Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 3 June 1892 — Page 3

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DR. TAIMAGE’S SERMON. THE GREAT PREACHER ILLUMINATES AN OBSCURE TEXT. Blgnrfluanoo of th. V.n«, Aniwereil Th*. In th. S.erat Fine, of Thunder." In th. Bible Thundsr 1. th. Type or Power and Mystery. At th. Tabernaoln, Dr. Talmage gave a frosh Illustration of the power ho possesses of extracting valuable lessons from a text which preachers have generally neglected as barren ground. Ills sermon was based on the to*t Psalms Ixxxl 7, “I answered theo-in the secret place of thunder.” It Ispast midnight, and 2 o’clock in the morning, far enough from sunset and sunrise to make the darkness very thick and tbo Egyptian army in pursuit of the escaping Israelites are on the bottom of the Red bea, its waters having been set upon either side in masonry of sapphire, for God can mako a wall as solid out of water as out of granite, and the trowels with which those two walls were built were none the loss powerful because invisible. Such walls had never before been lifted. When I saw the waters of the Red Sea rolling through the Suez Canal they were blue and beautiful and Rowing like other xyaters, but to-night, as the Egyptians look up to them built Into walls, now on one side and nowon the other, they must have boon frowning waters, for It was* probable that the same power that lifted them up mtght'suddenly 111 ng them prostrate. A great lantern of cloud hung over this chasm between the two walls. The door of that lantern was opened toward the Israelites ahead, giving them light, and the back of the lantern was toward the Egyptians, and it growled and rumbled and jarred with thunder; not thunder like that which cheers the earth after a drought, promising the refreshing shower, but charged and surcharged with threats of doom. The Egyptian Captains lost their presence ot mind, and the horses reared and snorted and would not answer to their bits, and the chariot wheels got interlocked and torn off, 1 and the charioteers were hurled headlong, and the Red Sea fell on ail the host. The confusing and confounding thunder was in answer .to the prayer of the Israelites. With their backs cut by the lash and their feet bleeding and their bodies decrepit with the suffering of whole generations, they had asked Almighty God to ensepulcher their Egyptian pursuers in one great sarcophagus, and the splash and the roar of the Red Sea as it dropped to its natural bed were only the shutting of the sarcophagus on a dead host That is* the meaning of the text when God says, “I answered thee in the secret place of thunder.” Now, thunder, all up and down the Bible, is the symbol of power. The Egyptian plague of hail was accompanied with this full diapason of the heavens. While Samuel and his men were making a burnt offering of a lamb, and the Philistines were about to attack them, it was by terrorizing thunder they were discomfited. Job, who was a combination of the Dantesque and the Miltonic, was solemnized on this reverneratfon of the heavens, and cried: “The thunder of his power, who can understand?” and,he.challenges the universe by saying, “Can'st thou thunder with a voice like him?” and he throws Rosa Bonheua’s “Horse Fair” into the shade by the Bible photograph of a war-horse, when he describes his neck as “clothed with thunder.” Because of the power of James and John, they were called “the sons 0( thunder.”. The law given on the basaltic crags of Mount Sinai was emphasized with this cloudy ebullition. The skies all around about St .John at P&tmos were full of the thunder of war and the thunder of Christly triumph and the thunder of resurrection and the thunder of eternity. But when my text says, “I answered thee in the secret place of thunder,” it suggests there is some mystery about the thunder. To the ancients the cause of this bombarding the earth with loud sound must have been more of a mystery than it is to us. The lightnings, which were to them wild monsters ranging through the skies, in our time have been domesticated. Wo harness electricity to. vehicles and we cage it in lamps, and every schoolboy knows something about the fact that it is the passage of electricity from cloud to cloud that makes the heavenly racket which wo call thunder. But after all that chemistry has taught the world, there are mysteries about this skyey resonance, and my text, true in the time of the Psalmist, is true now and always will be true, that there is some secret about the place of thunder. To one thing known about tho thunder there are a hundred things not known. After all the scientific batteries have been doing their work tor a thousand years to come and learned mon have discoursed to the utmost about atmospheric electricity and magnetic electricity and galvanic electricity and thermotic electricity and frictional electricity and positive electricity and negative electricity, my text will be as suggestive as it is to-day, when it speaks of the secret place of thunder. Now right along by a natural law there is always a spiritual law. As there is a secret place ot natural thunder, there is a secret place of moral thunder. In other words, the religious power that you see abroad in the church and in the world has a hiding place, apd in many cases it is never discovered at all. I will use a similitude. I can give only the dim outline of a particular case, for many of the remarkable j circumstances I have forgotten. Many