New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-08-29
TALMAGE AT HOME.
ATroable on Both sides,'' the Subject of his
Sermon at Brooklyn.

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Dewitt Talmage's subject today was:
Trouble on Both Sides, and his text:
SThere was a sharp rock on the one side,
and sharp rock on the other side. u
Sam uel, xiv. d.
The cruel army of the Philistines muse be
taken and scattered. There is just one man.
accompanied by his bodyguard, to do that
thing. Jonathan is the hero of the scene. I
tznoW that David cracked the skull of the
giant with few pebbles well slung, and
That 300 Gldeonites scattered 10, 900 Am ale
kites by the crash of broken crockery; but
mere is more wonderful conflict. Yonder
are the Philistines on the rocks Here is
Jonathan with his bodyguard in the valley.
On the one side is rock called Bozez; on
the other side is a rock called Seneh. These
two were as famous in olden times as are
plymouth Rock and Gibraltar in modern
Sinaes. They were precipitous unscalable
and sharp. Between these two rocks Jona-
than must make his ascent The day comes
aor the scaling of the height. Jonathan on
MS hands and feet, begins the ascent.
With strain, and slip and bruise, /
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goes Jonathan, and then goes his bodyguard.
Bozez on one side, Seneh on the other After
q sharp tug, and push, and climbing, see
the head of j onathan above the hole in the
mountain; and there is a challenge, and a
light, and supernatural CONSERVATION.
These two men, Jonathan and his bodyguard,
drive back and drive down the Philistines
over the rocks, and open a campaign which
demollshes the enemies of Israel ] suppose
that the overhanging and overshadowing
rocks on either side did not balk or disheart-
en- Jonathan or his bodyguard but only
reused and filled them with enthusiasm as
they wentup "There was sharp rock on
the one side, and sharp rock on the other
side"
My friends, you have been, some of you,
In this crisis of the text, If a man meets one
trouble, he can go through with it. He
gathers all his energies, concentrates them
upon one point, and in the strength of God
or by his own natural determination, goes
through 1T. But the man who has trouble
go the right of him and trouble to the left
Hof him is to be pitied. Did either trouble
come alone, he might endure it; but two
troubles, two disasters, two overshadowing
mlsiortunes, are Bozez and Seneh. God pity
mimi There is sharp rock on the one side,
sand sharp rock on the other side"
In this crisis of the text is that man whose
fortune and health fail him at the same time,
NIne-tenths OF all our merchants capcize in
business before they come to As years of age
There is some collision in commercial circles
and they stop payment. 1t seems as if every
man must put his name on the back of anote
before he learns what a TOOL a man is who
risks all his own property on the pros
Npec6 that some man will tell the truth 1t
seems as II man must have q large amount
punishable goods on his own shelf before he
learns how much easier it is to buy than to
sel. IL seems as II every man must be COM
,pietely burned out before he learns the i'm
portance OF always keeping fully insured. 1t
seems as 1t every man must be wrecked in a
financial tempest before he learns to keep
things snug in case of a sudden cataclysm.
When the calamity does come, it is awful
The man goes home in despair and he tells
MS family: well have to go to the poor
house. . He takes dolorous view of every
thing. 1t seems as if he never could rise
But little time passes, and he says: "Why,
am not SO badly off after all; l have my
family left"
Before the Lord turned Adam out of Para
disc he gave him Eve, so that when he lost
paradise he could stand it. Permit one who
has never read but few novels in all his
life, and who has not a great deal ofromance
s1n his composition, to say, that if, when a
mans fortune fail, he has a good wife-a
good Christian wife-he ought not to be de-
-spondent. ooh, you say, chat only in
creases the embarrassment, since YOU have
her also to take care Of" You are an Migrate,
for the woman as often supports the man as
the man supports the woman. The man
may bring all the dollars, but the woman
generally brings the courage and faith in
God
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looks around, and finds his family is left,
and he rallies, and the light comes to his
eyes, and the smile to his face, and his cour-
age to his heart. In two years he is quite
over it. He makes his financial calamity the
first chapter in new era of prosperity. He
met that one trouble-conquered it, He sat
down for a little while under the grim
shadow of the Rock Bozez; yet he soon rose
and began, like Jonathan, to climb But
how often is it that physical ailment comes
with financial embarrassment? When the
fortune failed it broke the mans spirit His
nerves were shattered. His brain was
stunned. / can show you hundreds of men
In New York whose fortune and health
failed at the same time They came prema-
furely to the staff Their hand trembled with
tncipient paralysis They never saw well
day since the hour when they called their
creditors together for compromise. Ifsuch
men areimpatient, and peculiar, and irritable
excuse them.
They had two troubles, either one of which
they could have met successfully. If, when
the health went, the fortune had been re-
tanned, it would not have been so bad. The
man could have bought the very best med
ical advice, and he could have had the very
best attendance and long lines of carriages
would have stopped at the front door to in
quire as to his welfare. But poverty on the
one side, and sickness on the other are Bozez
and Seneh and they interlock their shadows
and drop them upon the poor mans way
God help him! There is a sharp rock on the
one side, and sharprock on the other side y
Now, whit is such a man to do? In the
name of Almighty God ] will tell him what to
do. Do as Jonathan did-climb; climb UP
into the sunlight OF Gods favor and consola-
ton. can go through the churches and show
you men who lost fortunes and health at the
same time, and yet who sing all day and
dream of heaven all night. If you have any
idea that sound digestion, and steady nerves,
and clear eyesght, and good hearing, and
{ plenty of friends are necessary to make a
man happy, you have miscalculated sup
pose that these oVerhanging rocks only made
Jonathan scramble the harder and the
faster to get up and out into the sunlight;
and this combined shadow of invalidism and
financial embarrassment has often sent o.