Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 32, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 December 1898 — Page 3

THE LORD’S “SHUT IS” — of Sirlrafcss as SsfH I '* by Dr. T&lmage. A Seraoa to* imltdi from toe Story oX Moth u< toe Ark—tier’s Dcaigu tor OarBetteracit [Washington, Dec. IL Copyright, 1898.] This discourse of Dr. Talmage, which is helpful to all who find life a struggle, is especially addressed to a class of persons probably never before addressed in a sermon. The text is Genesis vii, 16, “The Lord Shut him in.” Cosmogony has no more interesting chapter than the one which speaks of that catastrophe of the ages, the submersion of our world in time of Noah, the first ship carpenter.. Many of the ' nations who never saw a Bible have a flood story — Egyptian flood story, Grecian flood story, of which Ducalion was the Noah; Hawaiian flood story, New Zealand flood story, Chinese flood story, American Indian flood story—-ail of which account* agree in the immersion of the continent* under univerfal rains, and that there wasa ship floating with a select few of the human family . and with specimens of soological and ornithological and reptilian worlds, although I could have wished that these last had been shut out of the ark and

orowwu. All of these flood stories represent the ship thus afloat as finally stranded on a mountain top. Bugh Miller in his •Testimony of the Rocks’* t&inks that all these flood stories were infirm traditions of /he BiElical account, and I believe him. The worst thing about that great freshet was that it struck Noah’s Great Eastern from-above and beneath. The seas broke the chain of shells and crystal and rolled over the land, and the heavens opened their clouds for faffing column© of water which roared and thundered on^he roof of the great ship for a month and ten day*. There was \ one door to rhe ship, but there were three parts to that door, one part for each of the three srtorie*. The Bible account aays nothing about parts of the door belonging to two of the'stories, and I do not know on which floor Noah and his family voyaged, but my next A tells us that the part of the doorof that, particular floor on which Noah staid was closed after he hod entered. ‘The Lord shot him in.” Bo there are many people how in the world who are as thoroughly shut in. some by sickness, come bjsold age, sottfe by special duties that will not allow them to go forth, some surrounded by deluges of misfortune and trouble, and for them I often receive message*, and thia sermon. ^ which 1 hope may do good to others, is ■•ore especially in tended for them. Today I address the shut in. ‘‘The Lprd abut him in.” ^ Notice first of all who closed the door m that t-hey could not get out. Noah did not do it, nor his eon Shem, nor did Ham. nor did Japheth, nor did either of > the four married women who were on ahipboard. nor diddeeperadoeswho had scoffed at rhe idea of peril which Noah hud been preaching close that door. They had turned their backs on th« ark ami had iu disgust gone awa^j, I will tell you how it was done. A band was stretched down from heaven toelosc that door. It was a divine hand as well ms a kind band. "The Lord shut hi to in." The world has no statistics as to the number of invalids. The physicians know something about it, anfl the' apothecaries and the pastor*, but who can tell us the number of blind eyes, and deaf: ears, and diseased |ungs. ami congested livers, and jangled nerves, and neuralgic temples., and rheumatic feet, or how many took no food this morning because they had no appetite to eat or digestive organs to assimilate, or have luqgs so delicate they connol go forth when- the wind is in the east, or there is a fog rising fjroto the rfter, or there is a dampness on the ground or pavement because of the frost coming out ? It would be easy to count the people who every day go through ■ a. , street, or the number of passengers carried by a railroad company in a year, or the number of those who cross the ocean in ship*. But who can give us the statistics of the great multitudes who are shut in? I call the attention of all such to their superior opportunities of

doing good. Those of us who are well, and can are clearly, end hear distinctly, and partaAce of food of all sorts, and questions of digestion never occur to us. and we can wade the snowbanks, and take an equinox in our faces, and endure the thermometer at xero, apd eTery breath of air is a tonic and a stimulus and sound sleep meets us within five minute* after our head touches the pillow, do not makf so much of an impression wibeT! we tcifk about the consolations of religion. The world shy* right awayj* **I guess that man mistakes buoyancy of natural spirit* for religion. What does he know about it? He ha«never been tried.” But when one goe» out and reports to the world that that morning on his way*to business he called to see you and found you. after being kept in your room for two ^months, cheerful and hopeful, and that you had not one word of complaint and ■asked all about everybody and rejoiced In the success of your Witness fr'ends. although your own business had almost come to a standstill through your absence from store or office or shop, and that yon cent your love to all your old friends and told them that if yon did not meet them again in this world yon hoped to meet them in dominions seraphic. with a quiet word of advice from yon to the man who carried the message about the importance of his not neglecting him own soul, but through Christ seeking something better than thie world could give him— J why. all the business men in the counting room say: “Good! Now. that is religion.** And the clerks get hold of the .story and talk It over, so that the

