Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 32, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 December 1893 — Page 7

THE STRUGGLE OF LIFE. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmago Carries Spiritual EncouragementTo Those Who Labor Under Disadvantages, Either Physical or Mental— Their AlHlctl«>us a Means of Getting Nearer to Christ. The following discourse was delivered by Rev. T. DeWitt f almage at Nashville, Tenn., during his recent lecture tour. It is based on the text: ‘ The lame take the prey.—Isaiah xxxill. . 23. The utter demolition of the Assyrian hast was here predicted. Not only robust men should go forth and gather the spoils of conquest, but even men crippled of arm and crippled of foot should go out and capture much that was valuable. Their physical disadvantages should not hinder their great enrichment. So it has been in the past, so it is now, so it will be in the future. So it is in all departments. Men laboring under seemingly great disadvantages and amid the most unfavorable circumstances, yet( making grand achievements, getting great blessing for themselves, great blessing for the world, great blessing for the church, and so “the lame take the prey. , l)o you know that the three great poets of the world were totally blind? Hoiner, Ossian, John Milton. Do you know that Mr. l*rescott, who wrote that enchanting book, “The Conquest of Mexico," never .saw Mexico, could not even see the paper on which he was writing? A framework across the sheet, between which, up and down, went the pen immortal. Do you know that Uambassio. the sculptor, could not see the marble before him or the chisel with which he cut it into shapes bewitching? Do you know that Alexander Pope, whose poems will last as long as the English language, was so much .of an invalid that he had to be sewed up every morning in rough -canvas in order to stand on his feet at all. ' Do you know that Stuart, thb celebrated painter, did much of his won |

derful work under the shadow of the ; dungeon where he had been unjustly imprisoned for debt? l>o you know ; that Demosthenes by almost superhuman exertion had to conquer the lisp of his own speech before he conquered assemblages by his eloquence? Do you know that Bacon struggled all through innumerable sicknesses, and that Lord llyron and Sir Walter Scott j went limping on clubfoot through all their life, and that many of the great poets, and painters, and orators, and i historians, and heroes of the world had j something to keep them back, and i pull them down, and impede their I way, nnd.J' cripple ttheir physical or their intellectual movement, and yet that they pushed on and pushed up until they reached the spoils of worldsuccess, and amid the huzzah of nations and centuries “the lame took the prey.” You know that a vast multitude of these men started under the disadvantage of obscure parentage. Columbus, the son of the weaver. Ferguson, the astronomer, the son of the shepherd. America the prey of one; worlds on world's the prey of the other. But what (is true in secular directions is more true in spiritual and religious directions, and 1 proceed to prove it. There are in all communities many invalids. They never know a well day. They adhere tp their occupations, but they go panting along the streets with -vhaustions, and at eventide they iie ctiJwn on the lounge with achings beyond all medicaments. They have tried all prescriptions, they have gone through all the cures which were proclaimed infallible, and they have come now to surrender to perpetual ailment. They consider they are among many disadvantages: and when they see those who are buoyant in health pass by, they almost envy their robust -frames and easy respiration. But I have noticed among that invalid class those who have the greatest knowledge of the Bible, who are in nearest intimacy with Jesus Christ, who have the most glowing experiences of the truth, who have had the most remarkable answers to prayer, and who have most exhilarant anticipations of Heaven: The temptations • which weary us who are in robust health they have conquered. Many who are alert and athletic and swarthy, loiter in the way—the lame take the prey. Robert Hall an invalid, Edward Payson an invalid; Richard Baxter, an invalid, Samuel Rutherford an invalid. This morning, when you want to call to mind those who are most Christlike. you think of some darkened room in your fatluVs house from which there went forth an influence potent for eternity. A step (farther: Through raised letters the art" of printing has been brought to the attention of the blind. You take up.the Bible for the blind, and you close‘your eyes and you run your fingers over the raised letters, and you say: •“Why I never could get any information in this way. What a slow, lumbrous way of reading! God help the blind!”

