Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-09-28
SPORMED AND TAKEN.
lalmage Tells How the Temple Of Sin
Must Be Overthrow, and
the "World
Captured Tor God"-An miquitics
Must BE Burned Up With the
Fires OF a Holy Zeal.
Religious sieepS.Heads A,imonishea I,
Wake Up---Ths Danger OF Seeking
False Places OF Refuge.

wake tp---fhe Danger of Seeking
False Places Of Refuge.
BRooKiNN, \. Y, Sept 27.-A house
Eled to its utmost capacity greeted Dr. I
%. mage to-day. There was not a vacant 4
Z T. Sunday after Sunday many morc .
, ousands come 10 hear Or. Talmaue
than can possibly lind room. Ilo gave 1
ont this hymn;
"lIark, the voice Of Jesus calling
Who VIII 80 and work to dn,.:
h!elds are white, the harvest waiting
Who VIII bear the shcaVes away I"
The 25th chapter OF Matthew was road
and the parable of the talents explained.
showing how the man who was given one
talent received $500, thereby deduclne
the lesson that the man with The smallest
opportunity has great responsibility. The
subject, "Stormed and Taken" was suc. |
gested by the text from Judges tx, 4S.ig, |
as follows "And Abmelech gat him mn
to Mount Ialmon, he and ali the pcople
that were with MIN; and Ablmclech took
an AK In his hand and cut down a bouuh
from the trees, and took 1t aud laid II on
his shoulder, and said unto the people
that were with him; What We have seen
me do, make haste, and do as | have done.
And all the people likewise cut down
every man his bough aud followed
Abimclech, aud put them to the hold, and
set the hold on fire upon thcm so that all
the men OF the tower of Shechem died"
THr SERMON.
AhimeleCh is u name maladorouS In d..
bic history, and yet fun of profitable sug.
gestion, Buoys are black aud uncomely,
but they tell where the rocks are. The
snakes rattle Is hdeous, but IL gives
timely warning From the piazza of my
summer home, night by night, I saw a
lighthouse fifteen miles away, not placed
there for adornment, but to tell mariners
to stand of from that dangerous point.
So all the lron-homd
COAST or MORAL DANGER
Is marked with Saul, and llerod, and
Rchohoam, aud .lcZchcl, and Ahmelech.
These bad people are mentioned in the
Bible, not only as warnings, but because
there were sometimes flashes of good
conduct In their Noteworthy of imitation.
God sometimes drives u very straight nail
with very poor hammer.
The city of Shechcm had TO be taken,
aud Abimelech and his men were to do
| IL. see the dust rolling out from their
excited march. hear the shouting of the
captain and the yell of the bcsiegcrs.
! The swords clack sharply on
the parryiug shields, and thu
vocIferatlon Of two armies n
[ tleath-grannla Ia, w., = hiiu a. tnrr.S n,Thf
setting, Abimelech ana his stN-. y
nSurrcndern' to the beaten foc. Anu
unable longer to resist, the city OF
Shccbem falls; and there are pools OF
blood. and discovered limbs, and 2laleo
eyes looking up beggingly for mercy ina
,S.r never shows, and dying soldiers viii
their head on the lap Of mother, or wilc
or lister who have come out for the las
naiccs of Kindness and affection; and
oroon rolls across the city, stopping not
for there is no spot for II TO rest, so iul
il the place OF other groans. clt
wounded, A city dying! A city dead
Wall for Shcchcm, all We VINO know W
, horrors of n sacked town.
As look over the city can find ON
one building standing, and that : Ia
temple of the god Berth. Some soldier
outside of the city I'M tower, finding tina
they can no longer defend Shcchcm, no
r. hngin TO look out for their own persona
safety and they fly TO this temple
. pnr,th Thcy ret within The door, shu
III, anu llltN say ~. la
Ahimelech has taken the whole city n'
"" he cannot take this temple OF helIt
/. Here we shall l-e under me protect'oii
the gods Oh, Berth, the GOO go Eo ~,
} best now for these refugees iiyo,n n ha
ewes pity them. II you have hanos ne ne
them. If you have thunderooi,s s't'
for them. But how shall Ablmeiecn ~
his army take this temple VI pvl,
and the men who are mere lor
fed? win they do II WIN sNoi
Nay. VIII thoy do IL WI ",
n spear? Nay. With baitcrmg ram ron ,li
nm by hundrcd-armcd strength, crasnl
against the wall! Nay Aoili,rl'
sc marches his men to wood N Iaim'
With his ax he hcws on a llmp oi ~
" and puts that limb upon his own s il,l
and then he says to his men on
the same They are
oBEprrSr 70 rnEm coMMANpE]h;
er There is a struggle as to who Shall IL
'oo' 'yes The whole wood Is inh OF W
M boughs, and the cracking ana
b ~ and the cutting; until eysr r,