-------—■ weigher tod cooper and hacktnan, standing on the doorstep, say: “That In splendid! Sow, tbet is what I call religion.** It is a good thing to preach on a Sunday morning, thf people assembled in most respectable attire and seated on soft cushions, the preacher standing in neatly upholstered pulpit surrounded by personal friends, and after an in spiring hymn has been sung, and that sermon, if preached in faith, will do good; bnt the most effective sermon is preached by one seated in dressing gown in an arm-chair into which the invalid has with much care been lifted, the surrounding shelves filled with medicine bottles, some., to produce sleep, some for the relief of sudden paroxysm, some for stimulant, some for tonic, some, for anodyne and some for febrifuge, the pale preacher quoting promises of the Gospel, telling of the glories of a sympathetic Christ, assuring the one or two or three persons who hear it of the mighty reenforcetuents of religion. You say that to such a sermon there are only one or two or three heatera. Aye, but the visitor calling at that room, then closing the door softly and going away, tells the story, and the whole neighborhood hears It, and it will take all eternity to realist the grand and uplifting influence of that sermon about God and the soul, though preached to an audience of only one man or one woman. The Lord has ordained all such invalids for a style of usefulness which athletics and men of 200 healthy avoirdupois cannot affect. It was not an enemy that fastened you in that one room or sent you on crutches, the longest journey you have made for many weeks being from bed to sofa and from sofa to looking glass, where you are shocked at the pallor of your own

cheek and the pincbedness ol yourieatures; then back again from mirror to sofa and sofa to bed. with a long sigh saying: “How good it feels to get back again to my old place on the pillow!” Remember who it is that appointed the day when for the first time m many years you could not go to business and who has kept a record of all the weary' day* and all the sleepless nights o^. your exile from the world. O weary man! O feeble woman, it was the Lord who shut you in! Do you remember that some of the noblest and best of men have been prisoners? Ezekiel a prisoner. Jeremiah a prisoner, Paul a prisoner, St. John a prisoner, John .Bunyan a prisoner. Though human hate seemed to hare all to do with them, really the Lord shut them in. No doubt, while on that voyaged Noah^ and his three sons am£all»the four ladies of the antediluvian world often thought of the bright hillsides and the green fields where they had walked and of the homes where they had lived. They had had many years of experiences. Noah was COO years old at the time.of this convulsion of nature. He had seen 600 springtimes, 600 summers. 600 autumns, 600 winters. We ere not told how old his Wife was at this wreck of earth and sky. The Bible tells the age of a great many men. but 9nly once gives a woman's age. At cue time it gives Adam’s age as 130 years, and Jared's age at 162 years, and Enoch's age as 365Ife&rs, and all up and down the Biblepri gives the age of men. but does not give the age of women. Why?—Because. I suppose, a woman’s age is nbne of our business. But all the men and women that tossed in that oriental craft had lived long enough to remember a great many of the mercies (and kindnesses of God. and they could not blot out, and. 1 think they had no disposition to blot out the memory of those brightnessses, though how they were shut in. Neither should the shut in of our time forget the blessings of tii£ past. Have you been blind for ten years? Thank God for the time when you saw as clearly as any of us can see, and let the pageant of all the radiant landscapes and illumined skies which you ever looked upon kindle your rapturous gratitude. I do not see Raphael's “Madonna di San Sisto” in the ^picture gallery of Dresden, nor Rubens* “Descent from the Cross” at Antwerp* nor Michael Angelo's “Last Judgment” on the ceiling of the Vatican. nor Saint Sophia at Constantinople, nor the Parthenon on the Acropolis, nor the Taj Mahal of India. But shall I not thank God that I have seen

