Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-06-03
THE LANE TOOK TIE PREY
LAST SUNDAYS SERVICES IN THE
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.

manders - The Church Needs More
Earnest Workers Ia the Ranks.
BROOKLYN, May 27.-At the Taberna-
Gle this morning the Rev. T. DE Witt Tai
mage, ID. d., read the account of the
man helpless at 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,
And onward urge thy way.
The subject of the eloquent doctors
discourse was: Disabled Hunters Bring
ing Down the Most Game" His text
was from Isaiah xxxiii, %: "The lame
take the prey" Following is the SER
mon:
The utter demolition Of the Assyrian
host was here predicted. Not only robust
men should go forth and gather the
spoils Of conquest, but even men crippled
of arm and crippled Of foot should 60
ont and capture much that was valuable
Their physical disadvantages should not
hinder their great enrichment. So it has
been in the past, so it is now, so it will
be in the future. So it is in all departs
ments. Men labor under seemingly great
disadvantages and amid the most un-
favorable circumstances, yet making
grand achievements, getting great bless
ing for themselves, great blessing for the
world, great blessing for the church, and
so 1.-THE lame take the prey"
Do you know that the three great
poets of the world were totally blindi
Homer, Ossian. John Milton. Do you
know that Mr.. Prescott, who wrote that
enchanting book, "The Conquest of Mex
ico," never saw Mexico, could not even
see the paper on which he was writing;
a framework across the sheet, between
which. up and down, went the pen i'm
mortal. Do you know that Gambassio,
the sculptor. could not see the marble
before him or the chiSel with which he
cut it into shapes bewitchingi Do you
know that Alexander Pope, whose poems
will last as long as the English language
was so much Of an ipvalid that he had
to be sewed up every morning in rough
canvas in order to stand on his feet at
alll
Do you know that Stuart, the cele.
brated painter, did much of his wonder.
ful work under the shadow OF the dun.
geon. where he had been unjustly i'm,
prisoned for debit Do you know that
DemoSthenes, by almost superhuman ex-
ertion. first had TO conquer the lisp Of his
own speech before he conquered assem-.
blages with his eloquence? Do you
know that Bacon struggled all through
innumerable sicznesses, and that Lord
Byron and Sir Walter Scott went limp
ing on club feet through all their life,
and that many of the great poets and
painters and orators and historians and
heroes of the world had something to
keep them back, and pub them down.
and impede their way, and cripple their
physical or their intellectual movement;
and yet TINT they pusned on and pushed
up until they reached the spoils Of
worldly success, and amid the huzza Of
nations and centuries, "the lame took
the preyf'
You know that a vast multitude of
these men started under the disadvantage
of obscure parentage, Columbus, the son
OF the weaver. Ferguson, the astrono-
mer, the son Of the shepherd. America,
the prey OF the one; worlds on world.
the prey OF the other, But what is true
in secular directions Is more true in
spiritual and religious directions, and
proceed 10 prove It.
There are in all communities many in
valids. They never know a well day
They adhere 10 their occupations, bu
th.y 60 painting along the streets witt
exhausti0us, and az cvontime they Ii,
down on the lounge with achiuEs hcyonC
all medicament. They have tried all pre-
scriptiJns, they have gone through al
the cures which were proclaimed inialli
bl6. and they have come how TO Gurreu
der 10 perpetual ailments. They conside
they are among many disadvantages
and when they see those who are buoyan
in health pass by they almost envy thel
robust frames and easy respiration.
But have noticed among that invali,
class those who have the greatest knowl
edge Of the Biblc, who are in neares
intimacy with Jesus Christ who hav
the most glowing experiences Of th
truth, who lave had the most renarkGbl
answers TO PRAYER, and wlS have mos
exhilarant anticipations OF heaven. Th'
temptations which weary us who are Il
robust health they have conquered They
have divided among them the spoils o.
the conquest Many who are alert anC
athletic and swarthy loiter In the way
These are the lame that take the prey
Robert Hall nm invalid, Edward Paysor
an invalid, Richard Baxter an invalid,
Samuel Rutherford an invalid. This
morning, when you want 20 call TO mind
those who are most Christlike, you think
of some darkcned room in your fathers
house from which there went forth an
influence potent for eternity.
A step farther; Through raised letters
the art Of printing has been brought TO
tho attention Of the blind.
You take up the Bble for the blind,
and YOU clnse your eyes, and YOU run
your fingers over the raised letters, and
Won sav, "Why, I never could get any
information in this way. What n slow,
lnml,rous way OF rcadingl God help the
blind"
And vet find among that class Of rcr.
sons-anong the blind, the deaf aud the
dumb--thc most thorough acquaintance