years ago there was a large church. It was characterized by strange and unaccountable conversions. There were no great revivals, but individual cases of spiritual arrest and transformation. A young man sat in one of the front pews. He was a graduate of Yale, brilliant as the north star and notoriously dissolute. Everybody know him and liked him for his geniality, but deplored his moral errantry. To please his parents he was every Sabbath morning in church. , One day there was a ringing o.f the doorbell of the pastor of that church, and the young man, whelmed with repentance, implored prayer and advice aud passed into complete reformation ot heart and life. All the neighborhood- was astonished and asked, Why was this? Hft father and mother had said nothing to him about his soul’s welfare. On another aisle of the same church sat an old miser. He paid his pew rent, but was hard on the poor and had no interst in .any philanthropy. Piles of money! And people said: “What a struggle he will have when he quits this life, to part with his bonds and mortgages.” One day he wrote to his minister:, “Please to call immediately. I have a matter of great importance about which I want to see you.” When the pastor came in the old man could not speak for emotion, but after a while he gathered seif control enough to say, “I have lived for this world too long. I want to know if you think I can bo .saved, and, if so, I wish you would tell s*e how.” Upon his soul the light soon dawned, and the old miser, not only revolutionized in heart but hi life, began to scatter benefactions, and to all the great charities of the day he became a cheerful and bountiful almoner. What was the cause of this change? everybody asked; and no ' - .1 .

one was capable of giving an intelligent answer. , In another part of the church sat Sabbath by Sabbath, a beautiful and talented woman, who was a great society leader. .She went to church because that was a respectable thing to do, and in the neighborhood where she lived it was hardly respectable not to go. Worldly was she to the last degree, and all her family worldly. She had at her hpuse the finest germans that wore ever danced, and the costliest favors that were ever given, and though she attended church she never liked to hoar any story of pathos, and as to religious emotion ot any kind, she thought it positively vulgar. Winos, cards, theaters, rounds of costly gayety wore to her the highest satisfaction. One day a neighbor sent In a visiting card, asd this ladv camo down stairs in tears, and told tho whole story of how she bad not slept for several nights, and she feared she was going to lose her soul, and she wondered If some one would not come around and pray with her. From that time her entire demeanor was changed, and though she was not called upon to sacrifice any of her amenities of life, she consecrated her beauty, her social position, her family, her all to God and the church and usefulness. Everybody said 'in regard to her, “Have you noticed tho change, and what in the world caused it?” and no one could make a satisfactory explanation. In the course of two years, though there was no general awakening in that church, many such isolated cases of such unexpected and unaccountable conversions took place. The very people whom no one thought would* be affected by such considerations were converted. Tho pastor and the officers of the church were on tho lookout for tho solution of this religious phenomenon. “Where is It,” they said, “and who is it and what is it?” At last the discovery was made and all was explained. A poor old Christian woman standing in the vestibule of ttje church one Sunday morning, trying to get her breath again before she went upstairs to the gallery, heard the inquiry aud told the secret. For years she had been in the habit of concentrating all her prayers for particular persons in that church. She would see some man or some woman present and, though she might not know the person’s name, she would pray for that person until he or she was converted to God. All her prayers were for that one person—just that one. She waited and waited for communion days to sec when the candidate for membership stood up whether her prayers had been effectual It turned out that these marvelous instances for conversion were the result of" that old woman's prayers as she sat in the gallery Sabbath by Sabbath, bent . and wizened and poor and unnoticed. A little cloud of consecrated humanity hovering in the galleries. That was the secret place of the thunder. There is some hidden, unknown, mysterious source of almost ail the moral and religious power demonstrated. Notone out of a million —not one out of ten million prayers ever strikes a human ear. On public occasions a minister of religion voices the supplications of an assemblage, but the prayers of all the congregation are in silence. There is not a second in a century when prayers are not ascending, but myriads of them are not even as loud as a whisper, for God hears a thought as plainly as a vocalization. That silence of supplication—hemispheric and perpetual—is the secert place of thunder. The day will eome—God hasten it—when people will find out the velocity, ti«e majesty, the multipotence of prayer. We brag about our limited express trains, which put us down a thousand miles away in twenty-four hours, but here is something by which in a moment wo may confront people five thousand miles away. \Ve brag about our