The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-20
The Position Of Jonathan Between
Bozez and Seneh.
How People are Buffeted and Torn
by Coincidental Troubles.
The World Treats a Man Well as
Long as It Pays.
"The Gospel of Jesus Christ Only Asks
You to Climb as Jonathan Did
Climb Toward God, Climb
Toward Heaven"
specIal pIspntch 70 The Anpeal.

Special Dispatch to The Appeal
BROOKLYN, n. Y, Aug 1o.-The Rev.
DR.. T. Dewitt Talmage's subject today
was: Trouble on Both Sides" and his
text "There was u sharp rock on the one
side, and sharp rock on the other side,"
Samuel, xiv, 4.
The cruel army Of the Philistines must
be taken and scattered. There is just
one man, accompanied by his body guard,
to do that thing. Jonathan Is the hero
Of the scene. know that David cracked
The skull Of the giant with few pebbles
well slung, and that 800 Gideonites scat
tered 10000 Amalekites by the crash of
broken crockery; but here is a more won
derful conflict. Yonder are the Philistines
on the rocks. Here is Jonathan with his
body guard in the valley. On the other
Iide is a rock called Bozez; on the other
side is rock called Seneh. These two
were as famous in olden times, as in mod
ern times are Plymouth Rock and Gibral-
tar. They were precipitous, unscalable and
sharp. Between these two rocks Jonathan
must make his ascent The day comes for
the scaling Of the hight. Jonathan, on
his hands and feet, begins the ascent.
With strains, and slip, and bruise,
suppose, but still on and up, iirst
goes Jonathan, and then goes his
body guard. Bozez on one side Sc
neh on the other. After sharp
lug, and push, and clnging | see the head
,i Jonathan above the hole in the noun
lain, and there is a challenge, and a fight,
and q supernatural CONSERVATION. These
two men, Jonathan and his body guard,
drive back and drive down the Philistines
over the rocks, and open a campaign which
demolishes the enemies OF Israel. | sup
pose that the oyerhanging and overshad-
-6wing rocks on either side did not balk or
dishearten Jonathan or his body guard,
but only reused and iifcd them with en-.
ihusiasm rs they went up. There was a
nharp rock on the one side, and a sharp
yock on the other side"
NV friends, YOU have been, or are now,
,lmc OF YOU, in this crisis OF the text. II u
.nan meets one trouble, he can 90 through
with IL. lie gathers all his energies, con-
centratcs them upon one point, and in the
strength OF God, or by his own natural
determination, goes through IL. But the
man who has trouble 10 the right Of him
and trouble 10 the left OF him IN tObc pit
led. Did either trouble come alone lac
might endure Il, but two troubles, two dis
aslcrs. two ovcshadowing misiotuncs. are
Bozcz and Scnoh. God pity himl There
Is a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp
rock on the other side"
In this crisis Of the text Is that man
whose fortune and health fail him at the
sumo time. Ninc-tcnths Of all our mer-
chants capsizc in business before they
come 90 iOriy-iiyc years Of age. There
il some collision m commercial cir
clcs, and they stop payment. II seems ~
II every man must put his name on the
back o. a note before hc learns what q
fool a man i who risks all his own prop.
cry on the prospect that some man will
tell the truth II seems ns II q man must
have a large lot OF unstable goods ON his
own shelf before DO learns how much
orsicr Il IL a. buy than 90 sell. II seems
ns II every man must hG completely
bufncl out before hu learns tie import
au,r ui always keeping fully insured. u
scrms ns li cNcTy man must hc wrecked 10
a DuBurial tuuIt-i h.iuW ho learns &
l.up thing suuf Zoe ease ui u usuitgn euro
clyiun. Wien thr calamity docs COIN, !
isnNlul. The mIu guv- homo 100 irtpll
and lac tolls his family, well have tu y
- to tho po1f-hou-c." lie takes iDiorouI
,icW VI everything 10 seems as i b,
never could rI-r. lut little time passes
and hr Ay. "Why am not ~ bad Ol
alrrall. J have NY family lett
Hrf5r, ;hg Lord turned Adam ont o
Paradise hr ayo h.m I've, 20 that whoi
hcl,si parrIisr hc cDr'd stand H. Pes
init one who hlsncyprrll but few nov
plz In nll BE- l,ip, AMI Who has not grrl
deal oi romance iu his composition a. sly
that Il. whom % mans fortunes fail, hc h1
n r11I wiic=a good Christian viirHh
onght not 10 br lr,u1nlguL "Oh. go
sty. "ih1t only increases the CWhIrrus
mrnt. since yIu have hHr also 90 take car
OF" Nuu Urr Hu Migrate, Tor The Npmu
aa ofon supports ,hn mlu ls the man su'
morris the woman. The man may bring :
ibp dHgr. hut the woman gpHcrlI
brinys tio rlumgr rul thv faith Too God.
VOL. ih.4 man OF whom J aW spylklu.
loYss around. and hc finds hH i1m.'y
lrr. aul he rallies, anl ibc light comes
IA. owes. und ihu smile tu Li. lHDH, and l'
r8pfirr io lit heart. lu two vrJrl ur
.uiic over DO. lir makes lY financial 81
amit, tho hr-, chapter in % new era
prasrcritv. llc met 'hat one iouh.o.
s,pIu,ul o. llp lt i1Hu I0r n I'i
while uulcr 'hn grim shadow Of ihc ro,
p95es. yrt ho soon r,.n. 1pd htun, iil
Jonathan. ~ climb llu' how nicn it
uat ph,s.,ll ai m,nt comes from Inauc.
cpibar4ssruu' when inf fortune '1il
h broke ihr mau'fsHiH, II nerves w'
shattered. ll brain Uas stunned lC
show yUu igslu.l 0i men in N,W No
Nlost iu.uuo anil health iilgl ui q
same time. Iucy wWc pI,maiu'.y
tbc aial. Thp.r band urmp.ci With
cipiru, rul.sis They never slN "
dby Sine, tic upul whoa ilyf called ih
r.ilHaaf iaspt'Hr i1r comp'
mac n .r,h m.n ar. impatient, o.
- psrtlar. anil iUuh'c. excuse The
Mos ali two ulJH'us. either one
rliih ihry could have met tdrr.s.ll
n uO,n thy bpb'Il went. iltn fortune D
Lrrn retained ii would not have been
Ind. The min could have bought The -
b.s, me.Ii,al advice, and he could ~
had the very br-l attendance, and J,
lines Of carriages would have stopped
ibc front door 10 inquire ~ 20 his vclii
a.. asFlss and nllM n