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THE DEADLY 0XG0AD

REV. DR. TALMAGE ON SHAMGAR'S EFFECTIVE WEAPON.

How an Unparalleled Victory Was Won by the Use of a Simple Farm Implement—The Essential Elements of Victory—Need of God's Help.

Ni^W YORK, June 2.—In his sermon today Rev. Dr. Talmage discusses one of the most heroic and picturesque characters in ancient Jewish history, a man who, like many others who achieved high distinction, came from the sturdy rural classes—the agriculturists. The subject of the sermon was "Shamgar's Oxgond," the test being, "After him was Sham gar, which slew of the Philistines 600 men with an oxgoad" (Judges iii, 31).

One day while Shamgar, the farmer, was plowing with a yoke of oxen, his ccKiniandof whoa haw gee was changed to the shout of battle. Philistines, always ready to make trouble, march up with sword and spear. Shamgar, the plowman, hfid no sword and. would not probably have known how to wield it if he had possessed one. But fight lie must or go down tinder the stroke of the Philistines. He had an oxgoad—a weapon used to urge on the lazy team a weapon about eight feet long, with a sharp iron at one end to puncture the beast and a wide iron chisel or shovel at the other end with which to scrape the clumps of so'l from the plowshare. Yet with tiio iron prong at ono end of the oxgoad and the iron scraper at the other it was not such a weapon as one would desire to tiso in battle with armed Philistines. But God helped the farmer, and leaving the oxen to look after themselves he charged upon the invaders of his homestead.

Some of the commentaries, to make it easier for Shamgar, suggest that per-. haps he led a regiment of farmers into the combat, his oxgoad only one of many oxgeads. But the Lord does net need any of you to help in making tho Scriptures, and Shamgar, with the Lord on his side, was mightier than 600 Philistineswith the Lord against them. The battle opened. Shamgar, with muscle strengthened by open air and plowman's and reaper's and thrasher's toil, uses the only weapon at hand, and he swings tlie oxgoad up and down, and this way and that, now stubbing with the iron prong at one end of it and now thrusting with the iron scraper at the other, and now bringing down the whole weight of tho instrument upon the heads of tho enemy, 'he Philistines are in a panic and the

that would not under other circumstances have prostrated or slain left its victim lifeless, until, when Shamgar walked over the field he counted 100 dead, 200 dead, 300 dead, 400 dead, 500 dead, 600 dead—all the work done by an oxgoad with iron prong at one end aud an iron shovel at the other. The fame of this achievement by this farmer with an awkward weapon of war spread abroad and lionized him, until he was

and became the third of the mighty judges of Israel. So you see that Cincinnati was not the only man lifted from plow to throne.

For what reason was this unprecedented and unparalleled victory of a farmer's oxgoad put into this Bible where there was no spare room for the unimportant and tho trivial?

The Choice of Weapons.

It jvas, first of all, to teach you and to teach me and to teach all past ages ood since then and to teach all ages to come ae- that in the war for God and against sin we ought to put to the best use the weapon we happen to have on hand. Why did not Shamgar wait until he could get a war charger, with neck arched and back caparisoned and nostrils sniffing the battle afar off, or until he could get war equipment or could drill a regiment, and wheeling them into line

That was a tough case in a town of England where a young lady, applying for a Sabbath school class, was told by tho superintendent she tfonld have to pick up one out of the street, 'fhb worst of the class brought from the street was one Bob. Ho was fitted oat With re* ipectable clbt'iing. by thp-soperinten

supernatural forces come in and a blow instrumentalities. Many an evangelist

command them forward to the charge? A worldly mother who has been bringTo wait for that would have been defeat and annihilation. So he takes the beot weapon he could lay hold of, and that is an oxgoad. We are called into the battle for the right and against wrong, and many of us have not just the kind of weapon we would prefer. It may not be a sword of argument. It may not be the spear of sharp, thrusting wit. It