Ana yet, i nnu among tnat class ot persons, amoftg the blind, the deaf and the dumb, the most thorough acquaintance with God's word. Shut out from all other sources of information, no sooner does their hand touch the raised letter than they gather a prayer. Without eyes, they look off upon the kingdoms of God’s love. Without hearing, they catch the minstrelsy of the skies.. Dumb, yet with pencil, or with irradiated countenance, they declare the glory of God. A large audience assembled in New York at the anniversary of the deaf and dumb asylum, and one of the visitors with tchalk on the blackboard wrote this question to the pupils: ‘‘Do you not find it very had to be deaf and dumb?” And one of the pupils took the chalk and wrote on the blackboard this -sublime sentence in answer: “When the pongs of the angels shall burst upon our enraptured ear, we will scarce regret that our ears were never marred with earthly sounds.” Oh! the bright

est eyes in Heaven will be those that never saw on earth. The ears most alert in Heaven will be those that in this world heard neither voice of friend, nor thrum of harp, nor carol of bird, nor doxology of congregations. A lad who had been blind from infancy was cured. The oculist operated upon the lad, and then put a very heavy bandage over the eyes and after a few weeks had gone by, the bandage was removed, and the mother said to her child: “Willie, can you see?” He said: “Oh*, mamma, is this Heaven?” The contrast between the darkness before and the brightness afterward was overwhelming. And 1 tell you the glories of Heaven will be a thousandfold brighter for those who never saw anything on earth. While many with good vision closed their eyes in eternal night, and many who had a good, artistic and cultured ear went down into eternal diseord, these afflicted ones cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and He made their sorrows their advantage, and so “the lame took the prey.” In the seventh century there was a legend of St. Modobert. It was said that his mother was blind, and one day while looking at his mother he felt so sympathetic for her blindness that he rushed forward and kissed' Jggr blind eyes, and, the legend says, her vision came immediately. That was only a legend, but it is the truth, a glorious truth, that the kiss of God's eteral love has brought to many a blind eye.eternal illumination. A step farther: There are those in all communities who toil mightily for a livelihood. They have scant wages. Perhaps they are diseased, or have physical infirmities, so they are hindered from doing* a continuous day’s work. A city missionary finds them up the dark alley, with no fire, with thin clothing, with very coarse bread. They never rode in the street car; they can not afford the live cents. They never see any pictures save those in the show-window in the street, from which they are often jostled, and looked at by some one who seems to say in the look: “Move on! What arc you doing here looking at pictures?” Yet many of them live on mountains

of transfigurations. At their rough table He who fed the five thousand breaks the bread. They talk often of the good times that are coming’. This world lias no charm for them, but Heaven entrances their spirit. They often divide their scant crust with some forlorn wretch who knocks at their door at night, and on the blast of the night wind, as the door opens to let them in, is heard the voice of him who said: “1 was hungry and He fed me.” No cohort of Heaven will be too bright to transport them. By Clod's help they have vanquished the Assyrian host. They have divided among them the spoils. Lame, lame, yet they took the prey. I was riding along the country road one day and I saw a man on crutches. I overtook him. He was very old. He was going very slowly. At that rate it would have taken him two hours to go a mile. I said: “Wouldn^ you like to ride?” He said; “Thank you, I would, God bless you.” When he sat beside me he said: “You see 1 am very lame and very old, but the Lord has been a good Lord to me. I have buried all my children. The Lord gave them and the Lord had a right to take them away. Blessed be His name! I was very sick, and I had no money, and my neighbors eame in and took care of me, and I wanted nothing. I suffer a great deal with pain, but then I have so many mercies left. The Lord has been a good Lord to me.” And before we had got far I was in doubt whether I was giving him a ride or he was giving me a ride. He said: “Now, if you please, I’ll get out here. Just help me down On my crutches, if you please. God bless yon. Thank you, sir. Good morning. Good morning. You have been feet to the lame, sir, you have. Good morning.” Swarty men had gone the road that day. I do not know where they came out, but every hobble of that old man was toward the shining gate. With his'old,crutch he had struck down many a Sennacherib of temptation whieh has mastered you and me. Lame, so fearfully lame, so awfully lame; but he took the prey. ^ A step farther: There are in all communities many orphans. During our last war and in the years immediately following, how many children at the north and south we heard say: “Oh! my father was killed in the war.” Have you ever noticed—I fear you have not—how well thoseehildren have turned out? Starting under the greatest disadvantage, no orphan asylum could do for them what their father would have done had he lived. The skirmisher sat one night by the light of faggots, in the swamp, writing a letter home, when a sharpshooter’s bullet ended , the letter which was never folded, never posted and never read. Those children eame up under great disadvantage.- No father to fight their way for them. Perhaps there was in the old family Bible an old yellow letter pasted fast, which told the story of that father's long march, and how he suffered in the hospital;

but they looked still further on in the Bible, and they came to the story of how God is the Father of th§ fatherless, and the widow’s portion, and they soon took their father’s place in that household. They battled the way for their mother. They came on un, and many of them have already, ifi the years since the war, taken positions in church ^uid state, north and south. While many of those who suffered nothing during those times have had sons go out into lives of indolence and vagabondage, these who started under so many disadvantages because they were so early bereft, these are the lame who took the prey. A ste p farther: There are those who would like to do good. They say: “Oh! if I only had wealth, or if I had eloquence, or if I had high social position, how much I would accomplish for God and the church!” I stand here to-day to tell you that you have great oppor-. tunities for usefulness

