Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 18, Number 6, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 22 April 1896 — Page 7

TILLAGE'S SEEMON. Hie Story of Joseph's Bondage and Rise to Power. Men Often Do Not Succeed In Life Becauae They Are Not ot Sotßolent Importance to be a Target for Abacs, - R ev . T. DeWitt Talmage, took incidents in the career of Joseph as the subject for a recent sermon, basing his remarks on the texts! They drew and lifted up Joseph out of the nit and sold Joseph to the IshmaeUtes for twenty pieces of silver.—Genesis xixvl, 28. He is governor over all the land of Egypt,— Genesis xiv., 26. You can not keep a good man down. God has decreed for him a certain point of elevation. He will bring him to that though it cost Him a thousand worlds. You sometimes find men fearful they will not be properly appreciated. Every man comes to be valued at just what he is worth. You can not write him up, and you can not write him down. These facts are powerfully Illustrated by my subject. It would be an insult to suppose that you were not all familiar with the life of Joseph. How his jealous brothers throw him into a pit, but, seeing a caravan of Arabian merchants trudging along on their Camels, with spices and gums that loaded the air with aroma, sold their brother to these merchants, who carried him down into Egypt; Joseph was there sold to Potiphar, a man of influence and office. Jlow by Joseph’s integrity he raised himself to high position in the realm, until under the false charge of a vile wretch he was hurled into the penitentiary. How in prison he commanded respect and confidence. How by the interpretation of Pharaoh’s dream he was freed and became the chief man in the realm, the Bismarck of his century. How in the time of famine Joseph had the control of a magnificent storehouse which he had filled during seven years of plenty. How when his brothers, whd had thrown him into the pit and sojd him into captivity, applied for corn, he sent them home with the beasts of burden under the heft of the corn sacks. How the sin against their brother which had so long been hidden came out at last and was returned by that brother’s forgiveness and kindness —the only revenge he took. You see, in the first place, that the world is compelled to honor Christian character. Potiphar was only a man of the world, yet Joseph rose in his estimation until all the affairs of that great house were committed to his charge. From his servant no honor or confidence was withheld. When Joseph was in prison he soon won the heart of the keeper, and though placed there for being a scoundrel, he soon convinced the jailer that he was an in* nocent and trustworthy man, and released from close confinement he became general superintendent of prison affairs. Wherever Joseph was placed, whether a servant in the house of Potiphar, or a prisoner in the penitentiary, he became the first man everywhere, and is an illustration of the truth I lay down, that the world is compelled to honor Caiistian character. There are those who affect to despise a religious life. They speak of it as a system of phlebotomy by which man is bled of all his courage and nobility. They say he has bemeaned himself. They pretend to have no more confidence in him since his conversion than before his conversion. But all this is hypocrisy. There Is a great deal of hypocrisy in the church, and there is a great deal of hypocrisy outside the church. It is impossible for any man "not to admire and confide in a man who shows that he has really become a child of God, and is what he professes to be. You can not despise a son of the Lord God Almighty. Os course we have no admiration for the sham of religion. I was at a place a few hours after the ruffians had gone into the rail tr%in and demanded that the passengers throw up their arms, and then these ruffians took the pocket-books; and Satan comes and suggests to a (nan that he throw up hi.? arms in hypocritical prayer and pretension, and then steals his soul. For the mere pretension of religion we have abhorrence. Redwald, the king, after baptism, had an altar of Christian sacrifice and an altar for sacrifice to devils; and there are many men now attempting the same thing—half a heart for God and half a heart for the world—and it is a dead failure, and it is a caricature of religion, and the only successful assault ever made on Christianity is the inconsistency of its professors. You may have a contempt for pretension to religion, but when you behold the excellency of Jesus Christ come out in the life of one of His disciples, all that there is good and noble in your soul rises up into admiration, and you can not help it. Though that man be as far beneath you in estate as the Egyptian slave of whom we are discoursing was beneath his rulers, by an irrevocable law of your nature, Potiphar and Pharoh will always esteem Joseph. When Eudoxia, the empress, threatened Chrysostom with death, he made the reply: “Tell the empress I fear nothing but sin.” Such a scene as that compels the admiration of the world. There was something in Agrippa and Felix which demanded their respect for Paul, the rebel against government. I doubt not they would willingly have yielded their office and dignity for a thousandth part of that true heroism whidh beamed in the eye and beat in the heart of that unconquerable apostle. Paul did not cower before Felix; Felix cowered before Paul. TJie infidel and, worldling are compelled to bomor in their heart, although they may not eulogize with their lips, a Christian firm in persecution, cheerful in poverty, trustful in losses, triumphant in death. „ I find Christian men in all proses- ; sions and occupations, and I find them ; respected and honored and successful. John Frederick Oberlin alleviating ignorance and distress; Howard paw