may not be tho battering ram of de- ence there is deep emotion, so that nunciation. But there is something we can do and some forces we can wield. Do not wait for what you have not, but use what you have. Perhaps you have not eloquence, but you have a smile. Well, a smile of encouragement has changed the behavior of tens of thousands of wanderers and brought them back to God and enthroned them in heaven. Yon cannot make tf'persuasive appeal, but yon can set an example, and a good example, has saved more souls than yon could count, in a year if you counted all the time. Yon cannot give $10,000, but you can give as much as the widow of the gospel, whose two mites, the smallest coins of the Hebrews, were bestowed in such a spirit as to make her more famous than all the contributions that ever endowed all the^ hospitals and tuiiyersitiesof all Christendom, of all time. You have very limited vocabulary, but you can say "yes" or "no," and a firm "yes" or an emphatic "no" has traversed the centuries, and will traverse alf eternity, with good influence. You may not have the courage to confront a large assemblage, but you can tell a Sunday school class of two—a boy and a girl—how to find Christ, and one of them may become a William Carey, to start influences that will redeem India, and the other a Florence Nightingale, who will illumine battlefields covered with tliQ dying aud the dead.

eiifc. But after two or three Sabbaths he disappeared. lie was found with his clothes in tatters, for he had been fighting. The second time Bob was well clad for school. Ai'ter coming once or twice he again dinujipearcd, and was found in rags, consequeiH upon fighting. The teacher was dispon-erl to give him up, but the superintendent said, "Let us try him again," and the third suit of clothes Was provided him. Thereafter he came until he was converted, and joined the church, and started for the gospel ministry, and became a foreign missionary, preaching and translating the Scriptures. Who was the boy called Bob The illustrious Dr. Robert Morrison, great on earth and greater in heaven. Who his teacher was I know not, but she used the opportunity opened and great has been her reward. You may not be abfe to load an Armstrong gun yon may not be able to hurl a Hotchkiss shell you may not be able to shoulder a glittering musket- but use anything you can lay your hands on. Try a blacksmith's hammer or a merchant's yardstick or a mason's trowel or a carpenter's plane or a housewife's broom or a farmer's oxgoad. One of the surprises of heaven will be what grand results came from how simple means. Matthias Joyce, the vile man, became a great apostle of righteousness, not from hearing John Wesley preach, but from seeing him kiss a littlo child on the pulpit stairs.

The Help of God.

Again, my subject springs upon us the thought that in calculating the prospects of religious attempt we must take omnipotence and omniscience and omnipresence and all the other attributes of God into the calculation. Whom do you see on that plowed field of my text? One hearer says, "I see Shamgar." Another hearer says, "I see 600 Philistines. My hearer, you have missed the chief personage on that battlefield of plowed ground. I also see Shamgar and 600 Philistines but, more than all and mightier thn,n all and more overwhelming than all, I see God. Shamgar with his unaided arm, however muscular, and with that humble instrument made for agricultural purposes and never constructed for combat, could not have wrought such victoiy. It was omnipotence above and beneath and back of and at the point of the oxgoad. Before that battle was over the plowman realized this, and all the 600 Philistines realized it, and all who visited tho battlefield afterward appreciated it. I want in heaven to hear the story, for it can never bo fully told on earth—perhaps some day may be set apart for the rehearsal, while all heaven listens—the story of how God blessed awkward and humble

has ,corno into a town given up toworldliness. The pastors say to tho evangelist: "We are glad you have come, but it is a hard field, and we feel sorry for you. The members of our churches play progressive euchre and go to the theater and bet at the horse races, and gayety and fashion have taken possession' of tho town. We have advertised your meetings, but are not very hopeful. God bless you." This evangelist takes his place on platform or pulpit. He never graduated at college, and there are before him 20 graduates of the best universities. He never took one lesson in elocu-, tion, and there are before him 20 trained orators. Mnuy of the ladies present are graduates cf the highest female seminaries, and one slip in grammar or one mispronunciation will result in suppressed giggle. Amid the general chill that pervades the house the unpretending evaugelist opens his Bible and takes for his text, "Lord, that my eyes may be opened.-" Opera glasses in the gallery curiously scrutinize the speaker. He tells in a plain way tho story of the blind man, tells two or three touching

