Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-05-10
REV. DR.. TALMAGE
THE BROOKLYN DIyINE's SUNDAY
SERMON.
Subject: 1.-THE Star NORWOOD, or Bril-.
liant Bitterness.


TEXT: There ten great star from
hedren, burning as it tcere q LGrnD. and II
feu upon third part of tho rivsrs and
upon The fountains Of ,raters; and the name
Of the star Is called Wormwoodn Revela-
tons viii, 1911.
Patrick and Lowth, Thomas Scott. Mat
thew Henry. Albert Barnes and all the other
commentators 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 star, and, like 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
feace, but my subject this hour calls us to
gaze at the Star Norwood, and my theme
might be called Brilliant Bitterness.
more extraordinary character history
does not furnish than this man referred to
in my text, Attila, the king Of the Huns.
One day wounded heifer came limpine
along through the fields, and a herdsman
followed its bloody track on the grass to see
where the heifer was wounded, and went on
back, further and further, until he came to
asword fast in the earth, the pointdownward
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 presented it to Attila.
Attila said that sword must have dropped
~ olil lug heavens iioin 1ne grasp OF the god
Mars and its being given to him meant
that Attila should conquer and govern
the whole eartn. Other mighty men
have been delighted at be called
liberators or the mereiful or the good.
but AttiIa called himself and de-
manded that other call him the SOURCE Of
God. At the head of 7U0, 900 troops, mounted
on Cappadocian horses, he swept everything
from the Adriatic to the Black sea he mi
his iron heel on Macedonia and Greece and
Thrace He made Milan and Pavia and
Padua and Verona beg for mercy, which ho
bestowed not. The Byzantine castles, to
meet his ruinous levy, put up at auction
massive silver tables and vases of solid gold.
city captured by him, the inhabitants
were brought out and put into three classes.
The first class, those who could bear arms.
who must Immediately enlist under Attila or
be butchered; the second class, the beautiful
women, who were made captives to the
Huns; the third class, the aged men and
women, who were robbed of everything and
let go back to the city to pay heavy tax.
II was common saying that the grass
never grew again where the hoof Of Attila's
horse had trod His armies Redeemed the
waters Of the Seine and the Moselle and the
Rhine with carnage, and fought on the Cat
alonian plains the fercest battle since the
world stood, 100000 dead left on the field.
On and on until all those who could not OBJ
pose him with arms lay PROSTATE on their
faces In prayer; and, cloud of dust seen in
the distance, a bishop CRIED ssIt is the aid
Of God;n and all the people took up the cry:
1T is the aid of God.n As the cloud of dist
was blown aside the banners OF reinforcing
armies marched in to help against Attila.
the scourge of God The most unimportant
occurrences he used as supernatural re-
source, and after three months of failure to
capture the city of Aquileia and his army
had given up the siege, the flight of stork
and her young from the tower of the city