The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-17
Twenty Thousand Residents of the British
Capital Crowd the Church Edifce and
the Streets in the Vicinity.
After Preaching Indoors the Doctor De.
livers an Address in the Open Air.
A Discourse on Unappreeiated Services, in
Which Consolation Is Found for Those
Who Are Inadequately Rewarded.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LONDON, Aug l6.-The Rev r. Dewitt Tai.
mage, pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle,
preached this morning in City Road Chapel the
pulpit of which church was once occupied by
John Wesley. During the exercises the hymn,
'Jesus, lover of my SOUL" was sung which
was followed by the reading of the Scripture
lesson, from the seventeenth chapter of First
Samuel. Twenty thousand people were present,
and there was great difficulty in securing access
to the church. The crowd was so enormous that
the Doctor was compelled 20 deliver d discourse
in the street after preaching indoors. DR.. Tai
IMAGES text and sermon were as follows
TEXT-"As his part is that goeth down to the bat
tie, 50 shall his part be that tarreth by the stuff Il
Samuel Xxx, "a
If you have never seen an army change quar-
ters, you have no idea of the amount of baggage
twenty loads, fifty loads hundred loads of
baggage. David and his army were about to
start on double quick march for the recovery
of their captured families from the Amaekites
So they left by the brook Besor their blankets,
their knapsacks, their baggage, and their car
riages- Who shall be detailed to watch this
stuff There sick soldiers, and wounded
soldiers, and aged soldiers, who are not able to
go on swift military expeditions, but who are able
to do some work, and so they are detailed TO
watch the baggage There is many soldier
who ia not strong enough to march thirty miles
in a day and then plunge into ten hours fight,
who is able with drawn sword lifted against his
shoulder to pace up and down as sentinel to
keep off an enemy who might put the torch to
the baggage. There are two hundred Of these
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tailed to watch the baggage. Some of them,
suppose, had bandages across their brow, and
some of them had their arms in sings, and some
of them walked on crutches They were not
towards, shirking duty They had fought in
many fierce battle for their country and their
God They are now part of the time in hos
pital and part of the time on garrison duty.
They almost cry because they cannot go with the
other troops to the front While these sentinels
watch the baggage the Lord watches the sent
nels
There is quite different scene being enacted
in the distance. The Amalekites, having
ravaged and ransacked, and robbed whole
tries, are celebrating their success in a roaring
carousal Some of them are dancing the
lawn with wonderful gyraton of heel and toe, and
some of them are examining the spos of VIC
tory-the finger rings and earrings, the neck
laces, the wristlets, the head bands, diamond
starred, and the Golfers with coronets, and cor
nelians. and pearls, ndsapphires and demeralds,
and all the wealth of plate and jewels and de-
canters; and the silver and the gold banked up
on the earth in princely profusion and the en-
broideries, and the robes and the turbans, and
the cloaks of an imperial wardrobe. The ban
quet has gone on until tho banqueters maud
lin, and weak and stupid and indecent, and loath-
somely drunk. What time it is now for David
and his mon to swoop on them! SO the Syrans
were overthrown in their carousal by the Israel
ites So Chedorlaomer and his army were over
thrown in their carousal by Abraham and his
men, So our Northern forces defeated at
Fredericksburg because one of the commanders
was drunk Now is the time for David and his
men to swoop upon these carousing Amalekites.
Some of the Amalekites are hacked to pieces on
the spot some of them are just able to go stag
gering and hiccoughing off the field, some of
them crawl on camels and speed off in the dis
tance. David and his men gather together the
wardrobes, the jewels, and put them upon the
backs of camels and into wagons, and they
gather together the sheep and cattle that had
been stolen, and start back toward the garrison.
Yonder they come. yonder they come. The
limping men of the garrison come out and greet
them with wild huzza. The Bible says David
saluted them. That is, he asked them how they
all were. ''How is your broken armF' How is
your fractured jaws' HAS the stiffened limb
been unlimberedp Have you had another
chile" Are you getting betterf' He sauted
them.
DISTRIBUTING THE sPoILs.
But now came very difficult thing the dis
tribution of the spoils of victory. Drive up
those laden camels now. Who shall have the
spoils9 Well, some selfish soul suggests that
these treasures ought all to belong to those who
had been out in active service I'VE did all the
fighting while these men stayed at homo in the
garrison, and we ought to have all the treasures"
But David looked into the worn faces of these
veterans who had stayed in the garrison, and he
looked around and saw how cleanly everything
had been kept, and he saw that the baggage was
all safe, and he knew how that these wounded
and crippled men would gladly enough have
been at the front if they had been able, and the
little general looks up from under his helmet
and says: "No, no, let US have fair play" and
he rushes up to one of these men, and he says:
Hold your hands together, and the hands are
held together, and he fills them with silver.
And he rushes up to another man who was sit
ting away back and had no idea of getting any
of the spoils, and throws Baby onish garment
over him, and fills his hand with gold And he
rushes up to another man who had lost all his
property in serving God and his country, years
before, and he drives up some of the cattle and
some of the sheep that they had brought back
from the Amalekites, and he gives two three
of the cattle and three or four of the sheep to