Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-09-23
CAST OUT BUT RESCUED.
THE LESSONS TAUGHT BY HA-
GERS EXPERIENCE IN THE
WILDERNESS.
The Rev. DR.. Talmage Points Out
the Evils of Seeking to Stand
in Too High Places and the
Falls Sure to Follow.
The Sphere Of Life Of Each Person Fixed
by the Lord Sympathy for
Women.
Special to The Kansas City Times.

Dewitt Talmage, d. d., preached in the
Brooklyn tabernacle to-day. His tabernacle
was reprinted and reupholstered and other
wise improved during the vacation that ended
last Sunday, when the vast throngs greeted
the return Of their pastor and responded liber-
ally to bis appeal on behalf of the sufferers by
the earthquake at Charleston.
DR. Tamage's subject to-day was: "Cast
Ont but Rescued" and his text Genesis xxi,
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"
The preacher said:
Morning breaks upon Beersheba There is
an early Stir In the house of old Abraham
There has been trouble among the domestics
Hagar an assistant in the household, and her
son, brisk lad of 10 years, have become rns
pudent and lnsolent and aafah 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 Abra-
! ham, knowing that the journey before his
servant and her son viii be very long and
| across desolatc places, Ia the kindness Of his
heart sets about putting up some bread and a
bottle with water in it. 1t is livery plain lunch
that Abraham provides, but l warrant you
there would have been enough Of ii had they
not lost their way
HAGAR on HER LONG JOURNEY.
God be with yCu!" 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 Isuppose, bounded
away in the morning light Bows always like
| change Poor lshmael! 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
| jor OF her heart, young lshmael
The scorching noon coifies on. The air Is
sttliing and moves across the desert with in
siderable sutfOcation. Ishmael. the boy, be-
gins to complain and lice down, but Hagar
rouses him up, saying ntthng about her own
WEAKNESS or the sweltering heat; for mothers
can ehdure anything; Trudge-trudge-
trudge. Crossing the dead level Of the desert
| how YEARLY and slowly the miles slip! A tam
arind that seemed hours ago to stand only Just
little ahead, inviting the travellers to come
under its shadow, now is as far off as ever, or
seemingly so. Night drops upon the desert and
! the travellers are pillowless, lshmael, very
| weary, / suppose, instantly falls asleep Ha-
| gar-as the shadows Of night begin to lap over
each Other-Iagar hugs her weary boy to her
bosom and thinks of the fact that it is her
fault that they are in the desert. A star looks
out and every falling tear it kisses with SPAR
| kle a wing of wind comes over the hot earth
| and lifts the lUchs from the fevered brow of
| the boy Hagar sleeps titfully, and in her
dreams travels over the weary day
and half wakes her son by crying out
in her sleep; "Ishmael! 1shmaclp'
LOST IN THE DESERTS WASTES.
And so they go on day after day and night
after night for they have lost their way. No
path in the shifting sands; no sign in the burn
In sky The sack empty Of the -four, the
water gone from the bottle. What shall she
dos As she puts her fainting Ishmael under a
stunted shrub Of the arid plant, she sees the
| blood-shot eye, and feels the hot hand, and
watches the blood bursting from the cracked
| tongue, and there is shrek in the desert of
| Beersheba: 1--WE shall dici We shall dle!"
| Now, no mother was ever made strong enough
to hear her son cry in vain for drink. Here
| tOforc she had cheered her boy by promising
speedy end Of the journey, and even smiled
upon him when he felt desperately enuogh
| Now there is nothing TO DO but place him un.
der shrub and let him die. She had thought
| that she would sit there and watch until the
| spirit of her boy would go away forever, and
| then she would breathe out her own life on his
| silent heart; but as the boy begins to claw his
| tongue in agony Of thirst, and struggle in dis
| tortiOn, and begs his mother to slay him she
can not endure the spectacle. She puts him
under shrub, and goes off a bow-sh6t, and
begins to weep until all the desert seems Sob
bluSs anu ucr trS StTIBtS clear through the
heavens; and al angel of God comes out in a
cloud and looks down upon the appalling
| grief and cries; "Hagar what aileth thee!H
| She looks up and she sees the angel pointing
| 10 well Of water, where she fills the bottle
| for the lad Thank God Thank God
FINDING AND KEEPING PLACES.