telephones,'but here is something that beats the telephone in utterance and reply, for God says, “Before they call, I will hear.” We brag about the phonograph, in which a man can speak and his words and the tones of his voice can bo kept for ages, aud by the turning of a crank the words may come forth upon tho cars of another century, but prayer allows us to speak words into the ears of everlasting remembrance. and on the other side of all the eternities they will be heard. Oh, ye who are wasting your treaty and wasting your brains, and wasting your nerves, and wasting your lungs, wishing for this good and that good for the church and the world, why do you not go into the secret place of thunder? This subject helps me to explain some things you have not understood about men and women, and there are multitudes of them, and the multitude is multiplying by the minute. Many of them have not a superabundance of education. If you had their brain in a postmortem examination, and you could weigh It, it would hot weigh any heavier than the average. They have not anything especially impressive in personal appearance. They are not very fluent of tongue. They pretend to, nothing unusual in mental faculty or social influence, but you feel their power; you are elevated in their presence, you are a better man or a better woman, having confronted them. You know that in intellectual endowment you are their superior, while in the matter of moral and religious influence they are vastly your superior. Why is this? To find the revelation of this secret you must go back thirty or forty, or perhaps sixty years to the homestead where this man was brought up. It Is a winter morning, and the tallow candle is lighted and the fires are kindled, sometimes the shavings hardly enough to start the wood. The mother is preparing the breakfast, the b.ue-edged dishes are on the table, and the lid of the kettle on the hearth begins to "rattle with the steam, and the shadow of the industrious woman by the flickering flame on tho hearth is moved up and down the wall. Tho father is at the barn feeding tho stock—the oats thrown into the horses’ bin and the cattle craunching the corn. Tho children, earlier than they would like and after being called twice* are gathered at tho table. The blessing of God is asked on the food, and the meal over the family Bible is put upon the white table cloth, aud a chapter is read and a prayer made, which includes all the interests tor this world and the next. The children pay not so much attention to the prayer, for It is about tho same thing day after day, but it puts upon them an impression that 10,000 years will only make more vivid and tremendous. As long as the old folks live their prayer is for their children and their children’s children. Day in and day out,* month in and month out, year in and year out, decade in and decade out the sons and daughters of that family are remembered in earnest prayer, and thoy w know it, and they feel it, and they cannot get away from it Two funerals after awhile—not more than two years aparS for it is seldom that there is more than that lapse of time between father’s going and mother’s going—two funerals put out of sight the old folks. But where are the children? The daughters are in homes where they are incarnations of good sense, industry and piety. The sons, perhaps one a farmer, another a merchant, another a mechanic, another a physician, another a minister of tho Gospel, useful, consistent, admlred.honorod.. What a power for good those seven sons and daughters! Where did they get the power? From the schools and the seminaries, and the colleges? Oh, no, though these mayhavc helped. From their su-|

perior mental endowment? No, Ido not think they had unusual mental caliber? From accidental Circumstances? No. they had nothing of what Is called astounding good luck, . I think we will take a train and ride to tbo depot nearest to tho old homestead from which those men and women started. The train halts. Let us stop a few minutes at the village graveyard and see the tombstones of the parents. Yes, the one was 74 years of age and the other 72, and the epitaph says that “after a useful life they died a Christian death.” How appropriately the Scripture passage ent on the mother’s tombstone, “She hath done what she could." And how beautiful the passage on the father’s tombstone, “Blessed are tbo dead who die in tho Lord, for they rest from their labors aqd their works do follow them." On over the country road we ride—tho road a little rough, for the spring weather is not quite settled, and once down In a rut it Is lard to get the wheels out again without breaking the shafts. But at last we come to the iatie in front of the farm-house. Let me get out of the wagon and open the gate while you drive through. Here is the arbor under which those boys and girls many years ago used toplay. But it Is quite out of order now. for the property Is in other hands. Yonder is tho orchard where they used to thrash the trees for apples, sometimes before they were quite ripe. There is the mow where they hunted for eggs before Easter. There is the doorslll upon which they used to sit. There is the room in which they had family prayers and where they all knelt—the father there, tho mother there, and the boys and girls there. Wo have got to the fountain of pious and gracious Influences at last. That is the place that decided those seven earthly and Immortal destinies. Behold! Behold! That is