The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-06-01
special to the Kansas city Times.

n =, VIZ o0"u'i1uI gate OF the temple,
AA7 'len gave out the hymn beginning:
"A Cloud of Witnesses around
Hold thee N full survey;
forget the steps already trod
And onward urge the way"
The subject of the eloquent DOCTORS dis
course was: 'DisabIed Hunters BrinpIno
Down the Most Game" His text was from
Isaiah, xxxiii, %: THE Lame Take the Prev. D
FoIloW1ng is the sermon:
The utter demolition of the Assvriar host
was mere predicted Not only robust men
should go forth and gather the spoils Of con
quest put even men crippled of arm and
crippled OF foot should 90 out and capture
nuch mat was valuable. Their physical dis.
advantages should not hinder their great en-
rlchment. So it has been In the past. so 1t Is
now, SO 1t will be In the future So it is in all
departments. Men labor under seemingly
great disadvantages, and amid the most nm
favorable circumstances, yet making grand
achievements, getting great blessing for them
serves, getting great blessing for the world.
kreat blessing for the church and so ''the
anne take the prey"
GREAT WORK AGAINST ODDS
10 you know that the three great poets of
me world were totally blind! Homer Ossian.
John Milton; Do you know that Mr.. Prescott
VINO wrote mat enchanting book, "The Con
quest Of MexicO,n never saw Mexico conId
hot even see the paper on which he was writ
ngs frame work across the sheet, between
winch, up and down, went the pen immortal.
10 you know that GambassiO the SCULPTOR
could not see the marble before him, or the
1niSel with which he cut 1t into shapes be-
Eitchlng: DO you know that Alexander 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
canvass In order to stand on his feet at all?
DO you know that Stewart the celebrated
PaInier' qld much or his wonderful work I'M
der the shadow of the dungeon where he had
been unjustly imprisoned for debt? Do YOU
know that Demosthenes by almost superhu-
man eXertiOn first had to conquer the lisp of
pls own speech before he conquered assem-
1lages with his elOquencel Do you know
that Bacon struggled all through innumerabe
slcknesses and that Lord Byron and Sir Wal
ter Scott were limping on clubfoot 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 pull them down and i'm
pede their way and cripple their physical or
their intellectual movement, and vet that
they pushed on and pushed up until they
reached the spoils of worldly success and
amid the huzza of nations and centuries ''the
lame took the prey?"
NOTABLE SPIRITUAL CoNQUEsTs.
You know that vast multitude of these
men started under the disadvantage of OBJ
Icure parentage Columbus, the son of the
weaver. Ferguson, the astronomer,
The - son OF the shepherd; Ameri-
worlds the prey of the other But what 10
true In secular directions is more true in
spiritual and religious directions, and pro-
coed to prove it. There are in all communit-
les many invalids They never know we'll
day. They adhere to their occupations but
oil nnu hn III
haustions, and at eventime they lie down on
the lounge with achings beyond all medica-
ment They have tried ali prescriptions, they
have gone through all the cures
which were proclaimed infallible, and they
nave come now to surrender to perpetual all
ments They consider they are among many
disadvantages, and when they see those who
are buOyant In health pass by, they almost
envy their robust frames and easy aspiration.
But have noticed among that invalid class
those who have the greatest knowledge of
The Bible who are in nearest intimacy with
Jesus Christ, who have the most glowing ex-
periences of the truth, who have had the most
remarkable answers to prayer, and who have
most eXhilarant anticipatiOns of heaven. The
temptations which weary us who are in ro-
bust health they have conquered. They have
divided among them the spOils of the con-
quest Many who are alert and athletic
and sWarthy loiter in the way These are
the lame that take the prey. Robert Hall an
invalid, Edward Payson an invalid, Richard
Baxter an invalid, Samuel Rutherford an in
valid. This morning, when you want to call
to mind those who arc most Christlike, you
think of some darkened room in your fathers
house from which there went forth an intlu-
ence potent for eternity.
BLESSINGS FOR THE AFFLICTED.
A step farther. Through raised letters the
art Of printing has been brought to the at
tention 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 in
formation in this way. What a slow, lum-
brous way of reading. God help the blind"
And yet | find among that class OF persons,
among the blind, the deaf aud the dumb the
most thorough acquaintance with Gods word.
Shut out from all other sources of lnfOrma
ton, no sooner does their hand touch the
raised letter than they gather prayer.
Without eyes, they look off upon the kingdom
Of Gods love. Without hearing they catch
the mnstrelsy of the skies. Dumb, yet with
pencil or with irradiated cOuntenance they
declare the glory of God.
A large audience assembled i'm New York at
The anniversary of the deaf and dumb asv-
um, and one Of the visitors with chalk on
the blackboard wrote this question to the
pupils; DO Won not find it very hard to be
deaf and uumb!" Aud one OF the pupils
took the chalk and wrote on the blackboard
this sublime sentence In answer; when the
song of the angels shall burst upon our en-
raptured ear, we will scarce regret that our
ears were never marred by earthly sounds"
On! the brightest eyes in heaven VIII be those
that never saw on earth The ears most
alert in heaven will be those that in this
world heard neither voice Of friend, nor thum
ri harp. nor carol of bird nor doxology OF
congregations
THE BEAUTIES OF HEAVEN.
A lad who had been blind from infancy was
cured The OculiSt operated upon the lad
and then put a very heavy bandage over the
oyes. and after 4 few weeks had gone by the
bandace was removed, and the mother said 70
her child: willie. can YOU see! lie said:
20! mamma, is this Heaven The contrast
between The darkness before and the bright
ness afterWard was overwhelming. And
IrH YOU the glories OF Heaven will tie thou
sandfOld brighter for those who never saw
ANYTHING on earth. While manv with good
vision closed their ewes in night, and many
Who had i good, artistic and cultured ear
went down into discOri. these afflicted ones
cried unto the Lord In their trouble and tie
made their sorrows their advantage, anu 90
'sthe lame took the prey.
In the seventh century there was Iegend
If It Nolouert Ii was said that his mother
mas blind. ana one dav while looking x his
mother tie felt 50 : mpathetic for her bind
ness that be rushed forward and kissed her
blind ewes, and the legend says Der vision
came Immediately. That was only legend,
hut II isntluth. glorious truth, that Kiss
~ Gods eternal love has brought to many
n f1tR mat aH