The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-12-19
OUR LIVING DEAD.
SERMON OF THE GREAT BRookLSN
Preacher ON SUNDAY.

SERMON OF THE GREAT BROOKLYN
PREACHER ON SUNDAY.
Text: "And When Ee saw the wagons
which Joseph had sent to Garry Elm
the Spirit Of Jacob their Father he
vived. And Israel Said, 1t is Enough
Joseph: my Son is yet Alive"
The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. d.
preached Sunday on sour Departed
Still Living" His text was Genesis 49,
27and %: ssAn6 when he saw the wagons
which Joseph had sent to carry him, the
spirit of jacob their father revived. And
Israel said, it is enough; Joseph my son Is
alive" Dr. Tslmsge said:
The Egyptian capital was the focus OF
the worlds wealth. In ships and barges.
there had been brought to it from India
frankincense, and cinnamon, and ivory
and diamonds; from the north, marble
and iron; from Syria, purple and silk;
from Greece, some Of the finest horses
OF the word and some of the most brl-
liant chariots; and from all the earth
that which could best please the eye,
and charm the ear, crafty the taste.
There were temples ahame with red
sandstone, entered by gate-ways that
were guarded by pillars beWildering with
hieroglyphics, and wound with brazen
ssrpents, and adorned with winged
creatures their eyes, and beaks, and pin
ions gltsering with precious stones.
There were marble columns blooming
into white iower-buds; there were stone
pillars at the top bursting into the shape
OF the lotus when in full bloom. Along
the avenues, lined with sphinx, and fame,
and obeisk, there were princes who
came in gorgeously upholstered palan-
auin, carried by servants in scarlet, or
elsewhere drawn by vehicles, the snow
white horses, golden-blttsd, and six
abreast, dashing at full run. There were
fountains from stone-wreathed vases
climbing the ladders OF the light. You
would hear 3 bolt shove, and door of
brass would open like fash Of the sun.
The surrounding gardens were saturated
with with odors that mounted the terrace,
and dripped from the arbors and burned
their incense in the Egyptian noon. On
floors of mosaic the CLONES of Pharoah
were spelled out in letters Of porphyry,
and beryl, and fame. There were orna-
meuts twisted from the wood of the
tsmarisk, embossed with silver breaking
into foam. There were footstools msde
out of a single precious stone. There
rera ha.ao saeI,i~>->eS <.-,< ->s erouohoG
ION in bronze. There were chairs spotted
with the SLEEK hide Of leopards. There
were sofas footed with the claws Of wild
beasts; and armed with the beaks of
birds. AS you stand on the level beach
Of the sea on summer.d day, and look
either way, and there are miles of break
ers, white with the ocean foam, dashing
shorewsrd; so it seems as If the sea OF
the worlds pomp and wealth in the
Egyptian capital for miles and miles
flung itself up into white breakers of
marble temple, nausoleom, and oblisk.
This was the place where Joseph, the
shepherd boy, Was called to stand next
TO Pharoah In honor. What q contrast be-
tween this scene and his humble starting,
and the PIT into which his brothers thew
hint Yet he wss not forgetful Of his early
home; he was not ashamed of where he
came from. The Bishop Of Men1z, de-
seended from q wheelwright, covered
his house with spokes, and hammers,
and wheels; and the King of Sicily, in
honor of his fa4her, who was a potter,
refused to drink out Of anything but an
earthen vessel. So Joseph vas not
ashamed of his early surroundings, Or
of bis old-time fsther, or OF his
brothers. When they came up from the
fsmlne-stticken land 20 get corn from
the kings corn crlb, Joseph, instead OF
chioIng Them for the way they had NAL
treated and abused him, sent them back
with wagons, which Pharoah furnished,
laden with corn: and old jacob, the
father, in the very same wagons, was
brought back, thst Joseph, the son,
might See him, and give hum a comfort
able home all the rest Of his days.
Well, I hear the wagons, the king S
wagons, rambling down in front OF the
palace. On the outside of the palace,
to see the wagons go of, stands Pnaroah
in royal robes; and beside hum prime
minister Joseph, with chain OF gold
around his neck, and on his hand ring
gwen by Pharosh to him, so that any
tim he wanted to stamp the royal seal
upoa document he could do so. Wagon
after wagon rolls on down from the
palace, laden with corn, and meat, and
changes Of raiment, and every thing
that could help famine struck people.
One day I see aged Jacob seated IN front
Of his house. He is possibly thinking
OF his absent boys (sons, however old
they get, are lever to father any more
thsn boys); and while he is seated there,
he sees dust arising, and he hears wagons
rumbllng, and he wonders what is
coming now, for the whole land haa
been smisten with the famine, and was
in silence. But after while the wagons
have come near enough, and he sees his
sons on the wagons, and before they
came quite up, they shout: Joseph is
vet ahYeI'' The old man fsints dead
away. I do not wonder at it. The boye
tell the story how that the boy, the long
absent Joseph, has got to be the first
man in the Egyptian palace. While they
unload the wagons, the wan and wasted
creatures in the nelghborhood come up
and ash for handful of corn, and they
are satisfied.
My friends, we are in wocld by sin