them? Is it possible that sucn midnight darkness shall eve* blast my vision that I cannot call them up again? l’erhaps you are so deaf that you cannot hear the chirp of bird or solo of cantatrice, or even organ in full diapason, -though you feel the foundations tremble under its majestic roll, or even the thunderstorm that makes Mount Washington echo. But are you not grateful that once you could hear trill andi chant and carol dosology? Do you forget when in childhood you idanced and skipped because you were so full of life you bad not patience to walk, and in after year# you climbed the mountains of Switzerland, putting your alpenstock high up on glaciers which few others ever dared and jumped long reaches in competition, and after a walk of ten miles you came in jocucd as/The morning? Oh. you shut-ins! Thank God fora Tivid memory of the timmrtahen yon were frea as the chamoi/on the rocks, am the eagle going <gm]£a^arthe son. When the rain poundedVtheihof of the ark. the eight n>yan»$n that craft did i not forget the time when it garly pattered in a summer shower, and when the door of the ark shat to keep out the tempest they did not forget the time when the door of their home in Armenia was closed to keep out the spring reins which came to fill the cups of lily and honeysuckle and make all the trees of the wood ciap their hands. Again, notice that during that 40 days- of storm which rocked that ship on that universal ocean of Noah'^ timethe daor which shut the captain of the ship Inside the craft kept him from many outside perils. Ifow those wrothI fol seas would like to have got their wet [ hands on Noah and palled him oat and

great almj of the shut-in realise, though you have special temptation where you ere now, how much of the outside style of temptation you escape? Do you. the merchant incarcerated In theeickroom, realine that every hour of the day you spend looking out of the window or gazing at the particular figure on the wall paper or listeniug to the clock's ticks men are being wrecked by the allurement* and uncertainties of business life? How man# forgeries are committed, how many trust funds are

swamped, haw meny public moneys are being* misappropriated, how many bankruptcies suffered? It may be. it is, very uncomfortable for Noah inside the ark. for the apartment is crowded and the^air is vitiated with the breathing of so much human and animal life, but it is not h$lf as bad tor him as though he were^outside the ark. There is not an ox. or a camel, or an antelope, or a sheep infe'de the ark as badly off ah the proudest king outside. While you are on the pillow or lounge you will make no bad bargains, yon will rush into no rash invest men ts. you will avoid ^he mistakes which thousands of men as good as you are every da/ making. Notice also that there was a limit te the shut-irf experience of those ancient mariners, f I suppose the 40 days of the descending and uprising floods and the 150 days before the passengers could go ashore must have seemed to those eight people ha the big boat like a small eternity. “Eain. rain, rain!** said the wife of Koeh. TWillit never atop?" f' For 40 mornings they looked out and saw not one patch of bine sky. Floating around amid the peaks of mountains, Shem and Bam and Japheth had to b«sk the fears of their wives lest they should dash against the projecting rocks. But after awhile it cleared oft ? Sunshine, glorious sunshine! The ascendihg mists were folded tip intc clouds, which instead of darkening the sky only ornamented it. As they h oked out of the windows these worn passengers clapped their hands and rejoiced that the storm was over, and 1 think if God could stop stich a storm as that He could stop any storpa in youi lifetime experience. If He can control a vulture in mid-sky, fee can stop a summer- bat that flies in at your window. At the right time He will put the rainbow on the cloud and the deluge of your misfortunes will dry up. I preach the doctrine of limitation, relief and disciithrallment. At just the right time the pain will cease, the bondage will drop, the imprisoned will be liberated, the fires will go out. the body and mind and soul will be free. Patience! An old English pfroverb referring to long continued invalidism, says: “A creaking gate hangs long On its hinges,” and this may be a protracted case of valetudinarianism. but you will have taken the last bitter drop, you will have suffered the last misinterpretation, you will feel the gnawing of the last hunger, you will have fainted the last time from exhaustion, you will have felt the cut of the last lancet, you will have wept under the last, loneliness. The lasteweek of the Xoachian deluge came, the last day. the last hour, the last moment. The beating of the rain on the roof ceased, and the dashing of the billows on the side of the ship quieted, and peacefully as a yacht moves out over quiet ,Lake Cayuga. Como or Lucerne, the ark with its illustrious passengers and important freight glided to its mountain wharfage.

