Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-09-12

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In the Brooklyn Tabernacle this morn
ing DR.. Talmage discoursed as follows:
subject-"Bread."
Text-II. Kings vii. 1920 ITO morrow, about
this time shall a measure OF fine hour te sofa
for a shekel. and two measures OF pale{ Ior -
shekel, in the gate Of Samsria. Then lQroo On
whose hand the King leaned answeredshe msn
OF God and said, Behold, IL the Lori. wouid
make W .ndows in Heaven might this ninS bss
And he said. Behold. thou shalt see ~ WIZ
fell out unto him, for the people trod upon MIN
In the gate and he died"
In this season OF severe drought and
when the consequent fires have lett IN
Michigan 1900 families completely, des-
titute, and many OF the harvests have
failed, it will not be inappropriate TO
speak OF bread. Around Sauiaria is
drawn the fiery girth OF Assyrian vindic-.
tiyeness. Siege is laid to the city, and
soon famine, most ghastly and horriols,
appears. In the modern bombardment
OF a CITY there is grandeur mingled
with the terror. The toss and burst oil
a bombshell kindles the eve OF the artist,
while the citizens perish. But there Is
no imaging the desolation OF city ap'
preached by an old time seige through
years OF starvation. The judgment day
only can reveal the anguish endured
when Hannilear besieged Utica, and
Titus Jerusalem. When Hannibal
sought to capture city 80 great was the
hunger and destitution that mouse
was sold tor POO pence. In one OF the
ancient sleges the soldiers gnawed their
left arms in hunger, while with the
right arm they fought. Alas for Sama.
ria! What crowd OF hollow-eyed and
staggering wretches filled the streets
crying for bread! So great was the scar
city Of food that an ass head was sold
for sum equal to S25. Mothers cooked
their children and
Fought for the Disgusting Fragments.
And still hunger pinched and drank up
the life OF the great city, and lifted its
wolfish howl in the market place and
shovelled its victims into the grave.
And still the Assyrian host held the
town within its fold, tightening it's en-
brace OF death and banqueting on the
agonies Of wasting city. In the midst
OF all this Elisha, in the name OF God,
said: Tomorrow the famine will. be
gone, and you will get peck OF flour for
five shillings." A nobleman, who was
the confidential friend OF the king, stood
by and laughed at the idea. He said,
IF q window shutter could be opened
in the sky aud a lot of corn pitched out
you might expect it. Ha ha! you silly
prophet, you cannot fool mel! The
prophet replied to the taunt by saying:
Behold, thou shalt see it with thine
eyes, but shalt not eat thereof" There
are four lepers at the gate Of the city.
They say, "What shall We do? II We 20
into the city We shall die Of the leprosy.
1--we 90 into the city We will die OF the
famine. Ii We go out toward the
besieging Assyrians the probabili-
tv Is that they will cut US to
pieces. But the best thing that we can
do is to throw ourselves upon our enc.
mes. AS night begins to come down
over the hills, casting funeral shadows
upon the dying city and in thesurround-
ing country adding darkness to desols.
ton, the four lepers start for the Assy-
rian camp. Coming up to where the
Assyrisns had been, the lepers find
nothing but forsaken encampment.
At what they supposed was the sound OF
chariots, and OF horses, and OF marching
hosts. the Assyrians had fled, scattering
cantees and blankets along the highway.
The horses and asses of the enemy are
still tied. The tents are standing. Walk
in hungry lepers and partake OF the feast
that the Assyrlan noblemen prepared
for themselves! Help yourselves to ali
these Injuries! Eat the fruits, Pour
the wine! Gather up the gold and silver
and costly garments!
Word is sent to Samaria that the siege
is lifted. Like 8 voice from God the
news went through the city. The gates
were opened anu out rushed the famine
struck people.
thousands of Dying Wretches
lifted up their heads from the street,
and gave CHASTITY smile as it was told
them that bread was coming, and that
prices had gone down until peck of
fine flour was sold for FIVE shilings,
There was one word caught up and
flung over city and country. Il came
from the poor mans cot and rich mans
palace, from city gate and temple tower.
Ii was sounded by the clapping OF the
hands of childhood and by the tremu'
lous accents OF old age. 1t went up in
shout, and song, and laughter, and
Thanksgiving. A plain word, but 1t
thrilled through falnting hearts, and
flushed the pale cheek, and lighted the
glazed eyes, and bounded from the white
lips, and filled ali the air With light and
gladness; and that word was Bread. "
All that vast population got the advant.
age of the fall in price, save one man,
and that was the nobleman who scotfed
at Elisha. In the wild rush OF the peo.
pie out OF the gate OF the city, the soothing
nobleman was run over and trampled 10
death: and so Elisha's word proved true:
Behold thou shalt see it with thine
ewes, but shalt not eat thereof" Before
We come to the more cheerful phase OF
the subject, let Us attend the fu-
neral oi that scotter who was trod
on la the gates. The obsequies shall
bs brief. l know him we'll; you
all knew him. He was an out and out
Rational;st. Give me time and l will
show you fifty thousand people just like
him in Brooklyn and 4 hund-ed thou.
sand lust ike him in New iOrk-men
Who believe no more about God and the
Bible and eternity than they can reason
ont with their little intellects. Elisha,
at Gods command, had prophesied
plenty OF fine -four on the morrow,
"Preposterous!" said the skeptical no.
bleman. "Where is it to come from?
WHY, every hole and corner in the city
has been ransacked for -four. We have
eaten up the horses; aye, we are canni'
balls, and have eaten children and men.
There is no prospect that the Assyrians
will liit the siege; yet, Elisha, you in
snI, nv common sense and my reason
hy telling me that tomorrow the market
will be glutted with bread supplies.
Away with Your Nonsense -
Yet: Notwithstanding il seemed unreas-
onable. the fine -four came; and because
OF his unbelief the nationalist OF Ssma,
ria perished. Men and women OF God,
At this point the great battle OF CHRIS:
tianity is to be fought. The great ioe OF
christianity to-day is the rationslism
that c7mes out from our schools and
universities and magazines and newspa-
pers to scott at Bible truth and carrica.
ture the old religion OF Jesus.
1t says Jesus is not God, for
l.