I ing up her sons and daughters in utter godlessness puts her handkerchief to her eyes and begins to weep. Highly educated men who came to criticise and pick to pieces and find fault bow on their gold headed canes. What is that sound from under the gallery? It is a sob, and sobs are catching, and all along the wall and all up and down the audi-

when at the close of the service anxious souls are invited to especial seats or the inquiry room, they come tip by scores and kneel and repent and rise up pardoned the whole town is shaken and places of evil amusement are sparsely attended and rum holes lose their, patrons, and the churches are thronged, and the whole community is cleansed and elevated and rejoiced. What power did the evangelist bring to bear to capture that town for righteousness? Not one brilliant epigram did he utter. Not one graceful gesture did he make.' Not one rhetorical climax did he pile up. But there was something about him that people had not taken in the estimate when they prophesied the failure of that work. They had not taken into the calculation the omnipotence of the Holy Ghost It was not the flash of a Damascus blade. It was God, before and behind and all aroiund the oxgoad. When people say that crime will triumph and the world will never be converted because of the seeming insufficiency of tlie means employed, they count the 600 armed Philistines on one side and Shamgar, the farmer, awkwardly eqnipped, on the other side, not realizing that the chariots of God are 20,000 and that all heaven, cherubic, seraphio, archangelic, deific, is on what otherwise would be the weak side. Napoleon, the author of the saying, "God Is on the side of the heaviest artillery," lived to find out his mistake, for at Waterloo the 160 guns of the English oversame the 250 guns of the French. God is on the side of the right, and one than (n the right will eventually bo fonad itronger than OOO men in thewrong.#In ill estimates, of any kind of Christian

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auecdotes, and the general chill gives rate fishing apparatus such guns of all way before a strange warmth. A classical hearer who took the first honor at ale and who is a prince of proprieties finds his spectacles becoming dim with a moisture suggestive of tears.

day made of leaving out the head of the universe. Humble Weapons.'

Again, my subject' springs upon us thought that in God's service it is Vosfc to use weapons that are particularly suited to us. Shamgar had, like many of us, been brought up on a farm. He knew nothing about javelins and bucklers and helmets and breastplates and greaves of brass and catapults and ballistic and iron scythes fastened to the axles of chariots. But he was familiar with the flail of the tin-ashing floor and knew how to pound with that, and the ax of the woods and knew how to hew with that, and the oxgoad of the plowman and knew how to thrust with that. And you and I will do best to use those means that we can best handle those weapons with which we can make the most execution. Some in God's service will do best with the pen some with the voice some by extemporaneous speech, for they have the whole vocabulary of the English language half way between their brain and tongue, and others will do best with manuscript spread out before them. Some wTill serve God by tho plow, raising wheat and corn and giving liberally of what they sell to churches and missions some as merchants, and out of their profits will dedicate a tenth to the Lord some as physicians, prescribing for the world's ailments and some as attorneys, defending innocence and obtaining rights that otherwise would not be recognized and

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ing bridge the seas and some as teachers and pastors. Th(* kingdom of God is dreadfully retarded by so many of us attempting to do that which we cannot do reaching tip for broad .sword or falchion or bayonet or scimeter or Enfield rifle or Paixhau's gun, while we ought to be content with an oxgoad. I thank

God that there are tens of thousands of Christians whom you never heard of and never will hear of until you see them in the high places of heaven, who are now in a quiet way in homes and schoolliouses and in praying circles and by sick beds and up dark alleys saying the saving word and doing the saving deed, the aggregation of their work overpowering the most ambitious statistics.

