The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-09-16
CAST OUT, BUT RESCUED.
TALMAGES SERMON DELIVERED IN
~, BROOKLYN LAST SUNDAY.

~ BROOKLYN LAST SUNDAY.
The Lesson Of Hasar and IshemeaIs tx
puIsion from Abraham's Family-Every
Wilderness Has a Well in 1t.
Specially Reported for The Sentinel
BROOKLYN, N. z, Sept IL: The Rev.
DR.. T. Dewitt Talmages subject at the
Tabernacle to-day was: :" Cast out, but
rescued" and the text. Genesis Oh. xxi,
v. 10: And God opened her eyes, and
she saw a well of water, and she went
and filed the bottle with water, and
gave the lad drink" Hesaid:
Morning breaks upon Beer-sheba
There is an early stir in the house of
old Abraham. There has been trouble
among the domest cS. Hagar, an as
sistant in the hou ehold, and her son,
q brisk lad OF sixteen years. have be-
come impudent and insolent, and Sarah,
the mistress OF the household, puts her
foot down very hard, and says that they
will have to leave the premises. They
are packing up now Abraham, knowing
the journey before his servant and her
son will be very long and across desc
late places, in the Kindness OF his heart
sets about putting up some bread
and q bottle with water in it. 1t is
very plain lunch that Abraham provides,
but 1 warrant you there would have been
enough Of it had they not lost their
way. God be with your said old
Abraham as he gave the lunch to Hagar,
and good many charges as to how she
should conduct the journey. Ishmael.
the boy, / suppose, bounded away in
the morning light. Boys always like a
change. Poor Ishmael! He has no
idea of the disasters that are ahead OF
him. Hagar gives one long. lingering
look on the familiar place where she
had spent SO many happy days. each
scene associated with the pride and Joy
Of her heart, young Ishmael.
The scorching noon comes on. The
air /. stitling and moves across the deS-
ert with insuffsrabls suffocation. Ish-
mael. the boy. began, to complain and
lies ,-own, but Hagar rouses him up,
saying nothing about her own WEAKNESS
or the swellering heat for mothers en-
endure anything. Trudge-trudge-
trudge. Crossing the dead level OF the
desert, how weariiy and slowly thu.
miles slip! A tamarind that scented
hours ago to stand only Just little
ahea !, inviting the travellers to come
under It's shadow, now is as far off
ever. or seemingly SO. Night drops
upon the desert and the travellers ale
pillowless. 1shmael, very W, airy, l sup
pose. instantly falls asleep. Hagai--o
the shadows of mig. L begln to lap o. er
eacu o,!ier-Hagar hugs her weary by
to her boron and thinks OF the fact that
it is ..er fault that they are III the uesert.
Str LOOKS out and every falling tear
it kisses with sparkle. A wing OF
winu comes over the hot earth and lifts
the locks from the fevered brow OF the
boy. Hagar sleeps titfully, and in ner
dreams travel over the weary day, anu
half anak.-e Ler son by crying out al her
sleep: =. Ishluaei! Ishnlael -
And SO they go Oh day after day and
nigh after night; for they have lost
their way. No path in the shifting
sands; no sign i'll the burning sky. Tho
sack empty of the flour, the water gu..r
from the bottle Whatshall she Go! AS
she puts her iainting 1suuI,el Under
stunle,. shI ub OF the arid plain. size eee,
the bIoodShot eye, and Ireio the hui
hand, and watches the uloo. u rSti <,
from The cracked tongu. ND t:.er" 10 "a
shrek in the desert OF Beer-sheba: 1--WE
shall die, We shall die!' Now, no
mother was ever made strong enough to
hear ter son cry in vain for drink.
Heretofore she had cheered her boy by
promising speedy end of the journey,
and even smiled upon him when he felt
desperately enough. Now there is
shrub and let him die. She had thought
that she would cit there and watch until
the spirit of her boy would go away for
ever and then she would breathe out
her own life his silent heart; but as
the boy bega. to claw his tongue In
agony OF thirst, and struggle In distor-
ton, and u IS his mother to Stay him,
she cannot endure the spectacle She
puts him under IL shrub and goes off q
bow shot, and begins 70 weep until all
the deserts seem sobb:ng and her cry
strikes c ear through the heavens; and
an angel o. God comes out on a cloud,
ant locks low. upon the appalling grief
n,i.c - tIutr IUh a ailafh fhna1'
She looks up and she sees the angel
point.n. 10 IL we'll OF water, where she
ills the bottle for the lad. Thank God!
Thank God!
1. learn from this Oriental scene, In
the first place, what q sad thing 1t Is
when people do not know their place,
and get too proud for their business.
Hagar was an assistant in that house
hold but she wanted to rule there. She
ridiculed and jeered until her son 1Sh-
mael got the same tricks. She dashed
out her own happiness, and threw Sarah
into a great fret; and ii she had stayed
much longer in that household she would
have ups ct calm Abraham's equilibrium.
My friends, one-half Of the trouble in
the worlu to-day comes from the fact
that people do not know their place, or,
finding their place, will not stay in it.
When we come into the world there is
always place ready for us. place for
ADrihan. place 1of Sarah. A place
for haear. place for IshmavI. A
place for you and place for me. Our
first duty is to find our sphere; our
second i, 10 keep 1T. We may be born
in sph, re far off from the one for
whcli God finally intends US. Sixtus V
was born on the low sssund, and was a
| swinchcru; God called him ~ TO wave a
sceptr+ EurGuson spent his carly Gays
in IuohinS after sheep; God calieu hIln
| up To looA after stars and be u shepherd
w,.lchlhg the tiocks OF light on the hill
sides of heaven. Hogarth began by en-
| CRAVING pe"ter pots; God raised him
| TO stand in the encnanted realm OF a
| painter. The Shoemaker'S bench held
| Bloomfield for little while; but God
raised him to sit in the chair OF phil
| osogher anu Christian scholar.
| On tie Other hand we may be horn in a