notice also max on tne cessation oi the deluge the shut-ins came out, and they built 4heir houses and cultured their gardens and started a new world on the ruins of the old world that had been drowned out. Though Noah lived 330 years after this worldwide accident and no doubt his fellow passengers survived centuries, I warrant they nevei got over talking about that voyage. Now, I have seen Dore’s pictures and many other pictures of the entrance into the ark, two and two, of the human family and the animal creation into that ship which sailed between two worlds, antediluvian world and the postdiluvian world, but: I never saw a picture of their coming out, yet theii embarkation was not more importanl than their disembarkation. Many a crew has entered a ship that nevei landed. Witness the steamer Portland, a short time ago, with 100 souls on board, going down with all its crew and passengers. Witness the line of sunken ships reaching like a submarine cable of anguish across the ocean depths from America to Europe. If any ship might expect complete wreckage, the one Noah commanded might have expected it. But no. Those who embarked disembarked. Over the plank reaching down the side of the ark to the Armenian cliffs on which they had been stranded the precession descended. No other wharf felt so solid or afforded such attractiveness as that height of Ararat when the eight passengers put their feet on it. And no sooner had the last one, the invalided wife of Japheth, been helped down the plank upon the rock than the other apartments of the ship were opened, and such a dash of bird music never filled1 the air as when the entire orchestra of robin redbreast, and morning lark, and chaffinch, and mocking bird, and house swallow took wing into the bright sky, while the cattle began to low and the sheep to bleat and the horses to neigh for the pasture, which from the awful submergence had now i begnn to grow green afcd aromatic. 1 tell you plainly nothing interests me more in that tragedy from the first to the last act than the “exit” 4nd the “exeunt,” than the fact that the “shut [ ins” became the “go outs.” And I now cheer with this story all the inmates cf sickrooms and hospitals, and those prisons where men and women are unjustly endungeoned.and al! the thousands who are bounded on the north and south and east and west by floods, by deluges of misfortune and disaster. The ark of your trouble, if it does not 1 land <m some earthly height of vindication and rescue, will land on the heights celestial.

FIGHT WITH CONDOES Sarly in January, 1806, five hardy adventurers from Albuquerque, N. M., believing that gold was as abundant in certain parts of Bolivia as in Alaska and far easier to obtain, embarked from San Francisco for j Callao, Peru. One of the party, the youngi est, a tall, wiry athlete, In perfect health, | a stranger to fear and as intimately ac- { quainted with the capacities of his rifle as is a skillful woman with that of her needle, became the self-elected caterer for the camp. The Andes had been crossed, the travelers located temporarily in a mountain fastness of high altitude where the foot of a white ! tqan had never trod, and fresh meat was aCeded. Jaguars, cinnamon bears, foxes, | wild llamas, antelope and deer were abun- j dant. Had the mission of these men been ! to stock a zoological garden here and now j would' have been their opportunity, hut j George, the hunter, on the morning of April lit was simply in pursuit of a single deer, which had eluded him by bounding up a precipitous cliff.

