The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-06-08
DISABLED HEROES.
d.. Talmage ON tho Achievements
OF the Afflicted
Tia valae % PatIoaco and Earnest Zeal
deed Examples q Lowry Toilsss-rhs
Tras Chriseisa worker Depicted
-Christ's Premisss.

The subject Of late discourse by Rev
7. Dewitt Tslmage at Brooklyn was: "Dis
abled Hunters Bringing Down the Most
Game" His text was from ISAIAH xxxiii
q: The Lame Take the Prey" DR.. Tai
mage said:
Tho utter demolition Of the Assyrian host
was here predicted. Not only robust men
should 20 forth and gather the spoils Of
conquest but even men crippled Of arm and
crippled Of foot should 60 out and capture
much that was valuable. Their physical
dIsadvantages should not hinder their
great enrichment. So II has been In the
past, % 1t 10 now, 20 IL will b IN the fu-
ture. 30 It 10 in all departments, Men
laborundef seemingly great disadvantages,
and amid the most unfsvorsbls circum.
stances. yet making grand achievements,
getting great blessing for themselves. get
ting great biessing for the world, great
blessing for the Church, and 20 1.-The lame
take tho prey"
Do you know that the three great poets
OF the world were totally b!inil-Homer.
Ossian, John Milton. DO you know that
Mr.. Prescott who wrote that enchanting
book, THE Conquest Of Mexico" never
saw Mexico. could not even see the paper
on which he was writing? A frame work
across the sheet, between which up and
down, went the pen immortal Do you
know that Gambassio. the sculptor, could
not see the marble before him, or the chisel
with which he cut it into shapes bewitch.
ing? Do you know that Alexander Pope,
whose poems will last IS long rs the En-
6 ish 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
f'et at all! Do you know that Stuart,
:he celebrated painter, did much OF his
wonderful work under the shadow Of
the dungeon where he had been
uujustly imprisoned for debit Do you
know that Demosthcnes by almost super
human exertion first had to conquer the
lisp Of his own speech before be conquered
assemblages with his eloquencea Do you
know that Bacon struggled through IN
Vulnerable sicknesses and that Lord Byron
and SIR Walter Scott went limping on
clubfoot through all their life, aud that
many Of the great poets and painters and
orators and historians and heroes of the
world had something to keep them back
and pull them down aud impede their way
and cripple their physical Or their intel
lectual movement and yet that they
pushei up until they reached the spoils Of
worldly success, aud amid the huzza OF ma.
tons and centuries ''tne lama took the
preyp
You know that avast multitude of these
men started under the disadvantage Of OBJ
scure pArentage. Columbus, the son Of the
weaver. Ferguson, the astronomer, the
s,n OF the sheph srd. America the prey
Of the one; worlds on worlds the prey OF
the other. But what is true in secular d.
rectious is more.true in spiritual and religi-
Gus directions, and proceed to prove it.
tt ere are in ali communities many in
valids. They never know well day. They
adhere to their occupations, but they go
painting along the streets with exhaustion,
and at eventimethey lie down on the lounge
with achings beyond all medicament
But have noticed among that invalid
class those who have the greatest knowl-
edge Of the Bible, who are in nearest in
timacy with Jesus Christ. who have the
most glowing experiences Of the truth,
who have had the most remarkable an-
swers to prayer, and who have most ex-
hilarant anticipations Of Heaven. The
which weary US who are in
robust health they have conquered. They
have divided among them the spoils Of the
conquest. Many who are alert and ath.
letic and swarthy loiter in the way. These
are the lame that take the prey: Robert
Hall. an invalid; Richard Payson, an In
valid; Richard Baxter, On invalid; Samuel
an invalid. This morning,
when you want to call to mind those " no |
are most Christlike, you think of some |
darkened room In your fathers house from |
which there went forth an influence potent |
for eternity.
A step further. Through raised letters /
The art Of printing has been brought to the |
attention OF the blind. You take up the |
Bible for the blind and you close your eyes |
and you run your fingers over the raised
letters, and you say: ''Why never could |
get any information in this way. What
slow, Humorous way Of reading. God help
he blind" And yet find among that class
u persons, among the blind, the deaf and
he dumb tho most thorough acquaintance
With Co.'s word. Shut on. fr3m all Their
sources Of information, no sooner does their
rand touch the rsf'ed letter than they
Father prayer. Without eyes, they look
II upon the Kingdom Of Gods love. With
'ut hearing, they catch the minstrelsy of
he skies. Dumb, yet with pencil, or with
rradiated countensncs, they declare the
ylory Of God.
A large audience assembled in New York
It the anniversary OF the deaf and dumb
'sylum, and one Of the visitors with chalk
N the blackboard wrote this question to
he pupils: "Do you not find it hard to be
leaf sni dumbr" And enc Of the pupils
ook the chalk and wrote on tbs blackboard
his sublime sentence In answer: when
he song Of the angels shall burst upon our
ear; We shall! scarce regret that
ur ears were ever marred by earthly
ounds." Oh! the brightest eyes in Heaven
viii be those that never saw on earth. The
ars most sler: In Heaven will be those
hat in this world hc.-1 nei:hor voice Of
riend, nor thrum OF harp, MGR carol Of