The Brookhaven leader., 1888-06-07
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Disabled Hunters Bring Down
the Most Game.
The Grand Achievements of Men Laboring
Under INSTRUMENTATION Blind, the
Lame. the Halt. working tsr
the Glory of God.

bhCle was ''DlSaBleU hunters bElu~ my
Down the Most Game" His text was:
The lame take the prey Isaiah, xxxiii, -.
The utter demolition of the Assyrian
host was here predicted. Not only ro-
bust men should go forth and gather the
spells Of conquest, but even men crippled
of arm and crippled of foot should go out
and capture much that was valuable.
Their physical disadvantages should not
Nnder their great enrichment. So il has
been in the past, So il is now, and so il
will he in the future. So il is in all de.
partments. Men labor under seemingly
great disadvantages, and amid the most
unfavorable circumstances, yet making
grand achievements, getting great ble:s
ing for themselves, gre at blessing for the
world. great blessing for the church, and
so the ''lame take the prey"
Do you know that the three great poets
Of the world were totally blind? Homer,
Ossian, John Milton. Do you know that
Mr.. Prescott, who wrote that enchanting
book. "TEc Conquest of Mexico" never
saw Mexico, could not even see the paper
on which he Yves writing: \ framework
across the sheet, between which, up and
down, went the pen immortal. Do You
know that Gamhassio, the sculptor, could
not see the marble before him. or the
hewitchinCs Do Won know that AleXan-
der Pope, whose poems will last as long
as the English language, was SO much of
an invalid that he had to be sewed up
every morning in rough canvas in order
to stand on his feet Mt all?
Do you know that Stuart, the celebrated
painter, did much Of his wonderful work
under the shadow Of the dungeon, where
he had been unjustly imprisoned tor debt?
Do you know that DemustheneS, by al
most supcrhuman cXcrtion, first had to
conquer the lisp Of his own speech before
he conquered asscmblagCs with his elo-
Quencc: 10 You know that Bacon strug-
gled all through iunumcrable SicEneSseS,
and that Lord Byron and Sir Walter
Scott went lmping on Clubfoot through
Hil their life. and that many of the great
poets and painters and orators and his
foriaus and heroes Of the world had some
thing To keep them back, and pull them
down, and impede t'Ieir way, and cripple
their physical or their intellectual move
mcut, ana yet that they pushed on and
pushed up until they reached the spoils 90
worldly success, and amid the huzza Of
nations aud centuries 1.-THE lame took the
lroy:"
You know that vast multitude of these
men started under the disadvantage Of
obscure pareNtage. columbus, the son
o. the weaver. Ferguson, the astrono-
m'r' the son OF the shepherd. America
the prey or the one: worlds on worlds the
prey OF the other. But what Is true III
secular directions Is more true III slhr-
huaI ana l'lSl"uN dftctohS' ana pro-
coed TO prove il.
There are III all communities many IN
NaA0S. Ihey never know a well day.
ihey adhere L. their occupations, but
'heY 20 painting along the streets with
e&hauSt.ons, and at eVentime they lie
Gown on the lounge with achIngS beyond
all medicameEt They have tried ali
prescriptions; they have gone through all
the cures which We're proclaimed in,
fallihle, and tEry have come now to sur
render to perpetual ailments. They con-
slider they are among many disadyan-
tage*, and when they see those who arr
huoyant IN health pass by they almost
envy their robust frames and easy respi-
ration.
step further: Through raised letters
til" art IF printing has been brought I"
TIE attention Of the blind.
You take up the Bible for the mind and
You close Your eyes and you run your fin
ger over the raised letters, and you say:
why. | never could get any information
In this way. What slow, lumbrOus way
{. reading. God help the blind"
And vet find among that class Of per-
sons, among the blind, the deaf and the
dumb. the most thorough acquaintance
with Gods word. Shut out from all other
sources Of information, no sooner does
their hand touch the raised letter than
they gather prayer. Without eyes, they
look off upon the kingdoms of Gods love
Without hearing. they catch the min.
strelsy Of the skies. Dumb, yet with pen.
Gil or with irradiatcd countenance they
declare the glory of God.
large audience assembled i'll New
YORK at the anniversary of the Deaf anC
Dumb Asylum, and one of the visitors
with chalk on the blackboard wrote thi!
question to the pupils:
do you not find it very hard to be dca
end dumb" And one Of the pupils tool
the chalk and wrote on the blackboard
this sublime sentence in answer:
when the song of the angels shall
burst upon our enraptured ear, we viii
scarce regret that our ears were never
marred with earthly sounds"
p Oh, the brightest eyes in Heaven will b,
those that never saw on earth. The ears
most alert in Heaven will be those that il
this world heard neither voice of friend
nor thrGm of harp, nor carol of bird nor
doxoloey of congregations.
A lad who had been blind from infanc,
was cured. The oculist operated upon tn,
lad, and then put a very heavy bandap,
over the ewes and after few weeks haC