Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-06-02
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BROOKLYN TABERNAcLEv
DR.. Taimage snys That IN the Army OF
Christ Too Many Want 20 BE Com
.mnnd.rs The Church, Needs Moro
Earnest Workers in tho Ranks.
BRooKLYN May 27.-At the Tabernacle
This morning the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage,
! D. D., read the account Of 1.-THE man helpless
ut the Beautiful Gate OF the Temple He
then gave out the hymn beginning:
A cloud OF witnesses around
Hold thee In full survey;
Forget the steps already trod,
Aud onward urge thy way.
The subject OF the eloquent doctors dis:
course was: DISABLED Hunters Bringing
Down the Most Came His text was from
Is xxxiii, 23,,ss"The lame take the prey"
Following is the sermon: ~. ~ -
The utter demolition, of the sAssy rian host
was here predicted ~ Not only robust men
should 70 forth and gather the spoil 4of cons:
,ollest;s butsev Ipens crippled OF 4erm and
crfppl ed Of foot should go Iout sdltn ~
much that was iyaluable "a Gei; hysieal dis.
ativantages should mot, hinder their great en-
grichment. So, it has been in the past So 1t is
now, SO, il will be in the future So tits in
Fnll departments Men, labor under SEEM
incly great disadvantages, and amid the
most unfavorable circumstances yet making
grand achievements, getting great blessing
for themselves, great blessing for thu world,
great blessing for the church, and SO tho
lamc take the prey. -
Do you know that tho three great poets Of
the world were totally blind3 Homer, o.
sum. John Milton Do you know that Mr..
Prescott who wrote that enchanting book,
"The Conquest of Mexico" never saw Mex
leo could not even see the paper on which
he was writing? A framework across the
sheet, between which, up and down, went
the pcu immortal Do you know that Gam
basso, the sculptor, could not see the marble
before him, or the chiscl with which he cut
1t into shapes bewitchingf Do you know;
that Alexander Pope, whose poems will last
as long as the English language, was SO much
of an invalid that ho had to be sewed up
every morning in rough canvas in order to
stand on his feet ct all
Do you know that Stuart, the celebrated
painter, did much of his wonderful work uii-
der the shadow of the dungeon, where he had
been unjustly imprisoned for debit Do you
know that Domosthenes by almost srperhu-
man exertion first had to conquer the lisp Of
his own speech before he conquered assem-
blngcs with his eloquence' Do you know
that Bacon struggled all through innumera-
Bile sicknesses, and that.Lord Byron and Sir
Walter Scott went ll,nping on clubfoot
p .,ff ,a
great poets and painters and orators and his
torians and heroes of the world had some
thing to keep them back, and pull them
down, and impede their way, and cripple
their physical or their intellectual move
ment, and yet that thoy pushed on and
pushed up until they reached tho spoils
OF worldly success, and amid the huzza Of
nations and centuries, '.tho lame took the
prcyT
You know that vnst multitude Of these
men started under tho disadvantage Of OBJ
scrre parentage Columbus, the son Of the
weaver; Ferguson, tho astronomer tho son
of the shepherd. America the prey Of the
one; worlds on worlds the prey Of the other.
But what is true in secular direetionsis moro
; true in spiritual and religious directions, and
-ndITII.re 10 SucIr- JccupTSI0fIs, SuS .they 80
n,ntinr along the streets with exhaustion,
and at eyentme they lie down on the lounge
with nchiugs beyond all medicament. 1hey
have tried all prescriptions, they nave gone
through all the cures which were proclaimed
iufnllible, and they have come now 10 sur
render to perpetual ailments They consider
thcv nrs among many disadvantages; and
y,hon they sec those who are buoynnt III
bc,Ith puss by they almost envy their ROBUST
frames and easy respiration.
Rr,t have noticed among TINT invole
class those who have the greatest knowiedS'
- +ho R;hlo who are in nearest intimacy
With .Jcsus Christ, who have the most glowing
experiences of tho truth, who have iiad tn
most remarkable answers to prayer, ana WIN
have the most exhilarant antlcipations 0
heaven. Tho temptations which weary Z
who nre in robust health they have con
ouercd They have divided among them tn
SOILS of tho conquest. Many who are aler
o,d athletic and swarthy loiter in the way
TI,pse ore the lame that take tho prey Noi
ert Hail an invalid Edward Payson an
y,,id Richard Baxter IN invalid Samu
Rutherford an invalid. This morning, vine
you want to call to mind those who are mo
Christliks. you think of some darSened rooi
T., vour fathers house from which there wei
fortb nm influence potent for eternity.
step further: Through raised lette
the nrs of printing has been brought 10 u
attention of the blind.
Won tako up the Bible for the blind, Il
Won close YOUR eyes, and you run 20
fingers over the raised letters, anu you ~
"Why, never could get any ihlo o. VIZ =
: this way. What slow, humorous way
readingl God help tho blind.
Aud yet find among that class OF perso
among tho blind, tho deaf and the DUMP,
most thorough acquaintance WIZ W
word. Shut OUT from nll other sources
information, no sooner does their hand tot
tho roised letter than they gather pray
Without ewes, they lool; or upon the XII
dom Of Gods love. Without hearing, u
cotch the minstresy of tho skies. Dur
: cot with poncil, or with irradiatei coui
nance they declare the glory of God
~ lnrre audeuco assembled in New
:. ut fine anniversary of the Deaf and Du
osylum. mud one of the visitors, witn co'
nm tl,e blackboard wrote this question 10
h pupils: "Do you not.flnd it very nafu =
Y deaf and dunlbp And one of the pupils
% the chalk and wrote on tue blackooaiu
e,,bl;me sentence in answer: "When the
u OF tho angels shall burst upon our enraptl
cor WA will scarce regret that our ears :
le nover married with earthly sounds. Oh!
m brightest eyes in heaven will DO those
" never saw on earth The ears most oie'
heaven will lie those that in this world IL
III neither voice of friend, nor thrum OF
so nor carol of bird, nor doxolosy OF congr
tions. &c
90 A lad who had been blind from int
'e wos cured Tho oculist operated upon
eS ,od AMI then nut a very heavy bandase
4 the eyes, and after few weeks mao gu s,-
ell the bandago was remover anu VIZ NJ