New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-05-02
NATIONAL DANGERS.
Yalmage Points to Some Of the Bowl.
ders that Lie in Our Pathway.
drunkenness and GIaring LIcentI-
BUSINESS sfagger and BIaspheH1e
i'm the Public streets.

i'm the Public Streets.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, D. d.. preached
Sunday morning at the Brooklyn Tabernacle
on the subject: 1.-The Star Norwood; OF,
Brilliant Bitterness"
After DR.. Talmaee had e1pounded the sar.
casm of Elijah at the Offering Of the Baalites
le spoke as follows:
There fell agreat star from heaven. burning as
Il were lamp and it fell upon the third part of
the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; and
ahe name OF the star is called Wormwood-Rey
viii. 10. H.
Patrick and Lowth, Thomas Scott, Matthew
Henry, Albert Barnes, and all the other
commentators agree N saying that the star
Norwood of my text was Attla, king of
She Huns. He was so called because he was
brilliant as star and, like Wornlwood, he
embittered everything he touched We
nave studied the star of Bethlehem, and the
morning star of the revelation, and the star
of peace, but my subject this hour calls us to
gaze at the star Norwood, and my theme
might be called brilliant Bitterness"
A more extraordinary character history
docs not furnish than this man referred to in
Eny text. Attila, the king of the Huns. One
day wounded heifer came limpng along
Through the fields and a herdsman followed
It's bloody track on the grass to see where
the heiter was wounded and went on back,
further and further, until he came to sword
last III the earth, the point downward as
CtfNusoh ~ IlttA uIOplJeu llouls Tue heavens,
and against the edges OF this sword the heif-
or had been cut The herdsman pulled up
that sword and presented it to Attila At
tia said that sword must have dropped from
the heavens from the grasp of the god Mars,
and its being given to him meant that Attila
8hould conquer and govern the whole earth.
Other mighty men have been delighted at
being called liberators or the Mercifll or the
Good but Attila called himself and demand
cd Chat Others cell him the Scourge of God.
at the head of seven hundred, thousand
troops, mounted on Cappadocian horses, he
swept everything from the Adriatic to the
SLACK sea. He put his iron heel on Mace
Sionia and Greece and Thrace. He made
Milan and Payia and Padua and Verona beg
Eor mercy, which he bestowed not. The
byzantine castles to meet his ruinouls levy,
put up at auction massive silver tables and
vases OF solid gold. A city captured by him,
she inhabitants were brought out and put
&nSo three classes. The first class, those who
could bear arms, who must immediately en-
a&sG under Attila or be butchered; the second
class, the beautiful women, who were made
captiVes to the Huns; the third class, the
aged men ard women, who were robbed Of
everything and let go back to the city to pay
heavy tax.
1t was u common saying that the grass
never grew again Where the hoot of
Atula's horse had trod. His armies
acddened the waters of the Seine
'and the Mosel!e and the Rhine with
carnage, and fought on the Cataonian
adams the fercest battle since the world
stood-thrce hundred thousand dead left on
G{le field. On and on until all those who
could not oppose him with arms lay PROSTATE
on their faces i'll prayer, and a cloud Of dust
seen IN the distance a bishop cried: SIT is
1he aid of Godp' and all the people took UP
the cry: t'It is the aid Of Godn AS the
cloud of dust was blown aside, the banners
~of reinforcing armies marched in to help
agaInst Attila, the Scourge of God. The
2noSt unlmportant occurrence he used as q
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, and after three months
s1E failure to capture the city of Aquielia and
his army had given up the siege, the flight of
q stork and her young from the tower of the
city was taken by HIM AS sign that he Was
80 capture the city, and his army, inspired
with the same occurrence, resumed the siege
and took the walls at 4 point from which the
"aDork had emerged. so brilliant was the
Gonqueror in attire that his enemies could
;RoG look az him, but shaded their eyes or
&f4arne0 their heads.
Slain on the evening of his marriage byhis
bride, Ildico, who was hired for the assassin
alton, his followers bewailed him not with
sears, but with blood, cutting themselves
with knives and lances He was put into
three cofhns, the first Of iron, the second of
silver, and the third Of gold. lie was buried
ay night, and into his grave were poured the
most valuable coin and precious stones,
amounting to the wealth of IL kingdom. The
grave-diggers, and all those who assisted at
EBhe burial were massacred SO that it would
sTEeWer be known where SO much wealth was
eutombed. The Roman empire conquered
sthc world, but Attila conquered the Roman
empire. He was right in calling himself
scOurge, but in ead of being the scourge of
God, he was the scOurge OF hell. Because Of
sAns brilliaucy and bitterness the comment
aEors were right in believing HIM to be the
r star Wormwood OF the text. AS the regions
ne devastated were parts most oDulent with
fountains and streams and rivers, you see
how graphic my text is: ''Ihere fell
great star from heaven, burning as it Were
samp, and 1t fell upon the third part of the
rivers and upon the fountains Of water; and
the name Of the star is called Wormwood"
Have you ever thought how many embit-
tered lives there are all about us, misan-
thwphic, morbid, acrid, saturnine? The
European plant from which NORWOOD is
extra ted, artemisia absntlium is perenY
slial plant, and all the year round it is reads
So eXude its oil. Aud in many human live
#tlere is perennial disti!Iation of acrid ex-
slerienCeS \ eS. there are some whose whole
work is to shed balefu influence on Others
There are AttlaS of the home, or Attilas of
y1ile social circle, or Attias OF the church, or
Attilas of the state, and One-third of the
waters Of all the world, if not two-thirds the
waters. ale poisoned by the falling of the
star Wormwood 1t is not complimentary to
human nature that most men, as soon as they
get great power, become oyerbearing. The
more power men have the better, if their
power be used for good. The less power
men have the better, If they use it for evil.
Birds circle round and round and round
: before they swoop Upon that which they are
aiming for. And if my discourse SO far has
been swinging round and round, thismoment
it drops straight on your heart and ASKS the
question: Is your life to others benedic-
rGdon or an embtterment, blessing or
, curse, Il blessing or wormwood?
Some of you, know, are morning stars
tud you are making the dawning life of your
children bright with gracious Influences
and you are beaming upon all the opening
enterprises of philanthropic aud Christian
eudeavor and you are heralds of that day of
gospelization winch Will yet flood all the
mountains and valleys of our sin-cursed
earth. Hall, morning star! Keep on shin
tug with encouragement and Christian hope
Some of you are evening stars, and you are
: cheering the lasC days of the old people, and,
though a cloud sometimes comes over you
through the qucrulousness and unreasona-
bieness of your old father and mother, it is
: only fer moment, and the star soon comes
out clear again and is seen from all the bal
comics of the neighborhood. The old people