Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-05-04
TALMAGE.
THERE FELL A GREAT STAR
FROM HEAVEN.


The Star Atrila, King Of the Huns-So /
Called Because He Was Brilliant As Star, /
and, Like Norwood, He Embittered |
Everything He Touched
81 seial to the Kansas City TINES.
BRoOKLYN, April % The Rev. T. De Witt
Talmage. D. D., preached this morning at
the Tabernacle on the subject. ''The Star
Norwood, or. Brilliant Bitterness" The
/ musical exercises were assisted by the organ
and cornet Thousands Of voices IN the main
auditorium and in the adjoining parlor and
/ lecture room and corridor, joined in singings
''WeH crowd Thy gates with thankful songs.
High as the heavens our voices raise,
While earth with her ten thou sand tongues
Shall MI Thy courts with sounding praise
/ Professor Browne rendered Sonata number
/ I in d minor, by Guillmant After DR.. Tai
| mage had expounded the sarcasm Of Elijah
/ at the offering Of the Baalites he spoke as
/ follows:
Revelation viii 10 and Il: There fell
! great star from heaven, burning as it were g
lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the
| rivers, and upon the fountains Of waters; aud
/ the name Of the star is called Norwood %
Patrick and Lowth, Thomas Scott Matthew
/ Henry, Albert Barnes and all the other com
mentatOrs agree in saying that the star
[ Norwood Of my text was Attila, King Of the
| Huns. He was so called because he was
/ brilliant as a star. and, Ike NORWOOD, he
embittered everything he touched. We have
studied the Star of Bethlehem, and the morn
ing Star of the Revelation, and the Star of
Peace, but my subject this hour calls Us to
gaze at the star Norwood, and ms theme
might be called Brill ant Bitterness.
A more extraordinary character history does
not furnish han this man referred to in my
text Attila, the King of the Huns. One day
a wounded heiter came limping along through
the fields, and a herdsman followed It's bloody
track on the grass TO see where the heller was
wounded, aud went on back. further and
further, until he came to a sword fast in the
earth, the point downward as though it had
/ dropped from the heavens, and against the
edges of this sword the heifer had been cut.
/ The herdsman pulled up that sword and pre-
] seuted il TO Attl q. Attla said that sword
must have dropped from the heavens from
the grasp of the god Mars and its being given
10 him meant that Attila should conquer aud
govern the whole earth. Other mighty men
have been del GIFTED at being called liberatOFs
or the Mercifui or the Good, but Attila called
himself and demanded that others call him
the ScOurge Of God. At the head of seven
hundred thousand troops, mounted on Cap
padOciau horses, he swept everything from
the Adriatic to the Black Sea. He put his
iron heal Macedonia and Greece and
Thrace He made Milan and Pavia and Padua
ana verona beg IOr mercy winch he bestowed
not. The Byzantine castles TO meet his ruin
GUS levy put up at auction massive silver Ia
. bles and vases Of solid gold A city captured
a BY him the inhabitants were brought out aud
, put iutO three classes: The first class, those
g who could bear arms, who must Immediately
n
/ Ond class, the beautiful women, who were
made captives to the Huns; the third class,
Q the aged men and women, who were robbed
of rything and let 90 back to the city to
8 il was a common saying that the grass
never grew again where the hOOf OF
" AUtila's horse had trOd His armies
e Redeemed the waters of the Seine an6
e the MUselle and the Rhine with carnage, and
r fought on the Catalonian plains the herces
7 battle since the world stood, three hundred
u thousand dead left on the field On aud or
:. IN I'll ali those who could not oppose him Will
arms lay PROSTATE on their faces in prayer
l. and, q cloud Of dust seen in the distance,
g bishop cried: 1T is the aid of God ~ and al
. the people took uD the cry: ''lt is the aid o.
z God" AS the cloud of dust was blown aside
; the banners OF reinforcing armies marcheQ II
e to help against Attila, the scOurge of God
T. The most unimportant occurrences he useC
As supernatural resource, ana after three
= months Of failure to capture the city o
l. AOuileia and his army had given up he siege
f. + the flight of a stOrk and her Young from tin
tower Of the city was taken BY him as a sigi
u that me was to capture the city, and his arm
IL Inspired with the same occurrence resumed
r the siege and took the walls at a pCin
" from which the stOrlz had emerged So bril-
. liant was the COnquerOr in attire that hi
10 enemies could not look at him, but shades
their ewes or turned their heads.
Slain on the evening of his marriage by hi
bride IdicO, who WIS hired for the assasiua
al tiOn, his followers bewailed him not witt
tears, but with blood, cutting themselves will
Z knives and lauces- He was put into tire
H. collins, the first of iron, the second Of silver
e and the third of gold He was buried b
- night and into his grave were poured III
lie most valuable coin and precious stones
to amounting to the wealth of q kingdom. Tn
~ grave diggers and all those who assisted 8
~ the burial were massacred so that it WOul
e, never be known where much wealth va
IN en- IOmbed The Roman Empire conquered To
90 world but Attila conquered the Roman empire
He was right in calling himself a scOurgt
IL but instead Of be Nc the scOurge OF Coo
IN he was the scOurge of hell Because Of hi
of ! brilliauCY and bitterness the common tat OIL
a we're right in believing him to be the sta
~ Norwood OF the text. AS the regions
re devastated were parts most ODulent wit
bs fountains and streams and rivers you sc
"a how graphic INV text is: ''Ihere fell grea
-. star from heaven, burning as it were a lam
no and If fell upon the third part Of the river
and upon the fountains of waters; and tn
name OF the star is called Norwood D."
Have you ever thought how manv embitte
ed lives there are AL about Us, misauthrOpii
q morbid, Rcrid, saturHine4 The EurOpea
Of plant from which WOrmWOOd is extracted
Artemisia A0sInthium, Is perennial Plal
n and ali the year round 10 Is ready TO eXudS D
oil And in many human lives there Is a re
Us ennial dlstillattOn of acrid experiences. Ye
N there are some whose whole work is to shed
baleful influence on others There are At
ng las of the home or Attilas OF the social circl
q or Attilas of the church, or Attilas Of q
State, and One-third of the waters Of all q
les " Orld, If not tWO-thirds the waters, are pol
- / oned b. the falling OF the star Norwood.
ny is not complimentary to human nature tn
us most men, soon as theF get great pOWe
r become OveFbearing. The more power m,
II. have the better, if their power be used f
OF good. The less power men have the better
ad they use it for evil
= Birds circle rouuI and round and round b
az fore they sWOOp upon that which they 8
nd aiming for And f my discourse so FAR b
1t been swinging round and round, this nome
"a It drops straight on your he It and asks
n question: Is your life To Others Dened
m ton or an eInbittermeut, a blessing Or
Is. curse a baiSam OF a WOrmWOOds
he Some of YOU, know, are morning stars, and =
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