Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-06-07
DISABLED HEROES.
Dr.. Talmage on the Achievements
Of the Afflicted.
The Value Of Patience and Earnest Zeal
Good Examples OF Lowly TOilers-The
True Christian Worker Depicted
-Christ's Promises.

The subject Of late discourse by Rev.
7. Dewitt Talmage at Brooklyn was: "Dis-
abled Hunters Bringing Down the Most
Game" HIS text was from Isaiah xxxiii.
%: The Lame Take the Prey" DR.. Tai
lage said:
The utter demolition Of the Assyrian host
twas here predicted. Not only robust men
should 90 forth and gather the spoils of
conquest, but even men crippled of arm and
crippled of foot should 60 ont and capture
much that was valuable. Their physical
disadvantages should not hinder their
great enrichment So it has been in the
past, so it is now, 80 it will De in the fu-
lure. SO it Is in all departments. Men
labor under seemingly great disadvantages,
and amid the most unfavorable circum-
stances, yet making grand achievements,
getting great blessing for them selves, get
ling great blessing for the world, great
blessing for the Church, and so ''the lame
take the prey"
Do you know that the three great poets
OF the world were totally blini!-Homer,
Os,ian, John Milton Do you know that
Mr. Prescott, who wrote that enchanting
book. TIRE Conquest Of Mexico" never
saw Mexico, could not even see the paper
on which he was writing! A frame work
:cross the sheet, between which up and
down, went the pen immortal. Do you
know that Gambassio, the sculptor, could
NOT see he marble before him, or the chisel
VITA which he cut it INTO shapes Dewitch-
ing! Do you Know that Alexander Pope,
~ilo-c poems viii last as long as the En-
6 lSh iarg cage, was 50 much OF an invalid
lna' he had TO be sewed up every morning
III iolgh canvas in order to stand on his
II 4h.$ ri
me &c ebrated painter, did much OF his
wonderful work under the shadow Of
the dungeon where he had been
unju-tly imprisoned for debtl Do you
know that Demos.henes by almost super
human exertion first had to conquer the
lisp If lls own speech before he conquered
:issemDlages with his eioquencea Do you
know that Bacon Struggled through IN
Vulnerable sicknesSes and that Lord Byron
and SIR Walter Scott went limping on
,lubfoot through all their life, and that
many Of The great poets and painters and
Cra,ois and historians and heroes of the
world had something to keep them back
and pull them d own and impede their way
ani cripple their physical or their intel
l,ctual movement, and yet that they
pasi G up until they reached the spols OF
rudy success. and amid the huZza OF ma
t:ois and centuries "tne lame took the
prey" |
You know that vast multitude of these
men started under The disadvantage of OBJ
scure parcntage. Columbus, the son of the
weaver. Ferguson, the astronomer, the
$ of the shepherd. America the prey
Of tho one; worlds on worlds the prey OF
the other. But what is true in secular di-
rections Is more.true in spiritual and religi-
Gus directions and l proceed to prove it.
ri Gre are in ali communities many in
Maids. They never know well day. They
:.;nerc to their occupations, but they go
painting along the streets with exhaustion,
and at eventime they lie down on the lounge
with achings beyond all medlcament.
But have noticed among that invalid
cas-, those. who have the greatest hnowl-
edge OF the Bible, who are in nearest in
umacy with Jesus Christ. who have the
most glowing experiences of the truth,
who have had the most remarkable an
swers 10 prayer, and who have most ex-
hlarant anticipations Of Heaven. The
temptations which weary US who are in
robust health they have conquered They
have divided among them the spoils OF the
conquest. Many who are alert and ath-
le,ic aud swarthy loiter in the way. These
are he lame that take the prey: Robert
Hal, an invalid; Richard Payson, an ln-
valid; r chard Baxter, an invalid; Samuel
Rutherford, an invalid. This morning,
when you want to call to mind those who
are most Christlike, you think Of some
darkcnei room in your fathers house from
which there went forth an influence potent
Tor eternity.
A step further. Through raised letters
the art OF printing has been brought to the
att eution of the blind. You take up the
Bible for the blind and you close your eyes
anu you run your fingers over the raised
letters and YOU say: sWhy l never could
get any information ir this way. What
slow. iumbrous way Of reading. God help
the blind" Aud yet find among that class
Of persons, among the blind, the deaf and
tn. dumb the most thorough acquaintance
VII Co.'s word. Shut out from ali Their
sources Of information. 10 soouer does their
hand touch he fhf.ed letter than they
gather prayer. Without eyes. they look
of ls,ou the Kingdom of Gods love. With
,ut hcnring, they catch the minstrelsy of
the skies. Dumb, yet with pencil, or with
iirliiaicd countenance, they declare the
Eio.y OF God.
a large audience assembled in New York
ct the anniversary OF the deal and dumb
on the blackboard wrote this question to
'ae pupils: .'Do you not find it hard to he
deaf AMI dumbF" And one of the pupils
took the chalk and wrote on he blackboard
tins sublime sentence in answer: "When
!, the oag OF the angels shall burst upon our
EN- l,tured ear, we shall. scarce regret that |
our cars were ever marred by earthly |
sounds" Oh! the brightest eyes in Heaven
wiL be those that never saw on earth. The |
L rs most alert in Heaven will be those |
fiat IN this world heard neither voice of |
Iricnd, nor thrum OF harp. nor carol Of |
brl, or doxology Of congregations.
A ind who had been blind from infancy |
has cured. The ocullst operated upon The |
lad, an 1 then put very heavy baudage |
over The eyes, and after few weeks had |
g,na b. the handage was removed. and |
the mother S nd to her child: "Wilie, can |
you see!' He said: 80! mamma, Is this |
Heavcn." The contrast between the dark.
ness before and the brightness afterward |
WAS overwhelming. And l tell you the |
& o,ies OF Heaven will be u housandfcld |
brig tier for those who never saw any
thing IN earth. While many with good |
vis.on closed their eyes in n gnt, and many
WHO had good, artistic and cultured ear
weut down into discord. these afflicted |
ones cried unto the Lord in their trouble,
ana Il, made their SORROWS their advan. |
tace, ami so 1.-The lame took the prey"
In the seventh century there was a le- |
gcnd Of ST. Moiobsrt 1t was said that his |
m they was blind, and one day while look
IN; n his mother he felt so sympathetic |
Tor her blindness that he rushed forward |
aud kissed h r. blini eyes, and the legeni |
says her vision came Immediately. That |
was only legend, bat it is 4 truth, a
glorious truth. that kiss of Gods eternal |
we has brought to many blind eye |