Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-08-26
TROUBLE ON BOTH SIDES.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE RETURNS TO
THE TABERNACLE.
The Combined Shadow Of Inyalidism and
Financial Embarrassment The World
Fattens the Horse IL Wants to Drive.
Home Troubles-Outside Persecution.

Financial Embarrassment The World
Fattens the Horse Il Wants to Drive.
Home Troubles-Outside Pcr,ccution.
BROOKLYN, Aug. 10.-The Rev. DIR. 7.
DE Witt Talmage's subject today was
Trouble ON Both Sides" and his text
"There was a sharp rock on the one side,
and sharp rock on the other side"
Sam, xiv, 4.
The cruel army of the Philistines must
be taken and scattered. There is Just
one man, accompanied by his bOdyguard,
to do that thing. Jonathan is the hero
of the scene. / know that David
cracked the skull Of the giant with a
few pebbles well slung. and that 300
Gideonites scattered 10000 Amalekites
by the crash Of broken crockery;
but here is more wonderful con-
flict. Yonder are the Philistines on the
rocks. Here is Jonathan with his body
guard in the valley. On the one
side is rock called Bozez; on the other
side is rock called Seneh. These two
were as famous in olden times as in
modern times are Plymouth Rock and
Gibraltar. They were precipitous, un-
scalable and sharp. Between these two
rocks Jonathan must make his ascent.
The day comes for the scaling Of the
height Jonathan. on his hands and feet,
begins the ascent. With strain, and
slip, and bruise, suppose, but still on
and up, first goes Jonathan, and then
goes his bodyguard. Bozez on one
side. Seneh on the other. After
sharp tug, and push, and cling
| ing. | see the head of Jonathan
i above the hole in the mountain; and
there is challenge, and a fight, and a
supernatural CONSERVATION. These two
men, Jonathan and bis bodyguard, drive
back and drive down the Philistines over
the rocks, and open a campaign which
demolishes the enemiss of Israel. / sup
pose that the overhanging and over
shadowing rocks on either side did not
| balk or dishearten Jonathan OF his body
guard, but only reused and filled them
with enthusiasm as they went up.
"TherS was a sharp rock on the one side,
and a sharp rock on the other side"
L NY Nou VI lIo"
some of you, in this crisis Of the text.
If man meets one trouble, he can go
through with it. He gathers all his en-
ergies, concentrates them upon one point,
and in the strength Of God, or by his own
natural determination, goes through it.
But the man who has trouble 10 the righ,
Of him ard trouble to the lef' Of him is
to be pitied. Did either trouble come
alone, he might endure it, but two
troubles, two disasters. two overshadow-
ing misfortunes, are Bozez and Seneh.
God pity him! There is a sharp rock
on the one side, and sharp rock on the
other side"
In this crisis of the text is that man
whose fortune and health fail him Mt the
same time. Nine.tenths Of all our mer.
chants capsize in business before they
come to forty-iive years of age. There
is some collision in commercial circles,
and they stop payment. IL seems as il
every man must put his name on the
back of a note before he learns what q
fool man is who risks all his own prop.
erty ON the prospect that some man viii
tell the truth. Il seems as if man mus
have a large amount of unstable goodi
on his own shelf before he learns how
much easier it is TO buy than to sell. i
seems as if every man must be completely
burned out before he learns the import
ance Of always keeping fully insured
II seems as If every man must be wrecked
in financial tempest before h,
learns TO keep things snug in case Of ;
sudden euroclydon. When the calamity
does come, il is awful. The man goel
home in despair, and he tells his family
"Well have TO 90 TO the poorhouse.' y
He takes dolorous view of everything
1t seems as if he never could rise. Blu
little time passes, and he says: ''Why
. am not SO badly of after ALL l hav,
/, my family left"
Before the Lord turned Adam out o
Paradise he gave him Eve, so that wher
he lost Paradise he could stand it. Per
NIT one who has never read but q few
novels in all his life, and who has not |
great deal Of romance in his composition
A 10 say, that it, when mans fortune
4 fail, he has a good wifc-a good Chris
tan wife-he ough. net 10 be despondent
"Oh," you say, "that only increases I'll
embarrassment, since you have her ais
10 take care Of" You are an ingrat,
for the woman rs often supports the ma
as the man supports the woman. I'll
man may bring all the dollars. but Il
woman generally brings the courage an
the faith in God.
Well, this man Of whom | am speal
ing looks around, and he finds his fam
4 left, and he rallies, and the eight com
~ hls eyes, and the smile 10 his face, an
the courage 10 his heart. In two yea
no Is quite over it. He makes his iinai
cial calamity the first chapter in a nc
era Of prosperity. He met that on
troublc-bopquered IL. lie sat down f
little while under the grim shadow
tho rock Bozez, yet he soon rose. and b
yau. like Jonathan. TO climb. But no
7, ,ftcn il is that physical ailmont com
with financial embarrassment. VIII,
the fortune failed Il broke the man
spirit. His nerves were shattered. II
brain was stunned. / can show W
hundreds Of men In New York who
fortune and health failed at the san
time. They came prematurely 20 d
n staff. Their hand trembled Wi
| ncipient paralysis. They never sa
V well day since the hour VIII,
they cnlled their creditors b
g,thor Ter a compromise. II such m,
are inpatient, and peculiar, and irrit
lilo cxcusp them, They had two trortlr