Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-23

Jared at the Brooklyn Taber.
o,e sunday, September 27th.

,:,,ared at the Brooklyn Taber.
.o,e sunday, September 9th.
.,ed and Taken"-Any Plan Of Attack
.,c strongholds of Sin That Sue
,seds or Promises Success to
he Favored. :
.,x1yS, N. Y, September 2I-The
.aocle was crowded this morning
s.no,sands were unable to get seats,
INN before the sermon was:
,.,. the voice of Jesus calling
Hat viii 80 and work to-day;
VIA IA are white, the harvest waiting,
tis,,y will bear the sheaves away?
...r reading the parable of the talents
.,baw xxv.) DIR. Talmage announced
'.,biect as "Stormed and Taken" and
.i,r his text the words:
., ,h,melech got him up to Mount Zal.
Y he and all the people that We're with
~ md Abimelech took an AK in his hand.
\, .T MD down a bough from the trees, and
rm u and laid it on his shoulder anu said
Rs i've neople that were with him; What
o. " seen me do, make haste, and do as I
'aone. And all the people likewise cut
wn every man his bough and followed
! n Mold on fire upon them; so that ali
, men of the tower of Shechem died
Aces " H., As, 40. ..ls 90 ia
,himelech is a name NAL odorous in
Ie history, and yet full u: profitable
.rastion. Buoys are black and UNI
;Sslv. but they tell where the rocks are.
= snakes rattle is hidsous. but it gives
alv warning. From the piazza of my
INNER home, night by night, l saw a
rb.bouse fifteen miles away, not placed
ara for adornment, but to tell mariners
stand off from that dangerous point.
| Ill the iron-bound coast of moral dam
1 is marked with Saul, and Herod, and
snoboam, and Jezebel, and Abimel ech.
use bad people are mentioned in the
Me. rot only as warnings, but because
ere we're sometimes flashes of good con-
Rct in their lives worthy OF imitation.
hi sometimes drives a very straight
with a very poor hammer.
The City of Shechem had to be taken,
Abimelech and his men were to do it.
kee the dust rising up from their excited
arch. hear the shouting of the cap
ius and the yell of the besiegers. The
Words clank sharply on the parrying
bields, and the vociferation Of the two
mics in death grapple is horrible to
ear, The battle goes on all day, and as
h. sun is setting Abimelech and his army
l. surrender J" to the beaten foe. And
liable longer to resist, the City OF
hechem falls.
A. look over the city, l can find only
b. building standing, and that is the
kml!s of the God Berth. Some soldiers
inside of the city in a tower, finding that
Eev can no longer defend Shechem, now
e,in to look out for their own personal
...ety, and they fly to this temple of
.rith. They get within the door, shut
F.. and they say: "Now we are safe.
bimelech has taken the whole
.y, but he can not take this temple of
Berth. Here we shall be under the pro-
kction of the gods" Oh, Berth, the
(cl! do u best for these refugees. II
You have eyes, pity them. If you have
Janis, help them. If you have thunder
bots, strike for them. But how shall
eb;melech and his army take this
kmple of Berth and the men who are
|bere fortified? Will they do it with
word? Nay. Will they do it with
pear: Nay. With battering-ram rolled
|p by hundred-armed strength, crash
b. against the walls? Nay. Abimelech
his men to a wood in Zalmon.
With his axe he hews off a limb of q
|ree, and puts that limb upon his own
and then he says to his men:
do the same" They are obedient
commander There is q struggle
hs to who shall have axes. The whole
woods is full of bending boughs, and the
and the hacking. and the cut
fnl, until every n Of the host has {
limb of a tree GU. down, and not only
that, but has put it upon his shoulder
lust as Abimelech showed him how
Are these men now all armed with thu
tree branch? The reply comes: TAI
And they march on. Oh
what a strange army, with what strange
equipment. They come up to the foot o
tae temple of Berth, Abimelech takes
bis limb of a tree and throws it down,
and the first platoon of soldiers come
and they throw down their branches
and the second platoon, and the third
until all around about the temple o.
Berth there is a pile of tree branches.
The Shechemites look out from the win
dow of the temple upon wha
to them childish play on the part o
their enemies. But soon the fiints are
aud the spark begins to kindle the
brush, and the flame comes up through
the pile, and the red elements leap to the
easement and the woodwork begins to
bloze, and one arm of flame is thrown W
on the right side of the temple, another
arm of flame is thrown up on the left
of the temple, until they clasp their
lurid palms under the wild night sky, anc
the cry of "irew within and fire without
the terror and the straugula-
ton and the doom of the Shechemites
and the complete overthrow Of the temple
Of the god Berth.
Now, Ilearn first from this subject tn
'olly of depending upon any one form o
tactics in anything we have to do for TIL
world or for God. Look over the weap
onry of olden times-javelins, b%attleaxes
show me a singl
weapon with which Abimelech and hi
men could have gained such a complst
victory. 1t is no easy thing to take
thus armed. ! saw a house where
during revolutionary times, a man an
his wife kept back a whole regiment hou
after hour. because thew were inside tn