Da TALMAOFS SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BV THE NOTED DIVINE. iukject: Victory In ltctreat—The Tri umph or tho Wicked la Short—Flee From Temptation—Calamity May Averted by Uiumlng Away From Kvll. [Copyright llHiii.l WASHINGTON, D. o. —From an old lime battle sceuo Dr. Talmnge in this discourse makes somo startling suggestions as to tho best stylos of Christian vork and points out tho. reason of so many pious failures; text, Joshua vIiI., 7, "Then shnllye rise up l'roin the ambush and seize upon the city." One Sabbath evening, with my family nround me, we wure talking over the scene of the text. In tlu wide open eyes and the quick interrogations and the blanched •hooks 1 realized what a thrilling drama It was. There is tho old city, shorter by name than any other city in the ages, -polled with two letters, A, 1, Al. Joshua •ind his men want to take it. How to do it Is the question. On a former occasion, iu a strlghtforwnrd, race to (ace fight, they had been defeated, but now they are going (o take it by ambuscade. General Joshua lias two divisions in his army. Tho one division the battle-worn commander will lead himself, tho other division he sends i(T to uncnmp in an ambush on tho west -ide of the city of Ai. No torches, no lanterns, no sound of heavy battalions, but 3J,000 swarthy warriors moving in -dleuco, speaking only ia a whisper; no clicking of swords against shields, lest the watchmen of Al discover it, and the strata gem bo a failure. If the roistering soldier j ii tho Isrnelitlsh army forgets himself, all ■Along the line the word Is "H ish!" Joshua takes the other division, tho one with which he is to march, and puts It on trio north side of tho city of Aland then spend the night iu reconnoiterlng ill tho valley. There he is, thinking over the for tunes ot theeotnlng day with something of the feelings of Wellington the night before Waterloo or of Meade and Lee the night before Gettysburg. There he stands iu tho night and says to himself: "Yonder Is the division ia Jimbuah on the west side of Al. Here is the division I have under my espec ial command on the north side of Ai. There is the old city slumbering iu its sin. To morrow will be tho battle." Look! Tho morning already begins to tip the hills. The mllitury officers of Ai look out In the morn ing very early, and, while they do not see (lie division ill ambush, they behold the other divisions of Joshua, and the cry "To arms! To arms!" rings through all the streets of the old town, aiid every sword, Whether hacked and bent or newly welded, is brought out, and all the inhabitants of I lie city of Ai pour through the gates, an infuriated torrent, and their crv Is, "Come, we'll make quick work with Joshua and bis troops!" No sooner had theso people of Ai eomc >ut against the troops of Joshua than Joshua gave such a command as he seldom gave—"Full back!" Why, they could not believe their own ears! Is Joshua's cour age falling him? The ietreat is beaten, nud the Israelites are Hying, throwing blankets and canteens on every side under this worse than Hull ltuu defeat. And you ought ti* hear tho soldiers of Al cheer and cheer and cheer, But they huzza too soon. The men lyiug iu ambush are straining their vision to get some signal front Joshua that they may know what time to drop -ipon the city. Joshua takes his burnished glittering in the sun like a shaft of li-ooun, ami points It toward the city, and ivhen the men up yonder iu the ambush see it with hawklike swoop they drop upou Al and without stroke of sword or stab of ?penr take the city and put it to the torch. So much for the division tliat was in ambush* How about the division under Joshua's command? No sooner does Joshua stop in the flight than all Ills men -top with him, and as he wheels they wheel, for iu a voice of thunder ha cried "Haiti" one strong arm driving back a torrent ot ilying troops. And theu, as he points his spear through the golc eu light toward that fated city, his troops know that they are to start for It. What a scene it was when the division iu ambush which had taken the city marched down against the men of Ai on tile one side, and the iroops under Joshua doubled up their enemies from the other side, and the men of Ai were caught between these two hurrl cnnes of Israelitish courage, thrust before and behind, stabbed iu breast and back, ground between the upper and the nether niillslones of God's indignation! Woe to the city of Ai! Cheer for Israel! Lesson the ilrst: There is such a thing as victorious retreat. Joshua's falling back was the llrst chapter 111 his successful be dugement. And there are times In your ile when the best thing you can do is to run. You were once the victim ot strong lrink. Tho demijohn and the decanter were your fierce foes. They came down .1 pon you with greater fury than t he men of \l upon the men of Joshua. Your only •nfety is to get away from them. Your lisslpating companions will come around »ou lor your overthrow. Hun for your Ife! Fallback! Fall back from the drink lug saloon! Fall back from the wine ,'urty! Your flight is your advance; your retreat is your victory. There is a saloon lown on the next street that has almost Deen the ruin of your soul. Tlioit why do .