In the grand review of heaven, when the regiments pass the Lord of Hosts, there will be whole regiments of nurses and Sabbath school teachers and tract distributors and unpretending workers, before whom as they pass the kings and queens of God aud the Lamb will lift flashing coronet and bow down in recognition and reverence. The most of tho Christian work for- the world's reclamation and salvation will be done by people of one talent and two talents, while the ten talent people are up in the astronomical observatories studying other worlds, though they do little or nothing for the redemption of this world, or are up in the rarefied realms of "higher criticism" trying to find out that Moses did not write the Pentateuch or to prove that the throat of the whale was not large enough to swallow the minister

A Victory'With Pitclicrs.

Years ago I was to summer in the Adirondacks, and my wealthy friend, who was a great hunter and fisherman, said, "I am not going to the Adirondacks this season, and you can take my equipment a :d I will send it up to Paul Smith's. Well, it was there when I arrived in the Adirondacks, a splendid outfit, that cost many hundreds of dollars, a gorgeous tent, and such elabo-

styles of exquisite make and reels and pouches and bait and torches and lunch baskets and many move things that I could not rv^r. the use of. And my friend of the big soul had even written on and engaged men who should accompany me into the forest and carry home the deer and the trout. If the mountains could have seen and understood it at tho time there would have been panic among the antlers and the fins through all the "John Brown's Tract." Well, I am no hunter, and not a roebuck or a game fish did I injure. But there were hunters there that season who had nothing but a plain gun and a rug to sleep on and a coil of fishing line and a box of ammunition and bait, who came in ever and anon with as many of the captive# of forest and stream as they and two or three attendants could cany. Now, I fear that many Christian workers who have most elabo-

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professional equipment, and most won derful weaponry, sufficient, you would think, to capture a whole community or a whole nation for God, Will in the last day have but little except thfeif fine tackling to show, while some who had no advantages except that which they got in prayer and consecration will, by the souls they have brought to the shore of eternal safety, prove that they have been gloriously successful as fishers of men, and in taking many who, like the hart, were panting after the water brooks.

What made the Amalekites' run before Gideon's army? Each one ot the army knew how much racket the breaking of one pitcher would make. So 800 men that night took 300 pitchers and a lamp inside the pitcher, and at a given signal the lamps were lifted and the pitchers were violently dashed down. The flash of light and the racket of the 800 demolished pitchers sent the enemy into wild flight. Not much of a weapon, yon would say, is a broken pitcher, but the Lord made that awful crash of crockery the means of triumph for his people. And there is yet to be a battle with the pitchers./ The night of the world's dissipation may get darker and darker/ but after awhile, in what watch of the night I know not, all the ale pitchers, and the wine pitchers, and the beer pitchers, ftnd- tiie whisky pitohers

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who declined the call to Nineveh and short stay at Wesel, where he called aft-'1 apologizing for tho Almighty for certain inexplicable things they have found in the Scriptures. It will be found out at the last that the Krupp guns have not done so much to' capture this world for God as the oxgoads.

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t.tjn by converted inebriates and Christian reformers, and at that awful crash of infernal crockery the Amalekitish host of pauperism aiul loaferdom and domestic quarrel a::d cruelty and assassination will fly the earth. Take the first weapon you can lay your hands on,' .. Why did David choose the sling when he went at Goliath and Goliath went at liim? Brought lip in tho country, like every other boy, he knew how to manago a sling. Saul's armor was first put on him, but the giant's armor was too heavy. The helmet was clapped on him as an extinguisher, and David said, "I cannot go with these, have not proved them. And the firiS? wise thing David did after putting on Saul's armor was to put it oft". Then the brook Elah, the be^ of which was dry when I saw it ana one vast reach of pebbles, furnished the five smooth stones of the brook with which Goliath was prostrated. Whether it be a boy's sling or a broken pitcher or an oxgoad, take that which you can manage, and ask God for help, and no power on earth or in hell can stand before you.

