The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-08-08
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hear DR.. Talmags, was filed with
multitude, with upturned faces, e.
!. pectantly awaiting the arrival of Il
: orator. Every seat was full. and hui
dreds stood or sat upon the groun
at five minutes to l the preacher a.
peared accompanied by Govern,
Blackburn. Prayer was then eloquen
ly offered by DR.. Talmage. His inv,
cation was gran :, his supplicatio
deep and broad, and his peroratio
solemn.
Reading from the fifteenth chapte
of Luke-the parable of the two SON.
very different. He said the younge
was like good many young men now
adays, wishing to put his hand on tn
cash. He went out and wasted it, a
many do now with the riches store
up by their fathers. He spent it all
A famine came. Troubles never com
singly. He began to be in want
strange contrast to the luxury he hat
enjoyed at home. He looked abou
and got work at feeding swine, and h
would have filed his belly with tn,
carrots or beans the swine did eat. Bu
he came to himself and lOnged fol
home. 81 will arise and go to MI
father" was the first sensible thing h.
said. He looked at it sensibIy. Ht
arose and started Immediately. Hi
father saw him afar off. OH how il
rejoices the fathers heart to see his
son returning, though he came bacl
in rags. The father did not reproach
him. He didn't walk-he ran-and
kissed him. The son acknowledged
his sin. The father told the servants
to bring the best robe, the ring for his
finger, and shoes fer his feet. Mark
the order. The ring first, an orna-
ment; then Bring the fatted calf''
and let US. be merry.
They began to be merry. If YOU
have ever seen through a window the
welcome to long gone son, you can
understand. But his elder brother
came and asked why this ado? ? He was
told, and he was ANGRY, when he
should have been glad as any of the
others. He would not go in. His
father came out and entreated him.
But the elder son pouts and com plains
heaping accusations on his father. The
father answers: "All have is thine.
1t was well that we rejoice, for this,
my son, was dead and is alive again !;
was lost and is found"
God is the Father. You and I went
from home, and are looked for to re-
turn. Those who fear we will not
hold out are the elder sen.
Giving his text as Joshua, 9th chap
ter, and part OF 5th verse:
"There shall not be any able to stand
before them all the days of their life.''
He said: Moses was dead. A beauti-
full tradition says Gods kiss drew forth
his soul. God alone was at his funer-
al. God never takes one away with
out filing his place. God makes
man for the place. He instanced Gal
lileo, Columbus, Washington, and 9TH
ers. Noses passes away and Joshua
succeeds. He was an Insignificant
fighter, always on the right side, for
he never fought unless the Lord tod
him. You say anybody cOpld go forth
backed like that. say God promised
no more to Joshua than he promises to
you and me. We each have our par
ticular work to do. The man who goes
put on an Insignificant mission has a
great work to do. God gives us tools
for the purpose he has in view, as he
lid to Joshua. L must cry out, as
Rowland Hill did, "Joshua, helpp' Il
want to encourage your faith in God,
show that things don't go at loose ends
n this world, and that God gives yon
your work and grace to do it.
Referring to JOshua's five great con-
iicts, the last with death, he said the
irst was spring freshet--a greater
tream than Sebastopol or Waterloo.
You might as well try to cross the
ohio dryshod as Jordan at the spring
reshet. AT times you can cross it
asily, but not in the spring. Standing
N the opposite bank were the Canaan
tes, saying they were safe while the
reshet lasted. But they saw a stir in
he camp. Joshua orders "Forward, |
narchp'. Two priests, mile ahead, /
AIRY the ark of the covenant, and "a
oon as their feet touch the margin
he waters form wall and the Israel
5es go over dryshod. And when they
tep out the waters flow down again.
'hirty miles above the waters rose.
light not some of the Israelites say it
Fas better to keep the river between
hem and the Canaanites? God makes
o provision for falling back. It's the
nemy in front and forty feet of water
ehind. Victory ahead, with dark
ess, doom, and death to go back.
Thy didn't the Canaanites defeat the
lvadery God had settled that. March
n in the conflicts. There are Difficult
es ahead, as with Franklin, Shake
leare. There is nothing to be ac-
'mplished without peril and toll.
hsfaeles retreat as you COME up. But
his l. no time to halt Yonder ahead
a city-the great metropolis that
lards the mountain pass. Joshua
'ould take it, and did take il, with
lly one weapon-ram's horns. Seven
tests went round once a day for six
lys, and seven times on the SABBATH,
owing these horns, aud the perora-
On was to be that the walls of the city
ould fail. At each successive round,
} doubt, unbelleving Israelites said:
told you So" Joshua's stock was
wn. The seventh day comes, Joshua
aneuyers his troops. and then starts
csc priests on their journey, after h
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