Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-13
CAST OUT: RESCUED.
A TABERNACLE SERMON By REV. DR.
TALMAGE.
One Half the TrOu6ls in the World Caused b,
False Pride-In the Lords Army We All
Want to be Brigadisr Generals
Womans Battle of Life
Special TsleoraH 70 ne Reqiaer.

in the Brooklyn Tabernacle to-day. Hi:
Tabernacle was repainted and reuphol
stored and otherwise improved during his
vacation that ended last Sunday. When
the vast throngS greeting the return OF
their pastor, responded iiberally to his
appeal on behalf of the sufferers by the
earthquake at Charleston.
'Dr. Talnage's subject to-day was
''Cast out but rescued" and the text
Genesis eh. xxi, V. -: And God opened
! her eyes, and she s:Iw a we'll OF water; and
she went and filled the bottles with water
and gave the lad drink, The preacher
said:
/ MORNING BREAKS UPON BEER-sHEBA.
There is an early stir in the house of old
/ Abraham There has been trouble among
the tomestieS. Hagar, an assistant i'll the
/ household, and her son, brisk latl O
/ sixteen years have become impudent and
inSolent, and Sarah, the mistress Of the
household, put her foot down very hard
and says that they will have to leave the
premises. They are packing up now
! Abraham, knowing that the journey be
/ fore his servants was very long and across
! desoiate places, in the kindness of his
heart sets about putting up some bread
and bottle with water, in it. 1t is
a very plain lunch that Abraham pro
vides, but warrant YOU there would have
been enough of it had they not lost theil
way. God lie with yOun said old Abra
ham rs he gave The lunch to iIagar and :
good many charges aS to how he should
| conduct the Journey IShmael. the boy,
suppose bounded away in the morning
/ light. Boys always like {;
/ change. Poor IShmael! He has 1T
| idea of the disasters that are ahead of him.
Hagar gives one long, lingering look on tht
familiar place where she had spent ST
many happy days, each scene associated
with the pride and JOY of her dear, young
! IShmael.
TILE SCORCHING NOON
comes on. The air is sitting and move
! across the desert with inSutferable sutfO
cation. Ishmacl. the boy, begins to com
plain and lies down, but Hagar rOuses hin
/ up, saying nothing about her own wearl
ness of the sweltering heat; for mother.
I can endure anything. Trudge, trudSe
trudgc. Crossing the dead level Of the
desert, how wearily and slowly the miles
slip! A tamarind that seemed hours agc
! to stand only inst little ahead, inviting
! the travellers to come under its shadow
/ now is as far OF ~ ever, OF seemingly so
/ Night drops upon the desert and the tray
elerS are pillOwleSs. Ishmael, very weary
I suppose, instantly falls asleep. Hagar-
as the shadows OF the night begin TO lal
over each Other-Hagar hugs her weary
[ boy to her bosom and thinks of the fact
! that it is her fault that they are in the
desert. \ star looks out and every falling
| tear it kisses with sparkle. \ wing O
wind comes over the hot earth and lifts
the locks from the ievered brow Of the boy
Hagar sleeps fitfully, and in her dreams
[ travels over the weary day and half awake>
her son by crying out i'll her sleep: 'lSh
mael IshmaclI'
/ And so they 20 on day after day and
night after night; for they have
LOST THEIR WAY.
No path in the shifting sands; no sign
/ in the burning SKY. The sack empty oJ
, the flour the water gone from the bottle,
T What shall she do? As she puts her faint
/ inc Ishmael under L Stunted shrub Of The
arid plain. she sees the blood
shot eve, and feels the hot hand
aud watches the blood bursting
/ from the cracked tongue, AMI there is q
shrek in the desert of Becr-Sheba: 1--WE
shall die We shall die!' Now, nC
| mother was ever made strong enough tC
/ hear her son cry i'm vain for a drink. Here
| totore she had cheered her boy by prOmiS
/ inc speedy end OF the Journey, and even
smiled upon him when he felt desperately
enough. Now there is nothing to do but
place him under shrub and let him die
/ She had thought that she would sit there
and watch until the spirit other boy would
/ 90 away forever, and then she would
/ breathe out her own life OH his silent
/ heart: but rs the boy begins to claw hlS
/ tongue in agony of thirst. and struggle II
/ distortion, and begs his mother to slay
/ him, she cannot endure the spectacle,
( She puts him under shrub, and goes OFF q
bow-shot, and begins to weep until all the
desert seems sObbing, and her cry Strikes
clear through the heavens; and an angel ol
/ God comes out on cloud, and looks down
upon the appalling grief andcric>: "iagar,
/ what aileth thee She looks up and sees
/ the angel pointing to Il well OF water
( where she fills the bottle for the lad Thank
/ God! Thank God.
/ |. learn from this Oriental scene i'll the
( first place. what sad thing 1t is when
people
DO NOT KNOW THEIR PLACE,
and get too proud for their business
/ Hagar was an assistant in that household
! but she wanted to rule there. She ridicul'
ed and ieered until her son, lShmael, 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
Abraham's equilibrium. My friends, one
/ half of the trouble in the world 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 int
/ the world there Is always plac,
ready for us. 4 place for Abraham. \
place for Sarah. \ place for liagar. \
place for Ishmael \ place for you and :
place tor me. Our first duty is TO find oul
sphere: our second is, to keep It. We may
| be born in a sphere far OF from the on,
for which God finally intends us. Sixtu'
V. was born on the low ground, and was :
swineherd. God called him up 10 wave {
sceptre. Ferguson spent his early days il
! looking after sheep; God called him up t.
look after stars, and be shepherd watch
ing the flocks of light on the hill-sideS o
heaven. HOgarth began by engraving
pewter pots; God raised him to stand ii
/ the enchanted realm of q painter. ThC
sboemaker's bench held Bloomfield for ;
little while; but God raised him TO sit IL
the chair of n philosopher and Christian
scholar. The soap-boiler Of London coulC
not keep his son in that business, for Cos
had decided that Hawley was to be one o
the greatest astronomers of England.
On the other hand we may be born in
A SPHERE \ LITTLE HIGHER
i than that for which God intends us. W.
may be born in a castle, and play in {
costly conservatory, and feed high-bret
pointers, and angle for goldfish in artifcia
ponds. and be familiar with princes; We
God NAV better have fitted Us for carpen'
ter's shop, or dentist siorceps, or weaver:
shuttle. or blacksmith's forge. Tht
great thing is to find just the sphere fo
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