The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-09-23
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON.
DELIVERED AT THE BROOKLYN TAB
ERNACLE LAST SUNDAY.

ERNACLE LAST SUNDAY
Words of Cheer for Folks who are Unfort-
unateIy Named, or Mutilated, Poor, or
Suffering from Other Marked Misfort-
unes and Difficulties.
Specially Reported for The Sentinel.
BROOKLYN, n. Y, Sept. 10: The Rev.
T. Dewitt Talmage. ID, preached in
the Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning
on the subject, Disadvantages of Some
People" The opening hymn was:
Blow ye the trumpet! Blow
The gladly solemn sound!
Let all the nations know,
To earth S remotest bound"
After expounding appropriate pas
sages of Scripture DR.. Talmage took his
text from Genesis xiii, Sc: s'All these
things are against me-" and preached
the following sermon:
Father Jacob, you are wrong! You
think your son Joseph i. dead, but he
is Prime Minister OF Egypt, AVID has the
keys of the great corn crib. You think
that circumstances are all adverse. but
they will turn out we'll. In all your life
you never made a greater mistake than
when YOU said: "All these things are
against me.
A great multitude of people are under
seeming disadvantages, and 1 will to-
day, in the Swarthiest Anglo-SaxOn that
[ can manage, treat their cases not as
nurse counts out eight or ten drops of
a prescription, and stirs them in half
glass of water; but as when a man has
by mistake taken large amount OF
strychine, or Paris green, or belladona,
and the patient is wa ked rapidly around
I,,I- ~ l~1
until he gets wide awake. Many of you
have taken r Large draught of the poison
of disccur cement, and l come out by
the order of the Divine Phys ic!an to
rouse YOU out of that lethar-y.
1. First, many people are under the
disadvantage OF an unfortunate. name
given 10 them by p rents WHO thou hit
they wer.. doing good tn M. ) me-
times at the baptism OF children, while
I have held up one hand in prayer /
have held up the other hsand i'll amaze
ment that parents should have weighted
the bale with such a diSSonant and re-
pulsive nomencl ture. I have not Z Q
Euc!i wondered that some children
should cry out at the christie ning font
as that others with such milling fac
should take Il title that will Le e bur-
DEL of their lifetime. It is outrage us
to atiiict children with undesira bic
name b, cause it happ ned to be pos
sessed by parent or a kcii uncle from
VIII Ill :avors are expect d, or some
prom. IN. Il man of the day w;.o may end
his III. in disgrace 1t is no excuse, be-
cause ...y are Scripture names, to call
a Child ..-h.. akin, or TiSltt,-Pileser.
At IN. Mn al ar, b ,pized ole by the
maine Bel -he5a. w. y, under all the
cittl:...lm'e.it heaven, any parent
si.oI ant 10 give to Il child the lame
of Ia / o" "nt Infamous or azure o.
sc, .Itiire mes, 1 can inaci @. !
have often i"lt at the Bap,ismal altar
w:i,n name We're announced me, like
SAVING. as sid Rev. DR.. Richards, @
o rlS;uwn \. j., when cr.i.u w.
..,,.c. aim for spiinkIing, the ia
-4> = Hadn't you bet.rI L ou,u
t...i.-, Else
,"- not upon that bab. n.ni
suggestive Of iiippancy OF ,ucann'-s-
There is no excuse for such assault and
battery on the cradle when our language
is opulent with names musical in sound
and suggestive in meaning.
But sometimes the great hinderance in
life is not in the given name but in the
family name. While legislatures are
willing to lift such incubus there are
cages all the generations with great
disadvantage. You say: I wonder If
he is any relation to SO and SO, mention
tioning some family celebrated for
crime and deception. It is wonder to
me that in all such families some Spir-
tied young man does not rise. saying to
his brothers and sisters: sc If you want
to keep this nuisance or standardization of
a name, 1 will keep it no longer-shan until
by quickest course Of law I can slough
off this gangrene."
It is not belneaning to change a name.
Saul of Tarsus became Paul the apostle.
Hadassah, " the myrtle" became Esther.
e-kp ~ tn, ,n,inn
suppose it is SO in all countries, names
which ought to be abolished, and can be,
and will be abolished for the reason that
they are libel and SANDER. But if for
any reason you are submerged either by
given name or by a family name that
you must bear. God will help you to over
come the outrage by u life consecrated
the curse from the name. You may
somewhat change the significance. If
once it stood for meanness, you can
make it stand for generosity. If once
it stood for pride, youc II make it stand
for humility. II it once stood for fraud,
you can make it stand for honesty. II
once it stood for wickedness. you can
| make it stand for purity. There have
been mult.tudeS of III tanceS where men
and women have magniticently conquered
| the disasters of the name inflicted upon
| them.
IL. Again: Many people labor under
the misfortune of incomplete physical
| equipment. We are by our Creator so
| economically built that we cannot afford
| the obliteration OF any phys cal faculty.
! We. want our two eyes, our two ears, our
| two hands our two feet, our eight fil : ers,
and two thumbs. Yet what multirudes
of people have but one eye, or tut one
| foot. The ordinary ualtits OF life
have been qua4rupled, quintu. led, SEX
.plyd, aye centupled in our tine 10y The
| Civil War; and at the North anu south d
great multitude that no man can number
i are fighting the battle OF life with half,
or less Than half, the needed physical
| ornaments.
A celebrated surgeon told NE of a
scene in the clinical department of one
OF the New York hospitals when Il poor