cart} an infidel a great dea ons of these namby pamby Christians who hold a part of t} rest go yI3.1 ibie By miracle Just as itis, ar hiade. The sword can be severest to wind the ke a ribbon is let shape been fully way and that way and wound th and that way, but it always comes back to its own shape. Think of it! A book written near 19 centuries ago, and some of it thousands of years ago, and yet in our time the average sale of this Book is more than 20,000 copies every week, and more than a million copies a year. [say pow that a book which is Divinely in spired, and Divinely kept, and Divinely scattered is a weapon worth holding a tight gripof. Bishop Colenso will come along and try to wrench out of your hand the five books of and Strauss come along and try to wrench out of your hand the miracles, come along and try to out of your hand the entire life loose So the sword of (God's tested Ss Way Moses, will and Renan will wrench of the Lord Jesus Christ, and your as- sintesinthe office or the factory or the will try to wrench out the entire Bible, but in th of the Lord God of Israel and with Eleazar's grip hold on to it You give up the Bible, » up any part of [ peace and I Do not be ashamed, have the world know that youn are a friend of the Bible. This book is the friend of all that is good, and it is the sworn enemy of all that is bad. An elo- quent writer recently gives an incident of a very bad man who stood in a cell of a western prison. This eriminal had gone through all styles of crime, and he was there waiting for the gal. lows. The convict standing there at the window of the cell, this writer says, “looked out and declared, ‘I am an in- fidel." He said that to all the men and women and children who happened to be gathered there, ‘I am an infidel,” and the eloquent writer says, “Every man and woman there believed him.” And the writer goes on to say, “If he had stood there saying, ‘I am a Chris tian,’ every man and woman would have said, ‘He is a liar!" " This Bible is the sworn enemy of all that is wrong, and it is the friend of all that is good. Oh, hold on it! Do not take part of it and throw the rest away, Hold on to all of it, There are so many people now who do not know. You ask them if the soul is immortal, and they say: “I guess itis; I don't know, Per. haps itis; perhaps it fsn’t.” Is the Bible true? “Well, perhaps it is, and perhaps it fsn’'t. Perhaps it may be, figurative. ly, and perhape it may be partly, and perhaps it may not be at all” They 1 give and you give up par [J fe and Heaven on and Young man, to STEEL. | | ereed, but if their own creed were writ- [ expect to | | note, while despise what they call the apostolic ten out it would read like this: *I believe in nothing, the maker of heaven and earth, and in nothing which it hath sent, which nothing was born of noth- ing and which nothing was dead and buried and descended into nothing and arose from nothing and ascended to mothing and now sitteth at the right hand of nothing, from which it come to judge nothing. will I believé in the holy agnostic church and in the munion of coms the forgiveness of nothing, and the resur- nothingarians and in rection of nothing and in the life that never shall be Amen!” 'I'hat is the ereed of tens of thousands of people in this day, If vou havea mind to ndopt such a theory, 1 will not. *I believe in God the | Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ and in the holy Catholic church and in the communion of saints and in the life everlasting Oh, when | see a stout grip of the sword in the battle against sin and for righteousness, I come to the conclusion ought to take a stouter grip of God's eternal truth ither Amen.” Eleazar taking such that we the sword of righteousness Ag 1 look at Eleazar's hand I also no tice hiss pirit of self forgetfulness, lle hilt of the sword through the palm of his lid 1 went out did not notice that the was cating hand He As he 80 anxion himself, know it hurt hin to the conflie We have often r to achiev ] get all physical ce and all battle of can revolution, a was told he must have his nputated, and they were about t fasten him to the sur- geon's table, for it was long before merciful discove “No, d get me a vio He 1't fasten me to that table; ight to him, and he said, “Now go to work and for 40 m pangs of amputation, ry of anaesthetics said, A violin was br as I begin to play,” nutes, during the awful he moved not a muscle nor dropped a he played some sweet tune, Oh, is it not strange that with the musie of the gospel of Jesus Christ and with this grand march of the church mil to become the chur triumphant we cannot forget oursel and forget all p tant on the way ang and all sorrow ar and all perturba n accomplish un or Men do not or for) | Pres tts as br ant and A% Was ever wnt ) - nder what disadvantages it » mquest of Mexic blind, and wood parallel and, totally blind his pen between those pieces of wood, ten-—that “Co Prescott was totally two pieces of other fastened, with he wrote, the stroke against one piece of wood telling how far the pen must Fo in one way, the