Exhortation to Gird on tlie Armor.

Go out, then, I charge you, against' the Philistines. We must admit the odds are against us—GOO to one. In the matter of dollars, those devoted to worldliness and sin and dissipation, when compared with the dollars devoted to holiness and virtue—600 to one. The houses set apart for vice and despoliation and rain, as compared with those dedicated to good, 600 to one. Of printed newspaper sheets scattered abroad from day to day, those depraving as compared, with those elevating are 600 to one. The agencies for making the world worse compared with the agencies for making the world better, 600 to one. But Moses in his song, chants, "How should one chase a thousand, and twa put 10,000 to flight?" and in my text one oxgoad conquers 600 uplifted battleaxes, and the day of universal victory" is coming, unless the Bible be a fabrication and eternity a myth and the chari-- ', ots of God/are unwheeled on the golden, streets, and the last regiment of the celestial hosts lies dead on the plains of heaven. With us or without us the? work will be done. Oh, get into the* ranks somewhere, armed somehow you: with a needle, you with a pen, you with a good book, you with a loaf of bread for the hungry, you with a vial, of medicine for the sick, you with pair of shoes for the barefooted, yoxr with word of encouragement for the young man trying to get back from evil ways, you with some story of the Christ?--" who came to heal the worst wounds andpardon tho blackest guilt, and call the farthest wanderer home. I say to you as the watchman of London used to say" at night to tho householders before the* time of street lamps cameHang out your light!" "Hang out your light 1"

A Smolcer's Request.

The following story of a German Diog-"-enes is perfectly authentic. When Kin^^ Frederick William IV visited the Rhine' provinces, in the year 1813, ho made ft'

the house of the oldest man in his kingdom, aged 106 years. He found him" comfortably seated in an fife! armchair, a| smoking a pipe—his inseSprablo com- /N panion. On the king's arrival, he rose to his feet and stepped forward a few paces, but his majesty made him sife' down again, and tallied to him with the greatest freedom, the old man puffing away at his pipe all the time. Whett about to leave, the king asked him if h»k had any wish that it was in his power to gratify. "No, thanks, your majesty, I hav»?pjall I want in this world,'' was the ply"Really! Just think for a moment. We mortals have generally some partic ular desire or aspiration." "Well, sire, now I come to think of /-t. it I might have a favor to ask. My doctor insists on my taking a walk every day on the ramparts. Every time I pass the powder magazine the sentry shouts to me from afar, 'Take the pipe out of your mouth,' and as I walk very slowly' my pipe goes out every time. Now, if your majesty would be good enough to order the sentry to let me smoke my pipe in peace all the way, I should consider it the greatest kindness you could confer on me for the rest of my natural life."

The order was given, and the old fellow enjoyed the privilege for more than two years and died at last with the pipe in his mouth.—Buch fur Alle.

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"My wife," said the middle agfed man, "attends to all household affairs,

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ful. I put up the money and she pays* and I rarely see the bills. But I- did happen to see a milk bill the Other day and I was amazed to see that there wa* nocowonit. "When I was a boy, every milk bill had a cow on it. Milk bills in those days were made out on printed blanks about the size of a bank check or a draft, and there was always a cow, usually a cow of pensive demeanor, in one corner. lit rummaging over old papers I have oome across hundreds of milk bills, and every one of them had a cow on it. I should scarcely have imagined that a milk bill Would be valid without one. "Bat this bill is just a straight ahead ordinary bill, with no cow, for so many quarts of milk, like a bill of any other merchandise, and though there is no eow on the bill they tell me we never had better milk. So I suppose the doing: away with the cow is simply a doing away with so much surplusage, and tha# the modern bill only marks the bringing of the milk snpply into line with mod' crn business methods. But I miss the tow. Alas, poor cow!"—New York Sun.

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