the secret place of thunder. Boys are seldom more than their fathers will let them be. Girls are seldom more than their mothers will let them be. But there/jome times when it seems that parents cannot control their children. There come times in a boy’s lif*B when he thinks ho knows more than his father does, and I remember now that I knew more at 15 years of age than I have ever Known since. There come times in a girl’s life when she thinks her mother is notional and does not understand what is proper and best, and the sweet child says. “Oh, pshaw!” and she longs for the time when she will not be dictated to, ana she goes out of the door or goes to bed with pouting lips, and these mothers remember for themselves that they knew pore at 14 years of age than they have ever known since. But father and mother do not think you have lost your influence over your child. You have a resource of prayer that puts the sympathetic and omnipotent God into your parental undertaking. Do not waste your time in reading flimsy books about the test ways to bring up children. Go into the secret place of thunder. The reason that we ministers do not accomplish more is because others do not pray enough for us and we do not pray enough for ourselves. Every minister could tell you a thrilling story of sermons—sermons hasty and impromtu, because ot funerals and sickbeds and annoyances In the parish; yet those sermons harvestipg many souls for God. And then of sermons prepared with great care and research and toil uninterrupted; yet those sermons falling flat or powerless. Or the same sermon mightily blessed on one occasion and useless on another. How well I remember a sermon I preached at a great outdoor meeting in the upper part of this State. For several days in that place prayers had been offered for the success of the service, and I had myself been unusually prayerful, and we had a Pentecostal blessing while I was preaching it. That afternoon I took the train for a great outdoor meeting In Ohio. I said to myself, “This sermon was blessed to-day and it is fresh in my mind, and I will preach it to-morrow in Ohio.” And I did preach it, but not in as prayerful a spirit, and I think no one else had been praying about it, and it turned into the most inane and profitless discourse that I ever delivered. It was practically the same sermon, but on Wednesday it had on it a power that comes from the secret place of thunder, and on Thursday it had on it no such power at all. At 9 o’clock Wednesday morning, June 15 next, on the steamer City of New York, I expect to sail for Liverpool, to be gone until September. It is in acceptance of many invitations that I am going on a preaching tour. I expect to devote my time to preaching the Gospel in England, Scotland, Ireland and Sweden. I want to see how many souls I can gather for the kingdom of God. Those countries have for many years belonged to my parish, and I go to speak to them and shake hands with them. I want to visit more thoroughly than before those regions from which my ancestors came. Wales aud Scotland. But what is sufficient for the work I undertake? I call upon vou who have long been my coadjutors to go into the secret place of the Almighty, and every day from now until my work is done on the other side of the Sea to have me jp your prayers. In proportion jtir tensity andueonUn nance and faith of the prayers, yours and mine, will be the results. If you. remember me in the devotional circle, that will bo well; but what I most- want is your importuning, your wrestling supplication in the secret place of thunder. God and vou alone may make me the humble instrumentality in the redemption of thousands of souls. I shall preach in churches, in Chapels and in tho fields. I will make R a campaign for God and eternity, and I hope to get during thfk absence a baptism of power that wil make me of more service to you when I return than I ever yet'have been. For, brethren and sisters in Christ, our opportunity tor usefulness will soon be gone, and we sllall have our faces uplifted to the throne of judgment, before which we must give account That day there will be no secret place of thunder, for all the thunders will be out There will be the thunder ot the tumbling rocks. There will be the thunder of the bursting waves. There will be the thunder of the descending chariots. There will be the thunder of the parting heavens. Bqpm! Boom! But all that din and uproar and crash will find us unaffrighted, and will leave us undismayed, if we have made Christ our confidence, and as after an August shower, when the whole heavens have been an unlimbered battery cannonading the earth, the fields are more green, and the suurise is more radiant, ' and the waters are the more opaline, so the thunders of the last day wiH make the trees of life appear more emerald, and the carbuncle of the wall more crimson, and the sapphire seas the more shimmering, and the sunrise of eternal gladness the more empurpled. The thunders of dissolving nature will bo followed by a celestial psalmody, the soulnd of which St. John on Patmos described, when ho said, “I heard a voice Hire the voice of mighty thunderiiigs!’- Amen. “Will you please tell me what is proper forux lady to do when she is serenaded c In romances it is usually written, “The curtains were seen to flutter-and a white hand emerged and tossed down a rose.” In real lite the heroine generally sleeps through it, and, if she wakoa, had usually better do nothing.