lug from dungeon to lasoretto with healing for the body and sofel; Elizabeth Fry going to the profligacy of New Gate prison to shake its obduracy as the angel came tp the prison at Phillippi, driving oped the doors and snapping losse the chain, as well as the lives of thousands of followers of Jesus, who have devoted themselves to the temporal and spiritual Welfareof the race, are monuments of the Christian religion that shall not crumble while the world lasts. A man Bald to me in the cars: “What is religion? Judging from the character of many professors of religion I do not admire religion.” I sajd: ‘‘Now, suppose we went to an artist in the city of Rome and while in his gallery asked him, ‘What is the art of painting?’ ” would he take us out in a low alley and show us a mere daub ot a pretender at painting? or would he take us down into ‘the corridors and show us . the Rubens, and the Baphaels, and the Michael Angelos? When we asked him: “What is the art of painting?” he would point to the works of these great masters, and say: “That is painting” Now, you propose to find the mere caricature of religion, to see k after that which is the more pretension of a holy life, and and you oall that religion. I point you to the splendid men and women whom this Gospel has blessed and lifted and crowned. Look at the masterpieces of Divine grace if you want to know what religion is. ” We learn also from this story of Joseph that the result of persecution is elevation. Had it not been for his being sold into Egyptian bondage by his malicious brothers, and his false imprisonment, Joseph never would have become a governor. Everybody accepts the promise: “Blessed are they that are persecuted for righteousness! sake, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven,” but they do not realize the fact that this principle applies to worldly as well as spiritual success. It •is true in all departments. Men rise to high official positions through misrepresentation. Public abuse is all that some of ourpublic men have to rely upon for their elevation. It has brought to them what talent and executive force could not have achieved. Many of those who are making great effort for place and power will never succeed, just because they are not of enough importance to be abused. It is the nature of men—that is, of all generous and reasonable men —to gather about those who are persecuted and defend them, and they are apt to forget the fault of those who are the subjects of attack while attempting to drive back tJhe slanderers. Persecution is elevation. Helen Stirk, the Scotch martyr, standing with her husband at the place of execution, said: “Husband, let us rejoice to-day; we have lived together many happy years; this is the happiest time of all our life; you see we are to be happy together forever. Be brave now, be brave. I will not say ‘Good night’ to you, for we shall soon be in the Kingdom of our Father together.” Persecution shows the heroes and heroines.

Igo into another department and I find that those great denominationS of Christians which have been most abused hive spread the most rapidly. No good man was ever more violently maltreated than John Wesly—belied, caricatured amd slandered until one day he stood in a pulpit in London and a man arose in the audience and said, “You were drunk last night,” and John Wesley said, “Thank God, the whole catalogue is now complete. I have been charged with everything but that!” His followers were hooted at and maligned and called by every detesable name that infernal ingenuity could invent, but the hotter the persecution the more rapidly they spread, until you know what a great host they have become and What a tremondous force for good and the truth they are wielding all the world over! It was persecution that gave Scotland to Presbyterianism. It was persecution that gave- oUP land first to civil liberty and afterwards to religious freedom. ..Yea, I might go further back and say it was persecution that gave -the world the great salvation of the Gospel. The ribald mockery, the hungering and thirsting, the unjust charge, the ignominious death, when all the force of hell’s fury was hurled against the cross, was the introduction of that religion which is yet to be the earth’s deliverance and our eternal salvation. The state sometimes 6aid to the church: “Come, take my hand and I will help you.” What was the result? The church went hack and it lost its estate of holiness, and it became ineffective. At other times the state said to the church: “I will crush you.” What has been the result? After the storms have spent their fury the church, so far from having lost any* of its force, has increased and is worth infinitely more after the assault than before. Read all history and you will find that true. The church is far more indebted to the opposition of civil government than to its approval. The fires of the stake have only been the torches which Christ held in His hand, by the light of which the church has marched to her present glorious position. In the sound of racks and implements of torture I hear the rumbling of the Gospel chariot. The scaffolds Os martyrdom have been the stairs by which the church mounted. Learn also from our subject that sin will come to exposure. Long, long ago had those brother* sold Joseph into Egypt. They had made their old father believe that his favorite child was dead. They had suppressed the crime, and it was a profound secret well kept by the brothers. But sud* denly the secret Is out The old father hears that his son is in Egypt, having been sold there by the malice of his own brothers. ITow their cheeks must have burned and their hearts sunk at the flaming out of this long-sup-pressed crime. The smallest iniquity has a thousand tongues, and .tliey will blab out exposure, Saul was sent to destroy the Canaanites, their sheep and