•on go along that street? Why do you not pass through some other street rather than oy the place 112 your calamity? A spoon ful of brc .dy taken for medicinal pur poses by . man who twenty years before tail b". have ttie pillars made very llrm. God is going to eonquet them, anil they will be turned into asylums and art galleries and churches. How iong will It take your boys to got through your ill gotten gains? The wicked do not live out half llielr days. Fornwhile they swagger and strut and make a great splash in the newspapers, but after awhile it all dwindles down into a brief paragraph: "Died suddenly, April 8, I'JOO, at thirty-five years ot age. Relatives ami friends of tho family are invited to attend the funeral on Wednesday at 2 o'clock trom his late resi dence on Madison square. Interment at I Greenwood or Oak Hill." Some .of them jumped oIT the docks. Some of them took pruMsic acid. Some of theui fell under the snap ol'a Derringer pistol. Some or them spent their days inn lunatic asylum. Where are William Twee I and his asso ciates? Where are James Fisk, tho liber tine, and all tho other misdemeanants? The wicked do not live out half their days. Disembogue, O world or darkness! Come up. Hlldebrand ami Henry 11 ami Robes pierre, and wilh blistering and blasphem ing aud ashen Hps, hiss out, "The triumph oT the wicked is short." Lesson the third: How much may be ac complished by lying in ambush tor oppor tunities. Are you hypercritical of Joshua's maneuver? Do you sav that It was cheat ing for him to take that city by ambus cade? Was it wrong for Washington to kindle campflros on Jersey heights, giving the impression to tho opposing force that a great army was oncamped there when l here was none at nil? 1 answer, if the war was right, then Joshua was right Iu his stratagem. He violated no Hag ol truce. He broke no treaty, but by a lawful ambuscane captured the city of Al. Oil, that we all knew how to lie in am bush for opportunities to serve God! Tun best of our opportunities do not lie on the surface, but are secreted. By tact, by stratagon, by Christian ambuscade, you may take almost %ny castle of sin for Christ. Come up toward men with a reg ular besiegement or argument, and you will be dereated, but just wait until the door ot their hearts is set ajar, or they are off their guard, or their severe caution Is away lroiu home, and then drop Iu on them from a Christian ambuscade. There has been many a man tip to his chin in scientific portfolios which proved there was no Christ nud no divine revela tion, Ills pen n selmeter Hung into the heart of theological opponents, who never theless has been discomfited and captured for God by some little three-year-old child who has got up aud put her suowy arms around his sinewy neck aud asked :j juio simple question aoout God. Oil, make a Hank movement! Steal a march on tho devil! Cheat that man into heaven! A $5 treatise that will stand all the laws of homiletics may fail to do that which a penny tract of Christian ontreaty may accomplish. Oh, for more Christians In ambuscade— not lylug In Idleness, but waiting for a quick spring, wailing until just the right lime comes! Do not talk to a man about tho vanity of this world on tho day when he has bought something at "12" aud is going to sell it at "15." But talk to him about the vanity of tho world on the day when bo lias bo ight something at "15" anil is compelled to sell It at ''l2." lesson ttio fourth: Tho importance of taking good ulni. There is Joshua, but bow nre those people im ambush up yonder to know when they »re to drop on the city, and how nre those men around Joshua to kuow when they are to stop their light and advance? There must be some signal —a signal to stop the one division and to start the other. Joshua, with a spear on which were ordinarily hung the colors of battle, points toward the city. He stuuds In such a cons), leuous position, and there is HO much of the morning light dripping from tho spear Up, that all around the horizon they see it. It was as much as to say: "There is tho city. jTako it!" (lod knows and we kuow that a great deal of Christian uttack amounts to noth ing simply because we do not take good aim. Nobody knows and we do not know ourselves which point wo want to takn when wo ought to make up our minds what God will have us to do and point our spear in that direction and then hurl our body, inlud, soul, time, eternity at that one tar get. In our pulpits*and pews and Sunday schools and prayer meetings wo want to get a reputation for saying pretty things, and so we point our spear toward the flowers, or we want a reputation for saying sublime thing*, ami we point our spoar toward tho stwrs, or wo want to get n reputation for historical knowledge, and we point our spear toward the past, or wo want to get a reputation for great liberality, so wo swing our spear ail around, wlillu there Is the ol I world, proud, reoelllous and armed against all righteousness, and instead of running any further away from its pursuit wo ought to turn around, plant our foot in the strength of the eternal Ood, lift the old cross and point it in the direction of tho world's conquest till, the redcomed of earth, marching up from ono side and tho glorilled of heaven marching down from the other side, the last bnttloinent of sin Is compelled to swing out the streamers of Kmuouel. O church of God, take aim and aniiauor' All Inn Xante. The difficulty of pronouncing suc cessive syllables having a similar sound is well known. Add a little embarrassment and publicity, and the difficulty may become the foundation of an amusing incident, such as is told by the New York Hun: It was at a meeting of the local Women's Suffrage Association of an iuland city. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, a prominent officer of the National Woman's Suffrage Associa tion, was to speak. The local Presi dent arose to introduce her, and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, I have the honor this evening to introduce to you Mrs. Charlie Capman Catt—l mean Mrs. Carrie Capman Chatt—l mean Mrs. Carrie (Thatman Cap—ladies and gentlemen—[desperatelyj yon will now be addressed by Mrs. Charrie Capman Scat." It was not the first time Mrs. Catt's uame had been used in a play on words, either by design or accident, and she took the matter good-humor edly. Clinoßltic nil Occupation. 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