The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-12-13
OUR DEAD STILL LIVE.
SERMON PREACHED sY REV. T. De
| WITT TALMAeE ON DEC. Q.

SERMON PREACHED BY REV. T. De
WITT TALMAeE ON DEC. Q.
An Intensely Interesting Disesurse. which
+ VIII Appeal to Every True Christian
Heart-The Hope Of Immortality Be-
yond the Grave.
BROOKLYN, Dec. 9.-The Rev. T. De
Witt Talnage, D. D., preached today
on Our Departed Still Living" His
text was Genesis xiv, ~, 28: sand
when he saw the wagons which Jo-
seph had sent to carry him, the spirit
Of Jacob their father revived. And
Israel sad. II is enough; JOSEPH my
son is yet alive" DR.. Talmage said:
The Egyptian capital was the focus
OF the worlds wealth. In ships and
barges, there had been brought to it
from India frankicense, 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 world, and siszne
. Of the most brilliant chariots; and from
all the earth that which could best
please the eye, and charm the car, and
crafty the taste There were temples
afame with red sandstone entered by
gateways that were guarded by pillars
bewildering with hieroglyphics, and
wound with brazen serpcnts, and
adorned with winged creatures-their
eyes, and beaks, and pinions glittering
with precious stones. There were
marble columns blooming into white
flower buds, there we're stone pillars,
at the top bursting into tho shape of
the lotus when in full bloom. Along
the avenues, lined with sphinx and
fame and obolisk, there were princes
who came in gorgeously upholstered
palanquin, carried by servants in soap
let, or elsewhere drawn by vehicles,
the snow white horses, golden bitted
and six abreast, dashing at full rum.
wreathed vases climbing the ladders
of the light. You would hear {. bolt
shove, and door of brass would open
like flash OF the sun. The surround
ing gardens were saturated with odols
that mounted the terrace and dripped
from the arbors, and burned their in
cense in the Egyptian noon. On floors
of mosaic the glories of Pharaoh
were spelled out in letters of porptyry,
and beryl, and flame. There were
ornaments twisted from the wood of
the tamarisk, embossed with silver
breaking into foam. There were foot
stools made out of u single precious
stone. There were beds fashioned out
of crouched lion in bronze. There
were chairs spotted with the sleek hids
OF icopards. There were sofas footed
with tie claws of wild beasts, and
armed witi, the beaks of birds. As
you stand OH tho level beach of the
gea on a summer day, and look either
way and there are miles OF breakers,
white with the ocean foam, dashing
ahoroward; SO it seemed as il the sea
of the worlds popp and wealth in the
Egyptian capital for miles and miles
fiuns itself up into white breakers OF
marble temple, mausoleum and obe-
iisk.
.I WHAT A CONTRAST!
This was the place where Joseph,
the shepherd boy, was called to stand
( next to Pharnoh in honor, What a
contrast between this scene and his
humble starting. and the pit into
which his brothers threw himl Yet
he was not forgetful of his early homo
he was not ashamed of where lle came
from. The bishop of Mentz, descended
from wheelwrght, covered his house
with spokes, and hammers, and wheels
and the king of Sicily, in honor OF his
father, who was q potter, refused tc
drink out of anything but an earthen
vessel. So Joseph was not ashamed
of his early surroundings, or OF hi
old tine father, or Of his broth
ers. When they came up from
the famine stricken land to get corr
from the kings corn crib, Joseph, in
stead of chiding them for the way they
had nlaltrcatcd and abused him, sem
them back with wagons, which Pha
rsoh furnished. laden with corn; ono
old Jacob, the futiler, III tho very same
wagons was brought BACK, that 10
seph, the son, might see him, and give
him comfortable home all tho rest o
his days. J..
Well, hear the wagons. the king
wagons, rumbling down in front q
the palace On the outside of the pal
ace, 10 see the wagons 60 off, stands
Pharaoh in royal robes: and beside
him Prime Minister Joseph, with {
chain of gold around his mock, anss
on his hand ring given by Pharaoh
TO him, 30 that at any TING be want
ed to stamp the royal seal upor
d document lie could do SO. Wago,
after wagon rolls on down from th'
palace, laden with corn, and meat
and changes of raiment, and every
thing that could help famine struci
people. Ono day | see aged Jacol
seated in front of his house. He i
possibly thinking of his absent boy
isons. however old they get, are -poye
TO = father any moro than boys)i asn'
while ho is seated there, he sees dus
arising, and he hears wagons rum
bling, and he wonders what is comm,
now, for the whole land had beel
smitten with the famine, and was II
silence. But after a while the wagon
have como near enough, and he see
his sons op the wagons, and bcfor
they come quito up, they shout
s"Joseph is yet eiiVeF The oid ma
faints dead away. | do not wonder a
it, Tie boys tell the story hoy tha
the boy, the long absent Joseph, ha
got to be the first man in the Egyptial
palace. While they unload tn
wagons, the wan and wasted creature
in the neighborhood como up and as
Cor a handful Of corn, and they ar
satisfied.
JACOB GOING ON \ JOURNEY.
One day the wagons are brought VI
for Jacob, tho old father, is about
70 to sec Joseph in the Egyptia
palace. You know 1t is not o yer
easy thing to transplant an old tre'
and Jacob has hard work to get ava
from the place where he has lived s
long. He bids good-by to the ol
place, and leaves his blessing with tt