their oxen; but when he got down, t lie re among the pastures he saw some fine sheep and oxen too fat to kill, so he thought he would steal them. No* body would know it. *Ho drove these stolen sheep and oxen toward home, but stopped to report to the prophet how he bad executed his mission, when in the distance the sheep began to bleat and the oxen to bellow. The secret was out, and Samuel said to the blushing and confused Saul: “What meaneth the bleating of the sheep that I hear ahd the bellowing of the cattle?” Ah Imy hearer, you can not keep an iniquity still. At jßt the wrong time the sheep will bleat and the oxen will bellow. Aohan can not steal the Babylonish garment without being stoned to death, nor Arnold betray hla country without having his neck stretched. Look over the police arrests. These thieves, these burglars, these counterfeiters, these highwaymen, these assassins, they all thought they could bury their iniquity so deep down it would oome to jesurreotion, but there wassom^-sphoo that answered to the print in the soil, some false keys found in their possession, some bloody knife that whispered of the death, and the publio indignation and the anathema of outraged law hurled them into the dungeon or hoisted them on the gallows. # Nothing in God’s universe swings at loose ends. Accidents are only God’s way o's turning a leaf In the book of His eternal decrees. From our cradle to our grave there is a path all marked out. Each event in our life is connected with every other event in our life. Our losses may be the most direct road to our gain. Our defeat and our Victory are twin brothers. The whole of our life was changed by something which at the time seemed to you trifling, while some occurrence which seemed tremendous affected you but little. God’s plans are magnificent beyond all comprehension. Ho molds us, and turns and directs us, and we know it.not. Thousands of years are to Him as the flight of a shuttle. The most terrific occurrence does not make God tremble. The most triumphant achievement does not lift Him into rapture. That one great thought of God goes out through the centuries, and nations rise and fall, and eras pass, and the world changes, but God still keeps the undivided mastery, linking event to event and century to century. To God they are all one event, one history, one plan, one development, one system. Great and marvelous are Thy works, Lord God Almightyl I was years ago in New Orleans at the exposition rooms, when a telegram was sent to the president of the United States at Washington, and we waited some 15 or 20 minutes, and then the president's answer came back, and then the presiding officer waived his handkerchief and the signal was sent to Washington that we were ready to have the machinery of the exposition started, and the president put his finger on the electric button, and instantly the great Corliss wheel began ,to move—rumbling, rumbling, rolling, rolling. It was overwhelming, ahd 15,000 people clapped and shouted. Just one finger at Washington started that vast machinery, hundreds and hundreds of miles away, and I thought then, as I think now, that men sometimes touch influences that respond in the far distance, 40 years from now, 60 years from now, 1,000 years from now—one touch sounding through the ages. Now, there are two ways of laying up money. One of these is to put it it. stock and deposit it in bank, and invest it on bond and mortgage. The other way to lay up money is giving away. He is the safest who makes both of these investments. There are in this house men who if they lose every dollar they have in the world would be millionaires for eternity. They mdde the spiritual investment; but the man who devotes none of his gains to the cause of Christ, and looks only for his own comfort and luxury, is not safe, 1 care not how the money is invested. He acts as the rose if it should say: “I will hold my breath, and none shall have a snatch of fragrance from me until next week;, then I will set all the garden afloat with my aroma." Os course- the rose, refusing to breathe, died. But above all, lay up treasures in Heaven. They never depreciate in value. They are never at a discount. They are always available. You may feel safe now with your SI,OOO or $2,000 or SIO,OOO or $20,000 income, but what will such an income be worth after you are dead? Others will get it. Perhaps some of them will quarrel about it before you are buried. They will be so 4mpatient to get hold of the will, they will think you should be buried one day sooner than you are buried They will be right glad when you arc dead. They are only waiting for you to die. What then will all your earthly accumulations be worth? If,, you gathered it all in your bosom and walked up with it to Heavens gate, it would not purchase your admission. Or, if allowed to enter, it could not buy you a crown or a robe, and the poorest saint in Heaven would look down at you and say: “Where did that pauper come from?” May we all have treasures in Heaven. Amen! - t— — The Road-to Hell. —- You think it tit a hard thing to be a Christian and get to Heaven. I think it is a harder thing to be a sinner ahd go to hell. God made man for Heaven," and not for hell, and He has so crowded the pathway of life with sweet and helpful influences that <• man in tliia Christian community can not easily crush all these things beneath his feet and go down into the hopeless night. Divine love, human love and self-love nave all conspired to keep tnen out of hell. He who goes to the pit must go there in spite of all the united-forces of this trinity of loves. - Wens it not better for a man in a fail room to set up one pest light, or branching candlestick of lights, than to go about with a rushlight into every dark corner.-* Bacon.

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