Who built the Pyramids? The king who ordered them built? Xo: the plain wcft-kmen who added stone after ‘•tone and stone after stone. Who built the i dikes of Holland? The government I that ordered the enterprise? No; the : plain workman who carried the earth and rung their trowel on the. wall. Who are those who have | built these vast cities? The capitalists? | No; the carpenters, the masons, the plumbers^the plasterers, the tin1 ners, the roofers, dependent on a day's wages for a livelihood. And so in the great work of assuaging human suffering and enlightening human ignorance and halting human iniquity. In that great work, the chief part is to be done by ordinary men. with ordinary speech, in an ordinary manner, and by ordinary means. Uod has a royal family in the world. Now, if I should asl^ "Who are the royal families of history?” vou would say: “House of .llapsburg, house of Stuart, house of llourbon.” They lived in palaces and had great equipage, llut who are the Lord's royal family? Some of them may serve you in the household, some of them are in unlighted garrets, some of them will walk this afternoon down the street, on their arm a basket of broken food; some of them are in the almshouse, despised and rejected of men, yet in the last grace day, while it will be found that some of us who fared sumptuously every day nre hurled back into discomfiture, they are the lame that will talc< the prey. \ It would take a week to count up the names of those in Heaven who were on earth worse than you tell me you are. They went the whole round of iniquity, they disgraced themselves, they disgraced their household, they despaired of return because their reputation was gone, their property was gone, everything was gone, but in some hour like this they heard the voice of God,, arid they threw themselves on the Divine compassion, and they rose up more than conquerors. And I tell you there is the same chance for you. That is one reason why I like to preach this Gospel, so free a Gospel. It takes a man all wrong, and makes

him all right. In a former settlement where I preached, a member of my congregation quit the house of God, quit respectable circles, went into all styles of sin and was slain of his iniquity. The day for his burial came, and his body was brought to the house of God. Some of his'comrades who had destroyed him were overheard along the street, on their way to the burial, saying: “Come, let us go and hear Talmage damn this old sinner!” Oh! I had uothing but tears for the dead, and I had nothing but invitations for the living. You see I could not do any s otherwise. “Christ Jesus came to seek and save that which was lost.” Christ in llis dying prayer said: “Father, forgive them,” and that was a prayer for you_ and a prayer for me. Ohf start on the road to Heaven today. You are not happy. The thirst of your soul wjll never be slaked by the fountain of sin. Y ou turn everywhere but to God for help. Eight where you are. call on Him. He knows you, He knows all about you. He knows all the odds against which you have been contending in life. Do not go to Him with a long rigmarole of prayer, but just look up to Him and say; "Help! help!” , Yet you say: “My hand trembles sc from my dissipations, I can't even take hold of a hymn book to sing.” Do not worry about that, my brother; I will give out a hvmn at the close so familiar you can sing it without a book. Hut you say: "I have such terrible habits on me. I tcan’t get rid of them." -My answer is: Almighty grace can break up that habit and will break it up. Hut you say: “The wrong I did was tc one dead and in Heaven now, and I can't correct that wrong.” You can correct it. By the grace of God go into the presence of that one, and the apologies you ought to have made on earth make in Heaven. “Oh!” says some man, “if I should try to do right, if I should turn away from my evil-doing unto the Lord, 1 would be jostled, I would be driven back; nobody would have any sympathy- for me.” You are mistaken. Here, in the presence of the church on earth and in Heaven, I give you to-d^y the right hand of Christian fellowship. God sent me here to-day to preaeh this, and He sent you here to hear this: “Let -the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thought, and let him return unto the Lord, who will have mercy, and unto our God, who will abundantly pardon. ” Though you may have been the worst sinner you may become the best saint, and in the great day of judgment it will be found that “where sin abounded, grace does much more abound,” and while the spoils oi an everlasting kingdom are being awarded for your pursuit, it will be found that the lame took the prey. Blessed be God that we are, this Sabbath, one week nearer the obliteration of all "%he inequalities of this life and