First learn from this Oriental scene In the
! first place what sad thing ii is when people
| do not know their place, and get too proud for
their business. Hagur was an assistant in that
household, but she wanted to rule there. She
| ridculed and jeered until her son, Ishmael
| got the same tricks. She dashed out her own
| happiness, and threw Sarah into great fret :;
and If she had stayed much longer in that
| household she would have upset calm Abra-
hams equilibrium. My friends one-half of the
| trouble in the world to-day come 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 a place ready for
u.s. A place ready for Abraham. A place for
| Sarah. A place for Hagar A place for 1shmael.
| A place for you and place for me. Our first
| duty is to find our sphere; our second is to
| keep it. We may be borne in sphere far off
| from the one for which God finally intends us
| SiXtus V. was born on the low ground and was
| a swineherd; God called him UP to wave a
| scepter Ferguson spent his early days in look
| ing after sheep; God called him up to look af-
ter stars and be shepherd watching the docks
| of light on the hiilsides of heaven Hogarth
| him to stand in the enchanted realm of a
| painter. The shoemaker's bench held Bloom
field for little while, but God raised him to
sit in the chair Of a philosopher and Christian
scholar. The soap boiler of London could not
| keep his son In that business for God had de-
cided that Hawley was to be one of the great
| est astronomers of England.
| GOD APPOINTS THE SPHERE.
On the other hand we may be born in a
sphere little higher than that for which God
intends us. We may be born in castle, and
play in costly conservatory and feed high
bred pointers, and angle for gold fish in arti-
fetal ponds and be familiar with princes; yet
God may better have fitted us for a carpenter q
| shop, or dentists forceps, or a weaver's shut
tie, or a blacksnith's forge. The great thing
is to find out just the sphere for which God
| intended us, and then to occupy that sphere,
and occupy it forever. Here is man God
fashioned to make plow; there is man God
| fashioned to make a constitution. The man
who makes the plow is just as honorable as
| the man who makes the constitution. There
| is a woman who was made to fashion robe,
and yOnder is one intended to be queen and
wear it. 1t seems to me that in the one case
| as in the other God appoints the sphere, and
| the needle Is just as respectable in his sight
| as the scepter. | do not know but that the
| world would long ago have been saved il some
of the men out Of the ministry were in it, and
some of those who are in 1t were out Of it.
| really think that onehalf the world may be
| divided into two quarters-whose who have
not found their sphere, and those who, having
found it, are not willing to stay there. How
many are struggling for position little
higher than that which God intended them
The bondswoman wants to be mistress. Hagei
keeps crowding Sarah. The small wheel of Q
watch which beautifully went treadng its
| golden pathway wants to be the balance-wheel
and the sparrow with chagrin drops into the
brook because it can not, like the eagle, cut g
| circle under the sun.
| oBEYING THE LORDS WISHES.
| In the Lords army We all want to be briga.
dier generals. The sloop SAYS: "Niore mast
more tonnage, more canvas. o, that were 9
top sail schooner or full rugged brig or
| Cunard steamer" And so the world is filled
with cries of discomfort, because we are moi
willing to stay in the place where God pu
us and intended us to be. My friends, be no
too proud to do anything God tells you to do
For lack of the right disposition in this re
spect the world is strewn with wandering
Hagars and Ishmaels. God has given eaci
one of us a work to do You carry scuttl,
of coal up that dark alley. You distrlbut,
that Christian tract You give $4,000 to tn,
missionary cause You for fifteen years 81
with chronic rheumatism, displaying tn,
beauty of Christian submission. Whateve
God calls you to, whether 1t win Kissing o
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