Sharp County record., 1888-06-14
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Disabled Hunters Bring Down
the Most Game.
The Grand Achievements of Men Laboring
Under Disadvantages-The Blind, the
Lame, the Halt. Working fer
the Glory of God.

L Ibis tf
|making The Subject OF recent sermon by Rev
DIRK r. Dewitt Talmage at the Brooklyn Taber'
nacle{was 'Disabled Hunters Bringing
Down the Most Came" His text was
|.;. The lame take The prey Isaiah, xxxi 90
''ss'pp TIE utter demolition Of the Assyrian
lost was here predicted. Not only 70.
bpst men should go forth and gather the
e1teu. ,boils Of conquest but even men crippled
nd who 1f arm and crippled of foot should 60 out
Mssis md capture much that was valuable
er to tne,f pn!slcal disadvantages Shouiu no'
rites Of ,ean :; the ,ha 80 snt'' - IL d "o ~ t
have viii be IN the fnture. So if is in all de-.
week in partments. Men labor under seemingly
have great disadvantages, and amid the most
pr eight unIavoraole circumstances yet making
/ loo',.' grand achievements, getting great bless
NV" ng for themselves great blessing for the
"uu SIX world, great blessing for the church, and
lille the SO The '1ame take the prey"
|Outng DO you know that the threa great poets
|v drv f the world were totally blind? Homer,
|o;stn..' Ossian, John Milton. Do you know that
''''' Mr.. Prescott, who wrote that enchanting
WIS book "The Conquest of Mexico" never
al dry saw Mexico, could not even see the paper
|quenCe On which he was writing? A framework
cotOD across the sheet, between which, up and
boa =. town, went the pen immortal. Do you
|l' "N uo Snow that Gambassio, the sculptor, could
VI "~ lot see the marble before him, or the
e were chisel with which he cut it into shapes
|Oes are 0ewitching? Do you know that Alexan-
brkinc der Pope, whose poems will last as long
bv and rs the English language, was so much of
,, an invalid that he had to be sewed up
'S" every morning in rough canvas in order
money to stand on his feet at all?
10 nC 1-,,D, @l,o+
nd wa painter did much of his wonderful work
q with lnder the shadow of the dungeon, where
~ ne had been unjustly imprisoned for debt?
am Do you know that Demosthenes, by al
CTS IN most superhuman exertiOn, first had to
! much conquer the lisp of his own speech before
W, he conquered assemblages with his elo-
or ,n luence? Do you know that Bacon strug-
u, yled all through innumerable sicknesses,
u'u and That Lord Byron and Sir Walter
poW' Scott Went limping on clubfoot through
"a good all Their life, and that many of the great
poets and painters and orators and his
torians and heroes Of the world had some
thing to keep them back and pull them
down, and impede their way, and cripple
II heir physical or their intellectual move
|' wv ment, and yet that they pushed on and
lteoOa pushed up until they reached the spoils of
worldly success, and amid the huzza of
Ito the nations and centuries "the lame took the
,rOuDj prey?"
Ia no., 1 gu know that a vast multitude of these
i"O'' men Started under the disadvantage of
obscure parentage. Columbus, the son
swine OF the weaver. Ferguson, the astrOno-
slug ei, he nm, .nU s SoI t ol ane sngPheru' America
moth prev Of tbe other Rnt what io tr,,o IN
Put hs secular directions is more true in spir-
final and r.1iUipuc 1iraotinuC md T
A.. ceed to prove it.
'"'"' There are in all communities many in
+ acre vaids. They never know q well day.
|an b they adhere TO their occupations, but
|celer they go painting along the streets with
exhaustions, and at eventime they lie |
down on the lounge with achings beyond
Z all medicament. They have tried all
sd prescriptions; they have gone through all
|utne the cures which were proclaimed in
EdhY fallible, and they have come now to sur
render to perpetual ailments. They con-
slider they are among many dsadvan-
| tne toges, and when they see those who are
Pwth buoyant in health pass by they almost
L are envy their robust frames and easy respi-
ulf. ration.
ded tba art Of nrinti & l"iSeu iJtt'IS
b let the attention Of the blind
! has iOu ldhS up lue DlDle LOT IDe pima ana
,,ra you close your eyes and you run your fin
;sr ger over the raised letters, and you say:
"S why, never could get any information
|nore in this way. What a Slow lumbrous way
OF reading! God help the blind"
are sons among the blind, the tESf d9lafs Of per-
out dumb, the most thorough acquaintance
han with Gods word. Shut out from all other
IA, sources of information, no sooner does
Nv" their hand touch the raised letter tnan
they gather prayer without eyes, 'ney
look off upon the Kingdoms OF God's love.
ou. Without hearing, they catch the MN
s'l strelsy of the skies. Dumb, yet with pen
"' Gil or with irradiated cOuntenance they
declare the glory of God.
fat A large audience assembled IN new |
|v in York at the anniversary of the Dear ana
Dumb ASYLUM, and one of the visitors
with chalk on the blackboard wrote this
OF question to the pupils:
the 'Do you not find it very hard to be deal
hall AMI dumb?" And one of the pupils took
!, he The chalk and wrote on the blackboard
LII this sublime sentence in answer:
"When the song of the angels snail
! VA burst upon our enraptured ear, we Will
scarce regret that our ears were never
likes marred with earthly sounds"
|dor Oh, the brightest eyes in Heaven Will pe
"A those that never saw on eartl. lHo oai
~" most alert in Heaven will be those that IN
|ry this world heard neither voice OF lrlenu'
d nor thrum of harp, nor carol OF oird' nor
|,me doxology of congregations.
A lad who had been blind from infancy
was cured. The oculist operated upon the
p' lad and then put a very heavy Dandage
re- over the ewes, and after a few weeks hau
|arg gone by the bandage was removed, ana
|. in tine mother said to her child:
iva, "Willie, can you see?" He said:
|"' ooh! mamma, is this Heaven"
|n% The contrast between the darkness be-
fore and the brightness atterward was
tb Overwhelming. And tell you the glories
"a, of Heaven will be a thousand-fold bright
er for those who never saw any thing on
earth While many with good vision
|ns closed their eyes in night, and many who
|el haA good, artistic and cultured ear