National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-10-11
A CALLING SUBJUGATION.
GIVE ARE TOO WILLING TO GIVE UP
OUR WEAPONS TO THE ENEMY"
DIR. Taimage Says Infideiity is Making
Mighty Attempt to Get Our
Weapons in Its Hand and Then to
Keep Them.

BROOKLYN, N. Y, Oct. 1C.-At the Tab
ernacle this morning the Rev. 7. De Witt
Talmage, d. D., after expounding passages
Of Scripture, gave out the hymn beginning:
How firm foundation, ye saints of the Lord
Hath He laid for your faith In His excellent
Word
The text OF the sermon was Samuel L:
xiii, 1921: snow there was no smith found
throughout all the land Of Israel; for the
Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make
them swords or spears. But all the Israel
ties went down to the Philistines to
sharpen, every man his share, and his
coulter and his ak, and his mattock. Yet
they had file for the mattock, and
for the coulters, and for the forks, aud for
the axes, and to sharpen the goads." DR..
Talmage spoke as follows:
What CABLING subjugatlon for the Israelitesl
The Philistines had carried OF all the black.
smiths, and torn down all the blaoksmiths'
shops, and abolished the blacksmiths' trade in
the land of Israel. The Philistines would not
even allow these parties to work their valuable
any swords or spears. There were only two
swords left In all the land Yea, these Phils-
tines went on until they had taken all the
grindstoHes from tho land OF Israel, 50 that II
an Israelitish farmer wanted to sharpen his
pillow or his AK, he had to go over to the garrison
OF the Philistines 10 get II done. There was
only one sharpening instrument left In the land,
and that was q file. The farmers and the me-
chanics, having nothing to whet up the coulter.
and the goad, and the ipick'ax, save a simple
cnliy disgraced The great idea of these Phil
istines was to keep the Israelltes disarmed.
They might get iron out OF the. hills to make
swords Of but they would not have any black
smiths to weld this iron. Ifthey got the iron
welded they would have no grlndstones on
which to bring the instruments OF agrlcultnEe
or the military WEAPON up 70 an Snge; ~ on,
file, how i pity you'll But these Phillslines
were not forever to keep their heel on the neck
of Gods children. Jonathan, on his hands
Sond which We're the PhiHistInes, and his
nrmor- bearer. on his hands and knees, climbs
their two swords. hew to pieces the Philis-
tines, the Lord throwing great terror upon
then Them. So i was then SO Il Is now
Ter than Philistine host on their feetl
i. learn first from this subject how danger
GUS 1t is for the Church OF God 70 allow its
weapons to stay In the hands of its enemies.
These lsraeltes might again and again have
obtained supply OF swords aud weapons as
for instance, when they took the spells Of the
Ammonites, but these Israeltes seemed con-
tent TO have no swords, no spears no black
smiths, no grindstones no active Iron mines
until twas too late for them to make any re-
sislance. see the farmers Juggling along with
their pickaxes and pow, aud say: "Where
are you going with those things" They say;
.'Oh, we are going over to the garrison OF the
Philistines to get these things sharpened." |
lay! You foolish men, why don't you sharpen
them at homer" "Oh," they say, "lhe black
smiths shops are all torn down, and we have
nothing LEFT us but flo"
30 II Is In the church of Jesus Christ to-day.
we are 700 willing 20 give up our weapons to
the enemy. The world boasts that II has COB.
Died up ne schools, and the colleges, and the
arts. ana the sciences and the literature, and
Inc printing press. Inndelty Is making q
mlghly attempt to ges all our weapons In Its
hand ana men to keep them. You know 1t
Is making this boast all the time; and after n
While, when the great battle between sin aud
righteousness has opened, II we do not look
ont we VIII be as badly OFT as these Israelltes
without any swords TO fight with ana without
any sharpening instruments | cali upon
the snperlntendents of literary institutions IA
see to Il that the men who 20 into The Glass
rooms 10 stand beside the Leyden jars, and The
electric batteries and the microscopes, and teI.
Escapes be children OF God not PhIiistines
The Carlylean, EmeHonian, and TyndallaSn
thinkers OF this city are trying 10 get ali Inc
intellectual weapons OF this country In thei5
own grasp. What we want Is scientific Christ,
ians TO capture the science, and Scholastic
Christians to capture the scholarship, and
phil0sOphic Christians TO capture the philoso.
ply, aud featuring Christians to take Dacl,
The lecluring platform, We want TO send out