The Russellville Democrat., 1888-08-30
PHARMACIES SERMON.
"Trouble on Both Sides' and How
 to Meet It.
The Financiai and Domestic Fluctuations Which Reset Mapkind-The Cos pei of Jesus Sure Bull
 wark og Defense.

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 Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage took for his subject of recent sermon: Trouble on Both Sides.u His text was:
 There was q sharp rock on the one side. and sharp rock on the other side. .--I. Samuel, xiv, |.
 The cruel army of the Philistines must be taken and scattered There is just one man, accompanied by his body guard, to do that thing. Jonathan is the hero of the scene. I know that David cracked the skull of the giaut with few pebbles we'll slung, and that three hundred Gideonites scattered ten thousand Amalekites by the crash of broken crockery; but here is a more wonderful conflict. Wonder are the Philistines on the rocks. Here is Jonathan with his body guard in the valley. On the one si le is a rock calle l E 'zez, on the other side Is rock called Seneh. These two were as famous in olden times as In modern times are Plymouth Rock and Gi- braltar. They were precipitous, unscal- able and sharp. Between these two rocks Jonathan must make his ascent. The day comes for the scaling of the height. Jon athan, on his hands and foot begins the ascent. With strain and slip and bruise, l suppose, but still on and up, first goes Jonathan, and then goes his body guard, Bozcz on one side, Seneh on the other. After sharp tug, and push, and cihging, I see the head of Jonathan above inc hole in the mountain; and there is challenge, and a fight, and supernatural consternation. These two men, Jonathan and his body guard, drive back and drive down the Philistines over the rocks, and open c campaign which demolishes the enemies of Israel. I suppose that the overhang ing and oyershadowing rocks on either side did not balk or dishearten Jonathan or his body guard. but only reused and filled them with enthusiasm ss they went up.
 There was sharp rock on the one side, and Q sharp rock on the other side.
 My friends, you have been, or are now, some of you, in this crisislof the text. Ii Q san meets one trouble he can go through it He gathers all his energies, concentrates them upon one point and in the strength of God or by his own natur- al determination, goes through it. But the man who has trouble to the right of him, and trouble to the left of him is to be pitied. Did either trouble come alone he might endure it, but two troubles. two disasters, two overshadowing misfort- unes, are Bozez and Seneh. God pity him
 There IS sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the othor 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 mer- chants capsize in business before they come forty-five years of age. There is some collision in commercial circles, and they stop payment. It seems as If every man must put his name on the back of a note before he learns what fool man is who risks all hls own property on the prospect that some man will tell the truth. It seems as if man must have a large amount of unstable goods on his own shelf before he learns how much eas1er 1t is to buy than to sell. It seems as if every man must be completely burned out before he learns the impor- tance of always keeping fully insursc. It seems as if every man must be wrecked in a financial tempest before he learns to keep snug in case of a sudden eurocly- don. When the calamity does come, it is awful The man goes home in despair and he tells his family:
 "We'll have to go to the poor house."
 He takes q dolorous view of every thing. It seems as if he never could rise. But little time passes and he says:
 "Why I am not so badly of after all; have my family left.''
 Before the Lord turned Adam out of Paradise he gave him Eve, so that when he lost Paradise he could stand it. Per- init one who has never read but few novels in ali his life, and who has not 8 great deal of romance in his composition to say. that if, when mans fortunes fail he has good wife--a good Christian wife --he ought not 10 be Respondent.
 "Oh," you say, ''that only increases the embarrassment, since you have her also to take care of"
 You are an ingrate, for the woman as often supports the man as the man SUD- ports the woman. The man may bring al the dollars, but the woman generally brings the courage and the faith in God
 Well, this man of whom I am speaking looks around, and he finds his family is left, and he rallies, and the light comes to his eyes, and the smile to his face, and the courage to his heart In two years he Is quite over it. He makes his fnan cia calamity the first chapter in new era oi prosperity. He met that one trouble conquered 1t. He sat down for little while under the grim shadow of the rock Bozez; yet he soon rose and began, like Jonathan, to climb. But how often it Is that physical ailment comes with financial embarrassment. When the fortune failed 1t broke the mans spirit. His nerves were shattered. His brain was stunned. I can show you hundreds oi men in New York whose fortune and health failed at the same time. Their hand trembled with incipient paralysis They never saw well day since the hour when they called their creditors together for compromise. If such men are i'm. patient, and peculiar, and irritable, ex- cuse them. They had two troubles, either one of which they could have met suo- cessfully. If, when the health went the fortune had been retained, 1t would mol have been so bad. The man could have bought the very best medical advice, and he could have had the very best attend. ance, and long lines of carriages would have stopped at the front door to inquire 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 [ sharp TO on the other side.
 Now, what is such a man to do? In the name of Almighty God. will tell hin what to do. Do as Jonathan did-climb; climb up into the sunlight of Gods favor and consolation. I can go through tho churches and show you men who lost fort. une and health at the same time, and yet who sing all day and dream of Heaven al night If you have any idea that sound digestion, and steady nerves, and clear eyesight, and good hearing, and plenty oi friends. are necessary to make man happy, you have miscalculated. l sup pose that these overhanging rocks only made Jonathan scramble the harder and the faster to get up and out into the sun. light; and this combined shadow of in. validism and financial embarrassment has often sent man up the quicker into the sunlight of Gods favor and the noon day of his glorious promises. It is diff fcult thing for a man to feel his depend ence upon God when he has ten thousand dolio~a &r tha bapE apd Nffv fhnrca |, f