all its disquietudes, x ears ago, on a boat on the North river, the pilot gave a very sharp ring of the bell for the boat to slow up. The engineer attended to the machinery, and then he came up with some alarm on deck to see what was the matter. He saw it was a moonlight night and there was no obstacle in the way. He went to the pilot and said: “Why did you ring the bell in that way? Why do you want to stop' There is nothing the matter.” And the pilot said to him: “There is a mist gathering on the river: don't you see that? And there is night gathering darker and darker and I can’t see the way.” sTlien the engineer, looking around and seeing it was bright moonlight, looked into the face of the pilot, and saw taat he was dying and then that he was dead. God grant that when onr last moment comes we may be found at pur post doing our duty; and when the mist of the river of death gathers on our eyelids, may the good Pilot take the wheel from onr hands and guide us into the calm harbor vf eternal rest! Drop the anchor, furl the sail, 1 am sate within the vatL

FRILLS AND RUFFLES. A dress of ol ire-green cloth has collar. rest, shoulder-ruffles, folded belt, cuffs and skirt-trimming of the richest black moire. Lemon-yellow seems to be one of the popular trimming colors. A handsome costume of black velvet has garniture of black lace over yellow satin. Al YOl'N'Q lady’s dress of heliotrope Ilenrietta cloth has trimming of black lace sot on over bands of pale mauve silk. The sleeves are in very.fine ac-cordion-plaiting. The accordion-plaited idea is in full force. Mouses, sleeves, skirts, capes, and even flounces are erimpled in plaits of varying fineness. Some of them seem to be little more than a mass of wrinkles. A dress of white camel’s hair, with bell-skirt, full-topped sleeves,very wide shoulder-ruffles and high, close collar, trimmed with galloon in white and gold, is worn with a wide sash of goldcolored ribbon, \vith loops and ends falling almost to the hem of the skirt.

HISTORICAL POISONINGS. Is 1850 the trial of William Palinet in England attracted general attention, lie poisoned J. li. Cook and many other persons and was publicly hanged. A wholesale poisoner was Mary Ann Cotton, of Durham. England, who in 1873 poisoned sixteen persons, mostly children. She was tried and executed. The most noted female poisoners, Cleopatra. Lucrezia Borgia and Mine, lirinvelliers were blondes with fair complexions, yellow or tawny hair and eyes gray or blue. ^ The names of seventeen Roman emperors of the west, and twenty-two emperors of the east are preserved who are supposed to have died at the hands of secret poisoners. Poisoning is believed to be very common at the present day in Turkey and Persia. Two historians say that Alexander the tireat died from a dose of poison in his wine. MISSING LINKS. There are glass curtains. Spain and Portugal supply our corks. France’s oyster industry is the largest of the kind in Europe. The island of Ceylon is the most remarkable gem deposit in the world. The best pearls are found on tho Ceylon coast and in the Persian gulf. The first oratorio mentioned in medieval chronicles was presented in the twelfth century. The River .Iordan,from its rapid fall, takes its name from the Hebrew word “yarden,” meaning descent. In 1870 there were not more than ten sailing ships afloat of about 3,000 tons register in the British mercantile marine. THE EVOLUTION OF NAMES. IIenrv, in course of time, became Harry, Harris, Harrison, Hallet, Halket, Hawkins, Ilawkinson, Harriet. Smocker, Smooker and Smoker recall the old-fashioned smock frock, once the dress of the English peasant. Ledbetter’s father was a worker in lead; so also were the ancestors of Ledbitters, Lidbetters and Libbetters. Burner and Burrel took their names from two kinds of cheap goods much used formerlv as clothing for the poor.

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to no avail. I had running scrofulous sores on left side of neck and face. I was small and weakly when eight or nine years old, and in fact was nearly a skeleton. Six bottles of Dr. Fierce’s Golden Medical Discovery wrought marvelous changes. Although the sores were healed in eight months, I did not quit taking it until I was sure® it had been entirely rout

ea irom ray eystem. in© „ u nrtT.wilB . only signs left of tho H-M Hollkmak. dreadful disease are the scars -which ever remind me of how near death’s door I was until rescued by the “Discovery.” I am now eighteen years old and weigh 148 pounds; and have not been siek in lire years. Yours respectfully, HARVEY M. HOLLEMAN, Agt. for Seaboard Air Line.

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