He had followed that delusive deer for an ; hour or more, and he was exasperated with : his luck. It had led him over the roughest | places in a terribly rough country, always ‘ keeping just out of reach of his rifle. He I was determined to have the deer if it took ! him the rest of the day to get it, and so I looked for a way to scale the cliff over which the animal had disappeared. He found a ; way finally, but it was an hour or more be* i fore he found the deer again. His search | had lied him constantly higher and higher j until when he came within of the lost anij mal he was very near the snow line of the ; great mountains. Cautiously he crept toj ward the shy animal until within what he { thought was firing range. Taking careful j aim he fired only to see the deer bound i away evidently unharmed. He seldom missed, and to do so after such a long hard \ climb was aggravating, but he .concluded not to search any further. | Condors, the great vultures of the Andes, singly or in small groups, had long been familiar objects to this party, as like winged giants they had been seen nestling upon the j mountain heights at the verge of perpetual ’ snow. «, , Already George was several thousand feet above the sea level and in aWditude as profound as it was impressive'when. pausing, to gain breath, after his upward cKmb iround a projecting crag, he heard above I him strange sounds of struggling, uncanny I screaming and fighting as though devils were engaged in conflict.Reexamining his rifle and cautiously swinging around another rugged peak he stood upon a barren plateau in desolate space, and not more than 300 feet from him an army of condors were in awful contest ! over the carcass of a vicuna, f Among them was one which by its su- : perior strength and size, where all were so : gigantic and monstrous—as birds—riveted his attention. Its plumage was white; its | tail feathers were tipped with brown, and ; red, fleshy wattles crowned its head like a | diadem.. Those condors immediately around it stood aloof as though not daring to approach until his high mightiness was gorged. “A king of the vultures!” exclaimed George. ‘‘What a prise!” and, using his own phraseology, “I sprang to my feet and let drive at him. Then the trouble commenced, j I saw that I had hit him, but the other com dors would not let him fall. They tur- ! rounded him in gallant style and seemed ’ with their talons to stretch out his wings. ! Thus upholding the wounded monarch, two ; immense condors flew away with him. It was really a touching sight. I did not shoot i again, watching their slow flight above the i clouds, which rested upon the highest peaks, j In that moment I was lost. Suddenly the i carcass was deserted and the entire flock ' of 200 or more approached me.. Their wings, i which they partly extended as they walked, measured nine feet from joint to joint. They looked like the ‘woods of Dunsinane’ as they strode toward me fearlessly and defiant. It is impossible to describe their : appearance collectively; I knew not what ! to do, but seeing one in advance I shot him. Before he fell, another was close upon me, who, making a swift circle just before he reached me, struck me such a tremendous blow with his wing that it not only knocked my rifle from ont my hand, but me neatly off my feet. Staggering, 1 stooped to regain my gun, when another struck me and knocked me flat upon my face. I turned \ over on my back, got hold of my gun and commenced firing into the crowd. I killed ■ about 20, but the remainder seemed not to . mind the fall of their comrades, merely rising in the air at every shot, to that the swoop of their great wings seemed like the | approach of a hurricane. Their telescopic ! eyes seemed to pierce my vitals, and their J open beaks looked as cruel as the jaws of s ; crocodile. I was far beyond the reach of i human help, and I knew it, with that sense ! of grim reality which some men know but i once in a lifetime. I bad but ten cartridges left, and thought it time to cease firing, as j I might need them later, but when I did ! to again the condors began their attack, and i again I was compelled to shoot. At this - they flew a little higher, and while they i were up I tried to crawl to the shelter of i a rock near by. Instantly some were upon ! me, almost blinding me with the strokes ! of their heavy wings, but I succeeded in | gaining the rock, which sheltered me on one

“My ammunition.tHT&s now reduced to two I cartridges, and the enemy waa as defiant j as before. Planting the stock of my rifle ! on the ground and seizing the barrel with both hands, when the condors struck at me ! I moved it so that it received the blows, i This mode of defense seemed to succeed, j for after awhile the main body flew away i | and 1 thought to make my escape, but no j j sooner would I attempt to move than they again Swooped down, and 1 returned to the i shelter of my rock. “Thus the hours wore on until the mid- I die of the afternoon, when all but two had returned to lunch upon the carcass. I j again made an effort to start for home, but j these two seemed determined \o lunch upon [ me. Rushing upon me with a broadside of j blows they tried to knock me down the mountain side. The viciousnees in their ; ! eyes was as apparent as the strength of their I ! strokes. Finally, when no other resort waa j left me, I killed one, and with my last shot j wounded the other, and triumphantly left 1 him alone 'on the field of his glory.’ j “Then I started for camp. The climb up- [ ward in the morning had not seemed long, I suppose, because of my interest in the deer I had been following, but the backward j trail was seemingly endless, and I was so tired that every step was a new tortnre. My ] fight with the condors had taken more of my j strength than I had imagined, and several j times I almost decided to attempt to remain in the mountain forest over night. Had I dons so, however, I should not have lived to be telling about it, for those mountains are so full of wild beasts that they would eer- j tainly have made an end of roe before mornmg in the exhausted condition that I was, and so unable to properly defend myself. After what seemed hours I reached camp, hut was so tired out with my long tramp and fight that I could not relate my ex- > penances to my companions until the next ! morning.”—St. Louis Republic. - '

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