J. D. WILLCOX. Oue «l th* Ol<ln»t Hottlnr* tn ■ Pannaylrnnln. J. D. Willcox was born slxty-scven years ago, and has lived most of the time in OlmsvlHe, Tioga County, Pa., whore ho is a practical farmer and a successful country merchant. He is deservedly popular, kn wn for miles around, and by strict integrity and honesty he has attached to himself a host of friends, and has received from tho Government tho Poatmastership of his

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village. He says: I had been weighed down by poor health for a long time, and gradually grew worse until four years ago the crisis came. At that time four of our best physicians could give me no encouragement, and some of them said I would not live a year. I commenced to use Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Roof, Kidney, Liver and Bladder Cure. My doctors said your remedy might help me for a time, but that I would not be here a hence. I took Swamp-Root for nearly twelve months three times a day, and used your V. & 0. Anointment, rubbing in thoroughly over the affected parts, across my chest, liver and back, warming it in with a hot flat irdn. The rheumatism was so bad that I could not get either hand to my face. My kidneys and bladder were all out of order —very painful —liver sluggish and refused to act. My health now is very good, in fact, I think I am as well as most men at my age—67 years. I give your Swamp-Root entire credit of saving my life, and the good health I now enjoy is due to its use. I have worked some on the farm of late, and do most of the chores myself. This is not written for publication, but if it will give others confidence in your great remedy, I have no objection to your using it as best you can. With best regards, I remain, J. D. Willcox. This is but one of the hundr of letters received daily by Dr. KihuS- <fc Co., and five thousand dollars will be given to any one who will prove any portion of the above testimony untrue. SwampRoot is beyond question the greatest discovery of the age. The Sick Maa Kecovered. A New York man who was ill with pneumonia called in a physician, who, he says, gave him this treatment: He blew something in the patient’s face, and afterward scarified his hands, feet, and body with a razor, causing the blood to flow freely. The blood he rubbed over Sassano’s chest. Then he cut off some of the sick man’s hair, and wrote a letter to Satan, prince of hell. He burned the hair and the letter in the stove. These operations were repeated for four days, and for them Libertino demanded $l4O, but a settlement was made for Sl2O, with the promise that if Sassano recovered he was to pay S3BO more. w The sick man recovered. This proves what I have long suspected, that in most diseases the cure aenends less on the kind of treatment than on the kind of bill the doctor presents. If the bill Is sufficiently outrageous any man whose constitution is not entirely destroyed will get mad enough to restore himself to health. — Buffalo Express. A Dislocated Thimble. A teacher m the grammar school of Charleston requires her pupils to form sentences containing the words in their spelling or defining lesson, in order to illustrate their meaning. The word dislocated was given to one young miss, who handed in the following astonishing sentence: “I dislocated my thimble yesterday, therefore I cjuld not sew.” The amazed teacher required an explanation, wnen the young lady, in an aggrieved tone, exclaimed: “Well, lam sure it says dislocated means ’put out of place.’ ” The Only One Ever Printed—Can You Find the Word? . There is a 3-inch display advertisement in this paper this week which has no two words alike except one word. Tho same is true of each new one appearing each week from The Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This house places a "Crescent" on everything they make and*publish. Look for it. send them the name of the word, and they will return you book, beautiful lithographs, OB SAMPLES FREE. 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Way Off Color. The bn, of health) Mho can mtstake ft! Th, white brow, the deepened tlut of the cheek, these assoc aU>d with brightneaa and animation ot the eye, a’oheery eruresaion of file countenance, are Infallible Indicia that tholiver fa performing Its functions actively, and that cones, quently dlgo*tlon and tbo bowola are uadis, tnrl ed. If, however, th® complexion and eyeballs have a laffron tlut, or tho face Is drawn and void of sprlghtljnosa and anirnition, the biliary gland Is almost certain to bo oat nt order. R ctify tbo difficulty speedily, thoromthly, with tbo paramount anti bilious specific, Houe.tor's Stomach Bit ers, wbloh promptly remedies not only tbe above outward and vlatblo aigna ot biliousness, but also the sick headaches, ton. stlpa ton, vertigo, far upon the tongue, nausea, sour breath, and pains through tho right aldo which characterize it. Th., liver is always seriously Involved in malaria, tor which the Bitters is a sorerelgi specific. This medloino remedies, with equal promptitude and omplo..enesa, kidney complaint, dyspepsia, rheum itiam, and nervousness. The Mext Nine Sears Coming Prophetic Events, according to Daniel and Revelation, during the next nine Years before End of this Age in Passover Week, April 11, 1901. The Greatest War ever known, in 1892 —Change of twenty-three Kingdoms into Ten in 1893 —Earthquakes, Famines, Pestilence— A Napoleon to be a Hellenic Klug in 1893, before his seven Years’ Covenant (as Syrian King) with the Jews on April 21, 1894—Their Sacrifices Restored Nov. 8. 1894 (Daniel vii., 24; viil., 14, ix. 27)— Ascension of 144,000 Living Christians to Heaven without Dying on March 5, 1896 —Napoleon’s Massacre of Tens of Thousands of Christians during 1,260 Days, from Aug. 14, 1897, to Jan. 26, 1901—Christ’s Descent on Earth and Commencement of Millenium in Passover Week, April, 1901.—Advertisement in English Church Pape7. ,T. C. SIMPSON, Marquess, W. 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