stroke against the other piece of wood telling how far the pen must go the other way. Oh, how much men will endure for worldly knowledge and for worldly success, and yet how little we endure for Jesus Christ! How many Christians there are that go around saying: "Oh, my hand; oh, my hand, my hurt hand! Don't you see there is blood on the hand, and there is blood on the sword 7 while Eleazar, with the hilt Imbedded in the flesh of his right kand, does not know it What have we suffered in compari son with those who expired with suf focation or were burned or were chopped to pieces for the truth's sake? We talk of the persecution of olden There is just as much persecu- tion going on now in various In 1849, in Madagascar, 18 men were put to death for Christ's sake. They were to be hurled over the rocks, and before they were hurled over the rocks, in order to make their death the more dreadful in anticipation, they were put times Ways in baskets and swung to and fro over | the precipice that they might see how | many hundred feet they would have to be dashed down, and while they were swinging in these baskets the rocks they sang: aver Jesur, lover of my Lat me to Thy bosom fiy While the billo near me roll, While the tempest still is high Then they were dashed death. Oh, how much others have en dured for Christ, and how little we en dure for Christ! We want to ride to Heaven in a Pullman sleeping ear, our feet on soft plush, the bed made up carly, so we can sleep all the way, the black porter of death to wake us up only in time to enter the golden eity We want all the surgeons to fix our hand up. Let them bring on all the lint and all the bandages and all the salve, for our hand is hurt, while Eleazar does not know his hand is hurt, “His hand clave unto the sword.” As 1 look at Eleazar’s hand | come to the conclusion that he has done a great deal of hard hitting. [I am not sur. prised when I see that these four men wEleazar and his three companions drove back the army of Philistines that Elearar’s sword clave to his hand, fOW, down to, | for every time he struck an enemy with { one end of the sword the other of the sword wounded him end Oh, we have found an enemy who can | not be conquered by rosewater and soft speeches. It must be sharp stroke and straight thrust, There is intemper- ance, and there is fraud, and there is gambling, and there is lust, are 10,000 battalions of armed and there iniquity, How are they to be captured and overthrown? Soft laid down in front of an exquisite nudience will not do it, Philistine iniquity, BCrmons in morocco cunes You have got to cali things by their right name got to expel fro | tians who eat th You have n our churches Chris acrament on Sunday anddevour widows’ houses all the week We against have got to stop our ine the Hittites and the and the Girgashites and let tl wretches go and appiy our in to the tran need tobedraggedout nation sites LN poor nation which Ahabs ebels here, The Strike for modern pression ind slain, here. lHerods here, Je massacre of the infants here God so hard that while you slay the sin the sword will adhere to vour hand. 1 tell you, ds, a few John Knoxes and John Wesleys in the Christian church to-day The Chri | on it until we send own my fries we want whole tendency is to refine on tian worl We keep on refinin apologeti word iniqu And wie chased and 1d and his sword parted and the sinews had been so lo grasped around the sword he o« drop it, and his three comrades, up and tried to hel and they bathed the back part of pose, came the sinews and n ut no. “His har hen they NEers and they again, to the sword.” no sooner than they wl elave ur were back closed ie race 1 but few I 4 freahets Put they for God * of the heads of than could count from noon to sundown Philistine iniquity yon You put that old minister of the Gospel now into a prayer meeting or occasional pulpit or a sickroom where there is some one to be comforted, and it is the same old ring to his voice, and the same old story | of pardon and peace and Christ and Heaven. His hand has so long clutched the sword in Christian conflict he ean not drop it. “His hand clave unto the sword do I' had in Philadel. phia a very aged man who in his early life had been the my parish in companion and ad Madison and Monroe. He had wielded vast in fluence, but T only knew him ¢ viser of the early presidents a yery aged man about him was his ardor for Christ When he could not stand up in the meetings without propping, he would throw his arm around a pillar of the church, and, though his mind was par tially gone, great that all were in deep respect and profound admiration, and were moved | ~ when he spoke I was called to see him die. | entered the room, and he said “Mr. Talmage, | cannot speak to you now.” He was in a very pleas ant delirium, as he imagined he had an | audience before Kim. He sald: “I must The most remarkable thing | Pui Your Finger on Voup Pulse You feel the blood rushing along. jut what kind of That is the question, Is it pure blood or impure blood ? 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