The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-10-01

rAlmAor's rAssHnAols TALK.
The Iros-usssd CsAst 81 Neral Dapesr
NAKED with saai snd uefsd. sad
Rshsbohsn,. aud is1shai ans
AbinHisch . The fent,
Judges IL 6e-tD.

BnooKLvS, sept 21-lbposial. r.
Sabbath ny Sabbath many NOR,
thousands como 20 tho gates OF this
church than oan GET iu.
The hymn before pAs ssrmou;
'Iiark the voicesfJosus calling,
Who viii 90 aud work to-day
Flsldsage whit., the haryos waiting,
Who via bear the sheaves away"
Rsad aud sxpouuded tho parable ol
The talents, In ths 25.h chapter OF Mat
thew showing that the man who re-
'fes.ved ono talent received 81, 500, and
that the man with tho smallest equip
ment Tor usefulness h ~ great RESPONSE
bility.
Subject of sermon: "Stormed and
Taken"
"And Abimelesh gst him up 30
Mount Zalmon, he aud al the people
that were with hun; and Abimelech
took an ak in his hand, aud cut
down bough from the trees, aud
took 1t and laid 1t on his shoulder and
said unto the psoplo that wore with
hlm: What ye have seen mo do,
make haste, aud do as have done.
And all the people likewise cut down
every man his bough, and followed
Abimelech, aud pu. taem I'd the hold,
and set the hold on lre upon them NO
that all the nsn of the tower of
Sheohsm died."-Judges tx, IS, 40.
Ablmelech Is name malodorous
In Bible history, and yet fail of profit
able suggestion. Blsgs are black
and uncomely, but they toll where
the rocks are. Too snakes rattle
is hideous, but IL gives
timely warning. Feom the piazza of
my summer home, night by night, l
saw lighthouse 10 miles away, not
placed there for adornmsnt, but to tell
mariners to stand off from that danger
GUS point. So all the iron-bound coast
Of moral danger is IN irked with Saul,
and Herod, and R,hoboam, and Jege-
pie are mentioned in the bible not on
" as warnings, but because there
were sometimes flashes of good con-
duct In their lives worthy OF Imitation.
God sometimes drives very straight
nail with very poor hammer.
The City OF Shechem had TO be taken,
and AbimeIech aud his men were TO do
1t. see the dust rolling up from
their excited march. 1 hear
the shouting of the captain
and the yell of the besieg-
ers. The swords clack sharply on
the parrying shields, and the vocifera-
tions of two armies In death grapple is
horrible 10 hear. The battle goes on
all day, and as tue sun ID setting
Ambeleca and his army cry "Sur-
renderp 10 the beaten foe. And, una.
BILE longer to resist, the city OF She
chem falls, and thsre are pools of
blood, and discovered limbs, and
glazed eyes looking up beggingly for
mercy that war never shows, and dy-
ing soldiers with taeir head on the
lap Of mother, or wife, or sister, whs
AbV0 COhuo ouV AoA tuo lhS1 oLhooS VI
kindness and affection, ind groan
rolls across the ciGy, stopping mot, be-
cause there is no spo; for 1t to rest, SO
full is the place OF other groans. A
city wounded! A city dying! A city
dead! Wall for Shschem all ye who
know the horrors OF q sacked town!
1 AS look over the city L can find |
only one building tanling, aud that
ID the temple OF tho god, Berth. Some
soldiers outside Of the city, in tower,
ending that they can no longer de-
Iend Shechem now begin to look out |
for their own psrsonal safety, and they |
dy to this temple of Berth. They get
within the door, shut 1t, aud they say:
,Now, we arc safe. Aoimelech has
taken the whole city, but he cannot
take this tomple of Berth. Here we
shall be under the protection OF tho
y0ds." Oh, Berth, the god! do your
sest now for these refugees. II you
have eyes, pity them. If you have
hands, help hem. ITyoa have thun-
1erbolts, s5rlka for them. But how
shall Abimelsch aud his army take
This temple OF Berth and the man
who are there fortified? Will
hey do it with sword?
Nay. win they do it with
spear? Nay. With battefing ram,
relied up by hundred armsd strength,
against the walls? Nay.
Abimelech marc he'd his men to a wood
In Zalmon. With an axe he news off a
limb of tree, and puts that limb upon
his own shoulder, and then hs says TO
his men: "You do the same" They
are obedient TO their commander.
There is a struggle as to
WHO SHALL HAVE AXES.
The whole wood is full OF bending
boughs, and the cracking, and the
and the cutting, until every
one Of the host has limb Of tree cut
down, and not only that, but has put
Il upon his shoulder, just as Abimelesh
has showed him how. Are these men
now all armed with the tree branch?
The reply comes: "Al armed" And
they march on. On, what strong army,
With what strong equipment. They
come up to the foot OF the temple of
Berth aud Ahimelech takes his limb
II q tree and throws is down, and the
6rst platoon OF soldiers came up and
hey throw down their branches, and
The second platoon, and the third, un-
u all around about the temple Of
Berth there il q pile of nee branches.
The Ghechernites look out from the
window OF tho temple upon what
seeMs to them childish play on the
part Of their enemiss. But soon the
hints are struck and The spark begins to